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That preacher is completely amazing! My jaw hit the floor!

I want to yoink the idea, my inquisimunda is missing a preacher

Thanks a bunch for the kind comments.

I've managed to put some paint on the Daemon Host last night, and got some pictures of him. To be honest, I'm kinda on the fence on the paint job - while I think it conveys a good feel, I think it could have been better - the freehanded scripture on his body just didn't want to go as planned, and the transitions on his torso isn't as smooth as I'd like. The latter I blame my crappy apartment lights for - I usually paint at my gaming club, where there's much better lighting.

Anyway, enough with the excuses - here he is:





I also got some more work done on the preacher (now he has 3, count 'em 3!!! loudspeakers to preach the emperors holy words):



... And some cables for the arco flagellants helmet combat drug supply:

Are you sure it isn't the word of Papa Nurgle that's coming out of those loudspeakers?

Anvildude wrote:
Are you sure it isn't the word of Papa Nurgle that's coming out of those loudspeakers?

Whoa, buddy, I'm the one that asks the questions here!!

The flies have been scraped of the speaker, and been thoroughly sanitized. No trace of Nurgle here.

The daemon host looks pretty good in spite of your worries - 'scripture' at this scale is incredibly hard to pull off!

A light glaze of Liche Purple (or similar tinge, maybe red or blue?) over the whole skin area might help pull the blending together - I can't blend for peanuts, so I dry brush my highlights in and then soften then transitions with glazing. Just a thought.

The flagellant looks like he'd go a few good rounds with Spiky Rat Pack's Arco Evisorators! Great model, very aggressive and dynamic.

Can I have an ingredients list for the Arco?

That is honestly the best Daemonhost I have ever laid eyes on. It looks excellent.

The preacher needs a head-set mic (like a pop-star)!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
The preacher needs a head-set mic (like a pop-star)!

Not grimdark enough.

He needs a throat insterted vocoder. (But the beard would cover it up!).

Awesome! I love the preacher.

Daemonhost looks great and i think the scripture works but if you want to smooth the shadows and highlights on the skin I'd consider washing the shadows with a lighter color, kind of a glaze, but thinned so it pools in the shaded recesses. Sounds wierd but it's worked for me when I wanted to tone down contrast without darkening the overall color. IE Light gray, white, or something opaque added to a super thin wash.

 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:

 Gitsplitta wrote:
The preacher needs a head-set mic (like a pop-star)!

Not grimdark enough.

He needs a throat insterted vocoder. (But the beard would cover it up!).

Well, could always cut out his lips and teeth, have a synthesizer or cables going straight from his throat to the speakers. How's -that- for grimdark?

 the shrouded lord wrote:
Can I have an ingredients list for the Arco?

Sure thing. It's a reposed Ghoul King body (been saving that for a very special conversion - this was it) from the Zombie Dragon, a plaguebearer head with a sculpted mask, and whips from the talos kit.




Thanks for all the praise guys - definitely fuel to keep me going.

An insanely talented gentleman by the name Jeff Vader of Officio Convertorum mentioned a couple of weeks ago, that he thought it would be cool if I truescaled my marines, since I have so few. I love truescaled marines, but I was a little reluctant, since I have built a couple of power armoured true scale guys before, but never tackled a terminator. However, last night, while trying to fall asleep, it came to me how I should do it - Obliterator legs! I've used them before on Pandemion, my Nurgle lord, but this was a whole new challenge.

Anyway, I set to work, and while there is still a lot to be done, I really like where these guys are going (lots of sculpting a detailing to go):







I had to completely redo the halberd, since the normal version looked ridicoulous on this scale. It obviously still needs some cleanup and detailing. The torso is made from a chaos terminator back, combined with the GK termi front, and sculpted to fill out the gaps. The thighs and groin are from the GK termies as well, with some bulking up with putty done. The shoulderpads are from Micro Art Studios, if I'm not mistaken (I bought them 3 years ago, been lying around my bitz box for a looong time.)


The "regular" Grey Knights:





Very simple conversions - basically a terminator, with the back vents cut away, a backpack added and heightened by sculpting a mid section.

