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Offline Vonkluge

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Space Marine vignette for my son.
« on: 25 March 2022, 03:57:01 PM »
A few months back my son asked me to paint a space marine figure for his desk. He is currently playing a Warhammer 40k game on PC and wanted a figure painted by me as a keepsake. I hope he and you LAFer's enjoy my effort. The full article, story, and more pictures of the build can be found on my website www.HistoricalHobbies.com

Since it's for display I built it to fit inside a "Bell Clouque" to keep it nice and yes he just wanted "one figure" but Dad always goes overboard!



I don't paint Warhammer figures so this was a fun change of pace!



The Dog is custom and is painted up to look like his newly rescued pup "beans" and looks just like him.



The display lights up using LEDs hidden behind the twisted girder.



« Last Edit: 25 March 2022, 04:21:52 PM by Vonkluge »

Offline Dr DeAth

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #1 on: 25 March 2022, 04:01:40 PM »
Well done Dad
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Offline Golgotha

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #2 on: 25 March 2022, 04:29:33 PM »
Lucky lad that is super cool and the dog is a nice touch.

Offline Battle Brush Sigur

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #3 on: 25 March 2022, 04:42:44 PM »
aye, that's pretty darned cool. :)

Offline Michi

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #4 on: 25 March 2022, 04:45:33 PM »
This is a beautiful work. I think it will perfectly match the goals you set up for it!  :)

Offline FreakyFenton

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #5 on: 25 March 2022, 05:15:45 PM »
That is a cool gift and a nice keepsake!
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Offline FramFramson

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #6 on: 25 March 2022, 06:07:17 PM »
Brilliant idea, wonderfully executed!


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Offline modelwarrior

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #7 on: 25 March 2022, 06:23:35 PM »
Excellent idea and work. I fancy one of those on my desk ;)

Offline Cubs

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #8 on: 25 March 2022, 06:29:29 PM »
That's a stunner.
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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #9 on: 25 March 2022, 06:33:11 PM »
Great stuff  8)

Offline Vonkluge

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #10 on: 25 March 2022, 07:18:09 PM »
Thanks for all the kind words folks I hope it makes it to him in one piece as I mailed it to him a few days ago... I've mailed thousands of figures to people all over the world so I think I packed well enough that it will survive! Here's I picture of his Dog "Beans" that I was trying to capture the look of for the vignette. You can see here what sparked my thought for the additional doggy armor!  lol


« Last Edit: 25 March 2022, 07:20:17 PM by Vonkluge »

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #11 on: 25 March 2022, 07:34:04 PM »
Lovely dog, vignette & Dad. Well played.

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #12 on: 25 March 2022, 07:49:16 PM »
Lucky kid!  :D

Offline Vonkluge

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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #13 on: 25 March 2022, 08:15:50 PM »
A view of the back side with LEDs on




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Re: Space Marine vignette for my son.
« Reply #14 on: 25 March 2022, 08:55:45 PM »
That's brilliant work.   :)

 

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