Astra Militarum / Imperial Guard: Magnetise Gaunt & Corbec Black Library diorama. Paint bases and diorama.
Four Sentinel Walkers
DKoK Hades breaching Drill
Many many Commissars
More commissars
Tiny Tanks that go inside other tanks
Misc: Magma Dragon
FWHH Fulgrim
Kabuki models Fulgrim
Daemonette Conversions ("Put some pants on.")
Friend's 1000pts of Skitari (Already done to TTS)
MLP metal figures
Reapercon Sophie 2014
FW TechPriest / Engineseer
FW Tank Commissar (give legs)
Orks: Finish painting Captain Badrukk, his Flash Gitz & Ammo Runts
Find enough motivation to build and paint Painboy and Grots.
kb_lock's Ork
General: Weep at ludicrous backlog.
Don't start any more fething projects.
Double-Dakka (jet): - "Da Red Barrun"
From the moment I saw the box, I decided to make a "biplane" from a Dakkajet, because more wings and more dakka can only be more better. Actually, it's because my other half is a huge fan of Manfred Von Richthofen, and by osmosis I became quite interested. And of course, it's an excellent excuse for a red plane.
I hope to make a yellow Lothar plane some day but I will be very glad to see the back of this work.
So far this has been primed (white), airbrushed (yellow) and then airbrushed red, washed, red.
Brighter red, etc. Hand painting everything comes next but I'm swinging back and forth on projects. Started fitting some Zinge rivets to hide my appalling putty work.
If anyone has some tips for the order to do decals/markings/scrapes and such, I'm all ears as I've never done a large flat panelled model before.
Some kind of bomber: - "If I paint it purple, is it a 'stealth jet'?"
"That needs wings."
"No, it needs bigger jets ."
Basically I hate kit/figure waste, so I rummaged until I found a Star Wars ship (sebulba's racer) that was broken, hacksawed the engines, build the end caps out of pudding pots and a Zinge mould that has a propeller on it. Then I rammed a pencil through the fuselage, and wadded the entire thing together with Milliput and braced it. The "plating" is electrical tape that you won't really see later due to the weapons system. the cabling is an afternoon with an old bag of extension cables. I will be adding more I primed it once because it was so many different colours that I couldn't work out what i was looking at. I will prime again after.
The best part about this is that there is a tiny door in the side that opens. I haven't decided what is going in there, yet.
Also you may have noticed there are no bombs, or delivery system. I'm working on a magnetised system.
(For the record, I'm also working on very straight* Imperial Guard figures, but let out all of my inability to leave things alone with the Orks)
*Matter of opinion.
Cheers fella(?), I'm having a ball with them. Whenever I have ten minutes I just weld another cable into the bomber.
Tomorrow I will be adding magnetic panelling under the supports that hold the engines, and sorting out the chained bombs. I could leave them on, but storage, breakage, etc.
That grot was an evening in itself, as its a warbike boss pole grot, I drilled it out by hand until it would take the chain correctly. There's not a lot of hand to begin with and I only had one, so it was a pretty stupid idea that paid off.
I have Baddruk's Flash Gitz, ammo runts, painboy and a grit herd to finish up, and after some advice on army lists, and a little padding, that'll be my Orks for a while.
I'm facing some flack for not doing them green per se.
I'm hopefully receiving my new "baby" tomorrow, a smashed up Aquila Lander... I may get distracted for the day by the TLC it requires.
Jehan-reznor wrote: Those engines are a tad small great job, although Manfred's most famous plane is the Tri-decker and not the X-wing
Gah! You have the high award of being the reason I can no longer show this thread to the afore-mentioned other half. Very well done.
I've been told repeatedly that these are X and Y Wing Dakkas. *sigh*
I'll level with you, I just don't have the aptitude to make a parallel winged Dakkajet. I originally wanted to fuse two DJ together, one above the other, with scaffolding and two fuselages, but it would have been such a ludicrously top heavy model on a flight-stand that I backed out.
Another idea was a Blohm and Voss style combo on the bomber, one engine being a jet, the other a propeller, but again it suffered from perilous balancing.
If you haven't guessed by now, I'm very conscious of crushing models (mostly other people's).. "Buttery" doesn't quite cover my level of clumsy.
The other crit these face is that they would have to launch in a Star Fury manner, as the skids can't touch the ground. I work on the basis they won't have to deal with landing safely, however.
Thanks! It warms my sooty heart to see some love for the Orks. I've been throwing myself into this week because it has been, for lack of a better word, dark. I don't want too much time to think about things, so tinkering is perfect.
I'm also working on Commissar Yorkie, in what can only be described as a "very divisive" paint scheme.
I'm not happy with the front of the model yet, so here's a rough idea.
White/Lavendar/Pink/Bronze
Edit: If you click, it stands up the right way. It's still a terrible photo though.
Jehan-reznor wrote: Those engines are a tad small great job, although Manfred's most famous plane is the Tri-decker and not the X-wing
Gah! You have the high award of being the reason I can no longer show this thread to the afore-mentioned other half. Very well done.
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I've been told repeatedly that these are X and Y Wing Dakkas. *sigh*
I'll level with you, I just don't have the aptitude to make a parallel winged Dakkajet. I originally wanted to fuse two DJ together, one above the other, with scaffolding and two fuselages, but it would have been such a ludicrously top heavy model on a flight-stand that I backed out.
Another idea was a Blohm and Voss style combo on the bomber, one engine being a jet, the other a propeller, but again it suffered from perilous balancing.
If you haven't guessed by now, I'm very conscious of crushing models (mostly other people's).. "Buttery" doesn't quite cover my level of clumsy.
The other crit these face is that they would have to launch in a Star Fury manner, as the skids can't touch the ground. I work on the basis they won't have to deal with landing safely, however.
There are examples out there for inspiration though
I like the second design there, it's actually not far off what I wanted to attempt, but knew my limitations. it's been 5-6 years since I picked up a brush in anger.
What I want to finish before I take on anything else... Hoo boy, are there a lot of things I started doing.
Firstly, my Flash Gitz paint scheme! This is the first thing I've painted in several years so I'm a bit wonky.
The two core colours are going to be this flesh green and dusty purple. I've been told that this green is blue, and I'm very sorry.
Commissar Yorkie: Do not accept Ice-Cream from this man. It is probably not going to end well. Okay, when I picked this figure up, I honestly didn't know that Commissars always have a black uniform. I thought that the commissar on the packet just had a black coat, and that in general, they just wore what they wanted. I thought colours were open to interpretation, and as my Mordians are going to have ice white and blue uniforms with purple piping (because Iron Guard don't give an Iron Feth)... I gave my Commissar an even brighter colour set. I also kinda kicked against black is the blackest thing, wanting to prove that white and silver can be just as suave. Not sure that really worked out in my favour here.
Anyway, that is why I have a Commissar that has been very unkindly labelled "Yorkie" by my friends. UK folks may realise quite how un-PC that is. He shall take the smirks from their faces.
He's about 2/3 done. I want to re-work his shirt because the gold and blue simply don't work together, and I'm going to try a codex grey/ faux NMM on the sword.
Massive thanks to Iacton from CMON who happened to be playing the little Drop Assault game on iPhone when I was whining that I couldn't get the white to work, and told me to plop some purple in the mix.
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Speaking of Commissars... I spied the little fellow with the book on eBay, and he tickled me so deeply that I had to have him and do something ridiculous. He came with a group of friends, and they're all so adorably short and lanky that I've decided instead to make a teenage Commissar Cadet squad, and run them as plain IG infantry. I'm now on the prowl for some buddies for them. I love how there's basically no continuity between their uniforms. Skull skull skull, BIG SKULL, bird, sandals. Yes, the dude with the book has sandals on as far as I can tell. I'm going to paint them as boots because even I'm not that warped.
Because I'm a soft-hearted feth, I ended up buying a second LOOK AT MY BOOK. MY BOOK IS AMAZING." figure for the original stupid idea (a commissar in a chef's hat holding up his cookbook/codex for a group of irritable IG being forced to work in a make-shift kitchen).
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I am absolutely not going to dick about with thisthough. Look at my this.
Gaunt, Corbec and half a corpse!
