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You need to build one of the Genestealer Coven Limos

And you right Lifecycle gose Purestrain, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, Purstrain

3rd and 4th generations tend to be Psykers

Well, the day has finally come... All hybrid generations are scultped! Nothing left but a bit of sanding here and there, and they are good to go for priming.

I'll let the pics do the talking this time, this is the shot I wanted to see most, evolution of man, stealer style , if you want bigger views just click the pics and you can go to the large one's in my gallery.

















Next up, pinning termies to bases, and a few extra touches to the hybrid bases too!

Looking good! The cult seems to have some good connections if they have acces to Elysian-attern meltaguns

Those look excellent the side on pic really shows there evolution from 1st gen through to Purestrain.

Fantastic GS sculpting there MajorTom, I'm really impressed with how fast you've done so much quality work.

As a long-time fan of the Cult, I'm really impressed with your project, it's inspiring me to go tackle that box full of stuff I've been collecting to build a Cult of my own.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking good! The cult seems to have some good connections if they have acces to Elysian-attern meltaguns

lol maybe they just came from an Elysian key-party:

For the record though, attaching both of those Elysian guns was one of the biggest b**ch's of my modelling career... Holy crap they look nice on the sprue and all but try to put them on Cadian arms and you are in for a world of hurt. The 4th gen started out with a Bullpup lasrifle, but as with the Melta, there is just no way to get the gun on without carving away 3/4 of the forearm or making them hold the gun 70 degrees to the right or left on the y-axis...

Solution 4th gen - cut off the stock and put the mag on the side of the gun, giving a ww2 looking weapon.
Solution 3rd gen - cut right arm in 3 pieces, shave a good deal of forearm down, cut bottom of the stock off, pin shoulder to upper arm, pin upperarm to forearm, pin melta to hand, sculpt left hand from scratch.

:S

FW should put a warning on them, may cause swearing loud enough to wake up your wife and scare cat.

Thanks for the comments guys

Just outstanding. Wonderfully crafted, and convincingly terrifying. Well done.

You might look into some corrugated plasticard to make uniform armor shapes that way the armor ribs have a constant thickness and stay straight. I quite like what you are doing with this.
Have you looked at http://www.hirstarts.com/ he is working on 3d hulk stuff right now and it looks just perfect for a 3d board.

Corrugated plasticard, looks it up and the thinner grades might have done the trick, where were you 2 weeks ago??? LOL

Im going to leave them as is, and dirty them up or scalpel any ares which are severely rough. Next time though... plasticard would be the wiser move both for the abdominal plates on the 3rd gen and ribbing.

Thank for the advice!

Back to pinning termies...

WOW!!! really liked the way they turned out. But i wanna hear more about DanteCaptain!

Great job.

I think you've inspired me to do some sculpting once I get back to my GCult. To this point, I've been working with the original metals for my Hybrids. But they get expensive to procure and even with 20 or so poses they get a little repetitive. Some fresh sculpts might be in order...

sc0ttfree wrote:WOW!!! really liked the way they turned out. But i wanna hear more about DanteCaptain!

Lol, Dante Captain is still in early goings with FreakForge, we are still figuring out the exact approach to take. To be frank the realease of the sanguinary guard box has really diminished the uniqueness of the design, so we need to figure out how to handle that. Also, after seeing this month's WD, I will definitely be giving him the NMM treatment. Metallics work great for most applications imo, but for that chromed look there is no other way to go.

Will keep you up to date as it comes, I am getting a bit anxious to see it too! Meanwhile, hopefully the other 15/16 Terminators will tide you over until then

gorgon wrote:Great job.

I think you've inspired me to do some sculpting once I get back to my GCult. To this point, I've been working with the original metals for my Hybrids. But they get expensive to procure and even with 20 or so poses they get a little repetitive. Some fresh sculpts might be in order...

Indeed, I love the old models tbh, but they are wickedly out of scale at this point. The old hybrids next to the new ones look super short, like 13 year olds almost lol. I will probably use them, but I am reconsidering not chopping them up, I think A torso extension is in order...



Meanwhile, I continue to base the termies, and I broke my word on not working on the hybrids more, They now all have gs'd stealer icons somewhere on their armor. I am giving myself til monday night for any further conversions on the bunch, because painting needs to start!

p.s - BTW, when you guys reply, let me know which you want to see painted first, termies or the hybrid prototypes!

p.p.s - 100+ posts... woot!

You were talking about sculpting from scratch and putting out your own stuff using the plasticard will make the ribbed armor uniform throughout the line and making pressmold armor is how scibor does it.

sonofruss wrote:You were talking about sculpting from scratch and putting out your own stuff using the plasticard will make the ribbed armor uniform throughout the line and making pressmold armor is how scibor does it.

