Experimented with a black prime to try the slapchop technique. Wasn’t a big fan of the darker hue, but it’s growing on me. Easier for it to look more realistic. On the left is my white primed paint job.
I've been told that my #DarkFantasy setting reminds people of #WarHammer, especially the #Orcs, and I can see that: there are definitely strong parallels with city worlds and #SpaceMarines.
The difference is that the War is over, and the Hammer is the Orcs, in desperate need of an endless supply of nails.
I find the question of "What do we do with the #soldiers when the war is over?" to be far more interesting, and relevant, then the #war itself.
I'm in the process of assembling the #Tyranids#miniatures from the #10e#Leviathan box, and I've gotta say I'm enjoying the process so far. Something I usually dread.
Snipping the parts off of the sprue leaves behind almost nothing to clean up. Mould lines are nearly non-existent. Assembling is fast and easy, too.
The Neurotyrant is probably my favorite of the whole box, and I have a second one (from trading my #SpaceMarines for more bugs) on the way that I can't wait to assemble. 😆
For my personal army/collection.
In addition to a radio antenna the main change to this miniature is the robotic arm.
Made from a piece of sprue (elbow and upper arm), plastic rod (forearm), and a hand (cut from an arm).
The miniatures here were bought on ebay and handed to me to repair and paint.
While unpainted, they were poorly removed from the sprue and then glued together just as inexpertly.
cleaning it all up left a lot of damage on the mini's.
So I went with it as battle damage and they gained the theme "Rescue Terminators", as they are indeed ebay rescues.
I have a strong dislike for clear flight stands, so I do things like this.
This trio of Inceptors all have a handy piece of terrain to keep them at about the right height.
One is hopping a fence with the help of his jet-pack.
Another is landing on a box (and is lucky the box has crushed).
And the last is smashing his way though a wall.
Also of note is that I used 9 different metallic paints on these.
The wall is made of "mostly" separate bricks of plaster and foamcore.
Then pieces of broken plaster were placed individually to create the cracked plaster layer on each face of the wall.
A couple of minor modifications; one is reloading and another is holding his weapon one-handed.
All have grass bases with scorched patches, because they wield plasmaguns.
The colour scheme is also a nod to their use of plasma; A bright yellow, like the plasma of the sun. And the light blue accents, as is typical of plasma weapons.
I also dulled the red of their guns as a bright red was too much with the rest.
The last 2 of this Hellblaster squad were modified to make them unique.
One had the weapon arm swung out (cut and re-glue above the elbow), and the other hand was replaced with a press-moulded hand.
The other chap is now in the act of reloading. The battery(?) was cut off the gun and glued into his hand (that had been cut away from the gun). The foregrip required some resculpting as a result.
Painted as a squad made up of members from different chapters.
Their chapter markings have been covered with a grey square and each has been assigned an "element" from "Air", "Earth", "Fire", "Water", and a mysterious "Fifth" element.
Here you see "Water" originally from the Ultramarine chapter.