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EyeamRai wrote: amazing!

Thanks

Boss Salvage wrote: I dig it, another smart use of repainted prepaints. And I appreciate that your spammed heralds use the same model over and over, feels somehow fitting

All my Tzeentch forces seem to be magical duplicates

Also: my Harrier gets here tomorrow thanks to Amazon Prime, and may well become a Lord of Change until I finally get my Vrok built - Salvage

Almost bought a second one myself. Glad I was able to help you out with that.

I set aside a bunch of Mage Knight stuff that I was going to use for orc and goblin type things and another lot that I was going to use for vampire counts. I wonder what I did with them...

 adamsouza wrote:
My Googlefu is strong today. The action figure is from the Redakai series and it's name is Harrier.

$10 MSRP, which is still about $35 cheaper than a Daemon Prince or Greater Daemon.



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The Gray Demon was, I kid you not, from a keychain I bought in Electronics Boutique. I believe he may have been a vidoe game villain.

The model base coated Black on the far right, is the Marvel Comics Character Dragon Man. His torso and legs are die cast metal, and the sword I added from some random action figure.

Non GW products made without finecast crap plastic! That Harrier is awesomeness!!!
Now put a staff in hands and we can pretend its the young Kairos Fateweaver many millenniums ago.

 Filch wrote:
Now put a staff in hands and we can pretend its the young Kairos Fateweaver many millenniums ago.

I actually thought about doing that this morning, but he's one head short. Anyways, I'll eventually pick up a Fateweaver model either at a discount on Ebay, or I'll ask for one for Father's Day. Harrier will end up serving as Greater Daemon of Tzeentch. Still debating getting him a twin.

Hello, my new Daemon Prince

77376___ Minotaur Demon Lord $12.99

BIG! knight looks a bit scared there by that DP

No one seems to complain when my custom Daemons are bigger than the actual GW models.

There was however a protest when I tried to summon a RT era Great Unclean One. I plan on building him a Palaquin to beef up his height.

 adamsouza wrote:
No one seems to complain when my custom Daemons are bigger than the actual GW models.

There was however a protest when I tried to summon a RT era Great Unclean One. I plan on building him a Palaquin to beef up his height.

That would work, I mean they used to do so, and also, they can be whatever sizes they desire to be, may even reflect the power from their sacrifice to them. or the worshippers own prayer power.

Started repainting the horde Pink Horrors


They are arranged in row of 10 with a musician, Icon Bearer, and Irridescent in each squad, since they are free upgrades when summoned.

Googling for ideas for scratch built daemon stuff, I dredged up a tutorial here on DakkaDakka for a Chariot of Tzeentch

Click on the picture for link to the tutorial

I flat out refuse to pay $40 for a herald on a disc, and was planning on building my own, but I hadn't really thought about the chariot, until now.

In the interest of scratch building, and keeping the cost of my Daemons army down, I decided to sculpt my own Discs and Screamers of Tzeentch.

Here's a quick Work In Progress pic I took with my cell phone


The disc is going to get more eyes and fangs, but I think the evil manta ray is about done. If you're wondering about the scale, the disc is modelled over a 32mm base. The white bits are made from some cheap home repair putty I bought at Walmart, Lock Tite brand I believe. It get's rock hard and completely unsculptable in 5 minutes. It may be ideal for bits that don't need much detail or that you are going to model over.

I've left them flat on the bottom, and tried to avoid any undercuts, so I can a one piece mold for each of them, and quickly cast as many as I need.

Nice. I've been meaning to look into casting some stuff for myself but haven't hit upon any good ideas yet.

Between 97 and 2003 I cast well over a 1000 miniatures in white metal. All of my 40K friends wanted me to do cast stuff for them and it became more part time job than hobby. Eventually, I just got sick of spending hours casting stuff for my friends for less than minimum wage, after deducting the cost of supplies. The real nail in the coffin was when I had 2 seperate people hound me into doing large commisions for them, back out at the last minute, and then try to get me to teach them how to cast for themselves.

To this day, any time I mention casting stuff for myself, I have at least 2-3 people trying to get in on the action. I think that alone has become the major reason I haven't done any serious casting in years.

I've grown to prefer plastic models. No need to pin everything, model glue easier to use than super glue, and the plastics are usually attractively enough priced that it's not worth the time and money to make them in metal.

Also did some resin casting. Worked out well on big models, like vehicles, but I never had much luck with resin and 28mm miniatures.

