I started a small WIP post in the models section for the Lord, but since I ended up getting several other things tonight and started working on those as well, I figure I should start a blog for the Warband. The FLGS is starting up an escalation league for Warmachine, and I figure it's as good a time as any to start out that game as I've wanted to give it a try for awhile now. In case you couldn't tell by my signature, I'm a big Necron fan, and my particular army happens to be followers of the Dragon, so the Cryx are right up my alley. Since the league is giving bonus points for converted figs, I'm going to further Necronize them, spreading my army out to Harvest more worlds than just those that 40k has to offer.



Necron Lord Asphyxious - Gaspy is the coolest looking Warcaster, and very suitable for my goals, so I had to take him. The FLGS doesn't really have any Warcasters on the shelves for sale, but I won $15 in an out of town tournament over the weekend, and they had an Epic Asphyxious on the rack, so I went ahead and picked him up there.

Head swapped for a Necron head, and carved up the chest to put the Necron symbol on his chest, and intestinal wires under his rib cage.

He already had one opened, cupped hand, so I bent the fingers out a bit further and rounded out the inside of the palm, and with one airsoft pellet later, Resurrection Orb, something no Necron Lord can leave home without.

He's got a big spear thing for his Staff of Light, which I removed the shaft from to replace with a pair of green rods, his hand hiding the joint.

He comes with a flight standish base that's all swirly with a bit that rises up from it to attach him to. I don't want to settle for trying to paint something to match the green plastic, so I carved down an old unused Monolith Portal to fit into the base, and melted/twisted a piece of sprue into the flight post. The original comes with souls that rise up and curl around him, and I'm going to get those in there too but they were being a pain to get the plastic to stretch the way I wanted it to so I put it down for awhile to avoid stressing out.

The green bitz aren't glued in yet, just dry fits, thus his odd angle on the base and lack of spear tips. I'm going to get everything primed before I attached those so they don't get covered in paint.



Skarlock Thrall - Normally a little skeleton thing on the floaty dress, so a simple swap of his upper half for a Necron Warrior's upper half was the obvious thing to do. When his plastic is all hardened and set from the plastic glue, I'm going to put the original Skarlock hands on him, because they've got real cool detail, and I don't have any good Necron hands to give him anyways. One is holding another soul, and I'm replacing the long trailer from it with more stretched green plastic. My goal is for every fig in the army to have the green plastic on it somewhere.



Night Wrench Bonejacks - With the aforementioned FLGS' lack of Warmachine selections, they only Bonejacks they have were a couple packs of Deathrippers, melee jacks, and I wanted the ranged Night Wrenches for my Warband. It works out ok anyways, as the only difference between them is the head, and I don't like the Wrench's stubby little beak head. Stuck a nice, impressive looking cannon in their mouth.

Reposed the legs. They're normally quite static in appearance for what are supposed to be the fastest most agile jacks in the game. The left one is posed sprinting, and the right is leaping to the side. Still need to add a smaller second hydrolic rod on top of the first one in each leg. They're going to have to be pinned to their bases now, as they otherwise have almost non-existent contact area.

I cut off and drilled out holes in place of the three little smoke stacks on their back, and will replace them with green rods after they get primed. Probably end up taller stacks than the original ones. Also debating on taking off the small spikes on their backs to put in the Necron symbol there.

Necron Lord Asphyxious is nearly done. He's glued to the base, but the rod and orb are not glued in yet as I left my white glue at the FLGS when I was flocking some hills for the store terrain. Once I've gotten the staff fully glued in place and together I'll get to two ends of it painted and then he'll be finished.

Skarlock is painted, but I noticed a notch on the back for lining up parts to assemble as I was doing his last drybrush on the robe, and realized my original assumption of how the fig is meant to go together was wrong. There's an extra flowy bit that's supposed to be part of the long streamer from the soul in his hand. Rather than go back and cut it out, I'm going to put it in and paint is up as part of his robe, which is what I had thought it was when I was painting it. I'm leaving for the FLGS right shortly here so I'm not going to worry about it at the moment but come back to it tonight or tomorrow. Both him and Asphyxious still need their streaming souls made.

Nightwentches have their legs all posed and are attached to their bases. I started to paint the one, and when I was thinking about what color to paint the gun, I had the sudden epiphany of why did I give them steam punky boom guns, when I'm trying to make a Necron themed army. Again something I'm not going to take the time to change right now, but I'm going to go back and take their current guns out and replace them with Gauss Flayers.

Got Asphyxious' staff assembled. I'll get it painted tomorrow. Dropped him at one point and his thumb broke off so I put in a bit of green stuff for a new one, since he needs it to hide the seam of his staff joint.

Picked up the new plastic Helljack kit. It's being assembled as the Slayer variant, but I'm going to make it suitably ornate so as to use it as a Seether when the escalation league's point value increases next month. Reposed the legs to give him a quicker, running/pouncing posture. While the PP plastic can't be plastic glued, and is harder to cut with a hobby knife, it turns out the stuff can bend rather well without breaking, so despite that leg's cut up and green stuffed look, it's actually all still one piece, which should help it's durability as the weight of the whole fig will be resting on it. Carved off the lower part of his head, will sculpt in a new, more Necrony face. Smoothed out the space above his head and will put in a large Necron symbol there. Need to pick up some chains from the craft store when I'm out running errands tomorrow to wrap around his arms.

These are absolutely stunning! I'm really, really impressed. I used flayed ones chopped up with scrap thralls (mix 'n' match) and various necron bits in with my Soulhunters - but, sir, I bow down to you!

That necron lord is so, so epic.

cool work, I love the jack though because I feel like it saying rock on for some reason.

Dude, you have too much time on your hands, I saw that Lord not even glued together Tuesday night... you should build my Chimera that I never get around to building.

It occurs to me that Tartarus could make a good nightbringer - what other counts as swap mods are you thinking of doing?

Ouze wrote:That necron lord is so, so epic.

Of course he is, the fig is Epic Asphyxious, literally.

Empchild wrote:cool work, I love the jack though because I feel like it saying rock on for some reason.

I think he looks like he missed the bus and is chasing after it while all the other kids laugh at him.

Nenya97 wrote:Dude, you have too much time on your hands, I saw that Lord not even glued together Tuesday night... you should build my Chimera that I never get around to building.

Indeed I do, though I'm also highly motivated to get stuff done whenever organized play is involved.

inmygravenimage wrote:It occurs to me that Tartarus could make a good nightbringer - what other counts as swap mods are you thinking of doing?

Tartarus is cool, but at the moment I have no plans to add more Warcasters. I knew I wanted Asphyxious simply because of how cool he looks, and am then building the Warband to function with him, while still looking cool.

I've got a Cankerworm on order, and I plan to see what I can do with him to make him Tomb Spyder like, since he is all about the salvaging of dead mechs. That rounds out the first month's 15 point game limit.

Next month we up to 25 and are allowed to start getting units, and I know I have to have a Withershadow Combine, a trio of guys similar in appearance to Asphyxious, and I want to give them Wraith arm and claws.

Bane Thrall and Bane Knights might get taken, they'd just get a simple head swap for Necron heads.

Mechani Thralls are another one I'm looking at. They're little ghouls with small powerfists. I think an easy way to do them would be to just put Flayed Ones down, but I don't think I want to do that, and might try to make a punch of little powerfists for a unit of Necron Warriors. It's a unit I'm not sure I want to do, simply because it would pretty much amount to putting Warhammer figs on Warmachine bases, and not much for actual conversions.

Very interesting...

Tartarus is a solo who bumps banes - would be a good fit!

Ah, I was thinking of Terminus. Tartarus might be doable.

Necron Lord Asphyxious and his little buddy are all finished. I was going to have some trailing souls rising up from Asphyxious' base in a similar fashion to the Skarlock's trailing soul, but I didn't like the way they looked on it so I took them back off. Now to get his minions done.

Only a little bit of progress to report today. I tried several approaches each for the Nightwrench guns and Slayer's face. For the Nightwrenchs, after trying to stick most of a Gauss Flayer into their mouth and not liking the result, I ended up cutting the thing way down, eventually ending up with a short barreled version that was more just reminiscent of the original, looking nice and Necrony without simply tacking the thing on. That job is reserved for the spine on the back of the Slayer.

I've got a bunch of them around, it's a very Necrony bit, and the spot was just the right size. I think I may cut another one down and put it between the front armor plate and the smoke stack, and generally see what I can do about giving it more flow and incorporation into the appearance of the fig. I also dropped it at one point, and the leg broke where it had been all Green Stuffed. I cleaned out the old work, pinned it into place, and redid the GS to smooth the leg back out. I left the pin in a specific visible spot so as to do double duty as the replacement for the leg's hydrolics that were cut out when it was reposed.

I messed around with several different options and methods for giving the head a more Necron skull appearance. I eventually decided it was the angle of the eyes that kept throwing the look off, and ended up just sculpting a whole new face over the existing one. I'll get the mouth put on tomorrow after the chin has had time to set and harden overnight.

Now THAT'S a Necron Lo.. I mean Cryx which should be feared!
So Goddamn beautiful

Got the head all finished up. I think it looks like a suitable good Necron head. However, I want people's opinion on how it looks on the body and in relation to it for size. I think it might be too big, but that could just be due to the different color of it making it stand out, or the odd head placement on Jacks.

Looks fine to me, although the tusks are a bit out of place.

And just so you know, you spelled 'servants' wrong in the topic title. There's only one e.

Are you making these so that you could use them in 40k and Warmachine? Or will they be solely for WM?

Pretty much just Warmachine, though I think that Asphyxious will get used in both. While he's a bit on the short side, I think he's quite cool enough to be a count-as Nightbringer or Deceiver. Looks like far too much of a bad arse to just be a Lord.

Epic conversions

awesome stuff, how'd you get it to look like the souls are whirling around the model like that? thats simply awesome!

The soul is a length of sprue from the template frame, heated till it gets soft and bendy then shaped to curve how I wanted it to. The base is just a blob of melted sprue.

The Nightwrenches are nearly done. Just need to paint the caps to their smoke stacks and guns gold and then do some touch ups, need to wait for the glue and green stuff holding the rods in place to dry first though.

Redid the spine on the Slayer to be less tacked on and more integrated into it's curves. I need to do some Green Stuff gap filling on it, but I'm going to wait awhile to do that, because I have a bad habit of putting my thumb in previous, still soft Green Stuff work, and I really like how the Necron symbol on the front came out and don't want to screw it up, because I'd have to do it entirely over from scratch.

In the mean time, everything has a bunch of the translucent green, but I'm not sure on good places to put the rods on the Slayer. All I've got at the moment for ideas is to hollow out the smoke stacks and put a bit of green in at the opening, and to drill out the hole in the Necron symbol to put a small gem in there. Other thoughts and ideas?

That's awesome

Lose the tusks on the Slayer's head. It's really looking pretty awesome.

I love it.

whoah! fung-shweeey necron!

Dude your pretty good at conversions and i love all of your work.
keep up the work

While not one of my favorite details, the Tusks on the Slayer should probably stay as they are actual equipment that he gets to smack people with.

Nightwrenches are all finished being painted. Slayer'll sit overnight to let the last bit of GS work on him set, then I'll start getting him painted tomorrow, want to have him done before Tuesday so I can use a bit of my supply of static grass at the FLGS to base the three Jacks, and then this first little 15 pt battlegroup will be all done up before Wednesday's Warmachine league night, with the sole except of Cankerworm who I've got on order and will hopefully be able to pick up on Wednesday.

After that, it's looking like I'm going to add in Bane Lord Tartarus and a unit of Bane Knights when the league point value increases next month.

Now these look really nice.... i love the robot dog things....apolagies for my lack of knowledge about this model range....but damn they look cool.

ok, I will admite I was a little "I am not getting this" at first but now I must say these things are awesome.

Cant wait to see more of these guys.

this is epic grade win

Excellent work Aduro, this is all looking beautiful so far.

The soul trail on the Skarlock Thrall is epic, now that's just heated and stretched green sprue? I don't see a kink or a fingerprint anywhere, it looks fantastic.

Yep, heated and bent. It's really easy to not have fingerprints in the plastic, as you can just reheat it slightly and the fingerprint will smooth itself out. I've never had a problem with kinks either, I'll guess it's the nature of the plastic to not want to bend at sharper angles like that. The thing to be careful of is not overheating the plastic, or it will contract and you'll have a shorter/thicker piece.

