Here's a few of the things to be seen in this blog.

Saint Bellanya


Sisters Superheavy project


Current projects:
Biker Canoness



House Rouennais Knights:
Cerastus Knight Castigator - Dreamforge Leviathan conversion


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Well everyone, I feel it's time I take advantage of my current excitement levels and start a blog to keep me motivated when those levels drop. I have a league coming up soon though, so...

Anyway. Sisters army in the works. On the mech side, I currently have 3 Exorcists (2 can be weapon-swapped to become Immolators), 4 Immolators, a handful of Rhinos, a Repressor, and one superheavy in the works. More on that later.



On the infantry side, I have 50-odd bolter sisters, about a dozen flamer sisters, a smattering of other special and heavy weapons, and a dozen VSSs. A few squads of Seraphim, and another unopened box of them I'm trying to decide whether to keep or not. Top it all off with a couple Canoness minis and Celestine.

The league I'm joining will run a few Apoc games over its course, and I'm pretty excited about that. As such, I'm building a custom superheavy tank for my army. It'll have flame and melta galore, along with a bit of transport capacity. There's a lot of conversion going on with it so far, and a lot more to come. I'd like to go along with the moving-cathedral sort of style, but we'll see how that turns out. Progress pics-




I have a few other ideas for Apoc in mind, and they all build on a fairly ill-defined theme at the moment. I'm whipping up a couple units of Zealots from the WD article, and I'm currently kitbashing them from a box of WGF Ancient Celts and some random IG bitz I had lying around. I'm having a lot of fun with those, and hope to get some pictures up soon. They've definitely got some character.

I also have a few inquisitors and retinue figures just in case I get the urge to run a few in the army. They're a lot lower down the priority queue though.

Theme. I've been ruminating on this army for a while, and it's gone through some evolution. Originally I'd had them attached to a Rogue Trader as the core of an expeditionary army sort of thing, and I may well still involve aspects of that. At the time, their paint scheme would have been something like this:


After that I got an airbrush and became interested in doing an army with a sort of spacey paint scheme, which I tested out on a rhino as an evolution of the preceding design scheme.



Currently, I have a few other ideas but they've got me a bit torn. Because of the way the Sisters tend to get beat up on in the fluff, I thought it might be fun to start up a renegade army of them who've just had enough of the Imperium. This could be a convenient excuse to throw in lots with a more understanding Rogue Trader, still working for the good of the Imperium but away from the politics of Terra. Now, I also find Boudica's revolt to be a particularly compelling bit of history, and it started just down the road from where the English side of my family is from. I'd therefore quite like to base the renegade sisters at least loosely on that revolt. As part of this, I'm considering adding woad patterns to the bone-colored parts of the armor, even vehicles, and to a lot of the exposed faces and whatnot. This would be especially great to do on the Zealots. After the little episode in the new GK codex though, I might even do the patterns in red rather than blue. Undecided on that at the moment though. If I DO go down that route though, I'm thinking that the minis might end up a bit too busy if I tried to implement both the woad AND the space-art bits. It'd take a helluva lot longer to paint too, so there's that. I'd appreciate any creative input on that before I start putting more paint down.

So. If you've read this far, thanks! I'll try to keep this updated fairly regularly.

This is probably a bad time to post this army up here seeming SoB will be getting a new codex soon.
But anyway, great work so far!

I'm fully aware of that, but even "soon" won't be before the end of this league. If I can get that much use out of it, I'll be cool with it. Bring on the change after that

Not gonna lie - my favorite part is how deathmachiney those tanks look at the top.

Progress! I have 2 more immolators in and a few more heavy weapons sisters. I've also made some progress with my custom bits seen here, which I'm planning on using with this army. Mostly, though, I've made some progress on my superheavy.





It's coming along, although most of it's being held together with poster tac here while I make sure everything fits together right.
Current armament:
2 sponson-mounted flamestorm cannons
2 sponson-mounted twin-linked multi-meltas
2 hull-mounted twin-linked heavy flamers
hull-mounted twin-linked heavy bolters

I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet about a main cannon. The leading option in my mind is to have a few devil dog melta cannons sticking out of the arch window on the front. Either twin-linked, or possibly even 2 twin-linked ones that fire as a single weapon. I'm not sure if I'll go that way yet though because the melta cannons seem to be fairly hard to come by through the bitz services. I might try looking into the swap shop here.

The other major aspect of the build I'm not sure about yet is the rear. I currently have the stormlord troop compartment on the mock-up. I do have a ton of the cities of death low walls that I'd like to use to gothic up that compartment, but I'm not sure that's really enough though, and it'd leave the back looking an awful lot like the bed of a pickup truck. Which I guess I'd like to avoid. All in all I feel like the back is lacking and the whole piece is far too front-heavy, at least in regard to detail. So, my fellow dakkanauts, any good ideas for balancing things out?

The last issue- this baby needs a name. I'm thinking something along the lines of Cathedral/Chapel/Shrine of _________. Maybe. I'd love to hear all your ideas though.

Very, very impressive work

For the main cannon, how about a scaled up inferno cannon? You know, for more of the cleansing flame theme.

How about:

Holocaust cannon

Range: Apocalypse flame template
Strength: X (wounds on a 4+, on a 2+ against daemons. Strength 7 against vehicles)
AP: 3
Type: Heavy 1

Conflagration of Heretics: If a unit takes an unsaved wound from the Holocaust cannon, it must immediately take a LD test/morale check at -1 to its usual LD value. If it fails, it must fall back (using the normal 'fall back' rules) in a straight line away from the Superheavy. Also, any unit that takes an unsaved wound from the Holocaust cannon will recieve another D3 wounds in the next turn, as the blessed flames continue to burn.

