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lol
iam actually quite scared right now

hellloooo?

10cm of ice?

That is pretty extreme

I went to university in Sheffield and the worst it ever got was when we had about 5cm of snow. Though I lived in the highest point in the city (literally every street was a hill - many of them had hand rails on the walls so you could walk up them ) and it always snowed there every winter (usually not all that much) even when no where else got any.

We tried to drive to the cinema but got to the top of the road and had to turn back as we were just sliding everywhere

seriously lots of streets just got tored up by the force ice can produce. i know it sound like sibiria but we lived inthat mess. now i live in a region of berlin where the traffic always jams due to massive constructionsites for road repair. dont know for certain where the govs got all the money from, probably from us next years money^^....
night time sliding in a car downhill, man you could hand out tickets to this great attraction. its like a rollercoaster only deadlier...makes evening entertaintment something fierce...

vik

Well still snowing here as well , infact i have never seen so much snow, its about 1ft deep in my garden , now all schools are closed, so a house full of kids , and kids friends, so even more more kids, should really use that to my advantage and organise a great big 40k or even dare i say WFB game...
Feeling much better now, thanks to all the well wish's , .....wait a minuite...there were none Crosses arms and starts sulking )

I really want to paint something at the moment but , the short daylight doesnt seem conducive to painting, and with the children at home most days , either ill ,or snowed in , its not really happening. that and i cant feel my fingers unless sat on top of a heat source. so i did a little modeling, put together a mock up of the diaroma ,still needs a real base and some oldschool cadians and imperial army guys, but you will get the idea. I have been collecting a few bits of th ebay, that i dont have , like bent legs , arms guns, etc.. so i can use them on the diaroma , to give it some life. but its missing those oldschool long lasguns, shoulder mounted , imo , and i purchased a a forge world commisar , ( did i mention that already? ) there proportions are more in line with the perry minis, and make a good go between for the praxians, i also picked up some forgeworld cadian stuff , helmets, heads and a few arms. they really stand apart from the regular plastic stuff , in detail, never had resin models before , except the 40k barriers things! , i am hoping to pick up a couple of regular cadian boxsets if i cant get hold of soem oldschool imperial army dudes, to plug a hole. I was also thinking of using a single Ig from every regiment produced in the lineup as a nod to the ig. and because i want one of each . already picked up a vostroyan medic! they are beautiful models. and not that expensive from gw. will def get more of them.
I also did a little work on the Praxian Guard Yay! I made a sqaud of Noble longrifle men , these gutys are like sharpshooters, and never get there hands dirty like the foot sloggers, i suppose you could consider them as unmounted Nobilite rough riders which is probably how i will paint them up. I found some 2 part expoxy resin tubes of brown stuff, for a pound at my local pound shop its very easy to use , like green stuff , but a bit grittier , and less sticky and cures faster, i doubt its good for fine detail work but for basings and bigger stuff its perfect! linky i used it on the commisar , antal , and the captain with gas mask.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epoxy-Putty-Repair-Filler-Adhesive/dp/B003WVLBPM
and lastly i tholught i would show a snow themed ig paint schem my oldest made a few years ago, he is very proud of it, and will not let me strip it and steal the minis In real actual snow!

The cookie/biscuit fight was funny... I think it might be time to invest in a better camera btw lol. Are you planning on giving the troops proper lasguns? I liked your artillery position, very muddy, in a good way.

on behalf of your first born we deamnd to get better pics of his snowcamo cadians!
camo is bearly recogizable in all that snow...oh maybe thats why its called camo in the first place...

and no good wishes for getting better soon fom noone??? man i think i can sulk much deeper than you...

you´ve got yourself a pretty colorful bunch of imperials there. the longrifle men looks good and noble^^ the tua guns really work for them. also did you built some commisars out of cadians and praxeans? cool idea. where was that vostroyan medic you mentioned? didn´t saw him in the pics...hmmm is it the one with the injection needle? much cooler that model than mine cadian with the bloodinfusion...a bit lame i would say...

the fw comissar looks really good, but we do know by heart that they look good, and are very expensive...its a lovehate thing all over...

i have tried that epoxy stuff from a hardware store too, not that particular stuff but something from germany, and i have to say i hpe that gs suits more my needs than that. tried to fill up some holes in a rhino and wasnt able to do so... mind you i used a very dumb technique but i thought it would help me more instead now the rhino lies around still unpainted...damn you rhino didn´t want to play after my rules, now you doesn´t play at all...

antal is coming along real nice. he will be a good HQ for your army, once he has an army^^ no seriously he is really good looking. you didnt went to heavy on the gold etc so he is rather modest, which i think is fitting quiet well.

so we still expect better snowmen pics...no neil not actual somen, but more from the cadian persuasion^^

vik

Hey neil101, some cool stuff going on here - one good thing about being snowed in is gives me time to read through your entire blog.

