Warmachine Custom: Avatar of Cthulhu

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**Sp4m**

Howdy! So I'm going to use this forum to follow my progress on my custom Avatar of Menoth.

I want an Avatar that is distinctive, imposing, and an Abomination.
Since it can't be part of a battle-group, I'm giving myself a little more freedom with the design. Who says Menoth's form on Caen needs to be 100% mechanikal?

Add to that, Menoth is not a gentle God. If he did have an organic Avatar, I Imagine it would not be pretty.

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**Sp4m**

Thanks for your patience. From Sketch to Steel!

The plan is to cover over all the pins with tentacle strings of epoxy putty.
Simple enough to move from this "assembled" state to a final version.

Remaining challenges: moulding a tentacle "hand" to clutch the butterknife of doom.
finding somewhere to put that shield.

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**Sp4m**

The model is complete! It was more difficult than I'd expected, but here are a few lessons I'd learned:

When working with epoxy putty, you can control the hardening time and overall firmness by adjusting the ratios of putty. The "skeleton" putty (the thick section attached directly to the pin) should be soft, allowing easier adherence of the "muscle" putty, which should be much firmer, to prevent easy crushing.

Despite the interesting features of the model, there is still a lot that has to be done with paint.
Getting primer between all the tiny strands is going to be a challenge. Plan: many many very light coats.

Once again, excuse all that ugly text around my photos, that stuff comes out of the picasa embed image link.

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I appreciate any feedback that will help me improve it before I put the primer on this weekend.

**Medium of Death**

I don't know much (read anything) about warmachine, but it looks good.

I do make one suggestion. Upload your pictures to the dakka gallery and people will give you more feedback.

If people see thumbnails they'll probably just click away before having a look.