Check Out The Possessed Beast Coming Your Way From Forge World!
January 12, 2015 by brennon
Forge World are gearing up for their Horus Heresy Weekender in February and showing off some of the crazy creations that will be popping up at the event. The preview today is of this corrupted and Possessed Contemptor Dreadnought...
I can't quite tell what faction this Dreadnought fights for but considering the type of mutation I would think its the Death Guard and those loyal to Nurgle? I'm sure someone more knowledgeable on this period of Warhammer 30,000 history will correct me if I'm wrong! Once again it's a very nicely detailed sculpt that really shows off what the Forge World chaps can do.
On the Loyalist side of things we have this preview that popped up last week showing off the Imperial Fist upgrade kits and this Emperor's Champion who looks all kinds of brilliant. This is when I like the Space Marines the best, when they're actually 'knights' in space. I love the little filigree detail on the arms and legs adding to the level of Gothic awesomeness.
Are you going to the Horus Heresy Weekender?
"This is when I like the Space Marines the best, when they're actually 'knights' in space..."
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Both of those look really nice.
Emperor’s Champion is one of the few SM I do like, even the older versions.
I would guess that the Possessed Contemptor Dreadnought is from the Word Bearers legion, judging from the runes, which are similar to that of the Word Bearers Contemptor, and the “corrupted purity seals” on the dreadnought fist.
That’s pretty epic.
The book definitely makes me think Word Bearers, but without it, I would consider maybe a corrupted Emperor’s Children look(stretched skin, some of the marks look a bit like the various Slanesshi runes), I don’t see this being Nugle though, no tri-pustules signs anywhere, no boils or sores…
The chaos corrupted contemptor really looks the part, and if anything is mutations remind me of those on the Gal Vorbak, so I agree with @hollow515 that this is porbably a Word Bearers dreadnought.
The Imperial Fist Upgrade kit also looks really nice. Like Brennon, I have always rather liked the core Astartes imagery of transhuman knights in space, and this model certainly plays that angle up.
The drawings on the body are similar to other Word Bearer patterns. Looks sweet and will fit nicely along the Ghal Vorbak.
There were no other Emperor’s Champions during the heresy… there was only Sigismund himself. 🙂
Yay Sigismund! ^_^