Saturday 4 March 2017

From DavidB - A small morsel.(10 points)

I wasn't able to complete too much this week, and I have training this weekend and was unable to get to my table. I did sneak a few moments to snatch some photos of a couple models I completed.
I got this fellow years ago thinking he was a tech marine. He is a tech priest and has been primered since about 1989. He is lead and not pewter and was part of my inital purchase into warhammer 40k. I bought him, the rogue trader book, a box of terminators, a predator, and a couple boxes of the old RTB plastic marines. He is honestly the part of my first purchase entirely impulse as a younger enlisted with more money than brains!;)
He(as my only table ready so far tech priest) will be responsible for the Cadian7th armor and the Soritas Immolator.

I posed him with my three partial assembled Soritas tanks, but he insists he only repairs he doesn't paint nor assemble them and the thinngs still need their tracks!
(I couldn't help but notice that now he is painted, his backpack resembles a cartoon pig wearing a red vest!)

I shown him the Valkyrie, but he was also unimpressed. He says I'm missing parts. I introduced him to the death guard marines to which he responded, "bring it"....I think he will fit in well, perhaps he is Catachan.

I finished this snipe model too, I believe he was an Atherium miniature. I demoed the game, but didn't really get into it at last years Adepticon. A enterprising fellow riding a tricycle sold me a $3 Guiness which came with a suprise grab bag. I recieved te snipper, some dice and flame tokens for one overpriced beer.

I felt he would look nice with my Sequoia Scouts. I painted up hisfatigues in a similar style, and did up a camo cloak for him. I painted his mask blue in a mimic of Seneca False Face Society. The Seneca used the masks to chase away bad dreams, ill luck, and bad omens. The Sequoia Scouts all have masks in the False Face Socity style, but their masks are filled with optics, comm links, and speakers to amplify war shouts

The model is resin and very clean, It didn't have a lot of detail that you would expect for a resin model. The sculpt was a bit...meh.

Still, he meshes very well with the scouts I painted last year, and that is good enough for my purposes. Now I have five Sequoia Scouts!  So just a small post. of two miniatures, but both have big roles to play.

From DaveD
It always feels like a small victory to me when you get something done in the face of adversity. so well done. And for taking the time to set up the shots too. A very colourful tech high Priest by the look - so no simple paint job either - well done

12 comments:

  1. Nice work David :)

    Is it wrong of me to see that backpack and want to break out the 1mm static grass to flock it so it looks like a soft toy? ;)

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    1. Thank you, Tamsin! I WAS sorely tempted to do similar when I noticed it. ;)

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    1. Thanks!
      It was a bit rough getting those done that week! ;)

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  3. Love that Tech Priest David. I've been meaning to get myself one for a while now. A sweet model and you've done a lovely job.

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    1. Thank you, Millsy! I'm glad he was in my leadpile as his price on Ebay is extordinary! ;)

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  4. Nice pair of figures and the tech priest has been matured the correct amount of time before painting!
    Best Iain

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    1. Thank you! He probably would've been done sooner, but he was deep in the mountain of neglect!

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  5. Nice looking figures David. I hope that the tech priest was laid down sideways to age properly.

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    1. Thank you, Peter! Since he is an engineer type, I'm quite certain that he has access to a distillery of the hidden not reg type! ;)

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