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Modeling => Conversions, Modelling and Terrain => Topic started by: Meatshield on September 27, 2008, 04:33:40 AM
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Hello everyone!
I'm going to post some pictures of my chaos infantry. I normally play the Lost and the Damned so I will show off my new traitors, renegades, cultists, etc.
First I will start with a couple of traitors made from the new Cadian Guardsmen Box (the box with five men). Since these models are like the Assault on Black Reach models and have only three parts to snap together. While these men are good for fleshing out missing members from your squads, they are all posed in very generically. So in order to make my guys a bit more interesting I added a few bitz and some of battle damage to their gear.
First Traitor
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Traitor 2
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Traitor 3
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Next up is one of my first new Blood Pact Troopers. If you don't know what a Blood Pact is then read Dan Abenett's "Gaunt's Ghosts" books. The Blood Pact are basically elite foot troops of Khorne who wear Steel Bowl Helmets, iron masks called grotesques and blood dyed fatigues. I'm beginning a small army of these men and this is my newest model.
Some followers of the Dark Gods are weak and delusional TOUGH AND MERCILESS!
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Equipped with a backpack based on the back pack of another Germanful type of guardsman.
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Without the aid of a huge organization like the Departo Munitorium, a Pactsman must carry a lot of (stolen/looted) supplies.
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Lobbing a grenade
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'They hide their faces in snarling iron, but the cruelty in their hearts is manifest in their brutal deeds. We are lost and we are done. May the God-Emperor forgive our failure and protect our souls.'
last transmission of General DeLestt, Urdesh.
(An actual quote from the Black Library description of the Bloodpact.)
http://blacklibrary.com/articles/blood-pact.asp
I love Bloodpact, they make me feel all warm and fuzzy and murderous inside!
I'm going to post a lot more pictures.
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The blood pact troops are very nice. What kind of colour scheme are you planning? I'd guess a deep brown/red for the uniform (blood dyed, after all), but what about the helmets/masks/guns?
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Looking good, especially Mr bloodpact. Can hardly wait to see them painted.
So the new packs of five are snap-togeather. :( Is the weapon arm one of the three pats? So that you could perhaps make a flamer or grenade launcher guy with the spare parts from your regular plastics?
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The blood pact guy looks ace, the helmet works a treat!
Nice knives on the cadian guys too. It gives them a suitable renegade touch.
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Very nice, very nice indeed.
Am I right in thinking that the helmets are west wind?
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hey mate, loving the traitor's!
The bloob pact looks awsome! good work
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the blood pact guy looks nice, but your other guys just look like bog standard imperial guardsmen, without some of the over-the-top iconography.
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Yeah, another Blood Pacter! :D
Your guy looks totally awesome... very nice modeling on the grotesk. And you're using Westwind helmets too!
We should compare notes, though my blog hasn't been updated in a while 'cause I've been busy building. My Pact army is about 70% complete.
Are you doing any Stalk-tanks? Loxatl? Non-standard tanks like Reavers or Brigands? Do tell!
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I'm guess your using the blood pack as your Hardened vets and the bulk of your trator gaurd being made from the cadians?
If so this will be a VERY slic army.
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Mockingbird:
I'm going to paint them like my image over there
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fugitive:
The new Cadian models are made of the body, the snap on lasgun arm, and the base. You could cut down the model and put a flamer on it, but I would suggest using these guys as lasgunners and using the regular guard bodies you have saved by implementing these guys into your force to equip with flamers.
Psycho Mantis:
Am I right in thinking that the helmets are west wind?
Yes, indeed they are.
Ailaros:
your other guys just look like bog standard imperial guardsmen
Wait what do you mean by "Bog Standard"? You mean like they can fight in a bog because they have tools to hack through the dense undergrowth?
