EDIT: For those of you who don't want to browse through several pages to see completed miniatures I will have the fully painted miniatures under spoiler tags in this post:

The finished project:

Mutants:


Meatgrinder

Bartholomew the foul

Subject A7

Wolverine

Timmy the burnt



Inquisitors:


Inquisitor Helheim

Chief Enforcer Konrad

Crusader Wolfram

Ex-marine, "Tychus the crazed"

Servitor, "Sigurd the pale"

Wraith, "Aeturnus"



Original first post below:

So I recently did a Nurgle warband and realised how much I like converting and painting individual models, I also found out I like making scenery for the characters. Now, inspired by alot of the "blanchitsu" stuff going around I decided to make an inquisitor warband and a warband made of mutans and renegades. I'm thinking each warband will be about 10 characters that all will be individual.

So I placed quite a large order and will build this from chaos renegades from FW, gw zombies, flagellants, cadians, ork nobz, nurgle lord, cairn wraith and more Here is my first work:

WIP Mutant leader:

A conversion based of the nurgle lord. The head is ahlf zombie and half plaguebearer. The saw is from the nobs set and the gun is an ork gun. Obviously I got alot of work left to do, some GS work, tubings etc, what do you think of his weapons and pose? Both weapons will be abit "bionic" so he will have no hands etc.

WIP Inquisitor wraith:

Quite an easy conversion, replacing the head with a servo skull, added a parchment from the marine sets(will make it longer with green stuff) which he holds in his hand and then added some tubing.

As these are preliminary poses, conversions etc, let me now what you think!

Good starts. The ork buzsaw in particular is quite fitting for that figure.

Done some more work today! Here is the mutant leader with some green stuff and tubing, he's almost done!


This is a miniature I started today, the legs are made of plasticard tubing etc. I was thinking of adding arms but it didnt look that good. Think I will keep it as this and just add more details. What do you think? arms or no arms? Any suggestion for arms that would go well with it as arms are alot harder to do than legs.

So here's an update that I mainly did last night. I added a flamer to the "walker" and some other details. Quite happy with the results. I also finished the "wraith" conversion. Next up is a floating cyborg inquisitor warrior

hey, that walker looks great, the servitor manning it looks like he's having a tough day lol

your mutant leader reminds me of Homer Simpson but in a good way , keep up the good work.

 OneManNoodles wrote:
hey, that walker looks great, the servitor manning it looks like he's having a tough day lol

your mutant leader reminds me of Homer Simpson but in a good way , keep up the good work.

Doh! What has been seen cannot be unseen! Haha.

I really like the walker with the flamer. Has a very Ecclesiarchy/Hereticus thing going on. I like the Nurgle Lord conversion as well, although as you said, now that Chaos Homer has been pointed out it cannot be unseen

Wow, really nice work so far. You're quite the inspiration.

Thanks for the kind comments!

Here is another update for today, I've finished the following model, he got lots of purity seals which are pulled back by the wind since he's going quite fast with his flying disc!



Tomorrow I'm making an executioner style ex-marine. For this miniature I need to look at some body-builders for reference materials, stay tuned!

Some very cool stuff.

Really rather like the walker and the wraith.

Floaty Cyborg blokes looks good...but please get rid of the mould lines down chain swords.

Looking forward to seeing some paint on these guys.

Peter

 PDH wrote:
Some very cool stuff.

Really rather like the walker and the wraith.

Floaty Cyborg blokes looks good...but please get rid of the mould lines down chain swords.

Looking forward to seeing some paint on these guys.

Peter

The mold lines are gone!

It's quite an honor that you responded to my thread as your inquisitor warband was a major inspiration for the stuff I've done!

Todays update!


The first model is an ex-space marine who now works for the inquisition, I got inspiration from the starcraft 2 character Tychus Findlay. I'm still going to add som inquisitor details like purity seals etc, also need to glue and sculpt on the axe to his hands.


The second model is a very early WIP. I basically think of him as an Intelligence officer for the inquisition, he got a cyborg crow who does reconnaissance for him. Basically I detest the scale of IG models so I elongated his legs, waist and arms slightly. He's about the size of a space marine but anyway I think the scale looks good.

At the moment I'm thinking of how I should paint the miniatures. I kinda want to go for very dark subtle colors. and I think I know how to achieve that. However, I'm not sure how to paint the skin. I want to go for the look below, anyone know how to achieve this "pinkish" very pale skin?


Also does anyone know how to paint a kinda dark worn brass color?

And another thing, should I go for a slightly more "true scale" look for all my humans that are based of IG etc?

I definitely am in favour of correcting the anatomy of Cadians. I guess the solution is to embiggen your Space Marine or use him as a power armoured human. It's a really great model and doesn't look particularly space marine-y apart from the legs - it could maybe be a crusader or something instead?

I think a strong height difference looks best and makes Marines look special, like how Migsula has ensured his marines tower over his humans by making sure there are no medium sized models.

Love the robo-crow too.

 Bruticus wrote:
I definitely am in favour of correcting the anatomy of Cadians. I guess the solution is to embiggen your Space Marine or use him as a power armoured human. It's a really great model and doesn't look particularly space marine-y apart from the legs - it could maybe be a crusader or something instead?

I think a strong height difference looks best and makes Marines look special, like how Migsula has ensured his marines tower over his humans by making sure there are no medium sized models.

Love the robo-crow too.

Yeah I guess I will elongate the legs of the ex-marine slightly, maybe 2 mm or something. He's slightly taller than the "cadian" atm. One issue is that some of my future "priest" chracters will look quite small in comparision sincer I cant enlongate some of them (resin and metal models). But I guess the "priests" could be slightly smaller and frail humans.

Yeah height variation is to be expected, it looks very strange in 40k guard armies that everyone is the same height and build. I think if you are using resin and metal models they will likely be better proportioned anyway, it's usually just some plastic kits that have the weird stumpy legs.

You could maybe add a couple of mil of plasticard in the space marine's shins or thighs or even under his feet, or perhaps move him onto terminator legs? He is already a great model so good luck, always never wracking to tamper with a successful conversion!

 Bruticus wrote:
He is already a great model so good luck, always never wracking to tamper with a successful conversion!

Haha, been there done that! I find one of the hardest part of doing conversions is to know when you're "done". It's so easy getting carried away and just make a model completely over the top. Sometimes I just need to tell myself, "put the miniature down and go do somethign else before you ruin it".

I like the marine...but I reckon you keep him as a large human. Does he really need a backpack since he is not wearing any torso armour/anything for it to attach to.

Where is that crow model from?

The ex space marine is awesome(as is the rest).

Desubot wrote:Where is that crow model from?

