Chaos marine lord sculpt complete+ Tau commander scratch build 80 per cent

Scratch built tau allied detatchment and chaos conversions

I am so tired of my flip flopping between armies in 40k and my buying and selling armies and half painted armies. It almost made me swear off GW for life, it is expensive enough without rebuying things because of idiot decision making. Anyway, due to this bad habit of mine I am not re buying tau for a third time so am sculpting my allied detachment of one crisis suit commander and 6 man firewarrior squad from scratch(wire armatures from modelling wire bulking with miliput and greenstuff for everything else) It is ambitious and I'm a little nervous but going beyond your abilities always seems to improve them... so don't be faint hearted all of you out there sculpt your hearts out it's fun and alot easier than it looks( not to be taken to GW store or Warhammer world, they might not like that)

Here are my tau allies so far 

These were my designs for the tau sculpts. Hopefully how they will look if I pull it off but with more dimensions

 I also have been sculpting a Second Hq for my cultist heavy chaos force he is about half way to completion I started with a marine torso and then greenstuffed arms legs feed and torso detail I need to go over alot of it to add detail finish off the lightning claws as they look crap as they are in their first stage of sculpting and the face.... I'm looking forward to sculpting a really crazy face but the jump pack is going to be hard, things with proper circles or straight lines are very hard to get right.

 Just for a bit of fun I converted this guy....he is a slaneeshi cultist with heavy stubber I made him from a guards man's legs and torso and one arm the rest is greenstuff except the gasmask head is from maxi mini.

I love the thought of him shuffling about around the hive in dark corners or whatever before the chaos insurrection took place hiding his monstrous mutation under his ragged cloak until the time came to strike when he joined his fellow cultists and picked up a heavy stubber with his hideous tentacled limb and gunned down the pdf or local enforcers or whatever lol. 

Not sure if anyone reads the blog anymore as I let it decay for a while but hope if anyone is they got something out of it hopefully the idea that greenstuff is awesome :)

100 percent finished farsight paintjob/conversion

I have now completely finished farsight ... I dry brushed the base and washed the scroll but went futher and tidied up the white as it wasn't very smooth or clean (which is very important when painting white I have found out)

I also felt I went over board with the object source lighting and battle damage chips. I tuned both of these things down a few notches for a more subtle effect in both cases. It doesnt show much in the pictures but it is a big improvement on the 90 percent finished model I feel. Here are some more pictures.

 I plan to buy some more tau soon, a hammerhead, a skyray and some crisis suits. Then I can finally build a proper far sight list and do a bat rep for all of you good people. Also we are going to do a give away soon I wont say what or why, but hey everyone loves a good free stuff thing dont you? I never win give aways but at least I can give stuff away to our followers and live vicariously through you lol !

90 per cent finished farsight conversion paint job

Hi there just a very quick post before I run off to work ...it sucks i know lol I have very nearly finished painting my latest creation of bits and bad sculpting :D  his name is O ' shovah and he looks like a bad-man ! I just need to age the scroll on his sword hilt with some trusty devlan mud and dry brush the base but other than that he is finnished so please enjoy the pics and comment :) thanks

finnished tau commander farsight conversion

I decided against the dead ork and shortened the sword to fit more with the original GW model here is the finnished converted o'shovah

I'm really happy with the conversion and will paint it tommorow I think.

Tau commander Farsight conversion WIP

Best artwork in the Tau codex by far and what inspired me to convert my own commander farsight for my burgeoning tau army.

So far I have gone with a forge world xv9 helmet or sensory thingy (not quite sure what to call it?) and a metal and a plastic aerial on either side of it. Games workshop chiswick was closed today so I got some mili put in place of green stuff. This is much worse than green stuff and takes even longer to harden and is harder to work with. Since I took these pictures I have moved the shield generator from his sword to his arm. The sword is a daemon prince sword with some putty at the end for a more curved blade. Here are some pictures now for you ...

Not sure about the dead ork on the base ... to ork or not to ork ..that, is, the question? .......