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I like the new Pink Horrors, especially since they're all plastic!!!

I'm really fond of the Berzerk Dread, though I'm not too keen on Khornate troops usually... But you did well in re-shaping the AoBR one!!!

As for the Pendulum of Chaos, I really like the concept... But I agree it quite looks like "a Plague furnace resting on top of Defiler legs". As I'm more attracted towards Nurgle, I'd suggest you could greenstuff some organic matter between the legs & wooden parts, but I'm not sure it would be nicely integrated with your "quite-clean" CSMs...

Another option coming to mind would be to add some sort of "claws" coming upwards from the leg & clasping the pendulum part in their grip, as if the Daemon inside the machine legs had "stolen" his prey... If you don't see what I mean, think of the VC Corpse Cart...

Thanks for the nice comments on my Plog & keep up posting your awesome stuff!

SilverMK2 wrote:Haha, if you come over with models, you can watch Dr Who DVD's with my wife and me (original Dr Who, not new Dr Who )... plus there is a supermarket over the road for never-ending Dr Pepper, Irn Bru and Cadburys

I'll remember this next time I'll cross the Channel to renew my stock of chocolate and soda

@Pennywise: Thanks! To see it finished, just wait 'til Christmas!

@Yggdrasil: Thanks for your comments! You've pointed the exact problem I have with the pendulum: it looks too much like a plague furnace just laid on legs. That's why I will add some more metal plates and -as you suggested- some organic elements on it. I have no specific affiliation in mind for the pendulum (even if it would look great among my Death Guard army for Apoc games), I just want it to be as chaotic as possible. Your idea of claws is very interesting and I should keep it in mind for another project, because, unfortunately, I won't be able to do this on the pendulum. (but crossing the Corpse Cart with a defiler...hummmm you shouldn't give me such ideas! My wife will hate you!!! )

I am currently toying with the idea of using the pendulum in Apoc games as a moving daemonic rift using the scattering dices to define which direction it would move each turn, and summoning a random number of daemons (randomly chosen).
What do you think?

Hyenajoe wrote:
@Yggdrasil: crossing the Corpse Cart with a defiler...hummmm you shouldn't give me such ideas! My wife will hate you!!! )

Hey, mine already loathes Dakka... Well, not entirely, but she's been saying that if I spent all the time on Dakka for painting, I'd probably be more efficient!!!

Hyenajoe wrote:
I am currently toying with the idea of using the pendulum in Apoc games as a moving daemonic rift using the scattering dices to define which direction it would move each turn, and summoning a random number of daemons (randomly chosen).
What do you think?

Just one thing: Awesome.

Oh, and maybe add some Collision rules whenever the Pendulum randomly hits a unit and / or vehicle (using the "Attaque de char" rules)!

Your work is amazing dude, I have gotten so many ideas for my upcoming CSM army I am building (currently in paper status). Keep up the amazing work and I will be watching this blog carefully...

Yggdrasil wrote:
Oh, and maybe add some Collision rules whenever the Pendulum randomly hits a unit and / or vehicle (using the "Attaque de char" rules)!

I say grrrrroooOOOOOOoooovy!!!!

Thank you for your comments guys!

I'll try to keep posting regularly new pics of my many ongoing projects, but sometimes having a real life prevent you from progressing at a constant pace. So I hope you won't mind if I sometimes post pics of my older projects, such as my LatD beastmen:



I just hope you'll like.

A la prochaine!

love 40k beastmen! very mutant space freak - I want some

Yup, they're nice but for one thing : remove those FMLs (aka. "Fethin' Mould Lines") !!!!

Yggdrasil wrote:Yup, they're nice but for one thing : remove those FMLs (aka. "Fethin' Mould Lines") !!!!

Sir! Yes ,Sir!!! (I've already done it, plus they're 20 by now, basecoated and waitng for paint)

Really like the LatD, with that head he actually looks more in proportion than with a cadian head.

Hehe yea kind of sad that the mutant freak heads are a little better sized. *sigh* GW and their ever shifting scale

Those are pretty cool though man, and good idea showing old stuff to keep the updates regular.

wow awesome i can'twaittoseethefinished possesed though

I love your silver tower. so cool.

Thank you guys! I will try to paint the beastmen during the next months.

It seems that I should be able to work on the silver tower and on the khorne possesed next week-end (I ran out of GS last week and my usual LGS was waiting to re-stock ). I took some time to add some paint on the Lost Souls (my others possesed CSMs) but they are far from being finished and ( I'll soon post WIP pics of them too).

As I've already started to show you some of my chaotic armies here I thought I could show you some pics of my first CSM army: the Death Guard (Nurgle has always been my favorite Chaos god)

Here are my termies, my lord Sorceror on Palanquin and some of my Daemons (warning, the pics are darker than real)











and my Plague Tower (still WIP one fine day I'll finish it...I swear! ):



A la prochaine!

Hi everyone!

I had some free time last week-end (at last!) so I worked on both Khorne Possesed and the Silver Tower.
The possesed are now complete (or nearly complete since one of them still waits for a victim's head to raise in the name of Khorne )
Her's what they look like:






(this one will receive a victim's head )

About the Silver Tower, I've started the ring. For now it's a circle with eight arrows and pink horros cavorting on. I will soon add flames on it.
While I was cuting plastic card and making varios attempts at positioning it, it apprears that my first idea ( to glue it at the top of the fins) was completely wrong for 2 reasons:
1st: one of the fin is misplaced. It's lower and closer to the tower itself than the others, the circle wouldn't be supported by the five and it would look weird (not the 'good' weird alas).
2nd: It would give the whole structure a rather squat aspect which is absolutely not wanted.

