OK: got high on plastic glue last night and put all my dire avengers together. Great looking models that look dreadful when posed shooting. These guys are supposed to be uber-warriors, so i wanted them to look imposing, and with abs like those why not show them off?
A bit of cutting and chopping, and got some nice poses, particularly happy with my exarch. These guys are all based on modelling cork, which is pretty fragile, but strong enough to support plastic figures. Once stuck on with super glue, i fill in around the foot with gren stuff, to make sure they have a good base to stand on. (This is exactly the same process as the metal pathfinders above, but the pathfinders were pinned through one foot all the way to the base at the bottom [usually into the greenstuff filling the slot])
Fareeer:
Now my local shop didn't have the farseer i wanted, the one with the arcing headpiece, but i settled with this one rather than wait for GW shipping to get another one to HK.
He's all gown, but i chose a line across the top of his belt, and cut straight straight through, and it should be fairly easy to cover up the cut when he is on the jetbike.
Jetbike:
A great looking model that just seems wasted on the standard mounting. And my farseer is from Iyanden, so it's important he doesn't die, so he's flying at breakneck speed, ALL the time.
Had a go at making greensuff moulds, and wasted a lot of greenstuff: but got some pieces to put onto the jetbike hood.
Wanted to change the profile - and found some foregworld bits (crystal targetting matrix) - that i wasn't going to be using again, and cut the fins off those and added them to the end of the wings.
The hand holding the staff is pretty impossible to realign into a dynamic manner, so i gave him a witchblade, although i think he'd probably be better off with a singing spear,
. I should have cut him off at the bottom of the belt, not the top, and so have lifted him a little higher from his seat which i'll have to cover up when i put him onto the base.
The jetbike is mounted on a paperclip that i straightened out and removed the kinks with clippers. One curled end is superglued onto the flying base, and then covered with greenstuff. The base is a combination of greenstuff and cork. The wire goes through the cork.