The crow model is from Reaper miniatures
http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/familiar/latest/02969.

shingouki wrote:The ex space marine is awesome(as is the rest).

Thanks!


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PDH wrote:I like the marine...but I reckon you keep him as a large human. Does he really need a backpack since he is not wearing any torso armour/anything for it to attach to.

Hmm I'm thinking he got some sort of "cyborg connections" that his backpack is attached to. The "rings" on the front is supposed to be holes that his power armour used to be plugged in to and Im thinking the backpack is attached in a similiar fashion. But yeah I could consider removing it.

Neat Thank you.

Was going to scratch build Coteaz and needed a bird.

If you don't like the proportion of the GW human models the Perrys and a few others do some nice historicals which could be used Warlord Games 28mm WW2 could be very useful. Real cyborg field to the warband I partiularly like the ex marine although to me the Inquisitor looks more like a sage and less like a warrior which is definitely the option for a psychic Inquisitor.

Have been quite busy this week and haven't been able to do any modelling til today.


So here's an update for my Intelligence Officer and his crow. Is he enough "inquisitorial" for the rest of my warband?


A converted empire warrior priest. He is the same heights as the rest of the humans, "true scale". He will soon be getting a power hammer.

Wow, nice work. IMO the intelligence officer looks fitting. The only thing I'm bothered with is the use of a Guard sergeant head for him. I don't really like using them for characters, unless I have no other suiting head. But hey, just my opinion

 Scrazza wrote:
Wow, nice work. IMO the intelligence officer looks fitting. The only thing I'm bothered with is the use of a Guard sergeant head for him. I don't really like using them for characters, unless I have no other suiting head. But hey, just my opinion

Thaniks I didn't really find a better head, I've cut some scars to the head which I think will fit well.

Anyway, here's todays update:



This is the leader for my inquisitor warband. He is slightly taller than the rest of the warband. The "skirt" was quite hard to sculpt so have covered it up in parchments etc. Have ordered some additional bits including a head for him.

Here is the first painted model for the warband. The paintjob took about 3 hours from start to finish. I know I could have done it better but I don't like spending too much time on a single miniature as I easily feel burnt out then. Anyway really happy with the result. Also posted in showcase since I think it's so cool.

Scary.... Very awesome!

Awesome yet disturbing- definitely perfect for Inquisitor! Well done.

Malika2 wrote:Scary.... Very awesome!

xeno99 wrote:Awesome yet disturbing- definitely perfect for Inquisitor! Well done.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes he looks quite disturbing, indeed. I first painted his eyes like "normal" but then the black eyes just made him look like a complete sociopath.

Anyway, here is todays update. I painted the "wraith" while I'm still waiting for some parts to arrive. Not 100% happy with the paintjob but he looks very good together with the "servitor". Im going for a dark red theme on all of my warband and I also try to keep the painting quite minimalistic and gritty. So trying to avoid super clean and vibrant "line" highlighting.

Karokk wrote:

So here's an update for my Intelligence Officer and his crow. Is he enough "inquisitorial" for the rest of my warband?

I like the build on this guy. Even the Cadian head works for me since he is an Intel Officer (presumably) recruited from one of the Imperial armed forces.

The GS looks a bit rough, like it wasn't fully mixed. Are you using the strip type GS? If so, and you don't already do so, remember to take out the center 1mm or so where the two halves meet.

Karokk wrote:


This is the leader for my inquisitor warband. He is slightly taller than the rest of the warband. The "skirt" was quite hard to sculpt so have covered it up in parchments etc. Have ordered some additional bits including a head for him.

Love this guy. Lookig forward to seeing him progress.

Karokk wrote:Here is the first painted model for the warband. The paintjob took about 3 hours from start to finish. I know I could have done it better but I don't like spending too much time on a single miniature as I easily feel burnt out then. Anyway really happy with the result. Also posted in showcase since I think it's so cool.

Love this guy too, especially now that he has paint on him. His skin and eyes are very creepy looking. Good work!

~Eric

 Taarnak wrote:

Karokk wrote:
So here's an update for my Intelligence Officer and his crow. Is he enough "inquisitorial" for the rest of my warband?

I like the build on this guy. Even the Cadian head works for me since he is an Intel Officer (presumably) recruited from one of the Imperial armed forces.

The GS looks a bit rough, like it wasn't fully mixed. Are you using the strip type GS? If so, and you don't already do so, remember to take out the center 1mm or so where the two halves meet.

~Eric

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah the green stuff on him got quite messy, there were "lumps" of yellow clumps all over it. It's fixed now though

I agree with Tarnaak, the head works well on the intel officer. It's evidence that the cadians are really out of proportion because that head looks too large usually. With the fixed height it looks correctly scaled.

I get quite good results by sanding my GS work, and for a smooth finish you can then use liquid gs over it and then sand it again. There are lots of other methods though but this works OK for me.

For the walker - I think he looks cool, especially the skin tone and his face. I think you could use some soot residue or heat discolouration on the smokestacks as they look a bit clean at the moment. And maybe a few splashes of sepia/brown ink on the parchment for some tonal variation there. Then again I am just a big fan of heavily weathered/aged looking things.

 Bruticus wrote:
I agree with Tarnaak, the head works well on the intel officer. It's evidence that the cadians are really out of proportion because that head looks too large usually. With the fixed height it looks correctly scaled.

I get quite good results by sanding my GS work, and for a smooth finish you can then use liquid gs over it and then sand it again. There are lots of other methods though but this works OK for me.

For the walker - I think he looks cool, especially the skin tone and his face. I think you could use some soot residue or heat discolouration on the smokestacks as they look a bit clean at the moment. And maybe a few splashes of sepia/brown ink on the parchment for some tonal variation there. Then again I am just a big fan of heavily weathered/aged looking things.

Thanks for the tips! What do you use for sanding and how do you sand smaller stuff?

Was just talking about it in my thread, I use these now: http://www.masq-mini.com/aid-239-Profischleifset.html and Taarnak recommends Mr Clean erasers. Also Taarnak is a better sculptor than me so I think we should heed his advice.

 Bruticus wrote:
Was just talking about it in my thread, I use these now: http://www.masq-mini.com/aid-239-Profischleifset.html and Taarnak recommends Mr Clean erasers. Also Taarnak is a better sculptor than me so I think we should heed his advice.

Don't know that I would go that far Bruticus. Also, the Magic Erasers are more for the final finishing sanding. The others that B mentions would be better if you have material that needs removing in larger quantities.

~Eric

Here's a little update for today. I've made a second character for the mutant gang. I really like using orc parts for them and the nob weapons l think look very suitable. Now I didn't just want to put a zombie head on an orc nob. I added some tubing and a "gas mask" from a cut up renegade. I also changed the static pose in to something more dynamic.

