[Varakir]

Thanks for the warm reception on Vulkan, i'm really looking forward to getting him completed

something's bugging me about Vulkan's staff...
In the pics in the codex it was more of a halberd, and that just looks too much like a libby's staff.

You read the bit where I said I was replacing the top right? :wink:

 

[Varakir]

Man I need to open my eyes more :headbutt:

I wouldn't worry, my eyes are always drawn to the pretty pictures too :grin:

 

[Varakir]

Solid work.

The only thing that bugs me is it seems like Vulkan has a really long neck...anyone else seeing that? :search:

Yup I am :wink:

I haven't done anything on the head yet, so I still need to remove the neck and the scorpion motif.

 

[Varakir]

*yawn*

Well that was a rather long break, time for updates!

Got some more prep done for vulkan this week:

Dry fit parts:

Spear:

Gauntlet:

Green stuff kesare's mantle:

I'm very happy with the spear, it looks huge and properly pretty. The flamer glove isn't too bad either, it looks fairly close to the art and distinctive enough for my tastes.

I haven't really played with GS much before, so that's been a bit of a learning curve. I'm pretty happy with the mantle, but the loin cloth just hasn't played nicely. I'm going to try and get it a bit smoother before paint goes on.

I decided to do the mantle rather than stick scales straight on the cape, as one of the key reasons for using sicarius was how pretty the cape is. I couldn't put scales straight on without obscuring the detail, so i think this is a decent compromise.

Finally here's the first of my scouts with a lick of paint:

I like this infinitely more than the regular scout models, and it'll be a pretty nice unit once they're all done. When all 5 are done i'll take some proper pictures as the light is killing some of the highlights here.

 

[Varakir]

Vulkan is finally ready for primer, and hopefully will get paint on him this month :victory:

I also assembled some of my sternguard, and got some more GS practice along the way (which i really need...)

Re-posed marine with converted bolter

Heavy flamer chap with HUGE backpack. Not sure if it looks stupid or awesome, but that fits with most of my army :grin:

 

[Varakir]

Slowly getting there with Vulkan. haven't had as much time to paint this month as i'd like, but he has been fun to paint. I cheated with the loin cloth in the end, and just covered it with scales. Still looks a bit rough, but better than it did.

I'm not sure about what freehand to do on the cape - thinking about flames but not sure how they will turn out on a red background. I'll probably do some tests, but if anyone has some examples to share that would be appreciated!

 

[Varakir]

Can't believe i started this plog 2 years ago....

I'd say 'where has the time gone?' but i'm well aware that it's gone into Work, Family, Biking and Dota 2!

Anyway, I am back on the horse - mostly due to organizing a semi regular gaming group with a few friends. It's been so long since i've played a proper game and i really enjoyed a little 500pt skirmish last week. Looking forward to fielding a decent sized army so i can field Vulkan, who is now finished :victory:

I think he's gone as well as i could have hoped - i might build a scenic base for him at some point and maybe clean up the loincloth, but i'm pretty happy with him.

Next task is to convert my scouts to snipers (as i can't find anything useful for shotgun scouts to do)!

 

[Varakir]

As I said in it's stand alone thread, nice work. Re the shotguns. Put a scope on it and some brass tubing for the barrel, a slightly thicker piece on the end for a flash suppressor and boom sniper rifle.

Thanks again, i totally forgot about the project log until i saw it in my signature I've already bodged some together with bolter muzzles and a tau burst cannon, i'll try and get some pics up later. I'm thinking of using my sergeant as a counts as Telion, but i think he'll need a few more gubbins to look like a special character.

Edit: Picture of Shotgun -> Sniper rifle

Quite happy since i didn't have to stray outside my bits box, but any tips to make them better will be welcomed.

Your paint on those Pig Iron heads is great! They actually don't look too bad when put on Scouts like that.

Thanks! One of the things i really wanted to do with my army is make sure everyone had a helmet (either wearing it or with them). The pig iron heads need a bit of help around the neck but they fit pretty well on the scout body. Good value as well

 

[Varakir]

Scout squad is finally done! Scout Sergeant Rae'kwon (Counts as Telion) and a unit of 10th company snipers.

I played these guys on Saturday with my MOTF and they earned their points back by the bucketload - ireally like this unit. Some of the rifle conversions aren't 100% straight, but this was a nice and easy conversion if you have shotguns lying around.

Just noticed the barrells need drilling, so hopefully i can sort that tomorrow and get some better pictures in the sunlight. Picasa is being a pain so current image attached for now.

Tonight I also did a head swap on my MOTF (from previous plog)and finally finished up his backpack, so i'll have pics of him up soon as well.

 

[Varakir]

Thanks guys The sniper barrels are from a Tau burst cannon with Bolter muzzles stuck on the end. Forgot to drill them again :/

I did get some better pictures of the finished MOTF though:

He still needs work but i think i am done with this model and i'm going to move on. I still want to try a servo harness conversion, so I've got some bits prepped for an alternative MOTF model somewhere down the line. Just need to decide on what to use for the armour.

Progress today was making a good start on my DV conversions for a Bike Captain and Librarian.

The bike will be getting flames sculpted over the wings - similar to my other bikes but a lot more extreme.

The libby was pretty easy to sort out with a bit of filing and an arm swap. Not sure whether to sculpt scales on his robes or free hand some flames, but i'm leaning more towards the latter.


