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The latest tech priest looks really cool, what are the robes made of? Also can't wait to see your take on storm troopers!

nice work on the ts squad , very dynamic poses.

Farty Wiffmas wrote:The latest tech priest looks really cool, what are the robes made of? Also can't wait to see your take on storm troopers!

Thanks Farty. Nice to see you keep coming back and commenting. I'm thinking of just leaving the storm troopers straight out of the box so as to highlight the Truescale work tbh. The robes are made of Milliput, which is a sculpting material I recently have been getting into using. It's a 2 part epoxy just like green stuff but behaves quite differently. It mixes with water to make it smoother and blends together with other materials (or itself) better than Green Stuff does. When it dries it's very hard so you can trim it to have very sharp lines or sand/file it really well (unlike GS). I think GS is better for some fine details, but for big stuff like this and angular things like armour, Milliput all the way!

neil101 wrote:nice work on the ts squad , very dynamic poses.

Cheers mate, glad you like them. There will be more to come, I know I'm taking my sweet time with them but eventually there will be 13 of them. Promise!

In the works is a tutorial tor TS scouts. Watch this space!

Brilliant! I love these models, especially the salamanders tech priest, SW and IF

Young_Logan wrote:Brilliant! I love these models, especially the salamanders tech priest, SW and IF

Thanks dude! Glad you like them. Although I've been moving away from the marines lately, I've found time to get a mock-up done of the Black Templar. Here he is! (pretty rushed photo, sorry)



Also, the finished tech-priest and the Ad-Mech muscle department, a Praetorian. (he's still a bit WIP, I got a bit carried away and sprayed him before he was finished :()



And finally, a very WIP Rogue Trader. He will be the subject of the TS scouts tutorial, but I'll put that up in the week as I still need to put it all together.



Any ways to improve these are always welcome! Thanks for looking!

Really nice job on the black templar. Also the praetorian is suitably epic (I love the nurgle lord: great model recently done a conversion of him myself). Truly inspiring work!

I can't say I'm a fan of the head you're choosing for the templar. Are they generally bearded in the fluff or at least commonly? He's definitely got an Appalachian mountain man look to him (that's a nice way of saying hillbilly for all you brits who may not get the reference) with that head. Are you thinking about putting on a talbard for him too out of curiosity?

Farty Wiffmas wrote:Really nice job on the black templar. Also the praetorian is suitably epic (I love the nurgle lord: great model recently done a conversion of him myself). Truly inspiring work!

Cheers Farty! Yes, I've also seen some great conversions of that guy, he's a brilliant model to work with. Best one I've seen so far was converting him into a cherub with tiny wings and a Sang Guard head. Would love to see yours too.

warboss wrote:I can't say I'm a fan of the head you're choosing for the templar. Are they generally bearded in the fluff or at least commonly? He's definitely got an Appalachian mountain man look to him (that's a nice way of saying hillbilly for all you brits who may not get the reference) with that head. Are you thinking about putting on a talbard for him too out of curiosity?

Hiya Warboss, thanks for the feedback. I get what you're saying, I was just trying it out because I had it around and thought I'd give it a go. The idea was that as a crusading templar he may not have time to shave and I thought it might reinforce the medieval vibe of the knightly orders. I'll swap it out with some different helmets, take some pictures and put it to the vote! I honestly hadn't considered a tabard, but it's a good idea I might try to work it in! He's also going to have his bolter chained to his armour

master of asgard wrote:

warboss wrote:I can't say I'm a fan of the head you're choosing for the templar. Are they generally bearded in the fluff or at least commonly? He's definitely got an Appalachian mountain man look to him (that's a nice way of saying hillbilly for all you brits who may not get the reference) with that head. Are you thinking about putting on a tabard for him too out of curiosity?

Hiya Warboss, thanks for the feedback. I get what you're saying, I was just trying it out because I had it around and thought I'd give it a go. The idea was that as a crusading templar he may not have time to shave and I thought it might reinforce the medieval vibe of the knightly orders. I'll swap it out with some different helmets, take some pictures and put it to the vote! I honestly hadn't considered a tabard, but it's a good idea I might try to work it in! He's also going to have his bolter chained to his armour

ooooo... I like the idea of the chained bolter. Even if you can't do the full tabard, you could always just hang a bit of cloth from his belt from their upgrade kit. As for a knightly order head, I'd say that the new line of grey knight heads with skullcaps probably fits the medieval aesthetic a bit more (or at least resemble the old creepy rapist soldier from braveheart!) than a bearded guy. Not really a knight per se but definitely medieval.

Cheers for the ideas Warboss. The head is always the last thing to go on so I've got a bit of time to mull it over. I'll probably sculpt a loincloth thing out of GS for him. He's also going to have a liberal sprinkling of purity seals, parchments and other Black Templar-y stuff

Great job as always
Have you had a tutorial for the true-scale marines? if so I must have miss it.

keep it up
ironhandstraken

ironhandstraken wrote:Great job as always
Have you had a tutorial for the true-scale marines? if so I must have miss it.

keep it up
ironhandstraken

Cheers mate. I haven't done a tutorial although there is a bit of discussion earlier about how they're made. Pretty similar to other TS projects dotted around, but I think every one is different! But, in a nutshell:

It's Terminator breastplate, arms and legs. SM head, weapons, back plate and 2 backpacks (tutorial for those earlier in thread). Plasticard and Green Stuff.

The hollow parts of the legs are filled in with GS and a bit of plasticard added to the feet.

The arch on top of the Term chest plate is cut off and tidied. Front and back of the torso are glued together with a plasticard spacer, then stuck onto the "mound thing" at the top of the terminator legs.

The waist and belly is filled in with GS and the back plate is bulked up with GS along with a bit where the arms will join on.

Some guitar wire is added to the belly for the wire things. A plasticard strip is added round the waist for the belt, with a suitable buckle.

The wires on the arms are removed, and the bit under the shoulder pad is trimmed and filed down so the pad fits properly.

The shoulder pads are adjusted as needed to make them look less like terminator pads.

(see previous tutorial on back packs.) A bit of plasticard is also put between the backpack on the body as needed.

Weapons are chosen, swapping hands as needed.

A blob of GS is put in the neck and the head is squished down on top of that.

That's basically it! If you like you can also make the neck guard out of plasticard.
If you make any be sure to let me see!

master of asgard, I've got pics in my plog (check my sig), The grey knight head would look amazing on a black templar, and the tabard would just complete it!

I so want too try out Art-scale.. but not brave enough to give it a shot.

Farty Wiffmas wrote:master of asgard, I've got pics in my plog (check my sig), The grey knight head would look amazing on a black templar, and the tabard would just complete it!

Dude I just had another flick through your thread. I'll leave some comments there rather than here, but thanks for mentioning my work here Looks like that's settled on the Grey Knight head and tabard then! Who can I give the hillbilly head to though?!?

Nightfall wrote:I so want too try out Art-scale.. but not brave enough to give it a shot.

Mate, I thought the same thing with the first Ultramarine, but I was surprised how nicely it all went together. I'd experimented a little bit before that with making regular marines a little bit bigger, like adding plasticard to the bottoms of the feet and that sort of thing, and it just grew from there. Maybe see if you can get the bits for one guy and have a go? That way it's not a huge investment lost if you don't get on with it.

I like the new Black Templar, especially the the raggedy head (really does just scream Crusader to me), though I would be inclined to see that iron cross turned into a Templar cross, if you're willing to pull it off...

Kaesar II