Leoparden's Imperial Addiction

[Still Standing]

This is an awesome conversion, but I have a (minor) criticism. The angle of the pistol and the arm do not match. The pistol should be aimed at the same point as a line from the shoulder through the hand and beyond. So the arm is aimed at something above his head, whilst the pistol is aimed at something below his head height. Still, only a minor point, but when you're as close to perfect as that model is, minor points count!

[MrSteelfist]

It has been a true pleasure looking through your plog, i'm eager for more

[Rhaivaen]

Oh, I have also started painting the Krieg Inquisitor with my new Citadel Paints (I've made a deal with myself that I'm only going to use the new colours on these guys, just so I can try them out). As you can see I've chosen a yellow paint scheme - mostly because I haven't painted much yellow before and it's supposedly easier now with the new paints (so I had to try it out, right?).


Hopefully you like what you see and I'll have a nice update within a few weeks!

Whow!, lovely!, do you do commissions? I would love to have a somewhat similar build for a "Counts as Marbo Krieger.."

[Leoparden]

Gah! Wonderful as to be expected. You git.

How did you find the yellow paints?

Fantastic additions as usual. I second the question of how you are finding the new paints?

Thank you both! I find the new yellow paints to be easier to work with compared to the old ones. The difference between the old foundation paint and the new base paints aren't all that big except in hue. Coverage is about the same (since you need to water them both down not to obscure details and get streaks in the paint). The layer paints are probably comparable to the old paints, again except in hue, although I find they've planned them better as a unity (ie they are meant to be layered as described in their guide). The biggest change would probably be the addition of a decent "wash" and glaze that actually ties the yellow hues together and brings them out nicely. I used to use Gryphonne Sepia, Ogryn flesh and Devlan Mud do shade my yellows which was suboptimal to say the least.

Gorgeous work in this log, with some amazing ideas and the concepts are being executed to perfection!

Thank you!

Damn, I had plans for that Vampire Lord... Ah well, still gonna do it Especially now I can see how the cloak works... It just will never be as awesome as that... With that bare skin, are you going to try tattoos?

I did steal the idea myself, it's an awesome miniature so I'm glad I did! The plans for the skin is actually to leave it in a dark hue with purple highlights since I'm trying to make it represent synskin (much like the assassins have).

Wow, that is one sweet inquisitor! The headswap also worked wonders for the enforcer, I wish they could make him a regular w. a squad to go along... Gorgeous yellow, would you walk us through it?

Yeh, that enforcer miniature is a really nice base and I wish they would make more of them! A squad of similar miniatures with easily replaceable heads and a couple of weapon options would probably be a big seller for many Imperial Guard and Grey Knights players overall (not to mention the "ooh-shiny"-collectors such as myself).

Since I don't have that much experience with the new paints I more or less did a rip-off on the suggested paints from the games-workshop homepage (minus the dry brush which I replaced with White Scar).
Averland Sunset base (watered to about 1:1), took about 3-4 layers to get even coverage
Casandora Yellow wash (2 layers with small amounts at a time, be careful not to overdo it)
Highlight with Yriel Yellow
Thinner highlight with Flash Gits Yellow
Thinnest highlight with White Scar
Glaze with Lamenters Yellow
And if you want you can do some small point highlights again with White Scar at the very tip of the edges that could use it

Takes quite a lot of time but the end result is worth it.

Fantastic henchman ! You are a really creative fellow

Thank you, kind sir!

Wow! Super high quality of both conversions and painting! ******* excellent!

Thanks!

This is an awesome conversion, but I have a (minor) criticism. The angle of the pistol and the arm do not match. The pistol should be aimed at the same point as a line from the shoulder through the hand and beyond. So the arm is aimed at something above his head, whilst the pistol is aimed at something below his head height. Still, only a minor point, but when you're as close to perfect as that model is, minor points count!

I see your point and I did think about it while I did the sculpting. In the end I didn't want the pistol pointing upwards since I didn't think it made sense on the miniature. The head is somewhat ambiguous in which direction he's actually looking seeing as that mask has pretty huge lenses. I also like that the pistol pointing downward suggests that the pistol is actually almost to heavy for him to use reliably even with his considerable muscle strength (it is after all more commonly used as an Adeptus Astarte weapon). I did however try to adjust the angle a bit more upwards, as per your suggestion, but I didn't like the way it look so I re-affixed it at the previous position.

