Long time no update! Very interested to see what this turns out to be.

What do you get when you hack up a giant space gorilla?

Robot 'Ogryn' in progress...

Monkey see, monkey do!

Small break from other projects top update my Iron Wolves a little for a tournament... Adding some scouts. About 70% finished.

Yay for last minute tournie prep...

It works... Just love the purple.

Huh... it does look rather purple in that shot. Was posted from my phone, so didn't really notice.

It's actually boltgun metal with a black wash, same as my other Iron Wolves. Just weird lighting.


Apparently, though, while my wife is tolerant of a lot of the things that go into my hobby, sitting up a midnight the night before a tournie painting knotwork on a tank is not spouse-approved behaviour

 insaniak wrote:
Huh... it does look rather purple in that shot. Was posted from my phone, so didn't really notice.

It's actually boltgun metal with a black wash, same as my other Iron Wolves. Just weird lighting.


Apparently, though, while my wife is tolerant of a lot of the things that go into my hobby, sitting up a midnight the night before a tournie painting knotwork on a tank is not spouse-approved behaviour

Funny, I've made similar observations in the past.

Still working away at updating my Iron Wolves.

I had decided a while back that their bases were just a bit boring, but didn't want to have to completely re-base them.

So, I'm adding some shrubbery (still very much WIP)

Should we start calling you "Rodger" now??

So, bases sculpted and undercoated. They look a bit crap right now. Hopefully that will improve after a wash and some tinkering...

Too much glare in the photo to give them a fair viewing.

It's alive!

Again!



Really must get some more complete photos of the Iron Wolves... But in the meantime, I have started work on a small Dark Angels army for my nephew. Will be mainly just the Dark Vengeance minis, with the power armour characters replaced with these Terminator characters instead...



Lightning Claw guy will be a Belial stand-in (so the DV set is a legal Battleforged list), and the other is a Librarian.

Only minor converting here... Swapped the wing badge on the Captain's torso for a shield, as the wing got in the way of the Lightning Claw arm. And the Librarian has some cabling added on the hood for his psychic hood, and the book added to make it obvious.

Something very satisfying about subtle kitbashing.

A little more work on my nephew's marines.



Aside from the characters, they're just about bog standard DV guys... I swapped the storm bolter arm from the chainfist termie with one of the 2 clone guys, to avoid having two completely identical models in a 5-man squad.

It feels a little weird to be not converting anything, but the aim here was to be as quick and inexpensive as possible...




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And while we're here - Test colour scheme:



Again, quick is the name of the game. Undercoat spray of red, basecoat orange, pick out the dark bits with grey, metal bits with boltgun metal, and bone bits with bone, and then a wash with Army Painter's 'I Can't Believe It's Not Devlan Mud' wash. Eyes with Scorpion Green (although they've washed out a little in the pic... they're brighter IRL).

They're ultimately just be orange Dark Angels, as they still have all of the Dark Angels iconography on them. I'm thinking of calling them the Angels Clementine ...

Busting out the putty to revisit some sculpts I started a while back...





Very WIP, obviously...

Ooh nice stuff.

What are you sculpting?

Now with 100% more ears. And enhanced jaw, for extra... uh... jawness.







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 Snrub wrote:

What are you sculpting?

A couple of Orks, one for a personal project, and one for an idea that still needs a little fleshing out...

And a little more...


And with added chin, and eyeballs...

Making progress... yesss...

And some more...

Coming along quite nicely insaniak. Very dynamic pose even without arms.

I realize I'm a bit late on the uptake with this thread but I was checking out your Heroquest minis in the gallery and ended up here. So yeah I really like your thunderwolves for the Iron Wolf guys. Like I said a bit late to the party but they are very cool for what it's worth!

Some more rushed army work...

Nice to see you back in the swing of things.

Still somewhat sporadic at the moment, and rather basic stuff happening right now... But hoping to have time to get back into the slightly more complex projects once the current couple are out of the way.

Rushed work is looking good to me so far

A little more progress... Although at some point I appear to have switched orange paints, so I'm going to have to go back and redo the armour on the first 5 guys...

Couldn't help but chuckle at that a bit. My whole Mantis Warrior army is one continuous example of a never defined, every changing interpretation of green.

Yeah, if it was a bigger army, I probably wouldn't care as much... But for such a small force, it kind of stands out.

A little work on the bikes... still needing detail work.

And started on the last (for now) piece for this army...

