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I was thinking about a spur/claw on the back of the heel, mainly cause I can easily reach it

It is hard to see by the photos but the Lower leg is pretty much as you suggested Gits, the only part of the foot touching the ground in the front "pad" of the foot aqnd the toes, it just need more GS to add a more defined achilles and heel spur, after talking it through with my partner and firned of mine I am thinking a lot of what I am seeing in the model is either still not actually sculpted or will need a paint job to show up.

It's quite interesting sculpting Vs kitbashing/converting, with a kitbash you can tack the pieces together and people will instantly get a feel for the final shape of the model. With this sculpt especially I have a failry complete vision of the final product but it's not showing through to a lot of the people I have shown it to. I wish my sketches were better so that I could show you all my vision for ht esculpt but I think it would only make it worse!

Ah, well.... great minds think alike obviously. I'll just be patient and watch it come to fruition over time.

I like it a lot! Would def get one if casts are offered. Would make a kickin night lords dp.

@Gits - Never...stop...posting...ideas!

@WM360 - I have endevoured to stick just to my own sculpting so that it would be possible to cast without stepping on anyone's IP...but.

I kinda used a really thick wire for the internal skeleton, thick enough that a hacksaw will be the only way to "delimb" it enough that it can be cast. I am not sure what preparing a model of this size and complexity will entail but I think once I have gotten him to a stage that I am happy with I will give a shoutout as to wether it looks good enought to cast and depending on interest will jump into a very careful deconstruction process...would be interesting to do if only as a learning experience.

Also I made the decision last night to leave off any nurgle boils and scabs and instead will probably make a couple of different heads that I will magnetize to represent different Marks, that way he can be used through a lot more versions of my chaos army.

Ok, despite a quiet week with no posting I have been fairly busy! no really, honest!

Work on the DP has stalled as I have reached the last few grams of my GS and want to preserve it for any conversions that may come up, will be buying some more in the near future though.

Before I ran out of GS I have added layers on both sides of the wing membranes to add bulk and texture, have basically covered over about 80% of the surface of the whole model as well to smooth out the skin as the Fimo had plenty of cracks and sculpt marks on it.

I then bit the bullet and cut the whole thing into pieces

He is now in 7 different bits, not counting claws and a head that is still in the vague planning stages. I am sooo glad I cut him up, it has made it a lot easier to sculpt the feet (which are about 70% done) and to reach the underside of the wings.

I am still trying to decide what to do with the groin... man that is terrible to type.

I am thinking of a loin cloth which will help hide a few of the joins on the hip/leg area or a bunch of shaggy hair, still not sure.

Anyway didn't take any pics yet as a pile of bits doesn't look too exciting but I am quietly confidant that all of the bits will be castable and that after a small investment in casting materials I will be able to reproduce him a few times at least.

To try something different and get my juices flowing for phase 2 of the DP I have gone to something more Imperial.

I have always wanted a Jump Chaplain and now that I am playing Combat Patrol regularly I have found that Chaplains and Libbys are the only kinds of HQ I can legally take so it was time to raid the bits box!

So the following guy is made up of various stuff including,

- GK Justicar legs
- Astorath the Grim's Jumpack
- Hand made chaplain head
- More purity seals than I can count










Oh and if anyone wants to know how to convert their own Chaplain helmet, check out Ron's fantastic tutorial on From the Warp

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.co.nz/2010/11/chaplain-skull-helmet-conversion.html

I have also repainted and re shoulderpadded ( is that even a word) the assault marines I built up as Void Dragons as I utterly despise the Finecast Astorath I bought and converted ( hence there are no pics of him "finished" on this blog, he truly looks crap and its not just my mediocre painting) and I decided the Chaplain needed an assault crew to run with.

They all now have Blackhand pads and the same Skull and Bones pad that the Chaplain is wearing.

And now back to my Nurgle obsession

After a quick game of Combat Patrol with my Plague Marines I decided to add another couple of Plasmagun marines so that I can rock 2 squads of five with two Plasma in each as well as my AC Havoks, lots of fire power but not a lot of bodies... will see how it goes..

