Sep 7, 2009 6:58 AM
It's times like these I had a digital camera
So, I said before that I had been more distracted by Space Marines than anime as of late. The new Space Hulk with it's wonderful Terminators has unleasehed the modelling passion once again, and I have been busy beavering away with a knife and little plastic and/or metal men.
Yes, I did by a second Space Hulk box so I could have set of Blood Angels Terminators for my army. Not to mention, after playing a couple games, it is possilbe to run out of Genestealer models, especially if the Marine player drags their feet and allows the blips to build up so the more the merrier. Anyway, out of that and a box of assault Terminators, I made 3 squads and should have enough spares to make a Masters of the Chapter Apocalypse formation equipped with Terminator armour. This is a natural extension of my habit of making both a power armour and Terminator armour version of my company captains, and I have gone through several captain designs over time, the net result being that I have some 5 or 6 captains in various stages of completion lying about. So I've been gathering the the power armour ones up and deciding which ones I'll use for a custom Master of the Chapter unit and converting them and building Terminator versions as appropriate (so far I have decided on the third ed captain that came with the command squad box, one made from the plastic captain set, my current army captain and the captain model from the Black Reach box). I do like my current army captain version a lot, converted from a 4th ed veteren and a spare blade from the Terminator captain model. I like that Terminator Captain model quite a bit (I have 2 complete conversions based off that model, and one that intended to be a display piece of a Salamanders captain that is to date unfinished), so I bought one to make that the Terminator version of my captain, and part of the Masters of the Chapter (Master of the Arsenal, I collect 3rd company).
I also ordered some of Forgeworlds fabulous shoulder pads to make the masters look even better and to make the standard Terminators fit in better with the Space Hulk models, but when fitting a new Terminator storm bolter arm to the model, something didn't look right. As it turns out, the new Terminator models are quite a bit bigger than the old ones, something I hadn't noticed before. I toyed with the idea of filing or cutting down the original gun arm pad, but that would take a lot of work, or carefully slicing off the symbols from a pad I ordered and gluing it on.....well I've already sliced one of my thumbs doing something similarthis week and I only have limited times I can stuff up. In the end I decided I couldn't use him in that role. All is not lost, though, I can still use it as an Ordo Malleus Inquistor in Terminator armour(something I've wanted to do for a while, slap a thunderhammer on him and a combi-melta-bolter) but it left me without a Terminator model for the Master of the Arsenal. I ended up ordering a Captain Lysander model to convert, with shouldn't be too difficult and that's a pretty awesome model in it's own right.
I supposed you are wondering why I'm going to all this effort for one model. Well for starters this particular model is my company captain, so when he's not with a command squad pootling around in a Razorback, he'll be in Terminator armour, probably with other Terminators, so he is a centrepiece model and as it is he will not standout as an important character model, but he will be out of place when he's around other Terminators, because he will be quite a lot smaller, and this bothers me. If it was just the style of armour being different (which it is to a degree), I could live with it but having such an important model look so small compared to the others around him.....even normal marines look big compared to him. The Terminator model has changed so much since he was released, and as cool as the old Terminators still are the new ones to a much better job of conveying the power and sheer badarsery of a Space Marine in Terminator armour.
So I haven't been watching the old shows as of late. It's mostly down to Space Marines, but also my particular viewing habits. I have a habit, especially when it's a show I've alrady seen, of needing to be doing something when I'm watching. Like ironing, or sewing. I am a member of the New Varangian Guard, and have been hand sewing a kit for that. Whilst watching anime, I have completed an undershirt, a pair of braies and will have an undershirt with a split for riding done very soon. I will commence quilting an Aketon to wear under some cheap maillle I bought when that's done, but I don't seem to get any done when I'm not watching anime. I suppose neither sewing or anime take up all my conscious activities (well most of the time. Zetsubou Sensei, on the other hand.....), so I need something to do with the unoccupied parts of my brain when I'm doing either.
