Skrundles Chaos Kitbashes :- khorne daemon centaur

[T0MMY]

* Father Ted ("No Dougal, these cows are small and those cows are far away...")

 

I really don't think the size difference matters. I seem to remember that the sketchy GW Heldrake fluff is that they used to be flyers who got mutated by the power of the warp (wooooo) in the eye of terror or something, so it figures that there'd be different size Heldrakes depending on which flyer they were originally - and/or how much the warp has affected them. Some might be more mechanically biased (like no. 2) and some might be influenced by children's nightmares or some such and look like dragons (you catch my drift)!

 

Plus, as I said before - scale is moot in the 30-40k universe!

[Skrundle87]

Thanks for the input on the thirsted wings. I think they may be my go to.

 

Tommy I really like your view on the whole scale/size difference. Time in the warp etc. makes my critters sound a lot better haha

[Pearson73]

Really nice kitbashing there, perhaps we'll see them in The Daemon Engine Showcase when they're all painted up?

[Skrundle87]

Perhaps... There's a daemon engine showcase now? Wow I have been out a while

[Pearson73]

Started up in December as I know there's some brilliant ones on the forum.

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/316327-daemon-engine-showcase/

[Skrundle87]

Cool cheers. Might have to throw my old ones on there and put these on when done.

[Skrundle87]

Progress is a bit slow on these bad boys. My dog had puppies and that's made life pretty interesting

 

I threw in a few rib spikes to fill the triple holes for the lower wing

And some organic/mechanical parts into the neck

 

 

And tendrils along the tail as well as skills in the exhaust. I'm going for a soul powered daemon engine on this one

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/31B79319-8A80-4FD8-808A-BD8A3611F3CA_zpsx0eusrkx.jpg

 

And tendrils along the tail as well as skills in the exhaust. I'm going for a soul powered daemon engine on this one

http://s1005.photobucket.com/user/skrundle87/media/Mobile%20Uploads/31B79319-8A80-4FD8-808A-BD8A3611F3CA_zpsx0eusrkx.jpg.html]http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/31B79319-8A80-4FD8-808A-BD8A3611F3CA_zpsx0eusrkx.jpg

[Skrundle87]

I'm also toying with a horned head.

[Skrundle87]

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/2AEE1D83-B28A-4D13-91F3-FF72B1558355_zpslqw2r2di.jpg

[Skrundle87]

So after a fair bit of work the first beast is finally all assembled awaiting some final green stuff work. Then on to paint

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/61400E55-C956-4389-ADE2-5BD1514AFBC0_zpsuo9ecb5e.jpg

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/D4F63B7C-84A6-40EA-99F6-3ECBEC10895B_zpspdr1phy6.jpg

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/E37A5EB4-7AD9-4B30-860B-EE99C67ED302_zpsrc5ogvc5.jpg

Any last minute ideas?

[Soric]

That's an awesome looking chaos dragon, mutated, fighter...thingy :S

 

What do you plan to put on the base? I can imagine a bunch of guardsmen either running away in terror or a space marine looking up in awe/confusion/hesitation (cause Astartes know no fear n all that jazz).

[Skrundle87]

I hadn't really come up with base ideas I do like where you're coming from. A more scenic base than I'm used to but sounds good

[Skrundle87]

So once again I've been out of the game doing renovations. Seems to be my life. I've had this weekend to do some greenstuff work and I'm fairly happy with the results.

First up the head a newly added helmet to the zombie dragon jaw bone and some greenstuff torn flesh

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/0F2DD6AF-81CB-4BF5-91A8-D3890F9208BB_zpsnuwj2lrl.jpg

Also some join work on the back armour

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/4260CF82-8299-46F0-935B-677740F8320B_zpsxshgzoir.jpg

[KrautScientist]

Skrundle, mate, always great to see you're still alive! :)

 

Those GS additions are looking quite promising! Really looking forward to your next update!

[Skrundle87]

Haha. Cheers kraut. Hopefully start painting tomorrow

[Mechanist]

great work, good luck getting on with some paint. 

[Skrundle87]

So heartbreak struck last weekend as I went to get ready to paint and found not only he half my paints dried out but also my brushes had either gone missing or dried out poorly.

 

Luckily Hough I have a a a song wife who came home with this today

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/F1F1A2D6-29C6-4605-AA29-4DA228C85F6F_zpsa6i3wiuv.jpg

 

She also told me she thinks my dragon needs to breathe fire and bought me this

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/75336167-325B-4D3F-95A1-3DF90FDFFCAD_zpscwvwhdfu.jpg

 

I think she may be on to something

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/3C1B8DB7-822A-47AA-A4A3-C072F7670D46_zpsp7nf3r8b.jpg

[Mechanist]

Can't beat a bit of fire breathing, good luck getting some paint down those guys really are looking promising. 

[KrautScientist]

That is indeed incredibly awesome of your wife!

 

So it looks like you'll need to paint flames, eh? It's dangerous to go alone. Take this.

 

(It's the best, most succinct also also most fool-proof tutorial on painting flame in existence, if you ask me.)

[Skrundle87]

Thank you very much! I was concerned about tackling the flames

[KrautScientist]

So was I, back when my Chaos Knight required the effect. I've used the tutorial twice now, and painting flames becomes almost laughably easy that way, at least as long as they basically follow a suitably "flame-y" general shape ;)

[Skrundle87]

So I've though long and hard about it and I feel the skeletal style doesn't suit my previous Khornate style models so it requires a different paint job. I'm thinking my second skeletal lot of conversions will be tzeentch based. As the other models I have planned are somewhat Egyptian styled.

 

So here is my tester.

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af171/skrundle87/Mobile%20Uploads/BB3BE01F-60EB-4C04-9E29-BD31F7372F7C_zps7ilz3ibn.jpg

 

Any input would be appreciated

[Mechanist]

Looks like a solid start and should look good across the whole model as long as the purple on the wings doesn't get to much. 

[Skrundle87]

Planing on fading the purple to a fleshy purple toward the edge of the wings so solid purple would only be up to half the wing

[Filkarion]

First, (also) your wife is epic^^

 

Second, I was really happy to discover how well the Helldrake and the Zombie dragon kit blend together (will talk about it in the thread about my warband as soon as I finish this post). What do you think about it?

 

Third, I really like the regal (as in yellow/gold and blue) theme for Tzeentch! the only thing I (knowing my personal weaknesses) would be concerned with is that it will require a clean and precise execution for the "mecha/armor" bits.

I mean, as far as I see, Tzeenctcan models tends to have two parts blend together in "harmonious contrast". Some parts (Armor and so) require a great deal of precision, so they get a "real" and "consistent" feel (something I'm not always satisfied with in my models), while some others (demonic fleshy/fiery) needs shades and more "pictorial" techniques (or the "cheat mode" of citadel shades ^^) and give the "abstract/magic/blurry" feel.

 

At least this is my opinion^^ Just trying to help your with reasoning around it, take it as "hey, this is wise, now I see what I need to do" or "what a pile of crap, I'm not interested/already know/completely disagree" or everything in between^^

 

on a side note , the fire tutorial KS posted is really great!