New modelling project taking up all my time

Sorry I've not done much to update this blog lately. My girlfriend and I have recently embarked on a joint project to accurately model human figures in approximately 1/4 scale - although I think they will probably come in a little bigger than that when they are finally finished. As you will be able to see, if you follow the link in the title, we have a lot to do just to get the two prototypes finished. Hopefully after the initial sculpt it will become easier to work on the details and I'll find time to get back to my other projects. For now the new venture is something of a labour of love and so I'll be devoting most of my free time to it.

Plans for the finished articles involve a mechanism to accurately replicate real human eating and sleeping behaviour. As it stands at the moment we are having trouble getting this right, but I have hopes for success in the not two distant future. Another three months should see something workable. After that I am toying with the idea of some form of speech recognition and maybe even walking motion.

WIP - Ogryn squad

Here are some shots of the first member of an Ogryn squad I am making. I'm going to convert the members of the squad using plastic Ogre Kingdoms models from Warhammer Fantasy. This one has a variety of 40k Ork bits added, plus a lot of greenstuff and plasticard.

Commissar Prochnow

I picked this guy up the other day, mainly because I liked the figure and I've been reading the 'Gaunt's Ghosts' novels by Dan Abbnett recently, so I've got Commissars on the brain at the moment. Turns out they are really quite handy in a game as well :)



The Plasma pistol is a minor conversion. The figure comes with a hand flamer, something which appears not to be covered by the current rule set. I carefully sawed it off and replaced it with one of the plastic plasma pistols for the space marines.

WIP - Special Weapons Squad Alpha

I've finished the bases and added a few last touches since these photos were taken. Just got to do a couple more lenses on sights and then they are done.

WIP - Imperial Stormtrooper squad

At last, some new stuff to show you. After a long absence I have got the paints out again, Hurrah! Here is my squad of Storm Troopers. I was a bit scared of starting them to begin with, there are so many little fiddly bits on them.



In the end I opted to undercoat them black, sloppy dry brush catachan green and then a light dry brush of cammo green followed by a binding wash of chaos black.

That gives a really good base coat to start adding little bits of colour and picking out important details on.

The Veteran Sarge is a slight custom job to make him look different from the other storm trooper sarge I have on the go. I added hair and an eye patch and also slightly altered the position of the pistol.