Hephesto's other WIPS

Anphicar said:

Holy crap! It is?!

I have to see the actual models!

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A better picture should also help to get an idea of its scale. Here are the two tiles that came with WD, the Athel Loren marker and a wip Vampire counts citadel next to one of my old Iron Warriors. EDIT: looks like the pic was a bit to big, so it got rescaled. Just click on it for full-scale :wink:




The general idea I have is to make a special building for each of the other race with two main objectives;
1. Give a suggestions what you could to to make your race's citadel unique
2. If you want to add a twist use the fan rules for them to represent race unique bonus buildings :wink:

And of course I'll be looking at 40K as well......and Mordheim....now it that @#^*$*# store would finally get that box!

Still no frigging Mighty Empires at my store :evil:

Ah well, at least it will give me some time to work on my Wood Elves and my entry for a Pirate themed competition. Seriously got carried away, it is turning into a full unit;



But since the competition is for a single model, I'll be using this fellow;




And finally I'm also joining in on a building project for the whole Armageddon buzz, over the course of many months a group of us over at astro will be building up 3000point armies. Some starting from scratch other adding to excisting forces. I'll be using the opportunity to upgrade my old Iron Warriors oto the new dex, might as well increase their numbers to 3000 points.
gallery with old stuff
Kinda lucked out yesterday bought the following for 23 euro;



Think my Iron Warriors will be getting some Emperor's Children reinforcements, and of course a new shiny lord, chaos vindicator and various other bits and pieces :wink:

Finally finished my mini....took me long enough though. Sorry about the less then perfect picture, for some reason all my pics today end up disastrous. Maybe I'll replace it tonight/tomorrow with some better ones.

So to start this one of here's Gibbitz - Lookout and spotter of the Riva Pirates, which would actually make him useful…if he didn’t have the concentration of a Squig on darkcave mushrooms that is :wink:

He and the rest of the Pirates, together with some new once will be playing a part in my Wood Elf army. More in this in a while!

Insert Cylon voice ''by your command'' :wink:




Well as requested a quick and easy way to add some variation to your power armoured heroes and villains in the form of the cyclops pattern helmet. Had a bit of free time so I put together some new examples as well.

After messing around with Chaos bits and pieces for years I eventually turned my attentions to changing stuff on their helmets. A few years ago this resulted in the Cyclops pattern helmet, something I'm guessing was inspired by watching Battlestar Galactic when I was young(er). But back to the present, I was doing some test minis for the legion-project when I was asked how I made those helmets. So it seemed a good time for another mni-tutorial.

All you need for this is a bunch of helmets, a thin sharp hobbying knife and some imagination.


Well grab that knife and those heads and start by the obligatory removal of moldlines. After that just pick a head or plan a bit if you're ging for a particlar effect. As you may have noticed most SM and CSM helmets have their eyes placed on the same horizontal line. Usually with a small indent in the middle of as with some of the SM a small point.

The idea here is very simple, take the hobby knife and cut a line in the top section of the armour between the eyes. Take care here to cut on that horizontal line I just talked about and of course not to cut to deep. Now comes the annoying part; getting the cyclops helmet to look decent. You now have a nice shallow cut and now you can use your thin knifeblade to slowly scrape/shave out the armour section. It is better to do this with minimal corrections instead of risking a total helmet destruction. So bettr to have to make shallow cuts and corrections instead of butchering the poor helmet.






Uses for the cyclops pattern helmet


1. Simply to add some variation, this can be very needed if you've been playing around with Chaos bits and pieces as long as me :wink:


2. The helmet really has that detached, emotionless feel to it so it works great for the methodical nature of the Iron Warriors. But it can be used for various other colourschemes as well






3. It also works great for Nurgle themed armies where the large visor gives the already vile horde an even more unhuman/insectoid appearance. In addition it can be used (with a bit of modification) as an easy and quick replacement for thousand sons marine heads. Or as CSM bearing an Tzeentch icon;




Well that finishes of another mini-tutorial, hope this will be helpful for somebody....I've been having fun with these for years now :wink: