Two weeks back I decided to do a Psycher Battle Squad for the Kroot as IG army I am building. The models are pretty much straight forward Kroot with the rifles cut away from their hands and the gripping hands drilled out to look like fists. I did a little custom work with the legs by splitting several sets of legs into left and right halves and mixxing those to get static poses; toss in some knee undercuts and a little melting to get one guy who is arching back. I used one of the leg sets for where I was trying to duplicate the IG heavy weapons team pose, so one of the guys is sort of kneeling...
I was going for a look like they were all in agonny (sp?) and I think I hit it pretty well...
I painted all of the last weekend with white primer, then a straight white base coat, I made a wash using Blood Red and about 20 parts water and then two layers of Skull white dry brush to give a sort of albino effect.
I also built up a Primaris Psycher in a similar manner and paitn scheme as the others, but put the komb form his haed on his back like spines and twisted some fine wire around a sewing pin to make coils and glued those into the head. I replaced the rifle in his left had with a bilt of copper tube with an Empire halberd head on it and a little plastic card to bulk out the blade; I also used some kroot rifle bodies as a "power generator" just below the halberd head and a muzzle as butt piece (which made it alot easier to glue things in place and anchor the pole weapon to the base.
As usual, photos to come later...
I nearly forgot to mention, for my regular psychers I used Tau tank commander heads and a push mold to put Kroot beaks on them; the effect is pretty freaky.
