So this blog has been through a fair few iterations since i started it way back when. Yea I disappear, forget to post or life kicks ya square right and proper.

The first 27 pages are all sorts of 40k models and trying to find my niche and groove. And trying my hand at other hobby related things such as building terrain and necromunda and the like.

In the way back time machine (2008 matter of fact) I started with ye old space marines thinking that my mighty chapter was mighty....however their hearts grew dark and well they fell by the wayside and in to the loving embrace of chaos. I played chaos solid for about five years purging rebuilding repurging and rebuilding. I have had several chaos marine armies it is my first love of 40k. I have done Word Bearers and I have done Iron Warriors, I also have done two home brew warbands the Deliverer's of the Pure Word and Disciples of Rot. Then one day... I sold all my Chaos stuff (for reasons I will not discuss on the forum ask me via pm if you wanna know) Then came the purge where i sold most everything but two armies... my Vostroyan Imperial Guard and my Tyranids. I recently fell back to chaos...it will be slow going at first as I am going to try new techniques and push my self. It may go Quite from time to time but if this one is quite you can always check out my other spaces to see if I am there. Do not fret or be alarmed if I do disappear and magically do a photo dump on you it has been known to happen.

Well enjoy my musings and my painting of stuff.

Sad to say...im selling my lot of orks, not that many and i dont have time for another army...*sighs* it pains me to say it i gotta sell em. If any one is intrested hit me with a pm, i would prefer to ship through the us only but will go international...will have an update of pics and projects and such later on...most likely sunday evening maybe even a battle report...Orks vs Black Templars! sounds fun hope you all get to read it.

So a bit of Fluff for the day:

Hollis Secundus, an ice waste land with short days and longer nights, the majority of the emperor's faithful live in the hives. The the main export in tithes of this planet are refined metals to make the war machines of the imperium (sp), one of the most notable facts about this world is that is that it is a recruiting planet for the Knights of Mccragge. With ruthless underhive gang warfare constant it breeds some of the worst killers in the system.

I know its not a lot but that's what I have so far please feel free to help add to it I am not that good at writing fluff imo but i would like to hear what people have to say.

Here is a little story about one of the pictured marines Brother Sergeant Kerva:

Mortars screamed over head into Brother Sergeants Kerva's position. The renegades inaccuracy was appearent seeing that the forces of the PDF were turned to ruinious powers within the past six months, it was hell, the position was littered witht he dead, this had been the longest eight weeks in the deployment. But the emperor's justice needed to be done. Of the ten men that were in squad kerva only four remained. Brother Jorin's plasma gun was hit by a lucky shot and enveloped him in plasma backfire and melted into a puddle of goo. A sniper caught Brother Skaren unawares through his eye lens and out the back of his skull. Brothers Huskar and Fer were killed in an ambush about three weeks prior to the campaign starting. It had been hell, Captain (still need a name) had ordered the remain members of squad Kerva to assault the enemy position after the whirlwind barrage had struck. Autogun shells ripped through the sandbag emplacements one stray shot plinked off of Sergeant Kerva's helmet. Kerva growled in frustration and flexed his mighty power fist that crackled with blue energy. Then as if on cue Rockets screamed over head as the whirlwind fired its deadly payload. The screams of the traitors could be heard, in an instant Kerva voxed to his brothers it is time for them to strike.

well there is my little story i hope you guys like it I had fun writing itsorry if its short I will post in a couple of days the rest of this story should have pictures of my Black Templars up also so look for that, thanks for lurking. C&C are always welcomed.

Hello all that lurk away, so i been doing some research and thanks to a person i admire on dakkadakka i thought i would try to make a badab war ear army mind you this would be after the war and after there suicide campaign. any way i'd appreciate all your thoughts on where to begin and what codex should i use and all that noise. the the codecies i have currently in my possession are the regular SM and the BT for the imperial side of things and the all mighty chaos marine codex. I really don't want to do another CSM army i'd actually like to try to make the excecutioners a imperial chapter not a renegade warband. well i think first off i should aim for about 500 points and go from there.
again anythoughts or ideas would be helpful. oh if you know where i can read more fluff about them other than IA 9 and ten that would also be helpful.

thanks in advanced

I'm pretty sure you posted this in the wrong forum. This is a plog, right? It goes in the project log forum. Also if you want to sell something put it up in the swap shop.

As for campaigns, I think 500 might be too small for a main force. Maybe shoot at least for 1000.

well its my plog so i thought it would be ok to post my stuff on it. well due to funds at the moment the only two things i have availible are a SM Captain and one tactical squad...i just thought 500 points was a good starting place.

500 is indeed a good starting point. Put some pictures up of your orcs, to show more people what you're selling. Also putting it in a separate selling forum would be helpful as more people would see it there.

true about the orcs whats actually funny most of my ork bits are in boxes minus i think 10 boyz and some lootas.

OK i started the Captain of the Executioners sofar he is assembled and partially painted. i thought a neat thing was adding a BT body to give him some character, he is drying right now. Ill post up a picture of the captain and of the orks within the next couple of days any sugesstions on how to equip the tatical squad i was thinking ml and melta gun, or metla and flamer what do yall think?


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so i want to rename my homebrew chapter i just can't figure out anything cool any idea please let me know thanks. oh im working on my fluffy stuff ill post that later tonight and tell you more about squad kerva of the 2nd squad fifth company.

Couple of thoughts AH... I know you're trying to pull together an all-inclusive blog to cover all your interests... but when it's as diverse as this right from the git-go it's hard to get people invested in it.

For the time being, and since you don't have a lot of cash to buy figures... you might try to make the most out of the one's you have. I'd consider focusing this P&M blog where it will do the most good. Post pics of your captain & other models and ask for comments and advice. Make sure you title it so people know what you're after. I know you do this in your OP, but the title of your blog is very all-encompassing and might well put people off. It also helps if you can ask specific questions... so rather than just saying "C&C welcome"... say... "I'd like to learn wet blending techniques." or "I'd like to make a nicer looking power sword, can anyone point me in the right direction?"

Those types of inquiries always get me good responses because it's much easier for folks to focus on and respond to a direct question rather than an ambiguous idea.

It's easy for people to comment and give you advice on painting because we all do it. Getting intelligent commentary on fluff or fiction is much harder and requires a much larger intellectual investment from your readers. Frankly where there a number of fluff threads that I follow, I only comment on one or two because they take so much more effort to track and critique than a painted model. Thus, I'd leave the fluff & fiction aside until you have a cadre of readers who are interested enough in your project to take the time necessary to consider your ideas and writing.

I think a basic 500 point army is a good place to start. You need 1 HQ and 2 troops to be legal. With marines you won't get much else for that price. Depending on what you have for orks, you might be able to trade them for some basic marines & you'll be set!

Make sure you read the posting rules in the Swap Shop forum before you put up your orks. Pictures always help there too.

Hope that helps,
Gits

Thanks gits,

actually what you just said made the most sense, this is my first blog of this sort and i wanted to do it right and well, i dunno if am or not yea i am aimin for the moon with a blog like yours, my lil story was something that been brewing in my head and it wouldnt shut up. i do need to learn better techniques, i just dont know what they are called. like the water blending i never knew what that was called and i would like to learn it. its just frustrating thats all. thanks for the advice. if you could point me in the right directions of some tuts that would be great. well i think thats my problem i like to jump to the big picture first and then work my way to the fine details, jumping head first per say. thanks for listen to me rant. its kinda lonly over here so pop in once and a while.
again thanks for the advice.

Gits is the master of plogs, so whatever he suggests is generally great advice (and something I should follow too. That and more actual updates!).

I don't see any problems with adding bits of fluff in amongst regular posts as it helps the readers understand where you're going with the project to be able to offer advice and guidance.

Having said that, it's always a great idea to have lots of clear pictures of what you're painting (see some of the photography tutorials so that we can all gawp in wonder at the latest updates. This becomes especially helpful when you're asking for advice on painting techniques.

Speaking of which, there are some painting tutorials in the Articles section here too.

Gitsplitta wrote:
I'd consider focusing this P&M blog where it will do the most good. Post pics of your captain & other models and ask for comments and advice. Make sure you title it so people know what you're after. I know you do this in your OP, but the title of your blog is very all-encompassing and might well put people off. It also helps if you can ask specific questions... so rather than just saying "C&C welcome"... say... "I'd like to learn wet blending techniques." or "I'd like to make a nicer looking power sword, can anyone point me in the right direction?"

Those types of inquiries always get me good responses because it's much easier for folks to focus on and respond to a direct question rather than an ambiguous idea.

It's easy for people to comment and give you advice on painting because we all do it.

This is good advice.

For starters, try to take a few more pictures of your sternguard sergeant, as he is completely shadowed and it's really hard to make out what's going on. Conversely, the picture of your trooper is pretty good.

Also, finding a buddy to split an AOBR box is a good way to get a pretty decent marine force quickly.

There's a start. Some WIP shots of the Marines would be good too as well as some more shots of what you already have for us to oggle over.

And yeah, two split AoBR boxes can net you a respectable amount, especially if you can get hold of odds and ends for bits for variety!

Thank you all for the wonderful advice, I am actually going to be taking new Pics of the Sterguard Sgt so you can see whats going on with him.

@end trans - i guess ill have to start hunting dakka to see what i can find

@white drago - i already have the marines from AOBR (lost the ML and flamer guy >.< so im good there.

Ok again everyone for the sound advice, Well I calculated up how many points i have atm and its at a whopping 630!

On the Chopping Block is an AOBR Dreadnought, the Rest of my stern Guard, another captain (i stripped my excutioners one cuase i really dont want to start another army till this is well under way)
Well thats what I am going to start with Should have new pics of the stern sgt later today so you can see his detail. Oh and Ill add the Vanguard Sgt too i think he looks neat. All right much to do and little time to do it Hopefully when i get this all done ill have a cool army photo for yall.

well gotta get back to the mines (runs off to his lab to work)

Good luck AH, keep us updated as you make progress and let us know what tutorials or new techniques you're using.

well its later thought i would show you guys some better pics of guys that have been done but had crappy pictures.

here we have an Assault Marine Nitol


Next we have three pics of the stern guard sgt Hestain from my first post, hopefully this will be some better quality photos to show off some more detail.




well there it is hope you like if weather permits ill upload some shots either tommorrow or monday of the captain i was trying a new highlighting technique...dont know how its comming along ill post that up too and im trying to follow yggs osl guide see if i can make a power fist more impressive.

oh yea got the dread base coated too again ill try to get some pictures up tonight.

ok if yall have any ideas on how to make the shading highlighting osl or genreal tips that you think might work please let me know. Also what should improve upon? Everything said will be greatly appreciated. enjoy this post?

oh yea i have a tourny on sunday so wish me luck.

Hey,
At first I should say I support 100% Gitsplitta in his advice...

As for the OSL, I think you got the location part (that is, how far should you paint the lighting effects), but there's something off with the painting...

I'm not so sure but I think you had too much paint in your mix, and you tried to get some colour appear too quickly. The light colour should appear after 2-3 layers of really thinned-down paint.
Also, I think you put too much water+paint on your brush. As it looks here, the watery paint pooled & dried leaving some "stains" on the model. You should put less mix on your brush, and try to control the strokes in "pulling" the paint towards the light source. That way, it should naturally enhance the colour closer to the source.

Am I being understandable, or not?

On second thought, I might add that trying OSL for the first time on a power fist , which is a large part of a mini, is a bit bold, and something I still haven't tried...

You should first try as I did, with lenses, scopes, flashlights, buttons, etc... And then move on to larger objects!

Good luck!


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PS : the colour & technique you're using could work perfectly as verdigris, by the way...

Just an additional trick!

thanks ygg,

you are perfectly understandable. now whats verdigris?
well im going to put the fist in some mean green and let it soak it didnt come out as well as i hoped...so i guess its ok for my first outing with it. Oh i do want your opinion on the rest of the model, there are parts of it that im not too happy with but i think i can rescue it.

Verdigris is what the turquoise colored corrosion that happens on copper alloys such as bronze. It's a really neat way of making something look ancient. I've used a Thraaka green wash on my son's necrons, but a Hawk Turquoise wash actually makes a more authentic looking verdigris. Just google it in google images and you'll see plenty of examples.

i tired some of that verdigris on his combi weapon and i think it came out ok lookin i personally think i put too much paint on it though. but live and learn i guess i will have to redo his arms to make em look better.
is there a tut on how to mix colors i think thats the next painting hurdle i need to jump.


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so i have came into a small chunk of change (120 or so) and i was wonder what should i do with it, get more troops transports elites...i already have a dread, and some sternguard as elites i have two 5 man squad of troops and a captain...wich rounds me out to 630 points roughly, so with this being said what should i go get for this lil army of mine. as fluff wise i love drop pod assualts, i do the rhino rush with my csm. and my templars (need a lot of drop pods) but i do not know what i shoud do for these guys maybe a mix of pods and razorbacks/rhinos? or should i go on and make a squads of devs (i have enough for two PC and TWO LCS and a MM). so i dunno right now would like your input on this purchase.

Oh i also recently got some testors dull coat and was wondering how far the can should be away from the actual model as not to have it glob up. thanks for any input.

So i thought i would post a WIP of my AOBR dreadnought sorry if the metallic came out shiny i havent put any ink or the like on it to dull it down.


hope yall enjoy

So far, so good. I like the contrast between the blue and the light. Make sure you keep your lines clean and sharp. Makes a big difference in larger pieces like the dread.

thanks gits i been on a kommando khaki kick latly

So the tournament i went to yesterday was a pregame of an 'ard boy tourny they are holding next month and i learned something im not definatly an 'ard boy list maker. had a good list but the dice were not on my side long story short i think i came in last.

ok enough of my semi poor playing skills and on to what i have done with the dreadnought since i spoke with yall last well i started working on his arms tryin to clean up the lines i highlighted on the body and washed the silver bits on it next is prolly gonna be some highlights of hawk turquoise on the silvery bits. pics will be up some time this week so hope i can keep you in anticipation.


