Dr. Tortenkopf is making Terminators great again
A Picnic on a Space Hulk
Adaptus Astartes in Tactical Dreadnough Armor spreading a picnic blanket.A while ago I bought some of the Space Hulk Terminators of ebay and I have always been wondering what the above model was supposed to be doing. It just looked more like he was spreading a blanket, than tearing up the floor plating to me.
And why would he be tearing up the plating anyway? Isn’t he supposed to shoot the jeans stealers. Maybe he dropped his keys and they slid into a grate or something….
Well, he might not be in a dynamic combat pose, but I had another use for him in mind.
The model comes in separate parts. A series of cuts is being made to separate its torso from the kneeling leg...
...and the arm.
I used pliers and the crafting knife ot remove the picnic blanket from the arm. Here it is on its own.
The inner side of the arm looked pretty mangled though.
The arm was cleaned of with a carfting knife, and missing detail on the inside of the hand was carved, also using the crafting knife.
I glued a skull into the hand in order to both cover some of the damage and to distract from the carved areas.
I used a little bit of green stuff to rebuild the cable on the inside of the arm...
...and sculpted some ridges into it. This will be on the inside of the arm and won't be very visible.The reason I did all of this is, that two of the Terminators from the Dark Vengeance kit are duplicate sculpts. I wanted to use the duplicate Terminators legs to allow the picnic Terminator from the Space Hulk set to stand up and take part in the fighting.
This is how he ended up looking:
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