Grotsmasha Posted November 12, 2024 Share Posted November 12, 2024 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. Brother Carpenter, Firedrake Cordova, Tallarn Commander and 1 other 2 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6075373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Ruminahui Posted November 12, 2024 Share Posted November 12, 2024 (edited) 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 and Firedrake Cordova 2 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6075460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallarn Commander Posted November 13, 2024 Share Posted November 13, 2024 I too vote for rebreather helm. Firedrake Cordova 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6075525 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hd3 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 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, Dr_Ruminahui and Tallarn Commander 3 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6087304 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedrake Cordova Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Iron Hands and fudge the need to paint the chapter symbol with mud or battle damage? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6087310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hd3 Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 (edited) 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 January 15 by hd3 Dr_Ruminahui 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6087386 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedrake Cordova Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 (edited) 2 hours ago, hd3 said: What I'm worried about is how to do the white on the surgeon acolyte. I'm yet to paint white cloth well. Paint it light grey, and then highlight with white. The grey will cover better than the white, and thus less likely to have coverage issues leading to thick paint. Visually, the light grey is light enough to read as "white", especially with the pure white highlight. Edited January 15 by Firedrake Cordova hd3 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6087392 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hd3 Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 (edited) Since I can't paint anything at the moment due to weather preventing me priming anything new, I have started assembling my chaos sorcerer. Fitting the Alpha Legion's ambiguous nature, I wanted to make this guy look as de-chaosified as possible. To start, I scraped off the 8 pointed star on the back of his torso. It admittedly doesn't look great but I realized the powerpack mostly obscures this so it's not a problem. The belt buckle was next, clipping off the protruding spikes to make it a nice round circle belt buckle instead. Finally the staff. I clipped off the spikes on the head of the staff and smoothed it out to make a nice rounded circle around the eye of warding. The spikes on the bottom of the staff also got clipped off. And finally I just removed the 8 pointed star key chain at the base of the leather strap trailing from the side. I also clipped off the eye of Horus/8 pointed star projection in the sorcerer's off hand. The only thing I couldn't fix is the chest emblem, the secondary black legion eye of Horus design. I thought I might get a skull, sand it flat on the back, or cut the chest skull icon from an intercessor torso and glue that onto the middle. A skull icon suiting both chaos and the imperium. The final step will just be painting.in the box set, the ram's skulls are all demonically possessed bone, while on my guy they'll just be the normal cast brass ram's skull icon of the librarius. The only thing I'm not sure about is what to do for the head. I need a non chaos librarius head that fits basically. Edited January 17 by hd3 Tallarn Commander, ZeroWolf, Firedrake Cordova and 1 other 4 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6087825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedrake Cordova Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Interesting idea - it looks like you're off to a good start with it. With regard to the chest emblem, could you sand/scrape down the trim above the eye, and then sand the eye down flat and fill the void so you have an inverted "u" of brass trim running along the bottom of the plate only? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6088080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hd3 Posted January 20 Author Share Posted January 20 On 1/17/2025 at 9:15 PM, Firedrake Cordova said: Interesting idea - it looks like you're off to a good start with it. With regard to the chest emblem, could you sand/scrape down the trim above the eye, and then sand the eye down flat and fill the void so you have an inverted "u" of brass trim running along the bottom of the plate only? I'm not sure I follow you Cordova. Also, related, does anyone have any suggestion for how to duplicate the colour used in the loincloth/tabard in the sorc official art? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6089030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedrake Cordova Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 4 hours ago, hd3 said: I'm not sure I follow you Cordova. Where you said about de-chaosifying him, I was thinking about turning the chest trim into something less ornate by filing down the eye, filling in the recess to give a flat band, and possibly removing some of the trim. In retrospect, I may have been over-thinking. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6089094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grotsmasha Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 For the head, you could fashion yourself a pshychic hood, and then you could use any head/helmet you fancy. ZeroWolf 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6089132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroWolf Posted January 20 Share Posted January 20 8 hours ago, hd3 said: I'm not sure I follow you Cordova. Also, related, does anyone have any suggestion for how to duplicate the colour used in the loincloth/tabard in the sorc official art? Hmm the base colour looks to be a dark turquoise Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6089167 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hd3 Posted January 22 Author Share Posted January 22 (edited) Actually maybe a different colour would be better. What colour contrasts well with blue armour and a white cape? Maybe the same dirty red I used for a tabard on the legionaries? Edited January 22 by hd3 ZeroWolf 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6089539 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firedrake Cordova Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Yup, a rusty red would look good ZeroWolf 1 Back to top Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6089561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeroWolf Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 Red would work well to stand out Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/377633-progress-log-alpha-legion-warband-the-last-surprise/page/10/#findComment-6089566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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