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Specialist Games General Discussion => Modeling & painting => [WM] a tale of warmaster painters => Topic started by: TristanHoag on February 01, 2012, 03:35:22 AM
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So, at Ed's event in Dover New Hampshire last month, I ended up buying a bunch of chaos figures. After the event, I gave my painted Chaos army to my friend Larry, who had played his first games there. This leaves me with a newly unpainted army - which is like a blank canvas...
So I have decided to go with a Nurgle theme this time, and I want to go very heavy with conversion work and even some scratch build sculpting!
I was doing some searching when I came across this photo:
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7164/6796225829_b6e30bf9e4.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75636137@N06/6796225829/)
knight (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75636137@N06/6796225829/) by TristanHoag (http://www.flickr.com/people/75636137@N06/), on Flickr
Someone named Ben Komets did this piece, and I love it! I think it would work very well as a hero for Warmaster.
So this will be my first scratch build for the army, and I will try to do it step by step.
First the dolly
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7019/6799062179_716b0a3bd0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75636137@N06/6799062179/)
Juggernaut1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75636137@N06/6799062179/) by TristanHoag (http://www.flickr.com/people/75636137@N06/), on Flickr
(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7166/6799062663_c873f8ebac.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75636137@N06/6799062663/)
Juggernaut2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75636137@N06/6799062663/) by TristanHoag (http://www.flickr.com/people/75636137@N06/), on Flickr
Next step will be to sculpt the rocks...
Tristan
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Tristan, what is the blue stuff you are using ?
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Hey, Lex - that's actually supposed to be gray. It's plastic sprue bits. The camera just makes them look kinda blue...
Tristan
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First up, I salute your ambition, that's a very cool idea to copy.
It'd be no way near as much fun, but isn't there a Chaos Juggernaut in the Chaos Daemon's character pack? Probably not as big as this thing looks.
On a very dull note (that's me :-\) perhaps coins with smooth edges would look nicer! The British two pence coin is without peer!
(http://predecimal.com/images/newpence.jpg)
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Hahaha - I had to go and look. There is a juggernaut in the chaos demons set... but it looks like the older style juggernaut, not the new and fancy looking one. (I think it even looks a bit stubby)
As to the coin thing, I agree, but there are no smooth sided quarters in the US - so I've always just accepted it as such. I'll maybe have to look st some exchange rates at the bank next time...
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1" fender washers are cheaper and readily available in the US though :P. Also, assuming your opponent is willing to allow you the extra .2mm in radius it's a legal 25mm character base. Looks good Tristan!
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Yeah, but if I use washers instead of coins, I cut down on the bling factor! I have vague ambitions to be the Mitt Romney of Warmaster... wanna bet $10,000.00 that I can get this sculpted? :P
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I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. My only minor comment so far is that the legs look like they'll end up too long- unless you're planning on sculpting the rocks higher or body fatter. I also like the sprue idea.
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It looks like you're planning to sculpt the head, but if not, the gun bits from the chaos vehicle sprue might be useful:
(http://bitzbarn.com/oscommerce/catalog/images/ChaosVehicleAccessory.jpg)
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@ PW: I hadn't thought of that - I'll have to look at that bit - though I do want to see if I can do a good enough job sculpting it first....
@ Geep: I do plan on both, actually - building the rocks up a little and bulking out the body quite a bit. Whenever I scratch build something, it seems like I always need more height and more sculpting space than it feels like I should.
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Seems a great and very fun project! I think only for skilled sculpters ...
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I sculpted the rocks last night, but as rocks are just rocks, I didn't bother with in-progress shots. I should start getting into the meat of the sculpting pretty soon...
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Wanna see! Wanna see! Rocks are NOT just rocks!
:o
Oh, wait, yes they are...
;D
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Oh wow - I'm amazed by the idea of sculpting at this scale...
I'm afraid that the Chaos vehicle heads would IMHO be too big for something that size - even the smallest one is almost too big for what I use them for:
Replacement gun barrels for plastic melta guns for my space wolves - which means the proper gun barrels can be re used as combi melta parts.
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Very Ambitious... Love it.
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Tristan, what is the blue stuff you are using ?
Reposting because I'm curious too!
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The post after that question has the answer- it's just normal sprue offcuts, shaved to shape.
Looking forward to any updates on this blog.