And a pic for scale - they are pretty impressive in size:

Nicely done Guita. Love Turescale stuff! So impressive.

Oooooh my word. These models are really nice, like reaaaaallly nice.

Top notch work man, I look forward to seeing the grey knights painted

Very impressive stuff this time again!!!

That daemonhost looks awesome!

I feel like it should be bleeding from the eyes and mouth, just dripping.

My thanks!

I've been working on blinging up the GK's a bit, they needed lots and lots of purity seals and daemon hunting gadget, so I raided my own bitsbox (and a couple of buddies bitsboxes as well), for all the tiny pouches, scrolls, purity seals and anything else I could find. It worked well in bulking up the terminator a bit - I'm really liking this guy:







Here he is with his two battle brothers, who have also received some bling:




I got an idea to make another cherub for the preacher, and gave him a chainsword as well - I think it works, although the cherub still needs some work done:



And lastly, a group shot of the warrior acolytes:




I apologize that the pics aren't better, but for some reason I can't seem to take some really good ones today - I've tried three times, and I just gave up and used these.

Well played.

That terminator is really impressive.

Awesome as always.

Awesome stuff! Can I ask what the ingredients were to make that demon host? Sorry if it was asked, I must have missed it if so :/

Brilliant work on the warbands!

The guy with the Ork body, what legs are those that you used on him? I'm thinking about ganking the idea for my Iron Warriors cultists/traitor guard.

Looking fantastic as always! One note though.. you chould clip off the gravity-defying ring on the Ork body acolyte! Wouldn't want the Knights finding out about those secret magics, eh?

Guita, I LOVE the truescaling you've done on the Grey Knights thus far, but there's one little detail that's bothering me(that's really not your fault, it's GW's but especially evident here).

I feel like the shoulders are too high. Especially on the terminator I just can't escape the feeling that his arms are emerging from the Astartes' ears.

Ron at FTW shaved down the connection point to lower the arms on his truescale models, and it may be worth it to do something similar with these guys. They're so awesome as is, but that little extra touch can go a long way

Very nice work on all of them. I especially like the chainsword on the preacher. I can imagine him shouting out "Listen to me or i'll gut you all!!!!"

Thanks a lot, y'all!

 Kepora wrote:
The guy with the Ork body, what legs are those that you used on him? I'm thinking about ganking the idea for my Iron Warriors cultists/traitor guard.

Those are Dark Angel robed legs.


It's been a bit of a busy week at work (new school year approaching, classes that need to scheduled and all that), but I've managed to do a bit of work on the warband.

Something about the Terminators pose had been bothering me, and after scrutinizing it, it occurred to me that he was leaning to much forward - I promptly ripped him off his base, made the rubble pile a little bigger, and hey presto, much better - it's a subtle difference, but an important one, IMO:




The preacher is almost finished - here are some different angles:








A year ago a buddy gave me a unit of stripped FW Renegade Ogryns, saying: "Do something cool with them". They've been sitting around my bits box since, but I got an idea, very much inspired by KrautScientists great conversion here.

I haven't finalized the fluff, but I'm thinking something along an Ogryn Miner, who's somehow been saved from a terrible mining accident by the little twist that's sitting on him. The Ogryns grattitude has resulted in a very strange partnership:




Lastly, I tried getting a good shot of the whole warband - it's not great, but they look pretty good all lined up:

Holy gakk, that Ogryn miner is nice! The small twist completely changes the feel of the model. Brilliant idea, and I feel honoured that the Brothers Galth inspired you to do it!

The retinue's already looking extremely promising and will be such a treat when painted -- I can hardly wait

Such an impressive group! So glad you true-scaled the terminator because I love how the Inquisitor is now clearly wearing custom human-sized terminator armor. I thought I had commented on the true-scale guys before but it looks like I didn't; they're really amazing, but I also wonder if the terminator's arms are just a touch too high. If they came down a fraction his hands would be hitting at a more comfortable spot by his thighs too.

The priest may be my favorite. Look forward to seeing how you paint the rest of the group.

Truly one of my favorite blog on the internet. So many great ideas!