It has been a true pleasure looking through your plog, i'm eager for more

Thank you, hope you where inspired!

Whow!, lovely!, do you do commissions? I would love to have a somewhat similar build for a "Counts as Marbo Krieger.."

I've been asked before (mostly for painting) but I generally don't have the time to do painting for others (since I'm slow enough as it is) and it would be pretty costly for the client to be worth my spare time. As for conversions it would be mostly depending on the scope of the conversion (ie sculpting) and the time and pieces required. The Krieg Inquisitor is a pretty easy conversion to do although it does require pieces from the DKoK grenadier kit which is expensive.

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I have managed to put some paint on the cloak of the inquisitor, but not much more, it's been a busy month. I'm mostly just toying around with the new colours trying to see what they can produce for me. This cloak is an experiment with the new glazes (using the blue one over the top layer of the cloak to give it a blue hint):

I'm having fun with the new paints thus far, which is good seeing as how it was quite a monetary investment...

I did get all my recent purchases and I've been working on them (slowly) over the last few days with most work put into the Firebelly Servitor. I took a long hard look at the miniature before I set out with my dremel and my scalpel and I've been doing a lot of minor modifications and more are on the planning stage. As you can see I'm bulking out the stomach area with cogs and tubes and I'm going to build up the surrounding tissue with green stuff and then as the layers grows I'm going to add pants (open pants) and build up the belt as opened (so that it makes sense miniature-wise since it would cover up the cogs if the pants where closed and belted). I'm also slowly building a new right arm for him (inspired by the servitor arms) which will incorporate some kind of power fist apparatus when completed. Anyway, there are a lot of details slowly being added and nothing is close to being done yet but I felt like I wanted to show the progress anyway:




Till next time!

[BeatTheBeat]

Great to see this log active again! The latest batch are conversions are madness of the best possible kind, especially the Firebelly is shaping up to be something really cool. Looking forward to seeing this conversion overkill of a unit progressing!

Cheers,
BTB

[Rhaivaen]

I've been asked before (mostly for painting) but I generally don't have the time to do painting for others (since I'm slow enough as it is) and it would be pretty costly for the client to be worth my spare time. As for conversions it would be mostly depending on the scope of the conversion (ie sculpting) and the time and pieces required. The Krieg Inquisitor is a pretty easy conversion to do although it does require pieces from the DKoK grenadier kit with is expensive.

Hi, thanks for the reply, first thoughts of mine are:
I would not expect you to paint any model for me , that is something I prefer to do myself,
however, sculpting/ converting wise I am only able to do simple work as yet. Swapping an arm, or
building a composite model out of several human plastic bits is easy, but when regarding resin and
putty, I am no good much, apart from the basic arm swap.

[Brother Ludovic]

What a wonderful thread! You painting is mind-blowingly breath-taking and the conversions leave me speechless. What more is there to say?

Looking forward to the next update!

Ludovic

[Red Scorpion]

Big fan of your stuff pretty sure your miniatures are the reason I've made around 5 or 6 different marines bitz purchases!

Not keen on the bolt pistol on the inquis (lovely conversion btw, was it Migsula that inspired it? Love his stuff too!), the conversion would look loads better with a more unique, more human-sized pistol. A stub gun from necromunda perhaps? The more-compact, human-sized bolt pistol from the baneblade sprue?

[ilikebmxbikes]

This is an awesome conversion, but I have a (minor) criticism. The angle of the pistol and the arm do not match. The pistol should be aimed at the same point as a line from the shoulder through the hand and beyond. So the arm is aimed at something above his head, whilst the pistol is aimed at something below his head height. Still, only a minor point, but when you're as close to perfect as that model is, minor points count!

I personally like the angle of the pistol. It think it suggests weight of the pistol. The pistol size in relationship to the inquisitors arm further reinforces it.

[Leoparden]

Great to see this log active again! The latest batch are conversions are madness of the best possible kind, especially the Firebelly is shaping up to be something really cool. Looking forward to seeing this conversion overkill of a unit progressing!

