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The Collector's automata from across the Imperium. Their shells are useless once their Abominable Intellences have been cleansed--someone's gotta keep their husks so they don't fall into the wrong hands, might as well be someone who appreciates them.

Been slowly working on and off with these lot for months now, been in a real slump with my mini work, until some key pieces of inspiration struck which made me instantly want to have them in miniature form--and looking around broken minis and key bits I've been hanging onto for a while, got into the groove from there with others--I'm both happy and displeased with these lot, I think the kitbashing on all of them is excellent, and the painting is actually okay for such a long break, other than the little holo-table bot I do think the rest look a little generic however, tried to spice it up with those circular patterns which is alright I guess.

The (totally not a Tech Heretic) Collector. That little top piece I've had for almost 5 years, been trying to find a use for it forever.

my fucking sick Flamethrower-wielding Ballerina. She has little wheels for feets!!

Then for the rest, I've been wanting to tackle a 40k version of Marathon's S'pht for a while now, last year I made a Compiler and I absolutely loved it, wanted an excuse to have one in an Inquisitor game

And I saw this AMAZING blog, @cardo-de-comer with both 2d and 3d artwork, and such striking colours. I try to make colourful miniatures, but these just looked gorgeous. I knew I was gonna have a little hologram out of that upside Tau drone piece, originally was just gonna be a flat piece of transparent plastic that I'd do a diagram on, but seeing their work I knew I just had to have someone on it.

At such a small scale, those tiny little roughly 1mm dots is the best I can do to attempt at recreating that amazing texturing work.

For the bot that was shown off last on my blog, I was playing this amazing demo for an indie game called Hypogea, the robot in that was super distinctive to me, and I knew I had to recreate it.

Certainly my biggest post on here, and despite the complexity of these minis they were actually made pretty quick, just not been feeling that great, and took FOREVER to paint. I've got some more Frostgrave Wizard ideas, and I recently got myself the new ODST minis that came out, got some fun sculpting ideas for them. Hope to get back into the flow of things.

Just because she’s built like a war machine, doesn’t mean she has to avoid the ballroom.

Saw some cool art featuring a giant hat and realised I’ve only done a few big hats before, desperately wanted todo one and it turned into a rather elegant design in the end (thankfully, I was worried she’d end up looking like a pimp lol). I was tempted to actually paint this up with proper Mechanicus imagery, but decided to make it a little bit ambiguous so I might be able to use her as an Inquisitor and for other games.

If you’re wondering about that obscenely bright red, I used Rogue Hobbies’ signature paintset with just a contrast red over the top, created enough depth while still keeping the vibrancy of her paint. The resin pieces are some super super cool assassins from Anvil Industry

The 🟨Cube had been waiting for Eons in that Tomb, dust created from organic matter neatly avoiding it’s faces—debris and rock that have collapsed from above somehow not burying it—waiting and waiting for the right mortal fool to see such a bright ‘treasure’ for the taking.

While I much prefer to make brighter minis, I’ve always wanted a go at trying todo a Turnip28 mini. While it’s still brighter than most lol, I’m really happy with it’s style and basing.

Turnip28 is a grimdark setting where root-vegetable people fight each other in muddy lands, he’s a carrot man!

As Magical Warfare became mechanised, and Mages Towers’ fell far behind established lines and combat zones, those powerful Wizards needed to be moved up into the fight with something that’ll house their great magicks and be just as defensible.

I’ve finally made a Tonk! I had told Apocrypha Now in the past I’d do one but I never got around to it, and it’s been a a while now but I’ve been constantly thinking about Narcoleptic Wizard‘s Aethertonk challenge. Welp, finally decided todo it and I’m super happy with the results, it’s not as silly as most tonks are which is a bit of a shame but I definitely think it’s badass atleast—and I’m very happy that the turret AND wheels fully function, no need to pretend it moves across the board I can just push it and it goes.

Arcane Officers and Logi-Priests are often times seen accompanied by the Infernos Artillery in the most magically bombarded sections of the trenches, their magiks unrefined and explosive, most of No Wizards’ Land has been because of their scorching.

This project is finally complete I feel like, really explored the Aetherpunk28 potential and played around with a lot of really cool kitbashing and painting techniques. They look awesome as a group and I’m very proud of them.