Daemonic Servo-Skulls

Continuing along with the monthly servo-skull challenge for "ServoskullSaturday", I now have three servos based on daemon and beastman skulls from the GW Skulls kit.

Trying to decide how to tackle the last, Slaanesh.

Servoskulls - Servo Tome - Horse Skull

 I've been trying to keep up with my "ServoskullSaturday" project. Here are July and August.

 The Servo-Tome is from the Ashes of Faith boxset with the Inquisition Kill Team. 

Horse skulls show up a lot in Oldhammer art and miniatures- my favorite Chaos Renegade from Rogue Trader 40k was a horse skull chaos marine. I was a little surprised I hadn't made a servo-skull version of one. I started with an old GW skeletal horse head and added grenstuff for the mechanical bits.

The Festival of Christophorus - Procession of Skulls

Excerpt from Esoteric Pilgrimage Destinations of the Gothic Sector, Volume 7, by Adept Matthias Laetorius.

"The tenth day of the Festival of Christophorus is the Procession of Skulls. The Ecclesiastic Precinct is closed to all citizens other than Ministorum, and Adeptus with special indulgence.  The nobility of the capitol assemble, bringing forth their ancient servo-skulls, which are tangible evidence of their ancestors. Many of the skulls date from the colonization of the planet. By law, the governor must be descended from the families of the original colonizers brought by Saint Christophorus. As the nobility process into the Via Sancti, citizens and pilgrims beseech the blessing of the luminaries, and children dream of founding their own noble house some day.”

 

 

ServoSkull Saturday - August - Red Pilgrim Servo Drones

For today's "Servo Skull Saturday" entry I painted up two Red Pilgrim servo drones that I printed a few weeks ago.

Inquisition Acolytes - Metal Daemonhunter and Witchhunter Ranges 2003 - Navigators

I finally manged to paint the metal Inquisition gun servitors. This completes the last of the metal acolytes from the early-to-mid 2000s Daemonhunters and Witch Hunters ranges. This is one of my all time favorite GW lines, certainly my favorite range from the 'Middlehammer' era.

 

 

 

I also recently painted a miniature designed by Heresy Labs. It is a 3d print that I picked up on eBay or Etsy, probably before I bought my resin printer. I painted him in the purples I use for Navigators. He's next to road shrine by Tesseract Tomb, which I printed on my Ender3. I added a few things to it- the statue bust on top was found on Scan the World and printed on my Mars2pro.

Lastly, a navigator from Kromlech that I think I forgot to post. 

Xenos Servo Skulls

Continuing along with xenos servo skulls... this time an Ur-Ghul. I didn't give him an eyepiece, I decided it would have a sensor array of some sort.

Rogue Trader - Reaper Chronoscope - Xenos Servo Skulls

I acquired a Reaper 'Chronoscope' Time Chaser a few years ago... the plan was to use her as a Rogue Trader. This was before GW released their three plastic ones :)

As is often the case, the mini sat in the lead pile for years until the right time came along, which was a 'Fabulous February Females' painting competition on Instagram. I forgot to take a WIP shot of her, so I ended up painting another mini for that comp.

I had come across a bunch of  Photoshopped images by artist Steve Payne a few years back, which seemed to have a 40k vibe to them. He was taking paintings of Russian generals and shopping in an actor's face. I added a Sigourney Weaver of my own :)

I glued the prints to some magnetic sheets and added some frames I printed off on my Mars2.

I also try to make a new servo skull each month for #servoskullsaturday, a little initiative I started which challenges me to post a servo skull every second Saturday.