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Woah! Always love it when I come across this one. That walker is amazing, and the Ettins, while understated, are super evocative and really fit in with the whole theme. The Crow Lizards add a nice mix to keep it from being too slavishly norse. Three armed Wargor? Brilliant! One thing I particularly admire this way you get proportions that seem "right", but also "wrong" in your conversions, if that makes sense.

Just read this back to front, really enjoyed the back story behind every little group, awesome kitbashing skills aswell.

Thanks a ton guys! Always appreciative of the positive feedback

@Youwashock Yeah the idea behind this sort of area is the dregs that are left behind after an Imperial Crusade has swept through an are that was already a bit of a backwater. All the big players have come and fought their battles, and the poor bloody infantry they've roped along have been abandoned in the wake

@kestral Glad it's not coming across as a direct pastiche of norse mythology I've tried to weave little bits and pieces in throughout it, but in a low-key way or a way that wouldn't necessarily be directly obvious. The snake-crows are a great example they sort of tangentially link with Jormungandr (I'm going to weave that in to the Alpha Legion origin story of the crows, maybe as the ship name of the task force who corrupted their gene code), but it's not shoving it down your throat like the Wolfy McWolf-lord Space Wolves so hopefully it feels more natural

No big new update yet (still putting the finishing touches on a few new dudes), but here's a little distraction until then



Regular crows tend to keep their younglings on their ships until they fledge. Mudlarks don't have that luxury. Wherever they wander, the whole clan goes with them.



Big fan of fleshing out warbands (where suitable) with not only the fairer sex but also children and animals too. Makes it feel a little more realistic to me

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How have I never come across this blog before?! Great stuff on every page, so very creepy and sinister. I love all the muted colours they have, it makes them seem like they have spent a lot of their lives living in darkness which is awesome!

Haha thanks man glad you're enjoying it! Glad you like the muted colours too I've really got into the swing of painting in this style so happy it's worth it

Overdue update time:



Homo Sapiens Fenrisiensis



By blood, they're mostly Fenrisian. Descendents of kaerls and soldiers posted as garrisons, or just too slow to make it back to the landers when the crusade left. They're littered all through the Fenrisian Wilds like so many spent casings.



Figured I'd spoken enough about kaerls so it was about time I actually made some these guys will be able to double as a warband in their own right, and a retinue for Udinn, my Longfang spymaster

Not sure about anyone else, but I find it helps to make the Poor Bloody Infantry of a warband first as a grounding point to then leap off the edge with weird and wonderful gribblies (more of those coming soon!).

Have you looked into adapting some of your bands for killteam?

Looking great, as always.

Hey hey, good to see you back. These new guys are pretty neat. I like that they could almost pass for fantasy models until you take a closer look.

Thanks guys! Great to be back

Haven't looked at the Kill Team rules yet but I really should I'm sure there should be a way of adapting them, especially if there's some form of Renegades & Heretics/Chaos Cultist/GS Cults rules if not, I'll just have to bulk out the warbands with some more gribblies fit for Kill Team!

Really must find some games too...

I'm glad they could nearly pass for Fantasy models that's exactly the low-tech look I was aiming for them. Look like Fantasy...until you look closer and see various scavenged bionics

Next dude finished



Virskr gazed out into Ginnungagap, the yawning void between stars. He remembered well the whispering, wheedling hunger that clawed his mind in that abyssal place. With clenched teeth he steeled himself against his fear. His gods demanded service, and he was oathbound to obey.



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Real sense of the Norse about that guy.

Awesome work my dude! Are you planning on using some of these guys for kill team? Maybe make your own rule set...

Great conversions on those Fenrisians! And the paintjobs compliment them really well, you seem to have gotten the "blanchitsu" style down. Somehow messy but at the same time clean and accurate, I like it very much! I hope to do some INQ28 inspired models and practice the painting style in the future, but we'll see when I have a bitz box large enough

Thanks guys! Really glad you like them

Looking through the kill-team ruleset I suppose it's GS Cults that seem the best fit. Human(ish) with a bit of a close combat focus, although I've got a Truescale Astartes coming and the only real option for a mixed mortal/astartes kill team is CSM. Could still work quite well

And yeah, for some reason this latest guy definitely feels 50% more viking than any of the others

I'm glad you like the messy-ish painting style I'm really pleased I found it as I'm really not a naturally neat painter. I tried edge-highlighting once and gave up after the first squad. Definitely not for me. A light drybrush highlight followed by a wash seems to give a much smoother transition and a much nicer texture, especially to metals

Next model coming up!



That's our Ulfsark. Men who have dedicated themselves wholly to Morkai the Animal God. Men who have stripped their minds and bodies of all that was once human, such that they might better understand their patron.





Hope you like this little gribbly!

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Amazing work!
I'm a big fan of your Eldar thread and after finally finding this one, you managed to amaze me yet again!
Got so many different vibes from these models, especially the elk men. Had to put on some melodic black/folk metal and imagine myself wandering in a freezing foggy field or forest while seeing the silhouettes of them slowly emerge.

