I've had this guy built for a while, and partly painted for a shorter while. Finished him earlier this week - or late last week; I don't really remember.

It's  kurisu7885 's birthday present for this year - a miniature styled around him. Though his birthday is on July 8th, I decided to post it early for some reason.

Parts were taken from several different kits - the body and backpack from a Dark Angels Veteran, the head from a Space Wolf, the tail from a WHFB Goblin Wolf Rider's mount, arms, stormbolter, and sword from a power armored Grey Knight, shoulderpads from a vanilla Marine, purity seals and other details from a bunch of different kits.

Initially, I wanted to use sword arms that would hold the two-handed sword more vertically, but I had ended up using my last set on a different model, and this was all I had left. While I could have removed those arms and placed them on this model, I didn't want to risk ruining the parts, since I'm rather clumsy with my plastic clippers. Still, the pose I ended up with is nice.

I also tried something new on this model. I tried to make a greenstuffed hood, but that didn't go well, and I ended up making a HUGE mess on the model and myself with vaseline - I'd heard that when working with greenstuff, vaseline makes it easier to work with. Eventually, I gave up on that, and just removed all the greenstuff and washed the model clean by bathing it in soapy water.

I'm not sure I cleaned it enough or right, though, because the paint came off in places after I had primed and painted it. That could just be because I used a more normal spraypaint and not a primer spraypaint, though, because I wanted to have a black primer coat, and my currently preferred spraypaint brand doesn't have a black primer version - just grey and white.

Regarding the parts; I ended up cannibalizing one of my Sternguard Veterans to make this one. I used Dark Angels Veterans to make my Sternguard Vets, because by the time I got around to getting any Sternguard Vets, the official models had been turned into Finecast. As such, they were available only in the 5-model box, so I couldn't pick and choose which weapons I wanted my guys to have.

I'm going to use this model as a Space Marine Captain in my WH40k games, with a Relic Blade and Stormbolter. Depending on the new Space Marine Codex that's inevitably going to come out a few months down the line - since SM usually get their update early in new editions - I may have to alter that choice. I'll probably field him with a Command Squad, maybe in a Razorback or something.

I guess that's all I have to say about this model for now.

WH40k and its related stuff belong to Games Workshop. Kurisu's character belongs to himself. And the photo and model belong to me.