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While looking for a sexy Slaaneshi-ish daemon conversion, I found:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/user/22611-cyborgakadjmoose.html

Which is fantastic. Attached are some pics of my attempt. The rest are on my wee blog.

An up-armored Pleasure Demon, eh? I rather like it - looks a good bit 'fightier' (and less likely to have game store parents reaching for their fig leaves ) without seeming too Khorney.

I'm not quite sold on the weapon, though. The 'spikey-tsuba' guard and blade work well enough together, but that pair doesn't mesh with the handle, IMO. It's as if the weapon can't decide whether to be a sword or a polearm. Could just be a trick of perspective, though - all the shots have the handle obscured or I'm looking down the length. How long is the handle, compared to the blade?

"look at my hoooooooves"

"My eyes are up HERE!"

The weapon is a glaive (sword on a stick). I was not confident in being able to convincingly magnetize the weapon (so I could swap out for an axe if I decide to get Khorney). I was very much thinking Naginata (but, you know, spikier).

The guys at the club are giving me grief about covering up her bits, but I don't personally derive any pleasure/satisfaction from putting a model on the table that I wouldn't let my own son see/play with so I'm not too concerned.

Thank you for the feedback.

Attached a pic (now primed) focused on the weapon:

That looks pretty sweet. My only suggestions would be to put something around the head so the skull/mask thing
thing doesn't look as if it's just sorta held in place by nothing, and to angle the chains so they are pointing straight down instead of slightly inward.

 TNT925 wrote:
...My only suggestions would be to put something around the head so the skull/mask thing thing doesn't look as if it's just sorta held in place by nothing...

I was thinking that too. That said, painting all the head/helmet horn bits the same way may tie everything visually better.

Nice model and conversion, I look forward to seeing its painting progress.

I got that comment (about the head-piece) locally too. I will take a look at it. When I first thought about 'attaching' it every idea seemed too clunky. I'd rather have it held on by 'magic' if I have to.

Thanks!

The skull helmet/shield combo is supposed to be reminiscent of an Egyptian crown (attached), except, you know, Chaos.

Still a tad stubby on the haft, at least for my tastes (I have a bit of a historical bent and I don't think I've ever seen a glaive/naginata with a handle less than twice the blade length - 2.5x at a bare minimum, with 3x and up being far more common), but not nearly as bad as the foreshortening initially made it seem. Still, I can't fault the build - if I saw this in person I wouldn't ever think to gripe unless probed.

On the skull mask/crown, I'd leave it as-is. This is a demon, after all, not a giant lady in costume. Straps are for kinky flavor, not for holding things on! It could be held on by magic, Warp energy, fused to her (its?) skull... Anything can be fluffed away, so go for the best looking option, which I'd say you already have.

[edit: typo]

Rather than start a new thread: Attached is a pic of my Cultists' Aspiring Champion, followed by former Aspiring Champions 'Blessed' with Spawnhood (still WiP; need to be greenstuffed & painted).

Painting WiP for the Daemon Princess. Most colors blocked in.