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1000 words and still nothing to say! As stalin would say "Qauntity has a qaulity it's own" ok things have been a bit slow in this ere part of town... and they still are jk not much to show just some bits and bobs from tinternet that i have accuired for the IG diorama , fret not people praxus has not been forgotten , just taking a break ,so i can see it with fresh eyes did a really rubbish graphic to illustrate some of my ideas behind the diorama. I have decided it will be a dedication to the ever chaging ig as it will incorporate 3 generations of IG,thanks to a very helpful dakkite Silver mk2 , who had some 2nd genIG Veterans awaiting a troop transport to Praxus. i also custom made a oldschool lascannon, not great qaulity though , and will be a stand in unless i find an original model , that doesnt break the bank. Also made some custom barb wire from 34 guage jewelry wire , using this tutorial, i dont really reccomend it unless you need lots and are broke , because its very labour intensive work , and the results are not too great!
linky http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=107 so here is the diorama inspiration in full again and a mock up of sorts plus the lates ig guard aditions.
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2010/11/26 20:20:00
Subject: neil101's 40k Manufactorum mini diorama Update
ha got you now, cause now i have something to say^^ lol
is that a dkok officer or a commisar even...nothing says cool awsome as a DKOK Officer...
also fro what i can see the lascanon looks very good and when painted it should work...if i recall corrctly i have one lying by with no apparent use... she was in a bitbox i aquired in the early start of restarting the hobby...do you want it? and remeber the tactical facpalm i sent you...be warned of your next step^^
the mock up of yours looks funny. and even if vast amounts of IG troups have to suffer its still something like hot soup to see chaosmarines getting shot^^
i vote: Kill more Choas Space Marines, do it for our Children!!!
also for barbed wire (yours looks good to go^^) i recommed the read of this:
This morning I woke up very early, everyone else is still in bed and I powered up my laptop and came over to dakka just to have a quick read, nearly 2 hours later I have just finished reading this thread, I am truely inspired. I too am currently not in work, although still employed at present (I will loose my job in January) I have been sadly struck down with an illness that often leaves me unable to walk or use my hands because of incapacitating pain, its called Fibro Mialga (FM) I too am a parent of 3 wonderfull children, the eldest of whom, Lewes, recently became excited about the world of 40k. I have truely loved the opportunity this has given me to try my hand at something new, and at the same time given me the opportunity to play once again, like a child with my children, in an imaginative and creative way no other game has been able to do, recently it was my nephews 13th birthday, we had a normal party for him, but also converted our living room into one huge battle ground, for a fantastic 40k game, 7 children and I crawling around on the floor, Necrons, Tau, Chaos Space Marines and Space Marines strewn everywhere, 3 hours passed in a flash, and when it was all over I noticed that my fiance had sat and watched the entire evening, even my youngest two had joined in, Luke aged 5 and Lucy aged 8, throwing dice, moving minis it was the best evening.
I suppose what I am trying to say is thank you, My inner child has found its way out again, this hobby and all the advice and inspiration Dakka Dakka has given me and my children is fantastic, I am learning how to paint, model, play, so much more, and to be honest, I feel my whole family have been brought closer together.
Blooming eck! what an outburst!!! im sorry for that, but keep it up guys, and thank you.
Mayb I will have the courage to post some pics in my gallery of some of my work now, not just my sons.
sorry to hear about your illness. its very rare one. my mother in law got the same illnes. she used to go into cold chambers to ease the pain to some extent. she had 15 years of not finding out what it was. very painful and also frustrating...
i´ve heard that you could do something with your eating habits to ease the effects a bit and constant (i know at first painful) exercises can help you. do you happen to know more peole with your illness in your suroundings? might be good to visit forums for that too...
that aside i guess there are far more people around that share that unemploeyed background and i think it is a good thing to use the gven time for modeling and overall creativity.
as for posting your pics, if hurting comments might appear the community is there to help and tone that negative remarks down. we tend to help not demolish someone. thtas for the outside world^^
just had a quick look in your gallery, your necrons look good. are you testing schemes there? also i love the destructor base with that lightnig effect, what did you use for that? and the lower part of said base looks stunning.
i think your good to go.