So I thought of a way to place it higher on the tower, floating at the level of the grey plastic part, but I havent yet found how I should proceed, so every idea is welcome!

Here are some pics of the ring:




What dou you think?

I really like how you have modelled those possessed marines. Great idea, great execution.

wow i love it

Looking good. For the ring how about some clear plastic so the ring looks like its hovering around the tower

Love the BloodPossessed!!! "Quite" simple kitbash, but very efficient, furthermore enhanced by small GS additions to smooth everything up... Kudos!
My only concern (besides some minor mould lines) is : why isn't there 8 of them?!? I'm sure they won't perform well on the battlefield until there are eight of them uh!

As for the Chaos ring, it looks awesome with the dancing horrors!!!! As for holding it aloft... Sorry dude, no idea...
I guess your best chance is Space Marine's idea...

Those possessed are REALLY cool man. Look forward to seeing some paint on them
Can't make out the nurgle lads too well though... seem neat so far from what I can see.

Thank you guys!

@Wehrkind:Thanks! Sorry the pics are a bit dark, I'll try to do better next time.

@ space marine:Thank you. I thought of that, but what kind of clear plastic?

Yggdrasil wrote:
My only concern (besides some minor mould lines) is : why isn't there 8 of them?!? I'm sure they won't perform well on the battlefield until there are eight of them uh!

Thank you Yggs.
Let me guess: the mold lines on the horns? (I've just realised I haven't filed them after reading your post ). And they are five because...errrrr....wellll.....Three of them died during their transformation?

Please guys, keep giving me ideas for the floating ring!

I know this has been said before but I feel it's worth repeating. Those thirster possessed are awesome! (Please don't tell my noise marines that I said that...) Seeing that shuriken catapult in the nugle lords hand brings me back to the dawn of my war gamming. When I was thirteen I modeled my Space wolf commander to carry a shuriken catapult because with that beard and all the wolf pelts he looked like a hunter/trapper so I figured he would want trophies. At the time I didn't realize that this works with the fluff about as well as a Necron lord singing making Christmas like Jack skelington.

I got an idea of how you can connect the floating ring. You can atach it with some wire and then sculpt fire around that so it still looks like it's flying, then more fire around the whole ring will furter strengthen the image of it floating, at least that's what I think.

That idea of Tzeentchian fire came to me as well, but I saw two issues :

1. Sculpting flames is far from easy, especially given the size required to encompass this mammoth;

2. I don't see any good reason to have some flames sprouting from the tower & engulfing the ring.

Still, you're right Rose_Mountainz, we're all here to brainstorm & share our thoughts, so we shouldn't practice self-censorship...

So, who's in for Rose_Mountainz' flames? Anyone has an idea?

Hyenajoe wrote:Let me guess: the mold lines on the horns?

Erh... yeah. Touché...

that circle with the pink horrors is scary! remids me of the wicker man ughhh!

The plague tower is amazing. Did you happen to do a WIP of that?

Hyenajoe wrote:
@ space marine:Thank you. I thought of that, but what kind of clear plastic?

How about some clear plastic off a container?

I have some experience when sculpting flames, first cover what's going to be flames with greenstuff then let it dry a litte. Then you use a needle o some sort and then poke the greenstuff, when you then pull out you can drage it and shape it. But yeah as you say Yggdrasil, it will prob be hard cause of the big amount of greenstuff it will take to do it!
Otherwise you could build some sort of supporting arches under it coming out of the tower, see pic: Yellow thing: circle Black:tower and suporting arch Pink:horror orange:gargoyle. I'm thinking that you have the arch under each arrow from the chaos star, maybe ad a gargoyle for some decoration.
STILL this is just me brainstorming because I have nothing better to do Feel free to be inspired by my rough tips and to the rest of you, come with some ideas! I'll stop now.. over and out.

The archways idea sounds easier to pull out!!!

(Plus, I love gargoyles )

My eyes are too old for this!

I was thinking about that ring a bit while at work, and I have two ideas:

1: Get some very thin fishing line and put a few lines between the ring and the tower. If you make it very tight so that it is horizontal it will be essentially invisible since the little reflected light won't be clear. If you make it loose so that the ring hangs from it the lines will be slightly more visible, but you will be able to hang it and take it apart for travel.

2: Get some clear plexiglass (or similar rigid and clear plastic) and cut that into "POWER WAVE" shapes (I am thinking plasma sphere lightning bolts) the start at the tower and go out to the ring. Make a handful of them and they will support the ring. Don't spray prime them, but rather paint them with water colors or thinned acrylics such that they are still semi-transparent but are colored like multi-hued lightning bolts. Example:

The advantage these ideas have over gargoyles or other sorts of buttresses is that you can have the ring be off at an angle so that it looks like it revolves around randomly. (with the wire/line idea you could even have a motorized revolving part that slowly spins the ring, which would be awesome )

As soon as I saw the ring I thought: The fellowship of the ring!