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That thing is beautiful.

typhus wrote:wats thw zombie bit from???

IIRC, it came from the WHFB Corpse Cart.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. Nice to hear that some of my ideas, many of them stirred up by work here and on other forums, are sparking other ideas.

Looking good are you going to make a special base for it?

Actually, as far as the base goes, I'm still waiting for inspiration to strike. Any ideas would be welcome.

Initially I was thinking I'd pick some terrain feature, probably ruins, that would add some height to the base, and then pin the model from a claw to said feature, to create a flying/landing effect. But the way the model turned out, there's no way a pin through the claw would be strong enough. I still want the model to be posed mid-air, so I'm going to have to mount it on a brass rod. As for what might decorate the base below, I haven't decided yet.

mount the model on a flying base nd have it about to eat and IG. i have this amazing image of a huge shreiking daemonic thing about to swallow this little imperial guardsmen who is just looking at the prince in horror and shock. also have a ruined city base, the greys would go well with all the reds of khorne.

I've begun painting the new winged demon prince. So far I've been concentrating on the sentinel body, demon maw, and talons. Which at this stage are looking like this:


and:


Nothing is finished yet. I"ve begun highlighting and washing, but plan more layers of stuff. This is the basic scheme so far, though: the sentinel gunmetal (washed with black, and lightly with blue; highlighted with gunmetal and mithral); talons and teeth bone white washed lightly with chestnut ink and heavily with Devam Mud, then highlighted with bone white; the maw viscera various reds, flesh/reds, washed with purple, reds,etc...

Meanwhile, I'm stuck on what color(s) to paint the wings. Keeping in mind that during games the view most people will have will be:


I'm thinking either shades of gray, with redish tint and accents.
Or possibly some kind of leathery color, with redish tints and accents.

Any thoughts?

I only just read this thread now, and I am gobsmacked. This is outstanding. Wow. WOW!
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WOW!

For the wings, I think leathery with reddish tints would look really cool if done well.
But hell, on a model that gorgeous you could leave them black and my jaw would still drop every time I saw it.

I would copy the bloodthister paint scheme

I decided to try out a leathery/bone color for the wings, with distinct red tint and touches. Which came out pretty well:

and, from the underside,

and, from head-on,


To me at least, it looks like a model that screams"Khorne mofo, swooping in to slice you up."

Incoming! :twisted:

Holy gack! That thing looks great! I wasn't sure about it at first, but you pulled it off nicely!

Moar!

I have to say, tinfoil, that your skill with Green Stuff and your grasp of the concepts that you wish to portray, as well as your skill at making those concepts come to life is fantastic. I will most certainly be watching this thread in awe of your modeling skills.

Thanks, guys.

I've also made progress on the base. I figured I'd need some bulk and weight here, to balance and ballast the beast above. So I started out with a section of bunker a friend provided (thanks Jack!) that I sawed off (to fit a 60 mm base) chipped and nicked up (to simulate battle damage). I drilled a thick hole into the core of the bunker, for the bloodthirster's support rod, then added in some sand to even out the surrounding ground.

I wanted to create an effect suggesting that the daemon had just destroyed the bunker. Fortuitously, a few days ago I found what I was looking for in link off of a Warseer thread (post number 405): someone had modeled an explosion using clump foliage to simulate billowing smoke . Just the thing.

First I tried using PVC glue to afix the foliage to the base. That didn't work at all. So then I tried superglue, afixing small clumps of the stuff to wires (for which I drilled small holes in the bunker terrain). That method worked well, producing:



and, another angle:


The green of the foliage is distracting -- it's going to be smoke, not daemonic shrubbery. (And I needed to add a bit more, I realized after test-fitting it with the daemon model.) So here's how it looks under-coated:



and


and, with the bloodthirster:


and:


I'm pretty happy with the overall look. Next to do is put a few base colors on the, um, base.

wow nice idea on the foliage used as smoke. loving how the Thirster/prince came out, you really stayed in touch with your theme throughout the whole army. well done.

Alright, I've done enough painting on the bloodthirster to at least set him loose on the game table.


and

and

and


I'll probably add dibs and dabs -- more detail work on a few parts. But in the meantime, he's in the skies and looking for blood.

Now I suppose I'll have to work up some bloodletter conversions to serve under him.

Highly disturbing... The bloody, exposed muscle and bone is really bad ass looking.

wow this thirster/prince is amazing. Screw the grinders!

DAMN!!! that looks great.

That looks like a John Blanche painting given form and life. It's great for 40K.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:That looks like a John Blanche painting given form and life.

Now that complement makes me just blush. Really, the highest form of praise I could imagine. Thanks!

