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Thought I would tease everybody. I'm working on something new for this army. And it ain't a baneblade.

Let us call him Project X52.

And it's pretty cool - even if I do say so myself.

STAMPY!

I have returned from Paris.

I have returned form florida!

I have returned from the taqueria!

I have returned from the toilet.

goffnob deffsmakka wrote:I have returned from the toilet.

EEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!

I feel as though I have accomplished something here.

I just hope you don't accomplish getting the thread locked for going majorly off topic - lol!

lol!

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Lemmingspawn wrote:I just hope you don't accomplish getting the thread locked for going majorly off topic - lol!

I can try!

Ok....um....project X52...I'll um...have a camera....sometimes soon...

Well here’s the update I promised. He’s not quite done – I’ve got a few little things to do like integrate the wings daemonically a little more and maybe trim the facemask back a bit and finish the base – but it’s getting pretty close. I also can’t decide whether to put the shoulder pads on or not – I kinda like it without the marine shoulders…

Let me know what you reckon, if I should or should not.

You don't want to use that send it to me.
Is that whole left leg gs?

Yeah = the deal was someone gave me most of a DP, no left leg, 1 shoulder pad, no right hand, 1 backpack vent - so I had to rebuild a huge chunk of the model. Perfect opportunity really

I dont think the head works, got any smaller masks?

The scratch-built arm looks a little bit, err, little.

Maybe It looks better in person, I dunno. It strikes me as atropied.

edit: corrected spelling on atrophy. Atrophy, not asthrophy. Hmm.

I like it. ALOT.
Who said that a DEMON PRINCE (!!!!!!) had to have the correct proportions?!?

I especially like those wings. Perfect blend between technology and biology. However, I think hes missing a gun. A big one. could be underslung on that scratch built arm.

The wings are the hawtness. I look forward to see how you cut the mask down, although I'm wondering if it's more than just a matter of trimming it down - thinking that the proportions of that mask may just be a little off compared to the rest of the model.

I have lost my lower jaw due to gapiness.

holy crap thats awesome im jealous

Make shoulder pads, but don't make marine pads. Make them twisted and daemonic looking. THAT would be awesome.

I agree with Crazypsyko666, custom-made shoulder pads would make it look even more cool. I like the head, but as you said maybe trim it back a little ?
Otherwise that's super awesome, can't wait to see it painted

I remember reading this thread a LOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNG time ago. Still awesome. I think custom shoulder pads would look the best.

Right arm does look underconned from the angle of those photos. Also with the shoulders perhaps, it's just a suggestion, but something like the iron man 2020 shoulders, the giant cog ones.

http://www.liquidcross.com/ironman2020/

All kinds of awesomeness - I say shoulderpads are necessary, if only for that 80's powersuit look.

I wonder the perspective photo angle you used makes the gs arm look undersized - on the normal DP the difference is made up by a big @55ed sword.

I love this stuff!

I like it... except for the head. I think it's way too big and doesn't suit the rest of the models awesomeness. Everything else on it is fantastic, though

Yes I agree, the head looks a bit out of place

Ok - had a fair bit of feedback on this and I think shoulderpads are the way to go. Maerlyn makes a good point that the shoulders sag a lot without them. And it's also been said about it looking like a heavily armoured dude without the heavily armoured part which makes sense too.

I've gotten the shoulderpads mostly done - I just need to tweak the spiky one because it's a bit weird at the moment. Without shoulder pads makes it look rabid like it's going to run in rashly and cut sick. I think with shoulder pads it makes it look brutal.

I like brutal more - fits the theme. Maybe one day I'll make a DP without the pads and do it up as Khorne. That suits...

Here's the pics:













I've been really enjoying the sculpting side of this model. I've tried using water, KY, not vaseline because I don't want to deal with the residue and the latest I've used is a clear Aloe Vera product. It's really really flipping good! Aloe makes it so easy to work with. I'd imagine vas would stay workable longer, but aloe is easy to wash off and easy to deal with. Vaseline gets on everything and is a pain to remove so I really really like the Aloe. Water doesn't work that well for me and KY is strange to work with in this situation.


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And I find that the head doesn't look so oversized now that I added the shoulderpads in. Double bonus coz I really like the head

Personally, I still think it looks out of place/large/etc BUT it's your model, not mine!

Shoulderpads increase it's awesomeness 19x. Excellent work!


I think it'd look brutal with a daemonic looking head/face, similar to the one that the actual DP model has, but with your touch to make it more awesome.