I bought a box of Kharadron Overlord Arkanauts from GW… just to see how they scaled up against the old 1980s Squats and, sadly, they were much bigger and didn't fit with the rest of my army so I had a box of miniatures that I didn't really know what to do with.
After a little thought, I decided to try my hand at making some Demiurg from them. The Demiurg are a GW race that has very little information except for a sketch and some background in Battle Fleet Gothic. The only other bit of information is that they shared Ion technology with the Tau.
So… with the sketch and an idea of the tech, I sculpted a new head on one of my Arkanauts:
The arms are just tacked on to give an idea of proportion.
The idea is that I will make squads that consist of three Demiurg and a bunch of drones (different squads have different drones). The three Demiurg will be a leader (from the Thunderer box) with heavy armour and a special rifle, a technician (from the Arkanaut box) with a pistol, hammer and servo harness and finally a controller (again from the Arkanaut box) who will have a control staff and pistol. The three Demiurg will have shield drones and will be in charge of a unit of whatever drones I have found for them.
So far, I just have the first head sculpted and he is a controller. The technician will have bits bolted on to his head and the leader will have a much more rocky look to his head.
I have looked around for drones and at the moment, the most likely place to find them appears to be Warlord Games' Beyond the Gates of Antares. I still need to source the hand weapons for my troops but I have a feeling that Anvil Industries may be able to help me there.
So… there it is. One head sculpted… fourteen to go…