Conversion Experiments #3

Not much to say about them - I think about more heraldics or stuff like that on the armor but I not sure where and what ...
And big thanks to Ron from FTW for his great papercard shoulderpads tutorial! The idea was very inspiring. Thanks!

Conversion Experiments continued ...

... a little bit, at least.

At the moment I am wondering how people can do fine details ... dunno if I got to big and shaky hands for that... but I am trying and learning by doing.

Going to add cahinmail on the other shoulder, and afterwards some armor plating on top of both.

Conversion Experiments

Yesterday I starded some experimenting with Milliput, Cardboard and some Bits ...

It's Grey Knight inspired ... we'll see where this will lead to.

Imperial Fists Killteam

I am done! Just a last black pinstripe over the base edges...

I tried to keep them very Simple. And I don't know what to write ... so just look at the pictures. :D

Bikes for Irae!?

I decided to build some bikes for Irae Scorpio. BUT I don't like Space Marine bikes ... they are ugly as hell, in my humble opinion.

So I bought some bitz, and they arrived yesterday. And here is a little preview of what my bikes will look like:

 

The normal SM or C:SM feet fit really well, without cutting away to much of them. But I will need some good ideas how to fit the weapons to them. We'll see ... two weeks of x-mas vacation are near and I will have plenty of time for experiments.

WIP: Imperial Fists Killteam #4

And we continue with my slow and purposeful painting progress ...

The mostly finished bases - I experimented with hair spray to rub of little of the paint from the rusted areas.

This is after airbrushing and applying a thin layer of brown wash. I don't really know yet, if I shall paint the borders of the shoulderpads black too?

The finished Bolters. It's a basecoat of VMC German Gray, followed by a black wash and highlights with 3 parts German Gray + 1 part white.

And the Heavy Bolter backpack - Here I am not quite sure either: Clean up the washed areas a little bit or leave it that way. At the moment it has this more 'used look' I think.

WIP: Imperial Fists Killteam #3

Here are two bases I made a while ago. I will use for the Killteam

They were painted black, and then I applied different tones of Vallejo pigments. Apllied a coat of matt vanish, and added pigments to it before it dried. Sealed it with matt vanish again, and added gloss vanish to the mud/oil areas. Also dappling the powder on the vanish makes a nice uneaven surface.

And three more bases I finish the next days ...

Had some troubles with my airbrush gun, but now it seems to work proper again. Hope to make some progress the next days.