Tzeentch creatures have always been perceived as being weak in close combat but strong in magical ability. Thus having the common weak physique as everyone would think they “should” have. For this Tzeentch herald, I wish to have a different look and change all that perception about Tzeentch characters having a weaker body. What I had in mind, that this character, fluff wise, would have been able to take over a chaos warrior's mind and manifested itself from the body of this warrior's body. This enabled the herald to possess the strong physique of a chaos warrior. I didn't want to make this into a major conversion project and opted for a simple way gluing a few part together. Here is a list of what I used for the herald:
- Warrior of Chaos body and back (includes the cloak)
- Icon from Horrors of Tzeentch standard bearer
- Head from Horrors of Tzeentch champion
- Arm from Horrors of Tzeentch sprue
- Tongue from Horror's sprue (cut out from one of the model's body)
- PVA glue + water + tissue
- Book from Empire flagellant sprue
- Modeling file (for filing off unwanted parts)
- Superglue
- Plastic glue
- Putty
- Cutting knife
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| Out from the sprue |
First off, I would start off would the base as it would take time for it to dry. My usual PVA glue + water + tissue base would be used for my whole Daemon's army so it would not be any different for this model. So while I am waiting for it to dry, I could start working on the body. Glue the warriors of chaos body together and then file off the feathery part of the cloak. This is actually not really important but I didn't want it to have too many parts resembling it's previous form of a chaos warrior. Then by using putty, form up the neck area similar to how they are done with the Horror's body. Quickly before letting the putty to dry, stick the tongue to the neck area. I had made sure that later, the head part would fit nicely before leaving it to dry and harden.
Next, I scrapped off some parts of the right arm from the warrior's body. This would allow the Tzeentch icon and the arm to be positioned higher and at a position where I would want them. The Tzeentch icon has two arms connected to it but I would only want only one. So the other arm had to be cut off and the shoulder part was also cut off. There is already sufficient upper arm area and the shoulder from the warrior body for me. For the left arm, I would just cut off the upper arm area leaving just the lower arm part. Next, I would glue both the arms to the body and that would almost complete the whole conversion.
Finally painting all the parts as how would want them. The base is done first and that would follow the theme of my whole Daemon's army. The skin, I had already decided upon a purplish colour and the armour to have a mixture of blue and chainmail. For the cloak would also be a darker shade of blue and flaming colours added to the icon. All the smaller details would follow simple common colouring and finally the book from the Empire flagellant sprue. The book is then glued to the left arm completing the whole model.
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| A close look on the herald |
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| Another look on the herald |
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| Close look on the icon |
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| The whole model |