And in the interests of getting my creative juices flowing again, I decided to have a play with 'juicing'... This is a model from Sebastian Archer's range that I picked up a while back in a bundle of stuff that I just wanted to paint, and I've been waiting for a chance to make a start on that pile. Seemed as good a time as any.

Still a ways to go, obviously...

Nice updates!

Terminators, nearly finished... Still have final detail work to go.

And, because you can never have too many plates spinning at once... A little project in the works, which is a nice excuse to recycle some second-hand miniatures I picked up a while back.

I've always loved the look of blue and orange together... that libby just tugs at me heart strings.

Yeah, I'm quite pleased with how he's coming up. He certainly stands out

Some Maelstrom's Edge minis in progress... Some of these pics were shown during the Kickstarter, but there's a couple other bits and pieces that I was working on. And hopefully I can sit down and get some paint on these sometime soon...


First Hunter robot. Stock model aside from the left leg, which was bent at the knee to create the running pose.

Second Hunter.

Mostly stock model, just moved the rocket pods onto the shoulders and added a slight bend to the knees to give him more of a 'braced to fire' stance.

Third Hunter robot. Added a bend to the left foot for the walking pose, shifted the missiles from behind the head to the forearm, and slightly modified the chaingun (the shield behind it is intended for the flakk gun, but I liked the way it looked)

Scarecrows... These were all slightly modified...

- The crouching one needed some slight 'tweaking' of the elbow joint to allow the arm to bend as far as I wanted it.

- The standing one on the left jest has the railgun on his shoulder tipped up into a 'standby' position... no actual modification of parts required there, I just glued it onto the back edge of the shoulder instead of the top.

- The guy in the middle has his railgun shifted from the shoulder to the left arm, which just involved slicing the left forearm off just below the elbow, and attaching the resultant stump to the end of the gun. Fairly simple to do.

And the last one for the Epirians for the moment... a drone I've been having a play around with.

I'm calling this a 'Scorpion Drone'... It's not game-legal (but totally should be! ), just a bit of fun. Made the tail by chopping down a Scarecrow's chemical sprayer and adding a chaingun from a Hunter.

Awesome stuff!

Look at this guy and his fancy-not-out-yet-models and fancy-not-auto-append-Mod-powers. Someone thinks he is special.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Look at this guy and his fancy-not-out-yet-models and fancy-not-auto-append-Mod-powers. Someone thinks he is special.

Actually, the not-auto-appending is something anyone can do... Any post with pictures added through the attachment system won't auto-append.

Is it weird that I have no idea how to do that?

When you make a new post through the 'Post Reply' button, instead of the quick reply box, there's an 'Attachments' tab at the bottom of the page for attaching files directly from your computer/phone/whatever you're using.

I think the little drones are my favorite models from that faction.

Moving on - Karists!




Mostly stock, although pointing guy has a sculpted finger, and the guy on the far right has some resculpting of the left arm and hand.


Angels -

My first assemble test... I shifted the legs around a little to give him some motion, and reshaped the left arms a little so I could get both of them on there, just, you know, because. The bodies on these guys are supposed to be fluid and variable, and so I wanted to really reflect that in the posing.





Second Angel - a little more extreme... I was aiming for a little more of a 'shambling, but deadly' pose on this one, so I trimmed down and repositioned the legs. And to make him look even more deadly than normal, I gave him all four arms by reshaping his back a little.




Third Angel... very work in progress...




And some Minnows. I pictured these guys flitting about around the bigger angels, and so wanted some real motion in their posing. So I swapped the wings around a bit rather than pairing them. Took a little bending to make them fit, and a couple of them need the rearmost membranes replaced with putty, but I think they fit the bill.

HHHNNNGGG- gah, look at all this awesome MEdge stuff!

Really great losing on the minnows, Insaniak. They look much faster, much more terrifying.

The hunters also look spectacular, they have a nice weight to them, making me think of the ED-209 from Robocop. Probably less inept though!

Awesome work on the minnows!

 Accolade wrote:
The hunters also look spectacular, they have a nice weight to them, making me think of the ED-209 from Robocop. Probably less inept though!

Yeah, the Hunters are one of my favourite models from the range.

Although the sheer range of possibility opened up by the Angel kit, through being plastic and representing a creature whose form can shift at will, is quite awesome as well

I'm not a fan of the big gribbly (just as I was never a fan of the original Carnifex) but you've done very well on those minnows. It would have improved their look (and feedback) no end if they came like that as a kit as yours are much more dymanic.

