Wargaming with Barks: 40K Red Corsairs: Greater Possessed

As I said last year, the Greater Possessed are Chaos Space Marines who have made a pact with a daemon to possess them, in exchange for unholy power. This will certainly not backfire in any way. They are unnaturally large and daemonically mutated, their armour and backpacks fusing with their flesh and sprouting ectopic teeth, eyes and horns.

Greater Possessed

So I've finally painted up the remaining five of these Greater Possessed. They had been sitting around, mostly done, for about six months. The sheer festoonery of detail on each very individual model was a bit overwhelming, but I knuckled down and am happy to be finished with the painting. The impetus to get them done was their impressive performance against Space Marines in my recent OPR Grimdark Future game.

I've put pictures of the front and back of each model because they're worth a look IMNSHO.

This first chap could be the leader, poised on a tactical rock. Are his thighs armour or flesh? He's got a spike erupting from his left hand and I love his techno-skeletal backpack.

The next chap stand triumphantly over a defeated loyalist- who of course is a Lamenter. This Possessed has big eye stalks on his fleshy backpack.

I really like the power pose of this next guy, as well as the flames on his backpack. His left arm has become some sort of edged weapon, but I wasn't sure if I should paint any of it metallic. The struggle is real trying to parse which bits are bone, teeth, claws, etc.

The next chap's got a daemon sword which I've painted in a cool tone. You can't really see in the picture, but he's got an abdominal tentacle- mirrored by his tongue- which is reaching across his waist to draw a knife from its scabbard. Stabby!

The last bloke's really sprinting with his unnaturally long legs. I wasn't sure if I should pick out the veins on his limbs more, and am glad I left them alone.