++ AUGUSTUS b'RAASS ++ pre-heresy BRASS SCORPION p.247

[The Traitor]

Awesome and really deep red and yeah, I know I've been missing for a while (and found xenos when I returned?!?!), but as an IB student I'm finding myself with less and less time everyday... And about the cygor hooves, they would be perfect, and you could use the spare parts to build another BT!! :P

[Kordhal]

Wow... that bloodthirster is looking seriously impressive, the conversion work looks seamless and its such a cool spin on a classic. Cannot wait to see him in all his Khornate glory!

[Pearson73]

The hooves and base are looking ace.

[Mechanist]

Oh yes, it begins. Finally got so hobby time lined up myself so watching along with your thirster should be good.

[Augustus b'Raass]

So, this weekend, KrautScientist visited me from Germany. We've been mates since a couple months after he and I both started our WIP threads, which now both span 140+ pages, and we've had plans to meet up for about two years. We hung out, drank tons of local and Belgian beers (still hung over), talked hobby shop, swapped bits and whole miniatures (he gave me some awesome metal Templar miniatures and a complete Dragon Ogre, while I helped him to a World Eater dreadnought - all of which will be featured in our respective threads in the near future. Yes, Kraut, I expect to see this dread sooner than later! ). We also visited my local GW, Amsterdam South, endangered the local drinking holes with our presence, and played about a million games of Jenga in an awesome Beer-and-Video-Games Arcade in the middle of the famous (but total tourist trap) Red Light District - writing about which makes me realize I should change my avatar's location, as I don't quite life that close to the city centre anymore. Anyway, KrautScientist and I had a blast, and I am quite pleased to have made a good online buddy into an actual friend.

 

Kraut brought a lot of his beautiful and famous miniatures - his Inquisitorial warband, pitfighters, Renegade guard, and yes, all of his 30K World Eaters! So we took some cool shots, and integrated the fluff of our respective warbands. Turns out, the reason his 30K praetor Hamund the Mournful isn't featured as a model in his infamous 40K Warband The Eternal Hunt, is because my 32K Imperial Fists 5th Company Captain Franz Landa killed him in personal combat, while defending an abandoned Sanctum Imperialis!!

 

Here's some pictures of this epic fight: 

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/IMG_6192_zpsgkfudktp.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/IMG_6187_zps8nxsm484.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/Hobby/IMG_6188_zpsdukasedi.jpg

 

There's a ton of other pictures, but these don't really jive with the fluff I just told you about, so those will have to wait until tomorrow. When I will also unveil the by-then finished Bloodthirster. 

 

KrautScientist also made a ton of pictures of his miniatures, along with shots where his dudes are the protagonists in the conflicts between the Eternal Hunt Word Eaters warband and the Imperial Fists 5th company in the 32nd millennium. 

We also worked on his plague marines, magnetized his 30K World Eaters Contemptor, and pinned is beautifull Angron iteration. In the meantime, please go and check out KrautScientist side of the story in his awesome thread, here.

 

Thanks for looking!

Replies:

 

@ abadizzle: Thank you!

 

@ KrautScientist: Yeah, yeah. The most important paint comes straight from Duncan's tutorial and has nothing to do with the mystical art of airbrushing, though. Thank you for sending me the pictures! Tomorrow will see me really finish the bloodthrister!

 

@ BubblesMcBub: Fist off, I like your name. Second: he'll be done tomorrow! 

 

@ The Traitor: Xenos are a thing now, indeed! I could get the cygor.... perhaps I will....

 

@ Kordhal: Tomorrow! I swear!

 

@ Pearson73: Cheers, buddy! He's almost finished. 

 

@ Mechanist: It's actually almost done! I know, I know. But it's my vacation time and I hadn't had any paint time in weeks! I deserved a full day of painting! I'm looking forward to the stuff you'll churn out thse days!

 

 

 

[Chaplain Raeven]

A game with 2 gorgeous armies like that must have been nothing less than epic. It's always nice to see friendship across such distances.

 

We hung out, drank tons of local and Belgian beers (still hung over),

 

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Edited June 27, 2017 by GreyRavenC

[Sagentus]

Sounds like a great weekend! 

 

Thank you for the step by step, will try milliput with GS and see how i go :) 

 

The BT is looking amazing, cant wait to see it finished

[teku]

We hung out, drank tons of local and Belgian beers (still hung over)

 

Curious what kind beers that give you such a hung over!

Nice pictures of  the battle!

