Sergeant Thrombax, the gallows joker

Sergeant Thrombax occupies a peculiar place within the Synod of Suffering. He is a capable warrior and shows a certain flair for leadership when leading his squad in battle. But there are problems. Thrombax is a trouble-maker. He is a practical joker, and seems to attract others of his kind. He is a constantly smiling, obnoxiously confident individual who seems perpetually amused by everything going on around him, regularly mocking his battle brothers with provocations which have almost led to violence. Brother Maladax finds him so offensively flippant that the two rarely attend the same war councils. And yet, despite all of these irksome qualities, Thrombax inexplicably enjoys the favour of Lord Eiterfex. The maverick sergeant often attends Eiterfex's court, and at times seems to take suicidal delight in pointing out the flaws in his master's plans. It never occurs to Maladax, Doomhark or the others that this frankness may be the very reason that Eiterfex values Thrombax. Nor do they stop to consider that a man who appears to be an unpleasant joker may be rather more calculating and observing than it might immediately seem...

Sergeant Thrombax was a really quick, simple conversion: only a few minutes to put together. The basis is one of the Dark Imperium Plague Marines, who has an impressive crown of horns. In order to create the manreaper, I got a spare scythe rom the Pusgoyle Blightkings kit. One of the hands (the right) was attached, and a moment's tinkering allowed me to attach a spare arm from the Plague Marines kit to it. I knew that the other hand would be more difficult, so I got the Plague Marine arm with the open hand and used poly cement to attach this to the scythe. Now, that arm doesn't have a thumb, which is a problem! However, I had a spare torso front from the Plague Marines kit which had a couple of tentacles protruding from it. I snipped one of these off and attached it to serve as a thumb. I poly cemented it in place, and then filled with green stuff.

Attaching the arm assembly was difficult: after all, I was using Plague Marine arms on a Plague Marine body. A wee bit of shunting about and the arms fitted nicely (I did have to do a bit of filling on one side). Any unevenness was concealed by adding spare Plague Marine shoulder pads.

And there we have it! A nice little mood piece made from spares with minimal effort!