I think the secret to painting an overly busy model like this one is probably using a mother color. Still, excited to see the eventual video of it being painted.
You said Eldritch/Lovecraftian. In "At the Mountains of Madness" by Lovecraft, the main alien race has created a type of "beast of burden" called the Shoggoths, and they are described as being formless yet able to adopt any form required by them. They were used primarily in the ocean when their masters built cities in the dark depths. I really think this should be a Shoggoths who has basically collected stray clutter from the ocean floor that it's former master's used to live on!
A Mordhaul or Death Haul. It looks like a creature of the deep ocean that collect bits of ships that have sunk under less then peaceful means and adds bits to itself. A model I would not be surprised to among the Vampire Coast faction in TW:WH2 to be honest.
"Tide Swallower" is the first thing that came to me and I definitely want to see you paint it whatever name you pick for it! This and the custom defiler you made have been two of my favorite videos of yours, I really enjoy seeing someone make something brand new from pieces and the path their unique ideas take them in
I love this kind of thing. Making stuff out of scrap is a great time. That being said a little more guidance is where I start from. "Oh, I'm making a kind of chaos spawn, or ork vehicle" or what have you. Looking forward to seeing it painted. And as for a name, Gorbash, the Horde Eater. Maybe it's a mimic. Or a hoard mimic. Actually they just released a mimic the size of a hoard in Fizban's didn't they?
The Mimickor, a Leviathan creature that lurks in the deepest depths of Sigmar’s waters. A mystique abomination of nature. Though a myth to man, but legend to gods. Nor man or God knows of it’s true origin. This creature is capable of taking many forms to fool it’s prey. If you asked Sailors of Sigmar, the story is always different…always changing. A sailor once said it was an abandoned ship with sharp teeth, others mistaken it with different sea creatures. The only thing that never changed, or was mentioned in every story was they heard the bell of Sigmar, but it’s tone was far more sinister. Sorry for the long reply, got inspired by looking at Thaumoctopus mimicus or Mimic Octopus. @Nonjon big fan of the channel and the colors of this unique octopus could be a great inspiration for painting. Look forward to you painting it up!
I was just thinking “That looks like it belongs in Dark Souls” and then you just had to go and say “although he is mostly Hollow on the inside..” Oh Jon… lol so fitting.
Kitbashing is quickly becoming my favorite part of the hobby! I couldn't help but imagine this as some kind of sorrow incarnate of a drowned soul out in the depths of the ocean. It'd be awesome to see you do a dramatic base with this thing crashing through the water's surface!
This was a great episode. One of the things that first drew me to minis was customising and kit-bashing miniatures, starting with Necromunda and moving onto Orks. The ramshackle nature of an Ork Army made it a paradise for my imagination and even now when I see a massive kit - like a huge terrain piece, it's all I can do not to think about pulling it apart and Frankensteining all the bits into strange new shapes and modifying dozens of characters and kits with them. This was a super-fun episode and now, having seen to kludge all these disparate pieces together into this weird nightmare hybrid, I'd love to see how your imagination could bring it all back together again with a suitably eerie and atmospheric paint scheme. Also, looking at those weird pincer tentacles, I kept thinking about Bobbit Worms. Check out footage of those suckers for amazing inspiration, they're like real-life Tyrannids.
I love kit-bashing. One thing I found useful when layering all those bits together is to primer them all black first and scrape the paint from the joining surfaces when you glue them on. It's so much easier to paint it later when everything has a uniform black finish in the spaces you can't easily reach by brush or airbrush.
This model looks wicked cool, love the fact you were calling it a Cthulhu horror! Can't wait to see it painted 🤩 Hm..Maybe a name like Bhelerc, the end portion sounds like lurk and you mentioned it lurking and dragging itself on the dark depths of the sea bed.
It seems a bit like a caddisfly larvae, they collect all sorts of bits about themselves to make a cocoon, love that idea! And good luck with the paint job!
As soon as I saw that head, I thought of a monstrosity created through experimentation by the admech. I love what you did with it though! It looks like a tunneling creature bursting out of the ground from the vampire coast!
Jon, I think it would absolutely destroy all of us if we didn't get to see you paint this, or at least the outcome. It's so busy, and just overloaded with details, trying to envision how to separate all of those colors is really difficult. You're an incredible painter, your Dragon contest entry was amazing, show us what you got.
When the size of your bits “collection “ exceeds the GW shelf stock at your local game shop… you either have a problem or an opportunity. Of course we all know how Jon will view that situation. 😉 Oh yes, bonus points for using dropping the word detritus into your script. 👍 Merry Christmas! 🎄 🧙♀️ 🐉
Kitbashing is what I love the most about the hobby, and it would be awesome to see this creature painted. When it comes to naming it, looks like a Steve to me.
Since I got into kitbashing, I don't think I can leave any model unkitbashed lmao. Tbh I find assembly, kitbashing and sculpting way more fun than painting. Speaking of painting, I'd love to see that model you made painted!
Fantastic build! Here's a tip that I use to avoid spilling my accelerator and to get it in hard-to-reach places - draw it up in a syringe or small squeeze bulb.
To me, this creation (and the bits of lore you've come up with) is a huge inspiration not only when it comes to the miniature hobby, but also worldbuilding, maybe even drawing (if I'm ever feeling particularly brave)
Would love to seeing this being painted as it is so unique! It kind of reminds me of maybe a Idoneth Deepkin dread maw maybe a name like the Ship Wreck trapper beast I did an event at my local GW a few years back where we were let loose with the stores spare sprues and I ended up with a part mechanical bloodthirster type beast, it was a great (and crazy experience)
This is completely unrelated to the video, but I love the fact I can tell you're from Minnesota! I went to work in Connecticut for two weeks, it was a work trip from the UK, and the guys I worked with mentioned Minnesota for whatever reason, I think it was related to not being able to find an In and Out Burger on the East Coast. They kept calling it Mini Soda because of the accent, and yeh, bag, tag etc they're so distinctive! I love it
If you want some cheap and easy nautical but nice gap filling material, I've got to suggest making some sea kelp from thin strips of aluminium takeaway trays twisted and folded over, and some cotton wool teased out into webs and covered with PVA. Also don't be afraid to go to town with some texture paint: sand gets everywhere when you're a deep one just frolicking on the beach with your unwitting victims! No greenstuff required
I love how many times you said the word bits in this video :D I actually really like the end result a lot and really hope you paint it up! Weirdly enough in all my years of this hobby and selling bits, I've never made a model this way before. Will have to give it a go!
Kit bashing is a must. Originality,center pieces,cool conversation piece,anything is possible. That's what makes us hobbyist,artist of imagination so to speak..the name should be"The Abyssal" short and sweet.Good video!!!
I'm a tyranid player. The hive mind will create its own bio-forms for whatever strategic situation it requires, so it seems perfectly logical to me that on some godforsaken 40k world they needed an underwater vacuum cleaner to harvest long forgotten biomass left behind on the ocean floor. Great kit bashing John, I also would love to see how on earth someone would even start to paint that thing. Great video keep 'em coming.
Kitbashing is a huge part of my hobby, and I don’t thing I have ever made a character or special model without some kitbashing. I absolutely adore this beast! I cannot wait to see it painted!
man this video couldn't have come at a better time. Currently starting on making my own chaos decimator out of just random stuff. I had some extra tank treads from a leman russ and I had just enough to make a couple of large tank treads for this big mobile weapons platform. i'm so happy that I can make stuff out of everything I had leftover from other things I had laying around.
I wanna see how you would manage painting such a unique kitbash such as this. Also I think a pretty interesting name for this would be 'Vorago, The Abyssal Scavenger'. I thought Vorago was the best latin translation for abyss that had an eerie/unnerving name befitting of the eldritch beast of the deep seas
Would love to see the painting process. Being an Orks player, kitbashing is second nature to me and one of the things I enjoy the most in the hobby so I'd love to see more of it on the channel.
I have a kit bashing addiction. It is almost impossible for me to not kit bash my models. and I am always looking for new ideas, so, thank you for this video. it was inspirational. I actually started looking through my bits boxes to see what I could throw together, and started working on things and getting ideas while doing that. so, again, thank you!
Have you ever tried using little spray bottle with watered down white/gray paint for priming and over top hilight? Sound like less messy than spray and cheaper then areograpf.
Kitbashing and conversions are the best part of the hobby. I find myself making elaborate conversions with putty and not having the motivation to paint them anymore. Or worrying that my paint job isn't sufficiently good for the conversion ;)
You have to paint that model and use either resin or Vallejo water effects to really make it look like it's partially submerged/coming out of the water! Hope you and your family has a safe Christmas and New Year
This approach to kitbashing is very explorative and creative. It is like finding the creature as you build it. The opposite approach to this would be to have a plan and a design before you build it. I think that would be a good thing to see you do in a future episode, to concept sketch something out and then build it.
