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+ Assassin-Executioner Shiriku of the Ordo Sicarius +

+ Apprenticed to Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus, majored in the weapon-arts kenjutsu 'fencing' and tessenjutsu 'fighting with a fan' +

+ Image-capture here shows Shiriku poised in battle, wielding her tessen 'war-fan' and the katana named Tsukiakari o Kiru 'Cutting the Moonlight' +













Construction:

Link back to the WIP post where I detailed the first section of Shiriku's build: WIP Assassin-Executioner

The sharp-eyed reader will note that the original tessen was kit-bashed from the War Cry Cypher Lords Thrallmaster - but it became clear it was just too big, so I replaced it with the war-fan (and actual right hand) from Yvraine.

Then she sat on my building desk for a while, looking cool and all, but I kept hearing the Voice saying "Everyone else has a Knosso model with the same head..." 
And so I took off the front of her mask with a micro-saw, cut and sanded a Melusai head - the Melusai kit being my new go-to kit for female conversion bits! - to fit, glued it in... 
Took it out, sanded and cut some more, glued it back in... repeated this yet again until finally she had her new face!

Unfortunately I was seriously in the Zone when I did this, and didn't stop to take pics.

Painting:

Fresh off the tail end of painting the Witch Hunters - and with my oil experimental phase still in full swing - I tried to paint the Ordo Sicarius trio a little faster, but also wanted to paint the skin - especially the faces and eyes - a bit nicer than previous attempts.

To this end, for the face I went with a grey Tamiya primer sprayed 'zenithal' over black, then drybrushed GW Uthulan Grey; then I thinned my old pot of GW Elf Flesh down with Glaze Medium about 50/50, and laid two coats over the drybrushing - the Uthulan Grey has this weird effect where it pushes the glaze away, so already I had a nice skin tone, which was made even better with a pin-wash of 50/50 VJ Purple and Glaze medium into the shadows. I followed this up with some small highlights with mixed Schminke Titanium White and GW Elf Flesh, and in the end it came out pretty well, I think!

Did my usual trick of dry-brushing Leadbelcher on the metals, then laid down base coats of VJ Purple, VJ Deep Sea Blue, VJ Armour Brown and VJ Iraqi Sand, then finished off the acrylic stage with VJ Glorious Gold.

First oil stage was a Black oil wash and an Umber oil wash liberally applied, then dabbed back off with a cue-tip; the Dark Sea Blue areas were then re-washed with Black to gain shadows. Next I laid a thin coat of undiluted Purple oil on all the purple; successive stages were blending Black oil onto the purple areas for shades, and then Faded White for highlights.

When the oils were dry enough, gave the model a spray of Tamiya flat clear, then gained back some highlights on the steel and gold areas. Lastly I couldn't resist going back to some areas - the sword and the war-fan, for example - with Purple oil nuances, though I did try and tone it down a little.

Thanks for looking!

 

Wow - so many comments, much appreciated!

Malika2 wrote:The way you've painted that model really gives me a semi comic book vibe, which is really cool!

Thanks Malika2!

inmygravenimage wrote:The tessen (war fan) is inspired! Love her.

Thanks inmygravenimage!

Dr H wrote:Job's a good'un.

Cheers Dr H!

Boss Salvage wrote:Saw her on Instagram and was super impressed by the face, which I had to assume you had sculpted! The micro-surgery truth is plenty impressive too Great update and paint on a solid sculpt, credit on going farther to make her your own.

Thanks Boss Salvage!

youwashock wrote:She's gorgeous. Fantastic face swap, and a good call on the fan. I have always been a little iffy on the original face, so I consider this a vast improvement on the original.

Thanks youwasshock!

Captain Brown wrote:Exalted Lamby.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers CB!

OscarWao wrote:Fantastic figures. Truly inspiring!

Thanks OscarWao!

Viterbi wrote:Great job and I love the little bit of green on the front of the base to complement her purple armour! And you can never go wrong with bladed fans

Thanks Viterbi - the verdigris on the bronze always look good

monkeytroll wrote:Excellent work as always. Nicely put together, and really digging the base.

Cheers monkeytroll!

Alpharius wrote:Really nice work here, very atmospheric!

Quick question - what ruleset are you (or others) using for games of Inquisitor, Inquisimunda, etc.?

