Wednesday, January 27, 2010

So what do the Girls look like?

Never satisfied with just doing whatever scheme the book has, I just had to be different. I chose to paint my girls in Ice Blue armor and White robes. The vehicles will be a great Cobalt Blue (Micheals...$1 for a 2 oz bottle...5 times as much paint than GW at 1/3 the price...and color selection is HUGE!!!) with Ice Blue highlites. For the Guard I went with a lite blue denim color with black and white camo-splotches. They mimic the US Navy's new Camo uniform. The shoulder pads were done in Ice Blue to give them continuity with the Sisters Chapter they were inducted into.


First up, The Canoness. Amazing how much painting errors show up when the piccy is full sized. Note the lack of eyes, lips, shadow from an ink wash. I've been getting the Army table-top ready and will cover detail later. That and I'm about as far from a "Golden Demon" painter as you can get. I am pretty happy with the fire in the brazier. This was my first attempt at painting flames.





This is one of my Exorcists. This conversion was made using the old school Rhino. Mounted on top is the Immolator top. The front plate is a new Rhino front (sanded down about a 1/16 from
each side to fit the width of the old Rhino body. The missile racks are from the Space Marine Land Speeder; 2 launchers with the mounts choped off then glued side by side for each side. The mount is from the Immolator with the headrest cut off and the top and front enclosed with plasti-card. Turns out the
Immolators glass shield fits the cupola as a perfect dome.



This view shows the Immolator top and the new Rhino front piece on the old Rhino chassis.







My other 2 Exorcists are more basic. A new style Rhino with the Razorback weapon plate. These launchers are the rocket pods from the Valkerye Transport. Same trick enclosing the Immolator Turret. It looks alot like the Forgeworld kit.







Next up we have the Immolator. Again, the Immolator and new Rhino parts added to the old Rhino. The weapon mount was plated over like the Exorcists. The reason being I never did like the look of the girl sitting exposed in a gun chair. It just seemed silly. So I turned it into a turret. The guns are not glued so I can swap between Flamers, Melas, or Bolters as needed.



Finally, 4 vehicles demonstrating the variuos hull and weapon mixes possible. The 2 different Exorcist versions in back. An Immolator on the left. A Rhino on the right. For the Rhino I used the Razorback plate and put the large Fur de lis plate over the hole. Surprise...a perfect fit. This gives me the option of swapping out weapons and hulls depending on the list used.

So thats a quick and dirty on the girls. Next up...The inducted Imperial Guard.

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