The Emperor's Children spent two decades as a project rather than a range — a Legion you converted, and then converted again. That changed in 2025, when the IIIrd finally received a plastic range of its own, and the army has stayed in production through the eleventh edition. What follows is a collector's index: what exists, what it is for, and what has been left behind in metal.
The Current Range
Released alongside Codex: Emperor's Children and the Champions of Slaanesh boxed set, this is the core of any modern warband. Everything below is injection plastic and available from Games Workshop.
Fulgrim
The gene-sire in his ascended form — four arms, a serpentine lower body, and a blade long enough to threaten a Knight. The largest model the Legion has ever had, and the one the army is built around.
In productionLucius the Eternal
Blade raised, armour crawling with the faces of everyone who has ever worn it. The sculpt leans hard into the duellist's conceit — every pose is an invitation.
In productionLord Exultant
The warband commander: ornate plate, a choice of heads, and enough weapon options to make each one look like an individual rather than a template.
In productionLord Kakophonist
A conductor for the Legion's sonic arsenal. Incongruously elegant, and the only officer in the range whose silhouette is mostly instrument.
In productionNoise Marines
The squad the Legion is famous for, finally in plastic. Sonic blasters, blastmasters and the option of a doom siren on the champion.
In productionFlawless Blades
Duellists who treat perfection as a weapon. Thin, fast, and built to trade blows with the best the Imperium can field.
In productionTormentors
Bolter-armed line troops with the usual excess of optional parts. The shooting half of the army's battleline.
In productionInfractors
Close-quarters line troops, built around getting into contact and staying there. The melee half of the same box.
In productionPoints move every few months — the September 2026 balance update reshuffled the army like every other faction — but the shape of a IIIrd collection has stayed the same since launch: a Primarch or a Lord to anchor it, two or three battleline squads, Noise Marines for the sound, and Flawless Blades for whatever needs killing precisely.
The Horus Heresy Range
The Legion's pre-corruption era is covered mostly in Forge World resin, with a plastic backbone of generic Legion kits. If you want the IIIrd as they were at the height of the Great Crusade — purple and gold, before the noise — this is where to look.
Fulgrim, Primarch
The Phoenician before the fall: power armour, the Laeran blade in hand, and a plinth worthy of the ego. The definitive Heresy-era centre-piece.
ResinPalatine Blade Squad
Five duellists of the Legion's warrior fraternity, all swords and arrogance. The unit Fulgrim looked on with particular favour.
ResinPhoenix Terminator Squad
The First Company in their ornate plate. Heavy, ceremonial, and dripping with gold filigree that is a nightmare to paint and worth every hour.
ResinKakophoni Squad
Prototype psycho-sonic weapons in the hands of warriors already sliding into corruption. The first hint of what the Legion would become.
ResinLegion Praetor & Command
Officer builds for a Heresy-era force, including the Legion's distinctive crested helms and palatine laurels.
ResinLegionaries, MK III / IV / VI
The plastic spine of any Heresy army, finished with Emperor's Children shoulder pads, heads and transfer sheets. Cheapest way to build a large IIIrd force.
In productionLegacy Classics
Before the plastic range, the Emperor's Children existed as a handful of metal and finecast miniatures, supplemented by conversion work. Most are long out of production, but they still turn up on the secondary market and they remain the reference for the modern designs.
Noise Marine
The original sonic troopers, sold in blisters of one and defined by a guitar-shaped weapon and a face that is mostly speaker grille.
LegacyLucius the Eternal
The Eternal in his earlier incarnation: whip, sabre, and armour studded with screaming faces. Small by modern standards, still the purest expression of the character.
LegacyFabius Bile
The Primogenitor with his chirurgeon's tools and his coat. A surprisingly restrained sculpt for a man who keeps spare bodies in jars.
LegacySonic Dreadnought
A Castraferrum chassis rebuilt around amplification. Loud, impractical, and the most Emperor's Children object ever cast in resin.
LegacyPainting the Third
The scheme is the Legion's whole argument in miniature: perfection as a discipline. Three colours do most of the work, and the temptation is to rush the gold. Don't — the trim is the entire point, and a IIIrd army lives or dies on how clean its filigree is.
Purple over a black undercoat, kept deliberately thin so the shading survives; gold only after the purple is completely dry, or the two will blend into mud. Pale flesh for faces and bare heads, and a single accent of pink — a lens, a gem, the inside of a cloak — to keep the eye moving. Weathering is optional and, for this Legion, arguably heretical.