I wanted some grotesques but the rumour was that the GW official model isn't great as a fine cast and is monopose so you take three they look like co-ordinated dancers rather than hulking monstrosities. The common alternatives are cyrpt horrors or Stormfiends. I went with storm fiends. First thing I found was that these guys are monopose too you just get three poses to choose from. Next thing I found was that the Talos weapons aren't that good of a fit either being too big or too small. Good news is that the skaven steampunk asthetic is not that far from nasty space elf torturers. I started off with the image below.
The warps tone gauntlet could be said to be a flesh gauntlet with a straight face. I tried using the pointy rock implement but decided against it in the end as it was just a bit too wide a d different. There was only two gauntlets in the set though.
The heads were easy for the most part. Just didn't stick on the rat face and cover with the spare talos head. I liked the look of the one with the breather on it. Very Bane-esk. It needed those pipes to go somewhere so I took my knife to some of the pipes in the kit amd worked them over his back. It all worked out very neatly. His gauntlet was just stuck on the end of the pointy rock arm minus the pointy rock. His Monstrous cleaver was from the talos kit but I didn't want the talos bracer on it so I used one half of the dual liquifier gun from the talos and added it to the original armature then reversed the macro scalpel blade so it was more cleaver. This mean't I had to make my second talos a cronos but I was planning to get one eventually anyway so no big loss.
For the third flesh gauntlet I used all the little blades that were supposed to go on the outside of one of the Stormfiends bracers and attached them to the front of the warp stone throwers. I got this idea from Pinterest someone had made a talos using them to make a fantastically scary looking weapon. I tried to do the same and it was nowhere near as good
The backs were fun to do. There is supposed to be a "brain rat" on the back there controlling things. This means there are notches and flat surfaces that need covering up. Therefore each Stormfiend go a little back pack after I did the first one. It had a backpack as (well bum bag) as part of its kit and the cables ran to it so it made sense to keep it. It also covered up the stub of the tail. For its back I hadn't glued on the chest piece of my talos for some reason so it was looking at me from the Bits box. A bit of light bending and a lot of surface blending with green stuff and it messed perfectly concealing the flat bit of back while adding a lot of detail in.
Number two was getting a liquifier gun so I wanted cables again. It had a big hole which a sphere from the Stormfiend kit fit into just nice and then hooked up the cables to it. It looked a bit lost there so I added a spare talos bracer and presto another back pack. I've got the pictures out of order here. The final one (third picture) used the vortex thingy from the cronos upgrade and I just stuck that on.
The last addition was the weird metal things in the shoulders the original had. I thought it looks fairly iconic and was planning on using ones from the talos kit that were the same but I only had two to do one grotesque. I looked at what I had and the chain flail wheels didn't look that different and there was 8 of them. Enough for all three. A bit of green stuff to lift them off the back and we were all done.
Then I painted them a bit
Still have to finish the details and clean up the bases but I am liking how they turned out.
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