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So i just figured what my 500 point list consists of and thats what im going to work on. i am still going to finish the dreadnought but i won't use em until i get the next phase started.

So at 500 Points my list consits of the Following:

Captain - 160
Artificer Armour, Power Fist, Combimelta, Digital Weapons

Scout Squad x5 - 120
x3 Sniper Rifles, Missile Launcher, Camocloaks, Sergeant with Sniper Rifle, Power Sword, Melta Bombs

Tactical Squad x10 - 210
Plasma Cannon, Plasma Gun, Sergeant with Power Fist and Combiplasma

This totals out to be 500 points good stuff.

now the next thing to figure out is how to do the scouts...not sure how to accomplish this but I will figure this out, I'll do two sample scouts to see what looks better any rate hope yall can help me out. I'll have pics up some time soon of the progress made.

Why the bolter on the scout sergeant? He'd be better off with a sniper rifle so he can add his fire in with the rest.

well it was that till i found a spare laying about found that now its a sniper rifle and Gits its masking tape to make Cammo Cloaks right?

Hey, if I can make camo cloaks out of masking tape... you can make camo cloaks out of masking tape...

awesome thats what i was trying to figure you what they were made of thanks for the info


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So i did my first guy for the great Marine swap its a devastator that is nameless cuase i cant think of any right now but heres some pics of him. enjoy!




thought of a name for him this is Battle Brother Dette (pronounced debt)

So just a small update, life got in the way of the hobby and what not. However, i did finish the captain again (stripped him and took off my poor attempt of osl) and i have 4 out of 5 scouts with sniper rifles done so go me go. Next on the agenda is the 10 man squad with plasma gun and plasma cannon. Hope fully have pics of the scout squad sunday or monday and when i finish off the squad of marines ill take a small army photo, then from there ill figure out whats next other than the dreadnought with a multimelta. well thanks for lurking and hope to hear some comments on how they look soon. until then game on!

All right text update time! Scouts Done. They look good in my opinion. the squad on the other hand is still 3 of 10 complete. Working on them a bit tonight to make up for it should have at least a five man squad done by tonight. Pics to come.

Great! Looking forward to it!

So another text update, I am entering league play soon and I am not running my chaos marines but i am one running either my codex marine or my black templars was wondering what the populous thought i got 500 point lists for both to start so any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Oh pics comming today of the scouts and who ever else i have done so huzzah! i hope you all enjoy.

500 pts of codex marines isn't much. What does your FOC need to look like?

Chapter Master
- Power Fist
- Plasma Pistol
- Artifcier Armor

Scout Squad x5
- x4 Sniper Rifles
- Sgt with sniper rifle power weapon and melta bombs
- Camo Cloaks

Tactical Squad x 10
- Plasma Gun
- Plasma Cannon
_ Sgt with Power Fist

its exactly 500 points plus i can add more wargear when needed

Chapter Master would have more than 500 points with him if he went out into the woods to take a pee.

lol yea i know just i was thinking that Str 10 pie plate was looking tasty ya know?

neeed more picccsssss....

Gitsplitta wrote:Chapter Master would have more than 500 points with him if he went out into the woods to take a pee.

+1

OK! Update Time i know its been a while but here is my scout squad or at least five of them i think they came out pretty good enjoy and let me know what yall think. I am still running away from eyes so sorry if they are look like they just blinked.

Looking good AH, I find all kinds of uses for scouts.

Thank you gits,

That means a lot especially since it came from you. You are one of my painting idols on here. I personally love sniper rifle scouts, they camp they shoot pretty far they rend wound on a 4+ whats not to like about them. And missile launchers never go out of style


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Holy crap i did not even know i had 1250 views! thanks guys for stopping by!

Sniper rifles can be very useful, just keep them in perspective... with a scout's BS, you have a 50% chance to hit, and a 50% chance to wound = 25% chance per scout. Not great, but you have long range and can add the ML to the bunch, which can help. However, against things like demons or creatures with high toughness, that 4+ poison round starts looking much more viable. I usually arm my sergeants with sniper rifles as well in order to maximize the possibility of a scoring hit.

well the sergeant has a sniper rifle too so that should help out a lot. im pretty confident how its set up i got up to 1250 points mapped out to paint and for the league. Thought about getting a thunder fire cannon does any one have any thoughts on that model?

I have two but haven't built either. I've seen them used rather effectively (against me) but I've also ready that they're pretty fragile.

yea but give them camo cloaks and stick them in cover and they are almost has hard as eldar pathfinders to dig out.


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oh yea thundefirei decided against it im trying not to purchase any new models. (this makes me paint the ones i have) Well I More guys done, went to my first to college classes tonight so thats two in the bag its a start so go me!
at any rate will have pictures of the Tact Squad no later than thursday. So keep coming back for more soon!

Hey AH. I'm glad I checked out your blog. I like the blue and white color scheme you have going on. The scouts look especially good. Are there any chances we could get close-ups?

I wish the pictures could be better, so that I could see the details of the models. Have you checked out the picture tutorials that someone posted on this thread? I think that could help a little bit.

As far as expanding your list, I think you should get vanguard veterans. They could look so cool.

Thanks for the compliment sam! I'll work on a close up when i so you can see some detail, I thought about some Vanguard Vets will have to look into them.

Sweet deal. I look forward to it!

alabamaheretic wrote:

I'm really digging the glow effect on that power sword! Any chance of a close up?

Also, I tried to post on your Vendetta PMblog, but I got the Dakka 3 months warning. You know, the one where they . I'm not really sure why, it looked like you had posted in July, so....

Anyways, keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson

yea i can take a close up of the sword to show what i did i think it cam out all, thats really odd about my vendetta blog hrrmmm. Well i hope you enjoyed looking at them as i enjoyed painting them

Ok so news update, I have finished almost completed two guys for the great marine swap one for marmaduke and one for toastedandy! Started working on My Eldar right now i only have 117 points and all that is a squad of Shinning Spears with and Exarch. My Space Marines are coming along nicely. In other good news Im going to post some fluff For my Space Marines and my Chaos Marines i should have pics of my Chaos marines up later if i can find them. I will at least Put the HQs Up and Thats:
One Daemon Prince

One Chaos Lord

Two Sorcerers
Names and all that good stuff to come later. But in any case I did not realize how many points of Chaos marines i had. But i should be featuring them soonish. I hope yall stick around for that. But until then have this wall of Text.


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SURPRISE! UPDATE TIME PICTURES! They are of my Chaos Marine Warband hope yall like em. Some of them Even Have names.


Sorcerer Hindari

Chosen with Plasma Guns

Aspiring Champion Qimbly with plasma gun

Some Home made Obliterators

Plague Marine Squad

Chosen Squad with Melta Guns

Plague Champion Fergoth (sorry if he is a little dark)

Chaos Terminators

There ya go some pics finally! Again I am Sorry if they are dark or came out crappy but these ones were the best looking when i opened them up. So at any rate enjoy, admire, and comment. Maybe I will have some Fluff on my Chaos Marines some time soon.

Till then
Bama

Hey! Nice to see some progress here!

I'm excited to read the fluff that you come up with! Fluff always makes armies so much more interesting (which is why every time you read a new Black Library book, you want to start a new army )

I really like the mottled red you're doing for your armor! It's dark and....chaos-y...for lack of a better adjective. However, I think you may have overdone it a tad, imho. If you sharpen up a few areas on each model, I think the overall effect will be much better. Maybe investing some time on the eye lenses (or faces, for those lacking helmets) and on the transition between materials (like from helmet to horns and such) would go a long way. I think your terminators are a good example of what I'm talking about: good, dark, mottled red but still having sharp lines for the metallic trim.

Oh, and drill out your barrels

Keep it up, we loves the updates

Cheers,
Rawson

Yea I am in the planning stage of some Chaos fluff as we speak . i think i have to agree with you on the Terminators they are prolly some of my better looking guys. These were all painted almost a year and a half ago except for the sorc. he was made for a 'ard boy pre-qualifier. Well if i had a drill to drill the barrells out i would . But other than that thanks for the lookie loo Rawson. Oh i know i went a little over bored with the badab black on some of the models. I would really like your imput on the Plague Marines personally they took me like three weeks of painting to get them all done. Any way thanks for stopping by.


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ironically enough this army was partially inspired by a bl book the dark apostle series.

Pics or it never happened

LOL! Welcome to my world alabama...

its a pleasure to be in your world gits, oh did you like the pics that were posted? I think im most proud of the Plague marines and the Sorcerer.

I like the blue on the sorcerer. I can see the same problem with your armor that I had with my guardsmen: The dark colors make the different parts of the model difficult to distinguish. From my (very limited) experience, I suggest you do a couple highlights to make them stand out more. Maybe Blood Red mixed with blazing orange?

Anyway, it's good to see some progress, and I look forward to the fluff!

alabamaheretic wrote:Well if i had a drill to drill the barrells out i would .

Come on, you can get a teeny drill bit for less than a buck probably. With the plastic kits, you dont even need a pin vice, your fingers work just fine. Alright, I'm coming down off the soapbox

alabamaheretic wrote: But other than that thanks for the lookie loo Rawson. Oh i know i went a little over bored with the badab black on some of the models. I would really like your imput on the Plague Marines personally they took me like three weeks of painting to get them all done. Any way thanks for stopping by.

It's a little tough to see what's going on in the group shot. Maybe some closeups? You can post them with the close up of that power sword I'm still waiting for

alabamaheretic wrote:ironically enough this army was partially inspired by a bl book the dark apostle series.

See?!?!?! SEE?!?!?!

alabamaheretic wrote:
But other than that thanks for the lookie loo Rawson. Oh i know i went a little over bored with the badab black on some of the models. I would really like your imput on the Plague Marines personally they took me like three weeks of painting to get them all done. Any way thanks for stopping by.

Rawson wrote:
It's a little tough to see what's going on in the group shot. Maybe some closeups? You can post them with the close up of that power sword I'm still waiting for

Well i am waiting for the camera to get off of vacation then ill have some close ups of the sword and the squad. and maybe ill have some highlights added in suggested by sam so pretty exciting stuff getting ready to happen.

alabamaheretic wrote:
Well i am waiting for the camera to get off of vacation then ill have some close ups of the sword and the squad. and maybe ill have some highlights added in suggested by sam so pretty exciting stuff getting ready to happen.

I'm so excited I can't sit still! In all honesty though, this is what is so cool about these PMblogs. It's a lot easier to keep your enthusiasm.

Looking foreward to it!

Cheers,
Rawson

Ok for the faithful that follow my blog/plog what ever i use it for that day i thought i would treat you all to a little fluff about my chaos marines. I do have fluff of my Space Marines but i want to introduce the antagonist first cuase well lets face it, we all like a good bad guy! So for today's adventure i thought i would tell a bit about Eparch Hendari and Archbishop Ludtgor.

WARNING! I DO USE ACTUAL STUFF RELATING TO CERTAIN RELIGIONS. I AM NOT SAYING YOUR PARTICULAR SET OF BELIEFS ARE EVIL OR WRONG. THIS IS JUST HOW I PORTRAY THEM AND HOW I SEE THEM. thank you.

very good. do Hendari and ludtgor have models? would love to see them

One thing i would try is to paint the Aquillla's or whatever's on the chest a different color then the rest of the mini, the blue on blue looks ...well a little too blue imo , but if its your thing it's your thing.

Nice little bit of fluff you've got there.

@ Chaos Emperor Well they both have models there is a Picture of him on Page Two Near the bottom Ludtgor will be shown when i get the camera back (its still on vacation)

@ Deathshead420 really i thought the aqua and silver came out pretty good do you think i should add a wash top it to give it more depth?

@ sam thanks for the comment i had fun writing it and hopefully i will be able to write some more up to appease the masses

Maybe it's the pictures, hard to tell there's color there. Now that you say iits not blue i do see some of the silver....like i said whatever floats ur boat

@Deathshead In person it looks a lot better. I hope you enjoyed my first attempt at fluff writing also. Well crits and improvements are what i am aiming for so any thing that can help me improve is always welcomed.

I know all to well about the dreaded camera making the models look worse then they are ...check the thread in my sig.

So i just noticed that i have had over 2k worth of views! so huzzah and i made it to the third page! most impressive thank you for all stopping by and looking and commenting it means a lot to me and motivates me to actually finish my marines and eldar when i get them.

Congrats alabama! Means people like what you do.

Keep it up!

Thanks gits, ego boosts are great .

ok for my regulars that keep up with my blog i made an update saying that Eldar are coming to my page well they are except its not the regular Eldar it is the Dark Eladar. I got them in a pretty good army swap have about 2k worth of points to build primer and paint. I know i know if you came for chaos and space marines well those projects are on hold, i needed a break from them i been playing marine armies for 2 1/2 years now. The good news is that this is what i needed in the hobby, I know what some of you all are thinking what another army? well yea, I am not a codex creeper but i do got to say the Deldar have some pretty cool stuff plus i can run my all jump infantry army that i been thinking about for a while now.

So you may ask whats on the agenda.

Well first off is the pic requests. that is going to be in the next 48 hours. Next get 500 points of Dark Eldar painted up for league play. Right now What i Have Painted a count-as Baron Sathonyx. and ten Partially painted hellions and seven wyches. So to get me reexcited about the hobby i switched to a xenos army. Sides who doesn't like slavers and under handed double crosses. Dont expect much fluff out of this lot. When i feel comfortable with the army then I'll make some fluffy bits.

So recap
Pic update sunday or monday! Start of my new army! Will be posting at least once a week of what has happened hobby wise. I'm going to try and get a bat rep of my first Dark Eldar match when i can get an opponent. Lastly I really need yall's help with the motivation so comments and crits insights thoughts are all welcomed.

thanks for reading
bama

I fully support this change of direction

Change is good. Looking forward to the new army!

Test Model = Manditory

Rawson,

Ten four good buddy!


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Ok Minor pic update one i thought i would take a pic of my work station and well the helliarch (Sergeant for the Hellions in the dark eldar army) Due to rain i had to take the pic of the helliarch in side so it kinda sucks worse than normal.



