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Boss_Salvage wrote:Very nice Tin, you're really killing it with these 'crushers. Love how individual they are, yet cohesive when packed up on the hunt. Speaking of killing things, where you able to successfully eviscerate those Space Puppies in that pic?

Yep, that picture was taken on the top of my turn. The puppies were ripped apart.

Thanks for the kind words, everybody.

As much as I’d like to sink my teeth into the next outlandish conversion, I need to spend more time working on more basic chores first, namely, building additional daemon troop packs. I’d like to start running some mono-themed daemon lists – or at least, lists more focused on particular powers and alliances. To that end, I’ve begun working up another pack of Bloodletters:


… and Horrors:


These units will closely resemble those of their peers already called to the service of the Ruinous Powers:

… although I will have to work up ideas for icons and for a Changeling, which will be fun.

And in the meantime, for those of you interested in seeing something with a bit more pop, I did have a chance last week to play a game against a colleague’s gorgeously colorful Tau:


This occasion gave me an opportunity to snap off a few pictures of the (more-or-less) painted Bloodletters on the field of battle, hunting:


… killing stuff (in this case, my opponent’s shamefully proxied Devilfish – he had found himself one short when he unpacked his case):


… and generally posing:


As always, thanks for looking. Feedback, criticism, comments are always welcome.

Omgz, best proxy ever! oh and keep it up manz!

Woot! Monogod incoming!

Love those Bloodletters! I can't say enough good stuff about this army, it's just the perfect appearance for demons in 40k! While I like the model range for demons, I dont' think they look all that fitting in 40k, and something with a bit more of a DOOM-esque look is just what the doctor ordered. Did I already post a comment like this? I can't remember, but it needs to be said! These demons are truly fearsome looking monstrosities of Chaos!

Meanwhile, it's really quite funny seeing them fighthing those extremely bright-colored Tau. Those two forces could not be more different in appearance The battle pictures are definitely my favorite, as it's awesome to see the force in action against other well-done armies.

The bloodletters and horrors are my favorite units in the army, they both fit in so perfectly. Looking forward to more progess!

I've been having fun.

I'm putting some work into more slave-soldiers for the Harrowed -- that's not the fun part.

I've also been working on the possessed city terrain -- specifically the corrupted shrine. I find myself wanting to do things ... bad things ... to the eagle-headed jutting prow/piece commanding the center panel of the shrine. So first I assembled it as GW and the Emperor's loyal subjects intended. And then I burned open the brow of the figurehead:


The idea is to have a major daemon bursting out of this once sacred bastion:


To which end I've begun grafting in greenstuff and wire, to form the skeleton ...


... of a multi-headed daemon using the bird heads from the Spawn kit (shorn of their silly looking feathers).


And:


That was a good start. There's still a long way to go on that part of the piece.

Meanwhile, I tried to figure out what to do about the most dominant aspect of the structure: its neo-gothic high-fascist eagle armor plating. I couldn't let that stand. After all, the act of possessing an imperial shrine would be a violently wrenching process. So I knew I was going to have to attack the thing. The shrine's "skin" is made of pretty thick plastic, though. I contemplated taking drills, a dremel, saws, files, an exacto knife to it. But I didn't want the thing to look cut or gouged or sawed up.... so much as warping from within, buckling and bubbling with change.

So I decided on another approach. When some warm weather coincided with one of my wife's business trips, I decided the fates were aligning, took the panel of the shrine outside, and went to work on it with a box of matches. Selectively applying flame, I softened the plastic in patches, mushed it around a bit (with an old butter knife and a coat hanger wire), plucked at it (with a pair of tweezers), and generally desecrated the thing.


*sigh. Remember when we were kids and we used to set plastic soldiers on fire in our backyards? Remember that smoke, that smell? I suppose it's toxic as hell. But intoxicating, too. It triggers this incredibly evocative boyhood sense memory. So yeah, I'm happy.

i want to go burn things now brb

lookin' sharp, keep it up
LFF666

looks cool, looking forward to seeing the completed piece!

Really nice conversion work

Looks quite warped already.

unique.. and suprisingly.. COOL!!!!!!!!

Cool; a very nice effect. I would advise a mouth mask though, if you ever plan on having children and a generally normal life; plastic fume sare supposed to be highly toxic. Maybe you could have wires sprouting from other corrupted spots, coalescing into a deamon form with the heads?

Wow, that is a really great effect. I will need to remember to steal that when I make some more possessed tanks.
Yes, steal it just like every other part of my army :-P

Excellent work man.

A demon springing forth from the Imperial eagle is a great idea. Making it a twisted Bird-demon?

