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What really bugged me when looking through all of the images for inspiration for the Warden was that none of them showed much of an emphasis on speed.

I know its a superheavy, I know its a fire platform, but damn it, that thing moving a speed is scary. The below describes a Warhound.

'‘Command, where in the name of Guillimans blade is my fire support!’
The response welled up through the marrow of his bones like a bell, the audible ping of a full-scale auspex bouncing from his bloodied armour like waves of icewater from a cliff.
++Argus Legate responds++
It burst from the rear battle-lines near the forge.
An immense lupine shape raced towards the cultist lines, its head low. Vast backjointed legs threw up artillery weights of ash as they clawed through the broken lines before the forge, shields winking from splashes of small arms fire that fearfully found it. The artillery raining upon Selphis decreased as if the gunners had dawned upon the greater red threat ploughing towards them at tremendous speed.

The threat spoke. Mega-bolters ripped through the artillery on the hill in explosions of broken metal and flame.
‘Argus Legate confirm fire support focus, pyramid unit at deca-nine-nine’, said Selphis, watching the engines slaughter.
Its response was the clearest intonation of wrath that he’d ever heard.
++Argus affirms. We hunt!++

On that, I had to position the warden slightly more forwards leaning, slighly.

So this guy has a rotatable waist, head, arms, wrists. The legs are locked.


The bulbous humpback is far too rounded to give the impression of too much speed, as it would obstruct any bent knees, but this should at least look far more like its about to take a chunk out a building with its paw.

This is it in its slam dunk pose with shoulder pads attached as well. As long as one arm is raised it does give the impression of pace. Note the absence of a lot of ancillary plates and armour, this is intentional to show its greater adherence to the Mechanicus.



Speaking of shoulder pads, these are magnetised with a ridiculously small magnet. This is so the entire arm can be rotated higher for a slamming Reaper Blade or gauntlet.


Rather than magnetise properly I've instead simply relied on our friend blue-tac with the arm mounts, which means that it doesn't need to be attached or magnetised, just expand the aperture slightly.


Both the gauntlet and the chainsword are magnetised so that they can be rotated around the joint for greater reach. Detail on the gauntlet is also too nice to cover too.




Theme for these guys will be Dark Mechanicus, first test mini complete.



Army in servitude is the theme.

More to follow

With the legs splayed like that and the body rotated, I hate to say it but it looks like it's falling over. That chassis doesn;t scream 'built for speed' so it looks a bit off.

If you want a running look I would definitely look at a bend to the knee, the locked out leg looks wrong IMO.

Like the paint scheme though!

Edit: to see what I mean about the bent leg, check this thread:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/652771.page#7948944

I'll probably have to keep the guy locked as he is, i have a razor saw that I'm not afraid to use, but its a fairly weight join to pin.

Geared up he looks a little more in motion.



Eh, need to convert him a-plenty anywho so will revisit and reinform!

Thanks for the comments though, does help.