Warsmith Aznable Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 So I really should have spent the afternoon working on my Shakespeare project for school, but my bits orders both game in the mail today... This figure is a character for my 40k RPG group. We play by mixing the different games together like what ended up happening with White Wolf's World of Darkness RPGs. I've played an Ork Freeboota, a Sister of Battle Seraphim, and now I'm moving on to a Deathwatch Tactical Marine. His name is Brother Thrasymachus, and he was loaned to the Deathwatch from the Black Templars. Moving on to the model, I wasn't sure about my skill with greenstuff, but I went ahead and filled in the Terminator legs anyway. Here is a shot I took of that in-progress: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thrasymachus-wip-001.jpg I don't have any sculpting tools, so for smoothing the putty out I was licking the flat of an old hobby knife and using that. I was sure I was going to slice my tongue open, but I didn't. This was more or less the end result: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thrasymachus-wip-002.jpg It's not pretty, but it will work. I keep telling myself, "it's a Deathwatch Marine, so it's going to be black anyway..." And here are some frontal shots followed by size comparison shots: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thrasymachus-wip-003.jpg http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thrasymachus-wip-004.jpg With a Sister of Battle to show size versus regular human: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thrasymachus-wip-005.jpg With a Chaos Space Marine to show size versus regular Marine: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thrasymachus-wip-006.jpg With a Chaos Terminator to show size versus a regular Terminator: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/thrasymachus-wip-007.jpg I went with a very simple True Scale method. I shaved down the top of a set of Dark Angel Terminator legs and mounted a Black Templars collared armor torso on it. I attached Terminator arms to the regular Marine torso, but cut off the Stormbolter and glued on a regular Bolt Pistol on the one hand, and cut off the Terminator hand on the left side and put a Khorne Berserker hand on. The Chain Axe is a pinned a glued contraption because the bits house sent me a right handed Chain Axe because I failed to specify. But it worked out, so whatever. The backpack is a Black Templars upgrade backpack, as is the head. The shoulder pads are Terminator pads from upgrade sprues. In retrospect I maybe should have used regular sized arms and shoulder pads, I don't know. I tried to add the trim to the Terminator shoulder pads to make them match regular Power Armor shoulder pads, but it was just beyond my skill level and patience. Maybe next time; I will put some more thought into it. The base is 30mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimdarkness Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 You might think about bulking out the hips the marine looks a little waspish in the waist area. Or are you making female marine's? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted November 29, 2011 Author Share Posted November 29, 2011 I thought about that. It is probably something I will try on my next true scale effort, but for now I'm just assuming that he's built more like a Mr. Universe body builder than a gene-forged post-human combat-monster. http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/scarymofo.jpg ;) I didn't have the money for more than the one set of bits and I was too scared to screw these up with a more radical experiment. And he shall be painted in glorious Deathwatch black; praise be to the Emperor for small favors. I need to get me one of those rubber nibbed smoothing tools. I know I'm going to try more of these, and if I keep licking my exacto than I'm going to end up in the emergency room trying to explain my idiocy in lethargic sign language while painted scarlet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 The good news is that Stop Day is less than a week away. The bad news is that Stop Day is less than a week away. I've got mad amounts of schoolwork to get done over the weekend, but I wanted to get this one off figure painted. Without further ado, my Deathwatch RPG character Thrasymachus in all his painted glory: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/Thrasymachus-001.jpg The next time I do a black figure like this I am NOT priming in white... http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/Thrasymachus-002.jpg Also, painting a black scheme like this isn't as simple as I thought it would be. http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/Thrasymachus-003.jpg Are you talking to me? http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/Thrasymachus-004.jpg Say "what" again, I dare you. http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/Thrasymachus-005.jpg I have no idea if Black Templars ever use red crosses like this, but I wanted to, so it happened: http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j91/montismo/Thrasymachus-006.jpg I've never done this much hard outlining on a figure. I've never needed to, but I just couldn't make any details unless I did, so shaky as I am at it I had a go. I put the Necron head on there because he's Deathwatch and should be killing himself some xenos scum. I don't know that Necrons would have bright green blood, but I didn't have an Ork head so now Necrons have bright green blood. Or leave their heads around Orks. Whatever. It looks cool. I also did some dry brushing with Mithril Silver, and I'm not good at that, either, but I think it kind of works. I am not unhappy with him. EDIT: Oh yeah, since I didn't have the skill to add the raised trim to the Terminator shoulder pad on his right shoulder, I painted the black trim on. Then I didn't think it looked right, so I used the same grey mixture from the hard outlines to add some fake depth. I think the idea works, but my freehanding is shaky as all get out, so it's a one step forward one step backward victory... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimdarkness Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 O.K the Mr universe pic is just wrong shudder. The painting looks good just wondering where the OSL is coming from though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 What does OSL mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusktiger Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 O.K the Mr universe pic is just wrong shudder. The painting looks good just wondering where the OSL is coming from though. that's not OSL (Object Source Lighting), brother; it is the blood of some filthy xenos that deserved to die at the hands of our Death Watch brother here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted December 3, 2011 Author Share Posted December 3, 2011 Object Source Lighting, OK. I did not really paint with that in mind. I just outlined edges and then added a couple of highlight dashes on some of the more round parts following a curve just to show the curve. I've listened to a couple of tutorials on youtube about how to do lighting highlights, but that really wasn't what I was going for here. My brush discipline isn't good enough, I don't think, to really try anything very subtle, so I go for the chunky simplicity of "general idea from a few feet away while it's on the gaming table" type of special effects. Or sometimes, like on his chest decoration, a "oh crap that isn't working so I'll stop" type of thing followed by a "maybe if I mash some drybrushed metal chipping and bright bloody splashes all over the place no one will notice all the flaws to the basic paint" technique. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicced Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 loking good brother! even if i'd painted the eye lenses a different color than the xenos blood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warsmith Aznable Posted December 5, 2011 Author Share Posted December 5, 2011 loking good brother!even if i'd painted the eye lenses a different color than the xenos blood. I went with the bright green because I originally was going to splatter him all over with regular colored blood. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought that a xenos hunter should be splattered with some alien colored blood, and the bright green reminded me of the movie Predator 2 where the alien is in the bathroom giving itself first aid. But you're right, different colored eyes would have been better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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