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Thanks a ton guys always glad when they're well received!

The witch's torso is actually a Witch Elf made her before Eschers were a thing, although I do have something Escher-bodied coming soon (and they'd look great with quills!)

I'm sure this has been addressed before, but how do you intend to use these guys in-game? Or is it a case of for the hell of it?

Well, they're mostly for the hell of it, but if I finally get a game in the Necromunda/Inquisimunda should do nicely

Love the guy with the cane. Great set of pictures you have there! Looks like a little more green in the bases?

Thanks Kestrel glad you like him!

I think the better camera picks up the green of the grass much more strongly than the previous ones. I'm not actually sure which is more true to life actually. It's probably something somewhere inbetween...

I've got a couple of new guys to show too! Again on the theme of subspecies...

They're mudlarks. Grounded crows. Pathetic little things.



I don't know really. Probably out scavenging when their landers broke, or were attacked I suppose. Some of them are intentionally abandoned I think, but lord knows why.

Most of them wander around in little bands, looking for other Crows to barter their way back onto their ships. Sometimes it doesn't take too long, but some have been here for generations. You get little villages of them sometimes, when they know they're in for the long haul. Some of them have been there so long they've forgotten they were crows to begin with...



For those who don't know, a mudlark is a name for scavengers in the Victorian era who made a living grubbing through the mud of the river Thames for discarded valuables, and a shrike (or butcher-bird) is a morbid little bird that catches lizards and small rodents and impales them on thorny plants for later consumption.

The difference in the mudlark models is subtle, but I've tried to make my mudlarks slighter of build and more earthy in tone than their space-borne brethren. I've also left their skin a little darker by not doing my usual drybrush of Pallid Wych Flesh over the Druchii Violet wash to give them the impression of having spent more time in the sun.

I'll have more planned for both, but for now the high-res photography marches ever onwards!



The crows trade, sometimes, with the elk-men. Fellow nomads, wandering through this icy plane

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Again I get sort of a comic panel vibe from that last picture. You are really developing a story here.

You are too good at taking a bunch of random bits and making a something fantastic out of them. I look forward to what you are gonna do next with these guys as it's always a treat.

Thanks guys! Great to see you around Rhivan

You're right on the comic panel vibe Youwashock if I could draw I'd love to make a webcomic of some sort with these guys. Black Powder and Bionics or something like that for now, Prisma will need to suffice:



Actually, this next update's got some other more natural-looking photos dotted through it redux of my elk-men (with a couple of new additions!)



Over there, I spy two big stags. White Hands by the looks of it. I know little of their braying tongue, but enough to barter us supplies. Perhaps enough to procure a guide to our destination.

Looks like they're on their way to the herdstone. Meeting places for the horned folk. You can find them scattered all through the nine systems, and a little beyond. Monuments to the Old Gods...



There it is, the herdstone. Great stone menhirs erected where the veil allegedly wears thin, back in the times when the warherds swept through these worlds. Fell monuments. See how this one weeps blood from its pinnacle.



See the younger bucks on the periphery. Not quite their full-horned glory just yet, but practicing for when their time comes.



The elk-folk wander around in family-bands, plus a pack animal or two. People say they used to congregate in massive numbers, but not any more.



Judging by the silhouette I'd say a young doe. Not yet a full mare. Barely of breeding age by the looks of things.





See that one over there? That's a Bray. Close as they get to cultural leaders these days. Elders who preserve their histories, administer what passes for justice amongst their kind, and lead the bacchanal rites to appease their vengeful gods.





And now for the new guy I've been waiting for a while to share this one!

Bjorn's teeth! See that over there. That's a mammut. Elk-men giants. Sometimes an elgr's born that never really stops growing. They do slow down a bit around the fifteen foot mark, including bionics, but I've heard tales of ones up to twenty five.





Poor things are sterile, mind. Part of the reason you don't get many of them.



Call themselves 'Tsagaan Gar'. White Hands. Forest folk. Quite different to their warlike cousins on the steppe.



So yeah! That's the elk-men so far must admit it was a little daunting painting such a big model after so much painting little dudes, but it went really smoothly I've been wanting to add a little more height-difference to some of my warbands so expect some more as soon as funds have recovered

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Holy... just amazing I sust scrolled through the whole thing. I have no other words to describe no cool all the models look

Good job on the not-thaumaturge. Might steal that conversion.

Preposterously great stuff man

Elks are grand (big'un too!), Crows continue to rock, love the prisma'd meeting pic. As a funny side note, I once bought 3 boxes of rust stalkers to convert into Eversors (...) but then returned them when my sanity returned. Every time I see your work part of me regrets returning them, as they do have brilliant cyborg-legs and great heads for creepy not-animal dudes (also lovely dakka pistols for the dakka throne).

- Salvage

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Elks are grand (big'un too!), Crows continue to rock, love the prisma'd meeting pic. As a funny side note, I once bought 3 boxes of rust stalkers to convert into Eversors (...) but then returned them when my sanity returned. Every time I see your work part of me regrets returning them, as they do have brilliant cyborg-legs and great heads for creepy not-animal dudes (also lovely dakka pistols for the dakka throne).

