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I quite like him. Very well done.

Hey - he looks cool. Especially like the eyes.

I really like the subtle colors used against the orange jumpsuit. IIRC you mentioned they were sulfur miners. So my only suggestion would be to add some yellow weathering to their clothes. I know forge world sells a yellow weathering powder.

Krieg Solder 117 wrote:I really like the subtle colors used against the orange jumpsuit. IIRC you mentioned they were sulfur miners. So my only suggestion would be to add some yellow weathering to their clothes. I know forge world sells a yellow weathering powder.

Yeah that's right, they were supposed to be sulfur miners and I planned to have a lot of yellow weathering, but I changed my mind.
Even though I'm sure it would have looked good, I decided specializing on sulfur was too restrictive. There are so many kind of dangerous yet valuable ores to mine on a hive world. So not sticking to sulfur means more freedom to my imagination.
I'm thinking about using something like warpstones or psi reactive ore and the likes.

Evening,

I hope you're painting at the moment and not just procrastinating online (like I am )

I like him....nice lasgun colour. The orange looks good I've lightened it on my head. I really like the purple lenses. The little details like the oxidisation on the tank/tube joins brings it together. I like how you've done the metal shoulder pad below too.

Peter

Super duper
oily and metallic feel about the model
looks ace

Those lenses are great! Really look glassy!

It looks great, good job!

Ohh, we can get colour too on this channel Looks good man Don't know who's knocking the purple lenses, they look great, nice effect and colour.

Edited this as a spoiler, since it was totally out of context, just had to say it...

Ah, this must be one of the new tomb kings models, very cool I must say!

Newsflash:

Another cursed week, meaning I didn't get to convert a lot. Instead I spent a lot of time on further prepping the scenery kits and unsprued the remaining 1100 parts and removed the majority of moldlines. My thumb is raw meat now and I'm taking a day off before I continue.

Today I actually managed to take an hours time to convert, that was too little time to actually work on my projects, so I dug up two models I have been thinking about for a couple of days.

One is a champion of Slaanesh I converted a couple of years ago and that has been waiting to get painted ever since. I like the model a lot and still intend to paint it, but he needs a proper base first of all. Since I don't play 40k anymore this will be a showcase piece and one sleepless night I've been thinking of a possible base for him. My plan is to put him on a very special wooden socket that I bought two years ago just because it looked so crazy. It's some kind of exotic root wood and the surface is full of bumps and ripples and it looks like the flow of warp to me. So I will have a multitude of hands protruding from the ripples of energy that serve the chosen of slaanesh as stairs. No priority project, but I will keep it somewhere on the shelf for moments of boredom.

The second was the one that actually included converting. I thought about building something with =I= flavor for a couple of days, it had to be either an Inquisitor or an Acolyte. In both cases I wanted to go for something more medieval, that will go well with my Vostroyan Stormtrooper conversions and that's how I got to think of Archaon the Pedestrian... Archaon on foot I mean...

He's been waiting to be used since that GD years ago, but I never found any use for him and even now that I have something in mind I've got to say, what a weird, weird miniature. Not only is he huge, but his whole pose is so incredulous and stupid. What's going on with his feet? He stands on that rock he comes with like he was glued to it, the angle is ridiculous and it looks just plain stupid. I think he was supposed to wear high heels "Archaon on heels", but they changed it last minute, sculpted a rock around his heels and took his rightful title "Archaon, Dragqueen of the end of times" from him.

Ok, let's just say I don't like his pose, which also holds true for his arms. The sword arm isn't thaaat bad, but definitely not ideal. And the shield arm looks like he is suffering from some severe kind of paralysis. All in all the arms won't be a problem, because they'll have to go anyway, otherwise he would always look like a mere 40k Archaon.

I started by removing the rock from his feet (No I couldn't find heels inside), tried some possible head swaps and thought about what weapons to give him and whether I'll keep his cape as it is, or not. So that's another side project...as if I needed any more!

Right now, apart from giving you an update, I'm painting the next, soon to be finished, miner and having some Ardbeg. Back to the painting table, Cheers!

Inquisitorial miniatures sound interesting indeed. I look forward to something on that front!

My inquisitorial ambitions include an Inquisitor, a few henchmen and a couple of stormtroopers. The whole group will serve as some of the badass NPCs for the final stage of our necromunda campaign. So atm we are playing rather normal necromunda games (with a very customized rule set), to get the hang of it, but for the final stage I plan to have much more narrative elements and mission goals. I hope this will result in a very memorable finale worthy of our gangs.

The inquisitor is Iudex Probitas, a puritan member of Ordo Hereticus, who has come to Necromunda in order to investigate rumors of heretical tendencies amongst the noble houses of the planet. I'll write down his whole story sometime, but not now. Let's just say, that even though he is just observing and gathering evidence at the moment, he will have to take action soon and will therefore be a central element in the events to come.

