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Your most successful pieces, as with most conversions are the ones which the parts used to create them are hard to recognize without further scruttiny. The guy in the backwards destroyer body is just that, and I think your army would look and benefit better one things are hard to place, thats where stand in armies really shine. If someone were to see him, they might get anoyed having it confused with a necron lord with destroyer body, and then would further confuse the whole army... Something to think about...

Mastermind

With the completition of the Mastermind Robot thats all the different types of robotic units done for my Deamon based army, now I'm ready to move on to producing whole squads.



The Changeling is a must in any all Tzeentch army, for 5pts it allows me to force an enemy unit to target a friendly unit so they can either stand around confused or pass a leadership to try and see through the illusion if not they shoot everything they can at the chosen friendly unit.

Such an ability would certainly require a robot that has some level of psychic power I thought of two options 1. A psyker’s brain implanted into a robot or 2. An ancient piece of tech that focuses on feeding info directly into the targets brain to create illusions. I decided to choose both and created the Zanatorian Mastermind. I did think of using a sphere instead of a skull but I feel that would be over using that idea as it is already being used of the Scorpions and Disruptors.

Just think of it as a robotic Zoanthrope, regarding the paint scheme I went with Dark colours with a small amount of blue to blend it in with the army.

Awesome stuff. This army is one of the best I've seen.

Excommunicate Traitoris wrote:Awesome stuff. This army is one of the best I've seen.

Thanks

The Avatar: Work In Progress

Well here is a quick preview of the Avatar Of The Machine God an ancient and powerful machine that will be leading the Zanatorian robotic army. He'll be representing a Lord Of Change.



All that remained to be done is his wings and adding a blade weapon to his arm. After that he'll be painted and ready for deployment!

Def diggin that LoC dude, very awesome, will be a great centerpiece...

Mechanicus army, as you can see I've made a few touch ups such as wings and a weapon.

I decided to go with a 60mm base over the 40mm for purposes of it representing the Lord of Change and eventually the base crew to be very cinematic.



Special thanks to a friend of mine who instructed and assisted me in the modeling of the green stuff on the model.

Sadly it won’t be painted till the start of the summer holidays as I’m taking part in a program held by GW to paint an army in the 6 weeks holiday. At the end it will be entered it into a tournament at Warhammer World where armies will be judged and awarded for theme, conversion and paint job. So it’s just the thing for this army’s first public appearance. Luckily I’ve only got to create at least 1250pts in the 6 weeks so I can still get 1 of each type of unit done before then out of the 2000pts to display on the thread.

those are some pretty awesome wings on the avatar. Where are those from?

Soviet Yam wrote:those are some pretty awesome wings on the avatar. Where are those from?

Those are the mechanical wings from Micro Art Studio, a Polish company.

Nice choice, Proiteus, and a well executed addition (in progress) to your cool army!

I've been seeing these minis dotted about all over the place so it's good to finally be able to offer my praise to the creator themselves. You've really captured the essence of the army incredibly well and I love that you are ressurecting old ideas with new touches.

Yup, wings are a nice addition.

Construction Complete: Steel Scorpions

First squad of the army to be completed are the Zanatorian Steel Scorpions, they'll be represents Scarabs for necrons and nurglings for Daemons. Overall it worked out well each of them are pinned onto the base and apart from the two pirched on the wall and rock (top left and right) that look a little dodgy they've come out brilliantly. Aren't they cute!



Also I've signed up for a GW army builder program during the 6 weeks, which means I'll be painting the army over the summer holidays which mean in the last week my army will be entered into a tournament with awards for things like best painted, converted, theme, etc.

Luckily I'm building an addtional 500pts for games of 2000 which means I can still build one squad of each unit for you guys to see and when the summer holidays begin I finish up the remaining 1500pts.

Next upload will be a completed Iron Guard squad.

That LoC is great! What did you use for the main body?

The Avatar of the Machine God is amazing, really loving your work, keep it up!

Love the tochicammas! How did you make their tails/stingers?

Scarecr0w14 wrote:Love the tochicammas! How did you make their tails/stingers?

Thats the part that always catches people out, its a necron warriors waist

I'm currently working on some of my Iron Guard robots and I'm curious to know what you think of the two done so far?

Nice

ABH

Construction Complete: Iron Guard Squad

Well the army is finally taking shape and the first Iron Guard squad is finally completed the first Iron Guard squad that will represent either necron warriors or pink horrors.



As you can see I've added a lot more movement to them than the original model, I've also went with the two blasters instead of the claw.
But I feel they need a few more touch ups before I can think of them as completed.

Sadly though thats all I can do now till summer holidays begin without exceeding 500pts, so now all that I'll be doing is the building and converting the models ready for painting later this month and also creating the background comic for them.

Nice

Final Touch Ups

I've was a bit worried about the Iron Guard robots so I ran them by a friend of mine and he suggested I ditch the grey colour on the cables for blue and they've worked brilliantlly!



Now all thats left is to complete the remaining 32 when the summer holidays starts and divide them up into squads and mark them using different types of shoulder mounted equipment.

Nice progress. The Avatar is SOOOO cool!

Yeah, the blue accents work very effectively. Nice to see more of this army emerge.

I still love the vibe this army gives off. I can almost hear it humming in the icy dark. Eerie...

Keep up the good work

Wow incredible work Sir.

The Zanatorian's Darker Units?

I noticed a problem with my daemon army the other day which was I have no real unit that can get stuck in and hold an objective, the Iron Guard (horrors) certainly can't do it.

So I need to replace one of the four Iron Guard squads with a close quarters unit. At first I thought of converting Bloodletters into some sort of alien mercenaries that the machine cult had hired, but that seemed out of character I then came across these lovely miniatures.



Their perfect for representing Plaguebearers all I need to do is replace the barrel of the gun on the right arm with a blade and paint it to look like it’s been covered with poison. Plus their appearance links them quite nicely to the Avatar model. So I will certainly be building a unit of 8 of them this summer.

However there is a problem. This army’s first appearance will be at a GW event judging armies that have been painted over the summer; the question is will I be able to use them without getting in trouble for using non GW models. True I can act like their heavily converted from Empire flagellants but there’s always the risk they could be recognized.

Do you think I can use them? If not I need to either build and paint another 8 Iron Guard this summer or only have 3 scoring units?

GW will not let you use another manufacturers product it must be 75% GW to qualify.

Always adhere to the Pirate Code!

Fu*k em

Cadaver wrote:That LoC is great! What did you use for the main body?

If I'm correct, its made from Sauron the Necromancer miniature for Lord of the Rings.

sonofruss wrote:GW will not let you use another manufacturers product it must be 75% GW to qualify.

So say that they're some oldschool Tech Priests? A lot of the Redshirts around these days are certainly dense enough to believe it