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What parts make up your squat? I need one for my CSM army and I was going to take the lazy way out and just convert a Dwarf.

LeBaron wrote:What parts make up your squat? I need one for my CSM army and I was going to take the lazy way out and just convert a Dwarf.

Ork Nob Boots (till knee)
Plastic Terminator Waist
Plastic Terminator Add-on Armor Panels
Blank SM chest
Honor Guard Jump Pack (Rear Only)
Custom Head made mostly from GS and a SM Head as the base.

He stands on a Terminator Base and although short he stands a similar height to an Imperial Guard (about shoulder height).

Hope that helps

Thanks. Mine won't be as good but at least I've got an idea now.

Not a Model Update but... I did finish the Airships paintwork and began painting the rest of the hired guns unit as well as the final 5 Storm-vermin and now sadly I have run out of devlin mud chaos black white primer black primer narloc green and vermin brown so works on hold until I can get to a local shop who sells paint.

in the mean time I've been working on the codex (the rewrite of the Ork list to sound Skavey) and here is the cover

Did you draw this by yourself?
Amazing!!!!

By the way, there's something bugging me but I never asked : what's behind the twisting of the name into "The Skave"? Is there a link with pirates, or anything?

I'd find a way to copyright all of this ASAP. GW is behind on making codex for the rest of us and, as we all know, they aren't above "borrowing" from peoples work...

Love the Squat, and the Skaven.

I love your cover. Are you going to do a full codex as a PDF?
Because that would be awesome. Although I suppose it might get you in trouble with GW's legal people since you're basically redoing allt he points costs and abilities from the Ork 'dex but with better (read: more skaveny) names.

Yggdrasil wrote:Did you draw this by yourself?
Amazing!!!!

By the way, there's something bugging me but I never asked : what's behind the twisting of the name into "The Skave"? Is there a link with pirates, or anything?

No I didn't draw the originals it's made up of 11 images found on the net layered in photoshop and effects added so my big thanks go to the original people whoever they are where ever they are and to google for the nifty image search feature.
GW started the Name changing! elves became Eldar, Orcs became Orks the Empire became the Imperium of Man etc. so the Skaven evolved into the Skave and as a double effect it's a reflection of the Necromundian gang and a Pirate influence which ties it all together nicely I thought

Grimm wrote:Love the Squat, and the Skaven.

The Demiurg and the Skave but thanks welcome to the club
The clear definition between Squat (Space Dwarf) and the Demiurg is; The Squat were (they got eaten after-all) a part of the Imperium as a sub Human like the Orgyn. Where as the Demiurg (Space Dwarf) are a Space faring race of Rock men who are not part of the Imperium and are allied seemingly close to the Tau (the Demiurg sold the Tau the Ion technology that they use for their weapons and Vehicles).

CodGod wrote:I love your cover. Are you going to do a full codex as a PDF?
Because that would be awesome. Although I suppose it might get you in trouble with GW's legal people since you're basically redoing allt he points costs and abilities from the Ork 'dex but with better (read: more skaveny) names.

Yes I will PDF the Codex once done though I don't know how good it will be as I am the Typo king it will be a three fold book consisting of the Skave rules for friendly games, Conversion ideas/methods and a comparison chart for playing GW games.

LeBaron wrote:I'd find a way to copyright all of this ASAP. GW is behind on making codex for the rest of us and, as we all know, they aren't above "borrowing" from peoples work...

To be honest if they did take anything I've come up with and release it I'd be one part annoyed (pissed off and angry) and the other part dancing a jig knowing that the Skaven would actually finally end up in 40K

They may ste- I mean "borrow" your codex but that doesn't mean we'd see anything come out of it. I've got a stack of rules without models and old codexs from 2nd Ed that still need updates.

Very cool ship design, make sure in your painting though not to make it look too orky.

Oh my goodness, fantastic!!
Gaah I need funds! I have no many ideas for my skaven but none of the funds...

Haven't check this for ages....its awesome well done!

Just for my 2pennies...you wouldn't stand a chance copyrighting any of this (besides you wouldn't need to as its already in a public place...Dakka dakka)....you could with some of the models...and perhaps if you did 'Space Rats of the Future' game system but anyway...


There is always no harm in sending stuff of to GW if you do do a codex.

Santobell wrote:

Yggdrasil wrote:Did you draw this by yourself?
Amazing!!!!

No I didn't draw the originals it's made up of 11 images found on the net layered in photoshop and effects added so my big thanks go to the original people whoever they are where ever they are and to google for the nifty image search feature.

Still, congratulations, for it looks really good!

