The Imperium of Man, in its ignorance, built upon itself, burying its past, forgetting, one might even say purposefully, its power and its danger.
Words have been whispered in blurred static, echoed through the noosphere. Of something buried deep under the city. Something powerful but, most important, something old.
And the Mechanicum covetes old things above everything else.
One of the many warbands I'm slowly building is an explorator squad of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Their mission will be investigating if the rumors are true, and that will necessarily make them clash with the other gangs.
What I want to strive for with these models is to recreate what I have always felt the Mechanicum was: cloaked figures, cables, creepy retro-futuristic technology, shining eyes in the dark. Something along with these lines, which is one of my absolute favorites:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/32/ed/f0/32edf09934de8f7619401bbdac74abb5.jpg
Let's see the first model of the squad!
I wanted the colour scheme to reflect the Mechanicum of old: red robes, black-yellow danger stripes, brownished steel. I didn't like the idea of using blue or green for the lenses, so I went back to John Blanche's works and noticed he used white, which I tried to replicate here (though I should retouch it to make it brighter). Black for the gun seemed an appropriate colour; no energy effect on the coils for the same reason of the eyes, and didn't fit the model anyway.
Since the theme was a squad exploring old vaults and crypts, I made the base to look like an old stone pavement. Had so much fun creating it!
The only complaint I have is that my camera sucks, and does horrible things to red. The robes have been painted with Mephiston Red, and it doesn't look like that.
So, what do you think?
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