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I started with on of the Chapter Masters models. I liked the one standing with his helmet in his powerfist. I felt this model would work well since the Gauntlet in He'stans ilistration in the new codex looks quite bulky. I took a little artistic license with the general design of the flamer on his gauntlet though. I used green stuff to sculpt two small tubes, with flamer type nozels on the front end, and then made a small promithium tank and tried to make it look like it was ancored to the fist with bands. I used the force weapon of a grey knight to replace his power sword, and then used green stuff to fill in the gap at the wrist. I spred green stuff over the cloak as a thin base to start atatching the scales to it one at a time. I achieved the look by rolling small balls of green stuff and then pressing them flat against the cloak in a stagered pattern. I used an old dull exacto knife to shape the green stuff. I used some pictures I down loaded of aligator skin as a referance. Let me know what you think up to this stage. Several of the pics are duplicate angles under diferent lighting conditions.

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Looks good

Darn you for stealing my ideas! Darn you to heck I say!

Don't feel too bad. I just went looking for more images of other conversions like five minutes after I posted this, and found another forum where someone described the same style conversion. Same model base and everything. This model just has the closest apearance to the image in the codex from what I have been able to find. His pose is comanding, as it should be, and I think the helmet rocks.

looks awesome so far. any way to enlarge the NFW?

i saw one vulcan made from that old chaplain xzavier of the salamanders, but he had both of his hands green stuffed and was using a halberd with them.

This is a good conversion, simple but with excellent GS work where it needs it. Can't wait to see it painted.

Commisar00 wrote:This is a good conversion, simple but with excellent GS work where it needs it. Can't wait to see it painted.

lord marcus wrote:looks awesome so far. any way to enlarge the NFW?

Thanks. I didn't want to do much in the way of GS. I don't really care to work with it. I don't like waiting around for it to dry so I can progress to other sections with out mushing the work just done on the other side. As far as enlargeing the FW goes, I guess you could use GS, or modify with a blade from another weapon. I did not notice much diferance between the GK and the GK termi FWs. I am going to conceal the gap between the bottom of the FW handle and the ground when I base it. I thought about sculpting a rock with GS to wedge in there, but like I said, I don't like to use it more than I have to.