The fruits of my labour these last weeks:
I tried a whole evening to make the hurricanum planet engine thingy look more to my liking (looks too much like it would make the wagon fall over) and I wasn't able to make a good looking gyroscope (which I think would look kick ass), so I ended up stripping it completely. I imagine the acolytes being something like masters' students at the College of Heavens. They are given this wagon to do their own observations of the heavens and trying out their battle magic from as safe a perch as possible. That gives an explanation for the random spell effect as well.
All the wagons are dry mostly fitted, so I can strip them back into a handfull of sub assemblies when they are to be painted.
I had some qualms about the Luminarks' top heavy looks as well. While better than the engine on the Hurricanum, it was still a bit too much and I have been looking for an excause to use the old Steam Tank reliquiary for years. It's just so amazingly cool!
It kind of lost it's scientific look and ended up more religious. In a way banishing daemons and stuff seems more of a religious pursuit, but I do like the idea of science being a way to create order in cosmos and thus being the antithesis of Chaos.
The Waltar is pretty much finished. just some GSing left to do here and there. The shelf is from a Questing Knight (brilliant miniatures that I've wanted to paint ever since their release. Guess stripping them for parts is the next best thing).
I also put together a couple of spearmen. I want to use sallet style helmets in my upcoming regiments and felt I needed to put some in my spearmen as well, so it won't clash to badly.
