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CodGod wrote:

Santobell wrote:...dirigible....

That would be AWESOME!

BLACKHAND wrote:I'm going to throw my vote in for a dirigible as well, a couple of rotors out to the sides made form doomwheel parts would be great!

The tunneller is coming along really nice, what weapons are you gonna throw on it?

This is the sort of thing I had in mind but instead of a big balloon I would have a huge chunk of warpstone ( I did try and build this but I struggl;ed to make the armor on the top of the airship I would love some input of materials I could use).

Commander Cain wrote:Can't wait to see the digger progressing, I was going to mak one for my upcoming DKOK. You seem to be getting plenty of use out of a single doomwheel!

I purchasd the Doomwheel so I could experiment with different looks and vehicle styles then once I have the golden note I'll purchase a couple more and build the things I liked and needed the most so yeah waste not want not lol

I will also be arming the Tunneler with a Zappgun and small arms plus that niffty steam-roller blade.

Samus_aran115 wrote:how did I miss this thread? My god, everything on here is spectacular!

Why thank-you feel free to browse, make yourself at home and C & C till your C key doesn't C anymore.
Silliness aside welcome it's always great to see new faces in this thread and to receive new comments/opinions on my work

A Black Ram wrote:I've got to say...this is one cool army.

Thanks very much, though it's early days and there are many things I'm not 100% happy with I feels it's starting to come together.

djdutton wrote:Very, very cool! GW needs to hire you for making skaven into 40k, which would actually be really cool

I would love nothing more than to be on their concept team, sadly I don't hear them hiring atm so I will remain here on dakka and build ridicules converted armies for the giggles of it... cheers for the words of confidence matey thanks

Very minor update, I have begun painting the Merc unit for the army (my first troop choice) this is the 40k representative of the Skaven slaves from Warhammer. to give a bit of a backdrop for this;
1. There are very few Skave left (for one reason of another)
2. They are rich from eons of black-market trading which leaves them in the position to hire the extra numbers if and when they are required to take up arms en mass.

So here is the first nearly finished set from the unit "Da Gruff Broz" consisting of Izzy Gruff, Tu Gruff and Wuzzy Gruf.





Group shot

I've been slow in the process lately, my main excuse for this? Well I was recently visited by the emissary of Nurgle (my uncle btw) who gifted me with a nice does of plague which has left me sluggish and with a big case of the CBF's (Can't be F@&$%#@ed's).

So although it's a few photos of the unfinished look, I thought it was time to show you how the Storm-vermin are coming along.




The unit is designed to have a ranked feel so the guys in the front have hand weapons while those at the back have the Glaive for the long reach over the forward troops to get more numbers into combat
now rules wise this means nothing but it themes the squad.

oh and I still have extras to add which will bulk them out so they stand out against the Jezails and Slaves

BLACKHAND wrote:Very nice, makes me feel guilty for not getting my Stormvermin finished..

pft says the man who is building floating castles for his army instead and Mantis Warrior Helms


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I managed to get some paint on the first 5 Stormvermin now I have to still paint details (teeth etc) and do the bases but I thought I'd test out my new light box setup (lamp and three bits of cardboard )


The cutsom guns worked well on this next one I was very happy with the final look of the gun!


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On top of the shots above as I was happy with the light box setup I retook some shots of the Vermin Lord as you can see I have started to base him

Closeup of the skull so you can see his teeth and eye socket better, the chunk of Warpstone in his head was a Diablo inspiration.

Back

and a better look at his Doom Glaive.

I am going to curl his pointy finger and I will be cutting the spines on his back attaching some SM helmets and guard heads then reattaching the spines just to make him more 40k

wolfshadow wrote:That verminlord is awsome to behold.

Great work.

CodGod wrote:Have to agree, that verminlord is incredible.

Ok so I have no new pics of the Models to show today life's been pretty busy, I have begun work on the Dirigible which is based on the Glaive design carried by the Skaven Warlord so it will be a big flying Knife/Sword but alas I have run out of Casting material which I need to cast my Doomwheel parts so I can begin the work on the ship and the Doom Wheelie Kopta (the big one the smaller ones called the Rat).

Now I do need an opinion so please give me your ideas, Airship or Blimp so flying boat powered by warpstone propellers or blimp style big oval chunk of warpstone lifting the ship in the air I can't decide so please help out!

in other news RUN FOR YOUR LIVES SKAVEN ARE REAL!!!!!!


well not really it's a hairless bear.

