So a few days ago friend asked me for help one of his pieces. One of the Dark Apostle models from games Workshop and as for some of the new stuff from GW Finecast is still a little foreign to me, so this was a fun challenge.
The first thing that we wanted to do was a hand swap. My friend wanted to put a book in his left hand opposed to his secondary weapon. So we found an old Dark Angels bit and filed the Imperial markings off and then began to work a chaos star on the outside of the book. We as well took a standard left hand off of a chaos marine arm at the base of the gauntlet. Then we took a small chaos icon and cut all of the arms of it and repositioned them across the book as per the pictures below. This allowed us to fill up more of the book make it work for the theme of the character but it did leave us with some gaps and fill in work. I took green stuff and began to cut off into small pieces maybe a quarter of an inch thick. Then I pushed them into the gaps and meeting areas. Where there was plastic hanging over or green stuff that wasn't supposed to be there I filed down. We also used liquid green stuff to make the power armour glove look more like the one in his other hand.
From there it was time for the right hand. Which my friend decided to take the crozius looking weapon then just make it look more extreme. We took the top half of a chaos star from a old Warhammer Fantasy Knights of Chaos box and put it behind the rear skull. We used a dremel to bore out all the little cross arms on the inside of the star. Then we sculpted a spike to complete the chaos star and also tie in the whole piece, and a small control arm in the back for good measure. The last thing that we did was attach a spike the top of the halo on his fusion pack. This is what the model looks like this without the pack and where he sits before fine tuning and paint. Check back in later to see how my friend has painted it. Inspirata Ex Igne Kreator Hobbies.
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