Sanguinary Guard statues - WIP

These are probably a *little* more original than the road barrier design for scenery - the CNC road boards I'm building have a couple of corner paved areas that have a little circular space and thought they would make a good spot to stick a statue as part of a promenade or similar line.

I don't plan on using any sanguinary guard in the 5th company (want to keep the army as 'regular' as possible), but there are some very nice piece in the kit - 4 spots, so 4 statues; with a leftover set of kit parts from the box for adding to the rest of the army. 

I won't detail the individual construction of the models - they were a little annoying with the wings (which I kept knocking off) but otherwise they are pretty consistent with the box. 

Core to these was finding a set of 4 cake toppers while buying some party supplies - these are usually used for wedding cakes but are pretty much spot on the right size for a column in 40k scale. 

From right to left - original column, with the square corners cut off the bottom (and mold line removed), with the left column then roughed up quite heavily and some bolter-made holes added in the shaft. 

I guess the cake toppers aren't 'news' - seems others had already discovered them for use in similar statue designs, but the small innovation I discovered was in joining bits together. It seems that the older 28mm bases (of which I was about to throw a bunch to replace with new 32mm) fit very neatly into the top of the columns. Pinning these upside down to the resin secret miniatures base gives them a much firmer grip when glued into the column. 

Innovation #2 (or more of a repair, really): as I'd knocked the corners of the base and added a heavy resin stand at the top, these had become quite a bit top-heavy. I pushed a heavy metal nut into the base of the column and then added a squeeze of liquid nails from the top (column on the right - probably need a shot from underneath...). This takes a good few hours to dry, so left overnight and then prized it off the mat to give a nice heavy bottom that shouldn't tip easily. 

These have been given a good coat of black primer as 2 separate pieces - the column & base will be joined permanently after painting.