@@Bonesawisready926 ruclips.net/user/AmnioticlyTanked This dude has a fair amount of both painting and conversion videos. I especially recommend his Blood Angels Praetor video.
It's a now neglected part of the hobby that is so rewarding to do, sure it can be expensive but going on from what Jon says, every purchase can be ultised for another project, it might be years down the line but that's how bits boxes are born Go to a discount store and buy a plastic hobby organiser, they're intended for screws or fishing tackle but it's a small box with tiny compartments that's fantastic for holding mini parts, even stuff you cut off, something you hacked off of a model can be reused later on something completely different Just try to hobby saw or cut off with a hobby knife as often as you can, snippers are the easiest sure, but snippers tend to destroy the thing if you have to be aggressive with it
Tip from my own kitbashing experience: Using sprue-goo to secure two pieces of a weapon together is fine, but nowhere near as good as the original bond or pinning. If the weapon pieces are too thin for paperclips, use sewing pins to for pinning; they have a small diameter and really bend resistant.
This advice is a godsend. I've been bashing my head in trying to fix my Chameleon skink from the underworlds box. It was damaged during play and the blow gun was destroyed. You've saved me $40 for my favorite model.
I just have a reel of thin metal wire (got it off my mother lmao) that's used in jewelery making, the added bonus is if I stick a bit of blue tac on the top of the reel, it's where the model can sit while I wait for the pin to finish drying Also if you're on a budget, I can't recommend milliput enough, it's dirt cheap, it's brittle when dry sure, but if you mix together some greenstuff and then mix that into some mixed milliput you can get much more mileage out of your sculpting material whilst giving the milliput some much needed flex and strength
Jewelry wire and sewing pins are just fine but if you want the ultimate strength and thinness get some insect pins from bioquip. 0,00 and 000 size are good. Super thin but strong. They're for pinning tiny insects in collections.
The enthusiasm and joy that Jon brings to the hobby always excites me to go hobbying myself and try new stuff. This and his hilarious humour made me join his Patreon. A great community for every Hobbyist who wants to support Jon a little more. Sneaked that advertisement right in like the great Maestro himself ;)
I love kitbashing videos. It combines a whole new level of creative possibilities, with the subtle joy of two unrelated things fitting together perfectly.
Or making something completely new and weird using an existing thing or rules as a backdrop Last night I finished building a chaos helbrute with 0 parts from a helbrute, its the nurgle blight hauler (using the main body, the legs for an upper arm/shoulder and the missile launcher for a face) a penitent engine (arms, sarcophagus and greeblies), bolters from the shipping container terrain sprue, and the legs from the reaver scout titan of the titanicus game and some chain I'm in love with it and can't wait to do a second one that iterates on the first idea
Normally, I'd complain when a kitbash video ends without at least a nice unifying coat of primer. But honestly, this already looks so cohesive that it might as well be a single kit. Great job!
Kitbashing is an essential part of the hobby for me personally and you did a great job explaining and thus hopefully getting others interested in this often overlooked but super satisfying part of playing with tiny plastic figures!
0:52 this is probably the best paint job I've seen in a long time. Simple yet effective, and with a lot of character. I don't quite like those flamboyant "things" people like to paint just to impress. Paint jobs should be smart, not complicated. I like your style very much, sir
1) Sometimes, kitbashing isn't just desirable, but essential to having a complete model. I purchased an old metal Archon model for my Drukhari. I got it cheap, because it was missing the claw hand. In order to rectify this, I cut the power sword blade from the modern Kabalite Warriors kit, stuck it to a spare arm from the _old_ (3e) plastic Kabalite Warriors kit, and stuck that on. (I had to use these different parts, because basically all versions of Kabalites wield their melee weapons left-handed, whereas the melee arm that was missing from the Archon was right-handed). In the end, it turned out pretty good, and let me get a vintage metal model for way less than its complete version would cost on the secondary market. 2) In addition to custom bits sellers, one can always pillage bits from cheaper plastic kits. Particularly Historicals, as you tend to get A LOT of everything. Bodies, heads, weapon options, etc. Perry Miniatures is a great company for this, not only because of all their kits, but because they sell some sprues separately. So you can spend just a couple dollars for a sprue with tons of weapons and a few bodies. 3) Remember that if the model you're creating is a monstrous abomination, it doesn't matter what parts you use. If you've got 30 sword arms left over from a historical barbarians kit (that you naturally used for some Chaos Marauders), just glue them together into a sword-wielding arm spider. Make for great Chaos Spawn or other mutants. Maybe stick a dozen human heads, or one or two horse heads on there. When mutations or whatever (think a necromancer stitching together spare body parts into a zombie monster/Frankenstein) is involved, nothing is off limits.
