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I had some sketches in my book for this thing, I quite like it and its cleaner than most of the other lasgun conversions I've done.

I've been scouring the net and come across heaps of really unique ideas for lasgun conversions so I may be trying some from here on out especially in the veteran squads or the more grizzly grunts.

I need to fill in the "sight" area with putty and smooth it over, but it looks nice so far.



I've been struggling with ideas of what this needs to really make it more interesting, I made some great bandages along the handle to make it interesting but they were TORN up totally on the way back from games workshop as were his toes, I may just add some bulk to where the blade connects to the shaft and perhaps add a small hilt.

And just pictures of my greater daemon, I've been working for a few hours here and there trying to get him finished and besides his two hands and work on his chin, he's VERY close. Excited as hell to paint this.









The liquid greenstuff is interesting, and I actually find it more useful than I first anticipated.

Once I get it painted I'll probably add some clear glue to gore bits and maybe saliva and have wounds leaking. It's all very exciting for me.

More updates soon to come!

Finally on a 2nd page so I don't have to load all that first section ha!

Thanks man, hes a greater daemon though, prince I will do after I get him finished since I've learned so much from this.


Bases, 30 of them, all graveled up and ready to take the feet of guardsmen.




I've been working on Harkers stand-in squad for when hes not present, trying to get a guille suit look going on and although I don't like it 100% I think with a few more layers and some of the fake plant pieces I have lying around, and jungle looking bases, I reckon this could be very good when painted up.

The black guys are the special weapons, and because of the restrictions of each weapon pack, they don't have as much detail, the arms I will do up though because that's where all the fun will be.





These guys are almost done too, I want to go over them and check any spots I dislike and mark their armour maybe a little bit more and add some bullets or empty magazines to their bases and then I can start painting. Very pleased with them.

That's all for now!

Wow, duane, I can't believe how few comments you're getting - this work deserves so much more recognition. Really characterful, unique models, without being over the top. Brilliant job!

The greater daemon looks utterly mind blowing - quality sculpting! Didn't notice the axe when I first looked, and was wondering for a while whether he was going to have two gross meaty empty shoulder sockets. Kind of glad you're not going that way - sounds pretty grim. Would maybe have worked for nurgle though!

Battle damage on the tank is also awesome, as are all your weapon conversions (some of which I may borrow - sorry! ). Was really fun watching your muscley sculpted beast evolve too. Really top notch work, please keep posting!

I really like the sniper rifle! And don't take this the wrong way, but you sculpted his ass fantastically!

Scarper wrote:Wow, duane, I can't believe how few comments you're getting - this work deserves so much more recognition. Really characterful, unique models, without being over the top. Brilliant job!

The greater daemon looks utterly mind blowing - quality sculpting! Didn't notice the axe when I first looked, and was wondering for a while whether he was going to have two gross meaty empty shoulder sockets. Kind of glad you're not going that way - sounds pretty grim. Would maybe have worked for nurgle though!

Battle damage on the tank is also awesome, as are all your weapon conversions (some of which I may borrow - sorry! ). Was really fun watching your muscley sculpted beast evolve too. Really top notch work, please keep posting!

Thanks man, it means a lot to get these kinds of comments. It's the reason I'm even writing any of this down and showing the progress. I get so much inspiration from other logs that I hope the least I can do is inspire others and it sounds like its worked a bit!

dsteingass wrote:I really like the sniper rifle! And don't take this the wrong way, but you sculpted his ass fantastically!

I can't take that the wrong way, I did a lot of work to sculpt that fine ass. Don't you forget it

I had a solid day of nerdhammering, got my 3 chimeras assembled, and worked on the guille suits for my veteran squad.



The little chaos panels I think add just a hint of flavour, I have saved so many reference pictures and I'll be hoping to not convert, but just intensify these chariots of the damned into something a little different.



Also beefed up the nurgle lords bike, I figure an extra set of exhausts were exactly what the doctor ordered, not quite done yet but it's still nice as it is.


It took me a very long time, but I cut enough tiny plasticard strips to cover these models in enough to make me happy with their look, of course they'll need to be resprayed and painted and I'll be sure to give them a camo-heavier color this time around to fit in with harker.

More updates probably tomorrow and over the weekend coming up! Stay tuned.

Ghillied up. I like it!

Thank goodness we've reached page two! Scrolling through the pictures on page 1 was becoming quite time consuming. Mainly because each time i would find something great i'd missed.

Perkustin wrote:Ghillied up. I like it!