Aaaand I just realised I havn't got any pics of them, well they look pretty much like the other Plaguemarines I have built

So yesterday I was trawling Ebay looking at the cheapest I could find a copy of Typhus to lead my rotten Nurgle ( a METAL Typhus of course!) and just couldn't find a copy that would be reasonable. I also remembered a comment on a blog once that the reason you often see Typhus on a raised base is that compared to modern termies he is quite short, stocky and mean looking but still short... so I started cutting plastic!

I took a basic Assault Termie body and cut it at the knees, added 1mm of plasticard. I then added another 1mm of plasticard to the sole of his feet and added a rim of 1mm around his foot so that I could add bulk to the foot and sculpt in the bifurcated toes that Typhus has. This also meant that I could add a lot of GS to his lower leg and then sculpt in the boils and plague blister that all Nurgle have. I added another 2mm to the waist and extended the base of the torso about 3mm all the way around. I then cut the back of the termie torso right down the middle and added a 2mm strip of plasticard. This got me a pretty tall termie compared to the rest of the Nurgle Termies I have already and I could begin the fun stuff.

After a few hours of GS work and a tube of Superglue I had this little fella.....









And here is a comparison shot with one of his wrecking crew....




What do we think? C&C always welcome!

Cheers,

BLACKHAND


Oh and I have a random question, I am looking at producing a couple of pseudo imperial certificates for the Combat Patrol Tournament I am running on the weekend and I am sure I have seen some "official" documents up on Dakka... ... I just can't remember where for the life of me!

Any chance anyone can recall where this might have been...

A big bad Typhus, nice!
looks very similar to the actual model!
Great job Blackhand!

Nice work on the chappy BLACKHAND. I think that's a fine conversion. They Typhus model you cooked up is fantastic though! Very appropriate.

Like the tubules! And that's a great chaplain, clever crozius conversion.

@ MK - Thanks!

@Gits - I am quite happy with how Typhus came up, he matches the other Nurgle conversions i have done which a "proper" Typhus never would have.

@Graven - Thanks bud, I was a bit worried when I couldn't find an eagle for the Crozius but the piece I found kinda matches a marine in size and looks like something a guy could swing while zooming through the air

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Aww poor DP *sniff sniff*.....on the other hand, yay, DP casts! Not surprised that cuttig him up made access a lot easier (hmmm, that came out wrong....)

Typhus looks great BH, as does the Chappy!
EDIT: Just saw Typhus' double knife...is this in case of a 'Knifey-Spooney Contest', so he can pull out a second, even BIGGER knife?

Lol, I actually have a bigger knife from the Skaven Stormvermin box that I was considering adding to his waist, thought maybe it was too much

After some suggestions on my local forum where I double post my updates I have decided to add some detail to his scythe Manreaper, will probably for for a cable and maybe a handguard like on the original

Nice work blackhand.

I Sculpted two different models with hand made wings. It is NOT the easiest thing to do. I ended up throwing one model in the trash a few times over the course of the months that i worked on it out of rage/frustration (gosh darn stupid wings grumble grumble). Keep at it dude.

Nice to see the conversion work you have done with the AoBR. I converted the terminator for my nurgle army as well. Good stuff dude. I like seeing the sickle armed CSM. Are you going to treat them as power ax. thats how i am counting mine.

Thanks Sennacherib! Yeah the wings are proving a bit of a block as I am still not exactly sure how I want them to look but after a bit of a break I am sure that an idea will come to me.

The Termie with the sickle is a Typhus "counts as" but I like the idea of using them in my army for some of the other guys and counting them as axes, would be a good way to get a mix of axes and swords on the termies.

I am still holding out for the new codex before I go crazy converting as I am not sure what changes it will bring to Nurgle marines and I don't want to waste hobby time by converting a weapon option that is illegal.... have already done that by making a Plaguemarine with an autocannon.... so annoying but easy to break down and rebuild.

eh... whatever. Instead of remodelling just use the AC as a counts as option. I too am waiting for the day that the new chaos dex comes out. I have some dirty plans. Namely using nurgle havok squads to ramp up casualties so that epididimus will confer AP 2 and a 3+ feel no pain to my boys when i play in less freindly games (ie. tourni play).