S_P

Man I love SOB super heavy conversions! It's looking really good so far mate though I'm not too sure about the front cathedral bit on an angle...

i like, subbed

"Dont frack with me" as a name.

It would be really interesting if you could somehow tie in some of the religious zealot theme that embodies the inquisition. I wish I could think of some ideas to help but my mind is blank at the moment!

For a name, how about Bastille Purgatio?

Basically means Bastion of Purgation.

S_P

Cathedral of Final Judgement

or

Mobile Confession Box, LOL

Potato-Thanks! I like the idea of giant melta for two reasons. First, as far as I know there aren't any other Imperial super heavies with them, so that would differentiate this. Second, I've already got 4 flame templates coming off of this thing a turn. However, I really, really like what you've come up with for the holocaust cannon. This gives me a lot of incentive to magnetize that spot, which would also have the effect of letting me build up the cathedral part now rather than waiting until I decide.

White Wolf- Haha, yeah, I know what you mean. Please excuse the laziness, it'll be vertical in the final design.

And the rest of you lot - Thanks for the comments and the names! I shall take them under consideration.

I can't wait to see how this plays out. Subbed!

Thor Odinson.

Zefig wrote:Potato-Thanks!

More than welcome mate Good luck on the build

S_P

Zefig wrote: The last issue- this baby needs a name. I'm thinking something along the lines of Cathedral/Chapel/Shrine of _________. Maybe. I'd love to hear all your ideas though.

Fill in the blank?

Chapel of Chastity (then write something along the lines of "Nothing is as pure as I" on the hull, and then "Britta" [aka water filter brand] on the main cannon.

How about "The Burninator."

Well, while there is a Land Raider variant thus named, seeing that amount of flamethrowers made me think of only one thing, or rather person. Now, sing with me, ladies and gentlemen: "Glory, glory the Redeemer, glory, glory the Redeemer!" Alternatively, well, look up the names of important places in Dante's "Divine Comedy" - "The Sword of Dis", with Dis being the hottest part of Inferno would be quite right in my opinion.

Shrine of the Purgatory Justice

I'm enjoying reading this and seeing all the pics/updates. Keep up the good work!

This looks fun

I've worked on the super heavy a little bit, but not really enough to justify more pics. I think I've decided to scrap the Shadowsword superstructure in favor of a scratch-built one. Hope to get a bit more done this weekend, along with a few games.

In the meantime, a few pics of the daunting painting task ahead of me.


The army. Tanks on left, special weapons in the middle, HQ up front, seraphim and rabble in the back, bolter sisters on far right.

The non-superheavy tanks. Most of them are magnetized, the rocket-pod exorcists can easily be used as immolators, and the repressor is currently sporting an old immolator turret modded to fit on top, in case anyone gets butthurt over me using forgeworld.

Just the bolter sisters.

The rabble. 3 priests, 7 repentia that I'll be using as eviscerator zealots, and the rest are zealots built from WGF ancient celts and some random IG bits. They're mostly pretty crappy, but I've been having fun with them.

Zefig wrote:The last issue- this baby needs a name. I'm thinking something along the lines of Cathedral/Chapel/Shrine of _________. Maybe. I'd love to hear all your ideas though.

If you go along the lines of the stellar paint scheme, perhaps some kind of space-based name?

Chapel of the Chained Sun
Shrine of the Heavenly Fire

etc...

For a name maybe just go for something simiple and religious.

Like the "Rapture",
Or the "Final Judgement".

dam that is a lot of sisters of battle. wow. impressed

Personally I hope you go Woad! If your going for the Boudiccan theme the Superheavy's got to be a Chariot! How does the Chariot of Retribution sound? Maybe for the armament an Inferno Cannon like the Warhound or a Melta cannon from the Warlord in the Apocalypse book? For the rear I like the image of pews and a pulpit!

Llamahead, you brilliant son of a gun...time to see if I can either find, sculpt, or plasticard some very small galloping horses for a decorative bas-relief. I think this'll leave me a lot happier with the general shape of the "cathedral" bit too. Let's hope I'm not getting in over my head.

I actually really liked the angled front of the Super Heavy cathedral. It added the cathedral-esque feel without looking like someone put a cathedral on superheavy tracks. The profile body lines would look pretty sweet with the angled windows and some huge meltaredeemerholocaustmessiah cannon (or whatever else it might be) coming to bear on the world.

Keep up the good work! Subscribed!

Cheers,
Rawson

Oh when Melessa sees this I'm sure she will point out that SOB have no reason to have superheavies!

The chapel window is an interesting idea for a gun-shield. There definately needs to be a pair of large flame based weapons prodtruding from those windows.

Nothing cleans like fire. Not even the tough stains of heresy can stand up to the cleansing power of the Emperor's eternal flame.

Weeeeeeeeeee worked on the superheavy a bit more. It has the beginnings of a cockpit now:



I'll be adding some plasticard to bring it more in like with what will be my other bubble canopies:

Heavy bolters need to be switched around so that they aren't ejecting shell casings into the canopy...the inside will be fleshed out a bit more...

Anyway, off to go play a game or so with the rest of the army.

Well, won that game, huzzah. And now I've worked a bit on my canoness.



Scythe is a prototype of my powerscythe on shapeways. I'll replace it once I get the better ones in.

Thanks glad to help!

I've been working on the big tank, promise! I'll try to work on it a bit more today too. In the meantime, an interlude brought about by boredom.



