This heroic little fella is 99.9% finished. I’ve noticed a few little bits that could be painted better (only noticed after taking photos) and he also requires a coat of Testers Dullcote to finish him off. Once he’s varnished (Dullcote is a matt finish obviously) I’ve brush his boots with gloss varnish to give them that just polished look.
I’m really pleased with how this model has turned out, there’s no real part of the model that looks like an obvious conversion.
Ciaphas Cain
With large areas of black on this model I tried an different approach to painting him. All the black areas of his coat and clothes were painted in a mid grey, and then I added multiple layers of black and blue inks. I think the end result is quite subtle and these photos aren’t the best, but I’m happy with the it.
I’ve also very nearly finished the Red Scorpion Captain paintjob, but I made some alterations quite late in the process to get the colour scheme to work better. His pics along with 100% finished Cain will be up tomorrow.
Also managed to make some headway on the first Terminator. I’m keeping the sculpting of his armour really tight and sharp, with as few flaws as possible.
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.
The Ciaphas Cain conversion is closer to completion. Just a few more details to add.
Even though I hadn’t intended to start this for a few weeks, I fancied a change and doing something not in power armour. The client requested Commissar Ciaphas Cain converted from a FW Death Korps Commissar. The replacement head came from a Master of Ordinance mini from the advisors box set. I also tried out my newly arrived ‘brown stuff’ putty as apposed to the usual greenstuff. I have to say that it’s definitely nicer to use than greenstuff. Too expensive to use on everything, but the reduced elasticity makes it ideal for small details. Still a lot to do to this mini, but the hardest part, the head swap, is done. Took a good few hours to carefully remove the original head and trim the new one to fit, but eventually the result has turned out really nice. One of the other major features of this model is the ornate double edged chainsword. I couldn’t find an existing chainsword with the right dimensions of details, so I had to make one. I basically took the teeth off of two chainswords, glued them together. I then added a trimmed down motor bit from a Space Marine chainsword. The handle is from an catachan knife and is perfectly scaled to fit this model. The outer casing for the blade was filed off and then resculpted with brownstuff to make a clean finish.
After working on this mini, I’m very tempted to buy myself some Death Korps of Krieg Grenadiers, to use as Inquisitorial Storm Troopers. It’s a very nice model and better proportioned than most other Imperial Guard models.