Thanks Alpharius! - tbh, at the moment; none... previously: Inquisimunda 2.0 http://inquisimunda.evinwijninga.com/rules



+ Assassin-Enforcer Alvya Arianhod of the Ordo Sicarius +

+ Apprenticed to Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus, majored in Application of Imperial Law (Arbites Enforcer equivalency) and swordsmanship, sub-specialising in a dual-wield fighting system of unknown origin +

+ Image-capture here shows Alvya wielding twin sabres, her preferred weapon system; her blades are neither blessed nor energetic, as she prefers to rely on skill over power - though she wears a personal void-shield, since she is well aware skill won't stop a las-bolt  +















Construction:

Alvya consists of a repositioned pair of Harlequin legs; icon parts from the Dark Elves (Executioners or maybe Darkshards?) as greaves; a female Harlequin torso; a Dark Elves head with some hair refinement; a Harlequin rear torso and robe part, with added robe edges; an Admech power unit, slightly rearranged; and finally the arms from a Warcry Cypher Lords twin-sword Mirrorblade dude - with one of the swords cut apart and repositioned to match the reversed grip of the other.

Yet again, I was in the zone and didn't take any pictures of this build at all.

The base was a crazy idea that worked out in the end...

Painting:

Same recipe as the previous member of the Ordo Sicarius - except for her hair, which was just one GW Hawk Turquiose glaze over the drybrush of GW Uthalan Grey.

Painting this base was all kinds of fun, as I was getting into the grim dark swing of things with this second one - though it was a merely a warm-up for the previously sneak-previewed base of Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus!

Thanks for looking!

 

monkeytroll wrote:Nice posing! I"m betting a top down shot also looks good. Lovely build, great paint, and again, really loving the base.

youwashock wrote:Yup. That pose is cash money. You are just knocking these out of the park.

Cheers guys!


and lastly:

+ Assassin-Inquisitor Imadeus of the Ordo Sicarius +

+ Two centuries ago, Imadeus saw a need to her skills beyond her Ordo's delegated responsibility for monitoring the Ordo Assassinorum, and petitioned to pair with the Ordo Hereticus Witch Hunters to form a specialist team dedicated to the pursuit and termination of rogue Inquisitors +

+ Image-capture here shows her in action, armed with the consecrated Relic blade Thirst for the Blood of the Falling +













 

Construction:

Link back to the WIP posts where I detailed the construction of Imadeus:

A Return

The Undecided W][P

The only addition beyond these two WIPS was the sculpting of the left breast, and addition of the small reliquary.

Painting:

By this time I was pretty happy with the Sicarius paint recipe so her painting was pretty fast in comparison to the other two.

In fact, the longest part of painting her was the mask as it changed from steel to the bone, and her hair - the two tone-hair was actually a happy accident when I dipped my brush in the wrong pool of paint on my wet palette and without looking ran a big stroke through the lower section of her hair.

Thanks for looking!

 

 

 youwashock wrote:
Wow! She is impressive. Sweet use of parts. I like the little lights/gems on the train, and the base is fabulous.

Thanks!

A Darker Path
The completion of the Ordo Sicarius trio brings to a close my current series of Imperial Inquisitor retinues - as you might have noticed, these retinues are all linked across an organically-grown tale that has been forming over a seven years, since I wrote the vignette for The Brimstone Inquisitor and made the first mention of Inquisitor Kallatar - who then completely took over. I have the end in sight, planned and loosely written, however; to see her story completed - in both words and models - a change of pace is now necessary.

My modelling - as many of you have witnessed and commented on over the years - has been exacting and detailed and at times so strung out even I forgot where I was with certain characters; it has also - at times - become a very stressful thing for me; and a hobby should not be stressful.

Time to lower my too-high standards a little, to loosen up, to complete characters faster and to improve my painting as well - a somewhat paradoxical antithesis, but we all have dreams, right?

And so down a darker path we turn...

youwashock wrote:Ominous. And exciting.

monkeytroll wrote:Flashlights away, prepared for darkness....

Captain Brown wrote:Very nice Lamby.
Cheers,
CB

Thank you all!

Night W][tches - The Hoplite

Been mashing this first member of my dark Inq28 warband Night Witches: Daemons together for while - okay, nearly 6 months - the main effort of conversion was making the spear - which I showed back here: W][P - The Hoplite - and the shield arm, so here's some WIPS of that...

Took this Witch Elf arm and shield, and cut the shield down to just a rectangular nubbin (no pic):


Cut this plastic disc off an egg carrier thingy from a Dollar store:


Smeared it in Milliput paste...


