alejandrinus Blood Angels

[alejandrinus]

This my Blood Agels army very WIP, and my very first work in progress thread, well less talk, pics comming, hope you like them:

Librarian

Sanguinary Priest

Chaplain and Corbulo

Yet to be cleaned

Death Company Squad 1

The whole lot so far

Assault Squad 1

With some mkIV chest conversion, im preparing a tutorial so stay tuned.

[brother varen]

Great work. Nice green stuff sculpting. The poses are good.

 

What else you planning on adding?

[elhento]

hey im liking your work some nice green stuff work. not too keen on the librarian though. he's wearing a skirt by the look of it. id sugest maybe adding some parchment/scrol work and something else to make him look a bit more different to the sanguinary guard.

 

overall tho, very nice work and ooking forward to tha tutorial.

 

hope my comments help!

[alejandrinus]

As promised, here's the tutorial on how to convert a assault space marine torso to a mk IV, and want to share it with you, brothers.

The pictures may seems a little rough, this is due of doing various thing at the same time :lol: , but if you take your time the end product would be smooth and look great once painted.

Well less talk....

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FW mkIV Maximus Chest - Black Templar mkIV chest - Blood Angels mkIV chest

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Make a V-cut below the aquila with a hobby knife

Cut a little area and file/sand it a little

File the belt, first with the hobby knife then filers/sandpaper

File the Aquila first with the hobby knife then filers/sandpaper

STEP 2: Modeling MkIV Torso

Ready?

First fill with GS below the aguila, smooth the area keeping wet the your modeling tool,

Its easier if you have at hand a rubber shaper.

Then fill the chest aquila maintaining the level of GS under the belt

*you can skip this last step keeping the aquila for variety

When you do the first and feel confident you can batch modelling...

STEP 3: More details (optional)

With a little of GS and a mechanical pencil you can do rivets

First put a bit of GS, push the point of the mechanical pencil

then carefully quit the excess of GS

Be very patience with this...

From left to right:

- Normal mkIV Assault Marine Chest

- Normal mkIV Assault Marine Chest with Aquila

- Black Templar mkIV style(extended with plasticard before GS work)

- Blood Angel mkIV style(GS pressmould)

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I hope you find this useful, i'll try my best to write it and to be understable. Maybe next time when I refine the technique, i'll make another tutorial for MkIV legs. Thanks for reading.

alejandrinus

[Shortsonfire79]

Nice tutorial man. Took me a little moment to figure out what you were doing with the v cut, but once I read through, I understood.

Yours looks good, but I think adding a bit more of an angle to the armor plate would be nice. If you look at the Blood Angles mkIV chest you picture at the top, it has some different angles going on. Although the straps may cover some, you could still throw in a bit in the pieces that are still showing. Food for thought, great work!

[alejandrinus]

Yours looks good, but I think adding a bit more of an angle to the armor plate would be nice. If you look at the Blood Angles mkIV chest you picture at the top, it has some different angles going on.

I know what you meant, the FW Red Scorpions Vanguard the angle seems almost 90, the BT and the BA has different angles too, but in the end i decided to go with a medium angle :lol:

[Natanael]

Very nice. An easy way to get some Mk IV-torsos. I like it.

 

- Nat

[ephrael]

Great tutorial for a great idea. I can't wait to try this out. Thanks.

[alejandrinus]

Thanks for the kind words Natanael and mikhail, if you try this out i'll really pleased if you post pictures here.

[Brother Galfridus]

Absolutely fantastic. Thankyou for taking the time to make the tutorial I'll be giving that a go in the near future.

 

Can't wait for the next update.

[alejandrinus]

Well at last i could post the progress of my bloodys, real life issues has been hard lately but i managed to get time to push my army a little, but hey every step is a step.

Im nearly finished the first of my assault squad with some custom mkIV ala alejandrinus im really proud of this and hope to do them justice in the painting stages.

I've also finished the DC squad, minus the backpacks and removing mold lines of the heads.

Also in the mail is coming the ultimate tool for hobbyists :rolleyes: : Instat mould, im really excited with this cause im planning some stuff to como (preheresy jumpack attemp coming...).

Well less talk piccies:

Assault Squad

Death Company Squad 1

And whats left on the desk...

(...where are our bodies!!!)

Hope you enjoy it, till next time

[oscarius88]

your minis seem simply awesome, great work

[Grimdarkness]

Looking good well done.

[Brother Melice]

I love the progress, the poses, and your ingenious mind, first it was MK IV helmet, now the chest piece too????

[batu]

Cool stuff man !

 

The two squads look very dynamic and individual. No members of the squads are boring or look alike.

 

Its nice how you integrated the different typs of armour. Especially the work one the assault torsos is incredible.

I hope you will paint them soon !

[alejandrinus]

Im glad you all like them, and as batu said im trying to make each astarte unique in some way, i pretend to do a maybe near postheresy army but not too stricted.

Im slow working in the second squad of assault marines, maybe if RL let me i´ll put some pics soon, nowadays i only could spend maybe 15 mins of hobby a day the better days... :D .

My current schedule is to finish that squad, a honour guard, termi squad and then maybe two dreads one furioso and then airbrush time ^_^

[alejandrinus]

Well its been time since i didnt update, but im not stuck ive made some progress not as fast as i would but something is something, and fighting with RL is hard nowadays.

Well less talk and onto the pics, hope you like em:

Assault Squad 2

Scout Sniper Squad 1

WIP Vanguard Veteran

Whole Army so far

[batu]

Fantastic army.

 

Will you start painting them soon ?

[alejandrinus]

I pretend to finish the sniper squad, the vanguard veteran and a honour guard before painting, the painting process scared me a lot hope i dindt ruin all the effort put on the conversions ;)

[d Karma b]

Gotta say; the very first shot of the sword drew me in. The bristling energy in your troops is just palpable in the poses, cannot wait to see you paint them. A squad of that vanguard would look amazing with laurel helmets! Can I ask which bit you used for your Librarians blade?

[alejandrinus]

Thanks for the kind words d Karma b, and for the vanguard veterans I pretend to do at least one more with laurels for sure but for the sergeant im gonna kitbash something with one of the crested helmets of the sanguard kit and a mkIV or MK VI helmet.

BTW the blade of the librarian comes in the sanguinary guard box, its a excelent box full of detailed plastic goodies :pirate:

[kapturowski]

Top-notch stuff. Really nice and subtle conversions.

[alejandrinus]

Two updates in a short time ...wow! maybe life have given me a break, but hey the sunday afternoon was productive and I want to share with you.

Well less talk, sniper squad done:

Scout Sniper Squad

Sgt Dorian:

This has been my first GS job attempting to fix a cape not to worst for the first time IMHO.

See you soon, and thanks kapturowski

[d Karma b]

That missle scout?

That hand just boasts;

"Who's got a big boom-tube?

Thiiisss guuyyy."

Even with the pointing fingers, that thumb is perfectly positioned. :P

[Havokas]

That green-stuff BA chapter symbol is fantastic, i'll be watching so POST MORE !