Keep up the good work, I will be coming back to check on this.

Haha funny you should mention black/folk metal and imagining silhouettes through a frozen forest. That's what I was doing when I came up with the idea!

I really should get back to my Eldar. I am a little worried that I've progressed enough as a painter that I'll have to redo a lot of them so they look consistent :S still, I've got some awesome ideas

Next guy done too!





The jarl towered over his followers. You could certainly see how he came to power. The man was a mountain. People say his mother was an ettin...and looking at him I could almost believe it.



Dead pleased with this guy. I bought the chieftain a while ago and made a jarl out of him, but just wasn't pleased with how he turned out. Turns out a head swap to something more inhuman, toning down the warpbeast pauldron and giving him some heads to hold was all it took to bring him up to scratch!

Hope you like him!

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 Ynneadwraith wrote:
Haha funny you should mention black/folk metal and imagining silhouettes through a frozen forest. That's what I was doing when I came up with the idea!

I really should get back to my Eldar. I am a little worried that I've progressed enough as a painter that I'll have to redo a lot of them so they look consistent :S still, I've got some awesome ideas

Great minds think alike

I can relate to that feeling. That's the reason I'm repainting most of my Eldar at the moment.
Would really like to see more of your ideas! I took a lot of inspiration from your suggestions for some of my conversion projects, like the swooping hawks. Sadly they are still very much WIP.

Really great paintjob! I just love the theme!

Oh man. That guy just ROCKS! Love the power fist. The head swap is so Bane/Mad Max. It just references awesome.

Those guys are so cool, especially like that dogo. Need to get myself some decent looking grass.

The last guy looks great!
Kinda reminds me of Predator: the skin colour, the black gear, the skulls, the pose holding the heads. He just needs a different head.

@Ezki Just re-discovered your thread posted over there!

@youwashock Thanks man! Always pleased you like my stuff you're right he does look very Mad Max. Stick him on a red sand desert base and he'd fit right in!

@stonned_astartes Yeah finding the right shade of grass is tricky actually. A lot are really vibrant. I ended up mixing together a brighter and a darker type which worked well

@Tim You're right all he needs is some dreads and he's there

Next one coming up!



The young crow-girl gazed through her optics in awe. The valkyr was terrible and beautiful to behold, her bronzed skin and taut musculature visible 'neath radiant plumage. The polar opposite of her own wiry limbs. For a moment, she stood entranced...until the danger of her situation dawned upon her.



"Yes, I have seen their ilk before," the Inquisitor intoned. "The inhabitants of the Daedalus sector call them 'harpies', and righteously drive them from their spires. It surprises me little that the heathen natives here not only tolerate but positively revere these godless 'valkyr' tech-witches.







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Also also, has anyone spotted the new Delaques yet? Sweet imperial saints they're cool already have some ideas I want to try out with them I was thinking the other day about how I wanted to revamp my Dokkalfar voidborn pirates and here these guys come, perfectly suited to the job!

Oh, she's a beaut. The tattoos are a fantastic touch.

And yeah, the new Delaques are full of potential. Newcromunda had been a goldmine of a minis range.

Mindblowing!

What about terrain?

Very nice!

Thanks guys!

Necromunda absolutely has been a goldmine. That along with the new Black Fortress. GW have really been knocking it out of the park with convertable models

Terrain is absolutely on the to-do list I've got some ideas, just need to do them!

Next model coming up though!



Udinn, One-eye. Late is the hour in which this charlatan chooses to appear. Mutant-kin I name you. Ill news is an ill guest.





Silence, Harkr. He has earnt his worth. Speak, Longfang. What news of the wilds have you? What news do your stormcrows bring?





I've heard some kaerls mutter that he's senile. Wasn't aware that could happen to astartes, but he certainly doesn't help himself playing god to his little crow-mutants. If he wasn't such a useful spymaster I expect he'd have been sent on his Last Hunt by now. You know, 'die with a sword in your hand'. That sort of thing.



So yeah! That's my take on Udinn, the Long Fang spymaster from way back at the start of this project it's taken quite a while to amass the bits I wanted for him, but I'm glad I waited for the right ones (the Deathbringer head was the only one that seemed to fit for me).

I'm glad that he came out a little lumbering and bulky. I've always thought the idea of Marines leaping around being all dynamic didn't quite fit my headcanon for them. As far as I'm concerned they should have all the subtlety and grace of a armoured rhino

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Hey, that's pretty good.

Pretty cool! I always love the strong blanchitsu-vibe you have going on, not to mention all the fluff details.

Good work

That is a fitting head for him

Awesome stuff, Crows or otherwise. The admech kits are so fantastic for conversions, and you are really showing it.

Amazing stuff. Fantastic conversions, and I love the palate -- very dark and moody. Very 40k grimdark gothic. Inspiring!!!

Indeed, very amazing stuff. Love the dark style and the grim look of them all.

Ugh this is so grim and cold-- it screams, as people have said earlier, to some atmospheric black metal~ love it love it.