Test paint Karist looks good. An almost comic-book scheme, reminds me of Deadpool a bit.

Love the Angels, and you've just made my opinion of the Minnows do a U-turn! If they can be built like that with minimum converting then that's epic!

Awesome blog, keep up the great work!

Will the Angel Minnows be released as a clam pack sorta thing once MEdge goes out to retail? You know, like a beast swarm or something?

I believe the intention is to have all of the models available separately sooner or later, but I'm not sure what the actual timescale is on that.

Feel the Contempt...

Really nice bit of green stuff sculpting there mate Quite liking the laurel wreath bits

Wow, nicely done mate. Beautifully designed.

New WIP... When in doubt, put more Skulls on...

Chapter approved!! (and gits approved too)

Nice sculpting going on in here Loving the skull on the cuirass

Progress... Going for that understated, subtle theme...

"Skulls for the ... skull...Go...d....." "Aw heck, you get the idea."

That skull on the tip of the left boot?

Now that will leave an impression!

Awesome.

Very subtle! Brilliant!

Great sculpting work! So is mister Skullington destined to be a Chaplain, or perhaps an Employee of Khorne?

Needs a butt skull. It will really offset the codpiece skull.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Needs a butt skull. It will really offset the codpiece skull.

Yeah, I'm still thinking about his butt. He may wind up with a skull or two (because skull butt-cheeks would be pretty metal) or with a mail or fur kama with skulls hanging from it.


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 Azazelx wrote:
So is mister Skullington destined to be a Chaplain, or perhaps an Employee of Khorne?

I had originally envisioned him as khornate, but in retrospect he would make a cool LotD Chaplain... See how he finishes up, I guess.

Good sculpting.

 insaniak wrote:
I had originally envisioned him as khornate, but in retrospect he would make a cool LotD Chaplain... See how he finishes up, I guess.

It's a sign of a great job when the build grows on it's own, even if on a different path than the opening concept...

Yeah, he looks more Legion of the Damned than Khornate to me personally.

You've got some real 'skull' in the sculpting department.

Terrible puns aside, they look great.

D

Those MEdge conversions look great, your angel conversion has definitely inspired me to like the model (Back when I saw the picture on KS) and the minnow work is fantastic!

He needs more skulls.

Mortis ready for some paint...

Beautiful GS work there insaniak. Looking forward to seeing that bad boy painted up.

Nice work reposing there. Why did you choose to replace the gatling barrels?

The original barrels sucked... Aside from being fiddly to assemble at the best of times, I had originally bought two different ands for him. When I decided to make him into a Mortis, I found a couple of assault cannon arms on ebay, which turned out to be slightly shabby recasts. The rest was usable, but the barrels and the underneath brace piece were just to misshapen, so had to be replaced.


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As it turns out, I think I prefer the chunkier barrels anyway

The replacement barrels look fantastic. And your greenstuff details look really good, too.

In other news... A prototype skitari stand-in. I shall call him 'Fender'...

Nice work on the Contemptor. there the bulkier AC look good.

Nice work on the robot thing.

EDC

Quick spray...

Its orange!

Ah, that Contemptor is just plain excellent! I loved seeing the raw plastic pic, since your conversions are always so sharp but he is definitely looking nice in orange!

Funily enough, he's not going to wind up with very much orange on him, but I had to follow the same steps as for the rest of the army to keep him more or less matching...

Going for mostly bone and metal, with orange shoulder pads, kneepads and powerplant.

Slightly less orange... But of a rushed paintjob, as I needed to get him finished by this morning, but I think he turned out ok. Pic is a little rubbish... But I still need to get decent pics of the rest of the army at some point as well, so I'll just do them all together when I get a chance.

Does brother Isiah have human skin covering his shoulders??!

wOW... Now that I can see it on a PC screen rather than my phone, that pic really is atrocious...

But no, the shoulders are orange, with a bit of battle damage applied to disguise the patchier bits of wash.


Nephew was happy with it, though, so that's a win

The contemptor is gorgeous, really nice work.

So... This arrived. Happy dance!

And so then, these happened...

I just couldn't get into this, but I hope you enjoy painting them, I hope they're good models, and I hope you get some solid games in!

Also, there may have been doughnuts...

I really like the pistol in the off hand! Will try to do that with mine . Box arrived here last night...!

Not actually a conversion there... The Handler sprue has two of each arm with the pistol, plus the grenade launcher am and the two interface arms. So the only conversion is the contractor torso being used for the Journeyman.

