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So creepy. The freaky masks are great. Your GS-fu is strong. Could you give us some idea as to how you get your final GS finish so smooth?

- Blackbone

LOVING THIS STILL!!!!!!

Thanks guys!

Blackbone wrote:Your GS-fu is strong. Could you give us some idea as to how you get your final GS finish so smooth?

The trick is mostly in getting a good handle on how GS likes to work. That just takes working with it for a while to gain experience. Tools that will help a lot too are lubrication... some people use water, some people use KY (believe it or not, the stuff is great as its water based), I tend to use Vaseline. It is fantastic for keeping your sculpting tools from sticking, but usually leaves a film on the GS surface that should be cleaned up before paint will stick to it. If you are making something that is going to a caster, Vaseline can weaken the bond between two pieces of GS, so you should clean it off in that case too. With any of this stuff, a little goes a very long way! The other thing that I recommend checking out is a thing called a color (sometimes clay...) shaper. Here is a link to what I am talking about. These things are pricey, but are pretty great for finishing a surface.

These are chillingly beautiful.

wow these all look great when i first saw the flails i was sceptical,(with the two bits of wire) but they were obviously very early wip and look gorgeous now the green-fu on display here is epic, the giants "arm weapons" are very interesting can we get a few more / close up pictures of those arms?? thanks


*official doom rider seal of approval*

I will be cracking on some more details for the arms, so I will try to give them a close up. They were made from a 3:1 mix of Apoxie Sculpt, and Greenstuff. After I shaped them into slightly bent cones, I tapped little spots into them with a Dremel grinder to give them some texture. The idea is that the surface will be like bashed up, tarnished metal.

The next step on that model is to get the various armored plates that I want to put on the model done. That part is going to be a major way in which the giant will be tied into the rest of the army. This means I need to settle the armor detail style, which I want to be pretty ornate. I think that will fit Slannesh nicely.

Thanks for the comments all! I will post more soon!

Latest updates done over the weekend...

Slanneshi Chaos Giant:





Slannshi Chaos Warrior Work In Progress:

Holy gak! The armour plates on that giant are amazing!

Er, seconded!

That thing is amazing!

And then thirded.

Exquisite craftsmanship, and wonderful character in the (giant) figure. And in the warrior, for that matter. First rate stuff.

My god that giant.........its just mind numbingly awesome

The only thing I can think to say is: subscribed...

I truly love that warrior monk!

OH MY GOD! (which is slaanesh) THIS IS AWESOME!!!!!
love the giant and... EVERYTHING! this is really cool stuff you have

Cheers

LFF666

Thanks for the comments! My big issue now is to find the time to keep up the momentum. There are a million things competing for my time this month... blah.

I have several more chaos warriors like this one in the works. The one thing about doing so much extensive GS work on them, I can really rock out the poses. The giant has a pile of work left to do. His legs need some clean-up, and some patching still.

Looking at these pics again, its funny how a nice close up photo shows you the problems with your own work!! The chaos warrior's faceplate looks sharp to me in real life, but in this picture it seems really inconsistent, and soft. I think I also need to diffuse my photo lights some when I shoot. That would help a lot I bet.

i saw this modell some time ago and thought of your army, maybe it could make a nice chaos lord?

Yeah I really dig that model. The helmet was a bit of an inspiration to me. I may well pick it up for the army.

I started the next set of chaos warriors last night. Built up their armatures, and underpinning for their legs. I think that I am going to build some armor on their legs for the occasions when I want them to be visible. I still need to settle on a blade design for their hand weapons.

if you want slaanesh-like blades then i suggest slim, beautiful blades, with similar ornate design you have on the armourplates
How big have you planned the army so far?

Cheers

LFF666

A+++ stuff Xen, I'll definitely be following the progress here. Just last night I was thinking about making some tizz marauders from flaggies w/ face-masks, so your example is both extra helpful and also kinda unfortunate as you've totally killed the concept

Love the continued mask theme, everything is really awesome so far. Groovy bases too.

- Salvage

I have a couple ideas on how to make their swords. One is like a really long Kukri knife, and the other is sort of like a stylized cleaver kind of thing. In either case I think I will put some ornamentation on there to fit with the armor design.

Thanks for the comments!

Holy crap! An update!

Adepticon inspired me to get back on this project (not that it was abandoned).



Exalted Hero on a Steed of Slannesh



Chariot WIP.



Sorcerer of Tzeentch. The wings essentially represent the disc mount. I should make another base for him... Are discs mounted on 50mm x 50mm?

Holy crap those last few guys own. Are those beastmen torsos?

Also I got to say that the tyranid tail does work really well. I doubt I would have wanted to buy six of them for my own conversion, but it turned out pretty nice.

Here's what I did:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/220234.page#1295538
and PIP:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/220234.page#1477425

Thanks Graypaint. I like your demonette-slug-ogre conversions. They are very chaotic!

I think someone suggested using the trygon tail for mine as well. It really solves the bloated look mine have. Like I said, it was a cost measure mostly.
I really like the face masks you have going. It reminds me of the Confrontation Alchemists, which I really dig.

The crescent pattern on the mask of the first warrior from the latest batch is really simple and looks intricate. I might try replicating something like that.

Did you just use a medicine blister do so those sorts of patterns and the ones on your giant's armor.

Excellent work. One of the things I really hate about some of GW's ranges is the boring generic models. The chaos warriors are a prime example of this, the same models simply painted different colours to represent different gods. These models, on the other hand, are really characterful and different, they really capture the feel of Slannesh.

Giant+GS= Epic Win
Warriors+Beastmen+GS= Epic Win

So yeah, my "mathmatical equasions" say it all.

I've got some more chaos warriors coming along that I would love to hear some opinions on. I will try to get them posted by the end of the weekend. Thanks for the comments all!!

It's all coming along really well, I'm envious of your greenstuffing skills.

My favourite so far.

xenite wrote:


Exalted Hero on a Steed of Slannesh

However... My personal feeling with this model, is that due to the width of the hips area and the additional clawed arms there, that he needs beefing up about the shoulders, with armour or wings or back banners at diagonals or something. He looks 'top lite' atm.

I was going to put a back-banner trophy-rack thing on him, but I am on the fence about it at the moment. I will have to get him onto a base and see how he looks in a unit. He will get some added armor for sure.