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Finished painting my first squad of dwarves (with bases)

Right shoulder is blue for all, but the left denotes the squad. This is the iron squad

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Part 3 of making Cataphractii assault terminators:

All done

After a bit of a break, I finally finished my first assault terminator:

I am quite happy how he turned out. The "critical areas" are still visible, but from a little awkward angle and not very much. Most of it should also be improvable with a little more experience in smoothing out greenstuff.

All in all, I like it.

More tipps and ideas always welcome :)

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Part 2 of making Cataphractii assault terminators:

Weapon arm and first model

Still taking the weapons from the Vanguard Veterans kit, I started with the hammer arm. The lightning claws could obviously be taken from the original kit.

I once again had two options. Using the original Cataphractii hand, cutting away the storm bolter and attaching the seperated weapon options, or just using the preattached hand. I decided against the first option, because it would have been a massive pain for an instabe build.

The Vanguard hand fit quite well, but needed a bit of modeling material to stand out a bit.

I am quite happy with this solutipn, since it also solved the problem of the smaller wrist by smoothing out the putty a little.

After that I assembeled the rest of the mini as usual (with a littke sculpting on the tassils, because I had green stuff left over from the hand) and can now present you a rough fit of the first mini

I was a little concerned with the shoulder plate on the hammer hand, but it fit under it quite well. It also would have been possible to offset the angle of the hammer a little, but it wasn't necessary for me.

Once again I would be happy about more tipps or ideas :)

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Part 1 of making Cataphractii assault terminators:

Prototype shield arm

I got the Vanguard Veteran squad for the weapons. I wanted to attach the shield to either a chainfist or powerfist arm. Keeping the hand on the shield would have required extensive resculpting of the arm, so I decided against it.

After clipping and sanding the hand on the shield away I had two options:

I decided on the chainfist, because the power fist still looked to power fisty with the shield. I used some greenstuff for a better fit and trimmed the outside of the armor a bit. The chainsaw part was also removed for obvious reasons. To cover up the blank space I glued some 1mm wire into it and made an entry point on the inside of the shield with a little blob of green stuff. In the end I got this

I am quite happy with the resutls. It took a bit over an hour but the process should be optimizable and included the descicion making.

The main problem for the next 3 will probably be the repeatability of the shield placement. I have tried to solve this by keeping she shield under the leathery bits from the shoulder but I'll have to see how this works with differing poses.

I would be happy about some more tipps or ideas