How do Wracks look beneath their masks?

I'm currently building my 25 Wracks (Scalpel Squadron, 10-man in Raider, 2 extra Acothysts, 3 Haemonculus conversions) and - as I'm cutting them up and reposing everything anyway - I thought about building one that has his weapons impaled in the ground, some gory bit in one hand and his mask in the other, as if he just needed to take a bite of some poor fool or something.

Question 1: Would a Wrack do that? Would he even be able to, seeing as some masks look bolted on, while others look removable? Maybe I could model an Acothyst into that pose, as he could have earned the provilege of removing his mask?

Question 2: How would he look? My first thought was a lidless, noseless, lipless horror with a sunken face and an eternal grin. As far as I know, there's no literature on that and I'd be interested in your opinions!

Question 3: How would I model something like that? Maybe splicing a deamonette head for the eyes with the one from the WHFB Vampire Counts Ghoul King for mouth and nose?

First of, great idea! Never thought about that.
Concerning question 2: I think there is a story where an Acothyst earns his right to become a Haemonculus, so obviously there bot beyond repair (but then what is beyond repair to a Haemonculus ).
I like the lidless, almost featureless idea, though. I guess the haemunculie keep their wracks featureless and without personality, hence the masks on everything except the haemunculie themselves

Thanks! It has the potential to look great - IF I can pull it off. See how big that "if" is? Yeah.

Okay, so an Acothyst it is.

I think you misunderstood me concerning my vision of the Acothyst's face: lidless, noseless, etc. does -not- mean "featureless". I mean without cartilage and loose skin, as in "Hi, I'm Bob the Acothyst and my master likes me very much, so he has cut off my eyelids, nose and lips. I'm hoping for a raise next."

You know? Big eyes that never close and the nose and mouth of a fleshy skeleton. Similar to this:

Human face without muscles. NSFW? Maybe.

I understood you perfectly but maybe used the wrong expression. With featureless I meant without individual personality. It would be hard to identify a certain individual if his face would be without eyelids, nose, ears.

I immediately thought of the evil nazi guy from hellboy

I would presume their faces would be similar to the Grots/Wracks of old that lacked helmets. Insomuch as they could range from relatively perfectly normal, to horror show, and everything in between. I reckon it all depends on the Haem in question.

It may be worth noting that the Wracks don't seem to have ears.

V for vendetta? That's probably one for spellcheck, the vendetta style mask would look pretty cool I think!

The_Burning_Eye wrote:

V for vendetta? That's probably one for spellcheck, the vendetta style mask would look pretty cool I think!

It's called a Guy Fawkes Mask.

Yes, okay, so we all know what I'm talking about.
How would you realize it on a model though?

This may not work but since too much paint obscures details, might that provide the facial effect you're looking for? A thick coat in some places followed by normal painting for the effect.

I just have an idea: first paint the face red, then with Blood For The Blood God. Next step is thick coat of Agrellan Earth for the exfoliate skin. To finish just paint the earth color with some skin tone.
I've never try this but the effect may be interesting.

These are really nice ideas! I hadn't even thought as far as the painting stage, but was still thinking about how to model such a face, but if I ever get as far as painting that model, this is how I'll do it.

Caspaar wrote:

I immediately thought of the evil nazi guy from hellboy

Weird, I thought of this:

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