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tipios wrote:@Dysartes - I hope you don't have any problems with your order:(

I don't really have time to work on him till a week on Monday, but it would've been nice to know that my "pre-order" wasn't going to be dispatched before the model's release.....

So interested in this contest was I that I actually bought the Necromancer from an actual GW shop today, no discounts for me!

My theme will be an homage to a past age, yes I'm gunna Rogue Trader him up!

Panic, tell me I'm not too late and can play too otherwise I have spunked £8 for nowt?

I'll just be over here holding my breath until he consents. [starts going blue]

woah I'd like to enter also!
...at least if I'm not too late!

even though I already have a chaos sorcerer but those models are just awesome!

I'm sure Panic isn't interested in excluding anybody at all, so stop holding your breath and get converting.

I wrote a little review including pictures of all four wizards over at the other blog. So if you haven't got yours yet, or you want to see what parts are interchangable and some size comparisons, head over and have a look.

yeah,

notprop wrote:have spunked £8

nah dude it wouldn't be the same without you!

PX40k wrote: I just can't shake how stupid I felt for buying a quarter of a troop sprue for that much money.

eeek I hope i don't get that feeling!
I'm kinda thinking this cost is to cover the limited numbers they expect to sell.. And I'm kinda happy that they are releasing plastic characters... I do get what your saying thou.

Mine didn't arrived in the post on Saturday morning :(
GW's plan to send out preorders the day before release hasn't quite worked out...
: sad times :

Baiyuan wrote:I'm sure Panic isn't interested in excluding anybody at all, so stop holding your breath and get converting.I wrote a little review including pictures of all four wizards over at the other blog. So if you haven't got yours yet, or you want to see what parts are interchangable and some size comparisons, head over and have a look.

that's a pretty great post dude.

this made me laugh

4. The sorceress is averagely tall, but otherwise really petite. I compared her to DE hagashin and warriors, because I consider borrowing some limbs from them and they look fat compared to her.

I'm having the same problems putting plastic DE arms onto Lelith they just look chubby!

Panic...

Glad to help, mate.

Ok fine you tiwisted my arm I'll signup as well, got a weird idea for a couple of them...

Got my Necro. Got him sitting there, looking at me suspiciously.

Just have to wait for one more bit of post to arrive and then I can get chopping!

Wife at work again yey!!!

So I got my night lord helmet done



Now onto his backpack!

What else are you planning? Just adding a back pack and a pistol, or are there more substantial changes down the line? The grave guard helmet suits him well btw.

Thanks Baiyuan,

I have a thin for wings ATM, so he is getting a backpack with a wing conversion. I'm not giving him a pistol, I'm gona try and change the angle of his hand and maybe do some lightning coming from it.

I'm waiting for mine to arrive in the post, what goods a pre-order if GW don't post it out quick enough to arrive the same day as they go on sale in the stores.

Nice work tipios, the helmet really suits him

Thanks neil101,

This is the look I'm going for.





Now to the GS'ing

^^^ That model looks amazing, kudos.

very nice . loving those wings myself at the moment

Thanks guys,

@neil101 - yeah Looking through your blog ATM, loads of nice winged goodness

Ok, there are three things you HAVE to do, Tipios:
1. Finish him quickly
2. Get one of those fancy wodden display stands, the finest wood you can find
3. Have a fancy metal plate engraved with just one word: "Booooooh!"

That was my first impression, like he's scaring kids from his lawn.
Oh yes, Night Lords are fear incarnate...

Captain Bellard was at the end of wits, his command post was a Hive City on the planet Xenris. The planet was a desert world it was almost unbearable to go outside of the hives in the day time due to the extreme temperatures without breathing apparatus, it was possible at night but it was always below freezing so most of the population stayed in the hive. It made life easy for the small Imperial force he was Captain of he just had to monitor the Arbites to make sure they kept their handle on the gangs and that was it, their only real presence was due to the Hives output of tactical dreadnought armour which was considered a high enough risk to warrant a small imperial force.

Lately though things had being going slightly down hill for Captain Bellard, his psyker was unwell he kept hearing a voice in his head driving him insane, the medical staff couldn’t find any explanations. He was due to be sent off world on the next shipment but that was a few months away. The other problem that had recently occurred around the same time as his psyker falling ill was the main reason for his concern, some of his regiment had gone missing. There was nothing to show for the missing Guardsmen, they just failed to report in for duty. At this rate Captain Bellard was losing about 5 troopers a week and it wasn’t just the troopers there were weapons missing as well some a bit more heavier then he was comfortable with. Last week two Missile Launchers disappeared from the munitions dump, he wasn’t happy.