An extra way I found that is really great for customizing minis is adding Trophies to the bases of my models. My Killteam had a skull or piece of enemy equipment destroyed for every big match up we had. Specially against the filthy Tau! It helped get more of a story goin on for my minis as well as adding "that touch" to make them Mine.
Converting is the best thing about mini building. I recently started making my first Kill Team, Chaos Legionaries, from a box of traitor marines. Since I couldn't for the life of me find a Balefire Acolyte model anywhere, I decided to just make one of them a psyker with some exchanged parts and some fire made from green stuff, similar for the Anointed/Possessed. It really is great fun
Looks great, though I'm less convinced by the back. However, all together I think the "new" miniature looks amazing. I look forward to seeing it painted up.
I like the model. Well done. This week I kitbashed for the first time using an Iron Golems warband to create some Sigmar Golems with some Stormcasts bits. Was lots of fun.
This is the second video I’ve watched of yours and I want to say your format of explaining stuff, humour and then showing all the equipment used again at the end is perfect 5/5
I probably learn more from Jon than I do any other content creator. There may be better painters out there but I don't think there is anyone who I find an easier time following along with.
There's a dnd like 40k game called "wrath and glory" and you can be pretty much anything, from scum, to space marine, to eldar and orks and it would be cool to see what you'll create for it I love your content and I've always thought of doing something like this for a dnd character that I'd create
I just got into kitbashing and currently have two ideas I'm working on. This helps so much in making kitbashing feel less intimidating, because even though I have my ideas and a plan it feels intimidating just to start
It might take some time to really get the hang of it at first so please don't be afraid to experiment and sometimes even start over again! If you do it often enough it'll become second nature :)
@@BananaPeelEuroTrash Thank you Mik, I appreciate the encouragement. I still consider myself new to the hobby after starting with putting minis together in '20 and only starting painting last year so every new step is a bit intimidating. So hearing that really helps.
This is probably because more people currently play 40k so Games Workshop has less time to spend designing the models. Because they need to rattle out so many so often
Jon, I have been stuck on a project for a while, I have an old metal necron night bringer from ebay, but it wasissing an arm. I have been so worried about it and thought I would just sell it again. But this video has made me really get excited about it! It's a tad warm here in the UK so tomorrow may be some lit bashing in the garden! This video has inspired and given me confidence! Thank you!!
More paintings is always good. I am also learning so much from watching your videos, I have been trying to start painting and creating my portfolio, I love painting and every time I see you guys trying more new things keeps me motivated to do the same. Thanks for sharing your knowledge dude, I really appreciate you making this videos keep slaying the gray.
As an avid kitbasher this is my new favorite Jon video, thank you for shining a light on us folks who cut up expensive models and Frankenstein them with other expensive models lol.
A tip when working with epoxy clays, i always keep little silicone molds handy to stuff my leftover clay in so nothing goes to waste. You can never have too many tiny skulls.
I actually came to the hobby via 3D printing and had the same ideas about bits for scatter quite a while ago but never got around to do it. This video really gave me the motivational and inspirational kick I needed and as the last few seconds are playing, I'm already rifling through my STL collection. :D Thank you! And of course, a kitbashed warband video would be absolutely amazing! 😁
Great initial miniature for your DnD character (I believe it is "Captain Kelian Durak" from the game Confrontation, by Rackham). Great customization of the new mini too.
I see those Epic Basing plants in there! I just printed some myself and holy crapbaskets are they detailed. With my Mono X 6K you can actually see the little bumps on the central part of the flowers where the pollen is, or.. stamens. Whatever those things are called. Printer was worth every penny, I am blown away by how fine the detail is. Edit: Aaaaand after unpausing the video you mention that they're from Epic Basing like four seconds later :\ so much for my eagle-eye cred.
