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Sanctjud wrote:Love the Zanatorian Deathstalkers.
What did you use for the swords and the heads?

Everything is looking pretty sexy.

It's amazing how I can get no comments for most posts then have a flood of comments, anyway the heads are basically necron warrior heads looking up, the swords are from the old skeleton warrior sprue.

Oh and if you like the objectives you'll love this...

BONUS STUFF: SAVING RATLING PRIVATE BAGGINS

Most of you would have seen The Zanatorian Deathstalkers

These guys have earned the nickname robowraith and since I had 9 of them I couldn't help but make this comedy objective marker entitled 'Saving Ratling Private Baggins'



I tried to make a sniper rifle to go on the base but all of them were too big in comparson to mr frodo. Instead I stuck a guard backpack, grenade and army knife on the base, as well as give mr baggins a band & berret which is resting on the tree stumb.

Anyway it's good for a laugh. All that leaves now is a few touch ups and putting the fluff on paper.

That's a nice one, where is Strider with his heavy bolter when you need him?

Wouldn't he (strider) have a flame thrower? He did use a torch against the ringwraiths. It all looks great. I especially like the Avatar.

SoG

Wish someone would make me a codex cover....



I second the "objective marker sweetness" comment also

The Machine Cult's Background

Of course this army has a large background and since I was unable to create a comic based around it, I decided to have some artwork made that would have a small description of the Zanatorians above it; similar to a page from a codex.



The Zanatorian Machine Cult

Devout followers of the Machine God and once loyal supporters to the Imperium of Man - have taken on a role unfitting of any loyal servant. Freed from the shackles forced upon them by the Treaty of Mars, the Zanatorians have looked beyond what the Imperium dictates to pioneer new and forbidden technologies; one of which is their armies of sentient machines that are all connected by a mind impulse unit to a Machine Lord; the ruling caste of the Zanatorian Machine Cult.

It is because of this that the Zanatorians are regarded as heretics and were nearly hunted to annihilation by the Inquisition; the Zanatorians have boldly taken on the task of protecting an ungrateful galactic empire. With such a daunting task ahead of them they choose to specialize in hit and run tactics to avoid conflicting with Imperial forces, often emerging from the shadows to defend a besieged world before vanishing without a trace.

The Zanatorian Machine Cult is viewed in many ways by different people some call them heretics who are out to disrupt the stability of the Imperium, whilst others believe they are guardians of humanity.

With such a daunting task ahead of them, the methodically inhuman nature of the Machine Cult may be exactly what the realm of Man needs to help defend itself against those who would wish to destroy it.

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The artwork does seem to have trouble portraying what I wanted as it seems focused on the marines rather than the avatar and it doesn't really look like their fighting, but I only gave the artist one week so I don't reallly mind it does the job of surving as an interesting page background for the fluff.

I've found quite a few of your models on dA during my random warhammer model searches. It is good to see the lot collected here with the fluff.

You have some really fantastic models and ideas. Your use of bits is impressive, as is the design and manufacture of all the different units to fit into the FOC.

Very impressive.

Love the Avatar, good use of components as well. Now I'm wondering how to have something similar in my own Ad Mech force... hmmmm.... off to look through the codex.

Keep up the good work.

Absolutely fantastic! I've whatched this project for a long time, you have enormous patience and great skill...

PanzerSmurf wrote:Absolutely fantastic! I've whatched this project for a long time, you have enormous patience and great skill...

Most of my armies have been 2 or 3 year projects.

Well it was judgement day today and I was really hoping that this army would win best army, I could come last in the tournament. All that mattered was the ‘Best Army Award’

Sadly I didn’t win best army, I was so disappointed… Then it was announced that there was an award for best converted army called ‘The Big Mek Award’ AND I WON IT!



AND THAT’S NOT ALL OF IT.

After the judging at lunch time I found a card on my table underneath on of the miniatures, GW is interested in displaying the Zanatorian Machine Cult in the Miniatures Hall at Warhammer World.

Which is fantastic, so somewhere in the future they will be on display at Warhammer World!

I’m so glad that this army has worked at so well, thanks for all your feedback guys I’ll let you know what army project I’m working on next soon. But the Zanatorian project is completed now and won’t see any more work done to it until the Necron codex is out.

-- Project Complete --

it brings a tear to my eye....

great models a real inspiration to us all. love the robowraiths!

Congratulations! I' ve watched this army since the beggining and the results are simply stunning... Proof of great talent, patience and determination..

Oh god, not against Orks, just please no.

Much respect to your skills and enthusiasm. You have done an awesome job and really deserved this recognition! It's good to see it's conclusion and apex. Congratulations!

Well done! And well deserved! Congratulations.

Congratulations. They look really awesome. Well done all around.

Thank you for all your comments.

Well done mate,

I really liked your army concepts from the start,and even more so now, now that they are finished.
Looking forward to your next project.

All the best
Wolf

A truly deserved win!

Congratulations for the award and start working on a new project soon, I can't wait to see more stuff from you.

Congratulations on winning the award! Believe me, you couldn't lose with such a great army.! Got anything else planned?

HOW did that not win best army?!

I like the necron creature conversions! Keep going

amazingly beautiful models and congrats on both the warhammer world and the honor of the display as well as your award it's always great to see ones hard work get noticed.

It probably didn't win best army cause it had a converted army award and you usually cant win 2 trophy's at an event , so someone may have had more painting points and this had more conversion points .

Well done, well deserved award......

Warhammer World Display Dates
Just to let you guys know both my Mechanicus Army and Grots will be on display at the Miniatures Hall at Warhammer World between the 16th Of January & 14th Of March, just in case you wanted to see this army in person.



Adam Calver - Rebel Grots vs Chaos Daemons - 16th January - 14th March
Highly converted and with some very unique ideas behind them, both of Adam's armies are worth spending time looking over and here are displayed fighting one another. His 'counts as' Chaos Daemon army is like no other around and sure to inspire fertile imaginations.

Once again hope you found the log interesting and look forward to your feedback on future projects?

Congrats on the Mek Award and the GW recognition.

It's always nice to see a beautiful army get recognized and displayed by GW. Hope to see more awesome models soon, this army was amazing!

really cool to represent the scarabs with the scorpion model. May be a little "cute" but I'm sure that only helps deceive the enemy

You deserved that award! I read through the entire thread (well, more like skimmed it and looked at the pretty pictures) and your army is amazing!

2 years! That is some impressive threadomancy! OP, if you ever come back, pm me or another Mod and we will unlock it for you - MT11