Brilliant Stefan (KrautScientist) from the Eternal Hunt suggested that this guy could be a sort of a personal confessor for inquisitor de Lorme. This idea really seems to fit my own vision of this character - that is, someone who doesn't serve any purely practical purpose (like, for example, combat, data analysis, dish-washing etc.), yet who seems to be highly valued by the inquisitor.
Secondly, I've started working on yet another model. This time I want to make a sort of an autosavant/lexmechanic character. Those autosavant characters are supposed to be a kind of human computers, who are able to perform multiple complex computations in a very short time. On the other hand, there was a time when the computing machines did not have any kind of visual display and the output information was instead printed or punched on paper. So I thought - perhaps this could be a way which my autosavant uses for communicating the results of his own computations?
A quick sketch to give you an impression of what I have in mind:
The idea is that for some reasons this autosavant is no longer able to speak and he has to print his thoughts on paper instead! This printed/punched output is supposed to be an equivalent of speaking, thus it seems natural that the tape comes out through the hole placed in the mouth area...
Even more, this is a strange world of 40k, so I think that there is probably some servo-skull or a cherub who's only purpose is to read the printed data and pass them on to the relevant persons. I'm not yet sure if it is possible to translate this idea into the model, but I'm already trying:
Thanks for reading and don't forget to leave a comment! Cheers!
The advisor looks great. Maybe you could include De Lormes emblem on him to tie them together visually.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of the Auto savant, and have been meaning to do something similar myself. It would seem you got there first. :)
Hey, thanks! What was your idea for a similar character?
DeleteI wanted to have a fat official type character, a scribe or scrivener with the scroll coming out of his moth. It would be cool if he had the writing utensils almost like the mandibles of a spider in front of his mouth - Iv'e got a drawing of it somewhere around.
ReplyDeleteYeah! The writing utensils is a great motive. I imagine he could have one pair for writing and another one for holding his mouth stretched, for even more bizarre effect. You definitely need to make that model! It is always interesting to see how the similar ideas come to life in form of distinct realizations.
DeleteThat sounds really cool. I can think of a couple of other illustrations which could work as inspiration for that as well, there is an image in one of the old guard codexes with an officer with his mouth stretched open to hold a vox, and this art( specifically the writing arms) is perfect in terms of the general look of the pen arms. Hopefully the link works...
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This has got me really excited, i'll have to post up some of the art and maybe the beginning of the model on the blog.
Like I said, you definitely should do that. I will be following progress on your model - it will surely help me stay motivated too. Cheers!
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