The worst fear for the Captain was of his Guardsmen turning tratior it had never happened on his shift but Chaos was a hard beast to track down, the last thing Bellard needed was to call upon the Inquisition for advice as it could very well be his undoing.

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Deep down in Fracturez Hive Skunk was onto too something, he had heard rumours of a hidden weapons cache down near the reactor levels. Not many gangers went down that far but the Scavvy gang wasn’t afraid of going deeper than the others, what was lost at the bottom of the hives was theirs alone. That included the smell as well, recycled air only goes so far down and then all you can smell is the rankness of the sewer channels. There’s a reason not many go that far down and that was it but Skunk was a hardened scavenger and didn’t have much of a sense of smell from being punched in the face one too many times.

As Skunk worked his way through the corridors he had the sense of someone following him, armed with his trusty stub pistol, he wasn’t too worried and he was a big enough guy to not get much hassle from anyone else he might meet down here. Then he heard the footsteps not far behind, he dived round a corner stub pistol ready. But there was nothing not a single noise, Skunk had a glance back round the corner and wished he hadn’t as he came face to face with a shotgun. Not the nicest of welcomes he could remember but the young lady on the other end could change his mind, although he could tell from her dress sense he wouldn’t have a hope of getting out of this situation alive.

The Scavvy’s were in the middle of gang warfare with the Escher gang in the same facility. She demanded information on the weapons cache for his life. If they took the cache then the whole gang would be wiped out, he wasn’t going to give his gang up and he didn’t trust her to let him live to tale the tale. He heard the trigger of the shotgun click and felt his guts explode. Skunk stood there for the briefest of moments feeling like his life had turned into slow motion, in the last seconds of his life he saw something from the shadows a creature he couldn’t think how to describe, it came darting towards him and he was glad the shotgun claimed his life.

The Escher ganger looked into Skunk’s eyes as she pulled the trigger there are no second chances in the hive it’s live or die. As the weapon fired she saw a reflection in Skunk’s eyes of something moving up rapidly behind her. She span round and brought her weapon to bare but she wasn’t quick enough the creature was inhumanly fast and clawed a gaping wound across her stomach taking her down, her last vision before she passed out was of a creature from hell itself. Her body hit the floor, the creature dragged her off into the darkness.

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The voice resonates out into space to those that can hear its call “We are coming and we will leave no world unturned, prepare for annihilation”.

@Baiyuan - LOL! now all I get when I look at him is "boooooh" if I do some fluff, it would have have him shouting "boooh" at some marines lol!

@Giraffex - nice fluff, does that mean you are using the Tzeentch Sorcerer

tipios wrote:@Giraffex - nice fluff, does that mean you are using the Tzeentch Sorcerer

Nope, not using that one.

Sounds like a Genestealer Magus out of either the Necromancer or Chaos Sorceror Lord.....

Dysartes wrote:Sounds like a Genestealer Magus out of either the Necromancer or Chaos Sorceror Lord.....

Spot on Dysartes, I'll be using the Necromancer for the conversion.

After consulting panic privatly he made me realize my idea was a little to ambitous the only idea I have left involves an army I don't play so sadly I'm backing out unless another idea with my limited bits hits me.

Just some WIP shots from what time I have had.





That's pretty much the basics done. Just waiting for a few more bits then I can do the thing with the back and then put my attention to shaving the shoulders from a Dire Avenger body and finally some GS work.

Of course there's the fun bit of the Necromancer's feet being at odd angles...tempted to shave down a genestealer skull into the base for him to stand on.

GiraffeX wrote:

Dysartes wrote:Sounds like a Genestealer Magus out of either the Necromancer or Chaos Sorceror Lord.....

Spot on Dysartes, I'll be using the Necromancer for the conversion.

Doh! It seems that great minds think alike an all that; mine's more a hybrid though. I sacrificed a Space Hulk stealer to this project... so it better work out




I just need to work out what to do with his right arm and staff as it's far too frail to be a hybrid arm. Once that's sorted I can move onto the greenstuff stage and bulk out his back a bit and make the robes to cover the tail and third arm. The other wizard still hasn't arrived, so the inquisitor is running a bit late

endtransmission wrote:
Doh! It seems that great minds think alike an all that; mine's more a hybrid though. I sacrificed a Space Hulk stealer to this project... so it better work out

We may have a case of identical twins lol.

Hopefully not too identical!

Um well all apart from the tail, trying to think of something else instead now.

Sorry! I didn't mean to steal your thunder. The story was so good too :(