The Master of Recruits once asked me what makes a good comms operator. I told him that if he could find an aspirant who could make himself heard over an Ork Kill Kannon, then that was a good start. – Cleulis, Crimson Fists Comms Specialist

The latest Primaris to join my Crimson Fists is Brother Cleulis, an Intercessor by day and a Kill Team comms specialist by night!

My original plan for this model started as an idea to use internal LED illumination on the wrist-mounted screen from the Intercessor sprue, essentially making a tiny back-lit screen. Then it occurred to me that a “hologram” projection, i.e. a 40K hololith, would be even cooler!

The hololith figure is a resin cast of an old ‘Epic’ scale Space Marine Terminator. I wanted to have a figure that represented a senior Space Marine officer so to make it look more like a Terminator Captain, I sculpted on a cloak before casting. This also made the hololith figure a bit more solid and easier to sneak the nano LED into! I then painted the bare resin with a GW shade to “filter” the white LED light to my chosen colour of green, which I decided was the most “hologram” colour.

From the start I knew that I wanted my comms specialist to appear as if he was shouting to make himself heard over the din of battle. So I went for a shouting Space Marine head (there are plenty of those) and also reposed his arm and hand so it looked like he was pressing the button on the comms bead in his ear. This used the empty Intercessor hand with the two finger “signalling” pose. It was quite time consuming to get it looking right though. As you might be able to spot in the picture above, I basically had to cut it up at each joint, pin it back together in the required pose with wire, and then sculpt in the gap areas with Pro Create modelling putty.

Anyway, I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out after all that! If you’d like to have a go yourself you can find a brand new full step-by-step tutorial for creating your own LED hololith on my LED tutorials page here.

That’s all for this week, but stay tuned for even more Crimson Fists and of course the rest of the Lamenters kill team!