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Wehrkind wrote:
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 )

Nomdedjeu!!! the flame spitting gargoyles is a really great idea, but this is so... !!!

I will try some paint on clear plastic sheets to see if I can do something nice. If it doesn't work I will go for the gargoyles solution

Thank you guys, you're great!

Hi everyone!

I'm back on dakka after some fine holidays with my family, building a game table and an ork army with my nephew (and resting near the fireplace after eating my mom's food ).

I've also got my last bits order (including an AOBR dread) so I spent some time working on my Death Guard dreadnought which is now fully converted and waiting for a black undercoat.
I've used metal Chaos dread weapons (I had some spares from a weight sale), plasticard, GS, chaos termie/lord termie bits, parchment, bones and skulls from WHFB terrain sprue.
I hope he will look as good as his Khornate elder brother:







I hope you'll like it! (and I hope no one noticed I haven't been working on the silver tower for weeks )

What do you think?

Looks fantastic bud, great use of bits and GS

Thanks man!

Here's a comparaison with my Khornate dread:


Now this little bugger needs a name. Any Idea?

I'm planning to make a dread for every chaos god. The Slaaneshi one will be next since I'm currently gathering bits and weapons to build a small Emperor's Children army.
On that last point I'm looking for heads to use with my noise marines, any idea if the new DE reaver jetbike pilot head (the faceless one) would be proportionate with a CSM body?

Looks like a relatively easy kit/bits bash....but HIGHLY effective! I love the helmets and shields....looks great!

Very nice man. I can't wait to see it primed and painted.

I suppose Brother Stinky is out of the running for the name? That's what I would end up calling him. Alternately, Brother Malseance, or BM for short :-P

very nice conversion it would have been hard to tell it was ever form aobr

Another nice conversion! I like your GS warp face

The GSed left shoulder plate looks nearly better than the model!!!

As for the comparison with the Khornate Dread, I'll have to keep my judgment until it's painted, for the Khornate one is really awesome, especially considering it's a mere AoBR conversion...

Thank you guys! I can't say it was a difficult conversion, and so I feared it could look lame compared with the Khornate Dread on which I spent far more time just converting it.

@Wehrkind: I primed it yesterday, so it will probably be fully painted within the next two weeks. Brother Stinky is not bad and he will probably get called something like that anyway

@Yggdrasil: Thanks, but I must be honest, the Khornate Dread is not a converted AoBR Dread, just a classic SM Dread

@Tipios: Thanks, I'll surely take a closer look at your Chaos Dread for my next ones! (I will probably steal your idea for my Tzeentchian Dread's lascannon).

Yesterday I've finally decided myself to grab my paint and to work on the Lost Champions (my termy squad), now all the gold's done and I will try to finish the whole squad this week end.
Concerning the Emperor's Children I'm preparing, any idea of the heads I could use with them? (I really hate the CSMs heads and I'd like to find something more esthetic)

Yggdrasil wrote:The GSed left shoulder plate looks nearly better than the model!!!

Yep, this.
The dread looks really good -- lots of nice touches all over the place, adding up to an impressive composite construction.

Hyenajoe wrote:
@Yggdrasil: Thanks, but I must be honest, the Khornate Dread is not a converted AoBR Dread, just a classic SM Dread

Concerning the Emperor's Children I'm preparing, any idea of the heads I could use with them? (I really hate the CSMs heads and I'd like to find something more esthetic)

Ooops, my mistake... Still great anyway uh

As for the heads... I pretty much don't know, but I've been thinking of using the Sanguinary Guards legs & torsos for Slaaneshi CSM... They look finely chiseled, with a lot of textures & yummy adbominal muscles !!! Well, hum, you get my point.

Yggdrasil wrote: I've been thinking of using the Sanguinary Guards legs & torsos for Slaaneshi CSM... They look finely chiseled, with a lot of textures & yummy adbominal muscles !!! Well, hum, you get my point.

