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[lamby]

 

WURMSPAT: Margo the Witch Queen

 

Finally completed painting the Wurmspat trio that I started converting in Afghanistan late last year and completed while in quarantine the first two weeks of this year. 

First up - Margo the Witch Queen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

First layer was a quick splash of Vallejo acrylic washes to get a tint of rusty brown and green.

Then Metallics with Scale 75 Silver and Bronze acrylic.

And then oils - mostly Olive Green, Pthalo Blue. Yellow Ochre, Black, Titanium white, some Cadmium Red and Indian Yellow, then a tiny amount of Brilliant Yellow Pale and lastly the Turquoise verdigris effect, 

The blue/green palette was initially inspired by the Beksinski piece in the header

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Thanks for looking!

[Xenith]

Great  looking works! Can I ask what the tile looking stuff on this guys base is? I'm having a hard time finding something 40k-scale-appropriate for my heresy forces! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Monstra Sumus]

Fantastic stuff.

[lamby]

 

Great  looking works! Can I ask what the tile looking stuff on this guys base is? I'm having a hard time finding something 40k-scale-appropriate for my heresy forces! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks Xenith!

It's Evergreen square tiled styrene sheet, they make various sizes, i think this was :

Evergreen Scale Models – Sheet Styrene – Tile 1/8″ Squares (3.2mm) .040″ Thick (1.0mm) #4503

 

I just chop it up with clippers and add damage with a small sculpting blade.

 

Fantastic stuff.

Thanks NomadPainting!

[lamby]

 

WURMSPAT: Stabby

 

Second Wurmspat - Stabby.

Painted alongside Margo with same scheme and palette, just a whole lot more bronze armour!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

[DaBoiKyknos]

The bronze looks superb!

[lamby]

The bronze looks superb!

Cheers Kyknos!

 

WURMSPAT

 

Final WURMSPAT - Bob.

 

Again, painted at the same time with a similar scheme and palette as Margo and Stabby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking!

[lamby]

W][P

 

Been a while (yet again...) so here's some WIP pics of a third female Spacemarine to go with Sister Sin  and  Sister 2 who is still awaiting some robe sculpting.

 

This lady is a big girl with a pimped-up jetpack and a superhero landing pose.

 

She'll be holding a big old battle-ax in her raised left hand. 

 

The Stormcast base model is Gardus Steel Soul; the armoured torso was sliced and scraped and sanded and filled with putty to get the clean chest - I'm trying to decide whether to add an Aquilla or some other embellishment.

 

The jet-pack was from the old Sanguinary Guard, with the little side jets replaced with Eldar jetbike nozzles, and the main jet replaced with another possibly Eldar/possibly Dark Eldar aircraft nozzle.

 

 

 

 

 

The big old shoulder pauldron is a Terminator one, the Lion Pauldron was taken from the right shoulder and transplanted across to the left, with some additional material on top to bulk it up.

 

The base is entirely scratch-built, a larger version of Sister Sin's base.

 

Thanks for looking!

Edited March 2, 2022 by lamby

[Pearson73]

Great pose and basing for the latest marine!

[lamby]

Great pose and basing for the latest marine!

Thanks Pearson73!

 

 

W][P - Sister Wrath

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Finally (mostly) finished the second female Space Marine started in November last year - Sister Wrath.

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Again, the base model was a female Stormcast, which I sliced through horizontally at the waist, then pinned the two halves back together but rotated the torso more to the left. Apoxie Sculpt was used to rebuild her armoured mid-section and fix the the torso in the new position, then finally the front section of robes was re-sculpted with a greenstuff/milliput mix.

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Since the first W][P of her I've replaced the original blade with a longer and slightly less-curved one from the Warcry Cipher Lords. The slightly curved sword hilt was made by making three shallow circumference cuts in a length of copper tube, before sliding it over the wire pinned through the hand, then carefully bending tube and wire together; the pommel is a glass bead super-glued to the end of the protruding wire, which was then filed down flush with the bead.

