Tophat and Pipe's Diabolic Horde

[tophat-and-pipe]

Hey,

I've been off the hobby for about a year, but just started up yesterday, and bloody hell, I missed it!

I sculpted up a Soul Grinder, and managed to paint him, though there might be a couple of touch ups needed, I hope the photos do justice, my daylight bulb died on me the moment I went to take the pictures, and auto-adjust didn't do the best job. I'll try some daylight photos this morning, if the Sun decides to pop in.





I really wanted to go for a mindless beast feel, so I made it blind, controlled somewhat more by the machinery, not the daemon.

I've got some semi-sculpted Plague Bearers on the go, based on BloodLetters and some Vampire Counts Wolves to act as something. I'm not sure if I want to start gaming again, so I'm not that bothered about legality.

Anyhow, hope to hear from you all, I'll keep you updated.
C&C most definitely appreciated.

[tophat-and-pipe]

Looks like my host is down >.<

Oh well, I'll get some pictures up when I find some daylight that I'm home for, in the meantime, sculpted herald!

Got a FW Daemon Prince of Nurgle on order, and the first batch of Plague Bearers have been all but based, but due to me forgetting to buy black paint and gloss for water effects, that may not happen for a while.

C&C much obliged.

[primarch16]

Looks impressive! Which god does he belong too though?

[tophat-and-pipe]

he's aligned with Nurgle, and thanks

[ArtificerArmour]

with a bloodletter head and bloodletters sword with icon of khorne?

[tophat-and-pipe]

Its all in the painting

All of the Plague Barers are based on Bloodletters, but with stumpy horns, so I felt that glorious and full horns would work on a Herald.

The sword has more of an abstract Khorne symbol, when its covered in rust, its not so noticeable, I'd call it daemonic decoration.

Apparently obese, swollen, bursting and riding on a pile of corpses, lead by zombies are unnoticeable.

[Slaaaaaanesh]

It looks like a bloated khorne herald! (ducks under the parapet, sniggers)

Kidding mate, just getting a friendly goad in there! If you just changed the sword to have a three ringing nurgly symbod, broke off one or both of the horns on the head and made the face seem more bloated then it may look nore nurgle me thinks.

Otherwise the overall concept is fresh, and makes perfect fluff sense.

Slaaaaaanesh

[tophat-and-pipe]

taken the comments to heart, and chubbed up his face, snapped a horn and added a nurgle symbol to the sword. Got the feller undercoated, so will see some progress on that soon. Currently working on a GUO, it'll be a tad different, I promise

[Slaaaaaanesh]

Sweet look forward to it/him....pie!

Slaaaaaanesh

[tophat-and-pipe]

there we go, the Herald is about 90% complete, his zombie carriers are yet to be finished, and the colour in the pictures seem pretty washed out, again, need some daylight here ¬¬

The other fellow, is a Plague Bearer, got another 9 of them finished, but the current picture taking capability won't do them any justice. Just proof I do stuff...

All the bases need a slime coat too, something more in the long run I fear.

[Slaaaaaanesh]

NIcely done on the herald and plague bearer. The orange bumps on the bodies look like pustials which goes well with the colour scheme.

Slaaaaaanesh

[tophat-and-pipe]

Host is not very good is it? >.< right, got my Daemon Prince in, so he had to be painted!

[cynath ch'ill]

Kudos on the daemon prince. Very fine piece of work. Can't wait for updates.

[PiratetheSteve]

the bloodletter into plaguebearer conversion is fantastic! I may have to steal the idea

[tophat-and-pipe]

go ahead, its not really unique, ask away for any tips.

I've finished a full 1000 points, with 20 bearers, a scratch built GUO, soul grinder, 2 heralds and a 'flesh hound' unit, and am now working on a mass of chaos marines for them to accompany, I'm hoping for the daemons to be an ally to a larger marine force for apocalypse games.

Hopefully I'll eventually get photos of the horde...