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.

More Special conversions and builds for Adepticon Grey Knights

As I have mentioned a few times, I did about 14 or 15 heavily converted figures for the Grey Knight army I brought to Adepticon.  Here is Inquisitor Reva Garanov:





He was made from a Space Wolves space marine, using plasticard, green stuff, brown stuff, and even sculpey pieces, such as the scratch sculpted Psycannon.

You have already seen the Psykers, but here were a few old minis I had half finished prior to the event that I completed:

Like these two poor acolytes, who never got to fire their plasma guns due to dying from missile launchers and splinter cannons :-(





These two crusaders were quite frustrating to opponents, as I kept using them as a mobile 3+ cover save...

Scratch Sculpted Seraphim and Sisters

This was a bit of an exotic project.  I was given some concept drawings (shown below), and instructed to make sculpted Sisters and Seraphim.  The current metal ones are OK in a pinch, but just don't really have the "wow".

So, here are some of them, sculpted and painted...



Some group shots...




This was my test figure for the regular sisters:


And for the Seraphim:


This is the concept art:


And then the rest of the pictures...






This shot shoes the base pretty well:


Should they ever get a real codex not written by a certain individual, I will have to sculpt many more for myself!

Freebooter Miniatures, some nice ladies... and different fleshtones

For today we have a break from GW minis altogether :-)  This set is from the Freebooter range, sculpted by Werner Klocke, a favorite of mine.  I tried to do some fun fleshtones on these ladies.

 











 

Eldar Wave Serpent with extensive freehand and extra weapons

This is probably the most extensive freehand on a vehicle in terms of overall coverage for me.  It was a massive challenge, but also very fun!  The spacescape section was very close to my heart, since I used to paint spacescapes for a living.

The "Asurmen" section was not so fun to paint, as I had to carry that angular pattern across very organic curved surfaces, which did tricks on the eye to make it seem as if the angles wree going the wrong way!











Here is a view of the back door freehand...


And this view shows all the various weapons.  Magnetizing them was not at all like magnetizing bulky Space Marine weapons!  These skinny yet out of balance weapons needed big magnets, but had vey small areas for placement.  I have since learned some things which will make this process a bit easier. :-)