Lucky_Jackal:
I will be doing that when I use my traitors in a renegade list. Otherwise I use these rules for Latd or sometimes the rengade list:
http://www.redelf.h1.ru/w40k/im/im_bloodpact.html (at the bottom)
moon46:
We should compare notes, though my blog hasn't been updated in a while 'cause I've been busy building. My Pact army is about 70% complete.
Are you doing any Stalk-tanks? Loxatl? Non-standard tanks like Reavers or Brigands? Do tell!
I would love to compare notes! I've seen your blog and I love the work you've done! Check your 40k online messages because I sent you a message a while ago, if it went through that is.
Anyway here are some old threads with some of my Blood Pact stuff.
Some of my older Bloodpact troops.
http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=150845.msg1823454#msg1823454
My AT-83 Brigand
http://www.40konline.com/index.php?topic=169045.msg2051517#msg2051517
Thanks for the comments and remember more commentary is better!
I got another Blood Pact done and will post his pictures soon!
Here are the pictures of my second new Blood Pact trooper.
Another trooper ready to acquire skulls for the skull throne.
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Doesn't his mask make him look happy go-killy?
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A mound of supplies to lug into battle.
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I should have bought more autoguns.
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looking great my friend! , i would also love to do a blood pact army but dont know the cost of it going to be in GB£ :-\
looking forward to seeing more :D
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love that last model. Wish he had some sort of bayonet to justify the angled pose, but it's amazing work on the face.
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looking great my friend! , i would also love to do a blood pact army but dont know the cost of it going to be in GB£ :-\
For my 1500 point army, aside from buying the Guard infantry and tanks, I probably only spent an extra $100 or so at Battlewagon Bits, buying Chaos bits and miscellaneous stuff to kit them out with. The Westwind heads are incredibly cheap, too - I spend about $20 USD for forty heads (that includes shipping). I think it all depends on how much you want to customize.
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wow... :o
Those Blood pact troops are incredible. Don't know much about them myself, I haven't gone much outside the standard issue codecils. I really like the backpacks and the gear you've kitted them out with. I may just have to steal the backpack idea. I don't play guard, but I like to get a set of random troops every once in a while just to build and paint, and I have plenty of extra SM bits in my SM bits box.
If I may be critical for a moment, I've got to say something about the filing down of your standard rebel-guards. Perhaps it's just the picture, but the helmets seem to have flat planes where you have filed off the imp eagle. Can I suggest a method I've found useful for curved surfaces? It takes a little longer, but used a curling motion with your hand when filing, and do it lightly. By curling motion (and a preemptive apology to all you Englishmen, no offense at all is meant by the following statement) I mean the stereotypical wave that we Americans equate with the English Queen. Sort of like cupping a baseball and rubbing your hand around the surface.
I'd like to end on a positive note, though, and say that I haven't seen rebel troops look quite as cool as those blood pacters!
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Alright time for another update!
Jolly Greggor:
I would attach a bayonet, but unfortunately all of the guard bayonets look to big on the autoguns. :-\
ChaplainRobb:
As for the traitors, I may make the helmets a bit rounder, but as of now I'm going to focus on the Blood Pact because they are so fun to convert!
Alright now on to the pictures! Their are two new soldiers of the Pact for me to show! I want to save the rest of my auto-guns for later so I started using the lasgun arms. Some of the mold lines still need to be filed of these men, but I was so eager to take pictures so they are a little rough.
Armed to the teeth, the Pactsman rushes into the fray.
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A sleeping bag or something. Everyone's got to sleep somewhere...
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No bayonets for this guy!
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Goggles for that day to day arterial splatter!
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This trooper charges past the remains of some defeated foe.
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The Last thing the enemy sees will be the eyes of a pitiless killer... Mu ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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Like all of his brethren, he is lugging a lot of gear around.
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Their is a gunshot hole in the back of the deceased's helmet. This can only mean...
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Another nice addition to my army! After this squad is done I will make a more heavily armored squad of Blood Pact or as in fluff terms a "Death Brigade".
