Heraclite's WIP log - Bladeguard Veterans

[Heraclite]

Well... Magnets took a long time to get to me, so no painting in april... And may is gonna be busy with all the work there is to do around the house + a metric ton of birthdays in the family...

 

Yet I did break out the superglue to magnetize the bases of all my painted minis and almost all my WIP minis (only the poxwalkers got magnetized on the death guard side of conquest)

 

I think it's also a good time to show you the custom boxes I made :

 

 

 

and their contents :

 

 

[Heraclite]

I present to you the latest members of the void cuirassiers

 

 

 

and that's another dark imperium squad done (after the inceptors) :

 

[Heraclite]

with 2 more completed intercessors, that's another squad done !

 

 

 

 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Impressive work.

[Heraclite]

thanks bjorn.

 

I finished painting 5 intercessors for the 12 month of hobby challenge

 

here are some better pics than the one I took last night :

 

 

and here they are with the first part of the squad :

 

[Lord Raven 19]

I like the power sword, and the black is really well done, good job.

[Heraclite]

Thanks lord raven, the black is quite simple actually, just some abaddon black over a black cheap basecoat spray with a mechanicus standard grey edge highlight

 

Here's my latest mini, a custom stalker bolt rifle primaris lieutenant :

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

 

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Good job on the LT.

[Heraclite]

Well, it's been a little more than a month since my last completed mini.

 

But I'm back with a bang, as I finished a full squad (minus the first marine that was done ages ago) of veteran assault intercessors :

 

 

 

and some individual pics behind spoilers to keep it readable

 

 

 

 

[Brother Dallo]

Lovely models.

 

Dallo

[Heraclite]

Thanks Brother!

 

Now on to some actual WIP pictures.

 

For my birthday, my father got me a job lot on ebay consisting of an indomitus captain and LT, a primaris librarian, 5 intercessors, 5 indomitus assault intercessors, and 3 aggressors. So In the lot was also included an age of sigmar painting set. As I want to convert those 3 minis to make at least an inquisitor and maybe somme followers, I had to start building the proper 40k kits to get a sense of what bits would be left to tech the AoS minis a little bit.

 

So I set myself to first build the assault intercessors (as is, just with a swappable power fist for the sergeant)

 

 

This kit is really lovely and the poses are so dynamic!

 

Then I started working on the regular intercessors. They are meant as the second half of the assault bolt rifle intercessors I posted earlier in the thread

 

For that purpose I magnetized the sergeant so that he could be used either as a sergeant or as a regular marine in a 10 man squad :

 

He's got the choice between a power fist

 

a chainsword

 

 

or a fancy wrist watch :

 

 

he's accompanied by a grenade launcher wielding marine

 

 

a guy pointing toward a threat on the upper floor of the building on the right

 

 

a fellow who's a bit too eager on stabbing his opponents

 

 

and the last one, my favorite of the bunch, inspired by my daughter.

 

she came to check on me at some point so I showed her the already built assault intercessors, she thought they were cool but told me it would be even better if they had two guns!

 

So I had to make a guy with two guns.

 

To keep him game legal (even though I can't say I play the game very much), I had to give him an assault bolt rifle, it was a bit fiddly, but I managed to slung one over his shoulder with some leftover strap that I had to cut make it fit.

 

I really like how bulky he is :

 

 

Don't hesitate to tell me what you think of those !

 

Cheers

[Heraclite]

Here are the latest additions to my primaris marines, an ancient, and a chapter ancient

 

First the 2nd company ancient

 

 

 

I didn't use metallics on his banner, to make it look like plain cloth, but I did on the chapter banner, that should use more noble materials

 

 

 

 

[Heraclite]

My birthday gift included a primaris librarian.

 

Since I already had one, and didn't want to resell this one, I decided to twist him a little to make it my Chief Librarian.

 

I tried experimenting with greenstuff, it's far from perfect, but I like it anyway

 

The equipment is not standard, but since I don't really play, it's not a big deal. And then again, if I get to play, it will be with my kids so we can just house rule everything.

 

So here he is, trying to harness as much psychic energy as he can before unleashing it onto his foes :

 

 

 

 

[Heraclite]

I've finished a squad of assault intercessors.

 

I had intended to give the sergeant a swappable power fist but it didn't really hold well enough to look good, so the powerfist is painted and will go to another sergeant at some point.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Heraclite]

first of all, happy new year to you all !

 

You can check my last completions for Grostmasha"s twelve months of hobby challenge here :

 

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/topic/368355-12-months-of-hobby-challenge-2021/?p=5778875

 

On the building front, I got a box of eliminators.

 

I built them with lasfusils :

 

I had 3 etb reivers that i pimped up with all the leftover guns from the kit.

 

I chose to use all the "non firing" ones, because it was easier to make them look right :

 

I also built a reiver lieutenant with another tweaked etb reiver :

Edited January 2, 2022 by Heraclite

[Guest Triszin]

cool stuff

[Naryn]

Really love how much character you pack into these conversions. Any update on that Librarian? He's an extra favorite of mine!

[Heraclite]

Thanks a lot guys.

 

@Naryn : Unfortunately no update on the librarian. He is primed thoughn but I still have 10 intercessors to paint before I start painting what's left of my primed models.

 

As this librarian will be my chief librarian, I want to give him my best shot and try some fancy techniques, so I don't want to rush him.

 

I'm also still debating what head to give him, either the standard helmeted primaris librarian head, or the one I had originally planned for him, made from a stormcast head, with a little "ear" from a primaris bare head :

 

 

I also knocked two inquisitors with some ETB stormcasts from a paint set :

 

first a radical ordo xenos Inquisitor :

 

And a modominant ordo hereticus inquisitor that is obviously after her :

 

Edited January 3, 2022 by Heraclite

[Heraclite]

And my vow for Grostmasha's excellent 12 months of hobby challenge is done :

 

 

 

 

 

[Rusted Boltgun]

I'm new here and late to the party.

Having reviewed your thread I have to say that I really like your coherent paint scheme and great freehand work. I especially like the drive units on the Inceptor packs but there are so many other fine details on your models.

[Heraclite]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it, I'm actually learning everything as I go, because I never highlighted anything when I was younger, nor tried "energy effects" like on plasma coils or the inceptor exhausts. There's a lot of trial and error but it's getting better with each new batch of models

 

I never managed to apply decals when I was young, so didn't bother trying this time around. It forces me to freehand the chapter badge and squad markings.

 

Some turn out better than others but the overall look  is still uniform enough for my liking

[Heraclite]

here's the last addition to my void cuirassiers, a squad of boltstorm aggressors :

 

 

The squad number is 8, the same as my flamer aggressors as they are supposed to be a single large squad. sort of like a combat squad.

 

 

 

[Heraclite]

Here's the last model I painted for the 12 months of hobby challenge, a reiver lieutenant

 

 

[Heraclite]

Well... It's been more than a year and a half since I posted here....

 

I undertook a bathroom remodel beginning in april 2022 that lasted till november 2022 so I completely stopped working on my marines. And I never managed to gather enough motivation to get it started again...

 

That is, until now !

 

I did find some time to paint a repulsor this spring, as it was collecting dust on my desk, nagging me every day. So here it is :

 

 

It is also fully magnetized, allowing me to swap loadouts :

 

 

 

As of now, I'm working on the eliminators from further up in the thread :

 

Edited November 27, 2023 by Heraclite

[Firedrake Cordova]

Clean