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For some reason, I really enjoy the threads from our folks in the field. Stay safe.

Your painting corner amuses me to no end. Way to make use of available materials! Remember, if you need anything, put up a ping. Dakka's damn good about getting stuff into the hands of people in the armed forces.

--Brian

Killamop wrote:at first I was like "damn these are some pretty good models"
but i then discover that not only are you in the military your on tour in afghanistan now? an you can still find time to paint more frequently and better than me?

I've got to step up my game.

I love all of the models, very good stuff man.

I'm not sure you can be less frequent than me : it's been two minis in two months, which makes (roughly ) one per month lol...
Thanks for the complement though!!

inmygravenimage wrote:As always, tremendous quality and great fun - good stuff chief.

Thx!

Gitsplitta wrote:@Yggs: Dunno... perhaps I'd spaced it... I do remember now the discussion of the grot, for some reason it still surprised me.

Well, I think causing "surprise" is quite unexpected in here, so I must assume I can be pretty proud of that!

tipios wrote:@Yggdrasil - I see, he's getting down from where he is I had him pulling himself up, it makes sense now.

Should have said that before you went out and tried it yourself

Actually, I tried it myself after all your comments lol... Some gave me crazy looks lol...

Briancj wrote:For some reason, I really enjoy the threads from our folks in the field. Stay safe.
Your painting corner amuses me to no end. Way to make use of available materials! Remember, if you need anything, put up a ping. Dakka's damn good about getting stuff into the hands of people in the armed forces.
--Brian

I'm glad it manages to amuse at least 1 person lol... Actually, my back & eyes do not find it that much funny lol...
What do you mean by "ping" (that is out of my knowledge of idioms, I'm afraid...)?

No pic update for today, but I received two of the new plastic WHFB wizards, that I had ordered for Panic's ++Pimp my wizard 40k++ challenge, and... I haven't managed to resist the urge to get my hands on them... At first I had thought about using the Necromancer, but it's not easy to convert it without either top-notch GS-fu, or a huge, human-sized models bitz box... And in here I'm mostly with SM things, so it was kinda out of the question...
So I've started converting the Chaos Sorcerer, that I intend to turn into an Oblationist Inquisitor... Probably from the Ordo Hereticus, but I'm still not sure... I had a good feeling about a Malleus one too...

I also managed to fit the torso with not-aiming-sniper-rifle on legs, in a pose that make it realistic enough so that I'm not compelled to scrap everything, and that looks quite dynamic too, so I'm quite relieved...

Pics for both, maybe on tomorrow (or most probably, the day after)!

Thanks again!

Can't wait to see your sorcerer. A Inquisitor is always an interesting subject.

As I already told you, don't despise your GSing skills, one just has to take a look at your Nurgle DP to be convinced.

For the head, I suggest that -if you have a spare marines head - you just take the a part of the face (or the whole face if you wish) and sculpt a respirator/mask to hide the lower part of the face or massive googles hiding the upper part.
Then again, I strongly believe it's something you are more than able to do.

One last thing: If your back and eyes are hurting while you're painting it's not because of your painting corner, its because you're getting too old for this st (sorry I couldn't resist)

Ping == Let us know.

@ Hyenajoe : I'm afraid it will be a bit too ambitious... and end up overloaded with too many things... And I used a servo-skull for the head, which I think worked perfectly on other hobbyists' models, but for a somewhat obscure reason doesn't seem to fit in this one... I might post a WIP for advice, who knows...
As for my age... I don't think being less than thirty grants me the title of "too old for this"... Well, that is, unless you consider "this" to be "painting toy soldiers for playing with your buddies"

@ Briancj : Well, as mentioned somewhere before, I am kind of a "bitz hoarder", and never seem to have enough, even though I probably have more models in my home that I'll ever be able to finish in my whole life!! But I'm always after bits to buy, sure... I just have no idea about what I need! Thanks for the offer though, very kind of you...

Yggdrasil wrote:@ Briancj : Well, as mentioned somewhere before, I am kind of a "bitz hoarder", and never seem to have enough, even though I probably have more models in my home that I'll ever be able to finish in my whole life!! But I'm always after bits to buy, sure... I just have no idea about what I need! Thanks for the offer though, very kind of you...