My hobby growth has come most prominently from realising exactly what you said towards the end of the video - the minis I want to paint the most (and have the most fun painting) are the ones I’ve made myself! I think kitbashing is something everyone should try, especially if they’re beginning to lose love for the hobby and haven’t tried it yet
Yes please future video! Love your work and also thnx again for info on the brush you were using in that live video that one time lol seriously love the brush
May their course in the Path of the Eight-points stay lethal and true, with not a wandering or straying footfall laid. Unlike that sword... Kidding! Love the kitbashes, and definately would like to see some custom Warcry! You're doing excellent quality work with unique ideas.
I have built a model like that, it is a custom made chaplian in terminator armor with a really cool base. Only problem I haven’t yet ironed out how i plan on painting their scheme
Be really interested to see the complete war band.. I don't know much about Warcry but cool to see something other than 40k.cant wait to see your character painted. Have fun 🙂
My first willing Kitbash actually was a headswap this week. I wanted all characters from Xandiers Truthseekers to have a free head. My archer now looks so much better imo.
If you guys are looking for additional heads, check out "The Unlawful Bunch" kickstarter campaign. As far as I know the dude behind it will release the files on MMF soon. I printed some of those for my space marines and they look great. A lot of variety
I did this once for a D&D character, and was thrilled with the results. Bought a small halfling, and used green stuff to put a top hat and mustache on him, as well as a few other bits and bobs. It’s one of my favorite miniatures… and I got to use it maybe 3 times before he died. Oh well… time to paint another one!
Not trying to start anything. but as a person who works with people who wear armor, I think can say weather it’s to cover the gut or the curve of your upper half, form fitting is better comfort for your figure.
3:20-4:45 translation -> "That's not my pile of shame, its my pile of future modifications!" I'm going to keep that in my back pocket for the next time mine gets called out.
Certainly want to see that model painted. A warband would be great too !
That way you have something to bring to Kill your friends with @miniac.
I’m really liking all these kitbashing videos. I don’t think you see enough people doing it imo.
For real, you got Pete the Wargamer, but he's the only one I've come across who regularly does conversion vids.
For Kill Team kit bashing really makes it your army.
@@Bonesawisready926 I know some other conversion youtubers, fairly indie. I’ll send a link in a sec.
@@Bonesawisready926 ruclips.net/user/AmnioticlyTanked
This dude has a fair amount of both painting and conversion videos. I especially recommend his Blood Angels Praetor video.
It's a now neglected part of the hobby that is so rewarding to do, sure it can be expensive but going on from what Jon says, every purchase can be ultised for another project, it might be years down the line but that's how bits boxes are born
Go to a discount store and buy a plastic hobby organiser, they're intended for screws or fishing tackle but it's a small box with tiny compartments that's fantastic for holding mini parts, even stuff you cut off, something you hacked off of a model can be reused later on something completely different
Just try to hobby saw or cut off with a hobby knife as often as you can, snippers are the easiest sure, but snippers tend to destroy the thing if you have to be aggressive with it
Tip from my own kitbashing experience: Using sprue-goo to secure two pieces of a weapon together is fine, but nowhere near as good as the original bond or pinning. If the weapon pieces are too thin for paperclips, use sewing pins to for pinning; they have a small diameter and really bend resistant.
Glad I read this, was just looking for a way to reattach the little pole on the back of my old Helbrecht model
This advice is a godsend. I've been bashing my head in trying to fix my Chameleon skink from the underworlds box. It was damaged during play and the blow gun was destroyed. You've saved me $40 for my favorite model.
I just have a reel of thin metal wire (got it off my mother lmao) that's used in jewelery making, the added bonus is if I stick a bit of blue tac on the top of the reel, it's where the model can sit while I wait for the pin to finish drying
Also if you're on a budget, I can't recommend milliput enough, it's dirt cheap, it's brittle when dry sure, but if you mix together some greenstuff and then mix that into some mixed milliput you can get much more mileage out of your sculpting material whilst giving the milliput some much needed flex and strength
sewing pins is a great tip, thank you!
Jewelry wire and sewing pins are just fine but if you want the ultimate strength and thinness get some insect pins from bioquip. 0,00 and 000 size are good. Super thin but strong. They're for pinning tiny insects in collections.
“There’s no rule that says a human man in female plate armour can’t wield an Elven Sword!” Pure gold right there!
