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 Bruticus wrote:
After seeing all the cool Realm of Chaos stuff recently I couldn't resist making a mortal champion of Slaanesh. He is intended to be a fantasy character rather than 40k, my first attempt at one of those. His armour might look a bit futuristic but I think it looks fine, if a bit elaborate. I need to smooth some surfaces down slightly.



My original idea was to paint the cloak as gemstones but now I am not so sure. I am a bit undecided on a colour scheme overall, I don't want him to look like a Necron so I think silver is out.

I'm actually doing some more Fantasy stuff next, with a Mordheim gang. But this guy is really just a one-off.

As you say about RoC stuff it looks at place within Fantasy and 40k and I think this fits the bill perfectly.

I really like his pose but I feel he should be holding something in that hand, a still beating heart of the skull and spine of a lesser mortal.

In saying that, he looks so badass it's probably not even worth changing. As he looks like he's calling out a challenge or imploring Slaanesh.

While it's not the intent I think he'd make an excellent companion for your Slaanesh Villain. Perhaps his executor.

As for the cloak, why not paint it gold and have the circles be your gem stones. Have a few different colours representing Rubies, Emeralds and Sapphires? Perhaps Dark purple armour with Pink as the crest. Quite loud, but very Slaanesh.

That is wonderful really ornate and Slaaneshy vibe whats planned to accompany him?

Love the heretic Inquisitor... Did you replace the Corsair's spear-leg ?
The combination of bits is well thought-out !

I'm always jealous of your clever/unusual use of parts. He looks great. Must be fun doing a one off. I like the idea of a gemstone cloak.

How about a pinky copper colour for the armour?

Does he have a flame for a left hand? Did you roll up his mutations?

I think MoD is right, this guy would look great standing next to Orlat Vor declaring his presence/body guard. Sort of like a Royal Court servant..

PDH -

His hand is open like he is orating or serenading or something, it just looked suitably arrogant. I didn't roll up any mutations as I really just wanted to make this exact model and I don't know what I would do if he turned out to be a smelly, one-legged frog with a shotgun penis.

I still really didn't want to use any pink for Slaanesh but actually a very pale pink might look good, like his armour is made from coral or something. But then it might clash with the gemstone cloak, hmm I don't know! Usually I have a much stronger idea of what colours to use.

Although he could serve as a 40k miniature as well the problem is that he is huge and would overshadow Friendless somewhat, or at least make the retinue a band of crazy giants. Even the corsair-inquisitor is tall, must be 6'5 at least.

Yggdrasil -

Yeah I replaced his leg with a greenstuff one, and then it didn't look great so I added a robe on top of that. And then the robe didn't look amazing so I hid it with the kneeling corpse.

Llamahead -

I think he will be a lone fantasy character for now at least, my main goal was to take a 40k mini and make it into a fantasy mini, and I didn't think much more about it than that..

 Bruticus wrote:
PDH -

His hand is open like he is orating or serenading or something, it just looked suitably arrogant. I didn't roll up any mutations as I really just wanted to make this exact model and I don't know what I would do if he turned out to be a smelly, one-legged frog with a shotgun penis.

...well I think we all know what your next conversion project needs to be.

Love your work.

Easily the most imaginitive use of Greasus Goldtooth I have seen.

The Slaanesh champion looks awesome. If all else fails you could maybe make a Mordheim warband for him to lead, or maybe even a Song of Blades and Heroes warband. If nothing else you've got a cracking display model

Your Slaaneshi Champion is fantastic, it did take me a moment to work out what miniature it was based on.

May I ask where the crest came from? I love it!

As for colour suggestions, I always look at various Gw and good illustrations online to see what various shades and hues look the best together.

Perhaps pale turquoise and purples?

Like you'd be lucky enough to roll up that combination!

Many many D1000 tables anything can happen..............It is probably a possible result on the full tables.

Just a thought on the slaaneshi champions colorscheme, it may be fun to try some of those new gw glazes over silver, gives it an nice shade/tint. Just a thought.
And your conversions are beyond the believable spectrum. Consider me inspired/jealous/feeling insignificant...

Here's a quick project, a Mordheim Undead warband:



The ghouls are from Heresy (unconverted, I love these models) and the rest of the warband are relatively quick conversions - there is a Necromancer (I literally cannot type that word without first typing Necromunda) with whom I am pretty happy, a crone, a simpleton, a gravedigger and a cowardly hunchback. The vampire himself was a spur of the moment conversion that I hope will look good, made from a Salamander space marine.

And here they are painted:



The vampire is only half painted at the moment as I thought I should spend a bit more time on him than the others, and he has a totally different colour scheme than the rest. They are all pretty much just tabletop standard but I intend to go back and add more details when I get my zombie horde back - then I will base them all together. I don't think I will need 30 zombies for Mordheim but you never know.

The Ghoul holding the baby is such a delightfully unsettling model.

