Everythung looks sooo awsome. I especially like the flyrant and the jetbike. What will you count it as by the way? If you explained it earlier, I'm really sorry but I don't have the time or patience to read through 10 pages.

Grimm

darkkt wrote:Those bases look great too - thought about casting some & selling?

I've been planning to eventually, but so far haven't had the time or the cash to get it set up.

poptarticus wrote:lovelovelovelovelove the inquisitor. Will a painted pic be forthcoming?

I hope so, but that's up to the buyer.

Grimm wrote:Everythung looks sooo awsome. I especially like the flyrant and the jetbike. What will you count it as by the way? If you explained it earlier, I'm really sorry but I don't have the time or patience to read through 10 pages.

I'm honestly not sure what the buyer is planning to count the jetbike as. He asked me to build it, so I did... but I'm assuming it will just count as a regular bike in game.

Empchild wrote:Can't wait to see her retinue.

I'm not doing the retinue... just the bases, so that they match.

I hadn't been quite happy with the insides of the bike's wings... they were just too plain.

So, I scribed in some panel lines, and added some hydraulics. I'm also looking at options to magnetise the wings for safer transport.



Meanwhile, a little more putty work on the legs:



Started on the backpack:



And added a blade to his weapon and a magnet to his shoulder:



So as of right now, he's looking something like this:

Looking great! The added detail to the inside of the wing came out fantastic. Litle things like that really make a huge difference

wow awsome stuff looking forward to seeing more of it.

awesome work m8

cool

That's a cool ride. I like the detail and the boltguns on the underside. And you fixed the captains head. I am partial to the sergeants head though.

Wow! this is coming along so nicely. Keep up the awesome work on those minis!


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poptarticus wrote:Will a painted pic be forthcoming? Just curious.

If you check out his site; He normally typically doesn't paint minis, only his own/familys'. For his consignment stuff he only does the converting/modeling.

Truly amazing

Started on a shield for the jeybiker:


Added a power unit to his polearm:


And started on the cape:

that is one truly inspired Jetbike you have put together. Nice work on the greenstuff as well, I hate the stuff as it never does what I want it to do, but that cape looks awesome!

The jetbike is shaping up jet-sweet.

And your inquisitor really is exquisitely crafted.

Insaniak... great stuff. I am loving your conversions.

I am glad that Malfred is seeing this. He is always giving me gak for bouncing around with my sculpting projects (I will paint something someday... I promise)!

The Jetbiker is just about finished. Just waiting for a base to arrive in the mail...

Awesome work. How many hours would you say it took in total?

'Internet high-five'

Brilliant. I love the pistons and trim-feather-thingies on the wings in particular.

inspirational! i thought the heavy scouts were awesome, this jet bike just raises the bar. great stuff!

Its love of the hobby, is what I would say, the hours are meaningless.

Good looking biker. Well done.

Disjointed Entity wrote:How many hours would you say it took in total?

Actually, I have no idea. Certainly more than I quoted for... Tracking the actual time taken on each job is a problem with commission work that I've been trying to find an easy solution for, since I tend to underestimate just how long a lot of jobs are going to take. Trying to keep a log has been an epic fail, since I forget to update it



Meanwhile, Jetbike has a base:



Also ripped off the shield and reattached it with magnets so it can be removed if necessary.

Looks amazing man just amazing.

WoW .. i wish i could be you'r customer *sad face that's begging for a free comission..*

Dude, your works in this thread are AWESOME. That's a neat captain on a jetbike!

Top notch! There arent many positive descriptive words that haven't already been said, but all of you work is definitely high quality stuff.

Glued magnets into the bottoms of 4 rippers:



Work progressing on 7 discs to fit into the circle on the Flyrant's base:



Drilled holes for magnets in the base:



...which once filled in, look like this:



...which lets you do this:


...with the rippers serving as removable wound counters.


The swappable discs at the front will have these guys:


...and a couple more friends, with the idea being that the appropriate casualty can be slotted in for whichever army is currently being fought.

Did you come up with that or was it the client? either or it's a great idea.

The removable casualties were something the client requested. The actual execution (excuse the pun) was mine.

that wound counting system is genius! and well done. your modelling skills continue to astound!

A little more work on the casualty markers:







And my personal favourite:


Still a little filling and detail work to go. Well, and the Tau guy needs arms.

That Ork is priceless

Yikes!
Your work seems to get better every time I visit!
I love the Wound Marker idea. I may have to try and pilfer that somehow... but how to do it with Daemonhunters?

Outstanding stuff!

Something a little different that I just started... This will (assuming it turns out halfway decent) be a christmas present for my fiance.

Oh, crap.

He's making Barney!

Or it could be Barneys evil twin

MagickalMemories wrote:Oh, crap.

He's making Barney!

I had the exact same thought...

Erm ... I thought it was barney aswell lol , maybe give it to a kid instead

If it is Barney, I'm hoping for a diorama with either a Deathwatch Kill Team or Grey Knight Squad executing the thing.....

Barney with a gun singing " I love you, you love.. SUCK ON THIS "

While I'm curious to see if anyone figures out what it is (and if so at what point they do so), I will say it's not Barney...

Godzilla? el chupacabra? MY MOTHER IN LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also noticed your flag on your avatar. Have you moved recently?

Santa?

And to those who say "It has a tail! How can it be Santa?!?" I ask you... Have you ever seen Santa? No. Maybe he does have a tail. So NYEH!

Empchild wrote:also noticed your flag on your avatar. Have you moved recently?

Nope, the location flags are just a little glitchy.

That was my guess


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XD

I know your mother in law right?

Well F- Me! its an anteater!

what did I just read?

Is it some sort of ring holding Skaven? (like the poster for Hudsucker Proxy?)

A small update...

The mystery sculpt, mostly finished:


It's Flaco, a lizard from a webcomic called Sheldon. The sculpt is based on this image.


We got a little busy right before Christmas, so I got him done enough to give to M on the day, but didn't get him finished. Still a little cleaning up and sanding to do, and then he needs some paint.


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Starting in on the Flyrant's wings:

I take it you didnt finish in time for xmas then?

Not quite. As I said, enough to give it to her, but it will need some final cleaning up and painting later.


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More wing work:




And a teaser with the proto-wings in place:

Lovin' the wound counters, I'll see how I can steal & adapt that idea.

As this thread is a big collection of your work, do you have painted pictures of the plastic techmarine you did ages ago? (Or anything on similar bases)

The techmarine was a piece done for eBay, so no, I don't have painted shots.

Anything else will be in the gallery on my website (www.underthecouch.net).

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

OMG i can't wait to see that flyrant... you are such a tease!

Small update on Callista:

It's been a while so I can't remember. Are you building her for your own personal use or ebay, or client?

