BCK's Thread of Stuff: Super Heavy

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

That is nice, thanks for the recipe!

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

30-40 minutes of sponge chipping on Ghaz.

 

 

And making some updated Fire Prism turrets for myself.

 

 

 

[carnosaur93]

Im loving the yellow!
and boy, that fireprism turret is literally perfect

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

The group of folks my brother and I are going to start playing 10th with want to begin with Combat Patrol rules and go on to the normal game from there. It also gives some of the people starting a new army (or their first one) to build up their army. I've decided to go with Eldar since I already have everything that comes in the Combat Patrol box (though I did get 6 of the new Windrider bikes) and I want to continue my progress on the Corsairs anyway.

 

Dragging out what I think is all my eldar stuff - I'm terrible at organizing my minis and there could still be stuff in other boxes - I started to take an inventory and look at what options I have for expansion beyond the contents of a Combat Patrol.

 

I knew I had a lot of the old jetbikes on sprue, but 41 is more than I thought. Seven Vypers, too. I had big plans for a Saim-Hann jetbike army back in the day when Bartertown was where a lot of folks sold or traded 40k stuff and anytime I saw some jetbikes for a good price, whether is a few or as many as 10-12, I grabbed them up. As for aspect warriors, I have some Artel W alternate models for Scorpions and Warp Spiders but some old metal versions of a few others.

 

Dark Reapers:

 

 

4 really old ones, 2 kind of old ones, and only launchers for 2 of each. Since the new Maugan Ra is so different from this old model maybe I could use this model as the exarch.

 

Banshees:

 

 

I do have the arms for them, they're just not pictured. I also have 5 of the new plastic ones, but I don't like the heads on the new ones at all. I've tried to find a 3d modeler to commission making some of these 'squid' banshee heads I could put on the plastic bodies but the three I've talked to that even agreed to hear what I was interested in said 'no' for various reasons. So these might get painted up sometime soon.

 

Fire Dragons:

 

 

Old metal again (better than Failcast!) with the exarch being my most recent tester for the corsair paint scheme.

 

Not sure what I'm going to do if Aspects can only be taken in squads of 10 like some of the marine units. Sure as hell aren't buying failcast.

 

For my two old FW Wave Serpents, I found some 3d replacement parts for the shield generator bits I printed out because the previous owner of them used so much superglue to attach them to the hull that it oozed out around them and few of them look like he didn't get it seated right and smeared around for a second or two. I removed all the old generator bits (most had damage anyway) and got the superglue residue off but I still need to do some sanding and maybe put some filler in a couple spots. But DAMN do these replacement bits look good!

 

 

And in non-xenos news, I printed a skull base for Khârn by taking a blank base, a few skull models, a whole lot of time copying, pasting, and adjusting a whole bunch of skulls.

 

 

 

[Elzender]

Not gonna lie, I'm a bit jelly about some of those old sculpts in metal 

 

Regarding the banshees, I think there is one squid mask/head in the plastic kit, maybe casting it with blue stuff/oyumaru might be an alternative if you only need it for 5 bodies? 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

There is a similar head on the plastic banshees sprue, but it's not the same.

 

 

It's not as tall, doesn't have the same sweeping curve on the upper part, doesn't have the 'blades' that come off the side of the helmet, and worst of all is it has the same ugly nose-less face plate as the other plastic banshees. The mouth goes all the way up between the eyes and is just... hideous. Looks more like something out of Hellraiser than 40k eldar to me.

 

It may not be easy to see what I mean about the type I like so here's an art piece that shows off the mask really well.

 

 

[Elzender]

I see now, I hadn't paid enough attention to the details. It's a pity, really, as I agree it gives them so much more character than the space marine grill look-a like. 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Aaaaaaaaaand I bought the Levithan box. I'm weak and I apparently have an addiction.

 

Terminators and dread are prepped, inferno squad prep almost done, and I still need to make a few decisions on the libby and captain before they're ready for paint.

 

Speaking of the terminators, I've never liked the look of the storm bolter all that much and I wanted to use an assault bolter without the gun shield or handles in its place and had trouble locating some official ones -- none I was willing to shell out for on eBay or digital ones to print -- so I made my own.

 

 

There's a few details I want to clean up or change, but I'm really happy with it and it's the first thing I completely modeled.

 

 

And instead of wasting any more time with a custom chapter paint scheme that I can't seem to be happy with, I'm stealing one. Not sure if I'm going to say they're Imperial Fists or make up a successor.

 

 

Test on a 3d printed terminator that was scaled too big to fit in with the plastics.

 

Custom heads for the inferno guys.

 

 

And some reinforcements for after I finish the Levi box contents.

 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Been a while and I have been working on some stuff and first up I some parts to modify the sarge and the sarge double because I didn't like the way the flamer sat on the hip.

 

 

 

And the airbrushed basecoats.

 

 

I also wanted to print my own Tor Garadon and it was the most complex digital conversion I've done so far, mixing a pre-made parts and some of my own that I modeled myself. The blue bits are all from one creator, the green bits are from various others, and the orange bits were all made by me.

