Librarian with Helmet

[Vivster]

Dear Brothers,

 

I have recently acquired this miniature .

To be honest with you, he looks really cool.

Unfortunately, for me, his face is showing and I hate painting faces.

 

Fortunately for me, I have a plan. I have this helmet from the command squad box set.

 

2+2 = Helmet on Libby, so to speak. The only problem is what from his head do I need to remove to make the helmet fit, and how do I do it.

 

Thanks,

Vivster.

 

PS. Sorry if I confused you there, i am going crazy, quite literally.

[thade]

Two thoughts here...

 

Dremel.

 

If it was metal or old style plastic, you could (very, very, very patiently) carve that head out of there with a dremel. Speaking from experience, the old metal fig would take FOR. EV. ER. You'd have to go super slow with plastic because dremels melt it. I have no idea how well Finecast would hold up to a dremel. I suspect not well.

 

Green Stuff.

 

This is the way I would go. Green stuff mold some kind of a helmet or mask onto him.

 

Suck it up and Paint the Face!

 

Okay, okay, this is actually how I would go. I hated faces at first. Hated them. But there are lots of walkthroughs out there; it's really not so bad. :) Practice on some bare marine heads first. Try em, strip em, try em again. Then go for broke. :D

[ShinyRhino]

You're going to run into a couple problems attempting to add that helmet unless you remove the entire head section, including the psychic hood. I think you'll find that the plastic helmet is bigger than, or at least the same size as, the hood itself. That means you can't put the intact helmet inside the hood assembly. You'll end up hollwoing out the hood AND removing parts of the back of the helmet. One false move and both will be ruined.

The easiest way to put that helmet on there is to just cut off the entire head area flush with the collar, and then carve out the neck area until it fits the helmet.

[Grotsmasha]

I'm going to echo Thade, and say, nows the perfect time to start painting faces. I also used to avoid them until I read this:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.p...howtopic=207262

Guide by GLD here on the B&C. Really simple and gives great results.

 

cheers,

Jono

[GooseDaMoose]

So I haven't worked much with Finecast, but I know it's quite easy to cut. I think your best bet (since you really really don't want to paint the face, apparently) is to cut off the head, hood and all, of course being careful to avoid damaging the pauldrons, until, as ShinyRhino said, the head area is flush with the collar. Carving out the neck area to fit the nub on the bottom of the head seems pointless to me though, since you can just cut it off to make a flat surface. Then, flat surface of bottom of helmet + flat surface of collar + glue = librarian with helmet.

 

If you then wish to sculpt a small psychic hood, it doesn't need to be more complicated than a small square bit of greenstuff extending from behind the helmet to the top of it.

 

Boom.

 

But, to be honest, it's best if you figure out these kinds of things for yourself. Experiment, mess around, see what you can do and you'll learn a lot more than if you just follow someone's instructions. Not that tutorials aren't hella useful in the learning process, but doing it by yourself is good practice to help you think for yourself as well, because eventually you'll encounter a problem that there doesn't exist a tutorial for, and then all those times you've had to think creatively will help massively.

[thade]

I have to emphasize that cleanly cutting off a noggin that's buried in there like that is no small task. And, unlike trying to paint the face, it's basically irreversible. <3

[The_Chaplain]

That helmet is not going to fit in the psychic hood. Mk iv maximus is your best bet. With a steady hand, you could easily dremel and carve out the face and using a subtractive method, get a maximus helmet to fit into the hood. Best of luck brother.

[Bannus]

You could switch to the Salamanders Chapter. They have really easy faces to paint. :D