I don't draw nearly as much anymore as I wish I did.

I think the scythe needs to be a bit smaller if she is going to wield it with one hand, it seems oversized right now.

Nice drawing. You should do it more often.

Finally got enough work done to warrant taking some new pictures. I have pretty much the whole superstructure planned out at this point, although none of it's glued together yet.





The plan now is to have an open box behind the big window so I can magnetize the main gun(s) in and out. Above that will be a platform for the canoness to stand on, making the whole superstructure sort of a pulpit/chariot front sort of thing. Kill two birds with one stone, right? The whole superstructure is being assembled so I can pop it off of the rest of the tank though, which'll come in handy once I get to painting everything. The immolator multi-melta turrets are magnetized now, and I drilled through the heavy flamer mounting posts (much harder than I thought it would be) and now have them mounted on brass rods. I've been cutting down two more of the low CoD walls to put on top of the wall segments with the heavy flamers in them. I'm not quite sure yet how I'm going to tie all the side pieces together though.

The Great Venerable That Time Of Month III (the first two...well....)

Thinking about it Chariot of Fire (although I've got that music stuck in my head now.....) Looking great and vry very burny...

looks kick ass!!!!

buryburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburnyburny


Awesome work!

i cristen this vessel, "The Chariot of Helios."!

Bit more! Main weapons are magnetized, just waiting on the details...

Not sure how far back to push the central towery bit.

Great progress, I really like the main turn 'window'.

That is looking very nice. I like the new plasticard. The plans for the canopy look good too.

"Chapel of the burning host"? (or chapel of the whatever)

Basilica of Catharsis... also nice build

Alright, I've made a thread in the proposed rules section on a datasheet for this thing.

And some more progress pics! The main superstructure is all glued now, but still needs the balcony level done. I'll be cutting a new piece for that because the current one doesn't fit very well. Also needs stairs up to that level, and the whole rear, sides, and very front needs to be finished. Then GS cleanup and detailing everywhere. I'm kind of torn on adding a roof to the lower troop compartment. But on to the pics:









Sadly, it looks like I definitely won't have it completely finished because the big Apoc game is tomorrow morning, and I'm no wizard. But I might try to run it anyway, because most of what it lacks now is detailing, and it's not like the rest of the army is finished yet. There'll be another big apoc battle towards the end of the league though, so hopefully I'll be able to have it completely done by then.

UPDATE.

I had my apoc game on the fourth. It was a ton of fun, and my forces had a strong start. I lost focus in the middle of the game though and didn't do too much for the last half. And my tank ended up getting immobilized by Angrath in a pretty crappy position, so it didn't do too much for the last part of the game either. Oh well. A few pics of my woefully unpainted forces at the beginning and end of the game.




Afterwards, I was inspired enough to go out and make a couple orders. So now I have a few more vehicles to work on!



Forge world got here a LOT faster than I thought it would. And nothing appears to be horribly miscast! Maybe I just got lucky.

I've started painting 4 of the battle sister squads, and got a bit more done on the big tank, but don't have any pics of those at the moment.

Some would argue your super heavy isn't legal; but it doesn't make it any less awesome.

Thanks, I guess? The model and datasheet were approved by the game organizer. That's pretty much as legal as things get, especially in apoc which specifically encourages kitbashed and scratchbuilt models. It'll be finished in time, anyway. Hopefully before the next big battle.

Hey, another small WIP update, on a tangentially related project.



Just need to place an order for some pourable silicone for molds, and I'll have my whole force armored up in a jiffy.

Hey sportsfans. Progress on the bigger stuff is postponed because I'm moving to a new apartment soon. I have had a bit of time to work on one or two things though. Here's one of them! A Celestine conversion using a couple different models.



The leg area is from Privateer Press's Harbinger of Menoth. I love that PP has what amounts to a bits service. I picked up the legs and a single Khador Widowmaker for pretty cheap. As a bit of planning for the celestine model, I'm considering a couple different options. One is to do the base up in flames and whatnot. It would seem fitting. The other is to mimic the original Harbinger model though, seen here:



However, instead of using the little cloaked dudes, I think I might have her being escorted by repentia, and basically just having chains replace their eviscerators. Let me know what y'all think.

I also plan on giving her wings, and I've got two options right now, but I'm willing to look into others. I'm a big fan of the current ones though because of the crazy amount of detail and dynamism they have, which I find most miniatures wings to lack. So here they are. Wings from Reaper's Deva:



Or wings of an unknown make that I picked up at GenCon last year from a discount bits tray. If anyone knows where they DO come from, I'd love to know.



Too big? They seem pretty huge, but when compared to the first set, the actual wingspan isn't too much larger. I'm also toying with the idea of using both, plus a smaller set somewhere to go for the whole 6-winged seraphim imagery. THAT would be a bit much though, I think.

Let me know what you think, anyway. Always up for some creative input.

This will be awesome to see finished, I'd have to put my hat in for the mystery make wings. Their bigger and thus more impressive and all the more inspiring for the Sisters in her crusade to destroy heresy as well as elegant and angelic.

Mystery wings all the way

I've got to say, I like the mystery wings better myself, and they definitely would've been far too big if I hadn't gone for harbinger legs/base They're going to be interesting to attach though, as the mounting points take up pretty much her whole back. So even more difficult to attach convincingly. Maybe I'll stick a sanguinary guard jump pack behind them for good measure.

Looking great personally I'd either go for the Smaller Wings on the Jump Pack if you want pretty wings. If you want them to look like magic wings I'd go for the second pair. They're far too big bullet magnets if they've not got a reason......

