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Post by macknight on Mar 10, 2013 0:19:18 GMT -5
You should give your camo netting a camo pattern with some debris, right now it looks like a fish net drapping over the sentinel.
Your Harker minds well be renamed the 'Hulk'. You can clean up and add detail to the green stuff as it dries a little. I apploud your efforts on the conversion, but right now it looks unfinished.
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Mar 10, 2013 0:30:08 GMT -5
You should give your camo netting a camo pattern with some debris, right now it looks like a fish net drapping over the sentinel. Your Harker minds well be renamed the 'Hulk'. You can clean up and add detail to the green stuff as it dries a little. I apploud your efforts on the conversion, but right now it looks unfinished. the netting is easily removable... I'm not sure how i'd add debris to it and have it removable. Harker is far from done. I've been messing with the model all night. and you'd be right... he is unfinished. On another note... even though this is my first 'sculpting' model I really am enjoying myself. I don't expect this model to be spectacular. No one starting out sculpting is perfect at it. I may get some play-doh and wire to make models of my own design so I can get the hang of it. |
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 10, 2013 5:00:09 GMT -5
Hi Colonel Beauregard! Glad that I've inspired you to have a go at your own Harker. Sculpting, like everything else in this hobby, is a learn by doing process, and can seem rather daunting at first. Some general tips for working with GS that may be helpful to get you started out: 1. Sculpting tools are definite something that everyone should have. The GW tool is decent, and I do use it, but there are many other tools you can use--I also employ old dentist's picks, Xacto blades, and upon the recommendation of another IGMB member (I think it was AShotNinja) I went to a local art store and picked up a set of clay shapers. I've heard of people using toothpicks as well. I'd definitely say try practicing with various implements and find ones that you like to use. 2. Make sure to keep your tools, and your fingers, slightly wet when handling and shaping GS, as this will keep the GS from sticking to them and make it easier to manipulate. 3. With GS, less is more. It's better to cut off a small section of the binary strip and blend it into the active form a little at a time, and apply small amounts to the mini and work it into shape versus blending up a large amount, and having the portion you aren't using it harden too much while you are shaping what you've applied to the model. 4. Build up layers of GS on the model and let them cure before adding more GS on top--this is a tip that a friend of mine who used to work at GW got from an expert sculptor who was on the staff at his store. As MacKnight noted above, you can do detailing on the model when the GS has partially cured, and I found this to be especially helpful while working on Harker the other day.  |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Mar 10, 2013 10:33:06 GMT -5
Thanks trooper. It's going to take a while but I'll document it. Maybe by some stroke of luck I'll get it the first couple times. Link to my deviantart page here. It's been a while but this is something that could propel me into art again. |
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Post by The Hawk! on Mar 11, 2013 9:08:18 GMT -5
Call me Testicles.... But I like the Massive Harker... Its a novalty ^.^ Well done mate! As for the rest of your 'Chans, Keep churning them out, they are very promising Beaureguard! Keep going mate  You're building quite the Army here dude Dave |
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Post by syphon on Mar 12, 2013 15:45:55 GMT -5
I sort of agree with Dave. Beauregard, maybe your Harker is an abhuman. Or maybe he got the 40k equivalent of cancer (but not Nurgly). I'm reminded of the Marvel Ruins version of the Hulk:
In the Warren Ellis series Ruins, a dark flip to the Kurt Busiek tale Marvels, the accidents, experiments and mutations that led to the creation of Super Heroes and super humans, instead led to terrible deformations and painful deaths. Here, Bruce Banner's story went exactly the same with his 616 counterpart, but when he was caught in the middle of the gamma bomb explosion, instead of transforming into The Incredible Hulk, his whole body opened up from the gigantic tumours that appeared inside it, pushing most of his organs and skull outside his body, and giving Rick Jones cancer. He didn't die, and was put in an underground vault by the CIA, codenamed "the Hulk"
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Post by Paradill on Mar 12, 2013 15:50:11 GMT -5
Quasimodo should not be fornicateed with.
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Mar 14, 2013 18:51:08 GMT -5
I like that fluff. Harker... The bio-chemically altered mofo. Almost a space marine. Without the power armor. I think i'm going to make his forehead even bigger.
Also, as a side note... I have been reading more and more fluff and I have decided that my army is not actually part of the Imperium. They have rebelled and are currently enjoying their independence (until the eventual fist of the Imperium crushes them). I like the idea of creating an army all my own without being attached to the almighty Imperium. This gives me the freedom to add Cadian, Mordian, Tallarn, and Valhallan without having them attached to the already created fluff. I want to create my own world and have each IG army come from different parts of it.
Now I just need a name for this world...
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Post by yvain on Mar 14, 2013 19:33:19 GMT -5
Whooo Whoo Whoo....lets not go traitor so quickly You can do that in the Imperium, if I recall correctly it happens often. Units get merged together as they take casualties, so Catachans, Cadians, and another random planet that starts with C can all fight in the same regiment combined. Unit designations change and the slaughter continues! And they can love or hate each others guts while doing it. You could make your Praetorian Company Commander the head planet of your regiment who cares little about sending his uncivilized Catachan filth to their deaths while he smokes his pipe and drinks whiskey. Or maybe you got a Cadian Commander that has brought the survivors of a disastrous battle together and who is the only thing keeping those arrogant bastards in check. Or just make up your own planet and fluff |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Mar 14, 2013 21:53:31 GMT -5
Haha yes, i know this happens a lot. But if I created my own independent world, I could justify playing imperial guard vs imperial guard. Something I've wanted to do for a while now.
