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The dreadnought is really nice I love the GS work on the front, just amazing.

The Snake Prince is really nice as well, where did the head come from if you don't mind me asking.

Thanks for the compliments!

Yggdrasil wrote:

Please don't spoil it with "rough" casualties on the base, it deserves some perfect basing!!

Can you be more precise? Do you think I should abbandon the crippled marine, or that it's ok as long as I don't turn the base to a slaughterhouse?

GiraffeX wrote:The dreadnought is really nice I love the GS work on the front, just amazing.

The Snake Prince is really nice as well, where did the head come from if you don't mind me asking.

The head is from Rackham's Abberation Prime kit.

I'm still considering several possibilites for the Prince's base, the most interesting one implies magnets and two victims.

A la prochaine!

Joe

DP is awesome! This here has inspired me to make my DP (using the DP and GK kits, once I get them...) Better (and bigger, although I don't think that is possible if I include the length of that MASSIVE tail...)

Heheheh that prince looks like hes gonna NOM that poor marine, looking good HJ

Thank you guys!

So, here's what i have in mind so far: The RT era crippled marine (placed as in the previous pics) and a second marine with a mpissing arm, still standing up with the support of a pillar (or a small piece of wall) and raising his bolter in the direction of the Prince. Both would be magnetised on the base to be removed and used as separate objective markers for my Dark Angels Army. I'll work the base with plasticard small slate bits and sand, strong magnets will be placed under the base. I'll try to wor'k this out this week end, but I also have to work on my Heretek and my TS termies first.

Cheers!

Joe

That sounds awsome
May I suggest quietly that if you added two more "Bits" of marine floating about then you could use them as the DP's wounds? IE take one of when he loses one. or actually scratch that you only need one more, one for each wound then him for the final bit.

Wow... that sounds awesome.

The conversions are fantastic. I love all the arrows on the Tzeench dread. That's a real nice use of standard chaos bits to more adequately represent Tzeench. Very cool.

I have to side with Yggs. That's a beautiful DP, you should give it a beautiful base. Heck, I'll BUILD you a base, if you want!

--Brian

Lol be careful not to get the magnet polarities mixed up or you'll get levitating dead marines............... hmmm that would be a neat trick.

Sorry I was a bit vague...

What I mean is that most of the time, the "casualties" on large bases / scenerey end up screwing the whole piece, due to :
- models not being "poseable" as lying or prone, thus resulting in silly poses that don't look realistic at all ;
- an overzealous application of a bad recipe for blood ;
- the painter being "lazier" for them than for the rest of the mini.

So please only do this if it can emphasize the greatness of the Daemon!!!

Thanks for your comments guys.

The last two days and nights were really difficult ( my daughter was suffering from her growing teeth) I'll skip the details but to be honnest I look more or less like a living dead today (or at least like someone with a good hangover)
Yet, here's what I achieved to do during the rare moments of peace:




It's a first try, do you think I'm on the right way?

It is the right start.

tipios wrote:It is the right start.

+1 i think it looks excellent

Looking very very good, hes almost got that. "Omg did i just walk in on this?" look

Wow, there's some great stuff here - I'm a fan of the green stuff work, the dread and that Snake Prince is looking good too

That's probably the closest thing I've seen to a Marine wetting himself (in a good way - unless you're the Marine )

Thanks for sharing

I'm glad you like it!

After building this marine I felt the RT crippled marine was out of place, so I decided to build another one to place under the prince.
At this point I must say that my bitzbox must be linked to the warp, since random cool bits I had never noticed before regularly appears in it (it's the only logic explanation...or else it would mean I have gathered too much bits along the years to remember of all I have...no,it's probably the warp!)
Here's the result so far:





I'll give this new marine a bolt pistol (and a good amount of GS to hide all the cutting marks!)
I have also cut the half arch to avoid it to draw the eye from the tail claw ( and to get an easy ruin mood )
So what do you think?

Awesome...

The first marine is looking good, but not as if firing... Rather as if looking in pain & awe at him (which is also nice).

Second one looks more defiant, and much better than the RT one... Though it would've been better (IMHO) if he was less... vertical (?) in his pose ; that is, with the arm & gaze more at an angle, rather than directly up.
But that's just nitpicking of course, that looks awesome!

I like the way tou've done the new ones legs, but yeah try getting his arm pointing morw towards the torso of the dp!!

nice works as always, even with a teething baby in the background

GS'd eyes on the dread look great!

The paint on the 1kson term looks sweet as well, such a vibrant blue.

And the DP is brreathtaking, love the marines battling to the end, thats a great scene right there.

Keep it up!

