#Hexachires

[the-consortium]

This weekend's hobying was all about Fabius, the novels and stuff. First: Hexachires, Lord of the Thirteen Scars. The Haemonculus in all his gory glory. Look how elegantly he balances along on his spine!

And then, even if I told myself I would wait until next weekend to start painting him, the man himself!

Or, at least the Chirurgeon. So technically I didn't start painting him.

Painting Hexachires was very complex, but so much fun. Same with the Chirurgeon. I hope I'll have as much fun with Fabius himself next week.

[tagedeszorns]

@ladymirdan send this to me as a very non-sneaky attack-run.

Not me currently in a staring contest with Fabius and Hexachires and their tons of details to highlight.

(little cosplay-Igori is soooo easy in comparison!)

[tagedeszorns]

The kind of fandom discourse we need, but not deserve.

Thank you, @legiopraesagio for installing the phrase "Giant Battle Dick" forever in my brain. That's what Reynolds intended when he wrote the damn thing into existence.

[tagedeszorns]

The universe heard me talking about Old Men Yaoi yesterday and decided to throw this my way:

Haemonculi miniatures are back in stock! Time for some Hexachires/Fabius-smut!

(I ordered him immediately, of course. That's the push I needed to finally build and paint my Fabius mini. I hope!)

Fabius building Hexachires a giant, living tower of flesh - c'mon! That's the most sexually charged gift in Warhammer EVER!

(just to be clear: I'm joking. I'm joking! But I ordered the Haemonculus, of course)

[tagedeszorns]

I just wanted to up my base-building game a bit (I come from zero, so it's easy to up it!). So I planned on doing some creative landscaping today. But I realised that I had to have the minis to test how they'll take up space on it, so I had to build them.

I regret my fondness for horrible men with way too many arms. Very complicated to build.

Anyways - here's the two boyfiends (that's no typo, it's an accurate title) with their adopted son, who has all the diseases.

Fabius, Hexachires and a random vatborn! (and some lady. Maybe Igori cosplaying a Darkoath-Barbarian)

The white parts of these oreo-bases have arcane symbols on them.

Yes, they look rather strange right now - but as soon as I've added some nice fungi and have primed them, I guess they'll look rather realistic. And no longer as tasty.

[tagedeszorns]

They are done! The disaster boyfiends. (Disaster for the rest of the Galaxy, that is)

Hexachires, Fabius and some random Vatborn being useful and cute.

I am rather proud how well Fabius turned out. He was such a treat to paint.

Look at all his mushrooms!

[tagedeszorns]

Do you have a unit or model that you love incredibly, that you want to run, but can't, because it's not in an army you play? For me it's space marine supressors. They are so fucking cool. I want to run them so much, but I don't play sm. They are the reason I am considering building the phobos combat patrol, just to have somewhere to run them.

I'm in the fortunate position of not playing the game at all. I just buy any miniatures I want to build and paint and then put them on my shelf and enjoy them.

So I have a rough project of ‘build everything related to the Consortium and the Cohors Nasicae’, but I also own a Hellbrute because I like the Warmonger so much and want to build and paint him.

The Beastmen (Team Rinderüberraschung) are a finished, ready-to-play kill team, but I just have them because I think they're cool and because Duco has a lot of Beastmen.

My Scout Kill Team, once finished, will then join my large crowd of Salamanders miniatures - if it has to be Loyalists, then it's Vulkan's boys for me!

That's why my ‘Pile of Opportunity’ consists of a wild mix. I've got Fleshhounds (vague project of painting them elemental-themed), a Squig Herd (because they are neat), Possessed (VERY neat), a Thunderhawk (I want to build Butcher Bird and the cranky ship is 80% Thunderhawk according to the novels) and quite a few Terminators and Raptors. Soon I'll also have two 30k Apothecaries so I can paint Heresy-era Fabius and Oleander.

Maybe I'll expand the 13 Scars at some point - I've only got Hexachires so far.

Or I will like the new Eidolon novel so much that I absolutely have to build the Auric Hammer. Who knows!

So I'm taking the same approach with my miniatures as I do with my fanart - whatever I particularly like at the moment, I have to have and build.

And with the new EC models next year, I see golden times ahead for Ramos' Choir and Savona and her 12th Millenial!

Horrible old man has things to do and places to be.

His equally horrible boyfiend just wants to be unhelpful.

[tagedeszorns]

Hexachires, the Haemonculus.

Master Hexachires was tall and thin, his body mostly hidden beneath robes of flensed and tanned flesh. His face was covered by a mask of gently shifting skin, its features changing one moment to the next. Tendrils composed of hybridised metal and muscle tissue stretched from a reinforced spinal column. Several of these grisly limbs held him aloft, and his withered legs were bound together by straps of leather and left to dangle.

Reynolds, Josh. Manflayer (Fabius Bile: Warhammer 40,000 Book 3) (English Edition) (S.25). Kindle-Version.

During Fabius' time at Commorragh I want them to have the most elaborate shouting matches about medical details, but when some other Eldar chimes in, mocking the Chief Apothecary to gain points with the Haemonculus, Hexachires will immediately go apeshit on them, screaming "How dare you insult my Monkeigh?!" prompting Fabius to totally explode in his face "I am not your fucking Monkeigh you leathery bat!" and then all out bedlam commences. Slapfights between Hexachires' arms and Fabius' Chirurgeon and such.

[tagedeszorns]

And some bonus-Hexachires shopping for groceries.

This weekend's hobying was all about Fabius, the novels and stuff. First: Hexachires, Lord of the Thirteen Scars. The Haemonculus in all his gory glory. Look how elegantly he balances along on his spine!

And then, even if I told myself I would wait until next weekend to start painting him, the man himself!

Or, at least the Chirurgeon. So technically I didn't start painting him.

Painting Hexachires was very complex, but so much fun. Same with the Chirurgeon. I hope I'll have as much fun with Fabius himself next week.

[tagedeszorns]

In the third book the Thirteen Scars attack Fabius and his merry band with a giant walking tower of living flesh, that is both a monstrous tank the size of a fortress and their home.

Fabius built that thing for Hexachires during his time in Commorragh.

The Tower of Flesh. It was larger than the eyries of High Commorragh, stretching down into the dark reaches of the webway like an overturned mountain. A mountain made of meat and muscle, a leviathan of flesh and bone. It was a pallid bastion, clinging to its perch by wriggling sinews the length of a frigate. A web of ligaments stretched around it, snaring the many and varied spiked protrusions that lined the city’s belly. The sheer wrongness of it struck him. He’d thought himself jaded to such horrors, for the Eye was full to bursting of nightmares. He’d seen worlds made from the bodies of dead monsters, and witnessed the tortures of the damned. But this was something else again. There was a cruel pragmatism to it. There was no joy there. It had been constructed by a mind more concerned with efficiency and practical application than pain and suffering – the mind of Fabius Bile.

Reynolds, Josh. Manflayer (Fabius Bile: Warhammer 40,000 Book 3) (English Edition) (S.257-258). Kindle-Version.

The kind of fandom discourse we need, but not deserve.

Thank you, @legiopraesagio for installing the phrase "Giant Battle Dick" forever in my brain. That's what Reynolds intended when he wrote the damn thing into existence.