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I take it most of those legs come from warmachine. Excellent madness.

Dr H - Cheers! There was a lot of different torsos going back and forth on those legs At various points it was a marine, a termie and a magos (using an old genestealer hybrid), marine won out in the end, but I might get a similar set of legs for a magos yet


Llama - Actually no - you are mistaken young padawan The four legged version is from Malifaux - a steamborg, and the three legs are from Urban War - some kind of syntha. Glad ypou approve though



So, been a bit slow recently, but I have a couple of rough concepts for Lord D'Basqueville's bodyguard types....




Obviously there's a lot of clean-up to get a good fit required, and some weapons need to be finalised, but I'm liking the basic idea. Serpentine female cyborgs produced by the good doctor - I'm still umming and ahhing over the figure and name for him (or even her, or possibly them ) as a counterpart to Isabella's terror troupe.

You have a nice collection of disturbing conversions coming along, looking forward to more.

I'm liking how your good Doctor is thinking.

You had me at, "Robo-lady-snakes."

GiraffeX - Thanks dude, always pleased to hear the word disturbing in relation to any of my stuff Hope I can keep them coming for you...


Dr H - Yeah, you would


Moltar - That was the idea Should be more in that ilk along sometime soon....



So, robo-snake-ladies awaiting GS work - and two waiting on another arm to go with the gs

What can I entertain you with in the meantime......


How about a champion/prince type fellow to point you in the right direction?



Lord Vortinex the Lustgrabber has been mightily blessed by Slaanesh during his long career
Thinking the spiracles on the tail may get some tiny tentacles added, and before the shoulder gun gets wired in I may have a fiddle with it - not convinced by it at the moment. Also considering replacing the other shoulder spike with a semi-mechanical manipulator/claw arm...not sure if that makes it a little too busy though, as I think that's what's annoying me about the shoulder-pistol.



Or maybe you're more susceptible to a nice daemonette to help take your mind off your worries?



Shardclaw Glitterleg was inspired by some of JB's sketches in the Liber Chaotica....been perusing that and the old Realms of Chaos books for inspiration recently


Or possibly some weird many-legged thingy is more your bag?



I suspect the legs will get inverted and the claws reversed to bring the legs out more sideways, similar to some kind of techno-scorpion, which is obviously what this is going to become....


Hopefully that'll tide you over for now.....

I like the champion prince a hell of a lot

Monkey,you definately have skills to pay the bills.Great conversions /creativity,i love it.

Maybe if you get the shoulder gun pointing in the direction he's looking, rather than at the floor, it will look better.

Nice work.

I like the techno-scorpion. What are the body pieces?

PDH - Thank you. If it meets with your aproval I know I'm on the right track


shingouki - Cheers, thanks a lot. If only it did pay the bills......


Dr H - Busted! Yeah, that was me not checking the angle properly before gluing it.... It's currently off te shoulder awaiting either re-positioning or replacing.....

Those bits came from the Necron Wraiths - which were mainly grabbed for their tails to be pillaged



Slowly building up a pile of bits that need GS work applied...probably worth me starting on that soon

In the meantime, between time....




A veteran marine turned renegade - hasn't actually turned to chaos, just left his chapter....




"Gordon's Alive?"

A raptor, obviously The more I look at it the more I dislike the abrupt change in the helmet now, didn't mind it when I first tried it.....May have to come back to that with some GS...


And where there's chaos and heresy...there's also the Inquisition....

Decided it wasn't worth putting these up on my old Imperial blog...I'll just keep this one and the orkses as separate entities...



This guy's been kicking around for a while, finally glued him together...although I couldn't find the head I'd put to one side for him...the same head, just with the feather still in the hat...fished around till I found the one I knew was missing the feather, and added a feather to the pad instead, and swapped out the more chaosy pads that were originally going to be his for plain versions. Obviously, I found the original head about 20 minutes ago....
As an interrogator his master was in the Ordo Xenos, but over time he's realised that Chaos is the much greater threat to humanity...




And what self-respecting Inquisitor goes around without a faithful fetishist death cult assassin in tow?
Bit of GS tidying up to do on the arms...




And a trusty acolyte bearing the holy light of truth.
Bit of GS tidying up required at the back of his neck....


Right...that'll do for now...tatty bye....

"Gordon's Alive?"

LMAO

Liking the faithful fetishist death cult assassin in particular.

That fetishist death cult assassin looks amazing. Subtle sexy pose mixed in with gothic weirdness. I love it.