That flyrant is very nice.

I may make another tyrant inspired by you

I'm waiting to see how he does the wings, as I kind of want to make a Parasite of Whereever and would like ideas to steal for it.

Bulked out the wing vanes:


And shaved them down to shape:



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Empchild wrote:It's been a while so I can't remember. Are you building her for your own personal use or ebay, or client?

She was originally just a bit of sculpting practice. I'd like to get her cast up if possible, once she's done.


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Added the bulk of the 'hands':


And the first membrane in place:

I cant see any pics...

Anywhere...

I do.

Looks awesome, as always.

jamunition wrote:I cant see any pics...

Anywhere...

Website was down for a while last night.


Finished the membranes on the first wing, and moved onto the second:

While the wings are smaller than what I'd do, the membranes are coming out really nice and smooth. How do you get that kind of effect on something so large and thin and strung out between two anchor points like that? And then still have some wrinkled details along the edges?

I was going to do up a quick video tutorial on the membranes, as it's a little hard to explain in writing... but turns out my camera only does video in 15 second snippets, which wasn't going to work...

So it will have to wait until I can either figure out how to describe it in a normal tute, or get a video camera...


Meanwhile, Membranes all in place:


A couple of them need a slight trim, and then the 'hands' need thumbs.

Also need to replace the magnets in the shoulder sockets, as the wings have turned out a little heavy for the ones I have in there now...

I love the look of those wings. So much better than the standard ones.

I have to say that the first time I saw the reposed tyrant (have to say that I loved both the flying and reposed versions), I thought "Crouching tiger, hidden Tyrant"

Great work on everything I have seen here.

Biomorphs!

The biomorphs were intended to go along the same lines as those on my previous Tyrant, although a few minor tweaks were necessary due to this one being made entirely from Tyrant parts, whereas the first one used a Carnifes top half, which gave a little more play room.

SO, I trimmed down some adrenal glands, and inserted steel pins into the underside of them. I then drilled 2mm holes in either side of the Tyrant's neck, inserted small rare-earth magnets, and then puttied back over the hole. That way, the Tyrant has a normal looking neck when not using the Adrenal Glands, and they can simply be slipped into place when needed.




The implant attack was made a similar way, by carving a hollow spike out of a piece of off-cut sprue, sticking a pin in the back end of it, and implanting a magnet under the end of the Tyrant's tail:




The Toxin sacs were a little more difficult, as there really wasn't any flat surface big enough for them without sticking them on his carapace. So, I drilled a hole in the end of each sac, and inserted a piece of steel wire. I then drilled a hole up into the chest of the Tyrant, neatly disguised in the shape of the exoskeleton:



The wire slides into the hole, and the close proximity of the magnets in his arm sockets holds the sac in place quite nicely. Once he's painted, the holes (when the sacs aren't in use) should be practically invisible.




Along the way, I also removed the original magnets in the wing sockets and replaced them with much stronger ones. Didn't bother with pictures of that, though...

Started adding plates to the backs of the wing vanes, and started on his 'thumbs':



And finished off the feet:

To much .






For my brain to take in . Make smaller updates or my brain will evuntaly(see ? I cant even spell straight!) explode . Would you like my death on your coincince ?

Nah , im kidding love it

The wings are great, but Wow! I really like those feet . They look dangerous!

insaniak wrote:Tracking the actual time taken on each job is a problem with commission work that I've been trying to find an easy solution for, since I tend to underestimate just how long a lot of jobs are going to take. Trying to keep a log has been an epic fail, since I forget to update it.

Insaniak: Consider getting a cheap stop watch on your workbench. Then you can just start and stop it during each work period.

Or a chess-timer.

That way you can track the time of two projects at the same time. Several chess-timers with little name-tags/numbers would work fine.

It must be possible to get cheap chess-timers somewhere.

Ebay.

Everything is avaliable from Ebay

Made a base for my Dwarven Pirate...

Hi there I wanted to say you are an AMAZING converter, and I really like the flyrant, especially the little markers to represent the differing armies you could play against.

How dod dis go back on?

I was also wondering about how much a team of four Thunderwolf Cavalry, dynamically posed, would cost??

TACOSSSS!
SUBSCRIBE!

Been a while since I checked this blog, a while too long as this stuff is too good to miss

Great stuff man, my only comment would be, is it possible you could add something to the head to make it unique? Everything else is undergoing considerable change, but the head is just the plain old tyrant head, possibly add mandibles? a larger brow ridge? just some ideas...

Really impressive work! Glad to know the mods around here are serious about the craft and what not.

Keep it up its making me want to get off my lazy rear and start workin'

Did some work on the Dwarf Pirate while we were away... Nearly finished. Just a few final details to go.



And a few more painting projects in their beginning stages...




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Tacobolter MK lll wrote:I was also wondering about how much a team of four Thunderwolf Cavalry, dynamically posed, would cost??

To be honest, you would probably need to sell a kidney. But I'm actually getting out of the commission business for now...


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gameandwatch wrote:Great stuff man, my only comment would be, is it possible you could add something to the head to make it unique? Everything else is undergoing considerable change, but the head is just the plain old tyrant head, possibly add mandibles? a larger brow ridge? just some ideas...

The head, torso and legs are all standard Tyrant. For that matter, so are the arms... just reposed a little. Really, the only significant alteration aside from posing is the feet and the addition of wings.


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Speaking of wings...

I finished sculpting the thumbs, let them set, went to shave down the claws to a nice claw-ey shape... and one of them had a giant air-bubble in the middle of it.

Luckily, I was cleaning up the shed today, and actually found the Scytal thumbs that I had intended to use in the first place but lost a while back...




So that should be about it for this guy. I'll get some finished and assembled pics tonight when the GS on the thumbs has finished setting... assuming he fits on my lightbox :shock:

Love the wings. You did a great clean job on the membranes. The wing frames look pretty chitinous. Well done.

The wings look awesome. I like the Dwarven Pirate too!

i spy a legion of the damned!

Turns out the Tyrant is a right sod to photograph... Too big for my light-box, and odd angles. And metal minis are awkward at the best of times. So I'll try to get some better pics tomorrow morning, but for now, here 'tis:

















Biomorphs


(The black spot on his neck, under the Adrenal Gland, is actually puttied to match his neck, but showed up black due to not enough light. Again, better pics tomorrow...)

Some more pics, with the other weapons options, here

That is awesome Insaniak. Pure awesome. I love the bird of prey stance.

Very nice work, as always, Insaniak.
One bonus to having all those inserts is that the extras could sub for objective markers.

BTW, that Ork insert is CLASSIC!

Eric

awesome stuff , too awesome .

That tyrant is breath-taking. Great work!

Absolutely amazing! You'd better do it justice with the paint job, or..or...or....*goes off to plot what he will do*

Awesome work! I love the ork!