And more milliput paste and Mr Surfacer 500 until it looked like this:


Then glued a rod to the back and stuck it in the Dremel, spun it and smoothed it with sandpaper:


Then I added a wet layer of GS/milliput mix to the back of it and pressed the Witch Elf arm with nubbin-of-shield into it, added good old Kroot shoulder armour to the shield arm to hide the crappy join, added a short-sword and some butt-armour made from chopping down Melusai waist-armour, finally scribed a rim into the shield and after a lot more sanding and scraping here she is, ready for paint:









Thanks for looking!

Llamahead wrote:Looks great wheres the helm from?

Thanks Llamahead - helm from Warcry Splintered Fang:
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Warcry-The-Splintered-Fang-2019

youwashock wrote:Ssssssslithery...Great model. The shield, while simple looking, is a slick bit of crafting. The helm and crest are perfect, and really solidify the idea for the character along with the weapon and shield.

Thanks youwasshock!

inmygravenimage wrote:These look ace. I was thinking about stuff to mix up with my DC Amazons; most cool.

Viterbi wrote:Very nice kitbash and great work creating shield and spear.

IGtR= wrote:Very nice work on her. Slick work on the shield, and your commitment to the detail is pretty dang impressive!

Dr H wrote:Nice work, Lamby.

Thanks to all above!!!


... In an instant I beheld uprisen
At once three hellish furies stain'd with blood:
in limb and motion feminine they seem'd;
Around them greenest hydras twisting roll'd
Their volumes; adders and cerastes crept
Instead of hair, and their fierce temples bound...

...Turn thyself round, and keep
Thy count'nance hid; for if the Gorgon dire
Be shown, and thou shouldst view it, thy return
Upwards would be for ever lost.

Dante's Inferno: Canto 9



Started the Medusa build in June 2016 apparently: Something Wicked This Way Comes...

She lingered in the 'to-do' pile for many, many months, occasionally having a bit added here and there, or a bit removed, or something sculpted - then torn off and redone.

I will give her this - she's persistent; when I started her I really had no idea where she was going to fit into my convoluted fluff.

Then this image came along:

Medusa - Unknown Artist

Add to this the emerging concept of the Night Witches and a way ahead for her construction revealed itself, and - just as important - a place for her in my story line.

And so here's Medusa:



Her torso, head, left arm, shoulder armour and most of her right arm are from the Bloodwrack Medusa.



I repositioned some of the smaller snakes, and then added the larger serpents that were cut from the Bloodwrack Medusa's weird snake-body and over many attempts were pinned, glued, re-glued, broken off, cursed at - one was even eaten by my cat! - re-pinned, re-glued and finally smoother over with milliput paste to get them to stay in position.



The legs are from either Dark Elf Witches or Dark Eldar, can't remember - probably one from each! The armoured waistband is from the ubiquitous donor Melusai kit - love that kit!


The skirt tails are two ribbon-thingys cut from Harlequin dancer legs, pinned and glued in under the waist armour



The right hand is again from a Dark Eldar or Dark Elf kit, with a brass wrist guard to hide and strengthen the join under it - original intention was to sculpt a copy of the Bloodwrack vambraces but in the spirit of  my new 'get on with it' modelling philosophy, I'll just leave it as is... probably.

The lower half of the spear is from probably an old Dark Elf kit and the lower bit being from the Skitarii kit - another stellar donor kit! The upper staff is brass tube, with a pin glued into the spear head from the ancient High Elf Prince and Noble kit - hopefully it helps sell the Greek mythology vibe these Night Witches seem to have going, anyway.

Thanks for looking!

Captain Brown wrote:That is another really challenging conversion Lamby.

CB

youwashock wrote:That's intense. Really cool build. Awesome concept, too. Like the biker sniper, this one does a good job capturing the inspiration of the original drawing.

aku-chan wrote:That's a great bit of converting!

Dr H wrote:Nice work on the snake lady. Looking good.

Mothsniper wrote:Really cool ordo!

Love the color scheme, posing, detail, and the story in the characters.
Damn solid solid work!

Mothsniper wrote:Just spend and hr or so going through all the pages.
Love the conversion work man! vacuum forming diy, brass work, and GS is inspirational!

Rogue Trader crew number four - Ratty the twist is my favorite. That may be due to the coolest gun GW has ever produced.

Thank you all - apologies for not posting sooner, however:







O][LS

Thought I'd try using just oils, thanks to the amazing video tutelage of James Wappel

Seriously James has more painting talent in one finger than I have entirely. He is also the King of OSL!
 
Still deployed away from the real hobby desk, but Amazon delivers!
 
