Building a bigger knight: Part 3

My super knight very slowly inches towards completion.

Very...

Slowly...

Indeed.

Building a bigger knight: Part 2

Currently too spindly but, foot to waist, it is already taller than a normal knight.

... I really need help.

I am running out of plastic tubing and since I moved I no longer have a hobby shop around that sells them at any sensible price.

This is how wars get started you know.

Back to the drawing board for now.

Building a bigger knight

So, the Imperial Knight kit is a pretty big model. I guess it's fine.

But when has that ever been an excuse not to build something dumb?

With the waist extension and moving the head up to the top it is already almost as tall as a normal knight.

This is an excellent start.

Have a good day.

Iron warriors Praetor

I'm a bit late to the party but finally getting around to painting my Praetor Tribune I picked up like 6 months ago.

Some minor conversion work to turn the weird long handle paragon blade into a more brutal looking hammer and some replacement shoulder plates gives the model a very different aesthetic.

Still working on my trench mud basing.

Armies On Parade

I entered armies on parade for the first time this year.

While doing full time study.

... And working.

... And, towards the end, suffering from pneumonia.

This was a good idea.

Managed to snag 3rd place in my local store though.

Muzzle flashes

Many thousands of years ago I remember seeing a blister with pewter muzzle flashes. I have never seen them since, so I am beginning to think I imagined them.

Either way I thought they were kind of cool.

So I made my own.

Turned out alright. Could be better but could also could be worse. I am still unsure of my colours though.

And my object lighting could use a lot of work.

Tried some scaled up versions too.

Expendable troopers Part 1

In order to sneak proper artillery into my new Iron Warriors I need to ally with Imperial guard I mean Astra Militarum.

In their background fluff the Iron Warriors do not have a great rep with the other branches of the imperial army. The nickname "Corpse Grinders" is not great for morale.

After a while only slaves and criminal soldiers were assigned to the the legion. Is this an excuse to convert troopers out of the scraps in my bitsbox?

...

Damn right it is.

Trooper 84657-1 was my test model. I think the prison jumpsuit orange might be a bit too bright but overall it's alright.

I also picked up a cheap knockoff cable maker. As a simple rule of thumb, if something is not grimdark enough... stab a cable into into a skull. Instantly more distopian.

I don't even remember picking up a crashed lander pilot, nor to cutting off the gun or putting a speaker on his face. Oh well, he's trooper 7483A8-67 now.

Two more in the works.

Two birds - one high velocity armor piercing round

A long time ago I made some, in my opinion, damn fine waywatchers using the high elf shadow Warriors kit.

Turns out I have a few of the bodies I made for that project left over.

Rather than make something practical with them, I was a built this xenos sniper lady.

Good job, Bel.

Technology is hard.

I had to get a new phone. I might of accidentally completely destroyed my old old one in a black hole.

It happens, dont the judge me.

I figured I should work out if I can post from it. Maybe that will push my post frequency up from almost never?

In other news, I started painting Iron Warriors. This colour scheme might stick out of sheer ease of batch painting.

Though free handing skulls not so much.
Let's see how long this one lasts.

Sanginius

Have been kind of on a primarch kick since building Rogal Dorn.

I just happened to have a pair of featheredwings lying around and a pile of blood angels doodads in my bitsbox.

Sanginius it is then.

People who tell you metal models were better are lying. Shaving down the top of the metal Nightbringer torso so it would fit against the bottom of the BA chestplate took literal days

I think the wings were from a pegasis knight. I wish I had more of them whatever they are from.

Another liberal use of Stormcast Eternals arms. 

I think I tried 20-30 different shoulder pad combinations before I decided on the two I used.

Connecting body to skirt to base also too all kinds of drilling and filing. Thanks, metal.

More Stormcast bits to round out the model. Sanginius doesn't have rules yet so it's a guess as to what he will be armed with. That said, swords are a pretty good bet with HH characters.

I think he needs a bare head with hair but I couldn't find one I liked.

As with Dorn, I'll never get around to finishing the paintjob. Threw him up on eBay too. Hopefully someone else will finish him.

What will Bel's next unfinished project be?

More space wolves? Silent hill dark eldar? A (second) series of published romance novels? Getting a real life? Tune in next time.

Rogal Dorn

I accidentally picked this up on eBay the other day

What to build from a primarch? Well another primarch obviously.

Since Imperial Fists are currently my go to chapter tactics, Rogal Dorn seems like a good choice.

At the time of the Horus Heresy Dorn rocks up with a bolter and a chainsword. Making vanilla look good I suppose.

I didn't take pics at every step due to a combination of being too lazy to get my camera but also not being lazy enough to stop working on it.

The arms are cobbled together from an assortment of oversized parts from stormcast eternals sets. Their arms and weapons are actually too big even for space marines so they fit well enough.

I sculpted a couple of passable aquillas, though I fear the one on his chestplate is more recognisable at a distance than the leg.

Dryfitting the shoulders (Again more stormcast eternals bits) the fist icons are all press moulded from a forgeworld shield of some kind. You cal also see the gorget bit better here. It was carved off a spare betrayal at calth terminator torso and helps cover up some of the cog iconography from the top of the torso.

Filled up some gaps and affixed the shoulders proper here. More aquilas, purity seals and scrolls. JUST ADD MORE THINGS.

A regular boltgun was just not fancy enough so I built a bigger one out of yet more stormcast eternals weapons with a scope and barrel thrown in for good measure.

 Finally has his hands attached. The giant chainsword is an eviscerator from the assault marines box.

Turns out I forgot to add that backpack aquilla. (Yeah I know, just not enough aquillas without it right?) OOPS.

This is as far as I got with painting him before I fell back on space wolves.

I just could not be bothered to paint yellow. So I guess he's going back to eBay.

Burning down the heretics

Word Bearer's are doing well as my current favourite legion. (we'll see how long this one lasts)

While the glue on a big pile of tactical legionaries finishes drying I decided to try my hand to some of the Ashen Circle.

To those out of the know, the Ashen Circle are a Word Bearers specific formation who's job is to murder your culture. They are not nice people have have reasonable interesting rules.
What they don't have is nice models.

So I made some of my own out of spare scraps lying around.



They're okay. Still need to decide on a power weapons colour and a basing scheme. Then we can get back to spreading the primordial truth of Chaos to the unknowing galaxy.