Mechanicum Kiros: Finished

My scratchbuild Kiros is finished.

Okay, it'll never pass for the actual model but it turned out well enough regardless.

And yes it is yellow instead of traditional Mars red. I'm a Rebel.

The back of the Tech Priest's control alcove is covered with ports.
Partially because I didn't want a blank space.
Partially in-case I go completely insane and build an Ordinatus to connect to it.

Thunderhawk: Part 5

I am not sure what is says about my bits box when I have enough weapons for a Thunderhawk just lying around....

The front heavy bolters are a pair of re-purposed Leman Russ sponsons. The heavy flamers were trimmed off and replaced with some scratchbuilt heavy bolter barrels.

Some stormraven lascannons solve the lascannon problem.

I threw together the under-wing heavy bolter mounts from some hunter killer missile brackets.
The missiles are from the Taurox (leftmost) and the Valkyrie (rightmost) kits.

The main cannon is built from the same plastic tubing I use for everything.

And here's a scale shot with a Stormtalon.

Almost finished. Next up it needs riveting, and then painting.

Secret project: Sneak peek

Could be anything. Shhhh.

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.

Thunderhawk: Part 4

We have wings and engines!
Though I did go completely off script with both.

The template would have given me two multi part hollow wings. For something that should be a gaming piece this would not have been solid enough.Instead I just used the outer surface pieces over foamcore board. The result is much sturdier while still being light enough that it wont stress the connection point..

The engines were an odd combination of good and bad luck.
Bad luck in that this exact moment I ran out of the cheap glue I was using to glue the hull layers to each other (hence the peeling corners you can see in the photo).
However it's good luck to end up with two identical perfectly sized tubes. I glued the cap on upside down, added some card bands to the outside and glued in an intake fan from some cheap toy or another.
BAM, engines.

Next I need to source armaments.
According the the Thunderhawk datasheet I'll need to find the following.

• 1 main cannon. (Scratchbuild from the ol' plastic tubing.)
• 2 lascannons (Maybe some IG players have spares?)
• 4 twin linked heavy bolters.... so 8 heavy bolters. Which need to match each other. That one is going to be the most difficult I think.
• 6 missiles. Possibly more difficult than the heavy bolters. What has spare missiles on it?

Thunderhawk: Part 3

It is starting to look like a Thunderhawk gunship now. Vaguely anyway.

I have had to go off script a bit, this is not the easiest template I have ever followed. The wings are a little stubby and I have yet to work out what I am doing about engines.

Do not ask me about arming this thing.

The best kind of dwarves

No not Squats.... (though I might try the in them future)

I am talking about Chaos Dwarfs!
My take on Chaos Dwarfs is a mix of the old 80s big hats and the new forgeworld heavily armoured models. Mixed with quite a lot of "easy to make".

Plastic dwarfs. Good place to start. Need to braid up that beard though. Nothing says evil like dreadlock beards. It also helps cover up those ancestor faces that regular dwarfs seem so fond of.

Snip off the top of the dwarf helmets and add a proper hat. The hats are made from the now infamous plastic tubing I use for everything on here. Greenstuff on some chaos-y stuff and glue on a spike. And huzzah. I am trying out green stuff masks but so far I am unconvinced.

Hashut be praised!