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wow nicley done, thought that was part of some kit

Loving the lightning claw conversions. The prisoner looks awesome as well.

02Laney wrote:Cheers guys - I'm quite proud of The Caretaker. My wife is always telling me to paint things brighter so I'll blame her! The Blood Angels will return, but I'm working on another IG squad (this time Praetorian based) and here is the commander... Major Archie 'Iron' Giant, commanding officer of the 75th Kelvian Brigade, Sapper Regiment.

He's still WIP - so C and C welcome...









Cheers Laney

+1 Like from me meow. this Praetorian IG seeems to comes from Dragoon regiment.
So can you tell me of the backstory on the materials that makes his helmet? hopes that it is shrapnell proof.



=^.^=

@Lonecat: Cheers - the IG helmet is from the Empire Pistoliers plastic set - that set is ace for conversion materials and the horses make good rough riders.
@Biohazard: Thanks - I was quite pleased with how the lightning claws turned out.

Laney

My finished IG Captain and a Skaven Warlord conversion I was messing about with...







Warlord Grizzvetch Wyrdtail (If I can get him painted I hope to enter him in the National Hero Competition at the local GW store...)





C and C welcome
Cheers Laney

IG captain is awsome as crap, and so is this skaven, very characterful, i like it!

Rogue Wolves wrote:IG captain is awsome as crap

It's all the little details that makes it so! My personal favorite: the warning label on the grenade!
Great job Laney! Keep it up!

Rawson

^that label is awsome, is it a transfer or legit painted?

Cheers - it's always good when the little details get noticed! The warning label was made with a little square of blazing orange and then the outline and symbol completed with a very fine (005 I think) archival quality permanent pen. I'd like to see if they do other colours this fine to add writing/diagrams to books more convincingly.

I've handed the Captain over to the GW store now and picked up a Priest of Sigmar to convert into a Crusader/Inquisitor.

Parts used: dark angels terminator sword, right arm, storm shield, cloth and I symbol FW Hector Rex, main body priest of sigmar, purity seal (which is too big and being replaced) for a dreadnought, reliquary on his back - grey knight set.






CandC always appreciated. Any colour thoughts? Is was going to use a bleached bone, dark red and antique gold colour scheme, but that seems a bit boring (maybe a nice rich blue, bone and gold scheme?)

I will go back to the Blood Angels soon - but I'm in a conversion frenzy at the minute...
Laney

wow!
nice job on the priest.
i cant wait to see more of your chaos

progreen10

Excellent work, Laney!

I was scoping out the priest for a conversion, but hadn't come up with anything great. You, however, have

I think the Hector Rex parts fit extremely well, and I'm particularly impressed by the added cloth in the front.

Good call on the purity seal: too big for the model and also in comparison to the other purity seals. Do you have a solution worked out yet?

My only (nitpicky) CC would be on the sword hand: I'm not totally sold on the position yet. I can understand not wanting the architypical "sword raised victoriously" pose, but I'm not sure what you were going for here. His shield arm would suggest a stab, but the angle of the blade doesn't really work with that. What if you reversed the swordhand, creating the "haymaker" equivilent of a sword attack: big and wide. (I hope that makes sense...)

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

PROGREEN10 WANTS MORE!!
WAAAGGGHHH!!

Sorry, my baby-like side took over then.

@Rawson: I was after a sweeping slash (he is at the end of the move). So blood would be coating the blade. I tried the 'haymaker' but for some reason it looked weird at the elbow/gauntlet connection. Thanks for the feedback though - it's always helpful to have a second opinion on models.

Here are a couple more henchmen... (resin bits from maxmini)





Cheers Laney

Those maxmini bits really fit nicely with those IG. Your GS looks great and I'm still envious of that mini gun.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN these are awsome! The minigunner is badass, and i just love the look of the second one!

What arms did you use on the minigunner? they look perfect for a conversion i am planning

looks catachan to me

Rogue Wolves has it right - Regular Catachan IG arms. If you are planning to buy a box though - the command squad is loads better than the normal guardsman box.

A finished model! - my 'Prisoner' sent out today as part of the Death Squads Prisoner Exchange...











Cheers Laney

i dont know if i'd want to walk foward if i was him....

this is great, painting is awsome as always, and its an interesting minidiarama you have going on

The IG guys I started have inspired me to build a new skirmish sized squad (Imperial Navy Armsmen). I've got 8 so far and they are going to be in a dark blue colour scheme. I was going for a commando/special forces look...









A couple of mouldlines have shown up and I need to sculpt a kneepad or two, other they are ready to paint.

C and C welcome
Laney

^ ok these might be my favorites from you to date, they look awsome!!

Cheers Rogue!

(Looking forward to seeing how your titan works out by the way - a warhound is as big as I've gone).

Here are four more recruits to the unit (just a sniper, special weapon guy (I'd quite like to do a plasma gun conversion) and recruit with autogun to finsh the set)...
Proximity scanner and vox

A grenade launcher (or really big shotgun)

My medic: the 'wizard'

Armsman with 'sten pattern' hellgun


Cheers Laney

Nice work.

Now paint them!!

I like your guard models. They are very inspirational. Consider me subscribed.

hmm i like the grenade laucher conversion, i still have one or two of those musket arms and i think i need to try something like that..

@Progeen - I'll definitely get to painting soon - the plan is a purple/blue/blue-grey scheme (rather than a camo scheme). 3 or 4 more to build first, plus some GS work.

@Rogue - I like the sleeves rolled up look on the grenade launcher - I tried for a WW2 movie feel with him (but that's true of the whole squad)

Here is a little extra I was playing about with yesterday, using an excellent mini from Zealot miniatures... Daemonhost!




Cheers Laney

The daemonhost is looking awesome! There's a sense of menace and power around it that I love

Just stumbled across this blog. Very cool conversions.
Seems like the quality of your work is rapidly improving. Conversions got cleaner and the painting seems to have made a real leap.

As always - feedback much appreciated.

@Baiyuan: Thanks - the prisoner was an attempt to paint a model that stretched my ability (It's now on it way to the Netherlands as a gift for a fellow gamer) and praetorian guardsman was painted for a competition, but all my painting seems to be going right at the minute (if I can stay patient!). It means a lot to have one the people who regularly inspires me to come and post - Cheers

Laney

Later on I hope to post a WIP sniper (quite pleased about him) and a couple of fairly run of the mill death cult assassin conversions (I realise that doesn't sound very inspiring, but they are straightforward dark eldar wytch conversions).

These models are all so cool. You really are a hobby butterfly aren't you i love the painting and modeling and wish i had the time to learn to sculpt as well as you do, thanks for the inspirational work and i will have a look at this death squads game as it looks interesting

Young Logan