Sentinels of the Face Shrine
Yup, that is a Legend of Zelda reference!
The background for these guys is they take the skulls of their victims, manipulate them into weird shapes, stretch flayed skin over them, then wear them as helmets. That's why I painted their helmets in flesh colours, with red washes to look like blood. The gold kind of overpowers the black of their armour, but that's ok. It will make them stand out more and look more regal and important. These guys form the bodyguard for my Haemonculus, who is yet to make an appearence. There are only 4 Incubi in his retinue because I will be mounting them in a venom.
I try to break the mold whenever I can, and the 'Blasterborn' loadout makes an appearence in EVERY army list I see on the internet, so I decided to change things up and have 4 Incubi riding in the venom instead. Speaking of which...
This is my attempt at converting a venom. It's still very much a work in progress, as you can see. The official venom kit has been out for a while now, but I was sitting round one day and saw an old Eldar vyper sticking out my bits box, so I decided to put it to some use.I will be painting the glass carapace, so I glued it on. The vyper actually belonged to my brother, but he quit the hobby ages ago and gave me all his models; I was going to make them back into a full-fledged list, but then Dark Eldar came along. The grey scrapes along the side I made to make way for gluing the spikes on, and removing the old transfers.
Obviously, it still needs its 2 guns. This is the thing I said I needed spare splinter cannons for in my prvious post. It will have a gunner on top, from the raider kit, and and underslung cannon at the front.
The Scions of Flesh
And finally, I have another WIP squad of dudes (oh, how I spoil you so...). This is my first unit of Wracks, the Scions of Flesh.
As you can see, I've melded the Finecast wracks with some Empire Flagellants. The result was better than I expected. The flagellants are actually much smaller, but I think it adds to the eccentricity of the collective... hmm, that sounds like the title of a philosophical book. I still have to green stuff their backs, though, so their bony hunches actually look like they belong there, and not just stuck on top of their tattered robes.
There are some spare dryad parts in the mix, too.
Loadout is fairly typical; 2 liquifier guns and an acothyst with an agoniser. They will be mounted in a raider.
I guess that's it for this post. I was going to add some more stuff, but I don't want this blog to turn into a bloated mess of random units. I have so many things in the pipeline; its a wonder I get anything done. I'm painting some Reaver Jetbikes at the moment, but when they're done, I'll finish off the venom, wracks and their transport.