I like that scene. It looks really nice. The pose on the fallen space marine looks natural. Nice job.

"IM GONNA SHOOT YOU WITH MA FINGERRRRRRR"

Looking great HJ

Yggdrasil wrote: Awesome...

The first marine is looking good, but not as if firing... Rather as if looking in pain & awe at him (which is also nice).

Thank you! You're right he doesn't look as if firing, but I was missing a straight arm to try giving him a desperate heroic position, so I went this way. I'm glad you like it

Yggdrasil wrote:Second one looks more defiant, and much better than the RT one... Though it would've been better (IMHO) if he was less... vertical (?) in his pose ; that is, with the arm & gaze more at an angle, rather than directly up.
But that's just nitpicking of course, that looks awesome!

I see what you mean. I'll try to adjust this later (perhaps by repositioning the arm and working on some rubble under him it might work).

tipios wrote: I like the way tou've done the new ones legs, but yeah try getting his arm pointing morw towards the torso of the dp!!

Well for the test pics, I've mainly tried to avoid him to point his finger at the DPs Loincloth ("Hey Bob! you'll never gess what I can see from here!")
I'm glad you like the legs
-Hi! My name is Joe
-Hello Joe!
-It's been at least two weeks since I last bought bits for a conversion, while I have to make an awesome base for a DP...
-Clap! Clap! Clap!

tipios wrote:nice works as always, even with a teething baby in the background

Thanks (I still look as an extra in a Romero movie BTW)

Vitruvian XVII wrote:GS'd eyes on the dread look great!

The paint on the 1kson term looks sweet as well, such a vibrant blue.

And the DP is brreathtaking, love the marines battling to the end, thats a great scene right there.

Keep it up!

Thanks, I'll try to finish it as soon as possible

40k Ninja wrote:I like that scene. It looks really nice. The pose on the fallen space marine looks natural. Nice job.

Thanks, working on the SM legs to make something not too ridiculous is really a pain in the

Tyranic Marta wrote:"IM GONNA SHOOT YOU WITH MA FINGERRRRRRR"

Looking great HJ

"D'YA KNOW WHAT I CAN DO TO YA WITH THIS FINGAAAA?"
Sorry... I'm tired...Thanks you TM!

Gives a whole new meaning to "Digital Weapons"

-Hi! My name is Joe
-Hello Joe!
-It's been at least two weeks since I last bought bits for a conversion, while I have to make an awesome base for a DP...
-Clap! Clap! Clap!

Ok, time for a small update before I leave for nearly three weeks (holidays ! yay!!!)

For those who don't remember him, here's the one I'm talking about:

What you couldn't see on the pics I posted was that ther was absolutely nothing between his legs (no silly pun intended, I swear)
The legs being from the Aberation Prime kit and the torso from GWs DP kit I had to fill the junctions, so here's the latest thing I've done on the winged prince:

I will have to add some more GS to get a more homogenic result. I wish I could hide it with a lointcloth on both the front and back of the model (like on the Lord of Change) but a lointcloth wouldn't look good on this model (or to be more precise: I think it would break the dynamic and hide the legs which I want to be seen).

What do you guys think?

I've decided to dedicate it to my whole CSM legion: the Lost Prophets.

Please tell me that you have Shinobi & Dragon Ninja themed characters!??!?! That'd be so awesome

kitch102 wrote:

I've decided to dedicate it to my whole CSM legion: the Lost Prophets.

Please tell me that you have Shinobi & Dragon Ninja themed characters!??!?! That'd be so awesome

Err,sorry, but I don't get this one.

The Lost Prophets were a band around in the early 2000's that had one decent song called Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja. You're not missing much.
DP looks good. Nice job on the GS. I know what you mean about the loincloths. What if you did like a drape of chainmail? Or even plated armor that drapes like this:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/armor%20crotch/ibanag/Gundam/IMG_1934.jpg
Only thinner?

Moltar wrote:The Lost Prophets were a band around in the early 2000's that had one decent song called Shinobi Vs. Dragon Ninja. You're not missing much.
DP looks good. Nice job on the GS. I know what you mean about the loincloths. What if you did like a drape of chainmail? Or even plated armor that drapes like this:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/armor%20crotch/ibanag/Gundam/IMG_1934.jpg
Only thinner?

Damn you Moltar that was going to be my suggestion! Seriously though i agree, the cloth part of loincloth may not look great but if you modeled a piece of armor to look like his shoulder pieces (stylistically) and draped it from a hobby chain belt for example i think it would look pretty wicked.

Could we get a better shot of his sword and hand? I love the pose from what i can see, really powerful. I may steal it!

Thanks! The armor plates might be just what I was looking for.