Updates soon but please post you choice so I can make a move on the army also what is the next unit choices should I do:

1. Tank bustas (Globaiders)
2. Big Guns (Warpstone Cannons)
3. Warbuggies (Mini Doomwheels)
4. StormBoyz (shrugs I have now idea but my guess is a some kind of tunneling rat unit).

LeBaron wrote:Looks damned good!

Cheers matey

BLACKHAND wrote:I was totally for the dirigible until you mentioned the airship idea, you would want to keep away from anything that resembles a dark eldar raider though...

..ok just to help I will put my vote in for the warpstone blimp!

I love the idea of something floating through the air that could potentially explode when shot and then rain down chunks of deadly warpstone

Oh and I would also like to see the Globadiers as Tankbustas are you going to arm a few with tankhammers, maybe a shaft with a head of warpstone that explodes on impact?

Ok one vote for the Blimp and yeah I'm thinking tank bustas or mini doomwheels myself and yes Tankhammers are a must as well as bomb strapped Rats for the squigs.

monkeytroll wrote:Oh, man what a choice, umm, think it's gonna be airship, but it's a close call and it'd probably be a different answer if I'd read this 10 minutes earlier

And is that real skaven on someone's yard wall eyeing up their dustbins?

Yes yes dustbins are a major component in Doomwheel construction and he wants one bad...

Looks like it's an Airship, I may still make both (2x battle-wagons couldn't hurt could it) but I need one now for the actual army list.

CodGod wrote:Airship.

So it can be captained by a Skaven in a pirate hat.

That is all.

Skaven in a pirate hat that says ARGH!

Ok so I've been Quiet well not really I've been posting but not my own stuff, needless to say I think it's time for an Update and this time I'm happy to show you the "secret" project I've been working on

Now before we begin I need to say it's early days for it still I've been toiling over it's construction but there is still much to do and a big thanks to the guys at the GW Perth store once again, it's due to their ability to sell me fantastic things that the Skaven in a Pirate hat will be the Limited edition Skaven Warlord model.

Anyway over to the Project which most have already guessed was the Airship.


if you haven't picked up on it yet that's a pack of Vick's throat drops and a box of Kleenex Tissues I have the Flu!!




so yeah C & C

lots to do lots to do!

The Good Green wrote:That may be the most awesome use of Gargant bitz I have seen to date. That air ship rules the lower atmosphere!

Yeah it took a lot of planning... as in none but I got there in the end... I think it looks pretty super too Thanks matey!

BLACKHAND wrote:Look fantastic Santo, I love the prow gun! and did I see a couple of bombs hanging on to the underside?

Have you got any spare chaos plates or glyphs left over from the bloodcrushers? It might help to tie the airship and the meganobs together if they share bits, that and any odd skaven warpstone censors if you have em, they have great trails of smoke behind them that would add the illusion of speed....not that I'm advocating buying the screaming bell kit!!!! those guys at your FLGS have probably made enough out of you at the moment

Of course you know you will have to do "counts as" warbuggies that look like mini sand skiffs from return of the jedi now right?

Awesome work Santobell..totally worth dragging yourself out of your sickbed for.

Shush you every-time you say something I end up doing it so no more from you! well not really you can speak... I had planned to scatter Warpstone here there and everywhere across the ship, the large hole in the side will have a visible Chunk of the stuff in it and I will have the vapor wafting out of all the gaps like steam coming out of vents only it's the holes in the ship and trailing off like they do with the screaming bell.

Basically it will be sailing through it's own Warpstone wake should be funky all that smoke and steam... Oh and out of the smoke stacks as well, my big guns will be similar to this basically a big chunk of Warpstone with some machinery around it like big censors.

and yes big bombs hanging off the side about 5 of them actually I have to add a ratty skull and crossbones to the front of it as well and some rigging and a Pirate flag.

Return of the Jedi skimmers hmmm I could make a big fat Skave and call him "Skavy the Runt" but alas no I will be using the Doom Wheelie Koptas instead

Bloodhorror wrote:SWEEEEETTTTT!!!!!

Thanks mate that's the sort of reaction I was going for it's awesome when something you build gets such a positive response and thanks to everyone that's following this thread we made "Hot Topic" a little while ago which is a first for me and makes what I'm sharing all the more worth while.

