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RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/10 21:28:30


Post by: RSJake


Ok, so I have actually been working on these guys since about September 2010. I had my army in boxes since 2000 or so, and I thought I would put them on Craigslist and see if I could get a few bucks for them. Only a few of them had even decent paint jobs, and most were unpainted, some weren't even assembled!. After a few weeks with no real bites, I set them all up on the table to at least get a picture of them all before I put them away again...

But the funny thing was...as soon as I got them out, and was getting them lined up for pics, I got the bug again! I couldn't stop thinking about them! So, I've been working on them since then, I don't have alot of time, with work and family, but I get some stuff done here and there. I have a couple of threads dedicated to my Daemons of Khorne, which I hope to also have a Chaos Daemons Army together at some point, but my original love for the game came and still comes from the World Eaters. I have a couple of projects I'm working on, one being a "counts as" Abaddon model that is coming along quite well I think...
Here is the original:

and Here is the latest...almost done with the conversion, just need a bit more Green Stuff on the arm joins and something on the back of the axe, and then I'll get started on the paint:

and a multi-shot of the interesting points:


I'm also working on an old school Chaos Lord (not sure when this guy came out), I only have a crappy pic of what he used to look like, I forgot to get some new ones before I threw him into the Simple Green, he's the one in the middle:

then after I re-posed him so he looks a little more dramatic, added some Green Stuff, I didn't like all the Eyes of Horus on him, so I GS'd over 2 of them, and added a custom World Eater Shoulder Pad:


I've got some paint on him now, I'll have to get some more pics soon.

Also, I've been working on one of my Heavy Weapons guys, I think his conversion came out pretty well:



And a conversion I have been working on...a Chaplain-tunred-Blood Priest (which would be a World Eater version of a Sorcerer with Warp Time):



I was going for large chunks of blood and gore dripping of his "Axe" , I hope it will look better when it's painted.

Well, let me know what you think, C&C welcome. Thank for looking.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/10 21:32:28


Post by: Regnak


Thought about maybe going for a bigger axe on the Abaddon model?!

Nice stuff so far, look forward to seeing more and of course some paint on these guys!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/10 21:46:03


Post by: RSJake


Regnak wrote:Thought about maybe going for a bigger axe on the Abaddon model?!



Well, I had a bigger axe for him, but it just looked silly!

And thanks!

I am working on the painting thing, I hate painting! I get so nervous that I will screw-up! Well, it shouldn't be too long before at least the OOP Lord has some pics, already started painting on him. Wish me luck!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/10 22:00:46


Post by: bunnygurl


Those look great! Nice GS skills. I too look forward to seeing some paint on these badboys.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/10 22:23:36


Post by: Rose_Mountainz


This is awesome stuff dude.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/10 23:05:18


Post by: RSJake


Thanks for the encouraging words! I am just about done with work today, and hopefully get some painting done tonight!

Cheers!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/10 23:30:24


Post by: Limbo


I really like the idea with the khorne chaplain, and the corrupt mace is awesome! Keep it up!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/11 15:01:52


Post by: RSJake


OK! I did get some painting done last night! Woo! Now keep in mind this is still WIP, and I haven't done highlights yet...so with that in mind, here is my Old School Chaos Lord...




I'm not too thrilled with how the bones turned out, I might have to re-do that, but I'm happy with the shoulder pad.

C&C welcome!

Thanks


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Oh, and also ignore the sword, I am going to re-do that, I didn't like how that turned out either!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/18 15:24:17


Post by: RSJake


I think I'm about done with this guy. Apart from waiting for a 40mm base wich is supposedly in the mail!
I think I'm going to have to demote him from lord to Terminator Champion.


not sure if he really came out ok... but seeing as I only have about 12 paints that are not completely dried out, I think it'll do for now...
I'm thinking of waiting to paint my "Abaddon" model until I get an air compressor for my airbrush, and some newer paints. And get some practice in of course!
but until then, I have my berzerkers and heavy weapons to paint.

Any thoughts or tips would be welcome. Thanks for looking.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Just wanted to add this guy, I've had him for what seems like forever, and have never done anything with him.
He is listed on eBay if anyone is interested. (just click on photo, and follow the eBay link)
I wanted to paint him up, but my HQ slots are already taken in my Army List.


If he doesn't sell, I might paint him up for kicks, but we'll see.

Thanks for looking.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/19 15:55:01


Post by: RSJake


OK, so I guess I didn't post this picture when I started the OOP Terminator, it's a group shot with his buddies:

I have been working on the second Berzerker from the right, "guitar guy":
Here are some WIP shots, let me know how he looks!




Thanks for looking,

Jake


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/19 17:12:44


Post by: Jon Touchdown


Looks awesome, good gs work and paint.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/19 20:28:35


Post by: RSJake


Thanks! I will try to get some more pics up soon!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/24 16:05:14


Post by: RSJake


OK, I finally am finished with my "Guitar Guy" Berzerker! I think I'll run him as a Skull Champion and say that his 2-handed Axe is a power weapon. But we'll see.

And I am also posting some of my older work...These were all painted around the year 2000.
So, the painting isn't the best, and the bases look like my 2 year old daughter did them...but anyway, here they are.
Terminators:

Some heavy Weapons:

Kharn and a Skull Champion:

I will eventually re-paint or at least touch-up these old models, and definately re-do the bases, but I'll let them go for now, and just concentrate on getting a playable army assembled, converted, and painted.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers! Jake.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/24 16:15:10


Post by: LordWynne


Nice figs there, they are the best looking World Eaters I have seen in a long time. A match for my Black Legion as I so need more Bezerkers....ummm Birthday will score me 20 of those bad close combat experts....giving me a total of 140 CSM's in my listings.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/24 16:48:18


Post by: RSJake


Thanks for the very nice compliment! Wow! I'd love to get my Army up to that strength! It'll be a long while before then!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/24 17:30:41


Post by: tipios


I'm loving your extra GS details you've added to your models. The Big Axe details are fantastic.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/24 18:22:45


Post by: crimsonfist832


Sweet Abaddon conversion m8, how is everyone able to wield Green Stuff like that


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/01/24 18:36:24


Post by: RSJake


tipios wrote:I'm loving your extra GS details you've added to your models. The Big Axe details are fantastic.


Thanks! I need to start painting him and his big Axe!

crimsonfist832 wrote:Sweet Abaddon conversion m8, how is everyone able to wield Green Stuff like that


Thanks! Just get some GS and work with it, it is pretty forgiving, and fun to work with! I recomend it completely! I was terrified the first time I tried it, but then I was like, "Hey! That's fun!" or something like that!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 15:28:38


Post by: RSJake


As a Post-Script to my last post...I just wanted to add that I recently got some Grey Stuff! It's sold under the name "ProCreate", and in my opinion is even easier to work with than Green Stuff.

Anyway, to the main purpose of a new post!

I have been working on some Obliterator conversions! I had 4 of the old metal Chaos Terminators left over after I put together my squad of 8, so I thought I'd make a few Oblits!
Here they are after some initial conversion:
(the Terminator in the background was intended to be there for scale reference, I should have put him along side of them...next time I guess)

I extended thier upper legs quite a bit, because since they were metal, I had to use a hacksaw on them instead of just being able to slice them off cleanly with a knife like plastic ones, so I lost a mm or so of leg to the hacksaw...

I had already done quite a bit to the last one on the right, didn't get a before shot. I call him #1, I am going for a Plasma cannon that is in the middle of forming,
and as you can see in the next pic, even the Plasma coils are not yet formed...at least that is the look I was going for.

Well, let me know what you think.

Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 15:43:48


Post by: Iamwalrus


Looking evil enough! Great stuff!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 16:08:51


Post by: warriors of mayhem


I like this. Subscribe. Keep up the good work mate.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 16:43:13


Post by: RSJake


Thanks guys! I have so many half finished projects it's rediculous! I am hoping to get these done though! And then I have LOTS of minis to paint!

@warriors of mayhem
Have you checked out http://www.throneofskulls.com/index.php ? Lots of great World Eater stuff there! Especially if you like the Pre-Heresy stuff!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 16:51:01


Post by: Miss Dee


Looks good, I remember them oop minis.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 17:39:37


Post by: RSJake


I don't think I have many minis that aren't OOP! Except my Berzerkers...have they changed the plastic GW Zerks since 2000?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 17:50:40


Post by: Miss Dee


Nope. How about doing one morphing from the pre heresy blue and white to the gore red?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 17:51:58


Post by: The Good Green


That's a lot of cool GS work. I like the plasma gun. You pulled off the "still forming" look quite well!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 18:36:28


Post by: RSJake


Miss Dee wrote:Nope. How about doing one morphing from the pre heresy blue and white to the gore red?


That's Brilliant! And it will work with my fluff too! My Oblits are the Techmarines that were with the World Eaters before the heresy, and have stayed with this particular warband since then. Nice! Thanks for the idea! (I might even have a bit of Blue and white on all of them! I can't wait to paint them now!)

The Good Green wrote:That's a lot of cool GS work. I like the plasma gun. You pulled off the "still forming" look quite well!


Thank you!

And here are pics of the most recent progress:


#1 with all of the underlying frame-work done, just got to GS him up!


And Las Cannon guy. (He looks a bit scrawny, but I'll bulk him up. No worries.)


Multi-melta guy.


And this is *edit* Twin-linked Flamer guy, or will be when I get done converting a Terminator Combi-Flamer to a heavy flamer...and he'll have a big-ol' Deamonic hand when it's done. (maybe some barrels coming out of his palm...)

I just love all the detail on the OOP Terminators, from what I've seen the new plastic ones don't have the same detail. Of course that means more painting details...

Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 18:48:47


Post by: tipios


These oblits are great, the plasma gun forming is a totaly awesome idea, and you have sculpted it in pure chaos beauty.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 20:26:40


Post by: Miss Dee


Im getting a RT Techmarine for my Night Lords. Just need to send out a LOD marine.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 21:41:06


Post by: RSJake


Miss Dee wrote:Im getting a RT Techmarine for my Night Lords. Just need to send out a LOD marine.

Sweet! I'd love to see it!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/22 22:21:55


Post by: Miss Dee


http://brigannion4.blogspot.com/ got some NL stuff on here


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/23 18:37:55


Post by: RSJake


Miss Dee wrote:http://brigannion4.blogspot.com/ got some NL stuff on here


I am enjoying reading your blogs, but I haven't found the NL's yet, I'll keep at it.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/23 18:39:11


Post by: Miss Dee


I have a tester in there have a look @ the older posts.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/23 20:08:04


Post by: RSJake


The blogs there are kind of hard to follow, but if I was looking at the right ones, your NLs are pretty sweet! No pics in your gallery here?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/02/23 20:18:10


Post by: Miss Dee


None on here only Iron Warriors.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 15:51:32


Post by: RSJake


OK, I finally finished the conversion on one of the Oblits, #1 in fact. And all that is left is to paint it up as soon as my paints get here. As Miss Dee suggested, I'm going to go with a "morphing" color scheme as well as the morphing physical model. All or at least part of his right-side will be the old Blue and White of Pre-Heresy World Eaters along with the old Icon, and his left-side will be Red and Bronze and have a Khorne symbol. So, here he is before primering, and the next time I have pics he will have at least some paint on him:





Just one question, how should I paint the "fleshy" parts? make it look like flesh, maybe like muscle without skin? or more like living metal? Or a mix of both? Any suggestions?

