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Vindicare is looking BADASS.The pose is fantastic imo,the basing looks great too.

Excellent vindicare conversion Bruticus, and the cultist looks awesome too. I really like the freehand.
Moar please.

Awesome looking models.

Have you seen this guys thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/30/524162.page#5609507 thought it might be your thing

Really nice work on the Vindicare and the Sun Cult Assassin

Lovely miniature, lovely pose. I really enjoy the paint style you've developed, very muddy and filthy.

Much more impressive than my vindicare assassin!

Damn spend a weekend reading a book and you miss out on a bloody cool Imperial Assassin.

He looks really good mate. Cheers for going above and beyond.

It has just occurred to me you chopped up your rogue trader to make your death cult assassin. Guess she didn't make the 'cut' after all.

I crack myself up sometimes

Congrats on hitting the front page dude, your underhive cityscapes are excellent.

Brut, I don't have to "bring" the Ordinatus...it already has the range to your table.

If your after Epic Equivalent take a look at Dark Realm Miniatures and Exodus wars ranges they might have stuff that's suitable for you.

After getting back from playing Inquisitor with PDH et al. I felt inspired to do some more 28mm models (I've been doing a hell of a lot of teeny tiny 6mm models recently).

This guy is the first Space Marine I have painted in about 17 years. He is an Iron Warrior who has become lost among the stars and has been travelling for 10,000 years, trying to find his way back to the Imperium:







I have some more fluff I might post at some point, but the basic idea is that his ship crash landed after being flung through the Warp to the furthest reaches of the Galaxy, or even beyond. Living alone on a deathworld for thousands of years has exhausted his ammunition - forcing him to fashion crude weapons - and his sanity, because even for a near-immortal Space Marine there is only so long you can stay sane in a situation like that. He eventually escaped the planet and has been travelling through space to return to civilisation, although his motivations, allegiances and mental state are unknown.

He's a true-scale marine so is pretty huge, made from Deathshroud Terminator legs, the cloak from the Dark Vengeance Chaos Lord, the head from the Fantasy Chaos Warshrine (provided by PDH, thanks) and various other odds and ends.He has reforged his thunder hammer into a primitive hammer and carries a shield of scrap metal.

I hope He's not going to find his way back, Too dangerous

I like the old feeling You gave with the paintjob and the pose is really natural

Waiting fluff....

Very nice work Brut! Another rich character and wonderful miniature.

I enjoyed making the iron warrior so much that it might shape what comes next somewhat. I just really love cables and rust.

Minor crisis though - I've run out of Charadon Granite and there is no replacement for it. It's my favourite colour and I use it on pretty much everything, including all my bases. Anyone have a spare pot? Or any suggestions on how to replace it?

I've got a bottle of it that you can have. Pm me and I'll send it to you.

Oh wow! I bet he's pretty ripe by now
Really amazing job man!

ephrael wrote:
I've got a bottle of it that you can have. Pm me and I'll send it to you.

As have I. You can have it too if you want. I'm pretty sure I've never used it.

Lovely IW there. I've admired this thread from afar for a while and I'll happily donate a pot to see it continue.

Those deathshroud terminator legs are awesome for truescale, looks so much better than using terminator legs.

Thanks guys - Ephrael I think the postage from the US would be excessive for one pot of paint but Grimtuff I will take you up on your offer, cheers I will PM.

OK so next up:



This is a Dark Mechanicus Genetor or Gene-sculptor. He/she is particularly interested in the creation of Gholams and Chimerics - monstrous creatures that are a fusion of animal and human DNA and is an avid admirer of the teachings of the legendary Apothecary Bile.



This is the Genetor's pet cyber-scorpion, one of a menagerie of constructs that the Genetor treats like beloved children.