It looks fantastic, a lot like molochs flying tyrant which imo was the best flyrant evar.

The one critique I would give is to budge the left leg to be more in line with the right, lending to a striking at a target look, right now, with the feet pointing diff directions, it looks as if he is a bit off balance and wobbly, as opposed to on the attack.

It's a very subtle thing but I really think it would completely change the character of the pose to something very aggressive and dangerous.

Lord of Kaith wrote:Absolutely amazing! You'd better do it justice with the paint job, or..or...or....*goes off to plot what he will do*

No painting on this one. It's a commission build... For commissions, I just build, the buyer paints.

Fantastic idea with the interchangable bodies! I could totally see changing it according to what army your playing against. Would be a good source of intimidation methinks.

That was the general idea behind it, I believe ... I can't take credit for the idea (just the execution of it ), as it was one of the things the buyer specifically asked for. But it's an awesome idea, and one I may have to use again on one of my own big gribblies.

A last-minute addition...

This guy was started while the last Tyranid codex was current, when the Lashwhip/Bonesword combo was pretty poor. They're a better option in the current codex, so the buyer asked if it was possible to add them on.

The problem is, they need to still allow the other appropriate weapon combos... So what I came up with was to build a left and right bonesword arm (with a bonesword made from a trimmed down and reversed scytal), so that all of the other weapon options can still combine with it, and add the lashwhip as an extra long whippy tail extension...







Still WIP, obviously...

Oh, very clever with the tail idea.

The WIP walkthrough (essentially all of the forum thread posts compiled into a single thread without the replies) for my Pre-Heresy Dreadnought is now up in the UTC Workshop here.


Meanwhile, for an alternate take on the Pre-Heresy Dreadnought, have a look at Dave Taylor's blog here for his 'Dreadnought Rylanor'.

Insaniak Just wondering I saw your from australia where do you come across plasticard, magnets and pink/blue foam board?

Plasticard I buy from a local hobby store. Magnets from here.

Foam I don't buy. Back when I was actually using it, I used the polystyrene trays from GW's miniature boxes, and foam packaging inserts pillaged from shops or family.

So, The Tyrant is finished (less dodgy pics here) and I'm back at work on the embiggened Marine squad...

Bolters coming together (Butt-stocks will be added once they're sitting in place, as they may need to be sculpted straight onto the arms) ... although I did just realise that I'm one short.




And heads with grills and hoses removed, ready for resculpting:

I like the bolter mods, very reminiscent of a M91a1 minus the built in GL

Lookin forward to see what you do with the heads.

don't suppose you've tried your hand at a tervigon yet Yak? I'd love to see your take on that one.

Fantastic thread you've got. Big-Up

These are really good, all of them, its a shame i wont see most of them painted though

Young_Logan wrote: its a shame i wont see most of them painted though

That's a problem with this batch of minis... but won't be so much of a problem after this last Marine squad...

Apparently I forgot to update this thread... but I've started on the sternguards' torsos...

Just saw the pics of the finished flyrant, it looks good! And so very different from the one you did for yakface. Very, very nice!

A shame these troops are your last commission! But I guess we'll get to see more of your personal projects after this, which is good

torsos looking good. Big up

Got a little more work done on the True-scale Sternguard...

Started with sanding down the torsos to get them nice and smooth and armour-ish.




I had to go back afterwards and do a little gap filling, where the sanding didn't flatten out a few small divots, and a couple of the collars still need some attention
Also started detailing the bionic legs:



And then started in on the arms. These are being converted from assorted Terminator arms with the hydraulics and cabling removed, to make them look a little more like regular power armour. Here's a couple of mock-ups to see how they fit together, with a regular Marine thrown in for scale:



It's a bit of a relief to find that the bolter arms work... The left hand, in case anyone's wondering, is from a 2nd-edition Chaos Marine. They had mammoth-sized hands, so work out pretty well for Terminators.

More soon...

A little more Sternguard tinkering. The buyer wanted a Heavy Bolter that looks a little more like a conventional heavy machine gun.

I have made up this prototype, as a sort of 'proof of concept'.



The inset is after a little photoshopping to try to show how it will look finished off, as it has a few minor details still to go on.

One member of the Sternguard squad will be a comm specialist, equipped with a vox-pack and auspex (just for show).



The Vox-pack is made from a Cadian backpack, with the bottom and sides trimmed down and the bottom and vents from a Marine backpack added on.

The auspex is a regular auspex top and base added to a Terminator Thunder Hammer hand.

lordy!

Is it bad that with all of the crazy work on this page, it was the commo backpack that kept my attention? :p It's a simple thing, but a very very cool idea and detail.

I've completed basic assembly on the Commtech for the Sternguard squad. The pose is a little rough, as his hand is only tacked on at the moment... I'll adjust it when I'm ready to glue everything in place and sculpt on the missing detail.



I also realised that the entire squad was just a little too 'upright'... so I ripped off one guy's legs, and put him into more of a crouching pose:



Obviously he still needs some gap-filling, and a left hand.

I did a little more work on the Sternguard's Heavy Bolter, folding up the bipod and adding a carry handle. Still a little more detail work to go.



Also got the basic assembly done on two more Marines, with bionic arms. The first will be holding a grenade once he has a hand...



And the second, similarly missing hands, just advancing and scanning the nearby shrubbery:

I'm glad that that hand isn't fixed yet, it kind of looks like he's facepalming at the moment.

Looking amazing - everything is hahaha. I've taken a lot of inspiration from your work

I've been intending to update the Marines for a week now, but wound up working longer hours than usual at both of my other jobs, so only just got caught up...

I performed an arm swap on the first Heavy Bolter marine, to bring the weapon up into more of a 'bringing to bear' pose, and swapped his arms onto the second heavy marine, who is in more of an advancing pose...



Also finished basic assembly on the remaining two marines:




So now it's on to the detail work...

Looking good to me

insaniak wrote:So, The Tyrant is finished (less dodgy pics here) and I'm back at work on the embiggened Marine squad...

Bolters coming together (Butt-stocks will be added once they're sitting in place, as they may need to be sculpted straight onto the arms) ... although I did just realise that I'm one short.




And heads with grills and hoses removed, ready for resculpting:

Sorry to bring this thread back to life but
How did you get the masks to look like that? can you please tell me how? Because it could well help me in trying to save money instead of buying the Black Templar stuff.

It's been far too long between updates on these guys...

The end is nigh.














In the last pic, the head on the left was the original prototype, which had the eye pieces too far apart. The one on the right is the new version, mostly finished, although the respirator casings running along the jawline need a little bit of trimming down, as they stick out too far to the sides right now.