We've got around 12" of snow in N. Kent, and as the winds picked up some even deeper snow drifts on the driveway!!

@Perkustin , Hi mate thanks for stopping by, and thanks for the nice comments! glad you liked TGDCK, and i have been looking forward to reading more of your great stories in the fiction section actually!, muddy mud, i think i want to do snow now i know i need a new camera i am hoping it will arrive christmas morn!

@ Vik Sorry mate you did wish me get well soon
dont make me come over to Berlin to give you a Grimdark cookie to cheer you up
The vostroyan is shy he is the one with the needle too. i like the cadian model though. but this was cheaper!
The dkok commisar is so detailed, yet so brittle! i have to be quite careful with him unlike the plastic or metal's , but although they look great as you say that kind of detail is only picked up with the camera. but after watching it for so long i finally had the excuse to buy it! i know i can never afford more than one! ( btw i have asked santa for a new camera!) i personally think on the tabletop the cadians look better, after being out of the scene for so long everything looks new and good to me ! i have to stop my self from having impulse buys i can least afford! and will never paint. ( keep in focus neil) Antal needs his army, its funny because the more modeling i do the more i want to play again. i think when i finish the praxian guard i will do a battle report with the boys! something for us to luck forward to finishing them for!

qoute ".damn you rhino didn´t want to play after my rules, now you doesn´t play at all... " lol You are the master Vik , you tell it!! I bet your like that with your boys as well, when they break your minis, ( i know i am )

Yeah i really should finish Antal, damb i wish i could paint better

i really need to post up the kids work , they are off again tommorow so then might be a good time


@Ruglud ( cool name)

Thanks man ,Its wickedly cold yet so pretty! I didnt think it ever snowed down south its like i love snow , but my snow readyometer doe not start working for at least 2 weeks! hope you guys keep wrapped up,but glad it gave you time to have a looksee , mate, i am trying to finish some stuff off, but i get so easily distracted, did that come accross
i have learnt so much already from dakka , and not only about modeling , about me as well, i think i have been isolated a while and forgotten how to communicate with peeps , and become very cynical and jaded. but everyone i have met has been so nice to me.. i know i have said this before , but dakka is a great help in many ways .
i hope i can tempt you back with some painting soon

funny thing as my bunch seems to be full of hooligans the respect my workspace and the minis popping up from time to time there to no end...like a holy shrine...so i have absolutly no fear of one of them brocking anything.
so resin i brittle? since i dont own anything of that material this is quite a revelation. will keep me personaly from ever buying fw DKOK minis. also when you say the deatils are only for camera only then it would miss the point of tabletop minis on my part...i sthere a way to make the resin minis a bit more forgiving? anything to protect them more?

man you paint good enough...dont cheap yourself (cant really translate what i want to say)

i could write a book, an expensive book at that about impulse buys...
i am constantly rethinking about selling my nids to pay for the IGs...or for more possibly^^lol

i´m not teachable it seems...

vik

you wright the book and i will impuse buy it lol
not the nids what about the earth angels? NOoooooo!!!!!!!!
i suppose they vanquished them?

lucky to have children that respect minis , i never have after my raging temper incident I chucked away so many wonderfull misis and conversions , and even a scratch built Inquistorial catherdral. , I never could brng myself to spend so long on minis after that! like i lost my heart for them, and because i rarely paint em or game, they are more like toy soldiers in our house , this is a problem now i am trying to be more serious with the hobby, as they have learned from me that i have little respect for them. oh well

ha my youngest one, hes about 2 1/2 years old is often standing attentionly by my side when i model around. and if i use so much as a drill or a saw then the three of them come running to see the fun happening. it is to be expected with the likes of bob the builder and other bruises on the face of tv these days... in my youth some heavy works got only agry cries for silence from me^^
but my sons will also make good players i think...well until the 2/3 of them have begun to read i would gather^^

although i´m a pretty hot head myself i tend to not throw anything around. my wife is different there^^ also i dont tend to slamm doors. i use mostly words and loud ones at that...the volume must be quite big for our neighbours...

i dont think wahts more worse tho...you cant get loud without the ocasional swear word...

so either way parents have only the options to ruin the sanity/innosence of their childreen. which way is up to them...

