Commissar Yarrick conversion build pt:1
Hi all so after saying I would do it for ages I finally have started conversion building my first Commissar Yarrick
So here is a pic of most of the bits
bits list for this build:
- plastic commissar 2014 kit: arms, hat, bolt pistol hand
- tempestus scion torso
- sister of battle serephim bolt pistol hand (trimmed behind the hand)
- stormbolter + stormbolter magazine
- cadian command squad scarred head, gasmask
- ravenwing biker holstered bolt pistol (yarrick carried a lot of weapons)
- ork power klaw from an ork nob
- chaos cultist (2012) autogun cultist legs
- 2 skitarii arc pistols
- tempestus scion banner icon
so first up I too the cultist who’d be “donating” legs for this project and cut him in half at the waist! then i took a scion torso and cut off the leg guarding flaps, the antenna and shoulder light
then I went ahead and shaved the details off the torso plate as those details felt too busy on a model that will in the end be quite busy and if need be I can come back and put a winged skull on the chest of the armour or even lift a refractor field panel off a classic cadian torso. i then attached a holstered pistol to the legs as yarrick is a tad over armed, the pistol was a ravenwing one i’d got from a bits seller years ago.
head:
seeing that the plastic commissar’s cybernetic eye was on the wrong side of the head to work for yarrick I had to look for an alternative head and eventually settled on a scarred head from the soon to be oop cadian command squad kit. I did have to do a lot of trimming to combine the two pieces which also included attaching the commissar’s face onto his head before removing the face below the brim of the hat so as to attach it onto the afore mentioned cadian head. the head was glued into the carapace on an angle that i hoped meant he’d be looking at the foe but i should have waited till near the end to put the head in the model. I also chose to use a cadian command squad respirator which was only held on with blue tack as it wouldn’t be attached until much much later on.
right arm:
I then removed the right arm from the commissar body and trimmed back the details back on the arm so as to have as little of the shoulder as possible. I also chopped the arm off a little after the elbow and attached the outside edge of the arm so as to complete the augmetic look of the elbow then went and cut down the outer edge of the arm to match with the arm. Then i trimmed the ork arm off the nob power claw and trimmed up the claw to make it suitable to connect to the commissar arm before attaching the right arm into the carapace.
left arm
the left arm was a lot less work as it was a separate piece from the commissar’s torso front. firs i removed the commissar’s sword hand from their arm so as to accommodate a storm bolter. for the hand I took a spare serephim (sisters of battle) left hand (the rest of the spare serephim bits might appear in a future project) and cut the hand off at the wrist as I would need a left hand to hold a storm bolter with. as for the storm bolter it was quite a process because sister of battle squad storm bolters are missing details on the side that face the body namely molded ammo magazine details on the inside face which normally isn’t a problem but it meant cannibalizing an extra storm bolter’s magazine to complete the details. I also shaved off the ministorm icon from the weapon as it isn’t suitable for the guard. after this i would attach the storm bolter to the left arm then attach the left arm onto the body, after this I attached in a purity seal that carefully removed from a space simulacrum imperialis I had aside
and so the model is now in two pieces
by means of tack i stuck put the top and bottom halves of the model together for pictures ahead of doing greenstuff work
then I went to do the first round of greenstuff work to add some mass in under his carapace at the waist so it would sit on the legs, added his waistband, filled a few gaps (sadly not all of them) and sculpted his las-eye after all what is old bale eye without his means of sniping orks by just looking at them.
then I set up his final melee weapon his sheathed sword which was a process for sure. it was made from a sister of battle power sword sheath, the handguard from the bane blade commander’s powersword and for the handgrip I use some of the rope from a cadian command squad banner. I also then went ahead and bend pvc rod into a curve and cut it to length to attach it into the yet to be sculpted powerpack
next I conversion built the powerpack for the power claw starting with a pair of skitarii arc pistols I removed their power chamber from the top of them. i then attached them together longs sides together and did a little gap filling on the underside and on one end with plastic card so as to both make it look more complete and also to stop greenstuff from coming up and clogging the details from underneath.
I also trimmed back his augmetic eye a bit as it was looking in the wrong direction. then I bit the bullet and pulled out the greenstuff again so as to fill a gap I had missed but mainly to sculpt the body of his power pack. getting the shape right took ages especially as I needed to also get the twin arc chambers integrated into the greenstuff. I also stuck a winged skull taken from a scion banner icon (I trimmed the smallest one off it) into the greenstuff to add some detail to the top of the pack as it looked a bit plain.
then i went back in with a shaper to smooth things out, raise the height of the backpack and add some base coupling detail around the join points of the power hoses from the claw.
Then I added a pre primed purity seal from a penitent engine (I primed one of the two models on sprue to save time) to the power claw and so once the greenstuff is cured i will move onto priming and painting the model but that’s for another time. before i go i just wanted to share another miniature i have built this time entirely out of spares and left over parts. I present to you an unnamed company commander:
I am going to need to go in with greenstuff and fill a few gaps but otherwise here he is
Sister Lilia 
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