Santobell wrote:
GW started the Name changing! elves became Eldar, Orcs became Orks the Empire became the Imperium of Man etc. so the Skaven evolved into the Skave and as a double effect it's a reflection of the Necromundian gang and a Pirate influence which ties it all together nicely I thought

Ok, Skave / Skaven, check. Scavvie / Skaven, check. What with pirates?!? (I'm slow-witted, sorry...)

Yggdrasil wrote:

Santobell wrote:

Yggdrasil wrote:Did you draw this by yourself?
Amazing!!!!

No I didn't draw the originals it's made up of 11 images found on the net layered in photoshop and effects added so my big thanks go to the original people whoever they are where ever they are and to google for the nifty image search feature.

Still, congratulations, for it looks really good!

Santobell wrote:
GW started the Name changing! elves became Eldar, Orcs became Orks the Empire became the Imperium of Man etc. so the Skaven evolved into the Skave and as a double effect it's a reflection of the Necromundian gang and a Pirate influence which ties it all together nicely I thought

Ok, Skave / Skaven, check. Scavvie / Skaven, check. What with pirates?!? (I'm slow-witted, sorry...)

Seemed like a good idea at the time... Basically the idea stems from the piratical nature of the Skave in 40k, the armed forces of the Skave syndicates are two fold on one hand you have space pirats and black market traders and on the other hand you have corporat specialists. This army focuses on the former plus the Term Skavey feels like a Pirate term (kinda like Scurvy) and all flowed on from the design of the Airship and it's captain which has become the center point of the army though in the codex I am building the Corporat guys will also make an appearance.

Should not have combined pirates and corporate in same post.

Can't resist.

I'm sorry.

Sings* It's fun to charter and accountant and sail across the wide accountancy!

Ah Monty Python where would the world be without you?

I have a question for you all, on the tank busters I'm making I will be adding some skavey bomb squad type armor to them now I want to enclose their heads and for the eye sockets the Skaven models use two styles a siv looking type and an enclosed gem look what would be more hmm 40k in appearance?

Do you mean sort of like a fly's eye?

Perhaps they could have had them surgically attached?

Btw...have you checked out....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herbert

He wrote a comic series about futuristic rat men apocalypse...and he also did a load of work for GW! I think he wanted skaven 40k secretly.

I just want to say this now: if you do a Skave Daemon it should have 12 teats, be female, and have a portable milker on each one to feed its children warpmilk. I'm just putting that out there Ron Burgundy style.

manoknok wrote:Do you mean sort of like a fly's eye?

Perhaps they could have had them surgically attached?

Btw...have you checked out....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herbert

He wrote a comic series about futuristic rat men apocalypse...and he also did a load of work for GW! I think he wanted skaven 40k secretly.

I just want to say this now: if you do a Skave Daemon it should have 12 teats, be female, and have a portable milker on each one to feed its children warpmilk. I'm just putting that out there Ron Burgundy style.

Lens style/gem


bug style

often this last one is a round dome over the eye


Update:
The Captain got some colour!

booo dakka's auto contrast has killed his detail


a bit better in this one

Santobell wrote:
Seemed like a good idea at the time... Basically the idea stems from the piratical nature of the Skave in 40k, the armed forces of the Skave syndicates are two fold on one hand you have space pirats and black market traders and on the other hand you have corporat specialists. This army focuses on the former plus the Term Skavey feels like a Pirate term (kinda like Scurvy) and all flowed on from the design of the Airship and it's captain which has become the center point of the army though in the codex I am building the Corporat guys will also make an appearance.

Oh, piRATes, check again... And Scurvy as welll (though you just had me learn that word, I guess it's quite unusual to know this as a non-native English lol - at least I never learned it during my English courses )...

So that leads me to another half-question / half-statement / half-enlightenment (who said I skipped the maths courses?!? ) : Skave is pronounced as if written Skaveeeee ? / . / ! (question / statement / enlightenment marks, respectively)

That sure sounds better than what I had imagined at first (pity me, I told you...).


As for the Bomb squad, I prefer the bug style ones, maybe less futuristic, but more related to their dangerous job : the objective is to prevent all sorts of shards from blinding them, I guess...

Good looking Captain, I need to get my hand on this model...

Are you going to cast the heads with the particular eyes you want?

If casting I think the gem version will cast more consistently....

And Manaknok...Manaknok, manaknok, manaknok when will you give up on seeing giant rats with fluid milking devices attached to them?

Arrr me hearties! Pirate skaven in the 41st millennium, it does not get much better than that! Great work on the ship

I think the bugs eye one is better. If you could fill the four little holes on each socket with a warp stone type gem that would be awesome.