Basic oil set (10 colors) and Odourless Mineral Spirits and some brushes all for under $40 and added a basic Stormcast set $20
Though whoever called these Easy-To-Build was having a laugh.
Had to cut the pins away and use glue to get rid of the awful gaps.
 
Chose a Beksinki painting for color palette inspiration.


Decided to try OSL for the first time as well .
Oh, and non-metallic metal too...
Basically just dived right in!

So this is the Stormcast from the Not-Easy-To-Build kit with about 4 hours in over two sessions. 
At this point I had to stop and let the oils dry, as I was stripping underlying layers trying to put new ones on.


Went back to him about 3 days later.
Struggled with the concept and execution of NMM, and added green on a whim into the shoulder pads.


Glazed over the original robes about three or four times before settling on this color, and didn't over blend I think?
Over-blending is what I did everywhere else on him! 
While I know you can get smooth blend transitions with oils, I like the slightly more 'painterly' look:


And the final result:


Notes:
- Struggled with keeping the yellow from turning green - not the best color choice for my first OSL attempt.
- NMM is not my game, and not something I really wanted to learn, but having no True Metal paints here this is my attempt.
- The speed of oils over acrylics is something James Wappel talks about a lot and he's correct - when you know what you're doing!
- Over-blending is a curse - the curse of the acrylics painter switching to oils is that we are used to jumping from color to color in a rush to wet blend
- Yes, yes, let the paint (hate) flow**... but you also have to really let oils sit and set for a while before going back at them 

All in all, a fun experiment and a great learning experience.



Thanks for looking!

** Star Wars reference for no real reason

inmygravenimage wrote:Looks good, I like the osl and the shoulders. I think your advice is very interesting; I'm still not sure I'll make the switch but lots to think about.

Thanks! - I must admit oils-only is difficult to master - these Stormcast are experimental painting only, trying techniques.

Tyranid Horde wrote:Wow, that hoplite snake is excellent, love that the shield is scratchbuilt and I really like your medusa too!

The ETB stormcast aren't the most satisfying kits to build, they do need a lot of snipping and gap filling to make them presentable, hence I avoid them in my pile of shame. Looks like you had a good time overall with oils, so far I only use my own for pin washing and weathering.

Thanks!
The ETB Stormcast are for experimental painting only, no intent to use these guys in my Inquisitor projects.
The oils were fun mostly though it is very frustrating when you go to add a brush stroke and it strips the underlying layer off back down to the primer.
I think my painting technique is more suited to an acrylic base coat, then enhance with oils - we shall see.

youwashock wrote:Nice to see something, even if it isn't one of the cool snake ladies. Oil experiments look good. Have fun!

Thanks! I'm still 11300 km from my snake ladies... so it was a good opportunity to experiment.
As for fun... well, see above

Thank you all!!!

O][Ls TOO...

Continuing the Oils-only adventure...

Another Beksinski inspiration for the palette:



This is Telaxia from Artisans Guild in 40mm scale.
Obviously my green (Viridian) got away from me and looks nothing like the Beksinski above:



Trying for that white-to-blue 'magic hands' glow and OSL effect, kept the rest pretty dark and loose:



She was painted primarily in one session of about 3 hours.

I had to go back in after it had all dried (about a week later) to fix the detailing in the face:



One thing I discovered is that Cadmium Yellow Hue - which is a faux cadmium - is not colour fast.
I highlighted the green, especially the face, with CYH but after a week it has almost disappeared. 

Any oil-experts out there want to chime in with where I might have gone wrong?

One of the other pearls of wisdom from James Wappel is:
"If a colour goes somewhere, it must go everywhere."
By which he means, everything reflects light (colour) from it's surroundings.
(FPOA from Ironsleet calls this 'mirror colors'.)
I tried it out, so there's hints of green on the spear facing away from the primary light source, the white 'magic hand'.

Apart from the CYH issue, another fun all-oils paint.

Also fun painting a non-GW figure at 40mm, allowed for using a bigger brush and thus a bit of a looser style.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
It's a very interesting piece. I think the work on the hand etc is excellent. The profile side looks amazing. I'm less sold on the green of the belly, it looks almost too consistent? I don't know if that's related to the cadmium issue though?

Thanks inmygravenimage!

That fethin green!!!

It was highlighted with yellow and when wet it looked fine,

But now - yes, the green has absorbed the yellow and become almost a flat colour, the only deviation is into the shadows where it blends into the pthalo blue.

I have thought about going another round on her but then decided just to post and move on to the next experiment.