Zefig wrote:Hey sportsfans. Progress on the bigger stuff is postponed because I'm moving to a new apartment soon. I have had a bit of time to work on one or two things though. Here's one of them! A Celestine conversion using a couple different models.



The leg area is from Privateer Press's Harbinger of Menoth. I love that PP has what amounts to a bits service. I picked up the legs and a single Khador Widowmaker for pretty cheap. As a bit of planning for the celestine model, I'm considering a couple different options. One is to do the base up in flames and whatnot. It would seem fitting. The other is to mimic the original Harbinger model though, seen here:



However, instead of using the little cloaked dudes, I think I might have her being escorted by repentia, and basically just having chains replace their eviscerators. Let me know what y'all think.

I also plan on giving her wings, and I've got two options right now, but I'm willing to look into others. I'm a big fan of the current ones though because of the crazy amount of detail and dynamism they have, which I find most miniatures wings to lack. So here they are. Wings from Reaper's Deva:



Or wings of an unknown make that I picked up at GenCon last year from a discount bits tray. If anyone knows where they DO come from, I'd love to know.



Too big? They seem pretty huge, but when compared to the first set, the actual wingspan isn't too much larger. I'm also toying with the idea of using both, plus a smaller set somewhere to go for the whole 6-winged seraphim imagery. THAT would be a bit much though, I think.

Let me know what you think, anyway. Always up for some creative input.

maybe the second wings are bigger for the model, but i think it can be a good project! wanna see more!

looks like an awesome project.

look forward to seeing more progress

Well, it's been a very long time since I've updated this. Sorry it's taken so long. I have actually done some work, even through moving and whatnot. Unfortunately in the move I also seem to have misplaced my superheavy Hopefully I'll manage to find it soon.

Here's what's been done though. Sorry for the blurry pictures, unsteady hands are a pain in macro mode. I'm looking at going out and getting a cheap tripod for pics this weekend, if I can't find the one I used for an ill-fated antenna project a few years back.

Uriah Jacobus conversion based on a Storm of Magic necromancer. Done for the Pimp My Sorcerer open contest. I'm rather pleased with it, but definitely need to work on the banner some more.


Celestine's been pinned together at the waist, and has a new spear-wielding arm in process and a torch-wielding hand in the works. Also hollowed out two spare SoB helmets from an immolator kit and cut and glued them together until I got a helmet that vaguely looks like it has an open visor



I'm trying to go at least vaguely for the feel of this sculpture here of the Roman goddess Bellona



And that's affected modelling choices too-

Wikipedia wrote:Bellona's attribute is a sword and she is depicted wearing a helmet and armed with a spear and a torch.

This thread here got me back into working on her, and as part of that I need to come up with some fluff for her. I think name-wise I want to do something relating to Bellona, while trying to avoid Twilight references. I'm thinking 'Bellanya' at the moment but I'm not set on it. It draws references to related ancient Greek goddess Enyo, and a bit to Arya from Game of Thrones, who is awesome. From what I've read/watched so far anyway.

In any case, the contest has a requirement of weekly updates so I'll be updating progress here as well. Someone should keep these contests going so I stay motivated

I've also done some work and acquired more models for my Angels Revenant (Blood Angels), which I may update to this blog at some point too. Very similar black/bone color schemes, with more of a focus on the undead and hopefully a few cool counts-as characters.

Wow those Celestines are fantastic. Great choice on the bits. That battle cannon quad set looks amazing too. Great work.

This being my first post and all (woo hoo), the Pimp My Sorcerer is pretty badass. And find that super heavy :-P that thing is gonna be awesome when it's done. I also like the inspiration for your Celestine, definitely going to be reading up more on that on wikipedia :-P

Thanks guys! Still a lot of work to do, but I'm generally liking the progress so far too.

Nice!

Thanks MrTau!

Little bit more progress, but more importantly, I got myself a tripod! Woohoo. I'll let the pics do the talking.







Next is to get into some real putty work. Adding some more cloth, ribbons, etc, a kneepad, flames to the torch, and possibly the neck and hair. I'm not sure about those last ones there as I'm also considering leaving the head off to paint separately.

I've also got chains to add liberally. And I'll at least try mocking up some a few repentia as tenders. That might end up looking a bit too busy though.

Can't wait to see the tank finished

Zefig wrote:

That's one heck of a pose! I think it also capture a bit of the feel of the GW Celestine as well. Nice work! A little CC now. I'm not really feeling the heads on the spear. Two reasons: 1) I don't think they're really Celestine's style (not as trophies, anyway) and 2) with that giant blade and crossguard, I don't think that many heads would make it down to the shaft like with a normal spear. My 2 cents...

Zefig wrote:Next is to get into some real putty work. Adding some more cloth, ribbons, etc, a kneepad, flames to the torch, and possibly the neck and hair. I'm not sure about those last ones there as I'm also considering leaving the head off to paint separately.

I've also got chains to add liberally. And I'll at least try mocking up some a few repentia as tenders. That might end up looking a bit too busy though.

Good luck on the GSing. That's when the model really comes together! About the chains and repentia, it shouldn't be too hard to mock up and take a look see. Check it out both ways and then decide (or let the Dakkites decide )

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Rawson- Appreciate the feedback, thanks! I totally understand what you're saying about the skulls, and agree. They've been removed, but to keep things interesting I think I'll drape the haft in chains and/or more cloth.