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Asherian Command wrote:How did you get the masks to look like that? can you please tell me how? Because it could well help me in trying to save money instead of buying the Black Templar stuff.

They're just regular mark 7 helmets with the cheeks shaved down

Great stuff as usual!

I loved the jetbike and the terran sternguard are pretty cool. Its a shame terminator hands were chosen, they look a bit strange, apart from that great stuff, i am sure your clients are always pleased! Any chance we could see any of them painted? I know you would have to talk to the clients etc but if any of them were willing to show the finished article that would be cool.

Perkustin wrote: Any chance we could see any of them painted?

I wish... :(

In the time I've been making models for other people, I've seen a handful of them painted. It gets a little depressing after a while

insaniak wrote:

Perkustin wrote: Any chance we could see any of them painted?

I wish... :(

In the time I've been making models for other people, I've seen a handful of them painted. It gets a little depressing after a while

That just means you have to make me another model. Do you have any interesting ideas on how to make a Doom of Malan'tai?


Oh, and BTW if you want you can use the painted images of the Winged Tyrant you made for me on your site if you want...

The pics are broken. :(

Edit: just took a lond time for them to load, my mistake!

I love the boltguns they are carrying. I cannot believe I missed this blog seeing as I have been searching for months now for ones I can actually see the pictures on.

I really love those chest pieces.

Put the finishing touches on the Sternguards' head this morning:



I'm sending these off to have enough for the squad cast up in resin, to save a bit of work on trying to get a squad of them all looking the same. Updates as I get them


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yakface wrote: Do you have any interesting ideas on how to make a Doom of Malan'tai?

Hadn't really thought about it... but could be a fun sculpting project. I'll have to have another read through the flluff in the codex, and see what I can come up with

Great to see new stuff again

A little more arm work on the Sternguard this morning.

Finishing off a hand... still needs a thumb:


Some more work on the demo-specialist's bionic arm:


And on this guy:

Wow, Insaniak, I just stumbled onto this (thanks to whalemusic360), and I'm impressed by your plasti-greenstuf-fu!!

I'll keep an eye on this...

Which is kinda funny, because I am just lurking here

It's ... aliiiive!

Just received a little baggie in the mail:


More very soon...

And we're done...







More pics in the UTC Gallery.

Very nice. A good mix of bionics in there. Also love the up-scaled tech level of the vox soldier.

I've had the word plethora stuck in my head recently so i've thrown it around a few times. It's a nice word, very evocative. This thread is truly the definition.

After seeing your blog i am contented... and subscribed.


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P.S. I would love you input on my thread 'The Toolbox!' It's designed to help most hobbyists but it needs some new blood and a rewrite from me to keep it useful. Would be great, thanks.

LostSoulCasey'sLaw wrote:After seeing your blog i am contented... and subscribed.

I should probably mention then that this will be the end of this particular thread, as this was theoretically kind of my last commission. (I say 'theoretically' because that was the intention when I decided to stop taking commissions, but then I decided that I might still take the odd one if it's something I'm excited about, so there may actually be the odd one from time to time...) So this seemed like an opportune time to put this monster of a thread to rest and concentrate more on specific projects, starting with my Plague Demon sculpting practice that's going on over here.


Cheers to all of those who have followed this thread though...

I love the helmets !!!

Unsubscribed, exalted. Good luck with further projects. I'll maybe lurk on your Nurgle one but i'm generally not a huge fan of The Lord Of Decay.

Very nice... man those helms are ... distracting (for lack of a better word). Love the effect though.

Guess I'm late to the party... have to spend some time catching up with your blog.

LostSoulCasey'sLaw wrote:I'll maybe lurk on your Nurgle one but i'm generally not a huge fan of The Lord Of Decay.

The Plague Demons are just the starting point... They'll expand out from there, hopefully

Expand to pastures new, or more Nurgle?

Both

Yes.

Sad to see the end.

The marines look great though.

So, it would appear that I am just pathologically incapable of working on a single project at a time...

I had decided to wind this thread up, and started a new thread detailing the sculpting and painting of some Plague Demons that I was playing around with. But then I got sidetracked with a whole bunch of other stuff as I have finally managed to work a regular 40K gaming session into my week and it's got me all excited about modeling again. So rather than clog up the Blogs forum with a dozen different threads for everything that I'm likely to be working on at any given time, I figured I might as well dust this one off and carry on where I left off.

So, about those Plague Demons. About halfway finished on the painting here:



I have been teaching my brother to play 40K, and we've been playing a lot of 750-point games to get him into the swing of it, which gave me a good excuse to put my Red Corsairs back on the table, as they slotted in pretty much perfectly for that size game. Since we're not going to stay that small for ever, though, it also seemed like a good time to finally start expanding them out into a proper army. So, to kick it off in perfect Red Corsair style, I stole a rhino from my Imperial Dragons Veteran Squad, and started repainting. Still WIP, obviously:
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The plan is to update my Imperial Dragons vehicles to the current style vehicles. I'll be using the original vehicle variants in my Red Corsairs, and (because there are already a couple in there) the 2nd edition variants in my regular Chaos Marine army.

So the Corsairs will also be getting an original Rogue Trader-era Predator that I scored off eBay a couple of weeks ago. Also still WIP:


I also have a squad of mixed 2nd edition and Rogue Trader-era metal terminators who will be getting Red Corsair-ised, just as soon as the simple green does its magic:



And while we're on the Terminator front, I found a whole bunch of original Space Hulk terminators on eBay a couple of years ago, that have been sitting in a box all this time waiting for me to do something with them. I decided that they would fit perfectly into my rather dated Imperial Dragons Lost Company army. This was my first ever 40K army, mostly assembled back in 1994-95. They were cobbled together from whatever I could get my hands on at the time. I have decided to keep going with the 'slightly dodgy' theme, and these Terminators fit in perfectly there:



And finally, (for now at least) I started work on my contribution to the Waaagh: Dakka page:


More soon.

Love to see those old termies... my son has a set of those for his Doom Eagles. They painted up real nice.

Nice job, insaniak!

Test scheme for a new Space Marine Chapter: The Iron Wolves...

Larger pics pls? its so hard to see tiny pics

I like it... kind of a greenish gray. I can't tell, is that NMM or MM?

Im guessing its dry brushed bolt gun metal, washed with black, and then some mithril silver

Gitsplitta wrote:I like it... kind of a greenish gray. I can't tell, is that NMM or MM?

Not sure where the green's coming from, unless the colour balance on my monitor is more whacked out than I realised

So far, it's just boltgun metal washed with black ink. I needed something that was going to look reasonable with minimal effort, but that could still be prettied up on the characters... metalics are the best option there.

insaniak wrote:

Gitsplitta wrote:I like it... kind of a greenish gray. I can't tell, is that NMM or MM?

