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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos





Boston

Thank you for the kind words!

The Lord of Change is preparing to take flight!

First, by acquiring a pair of wings.

I've never been satisfied with the notion that something as chaotic, as daemonic, as changeful as a Lord of Change would ever be content with a pair of gigantic feathered bird wings. Seems far too ordinary.

In search of something more suitable, I chose a pair of wings from the WHFB zombie-dragon kit and set in harrowing...


...until about this point:


and:


I didn't want to overdo things, but felt that some tendrilling and tentacling, a bit of eye-outgrowth, some harrowing here and there would be needed to bring the wings in line with the overall look of the creature. I want to convey the idea of a protean entity, boiling with change--a daemon continuously creating itself, never fully fixed or formed. I'm hoping to evoke the idea that the daemon's wings are growing/erupting/manifesting even as the beast takes to the air.

Meanwhile, as a base for the model, I took housing of the aegis gun platform. (After all, the creature is dis-placing and possessing the aegis gun itself as a host mechanism.) This part of the model is still rough, but I'm thinking something along the lines of:


That's a starting point. I'll be doing more with this.

At this point the basic components of the model are more-or-less roughed out. Realizing that the various pieces are going to be much easier to paint separately, I'll hold off on final assembly.

Still, impatient to get a sense of the larger whole, I pinned and dry-tacked and held the contraption together long enough to snap off a few pictures.

Here's the plan...

... from above:


... and behind:


... and head-on:


... and from an angle:


Some of these pictures are kind of blurry (sorry) -- but at least you get a sense of the scale and compositional sketch of it.

Thanks for looking.

   
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Florence SC

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Longtime Dakkanaut





Chaumont, France

Promising ! The zombie-dragon wings are... impressive !

Good luck for the rest

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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos





Boston

Ah. This project log has sunk below the waves. Somewhere over the course of the summer, a season marked by real life challenges, gloom and anxiety, I (literally) lost the thread.

Now comes autumn, with some encouraging developments on the real-life front (very welcome!). Why not try to recover momentum here too?

Despite the lack of proper remembrancing, progress on this project proceeds. Or should I call it “progress”? Regardless, the Harrowed continue their slow spiral into daemonic degeneration.

I’m still working—fitfully, it must be admitted—on painting the new Lord of Change conversion. Because I don’t particularly like the way it’s coming out yet, I’ll hold off on sharing pictures, and keep trying.

Meanwhile I model away on other parts of the army.

I’ve started up a conversion for the Khorne herald. This daemonic captain rides herd on the Flesh Hounds, wielding an Axe of Khorne and driving on the baying beasts from the back of a juggernaut. Wanting to blend him in a bit with the hounds, I took the artistic liberty of using a “shaved,” “wired” and “tendriled” dire wolf model as the basis for a mount, and topping the beast with a bloodletter model:

and:


Then I added more gothic gimcrack:


And then (sorry, I seem to have misplace a round of pictures), fleshed in the Herald himself:

and:


He’s not quite done yet. For example, I still need to work out something for the back and tail:

But otherwise he’s getting close:

And while the rider does look a bit out of proportion to the mount, I’m hoping the overall effect is nightmarish enough to carry off the conversion.


I have other conversions that are coming together, so expect more updates soon, and more reliable reporting. Thanks for looking.

   
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Rampaging Carnifex





Los Angeles, CA

Compared to a jugger herald, he would seem big for the ride, but this doesnt bother me with this conversion. I like that he has a more intimate stature on the wolf, as apposed to the clunky "hope I dont lose a leg" feel of juggernauts. Bravo to you good sire. As for the tail, I suggest either "snubnosing" it, like a dog with its tailed clipped, or in a braid or something, or make it like a lion tail, similar to a whip.

My 2 cents

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Cookeville, TN; USA

Man, I hope my wife doesnt see this blog or else I am going to be busy working on her figs again lol....

Very nice work!


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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos





Boston

It's been awhile since I last posted. Sorry for the lapse.

The truth is, my gaming club is playing a lot less 40k these days, bleeding some of the impetus out of this project.

Still, I do take out the modeling tools and the greenstuff from time to time, fiddling away. And actually a few interesting projects are starting to take shape.

Time to be posting, then!