I've taken a bit of a break from Celestine for the moment to work on something I had laying around...a Forge World repressor kit! It was my first time really heavily working with resin, and it ended up being a lot easier than I'd expected. There was a bit of warping on about half of the parts, but that was pretty easy to fix. The only serious miscast was on the flamer, which had some definite alignment issues. The two sides of the back half were almost an eighth of an inch offset from one another. Luckily, all the planes were flat so it was a really simple fix to just trim the high side down to match the low one.

Other than that, I tried to magnetize everything as I've done with most of the rhino-chassis vehicles I've build. I doubt, given the number I have, I'll ever really need to switch them around, but I like to have the option to just in case. I think it's definitely a good thing to do with the big optional things too, like the dozer blade.

So here're the pics!







It still needs a bit of GS cleanup, mostly around the dozer magnets, and on the front edge of the front plate, as I got a bit overzealous with the trimming there. I'll try to throw that in when I work on some of Celestine's GSing. And now I only have 2 more Repressors to go! And two more Exorcists. And a ton of troops. And....painting just about all of it.

Huzzah!

Looking good! I have always loved the repressor kit (since I first saw it a few months ago ). I'd like to make a repressor model chimera for my ogryn. Those guys need the extra head room!

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Weee, got pretty much everything pinned at this point, and everything holds together on its own so far. Still need to add more detail with GS, a few more bitz, and liberal use of chains. I think I'm going to try mocking up the mini with some Repentia accompanying her on the base too.

Zefig wrote:Weee, got pretty much everything pinned at this point, and everything holds together on its own so far. Still need to add more detail with GS, a few more bitz, and liberal use of chains. I think I'm going to try mocking up the mini with some Repentia accompanying her on the base too.

Looking good, Zefig!

Zefig wrote:I think I'm going to try mocking up the mini with some Repentia accompanying her on the base too.

I think that base would get a bit crowded with some Repentia down there, mate. This is turning out to be a beautiful piece, and a great base will really top it off! Also, what is the legal base size for Celestine? I'm pretty sure the Painting/Modeling Compitition requires a legal base...

Keep up the good work!
Rawson

Thanks! Legal base size is 40mm, which is what she's on. The wavy strands of fabric overlap it a bit.

As far as repentia go, I was original planning on using them like the original harbinger of menoth model here:



They're significantly taller though, and I think I definitely wouldn't go with three. But NOT using them would be a lot easier. Could still do some fun stuff with the base too I think. I'll still mock it up and see how it looks.

I have returned home and made some progress. Need to pause now for a spot o' sleep, and then basing, a little more detailing, then off to priming and possibly a start on painting tomorrow.

Really like what you've done with the Land raider here.

Ogryn wrote:Really like what you've done with the Land raider here.

I don't have any land raiders in this thread... thanks for the compliment though

And update!

I have finished the modelling phase of Saint Bellanya, my Celestine conversion.



And all the different angles. Zoom in on the pics! They're pretty high quality.













Aaaaaaaand I just realized that the cloth coming off her left hip came unattached during photography. Crap. That'll be glued down after painting, anyway. And on that note, painting and fluff dump to come! Still debating the paint scheme a bit too. The rest of my army is black armor with some bone pieces, with gold detailing. I'm thinking on this I might go with mostly bone armor and black cloth. That still leaves the wings and hair that I'm not totally sure of.

wow, I'm really impressed by the head on that model especially. Is that an actual SOB helmet?

Love the Athena look (she had it before any roman godess )

Glad to see the harbinger works so well for St. Celestine with a bit of work. Good job.

Ailaros wrote:wow, I'm really impressed by the head on that model especially. Is that an actual SOB helmet?

Love the Athena look (she had it before any roman godess )

Haha, thanks. I've been really impressed with your work for a while now, so I'll take that as really high praise. The head itself is a Hasslefree head, the hair I sculpted out of ProCreate, and the helmet is actually made from two of the SoB plastic helmets from the Immolator kits. I cut the facemask off of both, keeping the mask nice from one and the rest of the helmet on the other, then did a ton of hollowing out. The goal was to make it look like it had been tilted open, but either way I think it worked out okay. Glad to hear it's getting the Roman Goddess vibe across, too!

n0t_u wrote:Glad to see the harbinger works so well for St. Celestine with a bit of work. Good job.

Thanks! It's been a ton of work but I think it's paid off. Now to try to paint it to suit!

Very impresive and very cool. can't wait to see it painted

Living Saint Bellanya began her service as a Sister Hospitaler and was renowned for her kind treatment of patients, known as Gentle Annie. She became a living saint during her defense of patients during a chaos uprising, and went on to fight with the newly-created Order of the Sable Heart.





More angles incoming, just loaded these up for a last-second contest entry that...may have been too late.

Still, very very pleased with how most of it turned out. Except the face. Kinda screwed up good portions of that. Thanks to pirmas407 for the suggestion on how to do the feathers. I think it worked out really well.

Very very nice finished model

Nice =) I did contemplate using the menoth model to convert mine, but didnt think it would work.... You just prooved me wrong! Did you ever find out where those wings were from? =p

Zefig wrote:Living Saint Bellanya began her service as a Sister Hospitaler and was renowned for her kind treatment of patients, known as Gentle Annie. She became a living saint during her defense of patients during a chaos uprising, and went on to fight with the newly-created Order of the Sable Heart.

Fantastic final product, Zefig! All of that hard modeling work has certainly paid off! I love the subtle OSL on the left side

Zefig wrote: Thanks to pirmas407 for the suggestion on how to do the feathers. I think it worked out really well.