@ Deeks Wow Deeks, welcome to the 40k k stands for kitchen philosophy korner , also know as grumpy old veterans reunited lol , Can't speak for all the other Dakkites but i imagaine Everyone here shares your passion for childlike activities he he he , something cathartic about shutting out real life for a few hours and indulging yourself. Cant believe you managed to trawl through this unsightly mess of a blog in just a few hours, although iam also humbled to think you would want to. Sorry to here about your rare condition of FM , but as they say every cloud has a silver lining ,(Take notes dakkites me being positive!) and if it means you get to convert your front room into a huge apocolyptic play area , well , i think thats one right there! I do still find it slightly weird still , i guess i have always been a closet 40k gamer, since i left school, not wanting to reveal my passion for miniatures ,and sci fi fantasy stuff lest i be ridiculed, this thankfully has been eased since finding dakka, where , there is no shame in sharing what after all is a fantastic, creative and imaginative experience,( I am a out of the geek closet ) in fact i feel sorry for those people who have missed out on all the great little stories and amazing artwork, and sculpture that has gone into creating our paralell universe. Finding 40k through children again is a nice way to be eased back into its grimdark world." no hard sell" and your oldest " Lewes " I am sure will have a great teacher or Living Ancestor to all you sqautites, to show him the ropes.
I also have found dakka to be a wonderfull and supportive community as Monkeytroll said earlier, that really embraces its own, like no other place . I really hope you do post some pics in your gallery , though looking at your sig i can see you may have already! or maybe there your sons, iam sure the many experienced and talented dakkites on here will lend a hand with paniting tips , i know weetyskeemian 44's blogs is doing exceptional tutorials , thats where iam learning from anyway! Monkeytrolls for orky conversion inspiration ,VIk Von Domm for Airship Steampunks as well as Scrazza and Scarpers wonderful Ig , and Madmarty for Building, as well as all the others iam sure you know about!
Honoured you chose this corner for your comments and looking forward to seeing your work and your sons!, infact i might post some pics of my boys work today , they prefer converting to painting , just like there dad lol regards
Neil
is it snowing where you are?
@ Scrazza silence is a virtue when the inquisition watches all! @Weety I love that standard bearer guy always have !, £ 8 .00 from http://www.bobnbootzmodels.co.uk/ You do know you are directly responsible for that purchase. You see what happens when you inspire people , money gets spent , hearts get broken , people die! ( well not always)
but you see , there are consequences for producing such a fantastic blog! thats all iam saying ! My kids have no new shoes now , not your fault directly , but there you go , just wanted to let you know, Amber will have no perfume at crimbo either if i continue, but dont feel bad about it i understand you cant help yourself, just carry on purchasing wonderfull minis from yesteryear paint them up to a top qaulity standard and sod the consequnces jk!
@ Vik the barb wire blog is the same tecnique i used , he just did it much better , i might have another go , just need some more small pliers . the drill idea will save time though! i stood winding with a clothes peg for an age
oh and also i feel like ending by quoting some old wd stuff some nice pics from wd 172 and ermm 1 something something and a bit of text... a grimdark kookie kronikle to if anyone can guess what from?
"The sky is so big and wide and inviting. Why don't you just fly into it like a bird, rolling and tumbling on the wind? The individual drops his weapon, his eyes become wide and vacant, he begins to jump up and down and flap his arms furiously.
The model starts to move around the table randomly each turn. Flapping his arms and staring at the sky,
and continues to do this until he leaves the table.
although this one is deffinately more me
" It's all too much - the war the killing, the endless misery. Chronically depressed, the trooper sits down upon the ground oblivious to everything around him.
The model remains in its current position for the remainder of the game, burbling quitetly about the horror' , and may do nothing eles.
that IG Cosplaer has some serious issues to compensate that with thaaaaat bg gun, don´t you think so?
i guess your quotes of old doesn´t exist in this colorful qualitxy in the current game anymore? its got a really rpg taste to these rules...what a shame...
i will post a pic of my lascanon in the evening, as proposed yesterday...
@ vik , cheers matey , apreciate that! it was more like rpg back then , more skirmish less tanks! and the gun lol i want one!
@ Weety you know your stuff! Hallucinogen Effect table ( d10) no 6 and 10 from the 40k weargear book1993 still a bit young for me lol you win a grimdark kronikle episode ! watch this space......
