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Hellblade87 — Mechanicus Kastelan robots
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Published: 2015-10-04 03:18:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 4407; Favourites: 63; Downloads: 14
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Got some beat up forgeworld models off ebay and fixed them up for my slowly growing Mechanicus armyRelated content
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Love your Minis Hellblade. How do you paint your dark purple/red you use on your grey knights and inquisition forces? It really rocks!
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Thank you! my GKs are basecoated with Khorne Red then given a heavy wash of Nulin Oil then highlighted with white. very simple scheme to do. on the inquisition models instead of white highlights i use Mephiston red
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Thanks Hellblade. simple scene, but effective. they look great. cool conversions too.
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Wait, robots? I thought the Mechanicus didn't allow AI machines.
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Robots in the sense that they are bipedal walkers but they dont have an AI, they still have a human element and are basicly the mechanicus version of dreadnoughts.
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Oh, okay. So there's still a little human meatball bouncing around in that metal suit there.
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Actually, no. They're all machine, but don't have minds of their own. Instead, they have little thin disks, called doctrina wafers, inserted into their chest by an accompanying tech priest. The wafers can only give them simple command, i.e. "Shoot anything that isn't us", "pound those guys into the dirt", "Raise shields" and that's about the extent of it. They'll follow around that tech priest until they're deactivated/power cells run dry, but if he dies, the robots will just continue to perform the last action they were instructed to do until either another tech priest comes along to stop them or their power cells run dry (which could take days).
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Huh, I don't think I ever read about those. Sounds similar to the golem of Jewish mythology.
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They look fab! Who's the chap in the middle? I might get him!
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Hes homemade unfortunately so you wont find him anywhere. but heres a list of bits i used to build him. Alpha head ( from admech infiltrators bits), Power fist / arm /backpack (from scions bits). spacemarine body / legs (any spacemarine ) the cloak is greenstuff and the tentacles are necklace chain.
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DO IT! These look fantastic! How's the rest of the army looking?
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still got a ways to go. probably gonna see if i can finish two inquisition chimeras today. then back to working on more mechanicus stuff.
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All Glory to the Omnissiah! Play Mechanicus myself, they're awesome.
Using beat up thanators or whatever they are as Kastelans, why didn't I think of that?
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I dont like the ones GW did so i got a couple of beat up forgeworld ones of ebay and rebuilt the legs and arms to be a bit beefier. im really liking how they turned out i might have to get more XD
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I'll admit, the GW ones aren't my favorite, and even though I have a maniple, I might just do what you did, maybe even find some old warjack models from Warmachine and use those, just with some mechanicus-y parts tacked onto them.
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that would actually be pretty cool. well now you HAVE to do it i expect something before the end of the year!
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Challenge accepted 
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