Coven of Infernal Suffering

So this is what I am currently working on, potentially going to be a Cronos but we'll see.

Oooh! Really liking the look of this!

Update on the Cronos and his organic arm, kinda had a feel of something like Tetsuo from Akira. Not going to add anymore as there is plenty of greenstuff on it that needs to dry.

That looks horrifying . . . well done, sir.

Where are all those rib cages(?) from?

the bodies are from the undead morghasts that I have used greenstuff over all the skull stuff

Good news everyone!

I have finally started working on my haemonculi! I realise this is usually where most people start their armies but I got carried away by pain engines...what you gonna do?

Both of these are VERY early wip at the moment so forgive the roughness of them for now.

Firstly we have the more reserved one that has had the least done to it so far, I wanted a more lean and skeletal form for this particular haemonculus but haven't gotten the rest sorted. I want the clawed arm from the dark elf medusa model but procuring it has been proving...difficult...







The second is the likely going to be the general of the army. I wanted to do a haemonculus sitting down and the question became "what would he sit on?"....well......

Your work is really amazing.

The finished Cronos alongside his "sister" forming the pain engines in my dark artisan formation.

Genuine quote from a friend of mine who I showed these to "That's come out really well. Though you're gonna have to see a psychologist after this"

My grotesquerie has been assembled! I am quite happy with how these came out.

Disturbing! Also very very cool! Great blood effects

I absolutly love the Haemonculus in the throne. He looks so dope. I cant wait to see more of him.

ask and you shall receive

That throne is fantastic, he would make a great centrepiece for any coven

That is awesome

First raider to transport my Grotesques

I have to say that this is the single most grimdark and easily the goriest vehicle I've ever seen in this hobby.

And I absolutely love it.

The Grotesques really needed something as equally morbid (and awesome) as they are to transport them, and you've hit the nail on the head with it. +1!

hydranixx wrote:

I have to say that this is the single most grimdark and easily the goriest vehicle I've ever seen in this hobby.

d'awww shucks....you're gonna make me blush

Yeah, so much awesome here... really great work!

So here is the army that a couple of weeks ago I took to the UK Throne of Skulls event.











I did not get a nomination for best army...for which I was immensely disappointed. The full reasoning and such is posted in my blog which I will leave here for you to read should you so wish.
http://thedarkgrotesquerie.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/hollow-disappointment.html

Don't let i get to you man. Great art will always be misunderstood.

That's bad man, i can relate even though people say i paint them and only i have to like them, i want everyone else to like them too
Anyway i guess your army just wasn't mainstream enough for their taste, i think it's really cool and one of, if not the scariest looking Army on here.
Keep going!

PS.: Just the base design tables many armies i know lol

Bruh, that judging was bogus by the sounds of it.

Your army is sick, literally disgusting. And that is a compliment. Very inspirational!

One question, what is the big piece on the raiders, is that a mass of organs and people?

If I may, I've had a little experience with GW scoring systems, and there is usually a factor you may not like to hear - official models.

Your work is fantastic, it really is, but GW events will heavily favour any army that is majority, or entirety, official models. Or at the very least easily recognisable as official models with a little work done on it.

I've been to at least one event where the "best" army chosen in a painting competition was one of the blandest paint jobs I've seen in a long time. It honestly looked like one colour, a wash for shading, and very heavy highlight. It, and a couple of other meh armies, won over a far better painted army which was heavily converted and scratch-built like yours. Chatter afterwards amongst the people was that it was a bit bs too.
Near as I can tell, its linked to the GW UK rule of each model "50%" official to use at Warhammer World thing.

I've no doubt that at an indie event, you'd do incredibly well on modelling/painting. But GW have different standards, and those don't always just come down to actual painting and modelling.

Oh man sorry to hear about that (managed to miss that post!), but yeah that's BS. Your army is one of the most downright terrifying I've ever seen honestly, I think it might make some of John Blanche's creepiest creations sleep with the light on...

In some ways it's comforting that there's some sort of BS 'originality' scoring somewhere in the system.

Well, I don't know about the results of the painting Como, but I do know that your army would have had my vote where I there.

It's wickedly beautiful, and terrifying. The effects on the metal, the general layer of gringe and rust, the terrifying claws and tools! Truly the stuff of nightmares.

The blood effects, especially on those Wracks, are terrifying. There is no section of skin that doesn't look pale, sickly and monstrously strong.

The Haemonculi look sinister and terrifying, I love this army's scheme, and your execution of it is appallingly brilliant!