2010/11/27 17:52:52
Subject: neil101's 40k Manufactorum mini diorama Update
That's some nice inspiration for a diorama (you'll have to excuse me playing catch-up ). That is a classic standard bearer, very nice. Miss those days when it was more rpg, even though I don't play anymore there was more scope for modelling too. I really should look into inquisimunda a bit more to make up some warbands as opposed to large armies - might actually finish some projects then
Hey Monkey how goes it? yeh the diorama ( what a strange and cool word) a little off focus for me , but " a change is as good as a rest they say" was worried about the grass but caught a gitsplitta tutorial on his mantis marines , and feel more confident in aproaching it now. Looking at painting an oldschool backdrop like , the back of wd's battle scenes back in the day! by the way your back just in time for a Grimdark cookie kronikle episode , well soon any way ! as for now and this is still orky related , i have entered a Death Skulls poetry competition right here on dakk run by eyeofhorus ,
with this effort:
We da lootas an freebootaz knicking stuff from shivs to shootaz
eyeing up da umies tanks, so we can kitbash dem urm... thanks
kannon, pulsas, burnas, cutters. We da tinka Gork Mek nuttaz
all da time we, we finding fings and makes da stuff dat bruvvers bring
Uvver orks dey fink where barmy, why not WAAAGH along wiv army
jus get yer ed tested yer Brainz, but Mad Doc Grimsnik sez wer sane
dey dont want the fings we uze, instead dey all grogged up wiv booze
an even Warboss, he can't see, but grabs our goodies when ready!
So into Dakka we do ride, our paro nature makes us hide,
behind the blue stuff on our hedz, painted on wiv grotling legs
Ere we go the the end is near, Warboss has his BIG GUN Cheer
whilst umies run an cower in fear. Looted Rhino,... Death Skulls ere!
wait... take da shot, double one, oh dear.
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2010/11/29 01:26:14
Subject: Re:neil101's 40k Manufactorum mini diorama Update
HEY DAKKITES,
Keeping up the orky theme, I present as promised
The Grimdark Cookie Kronikles Episode 2 ( the Film tie- in Episode )
Following the crushing defeat by the Cookie Guardians , Bashed's plan to capture supplies is scuppered , now his gang ,broken and split are forced into hiding amongst the disgusting fruit bowls. His brave plan in tatters, and with only nine of his boys left. He must use all his strength and guile to escape this cursed planet Praxus, and find a way home for him and his bruvvers , back to the fabled MonkeyTroll system where Fabulous Cybork embellishments await the the few Orks brave enough to survive the journey .Meanwhile a lone Orky Winehouse hides in the wreckage of an old disused cookie factory.
Now the story continues......
"look a heretic..." man that got class...
the best pics i could think of where the one where the orcs stood gawping at the crumbled pieces of the cyberized cookie and the preatorian teaparty. i think your walking in mighty footsteps of the likes of the monty phytons. truly, humorous stories are definatly your take.
the use of known pics to me i think is most hilarious. and to top it all you start to use orkmoticons...
by the way is that the actual inside of your inquisition tower? i think i didn´t saw interior shots before and now i have seen a close up of the big gate it looks super cool.
one can just ask how long have you been working on that story? must have taken ages...
will you make a story of chewies escape from the bowels of the dark tower? hate to see him getting wasted there...
one further thiung, did you just recently paint that psyker lucius grave? cant remeber for sure if you´ve shown him already. and a further question even , is winehouse a transgender? will this open a grat rift between the orks now that possibly a new ork race has emerged?
Man i feel rough! ugh ugh.....man flu strikes!
Glad you like , kinda makes it nearly makes it worthwhile that i stayed up untill 3 am to finish it , on a shool night... naughty, now i pay the consequences for my actions lol. oghhhwww..
the inquisi tower has always had hinges , i was planning on a great classical painting on the inside doors, but never got around to it. there is nothing inside though , although i did make detailed plans for the interior a huge deamon binding room . the interior shots was just cinema magic lol.
Well what a great honour to be walking in gilliams and co's footsteps, i am a surrealist at heart. and he is my favourite grimadark director. in fact i watched time bandits the other day and was amazed at the 40k similarities, in set design and cotume, those gw artists really did take from a wide selection . as for chewie man what you want the magician to reveal his secrets lol. Luscious Grave is new curtesy ebay , my first auction bid ever , and i sniped it at £ 2.31 plus p&p yay ! in the shop where i got the standard bearere from he was £ 15.00 !!! over priced though there are loads of hime around, could be a recast? the paint job is not mine but it is good, , though a little too flash gordon for my tates! he will be dipped and stripped , but for now he is fine! you kmow me vik i still havent painted up a mini since i stated this blog, well nearly...
Shim ork mmm , not sure where thats going , might have to reread my ork fluff, but i only have a 2nd gen rulebook.
cheers mate
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A little known fact : most Orks are in fact closet key party afficiandos.
Hey guys i have some news The Fantastic Poetry Competition run by the Extreemly talented EyeOfHorus has been judged ,
and the winner is ..........................................ME ! YIPPEE!
Although it was a close call , and i personally liked Hemmingways .
