“I have shattered the craftworld of Lugganath with my song, little Aeldari… What do you imagine I can do to you?”
They’re finally done. After 4 years of (on-off) working on them, getting new ideas, making conversions, scrapping said conversions, searching the web for cool printable bits and not finding any, finally deciding to learn Blender (3d sculpting software) and making my own, and getting them painted over the last two months, my Noise Marine Kill Team. is. Finally. Done.
I’m really proud of them. They fought me every step of the way, but ever since reading the depictions of Noise Marines in the Fabius Bile trilogy, I wanted to make some - but I hate the 80’s guitar hero thing, and wanted to convey the utter horror, debasedness (is that a word?), and chilling creepiness of a group of 8 feet tall, genetically modified psychopaths, mutated beyond recognition, using sound as weapons, and caring ONLY for experiencing MORE - no matter the cost.
Like I said, the Kill Team really came together when I decided to do my own parts, and the Sonic weapons, heads and backpacks made them FEEL like the vision I had.
The colour scheme wasn’t easy to come up with as well, and I made 4-5 attempts, stripping them and starting again, until I decided on this. I wanted something that looked unlike any other traitor chapter, with purples, magentas and pinks, while not looking like something from My Little Pony - so I decided on a very desaturated purple/grey/ivory tone for the armour and some purple/magenta for the shoulders to warm up the colour scheme.
And yes, some of you will ask “why no glow/osl on the sonic weapons?” - believe me, I’ve tried. I love osl, and definitely wanted them to have it, but no matter what colour I tried (I even went as far as loading an image into PS, and using sliders to try every colour of the spectrum), it ended up overpowering the desaturated tones way to much, and ruining the feel - so, until I get another idea, they’ll stay like this.
For anyone wondering, they’ll be played as Nemesis Claw - it suddenly dawned on me, that almost everything about them is perfect for Emperors Children - sonic screams, mutilation of enemies, wearing skin as cloaks, etc. I’m gonna try them out at some of my painting groups KT weekend (along with DigitAllan) hangout this weekend, and really looking forward to it.
