WIP: Grey Knight Librarian

To follow on the heels of the Dr. Ew's Archon, I've got some shots of my favorite HQ unit from the Grey Knights codex. I love the flexibility of the Librarians (in all marine codex's) and I especially love the synergy he provides to a Grey Knights force.

So without further ado...

I loved the pose of the classic Terminator Librarian from GW but I preferred the style of the Grey Knight Terminators so I tried to mimic the pose that was so interesting to me.

(image property of Games Workshop)

Since he's just a composite of Grey Knight parts I wanted to add a little classic Librarian iconography to make look the part a bit more. I followed a tutorial Ron posted on From The Warp a while back and after a few trial runs on the side of an old Leman Russ I had a pretty successful result.

I also tried to add some gold touches to the Stormbolter to make it look like his wargear is a little more embellished than the rest of his battle brothers.

You can see his book of Secrets he keeps on fanny pack, and the skull of a daemon that he's attached to his shoulder since he's a show-off.

Finally, here are a few shots of the current progress on his force weapons. So far I've only begun work on the halberd since that's how I normally run him on the table, but I have a warding stave that's in progress too. I put a small magnet in his wrist on the arm as well as in each of these to weapon hands. The piece of brass rod prevents the hands from falling off if he gets bumped in the course of moving him around the table top.

(Sorry some of these are so blurry, I used my phone)

I've got some more details to finish up on him but I'm really happy with how he's coming along. Now just the small task of painting 20 more terminators and 40 more marines and I'll be close to done.

Thine arms shall be forged in resin - Part 2

A while back I had my first run at trying to make some resin casts of scratch built autocannon arms for my Dreadnoughts (check out the previous post). I was very optimistic but had less than impressive results.

This was the first box for the mould

This was the result, worse than finecast.

This time I built the mould use the proper technique, covering a half of the arm in clay and pouring latex on top of the clay half. Then, I remove the clay and poured the other half of the mould. I followed this tutorial from War Frog's Hobby Blog where he does a much cleaner and more precise job, but nonetheless here are my results from the second try.

Here you can see that the mould wasn't quite right resulting in some barrels that are malformed.

The new resin arms covered in flash.

The final product is satisfactory but by no means perfect. They required a metric shit ton of sanding and greenstuff filling. All but one needed to have the muzzles rebuilt using plasticard tubing as well.

I definitely want to make another mould and try again having learned from my recent mistakes. I think the key is how the item is placed in the mould and making sure the vents are large enough.  

WIP: Archon

I haven't posted many pics of my Dark Eldar, but that's about to change, starting with this guy: