#cataphractii

It's been another slow week and I've been seriously lacking the motivation to pick up the brush lately but fear not as I have a sizable backlog of photos to share with you all!

This week's featured miniatures: Tyrant Siege Terminators!

I could never do them justice and the way they are painted on the official Warhammer website easily put mine to shame but I still think these are phenomenal minis and I really like the sculpts!

Stay tuned till next week for another potential look into my backlog (or maybe something new if I finally get off my ass and paint my half finished assault marines)

Coming in from the Great Crusade is the Cataphractii Terminator amor used by the Legio Astartes, sporting the original legion colors along with a number of fallout faction colors. Available for teen to elder, everyday, formal, sleep, athletic, swim, outerwear, career, and maternity. Requires into the future. Give how inhuman it is, some poses and movement will be very odd. Has no morphs. Big shout out to Joazzz for creating the armor and allowing me to port it.

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.