Primeval Abyssian - The Cascadians

First post of the new year and I have a special preview of one of the new races - the Cascadians. They are perhaps one of the most abstract/weirdest designs I've come up with but still in my "style" of thin and wirey asymmetrical sillohettes! I am really happy with it though. For those that do not know about the Cascadians, they a type of sentient/intelligent anti-body created by the Time vortex within the Ether itself - so I guess they are like cooler versions of Time Lords.

End of year post!

I guess this is the final blog i'll make this year. This blog is about two years old at this point and it's strange to see how much i've accomplished over the past few years - so I am looking forward to 2013 and hoping to push on and complete more sculpts and hopefully, finally get my Wargame out! 

Of course my wargame isn't the only thing I want to make within the PA setting - there is the sci-fi web show too! Progress on that is extremely slow for a number of reasons,  but I finally got a camcorder for christmas (thanks to my very awesome Dad for believing in me!) so it isn't much but I spent some time with it to see how the prototype Tolathian puppet looks on-screen under different light-levels. Here are some pictures I screencapped from the footage to show you :

Next year I'll be sculpting more miniatures (this is the priority) but I'll also be slowly working on a modular set system I can use to create the Tolathian Outpost in the sci-fi web series I hope to make. My goal for next year however will be to get some of the set moulds ready and perhaps do a very simple/basic 5-10 minute short-film to get to grips with film. It won't be anything amazing or special and will be more to get experience and working in the world of film but I'll probably post it on here for opinions anyway!

Anyway. Hope everyone had a good xmas, I will wish everyone a good new year and thank you for all reading my blog and the nice and supportive comments I got! it's very appreciated!

To the people that ask me about Kickstarter

I've had several people ask me or recomend me to do a Kickstarter, so I thought I would talk about this here.

The truth is I have definitly been thinking about kickstarter and I have been watching kickstarters over the past year or so that have both been successes and ones that have been failures - basicly I've been taking notes and seeing what made certain ones suceed and others fail.

I definitly wouldnt be able to do this kind of project on my own, that's for sure and I would definitly only do a kickstarter if I knew for 100% that I could get people the rewards they pledge for, to do otherwise would feel completely wrong, unfair and I am not the kind of person who wants to cheat people out of their hard earned money! So better to not do it all than do a half assed job of it where I can't fullfill promises. Maybe a year or so down the line I will be in the position to plan for one and have the help to make it work.

Of course hypothetically - if I did use it, I have had various ideas in my head such as using it to fund my Sci-fi web show and have miniatures as rewards, maybe even full size hard plastic Tolathian Puppets the same as the ones i intend to use to film to with myself. I think I can do my miniatures without a KS - but the option could be the potential way to get the funds to film my sci-fi.

If you havent read about my sci-fi web show, it's something I have wanted to do for years now and it does indeed take place in the Primeval Abyssian setting, allthough it is not based around battles and war (that's what the tabletop game is for!) it is more inspired by hard sci-fi writers such as Olaf Stapledon, Robert L Forward, Arthur C Clarke and Hal Clement to name a few. The premise revolves around a Tolathian research outpost in an area of the Ether that is teeming with spacial anomolies that they research. I am working on this project more on the side since it involves so much work (on different frontiers as well).

Anyhow, this is just what has been on my mind with the subject, and I thought I'd share it since people have asked about it and I havent really been able to properly give them an answer, so I hope that clears things up.

Primeval Abyssian - Masters Of Unlife

Here is the WIP "new" Master of Unlife :

The old one felt more like one of the Masters "pets" than a Master itself, so it has been repurposed as as "Guardian" instead.

Primeval Abyssian - A Painted Luuran!

Some people have asked about what some of my models look like painted, while others have said they feel they'd "get" what I'm trying to get across better with some painted examples - so during the sculpting of the Luuran range I was happy to find I had one left that was spare so I've painted it up to show you.

Primeval Abyssian - Rise Of The Luuran!

Here are the luuran units iv been sculpting over the past 5 months :

Chaugniers - Shock-troops of the Luuran. They use reverse engineered technology stolen from the masters of unlife during an Incursion several centuries ago.

Arvatae -  These easily bred flying beasts from the Luuran homeworld are often sent in packs and directed into enemy lines to weaken the enemy as much as possible.

Gyashan : These are high ranking Luuran who are the most trusted servants of the High Seclorums. They are permanently integrated into bio-mechanical thrones. They are held up by two heretics that have been turned into mindless drones and their heads are permenantly biologically attached to the bottom of the throne and their eyes have been torn out and replaced by mouths.

High Seclorum : The High priests of the Luuran and leaders of the Order of the All Seeing Eye. Every Luuran force is lead by one of these zealots. 

Sect Tome keepers : These are the ones that hold the sacred word and carry the ancient tomes of the Order of the all Seeing Eye, they act as chaplains, librarians and more.

A second blog!

