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Just stumbled onto this thread, very nice. As a fellow spawn lover and converter, I salute you!

I have a few spawn I am planning on making from the ogre kits, but they look nothing like yours. Interesting to note the process is mostly the same though: Bash pieces together, then get out a LOT of greenstuff.

I forgot how much i adore Pyschosis PC's work! And how much I love the older Blood Letter models

Thanks very much for the compliments. I have a second one that I'm working on, not quite as nasty as this one, but definitely cool.

I like your old Bloodletters. I think their design is much better than the new Bloodletters. Great stuff!

Loving the new spawn, a great use of kit bashing, can't wait to see it painted.

A new skaven war litter. I've done two other conversions of Skaven Warlitters. While I thought they were good conversions, I was not entirely happy with how the litter looked. The model below is stuck to the base with some poster putty.

The primary reason for me not really caring for the way the litter turned out, was the poles were upright that the Storm Vermin carrying the litter were holding on to. A few people mentioned that to me that they may look a bit better this way as a handle.

For the Lord model I used the one out of the basic boxed set. Its a very cool looking model, for a simplistic two piece miniature.

The Lord model does lean way forward so I knew I need to compensate for that by leaning the entire platform forward. Did this by building up the base with Apoxie Sculp. The Lord model is also on this big rock, I removed that with my dremel and then sculpted in the wood grain of the platform. This one I'm happy with. The base and big rat are one piece. The front bearer platform and Lord are another piece. The storm vermin in the back is separate. And the banner is brass tube and removable, pinned to the platform. Doing it in pieces like this will make it much easier to paint. Assemble after painting.

More pics can be seen at my blog, link in my signature.

I like it, except for the banner. It feels wobbly and out of place. Maybe if it was slightly shorter, and looked more fixed to the platform.

As I build various things, I will often assemble a Chaos Space Marine leftover from 40k never played nor built in my bitz box, and use up left over bits of GS or other types of putty. I'm still a fan of 40k models and the fluff. So this is my latest creation, meant to be another in an endless line of Word Bearers. I do like the possessed bits, lot of fun those are.

This is sort of a primer of sorts. I'm planning a return to 40k, building a new "Insert Color Here" Templar army. I've been working on the vehicles this past week, and they should be interesting, as I'm attempting to recapture the sort of ramshackle look that my Cerulean Templar motor pool had. My new breed of 40k Templars will certainly not be Black and White and will not even be Blue and White.

The drapings on this marine are something that I will use with the Templars. All the new Templar bitz, will definitely make me sharpen up my game a bit, so that my sculpting won't look completely out of place.

As I'm going along building my marauding horde, I decided that I was going to cherry pick a whole lot of miniatures that I liked from other manufacturers as well. Stuff that has caught my eye and that I have wanted to paint for quite some time. I'm not concerned about size as I'm already using everything GW makes in a mix, and besides barbarians and mutants are all the same size anyways.



This model is one of Tre Manor's Red Box Games, Helsvakt, miniatures and it is absolutely stunning in detail and a blast to paint. There is so much detail on it. The skulls on the cape in the back is really cool looking. I'm really loving all of the stuff Tre is doing for his own company and for Reaper Miniatures.

The shield below had a bunch of scars in the surface sculpted into it. So, I thought I would accentuate that in my color scheme and make the shield sort of glow a little.



Next up is another of Tre Manor's sculpts, this time from Reaper Miniatures. This model is huge. The Helsvakt is about 25 mm, this model is probably around 32 mm.

I believe the name of this miniature is Kord the Destroyer. The face detail just screams at me, I love it. The model itself is very reminiscent of his Helsvakt models.


I'll be using both of these models on the extreme flanks of the units. I'm very much looking forward to assembling the units in whole. The Blue and Burnt Orange paint schemes are getting carried all the way through the army. Both of these models are really going to influence me in my conversion and sculpting work in the future. Tre's technique for doing fur is definitely making me rethink how I have been doing it. The detail is top notch in my book.


---PPC

I love this blog... your work is awesome!

Helsvakt is definitely a great evil barbarian sculpt, and your paint on him (and his bro) is rocking as usual. Your continued CSM work has also convinced me to invest in yet another box of possessed bits, as I'd like to work on getting a squad or two of CSM built and painted to a higher level than my formal armies, this time largely divorced from game concerns ...

Anyway, keep up the great work PPC

- Salvage

Thanks guys....many more to come, especially of the barbarians. I have a few more CSMs also.

Some of more my barbarians...

This is another of Tre Manor's Red Box Games Miniatures. And its quickly become another favorite of mine. I think it has a rather cool pose, I can see the awesome downward swing of that cleever like sword.


I'm continuing my paint scheme throughout everything, so the panels on the shield just had to be that glowing like blue.

"the Crazed" is very fitting for this Red Box Games, Tre Manor miniature. Just look at that face.

