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Storm eagle's a nightmare kit. But we have faith in you

There's always the possibility of using the chapter house extension kit...

Actually, the pilots of any flyers I make probably won't be scaled up. But only because I have 4 sets of the old Land Speeder crew, and I think they'd just be too hard to cut apart and keep in good condition. But their helmets are awesome.

As much as I love the majority of your stuff, I think I won't echo your bolter change. It's cool, but it just takes away from the very distinct bolter silhoutte.

Like your work a lot Veteran Sergeant !

Wish I'd done more "biggoning" with mine instead of just 1mm waist and feet spacers !

Totally not related to this project, but my awesome coworkers got me a bonsai tree.

So I did the only reasonable thing you can do when you have a miniature Japanese tree.

Damn right

They look a little short???

That is a fine looking tree. And a neat turtle.

Camkierhi wrote:They look a little short???

They're Asian. They're actually already truescale.

Deunstephe wrote:That is a fine looking tree. And a neat turtle.

Actually that was given to me by the same coworker after I explained my Ninja Turtle Life Philosophy.

When you're young, it's easy to like Raphael because he's edgy and rebellious.

But as you get older, you realize he was just an emo whiner, and you'd rather be smart like Donatello, a good leader like Leonardo, or just laid back and happy like Michelangelo.

I like the turtle philosophy lol. That is... possibly... an excellent idea you've given me though. I was going to make my sister's boyfriend a samurai diorama already... bonsai tree as the base...might just be cooler.

Is a happy birthday in order, or do you just have cool coworkers?

Damn you Veteran Sergeant; someone linked into this thread, I read through it again and thought "hmmm, wonder how hard it is?"

Three hours later and I've got my first truescale Deathwatch member; so I'm now going to have to do the whole lot, because the size and proportions are so much better and your method is waaay too straightforward to put me off!



P.S. I make no apologies for threadnomancy; I believe you work needs to be seen.

Just seen this thread, awesome work, makes me want to start a new marine chapter haha. When are you going to start painting them though?

No need to worry about the necro. The project is still alive, I just haven't had the motivation to work on it recently. After a decade in the Marines, my back gets sore pretty quickly hunching over on these things, so if I'm going to be sore, I prefer it be because I've been at the gym, or surfing too much. So this projects has fits and starts, and never fares well when it's sunny and summertime.

I'm glad you're enjoying the results. Your first couple guys look really good.

As far as to when they're going to get painted, well, painting suffers the same problem as modeling. I don't play (as much as I've tried to convince my old wargaming buddies to do it once every few months or so, even if we have to houserule the heck out of it), so I have little incentive to do it. And I enjoy painting far less than I do the creative process of conceptualizing and realizing a model and its pose. I'd love for them to be painted one day, but for now the inspiration is where I enjoy the hobby more.

I'll try to get something else done soon. It really just hinges on two things: First, finding new ideas for poses and models, and second, the sheer amount of work that goes into each guy, and having the time to invest. I have a full time job doing content marketing, and I write freelance in my spare time. After that, my hobbies (surfing, running, hiking, reading, women) have to compete for time. So 40K slips down the ladder a lot, lol.

Your work here is not only inspiring, it is ground-breaking it is simplicity.

I am still thinking on new conversion projects. I am planning a squad of special Terminators in chaos-ified Cataphractii suits, which will pose its own challenges...

I can't believe I've let this project sit since April. I don't really have anything new, though I updated the fluff and added a new short story over on The Bolter & Chainsword if anyone is interested in reading it.

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/267011-litanies-of-hate-and-discontent-index-astartes-invectors/

I did whip up this in Paintshop just for fun. That counts as painting, right? Paint... shop... No? Damn.

No mate, it does not count, the world needs more of you real work on the internet instead of virtual work on ........oh

Anyway, we need new stuff !

Very cool work. Have you thought of extending the arms to try and keep them in some sort of internal proportion?

No. The arms are actually already too long be default. Off the sprue, Space Marines have gorilla arms. Naturally, the arms should hang to around the mid thigh, which is more or less where they end up now.