Rhoooooo!!!! Petit canaillou, và!
I agree they'd make some fine chosen ones, but I wouldn't use them for Noise marines ( the sonic weapons are too big, they nearly hide the whole torso, you'd agree it would be spoiling fine bits ). I'll try to grab a reaver's pilot head in a GW store to check if they're the right size. The other option would be to sculpt new heads and to cast them...

I really like the conversion work on your Nurgle Dreadnought. I painted mine up recently but it was a blindingly fast "I need to do this right now because I need to field this tomorrow night" sort of thing so it is 100% stock (except the missile launcher I stole from an old Dark Angels Dreadnought) and it is ridiculously clean for Nurgle Dread. It is on my list of models I am going to revisit *very* soon because I am finishing every model I have in my Death Guard force and have only a handful left. Once they are flocked I'm going to tear back into that Dread and subject it to the horrors of the Warp. I haven't played with GS in a long time so I'm a bit apprehensive but I have a lot of recent examples of what to (and not to) do from Dakka. I am looking forward to it. Also looking forward to seeing more progress on this thread, I'll be back.

I have kind of always wanted to see Emp's Kids with tentacled helmets, sort of like an illithid. I don't know why, but it seems sort of fitting.

Wehrkind wrote:I have kind of always wanted to see Emp's Kids with tentacled helmets, sort of like an illithid. I don't know why, but it seems sort of fitting.

Idea recorded!(It's worth to give a try.) Thanks man!

Woah,

I just looked back at the entire blog, and have to say wow. I love The Lost and all the other conversions you have done, keep up the good work. Also I look forward to seeing one of my ideas on another model

Hi everyone!

It's been some time since my last post, and I hadn't much time for modelling, but it doesn't mean my projects are dead.
Unfortunately, when I finally managed to take some pics of my latest work, my home computer died in a sad bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep (and I can't upload anything from my job).
So no pics for some more weeks, but I thought I could give news about the ongoing projects.

Concerning The Lost, the whole terminators squad is nearly done, just some more washes and layers on details and it's going to be varnish time.

About the Silver Tower, I gave a try to Wehrkind's idea, but my airbrushing skills are not good enoug for it, the first try ended up in a crappy way. I've decided that I'd go for the flames and gargoyles, probably easier.

About the Emperor's Children, a cool redshirt in Paris gave me the DE reaver pilot head I was looking for to make fitting tests with the CSM bodies. It appears that these heads are a little thin compared with the bulky CSM armor (although they would look nice with some GS to enlarge the neck), but they are highly effective on the old Noise Marine bodies. I've also ordered the bits for the Daemon Prince I've got in mind and for the chosen ones and dreadnought as well. All the sonic weapons and shoulder pads are ready and waiting to be assembled.

Some more bits for the Pendulum arrived recently and a new project is on its way (thanks to Yggdrasil): the Corpse Grinder

I'll try to post some pics as soon as possible (even if I don't know when...).

A la prochaine!

Hyenajoe

Corpse Grinder? Why would I be responsible for a thing that seems so creepy & awful & ...

Erh...

What would it be, by the way? I want to know!!!

It's going to be a mix of a defiler and a VC corpse cart... The suggestion you made about the Pendulum just turned to a new project. Thanks by the way

I will build a defiler hull (with legs and claws) and add to it a daemonic face (the one from the defiler's turret) with chainsaw teeth. On top of this will be a pile of bodies and the corpse cart driver.

What do you think?

Sounds quite interesting, but for something demonic, what purpose does the driver have?

Is it trying to keep the bigger monster in check?

blambi wrote:Sounds quite interesting, but for something demonic, what purpose does the driver have?

Is it trying to keep the bigger monster in check?

Yep! Orientating it with a juicy piece of corpse!

You should try and take a look at tinfoil's awesome Daemonic army , nearly at the bottom, he has built a Soulgrinder that could match your description of the Corpse Grinder...

So it can only be a good idea!!

