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Hello my dear fellow Dakka-ites!

After having nearly finished my destroyer lord and assembling my wraiths, it's time for a project that I've had in my mind for a while. In fact, the basics for this idea I scetched down during the holidays this summer, sitting along a lake in Spain. Hrm, catalan food...
Anywho, I was sitting there with the new Necron codex, looking at the new Flayed Ones models and deciding that I liked the new necrons... except for them. The old metal Flayed Ones looked sinister, creepy, in a Halloween/Micheal Meyers kind of way. But they were very static. The new models looked like reject villains from a kids-cartoon (okay, with some added gore). The confused (even confuzzled) looks on their faces, the over-the-top guardsman parts, the tanned skins... it just doesn't make me shudder and creep out the way the old ones did.
So, I scetched some poses for Flayed Ones made out of plastic Warriors.
This morning I went past the FLGS around the corner to get me some warriors, putty and plasticard, time to get this conversion show on the road!



To psych myself up, and to set the tone for what I want to achieve, I even wrote a short fluff story. Bear with me here, I'm not a native speaker, so it might be a tad stilted here and there:

***transmission starts***
Is this damn thing on? Horus-damned vox-caster.. Hello? Hello?!
This is private Jerthus, of the 17th, reporting the loss of the entire company! I have to tell you this so you can warn the others! Warn them!!
All right, calm down, tell them quickly...
A change in air pressure was the only warning my mates got. It was a bit like rapidly ascending in a plane, that feeling of your ears popping. It lasted only a split second before the noise started. Oh, Emperor, that noise. First there was a high pitched, keening, sound, quickly followed by a metallic clicking. These sounds just grate on your nerves, drive the thoughts from your mind and just make you want to clutch your head.
The disorientation and the keening took perhaps less then two seconds, and then suddenly the shapes were all among us. There was no teleportation glow, no drop-pod, no jumpjets, they simply seemed to step out of the shadows, bridging the gap between dimensions with a single stride. They looked not unlike the xenos droids we fought earlier. Tall, gaunt, seemingly built out of a reflective material. But unlike the creatures we faced earlier, who were armed with carabines that fired jagged bolts of green energy, these had elongated limbs, topped with great blades. It seemed every one of their fingers had been turned into a wafer-thin knife, dripping with gore.
The sargeant started to raise his laspistol, but at a flick of the lead creature's hand the sarge's arm spun away in a spray of blood. Then they pounced. There is no other word for it. They bowled into my company with wild abandon, knocking men over left and right. They fought with a near limitless fury, ripping and rending and tearing and chopping and stabbing the bodies over and over again! All in near silence. With all the noise from weapons and blades and gore and the screams of the dying, the creatures themselves never made a sound beyond a nearly inaudible keening.
I did the only thing I could. I prayed, and I ran. I only looked back once, and I wish I never had. The creatures were not at my heels as I had feared. No, they were to engrossed in dismembering the bodies of men I had called friends. With their bladed fingers they were peeling the flesh from their bones, draping in over their gaunt bodies as a mockery of clothing. They were trying to consume chuncks of flesh using mouths that did not open, with blood and gore pooling into every recess of their metal bodies. Then one saw me. It's hideous, expressionless face turning to me, it's metal visage smeared with gore, it cocked it's head ever so slightly before leaping forward... and disapearing.
I know it's out there now, waiting for me, hunting for me.
***static***
I can hear them! They're here! Oh, Emperor forfend, THEY ARE HERE!!! EMPERO...AAAH!!
***transmission ends***
***record sealed by Inquisitorial Command***

Since this project might take me a while, and might be interesting to others as well, I also decided to put in on here. Who knows, maybe you folks like the idea and can out-do me on them.

Oh, and as a game note: I know they are terrible on the tabletop against most other armies. But I've found they can be worth their weight in gold against Imperial Guard. Outflank and charge them right into the infantry gunline. They might lose against meq, but guardsmen get chopped to pieces by them, not to mention Tau. And guess which armies I play against most?

I too don't like the new flayed ones. Can't wait to see what you come up with!

If you really want to go gruesome then you could try making realistic looking flesh. Chunks of fabric soaked in PVA with a bit of red dye might look interesting. Best of luck!