Hi Neil,
i got into work extra early so that i could catch up with your blog.

The Cookie chronicles were very funny and congratulations on winning the poetry competition.

What are the chances of some more fluff, written, drawn or otherwise?

Take it easy buddy

HF

@ Vik , do you play board ganes with your boys , space crusade or other things?

@ Hangfire Hey mate, hope you got paid for reading my blog and if you did maybe i should start charging .. i know all you working guys , just pretend to work and scour ebay and dakka, whilst sat at your desks

TGDCK is good fun to do , no pressure at all in putting it together. I was going to paint up the minis for that episode but then it becomes a chore so whilst its fun and easy , i will continue with it. will be even easier when i get a camera , and dont have to download , video files , then play them and screen capture every image i need before pasting em into photoshop
thanks for the congrats , EyeOfHorus has another one running again now , judged in a month. about the GOFFS this time .
good chance for more fluff if you keep reminding me i really want to work on praxus , again , putting together those long rifles and watching a few episodes of sharpe , has given me reniewed vim , i am still working on the artwork for the first installment , i would prefer to release the first 2 installments before releasing anymore details about praxus , as i think they might be spoilers. but iam sure i have plenty of other fluff on praxus i can post up. thanks for the continued interest mate, i feel like the manufactorum model is getting a little left behind in all this though , poor old thing that is still the inspiratuion for it all. But praxus is bigger than just one Manufactorum now!
regards matey

Yeah all these people who work in offices and their all day surfing sessions - I see em on facebook. My till doesn't get internet...
Resin models brittle - thanks for the heads up! I would not have known. I do love the vostroyans I've seen in photos though.

You guys up north can sleep easy this winter knowing that even sunny cornwall is absolutely plastered in snow and freezing below zero!!

all you people talk how the snowy weather bothers you so much i think i might add a tale of my own, underlined with a pic from my kitchenwindow...behold a platoon of cadiuans finest to battle the weather front...



the story:
today we woke up all early to see our world all in white sheats of yucky snow...my wife, due to the fact that i´m more ioll today and she wanted to help me, gave both our youngest ones a ride to their kindergarten. while on the way to my second child kindergartenlace (we have two seperate ones...damn...) she slides and fall on that white gak with him and her bike...fear not no one was harmed. but this small story i was later told got me to the conclusion to use a slay to get the children back home with...
sound like fun? NO! cause both instelations of kindergarten are about one kilometer apart from each other...so first there the there i go and collect the children....all the way pulling and puffing like the old and evil wolf...i was so spent when we finally got back home...spent and totally sweaty. i think it is unfair to be sweaty in snow...and do you want to know whats the hardest part? of traveling by slay? when some sodding bugger....gets the snow fro the sideway and leaves it barren but puts gravel on it...your so frigging done then when you have to drag the slay past that. or you have to get the kids from the slay...yeah, right fat chance of that being possible...the kids are so snow addicted when they see that...

god i kind of begin to hate the winter...


sorry for the derail...

vik

ha at last you feel our anguish , glad your wife and little ones are fine . sweating in snow is just plain wrong . the view you have is cool , i hope your hoth troopers can cope, and dont try to end it all with a leap


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sorry for prosaic text i am on a console without a keyboard

they´re all fine...the only thing that got really lost in all that weather is my voice. i sound like a 13 year old eunuch now...

well as for the view, snow evens out the off looks quite good...

