Tarsis

Made some good progress this week on the kitbashed Master of the Forge/Techmarine on bike. I used a number of pieces from a Fabius Bile model I traded for a few months ago. Three of the servo armos on the harness come from Bile, and the remaining one comes from some leftovers from my Techmarine in servo harness kit from some years ago. I also started to put together a conversion beamer that I was planning to magnetize onto the back of the bike.

Unfortunately, once I glued the backpack on, it became clear that the conversion beamer turret wasn’t going to fit on the back of the bike. For a while I thought I’d just figure out another way to make it work, but that wasn’t looking like it was going to pan out, so I pried the backpack off with its half-dried glue. I’m going to have to magnetize his backpack and magnetize the turret, since they won’t both fit. He might look a little weird with no backpack on while the turret is there, so I’m trying to decide if I’ll magnetize another backpack for him.

The lighting in my work room sucks for taking pictures. Conversion beamer’s on the right, but you can’t see how cool it is in this picture; I’m really happy with how it came out.

I’ve been wanting to do a Techmarine on a bike for some time now, but haven’t had the correct parts until relatively recently. With cold weather approaching in the next month or so, I’ve decided to try to get as many things ready for priming as I can. I’ll be starting the priming probably in the next week or two. As you can see from the picture, not a lot happened with the Techmarine this week– mostly just getting out parts and thinking about different ideas for how it could work. Salt Lake Comic Con was this week, so that took a lot of my time.

Coolone fortuitously reminded me this past week that winter will be here in a scant few months, after which priming models will be nasty. As such, I’ve started putting together more of my models to get them to the point where they’re ready to prime, so over the winter I’ll have plenty of models to work on without needing to prime new ones. This Librarian on bike is one of the models I’ve been planning for some time but just now have been able to get him together. Tried out some of my new gray stuff on him as well, and was pretty happy with it.

This week I finished up the green stuff gap-filling/line-filling. I’ll fully admit I didn’t do a great job except on the captain (rightmost in picture), but you won’t be able to tell much once they’re painted. Spray-primed them black the other day, and then today airbrushed the silver on (so much faster and so much less paint than doing it by hand). Wouldn’t airbrush infantry– too much of a hassle, I think, but bikers are just big enough that it’s worth it.

A day late, but finished this up too late last night go do the image cropping and post. Here’s the after shot! He still needs some grass on the base, but all in all, I think this is a much better paint job than he started out with.

For comparison:

Did all of the washing on this guy except the gun, skull, and white on the purity seal on his leg. Next up, finishing off the washing and adding highlights! Also, Skyrim has been absorbing a lot of time…