Cain

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Cain. Good idea about the fabric, will definatly try to use that, though I might need to nick some fine meshed stuff. I think I have some satin lying somewhere. ^^

Well, time for the day one update. I managed to keep the table from getting to messy. Helps that I'm just mucking around with a knife and plastics, without paint or putty yet. And Imotek overseeing the construction of his new troops on the right.



Progress has been good, finished the first two as far as posing goes. No greenstuffing yet, want to wait till I have a few more done before I make a batch and drape them with it.



I'm happy with how these two turned out. Though, here I was complaining about the models being static, and the first one I made is kneeling and just watching. The right one (the kneeling one), is intended to look like he's beckoning other necrons to join his feast. The left one was inspired by the k'ell hunters from the Malazan series. Undead dinosaurs with blades in stead of hands. ^^ I tried to capture the idea of this Flayed One pouncing on a hapless victim, about to tear it to pieces. They look quite unfinished, no gapstuffing or gore yet, but I think I'm on the right track.

All right, it's been nearly three months, and life kept me far away from my little flayed ones, but I've finally been able to sit down and get some more work done on them.


These two are also a tad static, but I must admit the one on the right has fast become my favorite. He cares not for the pathetic weapons of the enemy.


The one on the left, the jumping one, wasn't made by me, but by my wife. She not only is a better painter then I am, but also a better modeller. Hers seems a lot more dynamic then mine.


These three haven't been properly ' clawed' yet, so I'll repost them once they have their flensing blades added. Two of them are also a bit inspired by my recent Dead Space spree.

Hopefully I can finish the last four in the next weeks, so I can start experimenting on adding some gore to this terror-unit.

The latest all look very cool indeed. Loving all the changes you made to the bottom three!

All right, I've been home sick a lot the last few days, and although I dislike couging up bits and pieces of my lungs, I do have more time for some modelling. in fact, I've finished the basic form of my 10 flayed ones, added claws to the ones that were lacking, and based them (adding some extra spice to one of the bases). So, here is a group shot of the entire flock.



I added a trophy pile to the Flayed One my wife built, since the base was completely empty. We recently watched Scorpion (a Star Trek Voyager episode), and that image of the stack of borg corpses stayed in my head a while. Some ork bitz were the unfortunate victims of my spree.
Next step will be to add the skins to my little friends. It's the part I've been dreading most; I hope I don't muck up my models with them.

Ah, and I had some extra time and made this model:



He's going to be my Harbinger of Destruction Cryptek, Plasmancer Ptophis. A face with three lenses for the Gaze of Flame, the Heavy Gauss cannon as a proxy for his Eldritch Lance, and the sceptre he holds is his Solar Pulse. I'm quite happy with how he turned out.

I also started a thread to showcase the (few) models that are completely finished:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/518367.page

It's once again been a while since an update (even though I've actually been quite active lately), so without further ado, time for some pictures.


First off a shot of the workbench with my progress for today, including a new addition, a C'tan Nightbringer. A friend of mine had one lying around in a drawer, and had promised it to me months ago when we traded my tyranids. And, last weekend, he found the old gent and handed him over. The scarab base was lost, so I made a simple base for him, but that's just fine. looking forward to painting him. ^^


And here's the progress on the flayed ones. Didn't really dare work on the skins for a while for fear of screwing up the models (that I'm quite proud off), but today was the day to take the gamble. I'm still not 100% happy, but since they're glued, I'll have to live with it. Time (and paint) will tell.


Another new addition, a Cryptek Harbinger of Transmogrification. he is Master Animist Sabenathen, and is armed with the full panoply, including a Harp of Dissonance (his right arm with the wires). My mother-in-law recently pointed out that it looks like he is rocking out on a guitar-staff. What has been seen cannot be unseen, and I now see him as my Master of Metal necron.


A preview of the next pictures for the completed thread, since my Scythe is almost done.


And last but not least, the start of my allied contingent. I still have two full boxes of orks lying around gathering dust, and they really do fill a niche necrons have trouble filling on the tabletop, namely: filling every single nook and cranny of the field with cheap bodies. I also have an idea in my head how to make it work fluff-wise (necron mind-shackle scarabs on the boss and some nobs). I'm painting the skin much paler then my normal orks to show them being apart, giving them a zombie-eske look, including glowy eyes.