Slayer's all painted up. I find it somewhat amusing that the more mass these things get, the less of the green plastic they have in them. I'm going to leave the chains off for now, as he's currently being used as a Slayer. They seem like they'll stay on well enough unglued thanks to all the little blades and spikes he got on his arms, so I think I'll leave them as a separate bit, putting them on when he's being used as a Seether and taking them off when he's acting as a Slayer. Otherwise the only real differences between the two figs is the head, which I've completely covered up with my own, and the Seether has a row of spikes above his head, which I've put the Necron symbol there.

Painting these is interesting, as my original Necron scheme was not meant for something quite this complicated. Bronze shoulders, chest symbol and gun blades, and that was it. These have so much more surface detail that it would look really bland to have the whole thing gold like that, so I have to make it up as I go along, putting more bronze on, but trying to not less it break down into every other part swapping color. I think overall the scheme is translating nicely though and I like it.

Good stuff, very cool, I like this a lot.

Still loving this, but some (hopefully) constructive criticism: I agree with you about using the contrasting bronze and gold, but it looks a bit samey/neat and tidy still. Have you considered verdigris effects to weather it up a bit? Doesn't need to be heavy, but might add a bit more depth and variation to the large, flat surfaces. For example, a swift, light drybrush of (I don't really use gw paints but) say bestial brown, whatever the equivalent of old swooping hawk turquoise is (or, for the gold, the green you've used on the pipework), and then a final light re-highlight of shining gold?

I don't do stuff like weathering and highlighting really. I don't really like painting. I do like having painted figs however, so I tend to look to quick and simple paint schemes. In the past that's meant just lots of Drybrushed stuff, though I have recently discovered dipping as my new favorite method of quick easy paint jobs that look awesome. I have way too many Necrons done for me to want to go back and change their stuff however. Plus I tend to prefer a factory fresh appearance.

Fair dos mate!

Liked the start, like the slayer minus the face, looks too big to me. Keep it coming!

Very nice conversions man. I don't really have much to add for them; they are just very sharp!

One thing you might want to do with the paint though... have you tried painting the gold metalics with chainmail/mithril highlights then using a gryphon sepia wash over them? I think it will go a long way towards smoothing out the color, as well as making some nice shading gradiants and picking out details. It is quite quick too, especially for how nice the results are.

Really nice looking force though. Those green soul bits are really slick.

Very nice stuff.
Great job here mate

Steve

These could probably benefit from some of the GW washes. They are a bit messy looking now.

Washes and highlights and shading oh my! Nah, not really my thing. Yes, I Could paint them better, I just don't like painting in general so my schemes are all about what is quick and easy and still looks good. My recent stuff is all about dipping, but my Necrons are too vast in what I've got painted that I don't want to have to go back and update it all, and the simple Drybrush really does work well on them. Not As Well on the bigger stuff like the Slayer here, but that's generally going to be the minority even in my Warmachine stuff. From here on out it's going to be more units of smaller guys, where the drybrushing works better.

Dude my jaw dropped a inch every new picture....

Did you do the green mist and the curved bits by melting stuff?!?

It's an amazing effect.

Because I know it messes with the heads of a couple guys at the FLGS when I've got pictures of converted stuff up the same night I purchased it, here's some shots of a Cankerworm in progress.

On the plus side, I thought his fancy base was attached to his lower body, but it wasn't so I saved A Ton of time by not having to Dremel that thing off. There was a bit of stuff under his body where it attached to the base, but that wasn't nearly as bad to get off as it could have been.

The old head came out easy enough as well. Clipped the exposed areas off, then used a drill bit like a grinding tool to carve out the inside of the head. Drill bit's nice for that kind of application as it's more about tearing the material out rather than grinding it off, so it generates less friction and heat, which is a very good thing as such a tiny metal bit would otherwise probably involve me burning my fingers at some point. I originally was going to use a Tomb Spyder head, but Cankerworm's much smaller than I thought it would be. Destroyer head is a perfect fit however, so that works out well enough.

Those tiny mandibles... Those are going to be a problem. More so the left one, where it's got almost no contact point, the right one at least benefits from having the overhang of the eye piece above it. Let the glue fully set up overnight, and then I'll Green Stuff in some gaps around the head and add material behind the mandibles to better hold them in place tomorrow.

Simple change, awesome effect.

Excellent. I would play warmachine if I could play it with your army...

More work on the worm. For those of you who don't play Warmachine, that claw on his tail is called the Replicator. When Cankerworm Scavenges a wrecked Jack, he can Adapt the Replicator, copying one of the fallen Jack's weapons. Sounds like a shot for a good modular fig to me! I don't typically mess with magnets and such, as I prefer to get dynamic poses and what not built into the fig, and that's harder to do while having interchangeable parts. I don't think that's a worry here however, since this guy can't really do dynamic without pretty much rebuilding the entire thing.

I put a little pin in his tail, where the claw goes on. Drilled a hole into the claw so it'll slide on, and presto, removable Replicator. Then grabbed a couple of the extra weapons from the plastic kit I made the Slayer out of, took off part of the arms, drilled holes to slide onto the pin, and cut out the molded on rods and replaced them with the green rods. Now when he copies someone's melee weapon I can put the larger claw on the tail, and when he copies their gun I can put the gun on. I think I may dig around for a couple of Necron Wraith shoulder I know are around here somewhere, and see about making him a shield option as well.

As usual, none of the green rods are glued in yet, and will have chimney caps and a gun tip when finished. Once the Green Stuff has set, I need to pop the mandibles back off and then glue them on for a better adhesive bond than the GS alone will make. Get the whole thing sprayed black, and it's early enough he may be completely finished and painted tonight. Then I can get to work on a backlog of `Nid stuff again until I pick up my first Warmachine unit box next week.

Wow these are some of the nicest modelled Warmachine stuff I've seen I'm know more tempted than ever to pick up the Plastic Warjack.......


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Got to add that the new head for the Slayer looks far better painted!

I think the Slayer head looks odd because of the angle of the shot when you look at it from the front. He's leaning forward, and the angle put the head right at his crotch, between the undersized legs, making it look too big. The more you turn it to the side, the more in proportion with the fig the head looks.

this is Great. good luck with the terv on bols btw

The Necron lord is amazing.

Far aside from the awesome necron-nitude, that tail-swapping thing is a great idea. (And how come 40k doesn't have something that can copy another model's weapon? That's brilliant!)

Didn't get it done quite as early as I thought I would because I forgot the new season of Survivor premiered tonight. Watched it at my parent's house so I could record Supernatural on my own DVR, as otherwise the special two hour episode of Survivor would have kept me from seeing it. Also, woooooo for getting the left over pizza to eat tomorrow!

But yes, save for his basing and extra shield system, Canker's all done. I'll base it next Wednesday at the FLGS, as I've mentioned before that that's where my flock is because I generally only use it for making hills and stuff for the store's terrain. Plastic glue on the shield's manuvering piston needs to set overnight, then I need to GS some little caps to the tiny hydrolics, and paint er up.

Final (other than lack of flock on canker) group shot of Necron Lord Asphyxious' 15pt Twisted Metal Warband. Admit it, Canker's smaller than you thought he was. After next week I'll be adding Bane Lord Tartarus(auce) and a six pack of Bane Knights. Due to a couple ways of adding more guys to the unit plus bringing guys back from the dead (what else would you expect from Necrons?) I'm going to end up making a full dozen of the Bane Knights.

You know I love this - the only thing I'm a bit disappointed by is the basing, particularly as gaspy and the skarlock are so awesome. Even some debris would be good maybe, or some slab bases with the necron logo on (a bit like the side of a monolith, if that makes sense).

I'm thinking I Might take a stab at painting the grass, so it's browner/deader around the feet of the Jacks, and greener towards the front edge of the base.

Cool. Did something similar with Dark Sword's Melisandre model, grass singed around her then progressively more alive. That could look really good; if anything, I was a little too cautious, and think it could stand to be quite prominent. Would you seal it with PVA first?

Whoah... Yeah that Canker is a lot smaller than I thought. Very nice, Aduro.
On a side note, you could totally field this army in 40k too. You'd need warriors or a warrior-equivalent model in bulk of course...

Cankerworm is a sweet model.

I was imaging the Canker at Carnifexin size!

IMO the little green bit the Lord is balancing on doesn't look right, but otherwise it's necrolicious

So I've been incredibly lazy lately, even more so than I normally am, mostly due to my poor multitasking abilities and tendency to focus on only one hobby at a time, which lately has been DnD. Having finally gotten and converted the figs for our party though I now want to get back and work on more stuff. First up is the resurrection of the Necron Cryx, since they're party of a league that scores on paint jobs and conversions and what have you, so I've got more motivation to move them to the top of the list.

Bane Knights are my addition of the month, along with Bane Lord Tartarus(auce). The knights were a simple enough concept, swap out the spikes on their back for the spine from a Necron Destroyer, and heads for Necron Warrior Heads, with one Destroyer Head to mark the unit Leader. Took the first spine off the sprue, dry fit it to the back of one of the knights to see how much I was going to have to cut to make it fit, and was quite pleasantly surprised to find that not only did the curve of the spine match the curve of the back, but the tab on the spine fit ALMOST perfectly into the slot on the back of the knight. All I had to do was shave the tip of the tab as the slot on the knights is not as deep as the slot on the destroyers, and then perfect fit.

My original plan for the heads was to attach them to the body via the spine, in the same fashion that the destroyers have their heads contacting the wire tip of the spine. The smaller body size of the knights would have had the heads hovering much too far over their shoulders however, and I didn't like it. So I messed with where I wanted them to sit, and decided the best way to attach the heads was via their chin. It keeps their head inside of the armored collars, and still gives them a floaty detached head ghost look.

Their halberds are on for now, though I may go back later and swap out the hafts for green rods. It would look cool, but it would be a HUGE pain in the arse to have to do it to a full dozen knights, as to get the proper length it requires two rods to be joined together, making the halberd four pieces, not counting the arm that holds it. What would be a FAR easier way to get the "green" on these guys would be to put a half length piece of rod on the back of the head of the halberd, where the four little spikes are. Or I could just decide that basic grunt units don't deserve that kind of extra work, and save the green to mark out the cool guys, the warcasters, jacks, solos and other named guys.

edit: Woo for the resurrection of the thread starting out a brand new page!

Hey, glad to see there's more to come. I like the idea of attaching the heads to the spines, and I think it's still possible. Instead of attaching the spine tip to the back of the head flat, you could greenstuff a bit of extra length and curve the new tip to be angled, so that you can attach it closer to the top of the head, like this picture demonstrates:

Finished up a full dozen of the Bane Knights. I ended up only having 11 of the Destroyer spines. It's a bit that would normally always get used, so none of my friends had any extra either. I found an extra set of metal Destroyer Lord bitz, but initially dismissed it because the spine in that doesn't match the rest. As I was setting up for a game at the FLGS and someone asked me if I had one marked different for the Unit Leader. I pointed out the guy with the unique head, and had the epiphany that "Duh, one of them doesn't Have to completely match and is supposed to be marginally different!" When I got home I took the plastic spine off him, put it on the grunt who was missing one, and then gave the leader one of the metal spines. I also went thru and cut off the little wires at the top ends of the plastic spines, since they weren't connecting to anything, and drilled out a small hole to match the hole at the end of the leader's spine.

I've also got Bane Lord Tartarus(uace) finished up I do believe. I liked someone's (i'm too lazy to look back thru the thread to get the name) earlier suggestion of making him to look like the Night Lord. Drilled out the spot where it head should go, and sculpted in a head to match the Night Lord's. I think I did a rather good job on the face, but the hood leaves a little to be desired. I think that comes from trying to match the texture on his robe, but I don't hate it. Messed with his axe blade to instead give him a suitably wicked looking scythe. Better than the Night Lord's rather bland looking one IMHO. Not sure what else I would do with him, so as I said I believe he's finished.

I like Tartarsauce (and your model aint half bad either, lol)

OMG Tits R'Us looks great, lots of Nightbringer flavor, gonna do the flowy ripped fabric sort of stuff?
Bane Knights are good too, the different heads and the direction of them make them stand out, even before paint.

