Blood Angel Furioso Dreadnought Conversion (Part 1)

Hi peoples,

Lots of interesting projects and exciting changes coming along in the background over here at Rumplemaster headquarters.  Hopefully I'll shine some light on this later in the year?  ;O)

For today I thought I'd share some of the WIP shots for those who are interested in one or two projects that I have recently been working upon?

For some time I've had an idea to create a Blood Angel army that has fully succumb to the 'Black Rage'. I want the models to have varying levels of Vampiric attributes which will have taken effect very slowly. Seing as how Space Marines live for thousands of years only the oldest and most venerable units / characters will have extreme physical changes. This leads me on to the Furioso Dreadnought armed with the deadly 'Blood Talons'. I envisioned a creature of pure rage entombed within the impenetrable body of the dreadnought, leading the charge into battle via drop pod assault.

This is the first fitting of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Vampire Count Ghoul King from the Terrorgeist kit into the sarcophagus of the Furioso Dreadnought. I split the Dreadnought kit down the middle and removed the lower portion of the sarcophagus to be replaced at a later time.

I chopped the legs into sections to make posability a little easier. The current plastic kit does not make dynamic posing as simple as it should perhaps.

Fitting the shin guard.

Installing the torso to the leg assembly. I wanted the pose of the dreadnought to reflect his rage being projected towards the unfortunate foe that is before him.

With the claws splayed open I feel it is the finishing detail that empathises how much this guy is going to enjoy ripping his foe apart! If only Blood Angels could field the Lucius pattern drop pods!

Here I am beginning to develop the base for the Furioso. Typically I never have a design in my head, I just look at the model it is to mount and begin letting my imagination go wild. I decided that I wanted to base this army upon a merging of two themes that I have used before, industrial and volcanic. Hopefully this will allow for some nice OSL to be applied in the painting process.

With a strong frame installed I begin adding some cork sheeting.

Here I am adding a section of pipework from the 'Hirst Arts' molds and a length of styrene tubing.

The finished volcanic rock formation and pipework.

Here I am applying a coating of 'Winsor and Newton' Black Lava Texture Gel'.

The effect once dried.

And from a different perspective.

 

The finished model installed upon his base.

Here is a view of the Furioso without his torso installed. I left the two halves separate on purpose to make it easier to paint. I have added a bunch of conduits using the 'Green Stuff Industries' tentacle maker.

I absolutely love this conversion. It looks so different to the standard Furioso and it creates the basis for a theme to run through the entire army. Now the only thing left to do is to paint paint paint. Sadly my compressor died so it looks like it's going to be good old fashioned brush work for this chap.

If you would like to see a 360 degree video of this model plus the other projects I'm working upon please view the following:

http://youtu.be/oRynGNPSmRQ

 

More to come,

Rumplemaster

Chaos Space Marine Serpent Guard Heldrake Conversion

Hi peoples,

I've had a few people ask for some WIP shots of the Heldrake I converted for my Serpent Guard so here we go:

I began developing the base to create a solid structure for the design.

I used an old kitchen roll tube to mount the Heldrake upon and installed stiffening ribs beneath it.

I used a section of styrene tube and wrapped around the lip at the top of the tube.

Next I established the circumference of the tube with a sheet of 0.25mm styrene which was an inch deep.

Once I had split the sheet into equal sections I made multiple copies, enough to cover the tube from top to bottom. I wanted to add rivets to the plates so created myself a jig as shown above.

I then marked out and drilled holes into one of the plates to use as a template.

I then drilled through this template into the jig.

I clamped the remaining plates into the jig and proceeded to drill through.

Here are the first batch of drilled plates ready for adhering to the tube.

I adhere the first plate into place.

And then continue adhering plates until I completely encase the tube.

Here I am caping the tube with a section of 0.5mm styrene sheet.

The beginnings of the Heldrake. I wanted to be able to remove the Heldrake easily from the pipe so I drilled holes in the tail and the leg.

I then add magnets to the pipe to correspond to the magnets in the Heldrake.

Both were held in place with greenstuff and superglue.

Here I am beginning to create the shoulder mounted Hades Autocannon. The barrels are lengths of styrene tubing, the mount is one of the legs from the Heldrake kit and the body is from the Forgefiend / Maulerfiend kit.

This is a blu tacked assembly of the autocannon. The jaw over the barrel is created using one half of the Heldrake head and half of a head from the Terrorgeist kit from Warhammer Fantasy Battle.

Here is the finished assembly. I have installed a small magnet in the mount.

This is the first fitting of the autocannon onto the Heldrake.

 

Here you can begin to feel how large a conversion this has become.

Next I began adding the pipework to the base. I use sections of styrene tube and cast joints from the Hirst Arts molds.

More structure is added and a representation of a concrete base.

Here I have used one of my Serpent Guard miniatures to gauge the scale of the conversion and walkway width.

And that was the conversion pretty much complete. I was attending the Vidar's Fate tournament in a couple of days after this shot was taken and I wanted to reveal this beast then so I went about laying down some paint.

Here are shots of the completed miniature:

 

 

And here is a link to a video of the Heldrake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1hCDy4-tFs

You can also find more of my work on my YouTube channel and Facebook page.

More to come,

Rumplemaster

Necron update - Completing the Lychguard

Hi peoples,

I finished assembling the Necron unit of Lychguard with Warscythes last night. Here are some snaps:

The assembled unit of nine

The bases need a little cleaning and some additional detailing but for now I'm happy and will move onto the next unit.

More to come,

Rumplemaster

Necron Update - Base Concept

Hi guys,

A quick post again today. Over the weekend I began working on designing and building the concept for the Necron armies bases.

I began by focusing upon the destroyer lord armed with warscythe:

I wanted the feel of the design to be methodical and ever evolving.

Here is the first infantry sized base I constructed. I took inspiration for this design from a decently painted model from CMON.

Here is the rear view. Eventually I plan on adding plenty more detail to the bases.

Here is a collection of three nearly completed bases with Lychguard upon them. I'm in the process of building seven more bases for the remainder of the unit.

More to come,

Rumplemaster

Serpent Guard - Forgefiend completed

Hi guys,

I finally finished painting the Forgefiend for my Serpent Guard army. Here is a photo of the finished model and a link to the video on YouTube:

Here is a link to the video:

Sorry for the lack of posts of late. During the run up to Throne of Skulls in January I was busily painting away and in truth have burnt out a little.   I'm rejuvenated now have lots of exciting projects to share with you soon.

One of the projects that I'm working on is for a tutorial of sorts, my first actually. I frequently receive emails or comments on my YouTube channel asking me to design a tutorial and I have finally given in. It's going to take some time and a lot of work but hopefully it will satisfy some of those requests? The following is the miniature I am going to use to complete a step by step video painting guide upon:

I will be painting this chap in the colours of my Serpent Guard. If this is something you are interested in seeing check back on my Facebook and YouTube channels for updates.

More to come,

Rumplemaster