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Something wicked this way drops!
Finally some stuff came!!! So it’s update time on the metal herd… As I mentioned- I’m having a hard time coming up with something for a drop pod, and since a drop pod had arrived in the mail a couple of days ago- I decided to face it head on.

Essentially –gaming wise- it is a large model that comes on to the table and sits in that spot for the remainder of the game. In my army list that I use, I only have the one with a deathwind missile upgrade. So looking in the beastmen army book, the only thing that kind of matches this (one big thing that sits on the table and not move anywhere) is the SHARD OF THE HERDS TONE (50pts ENCHANTED ITEM ).

This is my herd stone I made ages ago for my beastmen-





So I want something these lines, but metal and techy. I figure the beastmen army uses these pod things to not only drop troops into the fight- but it also serves as a Marker type thing that tells other races that they where/are there –marking their territories.

First I chopped up the drop pod kit and put the thing together as much as I can ( I glue 3 out of the 5 fins bit so it will be easier to paint and mod the inner bits).



As I said I want this to be a 40k version of the herdstone so I sculpted some effigy of beastmen heads and maid copies of it.







Usually on the herdstone it will have spears or spiky bits so on the bottom bit I did that too then stuck it all on.





This will be for the doors- a symbol for beastus-mechanicus if you would



After undercoating the whole thing white, I painted the inner bits silver and carefully paint on army painter quick shade strong tone only on the silver bits. Personally I really like the effect that it has on metallic paints. (for some reason a lot of painters oppose the quick shade dip, but I think it’s just another tool/technique one can use to create an effect)….







For some reason a lot of painters oppose the quick shade dip, but I think it’s just another tool/technique one can use to create an effect. Just be careful of “pooling”...

Now to the equipment. This drop pod is supposed to be kind of a shrine, so having a bulky missile launcher in there as a center piece- I don’t think will look that good.
So I came up with this cute little dude….






Who’s a cute baby gor? Who’s a cutie? Who’s a Cutie? You are… you are!... Who want’s to kill every thing? you do… You do….











In my head-this little psycher guy can be used to first pilot the drop pod down, and then uses psychic shooting powers- like a zoanothrope would use a warp blast- to kill stuff…. Ok- it only goes 12 inches and does not have any AP- but he IS just a likkle baby go…. if he can survive a battle, brakes out of the tank and some how makes his way back to the herd- then he will become part of the beast army.... Sparta agoge type thing...







if he can survive a battle, brakes out of the tank and somehow makes his way back to the herd- then he will become part of the beast army.... Spartan agoge type thing...

So as a whole drop pod we get-






















That’s it for now I think….

ps
Malika2 - I will eventually be doing an apocalypse size army… while waiting for parts to come, I kind of started a frame work for a warhound titan (I dubbed it the “Cy-ber-gor” project… we’ll see how it goes).
As for terminators- I will eventually get around to doing them-just for the completion of the army…. The thing is I have a couple army list already that I’ve been using and really like the feel of them- and none of them does not include any terminators (wolf guards are there just not in terminator armor… Personally I don’t really like using terminators at all. They are way too expensive, cumbersome, and does not really go with my style of playing…. Or maybe I just don’t know how to use them properly…. So yes I will do them but they are not really a priority….
As for scout- I’m doing them now as we speak so it hopefully be finished and up here within a weak if work and life in general allows me to…. Here’s hoping.

Very well done man! Will there be more drop pods in this army?

As for the Terminators, I think they would be an interesting modelling project, maybe not for gaming though. However, if you find them too slow, how about teleporter homers or a Land Raider (oh come on...you know you want to!). Or even crazier, Forgeworld will be releasing a Lander Raider Spartan soon...

This whole army is unspeakably cool.

Malika2 wrote:Very well done man! Will there be more drop pods in this army?

still messing around with different space wolves army list. But, I have two main army list that I love using (both 1750pts). The one I prefer and use most of the time has only one drop pod in it, and the other one that I like as well, but don't use as often as I should- has NINE drop pods.... so more to come i guess....

Color me impressed. Probably one of the most creative projects I have seen.

WOW this is some of the best 40k beastmen i've seen, and i love the color choices im subbed!

Extreme cool Beast-Men! I miss the times, when Beast-Men were normal at 40k and the Demon World army list. Really great stuff! Like it!

I usually try to avoid otherwise content-free gushing, but...

AWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOMEAWESOME!

Outstanding job over all, I'll keep both eyes open for more updates!

This is some pretty inspired stuff. I'm always a fan of seeing conversions. I feel like as a nod to your fantastic army, I need to add a trophy beastman skull to one of the Marines in my latest conversion project. And I'll make sure to give this thread a plug if I do, lol.

Impressive work man. Bravo.

I honestly was just expecting some half-completed plasticard kit bashes with no skill, but boy I was wrong. Excellent idea and execution! the weathering achieved was superb.

This is the best 40k beastmen army I've ever seen.

Mayajid, your imagination and skills deserve a special mention. Your conversions are clever and the execution is perfect. If I had more time I'd steal your idea and build the same army.
Moreover, you make my own beastmen look lame...Man, I'm jealous!

I'll keep an eye on this thread.

Nice work dude! Following intently =)

There are a couple Beastmen counts as (insert the whatever else they are here) I've found on Dakka, this is by far the best. It's obvious that you put a lot of thought into it before starting, and the execution so far is excellent. I really have to do this some day.

Subbed and will be back for more.

Just a very small update-
So swamped with work lately but finally found time to sit down to get more beastmen space ready…ish

In my main army that I use I have two units of Wolf scouts (ungors), and at first- as some of yall may have seen on this blog I used the tau fire warrior body and leg, imperial guards arms, with the ungor head. To me- they looked way too scrawny to be an “elite” unit. So I ripped them apart, salvage any thing I can and came up with this-

Ungors-











This is the basic colors I’m going for- I tried to do camo- green tone, black and grey tone, and yellow tone. But it didn’t have the same feel and tone as the rest of the army so- I just kept it more or less the same but with more yellow.



