Progress Log: Alpha Legion Warband: "The Last Surprise"

[Grotsmasha]

For this sort of gap fill, it couldn't be easier. The GS comes in a Blue Strip and a Yellow strip, sometimes seperately, sometimes together sisde by side. If it's side by side cut an even length of blue/yellow, and cut out 1mm eitherside of the join, as this bit will have started to cure. dampen your fingers, and fold it into itself over and over until you have a un inform green colour, it will be very malleable at this stage. If you're not sure how much you need, do a test run with blutac/poster putty to get the right size ball, and then attach it to the helm and squish it in place. It will take hours to fully set, so you will have to time to make it right. 

[Dr_Ruminahui]

As Grotsmasha stated, greenstuff is pretty easy to use.  Plus, if you don't like how it turned out, you can easily tear the head off and then dig out the greenstuff with a knife or tool, as it is much less adhesive than is glue.  If adding the greenstuff makes the neck too long, just do it again with less, or cut down the neck on the head some.

 

Personally, of the heads you showed, my first vote goes for the rebreather head, though the bottom helmet isn't bad either - don't like the beaky helmet, though (to me, beaky helmets look better on low detail models - on ornate models like this one they look out of place, IMHO).

Edited November 12, 2024 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Tallarn Commander]

I too vote for rebreather helm. 

[hd3]

I was tired of not having any named characters in my army and felt my Master of Possession wasn't a good fit with legionaries. So I lashed out today and bought Fabius Bile, especially since the creation of bile detachment In 10th is really good for my army. I've decided to do Bile in the original 30k EC colours since Bile would never acknowledge his own decline. 

 

The only things I'm not sure about are the shoulder pad, I thought maybe a regular CSM shoulder with a scratched up EC decal might be more appropriate. And what faction to make the marine casualty for the surgeon acolyte. I was thinking sons of Horus since Fabius inadvertently killed them off and caused the rise of the black legion. But it's clearly later mark imperial armour. Salamanders or blood angels perhaps? Since both have fought Bile previously in major encounters. Or Iron Hands as the EC's main nemesis. Though the IH decals are really hard to find at a decent price for some reason.

[Firedrake Cordova]

Iron Hands and fudge the need to paint the chapter symbol with mud or battle damage?

[hd3]

11 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Iron Hands and fudge the need to paint the chapter symbol with mud or battle damage?

 

I could try to free hand a little and bury the rest in stirland mire. I also plan to prime Fabius face and body matt black while I use lead belcher in the arms, guns and chirurgeon. Hopefully giving the metallic parts more contrast. I also found the perfect cheap EC 30k paints! Royal Purple and Old Gold from Vallejo, both perfectly match the deep rich purple of pre-insanity EC. 

 

I can't seem to find any EC decals on sale though. I might have to wait until the faction release. 

 

What I'm worried about is how to do the white on the surgeon acolyte. I'm yet to paint white cloth well. I might paint in the dark navy with white pants like a japanese nurse uniform. Although I guess that's really the same problem just slightly lower down.

Edited 15 minutes ago by hd3