Great Unclean One Pt: 2

Progress!

Apostles of Contagion Super Update!

A whole mess of models for my Apostles of Contagion force. Planning on doing both a CSM and Renegades army.

Next up some Terminators I salvaged from an older army. Going for a good accompanying unit for my Bioshock inspired Daemon Prince.. The heads are actually the exhaust vents from Chaos backpacks.

Another salvaged model, A Nurgle Dread. Was lucky to find the FW chainfist at my FLGS, as all I had was that aweful, awful claw bit in my bitzbox.

And now for some renegades! My Disciples of Xaphan and Scout Sentinels. The heads are the Iron Reich Chem Trooper from Kromlech. Chopped up some lasguns to make them Shotguns. Then sentinels were a on the whim buy, as I got them both in a local auction for $15, in addition to some Chimaeras. 

 

 

 

 

More to come soon!

Great Unclean One: Pt 1

So after some advice from a fellow scratch builder, I went and picked up a batch of Sculpey. Started with a tin foil core and built up from there.

Day Two: Baked the main form and started greenstuff work.

More to come in the next few days!

A plague upon you!

Gearing up for my next, and biggest conversion, a fully sculpted Great Unclean One! Starting off with some conceptual work.

Try to give a clear great unclean one look, but go for something a little more unique. Leaning more towards the multiple eye look with the less wormlike body, but still not 100%.

General approach will be building the body from foamcore, doing a basic shape/block skeleton. Then cutting down and rounding out until I get the shape I want. From there, fill in the gaps with Drydex spackling and sanding that down. Finally, the down and dirty work, scuplting the detail with a later of greenstuff over the whole body.

Definitely looking forward to this!

"Granddaddy": Apostles of Contagion Daemon Prince

"Granddaddy" is my Bioshock inspired Daemon Prince for a Apostles of Contagion force I am currently working on.

Here are the initial stages of him. Used the Nurgle Daemon Prince body. The drill arm was molded from a Killa Kan drill and the wiring was guitar strings. (32 and 42 gauge). The headpiece was entirely greenstuffed, I didnt want to try to have some sort of hollow dome to glue on so i just built up a greenstuff dome in thick ayers, placing some guitar string between the upper layers. For the rollcage, I just used thick pins and paperclips. Zipkicker definitely aided in this as they were a complete pain in the ass to do. I wanted a very renegade/ scrapped together look for this force so I gave him a jerry rigged IG autocannon, tied to him with chains (found a Michael s in their jewelry section, dirt cheap too.) and barbed wire from Army Painter. Although the model is styled after the Bouncer Big Daddies, i felt it would look odd with an empty hand, so I gave it something reminisce of the Rivet gun.

The little sister was a must for this model and when I found the mini with the gas mask it screamed Nurgle. Got her from Hasslefree Minatures. Even gave her a doll of the Daemon Prince (in the picture below)

This was definitely my grungiest, filthiest models. Started off with a dark brown and worked my way up to Vomit Brown. The Apostles of Contagion are normally full brass, but I felt metalllic marines wouldnt offer as much as far as quality grim, filth and ooze, so I took some liberties went with a yellowish hue.


Hope you folks enjoy!

Saim-Hann Farseer

A Saim-Hann Farseer on a jetbike. A commission for a buddy at my LGS. The runes were pure freehand. The model (not converted/built by me) is from Chapterhouse Studios. Working on an accompanying jetbike Seer Council as well.

Boss Snagbolt

So I was looking to mix it up with my orks and had a good bit of bitz laying around, so I scratch built what will now be a Warboss/Big Mek/ Weird Boy for my Adeptuz Mekanikuz Waaagh! I wanted to try out a Weirdboy mostly, but still give him that Mek theme that I am keeping throughout my army, so I gave him the Techpriest-esque robes and what would be the Ork equivalent of a Psycannon to add in some fluff. Halfway through working on it I realized it could pass for a Big Mek as well so I gave him a back mounted KFF generator (actually a teleport beacon from the Terminator Kit.)

A large portion of this guy was greenstuffed, such as the cowl, coat and body. The legs were cast from a Nob. To get a solid core and a good base to start off of, the torso was made by green-stuffing around a normal boy torso. The head is from the AOBR Warboss and the Power Klaw is a Nob big choppa part. His gun was actually made from a IG Weapon Team Lascannon and a few other orky bitz. Had a few old headphones lying around and chopped up some cord to get some easy wiring for him. Definitely one of the most fun models I've worked on.

Completed Tu'Shan

I've been to busy shamelessly plugging this mini over on Dakka and forgot to give it some love here!

Tu'Shan Revamped! Pt2

More progress on Tu'Shan, with some more work on the greenstuff cloak.

Tu'Shan Revamped!

So after much deliberation, I decided to re-make my Chapter Master Tu'shan model. Although i have a soft spot for it, its quite outdated and old when standing next to my newer stuff. For those unfamiliar with this Salamander character, he's kind of a boss :P, easily displayed in this excerpt:

"In addition, while commanding the Salamanders' veteran 1st Company, the Fire Drakes, Tu'Shan defended one of the last bridges over the River Stygies against a column of 1,000 Ork Speed Freeks, fighting consecutively for 3 days and 4 nights. By the end of the campaign, Tu'Shan was so respected that Lord Commander Dante praised him as the model of what a Space Marine should be in front of the entire assembled Blood Angels Chapter."

Ever since I saw his fluff entry in the Armageddon Codex, Tu'Shan has and still is one of the most BA marines in the Imperium.

Anywho, I started off with a basic sketch up in Photoshop of what I wanted him to look like with the BCW painter, except he would have no helmet. Going with a longer, off-kilter cloak that hangs long on one side, with a somewhat diagonal angle to the bottom. Will be doing all my cloaks and scale ala my normal Greenstuff method for it, piece by tiny piece.

Started off with the base while I waited on bitz, which ended up taking quite some time to arrive. I had a Sally Rhino door laying around, having used the other 2 on a Vindicator, so I thought it would look cool to have him standing on some wreckage over a lava flow.

Decided on using some FW stuff such as the Salamander shoulder pad (unfortunately there was only one type in stock on the bitz store but I liked it anyways) and the heavy flamer arm from Lugft Huron.
Found some nice hammers from Maxmini and I plan to use the hammer heads. This is the current Blu-Tac'd pose I'm going with. :D With a little Instant mold work, I made a greenstuff belt and chest icon courtesy of Vulkan He'stan's model.

Looking to get him glued up and fully greenstuffed over the course of this weekend!