C&C welcome!
Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 16:12:17


Post by: Miss Dee


Living metal sounds good.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 21:09:32


Post by: RSJake


Now, I just have to figure out how to make that work.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 21:23:18


Post by: Miss Dee


Have you seen Babylon 5? if so think Shadow Ship.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 21:37:44


Post by: RSJake


I've seen it, but not recently, I had to google it, all the images are so dark, it's hard to tell what it looks like. But it gave me some ideas, maybe black or dark red washed with badab black then different metalic highlights (gun metal, siver, bronze, gold) across the surface, like it's shimering... ?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 21:46:59


Post by: Miss Dee


yeah living ships / living metal


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 21:54:26


Post by: RSJake


Well, thanks for your imput Miss Dee! My paints just shipped from Maelstrom Games this morning, I have no idea how long it will take, so this guy is on my back burner for now, I am still working on the wings for my Raptors, my other Oblits, my ever-unfinished Bloodletters, and I have loads of stuff to paint, including a Pre-Heresy painting contest entry over at Throne of Skulls, and 3 squads of Berzerkers...*sigh* so much to do...I haven't even started on converting my possessed marines!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 22:02:04


Post by: Miss Dee


Preheresy painting contest link please?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 22:07:27


Post by: BishopGore


Amazing GS work, love the morphing Obliterators.

Keep up the good work!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/07 23:16:44


Post by: RSJake


http://www.throneofskulls.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1900
Pre-Heresy Painting Contest link at Throne of Skulls .com
I won't (can't) tell you which is mine, but all of the Work in Progress entries are posted, and we have until the end of the month to get them painted!


Thanks BishopGore! You should visit my other threads for other GS work! (shameless plug!) I'm not saying I'll win awards, but I have fun!
My Raptors: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/329788.page
And my favorite, my Bloodletter Conversions: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/322020.page
Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/23 21:13:33


Post by: Miss Dee


How's it going?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/03/23 21:23:19


Post by: RSJake


Ha ha ha! Yeah.....pretty slow. I've been putting all of my efforts into the painting contest...which means about 3 to 4 hours per week! I've been lazy! The due date for the model is the end of this month! Arrrrrrrggghhh! I have lots to finish up on, but I might get it done if I really buckle down!

But thanks for asking!

I'll post the model here as soon as the judging is done. And you can view the entries by following the link a few posts back. Wish me luck!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/04 14:42:03


Post by: RSJake


Yay! I got something done last weekend! I'll get to that in a bit.

The painting contest over at Throne of Skulls is underway! The entries had to be submitted by March 31, I got done and submitted with almost 2 days to spare! I'm a procrastinator! Anyway, all of the entries are good, and I don't expect to win, but I really stepped up my painting skills on this one! I did work I didn't know I could do! So all in all, I'm really glad I entered, and we'll find out this Friday who got the most votes! I'll post my WIP and final pics of the project here after the winner is announced. It may not be too late to head over to www.throneofskulls.com to cast your vote if you are a member of that site, or join, if you are not. Not everyone will feel at home there, it is dedicated to World Eaters specifically and anything Khorne, including WHFB.

OK! On to what I was doing this weekend!

(Speaking of Throne of Skulls) A member there (Chainaxe Maniac) posted a picture of a "Blood Priest" quite some time ago, basically a Dark Tech Priest dedicated to Khorne.

Well, as you can see, it's a well drawn and at least in my case, inspiring piece of art! (As an aside, he also encouraged others to use his idea to convert a model, so I feel permitted to post it here, I have also PM'd him and asked his permission to post his image here, just in case. I have not, however heard back from him, and in fact do not know if he even visits the website anymore. If he objects to my use of his image, I will of course remove it from the thread.) (not valid in Alaska or Hawaii)

So, anyway, I started with this little fella. He's an old Space Marine Devestator. He was going to be one of my converted Havocs, but now he will be the Aspiring Champion for my Havocs!

His targeter/bionic eye is a bit bigger that the one in the drawing, but I think it'll work.

WIP pic:


An this is where he is at right now:





C&C Welcome! I'd love to hear what you all think of this!

Thanks for looking!
(Oh and I get no kick-backs from Throne of Skulls.com, it's just a pretty cool site if you are interested in Khorne or the World Eaters! )


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/04 14:50:24


Post by: Miss Dee


Looking good there mate.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/04 20:04:00


Post by: RSJake


Thanks Dee! Looking at the pictures I realized I forgot the spiky bits! Oh, well, more to do.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/04 22:37:40


Post by: Miss Dee


You can never have too much spikes.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/05 14:12:37


Post by: RSJake


Small update: I got some work done on the Autocannon Havoc.
I am using a Reaper Autocannon from a metal Chaos Terminator, and taking off the bottom barrel, moving the support rod with the bayonette up, and of course adding a screaming daemon head to the muzzle!
Here is the work done so far.


I hope it won't look so weedy after the support rod and daemon head are attached.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/07 14:14:00


Post by: RSJake


No new pics to post, but I just wanted to say that I got some great stuff in the mail last night! MAGNETS! Yay! I know others use these things in everything, but these are the first ones I'm going to be using! I am already planning to put them on my Raptor conversion jump packs, so that if I don't want to run them, I have extra CSM! I am excited! I also plan to use the magnets for weapon swap-out! Mostly to switch between melta guns and flamers.

Also, I got a Fabius Bile Chirurgeon Backpack...I'm not making a counts-as for Bile, but I want to use the different parts of the backpack to make "Dark Apothecaries" for my World Eaters. They won't be anything more than regular CSM, maybe the Icon bearer or something, but I just thought it would be cool. I'm basically going with fluff that says the Dark Apothecaries are not medics like thier Loyalist Counterparts, but they do go around and collect thier fallen comrade's gene seed after the battles. I'll have 3 out the one backpack: One with the backpack itself with the "collection" containers hangin from it, and I will model some sort of drill/syringe combination on one of his arms. And for the arms of Bile's backpack, I'll add one to each of the other "Dark Apothecaries", and make some collection tubes to hange off of belts or the backpack or something.

Hopefully I'll get to these conversions soon, and show exactly what I am talking about.

Thanks for stopping by!

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RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/07 15:16:56


Post by: JoeyHeadwounds


Outstanding work on these man. I am especially impressed with the Obliterator conversions... keep it up. Subscribed.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 15:10:02


Post by: RSJake


Thanks JoeyHeadwounds! I am still working on the Oblits, 3 more to finish converting and one on the painting table...not getting any paint yet, but he's there!

I am currently painting up my Abbadon/Khorne Lord conversion, he's comming along quite nicely if a little slow. I'll get some pics up soon.

But I just wanted to say for those interested, the Painting contest at Throneofskulls.com is finally done! The results were suppoesed to be posted last Friday, but there was a 3-way tie! With ME, of all people as one of the three! I couldn't believe it! Anyway, there was a tie-breaker round that finished last night at midnight. I was unfortunately not the winner. But I lost out to an incredibly well painted model, so I am not sad. I will post the pictures of my entry over in the Painting & Modeling Showcase forum (here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/360579.page) , because althought it is technically a World Eaters model, it's Pre-Heresy, so dosen't fit on this thread.

Hope you find your way over to the showcase thread, and let me know what you think!

Thanks for looking!





RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 15:25:00


Post by: Miss Dee


Im waiting for some teleporter backpacks for my 2nd unit of rapters to come into stock.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 16:22:25


Post by: RSJake


Teleporters? Please explain! Where do those come from?!?!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 16:36:34


Post by: Miss Dee


Grey Knights


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 16:46:58


Post by: RSJake


Oh! OK, I don't know much about GK...I guess I should if I plan on using Daemons, huh?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 19:32:33


Post by: Miss Dee


in one word YES


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 19:55:34


Post by: RSJake


Ha ha ha! Well, in my defence, I don't actually play yet, or at least haven't for years! And I don't plan to until my army is completely painted, so, like 2 or 3 years from now!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/12 20:14:32


Post by: Miss Dee


snap


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/13 16:41:40


Post by: RSJake


Like I said before, I have started painting my World Eaters Lord, still a long ways to go, but here is a PIP:

High on my to-do list is finishing up this one, and starting on my Dark Tech Priest.

Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/14 16:00:29


Post by: RSJake


Got a bit more done:


I have a couple of questions though, what color should I make the Loin Cloth/Tabard thing, because I think red would be too much red? And I'm not loving the color of the Daemon Weapon, any suggestions?

Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/14 16:11:44


Post by: Miss Dee


If you are on facebook look up Bryan Steele as he has a world eaters army


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/14 16:21:46


Post by: RSJake


I'll do that when I get home, no Facebook at work! Thanks for the info!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/15 14:31:23


Post by: Miss Dee


for the weapon a glowing green


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/15 15:07:54


Post by: RSJake


Get out of my head! I was actually thinking of making the faces glow...or at least try to!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/15 15:12:20


Post by: Miss Dee


I'm not from Psi Corps.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/15 15:18:33


Post by: RSJake


Hahahaha! Do you know of any tutorials for painting glow effects? I'm not having any luck with searches.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/15 15:30:29


Post by: Miss Dee


Wheety might know she did a cool glowy efect on one of her minis


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/16 18:15:09


Post by: RSJake


Well, Weety didn't get back to me yet, but I went ahead and started working on a green glow...

It sucks so far, and I'm not happy with it, but can anyone give me pointers or suggestions to improve the effect? Or just an idea for an intesting effect that would look good for a Daemon Weapon that is easier?

Here is what I have so far:




If I can't get this to work, maybe I'll just paint it black and paint flames on it or something...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/16 18:31:51


Post by: Miss Dee


Brass looks good


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 14:17:50


Post by: RSJake


OK. Well, I stuck with the technique for the Axe, it looks a bit better now, but the front of the axe looks much better I think. I still have some spots to paint to finish up the base coat. Then the wash stage begins! I am planning to add some OSL lighting on the armor and such from the axe, not sure how to go about that. If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears!

Anyway, Here is where the Lord is at the moment.
Front:


Back:


And a close-up of the front of the axe:


Let me know what you think Dakka!

Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 14:44:50


Post by: Miss Dee


A bit lighter green on the faces me thinks.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 14:59:45


Post by: JoeyHeadwounds


Nice work on the Abaddon conversion. As far as the tabbard goes... I would make it a dirty white color with some blood splatter on it from the ork head. Good work and good luck on finding a solution you're happy with.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 15:04:26


Post by: risewiththefallen


axe looks good but the silver looks kinda thick


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 15:04:40


Post by: RSJake


Miss Dee wrote:A bit lighter green on the faces me thinks.


Like lighter green closer to the edge of the eyes and mouths?

JoeyHeadwounds wrote:Nice work on the Abaddon conversion. As far as the tabbard goes... I would make it a dirty white color with some blood splatter on it from the ork head. Good work and good luck on finding a solution you're happy with.


Thanks! I'll give that color scheme a try with the tabbard. And as for the blood, I'm not really sure why I am doing all these details, he'll probably be covered in blood from head to toe...but on the off chance that something shows through, I guess I need to make it look as real as possible!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 15:08:31


Post by: revackey


Nice work, my favorite has to be the Chaplain, he looks sweet.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 15:13:55


Post by: Miss Dee


yes


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 15:44:23


Post by: RSJake


@ revackey: Thanks! The chaplain is like 3rd or 4th on my list to paint after this this guy, but he'll get there!

@ MIss Dee: Thanks, I'll give that a try!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/18 15:45:28


Post by: revackey


I actually have him too

Can't wait, subscribed.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/19 21:14:36


Post by: MrJakkadakka


Loving these guys dude! That Deamon weapon is simply awesome by the way.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/20 02:51:49


Post by: RSJake


Thanks! For the Deamon Weapon, I've decided to just call it ancient, and as such, it is heavly coroded, that is why it has such heavy patina. It seamed easier than re-painting the whole thing to have a different color OSL glow. This one took me hours. Maybe next time, I'll get it right.

