So after finishing the Cohort test model I did try another couple of schemes (because me brain apparently hates me and couldn’t move on until I tried them), purple and green but neither worked as well as the red for me so I’ve shaken off that curiosity if I’m on the right track.
I did also start sketching up some concepts for my artillery piece. In case you didn’t see it may initial concept was this…
I liked the shorter stubby barrel and I do love the smoke effects on that Dominator engine. However, as mentioned in the earlier posts my head canon for the Zharr Vyxa pirates is that their very presence in the Realm of Death attracts the undead souls to them, so I played about with making it look like some of the spirits from that world are being drawn into the cool engine like contraption at the base of our canon. Again this is at the very early concept stage, just trying to get an idea of the shapes and where everything fits, so everything will be tidied up and finished off once decisions are made.
I really like this idea but it changed to look/balance of the whole thing to where I think the original smoke stack idea would look too much or too busy so I put it out of my head and decided to stick with the slender canon it came with. I’ve found when trying to include some of the Nighthaunt pieces it’s a tricky balance to not loose the aesthetic of the new models, which for the initial batch anyway I didn’t want to do. Maybe as time goes by I’ll do some more out there conversions but for now I wanted to just add to the range and not take away too much.
I was happy enough to stick with the barrel until… until I saw @Xander‘s glorious tribute to the original hellcanon. Now I’m trying to decide whether to follow suit and go with the stubby version like the original concept above (minus the smoke) or stick with the longer barrel.
Would love to hear what people think
Here are some more pics
