An apple a day...

...keeps the cult biologis fleshseer away.

Thunder!!

Well, that was quick! 

I like how this guy turned out - he's got a very puritan air, but the hunched posture and slightly off proportions hint at mutation. 

He shall be known as "Thunder" as an homage to a character from a swedish radio show that you've probably never heard of. 

Book and Hammer

Huzza! Two new inquisitorial retuine members join the ranks.

The guy with the book is a revised version of a priest conversion I did this summer that never felt right for some reason. 

I like his moustasche... Makes him look like Sam Elliot. 

It's a wrack, people!!

I took a break from the truscale marines that's been my main focus the past months - wanted to do something completely different...

The result was this rather creepy looking wrack to go with the serpentine Acothyst made a while ago. 

I think this'll be the blueprint for all my wracks - it's really a pretty simple conversion, but nonetheless quite effective.

Metal warrior

Oh yeah. I listened to Manowar as a kid. Wanna make something of it?

Here's Iron Father Theremine in a more-or-less finished state: 

I say more-or-less as there's a few details left but I sort of got bored on the finishing line. Gonna leave him be for awhile a focus on something else. 

More machine now than man

Finally some real progress on the Iron Hand marine:

I think he's imposing enough to be an Iron Father. As most of my names are nicked from music history in one way or another, I find "Iron Father Theremine" quite fitting.

To be or not to be

Yes, I know Hamlet doesn't say those lines while holding "The Skull", but I squandered the correct quote on the last post.

Anyway - the Iron Hand conversion is nearing completion.

I have to admit I'm really, really, pleased with this conversion. 

It's like a little one-model diorama... 

And, although the "contemplating a skull" pose may be a rather overused cliché it works here nonetheless. 

I'll add some details like rivets and a parchment or two, but apart from that it's more or less done. 

Jobs a good 'un. 

Alas, poor Yorick...

Here's the true scale Iron Hand I was talking about earlier:

I really like the Iron Hands with all that grim-dark mechanicus stuff going on. One of the few marine chapters apart from Grey Knights (and a few others) I find truly compelling from a modelling perspective. 

EDIT: 

Here's a take with a different pose and head. 

Sense of scale

Hello.

Haven't had as much hobbytime as usual - hence the (at least for me) rather sporadic communiques...

I have had some time for hobbying though, and that's been spent on creating two new truescale Mortifactor marines ( on none other than Inq 28s Commisar Molotovs suggestion) tthat'll serve as NPC characters in a game of inquisimunda at Warhammer World  this month. More on this later on.

Anyway, on to the pics - here's the first one , "Sargeant Danzig":

And here's the second one (obviously a work in progress):

I've gone completely nuts for these truescale marines lately (as you might have noticed) and are also working on two other ones - a Deathwatch killteam member and an Iron Hand marine of some sort.

Codex: Inquisition

NEWS FLASH!!

Codex: Inquisition

Apparently a brand new Codex: Inquisition will be released later this month in the form of one of these newfangled digital codices.

I´ve longed for a codex focusing on the inquisition as an organisation of its own ever since 2nd edition so this, in my view, is as it should be. The split into "daemonhunters" and "witchhunter" (and, I suppose, never realised "xenoshunters") always felt somewhat counterintuitive to me.

So. Until we get more info on this I don´t have much more to say about this other than "huzza!"

=I=

Assassinatrix Mk II - part III

Here's the finished assassinatrix!

Well, more or less, I realised there's a few detail left after taking the photos...

Anyway, here you go:

I'm also working on this repentia model based on the new witchelves:

Assassinatrix Mk II - part II

Hi again!

I finished the assassinatrix yesterday and gave her an undercoat. Or rather three if them... 

Thought I'd show off how I sprayed this gal:

I began with a normal chaos black undercoat, taking extra care to keep it fairly thin. After that had dried I sprayed a thin coat of army painter leather brown from a horisontal angle, and then finally army painter bone from above.

This process gives the model natural looking highlights. Which means you dont need many coats of colour on top of this - the blending is already done. Many areas just require a wash to give it a tone and a line highlight or two. 

Here she is after a few hours of painting:

Assassinatrix Mk II

I just couldn't resist buying the new Witch Elves (despite the box being...well, let's just say "a tad overpriced" and leave it at that...).

Anyway - here's the start of my first conversion using the kit:

I took a lot of inspiration from Mikko Loumas "Death Walks On Stilettos" sculpt and, of course, the John Blanche painting that in turn inspired that model.

http://spikyratpack.blogspot.se/2013/03/death-walks-on-stilettos-part-iii.html?m=0