Irrational Number Line Games, LLChome stuff-to-buy idea archive about-us contactWoodpeckers and CrowsThis is the last of my "beakie" space marines that I have gotten from various job lots. And it's not enough to make two sets of ten, so I decided that I can do an industrial level of rhinoplasty as an extension of my prior one-off beakie conversions. Side by side, they're not to different. After I completed this project, I learned that the beakie doesn't have the mohawk on the top of the helmet. Not sweating that.
Since they paint up really nicely as woodpeckers. I am happy that I could find
a distinctive and recognizable paintjob instead of just brown things with beaks.
I had avoided crows and ravens so far simply because ravens would be just an all black paintjob and crows would have a little yellow, but not much else. However, some flas came to me that I could use gold metallic for the crow effect and use matte sealant on the marines and gloss on the weapons (and a couple other bits) to break up the solid black without over decorating them and losing the crow effect. The banner with an aquila on it was just a bonus. |