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Tzeentch Sorceror Lord

 Llamahead wrote:
Tzeentch Sorceror Lord

Thanks mate! I searched for them for at least a week...
Think its time to get some glasses

It took me some time, but I've finally read the entire blog; great job! I'm curious what you will come up with next

I forgot to post this WIP, he's about ready but I've become a bit intimidated by trying to paint it.

This is a Silica Animus, a construct of the Dark Mechanicus that has achieved artificial intelligence. Known as an AI (Abominable Intelligence) by the Mechanicus, all practices in this area are outlawed, but then the Mechanicus are always so short sighted compared to their dark brothers and sisters. The Silica Animus uses a fusion of mechanical, demonic and biological elements to achieve consciousness, it's endless curiosity and desire to taste and consume new and unusual substances and experiences is held in check only by it's dependence on the ritual sacrifice it needs to carry out in order to fuel it's warp energies. This fail-safe, a limitation implemented by it's creator the Magos Echidnia, is a puzzle it is is enjoying trying to overcome.



The blank disc will have a face drawn on it, the same as the geists. These masks serve to put a human face on otherwise fairly grotesque, abstract creations. Even the Dark Mechanicus can get a bit put off when trying to talk to a machine that has a dripping matter-grinder for a mouth.

HOLY ! That is utterly brilliant. I can't wait to see it painted. Mainly because of the face disc aspect I think that is genius!

Brilliant model but from the fluff I've just got this image of it as a blissed out stoner.........

Actually it's personality was mainly based on my kitten - endless curiosity, just wants to explore and sample everything, combined with standard casual cat cruelty towards anything small that moves. And held in check only by demonic sacrifice.

I imagine it drifting around (the AI not the kitten) plucking up interesting things (flowers, machines, people) and tossing them into it's sampler-grinder mouth to analyse.

 Bruticus wrote:
Actually it's personality was mainly based on my kitten - endless curiosity, just wants to explore and sample everything, combined with standard casual cat cruelty towards anything small that moves. And held in check only by demonic sacrifice.

I imagine it drifting around (the AI not the kitten) plucking up interesting things (flowers, machines, people) and tossing them into it's sampler-grinder mouth to analyse.

that is so creepy and brilliant ! i like that its evilness is not necessarily malicious - just inquisitive.

I have been thinking about ai a bit , but older stuff left over from the men of iron pre heresy period .. or a game where you play an ai trying to get from one area to the other through the walls and cables etc.. no body though.

Just went through the whole blog and daaam. I've always just played normal 40k and never really wanted to play the other games, but your models and narratives arrre sooo cool actually feeling inspired to get onto this myself. Anyway, everything is awesome subscribed

As soon as I saw the Blightking box I had a clear idea for this conversion, it's quite rare that I ever order the exact bits I want and they fit together with no issues, but this guy basically built himself. I had to remove the corrosion (denurglify) on the armour but I still want it to look battered and dented.

This is Borsus, formerly a Blue Whale Knight, but ever since that order was decimated he has been forced to work as a hedge knight, a hired hand and even a pit fighter. Now he is drawn to the Throne of Bones and tales of treasures.

Very cool, he's going to paint up a dream. Funny enough I read back through your blog just yesterday! Very inspiring a second time round.

I've checked out your website too, stunning work. I'd love to hear more about that, please!?

Beautiful conversion. Great green stuff work.

The GS is pretty easy, it's just to fill in holes really.

The Throne of Bones (Mordheim campaign) is moving forwards, a kickstarter a backed a year ago has finally shipped the scenery I need. I'm also half way through a pretty massive other project, I get distracted easily.

What do you want to know about my site?

Whoa, that is an excellent conversion, Bruticus! Wonderful selection of bitz too!

That just works I like his stockiness as well really gives him a character

I was wondering when you were gonna come back with a Throne of Bones update!

I'm in two minds about the topknot. Never really a fan of them and I think he'd look even tougher without it, but this one is actually quite a nicely sculpted one.

I never liked topknots on CSM but I think it works really well here as it brings out the Pit Fighter vibe.

Do you just se the unaltered Mordheim rules or have you come up with anything new and nasty for your custom campaign?

What's the scenary you're waiting on?

I'm waiting on a lot of hirst arts stuff, but cast in resin. There was a kickstarter selling dungeon sets quite reasonably a while ago, although it's been so long that I am not sure I would have chosen to order it if I had known about the delays.

I haven't thought too much about the game really as there is so much to do still. The original idea was Mordheim with mainly vampire only gangs and additional tunnel rules. But it might also turn into something more like Warhammer Quest with random heroes versus vampires.

He is based on my least favourite body variant in the blight king box . It is nice to see what a little bit of filling and filing can do to make a models dynamic totally change. He looks brilliant as a hedge knight.

Do you still want Antler head?

Nice work on him , the arrow and the base are a nice touch, the gladiatorial aspect is really coming through. was your other fat necromunda pitfighter called borsus ? the name sounds familiar..

It'll be good to see the terrain and how you bring it together. Hopefully it doesn't take too much longer to arrive.

The idea of Knights roaming through a Vampire infested city/dungeons is pretty sweet. Have you got any more Knights planned?

Not sure if just adding some items to the existing Mordheim equipment list like plate armour or something?

Oh I just realised why the name seemed appropriate, Migs used it for his Nurgle lord conversion. I had a feeling I'd heard it before somewhere. In that case his name will be Adon. I might use a smaller base size, I think the blightkings are quite an inbetween size.

