Tichinde's Cult of the Distant Star (with Added Deathwatch)

[Tichinde]

Well, deicided to make a start on my cultists inspired by these new releases from weekender (in between working on the forces of Prospero, new and old).

 

back in another life I had a lot of the old metal hybrids and have always had a soft spot for Genestealers since Space Crusade.

 

so first up: Cult leadership, inspired by a classic :-) :

 

Edited December 12, 2019 by Tichinde

[Brother Dallo]

That's a damn fine looking chair, and the navigator conversion's spot on too.

 

Keep up the good work.

 

Dallo

[Tichinde]

The Cult Rises...

 

 

 

...And the Deathwatch to meet them:

 

[Kraad Belak]

By The Four Armed Emperor, I am loving these.

 

The magos and fella with the heroic pose (and heavy stick to beat the truth into non believers) are my favourites so far.

[ranulf the revenant]

 

so first up: Cult leadership, inspired by a classic :-) :

 

May or may not be directly out of Alien? Or some old Rogue Trader thing :)?

[Tichinde]

Inspired by the old Rogue trader era "sitting" Patriarch, I'll dig out a pic later :-)

 

 

this guy:

 

Edited February 13, 2019 by Tichinde

[Gederas]

Loving these guys, the paint job is especially nice.

 

But I gotta know: How'd you make the Patriarch's chair?

[Tichinde]

sure, the Chair is basically this:

 

 

cut up with some of the bits replaced with Purestrain heads/skulls. stuck on a suitable base and a pile of skulls mostly from the skulls box with liberal sprinkling of space marine helmets. the Purestrain on the back I had originally envisioned as a statue/part of the chair but I might end up painting him as a real "live" one.

 

Typically they just released this:

 

 

which would work a lot better I reckon, but I like how it turned out.

[Gederas]

Why thank you. Consider this idea stolen. My Deathwatch needed a "final boss" to fight when I finish that Narrative campaign :lol:

[Tichinde]

No probs!, the Patriarch itself is a combination of the broodlord and patriarch from the broodcoven (I can't remember what bits though, possibly 1 leg and the claws where swapped about to get him "sitting". his tail was chopped off and is curling out from behind him on the chair.)

 

will get some more pics up soon.

[brettfp]

Very nice! I was actually just thinking the other week that if I were to start a Genestealer army I would make a version of that old Patriarch .

Great minds think alike? :)

[Tichinde]

cheers! yeah, I wasn't sold on the various broodlords/patriarchs "hunched over standing on a thing" pose they all seem to have.

[Tichinde]

as I mentioned in my other thread I now have  a permanent painting area setup, 

 

so without further ado some wip:

 

Lady Magus:

 

 

objective marker!:

 

 

Grand Idol of the Distant Star:

 

 

(very) loosely based on this:

 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Even unpainted, the objective marker looks AWESOME. I hope to see it completed soon. Don't forget to add a pool of blood under the Marine's corpse.

[Tichinde]

update time:

 

almost there with the Lady:

 

 

 

and got these two done:

 

[BrotherEndcat]

That patriarch is just god damn beautiful on that throne... lovely work mate!

[AlexCrute]

Yes do this. More of this. Yes.

[Shovellovin]

Whoa! Love the patriarch homage to the old Rogue Trader model. Bravo!

[CMDR_Welles]

Please tell me you will be adding some Limousines to this army.

 

Modern GSC is sadly missing its Limos

[Tichinde]

No Limos yet :-),

 

but got a couple of rock grinders and a wheeled Taurox on the "to do" list.

[El_Dicko]

The Patriarch turned out fantastic. And the Magi(?) had to google that... now want to see a nativity scene with three Magi bringing gifts to a baby purestrain... I digress. They also look great!

(Edited for spelling)

Edited May 17, 2019 by El_Dicko

[Tichinde]

As it happens there will be three Magi, I picked up the regular version too. Also managed to find my 3 metal familiars from 1st/2nd edition who do look like babies so it could happen :-)

[CMDR_Welles]

As it happens there will be three Magi, I picked up the regular version too. Also managed to find my 3 metal familiars from 1st/2nd edition who do look like babies so it could happen :-)

You could use the Nexos table as a manger

[El_Dicko]

 

As it happens there will be three Magi, I picked up the regular version too. Also managed to find my 3 metal familiars from 1st/2nd edition who do look like babies so it could happen :-)

You could use the Nexos table as a manger

Yes!!

[Leviathus]

Wow fantastic conversions!! Will be keeping my eyes on these!