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Showing my Emperors Children, dark eldar wyche cult, and various other projects im working on.

WIP
Scratch built Heldrake
Update#2 on Heldrake
Finished sculpt and primed: Heldrake



Heres some pics of my scratch built talos pain engine .. sculpted with green stuff added few other GW bits and primed ready for paint.

I eventually want 3 talos/cronos for the army my only solution was to make several molds of my original talos


This is the mold for the tail



Head/shell & lowerbody/belly molds



I know theyre a bit crude but it was my first try >.< .. the tail mold came out great but the other two could use a re-sculpt/cast

this is the second talos still very much a WIP









All questions, comments, or suggestions are welcome =D

That's really cool! Always good to see people trying scratch-builds and this one's awesome
As far as suggestions go I think there are quite a few places that could be slimmed down a bit. If you look at the original picture, the tail is super thin and gets slimmer at the top, whereas yours is the same thickness all the way down. I think the arms could maybe be a bit slimmed at the joints, especially the round bit where it attaches to the body. You have to get all those dangling wires and skinny arms in, coming off the bottom and sides, as well!

Lordy, that's an impressive beast. My only comment/suggestion is the gs could be a bit smoother in places; maybe try using vaseline and/or clay shapers for a bit more even texture? Nonetheless, outstanding work, mister.

On the armoured shell and tail plates i wanted to cut into it with an xacto to give it a crude iron cast look .. i have wanted to try smoothing with vasaline on the arms .
what i do need is some metal coils any suggestion on where to buy or make would be great.

And some WIP Raiders and a Venom .. basicly only been partially constructed primed and started to paint the main side panels

here's the latest work on my talos pain engine.

painted the fleshy areas with a crimson mix i made from 50/50 mix of warlock purple and blood red.



next is a dry brush of 90/10 mix of bleached bone and blood red.



a special wash was applied on next . a gloss/red wash mix.



a pale flesh mix was used on some areas and the orange was used in crevices to make a power/light effect.



more to come later ...

Eww... Icky... I love it! Great use of cron rods btw.

thx for the comment , here's the latest work on the tail/body piece.





Think ill add in a little white to make the energy pop more, and ill work on the armor plates next.

Very nice. Love the glowing effect. Now I just need to find some reason to use it on something...

Hey looks great, Thats one hell of a lot of green stuff, you might want to try millputt or Super Sculpey to save some pennies. You can get the same detail on both putties.

Looking forward to seeing more.

thx for the tip ill look into that putty in the future

here's some work on the tail and body.. dry brushed boltgun metal on all the black parts, added white to the energy areas, and inked and dry brushed the necron rods





ill work on the arms and stand next

Absolutely amazing job. Both painting but especially modelling : D keepup working!

took a little break from my dark eldar project to do some commission work for a friend.
Heres a lil tid bit though .. painted the arms and weapon for the talos.











I tried a dynamic pose .. imagine this 3 ton beast barreling into a tasty squad of space marines ;D

** ill try to finish this thing this weekend so more pics to come! ***

Heres my Slaanesh Emperor's children army ive worked on for the last 10 years .. why it isnt 100% finished by now is beyond me >.>

almost every piece has been been modified in some shape or form /enjoy!


This is my 2500 portion of the army in last years ard boys semi final .. came in 11th out of 25 .. too many grey knight scum!!!





My trusty custom built defiler XD ** all the metals need to be re-painted its a bit dusty after several years of service **






My colorful rhinos


Prince of Excess scratch built



Greater Demon of Slaanesh


Lucius the eternal




Scratch built slaanesh obliterators .. made from chaos termies, gun bits and green putty.


Noise marines



Altho not part of my slaanesh army .. heres my Warmaster Horus model ..
based off a horus heresy cover art(forget which one) He counts as abbadon when i do use him.









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New Project! Finish painting my scratch built Slaanesh Subjugator

This is what ive done so far .. graffiti art kinda like my defiler on the way! Also may change the claws considering the subjugator claws arent your normal defiler claws.









Incase anyone was curious .. two defiler kits, two battlefleet gothic chaos cruisers, Tau hammerhead,
and a ATAT model (think thats what it was) were used to make this beast.







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Necron annihilation barge i did for a client

Very nice style on the barge!
Interesting chaos walker.
Why does it say "neglect, protect, destroy, crafty" on your Defiler?

I like your termies. They remind me of Ethereals from WoW.

