Kitbashed conversion: Black Legion Chaos Space Marine Aspiring Champion Bilafus
Known as ‘The Tailor’ or ‘The Tinker Soldier’, Bilafus is an artisan warrior, crafting trinket trophies and larger works of art from fallen enemies. Once a legionary of the Emperor’s Children, Bilafus joined the Black Legion soon after the Horus Heresy to pursue his own work to achieve perfection through art, free from the interference of the self-gratifying addictions of his former brothers. While others seek apotheosis through daemonhood, Bilafus seeks transcendence through his work, capturing the raw destruction of war, and transmuting it into a greater beauty. Eschewing the crude trophy tokenism of his comrades, particularly the followers of Khorne, he seeks to make the trophy itself represent the beauty of the carnage which created the raw material. He creates, not for himself, but crafts gifts, small and large, for others, from the mightiest chaos warlords, to cultist champions. His squad are those who desire to be part of great works, and support him in the creative destruction of the art and arts of war. Chaos Space Marine Lords have sought his talents before beginning campaigns so that, like the role of remembrancers of Great Crusade, their victories and glories would be captured and elevated.
His works takes many forms, gothic thrones of bone, towering statues of victorious warriors from armour, chandeliers of lacquered and hollowed eyeballs. But a common form are robes or cloaks from the skin of fallen foes, like a quilt, pieces stitched together to create a story of a battle. While some had said that his own cloak is a vain attempt to mask his ageing and weather face, none who have said so aloud lived for long afterwards. Beyond his patrons and their commissioned works, he has projects of such a grand scale that they would take a the lifetime of a traitor marine to finish. Chief among these, in a blasphemous mockery of the leadlighted scenes in loyalist fortress monasteries or Imperial cathedrals, is a massive mosaic depicting Warmaster Abaddon slaying heroes of the corpse emperor, with each ‘pixel’ a shoulder pad of a fallen loyalist space marine. Seeking certain colours and tones, Bilafus hunts loyalist marines throughout the galaxy to claim pauldrons from battlefields, joining campaigns or ambushing vulnerable and unsuspecting individuals where needed. It is his intent to present the mosaic to Horus once he has claimed Terra. With each pauldron in the almost uncountable grid inscribed with details of the battle in which they were claimed, a space marine, with enhanced senses, memory and cognitive functions, would be able to stand before the mosaic, and see the patterns of the Long War, both successes and failures, how each battle connected and contributed to the greater outcome, an armoured tapestry of fulfillment of Horus’ will.
Build Components
Black Legion Chaos Space Marine Aspiring Champion Bilafus
- Body: Fabius Bile Body (part no. 010200601).
- Back pack: Older Chaos Space Marine Squad (model no. 99120102055), with Chaos Marauder Horsemen mace heads added, and spikes from Old Chaos Space Marine Tank Accessories Sprue (part no. 99390102001) added to these.
- Trophy spike: Chaos Space Marine Vehicle Accessory sprue (part no. 99390102004).
- Arms and chain sword: Older Chaos Space Marine Squad (model no. 99120102055), with chain sword tassel replaced with hook from AoS Chaos Knights.
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