++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[Grotsmasha]

Every single one of them is bad :cuss dude, absolutely fantastic

 

 

 

...and congrats on the Nurgling :tu:

[KrautScientist]

Excellent job, buddy! Love the guy with the harpoon gun, and the tweaked Bloodstoker (?!) is a great match for the group!

Edited March 13, 2020 by KrautScientist

[Gederas]

He's back!

The Slaver Guild is looking awesome! :tu: And as Kraut said, the Bloodstoker is a brilliant addition.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Cheers, gang.

I did some more work on the Slave Guilders after some comments I got on Facebook. For starters, they had a distinct lack of oaths of moment / purity seals on them, but there's a couple things that needed work.

First up is teh chain lord, which according to the rules has a bio booster. I sculpted it by adding a device to his belt with a tube going into his belly and a button below it. Press it and BOOM BABY! Bios boosted. ;)

 

I did some greenstuff work on the handle of the Pit Fighter's chain glaive

 

Some Oaths of Moment added to the other pit fighter - to give him a sense of momentum (no pun intended)

 

And finally, the most extensive rework was done on the Shackleman. I didn't like his harpoon in his harpoon gun, so I changed it up for the grabby bit from the Unmade kit. Also, I gave him some extra shackles and the required Shock Stave.

 

I hope you like the new work!

Cheers!

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@ Grotsmasha: Thank you, for both! :D

 

@ KrautScientist: Helloooo and welcome again, buddy! Why the (?!) behind ' Tweaked Bloodstoker'? Whatchamean?

 

@ Gederas: Cheerio!

[k0nahrik]

Looks awesome. I love the bio booster detail, it’s suitably gross for a Necromunda character. Also think you made a good call swapping the harpoon for the grabby bit on the shackleman’s gun, it looks great.

[Doghouse]

Fantastic stuff! Those are seriously nice.

[Morngrym]

The models + the green stuff + the chains + the poses = damn brother.  Looking forward to the painted versions.  These are true #grimdark   

[Midnightmare]

Loving these slave guilder guys, can I ask where the resin heads are from? The greenstuff belly and biobooster are particularly impressive mate :tu:

 

I look forward to seeing the water guilders, having played against them before lock down can I just say with all there toxin weapons they were particularly nasty to my Goliaths !!!!

[KrautScientist]

 

@ KrautScientist: Helloooo and welcome again, buddy! Why the (?!) behind ' Tweaked Bloodstoker'? Whatchamean?

Oh, that's because I wasn't really sure whether this guy had originally been a "Bloodstoker" or a "Bloodsecrator", and I was too lazy to look up which of GW's awfully overwrought names it was before commenting ;)

 

While I am already here, though: The longer I look at that lash on the Chain Lord, the more I feel that you should add something on the tips of that lash (where you snipped off all the little Khornate doodads), as it just seems slightly incomplete this way.

 

Keep up the amazing work, buddy, and stay healthy! ;)

[Gederas]

@ KrautScientist: Helloooo and welcome again, buddy! Why the (?!) behind ' Tweaked Bloodstoker'? Whatchamean?

Oh, that's because I wasn't really sure whether this guy had originally been a "Bloodstoker" or a "Bloodsecrator", and I was too lazy to look up which of GW's awfully overwrought names it was before commenting

 

While I am already here, though: The longer I look at that lash on the Chain Lord, the more I feel that you should add something on the tips of that lash (where you snipped off all the little Khornate doodads), as it just seems slightly incomplete this way.

 

Keep up the amazing work, buddy, and stay healthy!

Remember KSci: Bloodstoker has the whip to stoke the fires of rage, the Bloodsecrator is the one with the EKSBAWKSHUEG Icon :lol:

 

I'm in agreement though. The lash on the Chain Lord feels like it's missing something on the tips. Maybe some cruel barbed hooks?

 

[KrautScientist]

Remember KSci: Bloodstoker has the whip to stoke the fires of rage, the Bloodsecrator is the one with the EKSBAWKSHUEG Icon

Dude, don't come up with justifications for their overwrought BS names -- you're just encouraging them ;)

[Cryptix]

 

 

 

Remember KSci: Bloodstoker has the whip to stoke the fires of rage, the Bloodsecrator is the one with the EKSBAWKSHUEG Icon

Dude, don't come up with justifications for their overwrought BS names -- you're just encouraging them ;)

Bah just call them as you see - the slaver is fat whip guy, bilepipers are bagpipes plaguebearers, chaos space marines are shooty bang bangs, havocs are shootier bang bangs...

 

On second thought maybe don't listen to me, this quarantine is making me go loopy.

[Augustus b'Raass]

Hurray, and the Slaver Entourage is finished!

