Some may be familiar with this design from my Tomb Kings army. I picked up another Hirst mold (#91) and I’m considering using this make-up for my spiders. While I like the look, I’m not quite sold on the idea. The base turned out awesome though!
I call them menhir and my design concept is they are conduit points where scarabs can be teleported in from some pocket dimension or buried tomb world. I’m still knocking around the idea of using scarabs or a mass of some other geo-shape to represent them. Not quite sure.
I have to resend my previous statement about the Ghost/Doomsday Ark being the most diabolical kit I ever had to build. This bastard takes the cake…
So much design thinking had to go into building this thing. I first had to build the base keeping how the stalker was going to snake through it in mind. I then had to build the stalker section-by-section, then leg-by-leg, constantly repositioning it on the base to make sure it looked right.
It’s awesome, but hateful. So. Very. Hateful.
Do you want to know what the really sad part is? I have another one to build…
/sob
Shawn G. (SoI)
wow shawn, I REALLY like the way that pyramid came out.
Seeing that idea realized and knowing it fits on a base makes me want to do it!
It does look pretty good. I had it at the shop yesterday. I’ll be adding some scarabs to the base to bring it closer to the model range. And I plan on starting work on the scarab swam bases as well.
Shawn G. (SoI)
I almost bought a tomb stalker while at Warhammer world last month, but after seeing it close up knew it would be a nightmare. They are spectacular models, so if you can survive construction you’ll have some really unique army units.
I agree John.
I was in the middle of painting Dave’s commission when you were working on your Necrons. They looked fantastic and I was soooo jealous!
Shawn G.