Here’s a small post of a conversion of my own I wanted to finish for some time. It’s a forgeworld piece, modified into a striding pose. The plasma cannon is unmodified, the claw however, is an assault drill arm with the drills replaced with rounded claws. I always disliked the regular power claw arm, so this seemed like a nice alternative. The banner is from an old Empire model and the top of the banner is originally from a Chaplain Cassius model (I think).

I’ll be putting this up for sale, if anyone’s interested.

Completed Project Dreadnought, For Sale

At long last, put some effort in this week and finished off the Terminator Squad I’ve been working on for the last month or so.

The client had requested 6 Terminators in Actual Scale with a variety of armaments to be magnetized. There are 6 Storm Bolters, 4 Power Fists, 1 Chainfist, 1 Power Sword, 1 Assault Cannon, 1 Heavy Flamer, 1 Cyclone Missile Launcher, 4 pairs of Lightning Claws, 6 Thunder Hammers and 6 Storm Shields. In all I used 96 magnets in the squad, with each shoulder pad being magnetized also, so that only the arms are swapped out. The positioning of the magnets proved very tricky, but the results are well worth it.

Because the clients chapter has a lion theme to it, I added a lion head and mane as a trophy on the sergeant and sculpted a lion emblem on the chest of one of the squad members. There may be a few changes as I still need the clients approval, but otherwise the squad is finished.

Terminator Squad with Storm Bolters and Power Fists. Click for larger image.

Terminator Squad with Thunder Hammers and Storm Shields. Click for larger image.

Terminator Squad with Lightning Claws. Click for larger image.

Completed Project Magnets

I’ve been promising a tutorial on my method for creating an Actual Scale Space Marine for a very long time.

Well, version 1.0 of How to Make an Actual Scale Space Marine is here.

I’ve most likely left out huge chunks and forgotten a lot of stuff that should have been in there but it’s still a pretty massive guide. Somewhere in the region of 80 photos (and a lot less text). Feedback on this is very welcome, as this will be the first of a series of tutorials, and I like to know where I’ve gone wrong.

Completed Project, Miscellaneous Mark VII, Power Armour, Tutorial

Completed Project Painted, Red Scorpions, Regular Scale, Terminator Armour

Here he is.

The Red Scorpion Captain is very nearly finished. Pics to come in a few hours.

Completed Project Ciaphas Cain, Finished, Painted

Took me a long time to get there, but the squad is finally finished (pending comments from the client). I personally wasn’t satisfied until about 80% of the way in when the squad started to really come together properly. Most elements of the models I’ve covered in previous posts and are fairly self explanatory. The most recent element were the Mark III back packs. In illustrations of various forms of power armour Mark II & III have a distinct style of backpack, although there has never been a specific model component (as far as I know) of that design. I tried to follow a similar styling to that of the armour – bigger, plates and cabling. Whilst the the vents on the top are very difficult to keep uniform, I’m fairly pleased with the final thing.

The Alpha Legionnaire Badge on the shoulder pad was first made in greenstuff and then casts were made using silicone rubber putty as a simple one piece mold. At some point I’ll make a post about this new material, but I’ve only just started experimenting with it, so I’ll wait till I’ve had a chance to try a few things first.

The whole squad has come together nicely, whilst they aren’t perfect conversions, there is definite progression occurring over time, which is obviously nice to see. For anyone who’s interested the client plans to use these as “counts as” Grey Knight Terminators.

Anyway, here’s the pics:

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Completed Project Alpha Legion, Backpack, Grey Knight, Mark III, Mark IV, Silicone Rubber Putty

The conversion of Ciaphas Cain is complete as per the clients requirements. I’m very pleased with this conversion (want to keep him for myself actually), and the level of detail required was something that challenged my developing sculpting skills. I’m especially happy with the boots with the eagle icons on them. I really keen to buy some DKoK for myself, grenadiers perhaps.

This will be painted over the next week also, so more pics to come when he’s finished.

Completed Project Ciaphas Cain, Commissar, Forge World, Resin

Well I finally have some finished work to show.

First up is the Blood Raven HQ who will count as Vulkan He’stan. Overall he’s come together really well in the end. I had to resculpt the cloak again to get it right, and the addition of power cabling, studs and accessories has really helped complete the model. I’ve left the pads and belt buckle plain, to allow for painted iconography of the client’s choice (personal heraldry I would assume, because he’s at least a Captain in rank).

Completed Project Blood Raven, Cloak, Feathers, Gauntlet, Pet, Regular Scale, Spear

Well I finally managed to finish this squad. The arms on this squad are from the terminator models as apposed to the power armour arms used on the previous squad. It’s a lot more work but ultimately a much better finish. The brief for this squad was for mostly charging poses. I didn’t manage to achieve the standard charging pose of GWs Space Marines, but for the most part have created a sort of striding pose, which I’m rather pleased with. I think the running pose can take away from the sense of weight that I try to instill into these conversions, and are best left for Assault Squads with jump packs. All models are WYSIWYG with the exception of two carrying combat blades instead of bolt pistols. The arms on the sergeant are magnetized as I’ve already pointed out before. I got the chance to experiment a little with “brownstuff”. At the moment I’m just trying to get a feel for it. Despite many people preferring it to greenstuff, at the moment I’m more comfortable with the good old green-chewing -gum.

The full squad. Click for a larger image.

Various size comparisons. Click for larger image.

Sergeant weapon variant 1.

Sergeant weapon variant 2.

Completed Project Mark V, Squad

Just thought I’d give a sneak peak of the squad I’m working on. The rest of the squad just needs there rivets adding and they’re finished, but for now here’s my favourite. There’s something about the scale of heavy weapons on an Actual Scale Space Marine that is really satisfying. I’m pretty sure I’ll be using lots of them in my own Space Marine army.

Completed Project Heavy Weapons, Mark V, Multi Melta