Definitely, now that I looked at the kinds of textures available on plasticard there was stuff that would have been perfect for these. When I started I was pretty clueless about using GS, Styrene of any kind etc. I was more just a painter doing minor chop-ups but no major conversion. At this stage though I am a bit remiss to go back and tear up what i've done on these particular guys, but next time I will be doing it the way you suggested for sure!

It's exactly that kind of info that makes this blog so rewarding, you guys have been great with the info, like CM dante and his sandpapering tips, pyriel and several others for sculpting, too many to count really. But it's all been fantastic. I really appreciate it Sonofruss, in fact, if you had a particular scale and maker for a specific plasticard for the ribbing use that would be great too

Cheers!

HO scale would be perfect I think but I would go to a model train store and see it in person before ordering it online.

The closest decent one is in the downtown core or in a boon on the other side of the island, places I rarely go, in the day anyways... There is one close by but the selection (and store in general) is really piss poor.

Judging by the diamond plate styrene I bought though I think you are pretty spot on with the estimate, worse to worse I will order a sheet or 2 of a few adjacent sizes.

Thanks again Russ, really appreciate it!

Great sculpt! I wish they'd put hybrids back in the nids codex.

Thanks guys,

It's been a while since last I updated but I have not been idle.

First up, put the final detail on the hybrid sculpts, raised genestealer icons on their equipment/armor -







Next up, the termies are all based! As usual I had to embellish on perfectly good bases, but I am quite pleased with the results. Some bases were left as is, others got special treatment -





I decided to put another few coats onto the purestrains, the blending was smooth, but on the first run I intentionally didnt highlight too high as I wanted something more realistic. This time I highlighted the skin to much brighter hues to up the contrast a bit, I found the originals had the detail drowned out a bit.

Unfortunately my camera did not do a very good job picking up the colors at all :(, not in the artificial light without set-up shots anyways lol. They are significantly, significantly brighter and more vibrant in real life. The broodlord shot on page one is much closer to how they all actually look, although there are 3 varieties of skin tone, purple blue, purple pink and purple orange and three varieties of carapace, tealish blue, electric'ish blue and grey'ish blue, it doesnt come out much. What the hell I will throw up the shots anyhow, the purestrains didnt get too much photo love on this blog -







Now a bit of fun. One of my earliest minis from way back in 91 or 92, compared to one of my latest, purestrain first edition vs 3rd lol -



And a metal hybrid I received off ebay compared to my versions, the old one is tiny! It is about the height of an 11 year old compared to the new ones, although I realize now I didnt put them lined up to really show it, I think you can still tell -



And a group shot of the whole Space Hulk: Complete project models so far... quite a bit of work left to do! Not to mention the 15 more hybrids I commisioned and of course, the Dante Termie.



Last but not least, I am mulling over schemes for the hybrid armor and clothing... I am thinking I want to avoid the usual all blue/purple look and do something more military in nature... will probably still color the scarves and other small touches in purple and blue though... I am so far attracted to these three scemes -







That last shot was an inspiration for me to do my own, and although he painted his stealers in a khaki green scheme, I still think the colors could be made to work with my more traditional take. Especially as I plan to dampen the blues and purples of the stealer hybrids significantly til they are nearly non-existent by 3rd gen, more like hints, claws would go fingernail colored and carapace will possibly be bone colored as opposed to blue. In the end though I doubt I will use red, it's a shame because I think some crimson would look really good but I don't want to compete with the BA side with reds... sigh.

I am also attracted to Archibald Jack's Hounds of Krieg Killzone scheme too, although I am not sure it would work too well with blue and purple mixed in. Right now the front runner for me is definitely the 1st option though, I like the greyscale'ish feel as I think it will make the color really pop where applied, as well as being distinctly different from the other side.

Alright, lots to digest I'm sure so that's it for now, painting will begin soon on the Termies. Any comments on the possible hybrid schemes (and anything else) are most welcome!

Cheers!

Lol missed some of the updates.. great work! I really like the purestrains as well. As for the colour scheme: the dark gray and bone would be my choice, since it'll contrast nicely with their skins and icons (if painted purple).

My vote is for number 1 also. The reason being it has some contrast amongst its self but is unified enough the purple will stand out without clashing.
Amazing work BTW.

Yup definitely going to be #1 though, although I will mix in a touch of khaki into the grey highlights, just a touch. Will likely base myself off CM Dante's blog tutorial too, he had a very similar scheme that went of beautifully!

I am going to take some better pics today while the sun is out, a scale shot of the metal hybrid, hopefully some better color capturing on the purestrains, and some close ups of the modded bases, it bugs me that the details didnt come out in the one's above!

*Stares, salivates, licks chops*
...Inspirational.