[Augustus b'Raass]

@ GreyRavenC: Ha! Indeed. When I studied philosophy in university, I was good pals with a professor who loved beer. I once interviewed him for an event, and in this interiew he theorized that since beer has been brewed by every civilization, beer can be considered a sign of civilization. So the better the beer, the better the civilization. In other words, the farther away from Belgium a country is, the more barbaric it is. Logical nonsense, of course, but when it comes to beer, it is totally true. ;) :P

 

@ Sagentus: Go for it, buddy! If you need any more help or advice, I'll be happy to try and help you. :)

 

@ teku: What beers didn't we drink? lol. Off the top of my head - which now functions again, we started Friday with an IPA from Brand, then had one each of Natte and Flink of the Amsterdam brewery 't IJ, then one each of Affligem Blond, La Chouffe, Westvleteren (I know a guy ), Westmalle, Delirium Tremens, and finally a Rochefort 8. Saturday saw a much more limited palette, with four Steenbrugge Blondes and four (or five?) Zatte beers from Brewery 't IJ. Back home we topped the evening off with a Chimay Blue.  Pretty good score, don't you think?

[Chaplain Raeven]

Kraut didn't take a couple of crates of his country's beers with him? I hope you won that game to teach him some manners! 

 

Holy crap, you drank more Belgian heritage than a real Belgian! No wonder you have a hangover, there are some heavy hittters in there. Now we know what a suitable gift would be for you: a beerbasket instead of those pointless healthy fruitbaskets. So jealous of that West-Vleteren, those are hard to come by (even though I live within 30 km of the brewery!) 

[Augustus b'Raass]

Oh guys - we didn't actually play a game! The pics are just setups we made for the photo shoot! :) 

 

Also, GreyRavenC: YOU'RE a fruit basket! :p ;) How do you not get Westvleteren if you live so close? Just drive by and get some! 

[Sagentus]

cheers Aug - whats does the milliput actually do to the GS? 

[Chaplain Raeven]

 

Oh guys - we didn't actually play a game! The pics are just setups we made for the photo shoot! 

 

So all that teasing with awesome battle pics and there was no game? That's some serious Chaos-trickery!

 

 

Also, GreyRavenC: YOU'RE a fruit basket!  

 

I wish I was that healthy. Let's stick to the beer basket 

 

How do you not get Westvleteren if you live so close? Just drive by and get some! 

 

Those fraters don't joke around when it concerns their beer. You need to make an appointment with name and license plate number some time in advance. I can't get there with the chaotic job I have. How does it taste?

Edited June 27, 2017 by GreyRavenC

[Augustus b'Raass]

Alright, pictures of the finished Bloothirster conversion. A big thank you to everyone who participated in the development of this conversion, especially to (in no particular order) BCK, KrautScientist, hushrong, Vairocanum, malcharion, mechanist, Atia, Olis, Sagentus, ElDuderino, Ferrus Mannus, Pearson73, Teetengee, Jarka, rednekkboss, Race Bannon, and The Traitor, for their invaluable feedback and advice. I owe you guys - and to commemorate this collaborative action, I've included pieces of the most prolific contributors' names in his name (except for Kraut, who is already immortalized in my other metal Bloodthristers name. I didn't forget him, though, and the astute reader of my latest posts will know how he's in there..).

Well, I guess I'll let these pictures speak for themselves: 

 

Ha'mund Ka-ge'rong Mec'tus-Raass 
"the Mournbringer"

Bloodthirster of Insensate Rage

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsqh0bheyz.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsipq1hsqb.jpg

 

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsaadrb0t1.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsqwj620ow.jpg

 

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d185/mkruijff/World%20Eaters/temporary_zpsnt181pbm.jpg

 

 

I hope you like him as much as I do. I REALLY enjoyed constructing and painting this guy. The whole process made me far more confident in my sculpting abilities, and also more comfortable with basically destroying OOP metal miniatures. As I write this, I realize that the whole metal-librarian-phase I went through last month, combined with the experience the first metal Bloothrister I did before that, was a precursor to this project. I think I've proved by now that many of the old GW miniatures still have merit, and I am looking forward to including them in actual games.

Thanks again to all involved, and have a great day!