Here's the group together in all their weird glory

 

Chain Lord

 

Shackleman

 

Pit Fighter

 

Pit Fighter

 

Love those contrast colours. They're not everything, but some drybrushing and an edge highlight here and there will make the job look fantastic. I was honestly being a tad lazy with the painting thechnique here and there, I admit, but with limited time and the ambition to do a cotery for all the guilds, I felt justified to cut some contrast corners here and there. mea Culpa

 

I do hope you like them! Thanks for looking, and your comments, as always.

Cheers

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@ K0nahrik: Thank you. It was a tad expensive to get that bit (I bought the entire Unmade kit for it) but hey, I get some good spare bits extra ;)

@ Doghouse: He lives! Wow, that has been a long time since we touched base. Thanks for the compliment :) It's funny, back in 2012 your thread about truescale was what got me into this board and which made the 'F*ck a Duck squad' possible, and I somehow still treat you as is I'm a fan and you're some rockstar. ;)

 

@ Morngrym: Well, thank you! I guess I was going for grimdark, so yay!

 

@ Mindightmare: The resin heads are from Maxmini and thanks! 

 

@ KrautScientist: I didn't do anything about the tips but painted them 'power' blue to suggest that the weapon is actually a shock whip. Satisfied? Stay heathly yourself, mate ;) Seriously though: I did contract Corona from my good friend and neighbour across the street who'se a GP and contracted it from a patient. The symptoms he and I have are very mild though - a bad cough, a bit of a mild head ache and some muscle aches. It kinda feels like a mild flu but with the cough. 

 

@ Gederas: What do you think of the blue power tips on the lash? Also, don;t encourage Krauty - GW naming is his pet peeve. ;)

 

@ Cryptix: I agree completely. Don't forget though: SM are good shooty bang bangs CSM are bad shooty bang bangs. 

 

 

[Gederas]

@ KrautScientist: I didn't do anything about the tips but painted them 'power' blue to suggest that the weapon is actually a shock whip. Satisfied? Stay heathly yourself, mate Seriously though: I did contract Corona from my good friend and neighbour across the street who'se a GP and contracted it from a patient. The symptoms he and I have are very mild though - a bad cough, a bit of a mild head ache and some muscle aches. It kinda feels like a mild flu but with the cough. 

 

@ Gederas: What do you think of the blue power tips on the lash? Also, don;t encourage Krauty - GW naming is his pet peeve.

I think they look great actually.

 

Also, sucks to hear you got the WuFlu. Hope you get better soon. Regarding the symptoms though.... From what I've seen from the World Health Organization, what you've got is how it is in a majority cases. The more "severe" ones is basically mild/moderate Pneumonia (because severe Pneumonia is death).

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Great job as usual, Augs. :D

[Augustus b'Raass]

@ Gederas: Cheers, and 

[snip] Also, sucks to hear you got the WuFlu. [/snip] 

Yeah, everybody is Kung Flu frighting... 

@ BCK: Cheers, buddy. Glad you like 'em!

[Quixus]

Yeah, everybody is Kung Flu frighting...

... the isolatin' was quick as lightnin'.

 

SCNR

 

Get well soon Augustus.

[DuskRaider]

Yo... those look pretty damn cool.

[KrautScientist]

 

@ K0nahrik: Thank you. It was a tad expensive to get that bit (I bought the entire Unmade kit for it) but hey, I get some good spare bits extra

 

Nooo! You should have said something -- I would gladly have sent that bit over to you!

 

Anyway, great job on the slavers: The paintjob really brings them together quite nicely, and going for an industrial yellow on models like these is always the right direction, in my opinion! I also think you've found a good solution for the electro-whip, although I'd probably add one additional, lighter highlight to the tips to make it look even more like an electric glow. In fact, the warband does have just a bit of that "typical Contrast look" about it, if you don't mind me saying it, and I think that just a few very minor touchups here and there would go a really long way towards making it look even more awesome.

 

I also have on particular suggestion for a last-minute addition: On the guy with the harpoon gun, those augmetic braces on his arms are a wonderful detail, but they just seem to taper away into nothing towards his shoulders. Maybe giving him some small shoulder pads (some of the Goliath plates or some less spiky ork boy plates come to mind) would be a great way of masking that area while also adding to the gladiatorial look even more.

 

But anyway, excellent work, as always, buddy!

 

As for your health troubles: Ah, dang it! I should have kept my mouth shut. Wishing you a speedy recovery, though, and make sure the family doesn't fall ill as well! :)

[CMDR_Welles]

wow, that Mancatcher Harpoon cannon is scary

[Augustus b'Raass]

Thanks for the awesome feedback guys! 

