Primaris Infernus Squad Kitbash
1st August, 2024
It’s the start of a month and giving myself 30 days to complete this kit-bash idea I have had for a while now.
Last year when 10th Edition of Warhammer 40,000 was released, a new Space Marine unit was added to the game; The Infernus squad. These Primaris marines were carring around these gigantic, two handed flamers, ready to melt the enemy into a puddle.
Only thing is, I thought to myself. “They’re just carrying flamers. I think I could add something more to them.”
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- First Initial Concept - Oct 2023
About this time, the free miniature of the month was a single Infernus space marine. After aquiring one from my local Warhammer store, I started rifiling through my bits box on how I could give this guy the upgrade he needs to make this concept work.
My first thought is that I wanted to add some cables to the back of the flamer and attach them to a secondary fuel tank on the back. Using some spare cables from some Hellblasters that I had and shaping them to stretch around the marine and to the little fuel tank on the back, I just thought it didnt look right at all.
Scrapping that initial idea, as I wanted to go for something bigger and chunkier. I replaced the tank on the back with a cut-in-half Cadian flamer backpack, some 2mm round tube plasticard, and 0.9mm guitar wire. After putting it all together. I was happy with the results.
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- Second attempt - May 2023
Next was the head and the shoulder pads. These were easy enough. Using the Gravis helmets from an Aggressors kit and shoulder pads with the raised trim to act like a heat shield, my thicker, chunkier Infernus marine concept was ready. Now to smash out a few more to make up a squad.
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- Final concept - June 2023
I was kindly gifted a 5 man unit from my friend for my birthday (along with a Leviathan Primaris Lt. But thats for another project). I set to work in putting this squad together. Piece by piece in my spare time over a couple of months.
Finally finished in July of 2024. I had assembled them just in time for the Flashing Badger August Painting Competition (check out his discord for more information.)
Now it’s time to get painting.
30th August, 2024
Well the end of the month came around pretty fast. With a busy work load, family life, my painting time was very limited. Thankfully I managed to get enough lunch breaks in during the weeks leading up to the deadline at the end of the month to finish this squad. I was happy with the paint job, although it was not as neat as I wanted.
Two aspects I really liked was the addition of the green skull decal I added to the shoulder pads, another identifying marker for Sergeants within my army. The other being the burn at the end of the flamers. Using some Leviathan Purple contrast paint helps the secondary purple colour I have been using with the squads to help tie them all together.
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- Painting stage
Final thoughts
The one thing I really liked about this unit is that I really pushed myself in different aspects with this unit. I dont think I had done such an intricate kit-bash before, especially using different mediums to this extent (with the guitar wire and the plasti-card tubing). So thats it. What do you think?
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- Battlefield photo
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- Showing some detail
