Forthammer Clan Throng - Drake Dunsson (Cogsmith) (Painted)

My son of the Warden King has been completed. I also decided to give him a companion gryph-hound. My army list may make use of him for some overwatch against anything being summoned or deep striking near my 2 big guns. So I decided to paint it in the general color of the clan throng, instead of painting the hound the colors of my stormhost.

This gryph-hound mini is from the Silver Tower box, and normally accompanies the Excelsior Warpriest. I figured since it's apparent that gryph-hounds don't only accompany the Stormcast Eternals, and are natives of Azyr, Drake could have picked one up at some point. The hammer on its collar still fits with the faction.

Forthammer Clan Throng - Drake Dunsson (Cogsmith)

One of the featured models for my Duardin side of my AoS army (for the LVO) will be Drake Dunsson, the Master Cogsmith. I featured him here, as I talked about using him in Silver Tower. Well he went through a redesign, which I love.

This happened when I took off his original head. I am fond of the Irondrake heads, but since my Forgesworn Eternals were all to use those heads, I didn't want my Duardin to use the same, opting instead for different available heads. Then I purchased the Gyrocopter kit, which I plan to use for another conversion. In going through the bits, I found one of the bits for the front fuselage gun-mount used on the Gyrocopter variant could be turned around and put on a body to look like a really cool mantle. Also I really liked one of the pilot heads, as it would be perfect for the eccentric engineer that Drake is. I also redesigned the back unit. I liked the gear assembly up top, but stick it on a few engniney bits from my collection, and ran hoses to the pistols, to look like they were feeding it.

I think this makes a more unique looking engineer model, and I can't wait to show it off when painted.