First, here's how the Herald of Khorne model finished:



To finish the thing off I added some strokes suggesting that the daemon is fused organically with his war mount


A few extra “armor” touches hopefully convey that the conversion is meant to be riding a juggernaut. At least the creature looks lean and lethal, like his rider.


Thanks for looking in! I have other stuff to share, so I'll be back soon.


   
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Furious Raptor




Karlovac, Croatia / Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Still one of the best demon army and ideas out there. Your vision really captures mine imagining of forces from beyond. Too bad GW went with toyish look on most of the demon forces, they didnt managed to transfer any kind of weirdness, unbelievability or sheer terror that demons represent.

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Boston

Thanks for the kind words, dubovac. I certainly agree on your take on GW's daemon aesthetic: too "toyish."

The Herald more or less in hand, I've since turned to a bigger project.

*cue ominous music....
‘Show us. Show us,’ the creature demanded, rising in a gathering vortex of smoke and fire and wreckage and viscera, its many voices jabbering in excited clamor as it gyred. ‘Show us our prize.’

Thralls bowed low and gestured, crooked-limbed.

And there it lay. A ruin of armor, half-buried in the rubble of the temple it had guarded. Turret wrenched loose, treads unspooled, hull riddled with wounds: a tangle of steel hissing and popping in a pale sheen of coruscating fire. “Ah. Aaah,” cooed the creature as it flitted near.

Behind, minions gathered in a cautious, ragged semi-circle, keeping a careful distance from the whirl of energies that radiated from the larger creature, yet drawn irresistibly in even so. A few, coaxed too close, or pushed from behind as the Host pressed in, immolated in pale fire and burst into smoke, shrieking as they were sucked into the spiral. Murmurs spread through the Host at this sign of their Lord’s waxing power.

Some held further back, muttering on the outskirts of the circle. They were leaner and more lethal, these warriors. Battle slaves, breathing sulfur: dragoons, janissaries, lancers. One, the largest, spat and spoke. ‘For this?’ snarled Gk’naash. ‘For this… this debris, has our Host spent so much flesh, so much sinew and bone?” He swung his axe behind them, indicating the battlefield strewn with corpses. “Your battle price is dear, my lord. Your tactics cripple us.’

The larger creature whirled more slowly, fixing the lesser daemon with a dozen eyes, all of them now glaring coldly.

For a moment G’knaash met the stares, his war mount growling, his grip tightening around the haft of his weapon....
Then he averted his eyes and gave a slight bow. A very slight bow.

‘Aye, herald,’ the larger creature said, speaking now with one low, dangerous voice. ‘Aye, for this.’ The whirl, which had slowed to near stillness, began to coil again, accelerating as new mouths opened along the outer skein of the spinning mass. ‘Come, my blood captain, do you not smell it? Feel it? Surely even your dull daemon senses sniff the spoors spilled here.”

The creature rose, pitching a multitude of voices in cawing chorus. “For this, my Host, is not merely a wreck, or steel, or a tank or a weapon or a vehicle or a gun. This is armor that was clad in doomed faith and desperate purpose. This is a battle engine built to be a bastion of inspiration. This was metal and mettle. The mortals banked their creed here. They armed this and prayed to this. And when their fated hour drew nigh, they cowered behind it, despairing because it had failed them.”

The gyre drifted, positioning itself almost delicately over the wreckage.

“And now, it is ours.”

Steel shrieked as the vortex descended, funneling, boring into the hull. And then a new face burst open within the whirling mass of matter that framed and formed the creature above. A face twisted in agony. A voice not speaking, only screaming in raw terror. “Behold Artrurius Harl,” surrounding mouths within the whirl announced. “Once lord commissar, decorated defender of the faith. Now caught and cradled within the wheel of Change. Now harrowed.”

Minions among the audience started to bark and squeal, hopping in excitement as the mood swept through the Host.

“Summon the Warp whistlers and prepare the rituals,” the creature commanded. “We have the very vessel here in hand.”


*fade to flickering blue flames....


The next project on the table will be a Harrowed daemon engine. A Soul Grinder.

For inspiration and a centerpiece, I started with one of my favorite bits, the head off the original chaos dreadnought:


I affixed to a Soul Grinder chassis:


I attached several pieces of bent coat-hanger wire:


And I started in with the harrowing, weaving and braiding in tendrils, cables, tentacles…


I was hoping the malevolent head would acquire character as I went:


… and I think, over time, it did:


Blending the two core elements together was challenging. I did not want to lose the distinct character and look of the Dreadnought head.