 

Cheers,

 

Augs

Replies: 

@ Sagentus: Good question. Milliput by itself is difficult to work with, as it becomes muddy and sticky-wet when you handle it with wet hands/tools. It is very soft and can be sculpted wonderfully, though. Also, when dry, it has a very hard, stone-like consistency. You can then drill and sand it perfectly, but it is harder to cut. Greenstuff is the opposite: it is very clean to work with, but can be difficult to sculpt. It dries like hard rubber, which is difficult to drill into or sand, but is easy to cut. When you mix the two, you retain all the good qualities of both, but loose all the bad qualities. I cannot recommend it enough for a beginning sculptor. The better you get at sculpting, the less milliput is needed, I feel. 

 

@ GreyRavenC: 1: JUST AS PLANNED. 2: Alright, beer basket it is. 3: You mean you've never had it??? Dude. You should make the appointment. Those friars are awesome. I once planned a whole vacation around visiting all major Trappiste (and other) breweries in Belgium by racebike. I made an appointment about 10 months in advance. Totally worth it. 

Edited June 27, 2017 by Augustus b'Raass

[Sagentus]

This BT looks great painted! great job all round! 

 

Thanks for the tip on milliput, I will get some ready for the Arena II event. I totally agree with what you said about green stuff, it can be difficult to work with (for a noob like me), but hopefully milliput will help me get the effects i desire :) 

[Mechanist]

So glad we all contributed to that Thirster he looks ace and the helbrute pads suit him a charm. I think we need a group shot with brother and big daddy thirster. 

[BubblesMcBub]

Awesome just awesome!
How big is he in relation to the new bloodthurster kit?

[malcharion]

Most beautifull BT I've seen so far !

A perfect balance between the old and new ones.

As for the sculpting part it's awesome, I would love to have your skills !

A truly beautiful models Augustus, Bravo ! :)

[Race Bannon]

That is awesome :tu:

 

So ... about that carry case ...

[KrautScientist]

First things first, that Bloodthirster has turned out fantastic, buddy -- as expected, really. Seeing him now kinda makes me wish I'd had a chance to look at him firsthand in all his painted glory -- as you well know by now, your other retro Bloodthirster really blew me away and ended up looking even more awesome up close than I had anticipated. Is the skin colour comparable to that one, as that should give me a pretty good idea how the new one actually looks?

 

But yeah, the paintjob has really brought the various tweaked parts of the model together beautifully now, and the result is a model at equal distances between the modern design and the vintage classics of the yesteryear.

 

All in all, ja, wie sage ich das jetzt, AMAZING work! :)

 

@ teku: What beers didn't we drink? lol. Off the top of my head - which now functions again, we started Friday with an IPA from Brand, then had one each of Natte and Flink of the Amsterdam brewery 't IJ, then one each of Affligem Blond, La Chouffe, Westvleteren (I know a guy ), Westmalle, Delirium Tremens, and finally a Rochefort 8. Saturday saw a much more limited palette, with four Steenbrugge Blondes and four (or five?) Zatte beers from Brewery 't IJ. Back home we topped the evening off with a Chimay Blue.  Pretty good score, don't you think?

 

And it was all delicious! Zatte was the one that actually means "drunkard" or something like that, right? There's definitely something to be said for a country that names its beers after the intended long term result ;)

 

Kraut didn't take a couple of crates of his country's beers with him? I hope you won that game to teach him some manners! 

 

A good point, normally, but the local beer from around where I live is actually licensed :cuss and not a traditional product, and to bring Bavarian beer (that's probably just as readily available in the Netherlands, at least the popular brands) did feel pretty idiotic, what with Bavaria being almost more of a foreign country to a Northern German than the Netherlands. I did bring some local chocolates, though.

 

 

 
Oh guys - we didn't actually play a game! The pics are just setups we made for the photo shoot! 

 

So all that teasing with awesome battle pics and there was no game? That's some serious Chaos-trickery!

 

 

Um, yeah, it's the kind of trickery where the dude from Germany doesn't know the rules. Like, at all. Sorry! ;) It's not that Auggs didn't try, though...

[rednekkboss]

Beautiful upgrade on that old model. Just beautiful.  Nice job, Augustus.

[Brother Pheidias]

That bloodthirster stepped straight out of a 4th/5th ed WHFB illustration in the best possible way. Loving it!

[sockwithaticket]

Seamless conversion, you'd not be able to figure out which bits were sculpted without referring to the WIP on this thread. Rounded off with an excellent paintjob.

[Kierdale]

Outstanding! :tu:

Khornate ;) but outstanding!

[Eldrick Shadowblade]

The new thirster looks great. Shoulder pads were the right call! Overall it makes an old model back to life! A great addition!