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Small update.
things are getting spikier.

Another part done. I will be adding spikes and chains and what not a later stage.
If I add them now I'll just end up breaking them off during pose assembly

First shoulder done

Ok, I just saw OJSC / osjclatchford re-use terminator legs for truescale power armour.
It worked too well... I will have to re-use some of my justaerin legs.

How does that scale so well ?Oo
I will definitely use this for the hounds of abaddon champ. Make him a big burly dude with power fist.

Next shoulder done.....I'm going to have to speed those up.
Was an attempt at doing the warband logo, but the claws turned out way to big and I thought the curve of the should would be enough to mimic the eyes, but I'm not convinced.
The next attempt needs to be much smaller and I need to put down an stronger bulge for the eye. Not sure I am able to pull that off, but I will try.

While checking what it looks like on a model I also made a discovery....The heresy kit PERFECTLY fits with the old berzerker kit.
And the old hands also do not look nearly as comically oversized on the new sculpts., despite still being almost twice as big as the current hands lol.
So I am reconsidering my plans.

I still need ACTUAL berzerkers, and I still have the old forgeworld berzerker. (which have to be one of the best kits they put out..my god )
So now I am thinking of mixing in some of the old zerkers with the hounds and using the justaerin legs to upsize the true berzerkers.

And as for re-using the current, well... not so sure either.
They are much harder to repose and you end having to resculpt some detail because they have intersecting parts.
On top of that they resemble the converted pieces very strongly, only with cleaner rivets (which I still need to add, on some terminators too...totally not hiding from that )
I'll probably try to recover some of the cooler shins with moulded details,I find those are rather hard to pull off.

And the feet are just as static....we'll see.

Damn, some insane conversions here!

Thanks, and right in time for another (small) update

Next Shinpad

Partial fail, and I'm not sure how to correct it, the itty bitty lightning bolt on the top right got partially disolved by the cement.
I still have to do the top side and the finger connecting the middle claw to the lightning. That will at least partially cover the mistake.
I also have to re-re-do the right lightning bolt. The putty mustn't have cured right and is coming apart. That will be fun....

but that thin bolt has taken me longer than the rest of the shoulder so far
this is post attempting the same with brass. That kind of worked too but I I was doing from a brass fence. Cutting out pieces.
I was not able to file down the links, so I canned that.

The arrows as still intact enough I guess, those also lost some shape from the cement.
Still I think, overall it is a success (or will be). I'ts pretty close to the warbands symbol, but aint no way I am doing multiple of these without casting
might have to find a simpler version to do, this could still do for some HQ or so.

ok warband icon shoulder done....I think. the empty space around the back is bothering me a little bit but I think it will work better once painted to provide contrast.
The shoulder is already pretty busy, but maybe adding a bit of a vertical trim could work. Probably better to just leave it alone though.

Some small bits that bother me a little bit, but I can't help but feel that trying to fix them is going to hurt more than it adds.
Besides, a ta distance it's not noticable

Ok so this update is more for me than anybody else, but if you ever wanted to know if a chaos beaky could work.... I think I can answer that now.
a lot of work ahead of me still but this gave a little boost of courage to keep going with this project.

Love these spikes and other details - really nailing that sweet chaos feel.

Chaos Beaky looking sweet too

Great stuff

Great job on the fiddly stuff.
Wouldn't it be easier to do it with green stuff?

Thanks, both of you.
There are people that perform actual black magic with putty...... I am not one of them .
For me, styrene gives sharper details and is less stressful to work with. I have as much working time as I have plastic sheet. I also do not have to work with super glue, which even with an applicator, is sketchy at the best of times if you ask me.

Plus ,most of my putty is old and isn't behaving quite as nicely as it used to. it keeps sticking to my tools. When it was fresh I could cut if fairly easy with a scalpel. So whenever I can, I use plasticard. And this scale it almost behaves like putty once it comes into contact with cement

Only the smallest of updates today.
I was going to post another thigh piece today but as I was taking the picture I noticed a part was missing.
No idea how that happened since I can still see the outline in super glue XD.