Second night in a row with no progress, I feel ashamed...stupid internet.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/20 03:03:55


Post by: JoeyHeadwounds


Don't worry about lack of progress. Everyone needs a break, even from their hobbies.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/24 15:58:43


Post by: RSJake


Yay! Progress! Well, actually I think I'm done with the World Eaters Lord. Still not sure how I want to field him, Count-as Abbadon, Zhufor, or just a Generic Lord. Geuss it might depend on how many points I want to dedicate to him. Anyway, here he is, pretty much done, I am still in the middle of putting coats of varnish on him.
Front:


Axe:


Back:


And a close-up of the Shoulder Pad:


So, C&C? Anything I missed? Things I should have done better? Let me know!

Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/24 16:08:50


Post by: Miss Dee


I like it, well done.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/24 16:29:02


Post by: risewiththefallen


Nice world eater symbl


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/25 15:15:32


Post by: RSJake


Thanks! And now that I have this guy out of the way, I can work on some (hopefully) less detailed models! And Yay! I got my air compressor this weekend and dusted off my airbrush! I need some SERIOUS practice!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/04/25 16:44:00


Post by: warriors of mayhem


That logo shoulder pad is rad. iIlove the way you paint the planet.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/05/06 13:34:22


Post by: tipios


Hi RSjake, I'm glad to see that mega axe getting some paint, it's such an awsome converstion, and the shoulder pad is great


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/05/06 18:56:30


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


This thread started while I was away and wow did I miss out! I absolutely LOVE this thread! RT and 2nd Ed miniatures everywhere!!! Awesome conversions! Great paint jobs! Green Stuff everywhere!!!

I'm subbed and will w/o a doubt be back!!!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/05/06 19:15:36


Post by: RSJake


Thanks guys! Where you been Tipios? I haven't been doing much lately, I am working on starting up my own business, and that is taking up alot of time. Glad you like the Old School stuff Skalk! I have 3 of thos old Juggers, only 2 have riders atm. And yes, most things are getting converted with lots of GS! I think the only things I'm not doing at least some conversion on are the Berzerkers, but Old and New...why mess with something that works right? Anyway, thanks for looking! When I get more sttled down, I'll get back to painting some more! Next on the painting table is the Dark Tech Marine from page 2! He's looking pretty good so far!

Cheers!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/05/06 20:56:15


Post by: Miss Dee


What are you starting up?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/05/07 02:41:17


Post by: RSJake


Airbrush Tattoos and Face Painting! My area has a severe lack of anything like this, so I hope it will be a big hit!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/05/07 08:26:09


Post by: Miss Dee


good luck my friend.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/06/06 01:11:27


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


*begging for an update!*


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/06/07 18:01:59


Post by: RSJake


I wish I had something to update with Skalk. Thanks though, you might have lit afire under my butt! Recently I've been pre-occupied with my Airbrush Tattoo business, which is going quite well! Not well enough to quit my day job, but in a few short weeks I should be able to claim a profit after paying off my overhead costs! So that's a good thing! (although I need/want to get more equipment, but my wife won't let me sink any more $$$ untill I have paid back our savings account) Also, I'm trying to get going on my entry for another modeling/painting contest. This one will be big! If I can get going on it that is. It does sort of tie in with my World Eaters, so I will post pics of my WIP on this thread as soon as there something to show. I'm not going to tell you what it is. It will be up to you (few) who watch this thread to guess what I am making! *evil grin* So, thanks again for motivating me, I will hopefull have something to show in the following days.

Cheers!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/06/07 18:20:04


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


Sometimes all it takes is being reminded that you have a fanbase. Thanks for the update and I'll be back for sure.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/06/09 19:24:58


Post by: RSJake


OK, no pics for the update...sorry...I have, however, assembled most of the sub-structure for the model. I have taken Bic pens, (you know like the ones that show up in most of my conversions) and cut the arm and leg pieces to length, and have started on the base. The base at the moment is just a garlic powder canister lid with spacle on it, but it's something at least. If you havent guessed from the description so far, I am scratch building this one. I will give a free airbrushed tattoo to the person who guesses what I am making first!



Automatically Appended Next Post:
I know it's tough to make a guess at this stage, but I just wanted to put that out there up front. I will have some pics up hopefully next week! Sorry for the tease, but I am heading out of town for the weekend!

[Thumb - 247080_108414295915687_100002413501200_81168_1269758_n.jpg]


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/06/29 02:40:42


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


A Defiler?

Inquiring minds want to know. Will catch up when you're back.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/07/05 16:46:08


Post by: RSJake


Crap. Never mind. Life, work and family got in the way. I didn't even get past the assembly stage. I still want to get around to it eventually, but I won't leave you in suspense. It will (eventually) be Angron. Primarch of the World Eaters. I want it on the big base because when I eventually get the whole Pre-Heresy World Eaters Army done, I will most likely still use the Chaos Codex, and Angron will be "Teleported" in and will be counts-as a Greater Daemon. Although I may put him on a smaller 40mm base, and have that magnetized to the 60mm base in case they update the Chaos Codex before I get the army complete, so I'll have options. The model is still sitting in the center of my workspace, which annoys my wife because people that come over can see it! *gasp* So hopefully I'll get SOMETHING done soon. The heat just gets to me and I get lazier than normal!

Anyway, as it stands, (or leans sort of sideways at the moment) Angron will be just shy of twice the hight of a standard marine, add the base, and he will be over 5 times the height! I can't wait to get some progress on this guy! Hopefully in the coming weeks! Stay tuned!



RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/07/05 17:11:35


Post by: Miss Dee


Use the BA codex


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/07/07 14:36:09


Post by: RSJake


Miss Dee wrote:Use the BA codex


I have thought of this, and it's still an option. Especially if I use Astorath the Grim to count-as Kharn. From what I remember, with Astorath, you can have multiple squads of Death Company to portray Berzerkers in the making. That would be cool, but I don't know what I would use for a Count-as for Angron...nothing that I have seen seems appropriate.

It all seems a bit of moot point right now, I may not have time to even work on the models I have untill after the Summer. Oh well, good to have a plan at least, even if it's still evolving.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/07/07 14:39:03


Post by: deffskulla


This is some great work!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/16 02:23:53


Post by: RSJake


Well, it's been a LONG time since I started my Autocannon Havoc guy, April I belive, so I am quoting the post below for a refresher:

RSJake wrote:(from 2011/04/05)
Small update: I got some work done on the Autocannon Havoc.
I am using a Reaper Autocannon from a metal Chaos Terminator, and taking off the bottom barrel, moving the support rod with the bayonette up, and of course adding a screaming daemon head to the muzzle!
Here is the work done so far.


I hope it won't look so weedy after the support rod and daemon head are attached.


What with my Chaos Lord, and the failed attempt at entering a contest to build and paint Angron...and life, (can't forget that time sink!) some projects have just been put on the back burner. So, I would like to show some progress on the Havoc. Also, I am working on the Dark Tech Marine, but that will have to wait until later.:





As you can see, I have attached the support arm with blade under the barrel, and added the daemon head, and GS'd over the ejection port for the now missing lower barrel. Let me know what you think. I have just a bit more GS'ing to do on the support handle, and then I can try to paint him. Unless of course you guys point out stuff I missed or should do different. As for the Dark Tech Marine, he has been getting some paint, but still a ways off. I might post some PIP soon. Thanks for looking.

Cheers!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/16 04:20:35


Post by: tipios


I think that is ana awesome job mate. All the added parts work very nicely. The spikes done the barrel from the head is a good idea, may have to try that myself on something

Oh and glad to see you back modeling


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/16 14:12:35


Post by: RSJake


Thanks! I wanted it to look like it was salvaged from a terminator, but modified because it would be too heavy... I can't wait to get all my havocs painted and a group shot with the Tech Marine Aspiring Champ. Soon I hope. I just need to stop with all the "wanting to start new projects" thing! It's really distracting!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/17 14:31:38


Post by: RSJake


OK, so I got a bit more done on the Havoc, and got it assembled, a bit more GS work and it should be ready:

Here you can sort of see the skull I put on his shoulder pad, and how he will look when assembled:


And here is a shot of the WIP Ammo drum for his Backpack:

I'm not sure if I will just leave it attached to his back like it is, or have an ammo belt attached to the autocannon. Suggestions?

And here is a WIP of my Dark Tech Marine, still a ways to go, but I think he's looking pretty good.


It's good to be back at the work table, it's been too long.

Thanks for looking!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/17 19:41:37


Post by: tipios


Looking good. If you can I'd try to get the ammo belt to feed into the gun.

Dark Tech Marine is looking good too, very nice red!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/17 20:28:02


Post by: RSJake


So, something like this?

[Thumb - 259616_sm-.jpg]


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/17 20:33:15


Post by: tipios


Yes!!!!!!!!!


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Thats cool!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/17 20:40:12


Post by: RSJake


I'll see what I can do!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Got some more paint on the Tech Marine, I think I'm done, except for basing. Didn't get anything done on the Havoc, maybe tomorrow.




Anything I missed? I really like how the red came out, nice and dark.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/18 14:11:13


Post by: RSJake


And here is a close-up of the front.


Cheers!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/18 17:24:02


Post by: tipios


Nice one! I can't see anything you have missed!!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/19 14:03:43


Post by: RSJake


Thanks!

I got some work done on the Havoc:



Still a ways to go, but it's getting there.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/19 15:09:07


Post by: tipios


wow, just like your picture very nice!!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/19 15:42:31


Post by: RSJake


Thanks, it wasn't easy! And I still need to GS around the front of the drum and the "extractor" area where the ammo comes off the drum, and clean up the ammo belt. But I like it!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/23 14:14:03


Post by: RSJake


Just about done with the Havoc conversion. I have a few bits here and there to file down and trim up, but for the most part, it's done:






Thanks for stopping by!
Cheers!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/23 15:40:25


Post by: tipios


He's gona look very cool!!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/08/25 15:54:10


Post by: RSJake


Thanks Tipios! I still need to do a bit more claening up, I haven't touched him since I took those pics. But I have been working on a new project! It's another contest over at Throne of Skulls, but it hasn't been officailly announced yet, so I haven't done a whole lot to it, but even if the contest is changed before it's official, I'll continue with this project anyway. I'll make a new thread about it when I get a bit futher, or the contest is announced.

I will give you a hint though! It's a single model, it's Khorne related, and I am making it from scratch!

Fortunately, life has simmered down for now, and I am actually getting an hour or two a night to work on my hobby! So, unlike the last contest I wanted to enter, I might actually get this one done! Yay!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/09/03 19:47:43


Post by: RSJake


Well, it took me a while to get this project going, but I am now well under way! Check it out here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/394917.page
Let me know what you think!

As for my World Eaters, I have made progress on some of them, but nothing worth showing yet.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/09/21 17:31:39


Post by: RSJake


OK, I have a sickness. It prevents me from finishing most of my projects because I keep starting new ones before the last one is painted!

I'm not even done with the sculpt for my female commisar, and I have already bought the base model for my next conversion! But to be honest, I am really excited about this one too! I had mentioned several months ago that I wanted to build a Pre-Heresy Angron for my Pre-Heresy World Eaters for a modeling/painting contest. Well, I didn't get it started let alone done, mostly due to lack of inpiration. I was surfing the net yesterday, and to say "I was inspired" would be an understatement! I found Angron! He will of course need extensive converting (I wouldn't have it any other way!), but I think it will be great! He is made by Yedharo Models. They do larger models and Busts mostly. And when I say larger models I mean 54mm scale. And the one I bought is even large for that scale! It's 70mm tall! I will add a pic of him to the bottom of this post so you get an idea. He should be here about the time i start painting my commisar, so that will be distracting, but such is life!

Have a great day!

[Thumb - Angron base.JPG]


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/09/22 19:58:46


Post by: RSJake


Here is a quick mock-up of what I want to do with Angron. Any thoughts?