Love your stuff Srg

I'll have to try out your true scaling sometime

The standard arms definitely look more in proportion after the "true scaling"

This has probably been asked before but I just couldn´t find the answer and the thread is quite large. I am contemplating a labour-of-love project for myself, which includes scaled up marines painted possibly with full NMM. Your style to upscale the marines so far has been the simplest and most effective ( no resized arms, no terminator legs etc. )

Could you do a step by step picture guide? And what are you using to fill the gaps with? I think I read plasticard somewhere, but I was under the impression plasticard is what it sounds like, card, and not a modeling putty you can fill stuff with.

This project has been stashed away for a while since 7th Ed (and new gf and summer beach weather) killed my passion for the hobby, but I can show you some pics I have from the past.

Here are the rough component parts of the models. I hadn't made the second cut on the legs yet, and the arms haven't been cut and repositioned.


This picture is crappy so you can't see the detail too well, but the card is rounded off on the inside (I use a rounded blade to scrape it) to allow the raised torso to sit on top of the legs.


I don't sculpt the belt line because on my models the belt is hidden by all of the pouches and grenades and thus it would be a waste of time. If you're not using gear, you may need to be prepared to reposition the "belt buckle" and sculpt the belly cables out of green stuff.

The plastic card is just plastic styrene card. You can order it online, or probably get it at any modelling shop. I use 1mm, 1.5mm, and occasionally 0.5mm.

Here is how the model is assembled



Basically, you take a nice, simple, 10 part model and make it into a 30+ part one, lol.

Thank you. Do I understand correctly that into the legs you have cut circular pieces of the card, in the shape of the legs? That actually seems easier than using putty. Basically like discs between the leg pieces?

I cut the card into squares, glue it to the leg pieces, trim off the excess and file it smooth. But yeah, basically you're just creating plastic "circles".

I found this picture of the assembly process where you can see the "squares".



It's probably "easier" than putty because you know you'll have a consistent thickness with card. You can always use putty to fix minor defects or fix any details. You can see on some models where the older plastic (some of my kits are over a decade old, lol) was damaged and I needed to patch them. I specifically use the "plain" legs to reduce the amount of sculpting that would be necessary with more ornate leg pieces.

One good trick is to utilize "found" details. For example, when you shave off skulls from helmets, or aquilas from weapons and other things, you can then glue them back onto the models as surface details and embellishments.

Good to see you posting again Sergeant ! Use the Autumn (Fall !) to cut some more plastic, you do some great work !

The bastards got me...



I'd swore I'd never buy another GW kit new in box, but they got me.

Are you going to upscale them? would be interesting to see, they are covered in detail.

Probably not. The set will be more valuable not butchered, and I already have a bunch of AoBR Terminators sitting around I haven't even gotten to yet.

Given the fact that I don't actually play 40K (just Necromunda), it seems pretty silly to chop up my Space Hulk set, lol.

But I've been a fan of Space Hulk for a long, long time. And I have no reason to buy 3.5th Edition since I already have like three sets of Space Hulk including the original Ultramarines game. But I did anyway, because reasons and sentimentality.

Then again, reasons and sentimentality is why I created this blog in the first place, heh.

Thanks for posting this up Sergeant. I got back into the hobby recently and had some of the same ideas that you began with, and some different ones. Just had no interest in churning out an army that was the same as thousands of existing ones. Unfortunately I had zero experience converting so didn't know how to go about making a lot of those planned conversions. Was able to figure a lot of it out from a lot of what you posted up. At the moment I'm using your pics as reference to make the "aiming down bolter sights" pose and its working out a treat. It takes me about 4-6 hours to assemble and customise 1 marine to satisfaction, but as you said, its well worth it.

Subscribed. Look forward to seeing more great work!

I've found that doing several at a time cuts down on the total time. At least the prep. You can prep torsos and legs in batches.

I'm glad you've taken something away from this project. Let me know if you have any questions.