Clonelord.

"If a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered. If he exercises his genius bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes. Infamy is always more preferable to ignominy."

Quite some time ago I finished my take on the new Fabius Bile model from Citadel Miniatures. I’m just now getting around to posting up the photos I took after the finish line. Hope you enjoy them. Upon close inspection, I’ve realized the left arm had been turned slightly at the sholder breaking the connection on the pipes coming from his chest piece. That means I’ll need to repair it and post some better photos, possibly on the Organthus backdrop I’ll post more about soon.

This model was great fun and I wanted to keep the conversion subtle. They were still the regular shit show, pain-in-the-ass conversions I create for myself. I replaced his face with the unhelmed head from the Custodes Jetbike kit. I thought Torment would be more than just an old man’s cane, so I had to mess with it. I think the hand on it was created using one of the newer Primaris Reiver kit hands, plastic tubing, and a skull from the Citadel skull kit. The bottom portion is just the rest of the piece from the kit.

The original Fabius Bile model struck me so hard running across it in a White Dwarf magazine in a weird bookstore when I was a kid. Just a gross, over-the-top, mad scientist story in a Space Marine package. What’s not to love? When GW dropped the new model within their new more realistic approach to proportions, I was all in. (Definitely still lifted the boots a little bit.) Plus he came with a little gimp model I know I’ll have some use for later!

Manflayer

Decided I wanted to insert myself into my rendition of the Clonefather. This was the first professional tattoo I purchased when I was 18 , It’s on my right rib side, In between the cracks of a significant collection. I realize this is significantly out of scale for a flap of skin sewn into Fabius’ coat of colors, but I can only attempt to paint so tiny. I’ve been a professional tattooer going on 20 years now, the skin man and I have some shit in common. Fun shit!!

I also really enjoyed Josh Reynolds’ Fabius Bile books. Some of the weird mutants and characters in these offerings are literally screaming to be made. I may or may not have started one of them in yet another fit of attention deficit disorder. I highly recommend them!

Thanks for checking it out, I’ll have more soon!

Warden House Kaelmn, lords of the port sectors of SAMMAHS2

  Imperial force on SAMMAHS2, after the event of the Cicatrix Maledictum, slowly rose around airborne powers.  What land mass remained of the planet miraculously held together by strange magnetic fields at its core.  This forced survivors to the interiors of the larger fragments. Of the planet, and empowering the sky-born of military, and civilian population. Infantry are now required to hold prowess as soldiers as well as piloting aircraft, or navigating free-fall combat. Many of the populated hubs of SAMMAHS2 moan from what seem like floating mountains or the spirits of cliffs in fog. A fog that light footed Sammahtians believe to catch the souls of the fallen.

Warden house Kaelmn, carged to the port sectors of the SAMMAHS2 floating cities, still hold fast to the practice of effigy from before the time of the great tare. This is observed even in their tactical approaches.

  Their number of more elite in traversing the cliffs of a floating magnetic hive city, are initiated to a separate rank. Known as the Corpus Oblation, these troopers are issued only a blade, their grav skull, and a specialized bandolier of grenades. Their aim to confuse and distract any possible corruption of the mountain law, and to facilitate the dispatch of its ends.

  The Corpus Oblation are clad in a black armored body glove, with the blood red pauldron of the Kaelmn house. These suicidal aerialists are known to rituals decorate their skin with esoteric tattoos. These marks are believed to address the remains of their corporeal manifestation in the event of the acceptance of their offerings to the fading light of their emperor.

   Members of the Corpus Oblation are not known to be long for the world. Placing themselves in the most danger to lay traps, and facilitate distraction. If the offering is hesitant or unworthy the emperor will be satisfied with their life and the failure of the house. Other guards of house Kaelmn hold many aspirations, acceptance into the Oblation the higher of most.

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“Grenades and blades you dust buckets!” -Bareen “Heap” Logaith c.o. Veteran sgt..

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  Finally completing this group.  The intent here is to have a group of miniatures acting as guardians of a port sector on the SAMMAHS2 planet.  This setting will be represented on a vertically centric 2 foot by 2 foot board.  This group will act as a feature in the setting in witch two small cohorts will be interacting in search of an objective. This setting is made of large floating cliff faces connected by varied sized gantries at many different vertically oriented levels. Some of these levels are hangers for medium to small civilian aircraft.  Many of these hangers, like the landscape, are in a state of disrepair but still functioning. Ive already mocked up most of the pieces for this board in card and bits and I’ll get a bit more into the details on that in the next post. 

  Speaking of next posts, I’ll be back next week with more on the SAMMAHS2 floating city board, and more spooky shots of the Kaelmn house  Thanks for looking!!