Showing posts with label 40k. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 40k. Show all posts

Thursday 14 March 2024

Imperial Knight - Armigers in manufactorum pt.2 - BIG BUILD TO DONE!

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #buildingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Armigers. They've been built for a while now and had quite a lot of progress with the painting. So much so I've found it quite the challenge to fit in WiP pics.

Anyway, I love this pose so much. I even got round to adding some 2mm hemisphere gems to it's armour plates [not pictured]. This will give it the look of Heresy era marines, with their 'bonded stud' armour.


It's not the best implementation [when you see it] but it'll do for now and add some further uniqueness to the model. I obviously have to clean up some mould lines too! 😱


The second one is also done. Despite my excitement at achieving the running pose I'm not 100% convinced I got it right.


Also, it flexes a lot. I'm sure I pinned it in places but part of my thinks I should have pinned it more judiciously.


I'd also planned to add more embellishments. A terminator tilting shield, more leftover banners from my Wraithlord and some spare armour plates on the Chain Cleaver. 


Some close-ups of the reposed legs. They might be useful for those wishing to do the same.


And the clumsy but functional greenstuff on the hip joints again. Hopefully, obscured when I paint it black. But again it's useful to have a close-up for those that want to copy, or let's say 'improve'' 😉


And here we have another Bloody Great Big Bloody BIG BUILD Stamp of Bloody BUILD Approval



Thursday 1 February 2024

Imperial Knight - Armigers in manufactorum pt.1 - reposing the legs

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #buildingWarhammer on my Imperial Knight Armigers and the first thing is magnets obviously, but with that done it's reposing the legs. Now I do not look forward to this and although I love the results for the first armiger I went with my crude score the joints, then bend and snap approach. 


I trim off the back of the hip hose-rings are the back. This helps the leg fit at an angle. Then the gap is filled with greenstuff, which is crudely sculpted to look like it's got ridges light the other side of the hose ring. When it's painted you won't notice. I also use piece of sprue to hold the torso in place, cutting a notch in the hole to make a 'lock and key' fitting.


The pistons on the inside of the thighs were drilled out and had metal pins added. Holes were drilled into the inside of the legs to receive the pins. This will make it stronger. However, it can be tough getting the hinge pieces to fit in the groove around the groin. I crudely hacked at the connector until it fit. It won't be noticeable when it's painted.

Adding a gun shield to the Thermal Lance

I also decided to create a gun-shield for the Thermal Lance, using a Questoris Ion Shield. I drew a lien down the centre, put the gun in the middle, marked off the centre for each lance barrel and then drilled a hole. Getting bigger each time.


And bigger, until I stopped at 5.5mm and joined them up. However, I think 6 mm is perhaps the better size. 


So it could get over the lozenge shaped barrel mount. There's some gaps to fill around it but not bad fitting in the end.


In some respects I still prefer the profile without the shield, but I wanted more variety and to give the Armigers more character. 


I prepped the other shield too, same process and results. 


Reposing the legs on a running Armiger

Here I decided to do the better job on the legs - removing the hind joint whole. It is best to do this when the leg is still in right and left halves. It's harder to do and digging into the joint with a scalpel is not without risk. I found a way to do it that is relatively safe and videoed it but haven't done the edit yet. Once done you take the six pieces, join the halves together so you can pose the three pieces as one leg.


This means you can compress the leg as much as possible. I removed the pipe at the back, drilled holes in the connectors and used guitar string to replace the pipework. I would go onto trim the peg at the ankle ball so I would have more options in positioning the foot.


This foot is only resting on the front toe, with the back toes contracted. This mean you could see underneath. I used a nail to help pin the front toe. Filled the other toes with green stuff, then rolled out a thin piece to cover the bottom of the toe. Trimmed to fit the profile.


Then I used car body repair mesh to create a tread pattern - pressing it into the green stuff, after dampening it a bit.


The second toe got done too. I had to do this three more times on the other foot..


This leg has no reposing on it - it's full tilt but it was so low I added the little piece of slate under it's foot to add a little more height. It also meant the pin in the foot is not just going into cork. I sued tile grout to blend around the stone, so it looked like it was coming out of the ground.


Testing the position of the legs. I use a pin going through holes in the legs, the hole in the hip joints al the way through to the other leg.


You can bend the pin a bit to get more direction in the hips.


The foot will need to be fully contracted before I glue it in place.


And that's it. I'll upload the video at some point and next it's basing these two, ready for some good priming weather.

Monday 29 January 2024

Dark Angels - Deathwing Knights and Terminators - Bone highlights 2

Afternoon #WarHamFam and #WarhammerCommunity I've been #PaintingWarhammer on my Deathwing slow but steady. I know the blog hasn't been active but I've struggled to fit in hobby time. It's not the usual post-Christmas malaise. My eldest is home permanently so we're continuing our nightly TV viewing and it's hard to fit in the Deathwing, when they're not the easiest to paint in the first place. And with limited progress on the hobby there's even less motivation for the blog, which is a shame as I really wish I was posting more often.


But I've got half the 2nd highlights done here. I may have done a bit more of the cream than I usually do, which makes the process slower and in some places the results aren't great. 


All fixable and I'm far from disappointed but it doesn't help with keeping motivated.


You can see the variety in the butt plates here, the middle one in particular went too far. But I can easily hide that with some tribal markings.


Here we are with the remaining upper half of the highlights. Still to do the shoulder pad on the shield arms, but want them glued in place so they're highlighted correctly.


But I'm OK with the results even if they're still less consistent than I'd normally prefer.


And the rest of the Terminators have got done too - just in time for many of them to be excised from the Codex, or so I believe. 


Good job I didn't put a Cyclone Missile Launcher on one of these. A common load out gone from the Codex.


I think the Apothecary and Champion have gone also, but again I remind myself I was never going to play with them anyway!


They're just figures I needed to paint and poses I wanted to create.


Lots still to do, just about half-way through the spreadsheet but the hardest parts done so far I think.


I even decided to do the bare heads and I was really pleased with the results, that is until I looked at the close-ups - they look shocking. 


Which is a shame as they look great from a gaming distance. I was genuinely chuffed and then gutted when I saw their squints and patchwork skintones.


I mean I love seeing a brushstroke but these just look like blobs in places.


I'll get over it once they're in place but it's a little disheartening as I was convinced these were some of the best faces I'd done, only to realise I was way off the mark. 


Nevermind.