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Both arms are from the original model however the upper arms were cut away so the arms could be posed to fit; under those nice big shoulder pauldrons the upper arms are simple styrene tube, since they're barely visible.

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The only possible addition I might make to her is to add a holstered bolter on her left thigh - though I'm still trying to make it fit without looking awkward.

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The base was a cast-off from a Stormcast Easy to Build kit, and was built up with cork and some tech bits; styrene was glued down to create the smoother carved stone surface, while the cork was left rough for the natural and/or damaged rocks. Tamiya putty was used to smooth over the steps, and a pair of the obligatory 40k skulls were the final touch.

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I have no idea where the head came from!

 

With a name like Wrath, you can bet she's one angry lass!

 

Some poor Chaos Marine met his match today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sister Wrath has perfected the enemy-intimidating sword-slap-in-the-palm move!

 

Thanks for looking!

[Valkia the Bloody]

Wow, she is amazing!

[Naryn]

Absolutely phenomenal work, the posing is spectacular.

[lamby]

Wow, she is amazing!

 

Absolutely phenomenal work, the posing is spectacular.

Thanks!!!

 

 

 

 

Tiny complicated things

 

 

Hi - my name is Lamby and I make tiny complicated things!

 

Press-mold copy of the Sororitas holstered bolter, using Apoxie Sculpt and some bolter bits.

 

 

 

More details on the jetpack for Sister 3.

 

Patched the holes in the Nurgle axe, fixed the edge.

Built the haft from copper tube that was cut around its circumference at intervals then fitted over a bent wire to get the subtle curve.

This is the weapon for Sister no 3.

 

Thanks for looking!

[lamby]

+ SISTER DREAD +

Here’s the fourth (of a planned 5) Amazon Astartes - Sister Dread.

She’s an amalgamation of two AoS Stormcast Castigators.

I didn’t like the weird pose on the female one, so took the slimmer lower legs from her and transplanted them onto the male one.
Then it was a case of shaving down the male torso, arms and those thick upper thighs.
(She’s still pretty thicc ...)
Then GS sculpted the tabard back in.

Also added new gloved hands as the originals were holding the big crossbow-thingy that I'd tried to convert into a sniper rifle.

Slinging the bolter was far more of a nightmare than it should have been.

Originally she had a sniper rifle, but it didn’t really fit with the rest of the team.
I switched the rifle out for a naginata similar to Sister Sin’s, but the blade was just too long, hanging off the base.
So Repentia chainsword for the win!

Thanks for looking!

[lamby]

SISTER DREAD - WHICH WEAPON?

Naginata, or

Chainsword?

I keep going back and forth on the naginata blade or the chainsword?

What does the wider community think?

[Khulu]

I personally love naginatas so that gets my vote.  Very cool models!

[Lord_Ikka]

Difficult- the naginata is very sleek and looks appropriately deadly, but the chainsword (glaive?) has a certain brutality that appeals to me as what a servant of the Imperium should use.

[N1SB]

1st, these conversions are awesome.  Makes me want to worker harder at converting.  I'm just kitbashing stuff and thinking I'm creative.  But to the question at hand.

 

 

I'm not qualified to advise on the conversion, but I trained in Kendo and, in case you never had to face a Naginata, let me tell you about how much it hurts.

So it was like a new thing for our class.  One day, one of the deputy instructors, a good guy, up and told me to put on shinpads.  We already have armour, covers the head, chest, hands and forearms.  I'm like "what is this," but because he's a good guy that's never really lead me wrong, I listen to him, he's trying to protect me somehow.

It turns out the professor in charge (Kendo was an extension of a Buddhist philosophy course he taught) was training the girls in the naginata.  I was their test dummy.

I take my position, bow to my naginata-wielding opponent, take the 3 steps into stance, we begin.  I can see a side swing, instinctively go to side-deflect mode...

