Workbench

  What I´m working on these days is the general for my new Chaos Nurgle army. Actually, I´m not quite sure I will do an army, it all depends on how it goes with this big, bad boy!

            

  Here I´ve been experimenting with claws from the Tyranid Hive Tyrant.
  At first I thought they would be overpowering, but after some deliberation I´ve come to the conclusion that he can handle it :-) I also filed away most of the armour-detail, as I didn´t think it would be in the Nurgle athmos, so to speak. Have also added some extra entrails, as well as Green stuff to make claws-to-body mesh more naturally.
 

             

  Well, after hunting through my bit-box and not finding any weapon mighty enough for this guy, I finally decided to make my own! I found some ideas in Hordes of Chaos, and started cutting. I must say I´m rather pleased with the result, although it looks a bit too big, with some detail etc. on the axe-head I think it will be just what he needed.

  And after seeing the wings I noticed they had scales on them. My first thought was to cut them away, as they didn´t fit with the rest of the model. But then I had the idea to make him a bit more scaley, that could make him Nurglish (in my opinion, at least), it would not be too hard, and what´s more, I could carry it on to the rest of the army! Hey, presto! by accident I had fallen down on a solution to make the army look coherent, visually. 


        

  A few new additions. More scales mostly, to the face and the right arm. I´m trying out a braid in his head, although this has yet to be finished and approved! Need some more time to think about whether it´s a good idea or not.

  Here he is, after a lot of additional work. As you can see the major change is his head. At first I only wanted to make the horns a bit different, but ended up with this... The only thing that remains of the original is the nose and the eyes, and they´re so small you can´t even see it, right? The style reminds me a bit of a Predator - you know, from the movies - not too bad, even if I say so myself. 

The axe has also been added to, and he´s getting VERY spiky, but that´s all right. I have yet to finish some details, i.e. scales, chains, some pus-filled blisters, the axe, and of course the big claws in front. Then I will do the wings and the base, and I hope that I will be able to finish him in the next few days.

All in all I´m pretty happy with the job I´ve done so far, and he´ll be a good center-piece in my Nurgle army. 

Well, well. Although I´m not quite finished, I just need a breather! 
He´s about 95% done, just a few minor fixes to do. Some more detail on the base and a few little mistakes.

This has been my biggest conversion work to date, some things came out fine, others didn´t. 
The axe is a huge instrument of death... It´s too big, I admit, but I wouldn´t have missed the chance to try out my fledgling sculpting talents in making a spine-thingie on the axe. I didn´t think I could carry it out, but I was surprised (and pleased) with the outcome. 

The painting is mostly ok, although some day I want to come back and do the flesh in some other colour, I just couldn´t find a satisfactory skin-tone. Ah, well...

As you can see he´s gone through a lot of changes. He´s not of Golden Daemon quality, but I did learn a lot in the process of making him. Now, at least, I have a really big imposing center model in my new army! All I have to do now is to paint the rest of the army! :-)