Helliarch with Agoniser looks ok in person but its still a wip.


The work station with "inspirational juice" on the right

Well thats all i can update for today Ill get the request pictures up soonish. tomorrow if the rain lets up.

till then
bama

alabamaheretic wrote:Ok Minor pic update one i thought i would take a pic of my work station and well the helliarch (Sergeant for the Hellions in the dark eldar army) Due to rain i had to take the pic of the helliarch in side so it kinda sucks worse than normal.

What do you have planned for this guy? Are you sticking with the greyish skin tone? That could be cool. I'm liking the contrast between the grey and the orange hair and purple weapons, btw. Maybe some more color (or at least black ) on the body to break up the grey... But now I'm just rambling (or whatever the typing equivalent is...)

Keep it up!

Rawson

Yea im planning on keeping the grey skin and orange hair. where would i put the black?

alabamaheretic wrote:Yea im planning on keeping the grey skin and orange hair. where would i put the black?

Your skin tone, blue-ish shirt, green-ish pants, weapon hardware, and respirator are all really similar in tone. I actually thought it was all the same color before I zoomed in on your pic. I think you just need to break up all that space somehow. The skin looks great, so that means changing the shirt, pants, weapons, and respirator. I think black clothes with your grey skin tone and spot colors would look sweet, but maybe too stereotypical DE. So maybe either darkening or brightening your current colors would work also. Hope that clears up my thoughts.

That does give some insight to it...i could lighten up the vest. I think im going to switch the pants around and make the vest a lighter blue and maybe add a wash, the respirator i think i can add some bronze detailing to make it "pop" more. Will post a new WIP tonight but first Homework.


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OK Two WIP shots of the same guy i was working on last night i think they came out better added some bronze, thraka green wash on the pants and asurmen blue wash to the vest rehighlighted the vest with Ultramarine Blue too. These two were the best shots i got out of the 10 or so i took. So lemme know what you guys think. If that helped or not.


Kind of a close up of the helliarch



This pic shows that he has DERP eyes >.< well here is another pic with the flash...i think the flash over highlighted it but thats just me.

I blame the weather for quality of Pictures its muggy, cloudy, and kinda rainy here in alabama. so shake your fist at the weather god if you must but i did my best to bring an update.


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Power Sword Close Up all it is is scorpion green washed over with skull white




So i decided i hate flash...oh yea sorry for going pic update crazy so the next update will have my Plague Marines Up close and personal and My Baron Sathonyx count as posted along with a single squad of some sort of troop choice done.

Cool fact about the Baron he makes my hellions a troop choices

So i have a theme for my Dark Eldar Army. I am Making a Wytch Cult. The Cult is Called The Seven Weeping Sorrows, or thats the working title.

So What that entails is the following:

Lelith hesperax
Succubus
Hekatrix Bloodbrides
Incubi
Wytches
Reavers
Hellions
Beast Masters
Razorwing Jetfighters
Ravagers

And Venoms and Raiders

So Far I have Made my Succubus, 29 Wytches/Hekatrix Bloodbrides (made one a Succubus/ Hekatrix), 20 Hellions and 1 Ravager

To make 6 Reavers, 1 Razor wing, 1 Raider, 2 Venoms.

To Paint well everything needs paint in some shape of fashion but thats the update of the day.

alabamaheretic wrote:That does give some insight to it...i could lighten up the vest. I think im going to switch the pants around and make the vest a lighter blue and maybe add a wash, the respirator i think i can add some bronze detailing to make it "pop" more. Will post a new WIP tonight but first Homework.


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OK Two WIP shots of the same guy i was working on last night i think they came out better added some bronze, thraka green wash on the pants and asurmen blue wash to the vest rehighlighted the vest with Ultramarine Blue too. These two were the best shots i got out of the 10 or so i took. So lemme know what you guys think. If that helped or not.


Kind of a close up of the helliarch



This pic shows that he has DERP eyes >.< well here is another pic with the flash...i think the flash over highlighted it but thats just me.

I blame the weather for quality of Pictures its muggy, cloudy, and kinda rainy here in alabama. so shake your fist at the weather god if you must but i did my best to bring an update.


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Power Sword Close Up all it is is scorpion green washed over with skull white




So i decided i hate flash...oh yea sorry for going pic update crazy so the next update will have my Plague Marines Up close and personal and My Baron Sathonyx count as posted along with a single squad of some sort of troop choice done.

Cool fact about the Baron he makes my hellions a troop choices

Nice rate of fire on these updates!

Hellion) Really dynamic pose on this guy! Do the Hellions have that cool ball and socket joint so they can lean way over and whatnot? IMHO, you have too many colors going on there. I really like the grey skin tone you've acheived paired with the orange hair and purple whip. I think that would make a great color scheme! If it were up to me, I'd go with black/dark grey garb and ditch the blues and greens.

Power Sword) Thanks for the close up, but you HAVE to get that flash figured out Manual flash override with good lighting from multiple angles (but I'm sure there is a good tutorial floating around somewhere) From what i can tell, it has a sweet glowing effect. Ever thought about trying out some OSL?

Scout) I really like that camo color scheme. Very believable.

Alright. Now I'm off to do some painting myself

Cheers,
Rawson

Thanks Rawson

The Hellions are on Ball and sockets but the guy i swapped them from his gf glued them in place actually i got a new color scheme for my Wytches. It it brown armor so im calming the the scheme down some. I figure i dont want to to black, i already have stuff in dark blue, and my chaos marines are dark red so thoughts on colors i haven't used yet, being any shade of green, browns, greys, and the "neon" line (enchanted blue, scorpion green, ect) so i am keeping the orange hair it grew on me plus its very striking to look at, the agoniser being purple is some thing i am keeping. Grey skin check. i like the light brown armour i have going for the wytches looks good with a used feel of bare metal showing through. I'm just having difficulties doing a body suit really.

So i pose a question to my fellow Dakkanauts. What the hell color should i do for the body suits. Suggestions welcome.


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So i whipped up a few more test models and i like how this came out so here is the improved body suit and my succubus.


side shot of the helliarch with his green Wytch suit.

helliarch again


Itsa Succubus

Well this was supposed to show off the leg armor and that really didnt happen but you can see the agoniser really well (chainmail with a dwarf bronze drybrush)

Her hellion arm i thought it a good weapon to make a succubus with

Well im not too sure if i dig the blue hair. (i think this is how i figure out what squad goes to who)
Hopefully my actual model of the Succubus comes in soon so i can use her and make her a Bloodbride.
hope yall enjoy.

Good update. I like the color scheme, and your pictures are turning out better.

I especially like the helliarch. It looks like you spent the most time on her. The details are painted well and the colors don't clash. The only advice I would have is to highlight the armor a little bit to distinguish the edges. I'm specifically thinkin about the helliarch's leg. It's hard to tell where her kneecap is. Pop it out a little bit.

Anyway, nice work. I've got to get to class now. Peace!

Alabama, thanks for your kind words! Your stuff is looking great I'm excited to see what happens with your DEs! I'll be watching

alabamaheretic wrote:*poke for updates*

Just sayin'

lol yea yea yea i know been in a slump it seems every thing i have painted recently sucks (worse than normal) so i had to take a step back should have some things up this comming sunday huge update!

so good news every one. I am back same stuff as before but going in a new direction I am doing up some eldar rangers as of right now it is the start of something of a project army do not know if i will ever play them but it keeps me going. my other armies i still do there will be updates on everything soon but for now it will be eldar. In other news i recently got my hands on some chaos terminators with lighting claws that need to be done up they also have the fw world eater shoulder pads and i have a second chaos land raider. the dark eldar are still around they are just on pause cuase i was painting a lot of them to get into a tourney and i didnt even attened that tourny (boo). i have a few dark eldar models to show also. one is a Baron Sathonyx count as inspiration via panic. some incubi and a succubus. i know this is a plog and there are supposed to be picures but as of now the camera and i are at seperate locations so i have to update with this wall of text. next update will be pics of the Succubus, the squad of rangers I am working on, the baron sathonyx model and some incubi as a treat also. so until then.

bama

alabamaheretic wrote:good news every one.

Thank you Professor Farnsworth.

Nice to have you back in the saddle.

HI EVERYBODY!

well it has been a while since i have posted anything new. But i have lots of pics for everyone to gander at. So if you read my last post, I said there would be some things up and i thought i would start off by showing some stuff that i did before i took my hiatus. the auto focus got me a bit but due to crappy weather here (rain) i could not get any outside pics like i wanted.

So first on the menu today is my Baron Sathonyx count as model. I got the idea and inspiration from fellow dakkanuat panic. you should check out his stuff really cool things going on there. I hope he does not mind i kinda took his idea of taking a lelith hesperex model and sticking her on a skyboard. but this is my verion so please enjoy.


here is her back side...erm...back and hair and her tiny thong.


here is the front

Now next is something else i did in my time away and took the pics many moons ago and that is my razorwing jet fighter.





ok on to stuff i am currently working on! well to get me "back in the saddle" i decided on painting up some eldar. The only two things i have right now are an Aurtach (spelling?) and some rangers. I also have some banshees but they are on the back burner until I have these guys finished first a look at the Aurtach.


you may ask why is he still WIP? Because, i have not finshed the power sword or his pistol arm. On an unrelated note his eyes came out kinda herpy imo. going to rectify that soon.


Here is a better shot of his Swooping Hawk wings and there glory. I know i sneezed and the thin lines i was doing to finish them up came out all bloopy im still working on this guy so have no fear.

Next up is the squad of rangers i have i have completed one of them so i can show you him and a few other the things i worked on on the squad for the most part they are mostly unfinished.


Here is a close up of the ranger i finshed last night.


backside of the ranger


well thats everything for now will try to get another update soon but for now enjoy the eye candy. oh comment and critiques welcomed.

see ya soon!

Pretty darn cool stuff there 'bama... Thanks for posting but try and keep things in focus... a blurry image doesn't do us much good.

yea i know ill take some better pics when the sun comes out.

Gitsplitta wrote:Pretty darn cool stuff there 'bama... Thanks for posting but try and keep things in focus... a blurry image doesn't do us much good.

Double true. Do you have a macro setting? That would help a lot

not to my knowledge will have to dig out the book. on the other hand the sun did decide to show its face so i got some better pics to show off now

first count as baron sathonyx




next up is the autarch



heres a group shot of the rangers im working on


and here is 2 shots of the first ranger complete



on another note do you think i should do the rangers from different craqftworlds or from the same one. In the books,games (dawn of war 2 specifically) and the codex they are considered travelers so it is likely that they all come from different craft worlds. just want to know what you all think.

Sweet baron sathonyx conversion, buddy! I love alternate uses for existing models (which anyone could figure out from my blog )

I think your finished ranger has too many white tones. Could just be the picture, but all the white makes it look unfinished.

Keep up the great work!
Rawson

Hello Everybody!

so just an update on what has been going on. I thought i lost one of my rangers to the warp and then found him when i was not looking for him. so my squad is whole again. great news. and i got some more stuff done to the squad and i thought i would post a few pics to show you guys what I have been working on my day off from school (besides studying). I did post a question in a few posts earlier and that question still stands. Should all my rangers come from different craftworlds? Since no one said anything yet I am going to assume they should come from the same craft world. any way enough blather picture time!

I really like tiger stripe camo this is my take of urban tiger stripes.


here are the two rangers side by side i was trying out something new with the one on the left the one on the right is the original color scheme.


here is a front shot of the second one i think he came out pretty good.

here is the two of em side by side

so lemme know what you guys think. so now i pose two questions to the great people of dakka.

1. What color scheme to keep?
2. And should my second squad of rangers come from a different craft world.

well that is every thing for now. enjoy the pics.

I like the scheme on the left best.

thanks for the input gits. any other folks would like to chime in?

alabamaheretic wrote:thanks for the input gits. any other folks would like to chime in?

I like the one on the right better, it feels more eldary to me. I like the scheme better, and I'm not really digging the camo pattern on the other guy. Maybe if you came up with something a little more exotic and xenos looking?

I would like to repeat my previous "too much white" comment. It all looks the same shade right now, but could be an optical illusion...

Keep up the good work!
Rawson

well rawson its not actually while it was space wolf grey and white... well dont matter changed every thing up tried to make it more eldary...(is that even a word?)hopefully will have the squad done some time within the next few days.added a second dark color to the camo cloaks to try and do some thing no clue if its good or bad but i did it

HI Again!

well its that time update and i got some great stuff to show you guys...well i think its great. I just finished up my squad of rangers so woohoo! Since it was rainy a few days ago i thought i would try my hand at building some terrain i am no where near done with it as of yet but i wanted to show you guys some progress i made with that. I also decided to repaint the Farseer i got in a trade. It was painted ok but it really didn't fit the army at all so now its having a bath in some mean green. On to new business I have assembled 6 fire dragons and 6 howling banshees. They both have Exarchs the Fire Dragon Exarch has a fire pike and the Howling Banshee Exarch has a executioner. The Fire Dragons have been primed and I currently have the exarch worked on. He looks done but I'm not sure. Anyway enough with my endless rambles. Picture time!


fourth ranger


5th ranger...before you guys say any thing i did fix his sleeve already.

the squad
Squad shot...yes there are two bases incomplete in the picture but they are done like the rest of the squad.


back of the squad with the strange looking camo patterns


here is a side of the building i made


here is a top down of the terrain


fire dragon exarch with fire pike


fire dragon exarch again


rangers in terrain


another shot of the rangers in terrain

Any hints, ideas, suggestions, thoughts on how to make the piece of terrain better would be nice. not too worried if the project comes out perfect it is after all my first piece i ever made.

Well I hoped you enjoyed the pictures. I also hope you like my take on Fire Dragons too.
C&C welcomed and appreciated. thanks for looking!

Hey all

just thought i would do an update since i have not updated in a while. well lets see i been working on the fire dragons they are almost ready to be based. I started working on a farseer and a banshee exarch. those are going well they are both about ready for basing also. I am going to show before and after pics of everything i been working on too.

