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Here we go, then, a fully converted Deadzone Enforcer Strike Force. I'll write up some backstory for this lot when I'm in the right frame of mind, but for now, pictures! On a side note, there are 7 references in the names of these guys, mostly to well-known pop culture, and a couple of more obscure ones. Internet Bonus Points by the bucketload for the first person to get all 7! (Hint: Some are closely linked to the colour schemes, others to conversions, some are just names)

First up, Enforcer Sergeant John Sierra, armed with a pistol and combat blade and with a sculpted full-mask helmet.




Next, Sniper Clint Lawton, with a modified Rifle featuring full scope and silencer, and an alternate backpack (taken from a Corporation Ranger)




Pathfinder Rex Cody, converted from a Ranger:




Pathfinder Loke, converted from Corpration Ranger, Trooper and Heavy Weapon parts and a stolen SM Auspex:





Enforcer Defender Stephane Rogers, with a home made energy shield and stolen SM Shotgun. The head is from a DE Wyche:




Assault Pathfinder Burnes, kitbashed from Ranger and Enforcer parts:



Gunnery Officer Rhodes, with firepower made of all kinds of gubbinz:





Assualt Enforcer Jolanda Saphbridge, alien weapons specialist:




And Councilman Renton-Thornes, one of the Council of 7 and attached to this Enforcer unit for te duration of Operation: Wolfhound. He could souble as an Inquisitor, but I figure is suitably ostentatious for a Corporation CEO of the Manticverse:



Group Shots:




And I also repainted some Plague last night, so here they are in all their gribbly glory:










Yes, Sir, we are reading life signs..."


That's it for today! As ever, thanks to reading and do let me know what you think!

And some more Enforcers

Unlike some of the last lot, these are all fairly obvious, and the names only help. At some point last night, my line of thought changed from 'that Enforcer looks like X' to 'How can I make that Enforcer look like X', at which point the following blatantly obvious ripoffs emerged.

Wilson Slades, otherwise known as 'Miracle Wilson':





And, of course, sniper Oliver Green:




And Grayson Wing, Pathfinder, on a scratch-built mono-bike:






And Team Delta-Cobra:



And as I run short of inspiration but not parts, I'll throw this out there: Who do you want to see built as an Enforcer? It can be DC, Marvel, Halo, Star Wars, anything sci-fi really.

That bike looks pretty solid for scratch

No inspiration as to what you should do next though.

You are a painting machine. That’s a ton of minis done well in very short order.

I'd say Halo but, John Sierra has already appeared.

Thanks guys!

@Grim: Yeah, I'm quite happy with how that came out. It doesn't stand up to much close scrutiny, but on the tabletop is fills the requirements of being the right size and being recognisable, so I figure that's a win.

@Stormwall: Oddly enough, this whole thing was inspired by the Spartan team in Reach with all each guy having different armour/weapons, and at least one of the next round of conversions going back to the roots of that. John Sierra 2, you might say, and as any fan knows, that means Dual Wielding!

Holy crap, your painting output is making the rest of us look bad.

Seriously though, nice job. Especially on the plague. Those are nasty looking! (In a good way).

God bless the amount of painting that you do!!

Paint some X-men???

Awesome looking min's Para
Keep up the great work!
Grtz
Mark

Cheers chaps!

@EyeamRai: I could do some X-men, I've seen some other DZ conversions based on them so it is certainly possible.

@Squall: Quantity over quality! But I am quite pleased with how these guys are coming out, compared to me earlier DZ efforts from this time last year (might get some before and after pics tomorrow, actually)

Tomorrow will be (probably) the last of the Enforcers for a while, and then it's on to the Rebs. Fish-people! Mouse-People! Bird-people! Starlord!

With a single to-be-painted exception, this is the last of the Enforcers for now.

John Sierra II: He was good. He was the best, so the Council wasted no time in using their new time-travel technology to jump 10 years into his past and extract a second version.(This one has improved graphics and dual wield! )



Agent: Patriot




The Hunter:




Defender Frank Fort:




Recon N-32:


And what does this leave me with?



Up next, REBEL SCUM! Including alien werewolves, fedora-wearing parrots and a mouseman with a machine gun... And I'm pretty sure no one has ever said that before...

Is that Fett? Nice crew

Yeah, that's Fett. I tried to sculpt a 'proper' helmet, but it didn't work out that well. Still, the colour scheme gets the point across, hopefully.

I think it looks pretty good overall, I like it

You make me want to sculpt EVA helmets for my Sternguard Sergeant/Deathwatch.

Ugh.

By the way, is the "hunter," a reference to Destiny?

Sculpting the helmet was quite easy, actually. I took a Scout head, sliced off the face at about a 45 degree angle, and then put a blob of putty on and rolled over it with a paintbrush handle until it was even and smooth.

