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Fur missiles done...


Deitritch

Billy


as you can see Billy is a classic German Shepherd coloring and is named thusly after a certain Mr. Blazcowicz...
Dietritch, on the other hand, is an attempt at a Belgian Malinois, in reference to Dita the hair-missile-dog, well known for playing Cerberus
on Sealteam: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9318536/
rather happy with these pups! really good models to paint.

more stuff soon!

Great looking pups for the cause

Cheers!

SO, I'd planned on getting some back-log painted over the next couple of days, then Its pissing down this morning... no spray-priming for me then...
also, my Steel legion drab is in need of a replacement too so thats painting out of the window today...

Ah, well, guess I'll just have a rumble about inthe old bitzbox and make use of the anvil leftovers I have to knock-up some tasty veterans:


The Rioteer.

Taking the name of the melee enemies from Malice for quake, this guy is a re-imagining of the 'rioteer' sgt from my 111st Royston Rifles 'darkeyes' stormtroopers, but with a Eoforwich take on it.
using gsc arms and weapons (neophyte and jackals kits) with some wrist rearangement and a simple whittled bat added on.
the uzi-style autopistol is a nod to malice's uzi and just-so fits the style of a bludgeoning close-combat monster.
His jacket/gillet is a reference to Andy Serkis' character from the film 'Deathwatch'

a very appropriate inspiration for not only the character, but also the trench theme of the army as a whole.
the actual pose is shamelessly stolen from the doom-eternal slayer promo shots, you know, this one:

Either consider him as an alternative/replacement to the current stormtrooper sgt or perhaps even an Eoforwich Sly Marbo?
"hmmm"

Then theres this guy


Yes I finally got round to using one of those nice Ksg shotguns, this time on a bebbanburg commando.
its a nice design that matches the 'York pattern' bullpup lascarbine they wield and its rather similar to the genii shotgun somewhat too:

allbeit bullpup, not fullstock...

painted stuff as soon as I get any done! LOL

Did someone say, 'burn the witch?'


Inquisitor Lady Lucinda Ravenwood - Ordo Hereticus

Raised under the tutelage of Inquisitor Gideon Sumption, Lucinda burned with a desire to avenge her fallen parents, slain in a chaos raid on her homeworld of Filey Secondus, in the Eoforwich system.
After many years, much training, several hundred burnt witches, heretics and mutants, not to mention the eventual sucessfull hunting and summery-destruction of the chaos warlord responsible for the scourging of many worlds, including that of Filey, Inquisitor Sumption decreed that Lucinda had proved herself to be worthy to be more than his acolyte and sent her off with the well earned title of Lady Inqisitor.
Her vengeance fullfilled, a lot of her near-fanatical zeal has been sated to the point that Ravenwood is considered rather more level-headed than usually expected for a member of the Ordo Hereticus.
Don't be fooled, she takes the job of heresy hunting very seriously, but prefers subterfuge, guile and thorough investigation, prior to elimination of targets.
thats where a few of her personal tricks of the trade come in.
Like her temperament, her wargear is surprisingly pragmatic for one of her order.
Her characteristic Crossbow incorporates a powered core, capable of heating the black-adamantium 'Slayer bolts' to extreme temperatures, allowing them to pass through the thickest of armour protection prior to eliminating the target.
Of course, the blessings and various nerotoxins within can't hurt as far as heretic purging is concerned, but the only thing more satisfying than a dead heretic is an impaled-burning dead heretic...
other than that, she sticks to a simple bolt pistol as a sidearm, albeit with varying specialised ammo and her trademark stiletto blade for up close and personal.
her current investigations have brought Lady-lucy back home to Eoforwich system. only time will tell what she will find there...

As you can see this is based off of the ven denst witchhunter girl from the AOS range.
As I loved the crossbow, I simply added a lasgun mag beneath then made up that crap about the 'slayer bolts' to explain it away.
The simple inclusion of the mk3 boltpistol holster also helped make it more 40k than whf...
I removed the extra sword and stake detail as stakes are for vampires and thus cement it in the fantasy setting more. so I figured the bolt shells from the deathwatch sprue was the best way of adding something there that made it feel 40k without looking too slapped on.
the final detail was the bronze Inquisition pendant that is made from a crux terminatus charm off of a primaris shoulder pad, with the side parts of the cross removed.
I decided, as she was back home in the Eoforwich system, why not give her a bit of the 39th colourscheme here and there. Her green armour perhaps suggests that she's working with the guard regiment, maybe she got that from the 39th quartermasters store?
meh, whatever the reason it helps make it seem less fantasy and more diesel-punk. which is what I wanted. plus it helps her with blending in with the army more...

yes. she does need better shots to show off the wargear more. Believe me, I took many but the light was poor when I took these, these were the only ones in focus...


more stuff soon...