Alright I'm going to dick about a little bit and magnetise Gaunt and Corbec's feet so they can be put back on the diorama or used as figures on the table. But no stupid colours, no conversions, just honest painting.
Gaunt has a really weirdly shaped head. His nose is paper-thin, though it doesn't show quite how bad it is, here. I'm like 90% sure you're not meant to view him from the front. Ever. Legit concerned about trying to paint that.
Okay finally something that isn't Commissars. It's... Tanith!
No, I'm joking, it's a Sigvald.
Sigvald is in for some touching-up. No not like that. This was my fourth of fifth figure I ever painted, I found him today and realised that I never actually painted his front cloth, I want to sort that sword out and matt down his armour.
Oh and I found this old thing at the same time, so it's also time to give it a little tidy up.
Thank you! The jets are pretty much a constant WIP (well the twin-engine is anyway) that I add a little to every time I am at a loose end. A lot of bits and pieces from my friend's work in circuit building are ending up on there.
I love Sigvald, purely because of his name. This one originally had a rainbow pack of Chaos Warhounds that I painted in incredibly gaudy primary colours. I don't know why. I was 18, and I wanted a rainbow of dogs. I still have them, but quite frankly I neither like Chaos nor know how to play Warhammer, so it's not one of my most easily followed decisions.
Yorkie? It started because his trim is "Cadbury Purple" and went downhill from there. "Yorkie" is a a huge, chunky chocolate bar that was for at least a decade marketed over here as "Not for girls." as part of a humorous campaign. They did pink wrapped versions now and then that were "allowed" to be purchased by women. And one specifically for the military. It's really, really good chocolate for hiking.
It's one of those inexplicable cultural things that if you explain it, it sounds really quite bad. Like we have a soft drink here called Iron Bru, you may have heard of, it uses the the slogan "Made from girders." there's no real reason for that either.
Aaanyway, I genuinely don't care what side he butters his bread on. I do need to finish him up though, and get him off my bookcase.
Things just become slightly more confusing due to the fact my pseudonym is Yorke. So there's (Buttery) Commissar Yorke and this pretty little Commissar Yorkie.
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Hookay, settling down to do some actual work, and chew down the project list. Today I gathered up my Tanith ready to start doing something. My thoughts on how to deal with their cloaks are here. I've been blending some grass tones specifically for them, and will be snaffling some modrock (plaster bandage) on Monday. Hopefully by Friday I might get to test something.
Very unexciting stripped model pic. These were originally primed, painted and primed again, so it was like peeling bandages off a mummy to get to see the features. Three cheers for Estasol.
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Plus here's a hand full of Catachan snipers that I'll be adding in, and cloaking, along with a Vox Officer, it's a shame they're all so freakishly tall in comparison to the wee Tanith.
I also banged in Hero as a spare-but-unflashy generic Commissar. He just needs better friends than the ones in his own box set. I'll be seeking out an Ox as a Bragg base.
I'm building a Tanith standard bearer because why the feth not. If nothing else he can sit it on my hat at events to stop people trying it on, and stop people picking up my Aquila due to the terribly rickety repair.
Eventually decided against using the diorama Corbec because it is terrible, but will be subbing in diorama Gaunt now and then.
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Yeah, that's a lot of lasguns. Roughly 30 before we get onto the character set. And I'm guessing variety is the spice of life. Unfortunately I am not about to take a blade to these little guys, so they're gonna have to make friends with people with better weapons, AKA the Mordian half of the army.
Making them look varied and unified is going to be fun. Thinking tats, piercings, hair and skin colours but I'm too squeamish to headswap.
That's a nice solid chunk of Tanith figures. Sadly they were released while I was taking a step back from miniatures, so I didn't get any of them (or the Vostroyans) at the time. They'd be a right nightmare to collect these days!
All Tanith bar one and the 2nd Gaunt are now primed in grey (so exciting that I forgot to photograph it), and I'm starting the delightful process of painting their uniforms black.
I took them to my parents' house to get the painting done, and should have known better. One of the Catachans is now named "Jesus" by my father, in a bewildering and absolutely inexplicable conversation, and my mother has learned the word "Grot" (she likes them) and "Commissar" ("Morale officers? Does that mean they help make people cheerful?").
Next step is sorting them by skin tone and then hair colour, a mild distraction before going back to all the identical parts (cloaks, guns, bases). A store in town sells Vallejo flesh tone sets, so I may pop down tomorrow and have a look.
Azazelx wrote:That's a nice solid chunk of Tanith figures. Sadly they were released while I was taking a step back from miniatures, so I didn't get any of them (or the Vostroyans) at the time. They'd be a right nightmare to collect these days!
My sympathies. It absolutely sucks when you miss out on something like that (I was unemployed when many amazing ranges were released, so I know the yearning).
I'm not trying to brag (maybe I should) but I snagged the initial thirty in one go, at just over £3 each last month. I am absolutely aware that this is insane.
Briancj wrote:IRON BRU! Man, I miss that stuff. Almost impossible to get here.
As for the Commissar, I say it ROCKS. SCREW BLACK.
All my Commissars are now going to be in WHITE, because they'll stand out on the battlefield and get shot THAT MUCH FASTER.
--Brian
They make Iron Bru chew-bars here, they're basically the most addictive substance ever because they are Iron Bru you can roll up and stuff in your mouth. Find some. Plait them into a rope, chew to victory!
I'm not sure if I condone Commissar abuse, I may have to report you to the NSPCC(ommissars).
In his defense, Commissar Yorkie will be accompanied by Mordians, so any attempt at stealth and guile would be absolutely pointless.
God-Emperor on a pogo stick, Buttery actually painted something.
I hand mixed those greens due to only owning green ink, which was probably a bad idea because after being punched in the face as a kid, I can't tell greens or browns apart. You may now understand why i have blue orks. It is because I can see them well enough to shade.
Judge Minty. Due to accidents, I own three copies of this guy, so some day I'll go back and have another go. Needs re-varnishing when I can borrow some.
Also! I've been working on something other than figure painting lately, but as it's crafty AND roughly themed to my Mordian army, I'll bang it in here rather than its own thread.
Here's some parts of the NPC character diary for Mouse and his "friend", Commissar Yorke.
It's actually a player handout of highly damning Inquisitorial evidence for my RPG group. Because if something worth doing, it's worth doing weirdly.
You can see approximately where the child I bribed to help with this book lost interest and I had to forge the handwriting.
Hint: Commissar Yorke is supposed to be saying "The Emporer!" and not "Jake are you listening?"
These are technically spoilers for the accompanying story that I'm writing, but they're fairly unfathomable out of context.
My fave is a tie between sadface-stabbissar and the skull.
'Cause whilst teaching grots literacy is probably not specifically listed in the Big Book of Things Not to Do in the Imperial Guard... we wouldn't want to get anyone in trouble.
Thank you! I've really been enjoying it, it opened a vein that I was completely unaware of.
It's on the right:
Call of Cthulhu log of an overly curious priest is on the left, and that is physically unpleasant to put your hand to, I glued sand and flung all sorts of gak over that thing.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid I can't show you the funnier contents because it's so old that I can't remember which parts are part of the adventure, and which parts are the character being gak-the-bath loco.
One page just says ("...Centipedes"?) which I'm sure had some meaning at one point.
Cat & Mouse's book is less foul, but will end up looking like it was retrieved from the jungle (forcibly or not depends on how well things go) and left on a desk.
At first, I started writing a short story to accompany the stabbing picture, part of a log for the players to use.
The Commissar decided that was boring, and he started writing more bits and pieces. It extended out to being an NPC's viewpoint of the ongoing campaign, with a lot of behind the scenes things that players will likely never know or care about. I love making character diaries, so making one as a casual observer and occasional victim of their investigation was not so different.
Then... backstory happened, and future-story, and it's now a 68k word (and growing) Imperial Guard story with the middle section missing because the players haven't run all of the campaign yet. Quite honestly the only thing set in stone is that some of the NPCs don't die early on.
What I'll do with it (because it can no longer be pasted into the little green book) I'm really not sure. I might share it online and then print-on-demand a copy in a plain black cover so I can have a go at binding it up.
That is amazing man. For me it was creating monsters/creatures for my group to fight, my favorite one was a tall shambling creature that the group tried to kill with incendiary grenades only to set themselves on fire
Wow! I'm really not sure I want to know how they managed to do that. Player feth ups are the best (usually).
