Malcador for the Skaviir Dominion. There's a nice kit for Horus Heresy, and I've wanted a model of this since Forge World put out their resin ones. It is a nice build, I highly recommend it if you want one of these.
It does raise a few questions though. Do the Skaviir rattikin CALL this a Malcador? They don't know who Malcador is, and as the Dominion is mostly outside of Imperial space, they're not likely to call it this. So I gave it some thought (along with what to proxy other things as) and made a list of alternate names. This all started because I have decided to stop working on my Chaos Marines. I don't really like painting them, I'm not fond of the current aesthetic for Chaos, and finally decided to just stop working on that army entirely. That left me with 3 Predator Tanks and a Vindicator...
One of the Predators is a new Rhino chassis with a Leman Russ turret, which I have turned into a Vanquisher/Leman Russ
That left me with 2 old (old old old - like from the early 90's old) Predator Destructors (seriously ,these have metal turrets and sponsons, they're THAT old) and an old Vindicator (again, lots of metal parts - I also had another one on order from ebay that should arrive any day now). What to use them as? I don't want to sell them, I actually like how these old Predators look, and I'd like to use them as SOMETHING... which brings us to the Carnodon. Now, I don't do tournaments, that means I can use whatever model I want as long as I clear it with my opponent. So, Predators will be used as Carnodons, but for some reason my brain wanted to call them Verminette Light Tanks, and the naming conventions went downhill from there.
(old old old) Predator --> Carnodon Warscroll --> Verminette Light Tank
Leman Russ --> Leman Russ ---> Stormvermin Main Tank
(old old old) Vindicator --> Griffon Mortar (the only thing that kind of works with the size) --> Globadier Mortar Tank
Malcador --> Malcador --> Verminlord Heavy Tank!
There we go.
I do find it interesting that while Horus Heresy brought us the Deimos Predator/Rhino/whatever, it doesn't actually look like the original Rhino/Predator from the late 80's/early 90's. A pity, since I liked how those old models looked, but it does mean that Skaviir light tanks don't look like any of the Astartes tanks!
