Horus Heresy Space Marines, Orks, and Mechanicum Commission Update #5 – Anacharis Scoria November 25, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Army building, Games Workshop, horus heresy, Mechanicum, mechanicus, Painting, StaticGrass Creations, Streaming, warhammer 40k.Tags: 30k, 40k, Commission, forgeworld, Games Workshop, horus heresy, miniature, Painting, StaticGrass Creations, warhammer
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The next character from the Horus Heresy range is Anacharis Scoria. A Magos of the Mechanicus who is half man, half spider, and half scorpion, but mostly machine.
The yellow scheme is from a previous commission’s unit, the Ursarax. Though I went for old rusty metals this time. Without thumbs, Scoria finds it difficult to properly maintain his chassis. The little flesh he still has on his arms and face is pale and greyed. It makes his face look like it’s a mask.
Scoria looks very delicate, so I magnetized the legs and tail, and pinned him to the base without gluing. That should make transportation safer.
Horus Heresy Space Marines, Orks, and Mechanicum Commission Update #4 – Alpharius November 22, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Army building, Games Workshop, horus heresy, Painting, Space Marines, StaticGrass Creations, Streaming.Tags: alpha legion, alpharius, forgeworld, Games Workshop, horus heresy, primarch, Space Marines, wh30k
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Alpharius enters the fray. This Forgeworld model comes with a scenic base depicting the Primarch kill a Space Marine. In this case, a Space Wolf.
I went for largely box art colours. The green metal accents and silver trim make for a unique colour scheme amongst the legions. The choice was to make the Space Marine an Imperial Fist or Space Wolf. I went with Space Wolf to keep the colours around Alpharius muted so the focus can stay on the Primarch.
Horus Heresy Space Marines, Orks, and Mechanicum Commission Update #3 – Hit them with me axe! November 4, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Army building, Games Workshop, Painting, Space Orks, StaticGrass Creations, Streaming, warhammer 40k.Tags: 40k, Commission, forgeworld, Games Workshop, killbursta, miniature, Painting, resin, StaticGrass Creations, tank, vehicle, warhammer, wh40k
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The next model complete for the commission is an Ork Killbursta tank from Forgeworld. Lots of weathering all over the vehicle. It’s mostly silver paint on the top half and then lots of mud and dirt near the tracks. I made sure to put lots of dirt on the ram and make it look like the dirt is flying up the slope.
Horus Heresy Space Marines, Orks, and Mechanicum Commission Update #2 – Xiphons October 31, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Army building, Games Workshop, horus heresy, Painting, Space Marines, Space Marines, StaticGrass Creations, Streaming, warhammer 40k, White Scars.Tags: 30k, 40k, flyer, forgeworld, Games Workshop, horus heresy, miniature, Painting, Space Marines, StaticGrass Creations, vehicle, warhammer, wh30k, wh40k, White Scars, xiphon
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I forgot to post these here. But they ended up on my other social media accounts.
They are a couple of Xiphon fighters in White Scars colours. I masked off most of the hull in order to paint the canopy and get the sharp, straight lines for the red, since I used an airbrush for most of the painting.
All the dirt weathering I added were all in streaks. I tried to make it in one direction to give the feeling of the forward movement the Xiphons would be doing.
One of the fighters has a thin white stripe on the front triangle. Hopefully that will make it easier to tell which fighter is which.
Horus Heresy Space Marines, Orks, and Mechanicum Commission Update #1 – White Scars Leaders, Ork Boss October 4, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Army building, Games Workshop, horus heresy, Mechanicum, Painting, Sons of Horus, Space Marines, Space Orks, StaticGrass Creations, Streaming, warhammer 40k, White Scars.Tags: 30k, 3d printing, 40k, chaplain, Commission, Emperor's Champion, Games Workshop, grimskull miniatures, horus heresy, jump pack, orks, Painting, psyker, Space Marines, StaticGrass Creations, warhammer
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After some time in radio silence, I present the first batch of the next commission. This new commission will have Horus Heresy White Scars, Sons of Horus, Mechanicum, and Orks.
This first batch is two Jump Chaplains, a Psyker from an Emperor’s Champion model, and an Ork boss from Grimskull Miniatures. There are alternative parts like the chain glaives and jump packs that were 3D printed or resin cast.
The bases for the Space Marines is a mud/trenchworks theme so water effects are added to the mud and a lot of weathering to the armour. I think it puts them into the scene very nicely. The glowing fist and sword of the Emperor’s Champion will hopefully convey that he is a psyker. He even has a book.