Second that, really unique pattern that reminds me of more predatory birds, which fits well with the deliverer of the Emperor's Judgement

S'jet wrote:Nice =) I did contemplate using the menoth model to convert mine, but didnt think it would work.... You just prooved me wrong! Did you ever find out where those wings were from? =p

Thanks! I never did find out unfortunately. I even found the same booth at this year's GenCon and asked, but nobody there even remembered having them. It could be a mystery lost to the ages.

Rawson wrote:
Fantastic final product, Zefig! All of that hard modeling work has certainly paid off! I love the subtle OSL on the left side

Zefig wrote: Thanks to pirmas407 for the suggestion on how to do the feathers. I think it worked out really well.

Second that, really unique pattern that reminds me of more predatory birds, which fits well with the deliverer of the Emperor's Judgement

Thanks man! For the OSL, I noticed in this view that it fades off before it should over the torch, so I'm going to try to go back and re-spray a bit to even it up a bit. As to the wings, that's about what I was thinking, haha.

Hey, finally actually had my first battle with the new codex. Small 1000 pt deal against a Crowe-Purifier GK list. It was surprisingly evenly matched.

Celestine--------------------------------------Crowe
MeltaDominions/MM immo---------------3x Purifiers/HB Razorbacks
Melta/MM Sisters in rhino----/
Flamer/HF Sisters in rhino-/
2x Exorcist-------------------------------------2x Psyflemen

The game was cut short due to the store closing, but we ended up tying in Annihilation, 3 kp each. I lost celestine in the final round of shooting so she couldn't come back, the dominions, and a rhino, while he lost crowe, a razorback, and a purifier squad. I certainly learned a decent amount, and made some crucial mistakes that I recognized soon after I made them. In any case, it was a fun game with a cool opponent, and I'll certainly be trying to get some more games in. Unfortunately, during the game Celestine's head snapped off. I just reglued it, so things should be okay. It's turning out to be a pretty finicky model, but she definitely served her purpose of drawing a huge amount of fire and surviving most of it. Celestine was responsible for 2 of the 3 KP on her own too, so I'm looking forward to using her again.

Whipped up a quick symbol for the army, in powerpoint of all things. Might work on a nicer version in Pro/E and Photoshop. Hmm. Actually, and with Pro/E, then I could print out some with Shapeways to add to vehicles and whatnot. I like that idea. I'm interested to hear your takes on it though. I think I'll be going with Order of the Sable Heart for the army. I like the sound of it.

Very cool stuff! I'm pretty eager to see any more progress on the "space tank".

Tell me, how'd you get the flecked stars on the hull of that tank? I can think of one way: let the paint soak out onto the tip of the airbrush then spray! But I doubt that's how you did it, lol.

I like, no, love, no ADORE Saint Bellanya!
Beautiful model, well modelled and well painted, brings a tear to my eye
why oh why did I decide to put crons before sisters...

Johnnyhorse wrote:Very cool stuff! I'm pretty eager to see any more progress on the "space tank".

Tell me, how'd you get the flecked stars on the hull of that tank? I can think of one way: let the paint soak out onto the tip of the airbrush then spray! But I doubt that's how you did it, lol.

Thanks Johnny! That's actually really close to how I did it, haha. Good eye. The exact technique I picked up after watching some youtube tutorials on space scenes. What I did was kink the air tube to the brush so no air could get through, THEN let a bit of paint soak out on to the tip while opening up the airbrush itself to full airflow. Unkink the hose, a bunch of air suddenly rushes through at full pressure, and it creates the big spray pattern. I think having the pressure up at higher PSI than normal for airbrushing helps too. Might have been up around 30-40 psi at that point, before I figured out that regular coats come out a lot better at much lower pressures. Another technique with similar results that I read about a long time ago in a "how to draw comic books" book I had that doesn't require an airbrush is to take a long-bristled, flat-ended brush, dip it in white paint, then brush your finger across the tips of the bristles so when they fly forwards again they spray droplets on to the paper/canvas/mini/what-have-you. I think it was something like that anyway. It's been quite a while since I've read it.


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Whoa, thanks Matt! Sorry, must have missed your post while I was typing up my response to Johnny.

That superheavy is sweet

das ok Zefig, I've done the same thing before

Nice to see the saint painted up, the feather pattern is nice and eye catching.

I love the super heavy and your saint is frankly brilliant.

Thanks guys! Unfortunately not too much to update on at the moment, most of my break was spent back at my parents' place. I did manage to get one game in, where I managed to snatch a decided draw from what should have been a crushing victory I have been working a bit on my superheavy though, switching out a few side plates and adding a few details. Hopefully more on that later.

Sub'd. Loving the Saint!

I'd put effort into a conversion of my own as you suggested, but I'm just painting the SoB up as a side-diversion, not a full-fledged army to warrant hours of labour

Your Saint Celestine Conversion/Kit Bash is fantastic, It has given me a few decent ideas that ive put into a conversion for a unique Saint Celestine-esque model for my own SoB order.

I cant wait to see more of the super-heavy, im planning on getting going on my own too, based on a Stormlord.

Excellent work so far, cant fault it, and anyone sticking up inspirational SoB threads here is good in my books!

Much love for you. That Celestine looks oh-so-holy!

Henners91 wrote:Sub'd. Loving the Saint!

I'd put effort into a conversion of my own as you suggested, but I'm just painting the SoB up as a side-diversion, not a full-fledged army to warrant hours of labour

Thanks! Yeah, it was a huge amount of work , and will hopefully end up as my army centerpiece eventually. Make sure you post yours up!

scrunty wrote:Your Saint Celestine Conversion/Kit Bash is fantastic, It has given me a few decent ideas that ive put into a conversion for a unique Saint Celestine-esque model for my own SoB order.