I love this. I’m terrible at naming things, but it definitely gives off the vibe of something collecting souvenirs of its kills and using them to live in. Definitely requires paint.
This was a fabulous exercise in kitbashing! I mostly like to do mine digitally, and print it out solidly, but the traditional method is really cool too.
This will look cool painted. The contrast between for example muted greens and browns of sea debris, and saturated pinks and purples of the monster, could really turn it into something more than the sum of its parts. At the moment it is a little messy, but I think you can do something good with it.
Please make this into a series where you make your own minis in various sizes and styles. I love custom jobs and these types of videos are super inspirational!
What a gorgeous model! On the prospect of naming, to me it feels like a creature like this would have a title to be whispered by sailors, something simple and descriptive yet slightly overstated and vague. Therefore I propose: The Mawmound.
It'd be interesting to see how you handle putting paint on then dealing with gaps or bits that maybe dont work or connect well that the first layers of paint show up.
I got that accelerator on my hands and didn't wash it off right away. I was kinda spraying it while holding stuff. And it caused deep tissue damage and irritation and contact miotic cysts all over my hands. Made my bones itchy. Cause it's a base, so now I'm very careful. Dipping it with the tube is a good idea. Hope u didn't spill it too bad.
i love kitbashing, i dont think ive ever done a project without kitbashing. i think the creature you made should be named like “steven” or something, a name that definitely doesn’t seem like itd fit
The organized boxes appeal to me. I wonder if mixing that system with Miscast's/Goob's grab-all boxes would be good to use in conjunction with full kit-bash mode? Like a box of random grab for the start point and then going to the organized box for the details.
Yeah I can't wait to see this painted. As far as a name for it, I'm sure this thing raids many ports, beaches and fishing villages across the mortal realms. It'll no doubt have a great many names from all the different cultures it attacks
I have a lot of kit-bashed figures for my Epic 40k armies. Mostly Orks (there is nothing that is wrong for Orks) but a couple for the Titan & Knight armies. Right now there's an Epic Warbringer on the bench. Made from a Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought, extra parts from an Imperatator, 3D printed parts, and extra stuff from Adeptus Titanicus figures. It'll be about the size of an Adeptus Titanicus Reaver or Warbringer Nemesis. I think it'll be rather conspicuous on the table.
That is my favorite way to build models. Starting from just a bit and then figuring out, what unintended purpose it might serve. In German there is a nice word for repurposing something in this way „zweckentfremden“ which translated literally means „to purpose-alienate/estrange sth.“
Depths devourer.... what it takes in on the bottom of the deep becomes a part of it for all time. Forever adding to its bulk and sunken armor carapace. Hells yeah we wanna see you paint it!!!
Haven't done any kitbashing on that scale, though I did a fair amount while putting together my Sororitas army, to ensure each squad had different poses and some more individuality, which was a lot of fun.
I've been mashing bits together from.qay back in the early 90s. I made a middenhiem warband for mordhiem before GW even produced middenhiem models using bits of wolf pelts and hammers from varios sprues. Made a Pegasus themed chapter of ultra marines from bretonnian bits. Love this project!
Hi Jon, one of the best intros you’ve ever made ! Regarding the model I would have kept the bell off it and give it to its master (could be a dwarf, a sailor, a tyrannid sailor, anything). This way, you could make a nice diorama where your krakennid get out of the sea to join its summoner !
Thank you sir. Fun video. Every once in a while you have to go full bit-sack. :) Real talk though. My main game is Malifaux and there are no extra bits. So I fill this itch with gaslands bashing together all sorts of house hold stuffs to make cars. I love this conversion/kitbashing part of the hobby.
That is amazing! I often do conversions as I'm not anywhere near confident enough to try a project like this at all! Amazing idea and vision to create this model. I'd name it a Devourer of the Deep
The Spruehulk I'm new to the hobby so don't have a ton of bits to work with. But I did just order a bunch of Death Guard models so I'll have to keep an eye out for other models to incoroprate into the fold. Seems like an easy army to use other models in - a few tentacles scattered about and boom they Nurgley.
Clarence is a nice name. Also would love to see how you paint it. Watching you assemble it I was like "He is going to regret building this thing like this when he gets on the painting desk" and I would love to see how you tackle it.
