My previous attempt at a historical conversion of Primaris marines into Polish Winged Hussars went well enough (
link here) so I figured I'd give another famous warrior group a shot. In the months since, I got my first 3d printer (a resin SLA Elegoo Mars) and have been experimenting mainly with figs for an RPG campaign I'm in. A whole bunch of high quality primaris style 3D model uploads are on thingiverse so I decided I'd try my hand at a fully virtual conversion and settled on a Samurai motif. I suspect the general familiarity with samurai armor is pretty high so I won't post pics of historical resources used for inspiration like I did with my Winged Hussar project. The main samurai components that sparked my interest were uploaded by indignentshrew on Thingiverse (
link here). I'm still resizing the various parts for primaris and deciding on the various design flourishes I plan to add but this is the initial mock up of my first Rising Sons Intercessor Sergeant. Please note that I can't 3D model anything more than a simple cube or sphere so am limited to the more traditional physical conversion techniques of cutting/pasting from existing sources (3d models in this case instead of from my bitz box!).
It's hard to make out but the icon on his chest aquilla and on his
sashimono banner is the Cyberpunk 2077 Samurai logo. I have serious
doubts as to both (especially the chest) printing correctly so I do
expect to adapt them this week. Additionally, I'm not entirely happy
with the size of the sashimono so will likely enlarge that as well as
reposition the chainsword katana a bit more at an angle. In case it
wasn't obvious, my primaris inspiration for this pose was the recent
event exclusive Lieutenant Amulius figure that I also used to convert my
Lt. Googely Eyes Winged Hussar. :)
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