Ahh... yeah that sounds like it would get pretty annoying.

I've got a little resin casting kit, thought I would make some extra details for my battlezones scenery if I could think of anything to do, and maybe some wee tidbits for other models.

Just a heads up, casting supplies have a shelf life that they don't put on the bottles. Resin is the worst once it's gotten any air in the bottle, and I've had mold material that wouldn't mix right after months in storage. I'd recomend only buying resin and RTV mold material when your about to do a project.
If you already have some sitting around, I'd suggest using it, instead of saving it for a rainy day and inspriation.

Ahh huh good to know. Of course if time kills it then the work is likely already done since it probably set on the shelf for a good while before I ever bought it.

Thanks for the tip though.

Took a better pic of the Screamer.



Got a few nice compliments on it already, and I gak you not, one of the guys who always used to ask me to cast for him has already asked me about casting these and has offered to buy some

Anyone know where I can get cheap bulk bases with flight stands ?

Wow, we're doing some zone mortalis next week and these walls are perfect. Thanks so much.

 lordbrooks wrote:
Wow, we're doing some zone mortalis next week and these walls are perfect. Thanks so much.

I'm glad you like them. Let me know how they work out for you.

Decided to summon another screamer



If she had claws, she'd be like a giant sized Daemonette, and I could use her as Keeper of Secrets, or a Daemon Prince

Then I thought, hey, I could use a bigger Great Unclean One


And antother Keeper of Secrets

The Infestation has begun! quickly, the Inquisition must nuke it from orbit. Good collection of daemonic entities

Chaos is fun to model.

Now I'm just trying to figure out how to turn these into a half way decent proxy for Daemonettes

Some quick cell phone snaps of the little bit of progress I was able to cram in




Trust me he totally has shoulders now for those lower arms

Obey the frog king

Heh, that army is looking pretty demony, should be pretty solid all painted up.

First Daemon Mold being setup





Some more Mage Knight models I unearthed to convert into more daemons

Wife being home today threw off my schedule today, but I did manage to get some modelling in last night by forgoing about 4 hours of sleep.

Cut the faces off of 10 Krugg models and started sculpting Plague Bearer faces over them. It looks pretty promising so far.

Sculpted a Beast of Nurgle face onto a Crypt worm. It looks good, but I kind of like the faceless Crypt worm look better.

Got the mold made for screamers and disc. Tomorrow I hope to get in at least 3 castings, so I can clean them up, base them, and filed them on Saturday.

The beast of Nurgle conversion I'm working on alongside the base model for comparison.



The Plague Bearer conversions I'm working on.



Bigger eyes, more plague bearerlike heads. I'm also going to add horns to each of them. The one carrying the rock is going to be a musician. I'm going to scult a screaming mouth on the rock, so he esseniatially carries around a singing/screaming rock.

Mold of screamers and Disc. I put it together quickly, and probably could have squeezed a few more bits into it. I carved a 32mm base in the bottom right corner, to make better use of the space.

 adamsouza wrote:
The beast of Nurgle conversion I'm working on alongside the base model for comparison.

I'd keep 'em faceless myself, because I like the look and it means less work. But if your goal is to convert 100% of your daemonic things, then I dig the face work

- Salvage

Thank you, Boss Salvage, for the feedback.

Already customed up 2 more with faces. Wanted to be able to summon up a matching squad of 3. Decided to wait until after I paint them up, and a squad of 3 faceless ones to compare to, before I make my final decision.

EDIT: re-read Maelific, and there is no way to summon Beasts of Nurgle. Still going to finish them, but they are suddenly much less useful.

Beast of Nurgle WIP



Sculpted the faces with greeen stuff. The eyes are 3mm Half Round Beads. The bases are 40mm bases I cast. The finish on the base is PVA with superglue to give it that weird organic texture to simulate the Beasts of Nurgle slime trail. I'm going to see if I get the GW Nurgle Technical paint that looks like slime to finish it off.

Discs of Tzeentch WIP



Screamers of Tzeentch WIP



First batch of Screamers I cast up this morning. Lost a few horns on the first few because I got impatient and pulled them out too early.

Flight Stands Mold WIP



I realised I was going to need flight stands for all these Daemons, and I didn't want to use the flimsy GW flight stands, so I cooked up something beefier. These bases will accept a rod, the same diameter of a Bic Pen, which I have about 50 of sitting in my conversion bitz box.

Nice, gonna have a right horde of demons