A Little Wednesday WIP

Let's have a little fun with some works in progress.

I am really proud of this dude, though I can't claim credit for the original idea, which I stole off someone on Facebook. The base model is a rotbringer sorcerer. As you can see, I've sliced off his head and right arm, replacing them with the head of a ruststalker princeps and a tech-priest dominus, respectively. I filed down the buboes on his tummy and generally reshaped his torso to make him look fat rather than bulbous (and stuck a purity seal on one spot I couldn't get quite right), hacked off his elephantine foot and replaced it with some spindly mechanical claws, and gave him a backpack from (I think) the kataphron kit [NOTE: not the kataphron kit, the ruststalker kit], a claw that's definitely from the kataphron kit, and the niftiest servo-skull, the one from the tempestus scion box. I also had to chop off the weirdo tentacle he had for a left arm and tuck some claws in there to hold the scrolls he's carrying. You can't see it, but I also had t do some greenstuffing on the back to fill in the vario//us evil symbols carved into his cloak.

When I look at this dude, I imagine that he's some kind of specialist tech-priest, not a tech-priest dominus or an engineseer or a or anything else currently in the game. He could be a magos biologis, here to study some xenos dudes, a transmechanic carrying important information, or an explorator with forbidden lore. Of course, I'd have to write some stats to use him on the table, though I could also use him as an objective marker for a rescue-the-prisoner kind of game.

This dude was originally a titan tech-priest. Most of his conversions began as matters of necessity. Resin is a great material, but it's fragile and bendy. Forge World's sculpts are great, but sometimes they scale weirdly when compared to GW prime models. When I got my titan tech-priest, he suffered from both problems, with a warped axe-head and a spindly servo-arm that I eventually got sick of trying to get right. So, I went into my bits box and got some replacements - and as a bonus, I got to customize the model some! The new axe head is from the tech-priest dominus box, as is one of his two loyal servo-skulls. The two servo arms - one big and clawed, one small for delicate work - are both from the kataphron kit as well.

My plan is to use this guy as an engineseer. However, I think the model is so neat that I also have plans to occasionally use him as an inquisitor. Inquisitors can come to the Ordos from all sorts of backgrounds, so why not a former tech-priest?

Of course, that makes me think about getting some Imperial Guard bodies and using spare Skitarii bits to make them into a crew of enhanced lasgun-toting acolytes... but that's a project for another day, especially given that the Skitarii I already have will do quite well as proxies for acolytes with hotshot lasguns or plasma guns, thank you very much. So long as I don't want to use him alongside my Adeptus Mechanicus army, anyway.

Thanks for coming to look at my models! Don't hesitate to drop me a comment and let me know kinds of content you want to see more of.