I've actually had to kick one entire group of players from playing Only War with me because they tortured the above Commissar to such an extent that he had an actual nervous breakdown. They actually inflicted insanity points and trauma on their own friendly NPC. Purely because he made them scrub toilets for being ridiculously late to their own briefing and then trying to flirt with him.
I wrote down what happened for future inspection when I eventually feel less angry with them.
Buttery Commissar wrote: Wow! I'm really not sure I want to know how they managed to do that. Player feth ups are the best (usually).
I've actually had to kick one entire group of players from playing Only War with me because they tortured the above Commissar to such an extent that he had an actual nervous breakdown. They actually inflicted insanity points and trauma on their own friendly NPC. Purely because he made them scrub toilets for being ridiculously late to their own briefing and then trying to flirt with him.
I wrote down what happened for future inspection when I eventually feel less angry with them.
A combination of standing too close and a terrible throw/roll. Wow I have never heard that happening before, only thing close was in only war when I was playing a death korp commissar and I role played it as a real krieger. Long story short my character was not well liked by the NPCs.
After ascertaining he has an aversion to servitors, the players locked an extremely drunken, drugged, but quite friendly Commissar (unarmed), and their almost comatose drunk Captain (also unarmed) in a small room, after sending in spare servitor. One that they had manipulated their local gearhead into modifying ever-so-slightly. "Clicky" the servitor was programmed by request to "move erratically", which upon questioning the players meant, "...very helpful, but with lots of weird jerky movements and no personal space boundaries".
For ninety minutes.
At 30 mins in-game I upped the effect due to the poor bastard probably being mentally exhausted. Before rolling I decided not to stack any possible Insanity gains, just pick one if it happened.
Being a Commissar the NPC did get Unshakeable Faith - Willpower re-rolls. Unfortunately one of his re-rolls went from a simple 2 degree fail to the resulting roll taking him off the bottom of the fear table, earning Insanity and flying the flag into Unsettled, and a Trauma roll.
At this point I skip the last 30 minutes, and call it, because short of actively vomiting on himself, there's very little left to go wrong.
The PCs return to find the captain sat on a chair, calmly staring into space, the servitor sitting in the corner facing the wall, and the Commissar curled up in a ball under a nearby desk with his hands over his head, unresponsive.
I had 'em the players shot by the captain for being sadistic pricks.
We tried a second adventure where I sent a top-brass to inspect the regiment, accompanied by a Lord Commissar, to put the fear of the Emperor into them. they were to prove themselves competent, and capable of typical duties.
They responded by successfully getting to the end of the mission, and then murdering both new NPCs in the hospital room of the original Commissar (who had "accidentally" caught a lasrifle shot and lost his entire arm), they then planted the gun on the unconscious NPC and fled the scene.
And that is how you get yourself ejected from my campaign.
I did a design and my friend is smithing it. I'm going to be finishing it, adding a wooden stock (though I'm not sure how being that he didn't follow the instructions), and Imperial decor.
As a commissar, buttery or otherwise, shouldn’t you be packing a bolt pistol or better? Although I could see an advantage of las weapons for summery executions of dairy products that have gone bad...
Well, Commissars are amongst those few officers entitled to carry a Hell pistol..
And as for "better", Las and Hell pistols are the executioner's weapon of choice if you don't want blood on your clothing. The increased heat cauterises the blast so at closer ranger you're not fishing pieces of guardsman out of your hat, too.
That's my reason, and it's nothing to do with my slender lady-hands not being capable of lifting a bolt pistol.
Automatically Appended Next Post: (Gun savvy Dakkaites, please lend your expertise, at the very least I'm guessing we need to put a hole through that tongue)
Well, I figured, "I have one chance to ask someone to do this for me, the worst that can happen, is he says "No, that is ridiculous!"..."
As it turns out, he thought it was cool as well. We can't put any licensed marks like the Aquila on it until it's in my grubby hands, though.
It is also hollow and welded, I'll admit. Solid metal would have been obscenely heavy.
Looking at initial completion on Monday, I'll hopefully get my hands on it by later in the month. I'm going to have to learn what markings need to be put on it to take it to cosplay events.
I know, a lasgun with orange tape on it.. But it does start to bear a resemblance to real weaponry when it's metal.
Next up: Find a leather worker! Buttery needs a holster.
Thanks guys! I realise this blog has become a little eccentric (Orks, Tanith, 2000AD, IG, crayons, metal work and I haven't even shown you my handmade costumes).. But it will start to pull together soon.
I'm settling down to do my Tanith and Ghosts this weekend, I've finally gathered all the basing materials I wanted to make the camo cloaks. Including individual laser cut oak leaves (autumn and spring) four types of grass, and some wishful thinking.
I cracked and bought another large lot of them on eBay this week, so I need to get these done before I end up too swamped.
I think it brings my pure Tanith total to 87 before we count my sniper converts, custom Bragg (heavy bolter) and conversions.
Buttery Commissar wrote: Thanks guys! I realise this blog has become a little eccentric (Orks, Tanith, 2000AD, IG, crayons, metal work and I haven't even shown you my handmade costumes).. But it will start to pull together soon.
I'm settling down to do my Tanith and Ghosts this weekend, I've finally gathered all the basing materials I wanted to make the camo cloaks. Including individual laser cut oak leaves (autumn and spring) four types of grass, and some wishful thinking.
I cracked and bought another large lot of them on eBay this week, so I need to get these done before I end up too swamped.
I think it brings my pure Tanith total to 87 before we count my sniper converts, custom Bragg (heavy bolter) and conversions.
Yes!
...but your thread has hundreds of pages! I've managed to totally lose focus by the second post.
Viktor von Domm wrote:no fear buttery commissar, welcome to the fun side of being a hoarder....... i guess 40k was never meant to be a game for sane personalities
Actually my lead pile is only about four shoeboxes maximum, and a small, glass corner cabinet... and that would include space for the packaging and blisters.
Yeah, I know, it's shocking, I am determined to only own what I can physically paint and use. Occasionally I even purge the back log by giving a chunk away to local groups or friends.
I come from a long family of "That'll come in useful some day..." and I will not let it take hold when I'm only in my twenties. (My) books are meant to be read, (my) minis are meant to be painted... No judging of anyone else!
The reason I'm so sporadic in this topic is that I am just very easily distracted.
Speaking of which. My Kelpie WIP (I thought you were painting Tanith? What, these Tanith that are still in the front room...?)
A Kelpie is a monster I grew up reading local mythology stories about, along with trolls, dragons, pixies and other nasty little bastards.
She is going to have a beach sand base, with sea water (Vallejo gel water effects), and I'm going to finish it, damn it.
had to look that type of woood up... but it seems it is often used for furniture...maybe there is a way then... cherry wood also has a nice dark hue too...may be an alternative and more readily accessible...
Didn't get much painting done today because I was making these instead.
The Grid is a local amazing gaming store meets create space, and one of the guys there wanted a personalised hoodie.
Excuse the phone pics.
I'm finishing the last few of these T&T Kickstarter dice bags:
(If you've just somehow worked out who I am from that, please don't share)
They were due over to Flying Buffalo a few months ago, but, well, I'm both terrible at organisation, and something very bad happened early in the year that... Well it's over now I think.
There's a silly little modification fitted... Instead of a hole, there's an extremely powerful magnet in the tank hatch.
Which means I can do this...
I also magnetised Yorkie #2's butt, so I can do this...
It means that he won't snap off if I need to store the tank, and that I can pop his legless counterpart there when he inevitably gets killed on the battlefield, as decor. Also that I can fit other tank commanders if for some reason there's anyone wants to drive the fruitiest Leman Russ in existence.
Started testing the metallic blue and white scheme.
It's going to be white, blue and silver/gun-metal. It'll have sooty exhausts and muddy weathering powders, along with some scrapes and oil.
Then I'm going to fit rhinestones on the exterior, and paint Yorkie #2 to match his standing up counterpart.
ah... good to see some work on that tank!
love the addition of the commissar! magnetizing him
the metalic looks clean... i have the old citadel color of this hue... but i never really found a good use for it... it has too much finger nail polish feel to it... but if it works for you^^
but i like this bold painting scheme ... having a praetorian army myself this is probably a biased love for such schemes^^
also... as the pages and time made me almost forgot...
that kelpie looks awesome! really shows what a classy painter you are, the shading of white to blue is remarkably well!
besides, it is an awesome model!
cheers, vik
oh...and where are the rhiestones supposed to come into play with the leman russ?
