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I am building a daemon army of tzeentch out of melted polystyrene blocks.

these initial small cubes are horrors.










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first chariot of tzeentch

Hey, I've seen this from somewhere!
why don't you post the whole army? It may be more effort, but I think you'll get a better response eh?

Okay. I can now say I've seen armies in all shapes and sizes.

Interesting concept...have any fluff?

Very interesting...though I'll sniff sadly every time I see your name on these forums...

i like this idea! cool stuff!

I'm not sure... am I missing something fluff-wise? It's an interesting concept to say the least.

It would be cool if your Hq character was an actual humanoid model that was levitating numerous small blocks off his base. A blockomancer if you will.

the larger cubes on 40mm bases are my HQ chariots, the lord of change will be blockomancer style


heres the soul grinder



closeup of 'guts'

I don't get it.

I thought I wanted a unique army... I have been proven very, very, very wrong.

I like the idea, but I think it would be worth experimenting with other polyhedral shapes.

Can you explain the reasoning as to why you wanted to make a chaos army themed like this? I am confused.

This is full of artistic brilliance and wonderment. Very science fiction, very strange and totally awesome. I'm subscribing.

Make sure you always have some creepy ambient music in the background whenever you play them. It looks like it'll be a really atmospheric army.

I get it. I think it's AWESOME!

I will be watching.

If people dont get it i feel no obligation to provide an explanation - some people just wont.

but anyway, heres a tidbit,

from Thomas McEvilley's "13 ways of looking at a blackbird":
11. Content arising directly from the formal properties of the work.
"The formalist idea that abstract art lacks content is rightly seen today as archaic. It seems the associative and conceptualizing activities of the human mind go on constantly and transpire in an instant. thus we see everything within some frame of meaning. If perceptions truly had no content whatsoever they would be blank moments that would leave no trace in memory. At one level, formal configurations function as ontological propositions. Merely by shaping energy one models the real; every grasping or shaping is a rhetorical persuasion for a view of reality. Critics commonly have asserted that music has no content. But, for example, Beethoven is widely experienced as presenting a view of reality as stormy, turbulent and full of passionate arriving, while a Pollock drip painting asserts flux and indefiniteness of identity as qualities that can be found in the world. This tautological interface between form and content is not a mystical attempt to unify opposites. It simply means that a work demonstrates a type of reality by embodying it. Thus, abstract art, far from being non-representational, is, in effect, a representation of concepts; it is based on a process like that of metaphor, and overlaps somewhat with both iconography and representation."

Interesting idea, I'll keep an eye on this to see how it progresses.

screamers

Brilliant. We have an abstract expressionist on Dakka. Well, it had to happen... Nice execution too. Each of the shapes you've chosen suggests the unit it's supposed to represent quite well: it's highly doubtful anyone will have counts-as issues after you've explained what everything is (unless they are either a tool or an art critic )

Probably a good idea to keep all wargear (gifts, whatever) nice and simple to avoid memory issues all the same.

It's a treatise on the folly of perception, although McEvilley, lauded though he is doesn't provide the best of arguments. He's a better critic than he is a teacher.

In his book, he waffles on for 300ish pages about breaking down common consensus on what form is. "impossible Configuration" works well for Tzeentch, who is the master of change.

Though the form differs, who's to say they do not posess the same qualities as a flamer, a horror or a soul grinder? In one way, it's a winner as his medium is representative of a work of fiction (GW universes) so liberal interpretation is possible. But, and this is the same constant weakness for work of this form, there is already a consensus on how the entity should look.

He took the background (Tzeentch the changer, master of the impossible ) and gave it a different form.

It's kind of like arguing that my blue diiffers from your blue. Horribly fiendish.

Another example of...



I mean they look cool and everything, but c'mon...

Cheers Phayse.


heres another chariot





its hard to get a pic, but theres a little screamer type of block flying out of the centre.

Oh hell yeah, this is awesome!
Probably the most original army concept I've ever seen. Also a lot more creepy than most SKULZ,CHAINZ,BLUDZ chaos armies Maximum respect from me.
Plus it must have been super cheap and quick to put together! Are they all complete then? Would be good to see them all together.

ive built maybe 2 thirds of the army, but i need to revisit the basing because its pretty boring..

thinking of introducing an off yellow as a very rare secondary colour..

i like the dreamy pink and blues though..just might get too much of a zebra effect.

A really amazing idea with a really amazing execution. I love it

I like it.

But visually they have no sense of "place", something is only unusual if it differs from the norm, and in a fantasy world the common concensus is based on points of reference which might have to be explained to the viewer.

What about providing a contrasting point of reference against objects from the "normally perceived" world, such as battlefield detrius on the bases or as someone else has suggested a status quo centre piece, to really bring out just how weird these are and also provide a point of reference to us the observer.

Regards

Tom j

Very...interesting. It does remind me of my days studying the forms of Cubism and Abstractionism. I might have to agree though that showing on the model/base that it does belong in 40k might make it look like it "belongs" more

TomxJ wrote:I like it.

But visually they have no sense of "place", something is only unusual if it differs from the norm, and in a fantasy world the common concensus is based on points of reference which might have to be explained to the viewer.

What about providing a contrasting point of reference against objects from the "normally perceived" world, such as battlefield detrius on the bases or as someone else has suggested a status quo centre piece, to really bring out just how weird these are and also provide a point of reference to us the observer.

Regards

Tom j

Yeah cheers Tom, thats prettymuch what I had in mind for 'zazzing' up the bases. I also want to include some ruined hellenistic style sculptures, just like those scibor bases, but im broke so ill be sculpting them.


did a bit o painting on the screamers, gonna play more with smooth and rigid colour shifts.

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gwaahr wrote:
thinking of introducing an off yellow as a very rare secondary colour..

i like the dreamy pink and blues though..just might get too much of a zebra effect.

Personally, I think the two colours are enough. I think an extra colour would lose some of the uniformity you've got going on there...

I love the idea, and the way they turned out. The last image of the two screamers is beautiful.