Brother Casman's Thread of Things 2015

[Brother Casman]

So, welcome to my 2015 hobby thread. I don't have a major project like my terrain set for this year (well, other than my Orks, which are hardly board appropriate) but I do have some things on the go for my Marines.

I posted the following image as a teaser for a Predator Executioner gun a while back, so this is where I'll start:

[Brother Casman]

I knew that I wanted to fill the space between the gun and the mantlet with something, but I was having a hard time finding something that would fit into the existing tubes/holes. So I ended up cutting them off and replacing them:

I leveled the tubes out a bit, and grabbed some leftover electrical wire and bent it around to give me the little arc seen here:

Here, I've added some more wire arcs:

And here, we have the full set, along with the turret proper (it's magnetized to be swappable):

Not sure how I'll do the heavy conversion beamer variant, but it'll probably involve the autocannon turret in some way.

Do let me know what you think!

[Brother Casman]

You'll also note that the tags on this thread include Predator Infernus - this will be a rather more straightforward conversion of the Baal Predator. Here we have the Flamestorm cannon (stock, though I will scrap off the Blood Angel symbols):

And here we have a Magna-Melta turret:

There is some green stuff work to be done on the magna-melta.

[Son of Carnelian]

Hmm. Interested to see where this goes. 

[deathspectersgt7]

likewise.

[Pearson73]

Looking good so far.

[Brother Casman]

So, a quick update today. I've done some work on my Blood Ravens between other things over the past couple months. Here's how the turret conversion looks at present:

I think it needs something in the space on the gun, maybe some purity seals? Thoughts?

I also found an unopened box of Assault Terminators, and I run a Chapter Master/Captain in Terminator armour often enough, so I figured I'd build the most common version and paint him up:

I also decided that these metal Sternguard had waited long enough to get painted - they're done with the new Blood Raven colour scheme from the How to Paint Tactical Marines ebook GW released for free. Rather darker than my previous scheme, but I like it more, I think. My new Blood Ravens will get done this way from now on:

[Stercus]

There's some great stuff here. I really like the plasma turret. Is it made with parts from the dark angel skimmer thing?

[Brother Casman]

Yeah! When I saw the Land Speeder Vengeance, I knew that was how I was going to build a predator executioner turret. Luckily I have a friend who plays Dark Angels and built one of each speeder, so he gave me the spare set of plasma cannons.

[Stercus]

Always good to have a friend with unwanted spare stuff!

I'm still looking for someone who has spare heavy bolter sponsons from a stormwolf/fang so I can finish off my Lacerator.

[Pearson73]

Nice looking Ravens.

[deathspectersgt7]

Coming along Nicely.