...BAM SHE HIT ME IN THE SHIN INSTEAD.  It was this shocking pain that doesn't even register as such at 1st.  My body was, "What an interesting sensation, remarkable."

When the pain computed, it really screwed me up not so much because "ow ow ow", but because the very tool I needed to use to move forward to strike or quickly dash back to avoid more attacks, my lead leg, has been compromised.  And every time I tried to use it I'd be exposing it again for more strikes.  I now had no speed, no power.

They say the Naginata is a defensive weapon, which used to confuse me because it's  another polearm.  Now I understand.  In game terms it's a debuff, a control effect.

So the question to you is, whose legs are you chopping off?  Are they wearing armour there?  Would a chainsaw be scary there?  That's this weapon's Special Rule. 

Edited July 1, 2022 by N1SB

[Slave to Darkness]

20 minutes ago, N1SB said:

 

...BAM SHE HIT ME IN THE SHIN INSTEAD. 

Shouldnt laugh, but I am, sorry... Oh thats cheered me up reading that lol. 

 

As for the question on what weapon, Id say chainblade, the imperium isnt exactly subtle, and that shows with their armour and weapons. 

[Majkhel]

Oh yeah, definitely go chainsword! Overwhelming application of brute force is the way 

[Quixus]

On 7/1/2022 at 5:32 AM, lamby said:

I keep going back and forth on the naginata blade or the chainsword?

What does the wider community think?

Naginata all the way, if the other choice is the chainsword as pictured.

Here's why: The edge of the chainblade does not align properly with the knuckles of the model (you did it with the naginata blade) and the hand guard of the blade kind of negates the benefit of the long pole. Someone using that kind of weapon would have difficulty sliding the hand up and down the pole.

If you fixed these issues, I would still vote for the naginata blade but it would be a lot closer. To me the sleek look of the rest of the model harmonizes better with the naginata blade than with the blocky, crude chainblade. 

[lamby]

WIP of Amazon Astartes number four - the Standard Bearer. 

(She would've been number five however I've decided I don't like Sister Dread so she's waiting on the workbench for a re-build.)

This lass is built primarily from the second of the femme Sequitors; not sure which Stormcast the arms are from.

The head is an old Dark Eldar Witch one; going to use some greenstuff to detail the hair a bit.

Left shoulder pauldron is an old SM Terminator one with everything except the skull scraped and sanded off.

The small axe is from the old Chaos Marauder's kit - an absolute gem of kit for bits; though I've replaced the plastic haft with my now-standard copper tubing.

The slung weapon is an SoB bolter with foil strap; the foil has been 'painted' with milliput paste to strengthen it.

The base is a greenstuff/Apoxie sculpt 'cast' of one of the previous cork ones in an attempt to speed up the base-build process.

Tossing about the idea of slinging a curved sword on a baldric low on the left hip.

Grey Knight terminator pauldron on the left side, replaced the Stormcast lightning bolt thingy on the front of the robe with an ][.

The standard is just a copper tube with the plastic end of a Chaos marauder spear, and as yet there's nothing on top as I have to decide whether to make it a banner or something else.

Thanks for looking!
 

[Lord_Ikka]

As always, very nice. Quick question- what do you use to cut your copper tubing? I somehow manage to bend mine all the time when I'm cutting it.

[lamby]

21 hours ago, Lord_Ikka said:

As always, very nice. Quick question- what do you use to cut your copper tubing? I somehow manage to bend mine all the time when I'm cutting it.

Cheers Lord_Ikka!

 

I cut copper and brass with these two things:

 

https://www.hobbytools.com.au/wood-handle-for-ultra-fine-saw-blades/

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Xtra long mitre box

 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

She's looking nice - given that she already has the axe and her back is already very busy with the power pack and bolter, I wouldn't give her a sword as well.  If you do feel she needs something on that front left hip, I would go for something that doesn't protrude much to the rear of the model - maybe a dagger, a book, pouches or some grenades?