Nemac's WIP Log - Abaddon the Despoiler

[Augustus b'Raass]

You're off to a great start, there. I'm looking forward to the bas relief.  

About his right, ranged weapon arm: are you going to use a Reaper Autocannon for it? 

[Nemac Vradon]

Thanks Augustus :). My plan for the ranged arm was to build a larger version of the Chaos Terminator Reaper Autocannon with the under-slung blade and cabling. I will probably use two of the IG Heavy Support Teams Autocannons for that with some sort of blade underneath.

 

Nemac

[Biohazard]

Off to a great start, I'm confident you'll nail the relief, looking forward to this progressing. :tu:

[Nemac Vradon]

Thanks dude :). I should probably start that section next because if  fail to sculpt it then I will have to paint it on to the front of the sarcophagus which will not be nearly as much fun. I will take Krauts advice and use the Bjorn relief but just for the torso so I can get everything into proportion. The other option I thought of was the Marneus Calgar banner dude. The banner has a pretty good marine on it that I could use to form a mould and then reposition the armour sections.

 

Lots to think about!

 

Nemac

[jeremy1391]

Rules wise why not run them as a unit of chosen and Talos as a chaos lord?

 

Only hard thing would to be representing an apothecary rules wise.

 

 

Either way your models are simply amazing!

[Biohazard]

Mark of Slaanesh with the Feel no pain banner?

[Nemac Vradon]

I did end up running them as chosen but then used some house rules that seemed to work pretty well. Talos was a Lord of course :). Unfortunately though as a NL player I do not have access to marks so couldn't use the feel no pain banner :(. I have it written down somewhere but can't remember the stats at the moment.

 

Nemac

[Biohazard]

Ah yeah. My bad :D

[TRIBUN]

I'm so excited about the relief on the front plate. The pose looks cool so far

[Nemac Vradon]

Thanks TRIBUN :). I have settled on a method for it but I will not divulge any further information until I have tested it 

 

Nemac

[Nemac Vradon]

Morning all!

I have done some more work on Malcharion, this time working on the autocannon and replacing the claws on the powerfist. I used the heavy stubbers from the Imperial Knight kit because I like the way they looks but I also added some old brush covers to the ends to bulk them out a bit.

 

 

With the powerfist I used the spare claws from the contemptor kit and cut and filed them to fit in place of the previously box like stubby sausage fingers it had before :).

 

 

Still a lot of clean up to do on this guy but he is slowly taking shape. Next up is the bas relief but that update may take a while while I wait for the parts I need to come available.

Thanks for looking and C&C always welcome!

 

Nemac

[malcharion]

Nice take on malcharion so far ! Love the pose and the Autocannon conversion looks great. Can't wait to see him with the coffin adornement ;)

[Nemac Vradon]

Thanks Malcharion, I have noticed that the brush protectors I used are pushed against the back of the barrel and they should actually be in line with the end of the gun :facepalm:

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Excellent work on Talos & Co. Malcharion the Warsage looks promising.

[Brother Pheidias]

Loving where this is going. The new fingers add a ton to the Boxdread!

[SalvationOfReason]

You could always use First Claw as a force in Shadow War: Armageddon.

 

Malcharion looks awesome so far. Really looking forwards to seeing him fully built (he always was my favorite character in the Trilogy).

 

Edit - one nitpick. It's been a while, but didn't he have an underslung flamer instead of the bolter?

[Midnightmare]

He is coming along well, it's hard to get a dread to pose 'naturally' (if a walking, talking, shooting coffin can!) but you have managed it. I like the powerfist, the fingers are 100% better than the originals and the autocannon looks great :tu:

[Nemac Vradon]

Thanks guys :)

 

Pleased the new fingers have worked out and the autocannon. I will have to check about the flamer but when I started him I thought it was a bolted? Still it's not glued so that won't be much of a problem. Thanks for the heads up :D

 

I will probably have to convert a flamer though because I cannot stand the look of the massive under slung one that comes with the kit.

 

I will work on that after work!

 

Nemac

[Nemac Vradon]

Morning all!

 

I have managed to get around to doing some more work on Malcharion. I have made a custom flamer for his power fist and just have to fill the hole where the slide was. I have also prepared the base and done some more work on the autocannon.

 

 

 

I much prefer the look of this flamer - the standard one just hangs too low for my liking and I feel that having the barrel run parallel with the fist makes it look like it belongs there.

 

 

I don't think I need to do anything else to the autocannon now bar a small amount of clean up.

 

 

That is all for this update, not a big one! C&C always welcome.

 

Nemac

[Biohazard]

Flamer is looking excellent bud, the whole figure is really coming together now. :tu:

[brother tycho]

I'm adding nothing new here, but what a great looking dread!  thud thud thud guns :)

[malcharion]

Great job so far ! The flamer really looks better ;) ! But despite the thud guns being awesome I'm not fond of the axe blade "bayonetta". I think that it's too "brutal" for Night Lords especialy for Malcharion, I would have opted for something more subtil and sword like. Like a blade to remember the one he was using when behing alive. A dark elves raider blade could do it maybe ? 

 

My two cents ^^

 

Malchy

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Malcharion didn't want to be entombed in the Dreadnought sarcophagus in the first place. It can easily be claimed the axe blade on his Reaper autocannon was a pointless decoration the Dreadnought chassis had BEFORE Malcharion was entombed, or one the Night Lords added without his consent (or his knowledge- it was centuries before they were able to awaken the Dreadnought, after all).

[TRIBUN]

I don't like the axe blade. Imo a bayonet blade, like the terminators have one, would be better.

[malcharion]

Malcharion didn't want to be entombed in the Dreadnought sarcophagus in the first place. It can easily be claimed the axe blade on his Reaper autocannon was a pointless decoration the Dreadnought chassis had BEFORE Malcharion was entombed, or one the Night Lords added without his consent (or his knowledge- it was centuries before they were able to awaken the Dreadnought, after all).

Yes but with the adornement on the sarcophagus we could assume that the dreadnought was (even against his will) made for him. As for the asthetic of it I  know it's just my totaly subjective opinion but I feel like it's out of place on our beloved Boxe captain ^^.