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Zombies and Typhus look STUNNING!!! You've just made me drool a pool underneath me sir! Now be a good sport and HAND HIM OVER!!!!

I think I prefer your Typhus-standin to my own, nice work!

Really like how you've redone the Maulerfiend and Typhus. I'm trying to get myself to do creative stuff again and these new pages of your stuff are helping inspire me.

Lindsay40k - always nice to know that I can inspire someone with my work.

Thanks for all the suggestions and kind words. - I have decided on "Pandemion", shamelessly stolen from the Prophet on Bolter'n'chainsword. I've also written a bit of fluff, hope you enjoy it.

Pandemion, the scourge of life, leader of the Legio Morbidus.

Like Obitus the Undying, Daemon Prince lieutenant of the Death Guard, Pandemion, the Scourge of life, was once one of Mortarions Death Shroud. Of his past, almost nothing is known, due to the tradition of Mortarions Death Shroud being nameless, drawn from the ranks of the Death Guards first company, and receiving a plaque on the walls of memoriam on Barbarus, as one of the chapters great warriors, fallen in battle.

Since Mortarions elevation to daemonhood, he has rarely meddled in the affairs of his former legion, instead directing his attention to the plague planet, a planet deep inside the warp, meticulously reformed to resemble a warped, rotten and ravaged version of Barbarus. However, he is not blind in regards to the work of Typhus, formerly 1st.captain Typhon, host of the Destroyer Hive. Mortarion, though he has embraced Nurgle completely, is still bitter and twisted, and (rightfully) blames Typhus for the corruption of his legion, for turning his proud, unbreakable warriors into walking mounds of disease.

Furious that Nurgle has blessed Typhus so, and elevated him into a Herald of Nurgle, Mortarion decided that he would bless a warrior loyal to himself with similar boons, and chose one of his Death Shroud – thus Pandemion was created.

Pandemion is the host of vile and corrupted entity, known as “the Strain”. The Strain is in many ways similar to The Destroyer virus, but different in many others. It is a devastating virus, capable of turning flesh to liquid within seconds, of turning tissue to a bloody pulp, but also capable of mutating raw biomaterial into new organisms. The plaguedoctor of the Death Guard, Kroenen, has been known to subject astartes, captured or from the ranks of his own legion, to vile experiments with The Strain, hence creating the possessed, mutated creatures known as “The Strained” – So much more and so much less than the noble warriors they once were, now murderous creatures resembling huge maws, and a flux of bloody tendrils, clad in rotten warplate.

This, though, is not the only way The Strain can manifest itself. It can also be combined with daemonic possession, creating some of the horrifying war machines and daemon engines of the Legio Morbidus. It can be used as a purely destructive force, or by the will of Pandemion, used to reanimate those slain by it, into limping perverse resemblances of life, known as “The Untertoten”. These zombie-like creatures limper onto the battlefield, seeking only to destroy all life in their path.

Pandemion is a huge figure, towering above man and astartes alike. His Terminator warplate, once a beautiful hybrid of marble ceramite and emerald plasteel, is cracked, broken and warped, leaks and sores everywhere, bleeding blood, bile and pus from every joint and crack. From his shoulders emerge huge exhausts, leaking poisonous gasses and disgusting flying insects. At will, he can release The Strain through them, killing almost anyone in close range. From the back of his armour, four gigantic insect arms that writhe emerges, attacking any foe by punching trough their bodies. He bears no weapons, save for the gigantic Manreaper scythe used by the Death Shroud, slaughtering any who dares oppose him. It drips with blood, poisons and disease, and even single flesh wound from it often proves fatal.
If any trace of humanity at all remains within Pandemion is unknown. He never removes his helmet, much less his armour. It is speculated that he and The Strain has completely merged into a singular being, a horrible manifestation of one of the worst diseases the Universe has ever known.

A great read, GuitaRasmus! I like it!

One small thing, though: I guess the "Untertoten" monicker was taken from the Dust models, right? Just wanted to let you know that the German on this is a little iffy. What they probably mean is "Untoten" which means "undead". Or they really meant it that way in the first place, creating a portmanteau word that roughly translates to "Underdead" or "Below dead". Doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my opinion.

