Acebaur Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 SS arms would work, but you also need hands for them and I don't have any. However, you make a good point(pun intended :teehee:) so I decided to take the sword to them... Or the Xacto ;) http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/2015-03-27%2017.05.49_zpsfipynlgs.jpg Obviously this is just the initial proof of concept and I still have to fill/cover the gap where I "bent" the elbow, but you can see the final effect it will have. Here's a head on shot as well http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150327_080941-1_zps1od8vroo.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted April 4, 2015 Author Share Posted April 4, 2015 So I've put a hold on the Centurions for the moment as I've been working furiously to complete my Challenge Vow in the PCA forum. Here's a bit of what I've been doing. Forgive the poor quality of the pics, no time for proper ones, back to painting! :lol: A few shots of the Assault Marines http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/dd3d9d65-695e-4f09-bf9d-4a9ac2cf7159_zpsaigxrjjq.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/b929d62c-a10b-4192-af70-b8e068bc238a_zpsv2ud7yky.jpg White chest inspired by Flint's Templars! http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/2bdfc903-09e6-4f0f-a85b-b72a112edaa9_zps88erqoau.jpg And some OSL on the Jump Packs http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150401_175752_zpsfvxuprjf_edit_1427925970156_zpsoz8bsk91.jpg Eye see you! http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150404_163143_zpszjeofh0i.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150404_163122_zpsplobt34j.jpg Though the bad lighting muddies up their faces, the main purpose was to ensure you could see their eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mattias Posted April 4, 2015 Share Posted April 4, 2015 Nice work! The eyes are great - mine always look a little surprised... :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Hard to really judge the faces if the pics are muddied. They're irritatingly defined by subtleties. But I can judge the eyes, and you still gotta work on those. They're a nightmare, but well done eyes really sell it. What you've done there is paint the eyes and the lower eyelids. It's hard as hell to tell with the naked eye when you're painting. I have to use my magnifying headset for that particular annoyance. You got a bit of brown from one guy's hair on to his forehead. The basing? C'mon, man. The OSL on the jump pack is excellent. Love the minimalist approach, and you pulled it off great. Your black highlights are looking better. One point to look out for: try not to let the highlights of the mouth grill and eye lines to touch. It looks...creepy. And although in my gut I feel like it should look wrong, that trick you took from Flint by painting that chest piece white is very clever. I guess I owe her credit for that, but you proved that it wasn't a fluke. Hm, I may have to do something similar one day, when I get around to painting Honor Guard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted April 5, 2015 Author Share Posted April 5, 2015 Well like I said the lighting is horribly bad, I really just wanted to show that I made the eyes the right shape and the pupils in the right spot :p They are hands down some of the best eye's I've every painted and due in no small part to the new brushes I got a few months back (Winsor and Newton Series 7's) When I get some better pics of them I think you'll like them better ;) That spot of brown is actually a shadow lol. My desk lamp is literally right over them On thing I learned while painting the scouts faces, is damn are they ugly! :lol: I only have had the old scouts so these are the first of the plastic ones I've done. You know damn well that I flock all my bases ;) Glad you like the OSL! Noted on the highlights, I've been going back into areas that I slip on and retouching them with some VMC black. Amazing paint that is, goes on so flat you can't tell where you touched it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted April 5, 2015 Share Posted April 5, 2015 Yeah, I'm leaning more and more on Vallejo these days. The fact that they had an almost perfect match to Bleached Bone earns a lot of my future business, too. God, I'm gonna hate replacing and remixing my grays. And yup, the Scout faces are hideous. There's a reason I went through the nightmare of drilling out their torsos to use Marine heads instead :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Ok an update on these Centurion conversions After Firepower's comments I realized that the lack of dynamic posing did bother me, and not only that but made it difficult to position these guys in a believable way. I've also been working on the cannons and making them less "arm sticking straight out" and more like the regular heavy weapons. So here are some full mock ups of the new CTDA. Warning, this post is a bit pic heavy First up a shot of the first go at using greenstuff to create a "sleeve" for their arms to help hold onto the guns. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/568f5abe-48c5-414c-87b8-c4651507460d_zpshxaidmu8.jpg The front guy in this pic is converted from the DV box http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/404a126e-42d9-4ec6-bedd-ed60ddef36d9_zpsoq4ghscq.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/2b990c80-92d3-4b54-b214-ab8a31b1e27f_zpsviwnravk.jpg Here you can see another angle of the sleeve I greenstuffed http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/b76493bb-b520-4705-9d92-92a8a239a78c_zpsgjxzzw9n.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/e5dc9af9-7060-43e5-83a5-c833d7d40a06_zpswnm27eu7.jpg And the sgt and friend. I haven't converted his arm yet to be in the elbow bent position. The left arm is his omniscope with attached "hurricane" bolter. Also the guy in the back in another DV mini http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/0e0dbecf-697a-470c-a5c0-b97ac0051e13_zpshzjw0ynk.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/58d0c5f0-184f-4325-b466-788b5b942eb3_zpsck82zkqr.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/273321cc-290e-428b-9833-32e5958a187d_zpsxaqel0r0.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mattias Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Posing is much nicer, they look more like they are mid-battle and supporting each other. Greenstuff sleeve looks good, much better than without. I like what you're doing so far :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted May 25, 2015 Author Share Posted May 25, 2015 So I've made some decent progress on my second vow, 3 chaplains. Here are some shots. The scrolls are done, just need text. I'm thinking about not doing black but more of a grey to make it look faded. Thoughts? I tried to make the scrolls look like really old parchment. Also the skull helms are almost done, just need a final highlight. The biker's chest also needs highlights TDA Chaplain Hidden Content http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/20150525_182655_zpsndsmlg3k.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/20150525_182709_zpsn26npbg2.jpg Jump Pack Chaplain Hidden Content http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/20150525_182726_zpsdnmaef0u.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/20150525_182748_zpsrdaqpfy1.jpg Biker Chaplain Hidden Content http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/20150525_182805_zpsxe0ff1u0.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 So whilst I've been working on my chaplains(which are coming along nicely) I've also been working on replicating the awesome left shoulder pads from our Sword Brethren. It's not easy because you have to mold it directly from the mini(and I have the metal ones so no chopping apart) So after several tries I think I got a good cast. Here's the piece that you attach to a plain shoulder pad to make the look. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150531_140734_zps1rvnlcsk.jpg And here is a bunch of shots of how it could look on the model that will become my Honor Guard Champion(complete with combat shield). I tried to get as many angles as possible as sometimes pictures can scew the perspective. C&C is welcome! Hidden Content http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150531_140452_zpsq08griab.jpghttp://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150531_140503_zpsoyx4uf2q.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150531_140519_zpszjbow3vy.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150531_140533_zpsmyx8j6z9.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I'll take 10. No, really. Chop chop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Chaplain Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 I'll take 10. No, really. Chop chop. Ditto. So, do I make the check out to cash or... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mattias Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Yeah, I kinda think now that you've done the hard work, we should all benefit from it ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eberious Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Nice job Ace, might give this another go in the future since that blue stuff mold has come about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Thanks guys, glad you like it. Here are some more pics to drool over. I glued it onto a blank pad and that worked pretty well. Then I mocked up what he could look like. Obviously, I'll be putting a knightly helmet on but this was just the test head to see about making it fit. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150602_101111_zpsf03tvf5v.