Well, we all are hoarders. But, I'm thinking more along the lines of brushes, paints, plasticard, magazines, snacks, Ribald photographs of Gitspitta, and so on. (im)Moral support!

--Brian

Yggdrasil wrote:@ Hyenajoe : I'm afraid it will be a bit too ambitious... and end up overloaded with too many things... And I used a servo-skull for the head, which I think worked perfectly on other hobbyists' models, but for a somewhat obscure reason doesn't seem to fit in this one... I might post a WIP for advice, who knows...
As for my age... I don't think being less than thirty grants me the title of "too old for this"... Well, that is, unless you consider "this" to be "painting toy soldiers for playing with your buddies"

A servo skull would be perfect.

And, Yggs : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q37xJtuQ24w (tu devrais réviser tes classiques )

Briancj wrote:Well, we all are hoarders. But, I'm thinking more along the lines of brushes, paints, plasticard, magazines, snacks, Ribald photographs of Gitspitta, and so on. (im)Moral support!
--Brian

The onlyt thing I cannot put my hands on in here is paint in spray cans, as it's forbidden in airmail... Already two shippings have been sent back So I guess there's no hope for me lol...

Hyenajoe wrote:A servo skull would be perfect.
And, Yggs : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q37xJtuQ24w (tu devrais réviser tes classiques )

Lol, I guess there are plenty of films that could have qualified for that quote lol... And I haven't seen that film for a long time... I'm not too much in films anyway, except when I can kitbash models at the same time lol...

Ok, I had hinted at some updates yesterday, so here they are :

- Scout #3 (= Scout Sniper #1) :

As mentioned yesterday, this torso + arms + weapons were the ones I had kitbashed + GS'ed to figure aiming, but failed completely... So I tried to find a pose that would turn that awful stance into something realistic, and I think it's not so bad... As if he's detected a new threat behind him, and caught in the middle of his turn towards that foe. Does it show?

- Panic's Pimp my wizard 40k - Oblationist Inquisitor

Here's a very WIP pic... For those who haven't read the thread, it's a small competition aiming at turning one of the new Storm of Magic Wizards into a 40k character... Quite funny TBH!!
I'm sure the Inquisition will be a sizeable portion of the submissions, but as I'm all in reading the Dark Heresy RPG books lately, it's quite inspiring...
@ Hyenajoe : actually, for some reason the servo-skull head looks better on the pic than in reality lol!!!
What do you think for a start? Is it convincing?? Some paths I'm considering for the rest of the mini :
- an Ork Big Shoota backpack, the one with a grot body that should make a nice dwarven mutant, once fitted with a human head ;
- a CSM bolter in his right arm ;
- either a severed Daemonette head (GK kit), a Book or a Scroll (Skaven Plague Monks kit) in his left arm..

Any suggestion is welcome, as usual!!!

On a side note, I've eventually managed to get my hobby-buddy into Dakka, please take a few seconds to say a few nice, welcoming words in here, thanks in advance!

As for today's song, something to celebrate that nice day I had today (though had only a 1-hour sleep), is an extract from Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, a must-see (and must-hear) tripartite musical blog, starring Neil Patrick Harris (Barney Stinson in How I Met Your Mother) and Nathan Fillon (Castle)...



Enjoy!

The scout works, but I'm not totally sold on it. I feel like he does look as though a new threat has popped up behind him, but without explaining that everytime, I feel as though he's just distracted. Maybe as if, someone was ordering him not to take the shot. On the other hand, your Pimp my Wizard looks totally awesome. I feel like the scroll in his left hand would suit the model the best, imo. Are you going to remove or fiddle with that Chaos eye dangling off his belt? Or is the oblationist chaos affiliated? Regardless, he looks great!

I second the vote for the scroll. Awesome conversion thus far!

Pimped sorcerer is looking very nice.

Sniper dose look like something has distracted him, was it a big monster, because he looks scared

Geez that =][= is stunning - what's the base fig?

