| stroezie | 26 Sep 2016 2:40 a.m. PST |
Basically what it says in the title. I did a test piece to see if my idea of using Rapier miniatures Sea People as red martians for my 6mm Martian Empires project would work. Its a very simple conversion, I snipped of their feathered headdress and slapped on a quick and dirty greenstuf helmet and then painted them like red martians, that's it.
Personally, I like them! What do you think? Up close you can see how quick and dirty the helmets really are
Oh well now that I know it works I may take a little more care with the following ones. I've already ordered some more packs from Rapier's classical and chariot wars ranges which I think will work and I have bases coming in from Warbases so you can expect to see more pictures in the (hopefully) near future. |
| noigrim | 26 Sep 2016 4:28 a.m. PST |
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| Zeelow | 26 Sep 2016 5:37 a.m. PST |
Nice imagination and finished product. |
 Legion 4   | 26 Sep 2016 6:12 a.m. PST |
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| D6 Junkie | 26 Sep 2016 6:16 a.m. PST |
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| Frederick | 26 Sep 2016 6:47 a.m. PST |
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| Allen57 | 26 Sep 2016 8:31 a.m. PST |
Who makes their opponents? The pinkish tentacle guys. |
| stroezie | 26 Sep 2016 9:59 a.m. PST |
@ Allen57 The cephalods are my own sculpts, they are what got me into sculpting in the first place as I couldn't find any in 6mm. |
| sean68333 | 26 Sep 2016 1:50 p.m. PST |
These look great to me. Well done. |
| Rubber Suit Theatre | 26 Sep 2016 9:45 p.m. PST |
Some of them could probably even keep the feathers. |
| stroezie | 27 Sep 2016 4:23 a.m. PST |
@ Rubber Suit Theatre You sir are my new hero😁 You've just single handedly cut my conversion workload in half. Thanks! |
| Covert Walrus | 29 Sep 2016 2:05 p.m. PST |
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| Allen57 | 30 Sep 2016 8:20 a.m. PST |
Great figures one and all. Could you post a tutorial on making the Cephalopods? |
| stroezie | 30 Sep 2016 10:20 a.m. PST |
They are actually quite easy to make. I start with a sewing pin and put little ball of greenstuff on it.
Let it cure.
Then I add the four supporting tentacles, the beak and the eye
Let that cure.
Then I flesh out the body/brain part.
Let that cure.
And lastly I glue on the weapon and add the arm tentacles I also tend to make them in groups or four or five at a time. If you want I can take some step by step pictures next time I make some. You can also check out my original thread on making them, it has fotos of most of the stages of production and a bit more info on how I made them. There's also some links to my blog with some more pics. TMP link Hope that helps |
| stroezie | 18 Oct 2016 5:23 a.m. PST |
Ok, so I'm still waiting for the rest of the miniatures to arrive before I can do any more work on my red martians but I did manage to do 3 hero/leader figures I redid their weapons and added a cape and gold choker to two of them and thats about it.
The minis are all from Rapier miniatures 2 sea people and a greek hoplite.
I kept thinking the flyers would also be great for someting like Flash Gordon so I cooked up some figures to try it out
Hmm, I think I smell yet another project coming…. ;D ;) I've also decided to build one more flyer of each type but with a few small changes so that I can try to cast them in resin ( this will be a first for me so we'll see how it goes) That's it for now, hopefully my figures will show up soon and I'll have more to show you. Cheers,
Stroezie. |
| Legion 4 | 18 Oct 2016 7:27 a.m. PST |
Very nice !!!! I see the CinC SEM Emperor is in your forces too !  |
| stroezie | 18 Oct 2016 12:22 p.m. PST |
Yeah, when I first saw him I immediately thought to myself
"he looks like he likes to play with planets before annihilating them" so I knew I had to have him :-)) |
finds bridges to match the river sets.
