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For background, the Dornian Heresy is an alternative heresy created by the members of the bolterandchainsword.com. The white scars fall to slaanesh (info here: https://dornianheresy.fandom.com/wiki/White_Scars). At this stage most of the army is in planning but I have bought most of the base parts for centaur daemon khan, butI am still waiting for it to come in. As far as further plans, the idea is to build a crusade list of true scale models that can double as a 30k army list as well. I am still playing with the crusade list (which is the pledge) but the pledge is currently 10 veteran marines, 10 terminators and 6 bikes, 1 terminator storm seer (sorceror) and the khan (the concept art I'm working off is below). Edit: So I'm pretty sure I have now worked out the list that works for both 40k Crusade Games and 30k (only 1500pts but I'm not committing to anything more while still working on other projects). Either a Patrol or a Primarch's Chosen force. Daemon Khan (Khan on Jetbike or Lord Disco for 40k) Cataphrachtii Storm Seer (Librarian in Cataphrachtii or Sorcerer in Terminator Armour) 10x Veterans in modified Mk II (Veteran Tacticals or CSM for 40k) 10x Cataphrachtii Terminators (Legion Terminators in Cataphrachtii or Chaos Terminators) 6x Hussars with Rotor Cannons (Hussars with Rotor Cannons or CSM Bikes) Current Modelling Plans: So I have this arriving shortly from Txarli Factory, which I am going to combine with a 1/35 scale cavalry model (which I will need to seriously bulk up) to form the base for my daemon khan. Beyond that I will need to do some serious work to get the posing and details right on both, before I also organise a heavy bolter/autocannon thing for him (though I might steal it off an old model of mine that is still very WIP). Beyond that Txarli also do a MkII conversion kit at primaris scale which I plan to combine with a pile of 3rd party and regular intercessor bits to build my veterans. For the bikes I intend to heavily modify a couple of units of primaris outriders into wearing Mk 4 (not particularly hard and also have a fair bit of experience with the kits). The terminators are going to be the hardest part of this (besides Khan) as the current plan is to use Aquilon Custodes as a base. Edit 2: As far as period, I am thinking during or post siege so the corruption is present but the mutations are scarce. DAEMON Khan Art

So i thought i would participate in this little adventure that Krefey has organised (thanks and a great idea!). I did multiple army building diaries for several different systems over the years back when WAU was a thing (helped with the post count 😉 )but since then ive just bounced around systems and mostly posted stuff to a few Facebook groups. Will be nice to get some structure back and have a central spot to keep everything again. Onto the project itself, in early 2020 a mate was cleaning up his cupboards at home in a fit of gaming rationalization and dug out a box of old Warhammer Kislev models that he had accumulated over the years from eBay and second hand stalls locally. It was a project he was never going to get to and he asked our local group if anyone was interested. At the time we had been playing a bit of Warlords of Erehwon (Warlord Games, designed by Rick Priestly, d10 skirmish sized system) and my Dwarf army was feeling slow and sluggish. The idea of a more cavalry and light fast moving troop force had a certain appeal. I looks at the available army lists and came to the conclusion that the Kislev force on offer would slide nicely into the Knights army list. A bit of price checking and discussion of what was included and the deal was done! We met up for a coffee and cake at Brunetti's to exchange models and cash, plus a long chat about all things gaming. After getting the box home and sorting out all the parts and models i managed to arrange them all for a group photo (below) and start to consider what was going to be required. Clearly there was a lot of paint stripping required. There were insufficient bases and also a real mix of types due to the collection being accumulated from multiple different sellers, so that would have to be remedied. There were a few broken parts, mostly lances, and some models had clearly not been cleaned up before assembly or painting. So the task at hand was to pull everything apart, strip all the paint from the metals (plastic horses are a different problem) and then properly clean up and assemble again. Subsequent to the initial purchase i also snagged a Kislev engineer from eBay, some replacement plastic horses and extra mounted archers from Facebook and a pile of replacement bases from my bits box, mates and the local GW.