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Aye - that's what I was thinking. Just makes it a little less plain. Reckon I'll keep ém that way

Scyllax are coming along. Will finish the highlighting the armour plates after work today. Finished the heads barring the lenses yesterday. Love painting those skulls. They're all unique and have a lovely battered aged look to them.

Excellent work on the Magos. Is there a story (in universe) behind the skull with the red cross?

EDC

He is (was) a heretek within the forgeworld. A former priest that betrayed his forge and was executed and his skull denied the honour of becoming a servoskull.

I like that fluff. Have you got any for the Magos himself?

I have for the knight, dominus and castellax. None for the Magos.........yet

Anywhere I can read about them or would you prefer to keep it to yourself?

Not just yet. The first two prologue bits are done (one for the Knight and one for the Dom & Cas) but only first drafts. Need to find some time to print them out and go back over with pen and coffee - lol. I'll put them up somewhere at some point. All the stuff I've been doing over the last year ties in together in a bigger narrative

Scyllax just about done. Final assembly and staining/weathering left to go. Time for a little dio and basing

 angelofvengeance wrote:

 Azazelx wrote:
Excellent work on this guy throughout the execution. He's come up very impressively in his final form, and looks at least as good (or better, let's face it) than anything produced by GW or even FW for any of the "Mechanicus" factions.

To be fair, the plastic Magos Dominus is a pretty nice model as well (pretty big too- comes on I think a 50mm base), but Jan's captures more of the Blanche style.

I'm actually a big fan of both the AdMech and Mechanicus lines. Well, I'm a bit torn on the FW "tanks" but I pretty much love everything else. That's how impressed I was with Jan's Magos.


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 Archer wrote:
I like the single metal panel in the carapace. Serves to break it up a little and adds that mish-mash aspect that suits the Mechanicus.

Agreed here.

Know what you mean about the FW Mechanicum tanks Az.....love all of their stuff but still not 100% sold on the tank....just something......can't put my finger on it but I'm just not convinced with them and cheers for the compliement btw

Looking good. Nice bit of fluff re the skull.

EDC

Hey Jan, did you see your "allkill" (as a Korean would say) of the Flickr pool on What's New Today???

Great to see you there

aye - got a load of notifications from flickr in my email so flipped over to see what all the fuss was. Nicely surprised to see loadsof my stuff up

That Scyllax is looking awesome! Will you be making a dio for the whole squad, or just him?

For the Magos & his Scyllax covenant

That's them pinned to their bases now. Will leave the 'drites till tomoro.

Scyllax are looking fantastic!

Cheers Az

Looking very good as a group

Nice work with the Scyllax, I really do like the consistent color scheme you using on all these ad mech.

Haven't checked in for a while, I sure have missed a lot! Your war host is starting to grow significantly now. I love all the mechanicum gribblys!

Thanks a lot folks. Host is coming along nicely. Colour scheme is pretty solid and grim. Glad I went with something darker and more war torn than bright and chirpy! Need some footsloggers mixed in so I reckon a squad of rangers will be next to join the Taghmata! Like mixing the FW stuff in with the GW figs; makes a nice mixed force, bit more varied as the aesthetics are defintely a little different but do go well together. So, it'll be rangers next then a thanatar with a controlling techpriest and then some ruststalkers and then your friendly, ever present, pleased to make you dissappear, Inquisitional warband

The thanatar are definatley some of the coolest mechs available to the mechanicum. I'd love to get one to chop up and convert, lots of potential in them.

They're pretty sweet models and lots of pieces! Mine is still sitting in its bag in my cabinet :( Hopefully get to him next month. Not gonna do too much converting - just a little change with the legs and I want to open up the cowling on the plasma mortar into a firing position. Want to have the guy bracing himself as if he's just about ot let loose with his main weapon.
Would like a few more of the FW castellax as well - really like those models

Here's the last of the WiPs. Just got the mechandrites pinned and glued in. Fiddly little fethers!! Just a bit of cleanup and such to do now and these boys are ready to go

Looking very nice jan! What is next on your list for mechanicus?

I think a squad of skit rangers next. But I have some other non-admech stuff I want to get busy on as well maybe before the rangers or jsut at the same time.....we'll see

 Januine wrote:
I think a squad of skit rangers next. But I have some other non-admech stuff I want to get busy on as well maybe before the rangers or jsut at the same time.....we'll see

If you are still feeling forgeworld you should try some of the vorax battle-automata

Yeaahhh - been eying them. Realy really nice figs. New Year's res though- no new buys (except Corax) until I've cleared what I have at the minute. Should be done by .......the Summer?!!!?!!

 Januine wrote:
Yeaahhh - been eying them. Realy really nice figs. New Year's res though- no new buys (except Corax) until I've cleared what I have at the minute. Should be done by .......the Summer?!!!?!!

We can have a Corax painting competition, though I am sure I know who would win