Oh I definitely want to see you paint this up, because five minutes in I was saying to myself, "This is going to be a nightmare to paint." But just my own head cannon, I kind of envision this as a Tyranid creature that moves through the ground along the exposed ocean floors of planets that are being consumed, and it just gathers all the junk and takes it to the gestation pools in one large mass.
Love the idea of the monster coming out of the deep and having collected junk along the way I’d call it a hermit kraken good luck painting it I would love to see that and know how long it takes
I'd definitely love to see it painted. Though I also wouldn't be disappointed to see a lot of washes and contrast lol it'll be pretty awesome. You could almost use it as a warm up with how free form the model is.
Love kitbashes and making things unique. Should definitely paint it and make a resin cast base to really sell it coming from the depth for it's next victim to drag down to the murky depths.
The Hull Slime, a deep water monster that sometimes creeps to land or the surface of the waters in pursuits of more parts to expand itself to bigger sizes. It has the ability to control its buoyancy to float or sink even when coved in wood parts from a ships. The Hull Slime seeks out shipwrecks to feast on the parts of said ships, but when a big enough ship catches it attention on the top of the water the Hull Slime will follow that ship to the ends of the worlds to just start stripping the ship from beneath and sink the ship.
As much as this piece looks like an eldritch horror, for me this guy is just a tyranid monster that was hidden under a pile of sea refuse on a low tech imperial world. Its amazing how creative this piece is.
I would like to see it painted. Am especially interested in seeing the difference between the monster itself and the attached objects. And what about the basing? Please make a video about it.
I've been in the model-building hobby for about 15 plus years but I've also Gundam models military model kits just got back into the Miniatures hobby Warhammer 40K Infinity the game Etc about 4 years ago and just recently started doing custom/kit Bashas
Great work, I would add more tyranid legs at the torso, something like centipede, sticking from stuff on the back, in order to add a little more presense of monster flesh itself at the back side of mini.
The only thing that's missing is more realism: ropes that lie flat or hang straight down, that corpse not floating magically in the air, etc...but besides that, it's awesome!
Name: Scuttle-Vore. Because it consumes scuttled ships. For painting, you can always cheat and do what some people are doing with the Cursed City miniatures: use dramatic object source lighting over a black primer. Two colors coming from different directions. Obviates the need to colorize individual bits. Maybe play into the idea you floated in the video, and have one light source be from a part hanging from the monster, like the glow of an angler fish.
Perhaps you could start a tradition of building an Ork Stompa at the end of the year with some of that year's bits. Then you could line them up and be reminded of what you worked on in each of those years.
Would love to see a video on how you tackle painting a busy, overly detailed model, especially that fantastic model. I shall call him bubbles.
All hail the mighty demon of the deep Bubbles!
BUBBLES FOR THE BUBBLES GOD!
I think the secret to painting an overly busy model like this one is probably using a mother color. Still, excited to see the eventual video of it being painted.
I want to see a future painting video for it, too! Maybe a beginner-friendly airbrushing with blended waves for an ocean floor look.
you called?
“The Scrap-Ness Monster” is the first thing that comes to my thought and I really hope you paint it, looks freaking awesome!
Release the Hermit Kraken!
Can't wait to see this one painted, and how long it takes.
p..p..painted? How?
@@Redskies453 very carefully
Can we all upvote this for the official name !? :D
@@AwkwardParas Bubbles the Hermit Kraken
You said Eldritch/Lovecraftian. In "At the Mountains of Madness" by Lovecraft, the main alien race has created a type of "beast of burden" called the Shoggoths, and they are described as being formless yet able to adopt any form required by them. They were used primarily in the ocean when their masters built cities in the dark depths. I really think this should be a Shoggoths who has basically collected stray clutter from the ocean floor that it's former master's used to live on!
This!
A Mordhaul or Death Haul. It looks like a creature of the deep ocean that collect bits of ships that have sunk under less then peaceful means and adds bits to itself. A model I would not be surprised to among the Vampire Coast faction in TW:WH2 to be honest.
Dread Wreck?
Has to protect its soft skin
Vampire Coast was also my first thought. Rotting Leviathan or Necrofex Colossus (yes, it's missing cannons and the humanoid silhouette)
The protector
"Tide Swallower" is the first thing that came to me and I definitely want to see you paint it whatever name you pick for it! This and the custom defiler you made have been two of my favorite videos of yours, I really enjoy seeing someone make something brand new from pieces and the path their unique ideas take them in
I really liked to see the outcome of this monster. Can't wait to see it painted
I love this kind of thing. Making stuff out of scrap is a great time. That being said a little more guidance is where I start from. "Oh, I'm making a kind of chaos spawn, or ork vehicle" or what have you. Looking forward to seeing it painted. And as for a name, Gorbash, the Horde Eater. Maybe it's a mimic. Or a hoard mimic. Actually they just released a mimic the size of a hoard in Fizban's didn't they?