PICTURE TIME!


farseer primed and ready to go!


here is the front of the farseer. I know those are not real eldar runes but that was the best i could do.


here is the back was trying to see if i could shadow white. tell me what you think


primed banshees


well here is the banshee exarch appearently i did not take a pic of this fine lady before paint


here is a squad shot to show what they will look like when im done


here are the rest of the fire dragons with the new white helmets not much more to go on the gents

well thats all for now hopefully the next time i update i will have more to show you like another piece of terrain, the fire dragons done some more wips of the banshees and the farseer being complelte.
well i hope you all enjoy.

That's a lot of work you've been up to 'bama!

I love the camo rangers. They remind me of the Reasonable Marines. :lol:

Good job! The baron conversion is awesome too.

alabamaheretic wrote:

The white looks excellent on those guys! I like the contrast!

What do you have planned for their crests?

@ gits thanks buddy yea i been working my but off trying to finish up some eldar.

@Winter thanks for stopping by glad you liked em, those silly cloaks took about a week to do.

@rawson the crests are actually a darker shade of yellow its called golden yellow should have that done tonight or tomorrow.

well in other news one banshee mask has been painted the farseer has dirt on his base and so do the fire dragons. crests on the dragons have been painted too. so thanks again for stopping by.

HEllo again thought i would give an update since i haven't been on as of late (finishing with the semester and all).
so to those that care we have almost 5000 views woot! i have also offcially finished my 500 point space marine project finally.

That consists of the sniper scouts a tact squad with a melta gun and plasma cannon and one lonely rhino and my captain with a plasma pistol and power fist so weather permitting (looks like it will be) ill have a "army shot" for you. i had to put the banshees down cuase i was getting mad at them so mini break from them so i decided to take some marines i have laying about and construct a blood angels army again shooting for 500 points and will work up from there. oh yea i have my ironclad dreadnought to show yall too should have a pic of him tomorrow also.

so i had a question for you fine folks is there an easy way to put a drop pod together? Im looking at getting a few for my space marine projects. I tried putting my buddys together and it nearly killied me i had to put it down cuase the bottom was not staying on and when the doors would close it wasnt staying in place like it was supposed too.

any way keep a weathered eye out for tomorrows update

You know what they say: pics, or it didn't happen

alabamaheretic wrote:so i had a question for you fine folks is there an easy way to put a drop pod together? Im looking at getting a few for my space marine projects. I tried putting my buddys together and it nearly killied me i had to put it down cuase the bottom was not staying on and when the doors would close it wasnt staying in place like it was supposed too.

You could try the GW website. Sometimes they have assembly guides that are helpful...

@rawson, i think i tried that already will try that again later.

so in other news its time for an up date. I know i bounce around alot on projects on here but it keeps me going painting wise. So I dusted off my space marines and set about completing them appearently i only had a rhino and like 4 tact marines to paint to actually round out my 500 point list. So i took an army shot with everything of thiers painted and ready to go a few days ago and just got home to post them for you today. so i found out with wargear and the troops i have i have 905 points! So my goal of 500 is complete and my goal to 1k is almost complete. so with out further ado

5th Company Knights of Mcragge:

Here is the Army looking awesome.


Here is Captain Doromo he will lead them to glory in the emperor's name


Here is Chaplain Grenda


Sgt Kerva with Part of Second Squad

The rest of second squad


Brothers Idreal (reg dread) and Konrad (iron clad)


Second squads Rhino "Purity"

Hopefully you enjoyed the presentation of my little army
catch yall later

Always good to have a plan in mind! Helps me keep going with the 104th

You're missing a few vets and a Captain in that group shot, aren't you? Were those guys for a different project or something?

On the painting side of things, I think you need to slow down a bit there, 'Bama. Your rhino isn't up to the same standards as some of your other stuff. Feels a bit rushed, know what I mean?

Keep the updates coming!
Rawson

@rawson yea looking at the rhino in person and the pic its just not the same. in person its not half bad i think it was the angle i took the pics at to be honest.

the group shot is just missing the chaplain other than that it is fine.

well thanks for pointing out my "rush job" i think it feels rushed is because i set myself a deadline to finish it in and i felt rushed. next time i wont set my self a dead line so close me thinks. again rawson thanks for the input it is really helpful.

Hey all,
Thought i would do a small update for the 5th Company of the Knights of Mcragge. Started working on first squad the other day and thought i would share some wips of them. if any one was wondering my over all goal is to have an entire company of space marines. when i started 40k three years ago that was my plan, still is it is just taking longer than expected (life happening and all) so you guys game for pics not the story of my life so here it is. I also put together some Devastators from bits.


1st Squad with power fist sgt.

the rest of first squad lascannon and flamer.


Missile Launcher Devastators

now if i only had the signum back pack for the devs sgt i'd be doing much better.

So Happy easter every one.

It is not such a happy day for me as one of my good friends passed away today. He will be missed and he won't be forgotten. In honor of my departed friend who was an avid 40 player I'm starting a Blood Angels army, He said he wanted to start one after his eldar. I don't think he had a name for it yet but in on honor of him I am using his middle name as the captain of my army. Captain Leopold will be started soon. I'm also naming the army the Halo Guardian's for two reasons. One his eldar force had a crap ton of Guardians and two Halo well angels heaven that sort of thing it just made sense to me. So I have a test model not done but with the colors i would like to take this army. My friend also had a thing for Striking scorpions that's why there is green in the scheme I picked. This is not a complete model just a very rough idea of what I think they should look like. again like all my projects that put me into a serious mode they all start out at 500 points.

At any rate here is the test model for the Halo Guardians




so thats the test model tell me what you guys think?

Sorry to hear about your friend, 'Bama.

As for the Halo Guardians, I've never really been a fan of the quartered paint schemes, but that's just personal preference.

Good luck on the new project!
Rawson

So time for a wordy update. I know not what yall were looking for but real life has been getting in the way. So in other good news my girlfriend is on bored with me building the blood angel army homage to my friend. she bought me the blood a angel box set and an extra squad of death company. so you all should thank her via my blog. also in other news i made a trade today to swell the ranks of the blood angels by two more full ten man squads with melta and flamers and pwer weapon wielding sergeants, 3 apocatharies, a drop pod, an aobr dreadnought. so my blood angels have swelled to ten death company, 4 assault squads(ten man), two dreadnoughts, a drop pod, rhino, a tactical squad, a captain, a reclusiarch,five man sterguard veterans and two attack bikes. so not bad at all. I also made some terrain today will show pics in a few days . I lost the camera and have no idea where it ran off to. so yea that's what is happening in the world of the heretic. Hope to find the camera and put pics up soon.

In painting news I have finished off the captain and started painting one of the attack bikes, I also painted the reclusiarch also. I know pictures or it didn't happen. I have also been trying out a few new painting techniques to make my marines look better but again that will have to wait until the camera is found.

Oh yea! Me and a few of my friends are starting up a 40k campaign. there are six players we had a lot of it set up then the files ended up being corupt and we lost it all. So the other armies are Chaos Space Marines, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Necrons and Space Wolves. I will post my list and there lists as i get them and also more info on our campaign. and if you live near the columbus ga area and would like to attend please feel free and pm me.

well that is all for now.

next update will be pic heavy promise.

alabamaheretic wrote: in other good news my girlfriend is on bored with me building the blood angel army homage to my friend. she bought me the blood a angel box set and an extra squad of death company. so you all should thank her via my blog.

Dear 'Bama's Girlfriend,
Thank you for being the paragon of cool girlfriends. May all of our significant others follow in your footsteps.
Regards,
Rawson

alabamaheretic wrote: well that is all for now. next update will be pic heavy promise.

Hold you to that...

Well it is saturday in sunny alabama and like i promised a few days ago it is an update.

So for those that just skip to the pictures and don't read what is said and skip to the picture. I am building a blood angels army cuase of a dear friend of mine passing away. All the details about the army are a few posts up from this one so if you are interested in what it says please go read it.

So what news of the day my girlfriend surprised me with a Storm Raven Gunship and it should be here on monday or tuesday. I did do some painting not much but i did some, I have completed Captain Leopold and painted on one of two attack bikes. I have also assembled both squads of assualt marines one with a flamer the other has a melta gun. have not put any primer to them so I will not be showing picutes of them I also painted up some death company like two of them and have the other three assembled the chaplain needs his pistol and face done then he should be complete; most of the pictures that I am presenting today are works in progress with a couple of fully painted figures.

In other news the campaign me and my buddy are working on has seven of fifteen custom missions to play and I should be getting ready to post that in a campaign blog also. I'm really excited by this because I will have almost 3k of Blood Angels. It is going to be a friendly campaign so far i think there is one spam list and that is because he is playing the models he has which kinda sucks. I will post my 3k Campaign list in a few days and if you all want i can post the other players lists also to see what the competition is going to be like.

In other hobby news my Custom Chapter is looking for a special character or two to fill out the ranks. And I have know idea who to pick, I am leaning towards Shrike, Sicarus, or Chaplain cassius. I would also like to pick up Sergeant Tellion but I am not to sure. Any way I would like to know what the community thinks.

On to the update!


Captain Leopold


Chaplain Navain


Veteran Sergeant Ortios


Painted Up Death Company need to finish his eyes though


Death Company Squad Shot


First Assualt Squad Sergeant has a plasma pistol and power fist also melta gunner


side shot of attack bike with multimelta


Sanguinary Priest with power sword

well that's all the updates for now hope you all enjoy

Very nice work on those marines 'bama... especially like the veteran sergeant and captain. That tan/green is a very nice color combination. Quartering is a tough way to make a living as a painter...

@ Gits: thanks for the compliment, I really wanted my "angels" to stand out. and the "tan" is actually a really light yellow it is desert yellow. again thanks for looking.

Dude! love the halo Guardians, the painting is good and the colour scheme is really striking and different, even in 4 pages I can totally see an improvement from the first models you started with! Knights of Macragge are an awesome scheme too, the blue and yellow with white accents is the same as my old primary school colours :-) and boy that was a while ago i tell you!

I like the choice for death co. colours you used, only thing i can suggest is a bit more work on the reds? but they do look very striking.

keep up the god work Bama!

Nerdfest: thanks for storking my ego it really needed that between you rawson and gits i dont get a lot of compliments i do have close to 6k views so i guess I am doing something right. Glad you like my take on BA. Well between the three people i llisted above and the few that I haven't listed you all make it worth it.
oh any suggestion on how to imporve the red should i start with a darker base maybe? I'm doing the base in mechrite red and goings to blood red. im not too sure on how to high light or wet blend verywell but like you said in your blog it is a learning process.

again thanks for looking!

Bama

No drama's Bama, compliments where they're due! and you are doing some solid work that you can improve on easily! with reds I start with blood red and add blazing orange to highlight, then pure blazing orange, then blazing orange and vomit brown, then pure vomit brown then wash with baal red and it's done, I think there's a step by step in my blog but i can pm you another one with pics if you need it anytime!

now go paint!

Actually I will paint after I go get my mom from work sharing a car is a pain. (mine is currently in the shop)

And for those who care I am working on some sternguard I have them primered and washed and getting ready to paint them in a few hours so maybe an update if I make some good progress.

Your doing great! Read all 5 pages.


Little Advice from someone who learned the hard way.

Invest in some of the new shades.

they add depth and blend alot of things together very quickly and easily.

try that out and see what happens!

XDumboX: Thanks for stopping by yea i been looking at the new citidel line and im a tad poor for vellijo and i really have no clue what other brands are good or worth a damn. and a question to you sir, what color shade are you thinking i was thinking of reshading the split paint but no clue how to go about it.

Ok folks sorry i been away from the desk for a while. Been trying to find that paint bug again and it is not happening so i been researching necromunda. i have found some wonderful blogs about it and would like to do that but i have no clue how to get started i do have some sm scout that are floating about and four shot guns...hmmm just a thought maybe i'll attempt to make some orlocks or something if i do that should i start a different thread? the other gang that "appeals" to me is the eschers. at any rate i got some thinking to do before i dive into munda.

well again not much going on mostly dicking around on the internet looking for inspiration. hopefully some will slap me in the back of the head soon.

alabamaheretic wrote:Oh yea! Me and a few of my friends are starting up a 40k campaign. there are six players we had a lot of it set up then the files ended up being corupt and we lost it all. So the other armies are Chaos Space Marines, Dark Eldar, Eldar, Necrons and Space Wolves. I will post my list and there lists as i get them and also more info on our campaign.

How goes the campaign? Started yet?

alabamaheretic wrote:Ok folks sorry i been away from the desk for a while. Been trying to find that paint bug again and it is not happening so i been researching necromunda. i have found some wonderful blogs about it and would like to do that but i have no clue how to get started i do have some sm scout that are floating about and four shot guns...hmmm just a thought maybe i'll attempt to make some orlocks or something if i do that should i start a different thread? the other gang that "appeals" to me is the eschers..

What would that make? Your fourth 40k project in five pages? Knights of MacCragge, Eldar, Halo Guardians, and Necromunda? Just giving you a bad time I enjoy the concept of Necro or =][= munda, but not a lot of people play in CPH (at least not that I know of). The hyper-customization part seams really fun from a modeling perspective.

@ rawson the necromunda thing is just a thought the eldar got traded. I realized i would never play them so they found a good home to a decent eldar player so i limit what is going to be shown in the blog and thats space marines mostly the halo guardians, the klnights, and when i get there some chaos marines. like i said the munda thing is just some musings i had could be interesting. so no plans as of yet i promise still have plenty of 40k regular projects to do.at any rate thanks for checking in should get the bug back soon then ill start doing more and have a good update soonish.

Well the three that stand out the most to me for your particular color schemes are

Agrax earthshade(devlan mud)
Nuln oil
and Drakenhof nightshade

ALSO
experiment with the glazes!
they enhance color if placed on same color
OR
add a hue to whatever they are placed on

XDumboX

so in old colors badab, devlan and orkhide? i think the last one is eh ill figure it out as i go. i will def look into the glazes more hmmm. thanks again for getting back with me so quickly

Ya of course!

Shades and glazes make stuff look amazing with minimal effort, it rules

Dumbo: awesome will look at my crappy hobby town.

so in hobby event as you you have read while i haven't been updating much. Reason being my marines are starting to feel like a job/chore and are not getting any fun. So you may ask your self wtf? we want to see some ok looking marines and bad attempts at humor where am I going to go for that? you can still do it here I promise but like last time I wont be falling off the face of the earth.

A few posts earlier i have mentioned i was thinking of making a necromunda gang. And i think I am going to save up some pennies and purchase some catchans and turn them in to gangers. Still have no idea what rule set i want to use. Right now it is a toss up between Goliaths, Orlocks, and Van Saar. Again big armies are fun but man do they take a lot out of you. at any rate if any of my fellow viewers have any input regard this decision of mine then please let me know. I have seen the masters work you know all the usal suspects and some new face. (dstien, Baiyuan, DexterKong, Migs, and a few others that i can not name cuase i can't remember for the life of me thier names) But all these wonderful blogs have made me think i should slow down from big armies and do some skirmish games. So if my thread goes quiet it means I'm working on something that is not marine related.

so that leads to another question should i start a second blog for all my munda stuff? just just have add about the situation?

thanks for reading

bama

So tonights update is only two pictures and it is recently gotten stuff for terrain for a few games ][munda, kill team, death squads ect...

I know if you are a regular stalker of my blog you know i change topics and things alot. But this time I am really going to make an effort to paint and assemble some terrain.

So first off inspirational threads that everyone should check out.

Baiyauns necro/ ][munda thread (awesome conversions)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1410/345040.page

Scarper's necro thread (more awesome conversions and fluff)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/1050/272328.page#4272807

Bruticus (awesome necro blog about pitslaves and bat reps)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/90/446278.page#4273248

dsteingass (awesome necromunda terrain)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/2970/399826.page

Viktor Von Domm (awesome cardboard work you should see his tank! and rivets)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/342213.page
And well everyone has heard or read migsula and his jade vessel campaign.


first my loot from today pillage! dremel tool, air clay, new rulers, exacto knife, glue, and dry wall tape.


and the pile of cardboard i am going to use with a tin can for good measure!

any way thats tonights update enjoy and we shall see where this takes us.

Hey!
im looking foward to seeing more Halo Gaurdians, they have a good look to them. i love captain leopold as well, he looks so cool!!
i'm sorry about your friend though.

Chaos Emperor: Thanks for having a lookie loo! Yea they are on the back burner for now. Yea the captain is one of my favs too I think he has some good character. Don't worry about my friend he is not suffering any more and he is playing d&d with gary gygax and prolly playing some 40k up there too.


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So I have been quite busy today with some terrain pieces so far they are very fun. I have been experimenting with air clay to see if that medium is any good with some clay tools it works like a charm. todays main project is a toxic waste tower and sludge pit. I took me most of today to get it done and I am very please on how it turned out today. so enough ramble here is some pics to show you all what I have been doing on mothers day. And to any mothers that read this Happy mothers Day to you.


basic idea with clay down to "hold" the sludge in


here is a not so blurry pic to see. (sorry about the first one)

Here is a shot showing some minor detailing i did with the bank



the sludge and tar added


while the main topic is drying right now i was working on a low wall. the marine is there for reference in necromunda it would give half cover while the taller end is full cover.


another half wall i was working on.

So I am not so sure about how to paint the tower So far I know it is going to have rust and rivets. other than that no clue but we will see where it goes from there. I do want to add a sign to the black spot in the middle of the sludge. I will have to figure out some kind of awesome to figure out that bit but when i do it will be cool, I hope.

any way that is all i have to show for the night I hope you enjoy looking at it as i had a blast trying to create it.

Bama

Well my vote is a "no swimming" sign.

That was my thought also, i even thought i should put up a cane fishing poll with some string in it. You know some crazy old coot will think there be a mighty fish in the sludge pond.

That is some pretty sludge man!! It has so much depth and...gak..in it..I mean that in the best possible way, of course

New Dremel?? Niice!


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May I suggest some external piping protruding from the tank, wrapping arund the riveted can?? Maybe even a corroded drain pipe or burst pipe to suggest where the pool of gak came from?


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..or even fish bones floating?

well as the sludge dried it became dark nothing a dry brush cant fix. I will look or make something for the sludge to be pouring out of right now it is so so cuase it looks like it leaked out of the floor. fishing bones hmmm....might have a go at that tomorrow when it is light out. i think i can make that again will have to be on the morrow though as i have an early dr apt in the am. so night fella and if you guys think of any thing else just pop in hear or pm me.

Laser printed signage/posters are the easiest way to add signage. A anything printed with laser printing will not run when wet, and that allows for really easy application to terrain surfaces.

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Hmm an easy fix to show where the goop oozed from would be to add a corroded "patch job" to the bottom of the can.

dont think i have acess to a laser printer that kinda sucks will figure something out. I think i can figure out how to make it look like it has leaked out the bottom. Think i will need to do anything to the can?

Inkjet printer will work too, just give it a coat of clear spray.

that means i actually have to go find signs resize them and all that good mess...mspaint should do the trick right? cuase im def not spend 60 bucks on photoshop now if it was something on my steam account thats a total other story.
does any one have any suggestions on where to get signs from links or the like?

alabamaheretic wrote:that means i actually have to go find signs resize them and all that good mess...mspaint should do the trick right? cuase im def not spend 60 bucks on photoshop now if it was something on my steam account thats a total other story.
does any one have any suggestions on where to get signs from links or the like?

Mspaint might do. but ive found that word processing programs handle resizing for printing quite well.

ah good note.

so i redid the slime and bulked up the bank and painted the can to a wierd brozne color and I am waiting for that all to dry.

ok...after seeing the glow effect on yon scout i was hooked up...that will be tested on my next power weapon for sure... just a white wash... i can do that

and then i saw you mentioning me as an isnpiration for terrain making i feel honored! thank you very much!

seeing you work with air clay... i think instead of you doing everything in one go and then carve out the form that you like... why not make lil sausages of clay and then later on put them together as little sandbags? or for that matter as brickwork... i did some HW bases for my IG arms that way with fimo...

anyways... i am now subbed^^

Yes, what Vik said..that is the best way of makign sandbags from air dry clay. I bought a 10lb box of it just for that purpose!

mate... what have you planned in your future??? wth that amount you could build almost actual sandbag barriers with it^^

vik thanks for stopping on in! I didnt want to clutter baiyauns thread with our endless prattle of video games you know the "good ones" . and you do have some sweet stuff i really like the scratch tanks so awesome.

reapplied some gunk this time with PVA Glue and yellow and green food coloring with a hint of water came out pretty good. waiting for it to dry i even did try doing some pva rivets. needless to say they came out big and orky. so back to the board with them atm.

yea but i really dont see sandbags fitting in the under hive. maybe on top of a building like the ones i saw when i was in iraq (yea im a vet) so thats a thought.

speaking of iraq building wise great source of inspiration for the over crowded "hab block" building look. and tiny streets maybe ask max he might know what i am talking about. so i'll work on some sandbags right now home made chicken tenders made me lazy.

food colors? man that is a good idea!!! i think that has to be tested by me too!....

as for the iraqui building... don´t they have a lot in common with some of the buildings peeps made for their orks? i know i saw some likewise looking houses here too....

well from my limited knowledge of old school 40k they do a tad but the streets are so crowded makes ya feel cluasterphobic (sue me i cant spell for $@*& sometimes).

Oh stein, i was reading through your blog ( im actually on page 145) and i saw the idea for a watering hole there is also some old munda fluff about paradise city that i drew inspiration then i found these and i thought i should make a shady gentlemens joint (pics mildy nsfw) http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/Chronoscope/sku-down/50270

yea yea after the sludge pit there will be a shady bar with all kinds of goodness (or i hope so at least)

that shady bar... that would be very cool to be done...! poledanceing ftw!^^

and i bet they are narrow... kind of a middleage version of a city...only situated in the south of middle of nowhere^^

well between the models and a few shady bars i used to haunt when i was younger i think we need a poledancer in something in the far future maybe a poledancing servitor?

i dunno lets see how the sludge pond acts before i jump into the bar.

nawwww.... no servitor doing the pole dance... i think that would be yucky... but definatly a poledancer^^

yea the more i think about it the more i dont think i should make a pole dancing servitor.

so in other news restarting the sludge pond trying a new technique. was not happy with the way the first one came out second one should be alot better.going to start that in the morning.

A possible substitute for true Water FX might be a layer of Elmers type PVA glue (that dries clear) or Clear sillicone caulking.

That sludge is PVA and food colouring? What a fantastic effect, might have to steal that one I'm really excited that you're getting into Necromunda - are you still trying to decide on a gang? If you're converting your own, the choice is purely a skill-based one: van saar tend to be a bit powergamey (juves with techno skills get very good, very quick), Orlocks are good all rounders, and Goliath have a very particular fighting style. I totally recommend converting your own, obvs The gang choice doesn't make a huge difference unless you're using the GW models, to be honest - Necromunda is never very balanced, so it might just be worth picking whoever suits your playstyle best, them coming up with your own background.

If you're still looking for posters, drop me a PM with your email add - I can send you quite a few posters at the right scale, just print em out on normal A4.

Can't wait to see where you go with this! (And thanks for the name drop, massive ego boost there )

Hey guys,

sorry for the recent mia. I have been dealing with legal stuff and medicine. got one more big appt on tuesday then i can fully get back into doing the awesome.

scarper if you use food coloring and pva glue make sure you do an under coat of green white or grey. the mk II production looks better than the original. I will get pics post hopefully soon (like tomorrow)
as to the gang thing i can barly use gs and i i wouldnt even know where to start buying bitz for as gang. Skill wise i like the orlocks. but i also like the eschers (i just want to give them all roller derby girl names )
the only problem im having with munda like a lot of people is the lack of players and since im in a backwards state as is gaming dont rank to hgh compared to nascar and football.

any again guys thanks for looking and ill be back up in running in no time.

Hey all,
Been awhile for an actual update been dealing with lotta personal crap. So since i disappeared for two weeks I can imagine a update is needed. But for those intrested in what little personal life I have things are looking up!

So I started this necromunda thing with gusto, still am working on it. I scrapped the original sludge pit for i think a new and improved one thanks from the friendly folks of dakka. (galorn, dstien, vik, scarper, and my buddy rawson).

Today was a good day got some walls made and they are drying I have to say air clay is an amazing medium. It is super light one down side is after it dries if it is not thick enough it cracks and well cracking sucks. But that is neither here nor there. I can see why so many people make terrain I used to paint to relieve stress but making terrain is a better stress reliever I think. It actually makes you take time to do it right and get everything done slowly. My painting will go on and I think for the next painting project we are going to do a gang for munda. Again my Top three favorites right now are Orlocks, Escher, and Goliaths. I have some sm scouts that look like they need to be slightly less marined and more gangish I am still looking at the bits on the sprues to actually figure out what needs cut and so on and so forth.

If any one has a suggestion on how to convert normal space marine scouts lemme know cause that is what i have to work with atm.

So you may ask your self at this time or think "damn dude you talk a lot wheres the pics?" and i say to you here they are.

again thanks for looking


I reworked the sludge and put a base glue layer of tacky glue down then added yellow, light green and dark green craft paint then my trusty concoction of food coloring, water and glue to the mix.
this pic was taken after i got all of that mess mixed up and spread out.


here is the top of the sludge tower. and thanks to the suggestion of galorn saying "hey since you have air clay make some sand bags" so i did i let them dry out over night then tacky glued them in place as you can see one fell in to the sludge pit so now it has a healthy shade of green to it think of it as extra sticky.


here is a rear shot of the tower and some more sand bags. As you can see from the rear there are to open areas atop the tower that is so i can add walk ways to the mix giving people a reason to go up there and hide and shoot.

So I was thinking when i get done with this what should I work on next, walways a tower the seedy bar a ware house? the possibilties are endless I would like to hear everyones thoughts on this issue so feel free to voice your opinion.

i really like the sludge pool, the pattern in the sludge looks very cool especially!

one word to the sandbag barrier on top... for me the individual sandbags look a bit too big... tho if these have been built by SM i think they probably work as a SM would be able to carry them then... IG or the average human would have some problems with that size tho...

i would try to make a ladder of some sorts for the tower...this would add a bit of more nice deatil to this terrain piece and get the viewer to see it in a good realistic scale then...and maybe add a bit of a pipe where the sludge is coming from into the pool...

as for the scout conversion... would love to help you with ... in a thearetical way... but you have to be a bit more specific for that matter... what pieces do you want to use and what should be the outcome... for my own opinion scouts bitz go very well with IG bitz... or come to that old necromunda bitz of the plastic kits as well... i own a small group of goliaths and they are so bulky as could be mixed with marines even^^

and what next...hmmm... a big question indeed... tho walkways are always something you probably need in abundance

vik: Yea would you believe that sludge pool was made by swirling a paint brush around in it?
i was in the army so over sized sandbags not really a problem some of them in my opinion are toolong but for a first time trying out sand bags i think they came out pretty cool. I think if i try really hard i can make it look like an impromptu ladder was slapped on the side to give it a more realistic look as some one "raced up it". the pip i have some straws im gonna add to it and make a drain out of havent got to that part actually and i was thinking some kind of box also.

the scouts i was thinking make them look like they have long sleeves and not a bulky armor. well like i said i have a four scout marines with bolt pistols and knives shotguns and one heavy bolter. I just dont have any other bits as of yet cuase im still deciding on if i should break down and buy a catchan guard "army set" for unlimited conversion material and what not.. i do see what other people use kroot bits scouts guard and what not and a lot of empire models for inq 28.

yea walk ways are a must but i thought up something kinda fun to do today. And that was make a fungus forest!

fungus forst sounds rather fun! do share it asap as it is recognizable^^

actually i do think you did the sludge pool just like that! wouldn´t have any other idea of achiveing just that swirly look^^

ladder and pipe...yep i guess they will help the model to go a step further! also a crate never hurts^^ maybe even some resting gun at the sandbags...and don´t get me wrong... for a first time making those they doo look very good... my suggestons were only for future projects anyways...

you could even skip the ladder and to a knotty rope as a means to get up there...

as for the scouts idea...i firstlky would go for the cadian set if i was you... cadian and scouts go very well together... the catachans are too baare chested in my view... not really an option if you want ling sleeves...

yea i put some of the fungus together im letting them cure now . i thought it was whimsical and thought eh not all fungus grows on the walls so there we go.

oh i just cobbled together a ladder and a pipe on it gives it that much more oomph, thanks for the suggestion. now if i only knew where to buy crates and stuff like that then i'd be set i keep looking at model rail roading stuff then there is pegasus games too i think i might bite the bullet and buy some prefab stuff like that.

maybe ill use the shot guns and the like for my catchans. I just like there look better to be perfectly honest. as gang wise they could be goliaths or orlocks so thats another part of thier appeal.

i just thought i would drop my two cents in as the glue dries further on to the piece

now you got me thinking how small of twine do i need to make ropes to go up some thing thanks for the food for thought.

if you go for that average packaging twine i think you are on save grounds... the knots will be trickier... you need to find a good distance inbetween them... but some things have to be tested i think...

and crates... well i got recently some bead-boxes from an artshop that i wanted to 40k-fy^^ they were rather cheap and i think the scale was not too bad...:



looking forward to more pics of your fungus then^^

Thats really neat vik.
In other news the fungus is drying and the sludge pit is about ninety percent complete needs some paint and a few more details then ill call it good. should have some kind of update either today or tomorrow.


