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Great idea

Another chap had the idea of getting some fly-screen for a sort of meshwork floor, so if I combine the two I should have a pretty characterful base

Details of Mars' pre-history are scant indeed, buried beneath the weight of time and technology. However, ancient Martian myth tells of a time before the ascendancy of the Tech Priesthood, where the proto-Skitarii of the first Tech Magi did battle against the fearsome gene-engineered tribes of the south-eastern mountains. During the widespread warfare of the Unification of Terra, Mars was consumed by conflict too. A confederation of the Tech Magi waged a war of genocide upon their ancient enemies, wiping them from the face of the red planet.

However, it would appear that not all these green men were eradicated by the Priesthood. I have visited the fearsome tech-tribes of this far-flung sector, whose ancient legends tell a remarkably similar story. Their ancestors were driven from their home by steel men draped in red. A few stricken refugees fled on a stolen voidship, finally making planetfall on this world far from the clawing dendrites of the Magi. They named this world after the name for their homeworld in their strange tongue: New Barsoom. - Extract from the Journal of Chrysoloras the Archaeographer, 965.M41


Gene-altered warriors of the Tha'ak techno-tribe of New Barsoom









Combining two of my favourite things Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom, and porting other IPs into the 40k universe with added lashings of grimdark I've been wanting to do some techno-Tharks for ages but just hadn't got round to it. Then, I stumbled across this picture which was just too cool to leave alone



Too cool by far not to have a 40k version as befitting the green men of Mars they're big beasties too here they are next to some Gue'vesa for another idea I'm working on



Couple of other little dudes I've been making first off is a Crow-Scout for a band of wasteland nomads I've had an idea for.






He's based on the one pane of a comic I read ages ago and always thought was really really cool. It's called Spindrift and the art style and ideas really are top-notch http://www.spindrift-comic.com/comic/00/0 Here's the dude:



Last little gribbly is this guy a creepy servitor pack mule! Probably attached to my Knight Worlders





Now, I think it's about time to get some paint on some of these guys

Well, I am delighted. Real good stuff.

Every single one of these things is great. I can't wait to see the Nova-Barsoomia painted up!

(only quibble - if the war against the gene-forged tribes was before the rise of the tech-priests, it would have been before Mars was unified with Terra under the God-Emperor, right? so should probs replace that with the Omnissiah. unless the editor of that history has replaced "Omnissiah" with "God-Emperor" in his translation, in which case kudos for bringing across a genuine problem in manuscript transmission)

Thanks guys! Paint is definitely next. Run out of bits for my next favourite ideas :S

I think you're right goblinpaladin. While my idea was that the Emperor helped the Tech Priests rid Mars of the Barsoomian tribes, it's a little unclear. Shall change it

Wow, lots of really characterful minis. Love the 40k greeks, and the techno barbarians are also great!

Oooo Me likey.

Thanks guys! The techno-greeks will probably be the first on the painting table

Pack mule is astounding!

Thanks man! I think I'll attach him to my Knight Worlders, seeing as they're sort of a travelling band. They'll need a pack mule to carry their supplies. Plus, it could be a retainer of the house who fell into...displeasure, shall we say

Little update too I got some paint on someone!


What's that little one? Oh, he's our Crow...
...No he's not one of us. Comes from over the hills to the north somewhere...
...No they usually wander around alone. Sometimes five or six get together and talk in their scratchy Crow-speak...
...I'm sure Abhiru would say they're plotting something. He's never liked them. Not sure myself. All I know is they've got damn good eyesight. Now shh, hear that convoy approaching? Get your rifle ready. You'll see why we keep him around.

Very cool. Sort of feral looking.

Your Blanchitsu is strong bud -

 MajorTom11 wrote:
Your Blanchitsu is strong bud -

So I'm not the only one who noticed.

Thanks guys! That's a hell of a compliment

Feral's exactly what I was going for so I'm glad it's hit the right notes I've got another one modelled already so I'll share that guy soon slightly less feral than this guy, but of a similar vein.

Just excellent all round. 40K at its best.

Thanks dude! I'll be getting some more paint on these guys soon enough 5 pages and all of 2 painted models is a little stark...

Less an update, but more of a question...

