Halo: A 28mm wargaming project: covenant troops cast finally.

[Commander Vyper]

Ok then as well as 'the slayer' spartans I'm also as you know in the middle of Reach's Noble Team.

Two of the more complex helmet conversions were Emile and Jun, (the EVO and the Scout helmet respectively).

Emile A239:

Previously I'd got Emile's Helmet to the full face dome position but still needed to finish it off, so last night i scored the bottom lines of the front of the helmet and added some strips of GS that I worked into place to form the lower edge of the helmet below the dome, quite pleased with it to be honest:



I swopped the body out for one of the newer commander sculpts, then removed the lasgun, drilled and pinned the shotgun in place, taking a little of the stock for a nice fit, cut some very fine plasti-rod into 6 shotgun cartridges and fixed to the forearm with supergule then a thin GS strap, (I'll file the cartridges smooth once the superglue and the GS has gone off. Added to hunting knife and started to clean up the mould lines.

The result:




Just need to finish cleaning it up before undercoat

Next up Jun A266...

[Bako]

Aye. They look great. There's something off about that gas mask head though.

[dwartist]

great conversions (love the two-pistol pose Simon should copy that one!) and painted troops look excellent! I'm not convinced by the Aberrant helmet though....

[Commander Vyper]

I know what you mean about the aberrant one. I've got an idea though that involves another spare head and a diamond saw, keep you posted


Jun A266:




sniper rifle from Heresy miniatures, combat knife and sniper rounds on shoulder (GW plastic).

Helmet: modified heavy trooper, removed the 'nose' and helmet light, built up the chin and added the further shielding to the lower visor, then built up the top of the helmet and the 'peak'.

Will give it a clean up and a sharpen on a few of the edges now the GS is set, come out ok though.

Cheers

The Commander

[Hrothgar]

Highly inspirational stuff, CV!!

You have prompted me to order a batch of system troopers and two sets of the new heads. I am torn about the third set:



The helmet looks great and very HALO-ish from front and back, but I am concerned that from the side it will be huge. Is there any way you could please furnish a picture of this dude side-on to the helmet? It would be a tremendous help in deciding which helmets to go with.

Thanks!!!

Jason

[Commander Vyper]

No probs will do it when I get back tonight, suffice to say that this helmet is a little on the long side, the other two are much more in keeping and the latest one I've got through is pure CQB

[Mr.J]

Wow! Even more eye candy. This is a great project, can't wait to see it come together.

[Commander Vyper]

Highly inspirational stuff, CV!!

The helmet looks great and very HALO-ish from front and back, but I am concerned that from the side it will be huge. Is there any way you could please furnish a picture of this dude side-on to the helmet? It would be a tremendous help in deciding which helmets to go with.

Thanks!!!

Jason

As promised, it's a little long but perfectly useable. Oh and when you order for Si and Lise, tell them Mark sent you!

[Commander Vyper]

More shots of JUN now that I've started to clean up the sculpted helmet:







Might do some more on them tomorrow night, but I really need to get those figures done for the Salute 2011 games so might have to put the Spartan programme on hold for a week, (doubtful though! ).

Enjoy

The Commander

[Bako]

Jun's looking good.

I'm getting a bad itch for some of those CQB helmets.

[Oliver]

 

Looks very good to me!
Nice conversions I look forward to seeing more
Have you done Noble 5 yet?

[Hrothgar]

Thanks for the sidelong pic, CV! That is a much better looking helmet than I had thought. Must ammend my order....

I would mention you, CV, but I get all my Pig Iron goodies from Brandon at Rattlehead Games here in the states.

[Commander Vyper]

Looks very good to me!
Nice conversions I look forward to seeing more
Have you done Noble 5 yet?

Cheers, Jorge is wip currently, old pics back in the thread, new ones to follow in a week of so. That's Emile, Jun and Kat practically finished. Noble 5 needs a little conversion work, Nobles 1 & 6 also to finish.

And I will finish the fight!

[Hrothgar]

Inspired by this thread, I just received my order of System Troopers and new seperate heads from Rattlehead Games here in the US.

They are lovely, lovely figures, and to be honest they have me quite stumped. I got one set each of the new alternative head sets, and I am absolutely at a loss over which ones to use with the system trooper bodies, as each of the three looks great with the figures.  I could use all three and do a mix and match, but that's not quite the look I was hoping to go for. In any case, these are highly recommended.

Now if I could afford three squads instead of one, problem solved!

[Commander Vyper]

Glad you got them, they are lovely. Try sorting out helmet options when you've got 16 of the buggers and another 16 to be ordered. 

Been very hectic with life generally of late, but looking to finally decide on a pose for Noble One and get five and six finished then paint.

The Commander