PDH - thanks but I found a cheap bits source so I'm sorted. I do love that head though, not sure how many I will end up using in the future.

To be honest this is really the only Blight King body I like, I don't really like all the tentacles and wobbly flesh. Or at least, I think there is too much of that stuff for one unit.


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MoD - It should be here soon but I have such a huge list of things to work on I don't know when I will get around to it.

He is a pitfighter now more than a knight I think, I have always been tempted to make a full pitfighter gang, but for now he is just a hired hand. He can go with the witch hunter that Grag sent me.

A pitfighter ogre is really hard to resist. I seem to be drawn to pitfighters, they were my favourite gang in Necromunda too.

After tracking down the Mordheim Pitfighter list I can see why. They seem like they'd be great and diverse for a modelling project. I assume they're fairly formidable combat masters? The Pit King seems like he could be quite a monster given the right equipment/skills.

He's looking great Bruticus. It would seem all the cool kids are converting the Blightkings . I gotta agree with you about all the more Lovecraftian elements(tentacles and wobbly flesh) although I love the new Blightkings i wonder if they haven't forgotten what (at least I think) was the basis of Nurgle's appeal- organic, down to earth matter, rotting things etc. Rather than supernatural, they should be scarily human. After all, in the Empire Nurgle would surely be equated with the blight of crops,plagues and death itself all very human sufferings, rather than magical beasts. I'd actually like to see some thin Nurgley creatures as well, emaciated skeletons, but jovial and happy, perhaps dancing, bringing to mind some esoteric wood cut of pagan cults activities. But , Im getting of topic...

I thought of one detail, which could be interesting and add a cool Blanchian appeal to the pitfighter.... Nails. Maybe hammered into his armour, or in a crown type arrangement around his helmets forehead. The easiest way to make them would be the bristles of a dish brush(got that one from the Spiky Rat Pack) and slices of a thin greenstuff tube. It would be fairly fiddly work, so I don't blame you if you don't want to try it.

Iv'e been working on some more Mordhiem terrain myself, hopefully for some games soon, so I look forward to what you cook up. If its anything like what you've been describing, it'll be a great show.

I love the hedge knight / pit fighter! One of my favorite blighting conversions so far. The arm positions you chose work very nicely with that stance, and the armor looks great; de-nurglified but still dented and worn.

 Bruticus wrote:

 Casey's Law wrote:
Very cool, he's going to paint up a dream. Funny enough I read back through your blog just yesterday! Very inspiring a second time round.

I've checked out your website too, stunning work. I'd love to hear more about that, please!?

What do you want to know about my site?

Haha, I'm not really sure I just found it quite exciting. When did you set it up? I went through the fluff today, drew me right in, very good work. I guess I would like to know what made you take the leap to setting it up and what are you working towards, if anything?

 Bruticus wrote:
I'm also half way through a pretty massive other project, I get distracted easily.

Who doesn't? What's this massive project that you're keeping secret from us?

He's inspired by Basuzo and some other villains from Berserk (I love Berserk so much). You can see him here but I can only find the clip in German for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npm9sk9fCR8

I've been meaning to do pitfighters for a while, I love how they have different fighting styles like 'undead style'. And this conversion just seemed so obvious it had to be done. I don't know about adding nails - sounds like a good idea but honestly I have so much to do hobby-wise that I'm trying to cut corners where possible!

I think the stance is OK, I would have preferred his legs to be a bit squarer. I should probably have fixed them but again, cutting corners!

I think Nurgle works better when it has the grim reaper aesthetic. Skeletal, rusty, withered etc. The occasional big guy is cool, which is why the first Nurgle lord looked great - he was stood next to all these little hunched things (at least, in my mind he was). I'm not sure when all these tentacles started, maybe with Festus? I don't like tentacles or stomach-mouths at all, nor the cartoony monsters.

I need to expand my site to include the other areas - Profundis is the Inq/Necro/40k stuff but I also have Throne of Bones which is Mordheim and the new project. Not to mention all my Epic stuff, but that doesn't really have any narrative to it.

I don't have time to make all the models I want to, I'm really slow at the hobby. I think the site lets me get across more ideas than I could do if I just did a few models. I intend to write more fluff for it all, I mean I have huge amounts of Profundis story and fluff and character designs but it's difficult to process it all. I need an assistant to paint things for me!

Unfortunately Meade seems to have vanished and he was helping motivate me for the 40k stuff, so that's all dried up now. I am focused on the other projects and the secret one is nearly ready to reveal.

What a lot of waffle. TLDR - too many ideas, not enough time.

Wait wait wait, what is "the new project"? :O

Ok, not sure how or why, but for some reason I've not stumbled across this before, even though I've seen Hawkmoor and the Geists before - probably on Peter's or Neil's blogs I'm guessing.

Outstanding stuff here, some really excellent work going on. The Sun Titan marine is very nice, lovely ornate armour. Really, really impressed with the Sin Eater though, that is a great model you've created there.

Going further back, some nice work on the gangers, good refresh of the Van Saar in particular, although I have to confess a soft spot for the pit slaves - bio-mechanical mash-ups are always going to be my bag

Also loved your Slaaneshi marine, although the exarch backpack was a bit annoying as I've had that in mind for some time myself Likewise when I first saw your geists - thought some interesting servitors could come out of those spores...and hey...they did

Great stuff all round, keep it coming, it all makes good feed for the dark-forge