Cities of Sigmar: Soulscream Bridge Scratchbuild September 4, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Age of Sigmar, Army building, Cities of Sigmar, Converting, Do-it-yourself, Empire, Games Workshop, Laser Cutter, StaticGrass Creations, Stormcast Eternals, Streaming, Terrain, warhammer.Tags: age of sigmar, aos, brownstuff, Cities of Sigmar, diy, Empire, endless spell, fantasy, glowforge, laser cut, mdf, milliput, scratch build, sculpting, sigmar, soulscream bridge, Stormcast Eternals, styrene, warhammer
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I am calling this half of the Soulscream bridge done! I’ve been working on this for a while. There was some planning and diagram making to get me the general shape.
It all started with a couple of laser cut MDF pieces for the frame and some styrene sheets cut for the foundation. The rest is Milliput and Greenstuff built up for the bricks and motifs. The pieces of Azyr floor is from the Large Base details set and the embellishments for old bits from the Empire and stuff from the Stormcast Eternals. I made sure to add some brick details on the underside so it wouldn’t be so smooth.
All I need to do it paint it fittingly. I will be going for magic forces moving pieces together, building the bridge while the spell is being cast.
How to Paint: Lord Arcanum on Gryph-Charger September 1, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Age of Sigmar, Cities of Sigmar, Converting, Games Workshop, Painting, StaticGrass Creations, Stormcast Eternals, Tutorial.Tags: age of sigmar, aos, Cities of Sigmar, fantasy, Games Workshop, gryph charger, hallowed knights, lord arcanum, middenheim, miniature, Painting, Stormcast Eternals, tutorial, wargaming, warhammer, wolf
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Been working on this for a while. I cut down on the 4x painting a lot and kept each step to under a minute. Still ended up being over 20mins XD. I will keep trying to expand on my explanations so there isn’t too much dead air.
Eventually, I want a 4K camcorder or at least an updated HD camcorder. The one I have is over 10 years old! I dream of a day where the colours are true and my details crisp.
What will be next?
Cities of Sigmar: Ulric’s Retribution – Vanguard-Raptors Conversions August 25, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Age of Sigmar, Army building, Cities of Sigmar, Converting, Games Workshop, Painting, Stormcast Eternals, Streaming.Tags: age of sigmar, aos, fantasy, Games Workshop, middenheim, Painting, Stormcast Eternals, stream, twitch, ulric, warhammer, wolf
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Originally, these minis were Castigators from the Soul Wars set. There was only 3. So, not only they don’t hit the minimum squad size, I don’t like how they play. Looking through the book, I found I like how the Vanguard-Raptors seem to play. I like the number of shots the Hurricane Crossbows have, in particular.
All I needed were the fronts of hurricane crossbows (plus my custom wolf ornaments) to make this conversion.
I cut off the crossbow limbs, set aside, and flattened down the front. Glue the hurricane crossbow bit to the flattened front. The limbs have ornamentation on the base and tip. I cut those off and glue them to the top and bottom of the crossbow, just behind the front bit. This will make it look like scales of some sort, just nice detailing to make the weapon for interesting. Any gaps should be filled with greenstuff or the like.
The squad leader is holding a bolt for the greatbow. But since she no longer has a great bow I needed to think of something else. I couldn’t think of anything to replace it with, so I added some Stormcast helmet halos to make it some kind of flare/torch/lamp thing.
They only need 3 models to a squad, so we will see if I want to make more of them.
Cities of Sigmar: Ulric’s Retribution – Sequitors Batch August 24, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Age of Sigmar, Army building, Cities of Sigmar, Converting, Games Workshop, Painting, Stormcast Eternals, Streaming.Tags: age of sigmar, aos, fantasy, Games Workshop, hallowed knights, middenheim, miniature, Painting, sequitors, Stormcast Eternals, ulric, warhammer, warmongers
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A small batch of Sequitors, most of them with the big hammers.
I got more bits to make 4 more Sequitors with the big hammers so my squads are round off to 4 or 5 minimum-sized squads.
Cities of Sigmar: Ulric’s Retribution – Lord Arcanum on Gryph-Charger August 23, 2020
Posted by Jason Bergunder in Age of Sigmar, Army building, Cities of Sigmar, Games Workshop, Painting, Stormcast Eternals, Streaming.Tags: age of sigmar, aos, Games Workshop, gryph charger, hallowed knights, lord arcanum, middenheim, Painting, Stormcast Eternals, stream, twitch, warbler
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Finished this awesome looking model and filmed it.
I customized the helmet to be more wolf-like and added some old Empire bits to make it closer to my Middenheim theme.
The Gryph-charger scheme is based off a Black-and-White Warbler. A tiny and cute bird.
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