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Amazing job!

I propose to go Iron Warriors all the way!

Wow, your Dark Mechanicus conversions are fantastic, but I especially like that Maulerfiend, it's very nicely balanced and very well made, I cant wait to see what you build next.

Wow. Just wow. Everything I've seen from you has been truly inspiring and outside of the box, but these take the cake for me so far. You have a creative mind I envy.

As far as the paint scheme goes, I would stick with dark metallic colors, with plenty of oil and grime stains. I think this color scheme would suit your painting style nicely. Perhaps some liberal splattering of blood to add an accent color, and instead of the tradition blue or green for the glowing eyes and lenses, go for a sickly yellow to emphasize their twisted and corrupt nature.

 DexterKong wrote:
Wow. Just wow. Everything I've seen from you has been truly inspiring and outside of the box, but these take the cake for me so far. You have a creative mind I envy.

As far as the paint scheme goes, I would stick with dark metallic colors, with plenty of oil and grime stains. I think this color scheme would suit your painting style nicely. Perhaps some liberal splattering of blood to add an accent color, and instead of the tradition blue or green for the glowing eyes and lenses, go for a sickly yellow to emphasize their twisted and corrupt nature.

The yellow might actually be pretty cool - I was thinking about red glow, but I think yellow could be really cool too - thanks!

Brilliant and inspirational as usual! simply jaw droppingly creative models mate! I think the Maulerfiend needs a little something though? perhaps more of the mechandrites used on the other models coming from the rear of him? and in regards to colour, I personally have always seen the loyal mechanicus in the deep rich reds and the dark mechanicus in a deep dark green velvet with lots of tarnished metals and burnished gold links and accents?

Fantastic work, Rasmus! After the Tzeentch Defiler - which was nice enough, but clearly lacked the breathtaking creativity of your usual projects, if I may be so bold - these last pieces are a brilliant return to form! I especially love the inspired combination of parts from several chaos and non-chaos kits in these. Extra kudos for finally proving that the Tombstalker makes for an excellent souce for chaos daemon engines!

Regarding the colour scheme for these, I would advise you to check out Meade's thread for inspiration. Meade went for a black (actually Black Legion, at least at first) colour scheme with light effects in red for a brilliantly creepy result.

Hope this helps! Eagerly awaiting your next update!

 KrautScientist wrote:
Regarding the colour scheme for these, I would advise you to check out Meade's thread for inspiration. Meade went for a black (actually Black Legion, at least at first) colour scheme with light effects in red for a brilliantly creepy result.

You read my mind Red and black are the primary colours of the Machine Cult anyway. If those on Mars use red as their primary colour why not have the Dark Mechanicus reverse the scheme and have black as the main colour, with red as a spot colour?

I really like your choice of Necron bitz spliced in with the Heldrake main body for the Defiler, very impressive. For the colour scheme perhaps you could paint the armour plates black and give them a coat of gloss to make them seem like a carapace. For the mechanical bits you could paint them steel but with a dark red wash to show the malignance of the daemon seeming across its metal body.

I love the Dark Mechanicus concept you're proposing, and the conversions are truly awesome! One thought that occured to me was maybe using the Tyranids Codex rather than CSM? Just an idea, since you said you wanted a small army of daemonengines, and some of the Tyranid organisms would fit that concept rather well...

As for the paint scheme, I'd second the opinion of not using red. It's too much loyal Mechanicus. Maybe mostly black, with an oily sheen? And a few steel and brass accents?

Cheers,
Monsterzonk

The last machine is amazing!
I really enjoy trying to guess which bits you're using.
As for colors, I'm with Malika2 - the red mechanicus scheme has been done and is too reminiscent of the Mechanicus.

Perhaps a rusty metallic, with Iron Warriors-style hazard striping - in place of the Mechanicus black-and-white checks.

Loving th tentacle beast great job sofar, can't wait to see these babies completed.

Very good job on the Daemon Engines, I'll definitely be watching this with interest.

Thanks a lot, everyone! I really appreciate the input as always. Don't worry, every necron rune will be removed - as I said, they are all very much WIP - I just like to go with the inspiration to build, and fine tune details later.

Tonight I've been working on my lord - he has terminator armour, lightning claw and a chainfist. He's magnetised to the base, so I can remove him and put him on a mechanical palanquin (which will be based on the thunderfire cannon tracks). Obviously, he's still missing a lot of tubes and stuff, but I really like where he's going:



"But", I hear you say - "Isn't he a bit small for a terminator?" Not really.

Oh wow, the level of detail on these conversions is jaw dropping, please keep this blog going!

Very nice, he looks suitably sinister!

By the heavens above, this thread is purely jaw-dropping!

Maybe, for the paint scheme, go completely opposite. The opposite color of Red is Green. Opposite Black is White.

Green and white- and it'd give you the opportunity to do some sick bronze (with the green being oxidization) and 'soiled' white ceramics.

The use of that Dark Vengeance Chosen torso and head make for a rather chilling Lord that fits in perfect with the style you are going for

The Dark Mechanicus stuff is amazing I might just have to steal some of your ideas. Quick question what do you call the stuff you use to base your minis?

Awesome as ever!

WOW! Subbed

Amazing work and super grats on the WD entry. I was so excited to see it.

These models bring great glory indeed to our Infernal Masters. They do magnify them exceedingly. Be thou exalted.

Guita doing Dark Mechanicus? Color me excited.

You, sir, are a visionary.
Not only are you a good painter but you have a superb eye for combining bits.
Kudos to you and I look forward to seeing more.

very happy to see you've converted over to dark mechanicus guita!

Thanks a lot, guys! There's a bit of progress here from the dark, nasty forge world:

The Lord is done - thanks to the fantastic tube tool:






I've put some armour plates on the legs of the defiler - it looks much more chaotic now, I like it!






Some new projects this week - I've been wanting to make some monowheel bikes, since I got back to the hobby about 2 years ago - now's the time! They're based on skaven doomwheels and doomflayers, and there's only gonna be 3 - I still need to do the unit champ, but my local GW only had two doomflayers, so I'm waiting for it to arrive.








I've also started on my "drake" - the squid of d00m!!! Sadly, I can't claim it's entirely my own idea, since I saw a similar creation somewhere online, but I liked the concept and decided to tweak it a bit, and make it my own:








Coming up: Forgefiend (based on decimator), Mutilators, and skitaari! I'm on fire with this project!

The Monowheels are great. Wasn't the some Epic model along the same lines?

Loving the squid flyer, reminds me of some of the opponents in Shadow of the Colossus.

I'll admit that I haven't read much of the words of the blog, but I'm also liking the new defiler, who I'm thinking has the core of the new chaos flyer?

I love those Monowheels!
Why do you have to be so good!?
If I ever meet you I will slay you and devour your essence to gain your talents.

Creepy, disturbing, and and awesome. Just like your stuff usually is. I absolutely love the Monowheels. They looks so freaking cool!