Sculpted sandbag and marble bases

Here are a few more base designs for you.

The sandbag bases were especially new and fun to create!  I used Apoxy sculpt, brown stuff, and a variety of plasticard sheets and polystyrene tubing.  The ammo strips were the biggest pain to make.  I tried to come up with binoculars that were somewhat interesting.

The few of these available to me have been put to good use on a variety of projects, several of which I have posted here to the blog.  I really want the bases to tell a story all by themselves.

The marble bases have been referred to by others as our "signature" bases, so I thought I would put in a set here.  As usual, it is sheets of sculpey that have been baked and carved.  Marble is always a blast to paint, no matter what color it is :-)

Hopefully those of you who have been checking out the blog frequently are finding these little tidbits on bases useful!

Converted Death Cult Assassins for Adepticon

Here's another batch of Death Cult Assassins that I had to create for the tournament Demonhunter army.  I used Dark Eldar wyches, altering the weapons and giving them cloaks, etc.  They certainly kill a lot of things when they get in contact with them, no matter what they might be.  Necrons, Dark Eldar critters, Space Wolves, you name it :-)

When combined with the Arco flagellants, crusaders and a wild card 'demonhost', things got intersting!  Mass amounts of missile fire directed at them made them less happy, though.

I have a few WIP images so you could check out the process...

Tainted World Eaters land raider

OK, one more tainted World Eaters vehicle!  This was quite a project, with all the extra things tacked on, such as the giant icon!  There were several Forgeworld items included on this piece.

Basing in a hurry... using what's on hand

While I was doing a million other things yesterday (all prep work), I decided that I would try to get these guys based in the few spare minutes I had.  I used cork, baked sculpey, and some dryad bits to give the figures a little more pizazz, even though they are only meant for gaming, (not painting contests)!  This is what I had brought along with me, so I tried to make the best use of the supplies!







Here are some Knights that are partially painted that give you an idea of how the foot troops will look once painitng begins on them as well.

More custom built Custodes

Here is the rest of the Custodes squad, including some of the command figures.  I do have the sketches for a dreadnought in Custodes style that I suppose I will need to post at some stage! :-)

Custom built Custodes, Gallery #1

This will be the first of two set of images showing a squad of custom built Costodes which I painted.  Ever since I got the giant Horus Heresy in pictures book a few years ago, I thought custodes would be a very fun project!!

The metals posed a big challenge, with so much darn gold!  I tired to keep certain areas very war, and place the deepent, warmest colors next to each other to create that 'pop'.  I also had to sculpt numerous purity seals on the halberds.

Here we go:

One more tainted Rhino...

Time for another one of the Tainted World Eaters vehicles!  the is the second of four rhinos.  I still have the two predators and the land raider to go yet :-)  Obviously lots of Fprgeworld upgrade stuff, and the usual added skulls...

Death Cult Assassin Conversions for Adepticon

As I have mentioned a few times, the one aspect of the new Grey Knights codex I liked was the mass use of assassins!  Since I did not get to field my Dark Eldar army, I thought it might be fun to still incorporate some of my extra wyche minis.  When I compared the old DCA minis with the wyches, there was not a lot of difference in proportions or pose!

I chopped off as many Dark Eldar bits as possible, and gave them cloaks.  These cloaks were done with a thin layer of green stuff on top of a sheet of tin foil.  You have to be careful not to crinkle the tin foil, but it helps maintain its shape as the green stuff cures, and provides extra strength later on.  The WIP images give you a pretty good idea of what was done.