[Thumb - Angron Mock-up2.jpg]


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/09/22 20:15:32


Post by: tipios


I see, very intresting

Would DP shoulder pads work on him?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/09/22 20:17:24


Post by: RSJake


I have no idea!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/10/05 02:08:44


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


RSJake wrote:OK, I have a sickness. It prevents me from finishing most of my projects because I keep starting new ones before the last one is painted!


Right there with you, Brother.

Too much to catch up on. The Reaper Cannon conversion was excellent and inspired from start to "finish". Not quite getting the Angron angle yet, but will be back to check in.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/10/05 15:00:59


Post by: RSJake


Thanks on the Auto-Cannon, I hate all the old Shoulder Mounted heavy weapons, except for the Missile Launchers, that's about right, but the other weapons just looked too top heavy. So, I'm converting all my old metal Devastators into Chaos Havocs.

As for Angron, I always pictured him as HUGELY Muscular! Most of the models and conversions I've seen of him, even most darwings for that matter, show him as skinny and Over-armored. I just can't see a Giant, Immortal, Mentally instable, Gladiator as wanting or needed all that armor. As I envision the finished product to look like some of the drawings of Angron, but having removed some of his armor so that he has a greater range of movement, and to heck with the armor protection, especially on the back....I'm sure he would feel that he didn't need ANY armor on the back, he wasn't likely to turn his back on a live enemy was he?

And when I saw this model, it just screamed Angron to me. I still think the arms are way too big, but someone on another site said I should keep the arms, just make smaller hands. So, when I eventually get the model...it is on back order...I'll post some mock-up picks, and some scale shots, and we'll see how it looks.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/10/05 17:13:57


Post by: Depraved


I dont think you should remove the hands. I would turn the left wrist and cut the fingers so that they are closed around the haft of a massive chain-axe.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/05 16:27:50


Post by: RSJake


Wow, been a while since I updated this thread! I had to drop the Angron idea for now. Apparently the model I wanted has been discontinued, and would have been a hassle and expensive to get one.

So, on to other things!

Rhinos!

I recently got a Mk I Rhino in great shape,

and it inspired me to repair the one I already had...you might remember it from this photo of when I thought I could make it into a Defiler.

That didn't work out.
This is what it looked like just before I tore it to heck.

However, as you can see in the defiler mock-up picture, I had ripped off the tracks, and long ago I had drilled battle damage all over the place, even though it's going to be given to Berzerkers, my army is going to have a Dark Tech Marine, and his stand is, just because it's going to get beat to crap every battle, doesn't mean it has to look like it! So, after extensive clean-up, I had this hull.

Which is fine, but I want something different for the front. So...I turned it over! "What? It's exactly the same thing? Top and botom? Well, I put this thing together in the late 1990's, and had forgotten that.

So, I started to fill in the battle damage with Brown Stuff. And I popped off all the extra bits on the hull.

For the front, I want one single plate with a view port in the middle.

I also had an old Mk I Predator. I wanted one more Rhino, and I want to get one of the newer Predators, so I decided to tear that one apart too. Here are before pictures:


(I now have an extra Mk I Predator turret in somewhat decent shape if anyone is interested! Only slight battle damage and sporting a Mk I Land Raider Twin Linked Las Cannon)

This one is currently in the Simple Green. The other two have been stripped and taken apart. As soon as the re-puposed Predator is stripped and dissassembled, I'll take a group photo before the Chaos-ification begins!

I'm also ordering hatches from the Chaos Defiler, so I will be having drivers/gunners popping thier heads out of them. There will be only one hatch, and it will be off-center, to allow for the (magnetized) mounting of a Havoc Missile Launcher on the other side.

There will be lots of good stuff to come, at least according to plans I have in mind! And what I am planning for the "Extra Armor" plates will hopefully be very wicked! Wish me luck!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/05 16:30:15


Post by: dsteingass


Oooh Jake's Rhino Chop Shop!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/05 17:00:36


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


I love the old MK1 Rhinos. Other than the Land Raider all of the vehicles in my army are based on the MK1 body style. If I had the $$$ I'd likely have all old RT Land Raiders as well, but I have to admit the newer models really put a stompin' on the old one as far as looks go.

Sent you a PM as well.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/05 17:28:13


Post by: RSJake


dsteingass wrote:Oooh Jake's Rhino Chop Shop!

...I was going to say something clever here, but everything I wanted to say sounded like an Ork Mek saying it! I kind feel that way!
Maybe I should get my Chaos Tech Marine in some of the photos to make it feel right again!

@ Skalk - I like the old style too, but yes, the new Land Raiders do kick a certain amount of butt! I like the look of the new preds too, the domed turret of the old ones just don't do it for me.

And PM resonded to!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/05 20:47:38


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


The Autocannon turret from the 2nd Ed Predator is awesome! The domed turret on the twin Lascannons looks a bit goofy.

The plastics I can forgive just becasue.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/05 21:18:59


Post by: RSJake


Yeah, the Las Cannons I have on there are a bit silly. But I "Converted" it way before I even knew about Dakka Dakka and the vast pool of knowledge of converting!

I mean, if I did it now, I could just ask what the best way to do it would be. And I'd most likely get hafl a dozen responses on the subject!

I still have the auto cannon barrel too! (so you can convert it back if you want)


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 16:01:20


Post by: RSJake


I woke up especially early this morning, and had an urge to work on an Aspiring Champion for my Chosen of Khorne. I assembled this guy without the aid of a Codex, so I may have to alter his gear. I wanted 5 chosen, all with melta guns, but I didn't realize the power fist would take up one of those slots. Maybe that isn't such a bad thing, who knows. Maybe I'll magnetize the hands for different load-outs! Brilliant!

Anyway, here is how he looks after an early morning kit-bash session.




I think I will keep this theme for the chosen though, no matter what load-out I go with. Bare arms, and a bare head, and the torsos with the chainmail over the crotch.

What do you think?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 16:48:58


Post by: dsteingass


KHAAANNNN!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 18:32:20


Post by: Miss Dee


KIRRRRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 18:35:29


Post by: baneofmorgoth


That champion is the gak.

It almost looks like he's throwing his hands up in a WTF pose.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 18:52:29


Post by: pox


all this stuff looks great! I am such a huge fan of the older GW stuff. I'm not knocking the new stuff mind you, I just get all nestaglic when I see stuff from the early nineties and before. I really like the small things you do to the older models to bring them more in line with the look of the newer stuff, I bet it looks stunning once it's all finished.

I think I gotta stop looking though, it makes me really miss playing chaos.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 19:02:07


Post by: RSJake


I posed him thinking it would convey pretty much what Dstein said. Howling mad at the mortals displayed before him, ready to tear them assunder! (pretty cool right?)

But baneofmorgoth made me see a guy after a long day at work that goes to his car and sees all 4 of his tires are flat. (not so inspiring, oh well.)

Pox, yeah the old ones had some style, even if a bit on the "lacking in detail" side of things. I like the posability of the newer ones though. If you like the old chaos stuff, I still have 3 of the old Cartoony looking Juggernaughts with riders I am still working on! I'll try to get those painted before the end of the world. And since that is suppossed to be sometime next year, I better cracking!

Miss Dee - Is that sound of his head splitting open?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 20:47:58


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


That is really mean and brutal looking! And good news is it is 100% current Codex legal.

Really looking forward to seeing some paint on that!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 20:55:08


Post by: RSJake


Thanks!
Yeah, he's legal as is, but I wanted to convert his bolter to a melta gun. *sad face*
But since he'll be the Aspiring champ, I guess having a Power Fist would not be a bad thing.

Crap, I just had a thought...I better not convert anything else for a while. You reminded me about the rumored NEW CHAOS CODEX (cue singing chior and heavenly spotlight)

What if, with that codex everything changes? Oh well, if it's better I won't complain...too much.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/07 21:32:05


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


Read this thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/410529.page

It's 100% conjecture, but there has to be some truth in it. In any case, it can't be worse than 5th.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 16:27:21


Post by: RSJake


Thanks Skalk, I hope the next Codex does the World Eater in particular and Chaos in general some justice!

I did some work to one of the rhinos this weekend. The one I got from Dstein in fact, as it was the cleanest one I had.
I want to make this one memorable.
And that is above and beyond the Extra Amror and updated gunner's turrets I have in mind for all 3 of these Mk I Rhinos.

First, I had to take some of the pieces off, so I could get at the interior.


What I am going for on this one is to make an interior for it and have the doors open. Not just open, but working doors. After much fiddling and measuring and cutting I got a piece of styrene cut out for a bulkhead between the troop compartment and the driver/gunner's area. It won't look quite right if you look at the exterior and interior together, the locations and possisions of the hatches are all wrong to be realistic. So keep the mind-set that the interior is about half the size it needs to be, and it should work.

Here is the bulkhead after door, computer screen and rivets were attached.


Exterior shot of the tacked-together rhino.


A view of the bulkhead through the top doors, and the rear ramp closed.


And the rear ramp opened.


And a POV of the bulkhead through the open ramp door.

You can see a gap on the bottom of the bulkhead. I have sort of fixed that.

And here is the rhino as it stands now. (Still tacked together, I want to keep it apart until I paint it.)


And with the door open. I only have one of the side doors done, I hope to make both sides operational at some point.


The styrene on the top is to give the rhino some height and to make a place for the different gunner's turret to fit. Also, I want to build up a box-like area where the top doors were to add piles of skulls, like that is where they throw all of the skulls taken in battle as trophies.

I took off the exhaught pipes so I could clean them up, the mold lines were still on them, and it was buggin me, and I did have everything else off, so why not. Also, I am taking the curved pipes on the top off and replaceing them with gargoyle heads.

I will be closing up all of the seams and gaps in the exterior with GS and sanding it down. Kind of like Weety's rhino, as I hate all of those gaps.

I also have some spkiey fence bits and newer rhino rams on order, and will be adding those to the rhinos as well.

So, that is all for now, stay tuned, and we'll hopefully see some progress on this guy this week!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 20:23:18


Post by: Viktor von Domm


uuuuhhh... now i have a new thread to read through.... that riveting deed i just witnessed... hmmm... checking list...aha...recruiting assesment centre of the league is in full swing now...

by the way...that angron...rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!! love it... he is angry no doubt...^^


the backlog will take a minute^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 20:29:07


Post by: RSJake


Thanks Vic, I need to figure out how to make the rivets a more uniform length, but I like how it's coming along.

As for the Angron, that model is a No Go for now. One of the reasons I want to sculpt a Daemon, I figure I can use the body and maybe the arms and legs of a Daemon for a Pre-Heresy Angron base, and just make a head to go with it. Make my own dang model if they want to discontinue that one! Mueahahahaha!

Most of the back log is failed attempts at new stuff, but it's worth a read I guess...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 20:35:07


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


That is a crazy amount of work on a Mk1 Rhino! Looks great though.

Agh! I just remembered something. Sorry. I'll do that this week.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 20:37:54


Post by: Viktor von Domm


well i hope you haven´t got rid of anything of the backlog already... i have kept mine too... you never know when a new idea or a solution might pop up...

that angron mini... is that a gw model?

as for rivetmaking... i think the holepunch methode works best in my current works with cardboard... with plasticcard i have yet to try the puchset and slicing multiple rivets from rods...well i have to try that out too...

but it didn´t look too uneven to me...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 20:40:20


Post by: dsteingass


RSJake wrote:Thanks Vic, I need to figure out how to make the rivets a more uniform length, but I like how it's coming along.


Practice, and trimming them with clippers after the glue dries. Don't worry about making them all the same length, You won't notice the different lengths once it is painted. Real rivets are not all the same either.
Yes, you are now entitled to fly the =]_,= banner, SO SAY WE ALL!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 20:44:48


Post by: Viktor von Domm


aye....also he makes such nice and juicy other more fleshy rivets...so i think of him already as a honorific member^^

let the banner fly high!