Cheers,
BTB

Active is a relative statement apparently, hehe, I have a lot of projects at the moment and I'm making minor progress on all of them but far from enough to show everything off here I believe (don't think people are that interested in seeing all the minor additions of green stuff tbh).

Thanks for the reply (following your Saturnine project closely)!

Hi, thanks for the reply, first thoughts of mine are:
I would not expect you to paint any model for me , that is something I prefer to do myself,
however, sculpting/ converting wise I am only able to do simple work as yet. Swapping an arm, or
building a composite model out of several human plastic bits is easy, but when regarding resin and
putty, I am no good much, apart from the basic arm swap.

This conversion was mostly picking the pieces and filling the gaps (of which there was many thanks to a particularly shoddy finecast miniature). Over all not that difficult apart from the sculpting of the arm which I'm not 100% pleased with to be honest (I've done some minor adjustments to it lately in fact). If I wasn't knee deep in my projects at the moment I'd offer to make one for you, don't know when I have enough time on my hands in the near future though...

What a wonderful thread! You painting is mind-blowingly breath-taking and the conversions leave me speechless. What more is there to say?

Looking forward to the next update!

Ludovic

Thank you for the kind words!

Big fan of your stuff pretty sure your miniatures are the reason I've made around 5 or 6 different marines bitz purchases!

Not keen on the bolt pistol on the inquis (lovely conversion btw, was it Migsula that inspired it? Love his stuff too!), the conversion would look loads better with a more unique, more human-sized pistol. A stub gun from necromunda perhaps? The more-compact, human-sized bolt pistol from the baneblade sprue?

I take no responsibility for any purchases I inspire others to do, hehe. Glad to hear it though! Inspiration is truly the best part about project logs!

The funny thing about that pistol is that it's taken from the Imperial Guard command squad kit - so it is "human sized", at least if your trust GW. The hand on the bolter is the original hand attached to the bolter, the only addition I did was to sculpt the arm. It's probably just the arm that makes the pistol look big - since it has no sleeve!

I personally like the angle of the pistol. It think it suggests weight of the pistol. The pistol size in relationship to the inquisitors arm further reinforces it.

Thanks, ilikebmxbikes, I'm glad you caught up on what I was aiming for with the particular pieces I chose! I think that if I wanted to do something "different" I would have chosen a completely different kind of weapon rather than a bolt pistol.

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Progress pictures for those interested in the Firebelly servitor project. I haven't been putting in that much work in it to be honest (I've been fiddling around with mould making and also been playing way too much minecraft for some reason).

I've added the front "flaps" of the pants. They aren't very detailed but at the same time I don't know if they have to be (seeing as the side that could have some details (the front) is mostly covered by the folded fabric anyway. I'm not imagining these pants as full fledged pants with seams and such but rather pieces of fabric held on with a semi functional belt and his obscenely thick thighs.


Yet again we see the pant flaps from a different angle which also reveals the end of the belt (which I have now added). I made some holes in it but they aren't showing that well from this side so I'll be making them bigger once the green stuff dries. From this angle you can also see some other minor details I've added. I decided to give him a little definition underneath the armpit since I thought that area was looking kind of boring as it was:


Finally I have a picture from the rear where you can see my first attempt at starting the bionic arm. I've just made a ball out of green stuff and put it in with some blue-tac (which is why it's poking out a bit too much at the moment but that will be adjusted as we go along):


Hopefully I'll have time to do some more work on the servitor today. I'm slowly approaching my goal with him with baby steps...

[Red Scorpion]

Hah, thing is, I don't trust GW I strongly dislike that they went for the normal Marine-sized bolt pistol (and bolter, plasma pistol, plasma gun and meltagun) in the two Command Squad kits. Forgeworld do it better (love their guard-size special weapons and bolt weapons). Oh well

Servitor looks great so far, what's the plan for weaponry?

[MaxSigmund]

Love the new inquisitor and henchmen, the firebelly is looking damn good - kudos for an original idea and for implementing it so well

[kublai]

kudos for an original idea and for implementing it so well

Yeah thats so true, both the idea and the execution are awesome !