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Sick. Love that charging trooper.
You're right about the bayonets looking unnaturally large, but it kinda looks like he's slashing or guarding, and I associate a bayonet with both of those.
Maintain the progress.
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Some more new pics! I decided to make a Lascannon trooper just for the heck of it. This Lascannon is a more man portable version. This is my first Blood Pact that is not wearing his grotesque (although its attached to his belt at the moment).
This picture is kind of fuzzy.
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The power pack
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I tried to sculpt some scars on his arms.
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If you look closesly you can see his mask hanging on his belt.
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Tanks beware!
Oh heres a shot with all the Blood Pact I've shown in this thread together with a flag I made.
Technically a squad!
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Still more updates to come.
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I concurr, verry killy, well done ( i helped a tiny bit with the skull on the charging pactsmen)
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Nice!
I've been trying to figure out how to model/paint scars, too. So far I haven't tried for fear of screwing it up, but my Senior Officer/Etogaur has no grotesk on, so I'll have to give it a try then...
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How did you make such a sweat looking flag?
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i like the whole WW1 feel to it.
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Okay I been busy but here more stuff. These are my beloved cultists. Cheap. Expendable. Die in scores. Yet so many they can overwhelm enemies with sheer weight of numbers.
Imagine yourself as an Imperial guardsman. Your entire field of vision is filled with cultists charging straight for you.
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Cleaver waving maniac
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Maniacal Cultist with an old autopistol
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Keeping the thread kicking.
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Imagine yourself as an Imperial guardsman. Your entire field of vision is filled with cultists charging straight for you.
Well, I would be glad my Ld: is only seven, so I can run away.
Looks good Meatshield. You wouldn't happen to have a pic of one of your sweet looking bloodpact dudes (painted) as well?
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What kinds of bits did you use on those cultists? I really like the look, and may convert a few for my traitors...
Obviously I can pick out Ork weapons and Imperial Guard body parts... Marauder heads? What else?
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hmmm... from the looks of it most if the torsos came from bretonnian men-at-arms (of whatever they're called). I think most of the heads are from empire miniatures. I definitely recognize some flagellant heads and some state troop heads. I dont think I see any marauder heads in there.
Nice work!
((P.S. is that an old chaos cultist model I see in the back there, one of the ones with the cone-shaped hood?))
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Well, I would be glad my Ld: is only seven, so I can run away.
Not with a nearby Commissar you won't! Also I have not yet painted any of my new Blood Pact yet.
What kinds of bits did you use on those cultists?
There are a ton of different types of bits I used on the cultists. I mainly use Bretonnian men at arms bodies for my cultists although I have used some some state troops I got for free at Gamesday. For arms and weapons I usually use a mix of Imperial guard, Chaos warrior, Chaos marauder, Empire flagellant, Empire state troops, Bretonnian (unsurprisingly) and ork parts. Some of the heads I converted from trophy decapitated heads or heads meant to be part of a chaos spawn.
is that an old chaos cultist model I see in the back there, one of the ones with the cone-shaped hood?
Yes it is. I also use some old scavvy Nercomunda models as well.
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Okay here is another Blood Pact where I custom made an autogun out of the cadian lasgun.
Pactman and Mr. Blasty
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Watch where you point that thing! Someone could get hurt...
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I ran out of the side pockets for back packs.
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And the Autogun up close
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Yep, this thread is still going. Needs some mutants though...
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Looking good, as usual.
What did you use for the ejection port on the autogun? The bolter mag I recognise, but that part is unfamiliar.
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The ejection port is made from one of the ejection ports of a bolter I carefully cut out. The magazine is actually from a bolt pistol because I think the bolter clip is too long. Also I stuck the gun sight of the bolt pistol near the barrel end of the gun. The white gun sight parts are plasticard.
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Meatshield, I like the shell ejection port but isn't it incredibly tedious removing the port from the bolter? where did you learn to do that anyways?
