'Doghouse Pattern' Truescale Marines
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Doghouse Pattern Truescale Marines Tutorial
Author This tutorial was created by Doghouse after numerous requests regarding how he created his truescale Marines. The article was formatted and submitted to the Librarium on his behalf by Rory Evans.
In order to create Doghouse Pattern Marines you will need:- Marine head
- Marine torso
- Marine arms
- Marine shoulder pads
- Marine weapons and backpack
- Green Stuuf or similar
- Warhammer Fantasy Chaos Warrior legs
Step One
First, cut the Chaos Warrior upper body off where the top of the belt meets the torso:
Step Two
Next you need to level the top of the legs so that the torso doesn't appear too stretched. To do this you need to carefully slice the top off the legs as far as the top of the belt. On the belt itself you have the buckle and the belt strap in the center of this, you need to cut the top so it is level with the top of the belt strap as seen here:
Step Three
Next you carefully slice the strap off the belt buckle on the front:
Step Four
Wrap a sausage of GS around the base of the trimmed down CW boot:
Step Five
Next carefully shave the tops of the boots down so they are level with the ankle. Using your sculpting tool flatten the sides of the GS to form the sides of the shoe working the GS upwards:
Step Six
Fold the GS over the top of the shoe and smooth out using the sculpting tool. You need to make sure that you have a film of water on the surface of the tool for the best results or alternatively use Vaseline. Make you that it's a thin film though so as not to swamp the areas you're working on:
Step Seven
Now you do the same to form the heel of the boot, blob of GS and smooth it out to form the heel:
Step Eight
A GS sausage is added to roughly form the bottom edge of the greave all the way around the boot:
Step Nine
Flatten out the bottom edge of the GS greave pushing the GS towards the leg. Once you're happy that you have a flat edge then smooth the sides of the greave out.Now you can wait till this is dry before moving on or just continue at this stage:
Step Ten
Finally add a blob of GS and flatten it out to fill the gap above the rim we just created create the bulk of the greave:
Step Eleven
Next the torso is stuck directly to the top of the Chaos warrior legs. I've used the Forge World MkIV torso here but it's basically the same as the plastic torso. You may have to cut a nick out of the belt buckle on the leg to get a better fit. Once the torso is stuck in place you begin to fill the gap with GS:
 
Step Twelve
For the rear armoured plate you add a small piece of GS and shape it into a square. If you are feeling adventurous you can also add ribbing to the backs of the knees. To do this add a small sausage of GS to the back of the knee and flatten it out. You then press the scultping tool into the GS horizontally twice creating three raised ribs as seen here:
Step Thirteen
Once that's dry you can add the edges of the leg armour by placing a GS sauage above the ribbing and blend into the armour of the leg:
Step Fourteen
If you have the bolter arms in place the belt area won't be visible:
Step Fifteen
However if you have the torso exposed then you will need to do a little work to cover the joint between belt and torso like I have done here with GS, grenades and pouches:
Job's a good 'un! Now simply paint and base to taste.
Below is a Doghouse Pattern Marine next to a regular Marine for comparison purposes:
Comments & criticism
If you have any C&C, or attempts at this technique please post them in the original Doghouse Gothic Marines topic
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