I mean, there's the rule that an armour has to be made for you, so you'd have to adjust it. But does anyone even use that?
6:24 FTW
The enthusiasm and joy that Jon brings to the hobby always excites me to go hobbying myself and try new stuff. This and his hilarious humour made me join his Patreon. A great community for every Hobbyist who wants to support Jon a little more.
Sneaked that advertisement right in like the great Maestro himself ;)
I'd love to see you do a whole custom warband!
I love kitbashing videos. It combines a whole new level of creative possibilities, with the subtle joy of two unrelated things fitting together perfectly.
Or making something completely new and weird using an existing thing or rules as a backdrop
Last night I finished building a chaos helbrute with 0 parts from a helbrute, its the nurgle blight hauler (using the main body, the legs for an upper arm/shoulder and the missile launcher for a face) a penitent engine (arms, sarcophagus and greeblies), bolters from the shipping container terrain sprue, and the legs from the reaver scout titan of the titanicus game and some chain
I'm in love with it and can't wait to do a second one that iterates on the first idea
Normally, I'd complain when a kitbash video ends without at least a nice unifying coat of primer. But honestly, this already looks so cohesive that it might as well be a single kit. Great job!
Loving the recent kitbashing. Always unique and fun to see how it turns out. Hopefully we see it painted some day.
Kitbashing is an essential part of the hobby for me personally and you did a great job explaining and thus hopefully getting others interested in this often overlooked but super satisfying part of playing with tiny plastic figures!
0:52 this is probably the best paint job I've seen in a long time. Simple yet effective, and with a lot of character. I don't quite like those flamboyant "things" people like to paint just to impress. Paint jobs should be smart, not complicated. I like your style very much, sir
1) Sometimes, kitbashing isn't just desirable, but essential to having a complete model. I purchased an old metal Archon model for my Drukhari. I got it cheap, because it was missing the claw hand. In order to rectify this, I cut the power sword blade from the modern Kabalite Warriors kit, stuck it to a spare arm from the _old_ (3e) plastic Kabalite Warriors kit, and stuck that on. (I had to use these different parts, because basically all versions of Kabalites wield their melee weapons left-handed, whereas the melee arm that was missing from the Archon was right-handed). In the end, it turned out pretty good, and let me get a vintage metal model for way less than its complete version would cost on the secondary market.
2) In addition to custom bits sellers, one can always pillage bits from cheaper plastic kits. Particularly Historicals, as you tend to get A LOT of everything. Bodies, heads, weapon options, etc. Perry Miniatures is a great company for this, not only because of all their kits, but because they sell some sprues separately. So you can spend just a couple dollars for a sprue with tons of weapons and a few bodies.
3) Remember that if the model you're creating is a monstrous abomination, it doesn't matter what parts you use. If you've got 30 sword arms left over from a historical barbarians kit (that you naturally used for some Chaos Marauders), just glue them together into a sword-wielding arm spider. Make for great Chaos Spawn or other mutants. Maybe stick a dozen human heads, or one or two horse heads on there. When mutations or whatever (think a necromancer stitching together spare body parts into a zombie monster/Frankenstein) is involved, nothing is off limits.
More customisation, please. A full warband of these platethieves would be awesome!
An extra way I found that is really great for customizing minis is adding Trophies to the bases of my models. My Killteam had a skull or piece of enemy equipment destroyed for every big match up we had. Specially against the filthy Tau! It helped get more of a story goin on for my minis as well as adding "that touch" to make them Mine.
Converting is the best thing about mini building.
I recently started making my first Kill Team, Chaos Legionaries, from a box of traitor marines. Since I couldn't for the life of me find a Balefire Acolyte model anywhere, I decided to just make one of them a psyker with some exchanged parts and some fire made from green stuff, similar for the Anointed/Possessed. It really is great fun
Looks great, though I'm less convinced by the back. However, all together I think the "new" miniature looks amazing. I look forward to seeing it painted up.
i wanna see this paint job! them smooth silky blends plus that edge highlight will be *chefs kiss* perfect
I like the model. Well done. This week I kitbashed for the first time using an Iron Golems warband to create some Sigmar Golems with some Stormcasts bits. Was lots of fun.