These are all great conversions and very inspiring. Keep up the great work. I like the paint scheme too, very dark inquisitor-ish

whats wrong with using a file to "sand" down with apart from them being a pain to clean?

I like how that walker has come out, out of interest where did you get the shoulder pads on the warrior priest?

 OneManNoodles wrote:
whats wrong with using a file to "sand" down with apart from them being a pain to clean?

I like how that walker has come out, out of interest where did you get the shoulder pads on the warrior priest?

The shoulders are from anvil industry, I also ordered the cloaked head from there.

http://www.anvilindustry.co.uk/

Paint - Whoot. Looking good.

The face on the new mutie is cool and a bit different.

Loving the models especially the servitor walker. those eyes O.O those eyes have seen some creepy things. loving this thread keep it up!

 Iron-Encore wrote:
Loving the models especially the servitor walker. those eyes O.O those eyes have seen some creepy things. loving this thread keep it up!

Yeah very happy with the eyes

Anyway, here is a small update for today. I'm still waiting for my tubing-tool and some parts for the inquisitors so decided to do another mutant. I tried using a comb for the tubing and it turned out ok but still want the tubing-tool for tube's with smaller "gaps".

hey man i just started an inquisitor warband as well and i also used the cairn wraith for my tech adept

check them out if you want
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/508642.page

Still waiting for some bits and the tubing tool. Was down to my local GW shop and bought some plastic kits the other day, the plastic necromancer and the plastic empire wizard. Planning on converting a "priest" type character for my mutants and a sinister medic for my inquisitors. Also bought the John Blanche artwork book for inspiration

Posting a little painting update. This is by far the most hated model I ever painted and it isnt even the models fault. First when I washed the armour with agrax earthshade I got grey residue in the deep parts. So basically had to redo the armour. Last night the miniature was almost finished so planned on finishing it today. I had some final highlights on the flesh and some minor details left to fix, 30 minutes work at the worst. However, I totally messed up the skin by chosing a too light color for the highlight and it looked terrible and I couldnt paint it over with something darker. After this I had to redo the skin and fix details, took me 3 hours since it was so messy. So basically I hate this model and can barely look at it right now. I realise however that every mdoel can't be your best one. Anyway here are the photos!

Liking the flamer, has a very mutie feel going on. The second dude looks alright to me, although I will say that the facial expression made me think of Forever Alone Guy's Laugh. You're right about not every mini being able to be your absolute best work ever, but overall I think you did a good job on him so try not to let it get to you I guess. Look forward to seeing what comes of the recent plastic kits purchase.

Edit: Almost forgot. I'm trying to get behind the guy with the Ork bits, but I have to say I feel like he's still a bit too Orky. I think it's the lower body that's making him seem less 'mutie' more 'xenos'. Have you considered perhaps mixing proportions on him so that the upper half is a bit more over sized and out of proportion in contrast to his less mutated legs? Just a thought that occurred to me when scrolling through the thread.

 xeno99 wrote:
Liking the flamer, has a very mutie feel going on. The second dude looks alright to me, although I will say that the facial expression made me think of Forever Alone Guy's Laugh. You're right about not every mini being able to be your absolute best work ever, but overall I think you did a good job on him so try not to let it get to you I guess. Look forward to seeing what comes of the recent plastic kits purchase.

Edit: Almost forgot. I'm trying to get behind the guy with the Ork bits, but I have to say I feel like he's still a bit too Orky. I think it's the lower body that's making him seem less 'mutie' more 'xenos'. Have you considered perhaps mixing proportions on him so that the upper half is a bit more over sized and out of proportion in contrast to his less mutated legs? Just a thought that occurred to me when scrolling through the thread.

Hehe thanks for the feedback I agree that my mutant leaders facial expression looks quite odd but on the other hand he is a mutant and can't be held accountable for his poor face. On the orky guy I actually tried with some other legs but it just didn't work with the big power claws. I'll try to make him not looks as orky by painting him differently instead.

You may hate that model, but I love it. He turned out really well.

 Squidbot wrote:
You may hate that model, but I love it. He turned out really well.

Thanks

Here's an update for today. Finished painting "Subject A7" today. He got a barcode tattoo on his left arm and on his right arm it says A7. He is a member of the mutant gang.




Here's the next Inquisitor I'm working on he is some kind of medic type of guy. He got syringes on his fingers and various robotic arms.

very nice painting, I really like the rich brown you have going on there.

Nice work on painting up A7- the barcode in particular is really good. I think you managed to set him apart from his orkish base quite nicely indeed post-paint.

Medic guy seems interesting. What head are you using for him, if I may ask? It reminds me somewhat of Gollum, but I wasn't certain.

 xeno99 wrote:
Nice work on painting up A7- the barcode in particular is really good. I think you managed to set him apart from his orkish base quite nicely indeed post-paint.

Medic guy seems interesting. What head are you using for him, if I may ask? It reminds me somewhat of Gollum, but I wasn't certain.

I found the head in my "bits-box". I think it's from the zombie set but not 100% sure.


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 Bruticus wrote:
very nice painting, I really like the rich brown you have going on there.

The cool part is that the brown is super easy to make. Base with mournfang brown. Drybrush with jokaero orange. 1-2 layers of agrax earthshade depending on how dark you want it, the first mutant I painted got 2 layers and this one 1 layer.

That medic is great, and looking forward to seeing it finished. How did you do the left hand? I have a figure I have been working on with a very inferior version of the same concept, and would love to copy yours...

 lasgunpacker wrote:
That medic is great, and looking forward to seeing it finished. How did you do the left hand? I have a figure I have been working on with a very inferior version of the same concept, and would love to copy yours...

I used a zombie hand and glued sharpened plasticard rods to the finger tips. Then I added thin wires that went from the fingers to the back of the hand. I think I will redo it however as it isn't as good as I'd like it to

Nicely done.

Really like the armour on the nurgle lord.

The other muties bionic eye makes me laugh in an uncomfortable way. The blades on his claws are very nice.

The JB artbook is jam packed with wonderful drawings and a host of ideas.

 PDH wrote:
Nicely done.

Really like the armour on the nurgle lord.

The other muties bionic eye makes me laugh in an uncomfortable way. The blades on his claws are very nice.

The JB artbook is jam packed with wonderful drawings and a host of ideas.

Yes the artbook is amazing for inspiration. I like to look at the small details and they instantly gives me ideas for whole new characters.

Anyway, todays update. Finally got some bits today including the head for my inquisitor leader! The shield will get a better fit after I've painted it, now it just stuck there with blue-tac. How do you think I should paint him? I'm thinking dark red robes(matching the rest of my warband) and black armour.


