Building a bigger knight: Part 4

Finally some plastic tubes arrived to finish off the legs. With pistons and supports they look much less spindly.

Made a start on the leg armour plates. Getting them to stay curved is much harder than I thought. Having some success with laminating two curved sheets together.

What's a knight titan without a gun? With it's hands full I made a shoulder mount.

It's a pretty solid mount given the small contact area.

Seems my Iron Warriors have been left out for a while.

I re-armed an Iron Circle mech a while back. The models are nice, rules not so much. So I'll be turning all of mine into contemptor dreadnoughts.

This one will use the space wolf axe and shield dred rules.

The sword is made from a couple of thicknesses of plasticard.

After paint it looks less crappy.

Here he is in his painted, but not properly based, glory.

Making Noise... Marines

There can't have been that many people who saw the Thousand Sons plastics and thought "I could make noise marines out of those."

I am one of such people.

The legs torso and backpack are all built as normal out of the box. With a bare head from any other marine kit. I prefer to stick with the more recent kits since the faces are better.

None of my noise addicts wear helmets. Why would you want something in the way of experiencing all that raw sensation?

That does mean I had to convert every single face to be cut and stretched differently. I only had two different types of bare head to work with and it'd be really noticeable if all my marines were twins..

The first few went together pretty well. It was all downhill from here.

The thing that initially made me think I could make noise marines out of this lot was the flamers with the demon bird heads. I figured they could make nice sonic blasters.

Cut of the tank and the little igniter nozzle.

I added a bit of plastic card to the front, this will act as a solid base for some GS. The little round disc on the gun casing will be a volume control turned all the way up to 11.

Time to attach the arms and shoulder pads (with a couple of scarabs filed off).

Some greenstuff scary faces and the sonic weapons start to look the part.

Added a stretched skin over the shoulder pad. For reasons.

Everything needs huge visible power cables in 40K.

Especially since I bought that cable maker tool. 

... I wonder if they are related in some way.

The cable dissapears under the shoulder pad - where it probably connects to something important.

With some horrible bright pink and gaudy gold tims it starts to look alright.

And I'll leave you with the WIP blastmaster.

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.