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right, so, some of you may remember this.

"I've recently been reading the Dark Adetpts BL novel, and its given me a few ideas for an army...again...

Basically for those that haven't read it, its about a forge world re-emerging from the warp, and when an inquisitorial task force is sent on a planet drop, they find that a council of Tech-Adepts that absconded from imperial service during the horus heresy still inhabit the planet, but have gained the power to cotrol Data Daemons and other such nastiness...

But the only thing the book doesn't give you is a detailed description of a data daemon. and naturally this set my mind at work. basically the concept is this:
A world close to the eye of terror contains an innumerable amount of unharvested Data crystal, and a council of traitorous tech priests (much like in the novel) have been using this as a transport network for data daemons and spiteful data, which in this case take the form of skeletal spectres and ghostly figures. These daemons have the ability to take on physical shape in the real world for a limited amount of time, so naturally are used to defend attacks from the tribes from the outskirts of the cities. the bodies of slain tribesmen are then "reprogrammed" and used against their former tribes."

right, so. its on all over again, but with more fluffed out fluff, and closer to the BL novel

the army will basically revolve around the half human servitor creations of the dark adeptus and the dark adeptus themselves, from the world of Chaeronia.

troop choices will be fleshed out using these servitors, generally representing bloodletters, plaguebearers or horrors.
generic industrial servitors for plaguebearers
combat servitors for bloodletters
gun servitors for horrors

the only thing different from the book will be the tribesmen, representing seekers of slaanesh, and will ride horses, and will be represented by teched-up versions of the plastic marauder horsemen. the back story for this is that their job is to collect mechanical parts littered around the planet and to mine unharvested data crystal.

there will be a few characters in the army:
leader of the Dark Adeptus, Severius
a larger industrial servitor
(both representing heralds likely)

also there will be an enormous servitor representing a greater daemon or daemon prince, not sure which yet.

so yeah, basically the purpose of this thread is to document the making of this army, but first, to get your opinion on my colous scheme, which is based around the rusty orange armour colour described in the book, along with pallid grey flesh.the mini's i have painted up are scrap thralls from Warmachine Cryx range as i feel they fit well into the plaguebearer role in the army

so.....C&C please
ty in advance

The test models look pretty good. Should be interesting to see how it all turns out.

I like the idea alot! You could try doing something to a techmarine, test model looking good!

thats part of one of my idea's! the other is one of the drudge mind slave unit leaders from the cryx range. they're pretty awesome, i'll post a picture when i start him :]

In the book, I remember reading the part where Aleric took his team through that Data-Crystal valley and was attacked. The Data Daemons were kind of semi-transparent and had a sort of metallic sheen to them. They were able to jump out of the Data Crystals, attack, and then leap into the Crystals opposite of them.

The other part I remember was the moat of liquid silicon, where the Data Daemons were part of the liquid, and they took shape as little more than faces and claws emerging from it. It would be really cool to see you represent these two different forms of manifestation with your talents

metllifan-i am gonna do! they will represent my horrors. i plan to do an inital sculpt then cast the semi transparent ones in clear resin, if i can afford it. otherwise i shall think of something else. and also, the liquid moat idea may be good for nurgling swarms ;D

thanks a lot sir, well remembered

right, sly photoupdate, a WIP my first bloodletter with skin and armour done. C&C please? all comments appreciated!

The skin tones are nice. I like the dead-ish look of them and it is a good contrast to the reds.

Love it! The lack of a face makes it look really frightening. Reminds me of the Gatekeeper from the Shivering Isles Exp. for E.S. IV

You should do some of them with the skin stretched over their armour plating in some spots. If you're feeling really ambitious, I've always felt that exposed muscle tissue would look great for Chaos AdMech units as well. Perhaps having a few with the skin removed and all the muscle and cartilage exposed would be a good challenge?

I also like the lack of a face as someone with a face can be identified as an enemy or an individual but someone with a mask on cannot be identified and is a faceless threat that feeds on subconcious fear. An example of this is in V for Vendetta where V states he is more than flesh but an idea. Sorry for the tangent. ^_^

Nice greenstuffing and it looks a bit like a bag over his head. The armour is looking Khornate yet mechanised.

nemmisary- Thankyou very much :]
metallifan- Hmmm, interesting ideas. i may toy around with this on the daemon prince i just started, who is gonna be mostly greeen stuff anyway by the end by the look of it xD
Great Unlclean One- Thats exactly the idea i was going for thank you very much.

Right, another photo update. started my Daemon Prince of Nurgle last night. As in, glued him together and some green stuffage. Needs lots more green stuff before he's done. As i said above, i get the feeling he's gonna end up with a coating of green stuff before the end of this log O.o
The base model is the old metal warhammer giant. The claws are from the chaos defiler kit, bits scrounged from friends. I'm thinking of making the head faceless like the bloodletter tester. what do people think about this idea?

I'm also thinking about idea's for a soul grinder. anyone have any ideas?

Ooh, ooh, I got an idea for the prince, make him look like he's in a boiler suit and then put a bag or sack over his head a bit like the chaos ogryns from FW.

For the soulgrinder you could try some form of suit for a dark mechanicus techpreist, a bit like the penetant engine from witch hunters, but replace it with massive claws and the penetant with a servitor or techmarine model, converted to chaos wired into the thing?

The small head almost kind of looks like a mutated vox-speaker or rebreather. You could probably build something on behind it and use it as exactly that. You could also do a helmet that's somewhat reminiscent of those old iron diving helmets with the shuttered viewports in them. That would look pretty neat actually, if you fed some LED's into it or painted it to look like it was glowing from the inside. Best way to do that would probably be to shape some GS to a spherical object and then remove it after it dries if you decide to try that.

