Recently I made a decision to start officially competing in tournie modeling competitions with Nova Open at the end of the summer being my first jab at it. That being said I decided it was time to finish up some old epic projects I had started including this Chaos Patrol Boat I built about 6yrs ago.
I'm going to affectionately dub her the S.S. Minnow.
My goal is simple, finish this model and enter it into the Sci-Fi Diorama competition. I need to rework my concept to fit on a 12x12x12" base and I need to have at least 2 minis on there. Time to make some new Chaos Seamen!
The concept was pretty simple, an armed troop transport for the water. I built the core body from sheet styrene, and 2 GI joe tank sections. I designed the chaos trim using the techniques I outlined in This Article. The Heavy Bolters were form an old Leman Russ while the spotlight was from Forgeworld. I added tons of Baneblade bits like the exhausts, armor plates, floor plates, side drains, some spikey bits, assorted skulls, tools, pipes and anything I could find to really add to that Pirate feel.
I made the Chaos Seaman from assorted bits all mixed up together to get a very pirate feel to him. As if he's been scavenging for a few hundred years. I also really enjoyed building the rear Door with the Eye of Horus icon on it as well as the skeleton life preserver and 40k-esque anchor.
I built up and primed the 2 sea mines that will be floating in the scenic base. I made them form acrylic half-spheres, assorted styrene shapes cut from a hole punch, styrene tube and some bent wire. The design is based off of a WWII German Sea Mine.
After about 3 hours of airbrushing, this is where I stand.
I used all Vallejo paints, laying down heavy greens and browns first, then going back over everything with rust spots and dark shadows. A final airbrushed coat of Devlan Mud helped add to the grime.
This was only the first airbrush coat to lay down some definition. Loads more detail will be added soon.
Next Step - Rework the base, add some more crew & cargo, continue painting and weathering as well as sourcing some custom decals.
Cool! Reminds me of something out of one of the Ben Counter Soul Drinkers novels. I guess the D in D-day now stands for Decay or Dreadnought(the nautical kind not the giant stompy monster) ;)
ReplyDeleteMan, that thing is impressive! Great work!
ReplyDeleteGlad to see this getting some love again. Bring on the 'Summer of floaters' GW has been promising although that brings about a different mental image that perhaps fits a Nurgle theme rather well...?
ReplyDeleteGuh, so beautiful. I just dove head first back into scratch building, I made a LR Proteus last year but then school got busy and I put off further projects. That all changed on Monday, when I printed out the standard Lucius Pattern Warhound template everyone uses and dove into my first plasticard superheavy (though I'd built a cardboard version of the warhound previously). I need to get some spray adhesive though, because using white glue to mount patterns is super unreliable
ReplyDeleteLovely!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Zab. I can totally see this in one of the Soul Drinkers novels. I love it!
ReplyDeleteAlways been a big fan of your work, never a chaos fan but always admire great work when i see it. To be honest your chaos stuff is the only chaos stuff i have ever been so interested in that i always come back to check it out. Loving the boat i always wanted to do a 40k boat catachan (vietnam) style or maybe more apocalypse now stylei may just go play around with that idea now. Yours look fantastic i have never read the soul drinkers novels so i cant compare to that but i personally think it looks something a little out of gears of war. Keep up the great work
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