Besides, screw GW and their premade fluff. I'll make my own army... with blackjack and hookers!
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Post by hacgutt on Mar 19, 2013 8:05:53 GMT -5
Why does the Hulk have a heavy bolter ;3? :3
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Mar 19, 2013 18:41:14 GMT -5
Besides, screw GW and their premade fluff. I'll make my own army... with blackjack and hookers! And cases full of porn being guarded by a woman in a mini-skirt, tube top, and helmet, and cargo pallets of 55 gallon drums of ethyl alcohol! Wait. Why does this sound like something I've done?  <.< >.> |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on May 20, 2013 1:47:21 GMT -5
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on May 28, 2013 23:33:08 GMT -5
Crappy picture but I did my first Lascannon HWT. I'm not looking forward to the 20+ HWT I have to do. The empty spot is the perfect size to place an infantry model. That way, I can use more of the crouching down guys and use EVERY weapon that came with the HWT kit. Plus, it's a great wound counter. And I'm cheap...  |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on May 29, 2013 2:36:38 GMT -5
Inspired from Trooper's "Don't Blow Up" plasma gunner I made my own  |
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on May 29, 2013 11:21:39 GMT -5
Inspired from Trooper's "Don't Blow Up" plasma gunner I made my own ;D Awesome! He turned out really well. I've still got to prime my plasma dudes, but I've been derailed by The Greater Good. |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on May 29, 2013 14:40:05 GMT -5
;D Awesome! He turned out really well. I've still got to prime my plasma dudes, but I've been derailed by The Greater Good.  (Who am I kidding? I ally with Daemons) |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on May 29, 2013 18:19:52 GMT -5
Another HWT down... a billion to go. I am not done with the bases just yet... I need more terrain bits to make it more "jungle-ish" Another note... how the hell do I paint realistic rust? I have tried multiple washes, drybrushing, but I just can't get the look right.   |
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on May 29, 2013 20:26:19 GMT -5
For rust take some orange paint and really thin it down with water--like maybe 1:10 to 3:10. Best to take an old paint pot and make up a batch all at once. Apply it liberally to the area you want to look rusted, let it run and dribble if desired. Then wait, and wait, and wait until the first application is dry, and then do another application, and keep repeating until you get the effect you desire.
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Jan 15, 2015 18:59:32 GMT -5
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Post by RedCuffs on Jan 15, 2015 23:40:43 GMT -5
Very nice Medic.
As a Guard player, New Catachan collector and a serving Paramedic I feel well qualified to make that comment.
Although I'd never attempt to insert a cannula that big !!!
It'll be like trying to get a length of scaffolding pole into a vein !!!
By the way, where's his sharps bin? He'll get struck off the register for poor practice if he get seen by the HCPC !!!
On serious note, if anyone wants to make a realistic "medical based theme", one thing I have noticed from all my most serious jobs is that there is litter everywhere. Very messy.
Protective wrapping, packaging, cannula covers, O2 masks, Suction devices, all sorts of crap. Contents of med bags scattered around because you've been looking for that specific sized airway. It's honestly like a grenade has gone off in amongst the med kit.
Not a criticism of your medic, he's great. A bit scary though. If I was injured in the most severe way and I saw him coming towards me I think my response would be something like, "Hey Doc ... don't worry, it's just a couple of Autocannon wounds ... not too bad, I'm fine ... I'll just walk it off. Thanks for turning up though ".
In fact if that Ogryn is his Medical Assistant I'd be running it off !!!
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Jan 16, 2015 10:40:09 GMT -5
Thanks! It's not a cannula... it's an ENEMA!!!!!! Just kidding I like your idea of med supplies strewn about the base. Going to need to look at my bits box! He doesn't need a sharps bin since he just throws his needles like knives at xenos and heretics. Also, decided to ally with some vanilla space marines. Have about 1300 points stock just in marines now. Here's a tactical squad of: Raptor Brothers! |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Jan 22, 2015 11:13:52 GMT -5
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Feb 3, 2015 18:54:47 GMT -5
It's been far too long since I've checked in on this thread, and I must say that I APPROVE!!! That medic looks great... "I think THIS will stop the bleeding."  |
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Post by Colonel Beauregard on Feb 12, 2015 18:03:00 GMT -5
Thank you! I know catachans aren't the most popular but I have fun with them. I've started to pull away from using them as standard infantry though. I bought ~50 Cadian models and they just seem less 'experienced' than the Catachan models. So Cadians are standard guardsmen and Catachans are my Vet/command models. In total... I have ~110 infantry models and an additional 20 heavy weapon teams. (not to mention another 50 Space Marines) Almost half are painted... oh dear  |
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You're building quite the Army here dude 
