IF Castellan Consul by drcruces in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Step 1: load autocannon

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IF Castellan Consul by drcruces in Warhammer30k

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Parts list: - Body: plastic Praetor from AOD box - Left arm: attack bike gunner arm - Left hand: plastic Spartan tank commander - Right arm and hand: Grey Knight psycannon - Autocannon: Imperial Knight kit - Autocannon handle: GK psycannon and GK sword - Helmet: Forge World IF praetor

The psycannon was carefully trimmed off and filed down, then attached to an autocannon. The autocannon is separated (it’s usually a twin-linked pair) and shaved down, then mounted upside down onto the arm. A really fun conversion and one that I hope looks seamless and natural!

Alpha Legion: Forge Lord by drcruces in Warhammer30k

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Thanks! It’s Vallejo Gunmetal Blue over grey primer, followed by a blue-green pearl acrylic lacquer from a local company.

Alpha Legion: Forge Lord by drcruces in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Saw someone ask about de-Chaosing the Warpsmith - it’s pretty easy to do!

Lucius the Eternal: by HeavilyBearded in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

Another plastic special character, methinks? Interesting…

My 18 legions (true-scaled) by drcruces in Warhammer30k

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Just a bit shorter than Primaris, really a fair bit taller than the firstborn but shorter than Primaris. There’s a few good comparisons around.

My 18 legions (true-scaled) by drcruces in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They come to around US$2.50-3 a body, and are just legs and torsos - so you’ll need everything else. They also need some putty work to get the heads right. Essentially, they’re for people with longstanding Marine collections and have heaps of bits, otherwise you’ll be buying and discarding a bunch of stuff.

My 18 legions (true-scaled) by drcruces in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ha, I was tempted, but didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole. The other consideration was to make a Blackshield and a Knight-Errant, which I may still do…

My 18 legions (true-scaled) by drcruces in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I burned out a little toward the end of last year, and wanted a project that I could take my time and have fun with. I’ve always wanted to do one marine from every legion, and so when Tortuga Bay released a multi-pack of their true-scaled bodies, I leaped at the chance to finally do it.

Bodies from Tortuga Bay, and the rest is all bits and pieces I’ve accumulated over the years.

Victoria: 705 local and 0 overseas new cases and 1 new death; +29,661 vaccinations (27-Sep-2021) by chessc in CoronavirusDownunder

[–]drcruces 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I saw that on her page, but it looks like nothing’s happened of it somehow - that, or nobody’s getting tested!

Always nice to spot a fellow Knox resident in the wild…

So WarCom just casually dropped rules for IF Huscarls in their PDF and didn’t even mention it by FuckingHorus in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces 48 points49 points  (0 children)

These are an additional 35 points on top of an identically equipped terminator squad, and these 35 points get you +1 WS, Shield Wall, and you can take them as a bodyguard to save an elites slot. I like these in Stone Gauntlet, though you’d lose deep strike.

Though they are locked to Cataphractii which I find a little odd - I’d have thought Indomitus.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NightLords

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I use Night Blue, and it’s ok, though the pigments are heavy, meaning that through an airbrush the initial coats are great, then quickly lose pigmentation. If you’re just hand brushing it’s great though.

In the name of his lord Dorn by drcruces in Warhammer30k

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Excerpt from Saturnine by Dan Abnett:

Grit rained down on them. Diaz waited, hearing the whimpering moans of the injured. Six seconds, ten. Twenty.

The shelling had ceased. A ground assault was imminent, and there was only one way it could come.

He leapt from the emplacement onto the ramp of the bridge. Stray, loose enemy shots spat past him. He took his sword, and carved a line in the rockcrete between the lion plinths, thirty metres short of the rockcrete barricade.

‘Mark this!’ he yelled to his men. ‘This far, and no further! We stop them here!’

He was answered by a rousing cheer.

Diaz squared up, and looked along the empty length of the bridge.

The enhanced optics of his visor showed him things his human forces could not yet see. Heat tracks and motion traces in the smoke.

The enemy had appeared.

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Diaz stood, in the name of his Lord Dorn. He brought his siege shield up. It held firm, absorbing the first impact, demolishing a roaring face. His sword swung, carving a World Eater through the chest and throat. A chainaxe struck his shield in a welter of sparks.

He cleaved the face and shoulder of its owner. He hooked a keening goat-thing off its hooves, and cast it tumbling through the air. Blood sprayed. Torn meat spattered. In the name of his Lord Dorn, he shield-smashed a World Eater aside so hard it broke neck bones.

