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Rightio, I've done some more work on the chains and I'm pretty happy with them.  A couple of the lengths look a little weird but they'll do for now.  And hooks for the ends, that's definitely next.  It's nearly done, and soon I'll be anchoring it to the base.

Anyways, enough talk and more pics:





Thanks for the help guys, it's helped me to nail the image a bit better.  I was kinda stuck.

Love it.

Awesome.  Love the base too.

Nice. I do think a single length of chain crossing from one side of the turret to the other would look good, though.

Great work as always.

I loved the Dreadnought and thought it was very solidly done.

My only crit for this would be the marine hand. It looks out of place and amateur in execution comapred to the 5 star quality of the rest of this mini. I'd lose the holding the bolter hand or the entire arm completely I really don't think its necessary.

Let the amazing model speak for itself.

I'd be careful cooking with that parsley if I were you

I was thinking, if you wanted to use the fat head still, a defiler/vindicator with it's legs mounted to the top of the fathead could look cool. I am picturing looking at a bulldog from head on so you can't see it's rear legs, and it's head is lowered while snarling. All you see is scary head and huge shoulders with powerful legs.

The chicken walker looks great though, and the chaos dreadnaught is how they SHOULD look. GW needs to send you a job offer, or at least pay homage to this thread...

Posted By Wehrkind on 10/01/2007 3:38 PM
the chaos dreadnaught is how they SHOULD look. GW needs to send you a job offer, or at least pay homage to this thread...

Yeah, that's how that dread was supposed to look.  But it's really hard to cast those arms.  I reckon they would have to make ten little cast arms which sounds ok to me, but it'd probably be a nightmare to execute.

I don't think I'm ready for any kind of job with a company like that though...lol.  My sculpting is pretty ordinary...actually pretty crap...but I can build things out of stuff that already exists.  Thanks for the compliment though.

Well, I have been stuffing around this arvo and not really done anything...lol; I've just been playing around with some loyalist marines that I had lying around that I'll convert to chaos dudes as well. 

Here are the pics of what I finished off on the Vindicator:





And a pic of the top shelf of my model shelves:



FUN!

I'm a bit over building the vindicator at the moment so I won't be doing any more vindicators for a bit.  We'll see how that goes, anyway.

Ah, some Eldar too! Excellent.

I am looking forward to seeing some paint on the vindie.

Posted By Lemmingspawn on 10/01/2007 7:37 PM

Posted By Wehrkind on 10/01/2007 3:38 PM
the chaos dreadnaught is how they SHOULD look. GW needs to send you a job offer, or at least pay homage to this thread...

Yeah, that's how that dread was supposed to look.  But it's really hard to cast those arms.  I reckon they would have to make ten little cast arms which sounds ok to me, but it'd probably be a nightmare to execute.

I don't think I'm ready for any kind of job with a company like that though...lol.  My sculpting is pretty ordinary...actually pretty crap...but I can build things out of stuff that already exists.  Thanks for the compliment though.

I don't know man, your scratch builds are fantastic. Let someone else figure how to make them into a model; you seem to have a great notion of how it should look and function. GW could use some help designing their war machines in general, and you seem to have a masterful hand at that.

Not saying you should quit your day job, just that in a perfect world you would get letters

Thanks man Appreciate the comments.

I have had a miniature mag send me an email asking for a couple of articles - I guess that counts

Here's my current progress - the beginning of the troops.  This mean ass dude is based on a standard marine which I had bits of lying around, so I took the liberty of convincing him to deny his loyalist creed.  Took me a little while but he's mostly there.  Tomorrow we should see the final scerics of his being devoured by chaos... muahahahahaha!

Anyways, onto pics:

That's weird, I had a notification that someone replied... can't see it now.

Well to answer the question anyways, it is a possessed vehicle, hence the welded bolted hatch. Someone gave me a great idea of having some cultists trying to contain the beast within one with them swinging off and holding it back and nailing the lid down...cool idea. Maybe the next one

Love the bionic leg detail ^_^. 

