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5x awesome is about right!

you could always add one on behalf of me, saves me the time typing it ...
a to hell with it, we all know neils work is awsome^^

vik

Careful Neil's Ego might explode lol. He will declare himself the god emperor of awesome and start a crusade...

well a good crusade in the name of art would be a new thing in history...who knows what creativity lurks in men hearts?

Careful Neil's Ego might explode lol. He will declare himself the god emperor of awesome and start a crusade...

No i am pretty sure it can take some more .... " Darling your Dinner was lovely."..wait a minute arhh.... No!!

I got better... no harm done , only my subconsious and who needs that!

@ Everyone Thanks for the Awesome comments guys , i have had a great day today , i recieved a nice pressie to my self in the post and worked on some fluff and did some nice converting ! i have even made a special character Hero! for the praxian guard , although he is more of an Anti hero to tell the truth.
Well after a helpfull chat with Vik , i decided to make good on a blog promise i keep making and get some armour into the praxian guard! well after a bit of research i decided to forgoe a custom build just yet , too much to do with painting already and buy a lovely Emhar Tadpole. WWI Male Tank, this is a slightly longer version of the famous MKIV and Mk V, ww1 british Tanks, i plan on converting it a little and adding a Neutron Laser Projector, based on the lovely forgeworld Valdor Tank hunter http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Imperial_Guard/Imperial_Guard_Super_Heavy_Tanks/VALDOR-TANK-HUNTER.html
well enough chat more pics right i know the score.... will be adding some fluff for the Praxian Peoples Hero Valrick soon , i also updated the cav , and got rid of the tau shotguns from the veterans and added more nice chain lancers! btw the dead guy with a m4 next to him is going to be a Autogunner

well as my jaw is used now to hang for itself while looking at your blog i must say this is (again) some awe you got me in (hehehe)
so the tadpole looks BIG, did i say BIG? well he will be a truly worthy engine of destruction for the praxean forces...

did i see rudolph the rednosed reindeer? at this point i thought i´ve seen it all on your blog and then i saw the wolfen rider...holy gak...now your walking minefields...will be a nice thing to behold how you will use and paint up the regular toy into a mean fighting steed...but be careful, as much as it has potential i see a shotload of comments comming for that...or i might be in error^^ who knows...the saying stranger things have happened i will spare us all as it is a forum for strangeness here so we get 100 kinds of strangeness on a regular basis...

so all we mere mortals can hope for is more...

also a good choice there for the banners, is that indeed copperfoil? really nice idea there...one question for the chainlacers? how do they operate them? will you do smething for switching them on? (off would be ridiculous as it is so easy to stick the lance into someting or someone...)

and even further, will be waiting how you remodel the M4 into a autogun...

chhers mate, gave fun modeling, vik

There is alot of motion in these minis/photo, they look really dynamic.

Neil, the Emhar tank tranks can be a bit tricksey from what I have heard.

Be interested to see how that develops

i love your work it is most unique.

The chain lancers are looking pretty neat, I'm assuming they're under Lord Tomato?

Also, thanks for the scale shot of the tadpole, that'll help me make up my mind on grabbing one

I love the chain lancers too...

Hey Fellow Modelers in perpetual servitude to the commotose undead zombie that is the emperor.

@Vik The tadpole, is actually smaller than i thought, but it looks nice though ,i hope i can do it some jutice.
Reindeer is Yakult from princess minonoke , i was considering making it the mount for Valrik , but its a bit small, the horns fell off a while ago and i have been meaning to replace them.
the reindeer token is from a chocolate reindeer for the christmas.
The wolf is a toy from gi joe , and the base is from a starwars at at figure. i look forward to trying to do it justice.
oh yeah i made a mistake the autogunner is actuall going to be a heavy stubber.
man your madibles are obviously to slack ;-)

@ Perkustin , thank you , the effect was completely by accident originally , i didnt have a camera , and had to use my vid cam , i accidently shot into the sun , on a pic called catchans clash on the 1st page of the blog , and vike commented on it, said it looked real, so i thought i would continue with the effect, i have a new camera now but its batteries are dead so i went back to the vid cam , low resolution and into the sun seems to work at adding movement, i alo think the flag helps , its kinda filmic i think , the effect.

@Chibi , i heard that as well mate , they usually use all in one pieces i think and these were supposed to resin or hard plastic, but the ones in the box are a flexible rubber , so hopefully it wont be too difficult.

@Shingouku Thankyou matey , it helps that i dont have toor stick to regular printed rules , anything goes so long as it sits withing a believable fluff , i think.

