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Topic Started: 26th July 2005 - 05:30 PM (171 Views)
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Clanrat
here are some pictures of my chieftan as the army standard bearer and the model i wanna use for my warlock engineer but dont now how to do the bachpack and should i give him something in his emty hand?

(the banner is from the new plague monks sprue)

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chieftan 2

]warlock egineer (bad pic)

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Tilara
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The cheiftain looks nice. I don't think you need to give the other guy anything unless you really want to.
If you wanted to dress him up some... perhaps create some sort of warp blades for him. Maybe clip off a couple weapon blade from some extra sprue and attach them to his arm. If you wanted some type of backpack...hmm. Someone took the metal piece from a pencil and used that for a decent backpack (i forget who or for what, sorry). You could take a wide piece of flexable wire or tube and slip it inside the spring from an empty ballpoint pen, then attach the backpack to the extended arm. Maybe stick two more wires in the backpack like a jacob's ladder... even putting little bits of dental floss aross it and paniting it to look like a spark.

...But really, I think you could play him as-is. I've got an old character model like that I use for an engineer.
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It was me. This is what it looks like, I'm sorry for the picture quality.

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The back pack is composed of the eraser bit of a pencil with a cupola sculpted on it. Through the cupola rises an antenna from 40k rhino sprue and smoke launcher from the same kit (the old rhinokit that is) act as three exhausts.

Link to the original thread. I hope this gives some ideas.
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thx for the comment.
but now i' m thinking of giving him the impression that he's casting a spell, but i have now idea on how i'm gonna do that :unsure:

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leave him in the position that he has to make him cast a spell he's pointing to something so thats good.

if youre still interested in a backpack conversion, i made one fril a piece of leg of a 40k ork killa kan and its cool :unsure: and for another one i just took a barrel from the Ogre Bull sprue (any barrel works). With some extra bits and pieces its great here's a pic:

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Tilara
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In that case, I'd give him warp blades for sure and paint them like they're glowing and sparking. Maybe even do some drybrush on his front for some artifical green lighting? I'm not sure how you'd model a lightning bolt shooting from his hand, but might not need to.
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can someone give me an example of the warp blades (picture plz) and how to do the green glow on it. ^_^

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This is the arm from a warlock engineer. The lore says they'll sometimes cut off their paw and hammer the blades right into their flesh... or just wear the contraption like a gauntlet.
To make something like that, you could get two leftover blade from whatever and just put them on his arm. Here's a quick photoshop example:
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I just clipped part of the picture of a speartip from a clanrat sprue, pasted it on one side of his hand, then flipped the image and pasted it again. You'd probably wouldn't want to just glue it to his arm how I cut&pasted it since it looks kinda bleh in pic, but could make it look better by trimming the blade, maybe wrapping it in something, or whatever.

As for a green glow, just start out painting the model normal. When you're done, just highlight using shades of green instead of more natural colors... kinda like i did on my warplightning cannon:
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See around the reactor? Instead of highlighting that area using mithril silver or maybe even a thin line of white, I just went with a mix of snot green, white, and a small drop of dark angel green to dull the color a little. I just drybrushed that on the edges where you might think light comming from the reactor would hit.
Maybe something like:
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Hard to tell w/o actually holding the model, but that gives you the idea. Just imagine he had a light in his had and figure out where it would shine.
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If I'm not mistaken, there is a brief description on warlock engineers in the armoury section of the skaven book. It says that there's 3 things that make up a warlock engineer: warp blades as mentioned before, a monocle/eye piece of some sort, and a backpack generator with a wire that runs along the tail of the warlock.

Just throwing it out there...

Can't wait to see this painted, btw.
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k thx ill see what i can do with that i hope to have it done soon, but with the lak of time its going to be a problem -_-

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