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?

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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.

Command Tank

Once again I abandon the concept of camouflage and paint things yellow. 

You can tell it's a command tank because it is impractically festooned with radio equipment.

Bigger Guns

I felt my Mechanicus troops needed a little artillery support. 

A little work with an Earthshaker cannon some tubes, a handful of matchsticks and a couple of jawas later, the first of three Earthshaker cannon emplacements was completed.

Knight: Part 1

Picked up a knight titan still on sprue for cheap(ish) from eBay.

For the most part it's a really cool kit to build. The whole upper half has tons of pose able connections. The legs however need a lot of cutting for even quite simple pose changes. I'll leave that for some future project.

Still not entirely convinced that chainsword is big enough.

With a bit of tweaking I did manage to make my knight left handed.

Not quite finished build. It's still a bit too built according to the instructions for my tastes. I have left all the armour plates separate for ease of painting so I might make a few adjustments before I start.

All glory to the Hypnotoad: Part 3

Part 3, where Bel realises you should always test things before just trying them on my crazy projects.

Thankfully I managed to drain out the resin before any lasting damage was done. Had to make a new transparent tube but better than making a whole new space frog.

My Mechanicus infantry are slowly coming together.

Space Wizards

A pair of 2nd hand Empire battle wizards have been turned into a pair of tech-priests for my slowly growing Mechanicus force.

Shame the new codex doesn't actually contain tech-priests of any kind.

They are awfully yellow.

All glory to the Hypnotoad: Part 2

Scale shot my space frog Primaris Psyker in his now floating tube.

Threw some paint on it.

80s sci-fi tells me that bright purple is the colour of psychic things.

Still deciding if the tube should be empty or if I should try adding some clear water effect resin.

All glory to the Hypnotoad: Part 1

I recently accidentally obtained one of these fearsome creatures:

It's the frog from the terradon kit. Now I could just throw it into some dark corner of my bitz box and never think of it again. But then I'd be missing out on a cool conversion opportunity.

Instead I decided it would make a good Primaris Psyker.

I plan to mount the frog inside some sort of psychic amplifier bio tube kajigger (TM).

I'm sure this is not a new idea but I like it anyway.

 Base platform made of a tank hatch, some wire and some short bits of plastic rod (Rod not tube this time).

Made a cap for the bio tube out of another hatch some, coiled wire and some plastic tube. These two sections fit into either end of a clear plastic tube.

next I need to add more details and decide if the whole thing is going to have spindly spider legs or if it will float along using creepy psychic powers.

Vostroyan Creed

A simple conversion from about a year ago that I finally got around to finishing.

Now, your standard Colonel Creed looks something like this.

Not a bad model, but very Cadian. He'd never fit in with Vostroyans.

He's had his whole head and collar drilled out. This was replaced with a new one with a sculpted moustache and big fluffy hat.

Greenstuff fur added to the collar and cuffs.

Finally the inner jacket was extended down and covered with a layer of chainmail.

One quick coat of paint and he looks okay.