Why buy models when you can make your own?
When AoS first came out, there were a lot of naysayers. "Look," they said, "these new Stormcast Eternals look exactly like Space Marines!" And to be fair, they have some kind of a point. These are very simple conversions, more or less just head swaps with backpacks glued on. Quite a lot cheaper than buying a full box of Indomitus, though!
The base is the easy-to-build Stormcast from Mortal Realms magazine no.1, so they cost about a fiver and I got ten spooks and some dice thrown in. A bit of snipping to take away the heads and shoulders, then off to the bits box.
I went through a couple of iterations, switching heads and banners and stuff until I felt happy. There weren't quite enough shoulder pads left in my box to give them all standard armour, and the pads I did have needed Blood Angels iconography sanding off. But I did have some dreadnought and dreadknight spare bits, so these shoulders are actually mostly kneepads. Suitably chonky, I thought.
They're maybe a little static? But extremely heroic, and I'm interested to see what they can do on the field. Where they will also probably be quite static, in fairness, I have no Primaris transports. They might do well striding about next to, say, the Vindicator to help keep the fender clear of attackers, or squatting on a midfield objective. Not an easy unit to delete!
Very primary, these Primaris, I'm showing my old-school colour aesthetics.
Painting Guide:
- Basecoat - Corax White
- Green - Greenskin, Athonian Camoshade, Jungle Green layer, Neon Green drybrush
- Yellow - Averland Sunset, Athonian Camoshade, Averland and Flash Gitz Yellow layers, Hexos Palesun drybrush
- Red - Khorne Red, Carroberg Crimson, Pure Red layer, Wild Rider Red highlights
- Gold - Retributor Armour, Agrax Earthshade, Gehenna and Auric Armour Gold layers, Sigmarite drybrush
- Bone and Armour Detail - XV88, Agrax, Ushabti Bone and Skeleton Bone layers, Tyrant Skull drybrush
- Power Weapons - Ahriman Blue layered up with White
- Base - Beech leaf litter
They could also fill in as characters handily enough, if I want some footsloggers. Wonder how they'll do on the field?
These are fantastic! I got the first issue of Mortal Realms and had a similar thought that the Stormcast Eternals did look quite Marine-like. But (naturally) I never followed through on that thought so they're languishing in my bits box. They do look really good, well done!
ReplyDeleteGreat conversions. I love the guy with the banner - so chill, just hanging out with his shield, ready to cook some fools with his bolter.
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