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VangarShriek β C'tan Arumihsi the Planetcracker
Published: 2012-06-22 11:22:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 3355; Favourites: 55; Downloads: 29
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finally my first real piece with elements 10, i don't know why by elements really gives me an urge to draw monstrous faces, i still need to try space marines, maybe next time. anyway this took forever, mainly because i've never tried drawing fire before, i tried several tutorials i found on dA, and though the final result doesn't look the same as the chosen tutorial i'm still happy with it.Arumihsi (pronounced Aru-me-see) in named Planetcracker for the devastating effects his presence causes on the earth he treads. though he may appear a pyromaniac, the fire is a bi product of his energy and not a weapon, the whip in his hands is used to lash at the ground, causing it to convulse and crumble around his enemies.
also, I CANNOT stress how much this is NOT the Balrog of middle-earth, I bet some will immediately see this and think 'wow what an odd looking balrog', well it's not.
EDIT
it has come to my attention, with the help of ~Talos2110 , that this in NO WAY AT ALL linked to the balrog of tolkien's the lord of the rings trilogy. what it does resemble is games workshops balrog model, which, in turn, is based on peter jacksons interpretation of tolkien's work. this picture here, thereby, RESEMBLES the vision of a character that was NEVER properly described. i will defy any of you to find me a single sentence in tolkiens books that even remotely describes the balrog looking like this.
as we have the copies of the original book, we studied through every mention of the balrog, all that can be said with certainty is that it was "of man-shape, maybe, but greater;" (so there are no distinguishing features like horns, teeth or even skin colour), it does not even suggest that the "whip of many thongs" was even made of fire (or even what colour). to add to this, using the most common debate, the tolkiens balrog didn't necessarily have wings. i could go on.
my point is that this is not the balrog, because the balrog is not defined in any meaningful sense. though we cannot find (though believe me we tried) the copyright for the name balrog, it certainly isn't owned by games workshop, therefore any suggestion that this resembles a 'balrog' is at best saying 'hey i saw something from a movie that looked like this'.
TL;DR: THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU SAW IN A RANDOM MOVIE. FUCK OFF.
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maybe if u would have changed the head of the model with greenstuff a bit or added some horns or stuff would have made a small but impressive difference from the orig. model.
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mmm, perhaps, but it was hard enough just greenstuffing where the wings had been, plus i didn't really want to run the risk of ruining the face, that's probably my favourite feature
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ok,i can understand.
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are you going to make it with the balrog model?
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way ahead of you [link]
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it does, at least jacksons one anyway
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Yeah, balrogs in the images that are used in Tolkiens books look a lot different.
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well as i stated in the description, it's actually impossible to tell what the balrog looks like at all, when you look at the wording in the books, there is very little description of it
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Funny I was gonna say..it looks like Diablo! 
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and it's even more fun to get worked up about it
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He even has the hips like the new Diablo...great job.
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thanks, i think, i don't know much about diablo
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hahaha good you won't realize what an insult that was then.
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A balrog without wings and is the color green and silver. Sorry looks simlar just with some differences.... Prehaps change the head with a knore daemon or a tyrind and least then it be more hard to compare.
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if i say it's a c'tan, it's a c'tan. just in the same way people can take all manner of items, splice them together and call it art. it is art because the creator says it is, it isn't necessarily 'good' art, but it's art all the same. likewise if i build and paint this thing to be a c'tan, that makes it a c'tan
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Cool down man I wasn't saying that it wasn't c'tan just want to help ya give it a more "different" look from that of well... Its not crapy either since you put hard work into it. Looks good too. All I was saying is you could have twisted the design a little more so it would suffer being compared to another thing.