Very cool...and very blinged out when painted

Don't think I'll mess with adding extra fabric to Salsa Picante, as in the Nightbringer fig it's draped off of his outstretched arms. Here his arms are more tucked up in front of his body to double hand the scythe so you would lose the effect. Plus that kind of free hanging green stuff work is just incredibly annoying to do when you have nothing to back or support it. Even the head I sculpted here I stuck a plastic rod in first to give support to the green stuff.

Another quick random thing I did the other day for a friend at the FLGS. It's not Cryx, but it is Warmachine so I figure I'll throw it in here. As he phrased it, you can't call yourself a bounty hunter unless you have yourself a cowboy hat.

And they're finished, minus the flock because I don't keep that at home. Painting a dozen Bane Knights is FAR more annoying an tedious than painting even a dozen Gaunts. They have so many annoying nooks and crannies to get into that it's just Horrid.

The Sauce doesn't lend himself as well to my color schemes as well as the others. I had origonally planned to paint his face the same color as the robe, but that just made his head look tacked on extra, so I went back and made it gold to better blend. The biggest problem is the haft of his scythe blends into his arms because of how he's hugging that thing. There's only two ways I can think of to fix it. One is to break my rules of what gets painted what color, which I'd rather not do because I tend to be a stickler for that. The second is to go back and remodel the haft to be green rod. My paint jobs are no works of art, so there's no big loss in having to fix it, and being a 4 pt Solo, he really is worthy of the "honor" of the green plastic. I originally didn't use it because the Nightbringer that he's modeled after doesn't.

Next up on the plate, a pair of Hell Divers and the Withershadow Combine.

A couple of Hell Divers with `Cron heads. One's reposed and showing off his reworked leg/ankle. When they get painted I'm going to accentuate the head to show that the lower jaw is part of it, and there's a separation from it and the body. It's there, but it's hard to see in raw metal. They'll of course get the green chimneys after painting as well.

First Machine Wraith. Gotta have at least a pair of them in my army, as they're both very fitting to the theme of appearance, and in the army's general ability to make your stuff into my stuff. Replaced the head with a warrior head, some spikes on the back with the spikes from the Wraith, and the forearms/claws with the Wraith's as well. I'm debating on if I want to put the big Wraith shoulders on it. They're kind of iconic to it's appearance, and would help hide some faults with the spike connection, but they're also a much larger Necron detail than anything else I've used yet. If I use them I might want to make them a bit more ornate to help fit into the Cryx appearances. What do you think?

And wow I'm productive tonight. Here's some Bane Thralls. Not finished, they still need their shoulders, and I think I'll see about hacking up some Necron Warrior torsos to harvest their spines. I'd do it now since I'm really in the groove here, but as I have to get up early tomorrow (as in before noon) to get my taxes done I should probably not stay up any later.

wtf did this all come from!? Loving the divers, repose is brilliant and really changes the feel of the model. Can't wait to see the wraith painted too.

Oh god yes, use the shoulders. It's one of the most iconic and easy to recognize details of the necrons, and aside from that it looks f***ing sweet. The model looks incomplete without them.
Great paintjob on the new stuff, damn you and your awesomeness! You make me want to learn how to play Warmachine, just so I can do what you're doing.

Kicked out the Withershadow Combine tonight. I'd tried simply sculpting new, miniature Necron heads for them, but after several attempts each and not really liking the results, I did what I do better and simply modified normal heads to be smaller and fit the scale better. The chick is the least effective, given she's the smallest, but I think it worked out better and deformity more recognizable as what it's supposed to be than the ones I was making. Threw some Necron spines and chest symbols on them for added detail, and in what will be my new standard, gave the unit leader a bigger/fancier spine.

One of the first things I had done when I started working on these guys was to remove the tiny skeleton thing on the robe of one of them, because I always thought it looked rather stupid in the pictures. When I was putting the arms on them, I noticed the odd thing the one was holding in his hand. Took me a few minutes to figure out it was the controls for what had been the marionette I carved off. Annoyed with myself, I dug around, but the only thing small enough to replace the marionette with was a Scarab, which works, but I also use Scarabs as my Focus counters, so it's a bit out of place. If I decide I like it or can't find something better, I'll see about digging out my tiny wires to put strings on it.

Picked up a second box of Bane Thralls today. I've slacked off getting the first box fully finished because I figured I'd do the two of them together, same as I did the Knights. Got the heads, weapons and shoulders done on the full dozen of them, just need to get spines on their backs. I did a size up, and it's going to take about two Necron Warrior bodies per Thrall to supply the needed vertebrae. The two Unit Leaders will get Destroyer spines to mark them out.

As a nice stroke of good timing, the brand new Bane Thrall Officer and Standard came out this week so I picked those up as well. The Officer had a nice helmet that I was going to try to keep, and did a good job of hollowing out and fitting a Necron head in, but the Necron Heads on all the other Thralls are up a bit higher than the original heads, so the Officer's looked too low and inset, so I just removed the helmet and gave him a Destroyer head. He get a Destroyer Lord spine as well to further bling him up. The Standard was a cross with the circular symbol of Cryx in the center, and I thought it was perfect to make into a Necron symbol as well. Made the cross section spikier, added the two downward angled spikes, and replaced the large spike at the top with the two smaller curving ones. Bam, the perfect standard to sum up my army of Necronized Cryx. Going to need some Green Stuff to patch up around the Officer's head and the back of the Standard where I messed with it.

Need to get the polish on these guys and a few others done, then should have everything painted before the 24th, as I'll be playing in my first Warmachine Tournament then, and I want everyone looking their best, so I should be posting pictures of the recent WIPs fully finished and painted in the coming week or two.

Well then, this will be a thread to watch closely in the next week... All this awesomeness painted?

Withershadow Combine painted up. They're such smaller figs that the level of zoom really shows off the weakness of my painting. Works much better at the table top level.

Also included is a first attempt at making a little Marionette for Tremulus. It's removable so as to double as a token to mark who he's used his Puppet Master spell on.

Helldivers and a pair of Machine Wraiths are almost done, but it's late, and I'm tired. Getting the 14 Bane Thralls all painted up before Saturday is going to be a real Chore.

The marionette rules! Keep up the great work!

That gaspy is how a necron lord should look like.

AWESOMESAUCE

Got a first two Machine Wraiths painted up, and a third one I picked up tonight mostly built. Need to let the Green Stuff that holds the shoulders in place set overnight, then pop them off tomorrow and glue them back on, as Green Stuff doesn't really bond that well to the flat surfaces.

radiohazard wrote:That gaspy is how a necron lord should look like.

AWESOMESAUCE

And as it so happens, he just got a slight makeover. As I've been working the Cryx stuff to be Necronish, the two main details I put on them are the Necron heads and spines, with the spines being an indication of rank/power as the bigger the better, and yet Gaspy ended up being a spineless leader. I popped off his original backpack, and while I was at it repositioned his arm holding the Resurrection Orb to make it a bit more cradled in front of him rather than the nonchalant off to the side as before. Retouched the paint, and he's ready to command his hordes of Undead Dudes In Skirts, albeit still in his usual spineless "lead from the rear" fashion.

Very nice. And I'm happy to see you used the wraith shoulders after all; they look great and very iconic.

Got some more progress done on these guys. Asphyxious had been having some breakage problems, mostly the head of Daemortus breaking off a couple times, but then his arm holding the Resurrection Orb broke off as well so I knew he needed some work. Pretty much completely disassembled him to rebuild him better. First thing I did was turn his arse around so it was no longer on backwards, and gave it more of the flow the fig is supposed to have. Used the arms from an Iron Lich Asphyxious to rebuild this one's. I kept the original forearms, but replaced the elbows and upper arms, and ran a wire thru the whole length and into the shoulders so they should be rather durable. Repositioned them so they've got more angle to them rather than the fairly straight pose he was in before. Rebuilt the haft for Daemortus, this time sticking brass pins between the two halves and ends of the green rods, rather than trying to grind them down to make themselves into pins to stick into the head and end cap. The result is much sturdier, but not quite as visually smooth end to end as the first one.

Next up is Death Jack. I've had this guy for a few weeks but only just finally got around to start putting him together. Originally I was coming up with all these grand super fancy ideas on stuff to do to him, but decided he doesn't really need it, and am scaling back and making it simpler so I actually get it done at some point. Bent the fingers so they hands looks more like hands than giant paws. Smoothed out the plate above his head so I can put a Necron symbol on it like I did with the Slayer. Removed, or just didn't put on, a bunch of the various spikes and blades that normally cover him. Found an old Chaos Defiler mask that I carved down a little bit, and will use as the base to sculpt a Necron head on him that's more in proportion with his body, rather than that teeny tiny one he comes with. Working on making one of the Skulls of Hate look more like a big Necron head as well, which I will then cast and mold a pair of green plastic versions to put on his shoulders. Still deciding if I want to modify his existing pipes, or replace them entirely with the same styled ones as my other `Jacks.

Lastly for tonight, I placed in a 40k tournament out of town this weekend, and they didn't really have anything I needed in stock, so I picked up a pair of Deathrippers to make me a pair of Wreck Markers out of. Gashed my hand with my knife real nice working on these. They just need some Green Stuff to work in some gashes in the ground from their deaths.

The amount of custom work in your armies is impressive! Your forces must
stand out at WM events.

awesomeness

Aduro I was promised a Bronzed Death jack fountain! I'm still expecting it!

The only fountaining you're getting out of this Death Jack is blood and souls when I crush your piddly trolls! He will be partially bronzed though, as that's part of my standard colors.

I'm 8/8 on DJ kills

Oh, I expect him to die in pretty much every game I play him in. I am after all a cold heartless Lich Lord who casually throws away my units if it will gain me any advantage. The only thing I regret is I can't just bring him back for the Feat kill.

I love the gold, great job

Believe I'd got a design for the Skulls of Hate that I like. Need to let it set up good, coat it in something greasy, and cover it in Green Stuff to make a mold of it. Then cast a pair out of the clear green plastic that I do so love.

The horns on Death Jack's head don't look bad, but I didn't like the idea of them on the head I'd chosen to replace it. On a lark I stuck his original head under the new one, and the horns made perfect tusks, which is also then more in like with the Cryx style than the horns were. I had to turn his head a little bit more to the right, and move it left arm a bit more to the left so they didn't get tangled up, and presto. Sculpted in the bridge of his nose and brow ridge, and covered up the holes on the side of his head. I rather like the look of the grill, and might not put the teeth in because of it, leaving the head more skull-like than full on skull.

All this new stuff is great!
I can't say I'm a fan of the painted slayer though. The head just looks huge and silly, and the pose isn't helping.

Yeah, the head could use a redo at some point. And I tried to repose one of the arms before he was painted, but I'll be damned if I can get the super glue bonds to break on this thing. Forget GW plastic and plastic glue, PP plastic and super glue forms an all but unbreakable bond!

I'm super psyched that this worked, because it was fairly risky to do. Starting at a specific point on the back, drilling all the way thru and hoping to come out on a specific point in the chest. Only missed the mark by about 1mm, which is quite acceptable to me. Running a single large green rod from the Monolith all the way thru, and presto, bit of a glow from the soul forge in his chest. The green plastic is somewhat fiber optic, and just putting some green in the chest would leave it dull and lifeless. Having it go clear thru his body will let the top end catch light and funnel it down to the chest. It won't be super noticeable, but it's a fun little detail.

very epic!


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thou i would be careful about the guys that are all goldish colors, the models that look the best have other colors to go with the gold, like the lord, i would try to play this out with all the models.

An angle intended to show off the redone smoke stacks on his back. I don't care for the giant funnels he normally has, nor do I like the two differently styles pairs he has, so I redid them to again better match the standard Helljack style smoke stacks. Filled in the gaps with Brown Stuff as that will set up harder to give me a good base of support, then I'll do better blending in with Green Stuff. The top stack it the hole that goes clear thru to the chest, while the lower stack only goes into the central cavity. I may turn the lower pair of indents that normally mark where the second set of stacks go into a smaller set of side stacks like you see on the Helljacks. If I do those will also get drilled into the central cavity, letting as much light in as possible to filter out thru the chest. Brown Stuff takes a lot longer to cure, so this might be my last update for the night.

Got the smoke stacks all sculpted in. Not my best work, I do better with organic stuff I think than the start straight lines of something mechanical like this. The extreme close up camera shot doesn't make it look any better. I'm rather confident it will look much better after it's painted and viewed at normal table top level.