Still a bit more work to do on the Genetor (mainly just neatening up the GS) but I am really pleased with the model. Considering how messed up the regular Mechanicus are it's quite difficult to imagine how the Dark Mechanicus can be much worse. I have wanted to do an 'Island of Doctor Moreau' or 'Frankenstein' type thing for a while and I was having some trouble tying all my ideas together until I realised that the Dark Mechnanicus would be perfect for it - they can be involved with the icky genetic experiment side of Slaanesh (as Fabius Bile is) and they can also be involved with nasty body horror/machinery/etc. I might still make a Slaanesh cult but they might be a Mordheim gang now.

wow! everything is comming along nicely love the Iron Warrior he looks a little mad (as in crazed) and the dark mechanicus is comming along nicely.

do you use a tube tool for the tubing on the dark mech guy.

i think i might have to pick on of them up they seem to be wonder makers

Blimming Eck ! These are amazing .. The true scale Iron warrior is great really imposing , and his back story is very intriguing.. Also really like these two new guys .. the scorpion is genius mate ..

do you now own a cable maker is that a home made cable ?

So is that Iron Warrior still loyal to the Emperor?

Yep I use a cable maker from Masq Mini.

I don't know if he is still loyal, I think he has developed some difficulties thinking about things like that after so long with no-one to talk to but himself. He doesn't know about the Heresy, but he has had a lot of contact with the Warp and things that whisper to him.

The dark mechanicus stuff is awesome!! I like the Dr. Moreau angle on it. Lots of flavorful things you can do...

he needs a genesliced hydra... only smaller and angrier...just a thought, to keep with the dr moreau thing

I like how you used Khallida for the Dark Mech woman, plus the fact that it's a woman just adds more character period. And I really like the idea of the Chimerics is that cannon fluff or something you made yourself? Looking forward to seeing more

I got the idea from the Inquisimunda rulebook, but I think it is based on this paragraph from one of the Fantasy Flight books:

'Gholam and other Forbidden Fleshworks: A Gholam is an artificial construct made primarily of flesh and synthetic tissue by the arts of a gene-sculptor, although a widespread technology within the Adeptus Mechanicus, many branches of this lore are considered heretical and forbidden. These, in particular, include so-called "Murder Gholam"—horrific organic fabrications solely intended for violence, and homonculites—bio-forms fashioned from harvested human organs, alchemical serums and vat-grown tissue in the shape of a living thing with no natural origin. Rarer creations include "Chimerics"—strange amalgam creatures that combine many sources of DNA in often twisted monstrosities with utterly unpredictable results, forced psychic mutation, and unspeakable "slaver parasites"—artificial organic grafts that subvert the will and the bodily functions of those unfortunates they are inflicted upon.'

By the way I don't think the Gene-sculptor is really a woman any more, if it ever was. I think when you are so deeply involved in genetic tampering and surgery, things like that probably fall by the wayside. Whatever it looks like under that hood and those bandages, it's probably not pleasant.

Here is the next member of the gang:





A rather creepy chirugeon who is too obese to be bothered with walking, he now spends most of his time constructing grotesque gholam and freakish cherubim. He operates on his little toys with an almost child-like sense of glee.

I've got a bit carried away with this model and am not sure how much more I should add. I was considering adding some servo arms but I think they get a bit distracting and he is already quite a lot to take in.

I'm trying to do quite a different take on the Dark Mechanicus rather than the daemon engine / evil machine type that is more usual because I think Meade has pretty much done that look perfectly and I wouldn't have anything to add there. Guitarasmus too.

Wow wow wow! All three new models are amazing! The first guy is very well done. I absolutely love that militia tank commander head, and always wanted to use it for something, but never found the right model(yet ).

The fat fellow is really cool too. If I may give a bit of criticism, I'm not crazy about his goggles. They just look little cartoonish. There are some night vision type goggles from the SM scout sniper kit that may look a little more techy, but might work better, in my opinion.

I really like all the tubes, and just bought the tube/tentacle tool myself, so I'm eager to try it. Have you considered adding them on the legs as well? The FW daemon engines have tubing on the legs of a few models, and I think it would work well on yours. He already has a bunch of limbs, so servo arms may be overkill, but have you considered a few servo skulls floating around him? I like the idea that he is so large he needs little assistants to scurry around to do the tasks he can no longer do.

Anyway, just a few ideas. Keep up the awesome work!