The Altar of Souls...I'm a big fan of this model, The GSing is purely awesome.

I'm a regular reader of Tinfoil's thread abouthis Harrowed army, and, to be honnest, the way he builds daemonic models without falling into the classic gods-themed is very inspirational. Chaos doesn't belong to four gods, it has an essence of its own and that's what Tinfoil's modeling job is all about in my opinion.

Now, back to the Corpse Grinder, I think that mixing medieval, sci-fi and classic horror is a good way to bring a chaotic mood around a model, so I'm inclined to think it's a good idea too!

Here is a great example of a mix of medieval and sci fi styles from a member of my local club

http://whangareiwargaming.org/forum/download/file.php?id=8&sid=bcb94731ba0c7f860a342cfd0f2e2cac

I'm really not looking forward to facing it on the table, the same guy has used the jaws from fish and cat skulls on his defilers and they look truly terrifying.
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more pics here

http://whangareiwargaming.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=87

Hi everyone!

Sorry, bu I still have no pics to show( I'll try to upload some from another computer during holidays).

Yet, I've made great progresses in the development of The Lost: a Legion symbol and a motto!
While painting the Terminators, I've decided tio give a try at customizing some CSM decals to represent a blindfolded skull in a red hood, and the result is quite good to me (it needs some improvements but its a good start.) I'll ask a friend of mine to draw a full transfer sheet on computer to allow me to make custom decals of this symbol.
The motto is: "Liberate me a Empyrean". It might not seem very original (I'm not the only fan of 'Event Horizon') but it fits the fluff I'm thinking about for them.
Here's the main elements of the fluff I'm writing for the Lost (I took Lennysmash's idea of using one of the two legions who had their records expunged before the Horus Heresy).

During the early days of the crusade, when the Emperor himself walked among the mortals, His mighty legions spread across the stars to bring the Imperium to the barbarians. The Second legion of space marines was accomplishing its duty as any other legion when they discovered a strange world where the laws of physics seemed different and whose inhabitants appeared to be living according to mad laws. There was no authority to overthrow, there was no tactical sites to conquer, and the population couldn't even understand the concept of Imperium. The war was long, too long in fact to be real...when the primarch and his generals realised the truth, it was too late. They had left reality and stepped to another dimension, the Warp, and the world they were trying to conquer was nothing more than an illusion. Then the real master of this kingdom revealed himself and cursed the legion. They were condemned to fade to darkness and progressively forget who they were, unless they found someone who could tell their name. An easy task, if they had not disappeared of reality for centuries, leaving the entity enough time to use its power to erase every memories and records concerning the legion from the whole reality... or at least nearly every memories...Now, the legion is lost, they don't know who they are, where to go. They seek hints of their identity, fighting every battle that can lead them to evidences...

When it will be finished (I mean fully redacted and translated) I will make an article about the Lost, with pictures, full fluff, converting tutos and (if possible) a pintable transfer sheet.

Concerning my other projects, I'll try to work on my Emperor's children during holidays (I have to make a miliputpress mold for the GS i plan to ad to the legs)
I'll try to post pics in a few days, and if I can't connect until next week: Merry Christmas everyone (or Merry Hanoukka, but it's a little late I guess).

A la prochaine!

Erh... I'm always a bit reluctant when it comes to the two lost legions, for I think they should remain lost (but not forgotten).

Moreover, it seems GW wants to progressively hint at them in its most recent BL books ("The First Heretic" & "The Dark King & Lightning Tower"), so I'd be very cautious with that perilous way... But it's brave of you!!!

Nevertheless, I'm really fond of the idea of that lost "chapter" in the Warp, trying to find its memory back... That's quite tragic, and has a lot of "grimdark" feel to it!!! And it can lead to interesting plots : hunts for an Eldar Farseer who had some visions about them (fraying with Xenos!!!), endless quests in forsaken Imperial archives (Heretics!!!), or allying with a daemon rival to the one that cursed them, in the vain hope of twisting the spell on them (Corruption awaits!!!)...

