Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Better late than never

Hello to everyone!

Its been a while again since my latest post and I have been stalling my hobby progress yet again... work and a terrible loss of inspiration, combined with a hefty temperature raise led me to the inevitable pause of any activity and project. Hopefully I will be able to change this situation next week, thinking of doing something radical for a change...

About a week ago I took part to a really nice local 40K Tournament, full of nice terrain, people, armies and atmosphere, the Independent Club Tournament. This time in conjunction with the main event, was organised a painting competition full of quality entries from various talented Greek artists, you can see some pictures of the whole event over their Facebook page

I have decided to enter the competition with some of my models as well and I have managed to earn the 1st place for my Marshall Durak Rusk Conversion

that's my prize in the back! :P

I am so happy for this, and although a long time has passed since then, I feel the need to share it with you people! 

So there you go, a small update for now. Hopefully I will get my hands working again to present something bigger! :)


In the meantime, maybe leave me a vote for Mr Rusk in CoolMiniOrNot if you haven't already! ;)

Last but definitely not least, an extremely cool playlist for your early summer enjoyment! Take care!!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Riders of the storm

Hello everyone once again.

Another busy month is passing by and this means that hobby time gets cropped. This, combined with the fact that I got a little stuck in my inspiration, lead to the inevitable delay in my follow up post regarding my latest Death Guard squad, the Legion Jetbikes.

I intend to make my Jetbike squadron as unique as possible, creating individual conversions for each model. The first model I created was based on the great Jetbike from Kromlech, a somewhat straightforward coversion. I used the stock model with the only exception of the Heavy Bolter from the Imperial Guard Heavy Weapons kit fitted on top (although I had to saw off the lovely targeting system) to match the rules of the Horus Heresy Army list and of course the rider.

The rider was made using bits from 3 different companies, Games Workshop Space Marine Legs, Anvil Industries torso from their steam lords range (great alternative pre-heresy material) and Forgeworld helmet, shoulder pads and backpack.



Last but definitely not least I used my technique for creating greenstuff tubing as in my Chaos Helldrake Conversion which can be revised mostly in one picture!


I have been meaning to use a specific kit for my next Jetbike, the Dystopian Legion Jetbike  mainly because I just love the model. Truth is I didn't realise that it would need so much work to bring it to Warhammer status. It is significantly smaller than any other Jetbike model out there, and it has a weird angle due to its different propulsion system that comes from underneath the vehicle. Great idea but it doesn't fit with what I want my bikes to look like. So I decided to make some heavy changes on this one..and the result was something like this




The rider was made using the same bits as with my other conversion. I also used my greenstuff tubing technique (see above) to make some power cords connected to the rider to add to the overal "deathguard-ey" feeling as with the other conversion.

The main body of the Dystopian bike was used as well as many of the bits that came with it. I also used many bits from a small company called Ramshackle Games, it has a great range of all sorts of vehicle bits that can be used in any kind of conversion and they served really great as exhaustion pipes here giving that streamline look I was searching for. To finish things up for the front of the vehicle, I added a Heavy Bolter underneath taken from a Land Speeder kit this time, sawing off the targeter to make it more fitting to be glued upside down.

the only thing that was still bothering me was the rear of the bike. I was really stuck out of ideas, when suddenly my eye fell to an old 1:72 airplane kit I had lying around in my workshop (good thing to have stuff lying around, its a great inspiration!). I realized that I could use the front end of the hull as it had these nice little exhausts coming out as well as the tail wings. Some hacking, slashing and sanding minutes later and the result was a new tail for my jetbike and my flying Frankenstein was ready :P

The bases are created using an old basing kit from Games Workshop. I found them perfect to create a flying base out of these, drilling a steel wire in the middle and finishing the whole thing with rubble.

2 finished, 2 more to go... stay tuned for more updates soon as I take a break from intense converting and take these to the painting booth! I would love to hear what you people think!

Musical inspiration could only be that song! Till next time, enjoy!!

Thursday, March 14, 2013

The birth of a new squad

Hello everyone! 

It has been quite a long since my last post and I feel its time for some more work on my Death Guard project! 

So this is my latest creation, the birth of my Death Guard Legion Jetbike squad. Its still WIP so modifications will be made, but I would like to hear your opinions on this. The bike is from Kromlech  and there is a multitude of bits and pieces from FW and GW as always! 



and some lovely tunes for a lovely rest of the week! Till next time! :)

Friday, February 22, 2013

Death Guard Marshal Durak Rask finished

Hi everyone!

Following my previous post, I have finally finished painting my conversion of Death Guard Marshal Durak Rask.



It was a real fun to build and paint and I really hope you like him as much as I do! As always comments remarks and votes on CoolMiniOrNot are more than welcome! 


 Last but not least, some music for inspiration!

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Death Guard Marshal Durak Rask WIP

Durak Rask was a fanatical follower of his Primarch, and viewed Mortarion as a preternatural saviour from his early youth on the benighted world of Barbarus. Having first been accepted into training into the Death Guard Legion when he came of age, Rask's innate intelligence and fervour were marked from an early stage and he quickly proved to be a dour and driven warrior with an uncommon flair for siegecraft. Over his decades of service in the XIV Legion, Rask rose steadily through the ranks to become his Legion's Marshal of Ordnance, proving his mettle in many battles and campaigns, and earning a rare commendation from Mortarion himself after the Siege of Valstpol, a battle in which Rask himself lost his left eye and was left horrifically scarred. When Mortarion declared his allegiance for Horus at the start of the Horus Heresy, Rask was one of the first and loudest in his support, having already become a member of the Seven Pillared Warrior Lodge which had been founded within the Death Guard to corrupt them towards the service of Chaos from within. On Istvaan III Rask volunteered to lead the vanguard attack against his former Battle-Brothers, a treachery he would pay for with his life.

 Hello everyone once again! My pre heresy Death Guard project is moving on and I am currently working on a model from the Betrayal book, Marshal Durak Rask. Its all part of the painting challenge over the GreekWarhammerForum (take a look if you are a greek reader).




I have decided to use the model of a Space Marine veteran that had the fewest possible Imperial Eagles and I went on fully converting his Volkite Serpenta using parts from a plasma pistol, a lasgun and some other bits I had lying around. The backpack was the other major part of the conversion, using a regular backpack and most parts from a guard comm backpack. The resin part is a bit from Anvil Industries. Finally, I used the shoulderpad from Forgeworld, and Thunder hammer from paulson games

So there you have it, I hope you like him! Ready to throw some paint on him!

Great ideas come with great music! Till next time, take care!