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I just dont get it you do the simplest of conversions and it works I spend hours and it still looks

Beastmen with shotgun is awesome simple but so cool " The littlest Hobo with a Shotgun " OK not a dog but kind of works

Nursery nurse hope she don't ask you to cough

The dark Mechanicus what can I say except why don't they bring back Hybrids but you have brought new life to this miniature and in a dark sinister way and is that a Zinge arm I see there

Glad you have decided to keep Rodney

Good work MT.

If you do add an arm to the medic, try and keep the "ta da" pose she has. ...or is it a "here's one I prepared earlier" pose?

Liking the mechanicus chap. I always get a Ming feeling with those models.

The Mechanicus is sublime I get a real cheesy game show host feel from him very ta da as some one said. Exuberantly crazy loo and he really needs some flashy duds to pull it off.

Those henchmen look fantastic. I'm loving the classic figure conversions too.

Theo - Thanks dude! I'm thinking she won't get that extra arm now....but floating surgical items, lab rats and assorted freaky bits are all on the menu. With all the weird surgical procedures the D'Basquevilles go in for there'll be a complete medical retinue.....


neil - Cheers mate! As above I think I'll keep her as is now. I think it was probably just me not really believing a simple head swap counted as a 'proper' conversion and so wanting to add more. To be fair, she probably would have worked with her original head, but that really would have offended my sensibilities ....and besides, it'll be a good head for another piece anyway


Cam - I thank you...."scarily brilliant"....I like that


panda - Glad you approve. Thanks!


ldd - Hey...it may be simple but did I state anywhere how long it took?

Who knows...might be a dog face under that chain-veil. Was originally planning a more complex conversion, had to get rid of the shield arm obviously, but once I'd done that I realised I had the shotgun arms which would fit just nicely, and no need to chop it all up

She doesn't ask...she tells

Been meaning to use the hybrids as cultists for a while now, but then figured they were equally suitable for dark mechanicus, and have a subtle kind of slaaneshi vibe to them....which is nice It is, those little servo-arms are great, need more now. Which means a bunch of other stuff too obviously

It'll be his pet name from the henchmen


Llama - Cheers! He gets overly excited about some of his creations sometimes May well get flashy duds as I suspect he'll have some sort of allegiance to Slaanesh...or at least the cyber-snake-daemon aspect that manifests to a large portion of my cultists


MoD - Thank you sir!



Well, lookee here....a bonus little treat....


Speaking of the cult medicae....



Slaaneshi influenced medical caryatid.....need to figure out how to base her now.....





Put the legs together weeks ago, and been trying to figure a good marine pose for it ever since....and then today realised that instead of a marine it should really be the basis for a servitor or some kind of dark skiitari....tried an ork torso first (as I seem to have a few lying around ), but didn't quite do it for me. Scout torso was better but couldn't find a suitable rotary cannon, till I remembered this one...just need to figure out a decent shoulder joint for it now. Have a few close combat arms to try before settling it, and will try out a few more heads too...this one works well for the skiitari vibe, but may look at some skulls for a more servitor feel before decisions are made....





And whilst I'm talking concepts....Decided I wasn't really feeling this torso on the mechanical spider legs from earlier, just for a bit of fun tried it against some steed legs, and actually I think I like it. Obviously there'll need to be a bit of GS work in the pelvic area if I go with this....also need to finalise a weapon load-out if it's a go.


Okay....that's two updates in a day....don't go expecting that again anytime soon

Ooo. Liking them too. Especially the spider-trooper.

Monkey you're going to overload the mind has taken control of you thats it we lost you know

That is one scary looking caryatid its like the evil tooth fairy she just rips your jaw out with her iron claw

Now spidey that is mr mish mash, but liking the vibe mix of gatling gun and nice servitor blade along with the smaller head keep the insect feel going.

The last guy no way least works surprisingly well kind of getting some kind of game character feel from it, plus there is the real sense of power and strength with it definitely a favourite

Glad to see you back on top form

Lovely work monkey! Maybe its presumptuous of me, but I'd love to paint one of your conversions some day, just for fun, no charge. It'd make up for all those lascannons you sent me!

Lovely conversions. Have great motion/posing to them.

That techno-head on the latter model is great where's it from?

Dr H - Cheers buddy! I think the spider-trooper works far better now I've decided he's not marine based.


ldd - Not even close to running in the red yet, let alone overload

Pray it's only your teeth she's after.

Not completely convinced by the spider trooper yet, but he's close

Those steed legs give it a certain something....

Getting there


weety - Thanks! Wow - presumptuous? Not at all - you just offered me a free commission and you're worried you might be presumptiuous? I thought you'd made up for those with discounts on your pottery (that going anywhere anytime soon?). Is there something in particular you fancy having a go at? I'm more than happy to make a piece for you to paint


panda - Thanks a lot, glad you like!


Llama - That's from Malifaux, the plastic Leviathan, it is a great head, but not worth the kit just for that - apart from the gatling the rest of it is so-so.



So today is my fourth dakka-birthday! Yay!

I thought it would be a great idea to celebrate with a full colour post with at least a couple of completed minis in........but unfortunately that's not going to be.....

Didn't really get into things over the last week at all, just bits and bobs, enthusiasm was fairly low. On a positive note I did start a new course of therapy this week and things do seem to be moving in the right direction...so I'll keep on going on

So, no completed models, and it's not really worth doing a review of the last year either as there's almost nothing to show for it, so I' figure I'll just post some semi-random stuff from my current painting




The caryatid and medicae. Was trying for a stocking type effect on the caryatid...don't think I got there, so may re-do the legs. Can't decide on a good wing colour either - probably wait to see what I do with the legs. You probably noticed there's a green and yellow theme with the medical retinue...probably go with the turquoise as a spot colour to tie in with other slaaneshi types, although I have considered pink/purple - specifically because I thought the bows on the caryatid's dress might work well in pink. Think that might be too much though. With the nurse I'm trying to decide if the stocking should be green and just have the headband in turquoise, or if both should be turquoise, or possibly even have turq on the stocking and something else for the headband.




