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Just bought the Infinity Rulebook (wanted the fluff) so i am taking it to work when i get it and i dont care if i get funny looks...

On Topic, get your paint on!

Lol, cool man I havn't seen the rulebook yet but I hear it is worth it for the backstory and the art is great.

As for paint I have kind of got sidetracked......

... I spent today converting and sculpting 3 Nurgle Termies out of AoBR termies, plan on adding them as an "allied" unit to the Chaos Marine Blackhands

Going for a dirty white scheme so far and will get pics up soon...

,,, really Sir, I promise!


Speaking of the Chaos Marine Blackhands I am running a 500 pt version of them in our next Combat Patrol Tournament (My friend and I run a combat patrol tourney every 2 months out our local club, trying to give something fun to do for the kids without a huge collection of figs) and it forced me to finally paint my Reaper Autocannon Havocs, will get some pics up of them at some point........

... no really, I'll do it!

*slitted eyes*

hmmm, we shall see, and there will be consequences if there is no delivery....

on the other hadn, having seen your sculpts/conversions before, im looking forward to seeing how those Nurgle Termies come along! Dirty white eh? sounds like primer to me....

Awww the Combat Patrol Tournies sound like an excellent idea!

glad to see the Chaos Marine Blackhands havent been forgotten.

as a side note: no rush on the painting mate, i know you are putting 40k on the backburner in favour of family time, you have no complaints from me (honest) about that. And im really excited about the rulebook now, hoping to dive into the fluff and (finally) understand what people are talking about

Ok so my week of Nurgle Distraction is nearly over... I hope....there are currently some ideas for a Nurgle Daemon Prince percolating but I am almost over Nurglyflying things for the time being.

Heres a painted shot of my three Nurgle Termies, I am currently waiting for a Reaper AC to arrive from Ebay. I have also magnetised all the arms so I can play around with loadouts a bit. Oh and yeah I changed the Paint scheme to a classic green, am still thinking of a secondary colour to add to the shoulderpads, may end up just adding a dark angels green or black.



And here are some WIP pics of the conversion work I did

















I later went over them with a drillbit and knife blade to add some corrosion, felt weird to trash models like this but the result is pretty nice







And here are the nine Plaguemarines I put together, they are mostly made up of Loyalist Marine bits, just a few CSM arms and backpacks, I like to think of them as Renegades rather than original Deathguard Marines, slowly being corrupted and replacing broken and damaged gear with CSM parts.

Again mainly just drillbit corrosion and a couple of Plague Blisters per marine and something special on every backpack like the spore chimneys or a bit of guitar string pipeing to the chest.

Oh and I sculpted a Nurgle Fly shoulderpad and cut down a Nurgle Champ pad and cast them ( 8 cast in a night!! so boring) so they all have resin pads,






I ran out of marine bodies, hence only 9 marines but as these guys are third hand, have have been stripped at least twice and still came out ok (Nurgle doesn't mind old bits) I figure I will be able to track down enough parts eventually.

Oh and just because I was happy to finally lay down some paint on them ( not that the Blackhand scheme is especially taxing ) here are my four AC Havoks



C&C always welcome

Cheers,

Blackhand

Very fine work my friend! Great update!

Thanks Gits, what do you think about adding a background colour to the shoulderpads? the more I think about it the more I want to add a heavily washed Dark Angel green, dark enough to look black in most places with the green showing through in the centre

I think that sounds like a good idea with the pad colours. I love those nurgle chappies, they're a great balance between addition detail and the original models. Don't get me wrong, I love a pustule covered, rotting plague marine as much as the next guy, but sometimes less is more.
Also the BLACKHAND devestators are looking great. I do love a mk 4 helmet on a fella!

Yeah I really like the Nurgle themes of corruption, corrosion and eruption of blisters...but kinda dislike the whole bloated fat thing so decided to build my own.

Plus the whole 10 man squad has cost just the price of the two plasmaguns and the GS, which I already owned, and bit of bits trading... you know, instead of $85 for 7 Finecast Plaguemarines.

Was a difficult choice as you can imagine

Those Marines look great!

Sick as in sick in the head?