Primary takeaway from this one - cadmium yellow hue fades into viridian green.

 youwashock wrote:
She's a pretty thing. Too bad about losing some of the contrast. Still, that blue glow looks very cool.

Thanks youwasshock!
- I think it's the Viridian soaking up the faux cadmium - but yes, I was not pleased.

However - onwards!

O][LS go Forth...

Skipping forth to number four model - number three was a disaster - in my Oils-only adventures.

Another Beksinki palette - burnt umber and the gold/yellow being the main inspiration:

You can see the yellow got away from me a little, it has come out too saturated (in comparison to the Beksinski).
For a gold NMM attempt - taking the failings of number three and adjusting my approach - it came out ok:



Limited the palette considerably - Burnt Umber, Cadmium Yellow Hue, Titanium White, and a tiny bit of Burnt Sienna.
Armour technique was simple: a Burnt Umber layer, left in the crevices and shadows and wiped away elsewhere with sponge/q-tip; then white wet-in wet:





Added the Cad yellow over the Burnt Umber wet-in-wet, then deliberately stopped after 2 hours painting.
Waited a week or more before going back in with the white, as the first layer was streaky:



And then another week later, went back with the Cad yellow (mixed with White) to highlight the gold.
Then Burnt Sienna into the the gold 'shadows' to make it more 'gold' and less dirty-looking. 
Finally, a Burnt Umber very dry scumble to regain some of the nuanced shades lost in my over exuberant White layering:



All up, I would say white armour with oils was more enjoyable and far quicker than with acrylics. 
(Though I would use a lighter primer next time.)

Another fun oils-only paint (we shall not speak of number 3!) on my hike up the learning curve!

Thanks for looking!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Test 3 and 4 are pretty great in my opinion, I know you didn't achieve the look you were going for on number 3 but I've always found a green tone to be difficult to blend up to yellow. I've always found that you need a lot of yellow to change the tone of green, even for acrylics.

Number 4 looks great, I like the tones and textures you've achieved. Have you tried the spot technique at all yet? If you wanted smoother results, spotting colours and blending them would be a nice way to unify a scheme, which is what I've done for added weathering over different colours.

Keep it up!

Thanks Tyranid Horde!
- my basic mistake (I've come to realise) was wet-blending the yellow oils over the green - basically the still-wet (for five days) green oil paint just absorbs the yellow.
- I've utilised the 'spot technique' a little for weathering, but not on these models, it's all wet-in-wet.

inmygravenimage wrote:I like this, the armour tones more than the yellows. I think maybe they need thinned out to white?

Thanks inmygravenimage!
- you're probably right, but I'm determined to move forward rather than keep revisiting these experiments

Speaking of...



O][LS Continue...

Onto another Oils-Only paint...

Choose this color palette (image used without permission) - (NO YELLOW!):



To use on the smallest model so far attempted - the Siren from Creature Caster.



Had to mod her a little - ditched the claw-arm-dagger-bone things completely.
And the shoulder armour...
And the cloak parts...
And added some extra hair to cover things up a bit.



Went for a limited palette of Pthalo Blue, Burnt Umber, Cadmium Red and Titanium white:



As per the reference image, it's a two-light source mood piece - 
Dim red light (almost blood-like) coming from top left down onto her face.
A more diffuse white/blue source off to her right.



Red kept to one side only to try to emphasise the dark side vs the lighter side



Wanted the red side to have very dark purple (hard to see in pics) to red (light) and blue (shadows) transitions:



Attempted to really up the contrast a little on the left side, as contrast is something I struggle with in my painting.


Another fun oils-only experiment on a model I would not normally paint.

Thanks for looking!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Very impressive, especially in the reds and the overlap. Still think the top notes of the white/blue-white could do with being sharper (again) - but way better than anything I could achieve!

Thanks inmygravenimage!
Appreciate the C+C - still higher contrast required, I agree!

 youwashock wrote:
Stormcast has a wonderful painterly, aged quality. Not-quite-a-daemonette-but-close looks great in the red/blue.

Thanks youwasshock!
I think the white armour will be the scheme for the next phase of my Inquisitor project.

Meanwhile:



W][P - Wurmspat

Since I'm on the move heading back to Australia (and into quarantine) following this long deployment, my Oils-Only painting experiments are on hold.

Amazon delivered the Wurmspat kit just days before my departure.

Not sure if the trio will be a one-off display unit painted in oils, or painted up as Wretched Sons (acrylics), or added to my Inquisitor project...

Anyway, here's a little WIP of some minor conversions on the spear-dude so far.