Look great, insaniak! nice quality GW work there too, excited to see how your Epicarians shape up.

Me too!

They're lovely models. Particularly like the separate guns on the contractors... The hands are open, with an extended trigger finger so you just slot the gun in without having to chop off the pistol grip. Very cool detail.

So, this guy turned out surprisingly difficult to photograph... Still needs some putty.

What's the sound of one bionic arm clapping?

Is the greenstuff work on the chest to fill holes/ cover issues, or just to add variety?

The bionic arm is a nice treat , no I want the guy from starship troopers "Mobile Infantry made me the man i am today"

 Theophony wrote:
Is the greenstuff work on the chest to fill holes/ cover issues, or just to add variety?

I wanted the squad leader to be a little more portly

Still need to bulk out the belt and groin to match the belly...

Bionic arm is just a trimmed down scarecrow droid arm. But yeah, I love it... Gives him a whole bunch of character, I think.

Very cool, insaniak - as we've come to expect from you. I'm really looking forward to seeing the completed Angel...

Playing with bits a little...

Flamethrower taken from a Scarecrow, and jump pack made from leftover drone bits... No use in game without some homebrew rules, but I thought the idea was cool


Still needs a little gap filling and a hose for the flamer...

oohhh - nice idea. Like those turbofan bitz....def admech uses for those

 insaniak wrote:
And so then, these happened...

Which figures are those? They don't look like either of the ME factions previewed during the KS.

They're Epirian Bot Handlers.

Great conversions, absolutely overflowing with character.

EDC

 insaniak wrote:
They're Epirian Bot Handlers.

They look much nicer than the squared-off guys. Are they from the KS or new/upcoming models?

They're from the Kickstarter. I believe there was concept art shown for them, but the models weren't finished at that point.

Ah, makes sense. They're much nicer than the blocky ones. A shame the KS wasn't able to lead with these instead.

 insaniak wrote:
So, this guy turned out surprisingly difficult to photograph... Still needs some putty.

This is awesome - bravo!!

I'm planning to convert one of mine in to the flying version, but gonna do a basic build first. I'm gonna watch your progress with interest

Oh WOW, I love the dude with the jetpack.

I hope Yakface sees this and does some rules for it because I am definitely building a squad of those and I don't want to see them go to waste!

Really like the jetpack guy!

Tibbsy wrote:

I hope Yakface sees this and does some rules for it because I am definitely building a squad of those and I don't want to see them go to waste!

I doubt that they'll want to add any further 'official' units to the game right now, but I'm starting to collect a few converted bits and pieces like that guy and the 'scorpion' drone that I think will be fun to create some homebrew rules cards for when I get some time to sit down with the rules.

I'm picturing the jump guy as a solo character, whose normal role would be exploration and scrub clearing. In game, he would move as normal with the jump unit allowing him to make a powered boost over obstacles, or just to get extra range.

Or perhaps allow him to run normally, fire off his flamer and then boost back out of range...

First two Shadow Walkers... Some slight re-posing, and bare head taken from the Kaddar Nova sprue. Still needs some filling...

insaniak... that's so Tau and Eldar of you! Never figured you for a power gamer.

Spider drone. Nothing earth-shattering here, just some slight leg re-posing to make him walk.

Added a spare skirt from the Kaddar Nova sprue to this guy...

Assembled the Kaddar Nova. Dude is biiig.

Had a play with the leg pairings from the sprue to give him a walking pose.

And started shaping the wing 'bones' on Mr Flappy...

Love the sass in this blog.

That contemptor turned out nicely, same with the jump jet fella.

 insaniak wrote:
Assembled the Kaddar Nova. Dude is biiig.

Had a play with the leg pairings from the sprue to give him a walking pose.

And I have to say, I am just blown away by the detail on this kit. Some very cunning parts break-downs have allowed for an incredible level of detail for a plastic model, and the way he slots together means that most of the seams just disappear.

Very, very impressed, and I want to buy more of this guy just so I can build him a dozen different ways...


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 Gitsplitta wrote:
insaniak... that's so Tau and Eldar of you! Never figured you for a power gamer.

I now have 5 Angels... If I don't get all power-gamery, I'll never get to use them all...

Speaking of Angels... Started bulking out the legs.

Fleshed out the minnow unit a little...

I wonder if such tiny models would be better with thin brass rod to hold em up. Those flying bases+stems seem overly massive.