Anyway, just wanted to point that out. If you're actually going for a German name for these, "Untoten" would be the safe path to take

Looking forward to seeing more, as always!

Cheers,

KS

 KrautScientist wrote:
A great read, GuitaRasmus! I like it!

One small thing, though: I guess the "Untertoten" monicker was taken from the Dust models, right? Just wanted to let you know that the German on this is a little iffy. What they probably mean is "Untoten" which means "undead". Or they really meant it that way in the first place, creating a portmanteau word that roughly translates to "Underdead" or "Below dead". Doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my opinion.

Anyway, just wanted to point that out. If you're actually going for a German name for these, "Untoten" would be the safe path to take

Looking forward to seeing more, as always!

Cheers,

KS

Personally, I would much rather be underdead that undead.

Kraut: Yep, now that you mention it, I knew that - my only excuse is that I've only been taught german for 7 years. I'm still awful at that language.


Thanks a lot. The raptors are coming along nicely, almost done, and I got an idea which I had to make. I've been messing with an idea for a Dark Mechanicus type character based on the cairn wraith, but didn't really know what it should counts as. I've been looking into the codex, and I think the daemon weapon, The Burning Brand of Skalathrax is very interesting, so I thought I'd make a character that has some kind of vile pus/virus cannon - he is gonna hop around with my raptors, as a lord or a sorcerer. He'll give them some very nice shooting, and should add on some CC punch as well. Lots of work to be done yet, but I like where he's going:

Holy YES!

Man, Guita, that is looking sweet. I really like that cairn wraith and the conversions I've seen of it, but I love how yours is much larger and imposing. Excited to see what else you do to him.

39 pages of freaking awesome.

Fantastic dark mechanicus model! I may have to steal some ideas. The Wraith model seems to be useful for chaos conversions

Lots of inspiring stuff in this blog!

Can't wait to see your latest creations painted.

Yes! Pretty pictures!

Thanks a lot.

I've done a little bit of green stuff, and changed the head to one from a cultist from DV. Much better:

He's looking excellent Guita

SQUEE.
The gas mask makes it

Yep, that head is MUCH better than the previous one, now it just clicks together and looks so right!

Definitely prefer the new head! Everything looks great, Guita.

This is amazing! All of it. The most awesome scythe I have ever seen. And the flying puss cannon is pure gold.

The Dark Mechanicus is so nicely done.

GuitaRasmus wrote:

Whoa. Those spawn wings look fantastic, and I've never seen FW torsos used to make raptors before. Amazing.

Thanks!

Yup, I'm nuts. Bonkers. Completely wack. But I just wasn't satisfied with Pandemion (counts as Typhus) - I basically just felt I had built a more dynamically posed Typhus, and not really a proper counts as - nor was he as impressive as I wanted. So I got this idea while trying to fall asleep a couple of nights ago - what if I used obliterator legs?

Here he is so far - I really like where this is going, and he's HUGE!



The torso is a really nice idea from one of the locals at my gaming club, several times GD winner Tue Kaae, combining the torso from a grey knight terminator with a regular terminator torso - It works great. The rebreather is an experiment, using a cut down old school CSM backpack.

Size comparison with a regular terminator:

Wow Guita the new Typhus is looking great, I'm really surprised how tall he is with the Oblit legs.

Thanks! Yup, he looks quite imposing.

Will you be adding all the gribbly bits to the top like your other Typhus counts as?

He's a big boy ain't he?


He looks awesome.

Man that's cool!

Damn it, GR; now I -HAVE- to do that! Also, Finecast Oblits must be a dream to work with compared to the metal ones, huh?

So that other model that was already earth-shatteringly awesome was to basic and will be, what, a Sargent? Now your just rubbing it in

Guita, the new Typhus is looking great - can't wait to see him complete!
... tho I second the thought: What was wrong with Pandemion?

Sorry if this seems like a stupid question, but which parts(besides oblit legs) did you use for the newer Typhus?
Edit: Especially the power fist!