What's on Insaniak's workbench - All good things must come to an end...

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**LunaHound**

Larger pics pls? its so hard to see tiny pics

**Gitsplitta**

I like it... kind of a greenish gray. I can't tell, is that NMM or MM?

**LunaHound**

Im guessing its dry brushed bolt gun metal, washed with black, and then some mithril silver

**insaniak**

Gitsplitta wrote:I like it... kind of a greenish gray. I can't tell, is that NMM or MM?

Not sure where the green's coming from, unless the colour balance on my monitor is more whacked out than I realised

So far, it's just boltgun metal washed with black ink. I needed something that was going to look reasonable with minimal effort, but that could still be prettied up on the characters... metalics are the best option there.

**LunaHound**

insaniak wrote:
Gitsplitta wrote:I like it... kind of a greenish gray. I can't tell, is that NMM or MM?

Not sure where the green's coming from, unless the colour balance on my monitor is more whacked out than I realised

So far, it's just boltgun metal washed with black ink. I needed something that was going to look reasonable with minimal effort, but that could still be prettied up on the characters... metalics are the best option there.

Yay im accurate \o/

**insaniak**

Not quite... it's not drybrushed

**LunaHound**

What unit and load out is the Space wolf guy?
I have yet used any of those axes and arms, probably should?

**insaniak**

He's a Grey Hunter. I'll be using a similar pack marking system to regular Space Wolves, although all will be on a red shoulder pad... yellow markings for Blood Claws, grey for Grey Hunters, white for Long Fangs and black for Wolf Guard.

As much as possible, I want to use two-handed axes for close combat weapons, so he has a wrist-mounted bolt pistol to free up his left hand. For Grey Hunters, I'm considering the idea of having a bolt pistol on each arm to represent their bolter, to get around the need to put pistol, CCW and bolter all on the same model.

**LunaHound**

Ooo like those Grey Knights?

**Gitsplitta**

Green might be due to the mould between my ears.

**Lord of Caliban**

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**Dysartes**

Good to see this thead back up and running, insaniak.

Is it just me, or does that middle plague demon look a bit like Chewbacca?

**insaniak**

The problem with leaving stuff sitting around for a year or two without finishing it off is that when you go back to it, you see things that you could have done better...

I dusted off the trio of Ultramarine characters that I started working on some time ago, and wound up replacing a little detail on the Captain. His chest icon was a little wonky, so I ripped it off and replaced it, and the eagle on his left shin was frankly quite terrible. So it also came off, and was replaced. I also started adding the icons on the bottom of his loincloth straps, and roughly fleshed out the fingers on the right hand powerfist.

Meanwhile, the Librarian gained a psychic hood, and some icons on his legs:

For the curious, once they're finished, these guys will be destined for the UTC online store, along with a bunch of other conversions that I am currently working on.

**Farty Wiffmas**

The psychic hood is great and the level of gs sculpting on these two (and the rest in this blog!) is just mindblowing. Keep up the good work!

**whalemusic360**

UTC online store? I was unaware of such a thing previously.

**insaniak**

A little more work on my Khornate Champion/Lord/Whatever...

Added iron sights and a new (properly centred) muzzle to the bolter, started adding some toothey trim to the armour plates, and ripped off the axe head as it wasn't working for me... I have an idea for that weapon that should be a lot more fun...

This is another model destined for the store. Watch this space for updates.

**insaniak**

A little more detail work on the Captain:

**insaniak**

Some detail work on the Chaplain:

**The Good Green**

They are looking great, insaniak. I really like the chaplains mask. Your GS skills are impeccable.

**insaniak**

A little more detail work on the Captain:

**insaniak**

And the Captain is done...

I wound up swapping the Ultramarines badge from the left to the right powerfist, so that it wasn't on the same side as the chapter badge on his shoulder pad.

After that, it was down to a little final detail work, and the end result was this:

JB

As always, your green stuff work is super impressive!

Thanks too for the GS tutorials that you have posted previously in the Tutorials Section.

**Dysartes**

Mini-Marneus looks cool, Insaniak - how's the Chaplain coming along?

**insaniak**

Chaplain has had some of the old detail removed (the aquila on his leg was worse than the one on the Captain

) and has gone into the re-detailing stage. I'll be working on him and a Librarian over the next few days, along with another slightly secret little project...

**ishkatar**

That's a lot of marvelous stuff! The Exo-scouts are fantastic!
I'm a bit late on the thread, but will follow it for sure.

**insaniak**

Some more detail work on the Ultramarines Chaplain.

I'm finally happy with the third attempt on the Aquila on his leg. Started in on purity seals and pouches and the like.

**Flachzange**

Impressive work Insaniak!
I really dig the stoic pose on the captain!

Another bunch of wicked, cool looking conversions! Thanks for sharing/bringin the thread back!

**neil101**

This is a great blog , just read up on it all , loads of impressive and original sculpts and conversions, i think i like the stern-guard the most , but that flying nid is damn EPIC !

**insaniak**

There's been a bit of a lag in updates, as I had to take a break from the ongoing conversion work to build my brother a 40th birthday present, which I obviously couldn't show off until I gave it to him...

So, this is what I've been frantically working on for the last couple of weeks: A Venerable Dreadnought for the fledgling 'Set's Chosen' Space Marine Chapter:

Built from a modified Dreadnought sarcophagus, with shortened Sentinel legs and a little plasticard and putty. The weapons are magnetised so that we can add variants later.

You can find a composite picture with other views in the Dakka gallery here, and also in the Under The Couch gallery here.

**Dysartes**

Looking good, insaniak - and it would have to default to a Rifleman, wouldn't it