Also, I wasn't 100% happy with the warrior priest I posted earlier in this thread and I thought that I would just regret it if I painted it knowing I wasn't 100% happy with the conversion so I cut it up and remade it completely. Here's the end result:

Much bigger fan of your warrior priest now! He really reminds me of a Savlar Chem Dog, or a Drookian Fen Guard now, some kind of veteran in tartan at any rate! I'm fairly excited to see some work on your ex-marine, with his muscley bare torso and gigantic axe. I've been meaning to make myself a marine for a while now, if only just to explore the possibilities of renegade marines.

The shield on your Inquisitor seems a little short. I'll reserve my opinion however, until it's completely finished!

Your paintjobs are class, I really like your flesh tones.

Karokk wrote: How do you think I should paint him? I'm thinking dark red robes(matching the rest of my warband) and black armour.

Pretty classic look for Inquisitors IMO, so I'd say go for it. That particular mini might look interesting with a Grey Knight 'esque theme as well, but then he wouldn't fit as well I guess. Agree with Ghosty that the shield is a tad short.

I like aspects of both warrior priests, but I think you're onto something with that second one. What type of gun is that by the way? I was thinking archaic pistol but wasn't certain.

ghosty wrote:Much bigger fan of your warrior priest now! He really reminds me of a Savlar Chem Dog, or a Drookian Fen Guard now, some kind of veteran in tartan at any rate! I'm fairly excited to see some work on your ex-marine, with his muscley bare torso and gigantic axe. I've been meaning to make myself a marine for a while now, if only just to explore the possibilities of renegade marines.

The shield on your Inquisitor seems a little short. I'll reserve my opinion however, until it's completely finished!

Your paintjobs are class, I really like your flesh tones.

I will probably have updates of the ex-marine this weekend. I ordered a new axe for him(The orc nob one was too big imo, don't like oversized weapons for my miniatures) and actually tried on some terminator legs. However the terminator legs were to bulky and I instead enlongated the marine legs slightly. Got some sanding and gs work on him before he is finished!

xeno99 wrote:

Karokk wrote: How do you think I should paint him? I'm thinking dark red robes(matching the rest of my warband) and black armour.

Pretty classic look for Inquisitors IMO, so I'd say go for it. That particular mini might look interesting with a Grey Knight 'esque theme as well, but then he wouldn't fit as well I guess. Agree with Ghosty that the shield is a tad short.

I like aspects of both warrior priests, but I think you're onto something with that second one. What type of gun is that by the way? I was thinking archaic pistol but wasn't certain.

The gun is from the Empire Pistoliers.

Brilliant! Damn wish I had thought of this! This model screams Inquisitor at me. I think that some more purity seals and reliquary type eclectic boxes and bits round his waste would help blend in the scroll hanging at the front. It looks a little tacked on at the moment. Brilliant use of the priest totally transformed the model into something else.

Oh and a tiny bit more filing above his right foot - I can still make out a Sigmarite comet. Is there a mold line running along the rebreather pipe?

Oh any chance of a rear shot?

 PDH wrote:
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Brilliant! Damn wish I had thought of this! This model screams Inquisitor at me. I think that some more purity seals and reliquary type eclectic boxes and bits round his waste would help blend in the scroll hanging at the front. It looks a little tacked on at the moment. Brilliant use of the priest totally transformed the model into something else.

Oh and a tiny bit more filing above his right foot - I can still make out a Sigmarite comet. Is there a mold line running along the rebreather pipe?

Oh any chance of a rear shot?

Thanks for the feedback! I've already actually made some changes to him which I will hopefully post tomorrow if I've managed to get a new lamp I'm sculpting a sash on him where he will have his finest purity seals on it. Also removed the text scroll on the waist and made one of greenstuff that fits much better.


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Finished painting my inquisitor Leader today! Went for a really dark and matt theme. Basically I think he looks like the Grey Knights should have looked, also I'm very pleased with his face.



Here's an update on the ex-marine. Just some filing left and he's almost done.

Some really cool ideas and miniatures you got here. Keep up the good work!

Loving the paint on the Inquisitor's armor. Very nice job!

Any chance you'll be writing up some background fluff for the ex-marine (as well as the rest of the warband) at some point? I always enjoy reading the histories for the characters we see on here

The inquisitor looks great! I like the subdued colors. I'm very interested in how this ex-marine is going to look and it is just a great idea anyway. An ex-marine is just unheard of and I think it is great for you to make one.

Very impressive

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 xeno99 wrote:
Loving the paint on the Inquisitor's armor. Very nice job!

Any chance you'll be writing up some background fluff for the ex-marine (as well as the rest of the warband) at some point? I always enjoy reading the histories for the characters we see on here

I would actually really like to come up with some background stuff but I think I lack enough background information about the 40k universe to make it good, but we'll see

Karokk - Just read Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Pariah, Scourge The Heretic and Purge the Unclean. That should cover you for all the Inquisitorial goodness you can imagine,

 PDH wrote:
Karokk - Just read Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Pariah, Scourge The Heretic and Purge the Unclean. That should cover you for all the Inquisitorial goodness you can imagine,

So many things to do so little time

Here's an update for today. I have now painted my ex-marine, partially inspired by Tychus Findlay from the starcraft series.


Here's a group shoot of the inquisitors so far so you get a feel for the overall theme.


Here's an update on the "warrior-priest" conversion. I've added a sash which I've stuck purity seals and medals on. And as requested a backshot of him.

awwww man they are looking awesome now i think the warrior priest is cool

What an awesome thread! Good thing Peter ran a little advertising for you over at the Ammobunker

Anyway, great stuff so far! Although I have to say that your Inquisitor - while a great model - actually looks less like an Inquisitor and more like a Crusader-type. And the "Kharn the Betrayer" backpack on your ex-Marine (very cool concept, btw) makes him look a little more chaosy than strictly necessary

Oh, and the redesign on the warrior priest is indeed fantastic, although, personally speaking, I'd stop adding more stuff to the model about now.

Anyway, looking forward to your next update! Subscribed!

kencotter wrote:awwww man they are looking awesome now i think the warrior priest is cool

KrautScientist wrote:What an awesome thread! Good thing Peter ran a little advertising for you over at the Ammobunker

Anyway, great stuff so far! Although I have to say that your Inquisitor - while a great model - actually looks less like an Inquisitor and more like a Crusader-type. And the "Kharn the Betrayer" backpack on your ex-Marine (very cool concept, btw) makes him look a little more chaosy than strictly necessary

Oh, and the redesign on the warrior priest is indeed fantastic, although, personally speaking, I'd stop adding more stuff to the model about now.

