Since my Morker mob is finally finished, I decided to switch gears into Mordheim. First up is my Eshin Sorcerer. This conversion has actually been a long time in the making. His arms are from the old metal Horrors of Tzeentch. I bought them from Games-Workshop back when you could still buy bitz directly from their website, which would mean that I started working on this guy back in...2007? I don't think it was the initial inspiration for this conversion, but it was certainly influenced along the way by Nordic's Eshin Sorcerer from his old DeviantArt account. As I recall, my original plan was to use a Plague Monk body, but I'm glad that I decided to go with the Empire Wizard instead.
I had to carefully cut and pin the Horror arms to get them to fit properly with the Wizard bitz that I was using for the body. This ended up being ridiculously hard, as the spindly little arms were only slightly larger than the wire I was using to pin them. It would have been a shame to have held onto those bitz for over a decade, only to end up ruining them in the process of trying to stick the whole thing together.
I left his right side unattached while I was building him, since there was a fair number of little fiddly bits inside his cloak that I would never be able to paint once he was completely assembled. I got the hood courtesy of Cygnus, which I elongated to fit the Skaven aesthetic.
The scythe is actually from one of the ornamental bits on the Vampire Counts Coven Throne, which worked rather nicely. I did have to carve out a slot for it between his arm and his shoulder, but once I did, it fit nice and tight. His base is cobbled together from a couple of chunks of rubble from the Assault Marine sprue, along with some greenstuff brickwork and the obligatory skull.
The cloak on the Empire Wizard looked much to starched and smooth for a Skaven that's been crawling around in the rubble of Mordheim for months, so I carved in some rips and tears and sculpted a few more folds and wrinkles to break up the smoother areas. I actually hollowed out the entire bottom of the body so that the feet and legs would go up inside the robes, not that you can really tell on the finished model much.
All in all, I'm pretty satisfied with how this guy turned out. Definitely worth the twelve year wait. Now I just need to see if I can get another fifteen or so models finished in less than 180 years...
