Circus Nurgling Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Hey all. I'll be sharing some of my works in progress over the next couple of weeks. A lot of converting and not a lot of painting, but that is my way. Hopefully I'll get everything at least base-coated soon... http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0086.jpg http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0085.jpg This guy is part of a Chosen squad, modeled after the plaguemarine pic: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/2/20/Plague_marine.jpg Here's an old Plaguebearer I painted up a couple years ago. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/002-4-1.jpg More to follow... I have a bunch of pictures to upload! About 2500 points worth... [Edit]Ok so I initially wanted to make up my own warband, but they fall so closely in line with the Apostles of Contagion, even color-wise, that I figured I'd just ocmmit and make them a canon warband. I really like the storyline they have in Siege of Vraks anyhow. I had written some fluff where they were survivors of Vraks, and escaped off-world, but I suppose I can go back and re-write it a bit. I like that they're a Sorceror-heavy warband, and known for spreading zombie-plague, both things highly interest me. They have a special character whose artwork and story I very much like, and though I'm not completely sold on the mini (thinking of converting one myself instead of buying), he gives furious charge to zombie units, which is really cool. If you're not familiar with them: http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Apostles_o...on#.UBcX0KNX0XQ ...though my paint-scheme is going to follow more closely with Necrosius' artwork than with the given reference, namely boltgun metal armor and tin bitz trim, with a bit more corrosive colors accenting the armor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Taint Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 :blush: That's a fantastic conversion that pays a great tribute to the picture. It took me a while to get all the details you bothered to make up to match it. Well done! Are you considering a left shoulder pad? I'm not sure if there's one one the picture you're matching, but I'd feel it looks somewhat incomplete without one? Also, how did you do the left hand conversion? In the first place it looks like a chainsword-hand part to me, but on a closer look it doesn't. Where's that bit from? Cheers, JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Gotta commend that conversion - one of the best I've seen. Jay Taint's comment though rings true, I think a spiky (maybe GS'd) shoulderpad would complete it. Looks great though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 Hi, and thanks for the complements. From my perspective it doesn't look like he's wearing a pauldron on his left side. Instead he has a swollen bit of eroded flesh, and the spiky metal bit you see will be his elbow-pad. There is way to much going on there to make room for shoulder armor anyhow, but hopefully some paint will make that area come alive and it won't be a missed piece, as there will be several colors happening there. I had toyed with making a shoulder-pad with spiky-bits on it for the right side, out of a vanilla loyalist pad, but that seemed like a lot of work spent on an area that didn't seem very important to the overall picture. I think the FW bit does well on it, and ties it into the rest of my army (which is all fly and plague-incense bits, with very little DG going on). As for the bit, yes it is a chopped up chainsword hand, pinned into the arm. Good eye. His arm positioning was a pita, but I think it paid off. I need to make a run up to the LHS and buy some strips of styrene so it finishes off the heavy bolter handle. I know he's holding a regular bolter, and I had thought of going that route, but the heavy bolter just looks too cool, so I ended up using some artistic license there. There are some very fine details left that I'm fighting with at the moment, but it's close to being finished so I thought I'd post a wip shot. I can't be the only one that likes WIPs along with their finished products. Here's a pic of my Terminator squad, with bases that are to be filled in with water effects of some kind for a swamp motif. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/001-4.jpg That terminator on the lower right has a triple-chainfist, btw. Also a pita to convert, considering I actually attached all the cables, relative to gravity. Note the custom half-tabard. Dreadnought is magnetized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Araziel Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Now these are KILLER. Great conversions, can't wait to see how you get along painting them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted April 10, 2012 Author Share Posted April 10, 2012 Hey again. I figured I'd post a WIP of some swamp terrain I'm building before I prime it, next to the finished Icon Bearer of my Chosen squad. Enjoy! http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/032-1.jpg [edit]...finished except for drilling out the barrel of the heavy bolter... sheesh there's so much to do before I can prime these! This just in! I'm gettin' a baneblade this weekend in a trade! Plaguereaper comin' on your 6! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daemonclaw Posted April 15, 2012 Share Posted April 15, 2012 fantastic version of the picture well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 5, 2012 Author Share Posted July 5, 2012 Here's a WIP shot of a Nurgle Herald I'm working on. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0294.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azekai Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Hahaha! That is great- he looks so happy up there (probably because Nurgle has seen fit to gift him with such nice guns). The treads are from a thunderfire, I think, what is the chair made from? Looks very nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaeron Posted July 5, 2012 Share Posted July 5, 2012 Still love your Icon Bearer! Herald is shaping up nicely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 5, 2012 Author Share Posted July 5, 2012 Hehe thanks. The treads and chassis are indeed from a thunderfire cannon. I got it for the techmarine, but ended up using the treads for this conversion. It was initially going to be the basis for some kind of mechanicum AI engine, but then this happened. The chair and mini are from the original Nurgle Herald on Palanquin. I have 2, but one was incomplete anyhow, and not in such great condition (had been drilled, stripped etc.) so it turned into this. He can count as a Lord or Sorceror with Daemonic Steed in the CSM 'dex, as well. He's about 75% ready to prime/paint. I still need to add some kind of engine and some more goo. Here's the Baneblade/Fellblade/Plagureaper I've been slowly working on. I finally got some mk I treads and a proper fellblade engine for it, and converting the backplate a bit to make a sort of catacombs/ Mark of Nurgle thing going on back there. All of the skulls are from my CSM spiky bits, which I'm very shorthanded of at the moment. I ran out of bones, so I suppose the gaps and spaces will be filled in with guts and goo or some kind of rot. