Master Necromacer on a Winged Nightmare
(The Abyssal Terror)
Well there just had to be something that I had to do with Dieter Helsnicht's upper torso, head and left arm right? He would not have wanted it any other way. Sometimes I wonder where all of these bits and pieces came from. I attribute it mostly to my very generous friends over the years.
Thus this journey began.
The Winged Nightmare.
Well, I have to say that Games Workshop did a very horrendous job of giving us anything that really could pass for a proper winged nightmare. To me it looked like a Frankenstein's excuse for rebuilding a manky triceratops for Night at the Museum.
Get real. Those tusks - you can't even close your own mouth.
No - No it will not do.
The winged nightmare was supposed to be the epitaph, the Magnus Opus of a Necromancers' achivement with muscle, bone and sinew - blood and skull, skin and tendon.
I give you...
The Winged Nigtmare
So - the beast itself is a 3d print (first I ever bought) of HP Lovecrafts' Hunting Horror.
Quite the beast and exactly the kind of Nightmare I was looking for.
Now some of you are thinking... why didn't you go for a dark pegasus or a flaming hell Nightmare of D&D proportions, and sure, there were a lot of options, but were they really the Opus Magnus?
No. No they were not. Although I have to be fair - there were some really good options.
Now, let me be straight here... The Hunting Horror was not an easy model to paint. Nor was it easy to decide on HOW to paint it. I wanted a partly muscle exposed, a little bloodly, slimy kinda feel to it, given the amazing texture of the model, and those bloody tentacles too - cannot go past.
It was a almost a last minute idea to make the skull an actual dragonish skull. At first I did the whole skull and wings and every upper thing in black, bit it was way too dark, so I decided to go with the entire "deconstructed wyvern" look.
The Grand Necromancer was placed last, saddle sculped to fit and composed of Dietich Helsnicht head and torso with the left arm, and the right arm and flaming staff of my own design using greenstuff and bits, and gluing my fingers together often with the legs being that of a Dark Elf Cold One rider.
This now forms the centrepiece of the Undead Army as it righty should.