Now that the Bloodthirster’s been spawned and set loose, I’ve been thinking about bloodletters. (After all, it wouldn’t do to send one of the Blood God’s field marshals to battle without Khornish rank and file.)

I love the latest bloodletter models from GW–particularly their poses. Very savage looking creatures, with a wonderfully evocative air of menace.

Still, in keeping with my army’s theme and background, I feel compelled to do some converting. I want my particular bloodletters, like other elements of my army, to represent haunted Imperial guardsmen, tainted and twisted by the unholy energies of Chaos. Whereas GW’s beasties are pure daemon.

You may remember that I tried my hand at suitable surgery a few months ago, taking inspiration from some work Virulent did on his bloodletters. A few days ago I picked up the project again, tinkering a bit to produce the following prototype:

And, from another angle:

That right hand/claws mess doesn’t look right yet, but I like the look of the left hand/claws.

I still haven’t worked out all the details, but I see enough here to start putting together a pack.

So first I modeled some Hulk pants on the bloodletter legs:


And then I went to work on the heads, snipping the backs off the ‘letter heads…

and the horns of the ‘letter faces…


I decided to graft some of those horns onto the letters’ backs, as spinal horns. Then, after a bit of shaving/whittling on heads, I have this:

And one more picture, with more detail:


So I’m underway. More to come on this soon. In the meantime, suggestions or reactions are warmly invited.

Allow me to be the first to say...
OMGTHOSEAREFREAKINAWESOMETHEYARESOMUCHBETTERTHANOUTOFTHEBOXBLOODLETTERSANDYOUARETHEMASTEROFALLDAEMONARMIES!!!

Nice concept. looking forward to see more.

by the way, how do you do the hulk pants?

Progress has been slow, fitful of late, but the project has staggered forward.

I've sculpted 5 bloodletters so far, with others started. I still have a few touches to add, cleanup to do, but these ones are close to being ready to paint:

and

and


I have to admit, the greenstuffing looks rather crude, and I'm not entirely pleased with the results. But here and there I've got things that achieve the effect I was hoping for.

The backs of the creatures are meant to have bone spikes (2-3 per model, for most of them), surrounded by mutating tissue and gore:

and

(That one, eh.)

The skulls are meant to kind of look elongated and veiny and "wrong" in a mad scientist sort of way (though these guys are not very brainy!)


While the hands are supposed to be mutating (in the throes of daemonic mutation that, in these cases, takes a sort of werewolf form) into vicious claws

(As I said, the sculpting's pretty crude.)
and (this one turned out a bit better)


And then, I also felt compelled to mess up the creature's faces. As modeled, GW's bloodletters look savage, fierce, predatory -- as they should. But they looked too potent and sinister to be possessed wretches, formerly human.
So I've scratched out their eyes. Figuring, blinding them could be part of the possession, reducing the creatures to their more "animal" senses of hearing, smell....


I'm hoping they'll look a bit better painted -- and that I'll learn as I go along, so that the next batch will be closer to what I'm trying to get at.

C&C, as ever, would be very welcome.

Man, this thread just keeps on giving. Awesome stuff dude, you can be proud of an army like that.
If you wouldn't live on another continent I would play against that army all week

For some contructive critisism: Assuming that the green stuff around the waist and legs is supposed to be what's left of the guardsmen's pants, I would suggest adding a few bitz from their sprue. Some leftover grenades, some extra puches, maybe even a helmet or holster.

And that Bloodthirster/Demon Prince is made out of pure golden win.

Work faster! I want to see more!

Amazing work so far, those latest conversions just scream Doom3!

Fantastic!

I bow before your greatness.

The bloodletters remind me of the imps in doom. The quality of this army is just sublime.

You may just be replacing lemmingspawn as my favourite converter!

I think the blindfold idea is great kinda like the demon hunters in warcraft 3.

That's it. No more "real life"! I hereby renounce "real life," and re-dedicate myself to daemonic worship and Warhammer.

Recent progress on the Harrowed includes a burst of painting in preparation for tournament display.

The bloodletters are still very much PIP. I've been experimenting with skin tones, and overall color schemes -- trying (as ever) to evoke the creatures' human origins, as well as their daemonic defilement.

I'm getting close to what I want to achieve:


It's still a bit pinkish, I suppose -- but I kind of like the paleness of the flesh and the sense of blood and gore mottling the skin.


The red sections are supposed to be the remnants of carapace armor, now warping and fusing to the creature via the process of daemonic possession to form a sort of exoskeleton.


I still have a lot of detailing to do (e.g., washing and highlighting the hulk pants; painting horns and talons brown/bone white....)


Right now I'm at the stage where I like bits of one figure here, other bits of another figure there...


Still, the overall effect or impact I'm looking for is starting to hit me.