Moltar wrote:The scout works, but I'm not totally sold on it. I feel like he does look as though a new threat has popped up behind him, but without explaining that everytime, I feel as though he's just distracted. Maybe as if, someone was ordering him not to take the shot.

tipios wrote:Sniper dose look like something has distracted him, was it a big monster, because he looks scared

Well, that pose for the Scout was the 'least crappy" thing I could come up with... So I guess I'll have to cope with it! I hope the painting will help get rid of that frightened / distracted feeling...

Moltar wrote:On the other hand, your Pimp my Wizard looks totally awesome. I feel like the scroll in his left hand would suit the model the best, imo. Are you going to remove or fiddle with that Chaos eye dangling off his belt? Or is the oblationist chaos affiliated? Regardless, he looks great!

tipios wrote:Pimped sorcerer is looking very nice.

SonofTerra wrote:I second the vote for the scroll. Awesome conversion thus far!

Ok, the scroll was my inclination anyway, so you don't have much to say to convince me lol...
The Oblationists are a small faction of the Inquisition, whose background can be found in "The Radical's Handbook", one of the Dark Heresy RPG books.
To put it simply, the Oblationists form an extremist faction, even compared to their fellow Inquisitors, in that they share the beliefs of the Monodominant Puritan faction, but also think the only way to ensure the domination of Manking over the galaxy is to wield the Dark Powers that the Xanthite Radical faction use. Hence, they wilfully accept and embrace their own damnation, forfeiting their salvation in the eyes of the Emperor, to fight His enemies with their own powers. To them, the Radicals are heretics and should be purged, guilty of the sin of hubris, because they think they can use Chaos without being corrupted by its power; on the other hand, Puritans are considered useless, for in this war against the Ruinous Powers, you can only fight fire with fire.
Of course, most of them are considered as the staunchest of heretics by their "brethren", and dutifully hunted and purged by both parties...
So, though no Inquisitor is fully "Chaos-affiliated", they tend to use daemon weapons, corrupted gear, forbidden lore & dark psychic powers. So yeah, at first I was thinking I would rip off the Chaos eye for a more Imperial symbol, but due to the amound of gear I'm strapping upon him, I think a few Chaos icons will not be too much to show his using forbidden materials!

inmygravenimage wrote:Geez that =][= is stunning - what's the base fig?

This new WHFB sorcerer : (from the GW website).
Necromancer looks pretty good too!

Thanks for the positive comments guys...

Yggdrasil wrote: Well, that pose for the Scout was the 'least crappy" thing I could come up with... So I guess I'll have to cope with it! I hope the painting will help get rid of that frightened / distracted feeling...

Fair enough

Yggdrasil wrote:
To put it simply, the Oblationists form an extremist faction, even compared to their fellow Inquisitors, in that they share the beliefs of the Monodominant Puritan faction, but also think the only way to ensure the domination of Manking over the galaxy is to wield the Dark Powers that the Xanthite Radical faction use. Hence, they wilfully accept and embrace their own damnation, forfeiting their salvation in the eyes of the Emperor, to fight His enemies with their own powers. To them, the Radicals are heretics and should be purged, guilty of the sin of hubris, because they think they can use Chaos without being corrupted by its power; on the other hand, Puritans are considered useless, for in this war against the Ruinous Powers, you can only fight fire with fire.
Of course, most of them are considered as the staunchest of heretics by their "brethren", and dutifully hunted and purged by both parties...
So, though no Inquisitor is fully "Chaos-affiliated", they tend to use daemon weapons, corrupted gear, forbidden lore & dark psychic powers. So yeah, at first I was thinking I would rip off the Chaos eye for a more Imperial symbol, but due to the amound of gear I'm strapping upon him, I think a few Chaos icons will not be too much to show his using forbidden materials!

Purely awesome. And thanks! I was not aware of them, I'm glad you shared. I imagine if anything, that those DW RPG books make for a fun read.

Well, the fluff hints at the fact that this small, almost unknown faction of the Inquisition would be limited to the Calixis Sector [though I haven't read everything thoroughly yet, so I might be wrong]... And yeah, those books have all the "grimdarkness" you'd expect from the most bada** & extremist Imperial organisation... Very fun to read, but a huge lot too!

Also, I almost forgot. A small tribute to a singer, that my GF hated (which made me like the music even more lol).