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Meatshield, I like the shell ejection port but isn't it incredibly tedious removing the port from the bolter? where did you learn to do that anyways?
Taking out a bolter's ejection port is easy. I thought of the idea my self when I had found a bunch of messed up bolters and thought "how can I salvage these".
I think I'll do a tutorial on making my version of the autogun which will explain this as well.
Okay here are the materials you need to start with:
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First cut off the Lasgun's scope and powerpack and then trim down the barrel.
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Next carefully score a box around the sides of the bolter's ejection port. Make sure your cuts are deep.
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After this, make a vertical cut from the top of the bolter and carefully cut out the ejection port.
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Next, gently cut the forward gun sight and ammo magazine off of the bolt pistol.
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Now this is what you should have to make the autogun. A trimed down Lasgun, a bolter's ejection port, and a bolt pistol's forward gun sight and magazine.
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Now just stick them on the gun like so.
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Next cut some small thin strips of plasticard and afixthem to the top of the gun. Now you have your own Meatshield pattern Autogun!
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Hope you liked the tutorial!
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:D im building a traitor army for doubles tourny in nottingham and this will be handy!
though im not sure im allowed to use them :(
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may i requisition/use your backpack design?
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:D im building a traitor army for doubles tourny in nottingham and this will be handy!
though im not sure im allowed to use them :(
What type of list are you running? If its just the normal guard list with chaotic models, it should be perfectly fine.
may i requisition/use your backpack design?
Sure you can! What are you going to use them for? Cool Skitarii or something? It would be cool to see some pictures of what you did when you are building/finishing your army! :)
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your other guys just look like bog standard imperial guardsmen
Wait what do you mean by "Bog Standard"? You mean like they can fight in a bog because they have tools to hack through the dense undergrowth
I hate to be completely oblivous to a joke (if this is one!) but bog standard means normal!
(soory about the butchering of the quote system, im not to good at it!
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About the Autogun, I have a few qualms:
- Why do you need the Bolt Pistol? Could you not get those same parts off of a Bolter?
- The muzzle appears to be for a laser shot (judging by the forward lens and flash); Is there a way to make it appear more like a slug-firing weapon?
Otherwise, I love your work. I've already commented on the Cultists, and I love your Blood Pact. I'm likely to borrow a few notes from your conversions, but nothing signature. Keep up the impressive conversions!
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may i requisition/use your backpack design?
Sure you can! What are you going to use them for? Cool Skitarii or something? It would be cool to see some pictures of what you did when you are building/finishing your army! :)
well, actually my army is made up of regular soldiers whose officers are skitarii/cult members. i need something to bulk out the regular troopers backs, so i thought i would give it a shot. it works wonderfully, thanks. i'll post pics in my blog later with my newest trooper (unfortunatley my only update cept fluff until probably next week)
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Im using the usual guard army list like i do with my non-traitor guard and just one squad of plague marines to bulk out my friends force a-bit.
Ill be making a thread about mine so check it out soon :P
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hmmm... nice job making autoguns.
can't really say anything else about em'
(I'm not being sarcastic, you did a great job)
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Is that a German helmet I see?
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Yes, great job on the autoguns btw.
Custard
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Is that a German helmet I see?
Yes that is a german helmet, ordered from Pig Iron.
Perfect for all your evil needs
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Is that a German helmet I see?
Yes that is a german helmet, ordered from Pig Iron.
Perfect for all your evil needs
Actually its a head from the Westwind Company....
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About that flag, is it metal foil ?
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The flag he used is from the old empire spearmen box. it looks like he took a plasicard pole and glued it on. No GS or cutting required.
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Very nice work on your troops so far Meatshield. I like the conversion work on the Pact troops. Do you have a planned army yet, or are you just building a random force of troops? Either way, keep up the good work brother...The Legion of the Dragon always needs its allies ;)
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Very nice work on your troops so far Meatshield. I like the conversion work on the Pact troops. Do you have a planned army yet, or are you just building a random force of troops? Either way, keep up the good work brother...The Legion of the Dragon always needs its allies ;)
I'm not really planning any army, I'm just making stuff to my heart's content and figuring out how to use it in battle later.
