I'm back with more!!!!!!!!!

Hey all, been a long long LONG time since I last posted on this blog, Sorry about that. My new semester term have just started and have been busy catching up with work. But now I'm sick, down with a flu, giving me ample time to consolidate my hobby :D

At a very perfect timing, two of my online orders came together, the first being from Games Workshop and the other from Amazon.

This is what I had bought from Games Workshop. I am starting to build up my Vostroyan Firstborn, the guard army that have dragged me into this hobby in almost 2-3 years ago. How time flies.

Besides ordering these stuff, Games Workshop too gave me a Mechanicum poster and also a Mechanicum cog wheel pin. Thank you Games Workshop. Sadly during my opening of the box, my knife was too sharp and now both the poster and the order sheet above it cut from top to bottom. But no worries, as a Warhammer 40k big fan, I would do my best to  restore it to its former glory.

The order from Amazon is a out of production book that I have been unable to find from anywhere near me. It is the omnibus for the Bretonnian knights. What took me to liking Bretonnians was actually just an accidental idea on trying to make rough riders for my Guard. Furthermore, I got myself the Bretonnian book Knight of the Realm at a great sale. Hence the story and miniatures got me into liking them. Since I did not like e-books, I got it on Amazon. It is pretty worn down but still readable and a condition that I can accept. It too has the old book smell, the smell of a book that has been on the shelf for ages ( trust me, I know how a book smell ).

So that's all for this post, just a really small update on what I would be working on until my next blog post is up. See you guys later! :D

Winters

Unboxing Game Workshop Medium Sized Carrier!

Hey guys, this is another post informing you guys that I have posted another video onto youtube. This time it is on unboxing the Games workshop medium sized miniature carrying case. Hope you guys will enjoy the video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHM4-7cLA0#action=share

Do subscribe to my channel, like and share my video and blog. Do leave some comments if possible and let me know what to improve on. I will see you guys later.


Winters

Scions Winterial Video is Finally up!

Hey all, sorry about the long delay in the videos. I have been caught up in learning Autodesk 3D designing for quite a fair bit of time and finally I have ended the first part. So I thought I could catch up with blogging and uploading the Scions Winterial.

I had the videos uploaded in 3 main parts so that it would be easier for you guys to actually refer to the part that you are on, rather than having to look through one long video over and over again just to find one specific part of the conversion that you have stopped at.

Part 1 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddbXY39MP8

- Part 1 consists of the introduction as to what you need for this conversion as a whole, along with the guide to making the head, the power pack, and also the most important weapon for all scions, the Hot-shot lasgun.

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLVPp5qg9U

 - Part 2 is actually not a must see, but rather it is more like perfecting your converted Scion. This part shows you how to fill up the pistol holders that are attached to the scout models. This is actually pretty useful even when you are just using them as normal scouts and having empty pistol holders look weird.

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OOtvpYhKY

 - Part 3 is the Winterial on how to make a hot-shot volley gun. It looks pretty decent on how it turned out. Due to the time needed to make one of these, I decided to dedicate one video specifically for it as not everyone wants a hot-shot volley gun.

The few blog Winterial for the Scions Conversion have also been uploaded quite some time ago:

http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2015/02/scions-conversion-winterial-part-1-hot.html

http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2015/03/scions-conversion-winterial-part-2-hot.html

http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2015/03/scions-conversion-winterial-part-3.html

The video and the blog post Winterial can be used to supplement each other, hopefully making the instructions much more clearer to you.

I'm still learning how to make better videos, so hopefully you guys can give me some tips too. Do subscribe to my channel and blog, share my blog stuff and videos. Most importantly, give me some feedback as to how to improve.

Thank you!


Winters

Scions Conversion Winterial part 3: Pistol holders and chainswords

Hey all, this is the last Winterial for the Scions Conversion, as I wrap it up with the final part in this trilogy. Let's get started!

The first thing that we would look at would be the pistol holders that we see at most of the scout models. The thing about these holders are that they do not have a handle of them. Since my scions would be carrying rifles, I feel the need to feel up those holes to make the model more complete.

Remember the remaining part from the lasgun that we had cut earlier for the hot-shot lasgun and volley gun? We don't want to waste good parts. So I detached the handle from it.

The handle would off course not fit properly. Therefore it is essential that you dry fit it to the pistol holder while at the same time trimming it down so that it would fit perfectly. Do take note that you do not want the handle to be too short or it would look weird on the model.

Here's a picture on the completed handle: 

The next thing that I found important was the significant chainsword that most sergeants carry on their hands. As I looked at the one that came with the bolter scouts, I found it a little too short and fat to fit the style of  the Guard. Thus I took one of those from the cadian shock troops box set.

How do I do it?

Firstly, I remove the handle and arm from the cadian box set. 

Next, I removed the chainsword just before the handle of the bolter scout chainsword.

Lastly, I just attached the cadian chainsword onto the bolter scouts one.

And there you have it, a completed chainsword for your sergeant:

For the pistols that the sergeant carry, I just use the scoped pistol from the scouts box set. There is also not a need to fill up the hole at the pistol holder as he is already carrying one, and that's where he kept it.

So this wraps things up for my Scions Conversion Winterial. Do look out for the youtube video that I am doing for this scions. It should be up in a day or two, so do look out for it!


Winters

Edit: Youtube video links to Scions Conversion:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddbXY39MP8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLVPp5qg9U

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OOtvpYhKY

Scions Conversion Winterial part 2: Hot-shot volley gun

Hey all, welcome to part 2 of the scions conversion Winterial where today, we will be looking at the awesome volley gun.