"They tried to make me go to rehab'...
[Maybe] I shouldn't have said No, No, No..."

http://youtu.be/KUmZp8pR1uc

My apologies, Yggs, for being absent for so long! School, work, and deadline/fanaticism for the Pimp My Wizard/Sorcerer we're in is taking up what little freetime I've got.


My favorite model so far has to be the hanging scout w/ the Grot on the base. For some odd reason, it makes "sense". Great model, and most of all, great wear on the part he's hanging off of- looks natural, and I know the paint job will match!

As to your inquisitor for the PMW/S, great use of the servitor head. What're you putting in his hands?

I note that you said you wanted to try the Necromancer, but felt limited by its overall pose. (I also considered the last one, but ultimately went for the grasshopper tzeentch model)... what were you considering doing with it? I'm kinda regretting my choice now (kinda, but I like my own too), seeing how so many people are doing amazing things with it.

Hope you're safe out there, and good luck on your conversions! I could take a lesson in neatness from your models...

-Remi

@ HF : Thanks for the kind words!

As mentioned, his hands are supposed to be wielding a bolter (right one), and either a Daemonette head / Book / Scroll (left one), though the guys who commented in here clearly had the same favourite as I did : the scroll!!!

As for the Necromancer, I didn't have anything specific in mind... I just liked the model!!! There's a nice start of an Imperial Priest with chainsword on the last page of the Pimp my Wizard thread though, it's a pretty nice idea!

Next question is : I had intended to give him a backpack with a wyrdling mutant, but I'm afraid it will dampen the "grimdark" feel to turn it into "funny"... Other option is a holstered shotgun.


Wyrdling Mutant?


Or Shotgun?

[also, the scroll is temporarily on, for those who wondered how it would look...]

No special song today, sorry...

Cheers!

I'd go sans mutant, seems a bit big compared to the model its riding on.

I like the dude on his back. Replace the shell he's holding with a small scroll so he doesn't look so much like an ammo-grot and you'll have something.

You might find an appropriate figure in a smaller (25mm) scale, which would look better in comparison with the wizard.

Oh, and as a shameless plug, and because you have no song of the day, I'd like to recommend this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy5QpU_aS8c&ob=av2e
I'm friends with the guitarist, who's hes a giant nerd (has more hours on any given Pokemon than I do on my DS) and a good guy. Video is a bit risque, so be advised.

Yggdrasil wrote:@ HF : Thanks for the kind words!

As mentioned, his hands are supposed to be wielding a bolter (right one), and either a Daemonette head / Book / Scroll (left one), though the guys who commented in here clearly had the same favourite as I did : the scroll!!!

As for the Necromancer, I didn't have anything specific in mind... I just liked the model!!! There's a nice start of an Imperial Priest with chainsword on the last page of the Pimp my Wizard thread though, it's a pretty nice idea!

Next question is : I had intended to give him a backpack with a wyrdling mutant, but I'm afraid it will dampen the "grimdark" feel to turn it into "funny"... Other option is a holstered shotgun.

[also, the scroll is temporarily on, for those who wondered how it would look...]

No special song today, sorry...

Cheers!

Yea, I second(third?) the scroll. I think it has a more authoritative feel to it... or banishing, if you plan to OSL something on it like it's reacting to warp-fiends.

As to the necromancer... yea, I like it too... just that nothing was coming to me in terms of a powerful conversion... that, and I'm more of a lover of dynamic-movement-models... hence my ninja-shredder-guyver-insect-vespid... thing. Conversion.

Hmm... for the wyrdling... Gitz has the right idea. I like the idea very much, but the current model kinda takes away from the seriousness of the model without it. Probably something to do with little grots crawling around bigger, meaner (but still comical) orks. Smaller, and not so grot-ish, if you're really going to have a go at it. Otherwise, the model by itself is already pretty damn good.

-Remi

I'm not digging the wyrdling, it seems too comical, i like the model without the wyrdling though, love the scroll.

I would maybe go with some other form of backpack, maybe much more grimdark, some kind of gothic communication backpack or something

Not loving the wyrdling at all I'm afraid. I think it really detracts and distracts from the figure as a whole. Love the scroll mind.