Anyway, looking forward to your next update! Subscribed!

Thanks for the comments!

Regarding the "grey knight" model I will probably stick some kind of "crusader-label" on him instead. I intend to use my "warrior-priest" as my Inquisitor for the warband, now I just have to come up with a name...

 Karokk wrote:
I intend to use my "warrior-priest" as my Inquisitor for the warband, now I just have to come up with a name...

Good call! This might come in handy then.

Beautiful! The crusader is looking great, the red and grey really mix well. That warrior priest just screams of awesome!
The book on the warrior priest's back however feels like a little too much, feels like theres too much going on on the model with it.

Been a busy week at work! Here are some small updates on some mutants I've made.

The first one is based on a ghoul. I changed the pose and slapped on some more muscles. Also added a pair of "power claws". I think og him as a cyborg version of Gollum from LoTR


The second mutant is a very early WIP.


Also tomorrow I'm planning on painting my Inquisitor(the warrior priest conversion. I've also came up with a name for him, "Inquisitor Grimheim".

Hmm I need some feedback and ideas.

Basically I've decided to do 5 members of each of the gangs.

The inquisitor warband is now completed and I've chosen Inquisitor Grimheim, the "ex-marine", the servitor, the crusader and the wraith. I feel these 5 miniatures look very well together.

For the mutant gang I've chosen the nurgle lord conversion, subject A7(the guy with the big claws), the guy with the flamer and the ghoul with the claws sitting on the pillar. I now need a last miniature for the mutants but the last conversion I did didn't really fit the rest. Anyone got a suggestion/idea what type of member I could complement the rest of the mutants with?

I really like that last guy, the mutant with the club. He looks quite similar to my enslaved eldar.

I am not sold on the name Grimheim - because everything is already 'grim dark' including the word grim almost seems like parody. An over the top name works for inquisitors as they are probably from an old family with an archaic name, or they changed their name to something dramatic upon gaining position.

How about a small psyker type in that other warband? You already have a giant and serveral quite imposing hand to hand models. Some sort of physically weak model might fit the bill?

 Bruticus wrote:
I really like that last guy, the mutant with the club. He looks quite similar to my enslaved eldar.

I am not sold on the name Grimheim - because everything is already 'grim dark' including the word grim almost seems like parody. An over the top name works for inquisitors as they are probably from an old family with an archaic name, or they changed their name to something dramatic upon gaining position.

How about a small psyker type in that other warband? You already have a giant and serveral quite imposing hand to hand models. Some sort of physically weak model might fit the bill?

I actually named him Grimheim after an old character I had in a RPG game But also had one named Helheim, so maybe that could work?

The issue with the last mutant I made is that when I put him together with the 4 other miniatures it just looks like he's another smaller scale. The converted plaguebearer with the flamer looks like a standard human and the last one just looks like a midget enxt to him. Maybe I could elongate his waist a bit and lengthen his arms?

I'd say leave him short. As long as his weapons and equipment are similarly scaled to everyone else in the group, he should fit in fine.

~Eric

I'm almost done painting my Inquisitor. I just need to touch up some details like the face, medals etc. What do you think so far?

Hmmmmmm needs more purity seals.

lol JK he looks great.

He looks awesome

Looks good to me. His pose is spot on. Really like the rebreather.

Two things i would suggest is trying to tone down the purity seals. In the picture it looks quite yellow. Perhaps adding a couple of thin white glazes to the parchment. The other thing is maybe adding some colour to the metal shoulder pad.

I think a weak psyker would look good in the mutie gang. The power behind the throne so to speak.

The Inquisitor's a stunning model, Karokk! Great job!

I agree with Peter about the metal shoulderpad. That would also be a great location for one of the small =][= decals from the Sororitas decal sheet. Just sayin'...

Plus I would add a black spot (or some black wash) to the tip of the gun to at least suggest an opening in the barrel.

By colour I meant something like the below model rather than a decal...but a decal would look good too.



Adding some colour towards the bottom of the pad would look cool.

Here is a pretty high end technique at is pretty cool but time consuming.

http://www.coolminiornot.com/articles/1649-metallics

Thanks for the feedback, found it very useful. Will sit down this weekend and finish him, having a hard time fidning time for my miniatures lately...

Finally weekend! Have been busy today with converting, painting and doing scenery!




My Inquisitor is now finished, also added a backshot!

I've redone the "little" mutant, he now looks good next to the others, this is a very early WIP and got lots of green stuff work left to do. I think he will looks awesome though. So far he is my favourite conversion, hope my vision of him will be as good as the end result!

Here's an early WIP of the "base" I'm making for the two gangs. In the crackled ground there will be green sludge running from the pipe. Will add some ruined buildings also and other things.

Here's a small update for today. I've been browsing the JB artbook and really wanted an enforcer type of character. Here is a very early WIP of my enforcer.

The Inquisitor is cool.

The scenery is off to a great startl. I want to see this finished and a battle report between the Inquisition and the Mutants...obviously using the Inquisitor rules. How big is the board BTW?

 PDH wrote:
The Inquisitor is cool.

The scenery is off to a great startl. I want to see this finished and a battle report between the Inquisition and the Mutants...obviously using the Inquisitor rules. How big is the board BTW?

The board is something like 35cmx25 cm, basically it fits in my "showcase" bookshelf. But the good thing about it is that I got tons of similiar material so technically I could make several of them and put them together

Been working on the scenery the last few days. This is my first piece of 40k terrain ever and so far I think it looks good.

I love coming to this thread,i leave with crazy ideas running through my head.

 shingouki wrote:
I love coming to this thread,i leave with crazy ideas running through my head.

Thanks, that's a nice compliment I guess

Anyway, here's an update for today. These two mutants are like 80% finished but still have some stuff to fix but too tired atm

Love the guy with the flamer, although I think he is having one of those bad dreams where you go to battle with your flamer and then realise you aren't wearing any clothes.

I think he would look cool with some more burn victim type skin colouring - whites and reds where it hasn't healed properly. But maybe that's why he no longer wears clothes, cos last time his synthetic overalls caught fire on a spark and nearly cooked him.

 Bruticus wrote:
Love the guy with the flamer, although I think he is having one of those bad dreams where you go to battle with your flamer and then realise you aren't wearing any clothes.

I think he would look cool with some more burn victim type skin colouring - whites and reds where it hasn't healed properly. But maybe that's why he no longer wears clothes, cos last time his synthetic overalls caught fire on a spark and nearly cooked him.

Haha, yeah I guess he is sligthly upset that his "master"(that would be me) gave him a flamer but no protection.

I tried to achieve a "leathery" skintone to look like it was burned but I will check out if I can make it look more like burn injuries.