vik

Hi guys, just a little update , I did promise myself that i wouldn’t post any more stuff unless it was painted , but i have just spent a few days making General Von Dom's Nobilite Rough-riders
of the Noble house of Praxus , these guys are General Von Dom's personal retinue , a born Rider General Von Dom has spent many years in the saddle fighting Imperium wars , but now he can be found predominantly playing Krojike a similar sport to antiquities Polo, an off worlder, Dom is a rare retired IG veteran. Born in the savage Attilan wilds this young man quickly proceeded through the ranks to become a legendary cavalry duel las pistollier. out classing his mentor ,a grave insult which led in part, and in part due to his high intelligence and cleanliness ( a rare thing for Attilan's )
to him been booted off world , only to be head hunted by a brash and radical young commisar Interon, who required a new captain to head up his dashing Rough- riders. An opportunity Von Dom eagerly accepted. Many wars and victories later, both Interon and Von Dom were unceremoniously thrown out of the Imperial Army ( CLASSIFIED HERTICAL DOC XXII-V ) Although forced retirement had its own rewards. As the two very accomplished veterans were hired by Baron Dysarno of the Noble house Dysarno on Phalanx Hive. But their particular skill set was not suited to such an environment . So when a passing emissary of Praxus , noted the pair, he sent a data node back home. At the time Praxus was in the throws of a brutal repression, and skilled loyal veterans were hard to come by in the Hydra system. An envoy was sent to phalanx with an offer of work.
Which the pair took . Quickly putting down the insurrection and reforming the Praxian PDF into a solid army. The General and commissar ( only a proxy title these days ) have helped shape Praxus millitary into a formidable fighting force, so much so , that the inquisition has increased its planetary tithes for Imperium soldiers tenfold since the pair arrived all them years ago receantly liberating 50% of its regular PDF for Iquisitorial matters.. Although now officially retired the pair have not been replaced as both men are skilled tacticians and although Praxus has not seen much war in the preceding decades, the Cavalry makes regular royal parades full of pomp and ceremony , to remind the Vulgus of their low social position. The Noble cavalry is formed of royal blood from several of Praxian Houses as well as a few off world Noble Houses. Praxus makes an ideal location for many off world noble houses who want their children to be taught the required military indoctrinations without actually placing their precious heirs in too much danger. For example Phalanx Hive located in the same (Hydra) solar system as Praxus , has many Noble houses who consider Praxus a viable option for training their brethren. Since only the foolhardy would consider enrolling into the phalanx PDF expecting to live out your contract. Commissar Interon regularly joins his Veteran shot gunners on Qaulin ( a Rare but beautifully feathers bird hunted for its noble connotations and turquoise plumage ) hunts, in the fields and forests of praxus, whilst , General von Dom prefers the less tiresome and more confrontational game of Krojike.

The rough-riders are split into three separate platoons, Captain Sharope's Lancers – Commissar Interon's Veteran Shot-gunners and General Von Dom's Las Carbiniers. These together form the Praxian Nobilite Roughriders Company , tasked with Guarding the future heir of Praxus. Whilst on official duties of state.

Love the lancer with the chain lance. Well they are all cool really - I'm really into this intermingling of sci-fi and retro napoleonic as it just seems to fit with the style of 40k - and one can well imagine a backwards world having regressed to the level of muskets and then got back into contact with the imperium, got better weapons but decided to keep the uniforms

I Love the conversion work you done. It actually makes me wanna go on and build a cavalary IG force miself.

hello neil, having just read your fluff am am well, quite futtered to see you having such a high ranking officer with such a striking name...*couch* ^^
the roughrider platoons looking very pompous and yet very efficient...i like the look of those horses with napoleonic bodys and mostly cadian arms.the tau shotguns show us that you seem to have an unending suply of new and original looking bits to go ballistic with your creative talent. really when someting starts to grow in your head its for the better not to stand near you as i imagine you having sparks of creative energy crawling like lightning like tentacles around your head...^^
will you change to more suitable bases or will you hlet them that way? i think it rather unimportant but i gather there are rulenazis around that would start a slaughterhouse on that...
if i had to make oe lil suggestion it would be the change between the horses of las carabine pistolieres 4 and 5... the roaring horse i owuld see more fitting with the onehanded shortlascanon rider...just my thought maybe there as i see more dynamics in him and the horse that would give both a more challanging charge...(whoa a challenging charger...quite the name there...)...

other than that i love the vitae of your war heros, as it makes them stand out and truly set them as battlehardened vets as they are.

