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These are so much fun. Thank you for sharing!

I love Zaphod! Where's he from?

He's from Denizen Miniatures (only 25mm though).

He is the "Two headed hiker" at the bottom of the page.
http://www.denizenminiatures.co.uk


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$1.90 US at the present exchange rate.

That's one awesome looking brute. Perfect for trudging around in the day to day life on some backwater planet.

Love the big guy, and thanks for the Zaphod Beeblebrox, now I have a bunch more models to buy.

Denizen makes some neat stuff.

So, I wasn't really working on this project, but suddenly I had a chance to score some incredibly cheap, base coated Menoth. I'd also been working on the Arch Papess kind of listlessly, so I stepped up and started doing my Eclesearchy parade. How do you spell that? Anyway, I love starting from other people's part painted models since it saves so much time. I'd planned to do one of my church factions using Menoth colors (the other in Green in honor of the Infardi from Dan Abnett's books), and all Menoth really needs for 40K is purity seals and skulls, which I can do. They are carrying images from Pentegrad's sacred history.

I'm using the light warjacks as a "really bad idea souless church battle robot". The inquisition is going to catch up with these folks someday.















Not my best work overall, but done for now and I can always revisit it.

I love that Raging Heroes priestess, is it just me or does she look like Hillary Clinton?

Had things gone differently in 2016 she would have been the commander of one of my BFG fleets.

She does remind me of someone, maybe one of my aunts. I did a poor job on the face, but I might return to it someday. I'm also not sure putting the cherubs on the same base was the right call.

kestrel,

Any model painted is another small victory against the horde of the unpainted!

Cheers,

CB

I love this project... fantastic...

FTL

Captain Brown wrote:
kestrel,

Any model painted is another small victory against the horde of the unpainted!

Cheers,

CB

Truer words were never said Captain!

Thanks FTL!

Here's a sub project that I've put a lot of thought into, but only a little modeling time:
The people of Mithras. Mithras is my attempt at a really "alien" world - an ancience (10 billion years +) world, geologically dead, flat, with nothing but incredibly highly evolved basically single cell organisms - algae, mold type stuff. No animal life of any kind. Periodically dominated by Orks. The people are really "strange" (as in not based on any historical archtypes) , but still (mostly) loyal subjects of the imperium. I'm going to set Dark Heresy campaign there, and I'm enjoying developing the setting.

I like that setting, something feeling truly alien while also human is something difficult to pull off i think, and you've got a very good start to it there. I'd like to read and see more!

 amazingturtles wrote:
I like that setting, something feeling truly alien while also human is something difficult to pull off i think, and you've got a very good start to it there. I'd like to read and see more!

I agree with that! If my ambitions play out, I have quite a few figures/projects in mind - write ups, figures, terrain.

Most Mithrans live in communal nomadic groups that travel by truck between harvests along Mithras's excellent road network. Here such a commune is harvesting large chunks of spore blossom from a recent game (though this was before I had Mithran specific figures to go with them).

kestral, I'm really impressed how much progress you are able to share with us on multiple blogs, that is dedication.

Thanks!

I feel a bit weird about multiple blogs (especially since at the moment you have some of the same people reading all of them), but I really do like organizing by subject. Usually I'm focused on only one at at a time, but not these days! I've been tremendously productive, but not focused on one thing the last 3-4 months, which is the result of a sort of "perfect storm" - it is the best time of year for hobby, since soon I'll be outside on maintenance, forestry, building that kind of stuff after work, other aspects of my life have been going pretty smoothly, and I've had a bit of a "mid life crisis" that has caused me to kick some things into high gear. I've also been doing tons of it... ..because it makes me happy. I sometimes feel like I'm shirking when I spend a bunch of time on painting, but this year I'm just ignoring that feeling, and my mental state has really benefited without any appreciable drop in productivity in other areas of life. In some ways I'm the best I've been at the moment.

Another Shrine for the Imperium - this one made from a giant goat (sea monster?) vertebrae.

Sweet! How many bits of real dead critters get used in actual terrain.

I still need to make something out of that nasty skeleton bits you found me.

Now that is so neat. Fake skeletons inside a real skellington.

I do love natural materials.

Here's a bit of "The tale of four Magii". I've always loved Techno Mages as a concept, and their sort of "Lord of the Rings" riff in Deep Space Nine - as powerful, mysterious individuals with their own agendas. I have four in the works, and here's number one:







I'm thinking she is a Magos Metaphysic who studies things like how many saints can fit on the head of a pin, as well as the science of art and aethsetics.

The crash of Warmachine is finally paying off for me - scored her for $9 on Amazon Prime of all places - free shipping! All metal model, so I washed it with gloss ink, then lightly filed the edges to create a highlight, glued on some parchment strips and called it good - very little painting at all. I'd love to do more metal convergence figures in the same way.

The other 3 are Biologos Vanodria (based off Caul), the Old Witch of Mithras, and Magos Casca, who has modified his form for deep sea exploration...

Wow nice work.

Verrrry nice. I wonder if I still have some of my old Cryx.

You have a great eye for how models can be used beyond their original purpose, she certainly fits your plan and looks very cool.

Very nicely done- I'm getting a strong Azimov "Robots of Dawn" vibe of this piece!

Very, very cool. Adding this blog to my reading list.

Thanks! I've been inspired by everyone's work here on Dakka, and it is nice to contribute in return.

Here's a project that fits on the "Minor Xenos" theme. These are some mutants by Dakka's Doombunny that he was kindly giving away. I really like their look, so I'm giving them a bit of love - and Fluff.

"Is there anything more vile than the Darmothi Species? Blessed by some quirk of genetics with a strong resistance to mutation, they chafe against it and will go to any length to twist their forms. So strong is the Xenos need to invite corruption into themselves, that the Darmothi will graft heads and arms of captives onto themselves, for these can mutate which they consider a blessing. The Darmothi are a small, goblinoid race of limited intelligence who habitually dress in crude armor somewhat like that of Feudal worlds. The process of grafting a head must be fatal to the Darmothi as such, but this seems to bother them not at all, since they believe that by doing so their souls will be accepted by the Chaos gods. The hybrid mutants that result take service with the chaos powers, where they are swiftly consumed as cannon fodder, but not before suffering all sorts of hideous mutations. Radical inquisitors have wondered if their resistance to mutation might be transferred to humans in some way.... ...this is of course heresy."

Did up some servitors because I needed them for an RPG session. I've always liked servitors as a concept, but the models leave me a bit cold. These did grow on me a bit, but I still feel the need to track down/convert some as well. The yellow was sort of an accident - I was going to do them with black rubbery suits I was trying to do with gloss black ink, but started adding yellow and then just kept going. It does give them a sort of generic "construction equipment" feel. Not sure I'd do it again though.











And another really random bit - part of the "clear the shelf for Air Power April before April is gone" effort - Doombunny's Corpse Dogs.

Aw.... doggies.

Some cool civvy servitors, it must be very Grim Dark in the 41st Millennium if construction servitors need heavy bolters though!

Those pups seem loyal til the end...

I think they're assumed to be like the Monty Python rabbit, so maybe not so much loyal. In the meantime, here's a guy. Praising the sun-Emperor? Calling for Brains? About to turn a handspring? Hard to say. He's portraying a drug addict in an upcoming come though. Cawdor head and Mantic Zombie body.