Dont give up on the wings. Yours are far more ambitious than any that i attempted. They look like they are off to an awesome start.

Hey people, sorry for long silence! Has been a very odd couple of months modelling wise, have found it hard to stick to just one project... not that I have had much time for the hobby due to real Life.

Just let me reiterate, Chickenpox is the bane of a parent's life having both my girls get the pops at the same time( and I mean Get Them, I had no idea you could get them in your mouth and ears) has kinda wrecked my energy levels, but anyway enough whining! I have pics!

So what have I done, um oh yeah! a friend of mine had a couple of landspeeders that he had received in a trade, they seemed to have been hit by a heat gun or something and after hacking them apart in order to rebuild a working speeder I discovered that there was less then one speeders worth of bits :p

So I decided to try my hand at converting a Landspeeder Tempest since word is that they will be in the new DA codex.







Of course once I finished I read the data sheet and saw that it was a single cockpit vehicle, mine was a double.. Doh!

Oh and I thought the third engine was a really cool and interesting touch...then I saw my first landspeeder Storm and saw that it had a third engine....

I also have been searching around for something fun and lets face it, expensive, to buy as a treat for myself... mainly because of my awesomeness, partly because I was exhausted one night and hit buy now on an online auction ...wait maybe it was mostly exhaustion.

Anyway I ended up with a FW contemptor Chassis which I went to town on and built twin Kheres Pattern Assault cannons for ( 12 str 6 ap4 rending shots a turn) and slapped a Cyclone missile launcher on as well.



Will get some paint on him soon and post up pics as and when I get the chance... no honest really, I am sure I won't forget about him like the other dozen or so projects on my shelf

I also dragged out an Infinity fig I bought about 6 months ago and finally built and painted him, he is a Q-drone from the Combined Army line





and he joins his cousin the M-drone ( I might have those switched up)



I really enjoy going to town with their colour schemes and sculpting their bases.

Next up I have a couple more Knights of Dark Renown, First is my scorpion themed guy... haven't got a name for him .. I'm slipping I know







And this guy is like a turkish/arab/mongol mash up that pretty much came about when I was digging through my Orks bits box, gotta say I am really proud of his pose though.





Club has kept me pretty busy too, the Combat Patrol Tournaments that my friend and I have been running are going well but eating up a lot playing time and I have been taking my turn GMing our club's Star Wars RPG, this particular module takes place on Bespin and we have reached the part where the characters defeat a Hutt gangster and his gang and steal their fleet of Headhunters( a precursor to the xwing) and have to take off to save a ship full of slaves from being blown up. Being the person I am I could not just let the guys move a bunch of cardboard discs representing ships around the table for the whole day so I bought a bunch of beads and dragged out the plasticard and made these

first the Headhunters that the characters will pilot



then the Bespin Security forces



and last is the real fun, the Imperial forces that they will battle above Bespin



To be honest when they are all arrayed on the black grid board I made they look pretty damn cool, will try and get some pics of the action for you!

And last up..... my secret modelling shame!

All of the excuses I have given you up till now have been smoke and mirrors, the real reason I have had no time for modelling has been all the work I have been doing on my Little girl's present She is turning 5 in november and is dead set on a Barbie birthday... so I stupidly decided to build her a dollhouse...so stupid, so fantastically stupid.

I am building in my friend's garage... my friend who is a trained cabinet maker... my friend who used to build kitchens and now builds school furniture... my friend who watches my feeble attempts to work with a medium harder than plastic( who invented this wood stuff anyway!) and cruelly laughs while shaking his head. Anyway I figured I would need photographic evidence of my shame to excuse my lack of updates and decent modelling progress.

Here it is in all it's glory..





Its' about a metre tall and wide, big enough for a goddamn barbie house party....

....oh and it's now candy pink

I better win the Father of the Year award this year dammit!

Anyway thanks for reading through the wall of pics and excuses, C&C is welcome as always

Cheers

BLACKHAND.

Fantastic stuff Blackhand. Good to see an update from you again!