Thank you , Jon .
" a Deep Harvester "
Looking forward to seeing it in full colour ,
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Harvester of the Deep :D
That is a perfect name.
The Mimickor, a Leviathan creature that lurks in the deepest depths of Sigmar’s waters. A mystique abomination of nature. Though a myth to man, but legend to gods. Nor man or God knows of it’s true origin. This creature is capable of taking many forms to fool it’s prey. If you asked Sailors of Sigmar, the story is always different…always changing. A sailor once said it was an abandoned ship with sharp teeth, others mistaken it with different sea creatures. The only thing that never changed, or was mentioned in every story was they heard the bell of Sigmar, but it’s tone was far more sinister.
Sorry for the long reply, got inspired by looking at Thaumoctopus mimicus or Mimic Octopus. @Nonjon big fan of the channel and the colors of this unique octopus could be a great inspiration for painting. Look forward to you painting it up!
Awesome idea, dude! :) Really loved the bell as an element tying together the different reports of the monster. :)
I was just thinking “That looks like it belongs in Dark Souls” and then you just had to go and say “although he is mostly Hollow on the inside..” Oh Jon… lol so fitting.
I would love to see this painted, I can imagine it being a nightmare though.
I think the dreadger?
Kitbashing is quickly becoming my favorite part of the hobby! I couldn't help but imagine this as some kind of sorrow incarnate of a drowned soul out in the depths of the ocean. It'd be awesome to see you do a dramatic base with this thing crashing through the water's surface!
Do you watch Pete the Wargamer for kitbashing? He's one of my faves
@@michaelsorensen7567 Yes! absolutely love their channel
This was a great episode. One of the things that first drew me to minis was customising and kit-bashing miniatures, starting with Necromunda and moving onto Orks. The ramshackle nature of an Ork Army made it a paradise for my imagination and even now when I see a massive kit - like a huge terrain piece, it's all I can do not to think about pulling it apart and Frankensteining all the bits into strange new shapes and modifying dozens of characters and kits with them.
This was a super-fun episode and now, having seen to kludge all these disparate pieces together into this weird nightmare hybrid, I'd love to see how your imagination could bring it all back together again with a suitably eerie and atmospheric paint scheme.
Also, looking at those weird pincer tentacles, I kept thinking about Bobbit Worms. Check out footage of those suckers for amazing inspiration, they're like real-life Tyrannids.
I’d absolutely love a video of you painting this weird hermit trawler demon, I can only imagine how amazing this would look painted and based!
I love kit-bashing. One thing I found useful when layering all those bits together is to primer them all black first and scrape the paint from the joining surfaces when you glue them on. It's so much easier to paint it later when everything has a uniform black finish in the spaces you can't easily reach by brush or airbrush.
This model looks wicked cool, love the fact you were calling it a Cthulhu horror! Can't wait to see it painted 🤩 Hm..Maybe a name like Bhelerc, the end portion sounds like lurk and you mentioned it lurking and dragging itself on the dark depths of the sea bed.
It seems a bit like a caddisfly larvae, they collect all sorts of bits about themselves to make a cocoon, love that idea! And good luck with the paint job!
Hate to think what this is the abyssal larva for
He def looks like a dude called Ham
I would love to see it painted, full video on it, even if it's a 2 parter... looked cool as hell
As soon as I saw that head, I thought of a monstrosity created through experimentation by the admech.
I love what you did with it though! It looks like a tunneling creature bursting out of the ground from the vampire coast!
I can't imagine anyone saying "no" to seeing this painted. We all want to see you tackle this "Deep Devourer"
I would love to see this beast of the deep painted, as for a name how about Squidlybits the Collector
Jon, I think it would absolutely destroy all of us if we didn't get to see you paint this, or at least the outcome. It's so busy, and just overloaded with details, trying to envision how to separate all of those colors is really difficult. You're an incredible painter, your Dragon contest entry was amazing, show us what you got.
The Dredger.
Going to be interesting to paint😜
PAINT IT JON!
Seriously, this video was so much fun to watch, can't wait to see what it looks like painted.