Thank goodness we've reached page two! Scrolling through the pictures on page 1 was becoming quite time consuming. Mainly because each time i would find something great i'd missed.

Yeah, I was getting tired of having to scroll down so much each time I wanted to add more.

I'm at this point now.

Fairly large army, one chimera is M.I.A. somewhere however.

Assembled my skaven engineer? today as well, when I finish the base off I will try and have some fun painting this.

And his minions.



Also started on some of the older dark eldar, I will be trying to make them look a little more interesting by converting but we'll see where they end up.


And this is me sorting out and removing sprues left over from kits.

Ahhh nothing like a big pile of plastic to just have a blast with!

dsteingass wrote:Ahhh nothing like a big pile of plastic to just have a blast with!

Oh yeah its fun. But I hate the mold lines some days.






I've been busy trying to change up and modify the tanks I have on the table at the moment, I've been looking at lots of reference pictures for inspiration but not had the time just yet to really hit it hard.

The chimeras are going to be primarily for my veterans and as the veteran squads have themes, I am theming the chimeras to go along with them.

The main one is harker's chimera for when I use him, if not it counts as a standard chimera with some fancy clothes.





Nothing else yet worth reporting just yet.



Just two small mods to some tanks. I hope to add quite a lot more before I get to spray them.

I've done some basic math and come up with over 2000 of imperial guard (not a legal list however) without any upgrades which is quite impressive, but puts me at a loss when it comes to how many units I actually have finished ha.

I did sculpt a little on the greater daemons hand, and sprayed one of the veteran squads, so I may be painting them any day now.

I kept working last night til 3am and spent most of it changing the tanks little by little.





Once I add rivets to the plates I think I'll be good to spray the chimeras, the basilisks I want to add more to but I feel that it could drown them in unnecessary stuff.


Also added some detail to my vendetta/valkyrie base as the black flat ground wasn't doing it for me.


And finally some painting progress! I really do love how big a presence the red makes on these guys, I am thinking black or a dark dark grey mix for the guns and armoured parts, the rest is all pretty self-explanatory I think.

I did some more painting today, I'm spending a lot of time putting washes of black on any metal surfaces to dull them down a bit and I have a lot of small details to go. These will hopefully look quite nice when finished.
Pictures are bad cos its night time and the extra light in the window during the day usually helps.






The grenade launchers aren't the weapon of choice for me when it comes to veterans but I wasn't sure what to give them. I was thinking plasma guns, but I need to order a few online as well as some meltas to give em the right equipment and I wanted grenade launchers just to make them look a little meaner.

Looking great! Love the new valk base - your damage on the sentinel is superb.Your troopers are looking ace. I think maybe some of the reds could do with an extra coat, but I get that it's WiP I'm a big fan of the superdetailing on the tanks - what thickness is the plasticard you're using to make, for example, the casing on the fuel tanks? I quite fancy stealing some ideas

WOW!!! SUBBED!

Many thanks to Scarper for linking this from his blog, I wicked enjoy Traitor Guard / Undead Guardsmen / scratch build terrain and this is an excellent project for all those and more!

I really like your GS, it's not "pretty and clean" but it really does the job well and gives your miniatures a sinister look for sure. And the Undead Guardsmen are simply perfect. You are a madman of multiple projects as well. Always enjoy meeting a kindred spirit. Hope you keep up the good work, and I expect I'll be stopping back here rather frequently.

Also going to link you in my threads, you deserve to get more attention for this project.

I am TOTALLY in on this thread! I know how lonely it can get without an audience, AND NOW YOU HAVE ONE! Or even two.

Also, for your soda cans, consider some of these, they're cheap!

http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=36

--B.

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Wow! I'm happy to join your new fallowing here. This is a great army. I love the Rough Rider captain. I esspecially like the camo on Harkers ride. The way you spaced the tread armour, I will have to steal that someday. All of the kit attached to the tanks is awesome too. I get down on extra kit.

You've got great skill and speed. Great work!

Just spent the last half hour looking over your work. Very -very- well done. It makes me want to get the ball rolling with my traitor guard project after my Beastmen.

The Guardsmen ridding the Jugger is one of the best things I've ever seen on this site.