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So an up date within an update inception? I think not just auto append.

At any rate finished up the sludge pit this morning and it looks great and i couldn't wait to show yall.

I am also working on the fungus forest I decided to add a walk way pillar to it to give it some height. I cut it kinda shot so it slopes down very gradually so it works out. Pic of that later today.

So to our main attraction the sludge pit!


Here is a shot of the bank i did some slight dry bushing with rotting flesh to give the out side of the bank a more dried up look.


The actual sludge in the pit dried up looking all pretty! In this shot it also shows the dump noizzle where the sludge came out. That piece is made from a part of a bendy straw.


Here is a shot of the side of our attraction sand bags were a pain in the ass to paint but over all the effect is good i think. This shot also shows some dry brushed rust I did I think it came out well since I am terrified of doing weathering.


Here is a shot of the ladder looks pretty good all painted up this was made with "craft sticks" and toothpicks. (craft sticks are a fancy way of saying popsicle sticks)


Here is the ladder close up with some rust effect (hooray for fancy dry brushing technique) I didn't add a wash to it but I may since looking at the picture.

Any rate that is what I have For my first piece of actual Necromunda terrain i do say i think it came out rather well.
And i even did some PVA rivets for the league as an experiment.

Comments and Critiques are welcomed. I hope you enjoy looking at this as I enjoyed making it and now on to the fungus forest and walkway!

yall take care now a hear.

bama

again i have to say the sludge looks very good! the pipe you added looks convincing but i have to ask you something... did you do something to keep it save? like for instance fill it with PVA so that it will stay in shape? just to be on the safe side here...

the ladder is a very original way of doing that! and i like that! but as you said... a lil bit of wash probably wont hurt^^

one thing i have to suggest tho... try to not get the rim of the slidge pool all done in sludge look... i dunno how the base will be looking like... probably something like earthen ground or something like that... the "crater" you have there should be seen through the gaky sludge on some spots too...did i make myself understandable here?

and glue rivets...thumbsup:

Holy Crap a second update!

Well isn't it yalls lucky day!

Actually I have been very productive all day with various things that are hobby related. I started making the fungus caps and stems two days ago and they finally dried enough to be handled so that was awesome. I also thought i needed to add some hieght to the game so instead of doing a whole forest of shrooms and what not i plopped a tower in the middle so so there can be a walk way. Good stuff all around!

I also played with my dremel today and put together my orlocks. So grinding off stuff is way too much fun. I also tried my had with a little gs and well I know that I'm not really good with it but this time i didnt leave any finger prints. At least i don't think I left any finger prints. So one guy looks like he is hulked out in a ton of body armor not what i was going for but eh first real attempt at gs work.

So you can bet your bottom dollar that i took a few pics of todays adventure and with completing the sludge pond I feel today has been the most successive hobby days I have had in a very long time.

so enough with my ramble lets get to some pics!


here are the fungus pieces i made two days ago cured and ready to be placed.


here is the base that everything is going on, you may ask why it is preflocked and for that I will tell in another picture.


ok this is a crappy side shot i took inside (remind me to never take pics inside). this is done with a few pieces glued in place with the tower. Don't mind the fungus up on top of the tower he was waiting his turn to find a home.


Here it all is primered up and the reason why i flocked it first i used a rattle can to make it look like dust was falling in to the black soil. and the bottom and the round fungus are too seperate pieces sepereated by some height and i thought how cool would it be to jump on a fungus and climb on to a walk way. The cap you see is actually on a leaning stem like it grew kinda crazy that was the most difficult piece to work with cuase of weird weight problems but it worked out in the end.


Here we can see that stem that is defiying gravity.


and here is my little gang this is the goon squad!

Ok so what do you all think? I am thinking i need to add a few more shrooms to the mix to make it look better but I don't want to over do it ya know.

well that is what I have been up too. So tomorrow I think i Might paint the fungus up to complete it but i think the tower is missing something i just don't know what.

Any thoughts on any comments or questions?

So the final thing before I am done. What do you think the tower is missing?

That sludge effect is amazing! Will have to try something similar once I've moved in Summer and actually have some space for terrain Looks like it would be a lot of fun to play on too - are you planning on making some house rules for what happens to people who end up in that stuff? Looks pretty grim... you should stick a scavenger marker up at the top, give someone reason to risk getting knocked into the sludge!
I think what Vik means (correct me if I'm wrong here!) is that the edges of the crater should be the same colour as ground, with sludgy spots, rather than uniformly the colour of the sludge. It could work quite nicely if you wanted to try it out, but it looks great now too if you just wanted ot leave it

Can't wait to see what you do next!

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Shrooms look good! The terrain piece looks really interesting, but it's hard to say until you're a little further down the line. Promising start though!

thanks for covering my back scarper... you got me right on this one!

and alabama... that shroom terrain is looking very cool! the caps came out splendidly! i really like them! i would suggest to cover them now with a coat of PVA to keep them from crumbling... this can happen... air dry clay in such thin and fragile forms may be quiet sensitve...!

as for the scouts/orlocks of yours... i am not sure atm about the right guy of yours... the GS specially on the chainsword arm looks a bit wonky... i think the transition of the torso to the arm via the shoulder needs a bit of more work to make it look smoother... how..hmmm... it´s a puzzler to me really as i am still figuring out how to bets cope with GS...

and by the way what tool did you use with your dremel to work on those minis? just asking if oyu have any good tools i should be getting too...

Vik: I didn't see your first post ya kinda snuck one in on me. And i actually coated the bottom with craft glue it is a tad stickier than PVA so it should hold the job pretty good. Thanks for liking the rivets it was my first try they looked pretty good when i painted them.

So if i am understanding both you and scarper i should have painted the banks a little bit of a different color? but as it stands right now I'm pleased as punch with it so I do not think will be doing any changes to it.

Scarper really have not thought about rules but in my mind this is some caustic and thick so it will kill you in some horrible fashion. (like any good thing in munda) (remember kids add baking soda to kill the effect) But thinking about it if you get shot with a high impact or man stopper rounds that is gonna send you flying into the gunk *insert evil laugh here*

as to the shroom terrain it has a long way to go just trying to think up how it can still be cool and still playable. so thinking caps on gents.

as to the wonky gs that is my mess up i didnt grind a piece down to the right size.

dremmel i just used the standard grind pad that it came with to do it it takes some finesse to do but ill get better with practice.

yea working with gs is a nightmare in my opinion.

well my plan with the wonky arm is to cut off the hand grind it down some and then reglue the hand after i place new gs on it.

well again if you boys think of anything while im getting ready to have dinner please lemme know

edit for horrible spelling errors.

well i am off for sleepy land now... but i will leave the thinking cap on for the night^^ dunno...maybe i dream up something

the decision is ultimatly yours... so leave it as is! don´t let yourself get confused by us^^

GS takes a lot to getting used too... mixing it... getting it on the spot you want... and then the whole sculpting issue... as for fingerprints... i haven´t got that problem at least... i always use gloves... if you leave marks...then it will be creases and such things... which then even can look cool ian inteded ... i would suggest getting a package of throw away gloves and get it on!

sounds good sleep well my friend.

eh i am always confused so that isnt any thing new lol

Things are definitely looking very good. Rust is alot of fun isn't it.

rust is very fun actually.

and one small thing before i tell dakke goodnight made another shroom for the piece to fill in that gaping hole will take a pic of it when it cures.

Allrighty,

So today was a very good day of making more munda terrain. I have accomplished a lot well to me it is alot. well i forgot to take a pic of the two newest shrooms on the piece but they are on there. I also found out that dry wall tape makes great grating for walkways and such. So all the wips you see were before i primed every thing. But as it stands its all primed and i hate cutting out circles need to find an easier way to do that. Any rate it's time for a small update. I might up date later tonight after I do some work on my gang some still nameless but i have three gangers and one heavy. any way picture time and enjoy!


here is a pipe piece I put together I think it came out quite good.


here you can see some texturing and the space between the pipes. I forgot to mention this was made from an aluminum wrapper cardboard tube if any one was wondering.


so with the sludge pit i thought a chem pit would be good here is the base structure i made it this morning and it is drying out i will be using the same techniques as i did earlier to make it just waiting for it to cure.


here is the shroom piece with new shrroms and a platform and the all mighty grating of drywall tape.


here is two towers i made with a bigger walk way i dont think this one will have any siding on it not too sure.


here is the first walkway I completed again with drywall tape grating


here is a close up of the platform for the shroom tower piece


and the base for the tower i built. it should be noted that both tower bases are built the same way empty roll of tiolet paper and an old cd.

well that is what i got done today with terrain like i said i will be posting up some progress on my gang tonight also they are not ready for primer but i think i can do a little something with them to make them look better till later.

bama

hey bama... i started to work with those toilett paper rolls and chips rolls and what not in the beginning too... but there is one major drawback with this material... it is rolled up cardboard... if possible you should do something to cover up that rolled up look of the cardbaord... that is instantly recognizable and later on when fully painted kills off a lot of the gaming athomsphere... use some tape... add PVA and sand on certain areas or do something completly diffrent on this... heck you could add paper and glue it on top of everything...just get rid of that spiral looking look...

the dry wall tape really looks interesting...saw that being used on skalk and daves thread too... i for one want to use soon anti- flymesh for windows... hope this might work too...


as for using that thick type of cardboard form packagings... i would add paper there too to obscure the inner look and create a more uniform looking structure....other than that i think you are onto something good here with the use of the CD terrain... maybe add the odd tooth pick there to get a sort of railing look...


but i really have to congratulate you for your ongoing productivity!!!

yea the dry wall taspe is aces man i really like it. i might add some dry wall tape to kill that spiral look your talking about.
I have done some pva expirements with water and paper towels that came out interesting too. then add water and sand and presto instant drywall mud stuff.

yea lemme know how that fly mesh turns out for ya.

i think the uniform look is nice but it is supposed to be the under hive so it has gone all irregular, that and i can't cut a straight line for gak. and something else about the inner workings just think of it as seing the inside of a building like a bombed out referance photo from WW II. Or any sci fi thing when star ship get ripped open.

not trying to have an arguement more a healthy discussion on where i was comming from man.

any rate thanks for the input nmone the less.

by all means...experiment like hell! this is how you learn the most! i do that every time io start something new! it really helps...

and your ideas to cover up the spiral look sound promising...

and the paper towel stuff... pics^^


and i like your aproach... thats what keeps me here the most atm! this hobby needs enthusiasm!

I just got tired of putting big armies together to be honest. Still love 40k may play some on sat but munda just gives you a much more personal aspect to it.

well I think I'll give the spirals a once over after dinner (taco salad yum)

well i got too much free time honestly thats the only reason i get so much done in one day.

Oh if you were wondering i fixed that guys shoulder and made it less wonky looking and to chop off his hand and grind down the rest of the shoulder pad and re green stuffed it came out better then i messed up and got all excited so now the should pad looks like crap nothing sandpaper can't fix though. like i said should be something interesting about thim tonight.

i am totally with ouy on the personal aspect... in fact innthe future i want this to be a major aspect of my sons and mine playing games... skirmishges are way more interesting than epic battles... and beside i am a roleplayer by heart... so munda or mordheim are way more interesting to be honest...

and why do you have so much time on your hands?


and this souds as if you need to take pics of your minis soon^^

yea i hope your boys enjoy this as much as you do. I'm a roleplayer by heart too so i can totally agree with you on that (thumbs up) I told my buddy if he wants me to play fantasy i'll play him in some mordhiem.

oh im out of college for the summer and unemployed at the moment. but i do have a job assesment test on tuesday so maybe i'll get some kind of work.

nothing new with the minis still grey and green i do got the sand paper out to smooth out some things though to see how that gos though.

after the last sanding with the sandpaper i would suggest using the xacto knife to scrape off a bit of the more fairer "dust" still clinging to the bitz... happens to me all of the time... but after the knife everything is back to smoothness...

so this means i have to cross fingers then... is your age right? 29... well i droped out of college and was for many years unemplyoed... it happens... i will have a job inn august...hopefully it goes all well...


and my kids... the older one... i bet he is a roleplayer by heart too... i can feel it already... and he is a mere six years old...

i'll be 29 at the end of the year. well im using some really fine sand paper to get the finger prints out its taking a little longer but the results are looking good..
well between awesome dads legos and a caring family i think he is gonna turn out all right. does he help you paint and put models together?

just remember start him on the good stuff like 2nd ed d&d lol

Terrain and troops looking good there.

unfortunatly i have no D&D whatsover...for now... one never knows where the road might take us^^...

well he will be getting soon his own army... more a skirmish army... for a bit bigger munda gang... a police force ... which he desperatly wants to paint with me already... we had one session together but for this the setting must be perfect... mum and brother out of the house and he fully healthy and with a good nights sleep... all in all way to seldom achieved...

you will get there eventually i know it.. well from what i been reading the enforcers are kinda unforgiving for new players but since its just you and your son i think they will be ok. is that what he wants to do when he grows up?

well the painting will happen and since its summer you might even get the chance to paint with him.

well... i think there will be a general playful athmosphere at first... then the rules will be introduced... by the way... i have no idea abouzt necro rules...or for that matter 40k...neer played a game...yet... but i guess we have then the chance to try it out together...

well police men are iconic... so it´s an easy choice for him... and he doesn´t really know what else might be an option...