[Leoparden]

Hah, thing is, I don't trust GW I strongly dislike that they went for the normal Marine-sized bolt pistol (and bolter, plasma pistol, plasma gun and meltagun) in the two Command Squad kits. Forgeworld do it better (love their guard-size special weapons and bolt weapons). Oh well

Servitor looks great so far, what's the plan for weaponry?

Then on the other hand the Forge World imperial guard miniatures are smaller compared to the GW once so the normal sized weapons would indeed look super wonky on them...

The plan is no weapons in his hands... See below for more details on that matter as I might need some suggestions.

Love the new inquisitor and henchmen, the firebelly is looking damn good - kudos for an original idea and for implementing it so well

Thank you, kind sir!

Yeah thats so true, both the idea and the execution are awesome !

Why, thank you! It just sprung at me when I was browsing GWs homepage for inspiration (which I do from time to time...)

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Here's another update on the Firebelly servitor. I've finished the melta exhaust in his mask and connected one of them (the most visible one) with some tubing into his neck. The plan was originally to connect it to one of the exhausts in his back but the tubing looked odd when I test fitted it so I decided against it. I'm just going to blend this one in a bit and it will be fine. I'm also going to add some "fumes" coming out of the melta nozzle to make it look like he's firing from 3 nozzles (2 on the sides and the one in the middle of the mouth) at the same time to create part of the flame effect he's warming his gloved hand with.


You can also see the start of the bionic arm, testfitted for the purpose of taking these pictures (I can still move the shoulder and lower arm so I can adjust the position of the arm pretty much any way I want). I'm still not 100% sure if I want him to hold something, maybe you could help me out there? As I see it, one option is to make his fist into a mechanical power fist and just leave it be at that. The other option is to make some kind of fuel tank which is connected to the exhausts on his back (as if he's filling up on fuel while firing). What are your thoughts on the subject?

And, as if by magic, I actually picked up the paintbrushes for the first time in what feels like months and put some paint on the inquisitor, I did half his gas mask yellow but now I'm leaning towards doing the top of it yellow as well (ie his forehead above the lenses but before the hood), what do you think?


Till next time!

[Vimes]

Really liking your conversions!
The fireball servitor is a great idea! But the Inquisitor is even better. Great greenstuffing by you!

[canberraguy]

Amazing work, I particularly like the marines, great work to make the look of grit over clean armor, I have not perfected that much to my dismay.

[ArcticWolf]

Looking great! Personally I would do the whole gas mask yellow, and some nice lens effects on the gas mask.

[Kroq9Gar]

AWESOME!

[Leoparden]

Really liking your conversions!
The fireball servitor is a great idea! But the Inquisitor is even better. Great greenstuffing by you!

And those are just the first two miniatures for my squads of henchmen... More odd creations to come!

Amazing work, I particularly like the marines, great work to make the look of grit over clean armor, I have not perfected that much to my dismay.

More marines will be coming as I truck along, I have far too many projects running at once right now though. I need to clear my desk before I spend more money on new goodies, hehe!
I've far from perfected the use of grit, I'm still trying out new stuff and learning from others - it's sometimes hard to get it right but I feel it's mostly due to lack of correct tools/materials rather than actual skill at applying said products.

Looking great! Personally I would do the whole gas mask yellow, and some nice lens effects on the gas mask.

I agree, so that's what I did (see below). I think it turned out a whole lot better that way, still a long way to go though, I have to choose how to paint the bolt pistol casing and the power sword for one thing, and then we have the lenses which will probably be painted blue (although that might be subject to change if I get a better idea).

AWESOME!

THANKS!

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Tiny progress on the inquisitor, getting the paint on the majority of the face proved vital though as it gave more life to the entire miniature. Now I just have to decide on which colours to use on the lenses, the bolt pistol casing and the power sword. I think blue for the lenses and maybe a "water" pattern on the blade (such as on my jump pack librarians force weapon) but I'm all out of ideas on the bolt pistol - someone on another forum suggested a "bone/horn" pattern similar to the horns on the miniature, that might work...



Till next time!

[Rhaivaen]

A natural style for the bolt pistol would be cool indeed, either wood and/or bone.. amazing model so far dude