I love your tempest, don't worry about the cockpit thing, no one will know or care. The sculpting work on the basis for those infinity figures is phenominal. Better even than the cast bases I'm buying currently for my son's Nids.

I bet those ships do look great on the black background, how about an "action shot"?

Never apologize for being a good daddy for your little girls. Barbies away!!

Chickenpox (or Chicken Pops as my 4 year old calls them) with 2 kids = hell on toast. Been there, done that, wife got shingles. Fun times.

Tempest seems a bit chunky but I see where you're going with it and have faith in your fu.

Like Captain McStabby and his little arachidae.

That contemptor's looking corking, wouldn't want to wander into him on a dark table edge.

Love the Infinity stuff, really creepy.

And as for the dolls' house - see, it pays to have girls after all!


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Oh, and props on the SW minis - article, mayhap?

'Apologises for not doing much recently - Posts collection of pics/models that puts many (me included) to shame...'

Sucks on the chickenpox front, my only memory from when i had it is our Reverend making a home visit to bless me while i lay on the sofa....:angelic halo: LOL

Loving the work BH, it all looks great! Nice work with the Landspeeder, bringing it back from the brink like that, congrats.

Contemptor=pure win.

Marines are great, its amazing how much extra character you add with just a little posing and GS.

Ooo more Infinity goodies (got my fist Ariadna bundle last week, deciding if i should desecrate them with paint or not....) looking good! The new drone it technically the T-drone with GML, but as there isnt a Q-drone model (AFAIK) i dont think its a problem (yay for promoting proxies, you gotta love CB). Also, the bases....*drools*

Awww a dolls house?! Good on you my friend, if ever theres an excuse for being absent, i think thats one that will be universally accepted

EDIT: forgot the Star Wars they look brilliant! Home made too, damn! Makes me want to dig out my joystick, find my copy of X-Wing vs Tie Fighter and force my PC to make it work...

@Gits - Yeah I am pretty happy with the bases, I bought a set of the smaller infantry bases but when I went to buy the bigger ones I found I was paying the same amount for one 60mm or two 50mm bases as I was for 10 small ones... made no sense so I gave sculpting them a go.

Oh and I may even bust out the SW minis and take a few action shots, relatively easy to do and I won't have to venture into my painting nook and tidy the hideous mess I have left there

@Graven - Funny, my girl calls them Chickenpops as well! And I feel for your wife, I got Shingles last time my girl brought home the Pops, think I am past the point where they would have developed this time so am pretty relieved,

And by article do you mean a "how to"? I could always knock together a couple more ships and take some pics.

@Reiko - Ariadne huh? I really love the Vet Kazak models, if I had the cash ( and had already bought the rest of the Aleph, CA and Nomad models I want) I would build a Kazak/Moblot team. My friend has an Ariadne team with two werewolves that bound up the tabel in his first turn and wreak havok... lucky my Maruts likes to eat puppies

Cheers guys, always nice to have replies to a post after such a long silence

BLACKHAND

 BLACKHAND wrote:
@Reiko - Ariadne huh? I really love the Vet Kazak models, if I had the cash ( and had already bought the rest of the Aleph, CA and Nomad models I want) I would build a Kazak/Moblot team. My friend has an Ariadne team with two werewolves that bound up the tabel in his first turn and wreak havok... lucky my Maruts likes to eat puppies

Hehe i got the August Deal (Aridana starter + HMG Vet Kazak + Para HMG + Mirage 5 and i bought the AC Tankhunter and the Spec Ops too) so i have 2 Vets (!)....[insert smug grin] I love them too i have to say!

Yeah, im definitely looking forward to the Ruskie sectorial, Vet Kazaks, TankHunters, decent line troops (that look amazing) whats not to like?! Currently looking at either Vanilla (fora little bit of everything) or MRRF as a Loup Garou link team would own face...Since i have Duroc, i am planning on trying a Wulver or a Cameronian to see the joy of the crazy werewolf...

Not surprised about the Marut, MULTI HMG is not something i want to using impetuous troops against....*shudder*

Still, this is all dependant on me finding a gaming group, as none of my mates play any figures games, and theres little chance of me convincing them *sigh*

 BLACKHAND wrote:
Cheers guys, always nice to have replies to a post after such a long silence

BLACKHAND

O Please, i sit here wating for another update BH (not just from you, but you are one of the few), no apologies are necessary. RL is the worst distraction....