I never played a game of munda either but it sounds great fun.

http://anthony-case.me.uk/necromunda
here is the rules that i'm gonna teach my friend sorry they are not in german anthony case used to work on necromunda from what i read.

again from what i have read orlocks do a little bit of everything so they are a good "starter gang" (they look like bikers)
wither way it should be good fun for all
if he gets the police are you going to paint them up like the politzie? cuase i think that would be kinda cool

well they will be painted in blue... one of these days i should take awip of them... not really much to be seen really... the primed minis are by the way in my gallery called felix freedom force...

and i already have the rules on my pc... a pdf i think even from the GW site? ?

what i like from what i´ve read about munda is the campain aspect and the development of charcters... that is my stake at the game... you have to make choices...and don´t get your good ones killed in action for just another kill... because they can get outkiited for good and get much stronger from game to game... 40k can´t possibly get such a feature working...

ah the classic police man look. primed minis are one step from being painted.

ah ok well the community edition has a few rule changes and clears up any misunderstandings of rulings too.

yea that aspect of making good decisions is n o pun intended a killer wrong one means you might lose a guy.

yup... in 40k it is so easy to waste away a platoon... i don´t like that way of thinking... that´s why i want to name for my 40k army each man... that might help me not get them slaughtered too easy...


and yep in munda you have to make way more and hopefully better choices...


so now i need to look into those rules then^^

Hey Bama! Not many tips I can give on the tubing and towers other than what Vik's already doled out - Dave's your man for that! Nice to see you getting some multiple stories in there though, necro absolutely requires walkways, long drops and tower blocks

One tip on the green stuff - it doesn't tend to take filing or sanding well. If you try and file it after its set, you'll likely end up tearing the whole lot up, and it'll be near impossible to get a smooth finish. What tools are you using to sculpt, if you don't mind me asking? I've got a few tips that might help, but I don't want to sound patronising, so let me know if you want a hand!

Plus: You should get a mod to shift this to the P&M blog section! I keep missing it cause I don't check this forum too often, and I bet some of the other usual crowd do too!
(Though maybe I'm just being dumb and oblivious )

I'll be interested to see your drywall tape decks all painted up!

scarper, actually i haven't been using any tool just my hands >.>

dave, yea that dry wall tap makes great grating.

mod if you could move this to the appropiate place i'd be grateful, unless it is in the right spot.

Hey all I haven't abandoned you in to the void I just was doing a bit of research on mushroom color so they will look good. That's is all I really have been doing plus I got a catachan command squad box to fill out the rest of my gang. So we are up to nine strong!
So terrain and gang pics hopefully soon it's raining right now so no pics and i do not have great indoor lighting. :(
till next time
bama

Looking forward to it, Bama! I've 'mod alerted' your post, so hopefully you can get this moved ASAP

thanks man i thought if i changed the topic they might move it too to help the situation along.
yea the gang is looking good the skin came out real well. the gs still looks like crap though ; /. any tips that may help me along the way?

Using the Mod Alert system not only works better, but is 100% less annoying too!

research is all good! after all it shouldnae look like a rubber duck when done

thank you alpharis!
if it did look like a rubber duck i think i would have an issue vik

i bet you would^^

either that or i would have a mutant rubber duck hmmm sounds enticing

hmmm.... why not sculpt one for the sake of the argument

you might never know... in munda this might work as extra cover^^

i might give it a go turn it into a golden goose loot counter...hmmm theres a thought good job vik got me thinking about a loot counter

by the way... that rubber duck talk made me think of a giant doghnut... i think that is something that needs to be done too...

and yeah... this sounds maybe a bit dumb but that was my first idea after the rubber duck...

fresh doughnuts do sound good right about now with some coffee.
oh i started reading your steampunk blog on page two ill get through the thing in a few weeks.
oh i did find some cool lookin things on a model site a few weeks ago and ment to post it up as an idea for loot counters and terrain gubbins.

here we go
http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/tam/tam35229.htm

lol... i wish you all the luck... you need it to sieve through^^

eh ill need more than luck get me a six pack and a pack of cigarettes and i'll make it through the night.

lol...

thats southern alabama logic for ya there vik beer and cigarettes will get ya through anything. but on a more serious note i did find some good example of pionous mushroom from around the world alot of the red cap with white dots but i found some others that i can think of that would work sides these are mutant fungus so they might not be all deadly.

Hey all thought I would post up what I have been working on for the past few days. Due to crappy weather I was not able to take pics until very recently like 15 min ago. (stupid rain) Sorry I did not get to show you all WIPs but this is what was done.
To keep track of my gang I use a site called yakromunda.com good place for you to keep track of gangs, campaigns, get some neat scenarios and get the rule books
. I have still yet to play a game but I have learned most of the rules for both the community edition and the living rule book.

everything can be found here for the budding munda player http://www.yakromunda.com/index.php?page=intro

there is another site i have saved in my favorites that offer up some more stuff very old and unique stuff too.
http://www.librarium-online.com/forums/other-40k-universe-games/197611-necromunda-links-all-those-hard-find-pdfs.html

and for those interested in inquisamunda i have that site saved as well. all that cool stuff can be found here
http://empireofghosts.blogspot.co.uk/p/inquisimunda-resources.html

There is a guy that I found on Yakromunda that sells female gangers and his stuff is almost identical to the GW line of products so support small business and check him out here.
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/gangwar?l=36

I hope I haven't overloaded all of yalls senses cuase i'll keep posting crazy munda stuff as long as yall keep looking and commenting.

I do hope the links that I provided will inspire you to pick up this wonderful game.

So before the pics i thought i would Post up my Gang List and again with shameless plugs to yakromunda my gang load out can be found here: http://www.yakromunda.com/gang/5191/goon-squad

Ok shameless plugs are over so now on to what you all really wanted to see and are hear for the pics!


My Leader Giger


My heavy Bolter operator Tonne


My other Heavy Shiek with Lasgun (Ran out of Cash to give him a cool gun)


Merrick with Shotgun


Jules with shot gun


Maynard with Shotgun


Riley with auto pistol, the pistol was made from a laspistol and a bolt pistol clip


Kull with Autopistol ( I know it is a las pistol still i need to find another bolt pistol clip)


and an unamed juve later to be named so far he is armed with an autopistol (his holster is on the side )

any way that is my gang. If you were wondering what I used to make them all they are is space marine scouts and catachans nothing too exciting easy conversions from catachans to gangers remove some imperial eagels paint them in jeans and off they go. I have not found a good replacement as of yet but until then I am just going to use them as is would love to have some orlock females. maybe i'll message that guy from shapeway and see what he thinks.
any way till later
bama!


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So I played a bit of munda today (i played myself was not any fun :( ) i think i got the jist of the rules down still need to go over the rule book and make sure i got them 100%.

Oh i did do some work on terrain just a walkway but it came out allright will take better pics tomorrow when i start up more terrain madness.

pic time:

poster were provided by scarper. Again THANKS!


came out better than this pic lets on.

any way thats what i have done for tonight and hopefully I'll bring another action packed day of awesome with me tomorrow!~!


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for got their family picture *face palm*

They look good, Bama! It's a little hard to judge by the photos though. I really like the warning stripes on your leader's power sword, and is Shiek smoking? Great pose! Some of the GS armour seems a little thick, but they certainly look tough! I like your gun conversions too - good way to differentiate. All in all, a really characterful gang! Any backstory for them?
Your gang list looks fun too - any idea what weapon Shiek will be toting in the long run?

About green stuff - Please forgive me if any of this is stuff you've heard before, or it's patronising, but you asked, and these few things took me a while to learn, so hopefully I can help you save some time on errors! I'm not really that great with it, so there's no doubt a lot of better advice out there.

Apart from decent tools, I've found that the two most important things though are lubrication, and patience. The tips of my tools spend about half their time on the GS itself, and the other half in my mouth, or a cup of water. As long as it feels smooth when you're working, you're doing it right. If GS sticks to your tool as you're working, you'll wreck whatever you've done so far as you stretch it out of proportion. Some people suggest vaseline and the like, but I can't stand the stuff. To each their own

The second bit, patience, is also vitally important. Use really small amounts of green stuff to get the rough shape down, and then use lots of small movements to slowly smooth the GS where you want it to be, rather than big, forceful strokes. You're not pushing the GS around, you're stroking it gently until it ends up where you want it to be. Patience is also important in just giving yourself lots of time to work on something - work in layers, and give it time to cure between sessions, or you'll smush stuff you've already done. That's especially true if you're adding details, like putting pockets on trousers or the like. If I'm sculpting a jacket or something it probably take about 3 sittings to finish - work on several projects at the same time, so you've always got something going!

Final tip: These bad boys.

Cannot tell you how much decent tools - in particular these soft tipped clay shapers - will improve your sculpting. Unlike metal tools, they're naturally resistant to GS sticking to them, and you can lubricate them less often.

Hope that helps, it's a couple of small steps, but they really work. Sorry bout the text dump!

Scarp

Scarp,
the text dump is fine it was a learning thing so I do not mind. I have to look into getting some good clay shapers. I have some plastic ones i use for my air clay. I just don't know whats too much or too little green stuff that right there is one of my problems I know it takes patience and that is something that I kinda lack. But have been working on it since I have started building terrain. and it didnt sound like you were talking at me you were very informative and i even took notes!

About the gang well I am going to write some fluff it is actually going to be in this post! Actually that's just a plain chainsword with hazard stripes that was fun to paint. Shiek well he depending on how he levels and everything depends on what he gets as of right now I'd love to add a grenade launcher for him but I am not too sure. He is not smoking he is about to holler something I imagine. I thought my bolt pistol conversion was simple and effective.

Allright fluff time about the Giger leader of the Goon Squad.

I see that they all have red shirts!

well yea dont ya know they are bloods if this is some attempt at a startrek reference i think i might have to punch ya

Well hello!

No update this time around but just thought I would check in with yall to tell you what I have done today as it was bleedin hot again I hid inside instead of weedeating the grass.

hobby wise two things are occuring.

thing one:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/455372.page
trying to trade off my dark eldar for some tau

thing two trying to finish off 20 models for my 1500 point space marine army.

I did work on terrain today but nothing exciting I painted up a tower and threw some posters on it I should post up progress tomorrow.

So hang on one more day for a real update!

later,
bama

well good luck with the sawp businiess... hope you get enough traffic for this...

and also good luck to get the marines done... hot waether is something i could do without too... not that it is here atm anywhere near summer weather, mind you...more like autum for some reason...

thats really strange weather your having but in alabama there is only two seasons wet and hot.
on that note i don't miss snow but this is more army related than anything else.

snow and army are a drag together... i remember camping outside in the winter... with minus 30° celsious...that is really cold, mind you... one of my mates was so cold that his boots soles got loose because he got to close to the campfire... and my own mummy sleping bag got some serious burned holes too...

yea when i was in korea it got really cold too i think down to minus 15 or some such crap like that.

i never got to sleep next to the fire so i didnt miss out on too much. the one time i did i was regretting it it was freaking too hot.

funny thing i loved going to the field when i was in the army and i really didnt like garrison work, i was a military police officer when i was in.

i bet that was a tough position to work in... from what i heard no one likes MP´s very much... well we used to make fun of them... they go to hunt donw peeps that are absent without permissions here in germany... but they search for these idiots without pics of them... so you can lie outright to them that the guy is not at home even when you are really him... but eventually you get caught .... wel the german military is not really an inteligent army... at least where i had to do service...

Yea thats true abotu no one liking the MPs but we always threw the best parties so it was a fair trade lol
i never had to deal with the gewrman army so i cant say if they are dumb or not but like all people there are dumb ones and smart ones and the unlucky.

How have I not seen this yet?

Great work, and I always enjoy Gang projects! Subbed and will be back!

thanks for stopping by skalk.
and not to worry it bounces around a lot so there is something going on here all the time just dont know till ya stop on in.

I really need to go through a few profiles and check what people are working on besides the stuff I'm already following. There's simply too much awesome being worked on to not.

yea there is i look through the pm stuff every few days to see whats new

but like all people there are dumb ones and smart ones and the unlucky.

that is a good thinking you have there matey!!!

Hey all,

So I promised an update it's not a big one but it is still an update. I completed my first tower the other day.

And like the original spot for this blog was to keep track of my fetish of marines so I am putting more of them up. It's more of my home made chapter.

Any way here is some pics.


half the squad will get the rest of the squad up later tonight or tomorrow.


tower before paint


tower after paint with some posters.

any that is all for now so lemme get back to doing something and I will check in with you all later.

Damn Bama! The Gangers are Badass!! I built my first and only ever "played" gang out of plastics like that! Excellent work man!

