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=== SotA Modelling/Kitbashing ===

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Don't they come in a box?
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Yes, the Servants of the Abyss Kill Team is designed to be made with the units from the Blackstone Fortress Box Set, and with one of them you can pretty much have enough. However, sometimes it's not going to be enough. Maybe you want to play an Elite match and you don't have enough minis, maybe you want to focus on spamming a particular unit, maybe you don't have the box and don't want to go through online sellers to get the stuff. Either way, here are a few suggestions to get the team up and running. 

Also, this is taking into account that most of the units listed here have not been released separately as of yet. Units like Malleux is now on sale separately as a generic chaos lord, big hammer and all, and the Black Legionnaires are out in the latest update of the Chaos Marines. 

The easiest to kitbash are the traitor guardsmen. Using the basic cadian units, you could add more chaotic elements to them following the many examples of Lost and the Damned out there (spikes in the back, a cut head on their belt, skulls and bones attached to them, bandanas and masks, evil looking scars...). You could even take some of the basic chaos cultists and just use them. After all, their stats are the same and noone is going to bat an eye for seeing cultists with chaos marines instead of traitor guardsmen. The beastmen will be more complicated, but if you combine the body of a cultist and the head and legs of gors/ungors, it should work well enough. Hell, they could work well with basically the whole mini being from the AoS Gors/Ungors pack so long as you give them a chainsword and a stubber with a couple of sci-fi and chaotic bits here and there.

The Rogue Psyker is difficult. You could always pick a sorcerer and just make it count as one, but where's the fun in that? The original BSF mini has a very particular look, with the body chained to the ground due to his excessive psykic power making him float, all with a massive and shinny mutant head. Now, while the stave and the body shouldn't be that hard to get right (any cultist or ragged body should do the trick) the problem is in the head and the chains. You could forego the chains by adding something for the model to stand up on, like a pile of bones, a recently deceased enemy, a pile of evil-looking ruines... If you want the chains, you'll have to search for someone selling some rigid chains or add one of those transparent supports to get the unit to simulate the floating effect. The Jimmy Neutron head is the most complicated part of it all, as there is nothing really similar within GW range. You can always forego that and just greenstuff the head growths, taking a particularly evil looking head but and just adding a small cover of greenstuff to simulate the massive psyker head. And while things like horns and protrusions are easy to make, the veins might not be. Something that small will need a ton of detail there, so unless you are really good at that, try to choose some other effect.

Lastly, we have the negavolt cultists. Out of all of the minis of this range, this one is the hardest to really kitbash from zero, considering the pieces it may use are rather rare. Both the Electropriest and the AoS Flagellants work well enough for the body (and the Mandrakes as well, but those are more problematic to work with, considering the machine bits you'll have to add later), and you can give each units two taser goads, one on each hand. The problem is the head and the electric generator on the back. The flagellant's heads are great if you like evil but goofy grins, but if you want something more scary-looking and visceral, you'll have to go to Dark Eldar masks. Units like the Wracks and Wyches have great heads for that. You might have to greenstuff them a bit, but it can be done. If you want the head with the mecha-tendrills... For now you'll have to resort to the original model, I can't think of something even close, even from 3rd party modellers, sorry. Same for the back generator. 

Nevermind all that, GW is releasing a standalone version of the SoTA units. [https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/BlackstoneAbomIntel-Oct1-HostilesProducts4uhcw.jpg] Looks like it will come with the exact same number of minis that the original Blackstone Fortress came with, so if you need more than four negavolts, you will need both. 
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