Vik, they're going on the sponsons, and in a sort of "collar" beneath the turret.They're square sky blue gems, I may chicken out and not use them if they sit badly.
This paint is "Miniature Paints" brand Steel Blue and it's a royal pain to use, it separates back to blue and silver in a heartbeat, and probably won't be the same shade when I come to the other side of the tank. It flows with a mind of its own... It also feels sticky when dry, I need to give it a varnish before I handle it much more.
Between blue plasma, blue rhinestones and blue paint, it's going to be a very sparkly vehicle. What can I say?
The rest of my army is going to be clean two-tone Mordian uniforms and the Tanith scouts, with one or two silly ideas like this making an appearance.
Some day I'm going to get it into one of the various painting contests at Warhammer World at an event and rustle some jimmies, I'm fairly sure. The devil in me can't resist.
(I want to actually put tank treads on a butter tub, and paint it up... But I also want to finish my army)
Automatically Appended Next Post: Before I forget, I also worked on the horse.
There's not been an astonishing amount of paint progress on this because I've been building up the "waves" behind her.
I keep forgetting to photograph before adding more water.
Here is how the water started after a day. I cut some old plastic from a blister packet, curved it and glued it to the sand. Then I built on it with Vallejo Water Texture, a little each day. As you can see it was not joined to the Kelpie.
Now I have slowly built it up:
And it goes across to form one "wave"
BTW I painted some blue onto the first layer and I still dislike it intensely. On my final layer I will add some white foam and hopefully that will be hidden.
This needs to set for the day before I add more, it is still milky.
Erm, ...honestly? IF you use these in a way I would advise you to use them as side additions...to the sponsons...kinda like extra armor.... But now it looks a wee bit silly and...well girly...but not in a good way...I know girls want to play with tanks too...but...please no rl bling on a LR....I hope I didn't sound too chauvinistic now...
To be honest I'm wondering if I need smaller ones, and placement. I just had to demonstrate with a method that used gravity rather than glue.
i read that you are a lady...(if i am wrong, i better from now on put my foot in my mouth...)
smaller ones are definitely a step in the right direction...my concerns where mostly about symmetry... smaller allows you that better than with the bigger ones...
by the way... for mock up sessions ... use a small drop of water... it is often underestimated how sticky small amounts of water can be...fat surface bind for a short period of time quite stable...at least for the time to take a pic
To bad you didnt use Stamped sheet metal to keep the weight down.
It's hollow, weighs about 1.2 kilos, and is weighted so that the stock balances out with the muzzle pretty well. Quite honestly I'm not going to carry it around with me more than one day a year, so it doesn't greatly matter.
Viktor von Domm wrote:i read that you are a lady...(if i am wrong, i better from now on put my foot in my mouth...)
I think you'll find that I'm a fictional commissar...
It's very girly because I want to see if white and delicate can still be stylish in an army. I mentioned the gems for a joke, as I had them spare from making a present for a friend. I was told I absolutely cannot use them, so of course that's a challenge right there... I'll see how the rest of the scheme goes before I fit anything. I want to stick with square ones either way, but placement is eluding me.
sadly i dn´t own a LR myself so i can´t field test the gems here for you...tho, there aren´t that many places to stick them on...it is a rather crowded model^^
and... you are not a commissar that stands in a butterbox wielding a butterknife?...colour me surprised...after all i have it from authorised sources i exactly look like mr. connery...well...at least i grow bald...
I'm slowly getting there tonight with the tank. The blues and gun metals, then a dark wash for the white, tracks and blue wash for the blue, before highlighting.
I will still use the larger stones, they'll go on the "rim" I'm touching in the photo, and be mostly hidden by the turret when fitted.
As they say, "Never feel self-pity for growing older. There are many people who never had the opportunity to do so."
I'll be unable to return to painting until quite likely July, now.
I may not get to finish my Kelpie for the contest either. Came back to my parents home in short order to get the end of this dice bag order completed.
My own fault for being very irresponsible with work timing.
That said, the bags are going well, just closing them up now.
Well, because I've got a lot of time to sit around between embroidering dice bags, here's a little insight into what I do to alleviate the boredom... It's not painty, but it's crafty.
I sneak in a few of my own designs... I made these two bags for my RPG group.
One is for a big fan of the Supernatural TV show (I don't think there are small fans...) and another is a Skitarii player. I'll be hopefulyl surprising them with these the next time we play Only / Heresy RPG.
If I can resist playing Santa for that long. I love seeing people excited.
Here is how a design starts life - a vector effectively. This I traced from a simple ad-mech desktop I doodled..
Then you set things like stitch density and direction... Yawn.
Then you *yawn* test out the digital preview.... Looks smooth to me.
Then you pray that your machine likes the file you just made...
Feed in the colours one at a time...
There we have it, quick and dirty dice embroidery. I will sew up the bags tomorrow in better daylight.
These are for presents. They're not making me any cash, so I have no bones with posting them here. I can't even say they're for personal use, as I'm a special kind of idiot and forgot to make one for myself.
hey! congratz for frontpage!
also...
cool stitching/embroidery...
these look very cool, tho i gotta ask, is the skull intentionally a bit longer above than the original? and with what programme do you make the vector graphics?... free ware or bought?
the supernatural icon escapes me, as does the show... i never really got into that one...
but i gotta ask again, why do sacks and not go for the full monty and do hoodies or somethng like that? i bet there would be a finacial twist about such a product...
speaking of... what do you charge for something like that?
I was a bit horrified to make front page with unfinished planes! I can but hope they are well received when I complete them.
The skull is the design GW used on its car decals, it's one that I knew my friend liked, as I scanned it to make his desktop. No other real reason for the shape. Personally I prefer the more complex admech logo.
Vik, I make hoodies, scarves, work shirts, etc. I just put the customer's design on them as they ask. Right now it is 100 dice bags for an rpg company.
If you have a design in mind, you can PM me with it. I have links to my past works and such that I can show you. I just keep my business name off Dakka, for various reasons. One being if I offend someone here, they could go feth up my eBay listings.
A few years ago, I never bothered hiding who I was. Back then, I used a message board that was somewhat less civil than most. Call it a closed-community 4chan type of site.
Anyway I was pretty happy using it for the more social side. We shared links, files, etc. I even went to a few meets and stayed at houses of a few members.
Then some trolls started picking on various members at random. I was one of them. They found out pictures of me, found my Facebook, messaged my (retirement age) father with abuse and spammed my personal websites.
So now I separate fun from my real name.
I'm back home for two days, that means I can try and get the Kelpie done and then go back and do the last dice bags...
Thankfully the water set while I was away, I just need to white tip it, fill in the seaweed and eyes, mouth and little details.
Also sort the base out because I blacked it very wobbly.
It's cleeeaaaar. God I'm so relieved.
Mouse also did more stupid art for the players handout. This is one of very few pieces that's incoherent enough not to be a spoiler. Excuse the unfinished-ness.
Ha! The Mustang! Except this one didn't kill anyone by falling on them. I might kill someone if they drop it, though, so a fair comparison.
And thanks Wolfblade! I'm getting close to actually finishing some of them (and starting more...).
I also haven't mentioned my biggest project in here which is restoring an Aquila Lander that some silly beggar smashed to pieces. I've finally tracked down someone who has the pieces I'm missing, and I'm hoping they're legitimate. Quite frankly as its out if production I have no way to tell.
Hehe, well it's not commission work, I want to play in the Council of War Event at Warhammer World, where 4 friends team up to fight 4 friends, but one of my team hasn't the initiative or the time to paint his army.
Plus it gets "I wanna admech" out of my system.
Vik, Commissar had too much of a good night methinks. Someone seems to have stolen his hat, too..
Well horse-butt is nearly done. HOORAY
Waves are still curing, they'll be milky-clear one the foam areas. Need to sort out finishing touches, teeth, highlights, etc. (Haylights?)
And what's this? New toys?
I've been slowly picking up WarColours paints since they popped up, ready to do my IG. They're very fluid, so I'll hopefully be able to get a nice finish.
