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all, been a few months since I last posted anything on here but I've still been active in the hobby non the less.

I've come back with the intention of building a Demi-battle company but before that I thought I'd start with Vulkan himself circa m41

All C&c is appreciated, thanks for looking

I think it would have been nice if you had taken it a bit further: replaced the sword with a hammer, added a dragon skull to the shoulder pad in place of the aquilla, etc. But what you have done looks amazing (especially the cape) and the paint job is brilliant. Nice work!

Thanks a lot man

I was strongly leaning towards doing exactly that, I was comparing pictures of the forgeworld vulkan to gw Guilliman to see what could be done and where. The main reasons for keeping the sword where, firstly I really wanted to paint one of the Emperor's swords second, the sculpted flame of the sword lends really well to the overall look (what Salamander could resist a swords that's on fire Haha)

As for the skull, I nearly did include it but I wanted this to be a case of what if Cawls armour was meant for Vulkan? So that's basically what I ran with

Thanks for the comment!

I think you did it very well, but I agree - I think if someone is going to modify this fella, things need to change, namely weapons and the head and backpack.

Obviously that'd be a crap ton of work, but I foresee a ton of "Guilliman in different colours" kind of conversions in the future. I like the bits you did but feel it could have gone a lot further and really been a cracker.

Cheers for the comment Elbows

In terms of weapons, it's like I said before, I really wanted to paint up the Emperor's sword, as I think it's great sculpt and looks cool as hell However, I'm open to pinning or magnetising the hand and doing a hammer separate, (Vulkan certainly deserves a weapon of his own) A termie hand should work size wide I think.

As for the armour I wanted it to be as if the armour of fate was made for Vulkan and wouldn't have a giant drake skull on it until vulkan goes and hunts another to adorn himself with (I'd imagine he'd have more pressing matters to attend to first though :p) plus I wouldn't think cawl has many of those lying around but if he did I'd like to think vulkan wouldn't approve of a trophy he didn't earn being on his armour

I'm really looking forward to seeing what the community does with this kit and I'm sure I'll be blown away by the work that people are going to do, there'll be plenty out there that are way better than anything I could do

Okay so last night I knocked together this hammer to hopefully give him more of a unique feel.

He's pinned at the wrist so I can swap between the Emperor's sword and the hammer.

Once again please let me know what you all think

Thanks for looking