Thousand Sons Manufactorium

[Meph]

Awesome work, man. Solid painting, excellent plasticard-fu. I'm a fan!

And I must say I absolutely love the conversion on the Storm Talon. That nose extension is exactly as I've been envisioning it but been a bit too daunted to start work on. It's very satisfying to find somebody has had the same idea and executed it to perfection. Immediately it looks more like an aircraft.

[Skits]

@Sauragnmon, @Morgrim, @Psychosplodge: Ahh thank you! :D

@Meph: Thank you! :D And yeah I'm really happy with how the Storm Talon turned out! If you do decide to try it yourself, I really recommend making mock-up nose cones with plain cardboard first to help get the dimensions right. And don't forget to take into account the thickness of the plasticard you're using when you get to that stage!

So anyway! A bit more progress on Ahriman:
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Still need to do his helmet, finish off other gold areas, tighten up some details, and paint the entire weapon. XD Oh and make his base. I'm still trying to decide what to DO with his weapon though, agh. Suggestions?

Also! I just realised I'd completely forgotten to show the chain axe I've been working on for a friend. So! Here we go:

Planning is important!
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Axe head pieces before assembly:
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Axe head with rough trim, testing out fit/positioning before trimming down to shape:
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Trim ready for assembly - also showing the little bits of sandpaper I use for shaping:
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Axe head fully assembled, and the parts used to attach it to the haft:
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Finally finished and attached to my friend's model!
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This guy is one of my friend's older models, repurposed to create his character from one of our Deathwatch rp games. The axe turned out a little large, but friend is still very happy with it! He ended up using an arm with a plasma pistol for the left arm, which I forgot to take pics of, but oh well. Both arms are magnetised anyway for posing and weapon swapping.

As always, let me know what you think! :D

[Meph]

Noice axe, noice!!

For Ahriman's weapon, why not make a blade a slightly paler shade of your decorative gold, and the staff either a pale colour (grey-white or beige), or a dark burgundy (darker than your armour). That might give you a good contrast with the rest of the staff's detailing?

For the Storm Talon, I'm no stranger to some plasticard work (my Stormraven conversion from a few years back is the best excample), so I intend to change the wings completely, and make the tail larger and longer. but that nose section is definitely the key section of the whole model, if that is off even by a tiny amount, it'll ruin the look of the whole model. And you got every angle and shape just right. *Tip-o'-the-hat*

[Skits]

@Meph: Hehe, cheers man!

For Ahriman's weapon, I was definitely considering some kind of creamy bone or pale beige for the staff sections! For the blade though, I'm mostly trying to decide between metallic silver (with the power pack section in gold) and the blue/gold pattern, or doing some kind of blue-white gradient with lightning effects or something equally fancy. Doing some kinda fancy effect could look really sweet, but I'm a little worried about it looking too busy and/or drawing too much attention away from the rest of the model.

As for the Storm Talon, heh, thank you! It took me five different cardboard mock-ups to get the right measurements for that nose cone. Definitely worth the time and effort, I think! Best of luck with your own conversion!

[Morgrim]

Adding the jewel effect to the blue parts of Ahriman's collar piece is really effective. It's subtle enough not to draw attention away from other parts of the model unnecessarily but complements them well.

[Skits]

@Morgrim: Thank you! I'm glad that effect worked out!

Update time! :D

Finally finished painting Ahriman! And then realised I didn't have his base ready, OOPS.
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So, made his base - just need to wait for it to cool down a bit before I primer it. Bloody Aussie summer, agh.
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Also cracked open the new 40k Ahriman model and put most of him together! He’s magnetised to the disc, so I can field him with or without it. Also used some greenstuff/milliput to help fill in some of the seams, just need to sand them down and smooth them out a bit, and then he’s pretty much ready for primer as well.
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And finally, I started painting Geigor from the BoP box while I was waiting for the greenput to dry:
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I need to figure out specifically what I’m going to do for his base though - I don’t want to do snow/ice since I do that a lot already. I’m considering ruins of Tizca for his base but my TSons heart is going ‘noooooo’ and making sad faces at me. XD

So! Thoughts, suggestions?

[Morgrim]

There have been some dramatic battles in The Fang, maybe you could do stone and rune bases for the Space Wolves? Despite there being so many wargames set in fantasy or fantasy inspired settings (and lets be real, 40k is definitely the latter) castle-stone bases seem to be really rare.

[Skits]

@Morgrim: Oooh, I like that idea! Can't believe I didn't think of it myself, heh. XD Cheers man, much appreciated!

[helqq]

consider the space/galaxy cloak design idea 100% stolen, lol

[Skits]

@helqq: Hehehe, no worries, steal away! I'm gonna be doing a step by step on painting another space/galaxy cloak at some point soon, so keep an eye out for that!.

Anyway, been a while since my last post, apologies! I hope everyone had good holidays/New Year! I've been working on a few different things over the past few weeks, so here we go~

First off - I was commissioned to paint a Vindicare. I've since finished him but haven't gotten around to uploading the final photos yet. So in the meantime here's some WiPs of it!
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I also got my hands on Canoness Veridyan, but I decided that I really needed to fix her pose and ditch the ridiculous high heels. I still need to add more detailing to her feet, but she looks a bit more comfortable now at least!
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Also getting close to finishing Geigor! Just his base, his right arm and a few other bits and pieces to do.
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Finally, I've started on the new 40k Ahriman as well (because I forgot I was still working on Geigor at one point, oops). Just the white of his robe's done so far.
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As always, let me know what you think!