Annilihus

This was a conversion/paintjob request from an NZ client, for a model to lead his chapter of Iron Warriors successors, the Mordis Templars. He had a pretty concrete idea of what he wanted, so the majority of the conversion work here was decided in advance - my job was to find a way to do it :-). The big gun is unconverted, taken straight from a Chaos termie. The hazard stripes on it are to link the model back to the Iron Warriors as the scheme is more reminiscent of Undivided. The initial idea had been to use Maugan Ra's chestplate for the torso, but that proved impossible due to scale, so I added in the ribcage after taking off the chaos details above the belt. The base model is Abaddon, minus his silly topknot and with the lightning claw adapted to the left side - I happened to have an already adapted one in the bits box so that was serendipitous. It just need a little more work (the person who originally did it hadn't moved around the fingers, so they were upside-down). The banner pole is an extended version of Maugan Ra's spine backpack, with heads specially requested by the client. I added the display base because every grand general needs somewhere to stand when he's not in play :-).