Not sure where the green's coming from, unless the colour balance on my monitor is more whacked out than I realised

So far, it's just boltgun metal washed with black ink. I needed something that was going to look reasonable with minimal effort, but that could still be prettied up on the characters... metalics are the best option there.

Yay im accurate \o/

Not quite... it's not drybrushed

What unit and load out is the Space wolf guy?
I have yet used any of those axes and arms, probably should?

He's a Grey Hunter. I'll be using a similar pack marking system to regular Space Wolves, although all will be on a red shoulder pad... yellow markings for Blood Claws, grey for Grey Hunters, white for Long Fangs and black for Wolf Guard.

As much as possible, I want to use two-handed axes for close combat weapons, so he has a wrist-mounted bolt pistol to free up his left hand. For Grey Hunters, I'm considering the idea of having a bolt pistol on each arm to represent their bolter, to get around the need to put pistol, CCW and bolter all on the same model.

Ooo like those Grey Knights?

Green might be due to the mould between my ears.

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Good to see this thead back up and running, insaniak.

Is it just me, or does that middle plague demon look a bit like Chewbacca?

The problem with leaving stuff sitting around for a year or two without finishing it off is that when you go back to it, you see things that you could have done better...

I dusted off the trio of Ultramarine characters that I started working on some time ago, and wound up replacing a little detail on the Captain. His chest icon was a little wonky, so I ripped it off and replaced it, and the eagle on his left shin was frankly quite terrible. So it also came off, and was replaced. I also started adding the icons on the bottom of his loincloth straps, and roughly fleshed out the fingers on the right hand powerfist.



Meanwhile, the Librarian gained a psychic hood, and some icons on his legs:



For the curious, once they're finished, these guys will be destined for the UTC online store, along with a bunch of other conversions that I am currently working on.

The psychic hood is great and the level of gs sculpting on these two (and the rest in this blog!) is just mindblowing. Keep up the good work!

UTC online store? I was unaware of such a thing previously.

A little more work on my Khornate Champion/Lord/Whatever...

Added iron sights and a new (properly centred) muzzle to the bolter, started adding some toothey trim to the armour plates, and ripped off the axe head as it wasn't working for me... I have an idea for that weapon that should be a lot more fun...



This is another model destined for the store. Watch this space for updates.

A little more detail work on the Captain:

Some detail work on the Chaplain:

They are looking great, insaniak. I really like the chaplains mask. Your GS skills are impeccable.

A little more detail work on the Captain:

And the Captain is done...

I wound up swapping the Ultramarines badge from the left to the right powerfist, so that it wasn't on the same side as the chapter badge on his shoulder pad.

After that, it was down to a little final detail work, and the end result was this:

As always, your green stuff work is super impressive!

Thanks too for the GS tutorials that you have posted previously in the Tutorials Section.

Mini-Marneus looks cool, Insaniak - how's the Chaplain coming along?

Chaplain has had some of the old detail removed (the aquila on his leg was worse than the one on the Captain ) and has gone into the re-detailing stage. I'll be working on him and a Librarian over the next few days, along with another slightly secret little project...

That's a lot of marvelous stuff! The Exo-scouts are fantastic!
I'm a bit late on the thread, but will follow it for sure.

Some more detail work on the Ultramarines Chaplain.

I'm finally happy with the third attempt on the Aquila on his leg. Started in on purity seals and pouches and the like.

Impressive work Insaniak!
I really dig the stoic pose on the captain!

Another bunch of wicked, cool looking conversions! Thanks for sharing/bringin the thread back!

This is a great blog , just read up on it all , loads of impressive and original sculpts and conversions, i think i like the stern-guard the most , but that flying nid is damn EPIC !

There's been a bit of a lag in updates, as I had to take a break from the ongoing conversion work to build my brother a 40th birthday present, which I obviously couldn't show off until I gave it to him...

So, this is what I've been frantically working on for the last couple of weeks: A Venerable Dreadnought for the fledgling 'Set's Chosen' Space Marine Chapter:



Built from a modified Dreadnought sarcophagus, with shortened Sentinel legs and a little plasticard and putty. The weapons are magnetised so that we can add variants later.

You can find a composite picture with other views in the Dakka gallery here, and also in the Under The Couch gallery here.

Looking good, insaniak - and it would have to default to a Rifleman, wouldn't it

That's one bad ass dreadnought, dude!
Good job, i'm sure your brother was well chuffed!

P.S. Did you get my pm?

Looks like it could also pass as a Contemptor Dread! Very nice!

Dysartes wrote:- and it would have to default to a Rifleman, wouldn't it

For starters, yeah... He's gone for a heavy fire-power-based army to get started. When I have time, I'll knock up a close combat weapon and some variant ranged weapons for when he gets bored with that


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LostSoulCasey'sLaw wrote:Good job, i'm sure your brother was well chuffed!

He was, yes

P.S. Did you get my pm?

Yeah, sorry... I suck at responding to PMs. Reply sent now.

Inspiring.

I loved all 17 pages of thsi blog!

I hate you Ian.

Talented son of a gun, I feel so inadequate after looking at your work.

You are just amazing....*Headswelll* - Bastich!

akira5665 wrote:I feel so inadequate after looking at your work.

That's the real purpose of this thread, of course...



Just received my second box of Bloodcrushers in the mail, so I'm hoping to make a start on the Iron Wolves over the Christmas break (or at least, those parts of it that aren't spent driving back and forth across Brisbane). Very excited to start work on the cavalry...

I finally started in on my Space Wolves army for Adepticon…
I’m going for a bare-metal and barbaric approach, and calling them the Iron Wolves. In keeping with that, I wanted Thunderwolves that were (a)cheaper than buying mulitple copies of Canis Wolfborn, (b)not as silly-looking as Canis Wolfborn and (c)looked like robot wolves…
Enter the Thundercrusher:




Converted from a plastic Juggernaut. Still needs toes and a little final detailing, but I’m pretty happy with it overall. Now to build 4 more.

Love it! Would quite like to see claws/paws instead of hooves just to further differentiate it from the crusher.

Still, awesome!!!

Yeah, the feet still need to be finished. That's up next.

Loving the look.
How long did it take to customise to that level?

Big fan of the thundercrusher for all three reasons you listed (well, mostly the first two). You've done a great job de-chaos-ifying it so far!

I think you could make the heads more wolfish with not a lot of work. If you straightened up the ears and got rid of the sideways nostril flares, I think it would look a lot more Thunderwolfy. Like so:


Keep up the great work!
Rawson

A wolf is not a wolf without bushy tail!

Yeah, I had something in mind for tails, but am not sure if it's worth the bother. I might try it on one, and see if I like it enough to keep going.