But I also wanted to fuse it into something that would look like an organic whole.


Then I worked in a morbid “hood ornament”:


He’s still alive, this wretched ruin of a man, pinioned, crucified, kept alive by unnatural means so that he can nourish the daemon engine with his ceaseless torment.

More to come....

   
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Furious Raptor




Karlovac, Croatia / Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Great, I am not going to ask you what do you plan with weapons sine it is much more interesting to follow "unfolding" of your idea. Keep us updated with more wips.

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Earlobe deep in doo doo

Glad to see this is still going the Soul Grinder seems promising

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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos





Boston

So obviously it's been awhile since I've posted here.
Largely because it's been awhile since I've been hobbying with anything like consistent, linear, productive commitment.
But lately I've resolved to rresume my grim distance dark future experiments.
I promise. I've even waited a month before opening up this thread again, to test my resolve.

So far so good. I've been noodling with old projects, and launching into some new ones, too. Or more accurately, Harrowing them.

For instance....


I've started with a few pieces that will be playable in my Harrowed (i.e., converted daemon) army, but that eventually, in the fullness of time, might also be worked up into some version of a Dark Mechanicus force, too.

First up will be a daemonic herald/tech magos dude. Two incredible GW models form the inspiration and basis of this project, namely, the Gaunt Summoner (a Tzeentch herald) and the Tech Priest Dominus model .


The creature's staff gets a simple "head-swap," working in some Tzeentchish iconography...


Then comes another head-swap, this time for the figure itself. I definitely wanted to include my favorite part of the gaunt summoner -- that creepy head!

Damn I love that bit! Been wondering just what to do with it ever since I saw it.

Now, next comes... hmm ... what does come next?

Anyone who may remember my work from years before knows the answer: greenstuffing!



and


So I'm off again, back into the fray! And I'm really enjoying myself. Already sliced open a fingertip with an injudicious yank of my Exacto blade and everything.

As for what's coming.... Well, a gaming buddy has fixed me up with a trove of AM bits. So I've got a fair-sized pile of possibilities to work with. Stay tuned!

   
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Did Fulgrim Just Behead Ferrus?





The Netherlands

Oh boy...here we go again!

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Bristol, England

Okay then. We're back in the room.

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Pious Palatine






That looks amazing. Looking forward to seeing more. I'm gonna have to go through your old posts soon too, so much cool stuff...

EDC
   
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel





France

Way to reactivate this blog, thank you for sharing this awesome model, this just decided me to use that Gaunt SUmmoner head on a dark mechanicus project too.

Really eager to see the next steps.

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Boston

Malika2 wrote:Oh boy...here we go again!

Ha! Strap in!

Alex Kolodotschko wrote:Okay then. We're back in the room.

Hide your daughters! Warn the children!

evildrcheese wrote:That looks amazing. Looking forward to seeing more. I'm gonna have to go through your old posts soon too, so much cool stuff...

Well thank you!

KernelTerror wrote:Way to reactivate this blog, thank you for sharing this awesome model, this just decided me to use that Gaunt SUmmoner head on a dark mechanicus project too.

Thanks! That head really is amazing, I agree!

Thanks for the feedback, my friends.

Also on the table is a soul grinder/daemon engine -- that ongoing project the beginnings of which are chronicled above. I've been picking away at this beast for several years now. When last I posted on this, I had affixed an "overmind" chaos-looking head (from the metal Rogue Trader era Chaos Dread -- another awesome bit!) to a Soul Grinder chassis, and affixed some hanger wire "arms."

From there I worked in some bitz cut from the Vampire Counts (or whatever they're called now) Spirit Host model...


Then started weaving in layers of Harrowing...


Meanwhile I also went to work on the Soul Grinder legs, first by paring them down and distressing them...


And then by Harrowing in a lot of greenstuff and so on...


At this point I have this:


and this:


and (one more angle) this:


I still see a few more spots I want to continue working on, but it's getting close, I think.

Let me know what you think. And thanks for looking!

   
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That is some seriously lovely work!