Either dark green or a kind of leathery brown would work well I think.

@Matt Kingsley - Thanks!

@Miss Dee - Well... my friends call me the Joy Vampire due to the jokes I tell, funny at first then everyone realises they are laughing about something horrible .. one of my workmates once described me as a Narcissistic Sociopath, I objected as I am far two awesome to be narcissistic.... so only sick in the head as far as a clinical psychologist would say sick in the head

@Gits - I hadn't thought of brown, I may have to do a couple of colour tests tonight and see which one looks right.

Cheers,

BLACKHAND.

Take a look at the "parchment" pad that yggs did on one of his nurgle marines... pretty cool effect (I copied it on one of mine) and easily accomplished.

Ok so here is something a little different. In the last year I have been playing around with Fimo, a heat curing sculpting putty, in the hope of creating a completely original miniature.

Now I just don't have the ability yet to sculpt 28mm figs in the kind of detail I would be happy with, and to be honest I don't think Fimo is the right product to use anyway, so I have been working on bigger 56mm type figures.

At first I was working on a werewolf type model to stand in for Thunderwolf cav in a 13th company army I was thinking of building, you know instead of thunderwolves just a huge hulking werwolf style marine. But the more I delved into the cost of the 13th company marines the more I realised I just couldn't lay down the cash

Which brings me to todays post, as I worked away on my Nurgle marines and termies my mind wandered to my favourite Chaos Iconic model, the Daemon Prince!

Now since I want to stay away from the whole fat slob models and I find the standard GW Daemon Prince to be an embarrassingly bland model (honestly GW, an ancient Prince of Daemons flipping the bird???) I decided to repurpose the werewolf.

So after tearing of the original arms I had sculpted I built some new ones and put him in the oven to bake.



After 20 mins, I pulled him out and let him set. Here he is in all his naked glory.







Now the final inspiration , and impetus, for him came last night while I watched a show called Planet Dinosaur. Yes I am that nerdy, I also made my four year old girl watch it with me much to her mothers disgust
On the show it had a couple of minutes of footage of a huge Pterasaur walking around on the ground, which finally clicked with my need to give my DP wings. I wanted wings but not the typical dragon, bat or feathered wings so seeing this massive flyer walking around on all fours with its wings attached to its hands and folded up besides body really spoke to me.

Unfortunately floppy wings membranes and spindly finger bones didn't scream combat monster, so I have repurposed the wing struts as blades and will minimise the amount of wing membrane between the struts.

So after a short bit of cutting and sanding I have got to this point.









So have to sleep but I really wanted to get some pics up of the little beastie to get some feedback, especially since this such untested waters for me. Tomorrow night I will begin work on Greenstuffing details like hands and feet, and the all important Nurgle boils, spore blister and such.

C&C is very much appreciated

Cheers,

Blackhand

Great job on the sculpt (as usual) B-Hand. The wing-like things are intriguing... but kind of hard to get a hold on conceptually. Looking forward to seeing what you have in store for them.

Nice Plague Marines BH! and painted too!

Agree a 'nice' brown would work, or maybe a dirty yellow? might be a little bright though...

I did the intro to councilling ......................


EEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkk.

So I can call ya sick in the head

@Gits - Thanks,and yeah I realise the wings are very WIP at the moment, essentially I my design of the wings will something like this guy

http://images.sciencedaily.com/2011/10/111013085107.jpg

but with much less wing membrane. Obviously it is a much more humanoid body form rather then the hyperspecialised pterasaur form so I have had to lengthen the forarms and shorten the legs to give him the ability to move on land... but hey he's a foul daemon from the warp so reality can stretch a bit.

@Reiko- Thanks man, and yeah I will revisit the Plaguemarines in a few days once my DP distraction is over with.

@Miss Dee - You and everyone else who spends more than 10 minutes in my illustrious company... and quite a few who haven't!

I have some good news Im moving in with my GF Tazzy next monday so Im happy.

Looking really cool BH. The pose reminds me a bit of the aberration clone from Confrontation, and can totally visualise what you're up to with the wings. Also, you're a talented man with the old gs, don't do yourself down.