They are pretty big when viewed from above - the wide stem and base is necessary to ensure good balance and prevent them being knocked over in game.

Get out of here lego, Admins aren't allowed in P&M blogs! Insaniak has more of your models to cut up.

No, no, no... We want Lego to visit my blog, so he can see what a good idea it would be to send me more of his models to cut up!


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 Shandara wrote:
I wonder if such tiny models would be better with thin brass rod to hold em up. Those flying bases+stems seem overly massive.

The problem with brass rod is that it bends. And I actually find it more obtrusive than chunkier clear stems, due to being solid.

As Lego pointed out, once the models are painted and on the table rather than featuring front-and-centre in a close-up photo, the flight stems will be much less distracting.

Trial rules for the Jump guy are up in the MEdge section here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/677258.page

Any feedback would be cool

Some nice conversions on the mealstrom figs

Then, this happened...

 insaniak wrote:
Playing with bits a little...

Flamethrower taken from a Scarecrow, and jump pack made from leftover drone bits... No use in game without some homebrew rules, but I thought the idea was cool


Still needs a little gap filling and a hose for the flamer...

And, just like that, I know how to make Seraphim out of Dream Forge figures

When do the drones go on retail?

They call me 'Mr Hat'...

Bulking out done, but still need to do the detail layer on the legs...

Nice work here on both the sculpting and reposing. Will there be more of these guys? Left brim folded up on any?

I had considered doing a slouch hat, but it didn't seem quite right for the model.

Not sure about more yet... This one was just an experiment to see how the hat would look.

Well, even that could be considered a slouch hat if you wanted it to be. They were worn "brim down" more often than not in theatre. It's almost just a matter of painting it felt green rather than leather brown.

Would GW heads fit on a Kaddar Nova? Specifically, I am interested in the Empire Wizard head with the Egyptian mask.

Assembled a unit of Firefly drones. Nothing particularly ground-breaking here... Swapped out the hex-bases for 25mm, for consistency, drilled some of them out so that they sit wonky on the flight stem, and added one of the 'spare' guns from the sprue into one drone as an antenna, to denote the squad leader in game.

Building Fireflies of course leaves a bunch of leftovers on the sprue... What to do, what to do?

Build a sentry gun, of course!

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Would GW heads fit on a Kaddar Nova? Specifically, I am interested in the Empire Wizard head with the Egyptian mask.

Just from eyeballing it, as it's been a while since I had the wizard kit in hand, but yeah, that should work.

And just for laughs, here's what I have assembled so far...

Ok Mr Hat is awesome. You have some pretty drastic conversions going on and they are all awesome but for some reason I really like that hat. Nice work!

Thanks... I'm pretty happy with how he's coming along, myself

 insaniak wrote:
Bulking out done, but still need to do the detail layer on the legs...

Is that Jesse?

Nah, would need a bigger gun...

Started doing this :

Decided I didn't like it, so turned it into this :

Little bit of alteration on the flakk cannon's shields so that they would look the same on both sides.

And the second Hunter from the box, WIP:

Great work on the kneeling hat dude, very tidy converting.

EDC

A little more. I think this one turned out ok...

Nice modification sir!

Group shot of all of the Hunters... I love these models

Noice!

Indeed... great builds Insaniak!

That group shot is the business

Nice. Those hunters looks really imposing in groups.

EDC

Another Shadow Walker.

Minimal converting here, just a bit of a twist on the left ankle, but I love this pose. He will cut you...

That's actually really close to the default pose those guys were sculpted as too - I constantly get over excited when building them and put that blade arm pointing out, but it was designed to largely point down. Glad you noticed it works that way and built one that looks so good

 insaniak wrote:
Another Shadow Walker.

Minimal converting here, just a bit of a twist on the left ankle, but I love this pose. He will cut you...

He looks like Deathstroke with that head... cool! Paint him up like that! lol.

And another Shadow Walker. Head and left upper arm from the Karist trooper sprue.

And this little fellow, who I'm calling a 'Shredder' pattern Scarecrow...

Those Shadow Walkers look pretty badass. I also think Shredder ' looks ace.

EDC

How 'out of the box' are those Hunter poses? Can't really tell how much is conversion and how much is the kits themselves being very poseable. I'd heard good things, but the variety on there is remarkable if they're mostly stock (and impressive conversion work if I can't tell the difference! )

Shredder is awesome!