Look forward to seeing the harrowing continue
   
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Albany, NY

 tinfoil wrote:
Then started weaving in layers of Harrowing...
And then by Harrowing in a lot of greenstuff and so on...
I support using 'harrowing' as every part of speech possible

Great to have you back at it Tin, things are looking suitably gribbly

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Screeching Screamer of Tzeentch





I am loving that soul grinder conversion! Very creative use of kits, I applaud your vision. Hope to see more soon
   
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Ellenton, Florida

Dude.


You're freakin me out.

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Boston

inflatablefriend wrote:That is some seriously lovely work!

Well thank you!

Boss Salvage wrote:I support using 'harrowing' as every part of speech possible

Great to have you back at it Tin, things are looking suitably gribbly

You're speaking my language. Thanks, Boss.

Inspectahdeck wrote:I am loving that soul grinder conversion! Very creative use of kits, I applaud your vision. Hope to see more soon

I appreciate it!

Chaos Legionnaire wrote:Dude.


You're freakin me out.

Ha. My work here is ... not done yet, I suppose.

I've made a little progress on the Dark Adept/Herald. After some hemming and hawing, I decided to jettison much of the Mechanicus apparatus that our protagonist normally totes on his back. Too busy. And anyway, crowding all that gear on top of him messed with the line of the figure, which otherwise looks wonderfully hunched and crooked.

Plus, I want the Magos to look as much daemonic as he does mechanicus-ical. And in particular, I wanted to convey the idea that his energy, his enginery, leeches its power from eldritch sources, and more particularly from the anguish and agony of daemonic possession. So I worked up this little tableau:


I picture the severed head here as being still very much alive...


... still wracked and wailing, still shrieking helplessly, the coils and cables that bind it to the Magos pulsing wetly as they convert the victim's pain and fear to dark, daemonic power.


Yeah, I think I'm getting somewhere here.

   
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Harrow, Middlesex

Well chuffed to see you back Tinfoil!!!

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Mother of mercy, I think you might be a hobby genius!

EDC
   
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Boston

 evildrcheese wrote:
Mother of mercy, I think you might be a hobby genius!

Kind words! (I think?

Dark whispers continue to trouble the dreams of those laboring in forges swallowed in warp storms....

Enginery once Imperial, once sacred, continues to succumb to the ruinous entropy gnawing at it, rooting in it, snaring it in harrowing tendrils....



Work on the Soul Grinder conversion proceeds.

The Iron Claw arms supplied out of the Soul Grinder box unbalanced my converted chassis. Dry-fitted, they looked too big, too heavy, too clunky, and they drew too much attention away from the evil-overmind-"head" of the creature. To serve in their stead I Harrowed in a pair of more organic claws sawed off of one of those Nurgle End Times figures (can't remember which one -- sorry).


These gave the creature a crustacean, crab-like composition more proportional, I thought, and better aligned to the overall form and lines I was looking to draw with this model.


Here are a few more angles...


... and from above:


It's getting close, I think. Still a few spots to even out and Harrow up a bit more.
Thanks for looking!

   
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Nottingham

Looks fantastic mate! Can't wait to see that painted

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Sinister Chaos Marine






I love your work. Its creative, awesome and grim, can't wait to see them painted

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Boston

The Harrowing, long dormant, stirs back to life.
The emergence of 8th edition has re-kindled my 40k imagination, and I’ve started in on a spate of new conversion projects. Among them, I’ve been working up a new Tzeench Herald, this one loosely based on an Adeptus Mech Electropriest figure, bashed together with some Tzeenchy whatnot…

On the back of him, I modified the electro-harness, hoping to evoke a kind of Dark Mechanicum aura:

…which, from the other side looks like this:


I know what you’re thinking. Where’s the greenstuff? The tentacles? The Harrow?
Never fear, I took a hand at that, too:

… and from another angle:

… and yet another:

So here you have him:

I have to say, I kind of like the way he's turning out. There's a bit of clean up to do, but he's almost ready for priming.

Also in process somewhere in the recessed shadows of the Harrowing Forge: my takes on a Maulerfiend…. A new Lord of Change concoction…. And a Chaos Knight! Stay tuned. I’ll try to post more reliably over the next few months.
And as always, thanks for looking!

   
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel





France

Praised be the 8th for bringing the Harrow back to us ! The new model looks brilliant, looking forward to see more !

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Dude! I absolutely love the tentacles erupting from around his neck. Makes it seem as if they're sort of emerging from the aether and overwhelming him. You've lost none of your talent I see

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