Crazier and weirder by the visit, and loving it.

Poor acolyte must be feeling odd in his normality...

Well, this was a treat. Just gone through this blog, fantastic and weird and wonderful and amazing and yuk all at once, brilliant.

Dr H - Had to be done...if I hadn't, someone else would have And cheers!


Moltar - Thanks dude! She's only 5 pieces, but it took me a while to find the right ones...now to decide whether her sisters or her dark reflections are next from the base minis......


Lt - Good and good, and excellent

Ahh, but he's not normal inside his head.........


Cam - Glad you could make it along for the ride, and thank you!


So, not much to show, but it's been a week so felt I needed to put something up....

A very PIP of the plague ogryn....yep, you heard that right, treating you to a tiny sprinkling of that colour stuff you kids seem to like so much......





Still a few more layers of flesh to go, and the associated off-flesh colours, and everything else needs a lot of work still, but it shows I have done something, and it does include colour

Nice colour additions.
The yellow/orange is particularly good.

OK when you do colour you do COLOUR.

Great job so far.

Great job on the intestines. Really yicky.

Dr H - Cheers, it's a start at least


Cam - Thanks buddy. Although I think you may just be getting over-excited because there IS some colour for a change


Llama - They'll get ickier


Ok, progress has been somewhat slow, nowhere near back into the flow of things yet, but a couple of pics as proof of life and to keep me on track....


So, decided to have a play with some of the AK worn effects liquid on one of the marines...



Gave him a rough coat of browns and orange...and didn't really think it all through first as this probably wasn't the ideal choice for a rusty marine, but hey-ho, adds to the mix Gave it a coat of the worn effects and as soon as that dried..



....gave it a hasty coat of averland sunset and a quick drybrush of a lighter mix. And once that was dry...so pretty much straight away....



....went at it with a stiff wet brush and a cocktail stick. You can see some bits where it stripped back to the promer, think I was a little hasty putting the worn effects on. Didn't work anywhere near as well as it has on terrain pieces, but I'll give it another go at some point.



So for now, I just splashed some orange wash on it and started to continue with the rest of the scheme - well, a bit of the red part anyway
I'm sure I'll still end up with a rusty marine at the end, but first attempt with this on a figure doesn't go down as a huge success Which is to be expected really.




And a little more work on the plague ogryn. Slowly getting there.




Random progress on a marine...or rather, progress on a random marine.




And similar for a termie....




Started work on Shardclaw.




And a splash of colour on the inquisitor.


And, what with it being the run up to Salute I'm obviously not going to spend money elsewhere....

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The rather lovely Kingdom Death pin-ups in plastic. Very nice models, but with the slightly bizarre touch that most of the breasts come as separate parts....But great fodder for cultists and warbands nevertheless.




Gustave Eiffel and his mechanical spider from Wild West Exodus - some fun bits that will probably become at least three different models....


And found a thread the other day that pointed towards Cadwallon, a Ukrainian company with seemingly the whole Rackham range available. So put in a test order for a couple...



Not supplied in original packaging, and considering how long they've been out of circulation I'll put my neck out and guess they're re-casts Quality is good, and I do love a lot of the Rackham sculpts so I may go back for more. Once I've found where my current stash are hiding so I can see what I really want...I'm guessing I'll want more Dirz and Devourers though.....


All right, that was a reasonable amount of pictures covering remarkably little progress, so that'll do for an update

Later all, and thanks for stopping by.....

Your models are amazing... and oh, the colours!!! I really want to squeeze that poor plague ogryns plukes!!

I am loving your own unique brand of insanity, please don't ever stop.

Good experimenting. Shows potential.

I like the colour of the ogryn's gauntlet.

That Ogryn is truly gross. And I second the praise for the gauntlet colour. The metal looks decayed.

Aye up, looks like I have missed a fair bit since I last checked in mate. Its great to see inquisitor get some love in this blog too.

Loads of inventive funny bizzare sureal conversions as usual . I particularly like the beard marine, very subtle but charaterful conversion.

Pretty jealous of your kingdom death unattached breasts :-)

Excellent stuff here and they have the entire Rackham range in stock hmmmmmm

dantay - Thanks a lot! trust me, you realy wouldn't want to see what comes out.....


Dr H - Yeah, it's worked well on larger terrain pieces, first time trying it on a figure, but with a bit of practice I'm sure I'll find a use for it at this size. probably haveto look at doing small areas at a time as you don't want to give the top layer time to really set, so kind of limits highlighting when doing whole figures..

