World Eaters Chaos Knight / Lord of Skulls / Kytan(?!)

Not too long ago I picked up an old converted Lord of Skulls from Glen (wrythsprimarchs.blogspot) but wasn't happy with the 'tank' section of the model. Removing the torso and pairing it with a set of Imperial Knight legs from bitsandkits allowed me to build a huge Khornate walker for my World Eaters army.

With this setup I figure I can run him as either a renegade knight or a lord of skulls. And I've since found out I have accidentally built one of what Forgeworld have called a Kytan, so I guess I can run him as one of those too.

With the removal of his huge tank-like lower section I had no way of mounting any of the large characteristic blood tanks from the Lord of Skulls model so opted to use a fairly high number of smaller tanks (9?) to help show what juice Khorne runs his engines on. 

 

The trickiest part of the whole build was getting him a melee weapon. The original conversion didn't include the amazing axe from the Lord of Skulls model, and no other weapons I could access were big enough for this guy so I was forced to start almost from scratch. Using the existing hilt I built him a knight sized chainsword out of plasticard. It isn't perfect but it gets the idea across.

Imperial Knight - Ira Leonis

I picked up an Imperial Knight for cheap and painted it up to join my Dark Angels force. With my collection containing  Deathwing, Ravenwing and 3rd Company I decided I wanted them all to be represented on this model. 

I struggled to find a suitable name for my Knight but eventually settled on "Ira Leonis" (Lion's Wrath) to reflect its allegiance to the chapter.

I then got even more carried away with painting 'pig latin' and put my best attempt at the phrase "We are the first legion. The honoured sons of Lion" across the front of the base. 

 I've included similar phrases on other large models in the army such as my Landraider and Dark Talon, and use it as another little attempt to unify the three quite different looking companies.

Taking inspiration from a Chaos themed Knight from the Eternal Hunt blog, I have built a cockpit and engine interior for the Ira Leonis. 

I was initially building the pilot using imperial guard bits and was going to have the Knight as an Oathsworn Knight working alongside my Dark Angels, but decided to put a marine in the pilot's seat instead and have the Knight directly belonging to the chapter (What's one more little secret going to matter for these guys?)