Some really inspirational stuff here!...Will definitely look into the INQ28 scene after I'm finished with my Genestealer Cult!...Keep up the good work...Loving your style.

Exalted!

Great Models - I love your inquisitor models already

Consider me a fan

I'll be looking in on your projects regularly


/Janushedemann

The creepy servitor dude is very cool, the skin tone especially is nice.

Love your conversion work, Inq28 is definitely the way ahead if (like me) you're not an army batch painter!

A note on GS - something that really helped my GS work was using vaseline and clay shapers.

Cheers!

I really admire the creativity behind your models. There are a lot of unique conversions here, that really capture the grimdark feel of the 41st Millennium. Well done!

I especially like the Inquisitor and the Crusader. They're both very characterful. Keep up the great work!

Cheers,
Monsterzonk

Thanks for all the kind words! It really keeps me motivated to do more stuff even though I'm super tired when I get home from work

The naked flamer guy is looking rather good. A nasty piece of work . I meant to ask in the building stage what thickness plasticard and what diameter plastic rod did you use on the "bolted on metal plates"?

The scenery is coming along nicely too. It is impressive what you have built with so few materials.

Have you gotten any background to your inquisitor? He has a name but what Ordo is he? What philosophy does he follow? That sort of thing. The same goes with the mutants - why is Helheim purging them?

BTW the face on your scribe is just brilliant, every time I look at your avatar it creeps me out.

 PDH wrote:
The naked flamer guy is looking rather good. A nasty piece of work . I meant to ask in the building stage what thickness plasticard and what diameter plastic rod did you use on the "bolted on metal plates"?

The scenery is coming along nicely too. It is impressive what you have built with so few materials.

Have you gotten any background to your inquisitor? He has a name but what Ordo is he? What philosophy does he follow? That sort of thing. The same goes with the mutants - why is Helheim purging them?

BTW the face on your scribe is just brilliant, every time I look at your avatar it creeps me out.

The plasticard rods for the bolts are 1,18 mm and the plastcard itself is 1 mm thick on the legs and the mask is made out of 0,5 mm.

Hmm I've just started to read a little about the different ordos and my lore knowledge are close to zero. Maybe Ordo Sepulturum would be suitable? The mutants could be up to some shennanigans and spreading some kind of plague. I guess it would work since the main inquisitor is wearing a re-breather. The "walker" guy could also use his flamer to purge the remains of bacteria and virus found in different places. And as far as the mutant goes it's pretty clear that they aren't very healthy at all and probably infested with several different afflictions.

Again, marvelous work, Karokk! Peter's also quite right about your avatar, btw

Regarding your Inquisitor, I think an Ordo Sepultrum Inquisitor would be a cool idea simply for the fact that we don't see to many of those -- probably due to their rather specialised area of expertise. However, I could easily see your Inquisitor investigating a special strain of the Zombie Plague, maybe even a mutated form, turning those afflicted into beings equally dangerous but slightly more coherent -- that could fit with your mutants. I also think you're right about the visual cues on your Inquisitor: That rebreather would fit nicely with this particular career path as well. You may want to add all kinds of censers from DA kits to the retinue, though: I like the idea of the Inquisitor's entourage burning purifiyng incense wherever he goes

 KrautScientist wrote:
Again, marvelous work, Karokk! Peter's also quite right about your avatar, btw

Regarding your Inquisitor, I think an Ordo Sepultrum Inquisitor would be a cool idea simply for the fact that we don't see to many of those -- probably due to their rather specialised area of expertise. However, I could easily see your Inquisitor investigating a special strain of the Zombie Plague, maybe even a mutated form, turning those afflicted into beings equally dangerous but slightly more coherent -- that could fit with your mutants. I also think you're right about the visual cues on your Inquisitor: That rebreather would fit nicely with this particular career path as well. You may want to add all kinds of censers from DA kits to the retinue, though: I like the idea of the Inquisitor's entourage burning purifiyng incense wherever he goes

Sounds like a pretty decent backstory

I've painted the terrain piece today and it's almost finished. Basically I got to fix some paint spill-over and it's done. Here are some pictures:

Nice terrain piece Karokk

Wish I had that kind of stuff back home

Cheers

Janushedemann

So now that the terrain piece is finished and both the mutant gang and the Inquisitor gang are almost finished Im thinking about the next project.

I have a slightly different idea... Basically I want to make a Necron gang for Inquisimunda. The idea is that the gang consists of renegade necrons who were left on this ruined planet to rot(rust?). The look of them willl be very rusty necrons with added scrap metal. Alot of them will also be hooded and wear tattered cloth. The lore behind them could be that they roam this ruined planet for spare parts or something.

Also I will make 3 similiar terrain pieces to the first that can be put together to one big scene.

Here is another model painted. This is Chief Enforcer Konrad. This is a model where I wasn't 100% happy with the conversion but when I painted him he just came out awesome!

Also have come up with some names for the rest of my warband.





Also since the Inquisitor warband is finished I took a group photo(terrible camera) and also made a thread on the showcase forums. Here's the pic:

From left to right: Crusader Wolfram, Sigurd the pale, Inquisitor Helheim, Aeturnus, Tychus the crazed, Chief Enforcer Konrad

The warband looks awesome together! Great job! My only nitpick would be that, if you really want your Inquisitor to be a member of the Ordo Sepultrum, the warband looks awfully shooty While it's probably a good idea to have around a couple of guys that could fight plague zombies or the infected in general, there should be some kind of medicae or scientist to gather samples (maybe in a getup not unlike that of a Plague Doctor). And maybe an acolyte in a 40k-i-fied Hazmat suit, waving around a censer to purify the air around the Inquisitor and dispel the cloying fumes of unbelief.

So what I am trying to say is that there's always a good excuse for yet more conversions In any case, the retinue looks more like a Hereticus warband atm, if you ask me.

 KrautScientist wrote:
The warband looks awesome together! Great job! My only nitpick would be that, if you really want your Inquisitor to be a member of the Ordo Sepultrum, the warband looks awfully shooty While it's probably a good idea to have around a couple of guys that could fight plague zombies or the infected in general, there should be some kind of medicae or scientist to gather samples (maybe in a getup not unlike that of a Plague Doctor). And maybe an acolyte in a 40k-i-fied Hazmat suit, waving around a censer to purify the air around the Inquisitor and dispel the cloying fumes of unbelief.

So what I am trying to say is that there's always a good excuse for yet more conversions In any case, the retinue looks more like a Hereticus warband atm, if you ask me.