 Paradigm wrote:
How 'out of the box' are those Hunter poses? Can't really tell how much is conversion and how much is the kits themselves being very poseable. I'd heard good things, but the variety on there is remarkable if they're mostly stock (and impressive conversion work if I can't tell the difference! )

Aside from the missiles being moved around, there's a little conversion on the legs of some of them (adding extra bend to the knees or feet), and since slight fudging of the shoulder joints on the second running one that I did, but other than that they're pretty stock. Even with the legs being a single piece, the kit does allow a pretty decent range of posing options... It's a very cleverly designed model.

Agree on the posing praise, really nice builds insaniak!

Did someone call a bounty hunter?

(Shoulder Cape idea shamelessly stolen from TheEyeOfNight

 insaniak wrote:
Did someone call a bounty hunter?

I love it. Did you simply make the Mando helmet out of a Karist trooper helmet? I might have to do this with some of my guys to give them that Neo Crusader feel

It's actually a shaved down Tempest helmet, although with the amount that I had to hack it up, it probably would have been easier in the end to just use a normal Karist trooper head for it...

He's obviously not an exact match for that far away galaxy's most feared bounty hunter.... but that wasn't really the intention. Just wanted to see if I could make something that was reminiscent of a mando while still fitting the MEdge aesthetic.

Might have to tweak the gun a little, though... it's a little naff, as is.

Started on a Karist support squad.

Hard to tell from this pic, but I replaced the energy canister on the squad leader's gun with the larger canister from a Tempest's gun, to represent the Mk2 version. It's subtle, but should do the job.

And a bit of a side project... Very WIP...

Intriguing

Progress...

Awesome. Priestly soapbox?

Not exactly...

Looking cool whatever it is you've got planned

Cool balcony. I love the Boba Fett style Bounty Hunter.

EDC

Cheers, guys. It's quite fun to see just how far I can push the terrain sprue

Nice work on those models, but I really like the little balcony and stairs. Reminds me a bit of the mini-dios that FW HH Primarchs and other named characters come on.

Got a little sidetracked (surprising, I know...) by this thread , and had an uncontrollable urge to build a proxy for a (so far just theoretical) Angel Handler... Just cobbled together from bits I had to hand.

oohh - nice - thats well tidy. fine conversion Insaniak

Angel handlers communicate (as per in faith) using some vocaliser tech, so he needs a mask of some sort over his mouth to convert is vocal commands into the vibrations which angels can feel/hear, but otherwise looking cool

 legoburner wrote:
so he needs a mask of some sort over his mouth to convert is vocal commands into the vibrations which angels can feel/hear, )

Indeed, he does...

Très cool.

Warden with the handler helmet swapped in...

And a little more progress on the diorama...

That has a lot of character!

Diorama is shaping up beautifully

 insaniak wrote:
Warden with the handler helmet swapped in...

Hawkman!

The warden fella looks a little like the DC character, Firefly.

Grawr!

And some putty on this guy...

Looking good! I especially love that diorama, there's a lot of character. Also, is that a double chin I see on that angel?

 SexierThanYou13 wrote:
Also, is that a double chin I see on that angel?

Not exactly... Just replicating the chest of the standard model. It will stand out much less when it is painted.

Took a short break from MEdge stuff to do a little more work on this guy...

And while that's happening... Something is afoot...

Squig perhaps?

Looking good! You are a fantastic sculptor.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Squig perhaps?

Not a squig...

A little bulking out done...

A bit more detailing here...

And this guy...

And a little on this guy, who's been sitting for far too long with no work done...

Just can't buy Orks like the rest of us, can you?

Don't get me wrong, I sure as hell wouldn't want to make a whole army like this, but for one-off pieces, it's all sorts of fun...

Looking good! Can't wait to see what you make of these...

Playing with some head variants...

I quite like the second from the left - almost looks like a welder's mask . The mouth mask further up the page is just killer, too!!

 RiTides wrote:
I quite like the second from the left - almost looks like a welder's mask

Yeah, I'm quite pleased with that one. The face shield is actually a copy of the Epirian shoulder pads...

Meanwhile... Just chillin'...

And a shield... guy...

I'm picturing this as a member of a suppression unit. The shield would have some sort of energy unit that pulses as yet charge, adding suppression tokens to the target unit to make them more susceptible to close assault with the shock baton.

Nice! That Beret looks fantastic!

What MEdge really needs is shotguns...

Another bot handler in progress...

And while tinkering with drone parts, this happened...

Looks good Iain! Nice to see you getting good mileage out of the Medge plastics -

The shield dude is my fav of this latest batch. Really cool looking

The enterprise drone also got a chuckle.