Absolutely brilliant!

I've been a major fan of your work for a while now, and you continue to impress! Keep it up!

I hate you.

very impressive GS skill, i really like all of these daemonic conversions, Great work, but if i may add a suggestion, to make the buildings more 'possessed', you should model some thick, whip-like tentacles, bursting or emerging from the cracks of the building.

Shrine becoming a very evil shrine indeed

Thanks for the feedback, all.

Tentacles (and claws, and maws ringed with teeth, and crucified victims, and grotesque mechanical devices involving cables/wires and body parts, and....) all to come, I assure you.

Yay! carcenogenic fun!

seriously, your stuff looks great, and i love the bird heads coming out of the bird head....very cool

Evil shrines are evil.

The madness continues. Despair deepens. Daemons continue to gnaw on the fabric of reality. New hosts, new vessels....

Until now, I haven't developed many Slaaneshi elements of the Harrowed. In part, because of a lack of conversion ideas, and in part for narrative reasons. The Harrowed's storyline does begin with a pact among four greater daemons, representing each of the four Powers. A Keeper of Secrets, Ululaar, did countenance the creation of this daemonic abomination. [S]he covenanted a pack of Fiends to the host, and [s]he does track its fortunes. But I picture this creature as a proud demi-god, aloof, profoundly wary of the experiment. [S]he has been waiting to see how it fares, before committing more fully to the project.

Now (in my imagined storyline), [s]he perceives that [s]he cannot stay on the sidelines. The Harrowed are becoming a powerful instrument of war -- to powerful to be left in the hands of rival powers. Ululaar now feels compelled to play h[er]is hand in this game.

That's the narrative thinking. Conversion-wise, I still don't know exactly what to do to create Harrowed-style, possessed Imperial Guard "daemonettes." I may just use GW 'nettes (the 3d edition ones), reasoning that Ululaar will not deign to let her daemon-soldiers take the field in any form as imperfect, as flawed, as a mortal shell would be.

But I have to try something, right? So I've started work on a Slaaneshi Prince:


Like the other major manifestations of the Harrowed (greater daemons, daemon princes), this conversion is sentinel-based. Full manifestation within the ranks of the Host, for leading daemonic entities, requires the anchoring of a mortal vessel of iron and blood.

But as I see it, Ululaar (and h[er]is lieutenant/emissary princes) will insist on possessing their host vessels on their own terms. So in this case, the daemon will twine with the remains of the sentinel, taking form as a nest of serpents. Daemon limbs, coils, tentacles and so on will wrap around the sentinel legs. All other parts of the original vehicle (it's cabin, its weapons, its pilot) have been consumed and discarded.


This is only the beginning. I will be weaving in a lot of greenstuff. I will trim off parts of the sentinel legs and feet, to create space for more organic, daemonic tissue.


To start with, I've been pinning and gluing the creature, trying to create a stable architecture out of what is so far a top-heavy and quite precarious rig. So, imagine coils of snakey daemon stuff wrapping around the legs, weaving in and out of the iron and hydraulics and pistons. As I said, I want this thing to look like a nest of snakes -- and at the same time as a single, sinuous, graceful, utterly lethal entity.


More to come. And in the meantime, thanks for looking.

Yay! your back!

and i must say, hearing that your finally doing slaanesh is very pleasing

nice conversion, but it looks slightly weird at this point in time. I will watch with anticipation

Man, that thing has some nice lines going for it already. I can't wait to see you corrupt the legs.

Same for leg corruption!

Also what body is it :-S?

Completely in love with this army.
The Slaaneshi Prince should probably be more slender a lithe than the others. How about putting the legs where you would expect the shoulders to be? Have an array of tentacles and other kinds of gribbliness coming from the lower part of it's body.
Perhaps even have the serpentine nature of the original model continued, with intertwining tails that loop around the creature. So that if it were to move it would do so in some kind of perverse and jerky way.

Bloodhorror wrote:
Also what body is it :-S?

The body is from the mounted Slaanesh champion in the WHFB line, I believe.

Thanks for the input, folks. The creatures does seem awkward and weirdly proportioned at this stage. Hopefully I can correct for the worst of it as it continues to take form. Stay tuned.

Its probably just me but it kinda looks like there's some weird Demon / Sentinel sex going on which i suppose is appropriate given that its Slaanesh

Nice conversions and your greenstuffing is absolutley great!

Ah fair enough then!
i gotta get me one of those models cus that body just looks sweet!

Damn Slaaneshy powers ¬¬

Eh, I'm undecided on it looks a little off with the pelvis and legs in fronts. Is it going to have any arms?