When the size of your bits “collection “ exceeds the GW shelf stock at your local game shop… you either have a problem or an opportunity. Of course we all know how Jon will view that situation. 😉
Oh yes, bonus points for using dropping the word detritus into your script. 👍
Merry Christmas! 🎄 🧙♀️ 🐉
Kitbashing is what I love the most about the hobby, and it would be awesome to see this creature painted. When it comes to naming it, looks like a Steve to me.
Since I got into kitbashing, I don't think I can leave any model unkitbashed lmao. Tbh I find assembly, kitbashing and sculpting way more fun than painting.
Speaking of painting, I'd love to see that model you made painted!
Jon you have gained so much of my respect for making an eldritch sea monster
Fantastic build! Here's a tip that I use to avoid spilling my accelerator and to get it in hard-to-reach places - draw it up in a syringe or small squeeze bulb.
To me, this creation (and the bits of lore you've come up with) is a huge inspiration not only when it comes to the miniature hobby, but also worldbuilding, maybe even drawing (if I'm ever feeling particularly brave)
Would love to seeing this being painted as it is so unique!
It kind of reminds me of maybe a Idoneth Deepkin dread maw maybe a name like the Ship Wreck trapper beast
I did an event at my local GW a few years back where we were let loose with the stores spare sprues and I ended up with a part mechanical bloodthirster type beast, it was a great (and crazy experience)
Officially the best kitbashing youtuber! love the way you explain every step
This is completely unrelated to the video, but I love the fact I can tell you're from Minnesota! I went to work in Connecticut for two weeks, it was a work trip from the UK, and the guys I worked with mentioned Minnesota for whatever reason, I think it was related to not being able to find an In and Out Burger on the East Coast. They kept calling it Mini Soda because of the accent, and yeh, bag, tag etc they're so distinctive! I love it
Bravo sir. After watching "basing" videos back-to-back, this was very refreshing and insightful. You got my creative juices going again. TY
If you want some cheap and easy nautical but nice gap filling material, I've got to suggest making some sea kelp from thin strips of aluminium takeaway trays twisted and folded over, and some cotton wool teased out into webs and covered with PVA. Also don't be afraid to go to town with some texture paint: sand gets everywhere when you're a deep one just frolicking on the beach with your unwitting victims!
No greenstuff required
I love how many times you said the word bits in this video :D I actually really like the end result a lot and really hope you paint it up! Weirdly enough in all my years of this hobby and selling bits, I've never made a model this way before. Will have to give it a go!
Kit bashing is a must. Originality,center pieces,cool conversation piece,anything is possible. That's what makes us hobbyist,artist of imagination so to speak..the name should be"The Abyssal" short and sweet.Good video!!!
I'm a tyranid player. The hive mind will create its own bio-forms for whatever strategic situation it requires, so it seems perfectly logical to me that on some godforsaken 40k world they needed an underwater vacuum cleaner to harvest long forgotten biomass left behind on the ocean floor. Great kit bashing John, I also would love to see how on earth someone would even start to paint that thing. Great video keep 'em coming.
Kitbashing is a huge part of my hobby, and I don’t thing I have ever made a character or special model without some kitbashing.
I absolutely adore this beast! I cannot wait to see it painted!
man this video couldn't have come at a better time. Currently starting on making my own chaos decimator out of just random stuff. I had some extra tank treads from a leman russ and I had just enough to make a couple of large tank treads for this big mobile weapons platform. i'm so happy that I can make stuff out of everything I had leftover from other things I had laying around.
I wanna see how you would manage painting such a unique kitbash such as this. Also I think a pretty interesting name for this would be 'Vorago, The Abyssal Scavenger'. I thought Vorago was the best latin translation for abyss that had an eerie/unnerving name befitting of the eldritch beast of the deep seas
Love this! One of your best videos to date! Love when you kitbash and scratch built!
Would love to see the painting process. Being an Orks player, kitbashing is second nature to me and one of the things I enjoy the most in the hobby so I'd love to see more of it on the channel.
I have a kit bashing addiction. It is almost impossible for me to not kit bash my models. and I am always looking for new ideas, so, thank you for this video. it was inspirational. I actually started looking through my bits boxes to see what I could throw together, and started working on things and getting ideas while doing that. so, again, thank you!
Have you ever tried using little spray bottle with watered down white/gray paint for priming and over top hilight? Sound like less messy than spray and cheaper then areograpf.