Also got some Skulls of Hate made up. I like `em, but I may do it over using what I learned from this first batch to make some better ones.

Symbol on his top plate's done. In fact I think his entire build is done and he just needs to be painted up now. After that I'll see about using the skulls I've made or making up new ones.

Got all my stuff painted and based, with the exception of the two Wreck Markers as I ran out of glue and couldn't finish them. First up is Iron Lich Asphyxious, pictured next to my older Epic version of him, then the three Machine Wraiths. After that are my Bane Thrall Officer, Standard, Leader, and a Grunt who is going to get promoted to be a second Leader after I buy another box of Thralls, followed by a shot of Bane Thrall Grunts, one of each pose.

And now that the small fry are out of the way, the big man himself, the Death Jack in full shiny golden glory. The new pair of Skulls of Hate came out really well. Got them much brighter and cleaner than the first pair. The engine stacks in the back do look much better painted. Overall I think losing the tiny horned head and giant funnel stacks makes him look less Death Jacky, but still came out really good, and after playing one game with him he's the Lich Lord's new BFF.

Your minis are freaking amazing! I especially love the wraiths!

And the skulls of hate rock!

If you like have look at my cryx

Lich Lord Venethrax In Progress. I didn't care for the "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!" pose, so I've angled him more in a sword ready pose. Sculpting hands is still one of my weaker areas, but I think I'm getting better at it. Going to shallow out the grooves on the backs of his hands a bit because I think they're a bit too hard to distinguish from his fingers at the moment. And of course he still needs a new set of upper arms.

I dunno, he seems just to be a more badass tartar cheeze sauze, This is the first mini where the necron head simply doesnt do it...

I think the head works out alright. He had a skull to begin with. I did however get sick of looking at the hands and took the sword apart again to redo them.

Redid the hands on Venethrax to try and improve them. I think I was able to do so rather well, if for no other reason than now you see less of them. Something I was also working on for Venethrax is a little warning of what will happen to your Warbeasts if they get too close to him. I normally don't do trophies or casualties on bases, but Venethrax is such a big F You to Legion that I felt it was warented.

Also working on making my Slayer into a Seether. Resculpted the shoulders so they look close enough to what they should, and reposed the arms and gave them their chain wrapping. Should be sufficient to designate his new status. I'm getting a few more heads in the same and similar style as what I gave Deathjack to give to all my `Jacks, and he'll get one of those when I get my hands on them.

I really do like your Venethrax.

Here's the main man himself painted up. I was hoping to have him completely painted and ready for his trophy head to get "dipped" today, so it would be all dry tomorrow, but I just realized I never brought my bright yellow and orange paint back from the FLGS after I used them to paint up some GW forests a few weeks back. Since I used a Carnifex head as the basis for the "random Legion beast" head I thought it would be fun to paint it up in my `Nid's color scheme. I'll have to remember to get those when I'm in for 40k night tonight and finish him up when I get home. Dry overnight, flock tomorrow at the FLGS when I'm in for Warmachine night, and I'll have the next pictures of the fully finished product up on Thursday.

P.S. What color would you do the "blood" from the Legion beast in? These Guys do a good job of showing off the color scheme for it to take that into account.

Picked up my fourth caster tonight, Goreshade the Bastard. I debated for awhile on if I wanted to behead him and give him the usual Necron head, but decided against it. I'll stick to just replacing skulls with Necron heads, though I did still give him a Necron spine to replace the backpack. Let him keep his little elven cape thing. Didn't get to paint him because of waiting for Green Stuff to set.

Also picked up a Warwitch Siren. Also no skull, and not even undead for that matter, so no Necron head here either. In fact she got zero conversion work, unless you count simply not adding bitz that I consider extra and superfluous. I think she has a better outline with out the random blades sticking out of her back and ponytail armor. She was however a pain in the arse to paint, as I don't do small detail well. I tend to stick with large broad paint styles, but she's just so tiny.

And lastly to round out the night, another little toolbox solo, and a Merc this time, Gorman the rogue alchemist. I decided that because he's a Merc I wanted him to stand out and look like the add-on he is to the army, and so made a point of painting him up to not match everyone else, using my full range of greens on hand and giving him a wash rather than drybrushing. He does get the one bronze shoulder pad though, so everyone knows who's currently writing his paychecks.

Aduro wrote:using my full range of greens on hand and giving him a wash rather than drybrushing. He does get the one bronze shoulder pad though, so everyone knows who's currently writing his paychecks.

The Toxic Avengers? I need earplugs to look at him TBH the Bright green is way way too much I would simply either use a very light brown or a fairly dark brown (like dark Flesh) I think it will make him look more down to earth than something out of a Trama film

Aduro wrote:P.S. What color would you do the "blood" from the Legion beast in?

Purple or a purpleish blue

As promised, finished pictures. First up is Venny, or Anthrax, or whatever the PP boards decide will be the official unofficial nickname for Venethrax. It did not register with me just how big this guy was when I was working on just him, but finishing him while working on the others... Guy's a giant. He's gotta stand a good 10' tall easy. I put the finished Warwitch Siren next to him to show off how big he is and how small she is. Plus she's intended to work for him, as well as a second one when I get it.

Also finished up is Goreshade the Bastard, also posing with his token hottie sidekick. I attempted to paint the blade on his sword to mimic the green plastic effect on the other figs, and I think it came out alright. I waffled on what color to paint his little elf banner on his backside for awhile. Either clashing elf colors, or colors more matching to my army. I eventually decided to keep it blended. The mostly dead elf chick was a pain to paint, literally as my hand craps up trying to paint detail work like she requires. I actually broke out the washes and did some highlighting, because unlike the Siren she's got the details that deserve that extra effort.

Gorman was also finished up and given a flat coat to kill the shine from the dip, but he's on loan to a friend who needed a fully painted army for a Hardcore event and wasn't sure he'd have time to get his own done before tomorrow. I'll get a picture of him up probably when I get the trio of Helljacks I've got to work on now.

This is the first time I looked at WM minis and thought, "wow, this looks cool."

I decided I couldn't stand the silly little hands on the Slayer/future Seether anymore, and as long as I'm rebuilding the thing I figured I would rearm it, or at least rehand it. The inspiration was a smaller version of Deathjack's hand. After trying a few times to build fingers that I just never liked, I saw a part of a `Nid spiky bit I'd cut off working on my Tervigon, and thought hey, I could use that... Wait, no, the Trygon comes with a crap load of spiky bitz, I can use Those! Selected the ones I thought would work best, and presto, instant clawed hand that actually looks like it could grab and throw someone.

Given I have a tournament tomorrow, it's late tonight, so I'll sit on this prototype and unless for some reason I decide I hate it I'll work up it's mate as well as a second pair, and kick out a pair of Seethers.

Couldn't really think of any way I would do the claw better, so I kicked out the other three, threw them on the Seethers, and wrapped some chains around them. Since the new claws are about looking like they're actually usable hands, I went ahead and had the new one holding something, in this case the head from a Cryx Helljack. I've got some Menoth and Retribution Jack head as well, but I want the Menoth ones for a future terrain peice I've got planned, and the Ret heads aren't as recognizable as being heads, so I stuck with a Cryx one. It's going to look different from all of mine, and be painted in the standard color scheme, so it will still stand out, and will amuse me.

I did decide that I didn't like the shoulders I had made after seeing a Seether in person. Mine were just too big and bubbly, but I've got a better feel for how they're shaped now, so I'm going to give it another shot next.

Stop mixing Warhammer and Warmachine, every time you do Privateer press kills a baby titan. Just kidding or am I, any way they look awesome

Death Gear wrote:Stop mixing Warhammer and Warmachine, every time you do Privateer press kills a baby titan. Just kidding or am I, any way they look awesome

Pfft, the TORTURE a baby titan. Get it right.

I think I may be one of the few who likes the new fat man caster for Skorne, so I'll have to pick one of those up, and thus help free a baby titan.

The plastic Seether upgrades are all painted up and finished. Well, with the minor exception of not having a head that is... I know the perfect bitz I want to get for the heads, and getting a hold of some is being a bit slow. Same style heads as what's on the Deathjack. I think the improved claws really work out and look quite natural. You might notice the black spots on the backs of the shoulders in the one where you see the rear view. Those are spots where spikes are supposed to go in the actual Seether shoulders, and I was going to put some green rods in there to fill that role, but I did not like the way they looked at all so I left them off. Still left the holes there though since that's in the originals so it will match up more. Plus they add character.

that lord is great! The cankerworm is nice also. With what you've done it reminds of terminator salvations amphibious snake robot.

I'm not sure if you've already explained this, but since I couldn't find anything...How exactly did you melt the green sprue? I was thinking of doing something with the stuff for my Venethrax's base. I assume you did it outside, what with the possible fumes and all.

I did it over the gas stove with the exhaust fan running is all. I'm sure I should probably have more protection than I do, but it's typically just small amounts, and only softening it enough to be pliable, not full on melt or burn.

Sometime I'm gonna need to come out to Mayhem Comics and see these things in person... cause the pictures make me want to goo in my pants!

There's going to be a 50pt SR2010 tournament on July 10th. Makes a decent enough reason to travel.

Well I only live like, 25 minutes away... so it's more a securing funds to actually buy my first models kind of thing... but I will definitely try and make it out to see that tourney.

Well, in that case, I'll mention that they've got a tentative plan to do another escalation league in August.

Just so you know, I'm still watching this thread... lurking in the dark corners and salivating...

But yeah, I really like how you managed to give the Deathjack a Necron-like head without looking silly, like the original Slayer head. I heartily approve of the plan to replace it as I believe it was your weakest link. The new eAsphyxious pose looks better than it did before the repose, (though it looked great before) and I think you should do something to cap off the non-epic Asphyxious' green rod. As for Venethrax (I think Anthrax is the unofficial dub for him) I like the repose, but I do wish you would incorporate his original helmet into the model. It helps further distinguish him from the rest of the army as a big badass character.
Not entirely sure what to think of the fleshy models you're using. They seem IMO to sorely stick out among all of your awesome necron-cryx hybrid models. But, perhaps you could justify it by making them some kind of techpriests or something? Sorta like renegade Admech who stumbled upon some necron tomb somewhere and were assimilated. Still a bit fuzzy on that though... Anyway, overall I'm still blown out of the murky water by your army and I can't wait to see some group shots of the finished models.

I think Deathjack Might get a new face. I broke down and ordered seven of the "Iron Skull" masks from the Chaos Defiler from TheWarStore and they should be arriving this week. It'll be pretty much what he has now, except with a stylized teeth grill instead of the small holes he's got now. Then I can get heads on the Seethers and my Reaper, and still have three left over for future Jacks.

Personally, I like the Deathjack's current head just fine. If anything, I think it's good that his head would be distinctive vs the heads of your other helljacks. It reminds me of the mask the necron lord wears in Dawn of War the way it is right now.

How many bottles of gold paint have you used for this project? And is it the Citadel Paints?

Given all my Necrons are painted in the same gold, I'm probably on my third bottle of GW's Burnished Gold.

Know what would be awesome? If you incorporated some of the pirate models and Necronized them.

Alrighty. Here's a shot of the Seethers fully finished and standing next to Papa Deathjack, followed by a shot to show off their new heads better. These are MUCH better than the first head I made for the Slayer, they look very menacing. A minor investment of $10 got me seven of these from TheWarStore, and I think was very worthwhile.

Now to get my finished Reaper painted up quick like so I can get to bed, as I have to get up Really early (for me) tomorrow for an out of state tournament that these guys will be participating in.

And as promised, here's the Reaper. A metal Slayer body, with plastic Reaper shoulders and arms. Because of this I may have to get any future non-Seether `Jacks in metal, so the size/proportion of the bodies continue to look right in comparison to one another, which amuses me as the Seether's supposed to be the metal one. We're meeting up at the FLGS to carpool out of state for the tournament, and the FLGS is where I keep my basing materials (as they're primarily used for store terrain) so hopefully I can spare five minutes to get him flocked.

Boner.

They look great! The deathjack kinda steals the seethers' thunder by being so much bigger, though that might work in your favor tactically...

Still interested in knowing how your army fared in the tournament, and how many people stopped and said, "Whoah dude, nice army!"

Some more pics would be good too... (Just sayin'.)

