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Modelling: True Scale, My Tuturial


Cry Wolf

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Hey guys, ive been asked to do a tutorial by BLARRGG!! of how i did my true scale marines.

The link is here. LINK

Truescale Marines

 

Scale comparison

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100081.jpg

 

Bitz and tools

 

The first thing is you need your bitz and tools. i used these

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100102.jpg

Thats a tactical marine.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100103.jpg

Tools; vice, razor saw, cheap and expensive superglue, clippers, drill, triange and flat files and an xacto knife.

The most important and most obvious is plasticard, i used 1mm.

 

When i say do it roughly i find it easier to do the main neatening when it is together, the only exeption is on the arms which are fiddly is holdind across the body.

The Legs

Id recomend not moldlining before assembly as you can use this as how to align the legs after you chop then

cut the legs here with a razor saw and vice, insert plasticard inbetween where you have cut.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100106.jpg

clip these down roughly but dont bother filling yet.

 

Next cut the top section of the legs and, again insert plasticard spacers,

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100118.jpg

again clip them down.

 

Clip the top down so the ball joint is flat.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100120.jpg

 

The Body

clip the pegs off the front of the body, then put 1mm plasticard onthe front

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100108.jpg

 

Clip round the plasticard so it fits into the body.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100111.jpg

 

Then glue and line up the body. then glue a square of plasticard to the bottom and clip round it.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100114.jpg

 

Back pack

Cut the backpack in half and yet again add a strip of plasticard inbetween.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100107.jpg

slice and clip this down roughly again.

 

Arms

First slice the arms under the sholderpad thing and insert a spacer.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100109.jpg

this should be filed properly as it will be arkward to do after assembly.

 

Next do the same with the lower half of the arms, try to use details in the models arms as a guide when you are re glueing then. again file these properly.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100123.jpg

 

The Bolter (optional)

This is optional as it depends on whether or not you like small guns or ones like the bolter fits now. I would recommend extending it as it looks better and fits nicer.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100125.jpg

File this properly for the same reasons as the arms.

 

Finishing off

 

This is the time to assemble your model. i recommend in these steps

Glue the body to the legs

The head(un converted) to the body

Now add the head and a small spacer to the side of the arms holdind the bolter(to counter the spacer in its lower arm) ignore the one on the other shoulder as i did this wrong. i later dropped the camera so couldnt change it.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100126.jpg

Now glue on the arms, correcting the angles in them as nessecary(this is why i use super glue, it is easy to remove and restick)

Glue to a base.

 

This is done and the one i did for the tuturial turned out like this.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100131.jpg

 

Hope you liked this, its quite quick if you do it enough and one marine now takes me 30mins to make.

post your own models and rate this please :HQ:

 

EDIT; removed optional before Finishing, i dont reccomend not doing this :HQ:

Cry Wolf

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And now for the termies;

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100053.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100053.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100099.jpg

 

On these i sawed the legs in half and added spacers to them, i used 2mm plasticard for this, but they need shoulder pads to look right, as they will look to slim if they havent got them. Them file the ball joint flat on the legs and put a spacer around the bottom of the body, this further increases the height.

If you still think this looks to small bulk it up with GS like i have with this one.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100057.jpg

Or this

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/CryOfTheWulfen/SS100060.jpg

 

Cry Wolf

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VERY NICE!

 

One HUGE request though - Please open Paint or whatever and shrink those pictures!! Keep the size, but save them at lower quality or something, no need to be over 200kb each IMO. Also, crop off the unneeded outside bits, leaving only a small amount around the outside. I hate having dial up, this thread is literally taking hours to load. :P

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so THATS how you do it? all hail Cry Wolf!

 

i said hail! *shakes fist at monitor*

 

lol

 

a great way to truescale marines, i must try it tonight on a test mini - if im empressed ill re do my chaos! i mean it! your Truescale marines are soo cool <_<

 

Cheers,

<<BrotherDamascus>>

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WOW!!! That is alot of work you have put into your minitures. For those of us with less skills a way to increase the size of models is by placing plasticard on feet and also where legs and torso meet. Wont look anywhere near as good as what Cry Wolf has done, but it is a start. Looking forward to seeing them painted. Also with your technique is there a specific spot you have to insert the plasticard for each spot. For example with the legs, does it make a difference if you put the plasticard just above the ankle or just below the knee?

 

Cheers Messanger

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I did a 'true scale' ish marine in power armour. I used the 1st edition plastic terminator legs on a spaced out power armour body and the terminator arms.

 

It was my first attempt at a conversion but wanted a big wolf lord to lead my great company (when i get it done.)

 

Your way seems less hassle by a long way. Cool tutorial.

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I cant see the pictures anymore. You might have to move some of theme to a new account because your Photobucket account has exceded the bandwidth allowed. Id love to see the pics though.
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No it doesnt look out of place really, its better to put them on larger bases but its not really needed, Since the pics have gone down can anyone tell me how to sort this without doing Pro. For now here is a LINK

 

Cry Wolf

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@ wiplash;Yeh i have some on the front page :wub:. and the big axe guy is from thick plasticard rod, I think 0.4 cm

@ crusader; click on the new link on my last post

 

Cry Wolf

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wiplash - i use johnsons cotton buds - the spare cotton pulled off them with a bit of pva brushed on lightly makes ok smoke for burnt out terrain etc. Hobbycraft only do balsa rods, well the nearest one to me does anyhow.

 

Failing that try this place - Terrain Warehouse UK

 

I havent used them but was thinking of giving them a go. If you use them would you be so kind as to let me know what they are like (delivery time, service etc.)

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