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Lovely Mechanicus! I'm always pleased to see people pulling them out.

I agree with Vituvian, some more cables and pipes would look nice on the Skittari. Still, very nice effort so far, and look forward to seeing more.

This has to be awesomeness in the shape of plastic and greenstuff!

Always enjoy seeing Mechanicus forces - first time I've come across someone basing them on the Necrons, so looking forward to see how they turn out.

The skitarii are great. I think they could use a few more cables and maybe some more odds and ends - things like mechandrites, servo arms, additional guns etc. Something to make them a little less uniform and maybe add some height.

Very cool work

These look great man. I like the slaved ghoul servitors.

Well... i certainly can't complain about the feedback from that update! thanks guys

 Squidbot wrote:
I love your stuff. This guy: Just pure WOW!

And the Skitraii are looking very cool too.

Thanks man, though those are just servitors, the skitarii are yet to come.

 Vitruvian XVII wrote:
The skitarii are looking boss there mate! Really got the creepy mechanicus vibe down well, nice!

Are they epic LRs?

Tiny little thing, perhaps a few more cables from the torsos to the machine units?

Indeed they are, the old school plastic ones. And that's a good suggestion, i actually think i might do that once i get past the initial GS phase.

Schmacker10 wrote:
Lovely Mechanicus! I'm always pleased to see people pulling them out.

I agree with Vituvian, some more cables and pipes would look nice on the Skittari. Still, very nice effort so far, and look forward to seeing more.

Thanks man, i hope i can keep your eyes entertained with the work to come.

 Agandhjin wrote:
This has to be awesomeness in the shape of plastic and greenstuff!

Always enjoy seeing Mechanicus forces - first time I've come across someone basing them on the Necrons, so looking forward to see how they turn out.

It seemed the logical choice to me, but then i don't like the alternative... Codex Grey Knights. Hyper advanced technology and anti-grav seems very Ad Mec to me.

 Bruticus wrote:
The skitarii are great. I think they could use a few more cables and maybe some more odds and ends - things like mechandrites, servo arms, additional guns etc. Something to make them a little less uniform and maybe add some height.

Well i've got 15 more to go, so don't worry about them all be fairly individual. There are only about two servitors in that collection that actually look similar, and i've used up my knight weapons so after this it's my originality that'll be on show with the weapons.

 Rogue Wolves wrote:
Very cool work

thanks rogue!

OldSchoolTermie wrote:
These look great man. I like the slaved ghoul servitors.

Thanks man, i did at first, but tbh i much prefer the track based servo units... they just seem far cooler. I may bring the ghoulitors back when i reach the ghost arc.

Now before this update i want to take a moment to warn you. I am, as i've said, really quite sick at the moment. I didn't realise how bad i was until i coughed and my entire head rung with pain.... that, and trying to take photo's with a ipod (a camerless one) instead of picking up my camera. So.... yeah.

Now for the update, it has a hell of a long way to go, all i've really done is chalk out the basics. I need to fill gaps, remove mold lines and add significant levels of detail before this could be anywhere near complete. However, may i present the WIP Night Scythe;





I know it looks like a piece of junk atm, and it's far from my finest work, but i hope you can see where i am going with this... anti-grav generators and a stinger style teleportation ray/homer beacon. I doubt there is going to be an update before tomorrow as i'm busy feeling sorry for myself at the mo, but if you've got feedback it's always welcome.

-skrall

So let us start with some photoshop trickery.... not being one to be left out of doing this, i thought add one to this log.



And it's time for paint; i'm happy with the reds involved, though i need to touch up the white.





I will admit i'm dissapointed to have lost a rating star, but not surprised given how rough yesterdays update was.

Feedback on this guy is welcome, or on anything shown so far!

-skrall

Good job with the Skitarii! I think i'll need some epic Land Raiders to build some havocs for my IW...

For some image reference, maybe you can try this...
http://ingeneri.wordpress.com/ there are some AdMech drawings that may be useful...

IIRC the damned artificer had a thread here on dakka (or was it on warseer?) full with Mechanicus goodness...

 brother_camael wrote:
Good job with the Skitarii! I think i'll need some epic Land Raiders to build some havocs for my IW...

For some image reference, maybe you can try this...
http://ingeneri.wordpress.com/ there are some AdMech drawings that may be useful...

IIRC the damned artificer had a thread here on dakka (or was it on warseer?) full with Mechanicus goodness...

yeah i've poked around a couple of mechanicus area's for refrence and inspiration, but a good chunk of this is going to have to be developed by me... especially the ghost arc. I think that's going to be a 40k corpse cart...

Now for a preview of my next unit. Before it pops up i'm going to list the errors and area's in progress and i want to see if anyone agrees with my thoughts;

white shoulder; going to be checkered.
Skull; Needs definition
Cloak; Needs to be less glossy, added depth and variation away from the hull red.
Tracks; need to have depths, perhaps even mild amounts of dirt in the tracks.
Cables; need more focus light to suggest them as glowing power cables.
-drill barrel

if your spot more, please feel free to suggest;



thoughts?

-skrall