Took 3rd place out of 14 people. Quite happy because they did not have the new Steamroller coins, of which I've already have a 3rd place one, but instead had the old Faction coins which are no longer made, so I got my Cryx coin that I thought I was never going to get a chance at.

I was one of only three fully painted armies, and got a fair good amount of attention, including one guy taking close ups of some of my guys. The Seethers and Reaper I stayed up late to make sure they were finished never saw play time. Instead I just continued to lean on my crutch that is Infantry heavy Lich Lord Asphyxious. One Seether did get brief table time when the Withershadow Combine was able to pull of a Dark Industries, but the game ended before I got another turn in which to actually move him.

Dont know I'll have any more pictures up for awhile. Everything I've got is fully finished, and I'm not getting anything new at the moment as I am saving up for a new Battlefoam Bag as not everything I have will fit in the one I've got now. After that I'm not sure what I'm going to get. I want to start a full Construct Circle army, or I may continue to flesh out my Cryx building the theme lists for the casters I have. Haven't fully decided yet.

That's cool, I don't know what those coins are but I know what it's like to think you've missed your chance to get something...

So if you're done with the army for now, maybe you could put up a couple full army shots?

A Necronized Malice in progress. Claw hand is build, but I need to rebuild the elbow a bit from where I changed the angle on the arm. I don't like how the elbow on the harpoon is looking either and I think that needs to be completely redone. The stock souls that stick to his back behind the main canopy look stupid and campy I think, so I'm going to give a try of hollowing out and rebuilding his chest to be more like Deathjack's internal soul harvesting/storage area. Other assorted details to get him to more match the style and themes of my other `Jacks as well.

Welcome back. Did you get the kit, or is this all from scratch?

Glad to see you're still adding to your army, and this means there's still hope for a full army shot...

I got the kit, but more for the purpose of gettin the all important card. I knew I wouldn't use the head or tacky looking souls from the get go, and while I wish the barbs for the harpoon matched the existing one better I did still use that.

I got my house all cleaned up so I should be able to find enough clear flat space to set up a group shot, sure.

Het mate glad to seeafter that 2 month wait your back on as i just started veiwing your golden army of death a week ago. Beautifully crafted and being as im a new painter myself i can see the reason for only hitting the dry brush. I love the concept of your army and was wonderring if you mind me using iether your seethers or (and this is a huge maybe) the war jack once i finally get the revenue to build my wifes rediculoslely costom Necron army. I think with a mod here or there they could be walking distroyers.
Oh and Master DRD is right a full army shot would be awsome

Oh yeah, feel free to use anything I've done as inspiration for something of your own. Half the stuff I make is inspired by something I saw somewhere else so I'd have no right to complain even if I did mind. I still swear I'll get a big group shot in here at some point. Right now I've got enough stuff in various stages of broken and beaten up that I need to go thru and get everything back in tip top shape first. The good news is that my biggest motivation to get stuff done is tournaments and other special events, one of which I'm intended to travel a fair ways for near the end of this month, and I want my full army looking their best for that event, so I should be getting a bunch of stuff done this month in preparation.

Speaking of which, I've got Malice all put together to a satisfactory degree. I did end up completely rebuilding the elbow on the Harpoon because it just got all screwed up trying to get it how I wanted. If I can manage to get my hands on a third plastic Harpoon I would like to take the barbs off and give him a treble bladed Harpoon. I just don't like the barbs, they don't match the lines on the rest of the Harpoon at all. Just a blatantly tacked on bit that doesn't mesh well at all. Otherwise all he needs is some Green Stuff work, which I won't get done today because it's game night and it wouldn't set in time, and the green plastic soul effects.

I'm loving your work. These Necrons look alot better than the normal "Space Skeletons"! Really impressive and if I ever start a Necron army I'll be using your work as a source of inspiration.

Metal-less Malice all Green Stuff up and ready for the paint. I really wanted to do the treble bladed Harpoon, but couldn't find anyone with an extra Harpoon, and decided that since I've never really used my normal Reaper, and am far less likely to now that I've got this bad boy, that he's getting salvaged for bitz and demoted to a Slayer after I bitz order one metal Slayer claw. I want a couple Slayers for a future pGaspy tier list. and want to use the metal ones so they appear diminished next to my big plastic Seethers. But enough about them, this is about Malice. Weather is super perfect, so I'll go prime him up now, and see about getting his gold and bronze colors done Saturday and/or Sunday between engagements.

Wow, now that is awesome.

Like the treble harpoon a lot. Good choice.

Here he is all shiny like. Now to start melting plastic and killing brain cells!

Thought I'd be too busy today to get this done, but here it is. Just needs to be flocked next time I'm at the FLGS. The soul stretching to the claw didn't work out as well as I hoped, but I think it came out OK. The others on the back look better due to less messing with the plastic, melting and cooling and remelting to try and get it all bent the right way.

Brutal.

Been waffling on a couple of things and armies and games recently. I thought I wanted to start a High Elf army with the new plastics coming out, then I saw the new plastics and their price and decided no, I really didn't. There's not much more I want for my Lizards at the moment, and I've got a ton of stuff to work on for them already. One of the other big goals I have in mind if building the tier lists for my Cryx Warcasters (except eGaspy, his sucks imho). Given which blog is getting the bump, I think you can assume which choice finally won out.

First Troll all painted up to test out the color scheme. I did all the armor, weapons and gear using the same rules for colors as my previous Cryx stuff using drybrushing. Then painted up the fleshy Troll bits in a solid coat of brighter Enchanted Blue with Bleached Bone spines and gave it a Badab Black wash. I think it worked out quite well, and he should blend right into my Shiny Golden Army Of Doom TM even if he lacks the Necron head. One Troll down, twenty Trolls to go! Fifteen of which I still haven't even purchased!

Got the trolls all painted up and based. Next project on the platter is General Gerlak Slaughterborn to help keep these guys in line. He's assembled, primed, and will be painted and based before the end of the day and I'll get the picture up here when he is. Also hoping another box of Bloodgorgers come in today at the FLGS so I can start working on the second unit of them. First unit got no conversions, but in an effort to help with some diversity throughout the two units the new ones will start getting weapon swaps, probably from some of the Orks and Beastmen I've got lying around here. I was able to get some brass rod finally so after that I'm going to go thru and replace the halberd hafts on all the Bane Knights, or before depending on how quick I get Gerlak done and when/if those other trolls show up today.

It's a lot quicker to paint one troll than five, so here he is, General Gerlak Slaughterborn. He's so tiny, a concentrated little bundle of death!

Got new hafts done for all of the Bane Knights. Well, all of them except two. The special "leader" halberd has him holding it such that the haft runs the length of his arm, with just a short bit at the end sticking out, so it's actually pretty sturdy and I didn't feel needed to be replaced. Throwing up a picture of a few of them, and intentionally picked two of them that I think I did the worst job at drilling out the hands and had to replace fingers with Green Stuff. Had to replace multiple thumbs too, but that's far easier, and far less noticeable.

Rebuilt Lich Lord Asphyxious' spear haft again as well, as it had once again broken. It broke in the middle of one of the rods, between his hand and the spear head. I had thought I was going to give up on the green haft this time, but when I went to remove the old one, I found the pinning work I had done the previous time to be Really sturdy, and it was kind of hard to get it off. I decided to call the mid length break something of a freak accident, and give it another go. Rebuilt, repinned a new haft, but this time gave up one the pose of holding it up, which I think was a big part of it always getting hit and broken. Got him holding it a little more nonchalantly to one side. Also shorted his "flight stand" bit so he's not quite so tall on the table and in transport.

Need to let the Green Stuff on both the Great Gaspy and his Knights set up overnight, and I'll get the paint jobs touched up tomorrow. Also, I've ordered some new basing material to add to my bases, so you can look forward to something more than just green grass in the near future.

Cleaned up all the paint jobs from yesterday. Lich Lord Asphyxious all fixed up and ready to lead his forces to inevitable victory tomorrow. The new halberd hafts on the Bane Knights look real good. Apparently I'm rather bad at measurement or cutting to length because all their hafts are a bit longer now by about the length of that little blade on the end. Picture shows a random one on the left, the resculpted hand (which turned out much better than I was expecting) in the middle and one of the two I did not replace the haft on on the right. Finally people liked the little puppet for the Withershadow Combine I've been using, and I've never gotten around to trying to make a better one, so I went ahead and painted up the one I've got.

I get so much stuff done at the last minute, it's kind of sad really. Anyways, here's that pair of Bone Chicken Wreck Markers I made awhile ago all finished up and painted and flocked.

So I've had these left over pieces of Monolith from an old (and still unfinished) conversion sitting on my desk for awhile. Knew I wanted to use them for terrain, had a vague idea of what I wanted to do with them. Finally the mood hit me just right, I had a minor epiphany and a few things I wanted to try out, and presto, a new Cryx/Necron Soul Collector terrain piece for the FLGS. It's got no base so it will fit on any table style (grass/rock/snow) and I'll get someone at the FLGS to paint it up so it doesn't just end up in my personal army colors. Already got a good idea on how I want to do another one with more of the Monolith bitz but that probably won't get done till tomorrow.

The Big-Ball-O-Souls TM is made from a clear glass "design your own" craft ornament. Picked up a box of 20 from Hobby Lobby for $4 awhile back for some Necron stuff I was working on at the time. For some reason it never occurred to me back then to try painting the INSIDE of the ornaments. This time around I took a fair big brush, dipped it in a shade of green and scraped the paint off on the inside rim of the ornament a couple times, then did it a couple more times with a different shade of green, covered the hole with my thumb, and shook the thing up real good until the entire inside surface was covered. Gives it a real nice swirled pattern with zero brush strokes.

I thought about having the Big-Ball-O-Souls TM floating up slightly, but I want to make sure the thing is visually integrated into the machine somewhat, plus I don't want the "nozzle" of the ornament visible. The rivets are a good idea though. Looked at it, decided I didn't want to merely plaster excess rivets across random surface areas and just put some on areas where they had room and looked like they could actually be attaching components.

After I posted the first pictures I realized there was no real size reference, so I threw in a Bane Thrall on guard duty.

No time left tonight to work on the second one tonight, but since I don't have quite as clear cut an idea on exactly how I want to assemble this one, I'll go ahead and post up a picture of some of the components of note and solicit ideas. I've got quite a few of those bitz off on the left side, a nice stock of plasticard pipes and rods and sheets, bunch of wire, and tons more other bitz in general.

Need to stop and eat, but here's where I am so far today on the second Soul Collector.

always a pleasure seeing your work.
I am in the process of making a necron lord for a trial piece on a future army but need advice on melting and manipulating plastics.

About the only advice off hand really is to have a steady open flame that you can use. My gas stove works really well for that. Otherwise keep a bowl of cold water handy, and be prepared to singe your fingertips.

Found out today there was some kind of error at Skullcrafts so even though I put my order in last week and was charged for it then, he didn't get the order till today, so I won't be able to get the extra flocking on my bases before the tournament this weekend it looks like. Maybe, but unlikely, we'll see how quick it moves. Kind of a bummer, but I'm a pretty accepting guy when mistakes are made and people apologize, plus he said he threw something extra in because of the mess up. All the stuff on their site looks pretty cool, so I'm kind of anxious to see what little bonus I get.

The trolls I ordered came in today and I was able to get those picked up. I want this batch to look Somewhat different from the first, so I'm going to start doing weapon swaps, either from one hand to the other, or from Orks and Beastmen and other such looking weapons I've got lying around. In addition I outright refuse for the Leader of both units to be identicle, so I did a repose on his main arm and head. Here he is sans Green Stuff.

I'm going to need more practice sculpting chains, but I think this attempt is passable enough. Also in typical fashion for me, I had the wrapping on the axe sculpted up real nice, then put my finger in it working on a different area, and couldn't get it quite as nice again. Should still look good enough when painted up though. Let the Green Stuff set up overnight, may or may not start painting them tomorrow, but they will be finished up before the end of the day Thursday.

Painted up the first Soul Collector right quick. It's a bit rough, but I'm not a super good painter, and it should still look plenty good at the table top level.

Wouldn't black fit the sol collecter thing better than the metal? I think it would contrast with the green more. Just my personal thoughts!

