I worked on a second marine based on my thoughts after seeing my first model close up after finishing it. I used the other Dark Imperium body but changed up the arms and added other bits as needed to make him a veteran Winged Hussar tactical marine.
I borrowed the head from my spare Ancient as it was the only normal head that I had that wasn't specifically a Lieutenant one with the skull on the forehead. It was my first attempt at adding the ribbing/fin to the top so, upon extreme close up view, it's a bit crooked. The right arm and armpit shield/fur were a PITA to pose and I'm not entirely happy with the results as I would have preferred to see the fur more flat on from the front angle. I also need to relearn the lesson of letting plastic glue dry fully before tinkering with further bits on the same area as I had alot of errors/reposing that I had to do when working on the right arm area because of a lack of patience on my part. I skipped adding the chest grenades due to the busy marine looking a bit too busy and instead just added a pack on to the hip. Finally, I wanted to add a chain to the gun as with the other but my test bit looked worse with it due to the stiff angle in front because of the foregrip on the autoboltgun.
As always, let me know if there is something that I can improve on with this or alternately future figs. I'm happy with the results of the single wing on these veteran (tactical and sergeant) figs as well as the overall look but there are, as always, definitely things that can improve.
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