Mephiston Reborn: Again and Again!

 Hey everyone! Feels pretty good coming back with my blog with something that hopefully you guys will like.
So, here's my take on Mephiston. Details on the process after the jump!

Black Reach Warboss- Kommando style

Hi There! I've neglected my blog a bit but here's some pics of my AOBR Warboss that I thought wasn't menacing enough. As always I'm a fan of changing proportions, poses, etc. to have unique miniatures that you (hopefully) aren't able to quickly tell their origin.
A short guide for the uninitiated-

Green is what I've sculpted
Gray is what comes from the factory
White is custom plastic work
Toothpicks are toothpicks :)

I'm going to need to upload some more painted stuff and become a true blogger, but for now here you go:

Alternate Sniper Scouts with Cloaks

Alright guys, have another show and tell today for you!

Sanguinators- Terminators Sanguinary Guard Style

I'm pretty sure these aren't completely fluffy, but it's my take on what a personal bodyguard would be for Dante if he ever donned terminator armor for any special situation, say a space hulk mission. Bits used were simple Sanguinary Guard and Grey Knight Terminators, and I did the From the Warp method of changing proportions because otherwise the arms looked extremely silly. I'm very happy with the result, as it's really close to what I was thinking. I think I can get away with not removing the psychic cowls by imagining they offer info directly to their brains... 40k is all about imagination and a huge scale, so my only advice is to do pretty much whatever you want to as it can be easily explained away ith a bit of that- imagination.

Red Scorpion Anphelion Project Commission Work

Green Stuff Capes My Way- Mi Metodo Para Capas Con Masilla Verde

 Hey-o everybody! I'm back and I've got a pretty nice tutorial on here; so let's get on with it, shall we?
The first thing you're probably gonna want to do is decide where your cape is going to be fitted. It can come from the shoulders, neck, or even waist which is what I chose.

Next up you measure  how big you want it to be. At this point you want to decide how it's going to pose. It's not that hard to get it to look right, you can always clean it up later.

Hola a todos! Estoy de vuelta y tengo un tutorial bastante genial para ustedes, asi que comencemos!
Lo primero que van a querer decidir es donde se va a montar la capa. Puede caer desde los hombros, el cuello, o hasta de la cintura que fue lo que elegi esta vez.

A continuacion deben medir que tan grande quieren que sea. Es en este punto donde tambien se decide como va a posar. No es muy dificil que se mire correctamente, y se puede arreglar mas adelante, solo es de confiar en sus instinctons.

Blood Angels Black Reach- Captain / Capitan

My tip for the day- your main cutting tool should be a Stanley knife, not an X-acto type knife! Not only is it more secure, sharper, and have a thinner blade, it will also last you longer.

My consejo del dia- en lugar de depender de la cuchilla X-acto tanto, hazte un favor y consiguete una cuchilla tipo Stanley. No solo se asegura mejor, tiene mejor filo, y una cuchilla mas delgada, sino que ademas dura mas.

Casco con Remaches- Riveted Helmet

http://www.chaos-dwarfs.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6553

Este foro me ayudo a lograr hacer remaches en masilla verde. Obviamente es importante humedecerla antes de tratar de hacerlos, pero una vez que sale quedan muy bien. Lo mejor es que se pueden usar tubos huecos de diferentes diametros para hacerlos rapida y facilmente.

The board I linked to helped me find a solution to making rivets out of green stuff. Obviously it's important to moisten it before trying to make them, but once you press down they come out really well. The best part of it is that you can find hollow tubes of varying diameters to make them quickly and easily.

Blood Angels Plastic Chaplain Mk.II - Capellan Plastico de los Blood Angels Mk. II

Custom Venerabe Furioso

Hey guys, I'm back and I have a new camera! So let's get on with the show. As per the smarter format, first I show you shiny pics, then I bore you with the text-

Here we have a Venerable Dreadnought with a couple of simple conversions to turn it into a Furioso. All that was needed was a head from a Death Company Marine, the Blood Angels symbol from a Stormraven, and the same for the shin covers that come with the DC marine boxes. The biggest couple of things it has are the magnetized torso, the pinned legs and feet (it's not even glued down yet!), the bent feet since they wouldn't be flat, and the raised leg as per the guide on this thread:

http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?showtopic=161351

Finally, for the cables all that was needed was an appropriate sized copper wire with another appropriately gauged wire wrapped around, and voila! Be sure to get plastic covered wire just to be as sure as possible that rust won't ruin your paintjob.

Tools of War

So I painted up the card case (black plastic, ugh) and gave it a nice metallic look with a little bit of highlighting on the letters. Wanted to make it look like something that's been out there, ya know? It's not perfect if you scrutinize it, but at any reasonable distance I think it looks well. It was easy enough to drill holes and thread a very thin wire to separate the cards by type, and I really recommend doing so, also I added a screw for stability, though I found the plastic axle to be very secure.

Next up is the Servo Skull tape measure.  I like how they designed the front teeth to be where you pull it out. One of my friends broke his dad's tape measure so I took it and fixed it up, and used sandpaper to give it a bit more grip on the lock. I took this one apart and used the same concept and it does make a difference.

I then proceeded to sand the whole thing minus some of the obviously metallic components because it was completely painted in mithril silver with a badab black finish (or the new citadel equivalents) and that didn't suit me. Inspired as I was by this post http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/9270/289929.page#4489706
in which as you can see, he kept the silver look, I painted up the cables and detailed the details.

After I started sanding I really liked the white of this plastic, seems to be nylon based, and first painted any acrylics, really your choice out here. Vallejo liquid metals copper, retouched any areas. Then a badab black wash, followed by the gryphonne sepia wash, and finally a bit of drybrush (though a bit thick this time) with vallejo light flesh. That last bit gives it the more realistic bone appearance and my friends in anthropology tell me that real bone has that kind of striping, so it's good in this case for the drybrush to go in one direction and still be a tiny bit wet.

Remember this is a bigger piece, so a bit of water spotting, weather, and everything should be visible and if you mess up a bit with the washes it's perfectly alright.

To give it an upgrade, I added up a ledsnake-laser combo I bought, since this is supposed to be a gaming tool, to check for line of sight. I think the led is a bit more useful here since it floods an area and is a more natural indicator of what is visible, especially in 6th ed. It's perfectly removable for the sake of convenience.