Extreme Makeover - Commissar

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So I have 3 Commissars and one Yarrick in my 4000pts+ Guard army and I usually use at least one commissar for my HQ command squad. I really like the whole idea of the commissar whipping common sense into the regular trooper to do the Emperors will, however 1 of my 3 regular Commissars was old edition and quite an ugly model imo. He is waving an AXE and holding a small flamer pistol or something (wtf), he didn't really fit in and I felt it was such a waste to leave him out of the action just because he is ugly lol ;D

So today i stripped him from paint using nail polish remover and some tops, cleaning of as much paint as I could and then massacred the model. Litteraly. Broke of the arm and cut of the hand and then cut of the ugly flamer pistol it was holding. Next i used a sharp tool to scratch away the Piraty looking skulls and bones emblem he had on his had and replaced it with an imperial eagle from the vehichle ammo crate (using a knife to remove it).

Then I cut of the stupid axe he was waving and replaced it with a trimmed Chainsword. Now I also wanted him to have at least one shoulderpad like my Cadians (bulk of my force) for future Freehand painting, so I took a mortar loaders arm and trimmed it a bit, fitted it in place glued on the empty but clenched hand and the.... added a stormbolter from the vehichle sprue (its bigger than the one Yarrick has ) Gotta love those stormbolters, I allways have all my Officers carry one along with a power weapon. Added a few more mits to make it look interesting, quite franly its a Frankensteins monster. The only thing Im going to adjust is the length of the bolterwielding arm, its slightly too so Im gonna shorten it by 0.5-1mm. The pictures will tell you the rest, enjoy

(The red arrows each point at a different and new plastic part added to the metal model)

The Original model


Some of the bits used (more added then shown on this pic)


Unarmed lol


First stages








Primed and ready








Arrows show bits added







Im going to paint him tomorrow and hopefully post a complete pic of him then

[Deleted]

Umm wow! Thats one bad ass gun! He looks very cool

[Deleted]

hehe yea its a stormbolter originally intended to by pintle mounted, though this overzelous rambo picked it for his own use. As you can see on some of the pics I added a piece underneath the gun where he can grab it with his other hand and keep the gun steady (when not waving his chainsword threatening the HSO with execution lol)

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Nice conersion. Eldar gunscope though? Do you fight them a lot and use preffered enemy, or just like the look of it?

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I own eldar so and I have never fought them, though I was thinking I could use it as some kinda laser sight or something, I think it brings some more detail to the gun. I think it will all look proper and good when it's all painted

[psycho]

using that model ive given him a chaos smurf power fist and a smurf plasma pistol
it looks awesome and ill post pics once its painted
like yours better tho m8 it just looks natural
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[Deleted]

Cool Im looking forward to see it psycho, post it in here will you. Arn't you affraid to blast your expensive model with the plasma pistol though? I have a plasmagunner in my HQ but he only cost 10pts and the medic usually saves his @ss when it overheats lol

[fatuous]

That's a very nice conversion . I really like that model...... once you get rid of the stupid, dwarish looking power axe and the hand flamer.

I made a v similar conversion using that model, but switch the axe for a power sword (used the big machete fromt he catachans box, painted metalic blue) and a plasma pistol. The position looks great once you've changed the weapons.

I've used one of those storm botlers on one of my officers. I love the belt feed you've added, I just used themagazine from the box, but like the belt feed more. One thing I found that looked quite good is to add a ridge along the bottom of the SB. I removed the ridge under the Cadian nade launcher and glues that under the SB, but urs is looking badazz as it is, nice work .

[psycho]

yeah man i will
im not too bothered as the medic will save him, hopefully
but too be honest i dont care much for his pistol as he wont be shooting it much, its just a counter attack weapon that makes him look good
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[Deleted]

OK lads, painted him just minutes ago and here is what he looks like with a bit more color added

[Deleted]

wow you are a good painter how did you do the face? I try with dwarf flesh then highlight with elf flesh but it always turns out bad

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This particular face was painted with dwarf flesh, a bit of flesh wash and skull white. I painted dwarf flesh instantly over the Chaos Black spray in a very thin layer. Then a very watered down wash of flesh wash. Then I paint very thin layers of a watery mixture of dwarf flesh+ skull white, doing so eah very thin layer can create facial features quite nicely. Think I did 3-4 of those very watered down DF+SK stages.

To tell you the truth this was a small experiment because i usually basecoat faces skull white, then go red ink, dwarf flesh, dwarf flesh+ skull white. It would then look the priest in red robes. ( Yes I have some SoB and use them as allies for my Imperial Guard )

[majorjav]

Very nice conversion and paint job mate!!

[psycho]

must say that looks bloody good
oh n ill try n get pix of mine on as long as my camera dont pack in lol
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[thefishki345]

WOW

great paint job, i too really like the facial detail, you are a really (x1000000) good painter much better then me (and i mean _MUCH_ better)

[knight (M.I.A)]

Really great conversion.
But two things confuse me.
1. Why did you cut away the really good arm that fits the in very great and replace it with an arm that doesn't fit the rest of the commissar?
2. Why does his Storm Bolter only has one ammo belt if it normally needs two?

And I really like the skin tones you're using, they look great

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1) I wanted him to have an arm with a cadian shoulderpad symbolizing that he is part of my Cadian army (50%+ of my IG army is cadian) and after thinking and toying around with different ideas this was the easiest and best way to acchieve that.

2) Half point for this one. but Stormbolters still only have one ammo feed injector. All stormbolters either have a big ammocrate underneath (the sisters of battle) or at the side (space marines and vehichles)

Thanks for all replies people. Lol after I made this model and had it painted he became the best painted model in the enitre army so I had OCD and started to redo/pain my HQ starting with my Creed/Kell models. Gave Ursaker E. Creed a beret and he looks like a real bad@ss now lol. I will post a pic of the whole command squad once its painted.

[knight (M.I.A)]

- Marines stormbolters have one big clip under the weapon.
- Sisters of Battle stormbolters have one big drum that feeds both sides.
- IG pintle mounted vehicle stormbolters have 2 drums 1 on each side.
- Grey Knight stormbolters have big erm box that's mainly on the side, but below both gun barrels
- Landraider stormbolters have 2 boxes for each half of the stormbolter

If I forget any other stormbolters, I bet they have ammo feeds on both sides as well, but it should also work with just one ammo belt but with strongly decreased rate of fire or just one side firing

And Creeds mini with a beret is a really nice thing. My Elyrian commander uses Creds mini as well and I modeled a beret for him too.

[Warmaster Stabwhiskers]

Wow , storm bolter index.....HMWRK TO DO

[Commissar]

Great commissar!
I love that model that you've made, superb!

[Deleted]

the commissar turned out to be rally badd arse!! u wont be taking a step back when hes behind you!

[psycho]

iv sed it before and im sayin it again!
love it!
kerby

[Deleted]

Im still eagerly waiting for the pics of your Commissar Psycho When will you get them and post them here?

[Cadian 117]

Nice conversion! melikky!(me likey)



Cadian

[thefishki345]

lol, yeh i like this, it looks great (uh have i already said that?)