Hi folks,
As promised here is the final part in
the series. This part shows my Autarch Keyleth conversion, who for those of you
not familiar with Dawn of War 2 is this delightful lady:
So she’s basically the swooping
hawk wings Autarch, except the female version without the helm. I had a metal
version of this model (which sadly the head is integrated into) and so that was
the best starting point simply due to the fact that I’d still have to sculpt
the straps and spirit stone on the chest regardless. I cut off the spirit
stones and used greenstuff to sculpt the breasts. Once that was dry, I built up
the spirit stone and straps as best I could.
The head was removed at the same
time as the spirit stone and would ultimately be replaced with a dark eldar
wych head. I removed any dark eldar paraphernalia and added more hair as well
as sculpting back on the helm detail with greenstuff – I was
going to cut it off the old metal helm but it was too much effort for too
little gain in the end so I just sculpted it instead.
In terms of armament, I didn’t want
her to be armed with the PW/pistol combo as she would be much more effective
just packing a fusion blaster. I also decided to use the power weapon arm
despite probably not running one, as it would still look cool and can be either
a CCW or one of the armoury swords. The wings are iconic for this character,
though I magnetised them to be interchangeable with a warp jump generator which
for the same points is possibly better. (and allow relentless for the reaper
launcher – interesting)
Only things that I'm a little disappointed with are the sheer quantity of hair and how shiny things look in the photos. The shinyness is due to the vaseline used on the greenstuff for a smooth finish and the hair is mainly due to trying to use the dark eldar head as much as possible. Other than that I'm thrilled with how she turned out and once my
Space marine painting endeavours are done and dusted I dare say she’ll be one
of the first on the painting desk.
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