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So... I've decided to return to my nerdy ways and return to the 40k tabletops...

this time walking away from my chaos-tastic creations into a new (more squishy) domain... and I'm definitely talking about the Imperial Guard.

The theme of the army is a battle torn rag-tag urban militia that fights not for glory of the emperor (but not for the chaos either)...

more or less... they are going to be a kitbashed army of cadian/catachen bits with a large amount of customization...

The current things I'm working on are The Female Commissar (Code named: Eve)

The Basilisk and Tank Commander (Code named: Salvatore)

And a Junior Command Squad (No Code Name Yet)

So this is the first stab at the EVE sculpt...

I tried to make her face pretty... but with that sinister smirk... unfortunately the photo doesnt do it justice...

but none the less This is her head, torso without the front of the coat sculpted yet (her undershirt and collar are though as you can tell...), and the loxer part of her coat and legs...











C&C are welcome and asked for...

thanks for watching!

-SINISM

Sounds like an interesting concept, i'm definately looking forward to seeing how it turns out

Also, empire and chaos fantasy pieces would be effective if you want to give them a worn down rag-tag look (Flagellants are especially good with the crazed up bearded faces)

Yeah I like it too, sounds very intresting.

why is it, that when someone says ragtag, everyone immediately thinks large wispy beards and crazy faces?

it simply wont do any more. dont buy flaggelent heads for the great bushy beards, buy them for the cool metal masks and blind face. thats what i'd buy them for.

onto the scheme, id suggest the empire militia as well. great figs, and though the tights and stuff arent great, alot of the torsos look pretty awsome on cadian/ catachans. all the best

I imagine an unshaven/un-uniformed bunch of guys, so one of them has to have a beard :p

some will definitely have beards and such... more-so five o' clock shadow...

i guess to describe it better... the army will seem like if the vietnam war plopped down in the middle of a huge american city... the people didnt want it there... so they will band together as a militia and fight back until it goes away...

except you have to change vietnam to the whole universe and american to empirial...

so far I sculpted the commissar(ess?) but I'm not so sure I like her coat... any tips I might find on making her clothing out of greenstuff a little better?

thanks for the notes so far guys!

-SINISM...

So Ive got most of Eve worked out... I have her pose and everything worked out... all I need to do is work on her coat/arms a little further and I think she'll be ready to be painted... sorry about the lack of photos once again guys...

and is any of you know a good article or anything on how to sculpt flowing cloth? I'm going to need your help for this next step...

thanks for watching!

-Sinism

You may have more luck here.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/242410.page#747541

Hope it helps. It should not be to hard to make it fit on a female commissar.

why thank you sir! that tutorial was rather helpful... I took a little bit of a different route... but it paid off very much so in the end...

I just hope I can find a camera soon to show you guys what she looks like so far... then this thing will be VERY pic heavy...

I may not be the best green stuffer (?) in the world... but I'm actually pretty proud of how she's turning out... especially her face... but none the less... the model is about 40% plastic 60% greenstuff...

so hopefully I can get pics up so its not like youre reading brail at a movie theatre...

until then.... thanks for watching!

-SINISM

I'm a fan of the not-heels.
I look forward to seeing the sculpt.

Belphegor wrote:I'm a fan of the not-heels.
I look forward to seeing the sculpt.

very much so... if I really want to make a "risque" commissar... then I may in the future...

but for the tone of my army...

she needs to be seriously dressed...

but it doesnt mean she cant have a pretty smile...

Or that kind of sexy deadly look, like "Oh, I'd hit that, though I wouldn't want to be near her afterwards."

You know?

You might like this OP:

you know... I've never really liked that model :/ I appreciate the thought... but I dont really know... she's just not quite my style?

thanks though luna!

Nazi School Girl Comissar Sluts from THE FUTURE! On the next Sick, Sad World.

That's what that Incursion model makes me think.

GS her a commissar coat , i think it'll work.

ok... A. Hooray for Daria...

and B. Unfortunately I kinda already made most of her model already...

so thanks for the advice... but its was a little late... heh...

Need more pics, but so far good.

well I finally got to post some pics... got to tell me what you guys think!

thanks again

-SINISM

LunaHound wrote:You might like this OP:

I'm fond of this model, but sadly it is just a tad to small when compared 40k models. The best way to described it would be that it looks small next to pig iron minis.

So I've completed most of her basic pose... the only thing I have to do is to define the front and back detail of her coat with GS... as well as go and do refining details such as filling in seams and making final details like her belt and such...

hope its alright so far!









Still waiting for Some kind of feedback...

thanks for watching!
-Sinism

(P.S. ever want to make yourself feel bad? take close up photos of your minis... I cant help think that they look so much better in person...)

Nice work on the coat. Looking forward to seeing what the face detail looks painted. Maybe add a chainsword/clost combat weapon holstered on her right hand side? Seems its lacking something like that. Keep going!

Well done! Especially liking the clasps on the front of her coat.

Thats great the coat looks brilliant and the face's also looking good. For a grizzled look I'd suggest painting a lot of it not modelling it if you know what I mean!