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[jimbo1701]

5 hours ago, kabaakaba said:

Your terrain collection making me jealous as heck. Especially WoM which i want for a long time!

Thanks. I’ve built it up over 2 decades but things like the wom I got on the recent Mto as for baffling reasons gw seems to sell hardly any terrain anymore. Your post made me realise I never posted pics of the Mechanicus stuff post-spray. 

Edited October 28 by jimbo1701

[jimbo1701]

Couldn’t help myself and picked up the relic shield captain. Saved the arms for a planned future project and raided the BT bits box, so now my assault intercessors have a boss man leading the charge. 

 

Edited October 29 by jimbo1701

[Firedrake Cordova]

Looks fitting.  If there's scope for re-positioning, I'm wondering if the shield could do with being "opened up"? (i.e. following a line more parallel to that of the front of his face)

[jimbo1701]

12 minutes ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Looks fitting.  If there's scope for re-positioning, I'm wondering if the shield could do with being "opened up"? (i.e. following a line more parallel to that of the front of his face)

Thanks for the input. I used a Templar sword bro crusader arm that is quite tight to the body so yes it is quite tight (tilt plate difficult to see too) I’m thinking a slice of green stuff might just do the trick rather than finding a different arm. Also (hard to see at this angle) I could position it so he is looking over the shield rather than blocking view.  

[jimbo1701]

 

Small update on the cap. I adjusted the shoulder and am happier with the overall look, just looks a bit unnatural as the elbow is bent and the shoulder pushed out. I may revisit after another rummage through the BT bits box to see if there’s a better fit. 

On a larger scale my heresy style 40K alpha legion are coming to the fore. I braved the airbrush and a

spent about an hour spraying a contrast mix over silver base and I think it came out ok. Problem is despite my best efforts I didn’t hit them from underneath well enough so will need a second round of spraying before basing. 

 

Edited Friday at 07:29 AM by jimbo1701

[jimbo1701]

Used a different BT arm and some green stuff for a better position overall I think. 

 

Edited Sunday at 09:13 AM by jimbo1701

[jimbo1701]

Took me a little while longer to get these guys done than expected as I resprayed them from beneath to get more complete coverage. 2000 points of 40K Alpha legion - plastic heresy stuff with some resin terminators / dreadnought / characters. 

essentially run as:

Daemon prince

lord 

terminator lord 

apostle 

master of executions 

helbrute 

5 terminator 

3x 10 legionaries 

1x 10 raptors 

2x 5 chosen 

2 x 5 havocs 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 10:18 PM by jimbo1701

[Volgon]

I think you've got a cool "shields up" pose for the Captain currently, my only criticism would be that the hammer arm looks slightly awkward to me. I think it's a combination of how far up the hammer haft his hand is and how straight his arm is. Presumably he's meant to be mid swing (if not then feel free to ignore this suggestion), so I think it would look more natural if you could find an arm with a curve to it (think of a tennis player's forehand technique) and also having his hand at the bottom of the haft rather than halfway up (more leverage).

 

Another option could be to have a slightly more overhead pose with the arm, so it looks like a downward smash rather than a sideways one? That one might look more convincing and also probably easier to source a donor arm.

Edited Sunday at 10:48 PM by Volgon

[jimbo1701]

Test model for the alphas. Took less than an hour to get from the base-coated stage to this. It’s a simple paint job but I think looks decent enough. 
 

 

[W.A.Rorie]

Love the test model of Alpha Legion! Can't wait to see them done. Other models are very nice too.