Friday, May 14, 2010

The Big Bad(don)!


With all the Primarchs I've worked on recently, it was fun to work on a classic character at regular scale. Abaddon, right-hand man of the Warmaster during the Heresy, and now wearing the Warmaster's Talon. The original metal model, released 14 years ago, is still a great model. He's just a little undersized for the slow but inevitable scale creep.

My client was looking for a fairly simple solution in plastic that he could add to his growing Black Legion. Wonderfully enough, the Chaos Lord in Terminator Armor has a lot of bits that match the stylings of the original Abaddon armor. There was quite a bit of kit-bashing, some brass rods (from GF9), and a bit of putty work to clean up the Talon and create the screaming faces on his daemon weapon, Drach'nyen

This one was a conversion only job, I hope you like him!

Cheers
Dave

13 comments:

  1. Looks great, as usual. You're exactly right - the Chaos Terminator Lord box is an excellent kit for bitz-ing out to other projects.

    Also noticing the 'scale-creep,' I worked on my own Logan Grimnar, in order to bring him into proportion with the new Wolf Guard Terminators from GW. My friend had a similar 'problem' with Dante and his Blood Angels - Though thankfully we've all found reasonable alternatives in plastic.

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  2. That's incredible. 1000x better than the current model.

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  3. Gorgeous as always! loving the more aggresive closed posture

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  4. Im lovin your remake of him! Much better than the original. I am looking forward to the painted version

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  5. Looks awsome dave, also thanks for the bdays wishes and I am glad you got the bits package:).

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  6. I thought you were modeling big bad Don Mondo! Have a safe trip.

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  7. WOW!

    Another truly amazing conversion!! You never stop surprising me. I loved this version of Abaddon!

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  8. Sublime work, mate. Really great stuff that captures the original artwork without being quite as static.

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  9. Nice conversion! now hes ready for his 14th crusade ;)

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  10. Thats funny, I saw a similar conversion only today. But, of course, yours if far better! Great job :)

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  11. Fantastic! I think he'll win the 14th black crusade now he looks like that!

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  12. nice job. I did a Converted Abaddon but mine used parts from the actual metal model. Can I get a more head on shot of the chest? I'm curious to see what you did for the chest armor.

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  13. What head did you use for the conversion? It looks like one of the chaos terminator lord's heads but I just want to make sure. Great conversion btw.

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