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Cactus?

LOL... "A" for effort.


Can do all of those (except the LR). Would be happy to do a skeletal body if I had one. OK, so I have some good direction there, I'll put some thought into it and see what I can come up with.

Hey Styro, this is essentially the final build (minus the correct chaos shoulder pad, whatever I do to the base and cleaning up the swords and adding little bits and bobs to the figure). Here is the build with a proxy mechanicus pad in for the chaos one (left arm). Everything is temporarily tacked in place with green stuff. Hope you like it. - GS

Can't wait to put some model's face into that foot!

Cool story relating to my half of the project.

So, I'm hung up waiting on a chaos shoulder pad. As I'm chatting with a friend at my FLGS, another gentleman overhears my need and offers to help. I swing by tonight to pick it up & when he sees me he realizes that he's forgotten the shoulder pad. So what does he do? He walks over to the army that he brought to play that night and PRIES OFF one of the shoulder pads from a chaos marine and hands it to me. This gentleman does not know me from Adam by-the-way... just overheard my conversation in the store.

THAT's good juju Styro... I hope this figure really kicks butt for your Corsairs... cause there's some serious good will in that pad.

Speaking of which... do you want me to paint his chaos pad in Corsair colors, or MW colors? Either way is fine with me, just don't know how closely affiliated you want him to be with your chapter.

ROFL that guy is my hero!

Update:

- attached chaos shoulder pad to model
- reduced lead foot size from a 14 to an 11... much more palatable
- fixed sloppy seam between right arm and body
- trimmed right arm up so that the right (Mantis Warrior) shoulder pad fits better
- added second motor to left (extended) chainsword & cleaned it up in general
- green stuffed the circle on which the MW design will be painted onto the right shoulder pad

Things should be ready to prime tonight! Still not sure what I'm going to do with the base but there's plenty of time to sort it out.

Thats kinda funny! I just picture the guy standing there saying "here" then ripping apart his model!

I would like one of the pads in the corsair colours. I use:

Basecoat: Scab Red (few coats)

Wash: Devlin Mud

1st Highlight: Scab Red

2nd Highlight: 1:1 Scab Red + Blood Red

3rd Highlight: Blood Red

Final Highlight: 3:1 Blood Red + Flaming Orange

I'm not good at blending so ming are usually in layers. if you have any tips on a better way of doing it let me know.

Styrofoam04 wrote:Thats kinda funny! I just picture the guy standing there saying "here" then ripping apart his model!

That's pretty much exactly what happened... blew my mind.


I can do that, no problem. I don't so much blend any more (though I used to) as paint in layers... BUT... if the layers are thinned enough, they will do a bit of blending on their own as the darker layers will show through the edges of the lighter layers.


What color trim to you use?

Sorry forgot about that. Black Trim
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/301890.page

No problem. Next pic you see there will be PAINT on 'im... (to some degree).

Nice thread, you should update it with your recent stuff.

Looking at your terminators, I think I have an idea for the base now.... thanks!

OK, have made a small but very important bit of progress... Because if the way the model fits together, I can't do the final assembly until I finish painting the Mantis Warrior shoulder pad... so I did that tonight (as well as starting the process of "greening up" the rest of the figure. I haven't painted one of these by hand in probably 15 years. Ain't any easier, that's for sure.

Here 'tis. Might try to crisp up some of the edges with yellow, but this is so small I may just count my blessings and leave it the way it is.


If I'm going to keep doing work this small, I'm going to need a stronger lens on my optivisor...

Progress on my figure for Styrofoam04. To recap... a "tainted" Mantis Warrior vanguard. Basic paint is done. Still have lots of details to do and the base of course. Camera is set wrong and I haven't had the patience to read the book to figure out how to re-set it so these will have to do for now.

GS

that looks great!1

I now have to apologize to you Gits and everyone else. I am ashamed to say I have neglected my duties in this swap. Unfortunately I have caught the StarCraft 2 bug and I have been unable to cure it. The alure of Plastic Crack has not been enough nor has the constant beatings I receive playing online. but these new images might have broken the fever!

I give every one my Word, that I'll spend all day Sat. on this marine swap and I'll buy those damn batteries to take pics

Take your time Styro, still a lot to do on him... and he can run with my boys until you're ready for the swap. This is supposed to be a fun exercise... if you force it, it won't look as good when you're done. No worries.

The Starcraft bug affects the best of us. It has drastically slowed down my progress as well.
If you need to get thru campaign, terribleterribledamage will help

It'll be a few days now before I can paint again... but I wanted to post my progress. He is effectively done, base, eyes and some other minor details non-withstanding.

Hope you like him Styro. I hope to hide the post in the terrain on the base, if I cant, I'll switch to a wire support.

Edit: you posted at the same time. that looks pretty cool cant wait till I see what you do for the base

Alright It's Sat morning as promised here is some progress. Here is the photo with my Il Duce head. I added some cuts on the side of his head. where the helmet was damaged by a chainsword


And here is the model with number 6 head

Those look great Styro!

Heya! Just wanted to pop in and give both you guys some kudo's on this great idea. Mr Styro, on the heads if you're still not sure - I'd like to vote for the Il Duce head because I think it looks better.
A guy with a beard always says 'grizzled and experienced' to me... Which is what I believe a lliason (spelling?) between two chapters should be? Just my $ 0.02.

Thanks. I was unsure until now. Number 6 doesn't look like he has the brains or experience to survive till the last man.

Well I've been working on the terrain for a bit and I think I have my layout.


I will be making 2 markers. One for Gits and the other for myself. and they both will fit on this terrain. Il Duce after finishing off a Mantis jumps over the sand bag bunker to wipe out the rest of them

The other marker will be of a dead mantis warrior with his brains on the floor.

Now i originally wanted to have guns and bodies all over the place but then I'm not sure if it will get too crowded

I think crowded would work well for this piece. The last guy standing is much less impressive if there was only one other guy to begin with.

I agree with whale. Put a few more dead guys on there to liven it up.

Il Duce is finished. This is my personal best. Tho he is pretty clean. I'm not sure if I should add battle damage or not. I might ruin it. maybe just paint chips? If so what recipe should I use for the red and one for the black.


Ok more bodies! The next question is should I have him behind the sand bag bunker or in front? (part of the wall will be on the base) In front you get total view of the model. behind it would be where majority of the bullet casings and magazines would be scattered. Or should I not have the wall on the base at all?

Have him behind the sandbag bunker. It will make more sense w/ all those bullet casings and magazines imo

He looks fantastic Styro!

I like the idea of some sort of wall, all shot to pieces for the from the front.

Ok but should he be in front of it like the movie or behind it

Depends what you want the story to be. If he still has legions of marines baring down on him, behind for cover. If he has killed most of them and has just jumped over to confront the few remaining marines alive, infront. I'd do some dead Corsairs behind the wall, some dead MWs in front and him in front killing the last one or two guys.

Styro, when we're both done, don't send me your figure until you have mine and can take a photo of them both together on your diorama!