Seeing a follow up would be amazing! I love kitbashing and seeing this made my heart fill with pride! Keep up the amazing work
Kitbashes are always so fun because it's your own unique creation. I have a custom unique Kroak
Yes definitely make a warband like this
This is the second video I’ve watched of yours and I want to say your format of explaining stuff, humour and then showing all the equipment used again at the end is perfect
5/5
Please do the rest of the warband! We need more conversion/kitbashing content on RUclips!!
Kitbashing is probably one of the coolest parts of the hobby imo.
I probably learn more from Jon than I do any other content creator. There may be better painters out there but I don't think there is anyone who I find an easier time following along with.
There's a dnd like 40k game called "wrath and glory" and you can be pretty much anything, from scum, to space marine, to eldar and orks and it would be cool to see what you'll create for it
I love your content and I've always thought of doing something like this for a dnd character that I'd create
I just got into kitbashing and currently have two ideas I'm working on. This helps so much in making kitbashing feel less intimidating, because even though I have my ideas and a plan it feels intimidating just to start
It might take some time to really get the hang of it at first so please don't be afraid to experiment and sometimes even start over again! If you do it often enough it'll become second nature :)
@@BananaPeelEuroTrash Thank you Mik, I appreciate the encouragement. I still consider myself new to the hobby after starting with putting minis together in '20 and only starting painting last year so every new step is a bit intimidating. So hearing that really helps.
I think AOS has surpassed 40K is quality so sculpts. High fantasy just ticks all the awesome boxes.
This is probably because more people currently play 40k so Games Workshop has less time to spend designing the models. Because they need to rattle out so many so often
The vaseline is such a great tip ty. This has always been my problem working with the green stuff
Just started collecting spare bits from kits, this video was super timely and that custom mini looks amazing
Jon,
I have been stuck on a project for a while, I have an old metal necron night bringer from ebay, but it wasissing an arm. I have been so worried about it and thought I would just sell it again. But this video has made me really get excited about it!
It's a tad warm here in the UK so tomorrow may be some lit bashing in the garden! This video has inspired and given me confidence! Thank you!!
Please a video of you kit bashing and painting. Your videos help get me inspired to paint!
More paintings is always good. I am also learning so much from watching your videos, I have been trying to start painting and creating my portfolio, I love painting and every time I see you guys trying more new things keeps me motivated to do the same. Thanks for sharing your knowledge dude, I really appreciate you making this videos keep slaying the gray.
Yes! Absolutely do the full warband!
Impressive kitbashing! I love how you totally customised the look of the miniature and made it the perfect representation for the character.
As an avid kitbasher this is my new favorite Jon video, thank you for shining a light on us folks who cut up expensive models and Frankenstein them with other expensive models lol.
A tip when working with epoxy clays, i always keep little silicone molds handy to stuff my leftover clay in so nothing goes to waste. You can never have too many tiny skulls.
I always use green stuff world roller boxes and turn the spare clay into tubes or tenticles.
Would definitely love to see you paint that up.
I actually came to the hobby via 3D printing and had the same ideas about bits for scatter quite a while ago but never got around to do it. This video really gave me the motivational and inspirational kick I needed and as the last few seconds are playing, I'm already rifling through my STL collection. :D Thank you! And of course, a kitbashed warband video would be absolutely amazing! 😁
Great initial miniature for your DnD character (I believe it is "Captain Kelian Durak" from the game Confrontation, by Rackham).
Great customization of the new mini too.
Yesss. She looks so cool. Customise the rest, I would love to see them and get inspired. Enjoy the weekend!
Most exciting and rewarding part of the hobby IMO
I see those Epic Basing plants in there! I just printed some myself and holy crapbaskets are they detailed. With my Mono X 6K you can actually see the little bumps on the central part of the flowers where the pollen is, or.. stamens. Whatever those things are called. Printer was worth every penny, I am blown away by how fine the detail is.
Edit: Aaaaand after unpausing the video you mention that they're from Epic Basing like four seconds later :\ so much for my eagle-eye cred.
I'd be down for more videos for the rest of the warband. But, whether you do those or not, I absolutely want to see this mini painted up!
Thank you , Jon .
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100% should do the rest of the warband and paint them up!!! Gotta get that video done!
Nice kit bash! Looking forward to the painting of this model to see the final result.
I never thought of using vaseline with greenstuff tools, thanks for the idea!
Guys a genius
I use water. It’s not great but I don’t really know the best way to clean Vaseline off a model before painting.