I want the style of the inquisitorial troops to be very, very gothic. They will be a huge contrast to the grimy miners, the techy delaques, the military mercs and the exotic spire gladiators.

Götz von Berlichingen:

So far I'm thinking of using the soon to be converted Archaon as an inquisitorial henchman, who was born on "Berlichingen", an imperial planet with strong medieval features.

The people of Berlichingen worship martial prowess and tolerate almost any means to enhance them. Generations of bio-engineering and tube breeding the strongest men have resulted in an almost infertile (and some would whisper degenarate) caste of warriors of enormous physical dimensions, the Hiunen. On a first glance one might mistake the Hiunen for Astartes warriors, but that is mainly due to their immense size and heavy armor that looks similar to older models of power armor. In fact the Hiunen lack the versatile weapon training, advanced combat tactics and superior gene enhancements of true Astartes, yet they are fearsome warriors and their strength and endurance far beyond what a human can ever hope achieve.

Probitas once came to Berlichingen to shatter a coven of witches, that the rulers of the planet couldn't handle, due to the complete absence of psychic abilities amongst the noble and warrior casts. After a successful campaign against the rogue psykers that involved heavy losses, the lord of Berlichingen granted Inquisitor Probitas his greatest warrior as a sign of his gratitude, "Götz der Amboss". Being bound to Probitas for his lifetime by the traditional ritual of submission, Götz proved to be an indispensable addition to the retinue. When it comes to intimidating adversaries by sheer physique, taking hits to protect the Inquisitor or when a battle can be won by supremacy in close combat, nobody does it like Götz!

Now that I wrote it down, I'm quite satisfied with it and convinced it has some flavor, please tell me what you think. Too generic? Any suggestions to flesh him out even more? Anything you think the miniature must have to suit the backround?

The painting looks amazing - I've never seen orange done in a way that doesn't look cheesy before, but I really think you've pulled it off! The tone is dead on, and combined with the rusty, corroded feel of his gear, it really works. I like the idea of the different lenses too - gives everything a scavenged feel, which you may be aware that I'm a fan of Fantastic!

Don't have time to read the fluffy bit right now, but I'll do my best to give it a look over tonight

Scarper wrote:The painting looks amazing - I've never seen orange done in a way that doesn't look cheesy before, but I really think you've pulled it off! The tone is dead on, and combined with the rusty, corroded feel of his gear, it really works. I like the idea of the different lenses too - gives everything a scavenged feel, which you may be aware that I'm a fan of Fantastic!

Thanks for the props, mate! The orange was done with a wash of vermin fur over a grey primer with black shades, followed by a couple of highlights with increasing parts of blazing orange added to the vermin fur. For the final step I added darker shadows with heavily diluted black.
Looking forward to your opinion on the "fluff".


Todays update:

Managed to spent some time with my projects today.

I used that time to make major progress on Cortaro (sculpted a respirator mask after deciding the other mask wouldn't look right, sculpted missing areas of the new backpack, added a lantern, added a holster with some boomstick, slightly modified the base).

And to work on Götz a little (changed angle of his feet, continued to smoothen his chestpiece, decided on a head, decided on a more credible and dynamic pose, tried different weapon configurations).

I'm totally not sure about the last point yet, my favorite setups so far are either two one-handed hammers (from the inquisitor force weapon booster) or a huge chain halberd (maybe parts of malicants eviscerator or scratchbuild). I'm also eyeballing these:

What do you think? Maces? Hammers? Halberd? Something else? I'm sure there are tons of good options, I just can't think of any. Help!

Hey dude

An Inquisitor sounds interesting. Do you have a link to a picture of the inquisitor force weapon booster?

The Chaos maces are nice but I would need to see the various weapon options tacked in place before I could make a decision.

I'm really enjoying the different directions this blog goes in. The Gothic idea of the Inquisitor and henchman is great. As for the background I am generally quite easily pleased...the imperium is a massive place so anything is possible.

Peter

PDH wrote:Do you have a link to a picture of the inquisitor force weapon booster?
I'm really enjoying the different directions this blog goes in.

Picture? Sure thing! It's obviously the one that looks like a hammer.

Different directions? That's easy for me, the real problem is not to freeze completely, when you are trying to go in all directions at the same time. But I have a feeling that both, this blog and the campaign, give me a general guideline to what comes next. So I hope I won't get lost. Like I wrote in my very first post there are lots of things to come and if Necromunda isn't enough, I've got the full 54mm =I= range in form of scores of almost finished, mindblowing projects lying around.

My 54mm stuff will definitely make an appearance here or in an individual thread sooner or later. There is that PIP IG soldier with a custom build needle rifle for example, that I intend to finish painting, once I'm fed up with the Nec stuff.

