Marshal Reinhard Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 After not working on anything for well over a week I've finally, finally gotten the bits I needed to construct this:Wasn't originally planning on having a gunner to go with the Heavy Bolter, but kind of pleased how it turned out so I just rolled with it. Now, with this done I can now finally finally finish the Spartan.Oh, and I guess not having done anything wasn't entirely true as I've worked a bit on making a caretaker for the tank:With my Emperor's Champion having tartaros pattern terminator armor instead of artificer armor, I figured I'd try to convert another for my techmarine with full servoharness as that also counts as artificer armor. I kind of like how he's turning out, but i think i need more cables and stuff hanging from his armor. Oh and more cogwheels, can never have too many cogwheels.Reinhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larden Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 That techmarine is simply awesome!!! Can you pls list bits that went into making him,if it isnt too much to ask,just wanna makes similiar,if you are ok with that) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 Larden: Sure, the Techmarine is made out of techmarine and tartaros terminator bits. Everything but the head and left hand is from a FW tartaros terminator, make sure you get sergeant (or weapon pack's) left arm. I suggest looking for the bits on ebay. Then add a finecast techmarine to the mix for the servoharness. I found just buying the whole marine was both easier and cheaper than trying to find the sepperate servoharness bits. The Techmarine body is also a good source for mechanicus symbols that can be cut of then reused. And of course the axe is from that mini too. The head used is a Ravenwing biker techmarine that I cut down in size and filed until it would fit in place the regular tartaros head. Lastly the home made mechanicus symbols is a brass cogwheel from gw's 40k basing kit with a vehicle skull icon put superimposed in front. Just needed to remove the little bones first. I think that's it. I did a lot of filing on both the terminators back and the backpack beforefitting them together as it otherwise portruded way too much On a different note, this conversion greatly demonstrates the difference between FW and FC resin, while they look similiar FW is just that much harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larden Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Reinhard:Thanks a lot,will try it as soon as i get required parts.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Chaplain Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Wasn't originally planning on having a gunner to go with the Heavy Bolter, but kind of pleased how it turned out so I just rolled with it. Now, with this done I can now finally finally finish the Spartan. Glad to hear it, she is an impressive beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krikey Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 I love that techmarine. I hadn't really considered buying any tartaros termis, but I may have just changed my mind! Not that I need any more WIPs ... ~K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 The Spartan Assault Tank has been completed! Here are images from a variety of angles: With the Marshal from before that completes my fourth vow for ETL. With more than a week to spare I feel brave enough to pledge the techmarine I'd been working on earlier as my final vow.Reinhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golf33 Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 What a beauty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brother Chaplain Ryld Posted August 2, 2012 Share Posted August 2, 2012 Excellent work Brother. With regards to the man hole, does the lid pop open like that or did you do some converting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted August 2, 2012 Author Share Posted August 2, 2012 The lid is a loose piece that you you can fit snuggly on top or glue in an open position. No conversion required. In my case however it had been converted either way since i fitted on plastic bits from a space marine vehicle sprue to allow for the pintlemounted HB and gunner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honda Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 So the Spartan has the option for a pintle mounted heavy bolter? That would be extra sweetness on top of your brilliant model. You did a wonderful job on this. Very impressive. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted August 3, 2012 Author Share Posted August 3, 2012 So the Spartan has the option for a pintle mounted heavy bolter? That would be extra sweetness on top of your brilliant model. You did a wonderful job on this. Very impressive. Cheers, It has indeed. There's options for either stormbolter, heavy flamer heavy bolter or multimelta. Doesn't come with modeling options for any of them, so conversion is required, even though it wasn't particularly difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krikey Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I'm trying to tell myself I don't need to order a spartan that I won't have time to paint, but you make it very difficult, indeed. ~K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Chaplain Posted August 3, 2012 Share Posted August 3, 2012 I'm trying to tell myself I don't need to order a spartan that I won't have time to paint, but you make it very difficult, indeed. ~K Krikey, I don't think my body could handle the sight of a spartan in your templars army in addition to every other feast of the eyes you've posted. That said, this spartan is beautiful and the addition of the gunner on top really added something unique to the piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 Not all that much to this update. My Techmarine is done which most of you might have already seen in the ETL thread:I also made a group shot containing all of my 5 vows I completed for ETL:And because someone at some point asked for a Termie groupshot:Currently they count around 30 with my two fake termies. Even with this many, I still have another 10 or so planned. 5 are a long time coming but will be a while yet, while 5 are because I saw preview pics of the deathwing termies in GW's upcoming new starter box. Mmmm... termies with studs.Reinhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 Been a bit busy lately, so been light on the updates. I have however more or less finished painting these guys:Say hello to former squad Barachiel of the Dark Angels from the Dark Vengeance box. This will be the only shot of them together like this, as I'll be breaking them up a bit, with the Sergeant going to join some former Blood angels from Space hulk. Realized after I took the photo that one guy is more or less completely obscured by the assault cannon and power sword, but since he's virtually identical to the other guy at the back I didn't feel like retaking the photo.As conversions these guys were a breeze, mostly consisting of removing death wing feathers and covering them up with purity seals. Only the sergeant required any real effort.Reinhard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthanor Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Looking great! It's convenient that the sword icons of DAs fit so well with our sword brethren :) These guys certainly look like they belong in a crusade! But, no shoulder chapter symbols? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted September 23, 2012 Author Share Posted September 23, 2012 Looking great! It's convenient that the sword icons of DAs fit so well with our sword brethren :) These guys certainly look like they belong in a crusade! But, no shoulder chapter symbols? will be putting transfers on 'em later once I finish up all the SH termies as well, doing em all at once. Also think i might be out of the most apropriate size at the moment anyway... And yeah on those sword icons, only the winged versions felt blatantly DA, and those were really few in number Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvih Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 Great conversions and paint jobs! If only I were so confident and skilled with conversions that I'd dare do that with my DV termies. I've done removing shoulder tactical arrows from my AoBR tactical marines, but they weren't as detailed anyway, but I still hated doing it! Final word on how well it turned out will have to wait until they are painted, which they still aren't since I somehow ended up painting pretty much everything else before the AoBR tacticals. Still, who knows, as I'm having second thoughts about bothering with the DA, I might just end up templarizing them after all some day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 tvih: The fact that they weren't limited edition helped a lot in daring to cut them up. I felt considerably more apprehension before i started cutting up the space hulk set as you basicly only get one shot with those. (unless you buy replacements offa ebay) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir_Isenhar Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Nice Job Reinhard as usual! I still havent even taken my dark vengeance of the sprues yet... They almost dont even look like DA at all , was there alot of cutting involved? I havent looked at the models in close detail yet but It seems you did a good job... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted September 24, 2012 Author Share Posted September 24, 2012 Sir_Isenhar: Well apart from the Dark Angel symbol on each one's right shoulder, most didn't have much else needing cutting save for a few DW feathers. A couple had ornamental DA symbols too. I didn't even have to cut most things off particularly skillfully as I simply covered up the marks left with some extra purity seals. The sergeant was a bit more involved, with the big wing motives coming up from his back and some trickily placed feathers behind the skull with the gloria Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markan Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Hi, I have question, what size have Spartan assault tank? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted November 29, 2012 Author Share Posted November 29, 2012 If I recall correctly, the spartan has roughly the dimensions that it's 3 terminator bases from side to side, 4 if you count the sponsons, while it was about 6 in length from the very tip of the nose to the rearest parts of the tracks. So about 12 (16) cm wide and upwards 24 cm long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markan Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Thank´s:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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