The Inquisitor looks superb, great match for the army and a particularly great job on her face, from what we can see of it. Her tech level is very in line with the rest of your Guard, savvy call on the mini.

 osjclatchford wrote:
... perhaps even an Eoforwich Sly Marbo?

I love DIY Marbos, lad just needs an anti-personnel mine on his belt and jobs a good 'un

cheers, glad you're enjoying them...

got the pig-iron robit conversion done:

and yes its a servitor not a droid...
before anyone starts on all the imperial decrees banning autonomous artificial intelligences. its a servitor.
it has a human brainstem and spinal cord inside an artificial body.
(think cain in robocop2...) ;D

oh, and as promised:

better shots of Lady-Lucy

They are looking fantastic, the witch hunter is a great add to the army.

They look great, love seeing logistics type units in 40k, really expands on the "realism"

thanks!

With the apparrent success of the additon of advisors from both the Commissariat and the Inquisition to this army project, I have decided to turn my sights onto the adeptus mechanicus next.

Yes, Ive still several squads worth of other guys to get done, I know but I just can't resist a good conversion on the side!

The Tech-priest/adept I have planned is not quite ready for public viewing yet, but here are a couple of her charges:


as you can see this is essentially her personal side-arm! (why have a dog and bark yourself, eh?)
clearly based off of the devastator squad servo-skull, with added las-muzzle on the right side lens and a nice mechadendrite tail made from guitar-wire with a bit of enforcer grenade on the end as a plug/port.

this one was more invloved, conversion-wise.
the more die-hard of my project followers will remember that I used the Indomitus boxed-set primaris ancient standard bearer guy as a basis for a fallen angel conversion.
as that model no longer used the banner it came with, the skull of the skeleton upon it was donated to this servo-skull.
Its hybrid bone/metal design and the addition of ports and lens' made it ideal for the job!
a few guitar strings, some fuse wire, a bit of brass tube and some bits of bfg aerials as plugs/ports and this one was done!

the bases for these two are actually buttons.
I deliberately wanted something smaller than 25mm to base them on.
these are around 16mm.
I've always felt that servo skulls and tiny familiar bases should be smaller to represent the smaller model upon them. This just makes more visual sense and stops the model looking lost or somehow unimportant on them.
Also I personally can't stand servo skulls tacked onto the same base or off-the-shoulder on a model. thats pure tackiness!

The other advantage of these conversions, over the standard gw models is, using guitar wire, I can make them really fly high over the models, I wanted the laspistol one in particular to look as though it is soaring around the magos in a protective holding-pattern, provinding cover-fire, whereas the other is simply gently whizzing directly along in a forward motion.
the guitar-string mechadendrites really makes the sense of motion easier to capture. They bend relitively easy and are seamless as far as ad-mech tech visuals go.
For extra advise on moddleling these I'd say go look at how a sentinel in any of the matrix films moves. Try to emulate the look of the mechadendrites for the motion you wish to portray and you wont go far wrong...

painted shots soon and their master is soon to follow...

Nice work on the servo skulls.
Now that you mention the basing sizes, I think that I agree with you, gonna have to try it myself now...

Loving the 2000AD vibes of that robot assistant!

cool WIP photo. And the idea with the guitar strings is pretty good, might use this myself.

@guardling, its well worth it in the end!

@tauist, yeh, he is rather classic looking isn't he!

@Pyroalchi, do so, its so easy!

thanks guys!

lights ok this morn so, here's the painted shots:


went for weathered brass on the halo on this one.


just couldn't resist the red T-800 like eye lens on this one...

What lovely servo skulls you have here.

well, thanks,man!

If you liked those you're sure to like this!


yup its a cyber cherub!
but not one of those cute little babies-with-wings one's that you see accompanying the adeptus sororitas and the eclesiarchial gang, this is a truly grim-dark, servo-skulled, blanchitsu inspired monstrosity of a cyber construct.

Its made from the body of the Kairic Acolyte's Vulcharc familiar with a servo skull head, that's actually one of the hewn skulls from the chaos vehicle spikey sprue. I chose that one for the rank looking lank hair stuck on it and the eye in the socket, that, alonside the cracked skull would be ideal to represent a half metal skull with eye lens when painted.
Oh, yeah there's also guitar string/bfg aerial mechadendrites as on the sevo-skulls I did afore. but your eyes work, don't need me to point this out...

heres a wip shot that shows off the greestuffing I did to blend the skull to the body, extenuate the hair hither and thither and also put 'ports' under the skin where the mecadenrdrites emerge:


the resultant creature is one that is much more grim-dark and much less cutesy. at first glace your like 'oh an owl or something', then you look closer and its like 'ARGH!, jeez inquisitor, whats wrong with your baby!'

