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Just a few minor things I have been poking around with. Mostly been focusing on trying to get some painting done. *gasp* I know right!! Should have the first 5 Wolf guard painted up here before too long. In the meantime...
My Rogue Trader character from the tabletop RPG I was playing in awhile back. He's a plasma pistol gunfighter. I... may have basically made him Yosemite Sam. (old picture taken with potato)
I can neither confirm nor deny that I may or may not be totally ripping off the gunfighter/interrogator KrautScientist built for a rework of the RT in the near future... Just sayin.
Wolf Lord I am messing around with, he will get a few more bits and bobs to make him look suitably wolf lordey, maybe the cape/pelt, maybe not I really dont like that bit too much personally. We shall see.
And I also upgraded the goofy little duelist guy I bashed together as a RT Armsman awhile back. I figured he needed some more armor.
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haha thanks! Looking back I should have ordered the resin version of the mini, then I could have given him a proper cowboy hat as well. As it stands I'm not going to be messing with trying to do that with a metal fig.
Picked up a box of the shooty Valkir and thought I'd see what I could get out of kitbashing them with GW bitz. Not 100% in love with the results yet, but I like the way it's headed. He's feeling a bit top heavy though to me at the moment but that might just be the shoulderpads.
Base for the model blatantly ripped off from KrautScientist, all credit for the concept goes to him. Used a different hooded head and different weapons. Still a bit of greenstuff gap filling to be done on him and I need to find a suitable shoulderpad for the left side. Debating on a proper DA plate, or one of the studded ones.
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This may be a thing that's happening. Mostly because I had the bitz laying around and it made me laugh. He will get run as a lone wolf in a drop pod with a couple of wolfbuddies.
@kepora Yeah, he needs a grenade pack or something on his left side to fill in that space. Just putting a PA torso on the Heresy TDA leaves the waist kinda narrow. Bit of gs work to fill out the spacers on the shoulders. I might put another spacer under the pads as well to widen the shoulders. Not sure. The power plant is from the Chapterhouse truescale kits. I got a couple awhile back, but was never super impressed with them, the legs are far too weedy even if they have the right height. I might try one of their torsos on a set of TDA legs though and see how it shakes out.
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Another Warhound wip and a Fallen Champ for another squad. The sculpt on the body for the fallen is weird, he's super hunchbacked, I think I need to dremel out the back part of the neck so he doesn't end up looking all derpy.
Since the cool thing to do right now is make a marine out of the Stormcast guys, I figured I'd have a go. I have been toying with the idea of a Siege Vanguard list for a bit and the shields on the Stormcast mean I probably dont have to spend a stupid amount of cash on FW boarding marines, woo! So, I decided to cobble together a test of an Astartes Siege Master. While I dig most of the Stormcast conversions I've seen, I feel like most of them are missing a couple things that really define the Astartes silhouette. The shoulderpads, and more often than not the backpack/powerplant. So, my attempt to remedy that below.
Theres still a ton of cleaunp to do on him, and I will likely scrape off the greenstuff lightning bolts on his shield and re-do them with plasticard, since I am all kinds of fail at sculpting. (clearly)
So, I was goofing around the other day with one of the Masters of the Chapter kits, specifically the dude with the Thunder Hammer. I have always really liked that pose, but I knew I didn’t want to just do a simple headswap with him, so I cut off the hammer and filed down the shoulderpad a bit to fit on one of the massive Kromlech chainsword/eviscerator bitz. I think it looks pretty spiffy. It’s not complete, there is some obvious gap filling to be done.
Now, the obvious headswap to go with it is the first one below, Captains crest, proper modern choppy loyalist Astartes, right. Then I started poking around with the various bitz I had and came across the WE Veteran helmet, which, imo totally works as far as the composition of the model, but… It breaks the image I have of Heresy era Astartes. I have always seen them as more brutally functional and efficient, less capes and frills and gaudiness (ain’t nobody got time for that), any decoration being primarily functional; crests of rank, vexilla etc… I’m torn, because I think a World Eater (or hell, Warhound) Captain would be a really cool model to paint up, I don’t know if the amount of bling is appropriate. Maybe I cop out and say he’s a Dornian Heresy World Eater Captain.
Wolf Priest, first thing I've actually got around to painting in a good long while. Damn the camera shows painting flaws. :/ ah well, good enough for government work...
Started working on a Pride of the Legion list in an effort to get some people locally to play 30k. Everyone wants to proxy their existing models, which is fine, but I can't do that. My hobby ocd wont allow it.
First test mini is about 90% done, but I wanted to get pics up as I'm pretty happy with him. I need to finish the freehand of the army badge on his left greave. I figure all my Vets will carry that somewhere. I also need to sort a purity seal or something on the left wrist to cover up the ugly mess that resulted in my shipping up that arm. I've also sorted a much better way of handling the jump pack harness for the rest of his squad. I'm hoping to crank through the rest of them by the end of the weekend.
Also still deciding whether or not I want to order some scenic bases or not so I'm holding off on finishing that part so far.
You have a real knack for great, dynamic posing that really makes the models look alive and in motion. The marines back on page 1 especially impressed me.
Though guards may sleep and ships may lay at anchor, our foes know full well that big guns never tire.
Can only agree with fifty, your poses and conversions are excellent. Loving the mix of manufactured products blended together, will be checking back regularly.
2016/03/26 07:55:42
Subject: Re:Cap'n Stabby's loot -2/10/2016 - Celestial Lion test mini
Cheers for the kind words folks. I have been distracted by HH stuff and not focusing on the Lions. Upside, I have a 1000 point Blood in the Void list built for my VI Legio, downside I ahve made very little progress on the Lions. :/
Test Wolf is testy!
Pack marking is much cleaner in real life, the black from the micro pen is picking up a ton of glare apparently.
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