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Just grabbed a chance for a quick look. I would say far left is my absolute favourite, his looks f-ing awesome! I then like most the 2nd from right, right, then 2nd from left

Has a paint scheme crossed your mind? I had a thought of flesh at the top of the head that slowly fades into a silvery metal on the lower half. like their skin simply mutates into metal flesh. Or I think an overall metallic look would look cool

I think a flesh head with a metal plate stitched across the mouth would look the mutts nuts

Solar Shock wrote:
Just grabbed a chance for a quick look. I would say far left is my absolute favourite, his looks f-ing awesome! I then like most the 2nd from right, right, then 2nd from left

Has a paint scheme crossed your mind? I had a thought of flesh at the top of the head that slowly fades into a silvery metal on the lower half. like their skin simply mutates into metal flesh. Or I think an overall metallic look would look cool

Just looking on the heads itself my favorite is the 3rd from left closely followed be the 2nd and the 4th is my least favorite one. But put on those bodies the 1st actually works better then i thought as the smooth design matches quite nice with the armor. Like i said before i'll probably do a mixture of the first 3 and build a special head for the champion.

Cakie wrote:
I think a flesh head with a metal plate stitched across the mouth would look the mutts nuts

I will probably use something like that for the champion. But i wasn't in the mood for human head sculpting. But i hope that i'll find the energy to do it soon.

After a longer pause an update from me. I did my first resin casts and created a mould for the silenced heads. They have a bunch of air bubbles but they look decent.





I also started a helmetless hear for the champion of the bunch. Not the best photo but for more zoomed in shots my camera will reach it's limits.

The casts look pretty good! I dig the bases, and the new sculpt loos awesome!

Granted, I've only done a couple wolf pelts, but I can't imagine being able to sculpt like this in GS. Phenomenal, keep it up.

I was about to register a request for a purchase of your stuff in german, when it dawned on me, i'm still trying to get rid of the stuff i have, and have forbidden myself from making any further purchases. The torsos are especially tempting.

 poda_t wrote:
I was about to register a request for a purchase of your stuff in german, when it dawned on me, i'm still trying to get rid of the stuff i have, and have forbidden myself from making any further purchases. The torsos are especially tempting.

Hehe.
And the interesting thing is, i have no idea what to do with those torsos. I just looked ad Mephiston one day and asked myself: "Can i create a torso like that?"
Those casts where the result of me answering the question.


I'm currently in the process of filling in all air bubbles and then i'll put the heads on my models. I'll either cast another set or use the best of my past press mould results and finish them in the next few days. 4 of them already have magnetized weapons and the others will get glued on ones. I need to build another bolter for them and decide what backpack to put on them and i'm finished.


Do you have an idea what backpacks to put on them? regular chaos ones? Khorne berzerker ones? Some 3rd party backpacks you think would look good? I can't decide. (Like i always do...)

Yu've already done a lot of outstanding custom work, it wouldn't do to cheap out on it at this stage. I'm thinking Anubis heads for the exhaust on the leader. Another option could be to use the winged Egyptian sun, shortened down. The sun is on the backpack, and the wings flare out either side as exhausts. Or two winged birds, facing away from eachother, pointing their wings out.? Maybe something on the backpack to identify which temple they belong to? Oooooh, or mimic a set of monoliths, instead of the vent exhausts coming to either side of the shoulder they climb a little higher up?

While i love the aegyptian imagery of thousand sons those are still for my slaanesh army. So your ideas are not what i was looking for.

But i agree with you that those need some special backpacks that let them stand out further.

And here are a few heads now onto the models. And i'll cast another set for the rest of them.

Hmmmm okay, I guess I missed/forgot the slaanesh theme. Something representing a human form, or a daemon form, chained onto a cruciform? Mmmight work, might be a bit too much slaanesh I though.

This came to mind, tried to avoid it, couldn't.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyber-d/4102285815/

Well it's a tricky thing and i should probably go into more details what i had in my mind for them.
While they are part of a slaanesh themed army they are somewhat of a hybrid stylewise. I wanted to make a more unified looking squad with for chaos untypical clean armor. They should look somewhat "dull" to better go with the thousand son rubic marine idea. The simple mouthless helmets fall into the same categorie.
But they are on the other hand supposed to be silence themed. The basic idea is that they are templates for further noise based powers. The sorcerer leading them is pumping warp energy into their voices. To not disrupt this ritual - what would have chaotic consequences - they have to stay silent until they either die or learn to control their new warp-voice.

