She Who Thirsts

Hello dear readers!

Here's a whole bunch of pictures of my Slaaneshii themed entry for the Invitational for your viewing pleasure. 

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40 mm base: The Master

A particulary devious and scientifically minded Emperors Children renegade with a special interest in eldar soul technology. This former pupil if the notorius Fabius Bile has crossed paths with Inquisitor Carax on numerous occasions. 

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60mm base: The Gimp

This hulking brute is completely devoted to the Master. Rumoured to have been created by a dark fusion of haemonculii and daemonengine technology. 

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30mm base: The Nemesis

This eternally vigilant solitaire has hunted down The Great Enemy's minions for over a thousand years. Now he has set his sights on the Master. 

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I hope everyone's checking out all the fantastic stuff on show on Ironsleet - it is a quite spectacular parade of great miniatures...

Bring out the Gimp

I'm done! After a long night of frenzied painting I managed to make the invitational dead line. Well...sort of. I'm a day late actually but who's counting...

Anyway, without further ado, here's a preview of the third and final model for the Invitational. I call him "The Gimp" for now - seems like an oddly fitting name as theres a certain S/M vibe over this guy. 

This was one of those miniatures that felt as a total disaster until it suddenly started to work halfway into the painting process. Oh, and while I say miniture, this model is huge - the stormfiend I used as a base is about the same size as a dreadnought. 

Quite pleased with how it turned out in the end, though it's admittedly a bit rough around the edges in some places.

The trio will be revealed in full colour on Iron Sleet in a few days so only a desaturated pic for now. After that I'll make a huge post here with turnarounds of the characters. 

Stay tuned.

One down - two to go.

Hi folks!

The first invitational entry is now painted! 

I wont post him in all his technicolour glory until the end of march, but here's a desaturated preview for you good folks. 

Not quite there with the base though... I feel it misses something. Perhaps some scattered leaves would look good. But - apart from that I consider this one done!

An Inviting Marine

Good evening folks!

As requested here's a turnaround of the slaaneshi marine for the Iron Sleet Invitational. 

And here's a black and white preview of the painting in progress. The observant among you might notice that the wires in his belly has been greenstuffed over. 

Invitational first look

Kari, Mikko and Migs over on Iron Sleet have just posted the contributions to the 1st Iron Sleet Invitational.

And what a post it is - the brilliant conversions and minis on display is a feast for ones eyes! Head over there and have a look if you don't believe me:

http://ironsleet.com/2015/03/03/invitational-wip-storm/

My initial idea of three different Xenos was unfortunately scrapped. I had lots of plans and ideas but just couldn't get them to work like intended and soon I became stressed about the whole deal. To add injury to insult I manged to break the Hunter (the only mini I was even remotely pleased with) while working on it. 

I decided to call it quits, take a step back and do something else for a while. 

But in this dark hour the Prince of Chaos came to the rescue! Earlier this year I made the Diva, a follower of She who Thirsts, for a contest on the ammobunker. The big stormfiend conversion - with the talos helmet on - had a sort of slaaneshii look to him... 

I also had a lot of fun with my other chaos themed retinues ( Nurglii and Mhorrigotii) but had never done much with Slaanesh, except for a slaanmarine quite a while back. 

So the decision was made, a Slaaneshii gang it was! 

With the change of theme I got my mojo back and soon these three miscreants stood on my desk:

The Diva

Some say the wyrd creature simply known as Diva is the last surviving member of a heinous Chaos-tainted xenos race. 

Others that she once was a commorite tormentrix who have fallen even further into depravity. Or perhaps she is the result of an unholy union of human wytch and daemonette. No one knows for sure.. 

What can be said with absolute certainty is that she's given herself body and soul to She Who Thirsts and the path of pain and excess. 

Movie Mini Month

More communal stuff!

There's a splendid "Make A Mini From A Movie Month" going on over at the Ammobunker. 

I've decided to join in with a mini based on the Diva Plavalaguna from Besson's The Fifth Element:

The main reason behind this was partly that I wanted to do a female character and partly that, as blue has become sort of a signature spot colour for me, it was about damn time to paint a blue skinned mini.

It seems I've turned her into a slaaneshii psykerre. 

Master of desire

Here's the Emperors Children marine in all his depraved glory. 

You forget when you see him alone like this, but he's a big boy. Here he is next to Barfholomus and Ace:

Only thing missing now is some further detailing on the base and a name. 

Suggestions?

Pain and pleasure

The insidious forces of chaos still have me firmly in their grasp. 

I was planning to do a mhorrigoti-themed marine next but after the grittyness of Nurgle and Mhorrigot I felt the need to paint something slick. This truescale Emperors Children has been sitting half finished on my workbench for far too long so I finished the detailing and then started painting. 

Started with his head and painted that  separately - 

the body only has a chaos black spray at the moment.