Wes' Slaanesh Display Board

Slaanesh and Tool. Tool and Slaanesh. Tango and Cash. Cash and Tango...

Ah Jack Palance...

Yes, let's see if I can pull this one together...

Quick and easy is how you bake a cake, not how you build a display board. This particular display board was to be for the dark god Slaanesh who was created by the excess of the Eldar. In tribute to the dark god I bring you Lateralus, one of the greatest metal songs of all time.

Slaanesh. Tool. Jack Palance? Well, I was thinking a lot about the late, great Bill Hicks the other day and one of his more famous bits about Jack Palance in the movie, Shane. Funny, the actual scene Bill describes doesn't actually exist in the movie, it's more an amalgam of a bunch of different western scenes with Bill's wit thrown in about how the U.S. arms the world and then goes in with better technology like a giant bully. 

At any rate, after Bill died, Tool dedicated their famous second album, Ænima, to him and said the comedian also contributed to the inspiration behind the music. This made Tool even more badass when I learned about this factoid many years later. 

I can see ol' Slaanesh and the Dark Eldar kicking back to some Tool. Maybe the Emperor's Children pump this shit through their sonic weapons at debilitatingly high decibels.

Here's the full album if you crave good painting music.

So Wes has been working on his Slaanesh army for a while and it's looking good. He needed a display board, so we talked. Here's the shitty sketch, or embryo, of the idea. 

The lower left corner of the Slaanesh symbol would be a sort of stadium, there would be a path akin to the picture in the Daemons books and it would all end with a tower where Wes could place his cheesy bastion. 

Voila.

Here's the tower.

And some close ups of the staircase.

Thought I'd include a pic of this thing drying on my kitchen table. It's 2x3 feet and took a serious amount of weight in the form of pots, pans, books and my Kitchenaid mixer.

My girlfriend's plant supplied weight to glue the tower in place.

Here we are again. Done. Wes just wanted the basics and said he'll finish all the sanding, painting and extras. Perfect.

Here's ol' OOP grumpypants for a size perspective.

And the stadium, which reminds me of Pink Floyd's Live at Pompei...

If you are a fan of Floyd and haven't seen this, well, I don't know what to say except go out and buy some psychedelic mushrooms and watch this in the dark with lots of sound. You'll thank me later.

He's playing. She's dancing. What's he playing?

Maybe this?