Skeletor Chaos Space Marine (First shared mini!)

[Redboot Giddyman]

So, I had not planned on this being the very first mini I showed off here, but then, I also had never planned on doing this particular mini at all. But I had a custom CSM with a cape, skull helmet, and staff, and the new Masters of the Universe movie was just about to come out, so I decided to do a little homage. 

 

I had been determined to give the seriously awesome horned skull helmet from the Master of Possession to a Chaos Sorcerer mini for custom purposes. After much effort, I managed to finally get the head off the torso (and without damaging it!). Once I decided to go "Skeletor" with him, I painted the body in Lothern Blue and the purple parts in a base coat of Phoenician Purple, then a layer of Xereus Purple, and finally a layer of Luxior Purple. Since Skeletor's skull head is often depicted as a greenish yellow, I used Bad Moons Yellow for the skull symbols on one of his pauldrons and knee guards, as I wanted his actual skull helmet to be white instead. The tips of the horns I made purple to reference both Skeletor's hood and his Havoc Staff. Speaking of, the staff was painted purple, but with the horned animal skull being done up in Skeleton Horde with black horns (though I did make the eyes a glowing purple to convey sorcerous power). That the staff looks a lot like Skeletor's actual Havoc Staff was one of the things that pushed me to go this route.

 

The feathers on the Kroot skull are green as a reference to Battle-Cat, and likewise, the dead Space Marine base topper is meant to have the color scheme of Man-At-Arms and the rest of the Eternia guards, hence the mix of mustard yellow and swamp green (honestly a bad color scheme IMO, but it's what they went with, so...) The partial helmet is gray because Man-At-Arms helmet is gray, not because I forgot to paint it ;)

 

And if you're wondering why there's also a Genestealer skull there, the honest truth is that I included that long before I decided to make this guy 40K Skeletor. This is also why he's got an axe rather than the sword Skeletor is more commonly depicted using alongside the Havoc Staff. With that said, there is a Skeletor action figure that includes an axe, and I tried to paint the Power Axe here to resemble the axe in that action figure. 

 

Anyway, that's everything. Hope you like it.