Magnus the red primarch conversion

[isotope99]

Magnus the Red - Primarch of the Thousand Sons

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02085.JPG
http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/DSC02086.JPG

You may have seen the work in progress pictures of this model on another thread but as a Primarch I thought Magnus deserved his own thread.

This is meant to be Magnus in the heresy era, i.e. before he turns fully to chaos and becomes a daemon prince.

Magnus isn't that easy to represent on the battlefield as his description has quite a few different elements to fit together. I was trying incorporate the following from the Thousand Sons book (no doubt I have misread some of it, and I think I green stuffed over the wrong eye, but never mind):


One eye, but not cyclopean just like one eye is missing.
Red hair
The book of magnus
Ebony horns rising from his chest and shoulders ( I made the chest horns parallel rather than sticking out so that they were less prominent).
A cloak of irridescent feathers.


I think he looks reasonably like the description and the cover of the book:

http://www.games-workshop.com/MEDIA_CustomProductCatalog/m850163a_60100181109_AThousandSons_873x627.jpg

I have him rising on a pillar of energy to increase his size and show his powers. He now towers over mere regular space marines.

http://www.lounge.belloflostsouls.net/photopost/data/575/magnusscale.jpg

[Farseer_Orso]

You are correct, Sir. Wrong eye, but other than that, it looks great! My one criticism is that you should perhaps highlight the horns on his chest just a little bit. I had to look twice to see them. That'll also give a bit of visual interest to his otherwise blank torso.

Great conversion though, looks like you had a lot of fun doing him.

[justsam]

IMO, the scarab could stand out a little bit more as well. i had to look twice to see it, and only noticed it after the WIP photo. putting a finite size to magnus is a bit like getting a tzeentch tattoo, though. every time magnus is "on-screen" in the book, ahriman keeps noticing how he can never really pick out one true size for magnus because he keeps representing different heights. still, the whole thing is better than i could manage

[theHman]

looks cool!
Have to say that I didn't notice the horns on his chest until I read what you did and did a 2nd glance.
I'm sure that it's much more noticeable in person than via online.

Overall, I dig it.

[greenstuff777]

looks a tad cartoon-e need more highlights then that would be bad ***

[Meph]

Personally I would've put the chest horns more to the front so they don't impede his arm movement. But for the rest looking ace...