Looking good, which legs did you use for it (although it appears you had to chop them up somewhat)?

grrr

The the regular Jugger's legs, just with the shoulders trimmed down.

Sorry, i meant the marine. Is it just regular legs repostioned?

grrr

Ah, right. They're biker legs, with the shins re-positioned.

Plugging away at basic assembly work. The end is nigh for the units, after which I can start on whatever needs sculpting, and then get some tanks put together.

The first Rune Priest - still waiting on beard and hair:



Scouts:



Dreadnought:



Bloodclaws:



Grey Hunters production line:



To help differentiate a little on the table, the Bloodclaws are left a little more plain than their Grey Hunter Brethren, although I've tried for as much variation as possible with armour throughout the army. The Bloodclaws also all have helmets on, whereas the Hunters will be a mix of helmets and bare heads.

Due to time constraints, I wound up discarding the wrist-mounted bolt pistols.

Very nice work, dude. I hope you've trained your Space Puppies with a trigger word! Oh, are they regular Space Wolves or like 13th Company or something? Look at me trying to act all knowledgeable. I read a small excerpt on the 13th Company recently and was very intrigued by Space Wolves for the first time ever.

I wanted the Iron Wolves' vehicles to be a little distinctive, with the idea that they are a Chapter that spends a little time customising their machinery. With that in mind, my eye fell on the Land Raider Armoured Proteus from Forgeworld. This is an updated version of the original Rogue Trader-era Land Raider design, with added armoured sponsons.

The only problem is that the Proteus doesn't have a front assault ramp... And given that I had been trying to build the Wolves to fit WYSIWYG as closely as possible, that obviously wasn't acceptable. I also wanted to run a Redeemer in my Adepticon list, which meant a little weapons swapping was going to be required.

So, a bit of hacking and gluing later:



At this point, initial assembly is nearly complete. The weapons are magnetised so I can swap them out for other Land Raider configurations later. The top panel is also magnetised, so I can just lift out the actual mount for the hull weapon if I need to. I'm using Chaos autolaunchers as the frag assault launchers (also magnetised so they can be removed when using it as a regular land raider), and will fit a regular smoke launcher to the top hull.


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LostSoulCasey'sLaw wrote: Oh, are they regular Space Wolves or like 13th Company or something?

They're using regular Space Wolf rules, but a home-brew Chapter.

Neeearly ready for painting...

Woah! How many points is that??

Space Wolves, right? So, like... 1000?

1850. Army list is here.

I have all of the squads except for the Thundercrushers ready for basing and painting, with the big robo-puppies just waiting on some final putty work.

The primary Rune Priest, looking a little hairier:



The second Rune Priest:


Wolf Priest:


Grey Hunters:






Long Fangs:


And the Razorback, using a Forgeworld Deimos pattern Rhino, just awaiting turrets winging their way from Puppets War

Nice work insaniak! Your GS-fu is strong.

Lovely, Is that 4 Missile Launchers? I've been seriously considering a similar squad set up for my new BA. What's your experience with them and do you have any tips on the rest of their kit up(the Sergeant for example)? I'd be tempted to throw in a power fist but it feels like a points drain especially with what appears to be a very cost effective unit.

To be honest, I have no idea how effective the Long Fangs will be. So far, I've only been playing this army at 400 points, testing my Combat Patrol list for Adepticon (Rune Priest, small squad of Grey Hunters, 3 Thunderwolves and a Razorback).

At this stage, the full list probably won't see the table until the weekend after next, as I've entered a local tournie to get in some gaming practice for Adepticon. So I have a deadline of friday week to get these guys painted to at least a standard that I wouldn't be embarrased putting them on the table...

Made a start on the weekend, although I had an unexpected change to the colour scheme when I discovered that the Devlan Mud I used on the first 16 guys was actually Badab Black... and now I'm out, so am hoping my replacement order arrives in the next day or two.

Pictorial update soon...

Sounds like a plan, do keep me updated on how they fair as a unit.

SO, a while between updates... I've been frantically painting away at my Iron Wolves whenever I have time, while trying to squeeze in some practice games with them on the side. I had been intending to post WIP shots as I was painting, but that obviously hasn't happened...

However, I have started in on the display board, and got myself a little more organised. So, for starters, a rough mud-map on paper:


Transferred onto 3mm MDF:


Layers cut out of MDF:


And then spacing added with foam core:


Minis in place to check for room, and to mark out base holes:


And said holes drilled in:


Next up: glue it all together and start texturing.

What did you use to make those holes?

Insaniak, it looks like you've completed a fair bit more of your Iron Wolves sine you last posted in here - any chance of some pictures?

The display board looks like it is coming along nicely - what sort of style is it going to be?

I don't think I've commented yet, but I've been looking at your blog a few times already and I'm very impressed with your skills!

I love the exo-scouts you did a few years back, and everything else is also a great soure of inspiration for me! The board you just di for example is being copied soon!

I had already subbed and exalted before, but didn't get to comment and forgot later.....

That's serious organization. I'm looking forward to seeing this take shape.

LunaHound wrote:What did you use to make those holes?

25mm spade bit for the smaller holes, adjustable hole cutter (goes in a power drill) for the big ones.

Managed to mess one of the 25mm holes up when the board moved on me, but I just drilled an extra and will cover the dodgy one with a rock

Dysartes wrote:Insaniak, it looks like you've completed a fair bit more of your Iron Wolves sine you last posted in here - any chance of some pictures?

Hopefully coming soon

The display board looks like it is coming along nicely - what sort of style is it going to be?

It will be mostly sandy gravel/rock to match the bases, with industrial-looking metal retaining walls to keep the iron theme running through. Nothing too elaborate, but will hopefully frame the army nicely.

woo I have another good question.

How much does that thing weigh?

I haven't weighed it yet, but not that much since most of the bulk is foam core. The sand will add a little more... The almost-completely-resin FW Land Raider weighs more.

Impressive!

Small update, dodgy light...

So, the army is about as finished as it is going to be before Adepticon, since I'm jumping on a plane tomorrow morning...

Here's some quick and rough pics nabbed when I set everything up to check that the display board looked ok. Better pics will unfortunately have to wait until after I get back from the US.

The army:


The Priests:


Bloodclaws:


Grey Hunters:




Venerable Dreadnought tucked into the corner...


Long Fangs:


Thunderwolves:


Razorback:


Rhino 1 (apparently I forgot to photograph the other one...)


Land Raider Proteus Redeemer:


And some dodgy but thankfully quick objective markers:



Also, I had wanted to make up some custom Vehicle markers to go with the army, but ran out of time, so my wife knocked them together for me instead..

Damage markers, and smoke markers:



So, that's that. Off to pack!

Looks great insaniak! Looking forward to seeing it in person. Love the little damage markers... how'd you do them?

Awesome. I love the LR.

