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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Randomness #1

Converting Hasslefree's Harby into Hellboy

First phase is to construct the figure, luckily comes with a Helboy type fist and head option that is similar in looks albeit without horn stumps

Have pinned each arm, the leg and head, also filed down the t-shirt so that I can sculpt a muscular torso for this dude. Tail willl be sculpted around a piece of wire, will also resculpt the back of his jacket to accomodate said tail.




Up next...

Dr Who -The 11th Doctor - better known as the one with the odd face and silly hair...

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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

And here's the 11th Doctor - Randomness # 2

It's a WIP, no converting, just a paint job and so far have only basecoated and quick wash. The shirt will be white with dark red pin stripes. Will also get a more suitable base for him at some stage - most likely next month when I go to SALUTE '11





Back to Randomness #1 - Have now 'greenstuffed' Hellboy - Muscular chest, tail, jacket, horns, cigar, belt, holster - I'm learning as I go with this and relatively satisfied with the results. Picked up some great tips right here on Dakka Dakka on how to use the stuff...





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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Now for something completely different.

Some 24"x24" terrain tiles that I made for a WW2 skirmish game - the tiles where made to cover my 8'x4' gaming table out of MDF (for the base) and polystyrene.

















Will post some more photos once I've located them on my hard drives...

   
Made in au
Hardened Veteran Guardsman





NSW Australia

Wow your Hellboy model is looking good great start.

I like your terrain piece with the courtyard very cool.

Who ever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward whoever cannot live without that law is both.

For a wounded man shall say to his assailant if i live i will kill you if i die you are forgiven such is the rule of honour !

Check out my Blog "Cities of Death"

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/350034.page 
   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

@Paranoia_Agent - thanks, I've applied a base coat so will move on to painting him up soonish

The ruined farmhouse is one of my favourite terrain pieces, unfortunatley my 7 yr old has stolen it and now drives his Hot Wheels around it - it's a bit worse for wear, but a perfect excuse to build another !!

And I found more pics of the completed terrain boards, also with some shots of the WW2 skirmish game played on it - Commandos with French Partizans attacking a fortified German Bunker in a pre-D-day raid...





















Some more pics in my gallery...

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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Finally got back to painting after several weeks sorting the garden out for the Summer...

So here's Buzz and Hellboy in base coat stage...








   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Buzz has had some further paint applied - washes and a quick highlight. More blending needed...





Forgot how tricky painting white can be! Just need to keep working with the thin watered down layers...

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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Warhammer World eat your heart out, my latest piece of terain is a 1:1 scale 6 sided tower...



This should explain why I've neglected my blogs lately - as soon as the rainy weather returns I'll move back inside and get on with some 28mm scale work

   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Still not painting figures, but the castle build progresses...


   
Made in au
Scarred Ultramarine Tyrannic War Veteran






Melbourne, Australia

Thats great! When i read 1:1 scale terrain I had to look here. I also really like the Buzz Lightyear marine.

"Whilst we stand, we fight. Whilst we fight, we prevail. Nothing shall stay our wrath"
Guilliman and the Ultramarines are like Manchester United, everyone hates them because they are so awesome!

 
   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

99% finished on the castle tower now, just some finishing touches to the paint work and addition of a moat (blue slate...)



Hopefully pretty soon get back to painting some minis !!

   
Made in au
Hardened Veteran Guardsman





NSW Australia

Buzz looks great and that castle rules ! Im sure your son loves it

Who ever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward whoever cannot live without that law is both.

For a wounded man shall say to his assailant if i live i will kill you if i die you are forgiven such is the rule of honour !

Check out my Blog "Cities of Death"

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/350034.page 
   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Whew, been a while since I last updated (or even did any work on my minis...)

Was flicking through an old WD (286 to be exact) and came across this piece of art,


always loved it so decided to take the bull by the horns and have a go at creating it... and here are my initial efforts including a scenic base created by me out of layered cardboard and filler


Gotta work on the standing marines final pose and power fist (having to scrathbuild this as the only one I can find to buy is gak). Dead marine has a hollowed out helmet to add, need to repose his feet and legs, plus some other bits and pieces to add lying about. He's currently missing his left hand which I'll either remodel or leave off as one of his many wounds...

R


   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Remodelled the dead templars left leg so that it's a more natural pose, also added some greenstuff to the ankle / shin armour similar to the standing templar and modelled a neck cover to give the hollowed out helmet a better look and fit. The helmet has the lenses cut out and some big gouges so that the head can be seen through - going to give him a deathly paint job, kind of like he's been lying there for a while





Have remade the base as well - scrapped the original as it just didn't work for me - this one is made out of layers of foamcore and chopped up to give a broken wasteland feel - just need to decide how I'm goig to cover it before painting - probably go with a sand layer rather than wall filler / tile grout which I normally use




   
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Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Textured the base - pva and sand, nice and simple yet effective, will paint up in a wasteland type of style and add some battle debris...



Got lazy and bought a power fist - it's the Death Company Power Fist, with some of the iconography removed to make it more generic. Have also added a quick black base coat to most of the pieces - back pack has had the spikes and skulls added, looks a bit chaos now, but guess it'll work out when painted ??