I will have to redo that, but I guess that means I can post two the next time.

Set of thighs that need to be cleaned up but otherwise more or less done I would say.
I plan on adding more bandage once the model is posed, so I have a better sense of where it needs to flow...kind of screwed the pooch there on the beaky hair.
I intend to have them mostly running/sprinting so the hair should have been blowing the other direction lol

This started as a different pattern...so this is a rescue attempt of that......which turned into a rescue of a rescue
and somehow along the way..... I ended up with a khorne bobcut that I can no longer unsee
any idea to make it look less like an angry karen are welcome 😄

it's not done yet, I need to clean up the left side,...that also ended up too big.
Both sides are too big actually, when I dry fit, it was smaller and I didn't get the haircut vibe lol.

aligned the shoulder a bit more and added spikes. It looks less karen-y on a model thanks god lol.

next up would be a back pack and an arm..and maybe another beaky

Nice progress, looking forward to the finished thing.

Styrene work is is impressive as always Roknar

That's some incredible detailing work. Nuce chaos marines.

Lost a little bit of strap on the wrist but that's too bad. Same for the messed up area under the right exhaust, in RL you'll be looking down on it so I'll probably just leave it like that, you don't see it.

Oo, I really like how that backpack came out!

Thanks for the comments yall.

Nother update
Pre cleanup but I think I'll call these done.
The shin is supposed to look a bit rough, but I have trouble settling on just how rough lol
The black stuff is black widow glue...supposed to be a bit more flexible.

I have my doubts on how well those spikes will hold, but I don't see any other way.
Those spikes are not feasible to drill into..possible but I'd sooner break a drill bit and put a hole in me than succeed in that.

I have another arm I want to try but I don't think I'll keep those up. There is next to no point.
You have very limited space and the end result is much like the existing chaos arms...that already have weapons attached soooo....yyyyyeea...
Still want to do the odd one or two just to say I converted the heresy kit completely.
This is after all somewhat of a personal challenge to me and preparation to work on those two new praetors too.

If that is not too big already, that's as close to the sun as you can get lol.
And as small as I can make it without a 3d printer....I think.
I haven't tried recovering skulls from weapons...those might be smaller yet.

But I also don't really see how I would make the trim slimmer- Seemed about right, but the heresy shoulder are pretty big already.

still need to add some rivets on both pieces but otherwise I'd call them done, minus clean up on the shin.

Also wondering whether or not I should add some shields into the mix.
And I think they would benefit from some sort of silhouette distortion even if that comes simply from rags flowing in the wind or so.
Nothing concrete comes immediately to mind though.

Excellent work, Roknar.

Thanks, ShadowsAndDust.

While I let the putty dry...here the concept for the icon of wrath.
Not sure if I should do it with or without cloth.
The details I have no idea about but I'm thinking something roughly eye shaped + khorne top
Probably a god idea to find room for the odd skull and chain either way
but I think it wouldn't be upright...more slanted sideways and...back I think.
Like the holder is charging forward ready to stab somebody with the no doubt spiked end.... I dunno
Straight usually looks better

Also think I'm going to start building the odd marine.
I wanted to keep options open and just make legs n stuff freely, but fatigue is setting in.
This might be a god time to make a test marine or two and have a more concrete style guide.

These two need some cleaning up but otherwise I'm calling them done.
After that I'm missing a head, chest and thigh before I can get to assembling a few models.
The had guard is uneven now, didn't start like that. And the elbow ornaments could be tighter, but I'm tired of working on it. Calling it close enough lol.
Still tempted to back and add more trim or something on the chest but I think that would be a mistake. Maybe add a cable going out but I would need to find a way to get thinner cables for that.
Those side cables are nice but ended being a big thicker than I thought.

And I'll have to re-attach a spike on the shoulder. Good reminder of why I avoid putting spikes on this early

Pre hair and pre skulls....because there is a high risk of ruining both lol


Going very loosely for this design on abaddon
So hanging pony tails rather than one blowing in the wind

And the other guys chest.