And so ends the trials and tribulations of converting Space Marines and finding time to sew and watch anime, which ironically I will not be able to do tonight because I took so long to write this blog post. Oh, I wish had a digital camera so I could put up pictures of my fabuous miniatures so you can see what I'm talking about. Makes things a lot easier.
Yes, I did by a second Space Hulk box so I could have set of Blood Angels Terminators for my army. Not to mention, after playing a couple games, it is possilbe to run out of Genestealer models, especially if the Marine player drags their feet and allows the blips to build up so the more the merrier. Anyway, out of that and a box of assault Terminators, I made 3 squads and should have enough spares to make a Masters of the Chapter Apocalypse formation equipped with Terminator armour. This is a natural extension of my habit of making both a power armour and Terminator armour version of my company captains, and I have gone through several captain designs over time, the net result being that I have some 5 or 6 captains in various stages of completion lying about. So I've been gathering the the power armour ones up and deciding which ones I'll use for a custom Master of the Chapter unit and converting them and building Terminator versions as appropriate (so far I have decided on the third ed captain that came with the command squad box, one made from the plastic captain set, my current army captain and the captain model from the Black Reach box). I do like my current army captain version a lot, converted from a 4th ed veteren and a spare blade from the Terminator captain model. I like that Terminator Captain model quite a bit (I have 2 complete conversions based off that model, and one that intended to be a display piece of a Salamanders captain that is to date unfinished), so I bought one to make that the Terminator version of my captain, and part of the Masters of the Chapter (Master of the Arsenal, I collect 3rd company).
I also ordered some of Forgeworlds fabulous shoulder pads to make the masters look even better and to make the standard Terminators fit in better with the Space Hulk models, but when fitting a new Terminator storm bolter arm to the model, something didn't look right. As it turns out, the new Terminator models are quite a bit bigger than the old ones, something I hadn't noticed before. I toyed with the idea of filing or cutting down the original gun arm pad, but that would take a lot of work, or carefully slicing off the symbols from a pad I ordered and gluing it on.....well I've already sliced one of my thumbs doing something similarthis week and I only have limited times I can stuff up. In the end I decided I couldn't use him in that role. All is not lost, though, I can still use it as an Ordo Malleus Inquistor in Terminator armour(something I've wanted to do for a while, slap a thunderhammer on him and a combi-melta-bolter) but it left me without a Terminator model for the Master of the Arsenal. I ended up ordering a Captain Lysander model to convert, with shouldn't be too difficult and that's a pretty awesome model in it's own right.
I supposed you are wondering why I'm going to all this effort for one model. Well for starters this particular model is my company captain, so when he's not with a command squad pootling around in a Razorback, he'll be in Terminator armour, probably with other Terminators, so he is a centrepiece model and as it is he will not standout as an important character model, but he will be out of place when he's around other Terminators, because he will be quite a lot smaller, and this bothers me. If it was just the style of armour being different (which it is to a degree), I could live with it but having such an important model look so small compared to the others around him.....even normal marines look big compared to him. The Terminator model has changed so much since he was released, and as cool as the old Terminators still are the new ones to a much better job of conveying the power and sheer badarsery of a Space Marine in Terminator armour.
So I haven't been watching the old shows as of late. It's mostly down to Space Marines, but also my particular viewing habits. I have a habit, especially when it's a show I've alrady seen, of needing to be doing something when I'm watching. Like ironing, or sewing. I am a member of the New Varangian Guard, and have been hand sewing a kit for that. Whilst watching anime, I have completed an undershirt, a pair of braies and will have an undershirt with a split for riding done very soon. I will commence quilting an Aketon to wear under some cheap maillle I bought when that's done, but I don't seem to get any done when I'm not watching anime. I suppose neither sewing or anime take up all my conscious activities (well most of the time. Zetsubou Sensei, on the other hand.....), so I need something to do with the unoccupied parts of my brain when I'm doing either.
And so ends the trials and tribulations of converting Space Marines and finding time to sew and watch anime, which ironically I will not be able to do tonight because I took so long to write this blog post. Oh, I wish had a digital camera so I could put up pictures of my fabuous miniatures so you can see what I'm talking about. Makes things a lot easier.
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