Sunday, March 19, 2017

Heresy Era Thousand Sons - Iskandar Khayon, take two!

Quick hit this morning - I was re-listening to Talon of Horus in audiobook form while painting yesterday (pics of that progress shortly!), and thought it would be fun to take a quick break from painting and build a new version of Iskandar Khayon!


Taking a modeling cue from the previous version, I started with the new plastic Ahriman model as a basis, swapped out the staff for Kayon's force axe Saern, and carved out the space for an alternate head and backpack. His daemon-wolf Gyre got a slight size reduction, and this time around I'll be painting her black-furred - I'd missed the reference to her color on the first read-through, doh!

It could be fun to put together a diorama of the Rubric being incanted with Khayon and Ahriman confronting each other, after all I do have an Ahriman and an apparently unhealthy fixation on building sorcerers! Could be also be fun to do a command squad that includes Mekhari and Djedhor, the two Rubricae that accompany Khayon in the book. Djedhor is mentioned as being a standard bearer at one point, and perhaps I can find a reasonable counts-as use for Gyre in there somewhere as well...

12 comments:

  1. Suddenly feel compelled to purchase a second Ahriman, to use as an Exalted Sorcerer/Praetor.

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  2. Very nice. Ahriman is a damn good mini. As a base for other sorcerora he's unbeatable.

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  3. Hummm.... Can I convert mine to a rune priest ? He can have Ahirman's head as a base decoration.....

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  4. @Dave Henderson: I was quite please with the model, both arms are designed such that it's easy to swap them out, though the head required a little carving to replace!

    @Frothing Muppet: Indeed! I love the witchfire coming off his left hand, and the pose is menacing!

    @Zzzzzz: I'd bet with a little greenstuffed furs it would make for an excellent basis for a rune priest. Delightful irony using it as such as well! :)

    @Stephen: Thanks bud!

    I appreciate the kind words, everyone!

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  5. Really cool kit bash. It is always fun to creat your own visions of characters from the fluff too

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  6. He looks awesome, the scale of the wolf is dead on.

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  7. @NafNaf: Thanks man! He was a hoot to build!

    @DantesPeak: Cheers!

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  8. Using a Fenrisian wolf for a 1k sons'pet??? Heresy!

    And kind of funny.

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  9. Another reason for you to get on Twitter:
    https://twitter.com/adembskibowden/status/885494706074943488

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  10. What size base did you use for Ahriman? I'm wanting to use the Burning of Prospero one for 40K and am not sure if its OK to use a 40mm hero base

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  11. @Dai: Hah! Gotta love the irony!

    @Joe B: Haha! Very cool!

    @Mospaeda: I went with a 40mm base, he'd probably fit on a 32 but feels a bit more balanced on a 40.

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