Now, As much as I'd like to, I cant take all the credit for this idea really.
The inspiration comes from Neil Reed who created something very similar for the Lesotho blanchitsu campaign.
see pg113, WD dec 2018...

Very 40k! Creepy and grimdark for sure

It's so ugly, I love it!

Love the cyber cherub!

Particularly grim take on the concept, and much preferred over nekkid baby with wings

thanks guys, glad you enjoy!

now, its been a bit of a while.
reason being I've had another change of vocation, yes, yet again.
I've had at least four different jobs in the last year or so, tiding me over till I find something suitable to my needs/skillset.
Till now I've been hopping from different retail and other crappy jobs but I finally found a position thats normal hours. 9hrs a day 4 an a 1/2 days a week.
thats half day friday and the weekend free. end-of.
no more of this shifts at all kinds of wanky hours of the night, 4 or so hours here and there, 30 hours one week, then just 11 the next, I mean what the hell man, its all over the gaffe.
How can you be expected to live on this nonsense?

'enough of that crap' says I and off I goes.

I'm now in an industry I've been interested in since I was in pre-teen years; Manufacturing-Engineering!
As I say, It's something I always had interest and quite a bit of some physical skill in, but could never get into it, education-wise, as my poor mathmatical skills had me set-back and refused at the first hurdle.
I'm of a make-do-and-mend/artist mindset, not a purely-logical mathmatical kind of guy. as such engineering has always been sadly out of reach for me.

however, quarter of a century (or so) years later and this opportunity at Biddle & Mumford Gears has me working on beautiful old machines, some from the 1920's! making gears and machining parts to a fine degree of quality and precision to all kinds of varied companies worldwide!
Its a foot in the door I never thought I'd get at my age, a chance in a million as far as I'm concerned.
They are giving me on site training with highly skilled operatives, most of who have worked at the firm for a minimum of 20 years each!

or to put it short; I'm now a Cog-Boy, Literally! LOL

anyway, why tell you all this? well aside the joy of it, its worth mentioning that predictible hours and the return of free weekends mean that you should expect updates from me +/- once a week now. weather permitting for spray-painting!

also, the regular weekly pay and proper hours should mean that I might even be able to get out of the red and back in the black. meaning that new purchases are not just something that are just out of reach financially. I mean you gotta eat and pay the rent first...
Guess I'll know at the end of the month once I've had (by then) the first three weeks wages from the cog-boys and the last outstanding wages from the last retail job, that was monthly pay (stupid for such low-paid short hours).

so, digression aside, the first weekend free since unemployment gets you this:

The bebbenburg commando standard bearer for the command HQ squad.
As you can see, I've modelled him proudly gazing up at the regiment's colours, fully enraptured with martial zeal! as much as he can look for someone in a gasmask anyway (FYI, this was the model I had looking up at the ogryn before, just without his banner for that shot)
It's also a pose many will remember from the Royston-Rifles command squad banner-dude I did back for the 111st. (a model in turn inspired by Apologist's Lambs-worlders)
This time I used a triangular needle-file to remodel the catachan arm to mimic the folds of sleeves on the shoulder and then simply painted the hand as a gloved one. easy!
The rifle arm was a bit of a bitch to get right, hacking at both the sleeve, the rifle and even the molle-vest at the waist to get the 'integral' look that makes the model seem to have been modelled that way properly, not just slapped together. In truth, I probably could have done a better job of the hand with a full sculpt, but in the end, I went for the cadian sgt chainsword holding hand, so I could pitch the carbine round thusly, then just sculpted on the trigger finger in the desired position. easier and the resultant odd-looking grip on the inside cannot be seen without inverting the model anyway. thats good enough for me, saves two hours of pointless work anyhow, leaves more time for other stuff! LOL
the anvil sculpts made the head tilt a doddle, just a bit of gs under the neck-joint.
the kit on his waist is necromunda enforcer nades for the high-tech/custom-kit look of a veteran and the pocket is a big-un from the heavy intersessor sprue because it matches all the other pockets Ive used on these commandos...
A much better interpretation of the original idea in the 111st.
Its painted better too of course, if I do say so myself that is...

Looks great as usual. The pose is really natural. And congrats to the new job!

Nice banner, and yay for getting a regular hour job with steady income, just think of all the bits you can buy soon...

 Pyroalchi wrote:
Looks great as usual. The pose is really natural. And congrats to the new job!