EDC

To boldly build what no scratch-builder has built before...

He wanders in from the desert every so often. Doesn't say much, just buys a bag of beans and heads on out again...

And the Handler now has a pistol drone...

That Flagellant-Epirian thing looks fantastic! It's awesome how compatible these kits are with the GW range.

Yeah love the loony, and the gun-drone too.

That hobo with a mini gun is amazing!

EDC

 SexierThanYou13 wrote:
That Flagellant-Epirian thing looks fantastic! It's awesome how compatible these kits are with the GW range.

Yeah, the parts worked out well... It's hard to tell from that pic, but he actually has a Karist Trooper torso, rather than the Epirian one (also a Karist left arm) to give him a bit more of a rag-tag look. The Flagellant head has almost no neck, but his beard slots nicely over the top of the Karist torso's raised collar, so there was no need to sculpt extra neck


The volley gun fitting so nicely into his hand was a pleasant surprise, though. I was expecting to have to do some hand resculpting, there...

Messing about... still WIP.

And a little tinkering with bits...

That chaps looks very ood... Sorry, odd...

Some great conversions here, as usual! Any plans for paint soon?

I always have plans to paint soon...


But yes, hopefully after the Easter break, I'll start getting some paint on the completed stuff.

Getting mah paint on!

 insaniak wrote:
Messing about... still WIP.

Ood?

I've been looking forward to the painting. Dazzle us Insaniak

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
I've been looking forward to the painting. Dazzle us Insaniak

I don't know how dazzling they'll be... For the most part I'm going with fairly quick and easy paintjobs to get stuff done, although there are a few pieces in there that will get a bit more attention when I can spare the time

This evening's effort... More to come soon, hopefully...

The wash on the scarecrow is a test. If it works, the others will cop it next.

Ooo I like the dude with the mouth-tube-sphere thing.

EDC

Slow progress...

Ooooh, paint! I like that green! Very foresty.

Nice! That green really works!

Fun with washes...

Seriously, if you don't own a full set of Army Painter Quickshades, go buy them now.


Really. Now. I'll wait.


Ahem. Ok....

And a little more on these guys... Starting to look like something, now...

On a roll, now...

Loving the olive green you've gone for... has a bit of a UNSC vibe to it

Great to see you getting some paint onto your great conversions!

Getting closer...

Coming together nicely

Looking good!

Still going...

Coming along nicely, I look forward to seeing these guys finished up in this scheme.

Getting there indeed, and looking sharp too. Nice work.

EDC

Cheers, guys.


In other news, I've been slowly going through and adding my old tutorials to the Dakka Articles section. You can find those that have been done so far here... I've added my chain, purity seal, wreath and skull sculpting tutorials so far, with the jetbike tutorial soon to follow... and then as soon as I get a little free time, I'll be looking at putting together a rather overdue quad bike tutorial.

Excellent. Got it bookmarked! Thanks.

Working on a little something for Gitsplitta's Mantis Maker challenge...

Is that a kitbased scout, or a bare armed marine?

Bare-armed marine. He still needs some more veteraning.

I've been posting updates for the Mantis diorama in Gitsplitta's blog, but figured I might as well chuck them in here as well for completeness' sake....

The base looks great insaniak. I am curious about the small base with the helmet on it...

 Gitsplitta wrote:
The base looks great insaniak. I am curious about the small base with the helmet on it...

You use it every time a sergeant dies? Sorta like a grave marker...

Nah, the base is just to hold it for painting....

You just missed a chance to come up with some outlandish reasoning to confuse Gits. Poor showing man.

Great base. Looks awesome. Can't wait to see the finished article

Looks great! Love the rust effect on the base.

Still going...

Greyness

Ridiculously cool.

EDC

That's a great head for the model... evil Santa.

That looks awesome!

Almost there...

Very nice insaniak. The eyes (bionic & natural) look really good.

So... Contest over (you can see the final pics over in Gitsplitta's blog, or in my Gallery), and some slight downtime to correct what I thought was escalating migraines and turned out to be a need for some fashionable eyewear... And it's time to get back into it...

It was a real joy to have you take part in the challenge insaniak, thank you so much for taking the time to make a really superb entry. Mantis Warriors never look so good to me as when someone else makes them!

Looking forward to your next projects!

Reading Glasses? Get yourself a pair more powerful than what you need too, and use them in place of the normal glasses,as magnifiers for painting. It works. Just don't forget your wearing them and get up to walk around.