Phew. I trudged thru the day working on these guys, but I managed to get them completely finished. Eight more of these guys, a third Seether, and a pair of 5pt Bone Turkeys (not decided on defilers vs ripjaws yet) and I'll have my 50pt Venny list done. Really looking forward to throwing down Venny Tier 4 because I just think it would be really fun and reasonably competitive. Now I'm going to go watch the Fringe season premiere that I recorded earlier.

The new flock stuff showed up ~30 minutes after I headed out of town. Picked it up from the mailbox on the way back home, and I've now done up a few test subjects to see how what I wanted to do works out. I think it looks alright, rather subtle, but gets me away from the plain green grass bases.

Wow, this is one of the coolest necron armies I have seen

Still waiting for that full army shot in all its glory...

I thought you were going to let someone else paint the soul collector though? I mean it looks good, but it seems to 'clean' to fit Cryx. Black would definitely fit better, or at leasy a darker, more dingy metal. Possibly some rust?

I swear I'll get a full army shot up, honestly! At the current moment, everything is built, painted, and in good repair. I just got this new flock, and now that I've decided I like looks of it on the figs, I'll get it added to the bases, and get some good pictures. I wouldn't think it'd take me too long, MAYBE tonight even.

I have darkened up the Soul Collector. Gave it a good solid wash of Badab Black. I went ahead and painted it myself because I really wanted to get the ball on it, but wanted it painted first so as not to mess up the ball, and people at the FLGS seem lackluster on my plan to get them to paint the stuff I build. But I want to give it a small base, mostly as something to put my new fancy flock on, and give it a couple long soul streams swirling down into it. Also maybe have that done tonight.

Alright, I managed to keep the slacking off to a minimum, so here it is, an army wide shot in all it's semi-focused glory. The only completed model this leaves out is the non-epic version of Asphyxious, since that would have two of him in one army, which you can't do, and his epic version is cooler looking.

Really awesome concept and the Warmachine figures plus conversions of them has been executed very well. Keep up the good work!

I can say that this is one of the greatest Necron conversions I have ever seen. Can you give us a ballpark for converting the entire army?

I can die now.

pretty awesome!

By ballpark I assume you mean cost? It's hard to say honestly. I did not actually buy ANY Necrons to do this army. The only bitz I purchased were the skull masks for the `Jacks. When I built my Necron army, which currently boasts 15 Destroyers and 6 Heavy Destroyers plus Destroyer Lords, I purchased Battleforce Boxes to acquire the Destroyers, as it's only a slight price over just buying the Destroyers, and gives you a ton of extra Warriors for models and bitz. Used some of the Warriors to make my Destroyers. Left me with lots of extra bitz and Warriors. I've Still got sprues of Warriors sitting around.

Yes, I ment cost but it is quite fine if you don't know. I still love the over all look and paint style.

Well, there are 34 guys with Necron Warrior heads. There's a few other Warrior parts scattered around, like the symbols on their chests, and the spines from the back are on the Bane Thralls' backs. That would cost one $105 to get normally. For a super fun expense, there are 16 guys with Necron Destroyer spines, and a couple with Necron Destroyer Lord spines. That would cost you another $460 unless you can find them on a bitz order site.


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P.S. Bone Turkeys coming soon!

Ever since it was pointed out to me at a tournament that my Nightwretchs look almost exactly like Defilers, it's been nagging at me. I needed to pick up another Helljack, specifically a Slayer, to make into Venny's third Seether, and the new plastic starter box comes with a Slayer and three Bone Turkeys plus Denny for pretty much the same price as a multi-Helljack kit. Seems like a no brainer move, so I picked up the first one today. Seether takes a ton of Green Stuff work, so I put on Tremors 2, and got down to putting together the Turkey's first.

This first box I put together mostly stock. Two Deathrippers and a Defiler. I wanted to do a Shrieker and that means I had to use a Deathripper since only it has a real functional mouth. Defiler got a fair standard walking pose, while the other Deathripper went for a lot of motion and is in the process of banking a turn. Since the plastic is to much easier to work with, I'm going to wait till after painting or at least spray priming to cut the stacks off their back. Trying to paint those end caps as separate bitz is a pain in the pa toot.

I plan to get another box, make the Slayer into a Corrupter with the extra bitz I already have, make a second Defiler, and then make the two Deathrippers into Nightwretchs, this time aiming to actually have them Look like Nightwretchs. Before that I'll probably get a box of the Ripjaws, and in the end, that will give me two of each Bone Turkey.

Good Lord, Christ almighty. So, you're sayin' about $565 for the whole convert? I think I'll do the ol' "buy one thing at a time and eventually do it" method.

Well, that price does assume you don't find a site that has the parts as Bitz orders, and buy the full Necron kits. The Destroyer spines on the Bane Knights and the leaders of other units is something I would have Never done if I didn't already have a ton of them lying around left over from my Necron army's conversions. Otherwise they only come one each to a $25 box, and are the primary cost.

Don't ignore the deal you get with the necron battleforce, 3 destroyers and either 20 or 28 warriors (depending how old the box is...)

Actually, I'm looking around a bit and the Cryx battlegroup box isn't a bad price and a full battleforce of Necron isn't too bad either. Leaves plenty of bits to work with on future 'Cron related projects.

I think I ended up getting four of the Necron Battleforces when I was building my army, and that was After I already had most of the Necron Warriors I wanted to field, so that's why I have So Many extra Warriors to be able to chop them up for my Cryx.

Play like you've got a pair!

Lol,Very nice, getting my Cryx tomorrow so I'll shall be checking back regularly for tips.

Third Seether's all built except for his chains. I'll do those up tomorrow after the shoulders have had a chance to fully set up and to give me a chance to make sure I don't change my mind on the position of his arms.

And another pair of Bone Turkeys, Ripjaws this time. Did one standing, surveying the area, and the other in a sprint. I rebuilt one of the legs on the sprinting one so I could have it turning/leaning in the opposite direction as the previous Boneripper/Defiler. Should probably have all five Bone Turkeys painted up tomorrow baring distractions and the Seether done before the end of the day Saturday.

Ran out of chain on the first hand, going to have to head up to Micheal's to get some more, but I figured I'd throw up a shot of the first hand finished.

Very nice. Now, do you plan on just using them as Warmachine units or as 40k Crons as well? If you already answered this sorry I missed it.

It's purely Warmachine. I might be tempted to throw the Bane Knights into a game of Warhammer as Pariahs if Pariahs didn't suck, but otherwise the vast majority of it right now just wouldn't work for what's in the Necron book.

Sounds good. Still love the army.

Not gonna get the Bone Turkey flock completely done tonight it looks like. They're completely painted (for now) and I started work on replacing their chimneys with the green rods, but it seems the plastic material is both a blessing and a curse. It's not much bigger around the the rods, so I have to be very careful with the drill, and on the first two I've already had three spots that will have to be repaired with green stuff, and that will have to sit overnight to set up before I can touch the paint jobs back up. Should have these and the Seether all wrapped up tomorrow.

Oh, and as my Cryx forces have grown, and I've expanded beyond the pure Necronized units and gotten some organics in there, I've decided to paint up the skulls on the Bone Turkeys in bone, rather than metal. Simple Bleached Bone with a Devlan Mud wash.

Wow, you work fast.

It's not so much that I work fast, it's that I'm a jobless bum and have little else to do during the day. I do also do really simple paint jobs that consist of 90% drybrushing or washes. No highlights or blending or none of that fancy stuff. That said...

Got as much done as I'm going to today. Picked up more chain and got Seether Agro's other hand wrapped. I couldn't find the same chain I had before, but this is probably 97% the same size/shape of chain, I think I got more of it for cheaper, and since it's going to get painted anyways, the color is irrelevant. Get him painted up real quick like tomorrow, and I can start working on a friend's Carnivian I'm supposed to be converting into a Scythian.

Chimney stacks are all glued in place on the Bone Turkey flock. Patched the spots I needed to with green stuff. I'll let that set overnight, and touch up the paint jobs on the chimney caps tomorrow. Paint the bases black, paint the front arcs Regal Blue, and Bob's your uncle.

Another thing that's bugged me was the Cryx Helljack head that Seether Macbeth was holding. It was always intended as more of a trophy/latest victim which is why it was painted black and not in my colors, but the Corrupter is such an obscure `Jack that nearly no one uses, so nearly no one can recognize the head. Was able to nab a head from a Cygnar `Jack, painted it up in typical Cygnar colors, added some dangling wires this time, and I think it should be far more obvious what he's got there.

Alright, they're all finished up, sans flock which I'll get done when I'm at the FLGS on Wednesday. Next project for the time being is a friend's Legion stuff which will probably get a mini blog over in the normal Modeling topic.

Absolutely stunning work.

Take a bow sir.

So I'm working on my Warwitch Deneghra fig now. I want to have her unmasked, standing with hair blowing in the wind and looking hawt. Decided I would take a crack at sculpting her new face, on my philosophy that you'll never get better at something unless you try to do stuff you "can't" do. I borrowed a friend's eKaya fig to use as an in hand reference because I've really loved her face ever since I saw The eKaya Fig Roleplayer Painted.

Worked on that teeny tiny blob of green stuff for over an hour, poking and prodding, finding the techniques that worked to get it the shape how I wanted it. Whenever I thought it was good and finished, I would take a picture, and then see it blown up some 400% on my computer, spot some itty bitty flaw, and go back to fix that. Did that over half a dozen times until I've finally made myself stop. It's probably about as good as I'm going to get it, and looks Nearly perfect To Me in hand, though of course I still look at that zoomed in picture and see the itty bitty flaws, but I have to tell myself to put it down, there's Always going to be an itty bitty flaw, and you can't fix them all.

I'll work on her hair tomorrow, but first a question. Should I have her holding her mask in hand, or have a hand up to her face holding her hair back to keep it from blowing into her eyes?

I was looking at the helmet, and the head I made is a bit larger than the original, so if I had her holding it, it wouldn't look like it could fit on her head, so I'm going with a holding back the hair pose, which means I need to get the hand in there first, so here that is.

The spot that looks bad around the eye is where I cleaned a bit off with the knife after it was set, and that's the color/effect you get on green stuff if you cut it or file it after it's set. It's not nearly as bad as it appears in the photo, which doesn't seem to want to pick up on the detail that's still there.

Just like the face, I kept poking the hair until I decided it was good enough. It will be interesting to see how well some of the thinner strands hold up after it sets. Now I needs to work on building her a new spear and a hand to hold it.

The head seems a bit big for the body....

Yeah, little bit, but not so terribly much as to make it stand out I don't think.

Think I'm gonna call her done, sans painting of course. Going to get the standard gold armor of my army of course, then give her a nice pale, but not her usually pictured grey, skin tone. My first instinct is to paint her as a blond, as that was the hair color of my reference I sculpted her hair off of, but I need to go look up Hailey's hair color, since they're twins and all, and use that. Once painted, there's going to be a short short piece of green rod at the butt of the spear to attach the end cap spike on, and I'm going to see about making a little bead of green plastic to fit into the hole in the head of the spear.

Depressing to learn fact about Privateer Press. Not only do they tend to have less poses for their metal models than GW's, cutting down on variety within a unit, but apparently they limit the selection even further in their blisters, only giving you the same two poses (and second weapon arms) in every one. Not only that, but the distributor sent the FLGS one less blister than I ordered, leaving me two trolls short of my two full units I need for my Tier 4 50pt Venethrax Theme Force. Hopefully those come in this coming week so I can get the units filled up before Warmachine Weekend next week, though they come in Wednesday and we're leaving Thursday afternoon/evening so I'll have to work quick to get them remodeled, built, painted and based for use. Thankfully it'll only be two I'll have to do, and with the practice from the previous 19 trolls I should have it down pat.

Anyways, here are the current set of six trolls I'm working on. Swapped out nearly every weapon, due to them all having the same four. Used a bunch more Ork Choppas, even throwing in a couple of Chainaxes because they amuse me, then added in some Beastmen weapons for more variety. I'll have to dig around and see what else I've got, maybe some Chaos weapons or more Beastmen weapons for the last pair. Probably have these primed tonight/tomorrow and then painted up before the end of the day Monday.

Got Denny all painted up and finished with the exception of basing. I put in more effort on the paint job for her skin and hair, trying my hands at successive layers and shades of highlighting, which I think came out pretty good. With the extreme close up you can see I still need more practice at painting the teeny tiny eyeballs though. It occurred to me while I was painting her back that I didn't give her a Necron spine. Not sure how I feel about that missing detail. I don't want to go back and add to this one, as that could start to mess with where I did the hair, but it's something to try and keep in mind if I end up redoing her later.

