My Penultimate Kitbash
As the title states this is what I consider to be my best work yet when it comes to kitbashing/converting. I needed a Calgar/Chapter Master model for my Scythes Army both on the tabletop and within the burgeoning body of lore that my friends and I have wrote for our perspective armies within the 41st Millennium.
The inspiration of this kitbash was an old piece of artwork of Oberdeii. The base model is the old Gravis Calgar as I found it was regal enough to read as a Chapter Master and since it was being retired I figured it would be best to use a kit that wouldn’t be seen as often anymore. The powerfist is a RTB01 power glove and the other arm is from the Heavy Intercessor kit. The checkered pauldron is a 3d printed Lamenters Gravis shoulder pad that a friend gave me, and the other pauldron is something I commissioned from Fiverr and is based specifically off of the Oberdeii sketch and other Scythes Heraldry.
Finally with the helmet I really struggled to find something that was satisfied with. Ultimately I ended up picking this admittedly weird bee helmet that once again I commissioned (not for this project) and I digibashed it with a beakie STL I had. The reason I went with this helmet is a deeply personal reason that I think I mentioned before on this sub. To put it simply I like the Scythes of the Emperor because I am a farmer/homesteader and my whole family is. More specifically I am a Beekeeper and the Scythes of the Emperor really spoke to me on a personal level. Their color scheme, lore, culture, and home really stuck a chord with me. So I figured why not give my Chapter Master a helmet that looked like a bee; a BEEkie if you will.
I want to thank Hernan Godoy of Fiverr for being such an incredible 3D sculptor. Not trying to make this sound like an ad but he was incredibly easy to work with and provided phenomenal sculpts.