I think that this concept is a good counts as representation of the thousand son rules. And the look falls into the same category i think.

But this makes choosing a backpack design difficult for me. The sorcerer isn't the biggest problem as i could just use a sorcerer style backpack. But for the regular guys it's hard.
Maybe some kind of warp energy receiver on their backpacks and additional cables and runes/ritual stuff.
This contraption could even look similar to the thousand sons hemlet style, just mounted on their backs.

What do you think of that idea?

Paintingwise i'm thinking of adding glowing runes to their armor. (should i ever paint them ... )

yeah, the headdress as mounted onto the power-plant sounds about right, though that suggests adding a face onto the backpack, or at least some sort of icon. Maybe just a book? How about running with the psychic hood theme, except, I'm going to guess you want to keep the heads plain, so instead, the cables just go from the power plant into the torso.

to go back to the idea you quashed, i've another idea:
Maybe something along the lines of a 4-armed god, with incredibly plain-faced features holding an exhaust vent in each hand? or for the sarge, two dirge casters on top, facing forward, with the exhaust vents in the lower hands.

How about some converted GK Interceptor backpacks?
Remove iconography, possibly replace/extend the exhaust vents to make it looks more chaosy, and mod the antennas however you want to look like some sort of warp energy receiver.
I think a circular arc type-thing attaching to the antenna would look very cool and unique.
example:

Possibly even removing the top antenna, attaching the arc to the bottom ones and re-attaching the top antenna to the arc instead of the backpack.

Even if this idea is no good I hope it helps get the inspiration flowing.
Keep up the awesome work

 poda_t wrote:
yeah, the headdress as mounted onto the power-plant sounds about right, though that suggests adding a face onto the backpack, or at least some sort of icon. Maybe just a book? How about running with the psychic hood theme, except, I'm going to guess you want to keep the heads plain, so instead, the cables just go from the power plant into the torso.

I could try to add cables running from the backpack to the back of their helmets.

to go back to the idea you quashed, i've another idea:
Maybe something along the lines of a 4-armed god, with incredibly plain-faced features holding an exhaust vent in each hand? or for the sarge, two dirge casters on top, facing forward, with the exhaust vents in the lower hands.

I always liked the 4 exhaust backpacks and i think that i'll do something like that at least for the champion/sorcerer. But the dirge casters are also a cool idea and would tie them to the noise theme i am going with. I probably have to order some backpacks to cut up and convert. And maybe casting them is an option if i convert them enough to be different.

 Xendarc wrote:
How about some converted GK Interceptor backpacks?
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Spoiler:

Even if this idea is no good I hope it helps get the inspiration flowing.
Keep up the awesome work

While i like the idea i think getting hold of 10 of those backpacks won't be cheap. But i like this arc design. Maybe I'll try to create a hybrid and build this arc but on of a normal/csm backpack. Decissions, decissions. And you probably all know by now how hard it is for me to make them.

Not much to update here. I have cut up a loyalists backpack as a base for sculpting but i need some time and maybe a sketch to continue.

At least i put a head on the sorcerer. But he still needs some additional details to look the part.

I know its an older thread, but i love the helmet you put the blank mask over on your first page, that is awesome!

The silenced face masks you got going on are also pretty epic, well done man, can wait to see some pain on them.

Thank you.
knowing myself it will take a long while until i put paint on them.

And to be honest one of those guys and the sergeant/sorceror still sits on my desk unfinished. And their bolters are also not all prepared with scope and amoo drum.

Hey I understand, I have a multitude of minitures in different stages of assmbly and painting.

My goal is to finish a full Battle Company of my Angels of Vengance with some additions I think the fluff of an unforgiven chapter will allow. needless to say i have about half with paint another fourth built and the remaining in different stages of assembly > .<
I'll get 'er done... eventually haha

Those don't include my sidetracks into Kill Team and such