Syphon's Blog: Wylowace 2nd Army

[Mabus]

Cool, looking forward to it!

[cobaltsentinel]

I'm loving the work you're doing with your army here! That tank looks awesome!

Just a question: How are you fitting naval craft into your army? Are there any special rules?

[syphon]

Well, I am not sure. I just happened to find that thing lying around. Perhaps I'll make that an Imperial Navy vessel. Otherwise, it'll count as a basilisk or something.

[syphon]

More pictures! Observe!



The boat:



Trooper:

Other trooper with leg based on Half Life 2's prosthetic legs:

Painted trooper:

Scenic base:


Wylowace 1st (yes, first. You'll see why later) trooper:

[cobaltsentinel]

Looking great man! Can't wait to see it all completed!

Your tank colors remind me of Ultramarines...

[syphon]

I know. But that's what you get when you base it on the famous american cavalry units. I can't really come up with a way to individualise, though..

[rarves]

Wow, that stuff looks really awesome, I really like the double treads* and the custom hats


*A real man would use five treads across

[Deleted]

I always love those double treads on the russ, and i've seen it a lot for ork looted vehicles, but never on a legit IG russ. nice touch.

Like the color scheme, too!

[Deleted]

did you know you paint the the tank and guardsmen in the swedish flag colors?

[Deleted]

Hmmm I didn't think about that earlier. But they do remind me a little of the Swedish uniform used in my region (Dalarna) in Sweden during the year 1700.



Nothing bad with that though ^^ Looking good.

[syphon]

Here's an update! Yay!
I have spent some time converting stuff, and I am quite happy with the results.
Here's a Wylowace Elite Pack, which will serve as either a Hardened Veteran or a Storm Trooper.


Up next is a crate with customised legs. I took the idea from one of the posters at 40Konline, deciding I could do the same. Observe!



Following that is the meltagunner. I apologise for the blurryness, but it should be clear that it is a standard Cadian with a FW Elysian meltagun.


What is a cavalry regiment without Rough Riders? I made one with a Rohan horse, and decided they look pretty spiffy together. That is, the Rider's legs and the Rough Rohan horse.




After reading Tempus Fugitives stuff, I started tinkering with Ogres to create servitors.






Couldn't help but further mangle a wounded trooper:

[syphon]

(partially!) Painted figures!

A close combat servitor with his most important colour painted on.

[Deleted]

The convertoins are a bit weard formy style and the painting is a bit sloppy. In the first pictures theres just too much glue on the model, tough the convertions are fine. Try to wipe away the excess clue from the models and itll look great. As i have already said to some painters, add few more layers on the models so the black doesnt show up so much. And specially with yellow as its a tricky color. But the convertions are cool, so keep it up, and try to remember my tips

Peanut

[syphon]

Yellow is indeed a horrible colour to paint on black. But white isn't a great undercoat either, since the black gives more depth, in my opinion. Also, I do use multiple thin layers but even that doesn't work that well. What do you mean ,weird formy style?

[syphon]

I have an update for you! Here's a story:
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As well as images, one of my converted storm trooper (a painting WIP) and freshly made satyrs:

[syphon]

Finally, an update!
Much work has been done since we last checked:

[Deleted]

I'm loving the rough rider, Syphon! I also think that all of your conversions are brilliant!

[cobaltsentinel]

I have to agree! The modeling work you're doing with your minis is very innovative IMO. The conversions you've done all look pretty good