Here is a link to the poetry forum, i really advice taking a look at EyeOfHorus's Great Death Skulls Army as well
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/328717.page and here is a link to the fantastic prize given altruistically by the EyeOfHorus Himself from his own collection, who will apparently Give a modelling and painting tutorial on its development! so I guess There may be another character entreing TGDCK (the grimdark cookie kronikles)
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/330859.page
ooh if i wasnt so groggy i think i would paint a miniature ..thats how excited i am .
edit Thanks Scrazza !
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Sweet!! Thanks, that cheered me up as I just came home to find I've gone from no water to too much water (pipes were frozen, now I've got a flooded boat )
you brits certainly have invented humor. my old english teacher and me we talked ages about humor in class, the other mere students did their chores^^. me, i laugh at silly spelling^^. you brits are able to make fun of the gravest things. disabled people, different races and religions and also about women... in gernany for all these things you might get arrested or worse land in a talk show...
the only jokes we could hope for are jokes of banana peel slapstick, but even then you do know your better in it...:
whoa, in GB you must have some very fierce weather??? sound very grave... this night radiostations says we get -10 degrees...not comparable it seems to you mishaps...
best wishes to you all on that foggy island.
and also big congrats to neil, you´ve got you a nice and big orky pirate for your talent...thats what you get when meddlin`with ´em words...
Viktor von Domm wrote:whoa, in GB you must have some very fierce weather??? sound very grave... this night radiostations says we get -10 degrees...not comparable it seems to you mishaps...
The problem is that we are well versed in "weather" (rain, wind, overcastness, general crappyness, etc), however, we tend not to have really extreme weather. Which means that whenever it is really sunny and hot in the summer, or really cold and snowy in the winter the whole country seems to grind to a halt.
Where I live there has been about 0.5-1cm of snow and there have been car crashes everywhere on main roads which are, to be honest, perfectly clear. The road leading up to the building where I live, and some smaller side streets are fairly slippery though.
Forecast for "several cm" of snow tonight and tomorrow though. Generally that means "it will heavily snow everywhere except for where Silver lives, where there will be no snow"
yeah that always happens to me too - snow everywhere but the tip of cornwall. but this time it was the otherway round and we have been well sprinkled with the white stuff.
Snow is falling ...all around us , children playyying , having fun,
tis the season, for love and understanding , MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERY ONE! except its not christmas yet.
and every ones got flu and its freezing, but still its very pretty!
@monkeytroll hang on not sure i heard that right , all i got from that sentance was you live on a BOAT ! thats pretty damb cool flooded or not! Sorry about frozen pipes matey, but glad i could lift your mood !
@Silver qoute "Forecast for "several cm" of snow tonight and tomorrow though. Generally that means "it will heavily snow everywhere except for where Silver lives, where there will be no snow" that sounded very ominous! i think talking in third person helped now all i can wonder is where silver lives..... a cave , up a tree.... i dont know monkey lives on a boat you live some where that i doesnt snow, am i the only one that lives in a house
@ vik silver has hit the nail on the head , we only do mild ,not extremes. need to ebay for a sledge
@weety i didnt think it snowed down south at all, just in the grim north
Wayne Campbell: She's a babe.
Garth Algar: She's magically babelicious.
Wayne Campbell: She tested very high on the stroke-ability scale.
Wayne Campbell: Cassandra. She's a fox. In French she would be called "la renarde" and she would be hunted with only her cunning to protect her.
Garth Algar: She's a babe.
Wayne Campbell: She's a robo-babe. In Latin she would be called "babia majora".
Garth Algar: If she were a president she would be Baberaham Lincoln.
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2010/11/29 21:35:57
Subject: neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Grimdark Cookie Kronicles Episode 2 now with extra poetry!
ahhh, but then agian its the same actor and he did use it a lot^^
and to silver, when some more snow falls here in berin the public transport system is non existing too.
last year we had a really tough winter. from early november if i recall corectly to march we had ice!!! all over the pavement about to an extent of 10cm. i dont exagerate that. after the fierce winter in berlin manxy streets had to receive serious repair and now many people are a bit afraid that this winter will be the same or even harder.
and i ask you this, i was promised global warming??? where is that? i think we were betryed...time to get out our ole` pal FCKW and get our hair done up properly...damn now that my hair is retreating to the attack of the brow...i wont have any use for hairspray...
) I have nothing to contibute to this great thread.
silence is a virtue when the inquisition watches all! 
, not your fault directly , but there you go , just wanted to let you know, Amber will have no perfume at crimbo either if i continue, but dont feel bad about it i understand you cant help yourself, just carry on purchasing wonderfull minis from yesteryear paint them up to a top qaulity standard and sod the consequnces 
