Some Past Works: Part 1

As a way to start the painting portion of this blog off, I figured I would post some of the models I've completed.  This post focuses on the various Space Marine armies I've painted models for, Salamanders, Black Templars, and Blood Angels.  This post focuses on a few of the models for my Salamanders.  More pictures will come for the other guys as well as some Imperial Guard and Fantasy models.

Starting out is the Salamander head honcho from the Codex: Vulkan He'stan.

This was the first model I converted for my Salamanders army.  I, like everyone else in the free world, decided to use a Grey Knight as the base for the conversion.  I liked the more dynamic pose of the Justicar model though as opposed to some of the standard Grey Knights.  This did leave the lack of a Nemesis Halberd though.  I stole the one I used from a random Grey Knight Terminator I purchased.  He also lost his psycannon for my Inquisitor in Terminator Armor, poor guy.  The backpack is the backpack from the old Salamander Chaplain Xavier model.  I was fortunate enough to have an extra one lying around.

A more recent addition to my Salamanders collection is the old Games Day Space Marine Captain with a thunder hammer

This guy was not converted in any way.  I wanted to keep him as he was because he was a special edition mini.  I tried a couple of different things with this guy.  Most everyone is familiar with the process of painting gem stones: Dark color all over, light color on bottom corner, and white dot on opposite top corner.  With this guy I tried a couple of small black onyx stones on the hammer and right shoulder pad.  The results were kind of "meh."  It looked fine, but it just didn't pop like some of the other gemstones I've done.  Also on the hammer was the volcanic surface look as opposed to the plain metal, which I thought turned out very well.


Last for this post is a converted Space Marine Librarian

This guy was a major kit bash conversion.  I just went through my bits boxes and found a variety of stuff to make him.  Basic Space Marine legs, torso, and head, as well as the right arm.  The left arm is the sword from the Chapter Champion model from the Command Squad box.  The sword was cut off at the hilt.  The flaming sword was taken from the Empire Wizard kit.  The backpack came from the Commander box set.  The Salamander Cloak is actually the rear portion of a Dark Elf Corsair torso.  Some additional things were added such as the purity seals and loin cloth.

One final note for these guys is the bases.  My entire Salamanders army has these volcanic bases from Back 2 Base-ix.  They have a variety of resin bases in several different shapes and styles.  They have the round bases for a game like Warhammer 40k, the square bases for Warhammer Fantasy, as well as Round Shoulder bases for Warmachine/Hordes.  They also have a variety of other products such as acrylic magnetic flying stands for something like a Land Speeder (which I also have and recommend over the standard GW stands).

I'll post more pictures of some of my other completed models in the coming days and hope to give a non-inclusive list of what is to come.  Thanks for reading!