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Belazikkal — Iron Warriors - Obliterator
Published: 2012-10-03 18:52:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 3468; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 150
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He's been a long time in the make, but here he is. Just in time for the new Chaos dex.He's a metal Obliterator with a simple head swap from the plastic Terminators and a bucketload of green stuff to cover ugly as sin joins. Have I told people today how much I fucking hate white metal minis? No?
Because I do. These guys will finally be finecast and GOOD RIDDANCE I say!
so, what to say about mini? My normal level of larger minis table-top quality.
The skin was fun! It was basically the same as the skin of the other IWs with a small change... well, large change then!
Gretchin Green (Old Foundation colours) basecoat, followed by Dead Flesh (Vallejo Game Colors) highlight. This was washed with Ogryn Flesh (Old Citadel Washes).
Now the fun part!
I then, around joins and where metal tubing went into skin and similar, washed first with Leviathan Purple, then with Asurmen Blue and finally with Baal Red (all old Citadel Washes) to create a nice, bruised look. This was careful and controlled, where the Ogryn Flesh had been liberal. Be especially careful with the blue!
I then highlighted with Dead Flesh mixed with Velljo Metal Medium (1:2), and added a final highlight of Vellejo game Colour Silver to places where the skin met the metal plating.
This was only possible because I play IW, people! It won't work half as well with say Word Bearer Oblits.
Obliterators and Chaos Space Marines as well as Warhammer 40'000 belongs to Games Workshop Ltd.
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Once a loyal servant of the emperor, once a grand terminator, now a chaos obliterator, the engine of death.
Looks magnificent man. Love the detail, the highlights, and the tusks. He must make guardsmen shit their pants.
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Dood's got a friend now. Don't face much 'Guard, but judging by the amount of firepower coming their way every game, they make Blood Angels and Tau shit their pants too.
Go go Terminator heads, I say! The standard Oblit heads are f'ugly.
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Like the work with the metal. Very nice highlight..
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Thanks. The metal (by which I think you mean the silver) was based with a drybrush of Tin Bitz and Boltgun Metal, washed with Badab Black and then highlighted with layers of Boltgun Metal and Chainmail. That's why the Mithril Silver worked so well when I blended in the skin into it, as well as the gold trims.
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wow very neat painting skills and the kit bashing is very good fits in perfectly
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The first thing that actually struck me was the purple where the skin meets the flesh. I really liked that effect.
Although, canonically, would I be right in saying that a large amount of the Obliterators would be Iron Warriors?
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The purple brings so much to this. I picked up the technique from an Alchemists of Dirz mini.
Canonically, a lot of the Obliterators come from the IWs, as that Legion show a higher density of Obliterators. It is canonically unclear where they come from, though. Hence the term Obliterator Cult. They keep to themselves.
Most likely (ie my free speculation), this is what happens to Iron Warriors and Traitor Techmarines who don't lop off limbs that get mutated in time. It... escalates.
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Dirz mini. I'll have to check that out sometime.
And that idea (the mutation run amok) actually seems to be the most likely.
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[link] that thing in particular.
The Alchemists of Dirz were a faction in the French table-top mini game Confrontation. Sadly, the company folded in 2009. I miss 'em. They had fantastic (though metal) minis!
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WOW!!
That's a brilliantly painted mini.
Although, if you don't mind me asking, what is it about metal minis you don't like?
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The fact that cleaning up takes anything from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Trust me. I have clocked myself! The Oblit had so much flash and mold lines it took two hours. I was half-watching Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet while doing that, and I got to the halfway mark before I was done.
There's also the fact that metal more than plastic and resin requires pinning to hold together well, especially heavy parts and especially on miniatures that are going to be handled a lot. I did not pin the arms, legs or head of my Iron Warrior Marines that have metal torsos, so I am COUNTING on them falling off at some point. No really, I am. I did not want that risk with this guy, so his torso is pinned, though not his arms.
Metal is also harder to convert. If you want to change a pose, prepare to be sawing very carefully for quite some time. And then greenstuff and pin the shit back together equally carefully. With plastic, it gets ridiculously easy to swap hands etc. and Finecast makes it even EASIER.
So, my reasons to loathe metal minis are many. Very many.
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