WIP Heresy Era World Eater Command Squad

[doghouse]

Here's a couple of shots of my new World Eater army that I'm working on.
The first model is the prototype so he's extremely rough around the edges as I just wanted something to test the colour scheme out on (not sure if I got it right as it's from memory).
The second shot is of the captain and a marine. I've still got a load of GS stuff to do one them, mostly cleaning up the greeves on the captain and sculpting the World Eaters insignia onto the chest plate.
I've never been happy with the proportions of the plastic marines so I've opted for the Cadian Sergeant head for the Captain and extended the legs on all the models.
I've specifically toned down the weaponary on the Captain limiting him to a bolter and chainsword because he's an Astarte and doesn't need flash wargear to bring death to the enemies of the Emperor/Warmaster (probably going to field them as Codex:SM for Isstvaan V Loyalists or Codex:CSM for World Eater Traitors as required...).

[primarch16]

Very nice stuff, the heads and chestplates are from the red scorpians right? I thought they had different bolter from now though...

[Suicide Messiah]

Great conversions but you really need to smooth out that green stuff in their legs. You can see it a mile off on the painted one.

[Black DH templ.]

They look real nice. Though for realism, thighs should be stretched, as the chins are out of proportion to start with.

[Scorpio]

Looking really cool. Heresy era and pre heresy stuff always looks real cool.

-Scorpio

[EmperorsChamp01]

Really good conversions keep it up

[The boyz]

Great conversion work Doghouse. I really like the Captain with the boltgun slung over his shoulder and chainsword in the other hand. I really like the work you have done on their chestplate's. The captains pose looks pretty good as well. I look forward to seeing more.

[Sojourner]

wow, very cool. I always liked the early World Eaters, before they turned into generic 'raagh' nutters.

[Grobrotz]

Nice work, but the bolters are wrong, the old ones had the ammoclip where now the grip for the left hand is (brrr terrible english)
The shoulderpads had no rims (?) at all.

[Death Cat]

My only critisizm would be the legs they need smoothing out other than that their great!

[Cad@veR]

Nice work, but the bolters are wrong, the old ones had the ammoclip where now the grip for the left hand is (brrr terrible english)
The shoulderpads had no rims (?) at all.

Indeed my friend... pre heresy shoulderpads had no trimmings and rivets as well ...
you can use PVA glue and the head of a needle to make all those rivets on the shoulderpad and the kneepad (if I remember correctly they had rivets there too ...)


As for the bolters , yes they had the clip in a different way (anybody remember the Ooold SM bolter sprue? ) If you have some of those you can use them effectively!

[malika]

Nice work, but the bolters are wrong, the old ones had the ammoclip where now the grip for the left hand is (brrr terrible english)
The shoulderpads had no rims (?) at all.

There were various types of Bolters used in that time, but yeah if you want to get really picky you should change those bolters a bit.

[doghouse]

Cheers guys! Really appreciate the feed back.

Based on the old metal MKIV armour models I have lying around the shoulder were the same as the current MKVII Aquila armour shoulder pads we know and love today.
The smooth rimless pad and studded MKVI variant pads are the ones that some people here are refering to (original fluff was that the right arm was the marine's bolter arm so was more heavily re-inforced than the studded left shoulder if I remember correctly).
The bolters however are a different matter, I do have a load of the old 2nd ed plastic bolters lying around somewhere and I intend to dig them out at some point. I tryed the modern bolters but like alot of people have said it doesn't look right.
I'm also going to square off the tops of the marines knee-pads but I'm not too sure about including other armour variants just yet as I'd like a uniform look to the army (think "Attack of the Clones") , a sort of mass produced look to suggest that these guys are from a different era. Maybe an assault saud in Crusade armour would look cool though.
This guy is rough around the legs where I got a little impatient and wanted to crack on with the painting. I can still save this guy but the rest will be a lot neater.

Primarch16: Yeah those are the ones, they're a little smaller than the plastics but are really nice!

[Storm Hunters]

keep us posted, they look very good. i might try making the legs of any futuer SM i get longer after that, very good idea, now they realy are 8' tall.

[primarch16]

Whats on top of the commanders backpack? and do you have any ideas on basing them yet?

[doghouse]

Cheers Guys!

Storm Hunters: Yeah its' dead easy to do, just remember to stick a bit of plasticard between the torso and legs to give him a bit more height.

Primarch16: The captains backpack is just a Chaos Marine back pack with the exhaust arms cut off and the exhaust vents attached directly to the pack.

Ok, I've reworked the bolters now replacing them with the old second ed versions as seen here.





Scale Comparrison with regular Marine


Original MkIV Model

[t-tauri]

I much prefered them with the newer bolters. The old ones look so undetailed, especially against the sharpness of the torsos.

They look very good though. Inspirational.

[doghouse]

Cheers mate!

I much prefered them with the newer bolters. The old ones look so undetailed, especially against the sharpness of the torsos.

I think I have to agree with you there t-tauri.
Ok so anyone else think I should stick to the original modern bolters or should I go with the 2nd ed versions? Thoughts on this welcome.

[braiboo]

i did a full army of these dudes(500pts) it took me 13 months!
im afraid these are the only pics i have (no camara)
http://www.warseer.com/forums/attach...1&d=1149537822

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attach...1&d=1149537935

http://www.warseer.com/forums/attach...1&d=1149537974

it makes me happy im not alone for the bolters (i used the old ones as well i sculpted a tiny world eater symbol and made a gs mold it breaks up the blank side a lot
hope you finish them (i nearly didnt) there looking class

[unwanted]

@Braiboo: Those look most awesome indeed, though I think you went just a little too much over the top; Space Marines are supposed to be just over 7 feet tall, not 10!