 Guardling wrote:
Nice banner, and yay for getting a regular hour job with steady income, just think of all the bits you can buy soon...

thanks guys!
believe me, I have purchases planned! LOL
future conversion fodder in the pipeline include:

- veteran guardsmen (plastic dkok)
- Goliath Truck
- Manticore/deathstrike
- More anvil bits (heads for the veteran dkok minis, obviously but other bits too numerous/varied to mention all of here might yet happen too!)

however. It just occurred to me to point how how incredibly blessed I feel at finding and scoring this new job.
believe me when I say I don't take it for granted and also trust me when I say I've more than paid my dues these last two years to get to this point right now.
forced, un-paid redundancy, unemployement, unappreaciated employment and barely-even-properly employed-ment, has been the road to get here.
not to mention, meal-skipping, local odd-jobbing, selling of treasured and/or inherited irreplaceable posessions and sleeping in the cold to pay the rent has been just a few of the obsticles in the way on said road.

I just didn't want anyone reading that, who's in(or been in) a similar situation, or someone who's not for that matter, to think I'm attempting to illicit sympathy or rubbing-into-the-noses of those without work.
hard times are on us all, I know that. and with the (minimal) 55% increase in council-tax, gas, electricity, national insurance, rent and petrol int he next two months on the way, its only likely to get harder.
with luck overtime will be available by then once/if I'm skilled enough to do so at that point...

If you, too are in the cycle of shyte-jobs/no jobs. you hang in there and most of all; hang tough.
just keep punching and kicking and slugging at it till it keels over and you get what you need to get by.
failure is not an option...

ok depressing pep-talk over

more models, less rant soon

...promise

I’m really pleased to see your news, bruv. Well done. And ur right - plenty of peeps in similar circumstances and you came across just fine.

If you’re grieving any particular treasures then I would suggest listing them on your sale thread as a ‘Would Trade’ option - that way peeps could see and you might get lucky.

Recent hobby goodness looking stellar as ever - sorry I haven’t been commenting much! Your standard bearer made me chuckle - it’s a great pose but the closest I have to this is a guardsmen screaming his head off and running desperately towards the enemy!

cheers! a couple of weeks in and the negatives of the job are starting to appear a bit, I wont lie. but, tbh the positives still outweigh them all at the minute so on I plug!
put it this way. I wouldn't leave it for anything less than something better or if they got rid of me themselves! (but I assume I'd have to be hoplessly useless for them to do that) so so far so good...


anyway, got the last of the pig-iron guys done today:

grumpy old artillery officer


artilleryman with trajectory cogitator unit

was quite fun painting these metal models.
as with the old steel legion artilleryman conversion I did, these too have a nostalgic vibe of the nineties guard metals about them thats very familiar to paint for those of thus of a certain age!
All-told, not a bad fit for the other 39th guy once painted, eh?

Looking good! And congrats about the new job

You’ve done some fine work with those Pig Iron pieces - this latest figure looks excellent.

Did you need to drill a hole for the Anvil Industry head ‘lug’ to fit? 3mm? The Pig Iron necks are very shallow so I’m assuming you had to work some of your magic!

cheers guys.

and @Ragsta, no, no special stuff done. Just cut the necks down flush with a pair of clippers.
then just glue them with superglue or use a tiny dot of gs... easy really...

So, I've failed to get anything painted this weekend.
but in all honesty, the storm left me spending friday afternoon and the last day and a half on my roof replacing fallen slates, in my garden repairing wrecked fencing and down my landlord's clearing fallen trees, so fairs fair, nothing to show with any paint on today. :(
I did get the last two bebbenburg commandos undercoated (the plasma and silencer guys) but no further than that as of yet.
so instead I've decided to treat you all to a WIP shot of my upcoming techpriest magos:

Originally I was going to wait till after paint but never mind, this is a fair teaser shot and its a good way of showing off all the bits.
based on a female necromunda delaque mini, as I decided that theres no way that she was going to get her lovely robes all dirty in the filthy trenches that the 39th are fighting in, so has opted for a nice heavy leather duster to keep her protected in the field!
The arms with the 90's looking hacker's 'think-pad' is from the new Anvil Industries cyberpunk set.
The mechadendrite is a guitarstring with a claw bit off of an old marine techpriest axe.
The head is off of one of the skitarri models I could find on bitzbox at the time (sorry cant remember which) and was indeed a cowson to fit into the collar convincingly.
I've seen people just stick them on top of the collars in similar conversions but thats just absurd on the face of it. Lazy and crude and looks physically wrong. Yeah, this is a lot of work but a much better/integral look in the end imho...

I was going for a much more subtle and somehow more realistic approach to an ad-mech advisor for the force, still a bit absurd and warhammery but a little bit more diesel-punk in over-all design.
yes, she has no side arm, but remember. thats where her servo skull comes in.
no axe? well, no. I've an idea about this, too, but will say no more till I've more than a rough concept rattling in my brain...

colours? well most likely a black or brown leather duster, red/white robes (head and arms) and metallic gubbins with black/grey laptop thingy... more soon...

barring more hurricanes... jeez!

Nice, Delaque minis do well for Admech.
Can't help but feel it needs pea dot camo as well...