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looked through your thread...love those obliterators... they strongly remind me of a D&D or even a mage knight mini... can´t seem to find tho atm what mini... those fleshy arms...very cool stuff... also i thank your for those insights as to how to do a servo arm... this will come in...hurhurhur handy as i need to make a techpriest someday...and of course one from scratch^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 21:13:24


Post by: RSJake


Thanks for the "riveting" advice Dave! I'm sorry, I couldn't help it! Also, with these particular rivets, they will be hard to see at all, being inside the rhino, so it was good practice. The ones on the outside I will have to pay more attention to.

and El Vic, I haven't made any actuall nipples yet. At least not that I took pictures of. And with the backlog, My Converted defiler project tuned into my resurrect a rhino project, but I may revisit that one at some point. And the Angron model was from a Polish company, Yedharo I think, and they stopped making it. So I will have to do something else. I do use hole punches for larger rivets, but I haven't found one that was .5mm yet. So the rod cutting method is what I used for this one. I am also shaving off all the itty bitty rivets that come on the Mk I Rhino, and I will be adding my own more substantial rivets. Oh, and skulls...LOTS of skulls! Muahahahahahaha! And some spikey bit here and there.

@ Skalk, yes it is crazy to put this amount of work into Mk I Rhino. I really have no idea why I am doing it other than I wanted something really cool for my Chosen of Khorne to ride around in, and this popped into my head. Also, just to see if I can do it!

dsteingass wrote:Yes, you are now entitled to fly the =]_,= banner, SO SAY WE ALL!

El Vic wrote:aye....also he makes such nice and juicy other more fleshy rivets...so i think of him already as a honorific member^^

let the banner fly high!

Awe, you guys!

I shall fly the banner proudly!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 21:54:05


Post by: Viktor von Domm


ahhhh...now that is an eyefull of rivets everytime you post a comment^^

have i read this right? you even recycle rivets originally apiled by gw... see that banner is totally quilified for your work^^

hmmm... discontinued you say... shame... for some reason it reminded my of some youngblood comix i think...

and you are seacrhing for a 0.5 mm holepunch set??? wow...i only own a 2mm diameter holepunch atm as my smallest rivetmaker... didn´t even expect such small punchers out there... be sure to give me a nudge if such a thing can be found... for minis that would be the right size to aply more rivets to armor...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 22:08:37


Post by: RSJake


Yeah, I doubt a hole punch that size exists. I do know a guy who machines stuff, I wonder if I can get him to make one? I don't know him well enough to ask him to make it for free though, so we'll see.

No, I don't recycle the GW rivets, I just thought they were way too small, so I shaved them off and I will add my own larger ones. And more of them.

Yeah, it's a shame, it was a cool model. Oh well.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/12 22:28:45


Post by: Viktor von Domm


misread that ^^ well making better rivets is also a good deed for rivetdom^^

what i would like to know... would a holepunch of that diameter pierce through the material at all? or for that matter...what thickness is usable then?... but getting one crafted sounds like a very good idea... and it couldn´t be too expensive i think...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/13 16:05:49


Post by: RSJake


@ El Vic - Yeah, I'm not sure if a hole punch that small would be strong enough, but maybe we'll see!

So, I got spikey bitz and gunner's turrets in the mail last night! Yay!

I got the usuall spikey fences and such, and two of the newer Rhino rams, those are pretty cool looking! And I also got three of these:


Gunner's turrets!

The torso that comes with these guys has chainmail hanging down in front, but I am going to use those for my Chosen, and also the bare heads with breathers that come with the gunners. These bitz just have a bunch of cool things!

For the Chosen Rhino, I'm going to use Ork Boyz arms to make him look similar to the chosen.
And for the Berzerker's Rhinos, I'll give the gunners Zerker heads. That way, you know at a glance, which rhino goes with which squad.

So much to do, so little free time. *sigh*

Maybe after the Holidays, I'll have time to get more done.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/13 16:34:04


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


Recommendation on the gunner turret (if you were not going to do this already) is to cut a hole in the plasticcard so the hatch is flush with the armor instead of sticking up with a lip around it.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/13 17:22:31


Post by: RSJake


Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Recommendation on the gunner turret (if you were not going to do this already) is to cut a hole in the plasticcard so the hatch is flush with the armor instead of sticking up with a lip around it.

Thanks! I had thought about it, just not sure how to make the cut smooth. I guess, if it's not smooth, it won't matter too much, the turret should cover up quite a bit.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/13 20:29:02


Post by: Viktor von Domm


second skalks suggestion... also if you have a circlecutter you wont face any problems...but i think even with a blade and later on sanding down to make it nice wont be much of a problem...

and for some reason...all of my bitzbought SM vehicle bitz are CSM... no loyal ones in my collection... seems they are polluting the ebay^^ and i think they are often dead cheap...very confusing...^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/14 15:24:53


Post by: RSJake


I have a compass to draw the circles, but I will have to cut them by hand. My wife might have one for scrapbooking, I'll have to use it while she is out of the house though.

I got a couple of bottles of LA's Totally Awesome last weekend. Mother of God this stuff is AWESOME!


I had the pieces of my Mk I Predator soaking in Simple Green for a week, and the paint would hardly even budge. So I rinsed them off, let them dry, then soaked them in the Awesome for 3 days.
The paint just slid right off! I used a tooth brush for some parts, and the only difficult area was where glue had fused the paint to the plastic. Awesome does not like Superglue, it would loosen the chunks of super glue, and the chunks came off, but if there had been paint unter the glue, it stained the plastic in that area. I even had a Berzerker that Simple Green would not take the paint off of, and the Awesome made short work of it! I love this stuff!

[Thumb - rhino02.JPG]


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/14 15:49:01


Post by: bigfish


Cool!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/14 19:25:21


Post by: Viktor von Domm


i bet that awsome is just an amrican phenomenon? am i right?...darn...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/16 00:01:46


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


Wow, I have got to find some of that! I have some CSM that I got from eBay that are so horrid I don't think they'd even fit in as Plague Marines. Thanks for posting that!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/16 15:43:14


Post by: RSJake


Found at most "dollar" type stores. Google "totally awesome cleaner", and find thier website. they have a store locator. Good luck! It's Awesome!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/19 16:52:50


Post by: RSJake


OK, so here is a short write-up of the Apoxie Sculpt that I talked about in my Current Projects thread.


I have used it so far, just for filling in the gaps of my Mk I Rhinos. Here is after my initial application:


And here is after I sanded it down:


You can see the gap, where I had left the headlights on during the application phase. I'll have to go back and fill that in too. But it sands down very nicely, and it is just as hard as the plastic it is attached to. When you first mix it up, it is very sticky for about 20 minutes or so, that is the time to place it where you want it to be. I used just plain tap water to reduce the stickiness on the tool I was using. If you use too much water, the Apoxie gets really liquid, and will be great for press molds I think, to get into the nooks and cranies. Even when it gets liquidy, it still dries to the same hardness.

After the sticky phase I'd say you have about an hour to play with it before it is too hard to shape, maybe more, maybe less.

You can see in the second picture, the front corner of the Rhino was "rounded" off, that was how the old ones were designed, I never liked that, so I filled it in, and sanded it square. It held it's edge nicely, and did not fall off during sanding. I will be drilling holes in this stuff to add magnets so I can attach the "Extra Armor" plates I'll be working on. I'll let you know how the drilling goes.

All in all I like this stuff. But I will be using it sculpt with shortly, and I will add to the review at that time.

Thanks.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/19 17:45:27


Post by: Viktor von Domm


now that whole problemsolving process is something that i should really copy... i have a re-imperialized rhino in the waits... it is horrible scratched and mutilated...and the things you did i need to to too... almost to the letter... i think this can finally save that poor thing...

thanks for sharing that outcome and the new stuff that makes wonders happen^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/21 18:49:05


Post by: RSJake


I'm sure it will work for your needs. I just wanted to follow up saying that making a paste of the apoxiewith water works great for really getting into small cracks and filling in rough areas. It still hardens the same, and files down great!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/22 13:03:46


Post by: Viktor von Domm


hmmm... now that sounds even better and better....will definitly keep that in mind for later...!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/23 00:12:41


Post by: Capitansolstice


Oohh just found these world eaters, I think they look good jake


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/23 14:30:04


Post by: dsteingass


I use squadron green putty, this ol' faithful stuff has never let me down, but I'm not sure that it would make such a nice angled corner like that, very well done!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/27 23:58:19


Post by: RSJake


@Capitansolstice - Thanks!

I plan on getting all of my Berzerker squads painted this year (2012). Well, maybe. There are a lot of them. so far I have 3, 8 man Berzerker squads, 2 of these squads are assembled.

One 8 man Havoc squad, one 8 man Raptor squad, one 5 man Chosen squad (the only non-8man squad), and I think 3, 8 man CSM squads...(one of which I want to make a Khornate version of Plague Marines, with heavier armor, and grenade launchers on thier bolters, and they might have Bio Hazard symbols on them to symbolize the blight grenade aspect.) None of these squads are assembled or converted yet.

I need to get 5 more rhinos for the non-berzerker squads. (8 total! )

I have my Obliterators to finish. only one is converted and basecoated, and he is still awaiting further painting.

Then I have my Defler to work on!
He is in this condition at the moment:




I am stuck at this point because the head is not working for me.

I am thinking of sculpting a deamonic head and heavily muscled neck coming from the front cannon area, Something like this:

With huge daemonic arms from the sides, one with a giant sword, and one with a giant axe.

Anyone have suggestions?

@Dstein - I have not used Squadron Green Putty, so I can't compare them. This stuff does leave a nice hard corner though. I was working on one of the rhinos last night, sanding and fiing and stuff, and I realized that as I was getting grit on the rhino, I would bang a corner on the desk to get the larger pieces of grit off. I totally didn't realize I was banging the rhino on my new corners! It rounded them off slightly, but not too bad, I may have to re-apply the apoxie to the corners, but it held up pretty well for the abuse I was giving it! So, normal wear and tear should be minimal



RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/28 00:03:04


Post by: GiraffeX


Huge, daemonic with a big sword sounds perfect to me.

That head would look very nice sculpted up.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/28 00:20:59


Post by: Viktor von Domm


with your skill i totaly vote for you to sculpt that head by yours truly! the sockets i see... are these the places where the legs are placed? never head much to do with a defiler so i am pretty clueless... i think i have to read at lexicanum what a defiler really is... but the sword/axe armd sounds like a cool idea!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/28 12:51:48


Post by: RSJake


OK, sounds like huge daemonic head is the way to go! Thanks guys!

El Vic, yes the legs and claw arms of the defiler have ball joints on the end and they fit nicely into the sockets you see. It seems that if you can get the upper and lower halves of the body to fit together tight enough, you can leave the limbs free to move, but they would have to be pretty tight to support the weight. This is my first time even holding a defiler in my hands, so this is all new to me!

Speaking of ball and socket joints, I want to do something similar for the head I want to sculpt, so the head is positionable (sp?). So many projects!

Oh, and I was going through my models last night and I think I have WAY more than I thought! With what I have, I almost have enough for 4 squads of Berzerkers, and 4 quads of CSM (or Plague Marine count-as), PLUS the raptors, Havocs and such! Good Grief! Where did all these come from?!?!

Anyway, thanks for the input guys, I was pretty excited about the Daemon Head sculpt anyway, but a little encouragement never hurts!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/28 12:56:00


Post by: dsteingass


Squadron green can be thinned with simple acetone fingernail polish remover. I usually just wet a Q-tip with acetone and smooth my filled crack or gap or whatever. My fingers are too damn big otherwise. I'm pretty sure Squadron green would not hold up to the banging on the table though, it gets a bit brittle when dried. Usually a coat of paint seals it nicely.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/28 16:40:54


Post by: Capitansolstice


I think it would be cool to transform the whole defiler into something demonic, with muscle all over, like a soul grinder


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/28 16:55:10


Post by: RSJake


This has crossed my mind.