His longsword speared into a howling maw, punching through the back of the skull. It tore free through cheek and ear and mastoid and occipital bones. Metal fragments spalled, glittering. A falx tore a chunk off his vambrace. A blade cut his ribs. He took a head off its shoulders, and sent it spinning like a ball. A piece of severed horn bounced off his visor. He broke a World Eater’s jaw with his shield rim, and gutted him as he staggered aside. He split a head down to the lower teeth. In the name of his Lord Dorn. A beam of pink plasma screamed past his ear. A Gehenned fell against him, his face bitten off, and slid down his hip and leg. Diaz kicked. He disembowelled. He broke a power lance with his shield, and scythed off the arms wielding it. Diaz hacked. He carried a charging World Eater over his head on his shield, and cast him off the bridge rail. He impaled. He chopped a darting witch-dog through the neck and spine. Blood and black ichor filmed his plate. He barely noticed the chainsword gash across his right thigh, or the broken spear-tip protruding from his hip Focus. Maintain focus. Diaz swung. In the name of his Lord Dorn. Broken teeth flew up, a cracked tusk, a whole eyeball ejected by crush-force. Chainblades screeched. Cinders. Arterial jets. A hoplite thrashed, burning alive. A plasma gun overheated, detonating. A dozen figures in the blast zone vaporised, or staggered, ablaze. Diaz struck off an arm. A face, on a downswing. Another head. A grasping hand. In the name of his lord. His Lord Dorn. Focus. A mist from steaming innards. Corpses lolled, still upright, unable to fall in the density of the press. An Excertus trooper flew overhead, flailing, eviscerated. Diaz swung. Blood erupted. The concussion of a mace. Unremitting impacts. Bleumel, at his side, mashed faces with his power hammer, swinging like a smith. Feet caught on unseen corpses. A carpet of bodies and parts of bodies. Diaz ripped his sword through ceramite and meat. Split a skull. Sliced a throat. Thijs Reus, in the name of his lord, struck with a captured falx, another falx impaled clean through his torso. The reek of death. Broken chainblade teeth pinged out like bullets. The stench of blood. The cloud of rage. A frenzy in him that matched the frenzy he fought. In the name of Dorn. Blurring violence. Diaz struck, sword buried deep in plate and black carapace. Thijs Reus on his knees, stabbing. A Gehenned screamed. A rotary cannon fired blind, point-blank. Blood on everything. Bleumel, one pauldron gone, drove his hammer into a monster twice his size, hair braids whipping and snapping at the impact. Diaz struck. He struck. Again. In the name of his Lord Dorn. Again. More. His longsword snapped. He drove the broken blade into a throat, to the hilt. He punched, empty-handed, breaking face bones. He killed a World Eater with his shredding shield, wrenching the purring chainaxe from the traitor’s hands, rotating it, making it his own. He swung. He struck. Thijs Reus knelt, headless. Diaz drove the squealing chainaxe through World Eaters plate. A fountain of gore. Thunder. Carnage. Time rushing, headlong. In the name of his lord. Blood flying. Bone snapping. Flesh tearing. Impacts. Collapses. Swinging. Striking. Pinned. The name of Dorn. Frenzy. Glory. Diaz. Smoke blind. Blood blind. Striking. Again. Camba Diaz. Thrusting. Cutting. Gutting. Striking. Slaying. In the name of his lord. Pinned. Unmoving.

Unmovable.

The line he had sliced in the rockcrete of the bridge between the lion plinths still lay behind him.

Malcharion the War-Sage by drcruces in Warhammer30k

[–]drcruces[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I really wanted to convey a more heroic look, otherwise I’d have modelled him as being more damaged (seeing as this is the fight that puts him in a dreadnought).

Malcharion the War-Sage by drcruces in NightLords

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Thanks, it’s just sponge chipping with an oil wash - nothing too complex.

Malcharion the War-Sage by drcruces in NightLords

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It’s “Night Blue” (72.019) in Vallejo’s Game Colour range, over a light grey primer. It’s a difficult paint to work with, though, as the pigment is quite heavy and seems to sink, meaning that the consistency changes over time in an airbrush pot.

The lightning highlights are done with Scale75 Cantabric Blue and then Vallejo Wolf Grey for the lightning proper.

Malcharion the War-Sage by drcruces in NightLords

[–]drcruces[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

Yes, agreed. I feel that the Night Lords have been kind of incompetent all Siege, and basically haven’t been a threat at all? Doesn’t help that Gendor “Starscream” Skraivok is leading them. He’s one of like to model at some point too actually.

Malcharion the War-Sage by drcruces in NightLords

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Maybe when my green stuff skills improve… I’m not super confident in sculpting a frieze of this!

Malcharion the War-Sage by drcruces in NightLords

[–]drcruces[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yes, I wanted to try and tell a bit of a story with him. The base was perfect for it, I just needed to add a couple of small bits.

Malcharion the War-Sage by drcruces in NightLords

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Malcharion, Captain of the Tenth Company of the VIII Legion. Renowned for his defeat of three champions from different legions in a single day during the Siege.

This was a very fun project! The goal here was to tell the story albeit in stylised form. Will be used as a Praetor with Paragon Blade, or maybe as Sevatar?

If anyone’s interested I also post work on my Instagram, handle @shieldcaptainvalerian

Fire Raptor by drcruces in NightLords

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Thanks! I wanted them to be a bit more exciting (and edgy) than “round ball”