Kitbashing and conversions are the best part of the hobby. I find myself making elaborate conversions with putty and not having the motivation to paint them anymore. Or worrying that my paint job isn't sufficiently good for the conversion ;)
You have to paint that model and use either resin or Vallejo water effects to really make it look like it's partially submerged/coming out of the water! Hope you and your family has a safe Christmas and New Year
Jon, when you prep bits for storage do you usually clean all the mold lines off before you bag them? Or when you're ready to use them?
This approach to kitbashing is very explorative and creative. It is like finding the creature as you build it. The opposite approach to this would be to have a plan and a design before you build it. I think that would be a good thing to see you do in a future episode, to concept sketch something out and then build it.
Can't wait to see it painted, and i'd call it something like Matey
I don't even paint or play warhammer and I still love watching this channel.
I love this. I’m terrible at naming things, but it definitely gives off the vibe of something collecting souvenirs of its kills and using them to live in.
Definitely requires paint.
This was a fabulous exercise in kitbashing! I mostly like to do mine digitally, and print it out solidly, but the traditional method is really cool too.
This will look cool painted. The contrast between for example muted greens and browns of sea debris, and saturated pinks and purples of the monster, could really turn it into something more than the sum of its parts. At the moment it is a little messy, but I think you can do something good with it.
Please make this into a series where you make your own minis in various sizes and styles.
I love custom jobs and these types of videos are super inspirational!
17:19 I got into this hobby solely for the kit bashing aspect, I love taking existing models and making them my own :D
What a gorgeous model!
On the prospect of naming, to me it feels like a creature like this would have a title to be whispered by sailors, something simple and descriptive yet slightly overstated and vague. Therefore I propose:
The Mawmound.
It'd be interesting to see how you handle putting paint on then dealing with gaps or bits that maybe dont work or connect well that the first layers of paint show up.
I got that accelerator on my hands and didn't wash it off right away. I was kinda spraying it while holding stuff. And it caused deep tissue damage and irritation and contact miotic cysts all over my hands. Made my bones itchy. Cause it's a base, so now I'm very careful. Dipping it with the tube is a good idea. Hope u didn't spill it too bad.
i love kitbashing, i dont think ive ever done a project without kitbashing. i think the creature you made should be named like “steven” or something, a name that definitely doesn’t seem like itd fit
Very BIG BIG BIG of you to shoutout Heywoah at the start of the video
also painting yes yes
The organized boxes appeal to me. I wonder if mixing that system with Miscast's/Goob's grab-all boxes would be good to use in conjunction with full kit-bash mode? Like a box of random grab for the start point and then going to the organized box for the details.
Yeah I can't wait to see this painted. As far as a name for it, I'm sure this thing raids many ports, beaches and fishing villages across the mortal realms. It'll no doubt have a great many names from all the different cultures it attacks
Super cool conversion/kitbash/thing. Converting is my favorite part of the hobby. I vote you name them either Blarglthrax or Susan.
The Jutter, would be my suggestion.
And yes, I would very much like to see you doing this paint job! It's all I really want for Christmas this year.
I have a lot of kit-bashed figures for my Epic 40k armies. Mostly Orks (there is nothing that is wrong for Orks) but a couple for the Titan & Knight armies. Right now there's an Epic Warbringer on the bench. Made from a Primaris Redemptor Dreadnought, extra parts from an Imperatator, 3D printed parts, and extra stuff from Adeptus Titanicus figures. It'll be about the size of an Adeptus Titanicus Reaver or Warbringer Nemesis. I think it'll be rather conspicuous on the table.
That is my favorite way to build models. Starting from just a bit and then figuring out, what unintended purpose it might serve. In German there is a nice word for repurposing something in this way „zweckentfremden“ which translated literally means „to purpose-alienate/estrange sth.“
Depths devourer.... what it takes in on the bottom of the deep becomes a part of it for all time. Forever adding to its bulk and sunken armor carapace. Hells yeah we wanna see you paint it!!!
Haven't done any kitbashing on that scale, though I did a fair amount while putting together my Sororitas army, to ensure each squad had different poses and some more individuality, which was a lot of fun.
I've been mashing bits together from.qay back in the early 90s. I made a middenhiem warband for mordhiem before GW even produced middenhiem models using bits of wolf pelts and hammers from varios sprues. Made a Pegasus themed chapter of ultra marines from bretonnian bits. Love this project!
Hi Jon, one of the best intros you’ve ever made ! Regarding the model I would have kept the bell off it and give it to its master (could be a dwarf, a sailor, a tyrannid sailor, anything). This way, you could make a nice diorama where your krakennid get out of the sea to join its summoner !