You are right that they don't fit very well as Ordo Sepultrum but it's kinda hard to come up with the lore as an afterthought as the miniatures was just created from a purely aesthetic/creative point of view. The next time I'm making a warband I'll make sure to atleast consider the lore behind them before creating them Maybe I'll do another warband as Ordo Sepultrum with some of the ideas that you described Anyway my next project will be the necron warband(after I've finished my lkast mutants).

Awesome. Just all-around AWESOME.

LOL... your scenery is cooler than mine and I'm extremely jealous...

Everything looks top-notch: the conversions, the paintjobs, the scenery. I'm looking forward to more of this, Karokk!

-Remi

Nice job on the Chief Enforcer- are those trimmed space marine shoulders?

 xeno99 wrote:
Nice job on the Chief Enforcer- are those trimmed space marine shoulders?

The shoulders are actually from the Chaos Marauders

The terrain and the group shot are great. The enforcer has turned out very nicely too.

Necron Warband - should be a treat to see. Are you going to be continuing in this thread or starting a new one?

Are you going to play these in Necromunda?
Because i was thinking of doing an ex-inquisitor chaos nercromunda gang.

PDH wrote:The terrain and the group shot are great. The enforcer has turned out very nicely too.

Necron Warband - should be a treat to see. Are you going to be continuing in this thread or starting a new one?

I will be keeping this thread for all Inquisimunda endeavours. The parts for the necronmunda() gang will arrive shortly and I will start working on them the coming month.

Tyranidcrusher wrote:Are you going to play these in Necromunda?
Because i was thinking of doing an ex-inquisitor chaos nercromunda gang.

It would be fun to play with them but at the moment I don't have that much time and thus I spend most of my spare-time on painting/modelling as that is my favourite part of the hobby. Good luck with your chaos gang

Oh you just made me groan. That was soooooooo bad

I have now finished the mutant gang which currently consists of five members, I might expand it at a later point but right now I'm satisfied.

First of a group shot:

From left to right: Wolverine, Subject A7, Bartholomew the foul, Meatgrinder and Timmy the burnt.

Also took some new photos of the old ones but also of the last painted one, old ones I put behind spoilers.

Meatgrinder:

Bartholomew the foul:


Subject A7:

Wolverine:

Timmy the burnt:


And to celebrate that I finished the project here is an "action-pic" of the two gangs!


And to clarify things, this thread will be my thread for all my Inquisimunda ventures and other similiar stuff. My next project will be making a Necron gang. They will be crude versions of the ordinary necrons and some with tattered clothes etc. They roam this world for spare parts and to find their purpose(robots with feelings). I got some parts for them now including a set of immortals, lychguard, a few warriors and Illuminor Szeras which will be the base for the conversions. The parts I will use to convert them will mainly be ork and cultist parts to give them that crude look.

Those are two great looking warbands! Your painting scheme really ties each one together. The terrain also is marvellous. Keep it up!

Cheers,
Monsterzonk

Been busy with work and some other things but finally it's time to reveal the first work in progress of my next project, a necron gang for Inquisimunda.

This is "Skull collector"

Whoaho-ho-ho, that Necron is awesome!
A Necron gang is a very original idea and seeing that first model, its gonna be something else

Hi mate,

Im really fond of the mutant gang

That "Bartholomew the foul" is really awesome.
His attitude, stance and bodyposture is wonderful

More, More More

Janushedemann

janushedemann wrote:
Hi mate,

Im really fond of the mutant gang

That "Bartholomew the foul" is really awesome.
His attitude, stance and bodyposture is wonderful

More, More More

Janushedemann

Thanks I will hopefully have some more progress done on the necrong gang the coming week as I got a week off from work!

I like the necron, looks like he's going to outloot the orks. Nice gathering of bits and excellent wear and tear on him.

The twists turned out beautifully! Well, in their own special way. Meatgrinder is definitely my favourite though - you've got such a wonderful face on him. The variation in skin tone is nice too, and I like your rust effects.

Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the necrons - I wasn't sold on the idea from your initial description, but that first gent looks promising. Keep it up!

 Scarper wrote:
The twists turned out beautifully! Well, in their own special way. Meatgrinder is definitely my favourite though - you've got such a wonderful face on him. The variation in skin tone is nice too, and I like your rust effects.

Really looking forward to seeing what you do with the necrons - I wasn't sold on the idea from your initial description, but that first gent looks promising. Keep it up!

Thanks! I knew it would be slightly harder to make a necron gang, to make all of them look individual with character and it takes alot more effort to actually come up with stuff for them but I got a few ideas up my sleeve

Here is another member of my necrong gang, he will be the leader of it the gang. He is "Sokaris the cunning". I made the model out of the plastic warlock and parts from the necron plastic sets. He also has a familiar, "Mindspike". Mindspike is an infiltrator that moves unseen in the ruins of this world, he also has the ability to jump inside people and take control of weaker minds for a short period of time before they die in agony. I made the "body" of mindspike by putting green stuff around solder wire and then putting it in greenstuff industries tentacle maker.


Sokaris the cunning


Mindspike

How did you do the chemical waste on those bases?

 Nafarious wrote:
How did you do the chemical waste on those bases?

The shape of it I made by pouring PVA glue in to the cracks and then let it set. This gives it a very liquid-like surface that is very smooth but still slightly irregular. I then painted it with very watered down caliban green and then mixed in watered down warpstone glow in the still very wet caliban green with gentle brush strokes from a big brush. I then did the same thing with very watered down moot green. The key is to "mix" the colours with gently moving the brush without blending them.

Well, I'll readily admit I wasn't to convinced by the concept of a Necron gang either, but so far you seem to be making it work! Thumbs up!

The interesting thing, from a narrative standpoint, will be to figure out how much awareness and sentience these guys possess: Do they see themselves as Necrons? As Necrontyr? Do they still feel any kind of loyalty towards their dynasty, or have they gone rogue?

I'm also really looking forward to seeing what you come up with for the paintjob. Personally speaking, I'd make these as rusty and grimy as I could

 KrautScientist wrote:
Well, I'll readily admit I wasn't to convinced by the concept of a Necron gang either, but so far you seem to be making it work! Thumbs up!

The interesting thing, from a narrative standpoint, will be to figure out how much awareness and sentience these guys possess: Do they see themselves as Necrons? As Necrontyr? Do they still feel any kind of loyalty towards their dynasty, or have they gone rogue?

I'm also really looking forward to seeing what you come up with for the paintjob. Personally speaking, I'd make these as rusty and grimy as I could

I'm thinking these necrons have roamed this ruined planet for hundreds of years and slowly started to devolop some kind of sentience. (Kind of like the robot guy in irobot and similiar movies )

Yup going for a brown rust with green details(eyes/orbs etc) for contrast. Most cloth will be black/grey.