Scarper wrote:Looking great! Love the new valk base - your damage on the sentinel is superb.Your troopers are looking ace. I think maybe some of the reds could do with an extra coat, but I get that it's WiP I'm a big fan of the superdetailing on the tanks - what thickness is the plasticard you're using to make, for example, the casing on the fuel tanks? I quite fancy stealing some ideas

There is so much painting work yet to be done, I've recently added another coat or two of red to the models so they look a bit nicer just now, unfortunately I don't have a camera to take any decent photos now :(
I think the thickness of the card is .5mm or .75mm as I only tend to deal in quarters of imperial as its easier.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:WOW!!! SUBBED!

Many thanks to Scarper for linking this from his blog, I wicked enjoy Traitor Guard / Undead Guardsmen / scratch build terrain and this is an excellent project for all those and more!

I really like your GS, it's not "pretty and clean" but it really does the job well and gives your miniatures a sinister look for sure. And the Undead Guardsmen are simply perfect. You are a madman of multiple projects as well. Always enjoy meeting a kindred spirit. Hope you keep up the good work, and I expect I'll be stopping back here rather frequently.

Also going to link you in my threads, you deserve to get more attention for this project.

It's lovely to see people bringing attention here I really appreciate it all
The multiple project thing can be a bit daunting, but I am slowly trying to get things finished before moving on, but when you have 4000 other things that are cooler that need doing it gets difficult to budget the time between it.

Briancj wrote:I am TOTALLY in on this thread! I know how lonely it can get without an audience, AND NOW YOU HAVE ONE! Or even two.

Also, for your soda cans, consider some of these, they're cheap!

http://armorcast.com/store/index.php?cPath=36

--B.

Hmmm, I could just as easily make stuff like that, I would probably end up making a few for the city when it gets closer but at the moment there is more of my army to be done so terrain can take a backslide for a change. Thanks for viewing

soviet.russia wrote:Subbed

Thanks!

The Good Green wrote:Wow! I'm happy to join your new fallowing here. This is a great army. I love the Rough Rider captain. I esspecially like the camo on Harkers ride. The way you spaced the tread armour, I will have to steal that someday. All of the kit attached to the tanks is awesome too. I get down on extra kit.

You've got great skill and speed. Great work!

Steal any ideas you want, inspiration often breeds ideas that push one single thought further, and I am inspired so often by other people on sites like dakka-dakka to be better at everything I do.

Shadowbrand wrote:Just spent the last half hour looking over your work. Very -very- well done. It makes me want to get the ball rolling with my traitor guard project after my Beastmen.

The Guardsmen ridding the Jugger is one of the best things I've ever seen on this site.

Beastmen guard are very cool and seem pretty easy to get started on. I wouldn't mind perhaps some just as penal legion, since they're pretty bad-ass except for the weapon options of which there are none!

I've recently broken up with my girlfriend and as some very uncool side effect I had to give her back her camera which has done me so well all this time :(

I'll do my best to take photos of any worthy progress just to keep things moving forward but I apologise for all the pictures from this point on.

The base for the valk is going really well.

I tried to mess with imperial fists for the rhino panels but I just don't dig the yellow 400 layers thing that it does.


Skaven engineer has a pretty nice base now with some skeleton bits hanging around for the fun of it.

Also thought that this guys

base wasn't up to the extreme level he should be, I really should just take him off that rocky thing but it will be very risky with the work that's gone into the model so far to ruin him for a base.


A bit of everything, I've been putting pieces on the hands of the daemon slowly so he's not forgotten about but sculpting hands is a very difficult thing compared to the rest of the body.


"The bigger they are..."
I quite like this piece, I do think I will have a fair bit to fix up still, but the way I've done the base now gives it a cooler appearance I think, I wish I had a big base to put him on as an objective perhaps.... It might not be too late.

So that's all for now, I've been painting the chimeras and they are coming along very nicely, as are bits and pieces of the guard, but without a real camera there is no use on taking photos of small details.

I did use some of my blood paint mix to do the dripping eyes on this head and I am very pleased with the result.

Hope to have a big update for the tanks shortly so stay tuned!

omgitsduane wrote:The multiple project thing can be a bit daunting, but I am slowly trying to get things finished before moving on, but when you have 4000 other things that are cooler that need doing it gets difficult to budget the time between it.

You just described the entirety of my modeling life to date. What is *really* annoying to me is when something is awesome cool today and then not so much tomorrow so I wind up with yet another 1/2 started project.

But at the same time it's better to get a little work done on a lot of different things than no work done on anything because I'm completely burned out. Having experienced both I would always prefer the former. I think you having multiple projects open at the same time is not a bad thing at all.

I'll also say that you have given me an for a ruined dome ceiling. That is cool and on my list of projects to start and not finish.