@@kalisthenes6650 yeah I knew about water, never heard of using other materials though
My hobby growth has come most prominently from realising exactly what you said towards the end of the video - the minis I want to paint the most (and have the most fun painting) are the ones I’ve made myself! I think kitbashing is something everyone should try, especially if they’re beginning to lose love for the hobby and haven’t tried it yet
Killing it right now. love to see this painted / warband.
Yes please future video! Love your work and also thnx again for info on the brush you were using in that live video that one time lol seriously love the brush
May their course in the Path of the Eight-points stay lethal and true, with not a wandering or straying footfall laid. Unlike that sword...
Kidding! Love the kitbashes, and definately would like to see some custom Warcry!
You're doing excellent quality work with unique ideas.
Love seeing some surprise Confrontation minis.
I have built a model like that, it is a custom made chaplian in terminator armor with a really cool base. Only problem I haven’t yet ironed out how i plan on painting their scheme
Lol wow, last week I was digging through my giants bits too, eerie!
A classic quote came from this one Jon.
Loved the conversation!!!
And yes we want to see the full warband.
Great video. Epic basing is well, er epic. The prints came out so sweet.
Would be great to see an entire warband painted up
Yeeeeeeeeees! Kit ish the rest of the warband! I'm excited to see what this will look like painted!
Loved this. Really inspiring, and helpful.
Absolutely keep customizing!
I love watching your conversion videos.
I would love to see you paint this model!
it would be very sweet to see you do the rest of your warband! I think you have some awesome conversion skills.
Yes please to video on customising the warband and painting it
Yes , continue. Your great Jon
Nice, love to see the customization videos
Great video! I would definitely like to see a custom warband built and painted up!
Be really interested to see the complete war band.. I don't know much about Warcry but cool to see something other than 40k.cant wait to see your character painted. Have fun 🙂
Man kitbashing is cool. Great video! The back plate throws me off visually. Primer will probably pull it all together.
I am really enjoying the kit bashing you are going hope you do more of them.
I just made some models with spare parts from Plague Monks and Gors. I call them Plague Gors and this was my first ever kitbash.
Would love to see a custom warcry warband!
A full painted warband sounds great !
I only play DND so It's great to see a Kitbash for something I do
My first willing Kitbash actually was a headswap this week. I wanted all characters from Xandiers Truthseekers to have a free head. My archer now looks so much better imo.
If you guys are looking for additional heads, check out "The Unlawful Bunch" kickstarter campaign. As far as I know the dude behind it will release the files on MMF soon. I printed some of those for my space marines and they look great. A lot of variety
PLEASE JON
PLEASE do a painting video of this bash!
Thanks for all the uploads man, you've inspired me to hobby harder lol
yes want more of the warband!
Love the build, gotta see it painted!
Yes yes yes, please build a whole Warcry warband with that story you oh-so-gloriously narrated :)
Lmao, this has quickly become my favorite painting channel.
I did this once for a D&D character, and was thrilled with the results. Bought a small halfling, and used green stuff to put a top hat and mustache on him, as well as a few other bits and bobs. It’s one of my favorite miniatures… and I got to use it maybe 3 times before he died. Oh well… time to paint another one!
There are large halflings?
@@liberalhyena9760 runeknight?
I would be interested in videos of kitbashing and painting a custom Warcry warband
Yes to the Warband .
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Not trying to start anything. but as a person who works with people who wear armor, I think can say weather it’s to cover the gut or the curve of your upper half, form fitting is better comfort for your figure.
A build/paint video for a Warband would be a great idea!
Awsome as always man, make the warband!
Would love to see the warband!
I'm watching this with a bowl of CTC (cinnamon toast crunch). It's pretty comfy.
Yeah !!! A whole WarBand would kick arse.
John: “oh no GW lore”
Also John: “so let me tell you about my character’s backstory”
😂
Yes more customise model videos !!
3:20-4:45 translation -> "That's not my pile of shame, its my pile of future modifications!"
I'm going to keep that in my back pocket for the next time mine gets called out.
Your organization is amazing!! Dead horse trixy. Haha. So it is true with green stuff if you don’t use it you lose it.
could be a cool theme for the Belakor warband!
I'd definitely love to see this character painted. :)
That tactical wink!
Yes,and yes. Loved the video