Random marine - very in progress.




Base colours on the renegade trooper.




Another random marine, this time from the as-yet-unnamed warband.




Mutie at an almost-there stage. Still need to find my micro-pen to do his pupils....bracelet, guns and hooves need a bit more attention, and possibly a wash on the kin.




Beastman at a similar stage - bandage, vracelet and sword hilt all need a bit of work, skin needs at least one more wash, and I may need to re-think the two icons.



And just to finish things off.....



Dragon rider - not sure on the arms yet, and to be honest, still not sure if he's got a firearm of some kind of lance/polearm yet.




Was a marine concept, but toying with making it more of a dark mechanicum thing now - thinking the waistband will probably get a bit of tentacular action




And a flying daemonette (an air-maid?). Still needs a bit of GS work - going to continue the parchments on the wing on to the body - possibly with one trailing to the ground to support her in the air.


And that my friends is all.....thanks for stopping by

Anything that's mad looking will do for me - oh wait that doesn't narrow it down at all does it... errrrm, just ling something your not going to get around to painting in the post, they're all good.

Did I used to do ceramics? Oh yes I recall I made you a chalice with extra norks on it and some troll heads.

Happy Dakka-Birthday MT.

Good to hear there is good progress irl.

and good progress on here too.
Maybe for her tights, try a more sandy colour and less of a red-brown. Could always add a seam-line up the back too.

Liking the random marines.

Happy birthday MT. One more year out of the diaper is one more year closer to being back in one , I personally can't wait, means I don have to get up from model building as often

For the Dragon Rider how about going for a Flame Lance been re-reading the Tale of the Runestaff and a weapon like that would really suit him. I can also just see the Marine going to the Medicae with a nasty case of Flaming Tentacle Rash.

Happy birthday mate congrats I give up trying to figure out what you have used the dragon rider is driving me nuts.

Now I think I see Elysian torso and arm and I gather the dragon is a prodos mini from mutant chronicles but the head I am completely at a loss ?

was it your birthday? Or was it just your dakkadakka anniversary?

i enjoy eyeballs the most. Happy annual whatever you are doing.

Should have done a Slaaneshi Disco Ball head mutant to celebrate!

weety - Mad looking? Whatever do you mean? I'll certainly get something off to you sometime soon.

Yeah, you have an expensive kiln still sitting around doing nothing if I'm not mistaken too........


Dr H - Thank you. Well, I was going for dark stockings...it's more that I was hoping to pull off a stretched effect with them, so that it looked like more 'flesh' was visible over areas like the calf...thought using inks and washes would make that easy I may have another attempt, I may go for a brighter coloured stocking....


Theo - Or you could get your local pain-boy to fit you up with a bag


Llama - Hmm, that's an idea. Been a long time since I read any Hawkmoon - or indeed any Moorcock, perhaps I should delve back into some. Well, if he will play with the daemonetes......


ldd - Pretty much got it, I believe the head is from a Titan forge demon hunter.


weety - Just my dakka-day - well, I say 'just' Real birthday is a couple of days after yours.


panda - I much prefer tentacles to eyeballs


Llama - The disco-marines may yet live



Ok, I finally have some finished stuff....Yay, yay and thrice yay!

Obviously, by finished I mean, I've looked at the pics and realised what else needs doing.....but whatevs


Brother Silas Septus, worshipper of Nurgle:




Silas' head segments twitched as he sensed for the spoor of the imperial lackeys. There were two more within these ruins, lowly guardsmen rather than than the Ultramarine dogs, but still, they'd feed his sword-arm. Keeping his pus-bolter high he advanced across the rubble, chem-tanks gurgling softly.



Brother Heimliche, beloved of Nurgle:




"Come followers of the false emperor. Come to my embrace for I have many gifts from the all-father for you, gifts such as your puny primarch fathers could only dream of...."



Veteran Brother Kranar:




Darkly lit corridors
Power throbbing
Grinding treads
Glimpse of horror
Fear runs cold
The hunter has come


Well, I think that'll do for now......let you all recover from the shock of completion

Fantastic work, mad as ever, but fantastic, they look amazing with a bit of colour.

Well maybe a dry-brush of a light grey or brown to give the tights a matt highlight on the upper surfaces where the light will catch the surface.

Liking Silas Septus. Good job.

Like the legs on Heimliche. Nice and bony/robotic/fleshy.

And a good job on Kranar, Like his crackle ball thing, works well.
Nice metal work too.

Ok. Colour me disturbed....!

Those are grrrrreat, you totally have the eye of the tiger atm.

Yeah I should sell my kiln... but I'm just not quite ready to let go.

Looking utterly bizarre. Great work with a real Slaves of Darkness vibe.

I hope one day you field a force on a table, so I can see all its craziness.

Cam - Thanks bud, glad the colour works


Dr H - Still undecided as to whether to try and rescue them or change the colour......

Cheers, glad you approve


Phutarf - Nice to know the forces of chaos have that effect


weety - Thanks a lot!

No.... You should get it back in use....


Llama - Cheers, just what I like to hear


Panda - Hmm....don't hold your breath....consider how much of the cybork force is complete


And in shocking news, I present another finished mini.........



So, guess that means it's time to get chopping and sticking again

That guy looks amazing bud, fantastic work. So atmospheric.

With all the mish-mash part bashing, I am definitely feeling the chaos

Great job Monkey. He looks very nice, in a corroded way.