Seeing as they are the slaver guild, I thought I'd make them a couple captured slaves - who knows I will ever need them in a game of Necromunda, but I love making these GrimDark guys. What do you think? 

 

 

This project that I have dubbed 'The Necromunda Guild Project' has really got my hobby juices flowing. And with the Corona lockdown lasting at least until June 1st here in the Netherlands, I'll have a lot of time on my hands. Now, I did start the Water guild and I in fact already am far alogn with them, but I want to publish these guys a guild at a time. And seeing as I am still waiting for an order of plasticard to arrive that I will need to complete them, they will have to wait.

I also have ideas for the Prometheum/Power Guild, but there too, I cannot publish because I am still waiting for some bits. 

So let's start with the Coin Guild. 

When I decided to stop building armies and focus on INQ28 style hobbying for the foreseable future, I went and bought a lot of individual cool miniatures from Games Workshop and some third party companies. Two of the guys that I am very happy to have bought are the finecast Empire Priests - as they are now Out Of Production. Very soon after the Book of peril came out, I had decided that I would be using them as two bodyguards for one of the guild. For a long time, I thought to use them as Cinders for the perometheum Guild, but as they have such misery faces, I have now decided they will be Grovelers for the Coin Guild. 

These guys can be armed differently and the options they have are either a Long Rifle+Knife or a Shotgun+Knife. So... let's build both!
Here's what I have so far:

Shotgun and Knife:

 

Long Rifle and Knife

 

Now, I'm not saying either is far from finished - they need some more GrimDarking - but this last guy in particular still needs some GreenStuff work done, for he is missing a complete elbow. I removed both of his arms below the shoulder to fit the Skitarii long rifle+arms, and his left arm in particular still needs some work. Check it:

 

Any ideas on how to GrimDarken them up?

Cheers for looking and your comments, guys, I appreciate it!

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@ Quixus: Hahaha by all means!

 

@ DuskRaider: Thank you! Necromunda is perfect for you, btw - the bases are already done ;) :p SCNR

@KrautScientist: Don't worry about the bit - I have decided to never again buy bits. I've spent thousands upon thousands on Bits&Kits (in fact, I've averaged an order amonth for the last eight or nine years, all with free shipping (meaning over 30 and since '17 over 50 GBP) and I've finally realized it's actually cheaper to just buy the entire kit you need a bit from. It'll come in handy one day. :D

I've listened to every thing you said regarding the painting of the Slave Guilders - did some work on the power effect on the Whip, gave some contrast areas an extra highlight to remove that 'wash stain-y look'  here and there!

About the harpoon guy: we have a saying in Dutch 'Mustard After the Meal' - which means somtething to the effect of 'a good thing coming too late to be applicable'. That's your advice on the Suspensor on the Harpoon guy - he's already painted! So your advice is not 'last minute' - it's too late! There's no way I'm adjusting anything build related now. My OCD will not allow it. You've had two entire weeks  to comment on him, so whyyy of why tell this now that I cannot do anything about it anymore? In any case, I saw it even without your comment, and decided that the cables and power strips don;t look too much like they ' taper into nothing' - I figured they just are bolted through his flesh into his skeleton! :D Also, 'wie sage ich das jetzt'.... Du bist zu spät! :p ;)

 

CMDR_Welles: Haha yeah it looks wicked don't you think? Imagine getting shot at by that thing!

[KrautScientist]

About the harpoon guy: we have a saying in Dutch 'Mustard After the Meal' - which means somtething to the effect of 'a good thing coming too late to be applicable'. That's your advice on the Suspensor on the Harpoon guy - he's already painted! So your advice is not 'last minute' - it's too late! There's no way I'm adjusting anything build related now. My OCD will not allow it. You've had two entire weeks  to comment on him, so whyyy of why tell this now that I cannot do anything about it anymore? In any case, I saw it even without your comment, and decided that the cables and power strips don;t look too much like they ' taper into nothing' - I figured they just are bolted through his flesh into his skeleton!

 

It actually did seem like less of an issue before the models were painted and did only become obvious to me after your last post -- also, you may have noticed that we've had, you know, a bit of a situation going on across Europe, so please excuse my tardiness in replying ;)

 

Also, I am not convinced that it's too late: Those curved Ork shoulder plates, for one, are spacy enough to simply be added on top of the existing model, and painting them would take all of fifteen minutes. I cannot comment on your hobby OCD, and I definitely understand your reluctance to touch a finished model again (it's the same for me), but you wanted feedback, and that's what I offered. Fair enough, right?

 

Also, 'wie sage ich das jetzt'.... Du bist zu spät!

