Shadow of the Wildlands

The Arq'Muther told the tribe's youngbloods the legend of the Haunting Shadow, before they go on their first lonely hunt in the Wildlands. There are many serious dangers on Namorra Prime and some will wear your skin and eat your soul. Only a few lucky tribesmen, who survived those nightmares, could told their story and warn the others.

Hi everyone! I've finished my first NPC Monster for the upcoming Namorra Prime campaign. My Herald of Slaanesh was selected for this role and this was the perfect opportunity to finish this model.

I wanted a really grim-dark colour scheme and discard my intention to use my recent slaanesh colour scheme. This is a fact I'm really happy about. I also implemented the recommandation of the Krautscientist, who suggested a slaanesh model with cloth made of skin. All colours are rather desaturated and the only colour highlight is found on the base.

Following a 360° view of the model.

Meanwhile I have collected a group of awesome hobbyists who will attend, contribute and support this event in many different ways. There are some very well known names. But I will talk about the event separately. And be sure, I'm really looking forward to share this with you! ;-)

Sadly my usual camera setup is not available at the moment, so I have to use my smartphone which is ok, but not as good as the Cybershot I've used before. Just saying, if you wonder about the different photo quality.

Thank you very much for your visit. Feel welcome to comment and stay tuned! 

Slaanesh Champion - WIP #2

After KrautsScientist's awesome suggestions, I made a few improvements to the champion. I replaced the axe with a sword from the Tzaangors and used a piece of a Daemonette's whip for the pommel.

Then I added a second breastplate. I also tried to scuplt some more ornamentation with green stuff. But sadly that didn't worked at all :-( .

The necklace of the Infernal Enrapturess was placed between both plates.

And a second spike was added to each leg.

I decided to keep the big banner on the backback and went outside to prime that guy.

Thanks a lot for your visit, feel welcome to comment and stay tuned.

Slaanesh Champion - WIP #1

For my Slannesh Cult I startet working on a Chaos Space Marine Champion. I really like the Primaris Reivers and want to try to convert one into a Chaos model. Also it was the biggest 'standard' Marine I have in my collection. I startet with the leg and tosro of a Reiver and added the axe and arm from the Aspiring Champion. Next I removed the skull from the breast plate and added a small plate from a Kairic Acolyte.

On his front I also added the cloth from a Rubric Marine and a lace with a skull and a bone from an Abhorrant Ghoul King. The hook next to it is taken from the Terrorgheist kit. I also added a pistol holster from the old Chaos Marines on his back and two tiny spikes on the sides of his shins. These were cutted off a Hormagaunt arm.

I needed a bit green stuff to extend the lace to his belt and the small tube on the shoulder pad .

For the head I choose the Abhorrant Ghoul King's one. I glued on a rounded plastic piece to create a neck and made a transition with green stuff.

To give it a rather more Space Marine appearance I cutted off the sides of a Chaos Marine Helmet and glued them on.

Afterwards I filled the gaps with Green Stuff.

My Champion still needed a second arm. I wanted to underline the look of a possesed character and choosed an weird arm from the Putrid Blightkings. I added green stuff in his armpit and tried to achive that it looks like the amour and flesh were melted together.

The second shoulderpad is from the new Shadowspear box. I think it's the only single one in it.
All I have to do was removing the chains.

Then I glued on the arm, shoulderpad and head to get the desired pose.

I like his appearance so far, but I think the transition between flesh and armour needs some more details to work. So let us add some tubes.

Everytime when working with Green Stuff I have a lot stuff left over, which I transform into tubes with a 'Roll-Maker' to have them ready for cases like this. First I drilled a hole where the tube should be.

Afterwards I cut the tubes in the fitting length, put a small drop of plastic glue into the drilled holes and place the tubes. After the glue has dried you can use Green Stuff to fill occurring gaps.

I also added a small tube on the upper side. But this time I used just green stuff and a drop of platic glue to fix it.

Next I added some more details. A spike was glued on the top of the backpack and chains with skulls on the Champion's backside. The backpack is from the Shadowspear box and the other bit is from the Terrorgheist Kit.

Next I cut off that spike of the backpack and searched for something more impressive. I found a nice piece in the seekers of slaanesh kit. It's really huge and I need to see if I still like it another day. I like it when things are designed to work. That is always in my mind when I place a detail, for example the pistol holster. It has to be on the opposite side of the axe, so the model can actually use both weapons.

In this case the banner is so huge, that he would have big struggle indoors or when passing doors.

Please let me know what you think of the champion so far. Is there something that needs to be improved or even removed?

Thanks a lot for your visit, feel welcome to comment and stay tuned.

Slaanesh Cult

I'm really blown away by the awesome new Keeper of Secrets model and the new Daemon Prince. In case you have missed their reveal, just take a look.

This is just the right motivation to get my hands back on my Slaanesh Cultists and it may helps to justify the purchase of a new model ;-). So, I started to work out a colour scheme for them. I wanted to go for the typical colours like black, purple, pink and white. A lilac skin tone should represent a daemonic posession of the cult members. First I wasn't sure about that look, but I think it works really well and it is a nice variety to my models so far.

Soon I realized that they won't turn out as grim dark as I have imagined, but in the end I really like their look.

Following the list of colours, which were used for the models:
C - Citadel Paint
V - Vallejo Model Color

Primer:
C - Chaos Black

Skin:
C - Daemonette Hide
C - Druchii Violet
C - Warpfiend Grey
C - Slaanesh Grey

Cloth:
C - Skavenblight Dinge
C- Nuln Oil
C - Skavenblight Dinge
C - Stormvernim Fur

Black Leather:
C - Abaddon Black
C - Skavenblight Dinge
C - Stormvernim Fur

Black Armour:
C - Abaddon Black
V - Black Grey
V - London Grey

Metals:
C - Leadbelcher
C - Nuln Oil
C - Leadbelcher

Bronze:
C - Balthasar Gold
C- Agrax Earthshade
C - Sycorax Bronze

Masks:
C - Celestra Grey
C - Nuln Oil
C - Celestra Grey
C - White Scar
C - Carroburg Crimson
C - Emperors Children

Symbols:
C - Emperors Children
C - Carroburg Crimson
C - Emperors Children

Hair:
C - Abaddon Black
C - Genestealer Purple
C - Nuln Oil
C - Genestealer Purple

Eyes:
C - White Scar
C - Carroburg Crimson
C - White Scar (Dot)

Teeth:
C - White Scar
C - Nuln Oil

Wood:
C - Mournfang Brown
C - Nuln Oil
C - Mournfang Brown

Flames:
(The moment I realized I don't have yellow :-P)
V - Dark Vermillion
V - Orange Flourescent
V - Light Orange
V - White
C - Lahmian Medium
C - Abaddon Black (dry)

Bases:
V - Dark Earth Texture Paint (stippled)
C - Mournfang Brown
V - Flat Earth (over Texture Paint)
C - Agrax Earthshade
C - Typhus Corrosion (stippled)
C - Ryza Rust (dry)
V Pigment - Old Rust
V Pigment - Light Sienna

I would really like to know your thoughts about them and thank you very much for your visit. Feel welcome to comment and stay tuned!