New 40k, New army

So in real life im an art teacher and free lance artist….not that you could tell from my mini painting. So we have a new 40k Edition turning up and i want to do a 1k army for games with mates.
I also dont want a trad army, i want something Odd. I think im going with Chaos, just because it fits and the new rules of beseeching dark powers fits with the idea I have.

I’m currently doing a bunch of paintings a bout white monoliths, apocalypse, dark monsters and the like.

They have kick started the idea of dark machines and pale figures worshiping a white monolith. Pictures below.

So the colour scheme is right there, blacks, burnt umber and reds through pinks. I think its going to have to be an oil wash over white undercoat sort of paint job.

So white monoliths. If go with a Daemon prince or Evil space wizard i think the leader figure will be a floating white monolith. I imagine that it wont be tourney legal, but it will look cool. It will need some cultists on the base mind you and there will have to be a big bundle of cultists  for it to join. Which will look great. New rule eh GW? don’t mind if ignore the game and just use it to look cool? cheers. On Cultists, i think pale stalking humans is order of the day.
I hate chaos spikes, they just make me think the forces of chaos are going through their awkward Clare’s accessories spiked accessories period.
So i think Delaque gangers are the order of the day.

Now obviously strange visitors form other dimensions need something to round up people for processing and ‘ascending’ into pale face cultists. Im a big fan of the art from Tales from the loop and obviously someone from GW is as well, so what better than converting some Cawdor Ed201’a. Take the rider off, add a few guitar strings to make tentacles and a big ol lens on the front for ‘judging’ and we have cooler chaos bikers. Underslung meltas and chain weapons for vehicle hunting and noming light infanty.

So at the moment i have in my head:
Leader – white monolith
Troops – a lump of 20 cultists in delaque, converted humans
Fast attack – a couple of units of 4 walky tenticle robots

Now i will need some Chaos Marines for troops, i think a couple of hellbrutes to punch vehicles and set fire to people.

I don’t know what i will use for those. But i think a second unit of cultists need to be in there to look cool. This means i will probably be using 2 MSU chaos marine units. I’m almost tempted by Primaris marines, but head swapping a lantern or lens in. Thats a to think about.
As to the Hellbrutes? I think i will go with Admech robots. I did some for my 30k army and i think that they have the right feel, just with more cables.

This will be very infrequent as a project till payday.