You cannot help but have an evil smile on your face while painting this miniature's melon. Like the rest of the Helsvakt line and some of his Reaper sculpts, I really love this armor and its what I would envision Chaos Marauders wearing to battle, spiky and gladiatorial like.


And one that I will use in my great weapon unit.

I've worked with Matt Gubser quite a few years ago, helping him out of a jam. It was good experience. Matt's been sculpting miniatures for years and has done lots of work for Reaper Miniatures. This mini is one of his sculpts. I thought about converting the miniature and giving it some hair, but in the end left it alone. This model wll be part of my marauder great weapon unit. Its a large model somewhere around 30-32 mm tall, bigger than a GW Marauder, but that is okay in my book.

It also has very good musculature. Matt did a very nice job with that.

As you can see, I've kept the Hot Rod Flames scheme. And continuing the burnt orange and blue paint colors. This unit will be marked with Khorne.

More marauders are still coming.

---PPC

I have been following your progress over on your blog. The marauders are fantastic looking especially. Could you post a pic of them ranked up with a gw mini?

I love your spawn. I'm sorry man I'm going to have to use that I'm sorry because I got those jaw bits at home and they are not being used. Tyranid bits + chaos spawn = winning combo. Plus, I want to make another little head coming out of the gaping jaw like in the movie Alien

Thanks guys.

@ephrael: Yep, that will be coming. I'll be doing a tutorial on how I do movement trays soon and will be ranking up the new with the old and getting the Great Weapon unit all together. There are more marauders coming.

Do you know the name of that latest sculpt? It's especially rocking, with the manica-esque armor and the 'Death Dealer' style axe, and might need to find its way into my collection ... Either way, rock on PPC.

- Salvage

Looks bad-a$$ indeed, and the flames are exquisite !

Great model PPC !

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Boss Salvage wrote:Do you know the name of that latest sculpt? It's especially rocking, with the manica-esque armor and the 'Death Dealer' style axe, and might need to find its way into my collection ... Either way, rock on PPC.

- Salvage

The last Reaper mini - Goldar the Barbarian, I believe they have two versions in different casting materials.

Lovely sir, thanks for the assist. Reaper is super easy to pick up too

- Salvage

This model has quickly become one of my favorites. I love the faces from the GW Maruader horsemen. They have very good detail.

This is also the first time I have do the shaven head look. Having a lot of 5 o'clock shadow moments maybe helps, but understanding the paint washes helps more.


The shield strapped to the back sort of gives that Norse flavor, and I do like this shield with all of its gore.


---PPC

Well they wouldn't be mutants and barbarians without some mutants. I need to get back to the mutant portion of the theme also, so these are some of the mutated ones.

This pair. A converted Gor from 2003 that I never used in my Beastmen Army, so I popped off the head and fixed him up. I have also used a few flagellants in the previous group of marauders so this will just be another addition. The weapon head is actually from skaven left over bits.




The mini above is another left over from my beastmen army back in 2003 that never got used.

Awhile back I converted a whole lot of flaggelants into mutated chaos models on commission. I thought it worked well and decided to use up some left over stuff.


While doing that years ago, I determined that Ungor and Flaggelants are roughly the same size. and the parts are virtually interchangeable.



The old metal bestigors are also very different from the current line of minis, so they also make nice additions without any real work other than paint.

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Can't see any of your beautiful work! nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

urgh photobucket sucks....
use image shack for such public posts^^

nevertheless, awesome models there : )
I really like how unique their fecial expressions and details are.

The painting is quite nice as well.

Or, just use Dakka's excellent Gallery!!

Or easier yet click the link to my blog.

If I remember correctly, both photobucket and imageshack have a 10GB monthly bandwidth limit.

I'll probably start using both, because I'm exceeding one on a more regular basis, and I won't be paying for upgrades anytime soon. As far as Dakka's gallery, I post on numerous other forums, not just Dakka.

Been awhile since I updated. But I have been messing with Chaos Space Marines a bit.

I've had these Slaanesh bits for years and never really had a use for them until now. I love doing poses like this one. It screams chaos and come challenge me.



Again you don't always have to go completely over the top with green stuff sculpting to make interesting characters. Lots of times using the right bits in combination make for a very unique miniature. Also, had an Iron Warrior in mind while doing this one. Bionics and mail. An old OOP metal horned head. Possessed legs. The axe is a leftover Chaos Warrior Champion bit from Warhammer Fantasy. Some metal piping from Dragon Forge. Not much of anything in GS. Don't always need GS.

I'm digging deep in the bitz box and found this power maul. Very appropriate for bashing thos Imperial Loyalists.

I love this head, it screams chaos to me. The drapings are using a similar technique shown in my tutorial on sculpting cloth with GS.
http://psychosispc-themadhouseworkshop.blogspot.com/2011/12/green-stuff-cloth-tutorial-space.html

The rivets/pins that look to be holding the cloth are done with a mechanical pencil. The spikes are favorite thing of mine for adding to the backpacks, they come from the chaos vehicle spike sprue.

---PPC