Thousand Sons - The Path of the Wraithlord

Update with pics this time.


First off, here is the Land Raider. As you can see the blue steel colour is done along with the Boltgun highlights on it. Also, there are large spots that you can see that are painted Boltgun and these are going to be washed with the Black wash to make them show up as dirty metal areas. I would say it is about halfway done with just the gold left to do and some detail work. I am planning on doing some freehand on the model, just like the rest of the vehicles, but that will be the very last thing I do with this army as that will require more focus than anything else.




Here is the Rhino, done to the same point as the Land Raider




Now for the Predator. The blue is still a few coats off from final as you can see but I had to strip this model to the plastic because of the paint that was on it before hand. I also fixed the sponsons and magnetized them to prevent further breakage. Got a long way to go on this one still.




And now the Terminators. The dude in the middle is the one that I had finished ages back and you can see where the others stand compared to him. Sadly the banner on the dude on the far right broke off and I am still deciding what to do with that. I may fix it or I might just replace the arm entirely and not worry about it. 50/50 right now on that topic.




So there you have it guys, the rest of the army is getting there.

I decided to change up the arm on the standard bearer and go with that double sided chainfist that comes with the set. For gaming I will just point out the model with the icon. Right now however I am having a great deal of difficulty with the Obliterators. I mentioned the one idea I had of having a plasma cannon forming out of ones chest and that is still going to happen, it is the others I have having a problem with. I have one guy who I converted way back to have his hand formed into a single lascannon and I like the look of it enough that I am going to keep it, making that model the closest to the original of the three. Now here is wear I am more than willing to entertain ideas from you big time conversion freaks here on Heresy Online:

1) I don't want to use the original faces but rather I want them to have helmets like the rest of the legion, especially if there is some way of making them more Tson-like. What do you suggest as normal heads and term heads are actually far too big to work.

2) Anyone remember the part in the first Transformers movie where Megatron kneels in the street and forms his arms into a huge gun in front of him? I would like the third Oblit to do something similar but I am stumped right off the bat because the Oblits head is in the middle of the damn chest . I am thinking of making this one kneeling as well, almost as if I were making and Obliterator homage to Megatron lol.


Any ideas you guys might have will be appreciated.

Ok, very minor update as I have been painting these guys a bit more recently. No pics sadly as my camera is not working. All 3 Rhinos and the Land Raider now have the highlights done on the steel blue areas and the gold is done now as well. The areas that are to be base steel have been based in Boltgun and are awaiting washes and highlights. After that it will be small details and the freehand. Also, I ordered more of those bases from Micro Arts so the entire army, from troops to prince are mounded on those rocky, rune carved bases.

The Oblit are totally stalled right now. I have come to realize that there is no way in hell that I will be able to do the conversions I want using the original bodies so I am going to grab a Term box set and do some mix/matching. Either that or I will use some bigger models to based them on, perhaps the Minotaurs as Svartmetal suggested to me.