Yggdrasil wrote:

Santobell wrote:
Seemed like a good idea at the time... Basically the idea stems from the piratical nature of the Skave in 40k, the armed forces of the Skave syndicates are two fold on one hand you have space pirats and black market traders and on the other hand you have corporat specialists. This army focuses on the former plus the Term Skavey feels like a Pirate term (kinda like Scurvy) and all flowed on from the design of the Airship and it's captain which has become the center point of the army though in the codex I am building the Corporat guys will also make an appearance.

Oh, piRATes, check again... And Scurvy as welll (though you just had me learn that word, I guess it's quite unusual to know this as a non-native English lol - at least I never learned it during my English courses )...

So that leads me to another half-question / half-statement / half-enlightenment (who said I skipped the maths courses?!? ) : Skave is pronounced as if written Skaveeeee ? / . / ! (question / statement / enlightenment marks, respectively)

That sure sounds better than what I had imagined at first (pity me, I told you...).


As for the Bomb squad, I prefer the bug style ones, maybe less futuristic, but more related to their dangerous job : the objective is to prevent all sorts of shards from blinding them, I guess...

Good looking Captain, I need to get my hand on this model...

Skave is pronounced as if written Skay'vee so yes in the way you were thinking like scurvy to make the mind think pirate. though you could just call them Skave (pronouced like raise or rave) effectivly Skaven without the "n" but my mind had it as Skaveee yes. wow I ramble sometimes.

BLACKHAND wrote:Are you going to cast the heads with the particular eyes you want?

If casting I think the gem version will cast more consistently....

And Manaknok...Manaknok, manaknok, manaknok when will you give up on seeing giant rats with fluid milking devices attached to them?

I'll probably just GS them as there will only be 3 to 5 heads needed but I'll see how they turn out.

Commander Cain wrote:Arrr me hearties! Pirate skaven in the 41st millennium, it does not get much better than that! Great work on the ship

Cheers matey, I have recently added more to the ship, large brass pipes along the hull which has really finished the feel once it's all painted up hopefully this weekend I'll get some shots up. Oh and welcome aboard ARRR!

manoknok wrote:I think the bugs eye one is better. If you could fill the four little holes on each socket with a warp stone type gem that would be awesome.

yeah I'm tending towards the bug eye thing as well not sure about the stone though there might not be enough room for it but I'll see the basic idea is to give them some kind of padding/protection for the models with the hammers so high collars and enclosed armor my only issue is I'm running low on GS and I'm torn between making the armor for one or two and then pausing until I get more or leaving it for now make my legion of the damned commander and do the armor on the tank busters next week.





Update:
Demiurg for the Merc Unit


Mega Rat now Def Rat




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Oh and check out the Awesome OOP Legion of the damned I was able to snaggle!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/326491.page

Your captain looks great! Can't wait to see the rest of the crew come together.

LeBaron wrote:Your captain looks great! Can't wait to see the rest of the crew come together.

I have them all in one place on a small shelf at the moment and it looks good, and finally I got to a shop who had my washes in stock so I got the last 5 Storm-vermin painted no pics yet I'm waiting on a special sand to arrive from up north in Broome
there is a red clay like sand called Pindan and it's unique in colour like a redy orange anyway what I will do is a green base then flock it with this clay sand leaving gaps between sections I'll then re wash the whole thing and add shading to the exposed green areas to make it look like it's glowing if it work they look like the ground is cracking under foot and warp stone glow is coming up from the cracks and gaps.

Can't wait to see it.

It's been a long time coming but finally the tank busta unit is built, the army faces it's first battle this weekend and so I'm in a frantic rush to get it table ready, I will have these guys painted shortly then I can begin basing the army ready for the game.

Sadly the Commando's will not be ready nor will the Doom Wheelie Kopta well maybe but most likely not.

And so without further delay:








The grabber counts as a Power Klaw, I still need to clean them up a bit and fill some gaps before painting but please C&C.

Awsome conversions Santo. I love the hammers that they have

The head on the Grabber-wielder is great, which set does it come from?!? Looks like a small-scale Verminlord, which can only be good for a squad leader!
On the penultimate pic (the one before the last), I think the Rokkit launcher looks a bit weird & out of place, but it may only be the angle or pose, because the same build on 2nd pic looks good!

I also like the one with a Plague Priest head, he's scary!!!

Last (minor) criticism : a lot of pieces are still mould-lines-heavy, they could get some more trimming...

Still, that's some very good work!! Between yours & BH's 40k Skaven projects, I feel much temptated by building one of mine, but have no time for that! Great inspiration though!