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Slightly ‘armless…

insaniak — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:37:41 +0000

Some more detail work on the Ultramarines Chaplain.

I’m finally happy with the third attempt on the Aquila on his leg. Started in on purity seals and pouches and the like.

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Ultramarine Character Update

insaniak — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:01:09 +0000

The problem with leaving stuff sitting around for a year or two without finishing it off is that when you go back to it, you see things that you could have done better…

I dusted off the trio of Ultramarine characters that I started working on some time ago, and wound up replacing a little detail on the Captain. His chest icon was a little wonky, so I ripped it off and replaced it, and the eagle on his left shin was frankly quite terrible. So it also came off, and was replaced. I also started adding the icons on the bottom of his loincloth straps, and roughly fleshed out the fingers on the right hand powerfist.

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Meanwhile, the Librarian gained a psychic hood, and some icons on his legs:

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For the curious, once they’re finished, these guys will be destined for the UTC online store, along with a bunch of other conversions that I am currently working on.

More to come soon.

Crouching Veteran, Voxxing … er… other Veteran?

insaniak — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:17:38 +0000

I’ve completed basic assembly on the Commtech for the Sternguard squad. The pose is a little rough, as his hand is only tacked on at the moment… I’ll adjust it when I’m ready to glue everything in place and sculpt on the missing detail.

I also realised that the entire squad was just a little too ‘upright’… so I ripped off one guy’s legs, and put him into more of a crouching pose:

Obviously he still needs some gap-filling, and a left hand.

‘Arm’ing the troops…

insaniak — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:58:09 +0000

Got a little more work done on the True-scale Sternguard…

Started with sanding down the torsos to get them nice and smooth and armour-ish.

I had to go back afterwards and do a little gap filling, where the sanding didn’t flatten out a few small divots, and a couple of the collars still need some attention
Also started detailing the bionic legs:

And then started in on the arms. These are being converted from assorted Terminator arms with the hydraulics and cabling removed, to make them look a little more like regular power armour. Here’s a couple of mock-ups to see how they fit together, with a regular Marine thrown in for scale:

It’s a bit of a relief to find that the bolter arms work… The left hand, in case anyone’s wondering, is from a 2nd-edition Chaos Marine. They had mammoth-sized hands, so work out pretty well for Terminators.

More soon…

Space Marine Bits Update

insaniak — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:09:50 +0000

Due to a raft of assorted distractions over the last few months, I’ve had a steadily growing pile of Space Marine parts accumulating in the ‘to be added to the store’ pile…

Finally took the time to start uploading them over the last couple of days. As a result, there has been a restock on a large number of Space Marine bits in the store, and the addition of a few extra bits, including parts for the Space Marine Bike and an expanded range of Scout parts.

You can find them in the online store here.

Pre-Heresy Dread WIP Walkthrough

insaniak — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:03:49 +0000

A short while back, I built a Pre-Heresy Raven Guard Dreadnought as a commission. This build was originally documented on the forums here.

Well, for those who would like to see how it was done without wading through the forum thread, the WIP walkthrough is now also up in the Workshop here.

Meanwhile, for an alternate take on the Pre-Heresy Dreadnought, have a look at Dave Taylor’s blog here for his ‘Dreadnought Rylanor’.

Sculpting the Insaniak Way: Purity Seals

insaniak — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:09:10 +0000

I have just added the second of my sculpting tutorials to the website. This one is covering creating your own purity seals for dressing up your Imperial Guard, Space Marines or Inquisitors for Warhammer 40K.

You can find it in the Tutorials section here.

For Russ, and the Allfather!

insaniak — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:22:53 +0000

We have received in a bunch of Space Wolf Pack sprues, and so have added a subsection for them in the Space Marine section of the Online Store.

You can find all of the Space Wolf bits in the store here.

The Dreadnought Stomps Back In

insaniak — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:02:38 +0000

We have received in a bundle of Space Marine Dreadnought bitz, including restocks of old items like the weapon arms, and the addition of a few new listings, like torsos and legs. We have also added the Assault On Black Reach Dreadnought’s Multimelta arm as a separate listing.

You can find them in the Space Marine section of the Online Store here.