With Halloween coming up I was motivated to see if I could kitbash together a custom made demon prince from all the spare bits I have laying around.
Disclaimer: I will not finish this in time for Halloween. I'm just too slow a painter.
I started off with some left over Tyranid bits from venomthropes, carnifexes, and a swarm lord. After much dry fitting, cutting away and re-thinking I managed to successfully get a disturbingly creepy looking spider body together
Once I had that together successfully I really paused for a while to think about what I was doing, and wanted to achieve. I realized I wanted it to look a little more chaosy feeling so I added some suitable embellishments which I'll smooth in with green stuff later in the build. I thought about a spider spinning web and then decided I needed something suitable horrifying for some spider-goo to come out of. I had some left over bits from the deathguard squad set and found a face that belonged to a back pack that looked like it would be something I could later embellish on and have spider-goo coming out of. I also cut and then added some chainmail along the back of the thorax as an additional chaos-like embellishment.
A little skull hanging can be seen in this shot
Next I added a bit of liquid greenstuff to fill in a few of the glaring spots, and began cutting away areas to dry-fit my torso that's going to be the demon prince's upper body and head. There's going to need to be some greenstuff work to get it all looking together smoothly.
I have a Talos Pain Engine from the Dark Eldar that I'm integrating into this as the main body torso and head. I've also added a tentacle from the same kit to the back of the spider. In this shot you can see a retracted tentacle holding a skull, while the other tentacle is out and looking for something to hold on to. In this same shot you can see a tail component from the swarm lord set along with a couple of pieces from the talos set that look like antlers. I'm going to be cobbling the three pieces together to get a spider-like mouth on the front of the model.
Here's a shot of the upper torso so far. I've added a nice swinging chain with a skull on it to give the model some feeling of motion once it's all together. You can't see in this shot, but I've also added a nurgle tri-lobe symbol to his left chest area
I still haven't figured out what to do for the arms yet. I have some left over close combat pieces from the deathguard squad set I'm currently dry fitting to see how it looks.