I've been looking for a way to do skin both interestingly and quickly, being that my Tanith only have four poses between them.
Bam! Flesh tone set.
If you can't tell 1 and 2 apart, don't worry, neither can I. I feel a little gypped there. I'm honestly not sure that needed to be so similar.
Greens! I'm somewhat green-brown colourblind but I'm pretty sure these are entirely too bright for forest colours. I can't think of anything I'm every going to paint neon green, apart from that horse's eye highlight.
The horsy might not be the most nightmare-inducing of the lot, but you did a very nice job with your shading and blends. The water effect was also very ambitious and well executed. You got a vote from me as well.
A very long time ago (I think I can use that expression despite being under 30) I used that water gel with yellow and red inks to try and make fire, blasting from a High Elf dragon. What I actually achieved was rather explosive vomit.
Didn't keep the result, oddly enough.
And those are the ones. I'm planning on getting hands on with them when I get home midweek. The texture is pretty okay. They claim to be airbrush and brush suitable which is a bit strange to handle.
First day back at the paint fountain.
Sadly not super productive. Been feeling really groggy all day, not sure what's up, but it feels like my ear canals are hotter than the rest of my head.
My own "To-Do list". (Argh!)
-First half of my Tanith (second half are in customs and tax assessment at the moment). +2 more lasgun +2 plasma gunners. Takes my total to [mumbles] nearly 100...
- Sentinel from eBay (astounding custom work, kudos to the creator).
- Tank
Stripping all of my second hand mordies. How many mordies? Lots.
Look at all that 1990s grass!
And what would this topic be without commissars..
And this old bird. She still needs about a month's repair.
Mordian story time! This year I made a Mordian costume on the cheap. I was given an old black-blue peaked cap, a USMC dress jacket (retired and with insignia removed) and I found some leather ammo pouches and a strap belt.
I've always felt a bit weird about the jacket, but being as I'm in the UK, people will only ever assume I'm in costume (or a strange person). I still tried to be as respectful as possible to the materials. Instead of cutting it, all edits are removable. I keep it out if the way and carefully stored in case someone may have use some day.
I replaced the buttons with plain silver, made and machine-embroidered new red cuffs with golden Aquilas, that fit over the old ones using the button grips. I fitted some brass Aquilas to the collar. Fitted some chest insignia and built/embroidered custom epaulettes that can be removed. I made some blue pants up with a tear-off blood stripe for the day. I already owned knee high buckle boots.
So, I went out in this to attend a meet-up at WHW, I stowed the hat, trousers, ammo and epaulettes in my bag to cause minimum stir on the street, but wore the altered jacket as it was plain too bulky to carry.
I hopped on the bus, and the conductor waved me on without looking. I stopped, extremely confused.
He looked up and apologised profusely, "I'm so sorry duck, I thought you were a bus driver! Go on, get on, I've just insulted you."
I laughed my ass off and insisted on paying anyway.
Okay, a slightly more realistic target, this part is my army for the CoW in September... Minus a couple of things. Some more plasma due in.
Everything apart from Very 80s Commissar in the middle, Yorkie and my tank need redoing from scratch.
I also have to paint 1000pts of Skitarii plastic for a friend who can't.
That still looks like a bunch of dudes to get through! Stripping minis is my least favorite task. I have a tyranid army that I am ignoring that need to be completely repainted.
Good luck with your project!
pics of the jacket would be nice...after all bus fares are´nt cheapo^^ so it might be useful
and that is a wonderful amount of metal assembled there! wow... a fortune alone in tanith minis....and you even have the female commissar from GW...respect... but where is gaunt?
i was always more a praetorian fan than a mordian one...but i do own a squad too^^...
EyeamRai wrote:That still looks like a bunch of dudes to get through! Stripping minis is my least favorite task. I have a tyranid army that I am ignoring that need to be completely repainted.
Good luck with your project!
I hate stripping plastics. Metal I use this estasol sample jar that my partner brings home, and it's exceptional. The paint just floats off.
Getting them off those horrible bases was a pain though. I lost so many tabs.
Viktor von Domm wrote:pics of the jacket would be nice...after all bus fares are´nt cheapo^^ so it might be useful
and that is a wonderful amount of metal assembled there! wow... a fortune alone in tanith minis....and you even have the female commissar from GW...respect... but where is gaunt?
i was always more a praetorian fan than a mordian one...but i do own a squad too^^...
When the weather is nicer tomorrow I'll see if I can remember to take a photo of the jacket for you. My house mostly faces the rising sun, but in the evening it is not so good for taking pictures.
I've laid down about £3.90 a piece on my Tanith - I was incredibly lucky and got two large lots for cheap. Gaunt is over by the Sentinel. He's going to be my Lord Commissar. The man holding the heavy bolter on his own is going to be modded up to be Bragg.
The majority of the mini work is going to be getting that commissar cadet squad assembled as they don't have arms, I'm converting them to all have lasguns. The female commissar is going to be the sergeant for that squad, as her weapons are correct.
I have about 15-20 different commissars, because I've been trying to collect this set: http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2039impguard-h.htm I'm now only missing three (the gasmask commissar 4 on the top row, commissar and Las gun 1, commissar and las pistol). Often they come with other commissars or weird old figures.
Haha, it's not an obsession, it's a very slow burn background hobby. Especially as you can only really field 2 commissars in a bound 1000pt army (unless you're me and doing this cadet squad). At any time there's two of the three I need on eBay, but I wait for a day when I have some spare change or sold something off to make a little money. I've ended up with some very odd (and in some case quite pervy) spares.
Cadet commissars are really not very well described in the fluff.
Cadet Commissars are given the standard arms and equipment of a Guardsman, although they retain their distinctive uniforms. These uniforms differ from those of a full Commissar by featuring blue trim and a specific Cadet emblem.
That's all we get.
Thanks for the tip about arms! I'd been trying to do it with Workshop pieces, but seeing as nobody remembers these guys, I think some generic arms and then proper lasguns will be fine!
Raging Heroes has 3 sisters who can stand as female Commissars if you have not gotten them yet, and they come with a cigar smoking, picklehauber helmet pooch!
I'm afraid to take part in the events I do, figures gotta be 75% GW minimum. :( I've got a few awesome 3rd party figures I'd use otherwise.
Got the customs fee for my remaining Tanith today. At around £90 I plain can't afford it, so sadly they're going to have to sit there until I work out what to do. I don't use credit cards and hate borrowing money.
Time to rummage in my box of weird investment pieces and sell I guess!
Oddly appropriate, here's some more art for the story I'm writing, a clearer version:
It really is, it was clearly labelled $400 parcel with secure packaging. They're fething with me as I got a "revised customs fee" charge tacked on.
That is usually only added when they have reason to suspect the value is wrong.
"Second hand metal miniatures: no lead content"
Unless someone in Liverpool knows the value of 1990s Imperial guard figures, that's fething obscene.
customs is horrible... i dont know what the employment qualification are but being a nasty person i think ranges very high in my humble opinion...
a friend here on dakka sent me a huge present ...and i had to pay 30 bucks too....i was sooooo (/$&)(=)&%§ about that that i made a big scene and yelled at the top of my voice at the customs...
also...i think they only let it sit there for a short time... unless you want to have it returned to sender i would advise you to reat quik...
There's no one person I can complain to. Whoever I get on the phone will be not responsible for what happened.
I simply don't have £90 so I'm gonna have to suck it up if it goes back again. In the meantime I'm trying to sell off some old gear to raise it. I have 18 or 21 days, can't remember.
ha... i never got anyone even on the phone... had to drive there and then totally unsuspecting had to pay or bust... really...i hate customs... that is such a medieval system...
see...that´s what makes it easier for me... as i am in for praetorians ...cause they´re so expensive i really can´t bother at all... shame is i compensate with lots of other stuff^^
Also 30 Mordians for my Council of War army now have their pants painted. If I can stop distracting myself with the joy that is slowly milliputting this plane, I'll get them some uniform colours and a picture up tomorrow.
For now, original space wolves grey pants with white highlighting, and their blood strip is as far as I've got.
They're going to keep those white jackets, they have a very unimpressive preshade and basecoat done with the airbrush. But then the borders will be blue, the epaulets will be coloured depending on squad, and it'll pull together much better.
