Femmes Impervm Sister Repentia

Latest addition to my Femmes Imperum series (although they now have new owner).
Sister Repentia once AGAIN based on unpublished Blanche artwork.
Mini is based around Dark eldar wych anatomy but rest is scratcbuilt with ProCreate.

Finally sneek peek to my work desk, where these two Buddle-school armatures wait some layers of modelling putty to become  miniatures for my Confrontation war band.

Her Grace The Deaconess Dowager

May I, your humble sculptor of twisted imagenarium of the desolated 40k universe, present to you the third venerable member of the Femmes Imperum series - Her grace The Deaconess Dowager from the Ecclisiarch Hive.

Character once again based of wonderful John Blanche painting. She really challenced me in many ways - The original painting was perfect starting point - Rather tightly cropped image left many details open for the viewer. I started my project using Dark Eldar parts but as you can see, they got pretty much covered under layers and layers of stuff.

I wanted to give her full court dress as I visioned her to be honoured and high ranking official of the Ecclisiarch Hive. So this time I was able to go pretty over the top with the ceremonial dress and the hair peace.

The Deaconess differs from my previous Femmes having more volume around her curves. Total blast to sculpt from start to finish. Hair peace was pain to sculpt but it was totally worth the trouble. OK enough with the words here she comes...

- Mikko

Femmes Imperum Deaconess re-posed WIP

Change of plans - decided to give her a cane, something suitable for elderly lady like her =)

Femmes Imperum WIP

Third one emerges -  Graceful, Slender, Sophisticated, Nobel.... Deadly

Yet again based on JB artwork (sorry no pics) An elderly servant of Immortal Emperor this time.

Many things are still searching their places but you get the point.

(290 followers!!! We Are Legion!!! the big 3 is so close =)

Femmes Imperum - The Beauty In Decay part II

"Nurgle shall be called with death

Aksho Nurgeth Dh'Akh"

Dames of Destruction

Femmes Imperum - The Beauty In Decay WIP

Yet another one rises!

The second character for the Femmes Imperum. Loosely based on unpublished John Blanche painting representing something that appears to be a female plaguebearer.

Unfortunately I can't show the original painting that inspired me to build this character. John politely asked me not to. He told me that the painting is part of the new body of work from him. Hopefully it is something that will eventually get published somewhere.

Very much WIP here. I think I will create all the Femmes ready before I start to paint them...

Femmes Imperum

Sometimes you get lost by accident, sometimes intentionally. The latter happened to me. I wanted to find new path after creating whole bunch of Inquisitor miniatures. I searched for new direction to go, something where I could create series of miniatures without too restricted theme around them. I created Bathoriia, daemonic entity based around John Blanche painting. She showed me a new path. A path where I could study the miniatures in wider perspective.

Femmes Imperum concept was born. Series of fierce female characters from both Warhammer & WH40k universes. Here I could create wide variety of different miniatures from varying backgrounds but whose would still be tied together by much more loose theme being all female. I told my idea to the main inspirator himself and John gave me very encouraging feedback from it. Being so kind, he even provided me with some very inspiring material to feed my creativity.

Femmes Imperum is project where I will study the aesthetics of beauty in all of its forms in Warhammer & WH40k setting using John's amazing illustrations as basis for the characters.

Bathoriia was just the beginning, now prepare yourselves for some serious madness...

Death Walks On Stilettos part III

Here she is, in all of her Daemonic glory! 

She was a true challenge, I had to pose and re-pose her many times before I was happy with the result. Getting the pose to look good in every direction was daunting task (& same goes for almost every single detail on her) Damn those Femmes are hard to deal with;)! But Im happy with the outcome and she is easily the best piece of conversion work I have done so far, so I hope you like her too.

Antennas? No, microscopic servoskulls ;)

For what should I call her John?

Death Walks On Stilettos part II

Trying to get the feminine lines just right here. (Damn it's hard) Thanks Fulgrim for pointing me towards that wonderful Dark Elf Sorceress kit! that hair section is just perfect for this project=)