Just found this thread. I've been busy with RL stuff and havent been modelling , but pop onto Dakka every once in a while. You've got some awsome stuff in this thread Blackhand. I'm in awe of your GS skills.

Ok, time to post some more proof of my modelling ADD

So I bit the bullet and found a deal on the Chaos half of the Dark Vengeance box set, since I plan on running a nurgle list with Typhus and around 60 Plague Zombies I have sold the Chaos Cultists to my friend and kept the Chosen, Lord and Helbrute.

At this point I will admit to forgetting to take any pics of the chosen I have painted...but take my word for it, they are great models and painted in Nurgle colours they fit the rest of the army really well...gee why haven't I thought of just telling you guys my models look great and not posting pics to the contrary before?

Anyway, while I like the Helbrute as he is out of the box I decided he would need some nurglyfying (thats a word, honest) so I lopped off the armpit tentacles, some spikes an d chains and added a bunch more Spore Chimneys and Plague Blisters...well I will let the pics do the talking...







I have given hi ma few coats of paint so will post some PIP pics i the near future..

Now, after waiting with baited breath to see the rumoured "Dragon" flyer for Chaos I was a little let down. I am quite happy with the overall shape and silhouette of the model but I didn't like the raised patterning all over the wings or the truncated tail and Giant Flaming, Rocket Bum of Doom.

Having seen the rules I thought it my be worth converting something up and giving it a try, so I ordered up the head,torso and tail of the Vampire Counts Zombie Dragon and built some plasticard wings and rocket engines....

....Behold Nurgle Heldrake!















I know he isn't exactly true to the fluff of an Imperial flyer that has been possessed and slowly morphed into the shape of a predatory armoured dragon but he fits right in with my Nurgle Marines and thats what I was looking for

Plus he has fricken rocket engines! Honestly why design a zooming flyer that doesn't have rocket engines? Isn't that kinda missing the point GW?

Thanks as always for reading, C&C is always welcome

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

I want to paint everything you make... So start making two of everything! This all looks amazing Blackie...

*drools* ooo the pretties....

Lovely work as always BH, ill take your word on the Chosen, but the Hellbrute looks like hes about to spew Nurgle infested vomit all over anone standing in his way, and the Nurgle Heldrake will be the terror of the skies!! Much prefer your zombie-Nurgle version to the official one (and with added rockets indeed! )

Absolutly loving this Blackhand was reading waaaay back when you were doing the Blackhand Marines and now the Nurgle stuff has peaked my interest love the paint work and conversions keep it up man! .

@ Vent - Thanks bro, maybe I should send all my conversions to you to get a decent paintjob Not sure about making two of everything though.....

@Reiko - Cheers, as usual I hope my paintjob does the GS work justice!

Oh and watch the drooling, keyboards and liquids don't mix... I know this due to spilling acetone onto my mostly plastic keyboard once.,,,, looked cool though!

@ArchaonSon - Thganks for commenting, good to know that a change in army and converting style hasn't scared people away.

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

 BLACKHAND wrote:
@Reiko - Cheers, as usual I hope my paintjob does the GS work justice!

Oh and watch the drooling, keyboards and liquids don't mix... I know this due to spilling acetone onto my mostly plastic keyboard once.,,,, looked cool though!

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

I have faith that it will BH

O God! Acetone? Ibet it looked like a messy, melted puddle in the end? I have a handy drool catcher ready for when i see your updates, saves me buying a new keyboard every time

Both the Hellbrute and Helldrake look fantastic. The Nurglifying of the brute really adds depth and dimension to the model and makes it stand out as a unique creation. The changes to the Drake are a significant improvement over the original, rather sophomoric sculpt. Much more of an imposing figure and believable as a construct.

Can't wait to see paint on them (and to be able to see them not on my phone).

Great gods that heldrake looks amazing. Can't wait to see what he looks like painted!

That heldrake is significantly better than the official model.

I can't wait to see how you paint it up.