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150602_101118_zpsa4qun0w4.jpg I'm also talking to a buddy of mine who does 3d printing. He thinks we can work the the mini and possibly make them using that method which would be awesome as making them one at a time is a pain, especially since it took me 4 tries to get it right the first time :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciler Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 I would place it lower on the pad, they're like that on the GW bretherens because the cape is caught under it. If you do manage to get a decent 3D template I wouldn't mind pitching some money (not much mind, but something anyway) to get a copy of the file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Barbarossa Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 Nice work with that pad! I take it that the Sword Brethren's shoulder pads are smaller than plastic ones? I don't own any so I can't tell for sure. Im only comparing to pics online. I say this because that bit you have seems to be smaller in proportion to the figure compared to how GW's models are. The bit doesn't protrude as far towards the chest, if you know what I mean. Maybe you can file the plastic shoulder pad down some to make the GS pad fit better? Either way, the mini looks great. I like the drawn sword holding the scabbard look. I think it looked better with the terminator bit on his forearm though. Marshal Barbarossa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted June 3, 2015 Author Share Posted June 3, 2015 Thanks! Glad you like it! Here he is with a proper helmet and the combat shield(I forgot to put it on him last time). He's still almost entirely blue tac'd together except for the arms and the sword hand which are magnetized. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150603_090532_zpsxxxd8vrs.jpg And here is a pic for size comparison. The pad isn't smaller, but probably because I didn't shave enough GS out of the pad before putting it on it doesn't go past the shoulder pad as much. Still I think it worked ok. I made another one yesterday, but I'm going to hold off on more until I see whether we can 3d print them instead. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/20150603_090710_zpsqretu5ru.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firepower Posted June 3, 2015 Share Posted June 3, 2015 I'd consider a different head. That one is particularly...sharp, for lack of a better word, while the body is very blocky and heavyset. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share Posted June 4, 2015 I'd consider a different head. That one is particularly...sharp, for lack of a better word, while the body is very blocky and heavyset. Eh, I like it. Plus it fits in there which most normal PA helms don't. It also reminds me of the BT skin from the Space Marine game and I liked that one. I just realized that I never posted my most recent addition from the ETL. I vowed him as a Chapter Master, but more than likely he will only ever see duty as a Sword Brethren(hence the SB colors). Mostly because the sculpt is so terrible and I can never think of a time I'd field an HQ with a bolter of any type :lol: But I think he came out pretty good all things considered. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/Light%20Box%20Pictures/ee473dc3-10cb-42e4-bc93-5804c3cd079f_zps29rvscft.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/Light%20Box%20Pictures/73f71f66-b699-459d-a731-3b73877eee9c_zpslnkwuco8.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acebaur Posted June 11, 2015 Author Share Posted June 11, 2015 An ETL update on my Chaplains This guy is nearing completion, getting down to the details now with gold mostly finished and working on the silver. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/9fb6680f-0b3d-418e-847c-2bb48ba3d9b3_zpspyj3evfr.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/15041df5-1555-4199-b02d-2b46e307af32_zpsn4pcqhgs.jpg This guy is a few steps behind, just starting both his gold and silver trim. I'm not sure I like the silver all the way around his pad, what do you think? http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/26ca3a87-6f0b-4894-9b8c-85cd2f4aa9c1_zpsinspe4lh.jpg http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/Chaplains/aa4e5685-cb2d-4bbe-b95e-5c14236af5c2_zps1mfdrknz.jpg And bonus pics!. I did this a while ago but never uploaded it. I really couldn't get past my Command squad champ not having an actual spear like the rest, but I loved that pose so I came up with this as a custom power lance to make him stand out. http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/db05de57-c66b-42dc-9be6-598655f44c1e_zpsu0bs8pcx.jpg and on the champ himself http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k48/Acebaur/40K/dff2005e-0258-41bb-877f-68cc5fd348ca_zpsuhpngo74.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatOneMarshal Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 I like how the chaplain in tda is coming! I still need to buy my own tda chaplain off of ebay. I can't wait to see how the champion turns out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Reinhard Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 That is a proper spear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mattias Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 Oh nice, really really nice! I gotta get me one of those! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciler Posted June 11, 2015 Share Posted June 11, 2015 That spear... I recognise the templar power sword arm, a regular Tac power sword, but what's the top half of the aft of the spear made of, part of a thunder hammer ? Some bits remind me of teh power axe as well i'm not sure. Either way I wouldn't want to be on the wrong end of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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