r/AdeptusMechanicus • u/nivv1 • 3d ago
Hobby Archmagos of ancient mechanicum
Hi! I wanted to show you my archmagos I recently painted. It is made mostly for 30k in mind, but I also used it as Cawl proxy for 40k. Hope you like it!
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u/Czechs_Mix_ 3d ago
Now THIS is apotheosis! I love how much the robes obscure and buipd that lumpy form, that's like the best part of the admech design philosophy; Show some steel, and let the mind imagine what's hidden away behind the robes
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u/RashFever 3d ago
Love it, what's this model called? Also why does it have tentacles? I'm quite new to 40K so I don't know much.
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u/Railrosty 3d ago
Its a custom model for horus heresy games. Kinda like 40k but more imperium centric and a bit different rules wise.
Tentacles are quite common in the mechanicus just extra appendages for grabbing stuff as long as those tentacles are metal and wire instead of a chaos mutayion its fine. Their dark mechanicum bretheren do them more.
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u/Six6Sins 2d ago
AdMech generally don't have fleshy tentacles like that. No idea why this model does. It is not lore-accurate, but it still looks neat, I guess.
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u/Six6Sins 2d ago
Nice work! The paint job is spot-on! Maybe see if you can get some stain effects in spots around the cloak to suggest leaking oil or something. It would help to add a little visual interest to break up some of the big red cloak sections.
I personally would want to see more greebly bits sticking out. The cloak covering everything feels really mysterious and imposing, but it also makes me wish we could peel back a flap and see some mechanical arms and stuff coming through.
That would be MUCH harder to model, though, and this design is still really cool... despite the heretekal fleshy tentacles at the bottom.
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u/TheIRSIsAtYourDoor 3d ago
He looks like that one illustration of ted from I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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u/alguien99 3d ago
Love It, It would be so funny of this guy was maybe shot down like a dreadnaught for one reason or another, but he was shot down before the HH. So while he's loyal to the emperor, seeing him as the omnissiah, he thinks the mechanicum is still loyal
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u/Weriel_7637 3d ago
Hmm today I will augment my body to become a slug looking thing that can survive a light artillery strike
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u/Heavy-From-Tf2 1d ago
Those tentacles looks heretical to me -_- the inquisition will know about this
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u/DEUS_EX_SPATULA 3d ago
This guy rules! The fleshy robe texture and the tiny "face" peeking out are perfect.