Cut down on the fat rolls around the legs, neck and arms, filled in the hooves, and removed the ghastly horns from the shoulder pads (just not my style)
I may yet cover over the Nurgle symbol on the abdomen plate, still undecided.



The top-knot is being converted into more of a Grecian-style helm crest.
Chopped away the wooden branch that was the spear haft - later I'll add a brass tube over the stand-in paperclip section.



The main section to be sculpted will be the rear tabard section where I removed his hideous case of haemorrhoids.

Thanks for looking!

inmygravenimage wrote:Interesting to see your take on this!

Cheers inmygravenimage!

IGtR= wrote:oooh, interested to see your take on this gang. Again, the nurgle models providing the basis for some awesome convervsions. Just like the good old days of my first discovery of Inq28! V excited to see this one develop...

Thanks for sharing

Thanks IGtR!

Hopefully this update won't disappoint

W][P - Wurmspat 2
 
Quarantine - so plenty of time for (re)learning how to sculpt!
 
Decided these three deserve to be a solo project, not part of any of my pre-existng warbands. 
 
Set some build parameters - can only do the conversion work with what I have with me.
Which is: greenstuff, milliput and Apoxie Sculpt; some paperclips; and no bits to kitbash with! 
(Caveat - may have to use brass tube for the weapon hafts when I get them home.)
 
First up, Stabby: 
 
Filled in the belly symbol, cleaned up the legs where I scraped away fat rolls.
Sculpted the 'shark-fin' ridge on the armour (any ideas what that's called?)
It's still wet in this pic, and too fat, and too high - needs to be refined by much sanding and scraping. 
Sculpting medium was a 50/50 GS and milliput mix:
  

 
Next two pics show the sculpted skirt to cover the haemorrhoid surgery previously done. 
Two sculpting sessions, the first being straight GS to build the underlying 'scaffold'.
Which then allowed me to sculpt the ragged detail in using GS/milliput without it collapsing. 
 

 
Needs a decent sandpaper/file to even out the rougher parts.
That's why I use the GS/milliput mix, as it dries hard instead of rubbery-hard like straight GS:
 

 
And so, onto Bob.
 
Originally, Bob was just going to get slimmed down a little, but he kind of got away from me... 
Filled in the gut(s) and third eye hole with milliput (smoothed with water it leaves no tide marks).
Enhanced the vambraces (you can see the right one here) with GS/milliput.
Added the start of the plume to the helmet using cut-n-carved sprue:
 

 
Added another ridge to the shoulder armour.
Not sure if I'm going to add the 'stop-the-axe-sliding-off-the-armour-into-my-neck' bit...
(Seriously, that part must have a name, right?) 
Went over the arm-band that had been damaged by exuberant knifing during his weight-loss session... 
The more I look at it, the more I think that might get re-sculpted into more of a metal torc:
 

 
Removed the head-with-worms that was sitting on top of that lower skull.
Re-sculpted the skirt section - there's a plan in play for how that skull hangs...
 

 
And so, onto Margo. Yes, she will have a head...
First thing was to get her on a bit of a fitness regime to lose the gut.
She also had a bit of a boob-reduction, especially under the right arm where it looked like she had a third boob.
(Did she have a third boob?)
Re-sculpted the front of the skirt - unfortunately, I did this with straight GS.
Started to add to the shawl, using GS/milliput rolled flat onto foil strips (cut from Chobani yoghurt lids!):
 

 
Cut the tentacle off before I broke it, in case you were wondering... 
Went a bit over the top on the shawl - the black stuff is BSI CA glue. 
The curled shawl 'tail' hanging over the shoulder-sack will haunt me for the rest of my days...
 

 
Last two sections of shawl tails done.
Actually, the darker green on the right of image is the first section I did after the front skirt, in GS only.
The section coming from under the pauldron had to be curved just so, to fit the little karambit knife she carries into its original nodes:
 

 
Getting down to finer and finer details on all three now.
Next up, sculpting chains, more armour detailing, maybe some fur, and possibly even a skull!
 
Thanks for looking!

 Boss Salvage wrote:
I really enjoy when people clean up or dial back these modern Nurgle minis, and you are crushing these three. Excited to watch the progress, particularly when paint pulls all those shades of green together.

Also on the armor, that shoulder ridge might be called a 'stop rib' (https://64.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m19g1fs8YP1r49ix5o4_1280.gif) (https://www.shadowedrealm.com/medieval-glossary/term/Stop_Rib), just madly exaggerated for heroic fantasy purposes.

O Thanks Boss Salvage!

