Kitbashing a Space Marine Company Champion 

Appreciate it and that's the plan. Or at least some more capes!

Appreciate it!!!

Hey man, thank you so much for typing this up and letting me know. I sometimes struggle with motivation to keep putting out content, but stuff like this makes it all worth it and keeps pushing me to get back to my hobby desk and record some more. I owe you a longer response I know but I am exhausted tonight and can barely type coherently. I wanted to let you know that I saw this and how much your words mean to me though.

Wanted to follow up on this @sparkSovereign as I've been thinking about this comment all weekend. As said before, thank you again for taking the time to write this. I started this channel with the goal of sharing my way of interacting with this hobby that I love so much, but its often hard to see that impact over RU-vid. Sure, some numbers on my screen might go up over time, but seeing the subscriber count slowly tick higher kinda tricks my brain into thinking I am only doing this to reach "RU-vid success", whatever that means. I sometimes find myself wondering if its worth the effort I put into these videos and if I want to keep putting in the hours of, in effect, a 2nd job as quite frankly its not for the money. I think to date I've made something like $16 on RU-vid for somewhere north of 500 hours of time. But seeing comments like this helps me remember why I started this channel in the first place, and I am excited to keep on putting our more content and sharing my ideas to our little corner of the internet. Much like you, I also have boxes and boxes of unfinished conversions and I have recently reached the point that the shear amount of unfinished projects I have littering my workspace is frankly causing my some stress. Just a few weeks ago I was sitting in my office after my daughter went to sleep and spent a good hour just trying to figure out what to work on and eventually settled on nothing and went to sleep. I have no idea how that helps me reach any of my channel or hobby goals so I am slowly trying to change my mind set of either finishing up conversions, or letting them go and clearing up that mental space. I know its not the exact same scenario you described, but I think its kinda crazy how much we hobbyists can hit mental blocks and increase our stress in the pursuit of something that is supposed to be a break from the stress of the real world! Super happy to hear that you took the plunge and hacked up that Cataphractii praetor though and Im frankly impressed. I have been staring at a spare copy I have and am downright intimidated by the thought of changing up his arms in away way due to the leather shoulder straps. Do you mind sharing pic of your conversion to either my email or IG? Would love to see it! Thank you again! Phil

@@AmnioticlyTanked I very much empathize with the demoralizing effect unfinished projects can have; I even used to refer to my apartment as "the graveyard of unfinished projects", and even simply putting them away rather than telling myself I had to force myself to do them made my hobby space so much less hostile. Huzzah for therapy helping me tell myself "it's okay to decide you don't want to do this one"; like you said, ostensibly the hobby is something we do for fun so we shouldn't torture ourselves about it and just let things go when they do not spark joy. They're just in a box now, I can always come back later if I do get inspired again (like I did for an old contemptor conversion, actually). I'll definitely shoot you some pictures of it, I'm putting some of the final touches on it hopefully today! I basically carved up a plastic cataphractii power sword arm, the trick is going to be mimicking the detailing on the pteruges but my clever plan is to put other gribblies over the worst parts (especially the join where the two sets meet) and hide my many sculpting crimes 😅 already got some of it hidden under parchment, I'm just digging through the bits box to see if I've got the perfect part or if I'll sculpt something else over it. Definitely a challenge!

I'll need to give that a try!

Thank you and it certainly did help get my mind around the process. Good call on the sanding. Do you recommend sand paper, or something else? I think I have seen flexible sanding sticks for sale used them myself. As with super glue, how do you then smooth it out? Re: thumb in greenstuff, it seems like patience really is the name of the game when it comes to sculpting. I've also heard that sometimes is best to let the putty sit for a little while so it starts to cure before sculpting with it, but I could never imagine planning my hobbling out 30 to 60 minutes in advanced!

@@AmnioticlyTanked Glad to help 😁👍 I personally switch between rolled up sandpaper for small nooks and sanding sticks for a flat edge on large surfaces/hand comfort. As for the super glue, I'll apply it with a toothpick and spread it out, then sand it flush. It's not as easy to see as putty since it's clear instead of white but every time I buy putty it dries out in like 3 days so I've learned to make due lol. I use my nail or an exacto to feel the surface and judge if it's smooth or not. A lot of my recent work is full armor sets for some Exodites I'm working on and it's definitely a slow process since I have to do each layer individually, but if you happen to have a lot of subassemblies it does help to minimize downtime. I sometimes also make green stuff sheets with my extra green stuff or if I've nothing to do which are a godsend for cutting out strips for belts or harnesses for various projects. I generally don't wait for my green stuff to cure either lol, unless I'm doing a cape, fur, or specific shapes. In general I basically try to fill my downtime with setting up the next step if I can. Or playing vidya 😎

Thanks! Was a bit nervous with the sculpting but it came out pretty well in the end.

Thank you! Really pleased with how both the model and video turned out. Now I just need to get some of these mini's painted....

@@AmnioticlyTanked I can't wait to see the result, in video form or otherwise

Thanks for watching!

Thank you!

Thank you and that my main goal with these videos, get peoples creative juices flowing!

@@AmnioticlyTanked well please don’t stop anytime soon! Your always the top creator to get my creative juices flowing and really are in touch with the old era of kitbashing that I reminisce on from moments like the deamonhunter codex so just keep doing your thing bud! Much love!

Apoxie-Sculpt is the brand name and I threw an (affiliate) link in the video description. Its usually a 50:50 ratio roughly. I have found it far easier to work with than pure green stuff though. The Apoxie sculp has more of a clay consistency, but it a little too soft on its own. Also, the apoxie-sculpt is sandable, and remains sandable when mixed, which I have found extremally useful when sculpting more in-organic objects with hard edges.

@@AmnioticlyTanked Interesting, does the Apoxie-Greenstuff mixture tend to be as sticky as normal green stuff? When I work with green stuff, it tends to stick to my tools often even when I wet the tools. And how easy does it sand down?

@@glenmull9735 It looses a bit of the stickiness, but not all. I still struggle with this sticking to my metal sculpting tools somewhat, even with water. The silicone tools used in this video didn't stick at all though which really helped. Super easy to sand though. The apoxie sculpt/gs mixture looses pretty much all of its flex and greenstuff's weird way that it just crumbles and tears up chunks when sanded

There really are a game changer over the metal dental tools every company sells as "sculpting tools". The set I use is linked in the video description as an affiliate link.

Thanks! How would you upscale it? Just plasticard spacers?

Glad you think so!

Thank you! Cheers!

Glad you think so!

Space marine devastator kit. Can't believe I didn't mention that in the video!

Thank you!

Thank you!