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I have seen and studied many of the brass scorpion mods, official and unofficial. I really couldn't find a design plan that i really like. Then I remembered that Apocalypse is pretty much an anything goes as long as you are willing to pay for it kinda game. So i began thinking of how i wanted it to look, I knew i wanted to be bigger than most the others and I also want it to be my command unit in the siege formation for the CSM apoc formation, but didn't want to use machine parts to represent that so what do you do. Put 2 Defilers, 1 Soul Grinder, some extra bits ( this was all ordered from ebay for under $100) and wallah the "BIGGEST BADDEST DAEMON ENGINE MOFO TO DATE, imo".


Frontal Shots






Green Stuff Shoulder





Side Shots





Spine Shots (this will be somewhat covered by armor when finished)




Tail Shots (The tail has three points of articulation)









Front & Back Close Ups, Plus Full Disassemble Shot






Please give me feed back, this is my first major conversion. I've done some minor stuff on mini's just nothing this grandiose.

The profile i want to run with this is as follows:

BRASS SCORPION DAEMON LORD 999 Pts

WS BS S A I FA SA RA
5 3 8 5 4 14 14 11

Void Shields:3

Primary Weapons:

Head Cannon Profiles
Phlegm Cannon: 48" Str 8 AP 3 Ordinance 1, 10" Blast
Tongue: 36" Str 10 AP 1 Assault

Hellmaw Cannon: Str 6 AP 3 Hellfire Template

Scorpion Cannon: 36" Str 7 Ap 2 Heavy 10

All other Brass Scopion rules would be added here.

Would any one have a problem playing against this for the points cost, I realize, thought most of the time i'll have to play it as a regular brass scorpion cause of some beardy people.
Sorry for not doing a step by step WIP, found my camera about half way through the project, didn't find my charge till i was almost done. this was under design for a year (in other words in my head) about 1-2 weeks construction total.

Thx much for your feedback oeo.

Well that is quite something! Please to have paint?

My only suggestion would be to add another joint in the tail along that long straight section. The rest of the model has all those wonderful joints but the long straight section seems out of place and awkward. Otherwise I think it looks great.

A thousand points and only a weapon skill 5?

Anyway, your mod looks great, and the sculpting looks like it is working very well.

Now you must apply paint. The chaos gods demand paint!

Thx alot yall. I thought about a second joint and was even told by someone else that i should do the same thing, but the disassemble is going to be a lil hard im afraid. The piles in the rail have pins running the full length. Any Suggestions? thx for the feedback.

odinsgrandson wrote:A thousand points and only a weapon skill 5?

I didn't Want to make it to over powered. I was thinking like this," What would happen is a skulltaker esc daemon were to possess a brass scorpion after either melt down or destruction. would it still keep its WS 7, wouldn't it be a soul grinder esc being now, or would it drop some and be more of an upgraded brass scorpion. I couldn't quite remember what the weapon skill of a titan was. I thought they were WS4 and being a WS5 puts this thing at like Captian or Commander status as far as hth capability. Please discuss.

The model: Very nice indeed except for the bonus suckage tail tower. You really need to replace ther straight section in the middle with a curved sgemented section. You have the segments but not the curve, no need to articulate the tail curve just so long as it has a nice bend to it it will be great.

the stats: i would instead take a Soul Grinder and a Brass Scorpion stats and add them together. adding wounds to structucture points totalling up the attacks and weapons and takling the better of for Ld, S,T,I, ws, and Bs. Then add up the points total of the two models. You will probably end up with something fairer for the monster.
Al alternate is 'counts as' Chaos reaver with two titan CCWs and a vulcan megabolter carapace weapon.

OK defiantly rethinking the tail section of the model and thx for the advice on the stat line. Keep the feedback coming. Next set of pics is gonna be the new tail a hopefully the completed model.

Thx all oeo

Tail looks kinda "GoGo Gadget" to me. Definitely needs at least one more joint. Also the ammo coming out of the autocannons looks odd just hanging there....especially the ones hanging "up"!

Sculpting is great, I love the whole concept!

gonna jump on the 'everything looks awesome apart from the 1 tail section" bandwagon, and say... well, that.

My two bucks tail looks weird and you need to clip off and re do the ammo feed for the auto cannons sitting like that defying gravity.
You can get plasticard to make new ammo feeds for them that go somewhere and look a lot better.

I agree on adding one joint in the middle section of the tail. But other then that... that thing is just AWESOME! It looks HUGE and very scary nice job for sure

So I have went back through and refurbished my tail design. I have decided to actually go with 4 segments in the tail and only two articulation points. The new tail is a lil bit heavier , but hopefully with the new "CURVE" and orientation it won't be a big deal. these pics may give yall an idea of what it is going to look like.






I'm hoping to get it put together tomorrow, night or so.

Thx for all the encouragement and keep the feedback comming.

GW, the tail definitely needed some work lol.