Iron Hands Librarian

Gundam John had a unique request for a commission: Iron Hands Librarian with a Jump Pack.  He's taken to bringing Blood Angels as allies to the Tau.  As he's not much of a fan of the Blood Angels and a huge fan of all things machine, doing counts as Blood Angels with Iron Hands is the way to go. Basically, I got this from a lot of drilling, paper clips and wire.  There are a few in progress shots before the final.

 I started out with the legs from the bikers and cut the leg at the knee.

 I then put some drill holes through the top, sides and back.

 Next I drilled a 1mm hole straight down into the foot, Straightened out a paperclip and placed it stright down so it runs the length of the interior of the calf.  After that I wound some wire around a 1/8" drill bit and then pulled on it to create the coils (really easy).

 This picture is terrible.  I cut a space marine jump pack up to get a singlethruster.  I added the plate from the front of a bike as wings to the side of the thruster.  More coils and springs and lots of plugging gaps and holes with green stuff for this.

 Again I struggle with the camera, this is the jump pack upside down.  I created a green stuff Psychic hood and attached it to the inside of the jump pack, rather than to the Librarian himself.  I really wanted to be able to see the librarians head clearly and thought separating it a bit, floating above, would help. 

Gundam John couldn't decide what kind of force weapon, but wanted a hammer as well.  So I just ended up using the hammer and will have him go "counts as" for whatever it needs to be.  In place of a pistol I used a scout shot gun.  This is one of my favorites so far and the picture really doesn't do it justice, but will have to do!

Oh and coming soon: Avengers Terminators!

Blogging is Hard/Henchmen Complete

I rarely am at a loss for words and coming up with content to write about for the blog comes pretty easily with all of the projects that I have going on.  Remembering to take pictures of said projects while I am working on them, or before I deliver the commission is another another matter completely.

I recently finished up a huge commission for my friend Simon. Simon was looking for some very unique henchmen for his Grey Knight Army and I can happily say that unique is what I delivered.  In my mind I was picturing a world that had been settled a generation ago by the Imperium recently under scrutiny by the inquisition.  When the Inquisitor arrives up loyal fanatics of the Emperor rise to his call from all walks of life; former military, sanctioned psykers, anyone that could hold a weapon, monkeys, crazy legless Ogryn cyborgs, etc.

Below are a few snapt shots that Simon's roomate Matt was kind enough to take for me since I had already dropped these off! Many of these are finished versions from the previous post on this project.

This is just a handful of the 75+ models I did.  I'll be adding a few more pictures later this week of some the counts as non-GW henchmen that I did, as well as a summary of how my second 6e game went this weekend and the 2000 list that is in process.

Time off

Down the Cape for a bit, but brought some models and paints with me. Here's a look at today's "table."