 

This, however, has really made me crack up! Good times! ;)

 

 

So, anyway, regarding your guild project in general and the coin guild in particular:

 

I do love your focus on the guilds, because they do so seem like a missing link between Necromunda and INQ28 to me, with such scope for crazy kitbashing and demented characters -- and judging by your models so far, you are right on track ;)

 

Regarding the coin guild models, those priests have long been a staple for INQ28 conversions, but to use them for guilders is an excellent idea! I just *LOVE* the guy with the AdMech rifle, and I don't really think he needs all that much work. If you want to up the grimdark on these, though, how about giving them huge backpacks made from bigger and smaller chests (for all the money and the invaluable receipts, deeds and promissory notes they are probably lugging around. And maybe a cherub and/or servo-skull here and there, to help them counting and cataloguing? And scribe servitors to serve as ambulatory receipt printers? -- I am merely speaking from a design perspective here, mind you, with zero ideas of the models you actually need for playing.

 

I also hear what you are saying RE: bitz buying, but I could send you a small care package of Inquisitorial bitz -- just to help you along the way towards the Holy Ordos, y' know? ;)

 

Keep up the amazing work, buddy! :)

[Augustus b'Raass]

You might be right on that one, Krauty-boy. Also, I hope you didn't take my push-back too harshly - it wasn't intended as such, in any case. I always - always- appreciate your feedback. <3

Anyway, my attention is somewhere else at the moment, namely on slaves! You could say I am a 'slave to my inspiration'. ;) 

Ahem, please excuse the terrible pun there. I'm practicing my dad jokes.
In any case, I'm working on the slaves I showed before. These guys:


I've also I've shown you my Corpse Guilders on page 220, and what I took from that project is that I thoroughly enjoy creating my own servo skulls. I also had the problem that from the two slaves shown above, the guy on the right is completely made up of Flagelant parts. The only thing that makes him appear as a miniature set in the 40K universe is its base, which just wouldn't do as you probably understand. So I gave him a small touchpad hanging from the chains. Maybe it's an identification console that the Slavers had put around his collar?

This gave me the idea that although therse guys are both shackled, they aren't bound to any of the other slavers. So maybe there was something attached to them that would make them stand out - and then it hit me: I'll chain them to servo skulls! 

And seeing as they both have very different characters - the guy on the left appears very docile and although the look on his face shows him being annoyed with his captivity, his walking along calmly shows him having reconciled with his immediate fate of being captured. Not so for the guy on the left. He's quite the opposite of docile, resisting heavily even though he is firmly shackled and even given a gag to shut him up. I decided to let the two servo skulls chained to them shown this discrepancy. 
 

Enter the Docile slave:

 

 

 

 

Clearly, this guy is just walking along and the servo skull has given him some free reign in the chain. This was the first of the two servo skulls I added. It was pretty finicky to create the skull and attach him to the miniature in a way that made it look like he was floating. It's pretty nifty, I think, because the connector tube hanging from the skull is glue-welded to the Slave's back with a dot of super glue and accelerator. :)

Not so for the Resisting Slave

 

 

 

 

This has a three-point connection - the two chains - which are actually loose chain stiffened with glue, and the same trick of the connector tube accelerator-glued to his back. I love how this has worked out exactly like I wanted it to: the slave seems to be resisting - as one end of the chain is straight and the other has a slight bend in it, it appears that the slave is jerking to and fro, and the servo skull is barely managing to remain afloat in the air above him. Suffice it to say, his alarm lights are flashing!

Thanks for looking. Let  me know what you think, please. :)
 

Cheers

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the slave models. Will they serve as objective markers in-game? Demolition charge carriers (the slaveowner using a remote control to detonate the charges implanted in the slaves)? Daemonhosts? Edited March 31, 2020 by Bjorn Firewalker

[Augustus b'Raass]

Forgot Replies:

@ KrautScientist: I will take your feedback re: the shoulders of the Shakleman into account. THe more I think about what you're saying, the more I think the Shakleman needs to stand out more from the Pit Fighters, and giving him some shoulder pads might be the easiest way to achieve that. 

Regarding the link between the Guilders and INQ28  - that's exactly right! And I'm using them to get into 'character building' over 'unit/army building', which is what I've been doing for the last couple of years. 

Your coin guild suggestions are very welcome, and you made me realize I have two of theose WHFB coin chests lying around somewhere. These will be used somehwere in the coterie, for sure! Thanks buddy!

@ Bjorn Firewalker: Ah, they will probably neever se game time... I haven't the time for games these days, so I'm just building what I think is cool to do. I'm busy with my Death Guard project, but mostly because I have plans to sell them army in the near future.