Wednesday 24 July 2013

weekly ramblings #8

Evening guys and girls,

Its been quiet in here of late though I do have reasons 2 6 day weeks at work followed by a week away in Scotland visiting family and friends. Thus work on anything hobby related has slowed to a crawl.

I do however have a quick update to stop rictus from hassling me :-P I've recently started working on a few red corsair bits, mainly so as I have time to try and get them painted before my next meet up with rictus and nife.

So finding I still had my DV chosen left, I searched for a use for them, given they don't fit in with the style I have done for the regular corsair squads. I settled on converting them to plague marines who are fighting under hurons banner:



The heavily warped nature of the chosen really aides in the conversion, plus given I intend them to be death guard they actually look 10,000 years old.

I'm planning on doing a squad of 7 of these guys which should prove useful in games of zone mortallis.

Well thats it for now, will hopefully have gotten a bit more done over the weekend.

11 comments:

  1. That's cool, I've got some of the DV Chosen in a drawer somewhere. No idea what to do with them though...

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    1. Cheers sir, you could you know paint them for your chaos? :P

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    2. Very funny, you know how pedantic I am about truescale, and I really don't want to have to even attempt to cut them up!

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  2. You have no backbone. I'm sure your defence in court will be 'Rictus made me do it'.

    Plague Marine is looking good. Give one a scythe.

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    1. Its a good defense, and sheep is right you are a bully ;)

      I'm actually thinking of making a nurgle sorcerer so he might feature a scythe.

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  3. Wow, he looks fantastic! Those chosen models are excellent to begin with, but you did a wonderful job converting this one into a plague marine. You capitalized on his innate Nurgle feel. I particularly like the sword; it is refreshing to see a weapon in 40k that is not comically huge. I cant wait to see him finished! Any thoughts on his other arm?

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    1. Cheers sir,

      The sword is from the skeleton warriors kit, I'm just counting it as a plague knife but figured a short sword would look nice. For his other arm he will likely have a bolter or maybe a severed head.

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  4. Looking good mate, is brown stuff harder to work with than green?

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    1. Cheers dude, its not harder its a lot firmer than GS but is still easy to work with then is better for hard edges which is part of the reson i picked it for their gut plates so as I can sculpt cracks onto the armour.

      You might find it useful for the ad mech stuff you are working on :)

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  5. Another terrific conversion - love it! Any plans for the paint job?

    Cheers,

    CMDante

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    1. Cheers good sir,

      Paint scheme wise I'm thinking your fairly tradional nurgle/death guard colours but with one shoulder pad painted red with the tyrants claw on it just to show their current alliegance.

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