SPA Modeler

Some modelers have assistants and I always wished to have one too! So I got myself one in the person of Commissar Yarrick, no less!

Well, he still needs to have some life imbued into him before he takes his place on the battlefield...er...on the bench I mean, but the groundwork has been done.

This is a GW Citadel Finecast resin figure. The detail is nicely intricate but the casting leaves a lot to be desired as you can see on the pix.





Our dear commissar was clearly in need of augmetics!



Brass mechadendrites and green hair are just the thing!





That Storm Bolter was in serious need of improvement!



This is much better!



I'll spare you the work done to fix the countless micro bubbles and separating the parts attached to each other by blobs of resin.





Don't laugh but this preps job took me about a month. I'm happy to be done with it and ready for the coat of primer.

More to come...

M

Cool! Nice mods with the copper. I dabbled in GW figures but never these high end ones.

Thanks Borg. I have the Lord of the Rings box but I'm too lazy to do entire armies. I much prefer to give my all to a single display piece. There's one I'd really like to do, that's inquisitor Eisenhorn but it's rather hard to find.

M

A little progress: the mini was fixed to its base and the latter was textured with sand and PVA glue. Rather basic but that's deliberate as a more elaborate base would distract from the figure itself, I believe.



Then the entire figure was primed. Too much intricate detail for the spray can so I used the airbrush and Mr. surfacer 1200 as primer.



The priming revealed quite a few overlooked flaws, as expected. Especially on the coat that is still pitted with air bubbles is spite of my earlier attempts at fixing them.

M

Wow, that's some freaky stuff. Like it!

Not exactly your boy next door, is he?

M

That man needs a Snickers bar.

Maybe I can get him to hold one in his power claw. In 1/1 scale.

M

These GW figures have an appeal of their own. Wonderful work on adding and improving all those details! Sad to hear that the casting is not up to the price asked, I guess.
Any progress on this here?

Thanks Thomas. I paid 16 Euros for it, can't say I regret it. the figure can be made into a nice piece with some work.

Not much progress to report. I'm currently working on another project: my anti-grav drone gunship. Pics coming soon.

M