But I want it somewhat recognizable as a defiler as I will be topping it with a Berzerker and making it a Slaughterfiend.

But it may be able to pass as a Soul Grinder by the time I am done. We'll see.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/28 22:03:50


Post by: Viktor von Domm


Where did all these come from?!?!
...well it is some natural force that is somewhat like gravitation... we really can´t be held resposible for amassing so many minis... it is just accumulating by itself...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/29 01:55:59


Post by: dsteingass


I am convinced that they breed in the storage box. I sure as hell never bought thousands of lumps of lead...did I?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/29 22:42:59


Post by: Viktor von Domm


i think we will never get to the bottom of this...said my wife after seeing the filled box of toysoldiers...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 16:04:03


Post by: RSJake


As in she doesn't want you to buy more until you get through with those? My answer to that is just don't let her see how many toy soldiers you have! That, and it reduces the amount of ridicule I have to face at home for playing with toys. :(

OK, I have a big update today! I have been saving most of this stuff up for a week or so until it was far enough along to show anything.

I have talked before about how I want to make custom doors and hatches for my Mk I Rhinos. Well, apart from making the side doors and rear ramp open on one of them, I am adding World Eater Iconography to the them as well. For the top rectangle doors, I have this so far:

The circle will have the World Eater teeth, and a globe in the middle, with many rivets on the jaws and Khorne Icon!

And here is a side door:

Again it will get teeth, a globe and many rivets. Then I will press mold the doors to make copies for my other rhinos.

I have been playing with the idea of having at least one squad of (counts as) Plague Marines. But they will be World Eaters, and not infested will Nurgle's Rot, but instead will be augmented with cyborg parts and heavier armor. To show the heavier armor, I am attempting to sculpt Mk III Iron Armor onto Mk VII "Eagle" Armor. It won't look perfect, but it will symbolize heavier armor. Here is my test figure before the extra armor:

As you can see I already scraped away the eagle on the chest.

Here is where he is right now, one leg started from the knee down.


I still need to add Chaos arrows and rivets, and I might re-do the knee...I'm not happy with it. But it's a start!

My plan for my squads has been refined somewhat. I want to have 4, 8 man berzerker squads, and 4 other 8 man squads with a mix of CSM, Plague Marine counts as, and havocs. so 8 total squads that will ride in Rhinos. I want to have their unit shouldpads tie-in with the iconography on their Rhinos. so far I have the following icons, and squad names:

1. Mortem - The shoulder pad and front panel of their Rhino will just have the standard World Eaters Symbol.
2. Golgatha - The pad and panel will feature piles of skulls.
3. Thanatos - One large grinning "death's head" skull
4. Carnificus - Pad and panel will have a skull with large teeth above and below, and the rhino front panel will have an assorment of skulls, rib cages, and other assorted bones in the jaws.
5. Necaria - (means "Kill" I think) Icon will be clenched teeth with blood dripping out between the teeth.
6. Excrucio - ("Maim" or torture) Icon will be a skull screaming in agony will blood dripping out of it's eye sockets and mouth.
7. Incendius - ("Burn") Icon will be the Khorne Icon (or perhaps the World Eaters Icon) with flames around it.
8. Atropos - ("Death", one of the fates in Greek mythology) Icon is a skull with a sword through the top of the skull.
Here is a sketch I did of the shoulder pad ideas so far.


And here are a few of the shoulder pads I have at this point.
The one for Golgatha, I found in my bits box, and I am making press molds of it so I can outfit my whole squad.

it's the one that is furthest along, I only need 2 more pads and the squad will be done.

Last night I made the icons for the Excricio (left) and Thanatos (right) squads:


Now I just have to make press molds for these, and work on the rest of the squads! (this may take some time!)


Well, that's all I have for now. Thanks for looking!


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Post by: Viktor von Domm


whoa...cool update mate!

the doors look very good! also i like the scratches and wear you already done to the doors! looks very convincing!

as for the shoulderpads... at first i thought you just wanted to paint these...then i saw you want to do them in 3D...that makes the ideas somewhat easier to do... but if you want to cover your rhino in sjulls for the golgatha squad too inskulls...then klaus, not santa...has done a tut on how to paint a multitude of skulls to flat surfaces... it is however on his blog...

http://fischers-design-shop.blogspot.com/2009/02/skulls-quick-and-dirty.html



could be the look you might go for them... by the way... just fell in love with that name of the squad^^

as for the sculpted heavy armor... at first i didn´t quite make it out what you did... that much did it look already as meant to be^^ i think this will look great when done...! how will the breast look like? not understood you there quite right...referrence?

anyway...great work mate!


vik


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 16:46:37


Post by: RSJake


Yeah! That is awesome! I will definately give that tut a look! I had been thinking of sculpting them, but this might be a shortcut. i will be doing a large amount of skull sculpting or at least press molding now matter what as I want 3D skulls on the extra armor plates. but the rest of the vehicle might just get painted on skulls...we'll see.

I meant to add a picture from Forge World to show my intention for the armor, sorry about that.
This is Forge World's Mk III armor:

and here is a better view of the chest plate I have in mind. This from a Berzerker, but it's about right.


Thanks Vic, I liked the name Golgotha too! Some of the others are a bit of a stretch, but for all the word the ancients had that meanth death or kill or whatever, not many of them sound all that bad-ass!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 16:52:36


Post by: Viktor von Domm


golgatha is as bad ass as you can get....^^

the armor is one of my favorite... guess why^^ just couldn´t put name to look^^

hmmm... the whole pressmould thing could work too...would make the whole painting issue somehwat way easier and yet would look stunning...just drybrushing something over something then...

like a diamond shaped stamp with four or more skulls made... and then you can press the form into fresh aplied GS and do it over and over again... that could be something totally unique.. rrrrrrr....sounds sexy already!


as for the chestplate... dunno if with that you might selling the look a bit cheap then... have you considered other designs to do?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 17:21:39


Post by: RSJake


Oh, you should see in my head all the rivety goodness I have planned for these guys! I even made a pressmold for rivets! Just roll up a we bit of GS, put it where you want the rivet, press the Instant Mold tool I made, and presto! Rivit is done! Just don't touch it for a few hours!

El Vic said:
"like a diamond shaped stamp with four or more skulls made... and then you can press the form into fresh aplied GS and do it over and over again... that could be something totally unique.. rrrrrrr....sounds sexy already!"

That is a great idea! just like my rivet tool, I'll make a skull tool too! Brilliant Vic! (Leave it to you to want to make skull shaped rivets! Ahahahahaha!)

That breast plate is just the basic idea for the chest piece, It will be mix between that and the Mk II armor chest above it. Hopefully, if I can, I'll work on it this weekend, and show you what I have in mind on Tuesday. And some will have teeth on top and bottom, with a globe or a skull or something in between. There will be variations. I also am thinking of making small shields to attach to their left arms to give them a bit more armor.

I really am kind of stuck on how to give them some mechanical arms and legs here and there without breaking out my saw...I might just have to do that anyway, but I didn't want this to be THAT involved of a project, but it may come to that.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 17:29:12


Post by: Viktor von Domm


well... if you want to show bionivcs but don´t want to add them in the flesh, so to speak... why not let some cbles or hydraulics loo through out of some joints between armor plates? the stamp idea has lots of uses methinks... the skullrivets...hmm...would that be goodlooking... i think we never know until one of us tries^^

if i could sculpt like you i bet i could make a living with all my funny ideas i can come up with... it is just that my hand eye coordination is not up to par with my imagination...darn...



RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 18:10:04


Post by: RSJake


Great idea with the cables! Maybe even some external hydraulics for power fists and such! nice! Thanks!

I will work on the skull rivets. We'll see how that comes out.

I would LOVE to make a living at this! But until then I just have to sketch out my ideas for later use. I have reams of little 4" x 5" papers all over my desk at home! From Commando Grots to Female Body Armor to the concept for the rectangle Rhino doors!

And my attempts at GS from just a year ago have improved greatly! just keep practicing!



RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 18:11:45


Post by: dsteingass


I would almost think about thinking about building a SM army with that lovely pre-heresy rivety goodness stuff! Lupercal!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 18:17:26


Post by: RSJake


Yeah, Forge World's stuff is sweet! But they make you pay for it. I had serious thoughts about making a Pre-Heresy World Eaters Army, but, my kids want to eat and we like having a roof over our heads....so that goes in the "when I win the lottery" file. That file is seriously big!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 18:20:53


Post by: dsteingass


Hell, I bet that you could set yourself a manageable budget of a few marines every month, before you know it, you'd have a Legion! Alpha Legion would probably be my Pre-Heresy army choice...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 18:23:44


Post by: RSJake


We'll see...I may need to sell off some old 40k stuff, and maybe some blood, a kidney...who knows.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 18:39:21


Post by: Viktor von Domm


kidneys....hmmm... not that tasty but selling atm for a good price... and from a known superpower country instead of a low tech country... i think this could be your way into FW stuff^^

yeah i know my when i win the loterry list is also pretty big.... but living poor does remarkable feats to come with stuff to solve problems... when you´re rich you just toss money around and get what you have paid for...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 18:58:40


Post by: RSJake


Viktor von Domm wrote:when you´re rich you just toss money around and get what you have paid for...

You say that like it's a bad thing.
But you are right, would we be as creative if we didn't have to come up "alternative" ways to do things? Most likely not.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2011/12/30 19:02:27


Post by: spudkins


These are very nice. Keep up nice work.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/01 14:57:38


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


RSJake wrote: would we be as creative if we didn't have to come up "alternative" ways to do things?


I disagree. We are an artistic and visionary lot by nature. There is the possibility that we'd have an idea and then have someone else make it ( like injection-mold plastic) but bottom line it was still a creative idea. And there's the inherent desire to have something that is genuinely unique and "yours". Even if someone sold something that was 100% EXACTLY what any of us had been looking for, it would still receive some sort og "tweak" that changed it.

Just my opinion.

Great work you've shared! I'm really enjoying this a lot.



RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/02 02:15:41


Post by: Capitansolstice


RSJake wrote:
But you are right, would we be as creative if we didn't have to come up "alternative" ways to do things? Most likely not.

I agree completely, I was going to buy the FW renegades upgrades for my whole entire renegade army, But I diddnt have the cash, so now I am making some conversions that I would have never attempted before


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 22:32:20


Post by: RSJake


Just a quick update on the Rhino Top Hatch and Side Doors.
This was a test for my Gray Stuff Rivet making tool that I made from Instant Mold.


I liked it, and decided to go with it.


And after I trimmed the excess off the rivets and added the center globe.


Before I did press molds, I cut a line down the center of the globe so the doors appear to be able to open.
And here is the side door.


And here are press molds of both of the doors.

The press molds aren't perfect, but not bad. At some point, I may have the doors cast in resin. Especially if I get many more Mk I Rhinos. If I get some Mk II's, I'll do similar iconography for those doors.

And here is what they look like on the Rhino.


Also, did some work on the shoulder pads I had mentioned earlier.
Here is the press mold of the World Eater Pad.


And here next to the original pad that I sculpted the icon onto.


Again, not perfect, but not bad.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 22:40:55


Post by: dsteingass


OMG! A grey stuff rivet-making tool! Absolutely amazing! They are all perfectly rounded too! WOW!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 22:42:25


Post by: Viktor von Domm


hey jake...is that the north american continet on your would eaters globe? i wonder if that is anti patriotic or patriotic ...hmmm... i am puzzled^^

but it sure as heck looks good to me^^

and... how did you do the globe in the first place???