also i like your slight russian touch here, well actually really fitting with the likes of a von dom...as the name stands for someone from the eastern regions of europe...
the game Krojike sounds like a game i saw in a movie with michael cain and sean connery...coincedence as they both had praetorian uniforms and where british soldiers as soldiers of fortune?^^

again i bow deeply to your artistic talents...manyfold as they are...may you live in interesting times as the old agateans say...

vik


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have just remebered seen this tartrache on one of them roughriders...this small shild as a wonehanded small defense is just what sceems for my bits box to be done too...i have sic fantasy pistolieres coming in the mail that will get these for their off hands...very cool idea and gets lots of stylepoiunts there^^

vik again...

@ weety , I agree that the napoleonic image can slide quite easy into the grimdark 40k . I also think that nearly any style can these days, depending on what elements attract you in 40k. With Napoleonics i think they can be utilised to recreate a granduer that isnt easy to capture with regular 40k minis. to recapture an element of 40k only slighty shown in the fluff, the idea of noble families , and pampered Brat gangs and Imperial Governors . The 40k univesre i grew up with was about utilising your imagination , to invent your own 40k , i like the idea of the planetary govenors and Navis nobilite but i know very little about them. so i feel i have almost free rein in interpreting them. 40k universe is immense and i immagine medieval worlds and blackpowder worlds exsist amongst the stars. i was looking for some info on planatery governors and came accross this old text . i like the image reminds me of dune and Confrontation
As for the chain lancer, i think i should make more of them they do look pretty good .



@ Scrazza cheers man , i have never owned a cavalry sqaud before so i am enjoying the drama that horses bring to the board..

@Hi Vik , thanks mate , i will take on board what you said about the horse and pistolier/ las carbinier, i do plan on making all the bases round , i have allready had to buy 3 bags of bases, and still need another one.!
i know the movie you mean , but cant think of it at the moment , but they do resemble the commisar and general in character.
I did always have a eastern or german general in mind like the big hatted ww1 officors or kaiser wilhelm or kaiser franz josef , i see direct links between the german empire and 40k and wfb i meen even the name Emeperor , or emperor karl franz from wfb , exploring the themes of european royalty and 40k nobility, you cant help but use napoleonics.
btw the shield was a last miniute addition and it was inspire by what you said about the nobles reminding you of mediaval chivalric knights. well that and i had a terminator shield laying around i think they will look great on your men.

The Man who Would Be King ?

Love the rough riders neil, very noble looking.

in the next to last picture right to the left side a soldiers standing to attention...looks like he is actually carrying a lascanon, wouldn´t you say so?^^

well what can i say, got an old rulebook of fantasy warhammer lying around and being german the name sare so strikingly familiar...well we knew it before tho that GW hadn´t invented the wheel anew...instead they created a skeleton of a universe ruled by a skeleton^^ lol...no seriously, the thing why after all these years the 40k universe is still around is because of the fans, fanfiction and people not too botherede about rules rather than the right creative look for their minis...you and me we create this universe with each newly modeled and (not-^^)painted mini anew on a daily basis...the fluffspinning industry with its casting factories isnt...that i´m sure of. if it wasnt for the creativity of each player/collector then this universe wouldnt uphold itself on its own accord...there isnt that much of a possble combination of colors and models around. but we mix and crossbreed minis (wellkind of...) because our minds doesnt want to be rolling on the trails of someone else...we derail it and thus creating ongoing life...to bad thats not whts intended anymore...
but since converting isn´t a sought for crime^^...we continue...

by the way seeing the german WWI nobles marching alongside i have to say this: ever since you showed us your antal (hope spelled right) i realized that you´ve done it wrong...if you based him on nobles from the napoleonic timeline...cause your mini is outclassing those uniforms a tenfold^^ the do look pale those kaisertruppen...

hope my little speach was to be understandable...

vik^^

@ Monkey , Your knowledge is again a taperstry of perspicacious sagaciousness that weaves its threads of erudite amongst the inerudite for our benificant edification.
thanks for that!

@ Vik Yep!

Or I watched too much telly as a kid

naw i saw that movie also quite some times...the essence of all that i think is stereotypical british...the nobless in the beginning and the greed in the ending...no offence to living people...

I saw that filum = it had mr connery in it right?