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Quite pleased with these so far, thought I'd sling my TBMF post over here as well for additional feedback. I'll be adding in recent INQ28 work and my other Mordheim projects when I have some free time.


So, a fortuitous acquisition of Ethrac from a mate(just about the only thing to come out of the End Times debacle that doesn't make me want to boak, which I suppose is irony since it's a Nurgle model ) has sparked a wee diversion in the form of a Cult of the Possessed warband. I've been looking for an excuse to do these guys for ages now, chiefly so I can finally use two of my favourite models; Nightmaw from Forgeworld and Goliath by Stephane Simon(great sculptor, did a lot of Rackham's Confrontation models and these days is behind a lot of Mierce's cool stuff). But I could never find anything to use as the Magister and Brethren that worked for me. Ethrac solved the first problem, the solution to the second didn't strike me until I decided to arm my first couple of Brethren with bows and dug out an old Archers/Huntsmen box.

The Brethren and Magister required the most work, but the most challenging was actually Goliath since I had to try and avoid my amateur-hour grasp of anatomy ruining the lovely base model(the original is armed with a giant two-handed axe-thing, but I wanted to make him properly gribbly and try to call out to the Possessed designs in the recent Mordheim computer game, which appeal to me more than the original GW sculpts tbh). The Beastmen are just stock models, a finecast Beastlord and two plastic Gors. I greyscaled the images to make them easier to see:
















My other projects are ongoing, but next up I'll be finishing off the two Mutants for this warband and putting together a second group of Brethren(this time armed with spears and shields). A Darksoul or two may follow later.

This will be cool to follow. I've been getting interesting in mordheim again recently. The brethren conversions are my favourite. I think you will have an exciting mix of characters. I've seen circular bases for mordheim a couple of times now. Is there any reason? Gameplay or just stylistic?
Cheers.

Zwan1One wrote:
This will be cool to follow. I've been getting interesting in mordheim again recently. The brethren conversions are my favourite. I think you will have an exciting mix of characters. I've seen circular bases for mordheim a couple of times now. Is there any reason? Gameplay or just stylistic?
Cheers.

Cheers man. They're not actually fixed to the bases, I'm still undecided about whether to use squares or rounds; rounds make more sense for a skirmish game, and the only rational reason to use squares - that I might want to use them in a Warhammer army - will be out the window if the rumoured changes coming with 9th are true(because I would rather eat my own thumbs than engage with that dreck)...but something just doesn't feel right about using rounds for Mordheim models. I suppose it's just because I have so many fond memories of the system from back when it first came out, and when it came out everyone used squares.

EDIT: Also, anyone have a view on the Magister's staff? I quite like Ethrac's staff top, it's weird in a very Mordheim-ish way...but it's very identifiably Ethrac's staff if you get what I mean. I'm considering taking the top off and replacing it with a banner top from the Chaos Warriors kit, which would be more in-keeping with the Possessed warband theme, but I'm hesitant since if I end up not liking the change it'll be a ton of work to put it back the way it was.

I'm pretty much done with the modelling stage of the warband for now, save for some tidying work on the bases. I still have two Darksouls to make, but none of the stuff in my current bitz mountain is really jumping out at me, so I'm a bit stuck there until I figure out a base model to use.

I made a couple more changes to the Magister to de-Ethrac him a touch more, removing the various clusters of three spikes lingering about his person and veeeery carefully sawing off the top of his staff(which is too nice not to keep for future use) and replacing it with a Chaos Warriors banner top:



I finally figured out my two Mutants. The tall chappie with spindly legs will likely start out with Cloven Hooves and will be taken in an offensive direction with his advances, hopefully getting to put his arm mutation to use with a Scorpion Tail if I manage to roll well on the Rewards of the Shadowlord table. The stunted guy will go a different direction; having watched a few of the folk who'll hopefully be playing in an upcoming campaign fight, I noticed they have a predilection for trying to kill warband leaders. Not so good for Possessed warbands, since you lose access to a magic user with Academic skills if your Magister goes down. The second Mutant will start out with Hideous, and thereafter focus exclusively on defensive skill advances, with his job essentially being to bodyguard the Magister, moving to Intercept incoming enemies:





Lastly I put together another henchman group of Brethren, this time armed with Spears and Shields. Same Archer base as last time, but with Flagellant arms and Clanrat weapons:





And here's a wee greyscaled shot of the whole warband as it stands right now(apologies for blur, crappy old phone camera):



Not sure what I'll be working on next, both my Dwarfs and Skaven deserve some attention, but a combination of reading the Matthias Thulmann anthology and playing Darkest Dungeon has given me a Witch Hunter-related itch, so we'll see what happens, heh.

Holy gak.

You're scultping skills are ace mate. Really crisp.

Absolutely love all of it. I think the Magister is my favourite but it all comes together so well it's hard to say.

When I see stuff like this it makes me want to do some Mordheim stuff but I'm a many of many starts and no ends.

Looking forward to seeing them painted up.

Really love these cultist conversions! Nice work.

Cheers guys

 Medium of Death wrote:
Holy gak.

You're scultping skills are ace mate. Really crisp.

Absolutely love all of it. I think the Magister is my favourite but it all comes together so well it's hard to say.

When I see stuff like this it makes me want to do some Mordheim stuff but I'm a many of many starts and no ends.

Looking forward to seeing them painted up.

Oh trust me, my sculpting isn't that hot, you should see some of the anatomical horrors I've perpetrated while trying to sculpt musculature Literally all the improvements I've made have been down to refining what putties I use and in what mixtures(currently heavy-yellow GS mixed 1:2 with Apoxie Sculpt), and buying loads and loads of Colour Shapers, which are so much better than metal tools for 90% of the stuff I do it's not even funny.

As for starts with no ends; man, I have...*counts* 13 one-litre plastic tubs on my shelves, each one with an unfinished project in it, and that's without counting my Pile of Shame; you are not alone, hah. Mordheim and INQ28 are the best things to motivate though, you should deffo have a crack if you have the time.