I agree! I am getting frustrated too! I love every one of my blog readers to death, but sometimes they expect results that I just don't know how to deliver.

@ dsteingasss- What are you doing reading other threads? Why are you even on Dakka right now? WE DEMAND RESULTS! GET BACK TO WORK!

*throws a handful of 1/16 plastic rivets at dsteingass*

haha! Yeah yeah, it's friday, I'm still at work, and the clock just isn't ticking.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

omgitsduane wrote:The multiple project thing can be a bit daunting, but I am slowly trying to get things finished before moving on, but when you have 4000 other things that are cooler that need doing it gets difficult to budget the time between it.

You just described the entirety of my modeling life to date. What is *really* annoying to me is when something is awesome cool today and then not so much tomorrow so I wind up with yet another 1/2 started project.

But at the same time it's better to get a little work done on a lot of different things than no work done on anything because I'm completely burned out. Having experienced both I would always prefer the former. I think you having multiple projects open at the same time is not a bad thing at all.

I'll also say that you have given me an for a ruined dome ceiling. That is cool and on my list of projects to start and not finish.

Glad I can inspire with some of my many failed projects and the few of my finished ones!

dsteingass wrote:I agree! I am getting frustrated too! I love every one of my blog readers to death, but sometimes they expect results that I just don't know how to deliver.

I have never been a great painter, thats why my chaos marines were black with silver trim, and even then I was very bad at painting it ha.
I don't like having to show my progress on here if the progress looks terrible and thats where painting lets me down, but I'm getting a lot better slowly thanks to all my practise pieces.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:@ dsteingasss- What are you doing reading other threads? Why are you even on Dakka right now? WE DEMAND RESULTS! GET BACK TO WORK!

*throws a handful of 1/16 plastic rivets at dsteingass*

SLAVE DRIVER

dsteingass wrote:haha! Yeah yeah, it's friday, I'm still at work, and the clock just isn't ticking.

I was in bed practically painting all day inbetween movies and tv shows I've been watching, and I got myself up to abouuuut here.

I had some good reference photos (ALWAYS A MUST) and a bit of time to prepare and choose colors I thought would be good for the pattern and I got to work. It did take quite a few nice layers of bleached bone before I got solid color in some areas but I am super excited with the result. I have another layer of a dark green to add and then it's finished camouflage wise, I of course need to start the wear and tear, the silver parts, and then the shrubs.
The backside.

I also got around to a LIIIIIITTLE painting on the other chimeras.


They're coming along very nicely too, but harkers one get priority at the moment.


The turrets are waiting for primer, my can ran out the other day so hopefully today I can get a dash of the undercoat on them to start painting.




I might finish this tomorrow if I have time too, the base only needs probably a few rocks and some detail on the terminator but otherwise its perfect.

And lastly....

The mighty basilisk.
I was hoping to convert or work out conversions that would modify them from artillery to artillery piece, but in the end I can just get away with count as for most of them and then I'll have working army options sooner.

I lengthened the barrels slightly with some plasticard rod I just so happened to have that fit very nice around the old barrel, snipped off one of the plates as well as you can see, an idea I borrowed from another guard blog.
I did however, have to cut the bottoms of both plates in order to fit them over the tread panels but you live and learn ey?

Nice models, dead Terminator and gigantic greater deamon. Im loving this thread!

Dood! I REALLY like that camo pattern and leaves. That is a great look!

The Epic Chaosdude!!! wrote:Nice models, dead Terminator and gigantic greater deamon. Im loving this thread!

Thanks for looking. Comments make my day!

dsteingass wrote:Dood! I REALLY like that camo pattern and leaves. That is a great look!

I'm not looking forward to painting the leaves though...


I added an arm to the side as opposed to the cut-off one.







So besides the handle for the hatch, I think both basilisks are finished

I like the Baslisk with the very comfy new waistband!

I don't know what you're referring to haha. :s Sorry.
Painting my renegade veterans most of the day, bits and pieces in-between working on the basilisk, I also got around to painting the turrets for each of the 3 chimeras.




This guy is easily my favourite I think.

And this is a close 2nd.

I've got some thinking to do on how I'll go about high-lighting certain bits here and there as I don't have any good, or even decent brushes really left. But all the highlights and washes I did today really helped, I just wish I had a camera that could show the work ha.

Fear not man, those are looking badass! You definately converted, posed, and based them well enough that they actually look like renegade Guard rather than red-wearing Cadians. Great Job!