Marine Dracoline Conversion

 Hello again! I've purchased a light box from ebay. It was very cheap, and I'm still getting the hang of it, but it might help with photographing some of the bigger miniatures.

In my continuing quest to finish some old models, I painted a model that I started ages ago. It's a Stormcast model called Aristea Solbright, who seems to be some kind of wizard and is riding a "dracoline", which I assume is a lion/dragon mixture (although it looks like a dinosaur/hyaena to me). Anyhow, it was going cheaply on ebay and looked as if it might be fun to paint.

Hmm. If this is an easy-assemble model I'd hate to see the difficult ones. It's push-fit, but I ended up cutting off most of the pegs and just gluing it together. Some of the detail on the barding was so fiddly that it snapped coming off the sprue and had to be replaced with green stuff. Not much fun to make.

I gave her a plasma pistol, marine shoulder pads, a fancy backpack that I'd had lying around for ages (from Puppetswar or one of those companies) and a new head from Statuesque Miniatures. The conversion work wasn't very difficult and came out alright.

Then over to the painting. It's funny how some models are much more enjoyable to paint than others. This seemed to have tons of fiddly little details and took a long time. At the end of the day, I think it's fine, but it wasn't a very fun miniature to do.

Now for something more enjoyable. This is a space marine with a metal body (probably meant to be from the Iron Warriors chapter) and a metal arm and gun. All the other bits were plastic. It was easy to assemble and enjoyable to paint. Maybe there's a lesson in that somewhere. Or not.