I for one tried the gun out in game before and was pretty impressed but was singled out pretty fast by my opponents marines and got taken out before it did much. Nevertheless, it is still an awesome piece to be included within your scions collection. Here we go.

Basically, the overall design is similar to that of the hot-shot lasgun. The one not so obvious difference would be the ammo pack. Instead of just using one of the parts from the respirator pack as seen in part 1, I took 2 and glued them together before adding them onto the gun as shown below:

The next step after this is really straight forward, just attach the lasgun to the scout boltgun, as shown in the part 1 Winterial. Except now in this case, u have to flatten the bottom of the lasgun and also the front of the boltgun.

Part 1: http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2015/02/scions-conversion-winterial-part-1-hot.html

Next, we just detach a laspistol from one of the sergeant's hand and remove the trigger area, handle and the rear circular piece. The top of the lasgun should also be trimmed off for a better look. Glue it to the bottom of the lasgun and you should get something as shown below:

I decided not to remove the powerpack as I found that it looks pretty neat on the gun itself. But if you intend to remove it, feel free to do so as its up to personal choice.

So this is my part 2 for the Scions Conversion Winterial, stay tune to look out for the final part of it to wrap this up!

Winters

Edit: YouTube videos on Scions Winterial:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddbXY39MP8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLVPp5qg9U

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OOtvpYhKY

Apologize for no Youtube Winterial vid

Hey. Winters here.

I was finally finishing the touch-up for the scions Winterial and was just about to do up the audio recording, since I edited the video. But to my horror when I opened the file, none of the videos that I have added in are to be found, which means that I am going to need to re-edit the entire video again.

I'm so sorry for those of you waiting for it, I promise that I will get it up. In the meantime, I will have part 2 of the scions Winterial up within a day. Hope you guys would stick around and look through this Winterials on the blog, I will edit in the links to the Winterial below every time after I upload one.

Stay tune!


Winters

EDIT:

PART 1: http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2015/02/scions-conversion-winterial-part-1-hot.html

PART 2: http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2015/03/scions-conversion-winterial-part-2-hot.html

PART 3: http://the-last-season.blogspot.sg/2015/03/scions-conversion-winterial-part-3.html

Edit: YouTube videos on Scions Winterial:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddbXY39MP8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLVPp5qg9U

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OOtvpYhKY

Scions Conversion Winterial part 1: Hot-shot lasgun

As I worked on my video for the scions conversion, I realized that the quality of that video was really terrible, but I don't have the necessary spare bits to do another. Thus I decided to add in some images that I have taken to make the Winterial more clear, with subtitles. This made the schedule for the release of the video a little bit late, but in the meantime, I decided to make a blog post Winterial to act as the supplement for the video. So this is part 1 of the scions Winterial.

In this Winterial, as the title says it all the main part we would be building would be the hot-shot lasgun.

Items you will need :

- Scouts head (from the space marines scout squad box set)

- Respiratory pack (from the cadian command squad set, there are 5 of these in each set)

- Boltgun (comes with the scout squad box set)

- Lasgun (the one that comes in every cadian infantry set that does not have any arms attached to it.

Step 1: (the head)

You will cut one of the respiratory pack, separating it into 3 parts. When you see the pack, it will be easy to determine which parts to separate. As the cord is unwanted, after you remove the cord, it will be the 3 parts that I mention, one being the cord itself, one being the mouthpiece and the last one is some sort of electrical box.

Attach the mouthpiece to the head. You should get something similar to that below. It looks pretty sweet when you attach the mouthpiece as the original head has some speaker console attached to it, once you attach it, it will all flow as one single equipment, giving it a very neat look.

Step 2: (power pack AKA ammo)

The ammo pack comes from the third part of the respiratory set, which will be attached to where the boltgun ammo would be attached to. But before we attach the ammo, we must first remove the boltgun ammo. Cut away the ammo of the boltgun. Take care at this point when cutting as some might over estimate the ammo part and cut the entire bottom part of the gun off. This would be what we do not want to see. 

Next, attach the third part of the respiratory pack to where the boltgun ammo used to be. Have the little protruding edge that you will see on the third part facing outwards as shown below the 2 images.

(Disclaimer: they look like flipped images but were taken from 2 different angles)

Have the front nozzle of the boltgun removed too, except for the small rectangular piece below it.

(Take note of where the third part of the respiratory pack goes)

Step 3: (the hot-shot)

You will take the lasgun and detach it just right before the ammo. It can be seen at the right image below. Trim it slowly so that it would be straight and you do not remove too much to make it obvious that it is shorter then the original. (sorry for the lack of images, have not been able to get any images for this part.

Next, we attach it to the boltgun as shown below. Ensure that the lasgun is aligned properly. I suggest that you dry fit it before you add the glue. 

From the top of the gun, you should make sure that the lasgun scope part aligns properly with those of the boltgun.

From the side, ensure that the lasgun is aligned straight to the top and sides of the boltgun as shown below.

So that will be it for this part 1, you already have the gun ready, are you ready for the other parts of the scions conversion? Do look out for it as it will be coming soon. I will edit in the links once I publish the post.

Hope that you all enjoy this Winterial. As always, do leave some comments and suggestions so that I may better improve myself. Thank you.

Winters

Edit: YouTube videos on Scions Winterial:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddbXY39MP8

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmLVPp5qg9U

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2OOtvpYhKY