What is the recipe for the lightning blue on the Necron annihilation barge?

Baiyuan wrote:Very nice style on the barge!
Interesting chaos walker.
Why does it say "neglect, protect, destroy, crafty" on your Defiler?

Im pretty superstitius with my chaos army so i give them "chaos runes" to protect them on the battle.

I forget exactly where i got the words but im sure crafty and neglect were not two of the words ..


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Goresaw wrote:I like your termies. They remind me of Ethereals from WoW.

those are actually obliterators .. theyre about half an inch taller then an actual chaos terminator .. the GW oblitz are hideous imo so i decided to make my own.


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Arakasi wrote:What is the recipe for the lightning blue on the Necron annihilation barge?

Its actually quite simple .. base your lightning effect area/crack with enchanted blue , go over it with ice blue , add in hot spots with plain white.
Final step can be done a few ways .. either use 50/50 white and ice blue and paint on small highlights around the areas you want to "glow" or if you want a static electric look
you can drybrush over the area.

Your Talos is the first miniature to ever make me sick. Great job!

I love your obliterators, they have a real elegance to them which just feels very... Right!

Jaw dropping

Jaidyn wrote:

Baiyuan wrote:Very nice style on the barge!
Interesting chaos walker.
Why does it say "neglect, protect, destroy, crafty" on your Defiler?

Im pretty superstitius with my chaos army so i give them "chaos runes" to protect them on the battle.
I forget exactly where i got the words but im sure crafty and neglect were not two of the words ..

Hhm, "crafty" can also be translated as "cunning", but that's the best you get out of that character. Maybe you find some solace in the fact that you actually did a pretty good job on painting the characters, they are really surprisingly readable for a layman's writing.

Yes it was cunning! If you have any pictures of suitable "chaos" japanese characters id love to see them.

I'll probably add new ones to my decimator model.


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inmygravenimage wrote:I love your obliterators, they have a real elegance to them which just feels very... Right!

Thank you , I need to finish painting them one of these days ...

Couldent get my hands on a fateweiver so decided to do my own out of the GW lord of change model .. issue is that is problably the worst sculpt GW has ever produced so im adding some meat to the bones and a stylish pose.. motivated from ultraforge vrock model.

Still more green putty work to do .. i plan on adding cloth strips that hang from both heads.








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Had a keeper of secrets head ,left over bits from a demon prince kit( only front chest/wings/ right arm/ left hand .. rest is green putty) and made a new slaanesh demon prince!
.. cant ever have too many XD. still WIP need to find a proper tabbard then start to paint it.

Big Update .. fully finished fateweiver and a black legion demon prince.. next up is a grey knight and a GK termy .. ( i know heresy!!!! >.< )


finshed the putty work .. mainly added rags to both necks.


painted all blue .. used the new GW caledor sky as my base paint.


white blue mix .. drybrush


blue wash (GW drakenhof nightshade)


same thing on the wings but added water


purple+still water mix (GW Druchi violet)


painted the rags bleached bone


finished the base

did all the metals detail work n stuff .. heres finished fateweiver .. 4 angles









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Black legion demon prince


nothing special .. great model no need to even convert!


Blood red base


Orange drybrush ..then a light white+red drybrush


Red ink+ still water washed all the skin and wings


finished the base and painted the armor plates black .. also did fire effect in the indented areas ( red>orange>yellow>white)

Finished all the detail work .. heres 4 angles of the demon prince enjoy/ !





Next update will be two grey knights i have to do for a commission .. was thinking to paint them GREY whoa who
would have thought to actually paint them grey instead of silver lol

Really like those wings on the BL dp - very fleshy!

inmygravenimage wrote:Really like those wings on the BL dp - very fleshy!

thank you! found a new trick recently with still water .. after all my base painting and drybrushes i mix a colored ink with some still water just like 3-4 drops and it gives it a nice shine but not shiny really makes xeno flesh look nice.

WIP helldrake... real one looks a bit weird to me so ill be crafting my own ^^





Iron warriors lord/warpsmith on foot and iron warriors lord on jetbike i did for a friends army ..

Just scrolling down you have an interesting mix. I think I like the Chaos stuff the best, those EC Rhinos having an interesting pattern that looks deceptively easy to get.

Thanks ! The rhinos have gone thru like 10+ paintjobs over the last 10 years .. i always add something new little by little .. giving it a graffiti look. Ill prob add more when i start back up on my Emperors children XD this new codex has me all jacked up ^^