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 22:43:04


Post by: JBrehaut


Very very cool all round, your molds seem to be holding up quite well also.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 23:09:22


Post by: RSJake


@Dave - Haha! Yeah! Se below for details.

@ El Vic - I don't know about patriotic or not, but what world would the World Eaters like to destroy the most? I would assume it would be Terra. And North America is where I envision the Golden Throne to be.

And the globe was just a ball of GS that I sculpted nice and smooth and fairly flat on a sheet of styrene, then I added the land after it had cured.

For the Rivet maker, I just heated some Instant mold, and pressed to the existing rivets on the Mk I Rhino. Then I took a small ball of GS, put it where I wanted the rivet, and pressed. The GS doesn't stick to the Intant Mold.

@ JBrehaut - Thank you very much! I really like the Instant Mold. I would like to get into resin casting too, but that is going to have to wait a while....quite a while most likely.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 23:21:59


Post by: dsteingass


I may try that, I have a couple of pots of liquid GS on the way.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 23:27:48


Post by: Viktor von Domm


the golden throne in north america? probably in toronto? eh? lol

you did a rievtmaker form the instant mold...what a truly nice idea...

and the GS doens´t stick to the mold material...intriguing...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 23:35:32


Post by: RSJake


Yeah, some stuff sticks to it after it cures, but it flakes right of when you scrape at it. I am truely impressed by it! LOL

Actually I want to paint my toilet gold, then I will have a golden throne too!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 23:38:05


Post by: dsteingass


HAHAHA!
Saddam Hussein had a golden throne!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/03 23:44:57


Post by: Viktor von Domm


and got shot for that... heresy all over...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/04 00:07:24


Post by: Lennysmash


Great work on both the press molding and the MK1's. I'm a loyalist but I'm sure this thread is corrupting me.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/04 00:25:28


Post by: dsteingass



Yes, be CORRUPTED


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/04 00:43:50


Post by: Viktor von Domm


do the sounds of fats are more golden in that thingy? hmmm... i think i could pimp my own porcelan throne with a bit of burnished gold? could do some nice highlight or maybe just the average freehand there...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/04 01:11:57


Post by: dsteingass


Yeah Vik, farts sound different in it LOL


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/04 11:24:25


Post by: Viktor von Domm


kinda hollow one might speculate...makes the name of that book/movie "deadthly hollows" ring a new bell, eh?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/05 03:15:05


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


Those hatches are amazing. Great work!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/08 21:14:17


Post by: spudkins


which moulding stuff do you use?
do you use greenstuff for the mold?
peace


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/09 15:23:23


Post by: RSJake


Thanks Skalk! I'm happy they turned out. I have made enough copies for all 3 of my Mk I Rhinos, but I'm not going to put the originals on a Rhino, so I can make more copies if I get more Mk I's. If I get some newer Rhinos, I'll have to make new doors, not really looking forward to that.

@ spudkins - I use Instand Mold to make the press molds (amazing stuff by the way!). and I have used eveything I have to make the copies from, Green Stuff, Gray Stuff, Brown Stuff, and Apoxie Sculpt. Gray Stuff works best, Green and Brown Stuff are also good, Apoxie Sculpt works, but not as well, but it's cheaper than the others and I have more of it, so I use it more.

I'm almost done with the first Rhino, I didn't have much free time at all this weekend, so not much of anything done. But I just have to add the lettering to the front plate, and then paint it. I still need to do the Extra Armor plates, but that can wait.



RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/12 21:29:10


Post by: RSJake


No updates yet, I'm hoping to get some paint on the Rhino this weekend.

I do want to post though that I am selling one of my painted minis.
I'm pretty sure I posted him on here, if not, here he is.


Don't get me wrong, I like the model, I put a lot of work into it, I just don't ever see myself putting together a Pre-Heresy Army, at least no time soon.
And I have a long list of stuff I want to get, and I'm not allowed to spend money on the hobby unless I make money on the hobby. Wife's orders.
So anyway, it's on ebay already. I didn't think it was worth putting on the swap shop for one or two models. Here is the ebay link.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/280805715786?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

Thanks for looking, and I'll try to make some progress this weekend!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/12 21:41:04


Post by: Viktor von Domm


nice mini jake, but definatly out of my need list and for that matter out of my available range^^

and do hush up those funny ideas of your wife about money and hobby.... you could ruin it for all of us...

a whole industry is banking on the fact that we do our job and conceal the stuff that we have aquired through buys via all over the world^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/12 22:00:16


Post by: RSJake


Sorry Vic, but if you are letting your wife look at Dakka, that's your fault!

I just can't justify spending money when times are tight. So, this is my answer, this way I don't have to give up the hobby.

Hey, Pre Heresy is not for everyone! Not even for me, and I painted the darn thing!

I'll miss it, I really liked it, but those are the breaks.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/12 22:28:50


Post by: Viktor von Domm


i saw that you are offering the female commissar nr. 1 now too... i hope this bunch gets you a good amount of cash... for the commissar i totally want you to make a heap! she´s worth it!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/12 22:36:16


Post by: RSJake


Thanks, yeah, I hope so too. *crosses fingers*


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 16:55:10


Post by: dsteingass


Look at it like this Jake, if you are in a position where you can't buy anything new for awhile, you can challenge yourself to finish what you do have lying around, old abandoned projects, etc. You can make some bitz box raids, etc. and just generally maximize your current resources. I have often thought that if I were quarantined to my house for some reason, that I would seriously get some things done that I wouldn't otherwise do when something new and shiny shows up


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 18:05:05


Post by: RSJake


Yeah, there is that of course.

But talking to the wife last night, I will most likely have use this money to register my truck instead anyway, so I will have to finish my project list before I get new stuff anyway.

The wife took off 3 months to be with the new baby, so money will be tight for a while. And if I don't want my "New to me" truck to be hauled off for not registering it, I need to get that done pretty soon.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 18:27:24


Post by: dsteingass


Oh yeah- better do that!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 20:12:14


Post by: Viktor von Domm


ouch... now i see the motivation to raise extra money...that is of course totally understood!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 20:41:58


Post by: dsteingass


I hope you at least have a good supply of your grey stuff to sculpt with?

If I would actually pay Sallie Mae what the ol' bitch wants, I wouldn't have any hobby money either, or a house, or a car....


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 20:58:21


Post by: Viktor von Domm


was that your ex? ouch...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 21:14:45


Post by: RSJake


OK, so lets get to making those Steampunk weapons and make our fortune, so we don't have to worry about money!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 21:15:53


Post by: dsteingass


HAHAHA no Sallie Mae- it's the name of the company that gave me all the student loans I needed to finish college


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/13 21:22:31


Post by: Viktor von Domm


ouch even more... got that hanging like a damocles sword over my head too... a hefty sum as it is...but since i am currently unemployed it is still on hold...but one day they want payback...ouch indeed...


at jake...hell yes!!!!^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/17 16:54:32


Post by: M0rdain


*Sudder* Student Loans :(


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/17 22:56:33


Post by: dsteingass


Yep, Aunt Sallie, the ol' Fether she is


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 16:14:35


Post by: RSJake


Well, nothing on the Steampunk guns, but the concept drawing is on my work bench!
I did get some airbrush time this weekend!
My AutoCannon Havoc got some love:



And my Rhino got some paint as well. I used a zenithal lighting method, to get the top-most areas the lightest. It shows better in person, in the pics it's hard to see the darker shadow areas. I'll emphasize it by adding some washes to the lower areas, and where shadows would be.
Here is the base Rhino:



I also used magnets heavily, and most things are removable and can rotate if they are supposed to, like the turrets and the Havoc missile launcher.



I sculpted the skull on the front plate. This will be the Rhino for the "Mortis" squad, but the front plate is removable so it can be for any of the squads!

Here is a close-up of the top door I made.

Obviously, everything will show up better once I get more colors on it, but it's a start! And knowing my painting speed, it might get done before next Winter.


I have also bee working on the OOP metal Space marine I wanted to give extra armor to, if you can remember for way back a couple of weeks ago or so...
This is the before picture again:


And here is where he is now, standing on one of Wehrkind's custom bases:



I still need to add some chaos arrows and more rivets and stuff to the armor, but I'm pleased with how it's looking so far...but I don't think I'll want to do this for 16 models...I think there will be some models with different ways of showing heavy armor, and some will have Bionic Parts. I do like how the Helmet came out though, so that is a plus!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 16:15:50


Post by: dsteingass


mmm, the basecoat is so....salmon-ey! lol


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 16:17:44


Post by: RSJake


It's the lighting... I had to use one of my daylight bulbs for the kitchen, and I haven't replaced it yet.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 16:19:47


Post by: dsteingass


It's not a bad thing, it looks good really!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 19:07:28


Post by: Viktor von Domm


salmon...lol...as in salmon-ders...lol...

seems the airbrush bug is catching on more victims^^ a very clan job mister...and even that zenithal methode...i am impressed ...

as for that extra armored marine... the head i like...but it somehow reminds me still of an evil earnie form sesamstreet...^^ and with thsi stance of him...you should sculpt him in a surfing stance^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 20:20:34


Post by: M0rdain


The sculpted skull on the front is amazing. it makes mine look so fat and lame lol. Gives me something to aim for though. Maybe it's that i am viewing it on my phone but it does not look salmony at all.

EDIT : now corecting spelling at work, the pictures also do look a bit salmony lol.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 20:36:40


Post by: RSJake


Mordain, thanks! I started by just putting a glop of GS on the card, and moving it around for a half hour until I liked it. I couldn't have done it at all a year ago.

Yours is good, and it's your second ever sculpt of a skull right? You're doing fine! Just keep practicing!

And the color of the tank is a bit on the orange side in the pictures, but I don't think it is in RL.

@ Vic, he does look like he could hang ten! I have (had) his arms done, the arms that just hold a bolter, but my cat stole one of them! I don't know where she hides all the random bits she takes off tables and stuff, but when we find her stash, we'll have to have a yard sale!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 21:11:20


Post by: Viktor von Domm


maybe she is secretly doing her own thing with all those stoeln bitz...ever checked the glue? maybe she has enough points already worth for a small killteam?^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 21:32:40


Post by: RSJake


I was wondering where that glue went to...if she's been using my paints too I'll really be pissed!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 21:36:37


Post by: Viktor von Domm


well...cats are pretty clean living...i would rather be more worried what she might have done with yon brushes...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 21:46:47


Post by: RSJake


Freaking cat! I bet there is cat hair ALL over the models she put together! I can't seem to get it all off of mine, so I bet her's are thick with it!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 21:49:43


Post by: Viktor von Domm


that seems to be a good bet... corss your fingers for her not being secretly online too...then she might just have read that lil bit of discussion and now tries to get rid of the evidence...with cats you never know...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 22:03:37


Post by: RSJake


We have long suspected that cat of spending time on ebay and youtube!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/18 22:15:10


Post by: Viktor von Domm


ohoh...has she access to your cam? now you´re in deep...stelathy lil critters...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/19 11:00:48


Post by: M0rdain


New Fom RSJake High quality cat hair paintbrushes, hurry while stocks last, it will be a few months before more are back in stock.

You answer is to shave the cat and make paint brushes, simplez *squeek*


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/19 11:27:34


Post by: dsteingass


Ohhh the finest Jakeinsky sable brushes!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/19 11:29:15


Post by: M0rdain


Oo and i forgot to say, nice to see your Blog on the main page this morning


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/19 12:05:57


Post by: RSJake


M0rdain wrote:Oo and i forgot to say, nice to see your Blog on the main page this morning

What's this now?