Somewhat random offering. A post on the PP forums inspired me to get a picture of my tokens up. The glass beads are Focus. The skulls are Souls. The larger circles beneath Gaspy are my spell tokens, in this case Parasite, Hellbound and Shadowmancer. Small circles are for Corruption. The two flames are for Fire. Moon's usually used for `Jacks Possessed by Machine Wraiths, and the cloud tends to get used for Black Oil, but those are more random and are otherwise used for whatever need is at hand.

Once you get your trolls painted it would be great to see a new to see a full army pic again.

BTW, I find your models a good example of a strikingly painted, yet done with fairly basic techniqes. We all dont need to be masters of highlighting or layering to turn out fairly spectacular armies.

I probably won't do full army pics again because it was a pain to set that much stuff up, and I did not like the lack of good focus in the picture. What's more likely, and what I already tentatively planned to do is shots of the 50pt armies I play normally.

Love Denny, she came out great. Amazing job with the sculpting and painting, keep it up.

She's amazing, great job!

Another batch of six Bloodgorgers done. Without a Leader around to keep them in check, this group has a tendency to break into synchronized dance ensembles. Only two more to give me my full 21 Bloodgorgers. Hopefully they come in tomorrow at the FLGS, and then I'll have the oh so fun task of trying to get them cleaned, converted, built, painted and based all in a single afternoon/evening because I leave for Warmachine Weekend on Thursday.

Those last two trolls came in alright yesterday, and I got them all painted up and the whole lot flocked and ready to go. Leaving here right shortly for Warmachine Weekend, but when I get back on Monday I'll start putting together some army shots. Not entire collection mind you, just shots of actual armies I put on the table.

Had a blast at Warmachine Weekend over the, well, weekend. Only came close to winning one event, but got too caught up in the stress of it, didn't see a spell token next to one of his guys, and blew the whole thing. Overall though I won 15 games of various sizes and list requirements, and lost somewhere around 8, so I think I did alright considering the level of competition there.

I had a super fun time in the end, met people I only knew from forums, even if I couldn't keep them all straight because no one went By their forum names. My army got a bunch of attention. Bunch of people telling me it looks cool online, and a lot cooler in person spread out across a table. Makes a lot of sense given I'm a fairly sloppy painter, and that fact is far more obvious when you look at a blown up photo of a fix many times larger than the actual fig is in real life.

While I didn't win any events, I did acquire a large list of completed achievements (win a game, lose a game, let your opponent pick your list in a tournament, end game with a jack in opponent's deployment zone, kill Only their caster, ect). Came in with 23 achievements, and the person who had the most had 28. Translates into 5 raffle tickets, which won me two VERY nice sets of terrain from Game Fusion Studio for the FLGS. Got a shot of it all on my phone.

Harrower, mostly finished. Carved out the spots where the legs are supposed to attach to make room for the entire Tomb Spyder leg pairs, rather than just sticking the legs themselves on. Gives it more structural support and well as cohesive look. Messed around with an old Destroyer chassis I had from an old unfinished conversion. Fits into place really well so long as you don't flip the thing upside down and look under it's skirt.

Drilled out the gun to fit a large green rod inside it. I want to do more with the rod than just stick it in like it is in the picture, but I haven't fully decided what to do with it yet. Might just dremel it down where the top half of the gun ends in a slope to the bottom end. I've never cared for the look of the Harrower's claw, but I did not want to change it out for something else because of how similar it is to the Tomb Spyder's claw. I ended up curving the claw tips inwards a little bit, bent the top two to sit closer together, and shortened the bottom on a fair bit to give it more of a thumb appearance, and I think the claw looks a lot better now IMHO.

Tomb Spyder head, using three pins to hold it in place and give it's neck the appearance of a series of pistons. Cocked the head at an angle to give it something of a robot/insect feel to it.

Just need to put some more glue on a few of the joints to better reinforce them, paint it up, then do the green plastic. He's a Soul Taker so he's going to get some soul effects around his engine similar to Malice.

Looks goods and quite different from your other jacks, which is fitting because the spider jacks have always felt like a different breed than the bipedal ones.

Just a couple quick shots of Warwitch Deneghra with her basing done.

And my first Stalker. Not super converted/posed on this one. I'm going to be doing three more of these so I figured I'd do the first one fairly simply just to get a feel for the model. Going to have to bitz order more of those Bone Chicken legs.

Also a couple more shots of the Harrower, to show off his neck better as well as the fine tuning of the green rod for his gun. Had to reangle his arms a bit also when I realized he was too splayed out to have any hope of fitting in my bag.

Lookin good! The only thing that bothers me is the complete lack of necron detail on the stalker...

He's going to get the green rod smoke stacks, but otherwise my current flock of Bone Turkeys don't have any Necron specific detailing either, nor any of my 21 Bloodgorgers. They just don't have anything suitable to be replaced or details that need to be added on, and I'm not wanting to force the issue such as it were. Unless of course you have some suggestions or ideas, those are always welcome.

I could probably come up with something if I tried but the smokestacks will suffice.

Finally got around to painting up the Harrower. Nothing super fancy, as is my usual, but I did use some gem techniques to paint the eyes up nicer, and messed with some green ink on the souls to better help show off their bit of details.

In the mean time, I've got Stalkers 2 and 3, though I don't have their legs yet. Plus a box of Nyss Hunters, one of the most notorious units to try and put together. We'll see how I do.

Stunning.

Bah, the reputation Nyss Hunters have for being a horrible unit to assemble is vastly overblown if you ask me. A couple parts were a bit fiddly, namely the swords they're holding, but years of experience trying to get GW's guns with molded on hands to line up with their corresponding arms have prepared me for that. I drilled out their neck holes to fit the larger nobs on the Dark Eldar heads, which look MUCH better than the heads they come with. Moved their scabbards from their backs to their hips to be more Samurai-like. Turns out I also put the scabbards on upside down, but I think it looks better/makes more sense for the larger end to be the opening. I thought about leaving the quivers off, just so there's less clutter, but I decided to go ahead and put them on, and I think they look alright for it.

I want to add some green stuff straps down to their scabbards so they're hanging from their belts, rather than just stuck on some random point on their thighs/hips. As well put a little bit of green stuff around the necks to better fill the slight gaps there. Green stuff won't get done today because I want to use them at the FLGS tonight and it wouldn't be set in time.

Lookin good!

Here's my attempt to photograph the green stuff gap filling and belt straps. The Cylena's scabbard already happened to be glued right onto a belt she's wearing, so that works out well as she's not wearing the same belts the other guys are, so no green stuff strap on her.

real nice work

your work has such character to it. Grats man! keep it up

Aww I thought this was an update... Feels bad man!

Yeah, my Warmachine blog right now is suffering vengeance dealt out by my `Nids blog.

As if I needed another reason to hate nids... (on the occasions I do play 40k these days it's usually against my friend's nids... with Doom of motherfething Malan'tai... Can anyone else say 'broken'?

Ouze wrote:That necron lord is so, so epic.

co-signed

As the lack of updates to my `Nids Blog may indicate, my interest in them is waning a bit at the moment, and that leaves room for more Cryx stuff to come back and fill the void. First up in the Necryx resurrection is Goreshade The Cursed, still very WIP.

Woot! It's back!

Spent today working on Goreshade's base. Had put a blob of green stuff onto a base last night. Shoved an extra random piece of dried stuff I had laying around just to help fill out some mass.

Decided it was too close to the edges of the base for what I wanted to do, and carved out a few key alcoves and then put another blob of green stuff onto the top to better build up the shape.

Bit more alcove refining, then filled them up with skulls from the Dark Eldar vehicle kits.

Sculpted in some roots and rocks and general bit of detail. Base is still missing one key detail, but that one will pretty much be a project all on it's own compared to the rest of the fig.

Shot of Goreshade posing on the base for a sense of scale and scene.

Just found your thread, took a wander through and I must say I'm thoroughly impressed. Kinda sad I didn't see your thread 'til now.

Thanks!

One more quick shot for now. A teaser for that aforementioned key base detail.

Continued awesomeness... can't wait to see what you do with the base! Be careful though, that wire will be a bit thick on the wrists and ankles!

Very impressive conversions. You give a great perspective on the necrons and breath life into them in a way that GW has not yet been able too. Very inspiring

MajorTom11 wrote:Continued awesomeness... can't wait to see what you do with the base! Be careful though, that wire will be a bit thick on the wrists and ankles!

Yeah, you're right. Holding it next to the Deathwalker fig, the brass rod was probably too thick for the arms, much less the wrists. Replaced the arm wire with guitar wire. Didn't replace the leg wire, but I did shorten it a little bit. Shouldn't really need the wire to support on the legs/feet as much since they're already resting on the ground. I think I'm going to enjoy sculpting this fig more than when I did my Great Unclean One, or at least the research into the proper shape and form.

Alright, here's how far I've gotten on her. I think she's not horrible, but I don't think she's good enough. I'm going to consider this attempt practice, tear her off and start over. Won't have time to work on it tomorrow at all, and I want to start testing out The Cursed One on Wednesday's game night, so won't mess with trying to sculpt anything that day either, so no more work will get done on this until Thursday. I would love to hear thoughts on what doesn't look right with what of her there is right now and what I might try to make it better on the next attempt.

And for the record Goreshade's not glued to the base yet, he's just got a pair of pins in his feet that hold him nicely to it so I can play with him on Wednesday. Here's there to fill out the scene and scale.

Oh, and here's the artwork I'm attempting to imitate with this work. (if you know where to find this picture or the one of asphyxious without the watermark i'd be eternally thankful)

Awesome!

cool base

amazing this continues to be my favorite thread

I'm enjoying this new guy quite a bit, but I have a question or two about him in regards to your theme.

Firstly, he seems more Cryx than necron. By saying that I'm in no way knocking it, as the conversion is looking grand. It's just, are you moving more away from necron, and more Cryx now?

If he's a brass robot, why's he got a scantilly clad babe at his feet?


Apart from those gripes, I'm seriously loving this. It's so cool!

He's going to be non-robot. When I did the first Goreshade I decided to only Necron head the guys with skulls for heads. He's still due for some other Necron details though.

I just double checked through your thread, as I'd apparently stopped reading on page 3 or somesuch. I feel a major fool right now, I apologize.

And to feed your ego, with your warwitch denegrha's head, I didn't notice it was sculpted until I saw the greenstuff copy.

As said, no new sculpting till Thursday, but I did carve out the new blade for his ice sword today. Need to green stuff in a guard for it later.

Wow! great work, I can't wait to see how that sword comes out!

Got some more work done on Goreshade. New thumb/palm on the outstretched hand. Neckerchief put on. Guard on the sword sculpted in. Did some more drilling on his backpack for additional green effects. I think baring the green plastic that doesn't go on until after painting that Goreshade himself is all finished. Just need to get Deathwalker done.

On that note, got Deathwalker 2.0 started up. Definite going to be a layer project. Need to get her body done, then her face, then her clothes, then her hair. Let me know how you think she's looking so far.

Deathwalker showing off some leg. I have now decided I hate sculpting feet and ankles more than I hate sculpting hands.

Haha this guy looks so cool! I loved the smiley face you drew on deathwalker


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Oh, and would it be too assuming to ask for a size comparison shot with a GW miniature? Are they towering over, or do they fit similar sizes with the GW range.

Same scale as GW figs, I use parts back and forth all the time. PP doesn't use the heroic scale though, so they don't have the giant hands and heads that GW figs have. They're more naturally proportioned.

First attempt at her face is done. Not good enough and I'm going to take it off and redo it, though it was good practice and I've figured out a couple more techniques to get it to look more like what I want. It's weird/frustrating to hold the Deathwalker fig in my hand, look at it, and not quite get why mine doesn't end up looking the same, but I'll get there with some more tries.

Also got the first piece of her clothing done, and now you can see why I wasn't too concerned with her poor looking feet and ankles. And no, I don't know how that stays on.

After several attempts I just can't get the face quite right. All the clothing is done however and I want to keep this project moving forward, so I'm falling back on planB for the face. Slathered the face of my Deathwalker fig with green stuff to make a mold, and cast a couple little faces out of extra plastic sprue. Picked the best looking one, trimmed it down, and glued it on. I like it, but I think the head might be on a little high, neck a little too long. What do you think?

two thumbs way up!
can't wait to see more of the conversion!