No weirdling is my vote.

I would also suggest doing something a bit more with the face, it looks awesome, but the servo bit is very familiar to me and I can't see it as a head and not a servo skull bit if you know what I mean? At the least, I would suggest gs'ing out the iv and adding a respirator or jaw to break up the familiar silhouette... If you are feeling ambitious though, and since I know you are a talented bugger, why not chop up a face into there, and leave half the skull as bionics, and half a face? That would look pretty ool IMHO!

whalemusic360 wrote:Oh, and as a shameless plug, and because you have no song of the day, I'd like to recommend this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy5QpU_aS8c&ob=av2e
I'm friends with the guitarist, who's hes a giant nerd (has more hours on any given Pokemon than I do on my DS) and a good guy. Video is a bit risque, so be advised.

Hey, thanks for sharing that!!! To be honest it sounds a tad "commercial" to me, but I'd most probably enjoy buying the CD!!! Well, I might do that actually Thanks for sharing, and for watching my back!

whalemusic360 wrote:I'd go sans mutant, seems a bit big compared to the model its riding on.

Sageheart wrote:I'm not digging the wyrdling, it seems too comical, i like the model without the wyrdling though, love the scroll.

I would maybe go with some other form of backpack, maybe much more grimdark, some kind of gothic communication backpack or something

inmygravenimage wrote:Not loving the wyrdling at all I'm afraid. I think it really detracts and distracts from the figure as a whole. Love the scroll mind.

MajorTom11 wrote:No weirdling is my vote.

Ok, so that's 4 of you guys against the wyrdling... By the way Tom, I had never gotten the wyrd/weird thing... Thanks for pointing it out to me! (I don't have no "Captain Obvious" genes in my familiy, I'm afraid...)

@ Sageheart : that's a nice suggestion, but for some reason I always seem to be unable to "scratchbuild" a proper backpack of some sorts... I have brought with me quite a few "techy" bits (antennae, radars, scopes, etc...) but I don't know where to put them on!

I agree it looks comical, and I'll probably keep him for, say... a member of that Inquisitor's retinue? It could be funny to have a muscular mutant (like, an Ork body with a human head - Mr. Brawn - strong but dumb) with a huge gun, and on his backpack a tiny psyker mutant (like the grot body with a necromancer head - Mr Wits - fragile, lunatic, but with huge psychic powers).
What would you think of that?

HF Izanagi wrote:Hmm... for the wyrdling... Gitz has the right idea. I like the idea very much, but the current model kinda takes away from the seriousness of the model without it. Probably something to do with little grots crawling around bigger, meaner (but still comical) orks. Smaller, and not so grot-ish, if you're really going to have a go at it. Otherwise, the model by itself is already pretty damn good.

Gitsplitta wrote:I like the dude on his back. Replace the shell he's holding with a small scroll so he doesn't look so much like an ammo-grot and you'll have something.

You might find an appropriate figure in a smaller (25mm) scale, which would look better in comparison with the wizard.

Yeah, and you expect me to find a 25mm scale shop somewhere around here lol?

Lol, actually I had though of giving him a small gun in his left arm but keep the right hand as is, but your idea might be better... I could try that, though not for this model I'm afraid, I've already decided against it...

MajorTom11 wrote:I would also suggest doing something a bit more with the face, it looks awesome, but the servo bit is very familiar to me and I can't see it as a head and not a servo skull bit if you know what I mean? At the least, I would suggest gs'ing out the iv and adding a respirator or jaw to break up the familiar silhouette... If you are feeling ambitious though, and since I know you are a talented bugger, why not chop up a face into there, and leave half the skull as bionics, and half a face? That would look pretty ool IMHO!

I really, really know what you mean... Hence my self-criticism about the head earlier. I think it looks better on the pics, and I've quite grown used to it by now... And I just don't know how to GS things that would look good.
I had intended on keeping the IV as something "etched" into his (her?) skull as (s)he took the "Oath of Oblation"... And finding a fluffy explanation for that
As for a rebreather of jaw, I'm afraid that's quite out of my skills... The two things I had thought of were a high collar that would hide the bottom part of the face, or sculpt a scarf around where the jaw would be, but I have found something suitable for the collar, and I'm scared I might ruin everything by stuffing GS into the neck part, and not managing to make something good out of it...