Next up is to scratch build the banner which will be fun as I have no idea how I'm going to do this. If anyone has a good tutorial for this, please do share :-)

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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

still need to do the banner, but quickly created spare / used boltgun magazine out of plasticard and wire. This will be on the base with the dead marines boltgun plus spent ammo cases.

Here's what it looks like in it's base state



have also put a new hand on the dead marines left arm - used a normal marines hand, repositioned the thumb and cut between the fingers so that they could be repositioned in a more natural pose (not the greatest pic though, sorry...)



I also have a new right hand on order - from the 'hanging zombie' plastic kit which will look much better than the current skele one I have on the model

   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Better picture time...



Changed the dead Templars right hand for the hanging zombie, is a touch on the large ide, but hopefully nothing a quick scalpel job can't fix. To go with the spent ammo magazine I knocked out some quick greenstuff spent cartridges. Just now making up some smaller cartidges for the boltpistol.

Still need to attempt the banner...


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Have now added the smaller cartridges and base coated the others...

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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Some paint splashed on the BT piece - still plenty to do though...



Took the opportunity to base my Buzz (who is still a WIP) - gone for an alien planet look with crystaline rocks, probably give the base a purple drybrush to give it a more alien feel...





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Made in us
Battleship Captain





USA-Illinois- the Chi

That is a very great idea for a dio, and great terrain!

 
   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

So, the kids decided to break out my old Necromunda stuff - there was some Catachans, Star Wars Stormtroopers and Dr Who minis to name a few, roaming around the walkways and towers...





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Unhealthy Competition With Other Legions





York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Nice work on the diorama.
About the castle,
I would be right in presuming that you have kids?
and it's not for yourself...

Imperial guard: Because quantity has a quality of it's own.

Sisters of Battle can be used in any game, with the exception of chess, Monopoly and of course, Warhammer 40,000.

After 8 editions, you might have thought that GW could get fantasy right. 
   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

 progreen10 wrote:
Nice work on the diorama.
About the castle,
I would be right in presuming that you have kids?
and it's not for yourself...


Yep, 2 young 'uns
(Sorry for the long wait to reply...)

While waiting for glue to dry on the Thunderhawk in my Space Marine blog (check out my sig), I had a play with some greenstuff to make a banner. Used a piece of clear plastic with some regular cooking oil smeared over to stop the GS sticking, then rolled out a rectangle nice and thin. Cut the loops for the top, attached to the banner and shaped to looked like it's blowing in the wind. Just waiting for it to dry, then will give it some suitable battle damage...




   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Just a quick update to say that the Black Templars mini is my entry in Papa and Panda's Competition: The Hero Round. Check out the details here... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/498307.page

Go on, enter, you know you want to

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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Had a clear out of the garage and some of my old minis resurfaced from the dust and cobwebs... Might give a few of them some touch-ups when I get some time.












Still have more to uncover, including a 28mm Viking Longship...

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Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut







Wow, that's quite a bunch to find!

"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog :
It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
 
   
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Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

I know, it's always great finding old forgotten minis... I went through a phase of selling off my old stuff a few years back. Sold off a load of unpainted and nib Empire figures, all my Chaos Dwarves, Chaos warriors and Dwarves, as well as a metal Epic Gargant but luckily missed this little lot. Made a load of cash and glad they went to new owners who will hopefully get to use them.

Still have the remants of my Empire army, including a load of archers, some heavy cavalry and some other bits...

Also got my Necromunda gangs that need some TLC - Cawdors and a homedrew gang based on the old metal Catachan box set - The Catachan Trading Co. - I'll admit, i had no idea of the fluff behind the Catachans when I created the gang, just liked the figures a lot more than the Goliaths.

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Made in us
Decrepit Dakkanaut







My first Munda gang was also plastic Catachans, nothing wrng with that!

"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog :
It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
 
   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

And here they are... Just need to find the gang roster sheet for them now



The leader of the Gang - Don Corleone is the fat dude with beer in hand...




Also found this fella - was one of the original Confrontation figures - pre-Necromunda game featured in WD




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And a WIP on the Black Templars diorama - which is also being intered into Papa and Panda's Competition: The Hero Round. Check out the details here... http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/498307.page ...





Oh and I found a colour version of the artwork...

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Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Watched Dredd on Saturday night and really enjoyed it - totally exorcised the demons from Sly's version (the visuals in Sly's JD are obvioulsy truer to the comic but the rest of the movie is poor - plus Urban kept his helmet on the whole way and could speak properly. "I AM THE LAW" (BTW, I do like Sly, just not his Judge Dredd...) Thought the judge's uniform was pretty damn cool and made me think if it was possible to create it in miniature form...







Need to refine the helmet a little but I think it's looking quite cool. I've also got one of the original Wargames Foundry Dredds still in it's blister, so will have to break it out, paint it and compare them...

   
Made in gb
Omnious Orc Shaman





A long time ago in a galaxy far, far, away...

Thought I'd better get my finger out on the League vehicle competition - so here's a WIP update...





Old, rusty truck in a scrapyard...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/499362.page

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