As for the blindfolded skull, it looks promising...

Regarding the motto, I'm not too sure (and I have never watched Event Horizon)... What is intended with it?

Joyeux Noël!!

Yggdrasil wrote:Erh... I'm always a bit reluctant when it comes to the two lost legions, for I think they should remain lost (but not forgotten).

I cant understand that, I'm usually quite reluctant myself to use big official fluff elements when working on a background or a RPG scenario.

Yggdrasil wrote:Moreover, it seems GW wants to progressively hint at them in its most recent BL books ("The First Heretic" & "The Dark King & Lightning Tower"), so I'd be very cautious with that perilous way... But it's brave of you!!!

I didn't know that. I should probably take a look at those.

Yggdrasil wrote:Nevertheless, I'm really fond of the idea of that lost "chapter" in the Warp, trying to find its memory back... That's quite tragic, and has a lot of "grimdark" feel to it!!! And it can lead to interesting plots : hunts for an Eldar Farseer who had some visions about them (fraying with Xenos!!!), endless quests in forsaken Imperial archives (Heretics!!!), or allying with a daemon rival to the one that cursed them, in the vain hope of twisting the spell on them (Corruption awaits!!!)...

Thanks! I originally thought of using Malal as the origin of the curse, but I wasn't sure.

Yggdrasil wrote:As for the blindfolded skull, it looks promising...

I've asked an infographist friend of mine to work on it, but I don't know if she'll get time for that.

Yggdrasil wrote:Regarding the motto, I'm not too sure (and I have never watched Event Horizon)... What is intended with it?

It's a great horror movie, you should watch it! Let's just say that you'll understand better what's dangerous when travelling through the warp

@ Blackhand: I like the stuff your local gamer made, I'm not the only one who have something for Big models.

Now some news:

I FINALLY GOT MY F G BITS ORDER!!! After a month and a half, I got it yesterday!

Now I have everything I need to build the Corpse Grinder, a Slaanesh Daemon prince (Naga style), A Emp Kids dread , A 1k sons dread, and 5 Emp Kids chosen (with sanguinary guards full of muscle torsos...), but more important: I'll have time to work on all these conversions! (my wife will ba at work, my daughter will be at her nanny, and I'll be on holidays for 2 days!!! )

I just don't know what to go with first (but the Slaaneshi dread and the prince are on top of the list).

Still no pics, but I'll try to use my parents PC to upload something ("Hi Mom, I brought you your granddaughter! Can you take her, I have something to do on your PC?").

The lost bitz order, is fitting for the lost

Dread dread dread first!

Ok, I'll go for the dread first!
I've gathered enough bits to start working on the torso very quickly. I'll use an Ironclad torso and venerable legs (these bits were just cheaper). The sarcophagus will be built the same way as my other dreads, I'll use an old 2nd ed noise marine head and 2 doom sirens on the armor plates. I might use the DP exhausts instead of the defiler exhaust stacks I usually use but I'm still not 100% sure. I don't know if I'll go for some icon bending to fit the legs armor plates or if I'll try someting new (any idea is welcome). The arms are going to be (more or less) basic AOBR dread arms converted to sonic weapon and chaotic claw/fist.

What do you think?

About the Daemon Prince of Slaanesh, I'd like to introduce you to an old friend of mine: The Abberation Prime


To those who are not familiar to Rackham models it was the first plastic kit made by Rackham and represented a bigger version of the Abberation (a model sold with their Space Hulk-like game: Hybrid).
The most interresting point with this kit was that it came with many options (4 heads, 4 arms, 2 chests)

And guess what? It's nearly the same scale as GW's Daemon Prince! (its just far more detailed )

I'm also like BrassScorpion's Daemon Prince of Slaanesh (which reminds me of the old school Champion of slaanesh with a snake body):

His model was a great inspiration so his idea will be shamelessly stolen

I really hope to be able to post pics of my own work soon.