I'm not a fan of the more modern trend of over-the-top Nurglisation or Chaosification.
(I'm looking at you, excessive-and-tedious-to-paint Chaos armour trim!)

And thanks also for the armour glossary, I googled it but didn't equate that nomenclature 'stop-rib' to the actual part until you provided the glossary link.

Rather liked my term 'stop-the-axe-sliding-off-the-armour-into-my-neck' ...

Cheers!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I'm enjoying the low-key nurglification too. If nothing else, it's interesting to see how to go about modifying the monopose with tentacular explosion (which, tbh, is usually my approach). Great job!

Cheers inmygravenimage!

There may some more tentacle action on the horizon...

 Tyranid Horde wrote:
Very nicely done with the denurglification of the Wurmspat, I always found the newer nurgle stuff to be a little over the top too and I prefer more down to earth or grittier rot and decay.

Keep it up, keen to see what's next!

Thanks Tyranid Horde!

W][P - WURMSPAT 3a

Trying a new format for posting - makes it easier to post to all platforms.






















Margo requires a little more work so she will feature in W][P Part 3B, hopefully soonish.

Thanks for looking!

inmygravenimage wrote:Outstanding. Your comment about chains made me lol - and I certainly don't disagree The crests are, at a push, my favourite parts, along with the axe haft and nipple ring. And the chains, of course.

Thanks inmygravenimage!
O those fething chains... this is why jeweller's chain was invented!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Awesome bit of sculpting going on. The headcrests are brilliant.

Thanks Tyranid Horde!

youwashock wrote:Great builds, Lamby. Always impressed by your meticulous process.

Thanks youwasshock!



W][P - WURMSPAT 3B

And - as promised - here's Margo the Witch Queen.
Including all the robe/shawl work, there was a similar amount of conversion work on her as Bob...
No chains though!











Thanks for looking!

+ BYRN +


Another long hiatus between posts, life gets in the way sometimes as we all know too well.

So, new house, new hobby area, and a new Inqu][sitor character – Byrn!









Ms Byrn is first of a new Imperial warband joining the pursuit of the heretical Inquisitor Kallatar…

Thanks for looking!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Great kitbash! Very characterful.

youwashock wrote:That's sweet. Ready to turn n' burn.

Two Spartan wrote:Nice conversions! Margo looks especially incredible, the hair and crown really sell the witch queen vibe.

IGtR= wrote:Love the take on the BSF flamer - I love the original model, but always awesome to see a piece one likes converted to something equally (or more, as in this case) awesome!

Thanks for sharing

Thanks all!





+PAYN+

Heavy war machine rider Payn joins the (as yet undecided) new Inquisitorial warband alongside Byrn.

Basic Ambot build, added some Dreadnaught shin armour, a few extra tech bits here and there – including the Primaris Aggressor weapon on the left arm.

Lastly, cut open the top and jammed a Witch Elf body in there.







Thanks for looking!

(And another random Beksinski for added grimdark...)

 youwashock wrote:
I love her. Knight Sabre on steroids.

Thanks youwasshock!




+ SYN +



Hitched myself to the @28mag Female Space Marine project bandwagon.

Sister Syn is the result:













Final image shows added melta-bomb-bearing Cherub...



Still unsure if the nasty little thing will be included in the final presento - Thoughts?

 Tim the Biovore wrote:
Looks brilliant. I'd definitely keep the cherub. It balances the length of the weapon, and frames her face as the centre of the model. Gives the whole piece a nice S-shaped flow too.

Thank you Tim the Biovore!





+ DYCE +

The axe lady commeth... here's Dyce.
She's destined for part of the new Inquisitor crew along with the previous three ladies.
Primarily built from the Necromunda Escher chem-thrower body.
Removed the belt and mini-tabard completely, rebuilt the rim of the armour-bra, and added some extra armour sections to both front and back.
Both forearms are from Sisters of Silence, the axe arm upper is a Melusai part, as is the hand; the weapon arm upper is Apoxie Sculpt with a SoS pauldron that's been cut down a fraction.
The weapon was a re-build of the Admech Sicarian flechette-blaster; the axe head is from an old Dark Elf Blackguard kit, with an Admech part thrown in to tech it up a bit.













Thanks for looking!

Bencyclopedia wrote:
Hi Lamby, I just wanted to say that I think you conversion work is really fantastic. Very inspirational!

I really look forward to seeing more.

Thanks Bencyclopedia!

aku-chan wrote:Once again, an amazing bit of kit-bashing!