- Salvage

I got some and turned them into crusaders - but thought along the same lines as you and made one into an eversor (didn't really convert it much though).... I like them less when I look at them in comparison to the sheer creativeness of these though.

Wow, amazing conversion. The big dude just has so much character in him. You can instantly see he's looking for the next fight but there's futility and pain running through him. I literally didn't think you could take the crows to higher places than you already have but there you go!

Wonderful Ynead! Love your new camera it shows off the little things you have done, tats and conversions, plus the fluff fits the models.

Oh my, look at that guy. Dude, stellar piece. He rocks like the menhir. Just...wow.

Excellent stuff real sense of narrative.

Haha thanks a million guys always happy when people like all my mucking about

@Ember Steal away! It's what the Crows would do If you are doing the Ironstrider legs thing I'd get the base the Ironstrider comes on too. The Thaumaturge one is a little too small and I had to buy another one...

@Salvage and @Monkey You're more than welcome to donate unwanted Sicarians to me! those things are worth their weight in gold for little gribbly techno-bits. Between the faces for my Crows and the legs for...basically half of what I've ever made they're by far my favourite kit

I'd love to see an Eversor conversion for them, or a Crusader I've seen a few cool conversions with Fantasy Empire bits to make Knight Worlders that would be awesome

@Boundless Yeah that's the impression I got from him too (completely unintentional mind...). Enough that I sort of bent his fluff a little to suit it, but sadly didn't get to work it in just yet. Basically where all the other elk-men have regular tattoos, mammut (as 'favoured by the gods' wind up with tattoos that etch themselves into their skin, or develop where their accelerated development causes it to split and semi-heal over. Like Khornate scar-tissue.

Tough life living in the shadow of the Gods...

@Yorkright Yeah the camera's made a real step-change or more likely my mate who's behind it and actually knows what he's doing

@Youwashock Glad you like him man he's definitely turned out to be one of my favourites!

@Llamahead Glad it feels narrative-y. The whole worldbuilding thing has always been my favourite part of 40k, either on a small-scale with jsut a couple of guys or full-scale shaping sectors and suchlike

Next up is the wolf-men! Still need to sort most of the photos (and one of a new guy!), but here's the first



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Amazing, characterful work. You continue to knock these out of the park.

Beautiful work here. Some great concepts, nice modelling, great fluff teases.

More wonderful stuff!
I'm really inspired.

Thanks guys glad I've managed to avoid being a one-hit-wonder

Bit of a detour as I'd intended to move on to the Frekr wolf-men next, but I've just taken some photos of two new Mudlarks and thought I'd get them out while everyone still remembers what they are





Crows sometimes hire little bands of them as local guides. Folks like these have been here too long to want to return to the ships, but something as valuable as a firearm would command a princely sum to such downtrodden people.



'Same species, same specimens', as the Biologis say.



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Sweet af dude, always happy to see more of such a great design. Really appreciate the height disparities within these clans too, between different torsos, leg augments or sheer bulk.

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Thanks dude always pleased you like them!

Yeah I've always found height/bulk differences to be one of the really interesting features of Inquisimunda-style warbands. The real varied nature of the groups lets you really play with that

I've got a couple more ideas I want to try out with that as well actually. Just picked up a couple of sprues of Gnoblars which seem about the right size for youngling Crows and Elk, so there should be size differences right the way from a Gnoblar all the way up to a Thaumaturge on stilts!

Where do you get most of your bits form?
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Great new additions

Thanks guys

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Where do you get most of your bits form?
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Most of my individual bits I get from a combination of Bitzbox, Bitsandkits, Forbidden Gaming and Let the Dice Decide. Some kits I buy whole if they're chock full of good bits (mainly Sicarians as I use the faces for Crows and the legs for basically everything...).

Oh, and good old eBay for some things

Littl'uns? Awesome. Keep it coming, man.

All caught up. I cannot say what has not already been said by myself and others, but will reiterate this is the most absorbing thread on Dakka for me. Have to make a note of your decision to present your models on the 'Origin of Species' cover- brilliant meta, was a "wha... oh wow that's cool!" moment for me. Thank you for that.

I'm really enjoying your Elk people, they are fantastically done (the playing with the height as you mentioned was very good) and the chaos marauder bits mesh really well with the overall image.

As for the Raven men the new additions are fantastic (and you are really getting mileage out of your secutarii legs)

Thanks guys glad you like them!

Yeah I thought that 'On the Origin of Species' would be fitting...although ironic once I get round to the origin-story of the Crows

Oh, and yeah I'm fairly certain that those digitigrade legs are my all-time favourite bits. Use them on damn near everything even found a way of working them into these guys:



I didn't realise they had priests, or shamans, or whatever they are.



That's the thing. People seem to think they're animals. Mind you, most people who think that don't tend to think it for very long...



When Morkai's sons are on the prowl,
When moon is bright and wolves do howl,
Within thy walls stay safe and fast,
For teeth and tools of murder pass.

-Extract from the Edda Óvættr (An Ode to Monsters)





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