Here is something I've been working on today for an hour or two, there are still some details to fix. This is "The hunter". A sharpshooter who skins his victim with his skinning "knife" and also has a trophy collection on his back, including another necron who crossed his path.

The last mutant is very cool. Really like him.

The two gangs fighting it out look great.

When you said Necron's I was thinking faceless automatons but woah you have made characters!

The hunter is ace.

That mindspike - is absolutely genius

Sub... and-scribed!

Nice work on the mutants, but those necrons are really amazing!

Really like hunter and skull collector. Where is his pointing hand from?

Thanks for all the feedback! The hand is form either the immortal or lychguard plastic set, not sure which one.


Today's update for the gang is "Siegebreaker". This is kind of a futuristic "Frankenstein" necron, put together by the mad creator(mechanic) of the gang(yes I'm working on him as we speak). Siegebreaker is an absolute powerhouse but every now and then he malfunctions and need a repair. Here are some early WIP pics.

That hunter is amazing. Where is that cloak and the skulls on its back from?
Seigebreaker looks to be a mean .

These guys make me think that somehow a few orcs got downloaded into necron bodies, and now they're ready for anuver go at it.

 Theophony wrote:
That hunter is amazing. Where is that cloak and the skulls on its back from?
Seigebreaker looks to be a mean .

These guys make me think that somehow a few orcs got downloaded into necron bodies, and now they're ready for anuver go at it.

The cloak is from the marauders set. The skulls are from the staff from the plastic vampire coutns necromancer(used his body for one of the necrons). Yes they are slightly orky but what are they going to do when they have nothing but scrap metal and no superior necron technology available to them?

These guys are looking very good. I think maybe swap the head of the thunderhammer to something different? Even just a solid lump of metal. At the moment it ties in with the terminator legs and just looks a bit familiar.

 Bruticus wrote:
These guys are looking very good. I think maybe swap the head of the thunderhammer to something different? Even just a solid lump of metal. At the moment it ties in with the terminator legs and just looks a bit familiar.

Good suggestion, I'll see what I can come up with

OMG you have just made Necrons cool to me I love the Frankenstein guy but I do agree alter the head of the hammer for a block of metal or concrete block.

Wow, the latest one is sooo cool! I could even see a similar model being used to represent one of the Men of Iron from the Dark Age of Technology. Plus he reminds me a bit of that huge robot in the old Judge Dredd film.

I may just end up stealing this particular idea one of these days...

See whilst I agree that frankenstein looks good, I think he looks aesthetically too terminatory at the moment. Have you tried a pair of destroyer shoulder pads on him? Maybe the torso too?

 ghosty wrote:
See whilst I agree that frankenstein looks good, I think he looks aesthetically too terminatory at the moment. Have you tried a pair of destroyer shoulder pads on him? Maybe the torso too?

Can't really cahnge the torso or legs since the whole thing is glued together to support the thin waist What destroyer shoulderpads are you refering to?

This one. They're pretty big and chunky in reality, a Destroyer is about Terminator size if I recall correctly. It'd make him look a lot more like a Necron.

You could add some rib style to his chest anyhow, to tie him in visually.

 ghosty wrote:
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This one. They're pretty big and chunky in reality, a Destroyer is about Terminator size if I recall correctly. It'd make him look a lot more like a Necron.

You could add some rib style to his chest anyhow, to tie him in visually.

Good suggestions, the idea behind the miniature is when I wrote frankenstein is that the creator of the gang have found a bunch of parts on this world and just installed the AI of a necron in to it. I was kinda thinking that they got lucky and found a dead terminator and simply took his armor and based the creation of it

Ah, it's making more sense. Maybe instead of a terminator, it could've been a powerlifter, or some kind of environmental protection suit used in the Hive City?

For extra bits, you could consider a roll cage or something, in case it fell over?

He could be painted in an off yellow too, if you went with the power lifter idea.

As for the chest, you could maybe carve ribs, or the impression of ribs into it? Like an afterthought by the mechanic?

He could also have a large boiler or somesuch on his back? Or an exhaust pipe running down his back, like the necron spine, to tie him in a bit?

I really like the minaiture, he's kickass, and has inspired lots of ideas haha!

I saw that shield and was immediately impressed! How are you making necrons so cool?!

I do agree though that he would benefit from a more unique hammer, but either way really impressed can't wait to see more =)

Wow, these conversions are great! I especially like your necrons (playing them myself). And I might have to steal some of your ideas for my royal court.
On the subject of the hammer, you might be able to make a power maul out of two preatorian staff heads (Skulltaker is a lychguard, so I'm guessing you might have a few of these lying around ^^). Cut both in half and assemble them as flanged edges around a handle. Would still look brutish, but would add a little more necron-looking parts to the mini, distracting a bit more from the terminator-ness.

Thanks for all the kind words, makes me really happy since I wasn't 100% sure on this project from the start. Im very happy how the miniatures have turned out.

Today I've had a day off work and been fixing some details on the previous necrons but I also worked on a new character. I think I'll name him "The Creator" or something. He is basically the mechanic of the warband. He repairs the encrons and created Siegebreaker from scratch. He got a buzzblade on his left arm and a blow torch in his right.




Also made a new mace for Siegebreaker(don't say it looks too much like the new DA terminator maces...)

Siegebreaker is much better, I think he looks excellent. A real ABC Warrior vibe to him.

The Creator has a bit of a Futurama vibe to him which is also cool. Are you doing a flayed one conversion? There is a lot of potential there for an awesome model.

The creator looks comical but in a good way the legs are hilarious, robot rickets but on the hole your miniatures have so much character and they are necrons, now thats just genius

The new mace looks and suits the model so much better, has a more archaic feel about it which matches the your design.

I cant wait to see what you create next now you have a little helper.

Thanks for the feedback The next thing coming up is actually doing the last details and then painting them! I think I got a nice compisition and wont add any more models for now . Maybe I'll do one more once I've finished painting them. I'll also make an extension to my last terrain piece where I will place the necrons.

I like your interesting take on the necrons! I still think Seightbreaker is a bit too terminator-y, but oh well he still looks great!

It's been a while since I made an update, unfortunately I've been very busy with other things. Today I decided I would paint the necron I've been looking forward to paint the most, Mindspike. It's one of the easiest conversions I've done and the paintjob only took 20 minutes(including paints drying).

Mindspike

Ok Siegebreaker is BA and I may very well have to steal some if not all of it. It is going into my inspiration/favorites folder, I agree it does have a very ABC warrior feel to it! I'm gonna go back now and look at the rest of the thread....and then go watch Judge Dredd. The good one not the Karl Urban one which was mediocre

Doesnt want to ressurect a dead thread but i NEED to know what bits were used for the Siegebreaker. arms !

Regards