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Published: 2020-04-16 22:12:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 3453; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 3
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Nearly a decade ago, there was a thread on alternatehistory.com which discussed possible Order Gods as counterparts to the Chaos gods. Two sets of four stuck out to me, by the users Maponus and Snake Featherston. This conversion is based on one of Snake's ideas, the Adversary. Since the original thread is behind a membership wall, I'll repost the relevant text:The head Order Demon would be the Adversary, and his counterpart would be Khorne (as Khorne is the oldest of the Chaos Gods). Khorne's armies are huge, but undisciplined rabbles next to his own, extremely well-ordered and lavishly equipped armies, armies that have tech far surpassing that of the Imperium. Where Chaos destroys and makes waste, Order reshapes into the true Immaterial face of Order that is just as destructive to all Life, which has the taint of Chaos. And where the Blood God is an indiscriminate wager of war, The Adversary guides his armies with a single-minded purpose to destroy all military rivals in the 40K verse with firepower and technology beyond all his rivals' abilities to counter.This war drone is a Warp entity, but unlike the organic daemons, the Order Gods' Warp entities are mechanical in look. I was inspired by the Hammer drones from Iron Man 2, which I always thought looked cool and was a way for me to represent ranged drones without making it look Tau. Nevertheless, I did use a piece of Tau battlesuit for the head. The body is a spare Space Marine body (I scavenged the other parts for my Iron Warriors, and his beakie head went to the Lords of Ruin ). The upper arms are from a T-800 (other parts of this toy went to these possessed techpriests ), the grenade launcher and the autogun on the back are from Imperial Guard kits, and the plasma gun came from the Les Grognards kit from Wargames Atlantic. You'll see why I got that kit soon.
The missile pods are 3D printed. As for colors, I went with white, to go for an angelic look, with a blue highlight as an opposite to Khorne's red.
I have posted Maponus ' and Snake Featherston 's ideas on these pastebins. If you have any ideas for other Order God conversions, I am all ears.
And yes, I'm now compiling different shots into the same photo instead of uploading several at once.
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If you have any ideas for other Order God conversions, I am all ears. Counts-as daemon army with aesthetics based off modern robotics prototypes. Quadcopter drones as Screamers of Tzeentch, BigDog-style headless quadrupeds with back-mounted gun turrets as Forgefiends, etc.
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While that would be an awesome idea, right now I'm just doing one model for each Order God.
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What're the other models going to be?
The idea I've got in mind is that they aren't based off animals or people or mythological monsters, or really, life in general. They don't look like living creatures but like designed machines. Compare a Heldrake to an actual fighter plane, it looks like a robotic dragon. That's not the intended aesthetic at all. No obvious head, front or back, etc.
“You see, those old Stalker builders lacked imaginative flair,” explained Popjoy, his breath smouldering as he scurried around the big freezer-cabinet, unveiling his creations. “Just because a Stalker needs a human brain and nervous system, that doesn’t mean it has to be limited to a human shape. Why stick to two arms and two legs? Why only two eyes? Why bother with a mouth? These fellows don’t eat, and we haven’t built them for their sparkling conversation…”
The frosty plastic sheets were dragged aside, exposing steel-plated centaurs with twenty arms and caterpillar tracks instead of legs, spider-Stalkers with clawed feet and machine-gun turrets in their bellies, Stalkers with spare eyes in the back of their skulls.
Cue mechanized monstrosities like the decapitated upper torsos and forelimbs of two tau battlesuits, stuck together at the abdomen, with the hands replaced by spring-jointed extensions turning them into rudimentary legs and a swiveling machinegun turret with twin ammunition feeds leading into the neck sockets.
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What're the other models going to be?
I've already posted another one , which goes with your "not resembling life" idea. The Healer Purifier resembles the Mister Handy robots from Fallout in my head, and while I have completed a humanoid-looking Destroyer Annihilator, I might change it in favor of something less like a living thing.
The idea I've got in mind is that they aren't based off animals or people or mythological monsters, or really, life in general. They don't look like living creatures but like designed machines. Compare a Heldrake to an actual fighter plane, it looks like a robotic dragon. That's not the intended aesthetic at all. No obvious head, front or back, etc.
...something purposely awkward and in some ways inefficient; I wanted them to look like organisms designed by beings that really had no working sense of an efficient biomechanical structure for gravity-bound locomotion and physical functioning. The Originators had only their own case example of life to work from, and naturally created beings that were radially symmetrical in form. I pictured the Facilitators moving with a kind of whirling motion, spinning the lower body and unfolding the legs ahead of them to move in a linear fashion while the upper body remains stationary. Their sensory apparatus and manipulatory organs are likewise supposed to look somewhat awkward and inefficient, vaguely artificial…I wanted that sense of something designed by committee, with the various elements thrown together with an eye towards basic functionality rather than aesthetics or symmetry.
“You see, those old Stalker builders lacked imaginative flair,” explained Popjoy, his breath smouldering as he scurried around the big freezer-cabinet, unveiling his creations. “Just because a Stalker needs a human brain and nervous system, that doesn’t mean it has to be limited to a human shape. Why stick to two arms and two legs? Why only two eyes? Why bother with a mouth? These fellows don’t eat, and we haven’t built them for their sparkling conversation…”
The frosty plastic sheets were dragged aside, exposing steel-plated centaurs with twenty arms and caterpillar tracks instead of legs, spider-Stalkers with clawed feet and machine-gun turrets in their bellies, Stalkers with spare eyes in the back of their skulls.Cue mechanized monstrosities like the decapitated upper torsos and forelimbs of two tau battlesuits, stuck together at the abdomen, with the hands replaced by spring-jointed extensions turning them into rudimentary legs and a swiveling machinegun turret with twin ammunition feeds leading into the neck sockets.
I really like this concept, but I want to keep them looking "not manufactured" if at all possible. I understand that's a vague concept that the examples I've posted likely break, but I want them to come off as Warp entities of a different sort rather than something designed by anything resembling a sapient mind. The more unnatural and strange, the better.
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...I might change it in favor of something less like a living thing...
My advice would be to relocate the clusters of cameras and sensors on the 'head' randomly all over the body and give it rotors like a blightdrone or modern quadcopter instead of antigravity.
I really like this concept, but I want to keep them looking "not manufactured" if at all possible. I understand that's a vague concept that the examples I've posted likely break, but I want them to come off as Warp entities of a different sort rather than something designed by anything resembling a sapient mind. The more unnatural and strange, the better.
The idea I'm getting here is something that looks like it was assembled piece by piece, with each new component slapped on as necessary, nothing planned in advance.
Start with a gun. It needs something to aim it, so stick on some kind of swiveling automatic firing mechanism/turret. Now it needs mobility, so stick on some limbs or treads or just make the whole thing flex to drag itself around . Aiming is important, so stick on a few cameras wherever there's room on the body and they'll have a clear field of view. Continue until you've got something completely alien.
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