SmallChanges wrote:That's an awful lot of work you've put in to shaving down the body, but it all comes together really well (not the easiest thing to do with such a large weapon).

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Beautiful conversions. Dyce looks chopped up and reassembled something fierce. I can only imagine how much work you put into it.

Thanks All!!!



+ The Harpy +

A new addition to join the Titans horde - the Harpy.

Made primarily from a Warcry Chaotic Beasts Fury body with a Melusai torso to feminise the Fury.
Cut and re-positioned the Dark Eldar Scourge legs into the aggressive posture.
Shield and right fore-arm are from a Warcry Spire Tyrants Pit Veteran.

Left arm and hook-knife from a Daughters of Khaine Khinerai Life Taker.
To tie her into the serpent theme of the Titans she has the snakey Daughters of Khaine Melusai Blood Sisters helmet.
The neck was sculpted from Apoxie Sculpt and the hair sculpted from  greenstuff/milliput mix.













Probably needs some more detailing on the strap-to-armour connection... 
Also might change the tail out, might not.
Until then, thanks for looking!

inmygravenimage wrote:That's very cool indeed
Great job!

youwashock wrote:Three lovely ladies. Always amazing work here. Syn is particularly awesome.

Thanks guys, appreciate the comments!

THREE W][Ps

Been in quarantine for the past 14 days, and luckily I had some of my sculpting and modelling kit with me.

Though nothing is completed - as is usual for me - here's three of my current projects.

W][P the First - the Archer

She started life as this model I randomly found on Amazon about a year ago: 



Unfortunately, the horse section was badly miscast - actually, most of the model was pretty poor - so I decided to turn her into a bust as a modelling and painting exercise.

Also unfortunately, at some point I appear to have lost the hair sections.

So some armour repair and and an attempt to sculpt her flowing locks brought us to this:


Sculpting repairs to the side armour panels in my usual Greenstuff/Milliput mix.


The black stuff is Madworks thin superglue, it self-levels as it dries so it makes a decent gap filler.
Over this I will use Mr Surfacer 500 to get a uniform surface.


The quiver texture was just awful, here I'm about halfway thru smoothing it down before I add some detailing.


And the hair... Mmm... Not so sure the hair has been a success.


W][P the Second - the Baron Not-Harkonnen

The image of Stellan Skarsgard's Baron Vladimir Harkonnen rising on his suspensors in the Dune trailer immediately set the creative juices a-flow... just like the spice.

BNH started life from two main sections from two different models.

The upper torso and head of this Nurgle Writher-thingy (and the tentacle arm is around here somewhere...):


And the Death Guard Foetid Bloat-Drone tendrils:



So with some cutting and glueing and pinning and more glueing and a fair amount of Greenstuff I've reached this point:


The Baron Not-Harkonnen rising...


The lower section of his belly and the support pole will be covered in robes.


Cut the cable/tentacle section free from the upper bit, and reversed it to make a power module that’s embedded into him.


Added a bunch of random cables and bits to fill it out.


And finally: 

W][P the Third - A new Femme Space Marine on the table - Sister Wrath:



Similar to Sister Sin, she will be made primarily from a female a Stormcast body.

So far I've just made her shoulder plate and her sword.

The sword is mixed-media - wire, brass, white metal, plastic part and styrene sheet
And built from scratch, since I broke the Warcry Cypher Lords blade I had brought with me for the task... 

Thanks for looking!

IGtR= wrote:As ever, I am simply in awe of your prodigious output! Female marines are great, and love to see that female Stormcast get a new take - there are so many cracking versions out there. Truly the modern nurgle warrior of Inq28 years past
Thanks for sharing

Thanks IGtR - and yes, that old Nurgle Lord must be close to the most-converted miniature of all time

youwashock wrote:BNH is already an amazing piece.

Thanks youwashock!

Malika2 wrote:Scary stuff as always!

Thanks Malika2!



+
Complete redo on sculpting the hair, now primed and ready for painting.
+













Thanks for looking!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Resculpt is flawless. Kudos.

Thanks inmygravenimage!




The BANNERMAN

Been over a year since I built the Bannerman, finally painted him up.
Used a few Vallejo acrylic colors as washes to get a tint of rusty brown and green, then oils over the top.
Mostly a Zorn palette - White, Black, Cadmium Red and Yellow Ochre - with added Pthalo Blue and Olive Green.
Did the metallics with Scale 75 Silver and Bronze acrylic, after the oils dried.
The blue/green palette was initially inspired by this Beksinski piece:






















Thanks for looking!