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Phew, you're one tough customer

What about the shields from the old metal Dark Elf Knights? Those were cleary dragon/bat wing styled and should fit: They are not exactly huge, but a test fit shows me they don't look completely lost on a Marine arm.

Bruticus - it might be too 'chaosy', but what about the shield from the old Chaos Archaon on foot?
http://war-forge.com/catalog/product/gallery/id/1021/image/2941/

I bought mine from them, here's a link to their OOP line:
http://war-forge.com/chaos-archaon-on-foot.html

Archaon is at least as big as a Terminator.

Keep up the always great work!

Kraut - Yeah sorry, I'm very fussy. But I don't have a very good knowledge of fantasy bits. I don't know what those shields are, but the current cold one knight shields are about 50% too small, I was going to use the medusa one.

Lamby - ah I think the star is a deal breaker, beautiful shield though

Here, have a comparison pic:



From left to right: plastic chaos knight, OOP plastic chaos warriors, metal Cold One Knights, plastic Cold One Knights, High Elf Dragon Princes (I think...).

Hope this helps!

Thanks Kraut, I think that metal one looks perfect, I'll see if I can track one down.

 KrautScientist wrote:
@ 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 Kraut's first suggestion would look great !

I also lol'ed at the risk of "fatal splinters" with wooden shield

Although I do quite like the Blood Dragon I have decided to use a strigoi vampire - a ghoul king - to lead my group, because I don't want to mess up the ghoul tribe theme. As I already have a pretty large ghoul (which I can use as a ghast in the Mordheim rules) I needed something pretty huge to use as my leader. I love the strigoi that comes with the Terrorgheist set, but I thought I would have a crack at making my own.



It's the savage orc big boss with a head made from a bloodletter, orc arms and pink horror hands.I spent ages blending the new arms to the body but you can't really see that in this pic. I think he looks suitably scary.

Although I really love the ghoul king and will use him for Mordheim, I couldn't resist making a Lahmian vampire as well. This is a conversion I've had in mind for ages, as I was pretty determined to use my decapitated Isabella for something after I swiped her torso. It's a great head, even if mine was rather miscast. This is a pretty obvious conversion in my opinion, not something I would usually do, but it was such a good fit that I just had to do it.

I feel like the Ghoul King just really wants a hug.

I think I like the Lahmian a lot more, but the Ghoul certainly fits more with the theme of the force. Admittedly he seems a little less exciting than the rest of your conversions. He's dynamic and big, but I dunno. Maybe it'll shift when he gets some paint on him. Still looks good, I just have no idea what I envision when I think 'Ghoul King'.

The ghoul king is probably technically the best conversion I've done I reckon, a lot of his head is sculpted from scratch and blending the hands to the arms, and then the arms to the body took ages, I'm very pleased with how smooth it looks. I still need to add some spines to his arms, but I really love the guy. He does look like he wants a hug though. Here is another angle:

It's great work Bruticus, I agree that technically the ghoul is very pleasing but there is something about his pose that makes me prefer your lahmian, yes it is an obvious kitbash but you have executed it perfectly. With the ghoul it may just be the photo, I often find my models get distorted by the lense and don't sit as well on here as they do in real life.

Fantastic stuff and great to see yet more WFB on here, love it.

Hey Bruticus

The Ghoul king is really well sculpted. I didn't realise you'd worked on the face at all from the 1st shot. I'm really impressed with the smoothness of the arms. But I think there is something missing. Something to tie him in with being a vampire...I'd like to see more clothes I think or perhaps trophy skulls..that literally talk to him. Either way it is still a brilliant conversion.

The Lahmia is a brill conversion. Nice and simple and really feels right. Come on the painting.

 PDH wrote:
I'd like to see more clothes I think or perhaps trophy skulls.

Maybe some skulls or bones dangling from a collar, or from that strap running across his torso? Certainly not the most creative solution, but I think it would make him seem more like a bestial vampire.

Beyond that, it's one of the great occurences of unfairness in this hobby of ours that the technically brilliant and highly sophisticated conversion will sometimes garner less love and positive feedback than the comparably simple kitbash one mostly completed as an afterthought -- I feel for you, brother

That said, both models are absolutely ace!

On a mostly unrelated note, I had a look at your Sun Titans model and background for a blog post of my own today, and I remembered how cool both the model and the fluff were -- any news on that particular front?

Definitely. Not saying the model doesn't look awesome, (the conversion IS awesome), but it seems a little plain. What makes him The Ghoul King and not just The Biggest Ghoul in the Graveyard, ya know?

The sculpting is so clean that it looks smooth in the greyscale pic, which is impressive. I think we might like the Lahmia because she's busier. Or has more fancyparts to paint up. I don't claim to properly understand the twisted psychology of us gamertypes.

The ghoul king is definitely more understated than my usual character models, but the group he will be with are quite understated too. I might add a skull or two, but he is already overdressed for a strigoi, with his wolf pelt. I need to add some spines like the ghoul king from the terrorghiest set has. I think he ought to look good with his ghoul tribe, he is really huge - even though I was trying to keep things me restrained I couldn't resist using the savage orc as a base and he is ridiculously big.

