Running Man

Back to that unit of converted Terminators.  As you know from the previous posts, I took regular space marines, extended the arms and legs, added lots of green stuff and brown stuff, and voila!

I did five of them for the original Golden Demon squad.  It was fun to make the poses very different from the old metal terminators which were the only ones available at the time.

Here he is painted!

I will keep posting these images now that I have finally discovered them!

And a few more group shots of the entire unit...

Stay tuned!

Hot stuff

Want to stay warm this ice cold winter?  Paint some lava bases!

This particular figure was practice for a number of videos.  Painting Lava, OSL, NMM Flesh tone, you name it!

It is a delicate balancing act to keep all those opposing forces working together.  The super saturated warmer colors of the lava can overpower the skin tones very rapidly, making the risk of chalkiness that much higher.  Also, keeping subtle transitions on the metals can get a little crazy.

Still it is always a fun exercise!

She is also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321321359899?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Another feather in your cap

Yup, more yellow, black and metal.  The unit is rapidly reaching that point where it is not a bunch of dancing pieces of plastic on sticks, but a growing mob of guys!

That's where things start to get interesting.  It starts to look visually like progress, but also means some inevitable headaches with trying to make them rank up, movement trays and so on.

All the bases are magnetized already.  Providing some flexibility with future units size is important... since we know that rules can fluctuate very wildly from one edition or army book to another.  What, my unit of 20 guys now has to be 200 to do half as much?  

That never happens.

The Purple People Eaters

OK, just about the last of the Demonettes.  Sad to say that, since they are so much fun to work with!  Well, All Raging Heroes minis are this way, so that would be a bit of a broken record.

My only regret is that I never got a chance to take a shot of a large group of them.  It would have been really neat with all of their Chaosy bases!!

Perhaps one day.  For now, she is also here:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321320204442?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

Making use of the bases

Another Sister in this scheme, utilizing another one of those decorative marble bases.

I used to do these marble style bases for just about everything... especially 40k stuff.  Not only was it easier to place the relatively flat feet of the figures onto the bases, it was easier to identify them as well.  I could put all sorts of markings on the base to not only designate which army it was from, but rank, weapons, and so on.

Yes, I was asked one day it is was possible for me to play a game of 40k using only my bases... and I could answer yes! ;-)

The Evil Empire

Back to the chromy guys!

Like I said, these will start coming in fast and furious...

Trying to finish up the movement tray this week as well.

Fun with sculpey parts!

Here's a conversion I did many years ago after I made that first squad of Grey Knight terminators.  I took some generic space marine bodies, chopped them up, extended the legs and arms, and then did a whole lot of sculpting with brown stuff and green stuff.

That original unit won a gold Demon for 40K Squad in 2007.  I made some other specialty characters like this one soon after.  I sculpted the incinerator out of grey extra firm sculpey.  The sword is a very old Grey Knight bit.

I did some other sculpey parts on the back, such as the vents.  You can see the places where green stuff was used to get a finer detail...

Here's what the original WIP images of the squad looked like.

And the finished group!

I still miss these guys.  Hopefully I will be able to recreate them one day.