Angron Demon Prince Conversion

Howdy everyone,

Today I'm going to share with you a commission project I completed recently to convert a Angron Demon Prince.

I began by selecting a piece of artwork that I've always loved and been inspired by:

This piece of art was selected from the Horus Heresy collected visions.

The client specified that he wanted 'Angron' to be larger than a standard Demon Prince but small enough that he can be used in games of Warhammer 40K.

The first thing I do with any conversion project that I'm working upon is to go through all of my bits boxes and full out any parts that I think are appropiate for the project and pile them in front of me, pour myself a cold beer and wait for inspiration to take hold:

I decided that the plastic Demon Prince kit would be a good enough place to start as any so I popped over to Warhammer World and grabbed one. With my trusty razor saw and pack of blu tac in hand I began chopping away and soon after had the following:

The wings are from the Terrorgeist kit left over from the Heldrake conversion. The metal shoulder pad is from an old Demon Prince. The back is from the plastic Helbrute that comes with the 40K starter kit.

The metal ring over the head is from the back pack of Huron I believe?

After staring at the source artwork for a little longer I decided that to extend the neck I will require another kit. Initially I was going to go with the Balrog kit from the LOTR game but settled on using the Terrorgeist kit instead because of all the extra bits you get in the kit. Again I popped over to Warhammer World and made my purchase.  A few more cuts here and there and I had the following:

Here I have split the back from the Helbrute kit to allow the Terrorgeist spine to be installed. 

The groin plate was taken from the Helbrute kit. I opened up the torso where the head will be installed.

Here I am dry fitting the torso together with blu tac.

This is the head from the plastic demon prince kit that I selected to use as the starting point.

The Terrorgeist spine was cut to allow it to form the neck of Angron.

Here I have cut the demon prince head in halve and replaced the lower jaw with one of the jaws of the Terrorgeist kit.

Here I am establishing the basic pose to mirror the artwork.

Installing the head to the neck.

Here you can see how large this model really will be. I used the legs from the Terrorgeist kit.

Here is a size comparision of Angron standing next to a Chaos Space Marine. He is pretty huge. The metal hand is taken from a Obliterator.

 

 

I decided that I wanted Angron to be kneeing on a pile of fallen enemies so I cut his right leg and repositioned it to a height I was happy with.

 

 

Here I am beginning to blend in the cuts with Milliput. I'm also adding piping using the 'Greenstuff Industries' ' Tentacle Maker'. You can find a link to the supplier here:

 

http://www.greenstuffindustries.com/store/c1/Featured_Products.html

 

 

Turning my attention to the base I purchased a boxed set of the new tactical marines and began chop chop chopping and laying them upon a cork sheet base.

 

 

Here is Angron positioned upon the top of the fallen Space Marines.

After positioning Angron I thought his back looked a little strange and decided to sculpt a cloak out of Greenstuff which also ties in with the Forgeworld miniature.

I wanted the cloak to look as if it has been through many battles and barely fitted his Daemonic form.

Looking at the shoulder pad I thought it was a little plain and decided to form the World Eaters Icon on it with plasticard.

I then turned my attention to the axe Gorefather. It had to be big, really big!

 

Here is the basic construction made from styrene tube, a fantasy battle skull and pieces from my bits box. The icons are from the Chaos Space Marine vehicle kit.

 

Next I wrapped the handle with thin greenstuff.

 

Finally I added studding.

 

I found some suitably sized chain to apply to the model from a hobby shop which is used for making jewelry. I then began wrapping it around his arm. 

 

 

Here is a close up of his latest victim. Also you can see the chains with skulls at the end. 

The client asked for fur to be applied to the cloak. Having never sculpted fur before I was more than a little worried about ruining the project. Here are shots of my attempt, I quite happy with the result, not quite Forgeworld standard but I think I pulled it off okay?

And finally here are shots of the final piece before I packed him up and sent him off to his new home in the states. He will be missed and personally I think it's my finest work to date. So much so I'm turning my attention to selling off my Serpent Guard army in the next couple of weeks to fund a new army lol.

 

The following is a link to a video of the finished Angron on my YouTube channel. Please go check it out, comment and like if you enjoyed it? Also let me know if you came to my YouTube channel via here?

  

 

Happy hobbying,

 

Rumplemaster

Converting a Blood Angel Dreadnought - Golden Demon Entry 2013

Hi all,

Today I'm going to take a look at my Golden Demon entry from last year and I'll try to explain the processes I went through in its creation. This was a spur of the moment project that I began a week before Games Day after being convinced by X2 painting studio to enter something as I was meeting them on the day. I'd highly recommend that everyone go and check out their Facebook page and like it to follow their projects.

I had an idea in my head for some time to create a Blood Angel army, all converted to show vampiric traits. With this in mind I began working upon converting a Furioso dreadnought. As the souls entombed within the dreadnought armour are supposed to be legendary warriors I wanted the character to look full on Vampire and the Ghoul King model from the Terrorgeist kit was just what I was looking for.

Here I am dry fitting the standard Furioso kit of which I have removed the sarcophagus and installed the Ghoul King into.

Next I cut the standard legs into pieces and installed sections of styrene tube with aluminium capping at the ends.

I thought the shin pads were too small compared to the rest of the model so I applied a coating of Milliput and once dried I sanded to the shape I desired.

Next I applied a further coating of Milliput to the torso armour and sanding smooth. I converted the claws so that they were in more of an aggressive orientation.

With the body glued in position I began to look at the base. I started by gluing stiffenning plates to a walled structure at the edge of the 60mm base.

Next I applied layers of cork sheeting in place.

With the cork in place I glued a resin cast pipe section from the Hirst Arts molds.

Next I surrounded the pipe with more cork.

Happy with the base I covered the whole base with a PVA and sand mix.

Here is the base once it had dried.

Here is the model positioned upon the base. I have also applied green stuff piping around the Ghoul King using the green stuff industries tentacle maker.

With the model and base complete I only had three days to paint the model before the big day. I began by undercoating the model black with Games Workshop black spray. I then applied a layer of armour brown followed by a layer of tank brown and finally a layer of golden yellow.

With the metal portions painted metallic and washed with black ink I moved to focus on applying freehand to all those flat panels.

I wanted a design to compliment the stance of the character and went with a flaming skull. Here I have penciled in the design straight onto the torso. I would also suggest sketching the design on paper first but I was running out of time fast.

Next I go over the penciled design with black paint.

And here is the final design. Sorry for the lack of photos but I was painting on a schedule.

Next I turned my attention to the leg armour. I tried to keep to a traditional Lamentors design on this panel but with a little modification of my own, a broken heart.

Here is a close up of the finished Ghoul King. I painted this model from a black base, gradually adding more layers of grey up to a white finish.

I wanted to give a name to each of the clawed arms and after consulting with a buddy of mine I chose to go with 'Sorrow' and 'Anguish' as these are both forms of lamentation.

Here is the model with levels of weathering applied with the sponge chipping technique.

And here is the model with the painted base and object source lighting applied to the claws. The base was painted from a black base then layered with various coats of reds, oranges and yellows. The claws were painted from a black base then layered with dark blue, light blue then finally white.

Here is my entry into Golden Demon 2013. This was my first ever Games Day and entering Golden Demon I was the first in the cabinet on the day.

And at the end of the day I came away with a cute medallion which now has pride of place in my presentation cabinet at home along with my Furioso dreadnought.

I'm really happy with how the model turned out and after painting it in only three days I can't complain with the outcome. I've definately been bitten by the bug and will definately be returning this year, hopefully with more entries.

Here is a video of the finished entry.

More to come,

Rumplemaster