Death Gear wrote:I think it would be good if you had some warpstone coming out the jets

There will be Vapor Trails similar to the Screraming Bell once I'm done with it, I still have so much to do, gap filling casting Warpstone etc but in the end it will be unmistakeably Skave.

LeBaron wrote:It looks amazing! Though, because you used a lot of Ork parts (looks like Stompa and Truk parts from what I can tell) it gives it a very Orky look. Looks sorta detached from the floating fortress you made, not that same Skavy look; hell, it could just be me. I'm sure you'll fix that though, still amazing none the less, keep up the good work and I hope you get to feeling better soon!

With all the converts (minus the Mega Rat which I'm thinking about remaking to be more Orky) I'm trying to have an Ork element. I'm using the Ork list for the army and to make it more identifiable as that on the tabletop for my opponent I'm having these snapshots of Orkiness.

Blackhand made the Fortress Though I am still thinking about adding one to my list it's a brilliant idea and was originally going to be included in my list as well but the airship suits my Under Imperium much better.


As a breakdown of how I see the Skaven in a 40k Role:
Skaven in Warhammer are represented as Clans, traditionally Clans over time evolve and in the Real World a lot of "Clans" become Corporations which if extrapolated over Millennium translate into Syndicates so the Skaven of the 41st Millennium are a mass of world-less black market companies with there finger in every pie on every world, basically buying a coke in the 41st millennium will fund their evil empire and it's illegal activities a space traveling Mob if you like. What fighting forces they do have are raiders and space pirates "obtaining" goods for redistribution throughout the stars.

So with this in mind I decided to go with a more quickly deployed look, small detachments of ships like this will Skitterleap from world to world stealing their way across it and then vanishing back to the "Under Imperium" their equipment and gear is scavenged/stolen/traded and reworked with Warpstone (the rocky leftovers of their long ago exterminatused home world) which makes them even harder to pick from the ruins they leave behind as any evidence left there, points to other races or dead ends.

They use misdirection, stealth and guile in all aspects of their life both in battle and in trade in most cases traders and thugs wont even know they are working for them, their only goal is to undermine everything the Imperium stands for.

wolfshadow wrote:I <3 that Airship. Amazing work. I cant wait to see it finished.

You and me both matey good to have you here and thanks for the feedback!

Bossasaurus wrote:LEGEND!

Nah not quite there yet but I'm working on it! hahaha

Rose_Mountainz wrote:Most impressive!

Here is a size comparison shot for you, that's the vermin lord the cpatain (in metal only) and a Valkyrie.




Now I have added some new detail to the ship, no vapor yet but tonight hopefully (in between bouts of Warhammer Online) and filled most of the gaps (that I don't want left open)
First up the Warpstone Furnace

(that's a model putty chunk)

Next the masts and generator and my Jolly Roger!


Thirdly the inside railing and cannon ammo etc

Bossasaurus wrote:WOW! What does it count as exactly? A battlewagon?

Well originally before I Frankenstein-ed it, that was the idea but you could fit two or three battlewagons in it so I would have to say no probably a Stompa or a BW if my opponent agrees (it's not like it will be of any consequence to them only me).

Arakasi wrote:Wow. Just wow. And you want me to make a blimp? This just seems sooooo much better. Definitely worth the wait - though do I see where some of the pieces have been clipped from the sprue? If so, I hope you clean them up! (I tend to clean up as I go - possibly one of the reasons my progress always seems so slow...) Looking forward to seeing this make it to completion!

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Just noticed you're in Perth (my home town!) I'll be in Perth all of November with Da Dark Angelz in tow

Yeah I do a big clean up before I paint and I work out the final kinks for instance the strut that holds the hull together and is meant to have the stand attached. Can't take the weight of the damn thing so I will need to screw it in place.

We should organise I game or two for when you're here, we can see how the denizens of the "Under Imperium" the "Skave" fair against the might of the "Ar'deptuz Orkstartz" AKA "Da Dark Angelz"!




Tomorrow I will be flat out with work and same the following day what I will be trying to do is get the last of the Storm Vermin painted and make a start on the cleanup and the GS work for the Airship, if I'm really lucky I'll get time to GS the Skaven Warlord to captain the ship in his Pirate hat and then by the end of the week finish the Merc Unit off which now thanks to the Stompa box has a bunch of Grot revolutionaries to be made and GS'd up to join the ranks. This will bring the Unit to 28 Models I think which is just nice!

Buy the end of the week say Saturday I hope to have finished off the models that are all half done, then I can move onto the Tank Busta Squad which I'm looking forward to as I want to GS dynamite to Giant rats and make the Warpstone Hammers,
I'm also looking into the use of Grot weapons as a base for a Clanrat grade gun if it works out then the Mercs may be out of a job, even though they suit the Army fluff I would personally rather field an entire army of space rats.

LeBaron wrote:SELF-FAIL.

Sorry about that again, posted the wrong damn thing. UGH!

So, your airship is lookin' amazing! Kinda makes me want to start working on something like that when I get the cash.

It's all good mate, everyone face palms now and then.
Everyone should start a project like this or make something ridiculess, it annoying and painful and it takes time and hurts your brain but in the end all the pain is nothing compared to the achievement of actually pulling something like this Airship off honestly at the start of the build I was [pretty sure I had just blown my money on the stompa but now best bucks I've spent on the hobby in ages my "Trick" when making these things is to never go so far as to be unable to make/fix it back to the original kit until I'm sure it's going to work in this case it was about 40% through the build I went stuff it and hacked up all the body panels to make it happen.

CodGod wrote:Oh, come on. first you make me look bad with your incredible talent, and now you make me look worse by getting that awesome piece of badassery done when you stopped updating for a few days, despite being sick? I haven't updated for a little bit on my blog because I had to cover shifts at work for a friend over the whole weekend, and haven't been able to get anything done. How am I supposed to compete with the level of greatness you put out?

Seriously, Santobell, stop being so awesome. You're making us all look bad

Um ok no more caffeine for you... I don't aim to make anyone look bad just trying to make my army look as good as possible I want it to have that I could buy it at the store look I'm failing of course but I'll get close.

Hawkins wrote:amazing airship!!!

Cheers matey thanks for the positive feedback.



Small Update
I purchased some small LED's to light up the underbelly with.

LeBaron wrote:Aye, I may just have to do some work on that. Thinking of picking up an AoBR Tues when I go and pick up Fable III so I may have some bits to play with.

I like the idea of a 'pirate skaven' and every time I picture it in my head, I get something that looks like a skaven dressed up like this.

Yeah my life will stop for that game yet I'm so lazy I'm having it delivered to my house lmao, jack sparrow I was thinking of using his hat as a base for the captain

LeBaron wrote:Well, great minds think alike. I just can't see a Skaven captain dressed as anything but Captain Jack Sparrow. It would just add to the epic that is everything you do.

I whole heartedly agree!

CodGod wrote:Given the awesomeness level of the stuff you've already done, I doubt you'll have any problems, but in case it helps, mention of the hat made me remember this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/242410.page#747541, which has a nice tutorial on greenstuffing tricorn hats which I've wanted to try for a while but never found an excuse to do.

Yeah that's the Tut I've been working off, I just felt his were a tad on the big side but the technique is sound!




Update:
Captain Skarloc still in metals and greens and with much work still to do

Hat and eye patch are still setting in these shots, once it's firmer I will add tears and a hole or two plus fill-out the inside of the hat and add some more detail to his body.






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Concept Update - The Tankhammer -



C&C please

wib wrote:I absolutely love that airship, can't wait to see how it looks fully painted.

Base coat going on tonight, the paint scheme in my head is dark grey/metal on top eroded red and rust on bottom with glowy green bits here there and everywhere.

BLACKHAND wrote:Damn that captain looks cool!!

I am hoping to pick one of those models up when I am in the big smoke next month, will have to do something a bit special to differentiate from yours now though

Better be quick they are selling out fast! that one was the last in WA I had to ring around to found the store who had it and lucky enough for me it was my local store (well local as in 1 hour and 30 minutes drive away local).

Arakasi wrote:Captain Skarloc is looking great. Must read that tutorial myself! (Not that I need pirate hats, but anything GS related is useful...)

Tankhammer handle is very long, makes it look a bit flimsy - like it is more likely to break than what you hit...

Tankhammer is Photoshoped lol I was originally going for a really long pole-arm style to it with a over heavy looking shard in the head but I think your right it would break under it's own weight

Still much to do though I did get the GS done on the Airship so paint tonight hopefully!


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Airship is 50% base coated I'm waiting for it to dry now and I have begun assembling it's crew

First Mate "Tanqt" a Rat Ogre with a sword arm and armor plates on his shoulder, cape on his back and if I don't run out of GS in the next few hours he'll get an eye patch.