Pretty sure some of this will get "assimilated" for my Cult, when I get around to it.

Alright let's try this again in better lighting conditions and some exposure setting tweaks -

The side by side hybrid scale comparison shot, that old one is tiny! -



The Tech Support section -




http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-viewimage.jsp?i=99959&w=800

The marines, with better shots of the custom bases -





















And finally, Stealer pics that actually show the colors even remotely close to the real life -



















That should show where I'm at a bit better than the previous pics today!

EPIC WIN!

The stealers really give that scuttling horde feel; love'em!

lol now i'm sitting there looking back and forth from my new awesomepaintjob.com weathering powders to the stealer bases... and considering some osl flame from one or 2 pipes, then I'm looking at the stealer familiars I just got in the mail and wondering where to stick them too... Christ and I thought I was going to get to the termies 3 nights ago lol... too obsessive for my own good :S

Wow, the the 3rd and 4th generations (?? the most human looking stealers) are simply amazing. Their faces and poses ooze character, can not wait to see them painted. I like the last paint scheme, from the Golden Demon entry, just sayin'...

I am with the clans on this one, in that number one looks the most solid. Though I would sub out the white tone for something a little more confrontational - maybe a deep red, or a dark gery with red detailing - I mean, if I was the genetic descendant of something that lurks in the shadows I would favour darker tones and have minor colour touches to indicate descendancy.

And also, how much time do you pour into those bases? they look most righteous, especially the termine tearing up the floor.

steempunk wrote:Wow, the the 3rd and 4th generations (?? the most human looking stealers) are simply amazing. Their faces and poses ooze character, can not wait to see them painted. I like the last paint scheme, from the Golden Demon entry, just sayin'...

Thanks man! Can't take too much credit for the 4th, the FW head was a nice sculpt to begin with, but the third was fortuitous coincidence, I noticed the smirky look he had after filling in the cadian command scarface head with GS and decided to just run with it. I love the golden demon theme too, A LOT, but I don't think it will work quite as well with a blue/purple based stealer force, and although it's my favorite, I want to avoid Red to keep them distinct from the BA... :(

Archibald Jack wrote:I am with the clans on this one, in that number one looks the most solid. Though I would sub out the white tone for something a little more confrontational - maybe a deep red, or a dark gery with red detailing - I mean, if I was the genetic descendant of something that lurks in the shadows I would favour darker tones and have minor colour touches to indicate descendancy.

And also, how much time do you pour into those bases? they look most righteous, especially the termine tearing up the floor.

I totally would love to do red, but I am very, very reluctant because of the blue/purple stealer colors, and also because I don't want to compete with the BA scheme and have the 2 opposing forces be super distinct from each other. I am going to go with number one, what I think I will end up doing is darkening the undersuit to nearly black, and have black boots etc too. For the armor, I like the white'ish look because it will definitely distinguish from the red-gold BA, and also because I don't want to go the super obvious route and have the uniforms directly reflect the stealer scheme, in my head they would wear non-obvious armors and clothes in order to infiltrate better into society. Or something. lol.

I also think the white will provide a strong contrast to the very subtle blue and purple scarves and hoods, and other hints to their heritage. I definitely think a Charcoal Grey/blue/purple/white scheme could be made to work well. I do wish I could have red in there though... I loved your KZ stuff after all .

Ill be paint up a test model (probably the 4th gen) soon'ish and get your opinion again though, it's going to be a challenge for me after only painting SM and Stealers pretty much my entire hobby life, I never really tried a normal unhelmeted human before! CM Dante did a similar scheme that looks awesome, substitute the yellow with purple or blue and the green with charcoal grey and you get where I'm going with it -


The bases actually weren't too tough on most of them, the Fenris games bases themselves are pretty awesome, and with the styrene products I ordered it was pretty easy to put the detailing you see on there. Some I wanted to spruce up a touch like the Culln based sergeant to have them stand out a bit more, but some needed extras because of mismatched feet heights after clipping etc. The tearing up the floor model would not have integrated well if just stuck on the grates, so he needed some plating to tear up, believe it or not he was pretty easy, the styrene board was just the right thickness to fit under his thumb nicely. Callistarius will be one of the focal points, so I wanted his based pretty well integrated, which meant filling that weird hole behind with pipes etc, and putting the trim around to provide smoother transitions. particularly happy with the candle stealer skull, if I can pull off the osl I want to, it should make for quite a moody piece.

One termie is on a base with ripped up flooring, and right now it looks like crap because there is the top bit of a ripper just sitting there, but when he is done I will be filling that tear with water effects, I think that will actually be one of the best bases when it's done.

But before I get to all that, I will be weathering my stealer bases with the powders I got in from awesomepaintjob.com, so the hybrids and termies will be waiting juuust a little bit longer!

Cheers guys