Today, I have my Goliath Juves that I made (off-camera, sorry) out of Khorne Bloodreavers, Ork Shoota/Choppa bitz, and chainsword vents. My customisation left them extremely butchered with gaps wide enough to stick a Renderizer in, so I decided to use some green stuff to cover the damage and build some extra parts.

Partway through the process of doing everything, I discovered that the rest of my green stuff had dried, so I’m going to wait for these two to finish curing before doing Part Two. You’ll see what I’ve done today after you hit the jump.

INGREDIENTS:

Hacked up models

Green stuff (I’m using TT Combat)

Milliput (used to harden the greenstuff)

Variable toothed-comb

Flat, plastic surface (plasticard works well)

Shaping tools

Super glue

Extreme patience

Lots of time

I use green stuff in a way I imagine most people don’t, so here’s a quick tutorial: grab your green stuff strip and mix an amount of 50:50 yellow/blue. Then grab a smaller amount of milliput and mix it 50:50 yellow/grey.

In the pictures above, I used way too much green stuff and milliput, but the final ball (light green, last picture) is made of about 30% milliput, 70% green stuff.

The milliput helps keep the green stuff from being too flexible once it cures, and also is considerably cheaper than green stuff so allows me to use less.

Onto the main show. The one-armed Goliath named Descartes (and he pronounces every single syllable) needed minimal repair work, so I started with him:

He needed a simple fill job on the shoulder. Nothing too crazy, but

He needed some work on the shoulder pad, which was a simple fill job. But his gun was the fun part. First, I filled in a small area that was missing from the handle, then added some ports to the outside.

The ports are made by rolling a small ball of green stuff, attaching it to the model with some super glue, then using the biro pen to turn it into a cylinder. Cut off the excess, widen the hole with a pencil, and voila, you have a port. You’ll see this technique used later on my other Juve.

The pipe above is made by getting a rolled-up piece of green stuff and using the fine-toothed comb as a roller for it. Part Two of this tutorial will explain it in more detail as I didn’t get pictures, but this is used to emulate tubes going from the bracers to the skin. I imagine this to be some form of drug delivery system for the Goliaths.

I added some extra ports to Descartes’ back, but apparently neglected to take photos of that. But forget Descartes, onto my second Juve!

Pazuzu, named after a Reddit user who gave me the inspiration to pick up green stuff again, requires a lot more work. You can see some gaps under his mohawk and by his shoulder that will need filling, so…

After fixing Pazuzu’s faults, I noticed the pauldron needed a strap, otherwise it was just welded onto his body (which isn’t unheard of in 40K). I got to work on the front one first, then started the back. Here you can see an initial blob of greenstuff:

… which was later refined into a proper strap. Here’s some images of the front and back:

I’m pretty happy with them, but with them in the way it’ll stop me from doing the pipes I need to lead from his back. These will be done in Part Two.

I then spent some time working on his gun arm and making sure there’s no visible gap between his hands and the stub gun he’s holding, before calling it a night.

Finally, here’s the images of the front and back of the models with their current progress. I intend to work a little more on this tomorrow, so watch this space!