Well, my Ram does need something to, well, ram. Go ahead and enter the Lander, it will be amazing to see another rescue job done.
Edit:
Just realized I had never posted on here before. Buttery, I LOVE your work. Yorkie is an amazing done model, with three very hard colors to do. Plus, you are a Renaissance man because you can paint, sew, and build amazingly. Please, keep it up, so I have more things to be amazed at.
Viktor von Domm wrote:Looks a wee bit like a ghost army...or as if they fell in the flour pot...
Flyer is a nice project...
One of the reasons I like the white it's very hard to lose sight of them on the table. I have a bit of a shoddy memory, so it really helps.
AUGmaniac wrote:Well, my Ram does need something to, well, ram. Go ahead and enter the Lander, it will be amazing to see another rescue job done.
Are you heading to CoW, or am I getting confused (easily done).
Just realized I had never posted on here before. Buttery, I LOVE your work. Yorkie is an amazing done model, with three very hard colors to do. Plus, you are a Renaissance man because you can paint, sew, and build amazingly. Please, keep it up, so I have more things to be amazed at.
I'm really glad you enjoy the topic.
I love to make things - I also make bespoke stuffed animals, costume heads (like for those furry animal people) and clothing... I just don't feel right if I'm sitting about watching TV... The trade-off is not really understanding how the rest of the world works.
shasolenzabi wrote:And he has a platoon of Mordians as well as Tanith!
I actually got 27 more Mordians today. I genuinely don't know my total at this point because most are in the stripping jar.
Though my three new cannon are missing their gunners, and I have far, far too many sergeants now. Four turned up today, with only 10 troopers.
I don't want this many, I just need specialist weapons and they only seem to turn up in the huge lots of mixed Mordies. I can't even sell my spares because nobody likes them.
if you have too many sergeants i say convert the hell out of them... maybe if you play your cards right you could even make them the still needed specialists weapon soldiers...i know it is always heresy to cut up metal minis...
for my own shoddy memory i store washed out yoghurt pots...this is how i keep track of the plethora of sideprojects...even if these in itself could be lost track of... there easy to be found again
well.... they wouldn´t need to actually wield the guns... just need to hold them
but i agree...it would be tricky... and i know the models... have iirc both versions...and they´re the same pose as the praetorians...sadly^^
Sorry, I meant metaphorically, as I am entering my Ram in the Monthly comp, and wanted to see your Aquila Lander also finished. No clue what CoW is, I'm an easily confused American.
Sorry, I meant metaphorically, as I am entering my Ram in the Monthly comp, and wanted to see your Aquila Lander also finished. No clue what CoW is, I'm an easily confused American.
Ah sorry, Council of War is a big 4 v 4 tournament run by GW.
Okay I am slowly progressing with the Mordies. My fatigue is making my attention span 9/10 of feth all.
The desk today: Get the blacks down
What's going on there:
I'm doing the blacks and green base early on because they are very light figures. I don't want to slop black on at the end and have to correct hours of work on the white. The bases are gonna be 1980s grass.
My "spare" Mordians, lined up by squad/type: Yes that's nine grenade launchers and only one melta.
More infantry needed!
I owe a large photo update of all the crap I did finish for the Council of War, but I'm a bit soured because some jolly fether stole some of my figures at the event.
Just Mordians, but painted Mordians. I haven't got my gear out since because I'm a bit salty.
head looks pompous, viscous and mean... clearly a true commissar^^
and man, that is mean too, getting your minis stolen...i hate it when peeps behave without honour...
and i want to see more pics of your diorama for the comp...i am still contemplating whether to enter or not... i haven´t found any ides/worthwhile minis to paint for that...
Briancj wrote: I am sorry you lost figures. I have some Mordians lying around, can I send them to you?
That is really very kind, but please don't. The exception is that I would happily pay for missile launcher Mordians. They are very hard to find, and often only turn up in large lots that I simply can't afford.
I'mnot pissed at the loss of the metal - I currently have 144 Mordian infantry figures (not including the heavy weapon guns) - I only ever really anticipated 40-50 for my army, but another 40 turned up in a lot of tanks, and then there was a HWS I needed that came with 20 or so more...
I'm sad at someone stealing the painted ones, I stayed up late all week to get them to TTS, and then had to field two white primed guys for day 2.
Click to embiggen, and no I did not paint those appalling guns at the back, those need stripping but I'm out of fluid.
They're still going. I add a little insanity and cabling to the double-engine one every couple of weeks. The "X-Wing" needs metals and glass doing and it's otherwise done.
They're a slow-burn project because I under-estimated quite how much stuff I don't remotely like that I'd have to buy to make an Ork army. I was very new to 40K when I started the project, and thought that the Badrukk set and some planes would be enough.
I like the Flash Gitz, the planes and the grots. But I think Boys and Nobs are really quite dull, so I'd have to convert those. It's basically my background army.
I realise that's a metric assload of Mordians, but really it's an exception to the rule. My entire 40K collection fits in three KR multicases apart from the Aquila.
There's quite a lot there that I simply can't use (10 grenade launchers, half a dozen crouching HWS teams with no guns to fire) and will just paint up for various colour combinations.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Organised the OP, they said it couldn't be done, but it is!
Looking really good BC, the whites look nice and smooth and the colors compliment each other well. Also good job on the eyes, I personally will never paint eyes so its always cool to see them painted up.
Just found my phone pics of the Council of War events. You can see my various IG getting out and about! See why I went with white? they're really easy for folk like me to see on the table.
It was a tourney where you won by being voted the most fun to play against. Victory points were only for tie-breaking if two teams were both voted fun.
Yorkie was unequivocally the star player by accident. He was out as a Lord Commissar with plasma and I had no idea that this meant he's literally packing the ballistic skill and hand to hand of a small Space Marine. In four games he survived them all, including running out from under from a very large bombing raid. His plasma never overheated and I laughed my ass off several times.
First game - the Aquila is not yet deployed, but due to it being so freaking delicate, I was allowed to dump it there and avoid any calamity.
Game was SoB, Skits, IG and Space Wolves (us) v Nids, Chaos and more Space Wolves. We got absolutely hammered, but it was good fun.
In this pic I'm being harried by a very impressive Chaos army. That large Lord of Change was indeed facing down Yorkie, who on one turn denied some psychic beam or other, and in anoher totally blocked some screamers spawning. Most damage was done to the LoC by two guardsmen and their sergeant who somehow beat all odds and pasted it in the face repeatedly. Sadly we ran out of time, because it started running away from the commissar after he decked it with his pistol.
Game Two: Lotsa nids. This beautiful thing was painted by a really nice lass, and quite rightly won the category of painting competition it was entered in ("monsters" I think). What you see there, is the remains of twenty Tanith, a company command squad, and Yorkie.
Hilariously they stood and pasted that thing in the face for three rounds, and it tried to hit Yorkie back repeatedly and failed. They were both down to the last wound on the final turn, and Yorkie promptly shat himself (rolled double ones for fear test) demoralising everybody and they all sat there weeping quietly. I haven't laughed so hard in a very long time.
You can just about see that Colonel Commissar Gaunt's at the back just going, "MEN OF TANITH. I REGRET THIS COURSE OF ACTION."
Third game (we were late so had to play the staff again). It was really good fun, and we fared better. We faced Tau, Nids, Orks and Ultramarines.
"Oh hey, what's in the box?"
Dakka jets. REVERSE. REVERSE. The large hole that one is stood in is where a squad used to be. They did a proper bombing run, it was amazing. One of my team mates brought down a Bommer onto my Heavy Weapon Squad.
Fourth game: I only took one photo because it really was not fun to play at all. The team had brought a highly competitive list, and it was just basically an exercise in putting my figures back in the box. there was nothing we could do. By midway two of my team mates had wandered off to get drinks because two of them had nothing left to do. One of the players was really strict with me during my turn, and I very nearly lost my temper and said something rude, so also went for a brief walk when my turn was over as well. We al get different tings out of the hobby,and I didn't want to get cross at him for wanting to play the game differently.
In the final round they were trying to knock out as many of our units as possible for victory points. First they went for the Aquila and rolled that KR black tray in an earlier pic full of dice. Eight hit and wounded. I then rolled the save and every single dice was a success. We were all gobsmacked. Lucky, lucky bird. <3
Then the player who had been a bit strict went after Yorkie with his Ultramarines.