-Scouts (ungors)-To be continued……-

From light ungor scouts- to heavy armored, big guns wielding gors- The Long horn unit.

I wanted a Iron man warmachine like look to them so I started off with sculpting a helment that the long horns (long fangs) can ware.









In the main army I use two units all with missile launchers(typical I know… I’m a slave to trends I guess), but just incase I want to put another one in, I decided to do 3 units (what’s another 5 right).
So because I’m going to have 15 of them I just made copies of the first one. Along with the horns…



Sooo much fire power for just 15 gors……







Then I re-read the codex then realized that they have to replace their bolt pistols for missile launcher so I cant really do the under-arm gun thing like the one that warmachine have. So instead I armed them with more missile launcher on their legs…. Why not?







-Long Fangs(Long horns) To be continued……-

Right- small, medium… now let’s go large!!!!!!
Doom bull in Terminator armor (Dreadnaught/ Venerable Dreadnaught/ Bjorn the fell-handed)









The body is an upside down forgeworld khorne blood slaughterer body I took out of my chaos space marine army… It was only partly painted with a wash- that’s why it’s partly red...Out of all the models I hacked up- it pains me most to hack up that one… the top bit of the legs are razor back lascannons and the bottom bit where inspired by this gundam dude -http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/MS-09F/Gb_Dom_Gross_Beil
STOMPY LEGS!!!!!
I have ordered the contemptor pattern close combat arm , and contemptor pattern plasma cannon arm for the dude….sadly still in the mail.
All the green stuff stuff still needs A LOT of cleaning and neatening-up work but I’ll wait till the arms gets here.
This also- To be continued-
Ps

Veteran Sergeant wrote:This is some pretty inspired stuff. I'm always a fan of seeing conversions. I feel like as a nod to your fantastic army, I need to add a trophy beastman skull to one of the Marines in my latest conversion project. And I'll make sure to give this thread a plug if I do, lol.

Impressive work man. Bravo.

-That would be awesome on so many levels, and I would be honored if you do that sir.

I've kinda been surfing around Dakka Dakka for the past few weeks just looking through the general awesomness of the plogs but yours has just won the internet. Totally amazeballs!

So massively inspired! I love the psychic baby-beast thing. And the minotaurs. The whole project is gold! What material did you use to create the green-stuff mould?

WOW Doombull looks amazing!

amazing!! What a great concept. Keep up the good work

Scouts are finally Done!!!!















I haven't made any progress worth writing about for the long fangs or the dreadnaught, new things came in the mail and I placed them on the back burner while I play around with my new toys….

Beastmen are known (amongst other things) for their use of chariots, so I figured I wanted to do some sort of huge chariot pulled by two mech/cyber razorgors like the one the beast lord is riding.
Razorgor chariot (Rhino)














The legs are from these dudes I got from daiso (pound store, or dollar shop)-



















That’s how we roll!!!





















Size-wise it’s just alittle bigger than a real rhino… It’s ok I think because It’s just like a chaos rhino with all the spikey bits on it I guess….







And finally I give you- Morghur the master of servo skulls… (Iron priest)







HE’S STILL ALIVE!!!!










Minotaur servo skulls – servitors













Ps
Kavish- the mould I use is mould-able eraser. Basically it’s that insta mould stuff-http://www.coolminiornot.com/shop/instant-mold.html - but cheaper….

I have never liked beastmen 40k conversions, but your stuff is amazing, i love them. the drop pod is superb as well as the rhino conversion. the iron priest is another fine mini love him aswell. well done sir, keep up the good work.

Very very cool stuff. The rhinos are inspired.

Wow... Just wow... Those conversions continue to amaze! Love the "counts as" Rhino.

Valete,

JohnS

thats one sweet ride for your guys iron priest looks like something out of a horror movie. great work

chariots are awsome, and animal skull servos are cool!

I've been playing with 6th edition for a week or so now and with 6th you get acess to a fortification as well as 1 hq, 2 troops, 1 elites, 1 fast, and or 1heavy from allying armies. (if you use allies- you must have 1 HQ and 1 troop from that army before you use any of the other stuff. I used a platoon of 50 IGs and a unit of 10 rough riders in one of the games and it works pretty well.
So now I'm thinking of doing beastmen version of every thing. Primarily things I want to use along side this beastmen (spacewolves) army are-

Storm talon
Storm ravens
rough riders
Imperial Guardsmen
Leman russ punisher
fortress of redemption

(not all in the same game)

thing is I'm kinda tapped out on ideas for the time being- so I figure I'll throw this out into the dakka dakka collective idea community- hoping someone can help. so please let me know if any one have any ideas on what I can do to turn those models into a beastmen theme kind of thing.... Thank you all ahead of time-anything and everything will be more than appriciated.

Awesome! Absolutely awesome.

One thing. For your gore on the smashed termie, you need to get a hold of some Tamiya clear red. Get a pot asap. I promise you will not be disappointed.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?autocom=ineo&showarticle=298

http://theleadwillwalktheearth.blogspot.com/2011/03/tamiya-clear-red-x-27-bloody-marvelous.html

Rabid ferret- thanks for that the effect looks awsome... I'll get on it now actually. thanks again
.

I really am impressed with how well you've managed to create a 40k model around the Morghor archetype. He recognisably looks like morghur but fit's your theme brilliantly. Any plans for doing this with more characters?

Holy crap! Now you need to add some bikes and attack bikes based on those riding creatures!