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So, I've been working with a lot of sad, painted and stripped minis yet, but this was the worst; my old (as in so old I think he's got lead rather than the newer metal) Abaddon. Similar to my Ezekiel, I decided to customise him when I was like 12, and it sucked. Fortunately, this left his arms and other bits untouched for later use, but my got the body had suffered... I think I took a soldering iron to the torso for "battle damage" or something. Anyway, after a rant by a cranky older gamer at my local GW about Abaddon's model, I decided to give him some love. After all, his model used to be one of the biggest Terminator bodies around... Unfortunately he's now been left low by the new, larger plastic models, so I took it upon myself to make the model a bit more dynamic, as well as making it a little taller. The head's modified from a Flagellant head with angry eyebrows and some of the deformities fixed with putty, the torso's been entirely rebuilt with putty, including a putty-cast and then modified chestplate. I'm pretty pleased with how this is looking so far, actually. The sad thing is, I love the original head, but as people keep complaining, it's too small for the body, doubly so now I've made it bigger... Similarly, there was no way I felt I could top the original sword and claw, so I'm just using them as-is, modified to fit the new body. Click the thumbnail for a look-see.



All the basic work's done, now it's just adding cables and detail, and finishing off the back of his Terminator armour and joining the loincloth (which is sculpted but not pictured). I also want to work some small chains in somehow, just not sure how yet...

Now THATS how Abaddon should look! Looking great, he definitely looks more dangerous than
the current model. As for the chains and cables...maybe off of the Talons of Horus...can't wait to
see it painted!

Edit: Duh, I see the cables on there now...must have missed them the first time...

Well, the Talon of Horus already has some power cables added, as you can see;



Same goes for the sword. It's a matter of trying to make them not look silly. But definitely sold on the idea of hanging something off of the talon with chains!

Wow...just wow...that is the best 40k scale Abaddon I've ever seen!

I'm going to have join in on the dog pile - that is awesome!

Abby's in fluff performance doesn't justify such a grand model, but it a beauty to look at so far!

Okie doke; added a bit of detail to the back, though it still needs some cutting, carving and general refinement. Also stuck the loincloth on with a metal pin just for an idea of how it should look. I'm planning on using real jeweller's chains for hanging some skulls. Also, the rock on the base has been made smaller and remodelled, so I can have a pile of Cadian heads or something in front.




Tempted to make his trophy racks more ostentatious, maybe with Ork bosspoles. Anyone have any ideas?


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Just one more update for the night; tidied up the torso a lot and fixed some proportions so his arms might just be physically able to fit inside the armour. Unfortunately I screwed up the Chaos icon on his torso in the process and I'm not sure what to do now to fix it. Argh.

I think a boss pole would look cool, if it wasn't too big of course, go for it.

Good work so far

So, the larger trophy racks might get shrunk slightly, but they're not much bigger than the originals as it is. Since all the skulls on the originals were a bit small (especially the 'nid one) I had to space out the larger ones slightly, there'll be a third smaller spike at the back. Unfortunately this means there's no room for a banner, however, it's just be too much. Once the banners are sorted, I just need to model the base and he's pretty much done!

I've learned 3 things so far;

1) Do TWO coats of Mr Surfacer when it's a metal mini.

2) I don't know how to paint black.

3) Badly sculpted/GS cast detail just looks like the paint's on too thick.




I was going for the kind of pallid pink skin he has in the CSM codex... The armour will probably get a black wash to blend in those blue highlights... Right now he looks a bit Night Lords-y. :/

I like it. GW really need to release a new Abaddon, the old one suffers from being a '90s figure in a static pose and, by today's standards, is undersized.

You know, I'd almost forgotten about this guy since I was so underwhelmed with how the black turned out, I just stuck him in a box until I get better at it. However, in the interests of full disclosure, here are some shots;





It's not the worst paintjob in the world, but it upsets me because I know I'm capable of much better, and it's not doing the conversion justice. The worst part is that I can't even strip it as that would destroy all the putty... I'll either rub bits down with Isopropyl Alcohol at some point, or revisit and clean up later on.

I like it. How big is he next to a modern terminator? Nice work tho really, you did him justice

KingCracker wrote:I like it. How big is he next to a modern terminator? Nice work tho really, you did him justice

Thanks! There's a size comparison pic from when he was being built, but basically he's about as big to a regular terminator now as the old Abaddon was to the old style.



I've got a LOT of old Terminators I'm trying to rebase and re-do, so they're all getting "platform boots". They look natural, and just make them seem a little bit less small compared to the new guys...