Now here it a picture of my Banner carrier. He originally had a Cadian head, but I switched it out for one of those new German Helmet heads I have.
This First pic is bad, but the only way to show the whole model.
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Next, a better picture.
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A shot (also shotgun) from the back.
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And finally a side shot.
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Next I'll post pictures of the Eto-guar I made. For those who don't know, an Eto-guar is the Blood Pact rank equivalent of Colonel. So basically I made a colonel.
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nice job. I like the helmet.
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I know this is a bit of a stretch to post in this topic again, but I was very busy with finals and class projects.
Anyway here is my Eto-Guar (AKA Colonel) based off of the new Warriors of Chaos Lord models.
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Here is a side view with the khorne symbol I sculpted.
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Next up is not Infantry, but a sentinel squad I'm building. I modeled them to have close combat weapons, because I like to use the Sentinels to assault weaker enemy units. A stratagy developed by Ailaros.
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Here is the Leader of the squadron with some talon feet.
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And a close up.
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I still want to post more. Later though as now I'm going to sleep.
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your models are awesome!
love the sentinels talon feet, how did you make them?
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I really like your Officer Conversion, very nice! The only thing is that he has no gun type weapon, you might want at least give him a holstered pistol.
The sentinels are very nice too! The A/Cs with the CCW at the ends reminds me of the Reaper A/Cs on Chaos Terminators. I saw you made some taloned feet conversions, very nice! I have a friend who did that with his Catachans, by taking the older version of the LemanRuss Dozer blade with the sharp pointy ends of it.
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Something like a holstered pistol and a few grenades or pouches would make him a great 40k commander... however, since he's Khorne, he could easily do just as much without. Love the model, though. Amamzing. Almost orgasmed looking at it.
And the sentinels are pretty great, for Chaos. You've done a great job in making them look Renegade, and close combat too!
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Sick missile launcher. I wanna get myself one of those... yeah baby.
I really like the masks and helmets... you should stick with those, modelling up your entire army like that.
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Now that I'm back from my vacation I post to save this topic once again. I should have just asked for a project thread.
As for the officer above, I'm trying to find a place to put a gun holster, but can't find a good place to put one on the model.
Anyway here are some forge world renegade based troops.
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And a close up of the painted guy. I'm tring to work out a decent color scheme.
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and the side. The one red arrow jutting out of the corner of the armor is a motif I think which will be a simple symbol for my army's flags and what not.
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Next, I wanted some models to represent the Dark Mechanicus which backs many chaos armies. Although you can't see it very well the skull insignia on the axe has a horn and fang sculpted on it.(https://www.40konline.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg377.imageshack.us%2Fimg377%2F281%2Fpicsfor40konlinedm002ts6.jpg&hash=fffddb19b46e67eeac8c89ae539c1d2f8a13cfcb)
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I wanted some daemonic infestation going on to set the Engineseer apart from his Imperial counterpart.
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Yeah, sorry mods for posting every one or two weeks...
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you know your las cannon, i kinda made one and just wandered if i actually WAS able to use it as im thinking about you accusing me of stealing it if i post my traitor guard pics up on the forums. ;)
anyway lovely army and your renegade militia scheme looks alot like mine... :D (t'is a good thing!)
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Nice conversions, though I think the lascannon still looks a bit too much like a missile launcher...
How did you make such a sweat looking flag?
The flag is actually a sixth edition Empire State Troop banner.
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All of it looks great. Quality work with the Greenstuff.
NewHeretic
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For an easy conversion of the standard cadian heads, just shave of the boxes and imperial eagle, then cut down the helmets brim over the cheekpads by a few mm.