My next project was going to be sternguard, but that's on hold until the new boxes hit the shelves - i'll be picking up a squad ASAP and that will be the next priority.

 

[Varakir]

Nice work on the MOTF, what pieces have you used for the CB? If you were to return to the piece I'd recommend re-working the join at the waist as it doesn't look as smooth as the rest of the convserion. The paint job is really smooth however.

Absolutely - he has lots of poorly converted bits that i should have paid more attention to. If i start fixing him though i'll just end up ripping him to pieces and doing most of it again. He looks pretty sweet on the table and i've learnt a lot from my mistakes, so i feel it's time to move on.


The CB is a terminator assault cannon, the back half of a razorback lascannon and the front of a missile launcher. I hand cut the cog and the cables are paperclips wrapped in florists wire.

 

[Varakir]

Some stunning work here Var. That He'stan conversion is way better than the GW one, and the paint job is excellent. The scout snipers are a very simple but very effective conversion as well. Are those Pig Iron heads on them?

The MOTF is a great as well. The weapon looks suitably archaic and complicated. +rep.

Cheers mate - they are indeed Pig Iron heads. I still have loads left so i'm thinking of getting a LS storm at some point.

Sternguard have been ordered now, and i have magnets on the way!

 

[Varakir]

Some excellent stuff here. The sniper rifles are very good, an idea I will be stealing. I love your MOTF conversion. Paperclips wrapped in wire you say, thanks for that, you just solved my mechatendril problem.

Aye, it's florists wire - you can get massive spools of the stuff off ebay nice and cheap.

I'd love to say i thought it up, but i used this tutorial - http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/showthread.php?t=48233&highlight=florist

Cheers for the comments! :victory:

 

[Varakir]

Working on about 4 different things at once, which is very unlike me. I'll be painting the librarian first, then i'll have to pick something else to get started on, probably the sternguard :victory:

This is some sculpting for the biker captain. Covered up the ravenwing stuff and added some flames:

My sternguard box showed up (great kit) and i wasn't sure what to do with my homemade sternguard i had already started on. In the end i decided to make a 10 man unit with my original 6 models and the masses of bits you get from the sternguard box. There will be 2 heavy flamers, 1 bolter chap and the rest are magnetised for weapon swaps.

Next up is my first flyer, the Stormtalon gunship. I was considering a landspeeder, but after looking over the rules i'm quite intrigued to see how this plays. It's not very pretty though, so i've already started cutting bits off and i'll be making several modifications to it along the way.

Once the storm talon is together i'll be getting on with painting the libby, but i'm not 100% sure what colour scheme to use yet. I'm leaning towards blue armour with green robes, though i'm a little worried it will look garish. Any suggestions?

Comments and feedback appreciated as always :victory:

 

[Varakir]

Awesome flames on the bike, really stunning work. Libby wise, have you thought about going codex scheme with it (blue with yellow robes) but also working some green into the yellow robes in parts? Yellow and green work and yellow and blue work. Maybe quarter the shcme on the robes?

Just some random of the top of my head ideas for you.

Thanks Jacobite I quite liked your idea of quarters, so i had a poke around and found this:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/324321

Personally the half and half scheme isn't working for me, but it does show me that green robes against blue armour actually looks pretty nice. I think i'll forge ahead with that for now and try to break teh robe up with some freehand instead.

 

[Varakir]

Libby is done - not too shabby for my usual speed of painting!

The blue is a little shiny, but I don't think it interferes with the green too much.

Whilst painting him i managed to drop him and break off a finger - I always drop my models at least 10 times during painting, but this is the first time i've dropped one with such precision to break off an individual finger

ANyway, to cover up the lost digit I had a play with some green stuff and manifested some pyromancy for my little psyker. Here he is:

Next up is the sternguard, or possibly go back and finally finish my whirlwind turret. :victory:

 

[Varakir]

Great job fixing him! Looks great!

Cheers mate :victory:

Decided on the Whirlwind turret next - will hopefully have a rhino coming off ebay this week as well so i have something to put it on!

 

[Varakir]

Thanks for the comments guys :victory:

Here's what i'm upto this week:

The whirlwind turret has been a bit boring (and i fucked it up) so looking forward to getting on with some infantry again. Here's the turret as she stands:

If I could be more like Cher and turn back time, i'd have painted the entire underside green and painted the supports black instead of boltgun. The flames turned out ok, but the middle just lets it down and i'm a bit disappointed with it.

However - painting over silver is a pain in the ass, and it doesn't look horrific so it shall probably stay as it is. Just got the radar dish to do now and a few touch ups and she's done.


Stormtalon is also ready for paint:

In addition to removing the lower tail fin, I chopped down the cannon assembly and mounted the launchers under the wings. Looking forward to getting it painted and on the table, but need to make sure i choose a scheme i like first. I'm thinking of going mainly green with black tips on the fins.

Finally for today, these guys trundled over from ebay:

Annoyingly they brought lots of mould lines and interesting armour variations (double crux shoulderpads!) with them.

A quick blast with a file, some pulling & gluing and I will finally have some TH/SS termies for Vulkan to play with, only 1 codex too late :laugh:

C&C welcome as always!

 

[Varakir]

Awww, thanks guys :wink:

I am really happy with the flames & missiles, it's just the rest of it that has irked me. You'll just have to trust me that in real life it looks a bit 'busy'.

Going to get teh dish done tonight, so pics should be imminent!