The tower could still use a bit of trim around the edge of the platform methinks..perhaps a strip of something U-shaped or L-shaped ideally, flat, thick cardboard even...something to give a hard edge. I think the lip it creates will give it that added depth, and also give you a stop for minis getting knocked off and broken! Never compromise playability for detail though.

nice basic scheme for the marines.... how will you base them?

and the tower looks good tho i would take daves hints to heart here!

dave
thanks for the compliments on the gang they are still unblooded for now. but i have a game or three this monday comming up with my buddy who is also getting into munda!

vik
thanks i jokingly refer to my scheme as the walmart army becuase of the colors. as to the bases well i got sand from the yard and that works ok so prolly that as it is free! ::thumbs up:: then add a wash to it to give it some depth.

as to the tower well right now thats tossed in the air. if i trim it down any more the platforms are gonna look wierd with the big tube holding it up. so i am unsure will meditate on this some.

the only thing i don't like about the dry wall tape is cutting the edges to look good when making it just random grating bits that and it frays so thats the only down side i have found with working with it.

I didn't mean cut it any, just add a rim of some kind to give it a hard edge, like the grating is set into a frame of sorts.
The rim would hide the edges of the drywall tape too
Just think of it as adding a new layer of detail, you can paint it after it's glued on.

ah well i think i could swing that. i just have to cut a really thin piece. like i said i will give it more thought tomorrow as those marines kicked my ass and made me wanna scream and they still didnt come out good /sigh/

i know i can do better and that pisses me off now i member why i put them down and picked up munda.

oh dave i ment to ask what do you think about my skin tone?

yup...and this would be the perfect place to add hazard stripes then...

walmart amry...lol...reminds me of an episode of southpark i think...

Viktor von Domm wrote:yup...and this would be the perfect place to add hazard stripes AND RIVETS then...

I fixed that for Vik...

..ya see, he hasn't been feeling well lately...he forgets sometimes

there is a website i go to get a giggle every now and then
http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

it makes me laugh.

i can do hand painted hazard stripes like a champ. just have to make it in sections to get it all the way around.

i know already that site... tho i think it grows like cancer every minute^^... is it weird that walmart drew away from germany? i only ever was once inside a wlamart here in berlin... it closed soon afterwards... and no...i wasn´t connected to the closing

AND RIVETS then...

i am really feeling behind the weather it seems....or i might get old... or both...

well it decided to open up here so the rain is just falling hard.

i was just sad that when i opened the page up that threre was some dude proposing to his girl in walmart very fashionable.

yea ill even to some rivets with my hazard stripes.

well maybe they originaly met there for the first time... nostalgia and so on...

i dunno vik i mean that is something your supposed to remember fondly.

Kid:mom where did dad ask you to marry him?
Mom: oh it was in wal mart by check out register 14 i was buying a pack of menthols that day...

that does not sound romantic in the least.

well... when you put it like that lol....

but times are achanging^^... tho somehow i have to think about a best before date now not something you would want to think about in terms of marriage?^^

welll wouldnt all your sons being born be a best day? or the day you met ms von domm? or when you got out of the military

I met a chick in Walmart once...she fed me, loved me, and left me

good call mister... very good argument there

you certainly have your head screwed on right!


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dsteingass wrote:I met a chick in Walmart once...she fed me, loved me, and left me

a fryed one?

must be every where else cuase there are no hot ladies in the wal mart *nods matter of factly*

vik : yea sometimes i do have it on straight but it come and goes

well you can´t keep that level of wise up for too long... otherwise the followers would camp outside your house...

true but to hide it ill use them fake glasses with a big nose no one believe me then

lol... now you are official demasked then

I agree w/ Dave, the platform needs an edge of some sort. Otherwise it's wicked decent and I really like seeing someone using drywall mesh tape! It really changed how I do grating / diamond plate effects and I can't recommend it enough to anyone that builds terrain!!

skalk i agree it is a good materail to use. i think in my previous post i said the only problem i have with it is the fraying when you cut it and trying to make it look even. i know its the underhive but i want even grating for the troops to move around on.

I use a razor blade and a metal T-square when I have to cut to size. I've also wrapped it around the edges of whatever I'm working on and used super glue to keep it down.

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so not update time but in other hobby related news i got a pretty sweet deal for my dark eldar crap. itraded all of it for tau crap. hooray blue fish!

this is what i got.

Tau Crisis Suit Commander x2 NIB
Broadside x2 NIB
Broadside x3 Assembled
Kroot x32 NIB
Kroot x16 NOS
Krootox x1 NIB
Gun Drones x10 NOS
Gun Drones x11 Assembled missing flying bases
Sniper Drone x3 NIB
Sniper Drone x6 Assembled
Crisis Suits x6 Assembled
Kroot Hounds x14 (2 primed black)
Tau Etherial x2 Assembled
Kroot Shaper x3 Assembled 1 missing arm

strangely enough i did not get any fire warriors. and with all those kroot i think im making either an inquisimunda gang or an outlaw kroot gang with them. haven't really decided oh and if yall want to chime in on how to build a tau list i started a thread too.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/455671.page

just in case any people that read my thread play tau and know anything about them.

shas o 146
burst cannon, plasma rifle, hw black sun filter, hw drone controller, hw multi-tracker, hw target lock, targeting array shield drone x2

elites

crisis suit 87
missile pod, plasma rifle drone controller
shield drone
troop
fire warriors x 6 60

Kroot x10 124
kroot hounds x9

Heavy
Sniper drone team 80

that's the tentative 500 point list for now.

the only things that need purchasing or traded for are a few devil fishes and maybe a box or two of fire warriors.
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congratz for the army swap...

a munda kroot gang... now this is something that i could love to do one day on my own too... somehow kroots are very cool in my book...

sadly i am of little help with the whole rules schtick...

eh yakromunda has a working rules set for them so ill give that a go. when i get fire warriors ill have a tau strike team with kroot for inquisimunda. i am actually kinda of sad that i did not get any fire warriors in my trade tbh.

i bet you could get these tho quite easyly from ebay without any hassle ... and you definatly got some good units in your deal...

yea six crisis suits aint nothing to sneeze, neither is the five braodsides. I did not expect to get a butt load of kroot.
and i am not too thrilled with the gun drones (those are being modded to shield drones)
the ethereal will be nice to paint (im not going to use them)

so far the 500 point list is looking as such:

shas el 111
burst cannon, plasma rifle, hw black sun filter, hw drone controller, hw multi-tracker, targeting array shield drone

elites

crisis suit 62
missile pod, plasma rifle,multi-tracker

crisis suit 42
flamer, burst cannon, multi-tracker

troop
fire warriors x 7 70

Kroot x10 130
kroot hounds x10

Heavy
Sniper drone team 80

what was your lot you swaped again?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/455372.page this lot plus a tact squad a crater and a termie chaplain and a rhino
point wise he got the better end of the deal.
money wise i think he screwed me over.
basically i got screwed i think live and learn i guess.
i hate ebay i never win anything from there that i want.
last thing i won from them was a barraoth (eldar named hq) with no wings for a buck >.<
ill check on amazon and a few other places before i got to the dreaded gw online shop

hmmm... i am not that firm with DE... but i think you are probably right in your assumptions...

why did you want to switch to tau from DE anyway?

eh i like mech suits alot and i wasnt having any fun with the dark eldar tbh. again im not the worlds greatest genreral but i do try my best. and i always wanted a xenos army so i been picking through them slowly started with orks wanted a green tide tehn i realized i would want to paint five billion boys, then it went to eldar and i dont like elves i had no idea what notion that took me into, then it was the dark eldar evil space elves are cool in my book but it wasn't fun.

so all thats left to try is daemons, nids, and tau. (then the rest of the impierium DA, SW, IG, SOB, IG, GK)

and im not a fan of daemons, and bugs are cool but im not sure if i want to run them so praying tau are it.

well i see your reasoning... and i too think those big suits are cool... unlike the SM i think there suits make much more sense to me... well... good luck to you with these then...

and now i am off to a week with the family!

cheers, vik

enjoy your week vik!
oh power armor makes sense to me it is just i have like three power armour based armies.

Greeting all!

So this being my 1000th post I have no idea how to celebrate but I did do so more space marine stuff I was working on a landspeeder. It is done now but at the time it wasn't.

Oh, I played my first real necromunda game last night using the community edition rules and it went well.

MVP goes to Tonne my heavy bolter guy he out right killied a guy! Very exciting stuff.

Here is my gang as of right now: http://www.yakromunda.com/gang/5191/goon-squad

And my buddies gang he is playing spyers: http://www.yakromunda.com/gang/5274/nonpartisan

It was tough, two gang fights and the matriarch showed up and killed my ratskin scout. >.<

It was a very enjoyable evening.

I even talked his girlfriend into playing she is playing with us next month when i get my gang of delaques! I am uploading the picks of the speeder forgot to take pics of the rest of the squad of my space marines.

On the terrain front I need to make some more so it isn't a turkey shoot in game.

In the works for terrain is more towers and walk ways going to build some more low walls for and mushroom caps as site blocking terrain I am still going to buy the diorama sst i saw on a model site to add more crap to the board.

So next update I will do take pics of the other half of the squad and show the WIPS of the third squad of my space marine army and what i have done for terrain.

That is the atentive plan for right now. On sat I also have my final game of 5th ed warhammer looking forward to sixth too.

Sorry about the wall of text I just had to say a lot to say.

Depending on how well the delaque gang is painted up i might leave them as is.

any way on to the pictures.


here is the base coat of the landspeeder


a gakky land speeder wip shot


final wip of the sandspeeder with some paint scrapes cuase it flys around so fast.

any way i hope you enjoyed looking as much as i enjoy posting.

happy 1000th post to me!

bama

I think it's a cool idea to record actual kills, it gives gangers a proper reputation. Yakro has a column for kills but it actually just records wounding hits, which frankly is too much of a hassle to enter every game. What we do in my campaign is only use the Battles page on Yakro to record who wins and who gets a kill.

yea i need to update that but any way thanks for stopping on by your an inspiration to me with my silly orlocks

To be honest I only just found this blog and that it has Necro stuff in it, the link in your sig is broken! I'll have to have a read through it properly at some point. I think it's just really cool that people are still getting into Necromunda regardless of it's age.

again thanks bruticus. i didnt realize my link was broken ill fix that in the morning as of right now going to drink my beer then hit the hay.

Necromunda was and is very popular. I think GW abandoned it just because they couldn't sell huge armies for it. I really need to play a game or campaign, it's been waaay too long for me.

Necromunda is still my most favored game GW has ever released. I'm always trying to get people into playing it. Maybe someday I'll get to play again. *sigh*

have faith my friend. i just had to explain to my buddy that its smaller and its j=kinda like an rpg too

well happy delayed congratz to your first thousand posts... take it from me... peeps seldom congrat you after the first 10k posts

the land/sandspeeder looks cool... tho i liked the bid of ocker on it too^^

and also congratz for your first game of munda.... that has yet to happen to me too.... hopefully at the end of the year.... then i get my son to play with me^^ *crosses fingers*

well i have faitht hat it will happen any day now vik.
thanks for the congratz hope your week on the farm was good. i kinda missed your musing while you were away.

well i am back... all musing and stuff

wooo vik musing are like ancient chinese some times it dont make a lot of sense but when it does hits ya like a bell

lol....musing my ancient kung-fu art^^

tho no bells please^^

but we need more cow bell

er....*feels highly disturbed*

dont worry vik it happens to the best of us at times.

Hey all so i bet you have been wondering what I am up to? hobby wise waiting on my package of tau.

In the middle of a huge 4k a side game 2k salamanders and blood angels vs 4k of orks as a last hurrah of 5th ed. needless today we are at the bottom of three and the emperors finest are getting there asses handed to them. the blood angels have about 9 death company, chaplain, an immobilized dread, and a sang priest thats about to die and the salamanders have landraider redeemer and two combat squads, and a razor back. on the orks side there is two half depleted squads of boyz a looted wagon one beat up nob squad and a fully unhurt nob squad and some mega nobs. It is looking really grim for the emperors finest. but we do hold two objectives right now so woo.

On another note I entered a tournament for 6th ed. It is 2k points and is on july 14th. now my question to every one is what do i take? my new box of tau, blood angels, space marines or my boxed up chaos marines. I would like to win but it isn't a big priority. and if i was basing this completely off of "newest codex" that i have it would be blood angels.

So pros and cons of each army.

Blood Angels.
Pros
this army is doa
its fast everything can move around 12 or more inches
can field the deadly death company
"newest codex" that i own.
Cons:
not painted
lot of close range antimech
hardly any teq killiing ability.
do not own any special characters

Space Marines
Pros
its painted
has a little of everything to handle most situations
First army I ever bought
Cons
would have to buy more models to fill its ranks out (in its current state i can push out 1750)
i don't own any special characters (so no cool rules)
ran them at the first tournament i ever went too came in second to last place (my army was painted other guy wasn't)

Chaos Space Marines:
Pros
its painted (albeit kinda sucky)
lots of awesome models
two special characters (abaddon and lucis the eternal)
even have a greater daemon
Cons
Ran them at another local tournament (and placed a bit higher)
not very consistent
one daemon prince
lacks transports
only 5 home made obliterators.
not enough cult troops
no regular chaos marines >.>
no lesser daemons to camp on objectives

Tau:
it is painted
rail guns nuff said
jump shoot jump
marker lights
no need for named characters
Cons
Not my paint job
high learning curve
not good at close combat (i have two cc armies this will be my first shooty army)

well that's the pros and cons that i can think of.

again sorry for a wall of text just thinking out loud again and this is my favorite place to do it. any way would love to hear what you guys think. and no i cant just go buy a new army.

any way thanks for reading my rambelings i'll actually post a real update tomorrow most likely.

Long answer: play with whatever you like the style of the most, and whatever you have painted. I don't play 40k but I can't understand people that play with models that aren't painted, or that play with an army they don't like just because it is stronger.

Short answer: play Chaos, everything else is for girls.

Play Chaos, and pray to one of the four gods for victory....We have a Slannesh player locally that one best General at a GT with his pink marines

yea but i favor khorne blood for the blood god and all that jazz. I think i will give my chaos marines another go at the tourny maybe ill do better this go around.