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Well I'm meant to be working on my Nurgle lord for the workshop on the 19th Nov....

Buuuuut.....

I have been unable to as I've been obsessing on painting an armoured knight. I've been reading too many fantasy novels and designing too many DnD characters that revolve around a sword and shield kind of style and its comsumed me.

I wanted a Knight with one of those 13th century crusader great helms, a sword and a kite shield. I was going to do an old bretonnian foot knight up as i had one lying about, but after talking to Weisern about this bizare affliction I realised I had some rackham conscripts about someplace... and after a morning of head swapping and weapon swapping and base building I have the below peice.

I used a cleaned up plastic bretonnian knights head for the new great helm, It looks ridiculously large in the photo and its pretty accurate because it is big. But I dont think its quite out of scale big and it has grown on me. I have undercoated them since I took the photos and posted this. Now to apply some of that colour theory

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Nice. The helm looks just a touch big to me but the idea is very cool.

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That helmet is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayy too big

you could have ground back the conscripts head with the dremel, and greenstuffed the rest of the shape with the t visor in no time.

Let me redo the head for you if you like. It should only take 1hr to resculpt.

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Ok ok.... So I'm lazy.... I'll fix up the helm later....

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Mark looks very cool can't wait to see what you do with it.

the helm is good, particularily in later periods it actually goes over a bascinet, see here

http://www.facebook.com/apps/applicatio ... 221&type=3

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http://www.coolminiornot.com/artist/Paintbrushturkey

that link came up dead.

Anyhow... I've started sculpting a head in SUPER SCULPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY......

Sorry...
Its been a long wet day at the office and I just want to sculpt and paint.

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Ok this is my evenings work after dinner, plus some average at best photogtaphy....
The old conscripts head is there for scale. I'm happy with it for now but I need a break, I'll come back tomorrow to tidy up.

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my bad here are direct links





as you can se especialy from the second pic great helmets can be ridiculusly big, it depends on the amount of padding between the bascinet and the greathelmet (they are all wearing the helmet ashley (the redguy) is wearing but wear great helms on top the wears a sugarloaf helmet that is why it it looks smaller whilst the dude in the second pic wears one of the more clasic ones, although the one you have on your conscript is actually a barrel helmet so will look even chunkier (the old helmets have more corners and flat surfaces whilst the "newer" ones have become progressively rounded and gotten closer to the head itself (as they were much more stable sue to the lack of flat surfaces)

hope that helps

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Thanks for the pics. It does show what I needed.

I based mine on some early 13th Cent. helms that I have referance pics of. and they are huge thats for sure. I remember wearing one to see what it was like. Im onto the painting now so it should all come togeter in the next few days hopefully.

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Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get.

They look ridiculously huge and out of proportion in real life (due to practical fitting reasons). Doesn't mean one has to transfer that silly size onto a mini.

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you will apreciate the spacing once people start hitting you with swords

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