Teetengee

I've got a daemonically infused psyker/psychically infused daemonhost floating out the top of the vehicle, hooked by cabling up to help control the thing as the conventional controls are no longer accessible. The hookup is going to go there.

I'd also recommend that if you use a warm white, use warm colors over the rest of the mini, and likewise for cool. This will trick the eye into seeing the warmth as an aspect of lighting, instead of a marker of color.

it's also important to remember that most regular people within the 40k imperium don't have a functional working knowledge of what chaos is, what it looks like, what its followers do or how they work. It's so coached in propaganda, and there is so much variability within imperial forces, that it is perfectly reasonable for imperials to not even realize a chaos force *is* a chaos force. In fact, it's possible for huge swaths of chaos troops to not realize *they* are chaos aligned. So with all that said, I could see a truce being made against craftworld eldar with "that damned tax evading guerrilla network who have infuriatingly good prescience when it comes to predicting where enemy forces will strike," maybe even offering a penal legion type deal of looking aside at the previous indiscretions so long as the eldar are destroyed and they quit rebelling after. Alternatively, if an imperial force were fighting and a space marine force dropped to support them, they wouldn't necessarily realize that force was chaos aligned (particularly if one of the more practical chaos forces, like alpha legion or iron warriors). The longer any such alliance went, the more likely it would be that the imperials realize who they are working with, but at least for single or limited campaign engagements, where chaos is keeping quiet about their proclivities, it's possible. I suspect it would usually end in some combination of: a. the imperials corrupted, turning to chaos b. the inquisition assuming a and glassing the planet c. the same situation that happened when tau tried allying with drukhari

yeah, I'm definitely going to sculpt some flames might also add the chain Both once I find each, respectively

So, I still need to sculpt horns on the flaming skull in the chalice icon and flames on the candles, but curious as to what else feels missing, here. I don't think there's a good place for a book, sadly.

WIP for one of the rhinos

Please explain this as I'm not certain what you mean. I think I have an idea, but I want to be sure that I'm responding accurately. Oh! When I upload images to the B&C gallery, I am prompted to add tags, but the tags listed above feel much more evenly distributed across posts than they would across images.

the extra armor plates on the Iron Warriors version really help with the fleshiness concern, imo. Not perfect, but reads much less like a centaur in an armored croptop (not that I mind a good armored croptop, but it doesn't fit all the army aesthetics)

I mostly use tags to show factions on uploads to the gallery, so I find subfaction tags very useful, as I might want to search the gallery for inspiration related to those army paintjobs/conversions. I'd be open to other ways of tagging that, but I feel like nothing except community challenge would be useful for gallery uploads, and also wouldn't really help my searching.

looking at the top shells, I wonder if they are more pieces than we might expect (I could see the trim around the head opening being a separate piece that slots in, maybe even attached to the star on the khorne model for instance, which I think would leave us with just two actual plate differences. I also assume the spine on the nurgle one is a separate bit that could be applied to the other shells), and thus both more flexible than just those 4 configurations, but also perhaps fewer shell bits themselves I feel like if they had made an alternate build where the flesh bits are replaced by armor plating, they would have had almost 100% buy in from the community on it *that said* I think that on a table the flesh will be less noticeable because from the higher view angle, it will be obscured by the mechanical pieces above

I'm hoping it's the alternative, that it is even taller and bigger than the old one to the point it is just *huge*

Huge amount of clear poseability, and looking carefully at the armor plates, looks like it should have a decent amount of extra bits for kitbashing other daemon engines left over. As a kit is is fantastic, and I really just need to know the scale of it more properly. That said, it is such a big departure from the previous defiler kit it feels a bit different to me. I'm hoping it is bigger than it comes across as, because then I think it will sell the defiler more, as the more slender components give it less visual weight if the overall legspan is the same.

thank you, it means a lot to know they're appreciated! these ones are from GS world, but I'm sure there are a few around! definitely link me/tag me what you try if you ever post any of it, I'd love to see it