Thank you sir. Fun video. Every once in a while you have to go full bit-sack. :)
Real talk though. My main game is Malifaux and there are no extra bits. So I fill this itch with gaslands bashing together all sorts of house hold stuffs to make cars. I love this conversion/kitbashing part of the hobby.
Your kit bash videos are great dude. I enjoy all of your content but this and the Defiler were some of my fav kit bashing videos I've seen out there.
I have uncontrolled hand movements and difficulty holding things steady but I discovered STL bits so I compile new Grim Dark in 3d Builder and Blender
That is amazing! I often do conversions as I'm not anywhere near confident enough to try a project like this at all! Amazing idea and vision to create this model.
I'd name it a Devourer of the Deep
What is a “scrap bits model” if not CONVERTING a large amount of leftover bits into a model?
Is the painting video already out, or do we have to wait longer?
The Spruehulk
I'm new to the hobby so don't have a ton of bits to work with. But I did just order a bunch of Death Guard models so I'll have to keep an eye out for other models to incoroprate into the fold. Seems like an easy army to use other models in - a few tentacles scattered about and boom they Nurgley.
Clarence is a nice name. Also would love to see how you paint it. Watching you assemble it I was like "He is going to regret building this thing like this when he gets on the painting desk" and I would love to see how you tackle it.
Oh I definitely want to see you paint this up, because five minutes in I was saying to myself, "This is going to be a nightmare to paint." But just my own head cannon, I kind of envision this as a Tyranid creature that moves through the ground along the exposed ocean floors of planets that are being consumed, and it just gathers all the junk and takes it to the gestation pools in one large mass.
Love the idea of the monster coming out of the deep and having collected junk along the way I’d call it a hermit kraken good luck painting it I would love to see that and know how long it takes
As an avid kitbasher, your bits collection makes me drool in extreme desire.
I'd definitely love to see it painted. Though I also wouldn't be disappointed to see a lot of washes and contrast lol it'll be pretty awesome. You could almost use it as a warm up with how free form the model is.
Honestly I think this model is begging to be the centrepiece of a stunning diorama. Some under water and above water action 💥
Great work, good luck on painting it. But I love it. Kitbashing is my favorite part of the hobby.
Love kitbashes and making things unique.
Should definitely paint it and make a resin cast base to really sell it coming from the depth for it's next victim to drag down to the murky depths.
The Hull Slime, a deep water monster that sometimes creeps to land or the surface of the waters in pursuits of more parts to expand itself to bigger sizes. It has the ability to control its buoyancy to float or sink even when coved in wood parts from a ships. The Hull Slime seeks out shipwrecks to feast on the parts of said ships, but when a big enough ship catches it attention on the top of the water the Hull Slime will follow that ship to the ends of the worlds to just start stripping the ship from beneath and sink the ship.
As much as this piece looks like an eldritch horror, for me this guy is just a tyranid monster that was hidden under a pile of sea refuse on a low tech imperial world. Its amazing how creative this piece is.
I would like to see it painted. Am especially interested in seeing the difference between the monster itself and the attached objects. And what about the basing? Please make a video about it.
I've been in the model-building hobby for about 15 plus years but I've also Gundam models military model kits just got back into the Miniatures hobby Warhammer 40K Infinity the game Etc about 4 years ago and just recently started doing custom/kit Bashas
Where did the rigging pieces come from? Were they part of a GW naval set?
Great work,
I would add more tyranid legs at the torso, something like centipede, sticking from stuff on the back,
in order to add a little more presense of monster flesh itself at the back side of mini.
It's time to paint this Jon.
The only thing that's missing is more realism: ropes that lie flat or hang straight down, that corpse not floating magically in the air, etc...but besides that, it's awesome!
Name: Scuttle-Vore. Because it consumes scuttled ships.
For painting, you can always cheat and do what some people are doing with the Cursed City miniatures: use dramatic object source lighting over a black primer. Two colors coming from different directions. Obviates the need to colorize individual bits. Maybe play into the idea you floated in the video, and have one light source be from a part hanging from the monster, like the glow of an angler fish.
Perhaps you could start a tradition of building an Ork Stompa at the end of the year with some of that year's bits. Then you could line them up and be reminded of what you worked on in each of those years.
Just stumbled upon this, was it actually painted? It Looks awesome.
YES. Love to see it get painted
That’s equally an amazing mini and a terrifying mini. I would have such anxiety trying to paint that 😅