{"id":2557,"date":"2014-12-09T23:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T04:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2015-01-17T23:00:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T04:00:38","slug":"40k-ig-colonel-wip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/2014\/12\/40k-ig-colonel-wip\/","title":{"rendered":"40k IG Colonel WIP"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Apocalypse looming<\/a>,\u00a0the Kimball Prime Manufactorum<\/a> has belched back into life. Mostly there’s a bunch\u00a0of Necron flyers and lords as well as\u00a0some Space Marine\u00a0airbrushing experiments on the table. But\u00a0this evening on a whim I assembled another HQ\u00a0for my IG:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The dude abides.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Nobody<\/a>

Nobody f’cks with the Jesus!<\/p><\/div>\n

He’s a simple conversion from the cultist champion\u00a0in the Dark Vengeance starter box. It would be a really simple conversion except I actually bought him assembled from the bits bin at NOVA this year. I therefore had to carefully cut out the head without damaging the collar behind. Fortunately this was\u00a0pretty easy. I gather the\u00a0main body is two pieces, and the head is entirely on the front half rather than being molded into the collar as I originally feared. Instead of\u00a0having to basically drill it out, I just had to slice through at the neck; the\u00a0champion’s head is actually still pretty usable. It was then real quick to drill in a bit of a recess and pop on a head from the Tempestus Scions box. A Space Marine Scout rope coil adds some more\u00a0bits while covering a small Chaosy looking bojangle on the rear of the jacket belt. An embedded\u00a0Chaos star in the gauntlet is covered with a very thin layer of greenstuff. The Chaos brand on his chest I covered with a greenstuff triangle which I’ll probably notch or line later once\u00a0hardened. Several of the standard IG commander models have a\u00a0very similar device indicating rank. The base I think is actually from GW, but I’m not sure. I stole it out of Colin’s basing supplies\u00a0tub when he left it here\u00a0to\u00a0work on our NOVA board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The PAGE crew maniacally churning through the bits bins at NOVA.<\/p><\/div>\n

Originally I had no plan for the model, but figured I couldn’t go wrong with $1.50 for such a cool figure. I came across him again tonight while scrounging for some other bits and realized he’d make a great colonel.\u00a0He’s dead on for two of my favorite pictures in the IG codex, Colonel Straken and the\u00a0Company Commander.<\/p>\n

\"Colonel<\/a>

Colonel Straken. He lost his arm to a landshark. No, seriously. That’s its skull on his side.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A Company Commander.<\/p><\/div>\n

The original black and white of the latter was actually my favorite in the book alongside the 5th edition Ogryn picture; the face was less distorted in that\u00a0version.<\/p>\n

In any event, those are\u00a0great pictures and characters. Unfortunately I don’t really like most of the Catachan jungle fighter models<\/a>. They’re getting\u00a0up there in years\u00a0and often kind of dated and cartoony.\u00a0Hopefully they did redone\u00a0at some point soon.<\/p>\n

So, Army-wide I’m much more drawn to the look of the Cadian shock trooper models<\/a> than the Catachans. Conceptually though the artwork for the latter have a lot of appeal.\u00a0Much of it really exudes a strong\u00a0Vietnam feel of guys stuck in\u00a0a horrible nightmare for ages. At some point looking at that company commander image I got this idea of a grungy, ultra-veteran sporting that burnt-out, rogue\u00a0look who is nonetheless\u00a0leader of a prim and proper Cadian army.\u00a0Him and his closest troops have just been through too much to care about much else or anything. With this conversion I now have just such a model, with a scrawnier, starving look that I like\u00a0and think is more appropriate for that concept than the mega-buff Catachans. I don’t have a name or other background story yet, though there’s definitely an interesting juxtaposition to be had between him and the more WW2 English looking\u00a0Captain Higgenbotham<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this does mean that my IG is getting pretty top heavy: Two Company Commanders and a Lord Commissar to lead a Command Squad, two Platoons, a Heavy Weapons\u00a0Squad, and a Sentinel? \u00a0Hmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Apocalypse looming,\u00a0the Kimball Prime Manufactorum has belched back into life. Mostly there’s a bunch\u00a0of Necron flyers and lords as well as\u00a0some Space Marine\u00a0airbrushing experiments on the table. But\u00a0this evening on a whim I assembled another HQ\u00a0for my IG: He’s a simple conversion from the cultist champion\u00a0in the Dark Vengeance starter box. It would … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408],"tags":[272,183,38,274,248],"class_list":["post-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshop","tag-40k","tag-forest-guard","tag-imperial-guard","tag-miniatures","tag-nova"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2559,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocketshipgames.com\/blogs\/tjkopena\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}