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i know, i'm not actually worked up about it, i just enjoy making aggressive points, i do agree with you, i was originally going to give him a hammer, but it's based on the model, and when building the model i had no hammer available so went with the whip. the thing with adding extra stuff to him is that i don't think that's how a c'tan should look, if you look at the nightbringer or deceiver they're quite plain, to give them any form of attire or iconography seems kinda wrong, given also that i wanted arumishi to be quite raw and beast like, i decided he needed to be as simple as possible. also the problem with changing his head is that the balrogs neck is incredibly thick, to put something else on there would be difficult and weird looking, plus the balrogs head is awesome, why would i even want to change it?
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Indeed. The head does look awesome but it looks to much like a daemons head. Perhaps give it a little splash of insectiod to match the necrons a little. But it still looks good no matter what you do with it.
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ah but that's the other thing, should they look necrony at all? the c'tan aren't necrons after all, never were, none of the known c'tan resemble necrons (void dragon, nightbringer, deceiver etc), i think that was the one thing i certainly didn't want him to look like, even the green fire is not because of my necrons (they have red energy)
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Good point. I was wonder how did you make you sector your basing this in anyway? or is this just make fluff from what you had in mind?
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errr, sorry you'll have to rephrase that, i can't quite tell what you're asking
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Im sorry Autism tends to scramble what I say. How did you make his fluff?
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based on the two power i gave him in game, writhing worldscape and moulder of worlds, his name is actually a sublte reference to a game
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Sounds like a smashing story to make. I myself am making a entire Sector. Basing it around the Legion I created hopefully I can do it.
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sounds like an awesome idea, i myself have spent the last year developing the background for my character vangar, and his psuedo-renegade legion, it's half the fun of warhammer, what good are armies if they don't have great backstories
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Indeed. Im using the deathwatch rites of battle for the Legion fluff, then Im using [link] this planet generator made by tg for the planets in the sector. Im going with a roman,machine worshiping,raptor like legion who despise the Ultramarines.
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nifty, they sound pretty badass, though there are plenty of reasons to hate the ultramarines, why exactly does your legion hate them specifically?
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Bad blood between Rob and Machellus (my primarch) still fleshing out this bit but I mostly putting that they worked with eachother for a while but the Ultramarines taking all the credit while the legion bore the brunt of casualties. Next they were the only legion that escaped from being transformed into a legion via well place connections and contracts the Inquisition and the Adeptus mechanicus but the legion would only number 30,000 as was its orignal set number anyway. The fact he got away with it further soured the relationship. The thing that piss him off is that there are two Ultramarine successors in his sector. (yes I am allowing my primarch to be in the 41 millennium out of curiosity)
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sounds good, personally i'm always sceptical of people setting stuff in the 31st, only because i read the horus heresy books meticulously (if there existed a scholarship in them, i'd be the first applicant) and find there is little room to add ones own things, but if you can make it work that's damn good work
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Ah but as the 40k people have said the stories are not truely canon. There is some flex I like. But I do kinda need help on this one. Being scattered like I am don't help.
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ah yes i've heard that point before, pray tell what about the horus heresy books isn't canon?
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well its mainly a perspective point. The heresy books are only partially the acts within them are a chance of happening like a history book. Not completely correct but a general jist if you will. Makes ajusting fluff and lore easy when its like that.
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i might agree if it was someone in the 41st talking about it, but because it is a story told about people who were there, a first person account kind of, i don't really think that works, also, its all science fiction, the exact same rules apply to the 41st books, hell i saw that in the two books i'm reading now
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Ah but so is whats the word..... some written by the person.... even so a first perspective could also mean someones remembering from their perspective hence they could twist the story to them. Personally I like Warhammer fantasy so Ive read Heldenhammer, Empire and God king smashing books to me
each just as first person. Sorry if this is scrambled.
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no worries i get it, haven't read any of the fantasy books myself, then again i haven't read many 40k ones either, i stick mainly to the 30k ones
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There is a fun chapter Im making the Storm wings (blood angel successor) Mixed with Vikings. Crazed Viking vampires. Gana be good.
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that will be... interesting
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