Featured "d00d" of the indeterminate Time Period - Ironbar and Road Warriors
Gosh! I almost forgot to feature a d00d! It seems like it should be a Wednesday thing - except now that I said it would be a Wednesday thing, I'm totally going to forget about it for 3 weeks. :)
Today I want to feature IronBar and some road warriors. I started working on a bunch of post-apocalyptic warriors after my local GW store held "Rhino Races". What the races involved is for players to bring in 1 rhino and 5 warriors. The warriors were to fight and race their way across the table to their rhino and then back to the starting table edge. I wanted to do something fun and road-warriory, so I came up with some "Lost and Damned" troops. I had less than 5 days to do all the conversions and paint everything up so it had to be done quickly - on top of this I was working on my Deathwatch Rhino and Deathwatch Marines so my sweetie could play also. Definitely a nerve wracking week. How'd I do? Turn 1 a band of Khornite berserker cut through my entire crew like they were wet tissue paper :) Jenna faired a little better with the Death Watch, at least she scored some kills. :)
So first up was the Rhino. I ended up buying a "damaged" rhino boxed set (they were getting rid of it because it was the old model rhino) - so I took some bits from my bits box and made a pulpit using the unused hatches from a predator kit. I also added some spikey bits to give it a suitable chaos feel. I then cut two chunks off a sprue to make the posts on which I tied two victims made from a mix of zombie and catachan bits. Here is a picture of it, you can click it for the full sized image. :) It's a pretty straight forward paintjob. I wish I had figured out how to do rust like I do it now, because I could have really made the dozer blade look great and the weathering better - but it's not too bad for a hasty construction. It definitely is a fun conversion. :)
The warriors were a blast to do as well. Lord Humungus (yes, that is how it is spelled - it's not one of my typical typos) is made from a Mordheim pit fighter body and gorka-morka ork arms. If I had more time I would have used greenstuff to make the shoulders a bit more smooth. I made the hockey mask out of greenstuff as well. I have no skillz with the greenstuff. Wez is a straight up Necromunda Goliath gang member. The dude with the axe and the autogun is a Necromunda pit-fighter.
The guy with the 'hawk and crossbow is a ratskin juve. I "shaved" his head with a dremmel and made shoulder pads and a mohawk from greenstuff. These game out a little bit better :) Their bases are different because I have a display base for them called "White Line Nightmare" I had the audacity to take it to Games Day Toronto and enter it into the Golden Demon as an open category - simply because I thought it was a rather amusing set of figures and I wanted to show it off. :) Man! The competition was brilliant that year. The pictures in WD and the web *NEVER* do the figures justice - and I guess this year the competition was particularly stuff because the year prior there was a huge blackout the day of GD and the competition wasn't as hot. Whew! Those guys and gals can paint :)
And lastly is IronBar - the guy who just won't die in Beyond Thunderdome - and the model I'm proudest of. He started life as a Ratskin juve as well and had his head shave - tricky to get it all smooth. I also smoothed the end of his blunderbuss. The mask is just a blot of greenstuff in an oval shape (cause I can't sculpt faces) - and the hair is made from strands of greenstuff to look like dreads. I submitted him to Harbinger magazine - and he actually appeared in an issue - either 10 or 11, I forget which. Like an idiot I sent the picture as 72 dpi rather than the 300 dpi for print. Lesson for you all - if it's for print, make *sure* it's 300 DPI. Anyways, I had no idea it was going to be printed - so I came home from work after having a miserable day and found the new Harbinger magazine. I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw my figure in the reader gallery - it was a total pick me up!
I think I'd like to do the project over again now that I can do it with no time constraints - so see what I can do differently and better. I'm sure I can paint the figures better - but perhaps the conversions might not be as carefree and as fun as they would be in the heat of the rush to get things done.
Today I want to feature IronBar and some road warriors. I started working on a bunch of post-apocalyptic warriors after my local GW store held "Rhino Races". What the races involved is for players to bring in 1 rhino and 5 warriors. The warriors were to fight and race their way across the table to their rhino and then back to the starting table edge. I wanted to do something fun and road-warriory, so I came up with some "Lost and Damned" troops. I had less than 5 days to do all the conversions and paint everything up so it had to be done quickly - on top of this I was working on my Deathwatch Rhino and Deathwatch Marines so my sweetie could play also. Definitely a nerve wracking week. How'd I do? Turn 1 a band of Khornite berserker cut through my entire crew like they were wet tissue paper :) Jenna faired a little better with the Death Watch, at least she scored some kills. :)
So first up was the Rhino. I ended up buying a "damaged" rhino boxed set (they were getting rid of it because it was the old model rhino) - so I took some bits from my bits box and made a pulpit using the unused hatches from a predator kit. I also added some spikey bits to give it a suitable chaos feel. I then cut two chunks off a sprue to make the posts on which I tied two victims made from a mix of zombie and catachan bits. Here is a picture of it, you can click it for the full sized image. :) It's a pretty straight forward paintjob. I wish I had figured out how to do rust like I do it now, because I could have really made the dozer blade look great and the weathering better - but it's not too bad for a hasty construction. It definitely is a fun conversion. :)
The warriors were a blast to do as well. Lord Humungus (yes, that is how it is spelled - it's not one of my typical typos) is made from a Mordheim pit fighter body and gorka-morka ork arms. If I had more time I would have used greenstuff to make the shoulders a bit more smooth. I made the hockey mask out of greenstuff as well. I have no skillz with the greenstuff. Wez is a straight up Necromunda Goliath gang member. The dude with the axe and the autogun is a Necromunda pit-fighter.
The guy with the 'hawk and crossbow is a ratskin juve. I "shaved" his head with a dremmel and made shoulder pads and a mohawk from greenstuff. These game out a little bit better :) Their bases are different because I have a display base for them called "White Line Nightmare" I had the audacity to take it to Games Day Toronto and enter it into the Golden Demon as an open category - simply because I thought it was a rather amusing set of figures and I wanted to show it off. :) Man! The competition was brilliant that year. The pictures in WD and the web *NEVER* do the figures justice - and I guess this year the competition was particularly stuff because the year prior there was a huge blackout the day of GD and the competition wasn't as hot. Whew! Those guys and gals can paint :)
And lastly is IronBar - the guy who just won't die in Beyond Thunderdome - and the model I'm proudest of. He started life as a Ratskin juve as well and had his head shave - tricky to get it all smooth. I also smoothed the end of his blunderbuss. The mask is just a blot of greenstuff in an oval shape (cause I can't sculpt faces) - and the hair is made from strands of greenstuff to look like dreads. I submitted him to Harbinger magazine - and he actually appeared in an issue - either 10 or 11, I forget which. Like an idiot I sent the picture as 72 dpi rather than the 300 dpi for print. Lesson for you all - if it's for print, make *sure* it's 300 DPI. Anyways, I had no idea it was going to be printed - so I came home from work after having a miserable day and found the new Harbinger magazine. I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw my figure in the reader gallery - it was a total pick me up!I think I'd like to do the project over again now that I can do it with no time constraints - so see what I can do differently and better. I'm sure I can paint the figures better - but perhaps the conversions might not be as carefree and as fun as they would be in the heat of the rush to get things done.