BLACKHAND wrote:

@Reiko- Thanks man, and yeah I will revisit the Plaguemarines in a few days once my DP distraction is over with.

How...but, how....how did i miss the Daemon Prince??!!

REALLY like the idea of him BH, Pteresaur DP? Yes please

Agree with graven, dont put yourself down, we all know (and have seen) your GS skills, believe in yourself!

@Miss Dee - Congrats!and good luck with the move.

@Graven - Cheers mate and yeah I realised after a while that I had copied a lot of the style of the abomination without thinking about it. But having never seen one in real life I figure I won't end up with something exactly the same!

@Reiko - Thanks Reiko I have no idea how you missed him as well...he's pretty big!

After a nights work GSing the chest and sides of the DP to clean up the muscle definition and adding most of the wing membrane I am fairly happy with the direction he is taking. Didn't have time to take pics last night but will definitely get to it tonight, my only worry is that I am rapidly coming to the end of my Galeforce9 Greenstuff, damn I love how much you get in their pack!

Cheers,

Blackhand

Yes, apparently i am blind...

Cheers Reiko, try missing him now!

Ok so I have a few WIPs, I have only laid down one layer of GS on the wing membranes and will need to do some very careful sanding and probably add another layer on the under side to add strength to them.

Began the hands, wanted a meat cleaver type look to the claws but at least if I don't like the end result I have plenty of material to carve away to get a more curved look.

Added bulk to the feet but have not even begun the toes, and the back and neck need a lot more before I am done. Only problem there is that I need to hold the damn thing somehow and at the moment its the back so it will be done last I think.... funny the things you learn doing big GS sculpts like this, next time I think I will keep all the limbs separate as long as possible!











Hopefully these pics will help explain where I am going with the wings, they obviously need a lot of work yet but I am pretty happy with him to tell the truth

C&C is welcome as always

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

BLACKHAND wrote:Cheers Reiko, try missing him now!

'its right there!'
'...Where...?'

BLACKHAND wrote:I am pretty happy with him to tell the truth

As you should be! Great work BH, he is coming along nicely!

not totally sold on the claws yet, but im happy to see where you go with them, i have no doubt you will convince me....

Really like how he feels like he is moving along the ground in the pose, definitely more apparent with the wings on. Stays very true to the Pterosaur theme as well (as in i can see him moving the same way they do).

OK mate, that's coming into focus nicely now. Where are you thinking of going with the feet?

@Reiko -Thanks bud, I am pretty happy with the sense of movement he has as well, like he has just landed and is moving in to attack (or at least that is what I am going for)
As for the claws I will spend a bit more time on them before I look at cutting them down, the image in my mind is of a killing machine with meat cleavers for fingers but if that doesn't translate then I will carve them down to a more easily recognisable curved avian claw.

@Gits - Cheers Gits, hopefully the wings make more sense now. I still am not sure about the feet, I keep thinking of quite dinosaur like feet with scales and pretty stubby claws but I think that is more me being worried about how I am going to sculpt a detailed foot when it is so far back and under the arms and torso, I have a feeling it will be pretty hard to get the tools into that space.

Any suggestions on feet designs?

Very cool. Somehow, this dp needs stealth. Or maybe just stealth(Reiko)...

BLACKHAND wrote:@Reiko -Thanks bud, I am pretty happy with the sense of movement he has as well, like he has just landed and is moving in to attack (or at least that is what I am going for)
As for the claws I will spend a bit more time on them before I look at cutting them down, the image in my mind is of a killing machine with meat cleavers for fingers but if that doesn't translate then I will carve them down to a more easily recognisable curved avian claw.

Not saying i wont like where you will go with it as things stand, just that i cant see it yet ( badum tish)

BLACKHAND wrote:Any suggestions on feet designs?

Sticking with the dinosaur theme....something along the lines of a Tyrannosaurus Rex?

inmygravenimage wrote:Very cool. Somehow, this dp needs stealth. Or maybe just stealth(Reiko)...

Pretty sure it already has!! Must be the GS, blends it into the 'background' ;D

It can be reptilian... but perhaps an elongated wolf foot in shape where the heel looks more like part of the leg than the foot? Perhaps with a little spur on it or something?