This squad was done as part of a commission for a full army of Artscale Space Marines all in Mark V armour. You can find all posts pertaining to that army here. The client who commissioned this squad requested that they be striding forward. On the majority of the figures I’ve tried to position the legs into striding poses, or at least a little more dynamic than the usual generic Space Marine pose. The positioning of the arms and heads also play a large part on the dynamics of each figure. Note: half the shoulder pads are missing on the main pic because the client is providing his own. The backpacks were made using a different technique than those on the previous squad. All the helmets were converted from a specific Mark VII helm with...
Ciaphas Cain
2 Comments | July 24, 2009
This Commissar Ciaphas Cain converted from a FW Death Korps Commissar. The brief for the conversion was to have him based off of the artwork on the book covers. The head was replaced with one from a Master of Ordinance mini from the Imperial Guard advisors box set. For this mini I tried out ‘Brown Stuff’ putty as apposed to the...
Artscale Back Pack (Mark 4-6)
No Comments | July 10, 2009
This widened back (made for a scaled up Space Marine model) was done in a simpler and cleaner way to that featured in my Artscale Tutorial. The basic approach is to cleanly chop a single back pack in half down the centreline. Glue it back together with a plasticard spacer in the middle (approximately 3mm). At the top fill in with Green...
Artscale Vulkan He’stan
No Comments | July 9, 2009
I used the official Vulkan miniature as the design base for this conversion but I want to re-pose it (as well as true scale it). I tried to give him the striding pose shown in the artwork in the codex but I wanted the arms posed differently because when arms are positioned across the chest to much of the model is obscured from view....