Repositioned and filled out the head. I think it looks better now. Just need to do in the hair. As well I reangled Goreshade's arm a tad, and filled in more green stuff on the base so the skulls are more integrated and less tacked on.

THAT is the best thing on this thread so far verry impressive sculpting bro

So I messed with a couple more plastic faces, and couldn't get one to come out perfect. Decided screw it, and hacked up my metal Deathwalker fig to steal her head. In the process of trying to get it to fit onto my fig, I messed up the face. Great. Went back to work on the mold and plastic and got one to come out good enough. Got a good nose, just one eye is not quite fully detailed, but I doubt anyone would ever notice if they weren't really looking that closely or in the super zoomed in pictures I'm about to post.

With that done, I did the hair as well. Now, while the body was something new, and the face I'm still perfecting my techniques on, hair is something I can do really well already, so that was cake and came out really nice in the first try. Got some nice ears in there as well.

Fixed up a couple other little things, including making a new palm on Goreshade's hand as somewhere along the line this pinkie broke off and needed replacement. At this point I'm really pretty satisfied to call the whole thing done and ready to be painted up.

I... heartily approve.

Nice greenstuff work dude.

your slave girl is coming out amazing. I love what you've done with the base, how'd you get such a large area of GS so smooth?

Wet finger, rub it lightly to polish it. It's harder to get small areas smooth.

Been busy with other projects, but I got a bit of paint on this. Just the base gold and bronze of his armor so far. The plan is to drybrush the metals so he blends nicely with the schemes of the rest of my stuff, but use more washes and highlights on the non-metals to try and make him a singular better painted fig.

About all the further I can get painting it for now. I was hoping to have it done before Warmachine night at the FLGS tomorrow but I can't find where my Space Wolf Grey went, which is the color I want to use for their skin. Otherwise I think the metallics and the base are all done. Just need to paint that skin on, give the skin/hair/cloth a wash of Badab Black, some follow up highlighting, and should then be finished.

Went ahead and got the green plastic into his backpack. Turned out to be a pain to do those upper parts, and I still couldn't get it to do what I wanted. I was hoping to have the melted plastic fill up those chimneys and the little holes better, but it cools too fast on contact with the metal for that to work. I ended up just setting a rod down into them and melting the top down flush, and filling up any little cracks with `Ard Coat. Like the Deathjack's glowing chest before it, it's a cool little detail that will almost never get noticed unless you're looking for it or happen to view it from the right angle.

Lookin' good!

Alright, it's pretty much done. Just needs a couple patches of static grass on the base to help tie it into the rest of my army, but that's stored at the FLGS.

It mostly looks very good, but I don't think there's enough contrast between their skin and hair colors...

I really really like it. Especially the hair. Love the color of the hair.

Wow.

There's not a lot of contract between skin and hair, but I kind of like it like that. They're more meant to contrast the skin/hair from the clothes/armor.

Nice work!

While i am verry impressed whith your sculpting and understand your aversion to painstaking time for a great paint job i think it would be grand to see you take that step. I still am a huge fan of your stuff dont get me wrong.

Hey, it's an update! Another (tomb) spider jack, this time a Leviathan to go with the recent Goreshade The Cursed. I decided it's multi-barreled gun was the good opportunity I've been waiting for to put a Gauss Cannon onto a model. Otherwise it's not terribly different from the Harrower, as I figured these to be more robotic and methodical in their behavior so they're not trying to show the emotion and individuality that my other `Jacks go for.

Eeeey, good to see this still moving forward! Lookin' good, can't wait to see some paint on that monster.

Sooooooooo much stuff to build and paint. In addition to this that I just did, I've got a full 14 Bane Thralls waiting for paint. After that I've got ten Scrap Thralls and a Necrotech to build. Need to dig around for lots of random mechy and bionic bitz for the Thralls since there are only two different figs, and with how their blisters are (stupidly) packed I've got three of one pose and seven of the other. Once all of Those are done, I also picked up Mortenebra, the model of a thousand spikey bitz, the other day, and I've got plans to de-skirt her. AND while I'm doing all of that, I've got some three boxes and three blisters of Legion of Everblight stuff I'm tasked with building for my benefactor at the FLGS. Luckily I've not been conscripted into painting the Legion stuff yet.

So hypothetically speaking, what would you want to see me make for a second faction? I'm thinking Cygnar, where the focus is lots of Storm Nouns with lots of Lightning effects. Trollbloods, where I'll be going for lots of stones and scroll and making big stuff bigger. Legion of Everblight, where I'd be making them less Land Shark and more like "traditional" Dragons. Circle of Orobos, which would be a cross between Wolf's Rain and making the big stone things bigger and lots of Druids.

FINALLY remember to get Goreshade flocked when I was at the FLGS this week. I've been wanting to take this shot, but wanted him fully finished before I did.

Fantastic. Looks just as badass as the picture.
As far as your next project, I would go for Everblight. Then again, I'm kinda biased towards factions like these... >.>

That's sweet. Too bad you couldn't use them for 40k at any official event. What are the conversion rules for warmachine?

Must be based on the fig that it represents, so you can't take Bob and use him to make Steve, you have to start out with Bob to make a cooler version of Bob.

If your rules say you have a sword, the model must have a sword, you can't give him an axe.

Can't change the base size, base size is VERY important in Warmachine.

Gotta use 50%+ PP parts.

Officially, those are the rules. Unofficially? Does it look like what it's supposed to be? Is it cool? Then it's fine. I've got a number of things that are illegal, and have never been called on any of them. The Sauce is illegal because I replaced his axe with a scythe. All of my Seethers are illegal because they're built out of Slayers, not Seethers. My old Nightwretches, and when I get around to making new ones, will be illegal because they'll be done out of Deathrippers. My Malice might be considered illegal because I used none of the actual Malice parts on him. I think my Deathjack is technically illegal because I gave him tusks instead of horns. Lots of little nit-picky stuff, but like I said, never had a single person bat an eye at any of it.

Finally working on some new Cryx stuff again after building a bunch of my friend's Legion stuff, and it"s yet another caster from Team Asphyxious, Mortenebra. I'm undressing her and giving her more of a Tomb Spyder body, and it's taken me most of the morning to get this far on her.

Holy Carp, it's an update! Not a big one, but still, it shows intent...

Anyways, first up is the Leviathan, finally all painted up and finished.

Following that is a new "counts-as" Skarlock to hang out with Goreshade. Given his penchant for keeping undead elven thralls around, I figured this was a perfect use of the Dark Eldar Mandrake, which is my favorite DE fig so far released. I don't play DE but I had to use the figs for Something.

They are all quite amazing. Any chance we could get a sort of "how to" run down for them, you know, parts, paints, supplies, ect?

Which they are you referencing?

Stayed up too late working on this today, but I wanted to get some progress on her finally, so here's my updated Scarab Queen Mortenebra.

Mostly your Warjacks. I'm really loving how they look.

The Seethers are just the plastic Slayers with a mask from a Chaos Defiler, and claws made from green stuff and Trygon spikes.

The Tomb Spyder Jacks are made with a spider `Jack, Destroyer butt, and Tomb Spyder heads and legs.

Deathjack is made entirely from a Deathjack kit, with the addition of a different mask from a Chaos Defiler and custom made shoulders.

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Picked up the new box of Bane Thralls this past weekend with some tournament winnings (go go poultry farmer asphxyous!) and ran into a problem. I'm down to my last lone Necron Warrior head! All this time I've actually NOT been buying Necrons to hack of up parts. I've been drawing on a fairly large collection of unbuilt Necron stuff that someone gave me, as well as left over bitz from my own past works. It seems that well of materials is starting to run dry though, and with all the GW price increases, I'm not going to buy boxes of Warriors just for their heads.

Conveniently I've had a little blister of that "naw" fangled Instant Mold stuff sitting next to my desk for awhile that someone had purchased and given me. (i do all his conversion and army building work so he wanted me to have cooler new supplies). I'd not thought of a reason to use it yet, but finally figured I'd give it a shot, since I had already ripped all the heads off my new Bane Thralls before I went looking for the replacement heads.

I think it came out very well. The mold in the middle was the first one I made last night, and those are the first two heads I've cast out of it. One is in the mold showing off the captured detail, the other is just showing off the flash. When they're fully cured and hardened later I'll carve that flash off and clean them up. In the mean time I've used up the rest of the blister of stuff to make two more molds to cut production time in third as I don't want this to take all week to make them.

Based off this quick first time use, Instant Mold get my seal of approval!

10 pages of greatness. Ty keeping such an interesting log going!

I'm stalled out on Morty for the moment, in case it wasn't obvious. Just don't relish messing with the tiny human arm. In the mean time however, WRATH! And by that I mean Scaverous. He's big, he's awesome, and his rules are stupid good, so of course I had to have him, and of course I have to make him even cooler. Here's where I'm at for the moment. I've drilled out his smoke stacks to be refilled later with green plastic. Didn't care for the tiny arm things in his chest, I think they make it too busy, so I carved out the spot where they're supposed to go and just put in more skulls instead. Nicked one of his skulls on his loincloth when I was doing that, so I carved it off and replaced it with a new one. Did not care for the rear loincloth, didn't like the way it stuck way out the back, and I wanted to stand my guy up straighter/taller and it was in the way of that, so it was removed entirely. I'm changing how he's going to hold the scythe, and I want to keep his hands for use in that, so I took off the ends and rebuilt part of the head and the haft. The bottom cap of the scythe is not glued on yet so I can slide it into his hand when that's ready.

Size comparison between Scaverous, the other "big boy" Cryx caster Vennethrax and a more normal human sized Dheneghra.

Finished building him. He's a mirrored version of his artwork, on the basis of which direction the fig's head is turned. I switched his left and right arms around to get the pose I wanted. Rebuild his right wrist to accommodate how I wanted him to loosely hold the scythe, resting it against his shoulder. The other hand is holding a new friend, which I can't get a good picture of because of how he's holding it. For his own skull, a standard Necron head was too small, and one of my Jack heads was too big (and i don't have enough to spare at the moment anyways) so I altered his existing head to make it look more like a Necron head. He really is too big to fit on a medium base, and has zero contact with the inside area of his base. I've mentioned it elsewhere, but this really should have deserved a large base and seven extra wounds.

Quick shot of him painted up. I'm going to bed, and then I'll get the green plastic in this evening before work, base him up at work, seal him, and have the final finished pictures up tomorrow morning.

Alright, Scavs is all finished up. The green plastic still isn't as visible as I want it to be unless you catch it from the right angle, same problem the Bastard has. If I want it to do what I want it to do, I think I'd have to ignore the existing structure, smooth it over, and drill my own larger holes. Oh well, still looks nice from behind. As requested I've got a size comparison shot with him next to one of my plastic Seethers. Threw in the eBastard as well just because it amuses me that they both count as being the same size in the game.

Lovely. You're quite amazing at this.

I hope I get to see these in person again, definitely the highlight of the mayhem cup a few months back was playing against these guys.

I'm thinking Scavs will be my caster for the next Mayhem Cup, as he should work the best in the two caster team format. The Bastard will be making an apperance at the Warmachine Weekend Qualifier event at Mayhem next month as well, this time with his thirty eight fully painted and based Bane Thrall Cadre!

Finally got my hands on a Talos kit so I could make my Corruptor. Still needs a bit more work, mostly just adding wired to connect the tubes to the body and filling the space between his new cowl and body. I've never cared for how the necks on my Seethers came out, but never could find a good spine to put in there. When I was messing with the other stuff from the Talos kit I realized the tentacles were PERFECT for what I had been wanting. They also then make for great little tails! I've got plans to improve on the heads of my `Jacks so I'll add the next necks and tails to all my guys when I do that round of upgrades later.

Oh, and if you're wondering about the big horns/racks over his back... Well that my friend is the sad result of Tusk Envy.

Carved the cowl down smaller and fit it a bit closer to the body to help shrink the bulk, as well as shortened the arms slightly. Also got the feeder tube for the gun connected to the shoulder, and added some ammo vials to the top of it. To go with an asymmetrical look, I decided to keep the melee weapon self contained, and thus no tube connecting to the body.

That's insane. Very cool.