That LR is #BEASTMODE. Very nice.

Very nice, have fun!

The board came out awesome mate ... good luck for the tourney and hurry back for some more Wednesday nite bloodbaths :p

Love the final force! Have a good time dude.

Gitsplitta wrote:Love the little damage markers... how'd you do them?

The 'tassles' are just rolled out of green stuff. For the seals, I made up three little textured stamps... roll out a ball of green stuff, sit it on the top of the tassle, push the stamp into it like you would with sealing wax. Rough up the edges a little with a tool.

Painted red and bone, washed with Devlan Mud, and then the text added with a micro pen and hit with a good coat of sealer.

Nice... might steal that.

The thunderwolves looked really cool in-person at Adepticon

Back in the saddle...

Haha, i see what you did there...

Looks awesome.

I'm seeing a slight design flaw with this new vehicle, insaniak...

Wheely?

My thought was that that one wheel would generate sufficient torque that it would just pop the front end up in the air. The drivers arms are outstretched for balance...

No?

Alternatively, I could add some more wheels and some handlebars...

insaniak wrote:My thought was that that one wheel would generate sufficient torque that it would just pop the front end up in the air. The drivers arms are outstretched for balance...

Makes sense to me With good enough fluff, anything is possible!

This dread is amazing great work !

insaniak wrote:There's been a bit of a lag in updates, as I had to take a break from the ongoing conversion work to build my brother a 40th birthday present, which I obviously couldn't show off until I gave it to him...

So, this is what I've been frantically working on for the last couple of weeks: A Venerable Dreadnought for the fledgling 'Set's Chosen' Space Marine Chapter:



Built from a modified Dreadnought sarcophagus, with shortened Sentinel legs and a little plasticard and putty. The weapons are magnetised so that we can add variants later.

You can find a composite picture with other views in the Dakka gallery here, and also in the Under The Couch gallery here.

insaniak wrote:Back in the saddle...

Oooh, colour me intrigued!

Making progress... yeessss...

Looking good, insaniak - could we get a better angle on the heavy bolter mount?

Cool conversion insaniak. It has a nice feel to it.

Yeah, I'm really happy with the chunkier look to the front. It's quite distinctive compared to my previous quads, but has more of a solid, assault vehicle feel.

I'll get a shot of the heavy weapon mount tonight.... It's basically just the attack bike sidecar axle with some plastic rod pivots added, and a magnet to hold the weapon on.

Some sanding and gap filling going on... and the promised shot of the heavy weapon mount:




And a little further along. At this point, it just needs the rest of the trim on the front mudguards, a little putty work, and some shoulder pads for the crew.




Meanwhile, with Quartermaster II next weekend, I realised that this weekend is my last chance to get my army updated. Not a lot to do... my revised 1750 point list drops out the Dreadnought and a Grey Hunter, swaps the plasma gunner for a melta, and swaps one of the Thunderwolves for a Twolf Lord. So I need to do a weapon swap, plug a couple of now-superfluous holes in my display board, and for the Lord I decided to bling up an existing Twolf rather than build another one at short notice. So here's where he's at so far...

How do you intend to plug the gaps in the display board, insaniak?

The Grey Hunter slot can just be covered over with a rock or something. The Dread's hole is a little trickier... I didn't previously have my objective markers on the display board anywhere, as they are a little boring. But I'm building a 'dispenser' for them, which will sit over the Dreadnought hole.

Progress on the Wolf Lord... Hair and beard repainted, decoration added on the other side, on the Twolf's head, and on the backpack (which doesn't really show up in this pic), and the blade of the spear broken off (which may have been accidental, but I'm not admitting anything.)

Very nice insaniak. What happened to is backpack? Fittings get loose?

No, I ripped it off so I could get at the shoulder pads. Also made it easier to paint the knotwork on the backpack... You can barely make it out against the glare, but the flat panel on the back of the pack has the same design on it as on the Twolf's shoulder.It's also on each of the Lord's shins, and on the front of the wolf's shoulder hump.

I noticed the free-hand scroll work. Just too awed by it (read as jealous) to mention.

So, I got a little side-tracked, as I had an idea for a gunship to fill the Storm Talon spot in my Imperial Dragons army. Introducing the Stormclaw:



Still a WIP (needs the other gun pod added on the right side, and either a 4th tail wing or a landing skid on the back section. Canopy glass will be added in when the vehicle is painted.

The tail assembly rotates. Just because.



A more frontal shot with the tail in normal flight mode:



The lascannons are magnetised. I'll add in missile pods and heavy bolter pods when I get some bits for them.

It's probably not quite as true to the Space Marine aesthetic as it could be... but then I don't think the Stormtalon is either. And I don't really care... it was an idea that was cool in my head, and I love how it is turning out

Haha, looks cool (also looks like one of the ships from Lost in Space http://www.igorstshirts.com/blog/conceptships/lost_in_space_concept.jpg )

That is very cool insaniak! I was also reminded of one of the LiS fighters (you only get to see them at the very beginning of the movie).

Awesome! Really nice use of the drop pod wings; they definitely work better on a SM vehicle than on some other projects in which I've seen people use them.

Yeah, the Lost in Space fighter was the main inspiration for this fella...

+1 internets for anyone who can pick where the cockpit comes from

Wow. Very cool.

Please make a scout-termie that looks like Ripley. You owe it to the universe.
"Get away from her you B****!" - best line EVER!

I think he's already done that!

Yes, he has!

http://www.underthecouch.net/gallery/conversions/spacemarines/terminators/exoscouts/

Although a Sentinel-sized version would be a little more Aliens...

He did ask about a "scout-termie that looks like Ripley" though - you can't get anymore exact than your stuff!

I didn't know Ripley was a dude!
Have I been missing something?


(perhaps you should do a sentinel sized one to use as a dreadnought, driven by a woman. would be fething awesome!)

walker90234 wrote:I didn't know Ripley was a dude!
Have I been missing something?

You did know that there are no female Space Marines though.

That fighter is pretty awesomely wacky.

Small update on the Stormclaw... Added the second cannon, and the last tail fin. Also moved the flight stem to run up through the rear, replacing the original spindle. So the wings still rotate, but the stem is no longer impeding the chin gun.

Mate, just been through your entire blog while watching the Euro final and I struggled to focus on Spain destroying the Italians!! Awesome work in here, makes my plasticard work seem suddenly very amateur. At least I can try and aspire to gain your level...

Coming along beautifully insaniak. You have me thinking evil thoughts about the two pods I have lying around that I'll probably never get around to painting...

Is the cockpit from a Sith Infiltrator?

ZOMG stormclaw = Starwars B-WING!!!

stealing IP from the father and mother of SCI-FI!!!!

hehe just kidding Insaniak, although i do see some B-Wing features like the rotating wing... (?)

did it serve as inspiration or is it random coincidence?