I've setup a brand new blog to promote my music : http://prophecydominion.blogspot.co.uk/

For those unfamiliar with my music, I have been creating Electro-Industrial, Metal, Dark-Electro, EBM and various forms of electronic genres and styles under a variety of different names for well over ten years now and I felt it's time to promote that side of me a little. For wargamers - you'll probably find my music is -very- fitting for dark futuristic wargames, or even horror type games! So please go add my new blog !

Primeval Abyssian - an update on the Luuran

Just thought I'd post a little update, nothing to show sadly - but I've been very busy!

The Luuran range is basicly 90% done at this point and in a week or so I should have 9 out of 10 units 100% !!

Heres what you have to look forward to seeing in the next few weeks -

Gyashans : these are Luuran integrated into bio-mechanical thrones. They are held up by two heretics that have been turned into mindless drones and their heads are permenantly biologically attached to the bottom of the throne and their eyes have been torn out and replaced by mouths. The tail segments are linked together with an eyeball joining them.

Arvatae : These are animal beasts from the luuran homeworld, they have a strong elephantine look with a single trunk, two tusks and have four eyes, with one central large eye and a row of three on the top. They have a rat-like tail and are kind of like the equiivilent of "Jetbikes" or "Screamers".

Sect Tome Keepers : These are high-ranking Luuran that act as missionaries and librarians. They each carry a sacred tome biologically attached to them and have larger traingle symbols on their foreheads.

Chaugniers : These guys are more like the Luuran equivilent of Shock-troopers. They have a fair amount of bio-armour enhancements and weaponry. They are tough and reliable.

High-Seclorum : This one got an entire resculpt, it's more priest-like now, it carries a staff with a pyramid on top with an eye over it, and is more blinged up and detailed than any of the others.

Initiates : These are the Luuran who still havent earned the right to carry the Mark Of Enlightenment (the pyramd symbol on their foreheads), and their eyes remain open to show they still have a long way to go. These are light infantry and make for disposable/weaker troops.

A kickstarter I can get behind : Tentacles & Eyeballs

Just found this on Tabletop gaming news and had to post it on my blog :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/806737090/tentacles-and-eyeballs-an-rpg-horror-miniatures-se


Looking at this stuff - It's almost like they are making it just for me ! either that or Nyarlathotep has been poking his tentacles into my brain, because I've been looking to support something just like this for a while now.

I especially like the larger monsters, my favourite is the "DeepMother", what a beautiful eldritch abomination that is! but they are all very nice I think.

I'll be pledging for this, will you? Feel free to share your thoughts.

Primeval Abyssian : Masters Of Unlife Origins

The Lost Souls :

Within the Outer-Universe, where all Universae are born - all living things die, it is simply the natural order of the Greater Nature. Normally when living things die their soul is reborn as something else, the memories retained in their particles which are reused again and again over a cycle we could not possibly comprehend it's length. Sometimes, however - some souls will slip through minute cracks in their respective universe. These temporary cracks are almost non-existant but when a soul escapes through this crack it will eventually find itself in a place known only as the Necroverse.

Nothing truly lives in the Necroverse, and it is the unfortuante fate of these souls that they are bound into the unliving techno-organism drones, forever enslaved to the Masters Of Unlife, the kings of the Necroverse. The Masters of Unlife weave their spiral fog towers amid the black nether vortex that they live in - thinking beyond the capacity of what would be considered sane.

It is within the Fog towers and cities of smoke that form and reform constantly, that the Masters Of Unlife float in harmony - directing their abyssal drones and other souless servants to work unimaginable contraptions that keep the Necroverse cities alive. For, if even the slightest mechanism fails - the Necroverse would shrivel-up and rot away into nothingness and as Grave Keepers, the Masters must make sure the cosmic graveyard always exists.

The Strife Of Reaping :

The Necroverse has existed for an unimaginable amount of time. A thousand universes would of lived and died in comparison to a single century in Necroversal chronography. It is because of it's age it is increasingly frail and weak. As time went on, The stability of the Necroverse ensured it needed an increasing amount of 

maintenance - more than what the Masters Of Unlife could deal with themselves. 

During this period known as the Strife Of Reaping, many Black Hole Crypts were lost forever, their memories of dead universes histories forever gone - for what most do not know, is that the Necroverse is an unliving cosmological library that contains memories and knowledge of all universes that have come and gone, including precious souls deemed too important to be reincarnated into future realms of existence.

As the thousandath Black Hole Crypt dissolved into nothingness, the Masters decided they must meet each other for the time - and so they would put their collective minds together and share their knowledge and power to come up with a solution to save the Necroverse from entropy. This plan of course, would be that they would open cracks in space to other universes - so they could collect lost souls which they would use to combine with their necroversal technology to create drones that would aid the increasing maintenance of the Necroverse. Of course, as time went on - more and more drones would be needed, and a place known as the Etherium was deemed perfect as it was not a natural universe, but a manufactured one and so it would have a larger amount of lost-souls that could be used to fuel their abyssal technology. So come the Masters Of Unlife.