Oh and do you think there is a market for cat hair brushes? I don't mind shaving or even skinning these dang cats if there is a need!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/19 12:09:24


Post by: Viktor von Domm


no animals were harmed in this cruel comment...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/01/20 18:20:12


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


Man I hear you on the "justify $$$ for the hobby". I've been taking a long hard look at the miniatures I know I'll never use (let alone paint) in my lifetime. I've been looking into swap / trades lately and have had a couple successful so far. I'm going to be putting up almost all of my swap / trade in the Swap Shop and once that's done (meaning people have had a shot to swap / trade for stuff we both want) I'm going to eBay the rest. If it sells low, oh well. It sells. I'm looking to trade off the stuff I haven't painted (or will never finish) and none of it will be things I know I'll use (or want to at some point) like Chaos or Guard stuff.

I owe you a swap, RS. Let me know what you're looking for and I'll bet I have something.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/09 23:36:00


Post by: RSJake


Hey Skalk! Don't know how I missed this post! Weird! Anyway, most of the money I need for the hobby is for supplies, you know GS, sculpting tools, CO2 tank for my airbrush, saving up to get a mold and resin casting kit...you know...stuff.

But I have actually been giving my squads some thought the last couple of days...
I had said that I wanted to make some Chaos Marines converted up with extra armor so they can "count-as" Plague Marines in my World Eaters army. Well, who says my World Eaters can't ally themselves with actual Plague Marines? Or even that some of the World Eaters started following Nurgle instead of Khorne during the Heresy? So, yeah I've been looking into getting some plague marines lately, they go for a pretty penny on ebay! But I have one bid that will end in 5 hours. It's only for 4 PM's, but that's enough. I just need an idea of how I want to convert my 20 or so old metal loyalist marines into Nurgle's Finest!

So, swap? Nothing that I can think of. But, thank you! Maybe some Nurgle hints and tips when I need them!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/10 16:57:40


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


PM sent


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/13 16:34:48


Post by: RSJake


OK, I am about to commit a scandelous act! I am going to post pisc of Plague Marines on my World Eaters blog! Mostly because they will be aalies of my World Eaters' Army, in fact they may even wear World Eaters Shoulder Pads! *gasp!*

So, if you are a Khorne Purist, please stop reading now. If you want to see my "Loyalist Marine to Plague Marine Conversion", please keep reading!

So, I started with one OOP metal vanilla Space Marine, that had already been desicrated, and had the Chest Eagal removed, like this:


Then I added a helmet spike, Chest re-breather, and some hoses:


Then I added some Pustules, and gooey bits. I also had to alter his feet, as he was leaning way too far forward:




And here he is with arms and a bolter:


Still working on adding gooey bits to his arms, helmet, and backpack. So, well see more of this guy later.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/13 22:27:54


Post by: Viktor von Domm


holy zit!....

who would have thought how a transformation fromloyal to plague marine might happen...well that step by step certainly showed us the way... father nurgle is mighty proud of ye!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/19 14:22:43


Post by: Lennysmash


That is a very very impressive conversion. I would re-post in the tutorial section if I were you as well.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/21 17:31:28


Post by: RSJake


Thanks guys!

@ Lennysmash - I'll do that! I just have some more nurgly goodness to add before it's done.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/22 14:03:35


Post by: M0rdain


So far the Nurgly goodness is great It ties in great with the Audio book i am listening to at the moment. Horus has just been fighting Nurgleths Hordes

How do you create your tubes? Because they look so good.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/22 15:21:08


Post by: RSJake


Mordain, Thanks! What is the book you are listening to? I need to get some more HH books, i think I left off on the 3rd, but it was a long time ago, and I may need to re-read them!

On the tubes, well, I just roll up a bit of GS the length and thickness I want, and stick it to the area I want, and then take my sculpting tool and make the groves. That makes it sound easy, but it takes a while, my hands shake sometimes, and that slows me down, and I have to re-do stuff alot when I add nicks in the tube that I don't want.

Next one I do, I'll take more pics and do a "Nurglification" Tutorial!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/22 16:17:53


Post by: M0rdain


Urm checking ... False Gods (2nd book in the series) I have Galaxy in Flames as well. I have a train journey to a meeting tomorrow so will be able to listen to it on the way

I look forward to the Nurglification tutorial, being able to make good tubes would be handy. All be it for no nurgly goodness


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/22 21:35:36


Post by: Viktor von Domm


at jake... you do know that there is a tube making tool out there? i think monkey troll recently got that tool... i have forgoten who makes these tho...maybe ask him...IF you need those... because lets facre it...you do a remarkably job on your own^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/22 21:46:57


Post by: RSJake


I know about the tool Vic, I want one, just other things to spend my money on! But it's on the list!

But when you don't have, you make do.

Mordain, I must have read that one, but I'm coming up blank. I definately need to re-read the series! Also, if you want to make tubes easily, look for the "Tubetool" that Vic was talking about! I hear amazing things about it!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/02/23 00:35:49


Post by: Skalk Bloodaxe


Wow. That is a great job. Not that I'd expect anything less from you, but still... wow. That was quite the transformation. Father Nurgle approves.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 16:17:17


Post by: RSJake


Thanks Skalk!

Oh, and I did do a "Nurglification" tutorial, http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/433013.page in case any of you missed it.

But I also have un update for this thread!
I have been working on making "Extra Armor" plates for my Mk I Rhinos. What I have so far is a riveted plate, with spikes, and a place to put a bunch of skulls in the middle! On this one though, I'll use what I learned from my skull bases, and make sure there are no really deep areas that the mold has to go into. Like fill the skull eye sockets in a bit, so they aren't so deep, and keep the space between the skulls filled in too.

Here is the plate so far:


And tacked onto a Rhino:


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 21:11:36


Post by: Viktor von Domm


ohhhh....be carefull where you drive that thing...you could poke ones eye out with that...!!!

for me i have to say the spikes are a bit too long... but then agian i am known for my distaste in spikes^^ so i guess i shan´t have said this^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 21:53:07


Post by: RSJake


That's OK Vic, I guess there is a reason you don't have chaos armies!

I am also planning on making some without the spikes, and having boils and puss and stuff for my Plague Marines. But I'll wait to see for sure if this one turns out.



RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 22:05:29


Post by: Viktor von Domm


well...i you are your own demonic prince...^^ where is the need for spikes on tanks^^

boils and puss...on tanks...reminds me of teenage times^^ but seeing that on your tut marine...i think this will look good...sounds weird now that i reread it^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 22:15:48


Post by: RSJake


Viktor von Domm wrote:where is the need for spikes on tanks^^


Well, if I had a tank, I would have all sorts of spikes on it, it would make people think twice before trying to jump onto it to try to disable it. Well, it would make the NEXT person think twice anyway!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 22:28:56


Post by: M0rdain


Will the spikes cast. ok at that length or will they be separate and stuck on?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 22:33:28


Post by: RSJake


I have no idea! I am going to try to do it in one piece. More experienced mold makers may laugh at me, but I will try. If they break off, or don't mold correctly, I will do them separately.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/01 22:47:57


Post by: Viktor von Domm


try at least in two versions... to make sure... one with the spikes facing to the sides and one with them facing either up or down... thus you know then what might work... i think the downwards version might be the best idea here...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 18:36:15


Post by: dsteingass


Tube making tool? what?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 20:31:03


Post by: dsteingass


Very cool! Something like that MIGHT get me into sculpting a bit.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 20:52:05


Post by: Viktor von Domm


they even have a tool for making fur...well actually i would think you could do that with a needle and a blade too on your own...but hey...nevertheless^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 21:35:23


Post by: dsteingass


So, you don't have to keep your tools and workplace wet with that procreate stuff?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 21:52:05


Post by: Viktor von Domm


welll if you are working with something like procreate or FIMO you can do as you see fit i guess...if i am not uterly mistaken here... the miliput/greystuff/greenstuff and what not are where you need to have sloppy tools...

or am i wrong?...confused...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 21:56:29


Post by: RSJake


Most everything I've worked with needed something to keep the tools from sticking to it. Wether water, vaseline, or KY jelly, is up to you.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 21:57:51


Post by: Viktor von Domm


that list while totally innocent and totally too the point and all usefull...still gives a naughty vibe... you do realize that?


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 22:03:31


Post by: RSJake


Hey, that's what I use! Watered-down "personal lubricant"! I just have to remember not to lick the tools while I am working.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 22:04:54


Post by: Viktor von Domm


well... acording to certain movies and the industry it is also not unhealthy to do so by accident...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 22:05:52


Post by: RSJake


Oh, it doesn't taste like axle grease or anyhting, kind of sweet, and a bit like licking a 9volt battery.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 22:06:32


Post by: Galorn


RSJake wrote:Hey, that's what I use! Watered-down "personal lubricant"! I just have to remember not to lick the tools while I am working.


or get the "flavored" stuff...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 22:08:45


Post by: Viktor von Domm


ah.... galorn sure knows what he is speaking of...so it seems...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 22:49:29


Post by: RSJake


My wife might get jealous!


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 23:02:39


Post by: Viktor von Domm


*coughs*


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 23:02:45


Post by: Miss Dee


Or get Hit


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/07 23:08:50


Post by: Viktor von Domm


*shakes head* lol....


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 14:03:46


Post by: M0rdain


ROFL, I have a little tin of Lip Balm Vaseline, its also handy for curing small GS things on top of.

Spoiler:


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 15:33:37


Post by: dsteingass


When in doubt, lube it! lol


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 15:52:52


Post by: M0rdain


"theres always time for Lubrication!" ... Guess the film.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 22:28:37


Post by: Viktor von Domm


minds a blank...

actually i hate sticky film of grease on my hands... i really had a most traumatizing event in my childhood... we had a BIG (it was really big not your big for a child big...huge it was...) can of
in the bedroom of my parents... i had to one day make my midday nap there... also we had these darb blue velvet curtains inside... and well i didn´t do my nap then... instead i used up this can of creme and greased all available to me surfaces up with that stuff... the whole bedroom was white with cream...up to the height i could reach... after that i think i had my fill...for the rest of my life...


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 22:44:08


Post by: ishkatar


What a creepy story, El Vic...
Anyway, for the last month a tube of vaseline became my new best friend, whenever naughty that sounds


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 22:46:57


Post by: Viktor von Domm


welll this sure creeps out my imagination... and mind you...not in a good way.... *were was that puking orkmoticon? ...)


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 22:59:57


Post by: ishkatar


Haha, well, it's better than being smeared with Green Stuff... I already have a lot of small splotches of this gak all over my floor.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/08 23:07:09


Post by: Viktor von Domm


yeah i suppose GS on your body would look even more suspicious...but well for each kettle...^^


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/14 19:18:40


Post by: RSJake


I'm sure most if not all of you have seen Forge World's sexy new Daemon Engine? If not,
http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CHAOS_DECIMATOR_DAEMON_ENGINE.html

It is one sexy beast! So far it sounds kind of like a Defiler that you can take as an Elites choice! Without the Boom Gun of course.

So a while back, I had posted that I was building a Defiler. That idea stagnated, because I wanted to move the head down to the cannon area, and have large DCCW arms...pretty much exactly like the DECIMATOR!

So, I have gotten another hair up my butt, and I want to make a Decimator now! I'll use the defiler torso, and maybe modify one of the defiler heads, add some large armor plates to the shoulders, and build DCCW arms, and set it all on top of some built-up sentinel legs!

We'll see how it looks. I have a while to wait, I just now ordered the legs, but I might get started on the upper body as time allows.

Also, I want to make the upper body inter-changeable with a defiler lower torso and legs, just in case I want to run a defiler.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/14 19:20:45


Post by: dsteingass


Cool! IS that thing more powerful than a squad of 5 termies? Because it is cheaper than a squad of Termies.


RSJake's New Army: Heresy Era Word Bearers starts on page 31! @ 2012/03/14 19:24:30


Post by: RSJake


I don't really know, I have a hard time following how certain rules and stats would translate into game-play.

I still don't play...but I want to!