Apparently it was inspired by the fighters in Lost in Space.

Cant wait to see some paint on that stormclaw!!! looks great!!! what did you use as cockpit?

cjharrisman wrote:Is the cockpit from a Sith Infiltrator?

No, much lamer than that...

DijnsK wrote:...although i do see some B-Wing features like the rotating wing... (?)

did it serve as inspiration or is it random coincidence?

The B-wing was sort of part of the inspiration, although the B-wing's cockpit is on an out-rigger, rather than in the centre. As mentioned before, it was based more on the Lost in Space bubble fighter, although only for the basic idea rather than specific design.

Awesome stuff as always .

Bastion ID Guide - lols.

So my Iron Wolves have now seen action in 4 fifth edition tournaments, and transitioned into 6th edition with Quartermaster III. They’re still a work in progress, but for each one I’ve added a little more detail, and tweaked a little here and there to slowly get them to where I want them to be…
Here’s a more or less finished teaser of the Wolf Lord:

Teaser is right! Thats just not fair From what i can see it looks sweet.

Finally got my attack quad finished... so that would be the Scorpion MkIV:



For anyone who's interested, it's up for grabs in the UTC online store, along with the Ultramarines Captain. You can find them here.

:O how you make?

Dear Iain,

Your skill with plasticard is offensive and makes me feel bad about myself. Cease modelling immediately.

Sincerely,

Tom

walker90234 wrote::O how you make?

You might need to be more specific...

It's basically a regular Marine bike with an attack bike sidecar reshaped to fit in over the rear mudguard, and new mudguard assemblies built from plasticard.

MajorTom11 wrote:Your skill with plasticard is offensive and makes me feel bad about myself. Cease modelling immediately.

Quad - lite...




I actually did a few of these up last year, as demos for a quad bike-building tutorial for the first Auscon. One of them was painted up for my Imperial Dragons, and the others have been sitting around waiting to join the party. With us moving house later this month, I decided it was better to clear some space in the cabinet and sell the unpainted ones off. I can always build more later

So these guys are up with the Captain and the Attack Quad in the UTC online store, along with a bunch of freshly listed Dark Vengeance components. [/shameless plug]

Nice, clean build insaniak... glad you're showing them off.

So, far too long between updates, what with moving house and getting prepared for a new carbon-based lifeform in the house... But I decided that it was time for my little gaming group to dust off Necromunda and see if it still holds up to a good kicking...

I have a completed Escher and Orlock gang, but needed a few extra gangs for other players... So after a rummage around in the bits boxes, and a bit of prep work and undercoating, they're on their way:



Goliaths (mostly the starter set plastics with a few modifications here and there) and Ratskins, with Schaefer's Last Chancers filling in as Van Saars. More soon...

Good to see you back in the saddle insaniak.

Good to see some work in here !

Goliath Gang with most of their base colour in place. The leader has also had a wash at this point, just because I got impatient and wanted to see how he would look...



I deliberately went for a fairly basic scheme with these guys, because I just don't like the Goliath models enough to spend any large amount of time on them. They're purely being done to have a spare gang for other people to use.

The leader with just a wash looks much better than the others !

Did you make a few headswaps ? (HB dude, for instance)

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Did you make a few headswaps ? (HB dude, for instance)

I think there are quite a few SW heads in there. Nice to mix things up

Yeah, there are a few Space Wolf heads scattered through. The Heavy was a second-hand model, and the previous owner had nicked the head and heavy bolter for a Chaos Marine conversion, so I had to find replacements. The other couple of head swaps were just to add a little variety to the plastic Starter set models. There's also one in there who had his legs swapped for Gorkamorka ork legs.

I'm building some Juves out of Chaos Marauder parts, but they'll be in the next wave. I want to get the Ratskins and Schaefer's not-Delaques done first.

Small update on the Goliaths. Base colours all finished, and initial washes applied.



There are a few 'crazy eyes' here and there that I need to go back and fix, the leader's melta cabling needs a brown wash, and the weapons and boots need another layer or two of black wash, but while that's happening and I'm figuring out basing, they're effectively table-ready. So at this point I'll probably put these guys aside and start in on the Ratskins.

They're gangers... "crazy eyes" seems appropriate.

Great models! You never answered what you were using for the cockpit. I would like to know. That bubble fighter looks sweet.

Cypher-xv wrote:
Great models! You never answered what you were using for the cockpit. I would like to know. That bubble fighter looks sweet.

I'm thinking a PM to insaniak might work better at this point.

Though you never know!

No, I'm still here... just been a while between updates due to an increased level of baby in the house.


Hoping to get back to work soon, as I need the flyer and some scouts for a tournament next month


And for anyone still wondering, the cockpit is from an old Seaquest DSV model kit. A flatbed sub for lugging cargo around. I picked a few of them up cheap years ago, intending to turn them into antigrav cargo haulers for scenery... but this seemed like a more productive use

I just read through this blog. Your work is AMAZING insaniak! Keep it up! Please!

And here I was hoping to see something new on the workbench!

Insaniak you TEASE!

Hey Insaniak, I love your stuff! What did you use as a border for you display board? I'm building one right now and I might need to do something similar.

Lucarikx

RiTides wrote:And here I was hoping to see something new on the workbench!

Soon... I have some second-hand scouts bathing in simple green as we speak, and am just planning out how to swap the fighter over to a Dark Talon analogue and then finish it off.

Lucarikx wrote:Hey Insaniak, I love your stuff! What did you use as a border for you display board? I'm building one right now and I might need to do something similar.

You mean the stripping around the outside? It's just plastic edge stripping, from the builders section at the local hardware store.

So, apparently it's been over a year since there were any actual updates in this thread. Which is horrible.

So: new beginnings!

 insaniak wrote:
Quad - lite...




I actually did a few of these up last year, as demos for a quad bike-building tutorial for the first Auscon. One of them was painted up for my Imperial Dragons, and the others have been sitting around waiting to join the party. With us moving house later this month, I decided it was better to clear some space in the cabinet and sell the unpainted ones off. I can always build more later

So these guys are up with the Captain and the Attack Quad in the UTC online store, along with a bunch of freshly listed Dark Vengeance components. [/shameless plug]

Great plasticard skills, although i would have added a slightly larger tube over the current rod, now it looks like they have no front-wheel suspension.
Love the stormclaw

Looks like the beginnings of old-school land raider treads...

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Great plasticard skills, although i would have added a slightly larger tube over the current rod, now it looks like they have no front-wheel suspension.

Totally agree... However the point of that particular conversion was for something that relatively inexperienced modellers could build in a one-hour tutorial. So it was kept fairly simple deliberately.

Things are begin to grow...