Badab War One-Shot Minis - 08 December Update - Harath Shen, painted Thulsa Kane

[Halandaar]

An ongoing project to knock up some kitbashed standalone minis from the chapters engaged in the Badab War, because Badab is cool and kitbashing is probably the part of the hobby I enjoy the most.

 

I had intended to start out easy with just my idea of what a standard tactical  marine from each chapter might look like and I did do a few of those already (pics to follow) but a particular combination of parts gave me an idea and so I went with it. Here's my rendition of Old Night himself, Thulsa Kane of the Executioners.

 

 

The basis is Tortuga Bay Studio's Myroslav Kado mini, with arms and axe from their Fortress Destroyer model. The head is from the new GW Terminator Chaplain, tilt shield from Fafnir Rann. There's also a dagger in a skull-encrusted scabbard from one of the GW limited edition webstore minis because "needs more skulls" was a definite consideration i had while assembling him!

Edited December 8, 2023 by Halandaar

[Naryn]

Commented on Instagram already, but I can't tell you how excellent this figure is. It really captures the essence of the Executioners and the old-school 40k marines.

[Firedrake Cordova]

I'm not familiar with that character's background, but it does look great - very menacing!  

[SvenIronhand]

Wonderful. I've always loved the Executioner's decorations, but I've always balked at painting their color scheme. 

[Pearson73]

This is spot on, great mix of details and just an overall sense of brutality. Proper Space Marine stuff.

[Halandaar]

9 hours ago, SvenIronhand said:

Wonderful. I've always loved the Executioner's decorations, but I've always balked at painting their color scheme. 

 

I can't even decide exactly what the colour scheme is! In some panels it seems to be a gunmetal sort of colour with blue-grey shoulders, in others it seems to be a much brighter sort of silver, in a painting tutorial video Duncan presented it as a matte blue-grey, and then the accent colours for veterans seem to be either a bold yellow or a brassy sort of colour interchangeably.

[Halandaar]

No kitbashing here, just the rather great rendition of Carab Culln by Tortuga Bay:

 

 

Along with a Red Scorpion tactical marine for him to boss around

 

[Terminatorinhell]

Oh that Culln is so nice looking! I might need to snag one. 

[Firedrake Cordova]

Very nice.  As @Terminatorinhell says, that Culln sculpt is very nice  

[Halandaar]

@Terminatorinhell @Firedrake Cordova in case you were wondering how he scales with the new GW Terminators:

 

Edited November 2, 2023 by Halandaar

[Firedrake Cordova]

Oh, he fits in very well with the new Terminator models, doesn't he?  

[Terminatorinhell]

Awesome, definitely need to get one. Maybe some of their other terminators too. 

[Halandaar]

This is one of the first models I build for this project; a basic Tactical Marine built from Tortuga Bay's M4 armour

 

 

After looking back at a bunch of pictures I eventually decided the Executioners colour scheme is metallic blue-grey, so I had a crack at trying to work out how to achieve that. 

 

I started out with a basecoat of Iron Warriors over black, then used Stormfiend Contrast to get the blue tone. That felt too dark, so I then went back over it with a drybrush of 50/50 Iron Warriors and Stormfiend, which gave this look which i think looks alright! Was a challenge to get a half decent photo of it though, it's slightly odd in that from certain angles it reads as a lot more metallic than others.

 

[Halandaar]

Next named character: Harath Shen, Master Apothecary of the Salamanders

 

 

Obviously he requires a Salamanders pad for his left arm and maybe something to cover up the not-entirely-tidy join of the right arm with the torso, but overall pretty satisfied with how he came out.

[Halandaar]

Bonus update; I painted my Thulsa Kane a while back and neglected to post him, so here he is!

 

[Pearson73]

Nice work on Kane, really cool basing too. You've nailed that blue undertone on the metal.

[MithrilForge]

I like the chipping on the feet and shins...