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And now, with the start of the new year, I finally start my Hello Killy project log.
As one might expect, the army is a Hello Kitty themed Necron army.
Here's the models I currently have constructed to a point I feel comfortable sharing, and more will crop up in this thread from time to time as I finish them.
There are also more pictures of most of these in my galleries, so if you can't see a detail of a model, see if you can find one in the gallery.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/47990-Crackgnome.html

Models as of 2/2/2012


Current Plans:
Modelling To Do List (underlined items are completed):
HQ's:
- KitTrazyn
- Command Barge, KitTrazyn's
- Crypteks, Trazyn's RC:
- HoDespair
- HoDestruction
- HoE
- HotS
- HoT

- Nemesor [Name] (Counts as Nemesor Zahndrekh) OR Anrakyr
- Command Barge, Second HQ

Troops:
- 9 Warriors (Lower grade beads for heads, to reflect quality of biotransferrence construction)
- Ghost Ark
- 15 Warriors (Lower grade beads for heads, to reflect quality of biotransferrence construction)
- 10 Immortals (Hello Kitty heads)
- Night Scythe

Elites:
- 10 Deathmarks (Hello Kitty heads)
- 5 Lychguard (Hello Kitty heads)
- Deceiver Shard (face will be molded over and carved into, either classic Hello Kitty, or Octopus face O

Fast Attack:
- 10 Scarab Swarms (7 done, kitty ears similar to KitTrazyns)
- 5 Wraiths (Hello Kitty Heads with mittens instead of claws)

Heavy Support:
- Doomsday Ark
- Monolith (With Laser-eyed Hello Kitty Head in place of the crystal)

First we start with KitTrazyn:
Fairly simply conversion, just a Trazyn kit with ears carved from finecast sprue. Some minor casting issues, but nothing hot water and patience can't fix.


Next in line are KitTrazyn's Royal Court of 5 Crypteks. Yet to come up with a clever name for them.
All five were made from a Lychguard box, and each has a custom staff, as well as a head removed from a squishy Hello Kitty figurine from Walmart.
I made one of each of the Harbingers, though I may run them differently as the situation calls for it.
I still need to make a cloak for HoD and HoE, as well as a Crucible and Harp for HoT.

Harbinger of Despair:
Abyssal Staff made from warscythe handle, Bloodcrusher collar, backpiece from lychguard box, piece of a rod of the covenant, and skull and chain also from Bloodcrusher box. Shoulder decorations made from another rod of the covenant. (Better picture of staff in the Cryptek staves gallery)
I chose a mouse head, because even giant elephants are scared of them


Harbinger of Destruction:
Eldritch Lance made from two warscythe blades mounted on a single handle, with a small bit from the back end of the warscythes mounted in the middle. Shoulder decorations made from sharpened back pieces from lychguard box. Bear head because his little bow rocks. And bears are scary.


Harbinger of Eternity:
Aeonstave made from support column of Dispersion shield, warscythe handle, two hyperphase sword blades, and assorted small bits on the top from all of the aforementioned bits. Chronometron (on left hand) made from small orbs found on the bottom of lychguard torso backs, mounted on half of a particle caster. Teacher head because time manipulation requires super smarts.


Harbinger of the Storm:
Voltaic staff made from warscythe handle, a random piece of metal I found in a parking lot shaped like a pincer of some kind, and the back half of a particle caster. Monkey head because it's adorable and uh... monkeys... use tools...?


Harbinger of Transmogrification:
Tremorstave made from warscythe handle, and pieces of three Bloodcrusher collars. Sheep head because Transmogrification reminds me of polymorph and similar. I broke the model at the knees so it could be smashing the staff into the ground.


Deathmarks:
Still looking for a name for these fools.
Regular Deathmark models, minus the heads. I found a pair of Hello Kitty stud earrings, which I plan to use to make a mold with which to make heads for all of my Deathmarks, Immortals, and Necrons of similar rank.


Badly mounted earring head:


Assorted bits:
Standard Hello Kitty squishy from the box the Crypteks' heads came from


In Progress:
- Monolith:
Laser eyes almost ready to be installed. Debating magnetizing laser-head to swap out with spinning head.

- All warriors constructed, simply awaiting beads for finalization.


Feel free to leave comments, suggestions, insults, and rage

so much win the heads are a little big but there's nothing wrong with that :3

I like the idea of slightly chibi-ish heads for the Hello Kitty forces anyhow, so I figured they'd work well

That's bringing badass to a whole new level.

They remind me of the Hello Kitty marines which went with the same type of heads and worked well.

Would look great once you have a full squad up and painted.

I thnk you are a little late to this party...