Nah, all-the-time glasses... It's a little scary just how blurry the world had become without me noticing...



Meanwhile, I am focusing my efforts by attempting to not work on more than half a dozen projects at once...

I see seven... that's more than half-a-dozen....

 Gitsplitta wrote:
It was a real joy to have you take part in the challenge insaniak, thank you so much for taking the time to make a really superb entry. Mantis Warriors never look so good to me as when someone else makes them!

Looking forward to your next projects!

Thanks for a fun comp Getting the excuse to work on something different can be awesomely stimulating for the ol' creativity gland, so I really enjoy themed competitions.


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 Gitsplitta wrote:
I see seven... that's more than half-a-dozen....

The two at the front centre go together

It's a bit of a self challenge. The metal guy is a Reaper dwarf warrior. I want to see how closely I can replicate it... Sort of a litmus test for just where my sculpting skills are currently at. Not expecting to get anything like a perfect match, but it will help me to see just what I need to work on improving.

Hopefully. Otherwise, it might just be a depressing kick in the realities... Guess we'll have to wait and see

A little more progress...


Added a lower jaw to the skull on the chainaxe, did some detail work on Ork Junior, some upper body work on Ork Senior, first leg on the dwarf, and made some good progress on the two as-yet-unnamed guys at the back.

It amazes me how you can do that...

I just paged through 30 pages of awesome... and I'm sad there is no more. lol. Just to clarify, the white plastic you use is an in home 3-d printer?

JuicyPVP wrote:
I just paged through 30 pages of awesome... and I'm sad there is no more. lol.

More soon!

Had to take another small break from hobby stuff to have baby #2 (well, my wife had the baby, but apparently I'm supposed to be somewhat involved as well...) but starting to get back at it... busted out the paints to do some more work on my MEdge stuff the other day, and will hopefully have an update on something or other by the weekend.


Although if you're into such things, there's also a separate blog thread for my ongoing terrain project here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/650202.page

Just to clarify, the white plastic you use is an in home 3-d printer?

I wish...

No, the white plastic is just 'plasticard' - sheets, rods and tubes of plastic that can be cut and glued as needed.

 insaniak wrote:

JuicyPVP wrote:
I just paged through 30 pages of awesome... and I'm sad there is no more. lol.

but apparently I'm supposed to be somewhat involved as well...

My first is due in May. Congrats.

 insaniak wrote:
Although if you're into such things, there's also a separate blog thread for my ongoing terrain project here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/650202.page

that thread led me here actually. Haha.

Congrats on the new addition to the family there, Insaniak Fingers crossed he/she is not allergic to sleep!

Some tidy looking sculpts! Look forward to more!

Thanks, guys!

Meanwhile: Robots!

Very nearly done with these guys...

Lovely robots. I really like the 'scorpion' sentry gun.

EDC

Awesome group Like the hazard stripes on the Hunter's base a lot.

Thanks Trying to go a bit 'minimalist' on the bases, but still wanted some detail on there so they weren't just bland, solid colour.

A little more progress on the Epirians, including finally putting together an actual 120-point force to get some table time out of these guys... I'm shifting this out into a separate thread in the MEdge section here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/700450.page#8857361

Quiet spell at work. There's Bluetac on my desk... What else was I supposed to do?

Creativity... thy name is insaniak!

Congrats on the Comm-Guild thread mention for your Angel Keeper! Still need to make mine

Yeah, looking forward to getting back in and finishing the Karists off...


In the meantime, here's a thing...

Cool, really curious as to how that'll look painted!

Inspirational Medge stuff you got here

What rules are you gonna use for the scorpion drone?

Haven't had a chance to nut out anything too solid yet, but was looking at something along the lines of making it move-or-fire to account for the recoil on the small spider chassis, but maybe . Possibly reduced movement, but with the weapon gaining Titan Killer or Guided.

Unit of 1 scorpion and a handler.

On a completely unrelated tangent... Paint in progress on my robot Ogryn stand-in.

That thing is awesome!

Well done there!

Yeah... I'm definitely with Alph on this one... can't wait to see some more progress on it, fantastic start.

Isn't life in all forms just BETTER with robits?

Playing with the new Maelstrom's Edge upgrade sprue...

I will fong you...

 insaniak wrote:
Thanks, guys!

Meanwhile: Robots!

Very nearly done with these guys...

What are these from Ins?

Cool stuff. Especially the blue tac face!

EDC