My my. I suppose he was one of those projects you start by a year's worth of fiddling and dry-fitting, and then suddenly you realise you've made him.
I dug for a bit through my G+ archive to try and find some old attempts; this was all I found. The power fist Melancholy Requiem and the helmet (a mk7 back then) must have been the first things I ever made for him and they've been floating about in my bitz box since mankind left for the stars...
My first attempt involved a GK body, by the looks of it, that went nowhere; my second attempt used the exalted Khorne champion as a base and eventually turned into something rather terrifying but not quite what I was after.
Ever since I finished my Anacharis scoria kitbash, I've had half a warpsmith sitting in the bottom of the box waiting to see the light, and one day I thought how fun it would be if I made him into a captain. The pose was certainly lordly, and the chaos markings weren't too hard to remove...
...before I knew it I had an undercoated Chapter master on my desk, complete with a nice display base. I changed the helmet from a mk7 to a mk4, sort of following Fromthewarp's helmet tutorial.
The paint sort of jumped on all at once and he was finished!
I wrote a bit about him for his Sagolanda page, so please click here for the fluff. He's also on Flikr too, if you're interested-- I've got a lot of finished work there too.
And that's that! Wow, that project was over quick. I'm constantly lamenting about my forgotten skitarii and IK, I must get back to them, I must-!
Bye bye for now.
Love the conversion work, just not a fan of the paint style. Very Blanche and his stuff is hit or miss for me. I think you just end up covering up a lot of your great conversion stuff.
ReplyDeleteAlso have you thought about making the edge of the bases all black? I think they could really work with your stuff.
I understand your mindset. I admit this isn't the cleanest style I could achieve, but this is my preferred style, particularly with my own chapter. While each unit IS viable as playing pieces, I wouldn't call my style "tabletop quality" either, as from a distance it just looks a mess. But I'm happy with it :)
DeleteI think black would be too stark? There's very little black on the model's palette, and it might draw the eye too much.
Well done. Definitely very chapter masterly.
ReplyDeleteI gotta ask, what's with the white splatter?
Thank you! I don't know what's with the splatter, really...
DeleteA while ago I saw it as kicked-up dust in a painting and I thought it looked atmospheric. Like a nebula, for some reason, and now it's just a habit; sort of a "sealing off" step to prevent me from carrying on painting indefinitely.
I was just curious. I figured there was a reason :)
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