[WM] Warmaster models at the lair of the Frogbear

[frogbear]

It never occurred to me to post these here so I may as well do it now 
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First off is the Lammasu. In this I like to support Australian retailers where possible. I purchased my full Chaos Dwarf Army off Eureka Miniatures, and while there I investigated what other models I could make use of. I came across these:

This one screamed out to me that the head was perfect for what I needed


Nick from Eureka pulled this one out after I had almost given up finding a suitable body for the Lammasu


These wings come as standard with the Chaos Dwarf Bull Taurus model he has. They would have to be cut down a little however as they are far too 'long' to be used for correct proportions


This guy will be the Chaos Dwarf Sorcerer. I am going to cut him down by half so he does not look too silly sitting on the back of this beast

[frogbear]

...and these were the results after the first week.

I still had to wait for the left wing to set, and then start the mane of hair to continue along the body.

[frogbear]

And this was the completed work...

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As I have no delusions that it is going to get any better, that should be the Lammasu and Sorcerer done.

[frogbear]

I finally completed the base work on the Dark Elf Cauldron of Blood.

So I have;
- an Epic Eldar Avatar acting as Khaine (Knife is a chaos spike and heart is procreate)
- the sorceress from the Dark Elf Character pack
- 2x Witch elves that I had to painstakingly cut apart from each other and then fix up with procreate
- the bowl is made from the predator hatch bits (May do more smoothing on the bowl underside)
- the feet are made from basic sprue cut to what I needed
- the skulls (ground and bowl) are made from procreate









The 'step' on all the minis will be balanced when I do the basing and the skulls will be as if appearing from the ground/grass.

Next project - re-modelling the Eureka Minis Great Taurus...

[frogbear]

Here is the idea I came up with for the Death Rocket



This was a simple conversion using the Dwarf Cannon as a base.

[frogbear]

I still have to model the legs and tidy this one up a bit but you get the general gist of where this is going;

Taurus




While I am waiting on the above to dry I have started on the 2nd Lammasu - this one rearing up

Lammasu #2

[frogbear]

I may end up doing another Taurus in the future as I am not happy with the scale of the one that Eureka provide.

I think the body that I am using for the Lammasu would be better off as the base for this mini.

[jchaos79]

Hey that Lammasu is awesome!! so great! it is fantastic!!

[Guthwine]

Exquisite work! Specially love the look of the taurus. The level of the recent scratchbuilds on the forum is a pleasure to behold.

Just one suggestion, maybe the deathrockets could use some small fins to make it more "rockety".

[Stormwind]

Man I would love to see more scratch built armies like Chaos Dwarves!

Great use of the old Eldar Avatar!

[frogbear]

Great use of the old Eldar Avatar!

To be fair, this conversion was a copy of someone else's in a Warmuster magazine 

[frogbear]

Just one suggestion, maybe the deathrockets could use some small fins to make it more "rockety".

The Death Rockets on the ground are actually a smaller circumference than the cannon head itself so they could actually fit in if I decided to go to that detail. In doing that however, not room for fins

If I give them a red head however..... 

[David Wasilewski]

Fantastic modelling - well done!

Dave

[Stormwind]

Did you consider perhaps using something from the 40k range like the space marine missiles?

http://www.bitzbox.co.uk/product_info.php/space-marine-tactical-squad-single-missile-p-598?osCsid=fb10d88e08bd8b1d241b0a257a245e94

Or are they too big? =-/

[frogbear]

Yeah they may be a little big methinks.

Been working more on the Great Taurus rider and started on the kneck of the 2nd Lammasu.

I am using the below design for inspiration for the 2nd Lammasu. It is not as impressive however there is something about the old Mesopotamia that really intrigues me: