Boshea Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Been wanting to build a Brass Scorpion to use as a center piece for my entire collection ever since I first seen one. Decided to take a break from finishing off my LPC to start assembling one. Managed to find the old GW guides for building them and decided to go with the one that actually has 8 legs. http://i51.tinypic.com/bg85h.jpg Like most things I've built so far, I kinda thought it'd be bigger. http://i54.tinypic.com/v315rs.jpg Messed up on leveling out the two end pieces, so just used some green stuff to gap fill it. I need to go and clean it up once everything sets. http://i51.tinypic.com/65mueu.jpg Demolisher Canon and the two hell maw canons. I need to get more magnets to attach these. I like being able to remove my weapons when they get destroyed. http://i52.tinypic.com/314asl1.jpg Big pile of legs and claws. Nothing out of the ordinary if you've built a Defiler before http://i55.tinypic.com/2mqouma.jpg The Tail. Getting the second arm to connect was harder then I thought it'd be. http://i53.tinypic.com/2m4vbbd.jpg I didn't have the parts to build the canon described in the guide, and I thought the Scorpion canon in the codex looked underwhelming. So I just doubled the guns. Still working out how I'm going to connect it to the tail. http://i55.tinypic.com/20sj9d0.jpg How he looks so far. The tail was sturdier then I thought but it probably won't hold well once I get the gun on it. Even if it does I'll still probably put a pin in it to help support it. Both of the front claws are probably going to need pins since one joint doesn't hold very well, and the other doesn't hold at all. He stills needs some places cleaned up, and a few structural upgrades, but I think he's coming together pretty good. Don't know when I'll get around to painting it, since I still have my LPC to finish and several units that see regular play to paint. After I do get it painting I think I'm going to give him the Slaughterfiend treatment by wrapping a chain around him and have him ridden by a skull champion. Gives me another excuse to use a up a few more possessed bits. Just need to find chain that looks right for when I get around to the Slaughterfiend Blood pack. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/220954-brass-scorpion/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxyogi Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 That looks nasty!! Looks like that could do some wicked damage!! Nasty!! Good work!! ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/220954-brass-scorpion/#findComment-2638677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GooseDaMoose Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Mighty fine work so far! Can't wait to see it develop. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/220954-brass-scorpion/#findComment-2638687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boshea Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Thanks for the comments. Haven't had much of a chance to work on this lately. Cleaned up a few mold lines, but not much else. Still trying to figure out how I want to go about pinning the front claws. Planning on taking some design ideas from Slaughterfiends. I really dig the imagery of a champion riding a daemon engine, so I put together this guy. http://i52.tinypic.com/2vvkm4o.jpg He's a little unbalance, but it won't matter once he's on the scorpion. Still working out how I'm going to do that since I kind of want to keep him around as a backup for Ilya. Need to look at what kind of chain will work best for this, then I'll find an arm that works well. Hoping to get this at least assembled and based coated in the next two weeks. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/220954-brass-scorpion/#findComment-2669976 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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