Angels of Absolution Terminator WIP Pt II

I haven't been as productive as I would have hoped since last week. I've been painting along but have only successfully completed one arm. I'm working on the power fist arm right now but I won't finish it until after the sun goes down tonight at the earliest. My next day off isn't until the middle of next week so I figured I'd take a couple shots of the arm I did finish. I'm really happy with how the veteran marking came out. I labored for a while trying to figure out what to put on that shoulder pad, flipping through countless terminator pics until I settled on this option. Its very time consuming but that's just how I do things.

While I'm at it, and since its such a short post I should probably mention that I've made a couple of other model purchases this year. I also purchased a Caestus Assault Ram and 5 Maximus Pattern Armor Space Marines from Forgeworld. I've managed to keep my purchases to a minimum this year even if Forgeworld keeps tempting me with amazing offerings like the new Boarding Party Space Marines and the Contemptor Dreadnought. I'll probably just save my pennies for those and buy them at Adepticon in April. We'll see.

-Nick

Green Stuff Crimson Fist Terminator Shoulder Pad Mold

Hey all, so a couple years ago at the adepticon bitz trading night i picked up a super sweet deal on 15 Forgeworld Terminator shoulder pad upgrades. Was so excited to upgrade all the excess amounts of old metal (shooty) terminators i had stored away for just such an occasion.. well i was gravely disappointed that first time a broke one out and noticed that the FW upgrades were meant only for the newer style terminators, so with a sigh, i put em back in their coffin and forgot about em until recently... I've been experimenting with making AdMech green stuff stamps lately (with some good success and some miserable failures) and noticed the upgrades just sitting in their bag and thought i would give a go at making a decent green stuff mold.. it really only took 2 tries to get this one to work, which totally surprised me as i'd try to do Mechanicus shoulder pad molds and found it pretty difficult to work with a curved surface... Anyhow, you'll have to forgive me for the slight blurriness of the photos as it was hard to just focus on such small pieces..
First photo is just the FW shoulder pad..

i had to kinda ruin this one to get a nice full circle around the fist as there were purity seals molded into it, but nothing a sharp x-acto didn't take care of...
I then mixed up my green stuff, rolled it into a ball big enough to cover the fist, then dampened the ball and pressed it slightly against a small piece of glass. This makes for a nice clean surface (getting rid of finger prints and folds) for pressing against whatever you are trying to mold. I then applied liberal amounts of saliva to the pad and carefully wrapped the whole thing in green stuff... making sure to press evenly and solidly around it...

I then let this set up for bout 1/2 hour and very very carefully pealed it away taking care not to change the curvature of the shoulder pad.. I then let this piece dry over night. The next day i added a bit more green stuff to the back to make a handle of sorts.

and let that dry again for another day. Now i was ready to give it ago with one of the older plastic shooty terminator arms.. You have to applied lots of saliva to the new mold (or other lubricants) when doing this next part as the green stuff really likes to try and stick into all those small nooks and crevices. So i ball up a small bit of green stuff and put it directly on the arm itself, then slowly (yet firmly) press the mold onto the arm, making sure to press hard enough to squeeze out the excess green stuff and on my first go i got this one!

and finally here is the painted up test arm, will definitely add some purity seals and some other bling with doing this on the rest of my old terminators..


I do recommend patience when trying to make molds with green stuff as i had many many failures when first starting out..
ps, i recently heard about this stuff and am excited to give it ago!
Cheers,
Brose

Two More Red Scorpion Space Hulk Terminators

Click on these photos for the full image. They're huge.

Mike Hughes has sent us pictures of two more Space Hulk Terminators he has painted in the Red Scorpions color scheme. Mike Hughes is originally from Buffalo, NY. He worked under me at Games Workshop Walden Galleria 1999-2001 (I think I have those years right, haha). He was often referred to as "the painting slave" because he could churn out models 5x faster than any of us (and 10x faster than me!) through effectively streamlining the process of any color scheme we discussed and targeted highlighting. Needless to say, he was practically tethered to the painting table at all times. His greatest weakness at home has always been brainstorming an exciting and effective technique to carry out a color scheme and then getting 5-10 models into that army and then scrapping or selling the models. I once remember a group of kids coming into the store all excited about models they found in the garbage in their neighborhood and I was like, "Where'd you get these!? These are Mike's!" He honestly had just thrown them all out. It should be noted that Mike has also placed at the Baltimore Golden Demon - when he isn't trying to speed up and streamline he can totally knock it out of the park. He currently lives in Japan.

All Is Quiet

It was a quiet summer here at 2nd City Warzone. The Nerd Night Crew have all been busy with other aspects of their lives and even our regular Monday night gaming took a backseat for most of the summer. Scott's been painting slow and steady like always and he's posted some beautiful shots of his daemons. Eric was working on some marines and then started working on a Plague Marine army. Matt I'm sure is messing around with any of the dozens of games he owns in and plays and he gave us some great Epic pics. Me, well I've done a whole lot of nothing all summer. I played 2 or 3 games of 40K I think, and I got dragged into playing D&D a couple times. I don't think I picked up my brush more than once or twice either. The gaming and hobby front has been quiet indeed, and I am the worst culprit. Luckily, Scott has been chastising me regularly on Facebook in an effort to get me back on track. haha. After constant harassment, and the well timed announcement that registration for Adepticon has begun, I finally put brush to plastic the other day. Additionally, I started scrutinizing the latest rumors more thoroughly than I have the last few months and I'm getting hyped again. Of course, there is more to come on all of that, but in the meantime I wanted to show off these stunning Red Scorpion Space Hulk Terminators that Nerd Night friend and ally, Mike Hughes, just showed off to us. Enjoy!

-Nick