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I like to keep him on his toes.

Nice work on all the things.

That's a very impressive amount of work there Damo. Gotta say I just love those dwarves!

Ah thanks fella's i'm pretty happy with them and I reckon Whaley will like them as well :-) I will ask to see a shot of ALL the D&D mini's i've done to date when these get back to him!

Fantastic mish-mash of stuff there.

Nerdy, you are a beast dude

Righto fella's i'm in need of help and information

I have been talking with a few guys one of which is our ever present Whalemusic about a new idea I've got! and yes, it's sort of old school Nerdy in it's ideas, hark back to the glory days of the Hel'Sak and endowed Demon prince it's not Slaanesh but I think it'll be better!

As you know I'm a hobby butterfly nowadays I haven't settled on anything that fulfills my needs in the hobby including conversions, painting and theme yet I find myself loving my Clown gang and wishing it could be bigger well I may have hit my hobby jackpot.
What about a collection of models that can be used as a gang in Necromunda, a Killteam and a 40k army? of clowns.....and circus folk!

I want to build a small yet nasty playable army of DARK ELDAR but create my own versions of twisted carnival folk and creatures to represent the units needed. I have a few ideas for different ones but some need fleshing out and models found to convert and use.

Troops: Killer clowns (more necromunda clowns like i've got)

Archon, Ringmaster (need to find models to use)

Beast master (old style hunter with pith helmet? need to find model and parts, also maybe use puppetswar barghesi? as beasts)

Grotesques, a squad of Circus strongmen with bionic enhancement converted from Nurgle rotters bloodbowl team

Wyches, Acrobats and contortionists made from Harlequins and Elf bloodbowl team

Mandrakes? what could I use as mandrakes?

Talos, was thinking maybe semi mechanical altered circus animals or at least animal head (lion, tiger, elephant) on robotic body, still need to find models to use?

So that's so far, i'm open to suggestions and if you've got any bits or old plastic you'd sell me please let me know! especially if it's something I can use for Talos and the HQ what do you think?

I think that's a marvellous idea Damo. Unfortunately I know nothing about DE, but I AM looking forward to what you come up with.

Sounds great . I forget the games name but there’s a post apocalyptic skirmish game which has a crazy Russian clown gang. Might want to look into that. Has a big bear, fire breather, ringmaster etc.

Karn-Evil.

Good luck!

--Brian

Sounds awesome!!

You should rewatch the Hammer classic Vampire Circus.
Circus of nights, a thousand delights...

Interesting. 40k clowns. We'll moonpie did a SM army I believe we're called Emperor's fools. Very unique

How about Rorschach-type mandrakes?

 Monsterzonk wrote:
How about Rorschach-type mandrakes?

Or mimes

 Heretic Tom wrote:

 Monsterzonk wrote:
How about Rorschach-type mandrakes?

Or mimes

MIMES! yes that is a great idea then it will look like a coherent unit! Silent killers! I think if I get some of the nurgle pox walkers I can use the twisted arms and make them into weird poses for them.

 nerdfest09 wrote:

 Heretic Tom wrote:

 Monsterzonk wrote:
How about Rorschach-type mandrakes?

Or mimes

MIMES! yes that is a great idea then it will look like a coherent unit! Silent killers! I think if I get some of the nurgle pox walkers I can use the twisted arms and make them into weird poses for them.

And paint their leader like Michael Jackson in thriller

Just painted this guy this morning for my gang a bounty hunter named Ned Korey after a mate who happens to be a bushy redhead

Nicely done Nerdy.

Yes, lovely depth on that figure.

Thank you gentlemen! wish the pics were a bit better but it's another model for the gang! :-)

Finally some action, not paint action but stupid idea Damo style conversion action

The Dark Eldar/Dark Carnival now has a squad of heavy hitters, I built these guys over the last couple of days, still a little more fine tuning to go but certainly entertaining enough for here! these are my 'Grotesques' enhanced circus performers injected with growth stimms and implants, originally I was going to make them readily identifiable as strong men but as they progressed they morphed slightly into a little more horror vibe still strong men though! I like the slightly skewed proportions it makes them a little more weird and wrong and also looks a little like a few of the Blanchitsu style models i've seen around. As for paint, i'm looking forward to doing them, lots of discolored skin and I get a chance to try a slightly transparent singlet on one or two of them, should look gooood!

I also got a bit done on my HQ (Archon or Heamonculus not sure which one to use him as?) So this is the Ringmaster to lead my army of giggling loons. I need to find something for his left hand but i'm not sure what yet? he will also have a top hat once the bit arrives for me to use

That's brilliantly horrible. He needs something chair-like - even if that's a four-barrelled gun.

I was thinking of having his top hat in his hand? I can stick a gun to his back at his waist to show he has one? the original idea was to convert inquisitor greyfax hat into a tophat and trim his head to have him wearing it? I could angle it back slightly to make his face still a focal point?

I think the top hat in hand is the superior pose. But if you want a good list I’d make him as wysiwyg as you can for what he will be. Whip is an agonized for sure.

I think you're right Whaley, hat in hand would look cool but also distract from what he is 'a ringmaster' the top hat sells the look so I'll find another weapon to whack in his free hand.

Nice job man!

 nerdfest09 wrote:
I think you're right Whaley, hat in hand would look cool but also distract from what he is 'a ringmaster' the top hat sells the look so I'll find another weapon to whack in his free hand.

How about a ring. Seriously though you could make a flaming ring or just a flaming hand to show psychic abilities. The ring could be a disc and then cut a demon in half and have it coming through the ring like he is summoning it.

That's grotesquely fantastic Nerdy! As I have come to expect.

Thanks guys, I have changed the last Grotesque's head now as that one wasn't working for me, he's now got a head from an Iron hands model and I've added a cable from his mouthpiece snaking down into a leather sack containing god knows what! :-) I'll play around more with Ringy when his hat comes.

I also got a Necromunda gang to paint up with pumpkin heads and he want them to have charred skin and molten hands so that's going to look interesting!

One last thing, the Grotesque with the 'coveralls' on i'm torn between making them filthy clown-esque outfit or painting them up in a slightly different skin tone so it looks like it's made of flesh and skin? but that might be too much away from the theme even though it would look siiiiiick!