1st Lord Klatos finished

Alas, I meant to take progress pictures, and did not; but I've painted my 1st captain after several days worth of hunching over a nice, clean desk with a few, relevant paints sitting before me as opposed to all of them along with half the contents of my bitz box.

...Couple of things I should like to make clear first.  One, I am still with the Thunderhawk project, I haven't thrown in the trowel yet, oh dear me no-- second, his name is pronounced "klei-tos" I only write it with an "A" after hearing how everyone pronounces his name "kray-tose".

Not sure who's helmet, but they've been dead a long time

 

Unfortunately, the camera I use at the moment coupled with the yellow light doesn't do him justice.  I'm also reconsidering giving him a back-banner.  Thoughts would be appreciated.

I spent a lot of time on the face, I don't know if it shows but at least I like it...  There was a scene from Saw VI where a guy gets pumped with an acidic substance I can't remember what, but the thing I remember most was the colour his teeth went-- I replicated that colour to show how far gone his mortal flesh was.

The chainfist Led into Madness was a terrible challenge but great fun

This project was quite demanding overall, but the result was very satisfying.

And that's that.  1st Lord Klatos, depicted in his last campaign, about 6,000 standard years after the Chapter's founding by his hand.

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It's happening, by Throne

Oh, am I excited about this.  I know I don't have everything yet-- a scrapped land raider is on its way-- but I figured I'd start now or I never would and my desk would still be in a mess.
Actually, I meant to take progress pictures of tidying (a dreary task!) but oh well, here we are now.

I printed a number of pictures I found on various sites, and I have a folder full of thunderhawk images on my laptop to keep me psyched.  After drawing the basic shape on a piece of A2, using one of my unpainted sternguard for scale, I altered it to suit what pieces I already have-- thinking to fill in the angles with plasticard or what-ever I find later.

The gunship is going to end up a bit bigger than I anticipated, but that's okay.  The GW miniatures are generally, what, 4/5ths proper scale?  Something akin to that-- anyway, I wanted to fit a Nastrond assault dreadnought in the hold, and his wingspan is a little less than a stormtalon's.

progress

I'll be filling in the interior with crossbeams of some kind to keep it fairly rigid.
And I suppose that's it.  A most grandeous plan that will probably kill me.  I think, from now on I'll only be doing small side projects such as painting single figures, and I'll return to this whenever possible.

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Poposing a thunderhawk scratchbuild

First, I just want to say my order arrived to-day.

A sanctum imperialis, a garden of Morr, some dryad bark and an uplifting primer-- pardon the pun, I'm excited.

O-kay; I'm sure a lot of people by now know about Forge World's Ridiculously-priced Thunderhawk, and how some people have opted to making their own.  I've seen a lot of scratchbuilds, but the one that stood out to me the most was this one and this one also, who I'm terribly sorry I don't know the creator's names but these deserve checking out, if you don't already know about it.

this one

and this one also

Photos are not mine.  So I decided that I would make my own also.  This is why I bought the two scenery kits.  I also have a basilica administratum and the chopped-up remains of my aquila strongpoint kit waiting for me for this project.

One important thing I had in mind-- if I ever finish it, I'd want to dedicate it to my 3rd captain, so elaborate is foremost.  As if the scratchbuilds aren't detailed enough already, but I do like my flying buttresses..
Another thing; I'm a Vampire hunter D fan.  The animated movies wern't that good, but one thing that stood out the most for me was Bloodlust's depiction of the Castle of Chaythe, in particular the Ion Bat spaceships.

three pictures from hunter D wiki

How imperious is that?  A void-worthy craft in the shape of the tabernacle and spire of a cathedral.  This is what I will be thinking of foremost as I build.  Thing is, will I ever pluck up enough courage to start.

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Assembling/converting a razorback part 1

I've been posting progress on this project on G+ as it happened, and I decided to make a blog post of it.
Okay-- let's see, r'member that razorback turret I made?  I finally summoned up enough courage to make the APC to go with it.  At the first, all I knew I wanted was a personal transport for my 7th Captain, Thunraz the gallows-lord.

If you haven't noticed already, I take much inspiration from the work of Konami's team Silent, the Otherworld in particular.  All the rust and blood, the hurricane fencing and everything...
I started by gutting out the APC; took out the floor and seating.  I decided that the fencing would go right angles as opposed to diagonal, which hurricane fencing does; I thought it looked just that little more Imperial.

The door and windshield were not exempt from my torture

I left out the wall that separated the troop bay from what was once the cab, replaced it with more fencing-- leaving the cogitator and the enshelved bolter.  The lights, I decided not to use.

I tried to emulate ceramic tiles with greenstuff; it was most difficult.

The only boltguns I had left that still have their handles are chaos ones, but oh well.

The next thing I did was remove one wall, and put in something resembling a door mechanism.

The engine-- or at least, what I like to thing ought to pass as one-- was not easy to assemble, for I did not know what to use where.  There's bits from an assault drill, a dreadnought's grapple-whip and a piece from the Aquila strongpoint. I made a little cog mechanicum out of a piece of grapple-whip and a skull from the top of a Grey Knights icon.  The holy man's bones are to keep the engine's spirit pacified.

With the other panel on.

In place of a cab/cockpit/whatever, I decided to leave the space empty, or fairly empty.  I hacked another piece out of the strongpoint again, this time a textured piece of floor.

I then decided the space would be an interrogation chamber.  The victim is cast in through the hatch and is left there.  We see bits of cultist, bone and Necron-- though I believe the latter was only imprisoned for sport.

I could imagine the chaplain approaching the cultist leader as he awakens.
"Hello, heretic whelp. I want to play a game."
No, seriously, I had a game set up for him to play.  He had an empty autopistol, was forced to dig around in his arm to find the bullet.  He then had a choice; would he shoot the key and free himself, or has revenge and hate clouded his mind so much that he would instinctively shoot the chaplain?

There's the key

Obviously, the cultist said something that angered the chaplain, who aborted the game early by bisecting his victim.

Last step was string wires all over the place, just to be messy.

And that's that.  My command APC; so far so good.  Second part will possibly be painting.

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Parting shot-- the Emperor may protect,but don't expect Him to watch you as if you were a toddler.

Anime girl from the 41st Millennium

First thing, I realized I haven't posted here for some time.  Whoops.  Second thing, I had been working on this project some time last year and left it for ages, to return to it much, much later.

Once upon a time, there was a toy museum in Nelson and I used to go there often.  One day, in the shop at the front, I found this odd-looking figurine which I thought may have been from something interesting, so I bought it.  Okay, I'll admit it now; I am mildly interested in Shojo manga, but only a select few.
Later on I found out this figurine was nothing more than a Sailor Moon bootleg.  Observe an image of the unopened set:

After I found this out, I decided I could do whatever I wished to the figure.  And I did.

A lot of cut fingers later and half a roll of greenstuff, and then however long it took to paint, I ended up with this.  I think she may be an Inquisitor's apprentice or something.

I went to town with Blood for the blood god... The parts are taken from so many kits, I've forgotten a lot of them.  The gloves are power fists, I remember that-- the string of bullets is from a cultist's heavy stubber, the tabard is a back banner... I used a lot of pauldrons...

I was very pleased with the bolter.  The most part is from a centurion's heavy bolter, with the front off a stormtalon's and a tomb kings sword for a bayonet.  Oh, and a Grey knight's incinerator on the other side.

So that's that.  How anime is going to look in the dark millennium.
More interesting than anything out there now, at least in my opinion.

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