What can I do???

[edit : here's what I had in mind for the "scarf" : from this

to this .
A bit hard uh?]

HF Izanagi wrote:Yea, I second(third?) the scroll. I think it has a more authoritative feel to it... or banishing, if you plan to OSL something on it like it's reacting to warp-fiends.

As to the necromancer... yea, I like it too... just that nothing was coming to me in terms of a powerful conversion... that, and I'm more of a lover of dynamic-movement-models... hence my ninja-shredder-guyver-insect-vespid... thing. Conversion.

Thanks to all for the scroll, I think it looks pretty good... I hab a bit of a struggle to attach it to the arm (scale & wrist issues), but I think that's it now! Also since it's supposed to be a Skaven hand, it has claws on it which suit a corrupted Inquisitor pretty well! And, since I'm bad at freehands, I've added a few bits on the scroll to turn it easier for the painting, as well as adding a few more details... Maybe pics for this evening!

Thanks for the support, as always, and for those who have suggestions regarding my questions, please don't hesitate to help me!

Yeah, Bounce is not my favorite song on there, but they are just coming out of the gate, and needed something that would get peoples attention and sell some cds. There's may 3-4 songs on the cd similar, and the rest are a bit more like what I normally listen to.

If you allow me an advice the scarf won't be easy to make with the armor collar (I had problems with my magos' hood). I second MajorTom's suggestion for a rebreather (Don't pretend it's out of your skills, cause we all know it's not!)
You could also try to do somethind like this:

Add plastic cables (like the one under the flamer's lighter) beneath the teeth, shop the face (just the face) from your sorcerer's head and remove the eyes carefully with your hobby knife (as if it was a mask -of course the result would be better with a BA sanguinary guard mask, but I don't think you have one where you are now )
Then place it
a) in his right hand
or
b) on his torso instead of the armor collar (like on the pic above).

OK, I know it might seem ambitious, but you have the skills for it.
What do you think?

I like the idea of using the little demon-imp for another model, it just doesn't work with this one. I like that scarf idea a lot.

In terms of making a gadget bag, I would look at pics of sci fi communication arrays, or even real life ones, all you really need is a IG com backpack, and then your own wires and such to alter it.

whalemusic360 wrote:Yeah, Bounce is not my favorite song on there, but they are just coming out of the gate, and needed something that would get peoples attention and sell some cds. There's may 3-4 songs on the cd similar, and the rest are a bit more like what I normally listen to.

Which is? More... Metal-y?

Hyenajoe wrote:If you allow me an advice the scarf won't be easy to make with the armor collar (I had problems with my magos' hood). I second MajorTom's suggestion for a rebreather (Don't pretend it's out of your skills, cause we all know it's not!)
You could also try to do somethind like this:

Add plastic cables (like the one under the flamer's lighter) beneath the teeth, shop the face (just the face) from your sorcerer's head and remove the eyes carefully with your hobby knife (as if it was a mask -of course the result would be better with a BA sanguinary guard mask, but I don't think you have one where you are now )
Then place it
a) in his right hand
or
b) on his torso instead of the armor collar (like on the pic above).

OK, I know it might seem ambitious, but you have the skills for it.
What do you think?

Ha, at first I hadn't got it since the pic was firewalled by the work browser... And, now that I see it, it's... Even worse!!! I don't know what it's supposed to be, to be honest (other than a stunning Rackham mini, that is)... So I'm not going to try such a thing, I'm afraid... Is the mask supposed to be the head, or not? (And, yeah, I have some SG masks lol...)

As for the scarf, yeah, probably too hard...

Sageheart wrote:I like the idea of using the little demon-imp for another model, it just doesn't work with this one. I like that scarf idea a lot.

In terms of making a gadget bag, I would look at pics of sci fi communication arrays, or even real life ones, all you really need is a IG com backpack, and then your own wires and such to alter it.

Sadly I didn't bring IG-scale bits with me in here... So I'll have to make do with the shotgun holster!

maybe some scratch built crazy inquisitor weapon, the scroll can be the instructions