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Dr Zephy
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Hi guys!
I finally managed to make the time to start on my Seraphon army. I bought a Start Collecting box about a year ago, and got the battle force for X-mas, so gotta a lot of minis to go through ^_^
Since this site has been a lot of help for getting some inspiration, I thought I'd share the journey with you.
So right now I'm going through the SC Box. I read crowfoot's tutorial on expanding it, I've decided to make the astrolith bearer, but not the scar vet on cold one and the troglodon. So I built the oracle as a priest.
I also bought some drakespawn on ebay cause I'm not a fan of the current cold one sculps (new battletome and sculpts when GW?)
When I got the box, I started building stuff as I was quite motivated, but unfortunately I didnt take progress pictures of what I did.
I built the carnosaur almost entirely, leaving the head out to help with painting. I put a magnet in the carnosaur and under the throne for the pleasure of having the naked carno. I built the sunblood and magnetised the arm to be able to switch from the laser arm to the shield arm. I regret gluing the top of the head as I feel its gonna be annoying for painting.
Once I was done with that, I started moding the skink oracle into a skink startpriest. I added a bunch of feathers (stolen from the stardrake icons you get from the saurus warriors. I put the dagger in one hand and turned the banner on his back into a magic staff
Next was the biggest task yet, the astrolight bearer. Lot of green stuff used for this. I wanted my bearer to resemble the oldblood you get from the box. The sculpt are way cooler than the current one, or from the saurus warriors. So I used the spare head, body and legs from the carno sprue, and then cheated...
I got some blue stuff and cast the body part of the old blood. the one you only get one piece of.
I know its illegal, but I couldnt find this piece alone on ebay an thought I was not good enough at sculpting. In retrospect I should have given Xlanax_lot conversion a shot (reuse a carno tail as body).
Anyway the casting was not perfect and I had to go back in a lot and fix stuff.
Since I used the mega lance arm on my oldblood, I used the starlance one onmy bearer to hold the icon. I had to sculpt a left arm tho. I reused the sword from the oldblood for that arm.
And then I had a lot of fun with the astrolith. I used a 32mm base and a lot of green stuff to try and sculpt the original. I then used a lot of decorative stuff from troglodon colar and icons. I'm quite happy with how it's looking so far.
And thats how far I got before I took a break. A one year break...
I finally managed to make the time to start on my Seraphon army. I bought a Start Collecting box about a year ago, and got the battle force for X-mas, so gotta a lot of minis to go through ^_^
Since this site has been a lot of help for getting some inspiration, I thought I'd share the journey with you.
So right now I'm going through the SC Box. I read crowfoot's tutorial on expanding it, I've decided to make the astrolith bearer, but not the scar vet on cold one and the troglodon. So I built the oracle as a priest.
I also bought some drakespawn on ebay cause I'm not a fan of the current cold one sculps (new battletome and sculpts when GW?)
When I got the box, I started building stuff as I was quite motivated, but unfortunately I didnt take progress pictures of what I did.
I built the carnosaur almost entirely, leaving the head out to help with painting. I put a magnet in the carnosaur and under the throne for the pleasure of having the naked carno. I built the sunblood and magnetised the arm to be able to switch from the laser arm to the shield arm. I regret gluing the top of the head as I feel its gonna be annoying for painting.
Once I was done with that, I started moding the skink oracle into a skink startpriest. I added a bunch of feathers (stolen from the stardrake icons you get from the saurus warriors. I put the dagger in one hand and turned the banner on his back into a magic staff
Next was the biggest task yet, the astrolight bearer. Lot of green stuff used for this. I wanted my bearer to resemble the oldblood you get from the box. The sculpt are way cooler than the current one, or from the saurus warriors. So I used the spare head, body and legs from the carno sprue, and then cheated...
I got some blue stuff and cast the body part of the old blood. the one you only get one piece of.
I know its illegal, but I couldnt find this piece alone on ebay an thought I was not good enough at sculpting. In retrospect I should have given Xlanax_lot conversion a shot (reuse a carno tail as body).
Anyway the casting was not perfect and I had to go back in a lot and fix stuff.
Since I used the mega lance arm on my oldblood, I used the starlance one onmy bearer to hold the icon. I had to sculpt a left arm tho. I reused the sword from the oldblood for that arm.
And then I had a lot of fun with the astrolith. I used a 32mm base and a lot of green stuff to try and sculpt the original. I then used a lot of decorative stuff from troglodon colar and icons. I'm quite happy with how it's looking so far.
And thats how far I got before I took a break. A one year break...