I cant wait to see more of the super-heavy, im planning on getting going on my own too, based on a Stormlord.

Excellent work so far, cant fault it, and anyone sticking up inspirational SoB threads here is good in my books!

Thank you very much! I'm flattered that you find it inspirational. Make sure you set up a blog, if you don't already have one. I'm always up for more SoB goodness, especially when it comes to unique models.

Zarkin wrote:Much love for you. That Celestine looks oh-so-holy!

Thanks, glad you like it.

Alright, I haven't been working too much lately on the army, but I have been playing with them, finally. I've gotten into a low-points escalation league, and I've been generally doing okay, but I am looking for a bit of advice here on my army list for February, if those of you with more experience with the codex than I would be so kind as to take a look.

Much Fire!!!!!
Let's go burn stuff!!!
LOVE it!

It's silly that Celestine only comes on a legal base size of 5mm (standard infantry base). She definatly should get bigger one. Great job on the conversion, I like the idea alot.

Skipphag da Devoura wrote:Much Fire!!!!!
Let's go burn stuff!!!
LOVE it!

Haha, thanks.

necron player wrote:It's silly that Celestine only comes on a legal base size of 5mm (standard infantry base). She definatly should get bigger one. Great job on the conversion, I like the idea alot.

Both of the ones I've gotten came with both size bases.

Thats interesting.. So is the actuall base size 5mm or the 25 mm, since I know that these are old models.

I've mostly seen them on the 40mm terminator-sized bases personally, but GW's site shows her on the 25mm. I've never really seen a ruling on it.

Hmm. I bought mine used and went with the 25mm.

It seems to be a good mix. Checking out the dakka gallery at least, there are plenty of both.

Guess i'll be upgrading her to a bigger base. Seems cheap to keep her on a small base.

I wouldn't change it...

GW's Site wrote:This pack contains one Saint Celestine - a finely detailed metal miniature that comes in four components, and is supplied with a 25mm round base. This miniature is supplied unpainted and requires assembly - we recommend using Citadel Super Glue and Citadel Paints.

Although the rule says you have to put her on whatever base she came with. So to be completely safe, do that.

is the 25mm base the Terminator size or the small infantry size?

Infantry.

pretre wrote:I wouldn't change it...

GW's Site wrote:This pack contains one Saint Celestine - a finely detailed metal miniature that comes in four components, and is supplied with a 25mm round base. This miniature is supplied unpainted and requires assembly - we recommend using Citadel Super Glue and Citadel Paints.

Although the rule says you have to put her on whatever base she came with. So to be completely safe, do that.

I don't think you have to follow the rules that strictly...
one of the guys from the GW webteam (I think it was Dan) made a SM army, every single model was on a terminator base...

Matt.Kingsley wrote:I don't think you have to follow the rules that strictly...
one of the guys from the GW webteam (I think it was Dan) made a SM army, every single model was on a terminator base...

The problem comes when you have to go to a competitive event that actually does follow the rules.

Anything new? Im starving for an update? BTW you do some amazing work!

Thanks Spidey! I moved a state up and over a couple months ago, and I'm still in the process of unpacking all my hobby stuff, and I'm having a hard time finding time with my new job. I have acquired a few more bits and models here and there, including some more HB rets, some extra FW rhino rear doors for a couple unbuilt repressor kits I have lying around, and a squad of Menoth Daughters of the Flame I hope to get modelled and painted up as DCA, leaving my Sisters of Sigmar as crusaders.

There's a big local 40k event in July that I'm hoping to get units ready for, including games of planetstrike, apoc, killteam, and regular 40k. I might pop in to the tactics thread at some point for some advice there.

Sweet so your in Michigan now?

Looks great. I wish I had the $£¥ to afford SoB!

liking your work. It's very inspiring to see what people can do with the parts of different models etc.

I would like to have seen what the celestial looked like with the smaller wings though, possibly in angel colours (grey / white)

I'm subbed and looking forward to further updates.

Spidey-Yup.

Phototoxin- Thanks! I saved a bunch on mine by patiently hunting down deals on ebay over the course of about a year. I'd estimate I only got about 5% of that army new.

c9805222- Also, thank you very much, that means a lot to me. Crazy thing is though...those ARE the smaller wings that I was looking at using

Sooo. Finally unpacked the majority of my warhams and started to organize it. This thread might be getting some brand new content soon. And some that is even more different than before!

This may be overambitious, but I just picked up an Ork Bomma, because it's a pretty cool kit, and now I have very big plans for it. I also have the AoBR orkz that a friend of mine sent me for christmas, so the beginnings of a small ork army are here. I'll keep y'all posted as things develop. That might involve creating a new thread to keep this one Sisterriffic, but we'll see.

ARISE!

After a long absence and a couple new editions and codexes, some local campaigns have brought me back into the fold. The Order of the Sable Heart returns. I have quite a bit planned, a few things done, and I hope to document my trials and tribulations here again.

First off, my FLGS is running a casual, narrative campaign starting in May and running into June. Part of the campaign involves making custom campaign characters using some campaign-specific rules, and one of the special rule choices allowed pulling two pieces of wargear from a different codex. For my character, I chose to pull from my Blood Angels codex to make a biker canoness with artificer armor. Throw on the Cloak of Saint Aspira and an eviscerator and we're in business, right?

Oh, have to build and paint a mini first. Right.

So we start off with a bike. I like the ornamentation on the Ravenwing Command bikes, but I have a specific pose in mind that will require the front wheel to be turned. That could be problematic. Maybe a regular marine bike would be better?