As mentioned above, The Hunter is a homage to Boba Fett (as in 'bounty hunter'). Hence the enlarged jetpack, and the flamethrower and missile on his wrists.

I've done something similar with guardsman heads in an ill-fated attempt to make a Cobra army well back in the day. Making passable visors is, indeed, not as hard as I would have originally thought.

Wow, you've certainly been prolific this year. I like what you've done with the individualised Enforcers, but I really enjoyed looking over the LotR stuff. The Uruks look especially great, and I really liked the Spectral Nazgul - both in terms of how you got the models, the choices of them and the end effect. Great work!

Thanks Az! Some more LotR stuff coming tomorrow, along with a little bit of Deadzone.

HOW? HOW DO YOU PAINT THIS MUCH? Ugh. You make me feel ashamed of how little I've done. Also, really like the Sci Fi names on the Enforcers, though I'll readily admit I did not get all of them

I think Paradigm has paint brushes in place of thumbs. Nice work here as always.

 40kFSU wrote:
I think Paradigm has paint brushes in place of thumbs. Nice work here as always.

Haha, exalted!

Haha, thanks guys!

Right, I've comipled enough semi-decent stuff for an update while running out of primer, so here goes with something of an eclectic mishmash of minis.

First off, some DZ Rebs conversions. If I'm being honest, I'm not half as happy with them as I am with the Enforcers, and I may go back to just using Rebs minis, but these guys were at least fun to build. Aesthetically, I've gone for something between Star Wars, Firefly and Necromunda, so a sort of sci-fi-western cyberpunk type look. Lots of pistols, hats and long coats.

Starlord. Who? C'mon, guys, Starlord.. Legendary Outlaw? Ah, forget it



Next, a counts-as Trooper, just a DV cultist with an arm swap and a stetson stolen from Malifaux:



And now onto the more overt conversions, a Skaven with a resculpted face and edited gun, to stand in for a Soarak (or however you spell it)



A fish-person. DV cultist with GSed scales anda WGF head. Will stand in for a Grogan with Onslaught Cannon (his Desolator brother will be largely the same)



And lastly, a bird-person, DV Cultist (seeing a pattern here? ) with GSed beak. Not the neatest, so needs a little tweaking, but at a distance I think he looks quite cool. Hat is from Malifaux.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/682479-Conversion%2C%20Counts%20As%2C%20Deadzone%2C%20Rebs.html

And that's it for DZ.

Now onto some more LotR. Firstly, a Boromir I build from a spare Warrior of Minas Tirith. He has a face that was press-moulded from the original, and has held enough detail to be recognisable. The banner is from a mounted Banner Bearer, the tabard is sculpted. Like I say, not the best, but servicable. (and I have just noticed the bits I missed on the banner, they will be corrected)





Next, Gothmog, no conversion done here and I'm rather happy with how he's come out.



Shagrat, converted to hold a shield so I can use his much better pre-WotR profile:




And lastly, a pair of Gandalfs. I do have to say, though, the lighting is not that kind to the whites here, they are a lot less grainy in real life. I'll see about taking some better shots when I next set up some photography.







And that's a wrap! As ever, ta for reading and let me know what you think!

Looks great

I Like the starlord. Maybe a slightly more grimdark version but nothing wrong with that . Also space skaven huh... may have to steal that one.

Really digging the variety on your DZ Enforcers and Rebs, rather than the cookie cutter factions you get in the box these guys look like they have been stuck in a Deadzone for months and are barely holding onto their sanity.

As good as ever on the LOTR stuff too, I always feel sorry for Gothmog and his melty face.

Cheers folks!

@Grim: Steal the skaven idea away. I like to think of him as the mouse cousin to the Veer-myn's rat, less violent, and in context, more refined/intellegent.

@ToT: Thanks. I have to say I do like the standard DZ models for the most part, especially the Plague and some of the Rebs stuff. I think the Enforcers are great models too, and look just fine stock, but at the same time they are very fun to convert. I look forward to experimenting with the plastics in a few months.

Nice work on the DZ stuff, but again it's the LotR stuff that really makes it for me. That's some impressive work building your own Banner Bearer/Boromir with White Banner.

For me, Gandalf on Shadowfax is looking particularly badass! Don't suppose you have a Ringwraith on Winged Beast for him to fry with his Istarii staff?

Though... I think rats are probably smarter than mice... still it works. I still have half a mind to kitbash my old dark eldar and some skaven parts

Your dedication to LotRs is really motivating, I love that system, I just find it hard to justify buying anything when all the new stuff is so expensive there isn't even a second hand market of them. I am really going to have to get in there and finish off my Elven armies before they are phased out though. Great work, and I really like the Mounted Gandalf and second the call for some skittish Nazgul