Marius Perdo Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I saw Doghouse's counts as Pedro Kantor for his War Dogs (link here) a while ago, and liked what I saw :) So, firstly credt where it is due, this is just taking a Doghouse idea and running with it. I've generally been fiddling with doing my own counts as special characters, and as I have a fondness for combi-flamer/heavy flamer toting sternguard against orks Pedro was a must. Having two AoBR boxes I went halves on with a mate who wanted orks meant I had a spare commander, so I sat down with my bitz box and after a couple of hours ended up with the following... Still very WIP, need to greenstuff in the ammo feed for a start and then clean up mould lines etc. Used him against my mates orks where he personally did for 29 of them without ever using his powerfist, so sufficed to say I like him. I'll name his counts as wargear/medals fully at some point, but for now I'll call Dorn's Arrow Dire Portent. I'll work on more names, but thinking of calling the skull thing on his waist/girdle the Star of Varsavia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapter Master Kanithon Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 I like it, I recently made a count-as Pedro Kantor but I don't think Dorn's arrow looks beefy enough. can I ask what you used for yours? Kris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Perdo Posted May 22, 2009 Author Share Posted May 22, 2009 @Chapter Master Kanithon: Sure. It is basically the plastic dreadnought one that you can sling under the dreadnought close combat weapon (quite a few spare, I prefer the heavy flamers personally). However I cut the back part off and replaced it with the back end of two bolt pistols, as they where smaller and it just looked too large when unmodified. The ammo feed parts that are in plastic come from the same dreadnought storm bolter part (used two). The skull and wings on the side is one of the medallions/badges from the Commander box set. Hope that helps. Edit: Forgot to mention the grip, that comes from the handles of the plastic heavy bolter ammo cases from the devastator box. I used two of the actual cases on his backpack where the ammo feed runs to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chapter Master Kanithon Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 That's an amazing idea. You've just solved my weapon problem. thank you so much =] Now all I have to do is get myself a dreadnought.. You're also making want to collect Silver skulls with all your work, keep it up Kris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alienerd Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 outstanding, and inspiring, might gve it a go. How easy was it to get the bolter away from the commander? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrannicide Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Cool conversion, I like the ammo belt feed/backpack combo and the little skull head trinkets on the banner cross look nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marius Perdo Posted May 23, 2009 Author Share Posted May 23, 2009 @Chapter Master Kanithon/Kris: If you don't have a dreadnought one spare a plastic termie storm bolter bolter would probably do. If you do go with Silver Skulls GW sneaked in metal chapter symbol shoulder pads in late March, link is here @Alienerd: I take it you mean from the AoBR Captain? If so it was easy with a pair of good clippers, I haven't even needed to use green stuff, just had to file some rough edges away. I have Xuron pro clippers that cut through steel without the teeth nicking, cost a bit more but they have lasted years and don't explode under stress at critical moments and chip your monitor like GW ones do. I was careful enough that I still have the captain's bolter with it's strap intact for another project, probably for a chapter honour guard. The sword that is left over is also so big I'll be using it as a relic blade on an honour guard as well. @Darth Potato: The skulls are off the top of the plastic SM bike banner poles. I used the idea on my company banner bearer a while ago. I don't have any other backpack banners in the army apart from this one, so I decided to use the same idea to make it stand out a bit more, and to obviously tie in with skulls. Well spotted. Thanks for the feedback guys. I'll be doing some work on this slowly and prepare and paint it as best I can, it turned out better than I thought it would so it deserves it I guess. However I'm getting distracted by making a counts as Vulcan He'stan, renamed as High Prognosticator Maximillian Kolbe. In that "build mode" at the moment, can't stop tinkering long enough to paint something ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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