The Garden of Necrons army was actually kind of an inspiration for this.
My Monolith will be standard black, but will have pink trim instead of green.
I also have the working for a laser-eyed Hello Kitty head to replace the crystal, which will contain functional red LED's in place of the normal eyes.

Those aren't Hello Kitty though, just pink and flowers.

Mein gott! What fiendish machines are these?

NeKitties!

I need to translate like... fish, or cat, or maybe hug or something into Egyptian and Necron-itize it to be the name of my Hello Kitty Dynasty.

Mau means cat in Egyptian, so maybe the Mauvokh Dynasty?

...Ow....Oooooooow....my brains hurt.

Matt.Kingsley wrote:Mau means cat in Egyptian, so maybe the Mauvokh Dynasty?

I dig it.
I might have to use something similar

My girlfriend just went mad that her favourite thing and my favourite thing were mashed together haha.

Look forward to more.

Thanks!

Since the beads for my warriors are still en route, as are the blue acrylic rods for my Monolith, I've been working on the electrical components of the laser-eyed Hello Kitty head.
I'll post pictures of the basic wiring and mechanisms soon.

yay! can't wait

After quite a wait due to the start of the school year, my laziness, and a general lack of energy, I bring you (most of) my Kittylith!

This is the head. I removed it from a McDonald's bobble-head figurine, and viciousl- I mean carefully removed the eyes with a power drill. I widened the holes a bit more and implanted two 2.6V Red LED's. A bit of glue finished the job easily.


Here is the internal view:


The lights were soldered together, and a basic power supply/button setup was added. A 9V battery and a 220ohm resistor made for a simple wiring job that wouldn't blow out the bulbs.
I cut access panels in the center column of the Monolith, and a hole in the crystal assembly, then fed the wires through.
Here is the nearly completed result (a slightly warped Monolith kit called for some green stuff to keep it in line):


I mounted the button on the bottom of the monolith. I simply cut a hole in the bottom and widened the bottom hole on the central column to accept the back section of the button.


Here is the internal access panel. The outermost two wires come down from the head, and the other two come off the button. I figured it would be easier just to solder everything together in an open space than try to attach it inside the column.


Solder the last wires in sequence, add a battery, press the button, and you get a very angry Hello Kitty.


Hello Kitty will receive one(1) plastic-wrap helmet for the duration of the priming process.
The rest is assembled as of last night (including custom blue rods for the guns) save for the rods that I'll put in after painting.
Hope everyone enjoys this, and I'll keep working!

The Kittylith is pure awesome.

Thanks
It looks even better with the other walls and the upper pieces on.
I dunno what to do about the big rods on the sides, since I don't have the right size rod for it. I was thinking maybe heating two of the smaller rods and twisting them together, though I dunno how well that would work, if at all. The other option is to haphazardly stuff them with some of the beads I got for my Warriors' heads, maybe paint them a similar color so it looks like Hello Kitty heads are the power source.

On a different note, I'm starting to get some fluff ideas for why this army exists. And I'm putting a Hello Kitty miniature into what would have been the Monolith crystal, and it can serve as Hello Kitty in a stasis tomb from which my army draws its power and prototypes.
So y'know, objective marker.

DEMON HELLO KITTY! U Mad?

I think my favorite part of making this model was taking it to my FLGS in the dark.
I'm considering making one of the heads as a hood ornament for my car.

While gimmick armies can potentially be amusing (especially if converted/painted to a high standard), I can't help but feel like this is old hat...

Angry Marines where funny the first time you saw them. The fourth of fifth guy to do them? Not so much...

Completely awesome...

This. is. so. awesome.

Bleh... never understood why this kind of thing was popular.

Honestly, this is about the hobby to me.
Playing is fun, don't get me wrong, but what's the point of having the exact same models as every other player of your army type?
Besides, doing a great conversion gives me a great sense of pride and accomplishment.

I love a gimmicky army. Epic. That monolith is almost scary. Demon kitty.

Crackgnome wrote:Honestly, this is about the hobby to me.
Playing is fun, don't get me wrong, but what's the point of having the exact same models as every other player of your army type?
Besides, doing a great conversion gives me a great sense of pride and accomplishment.

Ok, then I don't understand how any of this is a great conversion then, I guess.

SlaveToDorkness wrote:

Crackgnome wrote:Honestly, this is about the hobby to me.
Playing is fun, don't get me wrong, but what's the point of having the exact same models as every other player of your army type?
Besides, doing a great conversion gives me a great sense of pride and accomplishment.

Ok, then I don't understand how any of this is a great conversion then, I guess.

Because it is FUNNY.