Uploading New Models

In the process of adding sprues to my models I've designed several new templates for components and updated old models for better functionality.

Banners
After a few prints of my angry marines banners I've worked out a few better processes for making banners. The surface has less polygons and the folds of the banners are less pronounced. In exchange a better relief on the surface. This lets me stack addon icons to make more detailed surfaces to aid painting.  I've made a total of 10 banner templates, here are two blank banners. I'll upload the others as I finish surface addons for them.

https://www.shapeways.com/product/DKCT2J666/blank-banner-v4-banner-02-mk4
https://www.shapeways.com/product/7RH8G6JN3/blank-banner-v6-banner-02-mk4

Storm Shields
Some time ago I designed some round storm sheilds for a few people. The consensus was that they were to small.  This was mostly caused by me using incorrect measurements based on very old metal terminators from the early 90s.  I've updated those measurements and made new templates for round storm shields. When I get time I also want to make the Greek cross shaped shields I really love and probably variants of the tower shields equipped by sigmarines.

https://www.shapeways.com/product/8HM5H57EB/blank-shield-002a


Shoulders
My collection of shoulder pad templates has grown extensively lately. I went from 5 templates with various addon parts to roughly 30 designs.  Shoulder pads below are a broad sampling.
https://www.shapeways.com/product/666MTLHWZ/blank-mk1-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/4HNFQSHWJ/blank-mk2-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/SWW4RPMWQ/blank-mk3-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/R9KGKXJWZ/blank-mk4-rivited-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/7XTLP8JLG/blank-mk6-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/3J8C2A7SX/blank-mk7-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/3BCRDXK7A/blank-mk10-basic-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/6U9MZG6TK/blank-mk16-damocles-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/G76DY5PNY/blank-champion-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/5BK93FLUF/blank-chevron-rimless-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/53Q6UQDND/blank-chevron-rimmed-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/PQ9NZD3AT/blank-arch-rimmed-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/UECUPY9J9/blank-sons-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/BFUELWBET/blank-evil-rimmed-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/9QNANV5S7/blank-evil-rivet-rimmed-shoulders-rebuilt-008a

Terminators
After literally 15000 points of Blood Angels I've decided I'd like to do something smaller with models I can't field otherwise.  So I'm planning an Alpha Legion army. Well not really Alpha Legion exactly. I'm intending to build them as loyalists so it will be a bit weird.  A few classic marines, likely Mk3 because they are the best in my opinion.  A bunch of Reivers and Scouts with a landspeeder storm converted from really old landspeeders. A group of berserkers as Legion of the damned. A small group of terminators, in the cataphtractii and tartaros patterns and a set of Centurions converted as Exo Armor Terminators.  Anyway, to that end here are shoulders for all those terminators.

Note: Cataphractii and Tartaros shoulder pads have a distinct front so they've been separated into left and right.  I might go back and convert them into sets with 5 left and 5 rights but it is easier in my workflow to do them all as sets of 10 identical shoulders.  Gravis shoulders likewise have a front direction so when I get to them I will set them up the same.

https://www.shapeways.com/product/UF62HB4S9/blank-cataphractii-shoulders-left-side-rebuilt-0
https://www.shapeways.com/product/NLW3ZCXN4/blank-cataphractii-shoulders-right-side-rebuilt
https://www.shapeways.com/product/WNZDCEQQ7/blank-tartaros-shoulders-right-side-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/3TELR3HL8/blank-tartaros-shoulders-left-side-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/8FWJKG2S3/blank-termi-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/UXMWFCBJ3/blank-centurion-shoulders-rebuilt-008a
https://www.shapeways.com/product/MP3HEQBJR/blank-evil-termi-shoulders-rebuilt-008a

I've also been working on reviving some very old projects which I've had to rebuild from scratch.

The Mk16 Damocles armor created by DakkaDakka fans for the Dornian Heresy alternate history campaign. It's a nicely advanced design I've always loved and wanted to see on the table. I've started building it a long long time ago. Here it is about 45% complete. It needs some more detailing and I need to build new hands and feet for it then segment it for manual posing and reassembling after printing.

 The original terminator armor. Before things had marks and such the Exo Armor is one of the coolest designs in retro 40k to me.  It's basic design clearly inspired the contemptor and similar dreadnoughts as well as the Tartaros terminators. A long time ago I built a basic model of it and was in the process of testing it when I simultaneously got a banhammer and suffered a hard drive crash.  Here is my in progress rebuilt version. It will have much more detail when completed as well as a lot more departure from the original design to make it feel more in line with the forgeworld updated figures.  Yes these guys will be count's as Centurians in my Alpha Legion.

 And of course the reason I started modeling. One of them anyway.  Female space marines.  Here is a female marine designed in Mark 6 armor.  Yes I know it's got breasts for no reason other than the aesthetics of making it look female.  I understand the impracticality and don't care. The figure will be much narrower than traditional marines.  Roughly 20mm at the shoulders rather than 28mm for an official figure. I'm hoping these print better than my original designs.  Most of my original female marines were likewise destroyed in that hard drive crash so this is a scratch build too.  Eventually I'd like to make all the armor marks. Maybe even primaris, but that's a long time off.  I'm tempted to try rigging the figures so I can pose them easier, though frankly that's way more work than I want.  I have never successfully rigged a figure and hate the process in every application I've ever tried.  Maybe one day. Till then manually posing is more practical.