Heres what I got done today, just a little coz I had to do other stuff as well, so I didn't get to finish everything I wanted to.  Oh well.
 
Pics:





The dude with the old school techmarine backpack will count as a sergent/champ or whatever they are with a powerfist.  I'm using some space wolf models and bits, and I think space wolves already look part chaos anyway so they're a good start here.

I like the guitar cord for the backpack vent extensions.

It seems that your entire army is going to be full of awesome little details that I'm going to think are, how do you say, Amazingly innovative.  I'm letting you know ahead of time that I love that thing you did with that marine with the gun and the legs and hands and head and backpack.

Great stuff.

This project is coming along nicely.

The dread looks great, good job on it. Not big fan of the vindicator, design is bit off from rest of the chaos stuff, but I'll wait to see it painted. Marines look great, lots of rich details added. Keep em coming.

Well I've made a bit of progress today.  I only really completed the aspiring champ and then got bored with converting loyalist to rebels so I cleaned off the parts from all the sprues ready to start assembling the standard chaos marine bodies.  Only for chaos space marines, no termies or other types.  It turns out I'll have almost 40 marines in the end, which is pretty cool.  I didn't expect to have that many in the end so I'm pretty happy.

Then after I finish all the termies I should end up with 9 in total.

SO!  When I get to the end of the assembly I should have:

38 Marines, Champs and Lord
9 Terminators
3 Vindicators
3 Defilers

Maybe I'll do 3-4 Rhinos and if I go TOTALLY insane, I might go to a superheavy like a titan or something.  Or if my bro goes and sees a baneblade it might be time for one of those...

Here's some pics of what I did today:





I really like how he turned out, it's better than I expected that's for sure!  His kit out is power fist (represented by the servo arm) and combi melta.  My idea for the army is incredibly shooty, everything taking heavy a$$ weapons and the like.  It won't have a good deal of close combat, but the idea is that most things should be kept at arms length.

That's the plan, anyway.  I expect things to go south though.  They always do.

Love the body, legs, arms, etc. Even with the bionic arm, a gun that size held out at that angle is a bit too rich for my blood.

You're absolutely right...I just couldn't figure out a way to keep the pose and the gun believable. I could change it for a bolt pistol and then holster/sling the combi weapon, but I wanted to leave him with only one gun... hmmm

I might change it later, will see what happens.

Build the gun into his bionic arm. Put the barrels co-axial with his forearm. Very IW, if you ask me.

I wish, with your skills, you'd do something to fix the basic SM physique, which albeit nicely decorated and converted, is plain not up to the storyline.
+ meek in comparison to other models out there.

Now there's a bloody nice idea... Thanks will work on it tomorrow

Damn timeout double posting nonsense!

Hey Mig, what do you mean?

Sure, looking forward to seeing it.

Migs means making your marines look more like the marines in the art (current codex), i.e., hulking and towering over mortal men. Look at Migs Cresent Guard and Hammer's WIP shots of his Ultras for some ideas how to do it. For the extreme, look up Yuri's work.

I think their efforts have made some extremely nice looking models, but to be honest, I am fine with "normal" marines too. The alternative means asking everyone to rescale every model in their army...

Here's the latest pics, I've got all the heavy and special weapons done, with a couple of troops and the 3 aspiring champs with various kit out.  I just have to finish basing the specials and heavies and that;s done, and then I'll go ahead and add some other finishing touches to each model once I've got the lot ready.

Here's the pis:

In the beginning there was plastic:




Aspiring champs backpack - I like it, I like it a lot


Casual Heavy bolter:

Lookinng excellent as usual. "Just troops" must seem so bland after all the big stuff.

Not really...not until I got to the last 10 or so. I've still got to base most and convert 5 more standard loyalist marines to chaos yet.

Looking good. I don't know where you find the time. I really need to turn of Halo 3 and get some painting done!