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0306.jpg http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0307.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Araziel Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 That's a pretty neat way to hide the Mechanicum shrine, I may have to nick it when I get around to building one ;) Those tracks are pretty nifty, where did you get them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 Yeah, I took the dremel to the shrine, so I'd have a blank canvas to work with. I thought I could get away with just taking off the high points, but it was a lot easier just to bring it down all the way to a flat surface. Once I cram some epoxy putty in there that part'll be done. There's soooo much area to convert on this thing! It's going to take forever. Feel free to steal the idea. It'll never come out the same twice. I would have loved to have more bones to do it proper, but the rib cages turned out good enough, I suppose. The tracks and engines are from Machinator. Funny thing is, I never would have found them had the baneblade not been missing tread and a rear roadwheel. It would have cost almost as much to replace that one section of track I was missing, so I'm quite glad I got an incomplete baneblade after it's all said and done. I still have a lot to do just to convert it to a fellblade before I can turn it into a truly ancient and proper plaguereaper! This will be one of the few things in my warband that bears the mark of Death Guard, and will have a single skull with the typical, heresy era six-pointed star behind it, where the Imperial Aquila was scraped off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azekai Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 The tracks and engines are from Machinator. Funny thing is, I never would have found them had the baneblade not been missing tread and a rear roadwheel. It would have cost almost as much to replace that one section of track I was missing, so I'm quite glad I got an incomplete baneblade after it's all said and done. I still have a lot to do just to convert it to a fellblade before I can turn it into a truly ancient and proper plaguereaper! This will be one of the few things in my warband that bears the mark of Death Guard, and will have a single skull with the typical, heresy era six-pointed star behind it, where the Imperial Aquila was scraped off. Glad you were able to turn lemons into lemonade- I woulda been royally pissed had my massive beastie been delivered incomplete. ;) Can't wait to see what you do with the rest of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Pretty cool. I always liked the picture of that heavy bolter plague marine, and your mini is really looking great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 Thanks Vesper! @ whythre I didn't buy it. I got it in trade for some Star Trek models, of all things. In total I paid probably 60-70 USD for it in trade, retail value, since it was damaged and missing parts (more than just the treads and wheel). I also got a squad of grey knights out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Taint Posted July 7, 2012 Share Posted July 7, 2012 What's these tiny white beads you're using with the Mark of Nurgle shrine at the Plaguereaper's back? Cheers, JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 8, 2012 Author Share Posted July 8, 2012 They're supposed to be pustules, I suppose, or maybe some kind of fungus. Forgeworld uses them, and since I use quite a bit of their goods, I need to use them to make my stuff fit. Anyhoo here's one of my Terminators, with a nice, gooey power weapon. I noticed a few places on the Eldar chap that need filling in, like the wrist and the shoulder guard, but other than that he's ready to paint as soon as the epoxy putty cures. I'm pretty happy with the way he turned out. I've been staring at him and brainstorming on him for a while. Notice the little cyber-thing that makes his tentacle-arm count as a power weapon. And the eye. One of my buddies says that eyes in place they're not supposed to be creep him out. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0312.jpg Get that thing away from my face! http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0314.jpg Yeah, he's not getting away. http://i899.photobucket.com/albums/ac197/gfan360/DSCN0315.jpg The green stuff on the arm is where a spike has burst through, so that'll be blood at some point. What color is Eldar blood, anyhow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaakl Daakli Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 What color is Eldar blood, anyhow? According to the one of the many fantastic Ork quotes from DoW II Retribution: "Even Eldar blood is all glittery!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Taint Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 They're supposed to be pustules, I suppose, or maybe some kind of fungus. Forgeworld uses them, and since I use quite a bit of their goods, I need to use them to make my stuff fit. Yeah, sorry, :( I mean, what stuff are you actually using for the pustules? Usually I'm doing mine from green stuff, but it really sucks to do so many tiny green stuff balls -- and get them glued on the actual model without using every other of them. I've been wondering if there's anything ball- or bead-shaped that comes ready-made and fits the scale. Your stuff looks like it does. What is it? Cheers, JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Taint Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 Oh, and you've got a very nice terminator there! Cheers, JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 9, 2012 Author Share Posted July 9, 2012 They're from a water filter. Want some? I have more than enough. You'll have to separate out the carbon from the little balls yourself. I'm not sure exactly what they are, but they accept glue and paint it seems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Ravensong Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 I'm not sure exactly what they are, but they accept glue and paint it seems. Fan-Friggen-Tastic. Sigged =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Taint Posted July 9, 2012 Share Posted July 9, 2012 Thanks very much, Circus, I'm a bit hesitating to ask you to send me some; shipping to New Zealand is a hassle ... But I've searched the web for bead filters. Look what I've found: The PolishAholic! (These girls put quite a bit of effort into their nails. And they're blogging WIPs!) I'll be off to town in a couple of hours anyway. I might hit a nail polish shop and see what I can get. If it doesn't work out, and if I can't find filter beads near my place, I'll drop you a PM. Cheers, JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circus Nurgling Posted July 10, 2012 Author Share Posted July 10, 2012 Haha thanks General. I don't think I've ever been sigged before. Nice. @ JT Yeah I think it'd probably be cheaper to buy a water filter replacement pack at a grocery store or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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