WISKOP

Work, In Some Kind Of Progress.

Slow going. This is what I have to show for it.

Battle-brother what'shisname is taking shape. Some bling and we're there!

His knife is also taking shape, albeit slowly.

And an ex-Navy first officer (Lucion Damakis, an NPC from my Rogue Trader campaign), in parade uniform. His pose is loosely based on an advancing kenjutsu practioner chasing someone to do a big, vertical cut (imagine an enemy about two to three steps in front of him and him advancing while bringing his sword above his head).

The sword hilt (lower part still waiting to be done) has this wing design that I'm hoping looks nice when painted.

Click the image for the bigger version to inspect the aquila emblems on the edge of the jacket arm.

The Headed Hunter

The Headless Hunter has now become the Headed Hunter.

First off: I hate grey stuff. I bought it to try out and indeed it acts a lot like green stuff, but it says "non-sticky" on the packaging. Now, this is a problem. The putty sticks more to my fingers that to the scalp to which I was trying to affix it. So, that's why there are two kinds of putty in the images below.

The first pic is of the face before the hair, the second is of the first braid, and then follows shots from all manner of angles of the finished result. I decided on giving him cornrows for a less Roman legionnaire/USMC, more tribal look. I've always enjoyed the idea of GW's space marines as being drawn from feral humans on technologically regressed planets and I wanted to give him an unusual hairstyle still good for a warrior.

Just to note, I've myself had rasta braids before and after doing this I long to have that kind of hair again. Enjoy the pics.

The Headless Hunter, part 2

The headless hunter has a face coming up. Doing Pebbles made me a little more confident about doing more human faces. This one actually looks fairly naturalistic for being my first non-monstrous face.

He still needs some kind of hair and/or beard to give him some personality, but we're getting there...

The Headless Hunter

While waiting for futher details on Kairye Seeker to set (more pics when that's all done) I started yet another project...

First a history lesson.

Games Workshop at one point released a 54mm scale game called Inquisitor. It never caught on half as much as it deserved, all because of that in spite of an excellent concept most gamers just weren't fond of the scale. The game's RPG-esque rules gave a great deal of freedom as to characters and concepts, but the line of models was only about a dozen to begin with, making it a fairly daunting prospect to represent characters other than the sample characters in the game. One such sample character was Brother-Captain Artemis of the Deathwatch. For a guy named after a Greek godess, he was fairly kick-ass. In fact, space marines were outlawed in most gaming circles as far as Inquisitor was concerned. Being a power armour nerd and into gaming even back then, I obviously got the model as soon as I could. In my defence, I was grooming it to represent my psychic Inquisitor instead, but my gaming group dropped Inquisitor and I left the model half finished.

Until now, that is. I found him again a while back and thought about bringing it back as a mascot for my current smaller-scale-but-similarily-armoured war games army (space marines, naturally).

My premise: I want to make a regular trooper/veteran and not a captain. I'm also missing some parts, most notably his original sword (chopped it of to create a halberd originally) and his head (!). This provides me with ample opportunity to sculpt a larger scale face and a combat blade (basically, a cross between a machete and Crocodile Dundee's "that's no' a 'noif, this is a 'noif". The details on his armour are also filed off, so I have to sculpt new chest plate adornments and such. Of course the whole miniature will be repainted in the black and silver of the Deathwatch once it's all done.

On the left is a pic of what parts I found laying around (including the addition of a plastic shield-shaped ornament snatched from a GW sprue that makes a nice, ornate 'belt buckle') and below you can see the armature for the blade. I will attach this to the arm for sculpting and add pics once that's done.