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The Tick-Tock man…

28 Friday Aug 2015

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Run, run, as fast as you can, don’t get caught by the Tick-Tock man! He’ll burn your flesh and smash your head, and grind your bones beneath his tread

(Praetoria Prime – Underhive/Sump nursery rhyme)

Happy Friday folks – third post this week! Yey! I’ve made a solemn vow to clear some projects that are ‘in progress’, so as part of that, I’ve been working on finishing the Tick-Tock man this week. Just to remind you, Tick-Tock was started before I went on my holidays. He was bashed together using the free AoS model that came with the White Dwarf mag a few weeks back as the base. I then added various AdMech components (most notably the arms & flamer), plus a load of watch parts. I wanted to make it look like a clockwork automata, (largely inspired by the lifeless facemask), that has been added to and ‘improved’ over time. I really tried to emphasise that there is no biology inside the suit, (I hacked out bits of the chest and abdomen and inserted watch parts in the holes for example), and I’m particularly pleased with the ‘key’ that protrudes from his chest.

Paint-wise, I pretty much followed the suggested paint scheme for the AoS Stormcast Liberator, but substituted bronze for the usual gold. This was a deliberate move on my part – I want the origins of Tick-Tock to be a bit enigmatic… maybe the shell of a slain Liberator has been ripped out of its own time and space and ended up in the 41st Millennium, where it was salvaged and turned into the automata? Or maybe, the spirit of said Liberator is actually still trapped in there somewhere? Who knows, perhaps the resemblance is purely coincidental! Anyhow… The rest of the paint scheme involved weathering, weathering and more weathering – I wanted Tick-Tock to look old and worn out… neglected even. Finally, an application of blood and gore makes it clear that this is one piece of clockwork that you don’t want to wind up!   (badum tish!)

Game-wise, I can use this guy in a number of ways. He’s equipped correctly to be used as a Kastelan in 40k – I have a half formed idea of a rogue bAdMech robot maniple, hiring itself out to the highest bidder, so that is one option… but my main plan is to use him as an NPC in Rogue Trader – either as a mission objective, or as an environmental hazard. Either way, I’m sure I’ll have fun J

Anyhow, enough chit-chat, have a butchers:

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Another salvage agent painted up

13 Monday Jul 2015

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Happy Monday folks, I’ve had a really poor week hobby-wise, with hardly any time for painting at all! But… I did manage to finish this guy, and I am rather pleased with the result:

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He’s based on the old Titan Princeps Seniores, (thank you Ross!), tricked out with Skiitari/Sicarian arms and appendages. I intended for him to form part of the growing ‘Agentia Scrutator’ salvage team on my work bench, but I also wanted him to stand out a bit, either as a character or even as a lone agent. I just reversed the colour scheme to achieve this – a simple trick that seems to have worked. Here he is with the other tech ganger for comparison, (a good excuse for a slightly better photo of the first guy):

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I also got slightly side tracked with the freebee AoS mini that came on the cover of last week’s White Dwarf… I got a bit obsessed with stuffing the body cavity with rods and cogs, but after a lot of huffing and puffing I ended up with this – the Tick-Tock man:

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I have some ideas for this dude – I imagine that he is a creepy automaton that dwells deep in the sumps, some technological relic of a past age. Rarely seen by anyone who lives to tell the tale, he has become a mythical bogyman used to frighten children… but, (of course), the tales are true and the Tick-tock man is real, toiling away in the depths – but to what end?

“Run, run, as fast as you can,

Don’t get caught by the Tick-Tock man…”

(Sump nursery rhyme)

 

Sten – Man of Stone

24 Wednesday Jun 2015

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Happy Wednesday folks, I’m pleased to introduce Sten, the Man of Stone, (so called for his stoic demeanour and utter lack of pity or remorse). He’s the Wolfguard Sergeant from Stormclaw – the latest addition to my growing pack of brothers of the Crimson Howl. I still have some finishing touches to apply, but he’s ready enough to share:

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And here’s the fluff:

Sten is kin-brother to Mördaren, yet couldn’t be more different. Sten, called the ‘Man of Stone’ by his pack, is utterly without passion, pity or remorse. Where Mördaren is an incarnation of fiery rage, Sten is cold, controlled, calculating and relentless… His twin-hearts could be made of pure Fenrisian ice, but this stoic demeanour masks a secret, for Sten fights a constant battle against his own rage and blood-fury. His desire to see worlds burn and to cleave mountains of skulls is getting stronger – the whispers in his mind become ever more insistent and demanding. His self-control is absolute for now, but ultimately, Sten knows that this is a battle he cannot win. He sees his own future in the twisted form and insanity of Mördaren, and Sten fears this fate above all else… and yet, with a growing sense of inevitability, he also craves the release of losing himself in the howling madness that awaits…

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