The Space Bastards: "The one they call Τάλως, or Tallus" I

"The first amongst them is the one they call Τάλως, or Tallus. He lies at the centre of their cult. I do not know who he was before his fall, nor if he were any from among their order. He may have been of the Chapter, or an outsider. Or, he may himself be a Dæmon."

I have been slowly working away on this project in the background, and following the whole Imgur thing I've decided to start a blog and cross post from there. This is the first post. I really didn't mean to make a blog. I went to make a post on the Lead Adventure Forum, found out about Imgur not working, and ended up here.

I've not got much to show in terms of physical models, but I've been doing an awful lot of fiddling with digital ones, and thought I'd share.

This is to be the Greater Dæmon for my force. The general idea for the Space Bastards as a whole is that they are a obliterator cult who've worked out how to transmute themselves into a brassy "grey goo".

This is their charismatic cult leader. I spent a long time thinking about this model - I wanted something that was both handsome while still being thoroughly dæmonic. I think the classical Greek "aesthetic" juxtaposed with the stoma and wibbly hand do that nicely. I imagine this guy as a shapeshifter, and like the idea that he turns his limbs and body into weapons, à la the bad guy mechs in the old The Vision of Escaflowne anime.

The base model is "The Immaculate Cain" by Bestiarum Miniatures. I've left the wings off, replaced the spear and left hand with the wiggly fingers from HEROICSCALE's "Fiddler Crab", and a model pump head strainer (for hoovering brassy goo off the ground) added to the end of the stoma hose. Thanks to "C." for modelling the strainer for me.

Screenshots rather than renders because I have no idea what I'm doing.

I think I'm set on using the model as is, but wanted to get some feedback from people before I committed to having him printed. I've had about a 50/50 response from people so far. Half think it is "deeply unsettling" (the desired effect), the other half that it is "very silly" (what we're looking to avoid). Would love for others to weigh in on the debate.