That was an experiment with P3 armour wash, yellow ink and I think sepia wash, turned out pretty much the way I'd hoped, which was nice


Squidbot - That's what I like to hear, cheers Glad the gauntlet comes across as decayed, I wanted some kind of old, corroded look, but not a rusty feel.


Neil - Fits and starts, but things are slowly moving Yeah, figured the Inquisitor belonged here, didn't see the point in putting him in the Imperial blog, only to have it updated every other month for three months And he is fighting chaos....at least, this one is - I think there'll be some rogue Inquisition types soon enough....

Good to hear I'm keeping it surreal The beardy marine came about just due to me wanting to use the Anvil spec ops torsos in some way, and I thought rogue veterans fitted the ida of being loaded down with gear better than any Imp marines.

The minis are lovely, but that is a weird choice - I think I could see a possible moulding reason in one of the models, but not the majority...and then to have indiviual breasts as well....


Llama - Yeah, I'm going to have a play with them tomorrow to check the quality of the metal, but first look seems to be ok. If I'm happy then I can forsee many orders being placed in the future, I really like their sculpts, and never bought anywhere near enough of them whn they were around.


So, nothing new on the construction or colouring side of things, but was at Salute today, so figured I might as well show some of the goodies that I really shouldn't have come back with


from Anvil:



The new dog squad, and some robed legs and heads. Also grabbed another squad of the little tractor units, as I have many, many uses for those in my head. They didn't have the new drones available yet, but they looked great in the flesh, and will certainly be grabbing several of those when they're released.



Various bits from Zinge - the new swivel joints, servo-arms, the newish small track units, cable connectors and cables, bits like that. Also saw the prototype for the new ork buggy,very cool. Modular construction, separate pieces for the roll cage (no mould lines!), loads of extra components, definitely a winner:



And props to Kit for recognising me as monkeytroll from last year's show when I had a quick chat with him. The team is very enthusiastic, and they do have a lot of passion for what they're doing He also had a Taurox on the stand which had the tracks replaced with some of his wheels - huge improvement to it, which I guess isn't going to come as a suprise to anyone


The free show mini:




Ainsty Castings:



Couple of the hovercraft that the orks are using as bikes, and some of those tiny hovercraft that I think the grots might loot


Prodos:






Imperial greyhound and dragon riders from Warzone Resurrection. And a mutant steed.
There was some lovely stuff from these guys there, and the alien v pedator stuff they were previewing looked very cool.


Infamy Games:



A steampunk Holmes to go with the Watson I already have...although you know that won't be the guises they'll actually appear in when I get round to them


BlightWheel Miniatures:







Mutant steed, couple of servitor types, and a tread-bike.


Studio McVey:




Naga and medusa.


Plus a few other bits and bobs, some brushes etc.

Fun day out doing retail therapy. And for your further enjoyment some pics from the painting comp:



Some of the demo games:




And some of the goodies at vendors:



More available in my Salute 2014 gallery, and in the Salute thread in News & Rumours....

TTFN....

Forgot the most important ones....



Let the League feast upon the sight of all that rivety goodness - beautiful brass rivets en masse


And just to show I have been doing something other than thinking up what bits need chopping from yesterday's haul...



Chaos hovering techy type. I'm thinking I might plug his scanner into a wall panel with guitar wire in order to suspend him.

Riveting.

Lots of interesting looking things there and a nice haul of new thingies you have.

Had to come out I suppose

Was a fun day, and lots of interesting things to drool over.

So, onwards we go...to prove there is some sort of work taking place....




Thought I'd give him some kind of sonic blaster pistol rather than a boring old bolter. Originally the eldar fin was going to be two atop his backpack as a kind of standard, but then I decided it looked better without the pack.




Daemonette....still needs a bit of gs around the third arm and on her back.




And nothing quite says 'burn the heretic' like a servitor equipped with two flamers and a huge brazier......Still a fair bit of work to go on this dude, needs some gs around the waist joint, something for the cables to attach to on the track unit, and a few other little details - maybe some lights and a couple of purity seals.





Concept for a corrupted inquisitor....the bolt pistol will be replaced with something more unique, not sure whether he'll be keeping the chaos star on the pad, and need to come up with something for his backpack.





And gs work has commenced on the steed....bit rough and ready at the mo, but it's a start....


And hopefully that little lot counts as proof of life

Wonderful stuff, wierd in a good way, but definately wonderful.

What are the legs on the first marine I've got a use of some legs in that style at some point