If you end up doing some areas where the skin has peeled/stripped away to expose muscle chording, be sure to include some mechanical bits here and there to make him look even more unnatural

I have a bad, ominous feeling about this army in the good sort of scared for my life way

OHHHKAY! day 5 update!

Great Unclean One- these are actually awesome ideas. that reminds me i need to pick up some chaos Ogryn. theyre crying "BLOODCRUSHERS" to me now :(. shame i already began greenstuffing the prince when i read your idea, i like it a lot. and i also love the idea for the techpriest engine

Metallifan- THAT vox breather idea is awesome. *steals*. and yessss. thats exactly the thing i'm working on during green stuff phase 3.

RIGHT new stuff! phase 2 of daemon prince green stuffing is done, and i've finally finished my test bloodletter. i'm actually ridiculously motivated by this project o.o

and also, last picture, my mind slave unit leaders finally came

I really like the massive claws and what are those models at the end? Psykers?

That or they're going to be Corrupted Tech Adepts/Engineseers would be my guess.

They look a bit like the rouge psykers from the FW renegade IG and also oddly like the genestealer magos. O_o Would look good as a techpreist though

thankyou both, top marks go to metalifan. they are indeed gonna be techpriests

update tomorrow, a bit later than anticipated due to some personal stuff i had to work out

were are those tech priest models from?

Seconding that "what models are those tech priests"

Right, lets do this. slight change in direction with this army now. i've decided on using the Chaos Space Marine list as i decided i have no real way of explaining why the whole army deepstrikes . so the mini's i have worked on that were meant to be my bloodletters will be come summoned daemons, and my Great Unclean One will become a generic greater daemon.

@ Battle Brother Loken and ph34r
those techpriests are Drudge Overlords from the Privateer Press Cryx range.

okay, day 8 update, a bit later than expected :']

i have a Chaos Lord with a daemon weapon pre-painting. i hope to have this painted by the end of the week.
secondly i have my prototype for my CSM's, and need c&c on these pre greenstuffing, as they are only blutacked together for these pics

ty in advance

That techpriest looks Frikkin' Shweet!

The bottom two though I'm not too partial towards... They kinda ended up looking like bodybuilders that only focused on their arms and became rather disproportioned Maybe flesh em out a bit more and add some mechanical beef?

I dig the techpriest's concpet but the left art doesn't flow with the rest of the model. Something more slender would be more fitting. Alternatively, you could fit something bulky but mechanical there, like a Meganob claw.

Love the Drudge Chaos lord. Might I make a suggestion for your CSMs especially if they end up mostly looking like the one on the right. If I'm getting your inspiration right, these aren't actual marines (just counts as) and they're actually machine demon things, GS over they tops of the heads so they look like the skeleton in the sprue here. It'd kind of give them more of a purely artifical vibe as opposed to a "Corpse + bits" look that they have right now.

dude i loved the GK book series and dark adeptus was one good book, though i do ask will you do the data crystal deamon dudes? if i recall they ambush the greyknights in a swamp thing, oh and the final daemon that alaric takes on well i think alaric anyway are you gonna do the tzeentchy sounding greater daemon that was in the reaver titan or the BIG titan- i havnt read the book for a good time now but to be honest the first GK book by ben counter was epic

This is looking solid so far .

Great stuff so far. Hope to see more soon

Nice. Love your take on the chaos lord. Looks very much the part, in that he fits into the aesthetic and theme of the army, but also looks intuitively like the equivalent of a "chaos lord" level character (making it easier for opponents to keep track of what's what -- always a challenge in a converted army). Well done. I'm loving the way your army is developing.

metallifan- thanks for the compliements on the techpreist man. and yeah, i plan to flesh them out with more armour plates and muscle, and wires. the arms were merely blutacked on to give me an idea about if the arms would look outta place.

His Masters Voice- i kinda liked the arm, i thought maybe with the addition of wires and stuff it would look okay. any suggestions for a replacement though?

Breaker- again, yeah i'm gonna flesh them out with wires, armour and muscle. ooh, i like the head idea though, it'll give them a more uniform look

physcosamatic- awesome books aren't they? i'm gonna do some datacrystal daemons for use as generic summoned daemons, yes! they'll be cast in clear resin if i have the funds, alternately a machine code style paintjob. and also, yeah. i'm gonna have a tzeencian style daemon also. i forgot about that part but i just decided on doing so. i wish i could afford a reaver for him to go in xD

slaan, Captain Jack- thankyou

tinfoil- again, kind words considering how awesome your converted daemon project is xD

update later today/early tomorrow with PIP pictures of my chaos sorcerer and hopefully a first completely built CSM

WaaaaghLord wrote:metallifan- thanks for the compliements on the techpreist man. and yeah, i plan to flesh them out with more armour plates and muscle, and wires. the arms were merely blutacked on to give me an idea about if the arms would look outta place.

A simple reply of "Yes, MOAR BEEF! GIDDEY MEOW!" would've worked too XD

Really though, sounds good. Doom 3 and the Quake games would be great referances when building these guys as they both featured semi-organic creatures as grunt infantry.

Those are looking really cool! I love the chaos lord, looks a bit like a chaos chichuregen (A chaos apothecary) and for the CSM you could try converting acctual CSM into tech/demons instead of using counts as because people might be more likely to let you use converted CSM rather than counts as CSM. ^_^ I do like them though!