Heresy Salamanders: Second Tactical Squad built

Greetings once again InterWebs!!!! Tonight I would like to present for your viewing pleasure my second Heresy-era Salamanders 20 man Tactical Squad. I had a lot of fun with this squad and it seemed to go together better than the first squad. I did go a little over board with the greenstuff work on some of the guys but I had fun doing it. These guys feature custom Salamander Holsters, Drake mantles, Fetish ropes, etc. Well here are a couple of overall shots of the unit:

Here are a bunch of close-up looks at some of the various minis in the unit starting with.......

Sergeant Sim'baa:

Squad Nuncio Vox:

Several of the interesting looking Marines in the Squad:

 I really like this fellow!

That is it for Tactical Marines, next up on the build table is a unit of Legion Terminators with Thunder Hammers and proto-Storm Shields. Thanks for stopping by and taking a look! Take care!

First Sculpting Attempt

Greetings once again Internet!

While at Origins Game Faire this year I took a sculpting class from Sandra Garrity. I have never attempted to sculpt anything before so I went into the class as a complete novice. The class was about sculpting armor, wings, and scales; since I plan on doing some Heresy-era Salamanders the scales portion of the class was perfect.

So here is my attempt at drake scales:

I was going for an aged and rugged look to the scales and I think the small ridges along the scales help convey that. I will have to work on some smaller versions for the Mk IV shoulder pads I plan on using on the Salamanders.

There are a couple of things I learned from the class:

1) I am not the only one that uses an Xacto knife for everything (including sculpting).
2) The 'clay' tools I bought were way to large for what is needed

Now to practice and practice and practice some more. All in all I am quite pleased with how my first sculpting attempt came out. Thanks for looking!