I really dig the colors, and the universal look of drab and dead. Good work!

Brilliant stuff Mordheim was always an awesome game

Yeah that ghoul with the baby is definitely a grotesque model, so is the child ghoul with the head. I haven't played Mordheim before but I'm looking forward to trying it.

EDIT: I must learn to read!

Great conversions as always.

Jake no wonder you've been quiet for a little while. Terrific work.

The filthy hair on the Necromancer makes it feel authentic.

What I assume is the simpleton is my favourite. The simplicity and the movement.

Really clever grave digger, his necklace is ace. I imagine it running around like Thing.

Hang on a sec has the crone got her boobs out?

The heresy ghouls have so much character. Good ol Paul Muller. I always loved the Ghoul King with spade.

I'm holding off commenting on the Vampire until I've seen him painted. Look at you converting 40k to fantasy.

Are you making terrain for Mordheim or making do with your amazing underhive?

Ah these have been done on the spur of the moment over the weekend really, I was reading a rather gruesome book about ghouls (Throne of Bones) and I remembered I had these ghoul models from a while back that I really just bought because of how hideous they are. You know of the sculptor PDH?

The crone definitely doesn't have a wardrobe malfunction, the ghoul with the baby does though, maybe I should add NSFW in the topic title in case anyone here is browsing while working at the world's strictest kindergarten. A few of the male ghouls are flashing too.

This is actually the second vampire I made, the first was from Maugan Ra, but it didn't quite work out. This guy looks OK, but the problem is there are so many amazing ideas for Vampires and you only get the one.

I have a bunch of catacomb tunnel tiles scenery coming from a kickstarter, I can't be arsed to make something from scratch!

Stop it, Bruticus! I almost laughed myself off my chair at this:

Bruticus wrote:PDH -

I didn't roll up any mutations as I really just wanted to make this exact model and I don't know what I would do if he turned out to be a smelly, one-legged frog with a shotgun penis.

and this:

Bruticus wrote: maybe I should add NSFW in the topic title in case anyone here is browsing while working at the world's strictest kindergarten.

Mordheim warband's looking fab! Paul Muller is a very talented - ex GW - sculptor who also did the fantabulous late 90s Chaos Cultists, right?

Yep that's right and the Goramorka Muties and Diggas if I recall

 Llamahead wrote:
Yep that's right and the Goramorka Muties and Diggas if I recall

That's right, how could I forget those? He seems to be really good at sculpting humans -- or at least, human-based mutants.

These Heresy Dark Brethren were also sculpted by him, IIRC, and have some of the flair of the older chaos cultists, if you ask me.

Can we get some close up shots at all? they look great!

Very nice and creepy! The minimalist palette really works here.

The ghoul with the baby reminds me of Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, which is a good thing.

Bruticus wrote:Yggdrasil -

Yeah I replaced his leg with a greenstuff one, and then it didn't look great so I added a robe on top of that. And then the robe didn't look amazing so I hid it with the kneeling corpse.

Well you did a nice job !

I also bought that model for conversion, but still struggle to figure out what I'll do with the leg... Hence my questions !

Nice job on the Undead warband too

Here's the Blood Dragon vampire as he stands at the moment:



He's not entirely finished - I hit a snag, the shield I ordered was too small so I need to find a much larger one. I think a chaos knight/warrior shield might work but they are all very obviously chaos, does anyone have any other suggestions? I might just have to file a chaos shield down. His base is not finished, I will do all the bases together. He obviously looks quite different to the rest of his gang which was intentional because the Vampire is really a one-man-gang and the rest are just dross that follow him around. But it is also very tempting to make a strigoi vampire as that would fit in the theme of the group more easily.

Blood Dragon's coming along beautifully!

What kind of shield did you order? From a purely visual standpoint, I think this grave guard shield might work. Or maybe one of the ones that come with the Vampire counts set of resin shields?

Unfortunately I think no shield from the undead range will work, they will all be too small. This guy is pretty big. I tried both a grave guard shield and a cold one knight shield, and they look kid sized, like someone shrunk his shield in the wash. Villagers would just laugh.

The Von Carstein upgrade pack shields are amazing, but I think probably too small, and far too expensive to buy just for a single bit.

Beastman shields might be worth a look and personally I reckon one of the flayed skin numbers from the chaos range would work fine with him.

@ Llamahead: That is an amazing idea! What about this shield from the chaos knights? It should definitely work from a scale perspective, and it looks more like an undead shield anyway?

There's also this one, from the same kit, although it might be a bit much.

I think beastmen just have round wooden shields - I don't think vampires would use wooden shields in case they got a fatal splinter.

The chaos range shields seem like my only option, but I don't much like any of them - they either look tacky like the daemon head one, or are wooden, or are covered in chaos spikes. I would love a large coffin lid or dragon wing type. I think the High Elf dragon prince shields are probably too small.