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Wow! That is some very impressive customising.

insaniak wrote:That's very cool.

Boss Salvage wrote:Happy to see you return to the snake lady project! Great work once again, but +1 to the paint

endtransmission wrote:Ohh she looks fantastic!

youwashock wrote:Looks exquisite! Great detail, as always.

Tommygun1918 wrote:Wow, really really fun custom work!

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Oh, the arm posing is just exquisite..

aku-chan wrote:Wow! That is some very impressive customising.

Thank you all - apologies for taking so long to say so.

W][P

Moved onto a started-simple-but-did-not-end-that-way conversion...

Sisters of Battle gone rogue... Not sure why yet?

I find these sporadic builds often lead to some good characters, so when I get distracted away from one work to another I just run with it.



Cut away the original Warcry shins and replaced them with SoB greaves, then used milliput to fill the gaps at foot and knee.



The weapon is a SoB bolter/crossbow with the string cut away - it throws the explosive-tipped quarrel via an EM-field.

Replaced the barrel with smaller diameter copper tubing.



Also added a longer magazine to the bolter.



New left forearm from Sisters of Silence to get the weapon-resting-on-the-knee angle correct.

Quiver and little buckles taken from a Melusai Blood Stalker.



Used Tamiya Quick Type to sculpt in the back of the vest where the original hump-of-feathers was, and sculpted in the rear fur of the collar in extra-soft greenstuff.

Thanks for looking!

Very cool model. The crossbow is such a great piece of customization and the addition of Sister limbs is seamless.

Nice posing, Lamby.

ABsolutely smashing on the pose and the attitude in this mini - excellent job.

youwashock wrote:Very cool model. The crossbow is such a great piece of customization and the addition of Sister limbs is seamless.

Dr H wrote:Nice posing, Lamby.

blockade23 wrote:ABsolutely smashing on the pose and the attitude in this mini - excellent job.

youwashock wrote:Very cool model. The crossbow is such a great piece of customization and the addition of Sister limbs is seamless.

Thanks All!!!

Wow, that's a lot of conversion work. I love that she's barefoot. It gives her a more feral vibe.

W][P - Inquisitor investigating massacre site

I think I'll call this one Alas... (link to Video turntable)

Thanks for looking!

Bas-Lag Mercs

The first time I read Perdido Street Station by China Mielville I was astounded appalled amazed at the fascinating and utterly different kind of fantasy horror steampunk aesthetic with deep social and political themes woven into the intricate world of Bas-Lag.

So: here's a trio of Bas-Lag inspired 'lets build a few quick models for painting practice' mercenaries that rapidly got out of control!!!

First up is Dyce the Axe-woman, once destined for an Inquisition warband. All I did was replace the pistol she was carrying with a human-sized rivebow, which is a crossbow that fires chakra (discs) instead of quarrels, for the non-Bas-Lag initiated. The bow was made from a Necromunda Delaque flechette carbine and the top of Sisters of Battle bolter/bow combi-rifle:





Next up came Byrn, to whom I replaced the brass strips supporting her flamers with greenstuff, and that was it:





Lastly, I had randomly bought some of the Callis and Toll models… so Lyssa Revenya became an archer. I cut away the existing arms and the rope, replacing them with the bow and some arms from the Daughters of Kaine Blood Stalkers. The quiver on her back was also from the Blood Stalkers with some added tech bits, and a strap of Tamiya Quick Type to mount it.





Lastly, the bases.

I took a press copy of Lyssa Revenya's cobbled brick base, rolled out some terracotta millput, and pressed myself some cobble sections. When these were dry, I jigsaw-puzzled them into a section about 3x2cm, and made another press-mold.



The display base was made from the lid of a Staminade tub that I smoothed the sides with the Dremel and a lot of sanding. I cut a circle of 5mm thick cork sheet and cut out the three circles for the bases, then glued the circle to the display base. The individual bases had a steel washer epoxied underneath, with corresponding magnets on the display base; this made the top of the cork and the bases the same height.



A sheet of terracotta milliput was rolled out over the entire surface of the display base and model bases (which were sitting securely in their magnetised cut-outs). I let it dry for about 30 minutes, then pressed the cobble-brick mold in relatively straight lines; due to the press-mold having to be lined up and pressed multiple times, the milliput did some random things but all in all, it worked!