Man i love these munda stuff i love customizing models to make them unique.. if only people played munda around here instead of just fantasy and 40k.....

Your plans for your acolyte certainly sound interesting enough. Of course, it might be worth remembering that Necromunda is a recruiting world for the Imperial Fists - it would be easy for your Inquisitor to have one along for the ride as well.

As for the Archaon on foot - anything you can do to differentiate it from the original model would be great. A mace certainly sounds like it would be brutal/low-tech enough for a world like you described.

Howdy folks, I made some progress on my ogryn today and I think I'll give you some WIP pics tomorrow. It also shouldn't be long before I finish him, but then again I always think that before spending another two weeks on a project.

About Götz I just decided that it will definitely be double hammers for him and I will scratchbuild them, because there are no hammers around that suit my needs.

So its Hammer time !

like those maces you showed are they from a khorne chaos warrior wfb boxeset?

neil101 wrote:So its Hammer time !

like those maces you showed are they from a khorne chaos warrior wfb boxeset?

The maces are from the Chaos Knights sprues.

No WIP shots today, I hope for final shots very soon. Cortaro is almost done, details are in place, I decided on almost all equipment choices, the only thing he needs is a lot of GS work. I'm very very happy with how he turns out to be, it does the buzzsaw justice. I would have hated it when it looked like a cool weapon on a standard dude. Well no chance of that now, let's say he' different... Muhaha, masterpiece incoming, just you wait!

So much for today, will try to keep my rambling down until I can show you something updateworthy.

The hammer is cool and very Inquisitory.

Peter

Still no update guys.

Götz is on hold, as I'm working full throttle on Cortaro.

Didn't get to sculpt today, but I elaborated some details. His respirator is finished now and his Equipment is finalized.

Only things missing are some tubes and wires and the straps for his backpack.

Still there are two big questionmarks:

1. Additional armor Yes or No? Don't want him to look to much like a juggernaut. I tried a row of armor plates from the middle of his spine up to his forehead. That looked ace, but it took away from his salvaged and improvised look and made him look like a professional, which is not the right flavor, I think. I'm still considering giving him shoulderpads though.

2. 100% more postapocalyptic monkeys?! This question is new, it arose just today, I'm thinking of giving him a monkey spotter, like a trufflesnout. I can't elaborate on the background yet, but the miners could use them to find the location of certain valuable ores and crystals. I started converting the pirate monkey from the imperial musketeer box into a proper necromunda monkey. I'll finish him anyway and maybe I'll put him on Cortaro's shoulder, not sure yet. If not I'll find the right place for him on one of the other ogryns or the diorama.

2a. Actually this gives rise to another question. Maybe the monkey is too fancy for an ogryn and would require a more sensitive handler. Thore, the foster father of the gang, suggested giving him a bird in a cage. I wanted to use the gas-detecting-bird-idea on the diorama anyway, but now that he suggested it for the ogryn, I've got to admit it's a rather good idea. One might not want to give the ogryn a precious (fragile) monkey, but he's good enough to carry the bird cage on his back.

So, what do you think? Any ideas?

I've got to admit it, you deserve a first glance at Cortaro. So here comes a sneak peek of the almost finished ogryn miner. (One more GS session and he will be done, so maybe tomorrow.)

Oops, how did that get so small...

You're such a meany....you made it all small.

From what little I can see the grill mask looks cool.

Peter

Start drum rolling guys! Cortaro is finished and as soon as I find the time to edit the photos (tonight) there will be 16 delicious shots of conversion madness.
Just hang on for a moment...

Very well done on all of the models. Great idea with the double drilling.

Here it comes!

Quick recap for everybody who's new to the thread: I was recently building a kickass NPC for my Necro/=I=munda-gang of rebel hive miners, the Espantajos or Scarecrows.

For the final phase of our campaign I'm planning to introduce powerful allies for all gangs participating. In case of the miners that will be round about three ogryn slaves from the mines.

The first one of those is finished now, Cortaro. For details about the 50+ part buzzsaw he is wielding, go back a few pages, I've presented it in detail there.

Just as a reminder, a shot of the base model first:

And now my version:
Cortaro - "The Cutter" - ogryn slave - ore saw operator:

Don't want to write walls of text today (like all the other times). The conversion was a rather time consuming project, more than 50h. So there are scores of things I'd personally find worth mentioning, but I'll save us all time and let the pictures tell the story. I made closeups of the most important details anyway, so you can fully appreciate them. The grill of the respirator for example was a pain in the ass. It's basicly a piece of plastic card with a photoedged grill on top and a photoedged rivet band wrapped around the edge (that bloody thing went off a thousand times and had to be cleaned of glue and then reglued again, every time)

As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, ask/suggest away! Also if you enjoy a round of "where's the bit from" just as much as I do, feel free to start the competition.