Weaponized

I appear to have assembled my Creature Caster 'Queen of Ecstasy' model incorrectly.  To be fair, there were no instructions inside the box.  Finding them online was not difficult since Creature Caster publish them on their site. Regrettably, it was too late to turn back at this juncture and the spider vibe was kicking in.

Also I had removed her legs.  Not a particularly sensible decision but I really didn't like her shoes.  They look like something Gene Simmons wore back in his heyday and would undoubtedly play merry hell with her ankles, possibly resulting in injury.  Sensible footwear is an absolute must as you get on in years.

Anyway, I bought this model from Rory at Maelstrom the other week.  He was going to give it to me for free as long as I promised to actually do something with it. But I haggled and we settled on a very reasonable price.  Check out his blog over on Da Techmeks Garage. 

I wasn't entirely sure what to do with it to be honest. Those breasts are so outrageously pert, they can't possibly be real.  She obviously went in for a bit of surgery and my Adeptus Mechanicus chirurgeons might have gotten the wrong end of the stick.  Several wrong ends, in fact.  I think I'll have to paint all the skin metallic and make her look like an Iron Golem or something.  Her bosoms look panel beaten out of ball-bearing molds. I seem to remember the Hindu goddess Kali being portrayed as dark blue however and this model will have lots of 'arms' when it's done.  Maybe the original was inspired by the Goddess?   I'm not very good at painting skin though, unless it's necrotic or alien.

Painting her in my Dark Mech colours would be interesting and I could paint the bone textures erm.. bone coloured to break it up.   But then how could I play her as daemon in an AdMech army?  Additionally, without any projectile weapons she would be of little use as a playing piece.  I couldn't play a Slaaneshi temptress in a game unless I fell to Chaos completely and used her as a Keeper of Secrets.  A fiendishly interesting model but I'm pretty sure I know what I'd find under that loincloth.  Having endured a deeply religious upbringing I'd just get confused.  So I'm not playing Chaos and I refuse to start a 5th army.  Then again, I promised myself that I would never start a 3rd army.  Maybe giving her a huge phallic symbol is the answer.  Now I'm really confused.

I thought I might as well embrace the madness so I swapped out the spike on her feet for a Redemptor Gatling cannon and I reckon I can model that right hand holding a 'magic missile' (it's a missile, doesn't matter if it's magic or not).  Slap it on a Dunecrawler base and call it 'Onager'. Done and done. This is one reason why I love 40k.  It engages both hemispheres of the brain.  The right side is flitting around saying, 'Make it pretty! I simply can't abide some of the ghastly shit you come up with'.  Meanwhile, the left side casually observes, 'Very nice.  Let's weaponize this baby and shred something.'