Custom Building a Maulerfiend Part 2

Today I want to show you all the little bit more progress I have made on creating a Maulerfiend from the leftover bits I have from the Forgefiend box and a Defiler body I recently acquired.

Form the last post on this Daemon engine, found here, I have now added the exhaust vents on the back of the engine, using some of the Daemon Prince vents. I have also added on the tentacles (or tendrils?) on to the sides of this construction.

The top armour plate you can see in one of the pictures isn't actually fixed in place yet, I need to add some green stuff around the neck/shoulders/arms before that gets glued down!

It is also good to report that through this part of the model building process I have no safety warnings or near accidents to flash out to you guys, although it does feel a little odd doing this while wearing safety spectacles!

So, enough of the talk of my evening safety wear and on with the last picture with the tentacles in place -

Just a bit of green stuff to go now. Very much looking forward to getting stuck into this last bit of model creation. I am really chuffed with how it's turning out at the moment.

Thanks for looking and hopefully you'll drop back again to see the completed Maulerfiend over the weekend!

Lictor Competition

This is a final reminder now for the chance to have this Lictor find its way to your home and make residence in your model collection.

All you have to do is drop a comment on any of the posts relating to the Lictor and then, within the next week or so, keep an eye out for the post in which I will announce the winner and what to do from there.

Good luck to all those who have entered so far, hopefully this time there will be a new home for this bug to go to!

Custom Building a Maulerfiend WIP

I began working on a custom made Maulerfiend last night, using the main body of a Defiler along with the remnants of the Maulerfied/Forgefiend kit that was left over when I built the Forge-type a few months ago.

After cleaning all the various parts I took out my Dremel and cut off the front to arm holders on the body and then opened out the hole to fit the two Maulerfiend arms in. With this done it was then on to gluing all the legs and arms in to place, as can be seen in the picture below.

The next step of this build is to fit the neck, which will be looked at in the next post in a few days time.

A couple of other things I have learnt through the process so far - the Dremel multi-tool is an awesome bit of kit which saves a lot of time trying to cut through bits of the model. The second is more of a warning to all those using any tool to trim little bits off their models - wear glasses of some sort because if one of those little bits flies off in to your eye it could cause some pain/damage. It has never happened to me before but, if my wife hadn't been around to fish it out for me, it would've been quite painful trying to blink that out of my eye.

Enjoy yourselves folks and I'll be back with one or two more updates during the week!

They Came From Above

Probably not a new idea, but I wasn't overly happy with any of the recent models available for the Chaos Space Marine Raptors, so decided to make some up using the wings from the Possessed set, along with a few other bits from that kit, mixed them together with some other weapons and created this bunch of Raptors.

In the squad there are two basic load outs of close combat weapon/bolt pistol, 2 with meltaguns and then the Champion who is armed with a plasma pistol and what could either be a power fist or sword.

The wings also have the bonus of keeping the unit spread out, which will mean less damage from blast templates, although making it slightly harder to hide them all in/behind cover.

Anyway, got a bit more modelling to do and also got to start the draw for the winner of the Lictor as well. Thanks for looking!

WYSIWYG Chaos Troops

It took me a few days longer than I expected, but my Chaos Marine troops are now fully built and are armed as I want them to be forever more. What you see is what you get with these guys, so lets take a look at what we are getting.

First Noise Marine squad is armed with four Sonic Blasters and the Champion is sporting a Powerfist and Doom Siren.

Noise Marine squad 2 is again armed with four Sonic Blasters but this time out the Champ only has a Doom Siren on top of his normal weaponry.

Half way through the Noise Marines squads now, this squad has three Sonic Blasters and a Blastmaster. The Champion is downgraded again to just a basic loadout.

Things are changing now as this squad is kitted out for getting in close, taking down the enemy with close combat - four guys with chainswords/bolt pistols. The Champion has a Doom Siren and Powersword to accompany his bolt pistol.

Squad number 5 come as a bog standard unit with a Blastmaster.

Identical loadout to squad 5, these guys have a Blastmaster as their only additional weapon.

And finally is a squad of Thousand Sons. Basic out of the box set up, with 8 men carrying Boltguns, the Aspiring Sorceror with Bolt Pistol and Force Sword and then the banner bearer using his powers of levitation to make the burning standard float in the air behind him.


As always, thanks for looking, next post up is the Raptors I have worked on!