Emperors Children The Judgment on Kadeth - Dr. Ruminahui's Emperor's Children

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I guess this only took me a month, but it felt far longer than that.  Here's my completed Lord Discordant

 

 

And with the other 2 weapon options:

 

 

And a close up on the head: - glad I left the armoured "helmet" off, as the head is much more interesting without.  Also happy with the effect I got with the yellow goop (venom, I guess) dripping from its mandibles.

 

 

And finally the back:

 

 

Really didn't have fun painting it - its very fragile, and I broke off a number of parts (the front spike on the front rack, the now purple mechanotendril) while painting it, and its overly detailed.... its more of a character model than a vehicle in terms of detail.  That said, its got some of my cleanest highlighting on it, and I'm happy with the final result.

 

Oh, and due to failures in my magnetising the two gun options and how I glue on the rider, the operating tendril doesn't line up properly and there ia gap in in it between the tendril and the claws on the gun - thankfully not obvious unless you pick up the model and look at it, though.

[Volgon]

Sorry to hear you didn't enjoy the project very much. I haven't painted anything that large but I understand fiddlyness and overly detailed. I love the end result of infinite gubbins but it is definitely a slog to get through.

 

I like the skin color on the mount; you've used it before but I don't recall if you've ever explained your recipe? That is a nice color for flayed skin IMO. I use Skeleton Horde and Volpus Pink for mine but haven't used that recipe in a while. Definitely needed to practice it some more last time I used it. I also like the dash of white you use as a spot color on your warband. I think white is my favorite fur color, though I don't get to paint it much. I have a guy with some fur in the pipeline so I'd like to try giving it a better attempt than previously. Maybe use Apothecary White contrast as that seems pretty effective. Not sure though.

 

Keep cracking on! What's next for the warband?

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Thanks, @Volgon!

 

Yeah, that's the same skin colour I use on all my daemon engines and also on my possesseds.  I tried some other colours early on in my army, but quickly settled on this one as the most evocative.  Its pretty simple - base of GW's Ungor Flesh, then a wash in Createx's florescent violet airbrush paint (though, the mouse over colour for it in that link is wrong, its much lighter and more vibrant), then a final wash of reikland fleshshade.  That Createx paint is really the cornerstone of my army's look - the armour plates are a half-and-half mix of that and GW Genestealer Purple, and I use it as a wash on things like the banner on this model's backpack and the wrap on the handle of his weapon.  So, my particular recipe might be a bit too vibrant for the flayed skin you want to do (as in mine its muted a bit by the other vibrant colours) but if you want to pick some up you can probably get it in most local art supply stores.

 

Thanks on the white - yeah, I'm really liking it as an accent colour.  I had tried to find a good place to put it on the mount on this model, but couldn't think of one so there isn't any there.  For things like cloth, I like washing it in GW's Ulthuan Grey, as its quite warm and subtle, though that doesn't work so well with parts without natural folds or that need more stark natural shadows (such as fur).  For those, I've been using GW's Administratum Grey, but its not ideal as its a much colder and "chaulky" looking - great for things like concrete, less good if you want a warmer white.

 

Haven't tried contrast at all myself, yet.

 

As for what's next, I'm painting cultists so as to give 3 of my legends autogun units grenade launchers, which I converted up over the holidays.  After those are done, I'll either work on my second legionaires squad that I previously started or do more Dark Vengence cultists to tide me over until March when the Knives in the Shadows event starts and I'll begin working on my Slanneshi Battle Goats (aka Fellgore) that I am painting for that.

Edited February 3 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Dr_Ruminahui]

I don't know if you guys remember this guy, but he's a jump pack lord I had converted back in 2021, back when they could have thunderhammers and that was the in thing.

 

Anyway, I quite liked the conversion (from a master of possession with dark eldar scourge wings), but was never happy with the thunderhammer portion of it.  And given that's no longer a legal option, I decided to pull that part off and see what I could do to make him a legal jump pack lord, now we have such back in the codex.  Plus, this potentially allows me to paint him and get him off my desk, which has been behind a bunch of my recent painting projects (the maulerfiend and discolord were painted for the reason rather than because I need them in my army).

 

Anyway, here he is converted with him new weapons, which are magnetised.

 

 

And with the plasma pistol.

 

 

Claws were previously on my Lord conversion that had them torn off to make my Lucius build, so the've been around.  Pose is a bit goofy, but there's not much a can with the MoP in that regard if I'm not willing to remove the shoulders, which I'm not.  Still, its better than my old jump pack lords, and this lets me field him as any of the 3 variants as I am using claws for power fists on my models with only 1 claw.

[Tallarn Commander]

He looks great. Since he's Slaanesh we should just say the pose is not goofy. He's just embracing his victim for a passionate, lustful hug and kiss. 

[Volgon]

I think a bit of the awkwardness is from the left/plasma pistol arm. My eye is definitely drawn to how awkwardly/impossibly rotated that arm is based on the position of the elbow pad. It fit the pose of the original version but not really this guy. If you were inclined to (and able to in the first place! Not sure how well glued it is) remove that arm, I think a replacement arm where it crosses the torso would be a really nice substitute. It would give a sense of dynamism and inertia/momentum that he is lacking a bit right now. This is the style of arm/pose I am thinking of:

 

Assuming you can get the cuts right it should look just fine holding the pistol as well. This pistol is in the wrong hand in this example but the same principle applies, an arm crossed across a torso:

 

Just my 2 cents. I know how limited the options might be since the shoulder is sculpted onto the MoP.

[Brother Nathan]

I like it! All i think that would solve a precieved issue is looking at where hes shooting. I assume hes supposed to be looking at who hes about to claw?

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Volgon, Brother Nathan, thanks for your suggestions.  I can't remember how exactly his left arm works (that part of the conversion was 3 1/2 years ago), but I'll look at it and see what I can do.  I'm not sure I can pull off the dynamic poses Volgon showcases, as most of them involve a torso twist I just can't do on this model, but they still give me some thoughts as to how my model might be improved.