Saturday, June 21, 2014

Adeptus Mechanicus - Electro Avatar painting begins

Just a quick hit today - While I had the blue paints out, I took a quick break from all the Thousand Sons red and laid down the base colors on the Electro-Avatar for my Adeptus Mechanicus army. I'd picked this up long ago in the Tempus Fugitive days, so unfortunately I have no idea what it'll be used for in the current FW ruleset. Nevertheless, I'm putting together a little group of adversary models for my upcoming Rogue Trader campaign (pics to follow), and this guy will be one of the "final bosses" due to a radical tech priest causing mischief on a Necron tomb world. "Calm yourselves. There is only a 0.000000000002% chance of the shard-form overcoming the restraint device." [KLAXON ALARM MAYHEM]


I'm a big fan of the idea that there is a quietly sinister undercurrent of Necron technology underpinning the techno-sorcery of the Adeptus Mechanicus, and with a quick symbol swap on the torc it was ready to go. Next up is some gold/bronze, but I want to keep the OSL look so I'm planning on trying to just paint gold into the 'shadowed' areas of the torc and faceplate as a sort of reverse-OSL to begin with, and if that looks terrible, then it's paint it all gold and re-apply the blue. We'll see how it goes!

10 comments:

  1. Oh i like where this is going :D

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  2. That is shaping up very nicely.

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  3. I'm just glad he is not anatomically correct ala his 'Watchmen' counterpart ;)

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  4. Nice, very very nice!

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  5. That's a fantastic idea. If only they made a clear plastic one so you could drill into the base and put a light inside....

    You'll have to keep us informed about the RT campaign, too. My local GM is talking about rebooting our stalled DH campaign.

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  6. @Zab: It's a rather cool model, been enjoying painting it!

    @Rictus: Thanks!

    @Aventine: Hahah!

    @Battybattybats: Cheers!

    @Jugger: Not bad for being trapped in an existential nowhere for millennia!

    @#2501: That would be cool! I'm hoping to do some RT posts in the upcoming few months, the local group hasn't gotten much gaming in recently. Boo!

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  7. Jamie Fox never looked as good.

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  8. An alternative use for the miniature would be as some form of physical embodiment of a Binaric Saint, which are brought into lore to my knowledge in the novel Knights of the Imperium.

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