Out cold

I've sorta been out of it this week - therefore the lack of updates. The flu I have managed to dodge all winter finally caught up with me...

I have managed to finish converting "Cleetus" though and he's been given a brown basecoat. Time to break out the brushes...

To get away from the inquisition for a bit I also started converting a big mek with a kustom force field for my Deffstarz Bloodaxes. He's sort of a companion piece for a shokk attack gun mek I did a while ago.

Leatherface

There's no way around it - converting is more fun than painting. I've got loads of finished models to paint up, but the bitz box keep calling out to me...

Here's the latest result. A rather sinister looking chainsaw-maniac sort of character. Ork torso and cultist legs with a terminator arm and a healthy dose of plasticard purity seals to cover up the join.

I think I'll call him "Cleetus".
You can't shake the feeling he's from a family with a rather limited genepool, if you catch my drift...

Crusader captain

Haven't had much time for painting this weekend but here's the crusader with his shiny new head. He works a lot better now methinks.

I'm calling this one done!

Off with his head!

I made a crusader a while back out of a scout with marine arms and the bare head from the cadian guard kit.
Now even though I kind of like the fig in general I:

a) Sort of botched the paintjob on his face
b) Never really felt the head suited him anyway. It makes him look more like an acolyte or inquisitor, not a crusader

So, off with it! I'm replacing it with a helmeted head from the empire great-swords I just got in the mail from a bits store. I think we have a winner here...

Witchhunter finished

Well. More or less finished at least... There's always a few minor last touches left, but for the moment I call this one done.

Slow, but steady progress...

Work continues on the Witchhunter. His face came out with a bit to much of a healthy santaesque glow, so l'll have to adress that.

Meanwhile the tech-wraith is starting to come together. It's been a lot of fun playing around with this kit - I really like GWs new plastic characters. Hope they do a ork warboss soon...

Brief, bearded, intermission.

I let the wraith and witchunter rest a while and instead quickly painted up a conversion that had been standing on my desk. Nothing fancy - body from a chaos cultist, arms from cadian command squad and a flagellant head. But then he's just a cannonfodder for my GK-army.

Two things to be learned from this model:

1. The chaos cultists are a suberb base for conversions.

2. Plasma pistols are, even by 40k standards, ridiculously oversized.

Tech-wraith update

Got some work done on the... whatever this guy is supposed to be. Techno-magi-mystic-floaty-thing of some sort or another.

Kinda like how he's turning out though...

Wraith of Khan

It seems like every inquisitior modeler with an ounce of self respect must do a conversion of the plastic warhammer wraith.
So without further ado here's the beginning of my take on the subject:

Witchhunter WIP

Started to slap some paint on the witchhunter. Going for a gritty, Blanchean, look for this one.

Revised him a bit as well before that though - he got a new base, a servoskull buddy to keep him company and I removed the sword and gave him another arm.

On the slab

Here's whats currently in the works - a puritan Ordo Malleus inquisutor, a crusader and a witchhunter.
The witchhunter and crusader are based on high elf archer legs with inperial guard torsos. The Malleus has his legs nicked from a chaos cultist, torso from a marine scout. I find the scout models are perfect for inquisitor conversions - theyre a bit bigger than a guard (hence more imoposing) but not marine-big.

Second post

Until I get my camera out to snap some pictures of the conversion projects currently occupying my workbench, here´s a few already finished models:

=I= Crusader-servitor Grotesquo =I=

=I= Inquisitor Rachmaninov =I=

=I= Grey Knight Justicar Brother Sibelius =I=

First post

This will be a blog about the conversion and painting of tiny plastic miniatures.

Like this one for instance:

=I= Inquisitor Mahler =I=