Hi all:
A fellow gamer and me decided this summer that we were going to play a 40K campaing based in some rules appeared in the White Dwarf where the Space Marines were depicted as the novels and background show them... As real badasses where 10 men can stop thousands of enemies...
According to this concept, we decided that the right way to do this was to create some "real-scale" marines...
As the main objective is to have fun, we have modeled the sargeant to resembled Arnold and the other guys to look cool. The enemies are going to be orks (who else?) and we'll model also a suitable villain.
Of course, every movie needs a plot. As we are very original guys we have decided to save a damsel in distress... There must be a girl in every self-respecting blockbuster!!
To this end we have decided to model an Imperial female Governor using non-GW models. In another awesome display of originality, she will be called Governor Elaine Marley
So there will be blood, dead aliens, big explosions, terrible villains, traps, invincible heroes and a daring heroine... This should be a success!
But enough ranting! As our camera is broken we cannot show the teaser trailer yet, but some pre-production pics...
Using some Terminator legs, we covered their legs to resemble standard power armour
This means that the torso needs some green stuff to make it fit on the legs
More green stuffing and bit-box sacking led us to this Veteran Marine
Whose shoulder pads were modelled
Ending in this
The sargeant torso was sculpted:
And put on a suitable, imposing pose
The head was "tuned" to resemble Arnie
And finally, everything joined:
Including a massive chainsword...
Here finished
Backpacks were also tuned, mixing two separate standard backpacks
And this led us to a shooting marine
A missile launcher marine
(the standard missile launcher was tiny in hands of these monsters, so it needed an "upgrade")
And finally another marine
The squad is finished here:
And here you can see a size comparison with a standard marine
As you can see from their sculpted heraldry they are going to be Crimson Fists. We liked their background as almost-depleted-marines, ork-haters, spanish-roots... Painting has started and I will post additional pics soon.
In this badly taken picture, work on the armour has finished...
Sculpting of Elaine has started, and painting the details of the marines is next. More pictures soon, on a theatre near you
April 27, 2007, 11:49:28 AM