 

 

 

The legs, torso, tabard, right arm/cables and backpack (minus gun and cables) I decided to print as one solid piece because I wasn't sure the cables and all the other bits would line up afterward if printed separately. Garadon looked like he was a larger than a normal gravis marine so I made him up 15%, which didn't seem that much bigger in the 3d program, and then I printed him and realized I made him yuge. Oh, and the gravis head I modified wouldn't fit in the collar after printing and I had printed some of these knightly helmets to swap out the terminator heads... which wouldn't fit in their collars.

 

 

And after several days of trying to diagnose why my airbrush wasn't cooperating, I finally got some base coat layers on him.

 

 

 

 

Edited September 8, 2023 by Brother-Chaplain Kage

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

And finally, old watchers of the thread might remember this guy:

 

 

 

Since the Dusk Raiders idea was long dead, I decided to make this into an IF contemptor. I cut away the icon on the torso and printed a new one to go in its place. The plasmacannon has gone missing but I plan on printing several new weapons for it. He also got some paint tonight. Just base coats post-masking and looks a little odd in a few spots, but I was having so much trouble supporting and printing Garadon and then fething with the airbrush for days, I needed to post something to keep my motivation going.

 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Been a while. Life stuff, work stuff, ADD stuff.

 

I stepped away from warhammer for a bit and did a number of 3d printed pieces for friends, my brother, our D&D group, and recently got into printing and painting some 1/6th scale figures - which I can't show here because rules - but I was always keeping an eye out for some 4k statues to print. There's not a lot out there because those lawyers don't get retainers for sitting on their asses, the crazy converter in the back of my head was always looking for things that might work for a conversion. No space marines, obviously, but if anyone out there ever played Magic the Gathering as an example, and after looking through a number of cards your brain went "Hang on, if we use this enchantment with this creature and this artifact... we got a deck". Similar thing with 3 different models to make a Lelith Hesperax conversion.

 

Mostly this Witchblade figure:

 

With different legs below the knees so she'll be barefoot, different head, and a different right forearm plus hands.



Using a Dremel to remove the Witchblade 'armor'





The plan is the mask and maybe top from the original artwork:



Leg armor from the Dave Gallagher piece:



And the covered and armored arms from the Mikhail Savier piece.

[Pearson73]

The Lelith project sounds really cool, I'm excited to see how it progresses!

[Grotsmasha]

Yes please 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Some sanding clean up after additiona Dremeling to cut down the Witchblade knee armor detail even more , sanded down the sides of the face to give her cheeks a more narrow dark eldar-like profile, and managed to get her to stand long enough snap a couple pics with generous application of blutac.

 

 

Do the thighs seem too muscular for a dark eldar or is it just me? Considering filing them down some.

[Montuhotep]

They do a bit, especially if you fancy replicating the Dave Gallagher leg armour - needs to be a touch sleeker, I think.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I took some of the mass out of the thighs, but the model is hollow and the skin is only 2mm thick and didn't want to risk filing through it.

 

 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Scaled up a marine helmet 700% to put on the base as a trophy for Lelith.

 

[Firedrake Cordova]

For some reason, I'm looking at that space marine helmet, and seeing a brush pot  

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I'd say this one is too small, but a bigger one? Absolutely.

[Kurgan the Lurker]

19 hours ago, Brother-Chaplain Kage said:

Scaled up a marine helmet 700% to put on the base as a trophy for Lelith.

 

 

That helmet is fantastic!!

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I was shocked the mesh held up to being enlarged that much. I had wanted to do an old marine marine helmet but they wouldn't hollow well because they were assembled from multiple small parts and then merged together (back of the helmet, eye lenses, face plate, etc), but you'd never need to hollow a normal size marine head. This primaris helmet hollowed like a dream.

[Maschinenpriester]

 Are the gin barrels hollow?  Printing them with a thicker wall thickness could help.  The issue is if u are curing you are getting tensions in the material because it not curedinside. Thicker walls or full material helps. 

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Not sure what you mean. This project to convert a Lelith Hesperax model has nothing to do with gun barrels.

[Evil Eye]

Oh boy, this is gonna be something else. Looking forward to seeing where this goes! How are you going to do her hair, incidentally?

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

On 5/17/2024 at 4:18 PM, Evil Eye said:

Oh boy, this is gonna be something else. Looking forward to seeing where this goes! How are you going to do her hair, incidentally?

 

Looks like I forgot to put the digital sketch in the first post about this project where I threw all the parts together in 3dBuilder to see if it would even look like it had a chance of being suitable for the conversion idea:

 

 

The hair is also from the same Zealot figure from WildCATS as the head, hands, and right forearm. The printed hair hasn't shown up until now because my first attempt at printing it failed. Second go was successful, and like other things I've printed in the past where I had a general idea of how big it was going to be once printed and then being shocked when it was, the hair was the same.

 

 

The problem with it being so large and so heavy, even being hollowed, is that it's on top of the model's head and stands out from the body a fair amount and that's seriously going to change the center of gravity of the model. I'm going to have pin all the body parts together with 3mm brass rod, the model to the base, and I've already cut a long piece of brass rod that will go up into the top knot, through the head and neck, and into the chest to anchor it. Engineering stuff I never thought about until the reality of it hit me in the face, lol

Edited May 22 by Brother-Chaplain Kage