Cabin Boy "Skihst" of the Crows Nest

and "Limpy" the peg legged giant rat.

Pics up soon


Update

Ran out of White Base Spray sooo hand basing white models for me dammit


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Tanqt


Skihst


Limpy



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Base Coated ship with crew for scale and test placement

So the the jist of the scheme is the image below but more rusty and exposed metals etc.



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Better look at the rusty style

wolfshadow wrote:Awsome work. That thing is freakin' huge. My Long Fangs would love to shoot @ it. :-)

Long Fangs like to shoot at most things and I can see why they'd like it so much, they are getting old and it's getting harder to see the smaller targets with each passing winter... big ole Airship = a good tall tale to tell around the table feast

Maledictus wrote:That airship is incredible! I have to say when i first saw it it just screamed Freebootas. Hopefully the paint job will go a long way to de-orkifying it though. Any plans to add sails?

I feel the paint has gone a long way to do just that but I really feel that once it's done and dusted the crew will be the big standout I'm going to get a screaming bell and some cannon crews to really flesh it out.

joshoftheforest wrote:I absolutely love love love the airship and the captain is perfect!!!! This is a beautiful and inspiring blog!
Wow thanks, it's good to hear people enjoy it as much as I am.

So inspiring that i just bought my buddy's IoB Skaven... I just hope I can live up to you and Blackhand!!

Blackhand is the one to beat we all bow to his Awesomeness, I've begun toying ideas for my next project now that this one is in it last half of completion the Demiurg so I'm hoping that will live up to these guys and continue to provide hours of Awesome for the Dakka Community.

LeBaron wrote:

Santobell wrote:So the the jist of the scheme is the image below but more rusty and exposed metals etc.



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Holy , it's Battleship Yamato!

Now, I have the urge to go out, buy a battleship, and convert it.

Won't be as good as yours but I can only hope. Keep it up!

Yes I guess it is the Yamato

Warp Smoke Paint test


Side on View (the painted side)


Bit Blurry but a Detail shot


The Wood Deck


YARRRHG!







Update: (Tunnel Rat)
Now I was going to abandon this machine but a lot fo people like it... not sure why but hey why not finish it so here it is nearly done I need to paint it and add some sharp jagged bits to the warpstone chunk.

ghosty wrote:As darn tootingly good as your army is looking, I think we all want to know how that bear lost all it's hair :?

Too much Caffeine thats how it happened honest ... well maybe not but it's my story and I'm sticking to it!

LeBaron wrote:Tunnel Rat looks nice. What's it count as?

Looted Trukk or some such thingy

joshoftheforest wrote:Fantastic as always!!

Cheers again...


Update (Completely unrelated crazy project)
I have begun making the master mini's for my Demiurg project to see how they work, basically the plan is to make one body a few heads and arms and cast them all to make the army.

Anyhoo



Not the best photo's sorry I'm still waiting on my camera cable form Olympus
so far he is made out of an ork a terminator a SM tech priest and a BA honor guard backpack the gs work at the moment is mainly to hold him together not to look pretty once it sets I will bulk his chest out a bit and add some details then do his granite arm out of GS.

Feel free to C & C

BLACKHAND wrote:Yes, yes and YES! Love the armour, great look with the plates on the thigh, the whole body has the perfect, squat bodybuilder look.

Need a closer and clearer look at the head but it seems to be on the right track.

What are you thinking of for the arms?

From the Concept pics I have managed to drag up the Demiurg are made of or turn into with age some kind of rocky/crystalline substance. A lot of the images show one exposed arm made from this and one good arm or weapon arm so I'll keep in line with these images mostly there is also a few pics of something called a surcombed which appears to be a Demiurg who is made completely from stone and is much larger than the normal soldier.

From what I can tell the Demiurg are rare even in their own armies and use a lot of drones/robots even their ships are crewed by automatons so the army would be made from

HQ - Demiurg
Elite - Demiurg/Surcombed/big bot
Troops - Bots
Fast attack - More bots/Transports
Heavy Support - Demiurg/BIG Tanks

As for the head it's rough, my first attempt to make a head that small, though I'm learning to work with such thin/small stands of GS I think I'll run with it for now I'm confident that the helmet will be fairly easy for me after attempting this head but I may in the near future (once I get a magnifying glass and some finer tools) redo it but for now I should be able to make a reasonable cast of this one to get me through.

In fact here is test shot with a wash on it so you can see better how bad it is

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

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.