Kraut - the sun titan has been painted for a while but I wasn't very happy with it so didn't post it. I will touch up the paint scheme when I feel inspired but I'm really not in a space marine mood currently! I'm not really in a 40k mood actually, I might stay with fantasy for a bit longer!

I really love that Lahmien vampire. It just screams classic horror. Totally can imagine a Morticia Addams type thing going on with her eyes where it appears the direct area around them is lighter, drawing you in as she approaches.

The Ghoul King looks suitably feral, yet holds on to some part of the former regal glory of Strigoi with his bear pelt.

To be honest I like the Ghoul King he looks appropriately large and aggressive but keeping a unrefined theme, the only issue I can think people have is the leg pose ( which of course is down to GW strange posing designs) otherwise top work and I love the head work especially the ears

Lahmia looks great really has a classic horror vibe, simple conversion maybe but executed perfectly now I think you should paint her in a black and white movie format, greys mostly maybe just add a little blood red just to capture the eye.

Love the Lahmian, that DE model definitely screams "Vampire" !!! And the head swap is clever

Did you sculpt the "scarf" around her arms ?

Yep her scarf/robe thing is sculpted, took quite a few attempts! I am tempted to add a hood to it, or a fur trim, but I can't decide.

Fuuuuur.

Besides being fun to paint, it'll give the Cruella Deville bit of pomp to it. I mean really, what's more luxurious than fuuuuur?

...you know, other than bathing in the blood of virgins.

I'm talking about you Elizabeth Bathory!

So how are the Von Carstein and Necrarch coming along?

Well I wasn't going to make a Necrarch or Von Carstein as neither of them appeal to me all that much, and I don't really need a little family of vampires anyway. I had half an idea to make a Necrarch from a Dark Eldar Haemonculous though I didn't want to buy more models while I have such a backlog to paint. But then I couldn't resist putting together a quick Necrarch when I realised I had some parts that would work well.



Obviously very early days, no greenstuff is done yet and the parts are a bit rough in places. It's the evil flagellent head, Bloodletter torso, Kroot arms, pink horror hands, Dark Eldar hellion legs and a cape from a beastman shaman. I think the collar is a possessed Chaos power fist or something. He's bigger than I had originally planned, but it's hard to stop scale creep when using plastic kits (another reason why I prefer to start with lovely finecast figures). He will be levitating, with the cloak billowing along behind him, it was hard to photograph.

In other news, check out my blog (link in sig) for a gallery of new images from Julian Bayliss, one of my hobby heroes.

He looks suitably ancient. I like the possessed finger cowl and the pink horror arms to give the long fingers reminiscent of Nosferatu. Those Hellion legs certainly evoke that floating feeling.The bloodletter torso is probably too big though, perhaps a fantasy zombie chest to highlight his ancientness?

That Julian Bayliss stuff is simply stunning.

I think this particular one has to be my favourite, hands down.



Reminiscent of Kerrigan from Star Craft.

He looks creepy ..

I must have missed the obese slaanesh lord before , just wanted to say , he is most impressive , tricky to paint up i immagine.

btw the new Julian Baylis gallery

http://www.exprofundis.com/julian-bayliss/#comment-44

is brilliant mate.

Been lurking on the thread for a minute. Good work on your stuff. Glad you posted those Bayliss pics. I had the exact same reaction when I saw those marauders in a WD a while back. I think I literally went right out to the GW store and picked up those Marauder horsemen. Bit by bit I've been tearing up those sprues. Maybe one day I'll actually make a marauder horseman...
Anyways, find your stuff inspiring.

Well I cannot seem to go for long without another project surfacing, or resurfacing. This week I will be working on my gameboard, and possibly my epic scenery too:



It won't all be this flat and grey! If anyone has any epic scenery or models for trade, please let me know. I am hording at the moment.

Necrarch looks cool, the only thing I'm not certain about are the hands in terms of scale, what I normally find is that keeping extremities (head, hands etc) as small scale makes the model sit with others better rather than looking overblown in proportion. Have you thought about hands from the ghoul kit?

I'm pretty sold on these hands as then he is throwing these horns, black magic style. They are very long fingers but I think it looks quite creepy. All his proportions are a bit odd as he has Eldar legs and a bloodletter torso.

I think upon second viewing the Bloodletter torso does work.

I'd love to see some kind of representation of him floating, perhaps in the form of energy or dust and bones swirling around his feet.

As you might notice I jump between projects quite dramatically, so instead of finishing my Mordheim warband, here's some Epic scenery:

Under construction - I used styrofoam for the first time, I've never been able to find an online supplier until now. Great stuff, I hacked it up with a bread knife and used a glue gun to assemble it on the fly, and then used filler and debris to blend the ruin parts in - I really enjoy this sort of thing, much more than 'measuring' or 'planning'.





And here is how it looks after some primer and a dusting of grey paint:






It looks pretty cool like this, almost like black and white Stalingrad photography I thought, so I made a gallery on my site, you can see it here: http://www.exprofundis.com/ruins-forge-world-aria/

Next up, I need to paint this and my Zuzzy matt, then I am about ready to play a few games - I've painted up some Blood Angel, Ultramarine and Guard armies. It's not really Epic unless there are titan legions stomping around though, so I have quite a bit of painting still to do.