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Love theme already, even if the heads look a bit too small.

well, and it's interesting because these guys have larger-than-CSM heads, versus the real obliterators, which are smaller than usual.



... although the other three are going to be a bit bigger still.

I've just read through this blog and must say that it is superb. Great attention to detail and it should be a great looking unique force once complete. Keep up the awesomeness!

Ok, my bad, You know I love your work and I'm faithfull of a great squad at the end

Great job on the heads. Quite creepy indeed.

Lookin' good!

Thanks, all.

So, my second head is complete:



This one is actually based on an ork skull that came on one of my spikey bitz. Originally, I wanted to have a tube sticking out of his eye in a really creepy fashion, but I couldn't find a way of pulling that off. Instead, I wound up just going with a socket.

Also, it's hard to see on these pictures, but I put in some micro-fractures in the masks of all of these guys. I'm hoping it will add more of a real skull motif, rather than the white helmets that some of these are.

The heads are looking creepy indeed, looking forward to seeing the arms attached, to get a reel feel for these guys

Ailaros, these are looking better and better! you have some excellent skills my friend! excellent! the head is great, nicely chaotic and i look forward topainting time when the arms go on!

Nerdfest09

Got the third one done:



I could just strangle my camera right now for how awful of pictures it's taking of these.

The original plan for this head was to be a cow skull with horns coming out the side. As I went along, it quickly became apparent that this was coming out like a reptile skull, so I just went with it. In the end, I got a practically perfect replica of a velociraptor skull.

And then I went and made it chaos-ey, including a metal eye socket and fangs, etc.

Despite the awful picture, this is probably my favorite one so far.

Wow, they are awesome. This thread is full of win. I love the concept of your guys, and your sculpting skills are exemplary.

Would you ever consider taking commissions?

Thanks!

I'm actually about to start my first proper commission soon - a khorne commissar for some lascannons. I've had enough experience at enough jobs working with clients to have somewhat of a distaste for it, but at the right price...

Like the last two heads, amazing job!

The first head totally looks like the atomic monster from norsica vally of the wind. Well done on them they are grrrrrreat!

That was actually the idea with that one. When I got done, though, I was bored, so I added horns.

Anyways, the last one is done.



So, I think I like this one the most.

Oh, and I also went back in and added rivets to the helmet, and it made them all just that much creepier.

On to the arms!

To arms!

After all this time, I finally got to break out those little pieces of tubing I've been holding on all this time (and trying desperately not to lose as they kept rolling off my desk). Putting these on is actually going to look a lot like putting on the legs.

It will be a little easier, though, as these arms scarcely need to be structural at all. Once the tubes are cut to length and angle, they just glue on to the side and to each other with a little bit of GS getting packed in there.

Looking at the tube pieces, I realised that they were all uniformally too long, so I chopped them down by 2 or 3mm apiece. Also, I figured out a faster way to cut these tubes at an angle - I just used a pair of wire snips. The end result was a bit rough, but these won't be seen. If I had a little more time, I probably could have made it look exactly right.

Anyways, after chopping and angling, it was getting them on the torso.



Once this was done, it was time to put the shoulderpads on. Not only will these anchor the arms on, but I'm also going to want to get this undarpart done right away.

I'm going to do this in a couple of steps, so the first part is getting on something that's vaguely in the right shape that I'm going to put a layer over on top of. Once I get the exact shape on, I'll be able to put on some details.



Once these were down, I could go back in and finally finish the torsos. Without knowing how the arms would go on, I didn't want to put down fur that would wind up just getting chopped up. With the arms down enough, I could put down the fir to finish the torso.



The only other thing that's going on both sides is the tubing, which I think I'll actually roll into the arms.

In fact, I think I'll just roll everything into their respective arms.

They're coming along nicely, however, I think they need a little more weight in the upper torso and shoulders to make sure that they dont appear too narrow.

Lovely army!I've always loved fur on space marines.Scrachbuilt zerkers are deadly!Take no prisoners!!

Alright, now that the arms are to the armature stage, it's time to start bulking them out. I've decided to start with the right arm.

Originally, I wanted all shooty weapons to be on the omni-gun, but over time, I'd decided that I wanted to split off the flame weapons, in part because they're rather different, in part because I want something to bulk up the right arm, and in part because I want my models that have their right arm sticking forward something to do with that arm.

To start with, I did some final prep work. This entailed cutting out a piece of plasticard to act as the base for the palm of the hand, and putting down some more GS to bulk out the forearm a bit before I put the fur on.



Then it was on to the flamer. As mentioned, I broke out my guard flamers for this. I went over a couple of options in my mind for how long I wanted the flamer itself to be. On the one hand, I liked it long, going out past the wrist. On the other hand, the model is armed with a power fist that they've actually got to be able to punch someone with. After making my decision, I cut down the flamers to size.



Then it was just a matter of mounting them on to the underarm.



After this point, it was just a matter of doing up the tubing. Obviously there was the one connecting the fuel tank to the flamer, but that made things look really lopsided, so I added some more tubing to connect parts of the power pack to the torso.



All I've got to do is add some sockets for the tubes and this part is done.

From here, I've got just three parts left. The first part is to start work on the hands, which will proceed in a way similar to how I do powerfists. The second is to get the shoulderpads to be the right size and then do the edging. The finishing touch will be putting fur all over the forearm.

This all should be easy enough, technically. The problem will be fighting off burnout enough to be able to actually power through to the end.

Dang, man! This thing is gonna be beast! Love the sculpt, especially the furry pants.

Oh hell yes this is looking sweet! :-) now with the arms dummied in place you can really see the development and how they;ll appear finished, i'm a bit excited to see how it looks all done and painted my friend!

NF09

Looking so good!

Waiting for the final product, It looks already awesome!

It is a delight to find other people who also take very much care of their poses and conversions! All your models are very well done, I really like the fur/skull mask "sheme" of your army, it looks great! I'm also amazed at your work on the obliterators, they look fething badass awesome! (for lack of better words )

I'll definetly be back, subscribed!

Subbed, great work!

Great stuff, Ailaros. Your sculpting skills are fantastic as well. I remember being really into your battle reports in 4th edition back when I was on 40konline, and you were already doing some small sculpting details with your Foleran units!

Segueing into my next comment, I hope that you do a battle report series with these awesome Khornate barbarians in the same vein as your Foleran units!

Kind Regards,
Vladsimpaler

Beautiful. Just beautiful. Makes me want to start playing chaos, but i'd probably go with tzeentch. Now there's an idea... After all, i started grey knights/inquisition on a random impulse, and i'm getting sick of playing the "Good guys."

I'm curious, how do you get such a smooth texture with your green stuff?

Love the helms. The fur coats, not so much. Although the sculpting is well done, they need some serious shading/highlighting.

Still working on these guys for 6th edition?