I thought of a neat trick with the holster: after removing the pistol handle I carefully cut under the holster flap to make it curl a bit, like it was open. The head and the holster are from a Chimera, I think. The bits are mostly from the Cadian Command Squad. After bandaging his arm and fashioning a sling he’s looking for a way back to a friendly outpost. I imagine his ride got destroyed or disabled and he was injured in the process. As I have quite a lot of IG leftover parts from making the Rodentia, I thought I’d use some of them for a one-off “marker” model, kind of like Lieutenant Varras. It’s not a big change (the GW parts are just slightly larger), but I think it keeps the aesthetic closer to a GW model this way. They even have camo cloaks strapped on like the Scion packs! Still, I made a slight modification: the original had a couple of grenades and a canteen hanging of the backpack – I cut these off and changed them to GW bits. I got two of these as a freebie a long time ago (the other’s on the Astra Rodentia sharpshooter), and they fit really well. As the original Scion backpacks were used for my Space Marine Scouts, I grabbed a resin one from Kromlech. Of course I forgot to do it when filling the other gaps, so I thought I’d hide the slot with equipment instead. ![]() ![]() The Scion bodies have big square slots in their backs, and my original plan was to fill it with putty. One bit I’ll note is the backpack on the plasma gunner. I think it adds a lot of character to the models and also helps to blend the body and the legs together (though there’s not much to hide – the join is really clean). Still, it’ll probably stay like that and in any case it’ll hardly even be visible in photos □įrom the rear you can see some of the equipment I once again stuffed on their belts and backs. I practiced greenstuff sculpting but this wasn’t one of my better attempts. The biggest of these is the weapon sling on the medic. I’m pretty happy with each of them, though there are a few nitpicks. Of course, rules-wise the plasma rat could be used as a Scion. The ‘gunners got different body armors, to reinforce the idea of a ragtag group also in modeling in addition to painting. The three rats that I built were some more specialists: a shotgunner, a plasma gunner and a medic (inspired by Pomander Cask’s medic model). Also, I built a disembarked Imperial Guard (Sentinel/tank) pilot. ![]() Other than some basing work, I hadn’t built anything after the New Year’s, so it was about time! Not that I had painted a huge lot, either, but that’s neither here nor there… Anyways, I’ve now got three more rats queued for painting and joining my Astra Rodentia force. After finishing the Necron Warrior squad, I switched to build mode.
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