I let it dry another 30 minutes, then used a wet xacto blade to slice around the model bases. When it was all rock-hard 24 hours later, I cleaned up the edges of the model bases and cut-outs, then added some small pipes and cut out some of the cobbles to make small puddles which I filled with resin (after painting). Added the three small lights cut off some old Warhammer terrain, and the bases were complete!

And so, onto painting...

Thanks for looking!

Nice progress, Lamby.

Whats better than a flamer? Two Flamers

No idea on the background material (apologies for the ignorance) but those miniatures look great - who doesn't like twin flamers - and I really like have you have done the bases - the cobbled affect looks awesome.

I love the basing that you've done for these. Such Dynamic poses! can't wait to see them painted up.

Nicely done, I love those bases!

carlos13th wrote:Whats better than a flamer? Two Flamers

Always

JordySteve wrote:No idea on the background material (apologies for the ignorance) but those miniatures look great - who doesn't like twin flamers - and I really like have you have done the bases - the cobbled affect looks awesome.

Thanks! and if you like scifi/fantasy/steampunk, read Perdido Street Station!

blockade23 wrote:I love the basing that you've done for these. Such Dynamic poses! can't wait to see them painted up.

Cheers! and see link below...

aku-chan wrote:Nicely done, I love those bases!

Thanks!!!


Thanks for looking!

Bas-Lag Mercs


Completed the painting of the Bas-Lag Merc trio - a 'let's build something quickly to practice painting on' project that rapidly spiralled out of control...

Here's a link to the a youtube turntable of the ladies: Bas-Lag Mercs
(Can anyone explain how I can add the video into this post, rather than link it?)

Painting:

Primed with Stynlrez grey randomly mixed as applied with Dark Sea Blue or Olive Green (Vallejo)

Drybrushed on acrylic Scale 75 metallics

Completed with Oils as an exercise in applied frustration, though I'm getting the hang of oils now I think...

Some screenshots from the video:


Dyce the Axe - also carrying a human-sized rivebow (crossbow that fires chakra discs)


Re-Made pyromancer Byrn, bringing the heat...


And the Archer, all stealth and silence...

Thanks for looking!

They turned out really nice!

Brilliantly composed into an atmospheric trio! Really sells the mood.

You've been doing very impressive conversion work all around!

W][P - Narcomancer

Made for Grim40k's GrimDark Cards Challenge 2025.
Inspired by card no. 5 and the music/art of Primal Era Worship's album 'Narcomancer'.


Card no.5 from Grim40k's Grimdark Card challenge 2025

Made a complicated base...




Used a portion of a Delaque body and a Stormcast head, stuck the whole thing in a big pin, then went a bit nuts with the Greenstuff and a tentacle/cable roller:




Rolled a mix 70/30 mix of Milliput and Greenstuff out into the basic shape of the lower robes, let it dry for an hour, stuck it into place and teased the edges out with tweezers to get the frayed edges:




Then: sculpted in the upper section of robes; added the arms - right hand from the Corpse Cart pile of dead bodies, left hand from Morvenn Vahl; sculpted in the upper sections of the sleeves and let it all dry.
Next: Used Tamiya Quick Type putty to complete the lower sections of the sleeves, and rolled out the head-cables.
Finally: added the brass Needle and the many-bits backpack, notably the plunger section from an Admech kit (minus the needle), and joined the Needle to the plunger with another cable, added the last head-cable, and - done:










Thanks for looking!

fantastic stuff.

I have that card set and never thought of using it as a modelling challenge...

Man, what a sculpt. Top grimdark. Fantastic gesture with the arms and the hand in front of the face.

wow, just wow

Awesome greenstuff work here. I love that last one, the tentacle dude. Nice!

Really impressive work. I'm going to dig through the rest of your thread when I have some time.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:

fantastic stuff.

I have that card set and never thought of using it as a modelling challenge...

muette wrote:Man, what a sculpt. Top grimdark. Fantastic gesture with the arms and the hand in front of the face.

kabaakaba wrote:wow, just wow

Flapjack wrote:Awesome greenstuff work here. I love that last one, the tentacle dude. Nice!

Eilif wrote:Really impressive work. I'm going to dig through the rest of your thread when I have some time.

Thanks all!

Bonus post - here's a turntable video of The Narcomancer.

Cheers!

The Narcomancer

Narcomancer - Colour Edition

Thanks for looking!!!