On another forum someone pointed out that my Crow-Scout looks more than a little Wild Western-y. I had originally planned on having him as part of a nomad scavenger warband, but now I'm thinking it might be cooler to make a sort of Western-themed warband with him.

I've already thought up ideas for a Crow-Chief and a Warhawk, but I've also got ideas for the scavengers.

Which do people think would be cooler? Might end up doing both, but I'll probably do one first...

Why not do western-themed scavengers? Kill two birds with one stone.

It depends on what you want for this particular model. It seems like he was meant to stand out initially as different from the rest of the group. He won't be the odd duck (or crow) anymore in a warband of similar individuals. My suggestion is to stick with the initial idea, and maybe expand the Crow culture with a full group later.

Hmmm, I think you're right Youwashock. The Crow-Scout is pretty understated, so if he's with a warband of similar dudes he'll look a little lacklustre. I'll continue with the original idea before expanding the Crow dudes (as I need to get bits for them anyway).

@Ember They'll both be pretty scavengery anyway however, you've just given me a really neat idea of how to blend the two

Basically, the original idea was a band of nomad scavengers who traverse the wasteland, picking off stray Ad Mech convoys and cannibalising them for parts.

The new idea was to do a sort of frontier town in the Western style, perhaps attached to a mine so I can use GS Cults bits

I can do both, and with the simple addition of a Western-style caravan wagon to the former idea I can make them sort of refugees from a former settlement elsewhere on the planet.

There's a narrative going round my head based on the Cicatrix Maledictum I want to do with these guys. Basically, we know that warp travel in the Dark Imperium is pretty much screwed, and the Chaos Gods are carving out their own playgrounds in the Materium. However, for dudes on a frontier world where the astronomican barely reaches...how would they know anything's different? So, this would be about the gradual revelation that Nurgle's followers have returned to claim this area of space it'll also tie into the exodites and ynnari and blighdar stuff too

Basically I've seen the awesome stuff Iron Sleet's doing with the Thorne Moons and thought 'man, I want to do that too' so I'm trying to forge all the various little dabblings in this and that into something approaching a cohesive narrative

I'm wondering, would it be better to start another plog with that as a cohesive narrative and keep this as a sort of modelly/WIP plog? I'm leaning towards yes, as I obviously don't have enough threads as-is....

No, keep it in this thread. Also, if you're going to mention a cool thing that inspires you, link us! Come on, buddy, we need ways to procrastinate from painting.

There's a narrative going round my head based on the Cicatrix Maledictum I want to do with these guys. Basically, we know that warp travel in the Dark Imperium is pretty much screwed, and the Chaos Gods are carving out their own playgrounds in the Materium. However, for dudes on a frontier world where the astronomican barely reaches...how would they know anything's different? So, this would be about the gradual revelation that Nurgle's followers have returned to claim this area of space it'll also tie into the exodites and ynnari and blighdar stuff too

That sounds like a perfect idea.

Although there is a slight chance that a certain group of Thousand Sons and unwillingly Tzeetch-alligned eldar might show up...

Oh man it's so goddamn cool check it out: https://ironsleet.com/2017/06/11/codex-thorn-moons/

Werent some of those featured in Blachitsu? I feel like I've seen them before...

Yeah the Thorne Guard (brilliant mashups of Sicarians and Dryads) were I think. Part of the 'Green Mechanicvm' idea

Well, those are some extremely cool things.

 goblinpaladin wrote:
Well, those are some extremely cool things.

I didn't know you were one for understatement

There's more if you scroll back through the main page...

Iron Sleet is always pushing the envelope. Next-level stuff and a major inspiration.

Finally got round to painting my Knight Errant I had been umming and arring about what paint scheme to paint him in but ultimately plumped for the same one I always do the idea behind the sector is that it's been ravaged by Nurgle so every planet is uniformly desertified. I could start a new place, but if any of the models end up together the basing will be disparate. Plus, this way he can be doing his errant travelling through the same sector



"Excuse me good sir, can you point me to the nearest...wait...don't do that...my friend here needs his skull to live. No I would not like to be sacrificed to the hungering gods. Just point me towards the nearest Prometheum vendor please."

Yes. Yes, good.