Maybe if we do a little plastic surgery...snip snip.



Why not just make it steer like an actual motorcycle?





Well that's a good start to the bike at least. How about the canoness herself? As much fun as Saint Bellanya was to put together, at least I didn't have to repose much. Putting a metal sister on a bike, however, is a little more daunting. So I picked up a box of Kabalite Warriors, since I've seen quite a few people use that kit for their own plastic sisters conversions. I can work with this.



But a canoness needs a bloody great weapon to lead the way into battle, doesn't she? And maybe a bit of bling for her steed.



And it all begins to come together.



More is in the works. Stay tuned!

I did my first round of greenstuff work last night. Modified the boots to become SoB boots, sculpted the inside of the little vent bits from SoB greaves, fixed up the eviscerator handle a bit, and did a bit of gap filling on the neck and pauldrons as well as sculpted the wings on the left pauldron. Lastly, did the first layer for her ecclesiarchy icon.

And here's a mockup of the pose and mini.

Amazing work!!! I wish you all the power and time in the world to complete your work!!!!

Thanks! Time is usually the problem.

So I did a bit more sculpting yesterday.



The hand on the handlebar is proving to be problematic. I'll figure something out, but the fingers snapped off and I'm having a hard time attaching it to the handlebar or a piece of rod to sculpt around, AND have the fingers attached to the rest of the hand, and stay stable.

Have you thought about just replacing the handlebars? Just sculpt the hand around the rod, the glue/attach the rod to the bike. It’s not like there is a lot of detail on the handlebars that you would miss by cutting them off and replacing them.

Full discloser: I am not a sculptor, just spitballing ideas.

Love what you have here, very cool looking!

Thanks! Thats actually not a bad idea at all, I have a few spare pair and the hand will be close enough to the close end that it could easily obscure the glue seam. Thanks!

Things are mostly together. Basing is left, and I plan on redoing the cloak when I have a bit more time, hopefully next weekend, but my first game with the league is on Wednesday.

Another few views...





And an overview of my 1500 pt army that I'll be using in the first league game. There's even a hint of the next project for the army in there...

It sounds like a fun house rule; I might have to sell the guys on doing that in the future!

Your biker cannoness is looking pretty awesome, and the addition of non-standard gear makes her very memorable The eviscerator is certainly OTT, (Is it longer than she is?) have you thought about shortening it at all?

Thanks for the group pic! You trying to get all that painted by Wednesday?

Keep up the good work!

The rules are definitely interesting, they're posted here if you want to check them out.

The eviscerator is definitelly huge, it's more along the lines of Gabriel Seth's chainsword than the repentia ones. I hadn't really questioned it. Due to the campaign rules, she has space marine stats, so I kind of like having a honking great weapon to show that.

Noooot gonna be painted by wednesday, no....Hopefully I'll be able to get at least some done over the weekend though.

The bike looks nice what does it count as? I know Adeptus Sororitias don't have bikes :S

 Sneshy wrote:
The bike looks nice what does it count as? I know Adeptus Sororitias don't have bikes :S

The custom campaign character rules allow for stealing up to 2 pieces of wargear from another codex, so I took a bike and artificer armor from the BA codex. All told, she's a 186 pt bike with the normal canoness rules, rerollable 2+/4++, t4, eternal warrior, str 8 eviscerator, and hit and run. She's super tanky and can hit pretty hard, and I'm looking forward to pairing her with a BA grav bike and priest squad.

I worked on my bike canoness some more, finished up most of the modelling and got a couple basecoat colors on. I had a mishap while I was working though...



...My paints had settled over the last few years and I got a bit overzealous trying to squeeze out the Gory Red. Whoops. Luckily, it missed my mini.

So here she is, with a bit of color that's in dire need of cleaning up and detailing. She's been performing really well in the league so far, and even got me enough votes to win the prize for coolest character mini in the league!

Wait so your telling me for a tourney you can have one character steal max 2 items from a different codex? or is it just for a planetary invasion campaign?
Glad your okay I thought you cut your figure or something o.0

My FLGS is running a campaign league with special character rules they came up with, it's one of those options.

Cool beans!

This thread is truly inspirational!

P.s you are a real sisters player now that you have been baptized in the blood of the enemies of Mankind

You're lucky you didn't get any in your eye though.

Thanks! I am. And I'm definitely lucky. Or good. The Emperor protects!

I aapparently type that enough that "protects" is the top suggestion after I type "Emperor."

I've been working on something to accompany my sisters into battle...what I'm calling a Leviathan-Pattern Cerastus Knight Castigator of House Rouennais. Not sure yet if this one will be the Queen, the Ace, or the Jack.

House Rouennais continues to grow slightly.

The work continues!

And now one with his swanky new rapid fire battle cannon barrel.

The Knight is looking quite nice so far.

Thanks, War Kitten!

I picked up a few more kits and have started some work on a Cerastus Knight Acheron. First up, the reaper chainfist. But 40k titan chainfists really aren't very fisty. So I made a fistier chainfist!

Cool blog. I'm also stoked to see SoB projects, especially those that are conversion heavy.

EDC

Thanks, Dr Cheese! It's been a very slow progression, but I have fun with it. Conversions and Sisters tend not to come up often though, aside from counts-as models.

Progress! I've worked a bit more on the armament for my Leviathan-pattern Acheron.



What's left on this are the igniters and igniter fuel pipes, some greebling and plumbing details, and the perforated cover at the tip of the flamer, like basically all imperial flamers. Any ideas for how to make a cowl like that, hopefully with a bendable perforated...something?