Sons of Dagon (AKA 'the fishmen')

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I created a great background for my army with a super chapter name, and fluff, and then the first guy who saw it points and said, "Look! Fishmen!" and it was game over.

I don't know how many H.P. Lovecraft fans are out there, but this is a Cthulhu inspired Chaos Space Marine army. Specifically, the tentacly, aquatic fish god Dagon. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, see this movie [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264508/] or read The Shadow Over Innsmouth which is a short story and a very quick read.

Every model in this army is converted with Chaos Mutations. (except 1 dude I forgot to do. Oops!). Fish feet, tentacle arms, fish heads....See how many you can spot!

One quick anecdote.... this might look like a decent Chaos Marine army. Do not be fooled, it's not. I get my tail kicked every time I play these guys. Maybe they're too cute - I don't know. After a tournament a group of us all went out to dinner, and my opponents had the waitress bring me tartar sauce!

On with the pics:
This is the whole army on my display board. Yes, that's fake coral in the background.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1526.jpg

This is Dagon, my daemon prince. AKA George.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1523.jpg

This is my Terminator squad. AKA the Deep Ones. Gotta love the fins on their shoulders - they're supposed to be mutated spike racks. The GW bitz guy thought I was insane when I ordered 16 pairs of Black Dragon head fins!
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1522.jpg

This is my Havoc squad. I modeled the tentacles with green stuff as another mutation.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1521.jpg

This is one of my 4 troop squads. I used tau heads for the leaders' fish heads to try and make them look smarter than the troops.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1517.jpg

This dude's my personal favorite. The scared fish guy. He took on a DP one-on-one one time ... and got smeared.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1520.jpg

Here are my rhino transports before the battle....
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1524.jpg

...and after.... (I figure if it's going to die it might as well look good).
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 0_1525.jpg

Last but not least, the Defiler.
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p220 ... 1516-1.jpg

So that's the Sons of Dagon. Took about 3 months to build and paint, but that was mostly building because I paint pretty fast. If you look close, you can see all the places I forgot to do highlighting. But I have fun playing them, and most people seem to have fun looking at them.... Enjoy!

[AJ]

Very cool concept dude, as an expansion have you thought of adding a LOTD army, using the creature from the blck lagoon as a base :p

[Ghost Fist]

Very nice army.
Good theme, and excellent execution of your idea.
Very well painted, too.
Good Job!

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[deamoncow]

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[Que Dan]

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[Kylewaaagh]

Haha you dirty rotten kit-basher! I'm just kidding , absolutely wonderful stuff. I'm sure you could get further inspiration from the new Pirates of the carribean movies... and octopus faced guy would be killer!

[Veritas]