A Fimir Showcase: Command Model Conversions

Last November I showcased Michael P.'s strange fimir themed warriors of chaos army.  It was horrible, it was Lovecraftian, it was awesome.  Since then, Michael has been hard at work getting his new army ready for AdeptiCon.  To fill out his units he needed command models, so I got hard at work making three converted banner bearers and three musicians.

Let's take a look at the finished models!

I wanted to keep true to the original weapons the fimir came with, turning the staves into maces wherever possible; though one lucky fimir got a whole new cleaver to add some much needed choppy action to his unit!

The banner conversions took their inspiration from a Celtos banner topper showing a fertile woman.  Michael wanted that woman converted into a fimir female, complete with one eye and beaky snout.

The banner pole was a simple brass pinning rod, accentuated with a little green stuff work.

I liked the eye as a prominent feature on the topper, hieroglyphic in its proportions.

This fellow has a snake running up his banner pole, its tongue reaching even further up its length.

I'm not sure where Michael got the horns for the musicians, but they made great bases for more elaborate and weirder designs.  All three horse-head horns received more filigree and added ornamental horns.

Yet even more models are on the way for Michael's fimir army, soon to follow are chaos slugs pulling chariots!  Come back next week to check out the magnetization projects that I'm working on for David D., and the additions he's making to his chaos space marine army!

Until then, good gaming and happy holidays!

What's on My Desk: Fimir "Counts-As" Conversions

I'm back this week with a look at a work-in-progress commission for a returning customer Michael P.  Michael has come to rely on my modeling skills to add a special twist to his models, and this time he wanted work done for his Warriors of Chaos Fantasy army.  Nine fimir are acting as counts-as chaos warriors.  Each fimir comes armored and has a cool looking club, but Michael wanted the models armor beefed up to represent the higher save on a chaos warrior and to add weapons to their tails.

Let's take a look at the work so far...

Each fimir's helmet is unique, though some share stylisitic similarities.  These three I've dubbed: "Thor, Skullcap, and Storm Trooper."  

The entire time I've been working on this commission, I couldn't get over the fact that these Fimir look a lot of the Koopas from Super Mario World...

"Thor" is one of my favorites, his helmet reminds me a lot of the winged one from Marvel.

I think the "Storm Trooper" helmet style is very fitting for the fimir; subtle, simple, and perfectly round.

This next set has another storm trooper-esque helmet, a funky tri-horned one, and what I've come to think of as a miner's helmet with a single prow horn.  

Remove the horn and replace it with a lamp and it has a stunning similarity to this.

This guy's headgear captures a look from an old fimir helm that had a lot of design work braided about it.

Each fimir's tail has been bound, yoked, and tied with nasty barbs, blades, and spikes.  Like the helmets, each tail-weapon is unique and expresses the individual personality of the bearer.

This is another set of my favorites (though they're all really great), but I really like how (L to R) the storm trooper, miner, and magi turned out.  Magi... Yeah, the fimir's helmet on the far right looks like an esoteric spell casters headpiece to me.  

That's it for this week and what's on my desk, come back next time to see the other projects I'm work on a the Lab!