Every single save roll was a bewildering success, and he just flipped the naughty Astartes his metal middle-finger salute before the day ended. Dirty boy.
Fresh paint is supposed to fail horribly on the first time out! Nice looking batch of games. I like the commissar in white, refreshing change from the somber blacks they normally get.
And while I had nothing to do with it, I’d like to apologize for my fellow Ultramarine. He does the chapter a disservice.
shasolenzabi wrote:Interesting fights there. Love that the strict rules lawyer WAC player suffered so fighting Yorkie!
Yorkie for the WIN!
I wouldn't say he was a rules lawyer... What happened was we were playing four a side, so if you wanted to attack someone's figures and they were already in a conflict, you had to wait. With some people having 60 figures (me) and some having 20 (space wolves) things tend to get out of sync, but so long as we all agreed "Movement is done! Shooting start!" there was no issue.
I rolled my orders and waited to shoot at the Ultramarine. He then tells me I can't because someone further down the table declared a charge.
I say, "But I haven't had a shooting turn."
"He started charging."
"Has he moved his pieces?"
"No."
"Is it even the same unit that I want to shoot?"
"No."
"Can I shoot then, please?"
"No, he's declared his charge."
Bear in mind we were playing against staff the previous game who were resolving phases at different times with us as long as they were self contained.
I basically didn't get a turn for an entire round because someone got excited two metres away and wanted to charge with his 8 remaining figures.
If we'd been playing a tournament scene I'd have understood, but we were playing for fun. I guess maybe what one person thinks is fun, another doesn't.
Later on the same player tried to interrupt what I was doing to shoot me, and my team mate says, "He wants to shoot your [unit I can't even remember]."
"Well he can wait."
[Player takes a small step back and I feel very bad] I'm actually pretty timid when I'm calm.
evildrcheese wrote:Love all those Dakka Jets, I bet that was awesome.
He played them exactly as a bombing run should be done! Swept down the board without stopping and off the other end.
Nevelon wrote:And while I had nothing to do with it, I’d like to apologize for my fellow Ultramarine. He does the chapter a disservice.
Different people want different things out of a game. They wanted to win, and win hard. We wanted to play and experience the pieces we'd brought. This was the first time I'd ever played my flyer and Chimera.
One player said to us, apologetically "Everyone we played has brought a really... standard... list, we thought there'd be more competitive teams."
Unfortunately for them, this tournament was written up as a friendly one that encouraged new players to attend and learn.
Three teams got no votes at all for "best game". One had a warhound titan, one I think was the very competitive team, and I assume the last was the staff and therefore not allowed to have votes.
We came joint fourth, which considering we played the same team twice, we could only have come mid-list anyway.
Inspector #264 wrote:Many thanks for pointing me to your blog Buttery, it has been an entertaining read!
Haha, sorry for the plug, I just thought it'd give an idea of what the bird got up to.
Stff should have come and set him about being less rigid about things, and yes, many groups would see him being a bit "Lawyerish" in that argument. Otherwise, instead the staff fluid game like the previous one, all players for each side should be Move, shoot, declare charges/resolve charges, and no one shoots tiil all moves are done, etc.
I very rarely like to take picture this close to my minis, but here's an eye. It's a bit of an odd shape because this model is actually squinting and only has a sliver of eyeball, if you look at his official model, but I think that's crap so he isn't.
To start with I use a little Devlan mud brown wash in the eye socket. I think it gives a more natural and less "alarmed" shade than the black or brown solid paint.
Then I add the white, and wash again with the very tip of my brush.
Then the model sniffs glue. I mean I add the black oval for his pupil. In the past I've have left it here. But this is a special piece, so lets try something for the first time. God he looks angry.
Bam. Green. I wanted it to "pop" off the red eye and framing.
Put the pupil back in, and then add a white highlight.
You won't get to see most of this once his head is back on his body, because it's a very crunched up model. Have a look at Yorkie to see how little of his actual face is visible.
Loving the paint job on your Commissar's head there, Buttery. Eyes are such a pain to get right without making your mini look boz-eyed. He looks sufficiently hate-fuelled
I don't bother with the eyes on the minis who don't wear masks/full cover helmets.
Only downside is he's not looking at the thing he's holding, now the head is attached.
And because there's not nearly enough going on, I was reminded that I had this in my cupboard.
This is what is known as a BJD - Ball Jointed Doll amongst people who actually care about that. There's a big craze for them amongst young folk and anime fans and all that. They are usually humans, and painted with as much care as we'd use on miniatures. They are strung with elasticated cords to give a real sort of joint resistance like a living limb, rather than a simple ballsocket. I think they're creepy as feth and won't have them in my house.
Anyway a while ago a friend of mine bought a pair of these "Alicorn BJDs" to repaint and sell, and because he never got around to it, I ended up with one.
It's 3D printed and so light, that it's a bit like holding a tiny bird skeleton. I'm in gloves because it helps see what's going on with the white figure.
Please excuse my terrible kitchen tiles - they're not spattered with dirt, that's a hideous green and brown glazing pattern that the landlord picked out.
It really is quite beautiful (and fairly uncommon to see over here), but it's not very stable ( ) so I may need to put some weights into the feet. It also would usually be fitted with real hair. Because that's creepy and I don't want to, I'm going to look at sculpting and casting some in clear resins.
GiraffeX wrote: That sounds like a very creepy hobby, I think you should go bright rainbow colours to make it feel happier
No comment on the tiles
I really do not like the dolls. People also "wig" them by making them hair, and there's dolls out there who have wardrobes of clothes that cost hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
That's fair enough, but some of them are painted to have pouting babylike faces, and big alien deformed "cute" eyes. They give me the weeblies.
I will paint this one blue and candy paint metallics, like the moon pony from the TV show.
See me skillfully avoid Google hits.
Again, not a fan of the boogly eyes, but I like that multi-tone hair thing.
It's a sandstone finish, and if you look at the wing pic, it has small stepping to it. Nylon, can be sanded. More flex to it than some resin, but by no means soft.
It has sunglasses. I'm all sorts of bewildered. What's weirder is in Epic, they hang out in groups of four.
I've really enjoyed painting him, I may well do some Epic for fun. Got IG and SM.
Also the bigger commissar is going to be looking at Dakka for reference for his painting...
That Commissar + Tinyssar is going to be GLORIOUS!
I must say the idea of a ball-joint doll reminds me of Mannequin from Worm. Deadly, blank white artificial shell, ball and chain joints, and so very creepy.
LordRahl wrote: lmao i didnt think you were a bronie lol next u'll add the ur little avatar riding her...
I'm not a brony.
I do trade and work with bronies in my day job, they're a very pleasant group of kids and adults to design for.
One is a good friend and sold me the BJD cheaply because I was interested in working with the material.
I also have some of the Slap Mini ponies to work on.
I did have some of the old ponies when I was very little, along with the pink castle and Power rangers. Mine was an interesting childhood.
Going to paint the little cat to match yours? You could paint up some of the spare epic things for it to be batting around on the floor under the workbench.
Looking forward to seeing this done. Once you finish, you need to do one of those infinite zoom gifs.
Wait a sec. IIRC you live with a “chemist” and have a composite patchwork cat? Do you have an aversion to fire and/or love of soothing violin music? Are there bolts holding your head on? Do you often find yourself saying “Fools! I’ll show them!” or laughing maniacally? Are you the mad scientist or the monster?
Nevelon wrote:Wait a sec. IIRC you live with a “chemist” and have a composite patchwork cat? Do you have an aversion to fire and/or love of soothing violin music? Are there bolts holding your head on? Do you often find yourself saying “Fools! I’ll show them!” or laughing maniacally? Are you the mad scientist or the monster?
Probably more of a Blucher capacity.
[Horses panic]
LeCacty wrote:KITTY!
Also:
Well, time to pack up and go home. That rattle can is more skilled than my entire dio.
Bigger ver
Not a modelling post per-se, but something I feel worth noting.
Well the other day was a day of mixed emotions. A good friend of mine died, and her sister has asked me to have first refusal of all her old art materials whenever she came across them. Most recently she came across a bounty of beautiful inks and pigments. More than I could indeed use in a lifetime myself. Some of these are hand mixed. All are airbrush suitable.
