Again I return to grace this blog with my presence after a long absence and again I bring more images and hobby progress.
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| From Left to Right: Half built Landspeeder, Infinity PanOceania Fusiliers, Ultramarine Praetor with Tactical Legionaries, a Techpriest, Astropath, Ultramarine Captain and FW Praetor Tribune. |
Before the long silence, I took photos of some minis that I had on my workbench which I planned to try and finish post haste. Included among this meagre selection, were some projects that I had acquired through Ebay as well as some pre-existing ones for my continued 40k projects.
I've always liked the look of the Infinity miniatures range, after having built and painted primarily Warhammer minis, the more realistic proportions are a welcome change. The Panoceania Fusilliers are from the Operation Ice Storm boxed set and while they don't offer much in terms of conversion work, they have character of their own to stand out (also if your canny enough then I'm sure you can figure something out).
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| If I can, at some point I'll make an operative carrying that banner |
My plan for these guys (and girl, I'm not sexist), is to paint them up as Overwatch Operatives as seen in the artwork during the Annoucement Cinematic. So blue armour and black/dark grey fatigues.
Looking at the rest of the Infinity range and given the popularity of Overwatch, I'm surprised no one else has thought to give this a go. If I ever get my hands on some more Infinity minis, I might try and convert some up to represent characters from the actual game (I'm looking at you Soldier 76).
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| The Red Marked as they stood a while ago |
Moving on from one set of blue things to another, I'm still continuing with the
Red Marked Project and have managed to finish a lot more Tactical Legionaries as well as a few charatcers (mainly a couple of Praetors and my Captain Likane conversion)
Of the two Praetors that I've managed to finish, one of them was the FW store exclusive mini that was sold in Games Workshops a little while ago. As in typical fashion rather than assemble the model as is, I decided to convert the heck out of it and turn it into my take on the Captain of the Invictus Guard, Drakus Gorod.
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| On the small shield I added a checker pattern, a little nod to one of my favourite blogs Death Of A Rubricist | | |
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| Unfortunately I don't have an image of Dracos attached to his base yet, but should get round to it soon. |
While I still need to read Angels of Caliban to find out if the Red Marked as well as Drakus get mentioned, I feel like I've made a unique miniature that I can be proud of. I'm most pleased with the cloak, which was a bit from the FW Minotaurs Chapter Master mini) and the base which I built using some spare Chaos Marine parts to represent a dead Word Bearer.
The other Praetor was built with my March of the Legions Space Marines in mind and will be taking his place amongst them on the display base alongside the Word Bearer that I'm still in the middle of building.
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| From this worshipper of Khorne... |
Finally, saving the best for last. My local Warhammer store decided to hold a painting competition, which revolved around the latest issue of White Dwarf (September's issue mind) and the free miniature that came with it, a Khorne Slaughterpriest.
..to this Bad Boy in Purple.
As I had already painted up Champion of Nurgle, and while I did like the model itself, part of me wanted to push the boat out for the competition. So I decided to convert the mini and paint it up as a Slaaneshi Pitfighter. Using a head from the old Fantasy Slaanesh Champion along with some Dark Eldar chains and a Chaos Marauder's spear, I managed to build a winning entry for the comp. That's right I came 1st place as I was the only person who went to the trouble of converting and painting him up in a different colour, the staff picked mines as the winner. Again I am so chuffed with the mini and I think that I might make up a couple of more champions to represent the other Ruinous Powers.
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| Scale Comparison showing just how big this guy is compare to a Space Marine |
Anyway that's me for another update, hope you like the pics and stay tuned as I'll have some more finished models to show off soon.
