A little project I've been working on for the last week or so is giving the newly promoted Colonel Siege Brisbane to pose he so deserves. I also figured as other people had already modelled him flying on smoke trails I had to try and go one better. So the crazy idea to have his rocket pack lit up with LEDs came to mind and I set to work on Tuesday evening getting the pose right. I had a few flickering LEDs left over from my Hurricane project so I figured I could repurpose them. A bit of filing and colouring later and I had this. I started getting some paint on him on Wednesday and couldn't resist getting a quick video of the lights on with the smoke in place. Then after finishing the painting on Thursday and Friday I present the completed Siege in flight. But lets not forget this little guy. Siege's Rocket Turret
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Its taken a few late nights and false starts but my latest conversion project has come to a close. The Bulldog Steamjack for Iron Kingdoms RPG has a lick of paint and is ready to start his adventures.
I switched out the second open fist on this one to more closely resemble the cover art that I was working from. I will be building more and they will join my Toro chassis 'Jacks as the light 'Jacks for my Ordic Army themed Mercenary Army. So expect Buccaneers, Talons and more... I finally managed to put some time in tonight and finish off the Bulldog build. I haven't been able to more than a few minutes at a time lately so it hasn't been worth an update but I finally put the finishing touches on it tonight.
Next step is build and paint. I spent some more time on my Bulldog chassis conversion for IKRPG. I mainly added bulk to the torso while defining the 2 panels either side of the head. I also cleaned off the rivets from around the head cowl ready for scribing the panel lines in. I was planning of continuing on Monday night but a trip to the cinema to see Blade Runner 2049 put that idea to bed.
I did get some work done tonight though adding the first 2 smoke stacks and the grille in front as well as smoothing Sunday's work. I then started on the shoulder pads but decided to only do one as I have a nasty habit of sticking my finger in stuff I've already sculpted. I did some work on the arms too but after photography I decided I didn't like it so I'll re-do that another day. I've been meaning to upload these for a while now. I made some maps for use in the first of the additional encounters from the Immortality book, 'Blood in the Water' It takes place on the Sundown, a Cynaran Paddlesteamer, but there are no battle maps available so I created my own. Feel free to download them for your own use. They should be scaled correctly so print them tiled/poster with no scaling. The areas are numbered but there is no legend so you can freely decide for yourself what each area is.
I've been looking at the front cover of Iron Kingdoms Urban Adventure for ages now trying to work out the best way to build the steamjack on it. It finally occured to me that there aren't any Privateer Press 'Jacks that look sufficiently like it to just by one and do a little converting and that I would have to do most of the work myself. I did identify that the head and neck area has most in common with the old classic Cygnar Charger so that is where I started. After cutting away the oh too tiny legs and grafting on a new bulky pair I then needed to created the larger arm ball mounts for the new size 'Jack. Would you believe that the perfect size hemisphere is the inside of the wrist joint on the Dire Troll Mauler kit. So I created a putty cast of the inside with a loop of wire inside to help remove it afterwards and to act as pins to attach it to the body and the fitted them once they were dry.
Lastly for now was trimming down some Cygnar Minuteman arms to fit (as they are the only double open fist light 'Jack arms in the game and I want this to be versatile for Role Play) and blue tacking them on for a photo. Next up will be building up the torso and finding some new smoke stacks. |
ChrisI've been into wargaming since I was 8 and this is an attempt to document my hobby progress. It may well just prove my 'ooh shiny' sydrome. We'll just have to wait and see. Archives
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