The Catechism of the Autoculus of Mars
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Seven miniatures based on the John Blanche piece ‘The Catechism of the Autoculus of Mars’.
I picked seven characters (well, 8 actually if you count the Twins as two separate individuals, which I don’t 🙂 ) from the artwork that struck me the most, which is that strange flying biomechanical monster, the Dominus, the madman with the skull relic and the two scribes near the bottom. I couldn’t resist adding the skull as well, which main component is the skull-claw from the industrial terrain sets.
The other pieces are built using the Necromunda Cawdor kit and the Skitarii Rangers kit, and a LOT of greenstuff rolled into cables (you can find a tutorial here).
Featured on Warhammer Community!
This lovely bunch was featured on the Warhammer Community page! You can read about the building process and inspiration for these pieces over there.
Side-by-side
Side-by-side comparison of the miniatures next to the original artworks.
The lady dominus/assassin is actually based on a different Blanche piece, which is not part of the Autoculus artwork.
Moving pictures
Work in Progress
These images are posted in roughly chronological order.
BuildFinished
The building phase is done!
relic
The Relic Bearer done!
Hammertime
Hammer guy done
Twins
The Twins done
Skull
Skulley done
dominus
Dominus done
autoculus
FSM done
dominus
The other dominus is done
The group
Atmospheric shot
FSM
This is nearly done!
Group shot
Group shot of the nearly finished team
FSM
OMG where is this going
Truck
Testing the tank on the back of the truck
Dominus
The dominus is steadily progressing
dominus
Based on the tracks of a Kataphron Servitor
Head inna jar
Making some gooey ead inna jar
Spider closeup
Close up of the greenstuff work on the spiderskull
The Twins
More greenstuff work on the Twins
dominus
Starting to look like a big old spider there
Relic
CablescablescablescablesMORECABLES
Weird
Some weird guys on a silver blob?
dominus
Sticking the dominus on some tracks
The twins
These are turning out to be my favorite of the bunch!
Skull
Suitably creepy
Relic
We’re getting a crazy relic bearer too of course
Hammer
The man with the hammer
overview
Small overview of the work in progress
visitor
We have a visitor!
Yeah
I mean, I don’t actually know either?
Twins
This. Is. Going. To. Be. AWESOME
JUDU6816
Mess
Sheesh what a mess
Skull
Getting there!
skull
First steps with the actual build of the big skull
skull
having fun with bits from the bitsbox
Chop
Humble beginnings of something new