I plan on applying them to my most recent purchase. I treated myself to the beautiful (and rather disturbing) Keeper of Secrets from Forgeworld. I have no plans to buy more miniatures this year, just a codex and some conversion parts. I mainly got him in case the AoS storyline causes any major revisions to Slaanesh, and an inspection of the larger models. It’s an absolute sod of a model. Everything from fingernails to studs on the legs and arms are separate.
Oh no worries, it wasn't recent. Very sad and unjust, but nearly 9 years now.
The KoS? Just for laughs, I got him out for you.
For starters: This is actually wrong, the spike sprues are not like that any more. Split into four for some reason.
Okay, so study this carefully? You'll see there are dimples on the bent leg.
What're those? They're indents for you to drill and set spikes into.
No, I'm not joking. Mordian for scale.
They also go here:
And here:
Oh right, the hand?
Bonus:
I would say that outside the Thunderhawk and titans, this is easily the most ridiculous Forgeworld kit I've ever seen in terms of assembly and transportation.
This is my big treat of the year though. I want to paint this guy with petroleum rainbow colours in his scales, and ashy charcoal base, with lava flooding out from cracks in the earth. You'll notice that his jaw is the smallest part, and it's roughly the size of the Mordian. Do click and do zoom, the skin is magnificent.
I sympathise. I have a Necron centipede beastie thing. That's not a small job either! Got all the legs and body sections to put together! Though all the spikes on the KoS is nuts...
If the spikes can be drilled and set using the posts on them, I would actually quite enjoy doing it. If that's venting and they snap off super easy instead, I may put him at the back of my queue.
The odd thing is I know they could have included at least some of the spikes, as since the instructions were printed, the inner wrist spikes are not separate. Casting has improved dramatically it seems.
But yeah, I'd have still bought him. Just not sure that I would have done it right now.
Heh, you know, I have seen about 6 KoS on the table, and never realized they were supposed to have spikey legs. I am guessing you are not the first to look at them and think "Oh, hell no."
I'm really hoping to get a dark and oily but shimmering effect on his scales, like a puddle of diesel. I'm a little unsure how to give that definition though, I don't want a one-trick pony of the shimmer paint. Perhaps have ash and weathering powders across his belly and feet, as he walked across the ashy earth.
Where though?
I want to do so many things. I want it to have a hot magma belly, but petrol scales, and ashy extremities. I think really I need two dragons.
You know how I was saying that Keeper of Secrets was second only to a fething Warhound in difficulty.
I guess my friend wanted to test that theory. I’ve taken on his dogbot. Open ended sort-of commission. He's going to cover the tools I need, and I get to build a titan.
'Dogbot' - bwhahahahah - perfect! Chaos or Imperial?? I'm really wanting to get the Chaos Warhound......at.some.point.!!! Can't really have it shipped to korea though as the import/customs charges would kick the price into the stratosphere.....*sigh* someday
Imperial. I like the Chaos one much more as well, apart from the screamjing shinpad. I really like the Chaos Reaver over the Imperial too.
Speaking of shipping, I've got those Tanith ready to send, but I managed to find you a Larkin (he was part of a large infantry lot I wanted) so I'm just waiting on him as a hitch hiker.
Gonna be a little while as I'm working on getting my own IG finished for the tabletop. (1500 of infantry)
After that there's nothing really in the way.
I always love watching titans go together. Partly because I know I’ll never be able to justify picking one up myself, so it’s a bit of vicarious modeling porn.
Looking forward to your projects hitting the blog!
As someone who's also currently working their way through a mound of guard infantry I understand how it feels. Guard get so repetitive to paint quickly. You need to have a healthy mixing of other models (such as officers/other cool minis) mixed in or you'll burn out very quickly.
First on the table is my Tauros. I'm going to change the driver and gunner by swapping them for Commissar Cadets.
I need to push mould a torso for the driver, and just fit the gunner a new arm.
The kit itself is very very hard to put together for what it is.
Everything is pushing against everything else.
War Kitten wrote: As someone who's also currently working their way through a mound of guard infantry I understand how it feels. Guard get so repetitive to paint quickly. You need to have a healthy mixing of other models (such as officers/other cool minis) mixed in or you'll burn out very quickly.
Back row is the Commissar Workshop, I'm going to alternate.
Buttery Commissar wrote: Well I actually made backwards progress on this by stripping a whole bunch of things that were already painted.
Buttery, what are you doing, Jesus.
Posting here to motivate myself to stick with the plan. Hurgh.
I hate it when that happens. I can sympathise though, I have some BA stuff that is painted but never play with because the paint job isn't up to my current standard. I should just strip them and repaint already.
Back view and rebased cadet. My cadets are going to have snow dye to their black uniforms.
This one was painted by someone else, and is an exception to the rule.
I'm eventually going to have a hands on hips commissar made from the tank commander commissar, and either stand him on the base looking very annoyed, or on the side of the vehicle like, "sigh."
The Tauros and the Arvus Lighter are both really tiny FW pieces.
I've now got some of the tiny tanks that go inside a chimera, speaking of diddy. Russian doll tanks!
Big topic clean up and update due, I've just been slacking.
I printed them using Photoshop and screenshots from Battlescribe, put them in CCG holders and hole punched the top to keep them in with the chain.
So many people were actually shocked, "That's genius!" it took an hour, I didn't think I'd be alone on doing this.
Buttery Commissar wrote: I printed them using Photoshop and screenshots from Battlescribe, put them in CCG holders and hole punched the top to keep them in with the chain.
So many people were actually shocked, "That's genius!" it took an hour, I didn't think I'd be alone on doing this.
I use a program called Magic Set Editor for mine. They are fairly simple to put together, and I also get a lot of complements and “Great idea!” about them. As an Ultramarine player I have a number of one-use doctrines to keep track of. Once I use it, I can just toss the card back into my case.
With GW going to the dataslate format, I keep thinking it might be worth it to scan/print them out, probably at half sized. They have pretty much all the information you need on one page, so I could just have the ones in my army out on the table to save time flipping though the codex. Of course, now that they are all on a single page, there is less flipping. As opposed to when each unit had it’s information smeared over 3-4 places in the book.
What's hilarious is that we've come full circle. In 2nd edition, you had Datafaxes for all your vehicles, and people made cards like this for their units.
Briancj wrote: What's hilarious is that we've come full circle. In 2nd edition, you had Datafaxes for all your vehicles, and people made cards like this for their units.
I thought you said dakkafex and was genuinely confused for a good 5 minutes.
Briancj wrote: What's hilarious is that we've come full circle. In 2nd edition, you had Datafaxes for all your vehicles, and people made cards like this for their units.
When second came out I'd have been learning to read multi syllable words.
For a while I've been focused on quantity- getting my army to TTS and able to roll. My last list had nearly 95 figures in it, and I started on it barely a month earlier.
Finally it's time to go back and pretty up these fellas to the standard they deserve. To the best of my ability, anyway.
The overall group is a bit eclectic. It's Mordians backed up by Tanith. Ultimately I will separate out into a regiment of each, but I don't yet know how to represent a sergeant for the Tanith. Right now they each have a Mordian sergeant regardless of original regiment.
First guys up for renewal are my CCS.
I may end up stripping them as I'm very unhappy with the primer being thick. But that's backwards progress and we want to get gak done.
I think the 'look at my book!' on the jeep is brilliant.
EDC
I got absolutely minced.
It was Attrition rule set, which means when an infantry unit is wiped out, it returns in ongoing reserves.
Unfortunately I very rarely suffered a total wipe due to playing massive scattered infantry.
Also midway through game two I came down with very rapid food poisoning and had enough time to say, "I'm not okay." before running to the nearest bathroom and vomiting out everything from the ankles up. Had a friend step in for game 3.
We faced Guard (lost), Salamanders (lost), Tau (won, but it was actually the guy I shared the hotel with, so kinda pointless), grey knights (lost) and space marines with Knights (won on VP, lost on tournament points).
In March there's a tourney based on ridiculous deaths, so I'm going for that.
Played a friend with the same 1500 list on Tuesday and beat him into the ground on objectives. Clearly that's what I need to do in future.