@ Monkey Lord tomatoe of squeezy tube Land actually ;-)
And i put in the scale shot because i saw your scale reference pics in your blog , " nods head "

@ Yggs Thank you Yggs i appreciate that! i was worried they looked a bit off scale tbh,

Managed to squeez a little work in today i Finished the stubber conversion, and i am quite pleased with the final pose , still needs a little more cleaning before priming but i got the look i was after and actually think i squeezed some charcter movement and story onto such a small conversion, But then i would sorry for the qaulity of pics , its night and i have no flash This is the look i was trying to achieve..

Ave, Imperator of the praxus nation. How goes it?

Wow that is a really good reintepretion of the Korpsman. All it needs is a little clean up on the joints and it will look pretty cool. Is he cocking the stubber? As you freely admitted it is perhaps a little dark to tell. One thing i would recommend is maybe looking for a pointing hand for his free arm, i think that would really add to the piece.

i like foremost his pose, looks as if he is checking how good is last burst went...
also who would have thought that replacing the mag would change the look of a M4 in such a way as it now really looks like a heavy stubber, the head is a really good choice for me, consider that idea so much stolen if i get ever my hands on such weapons...
and again about the mag, the FW one is tiny compared to yours, and thus yours looks more brengun like sometjing i can only highly praise as it is one of my favorite heavy weapons of all time...only bested in my opinion by the gatling^^

cheers for your creative genius....... again
vik

You have been busy Neil!

proactive and productive and other things starting with pro

@ Perky , Ava heh! well your either Catholic or you've been brushing up on yer latin salutations . Hail to thee to squire! It goes well Thanks , in fact i am bustin' with ideas at the mo , which is a bit unfortunate as i had though the creative modeling aspect was just about done with Antals Army , i thought i would be brushing sonnets on scrolls right about now but no! It seams that inspiration strikes when i least expect it. Thanks for the tips on the guys , the heavy stubbers arms are only blue tacked at the moment , so an arm swap would be a cool idea , unfortunately i only have right arms that are pointing these perry minis tend to come with lots of fixed left arms and free right arms, whic in turn means there is'nt many left arms spare . Although infact i posed him like that as though he had picked up his bayonet to defend himself from a nearby attacker, but do agree a pointing arm would probably look better. He does look like he is cocking the weapon, just a coincedence that works i want ted him to look like his hand was holding the gun somehow .its not a perfect job but after a clean up i think it will pass.

@Vik Thanks Mate , your right he does look like he is checking where his ranging shots went , complete accident i assure you , i had to lean him over this way so he would fit on the base , you always notice my happy accidents. as for the bren gun it must have been in my subconscious , although i thought that had been blown up i purposely cut down the mag but left it slightly bigger to give it a unique look instead of just a straight copy, also the reason why i dent change the barrel that much. I had headaches getting the stock on then i lost it and found it again after i posed him , so its staying off for now

@Shaso!
Yep busy bee little old me , making minis and drinking tea thanks for popping in matey.

@ Weety , i can think of a few things , but those days are behind me now


So another update , i am on fire at the moment , no bathing eating or anything eles really but plenty of modeling good job you cant smell me through your moniters .
So i started the Tadpole , it looks like it will be a fun build ,a nd i found a great website full of detailed high res reference pics http://ilovewargameing.21.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=781


I have put together the sponsons , and i had a dillema , do i use the fantastic 40k weapons that my boys got in their heavy weapons teams boxsets! , or do i go pure blood and make it as referenced? Now i have see a few nice 40k ish tadpoles and they looked good , but i do like the simple plain look of the protective machine gun and cannon gun housings on the sponsons. Bailey my oldest son said he thiks the autoguns look cool and should go 40k , but my primitive looking army makes either way possible? i have put got out all the big heavy weapons i could find , and i agreed that the autoguns suit the vehicle the best , although i didnt try the lascanonns or bolters because they didnt fit , i would have to do some serious cutting to get the heavy bolters to fit and the lascannons in my oppinion defie the point of having an archaic and mythical compact Neutron Laser Projector as the main turret.
if you use the autogun you will need to not use the protective housing that surround the front of the normal cannon, as it doesnt fit, i made my own with aluminum from a squeezy tomatoe tube. i have also shown a few ideas for a main battle tank and a flame tank along with Valrick's arch enemy Actaeon , i promise some fluff in these two heroic characters soon.
also Rohan made a nice sneaky crawling guy froma dead model , i think he has inspired me to make a siper from this guy.

btw the screen shots are from the fun 40k mod for the Ancient but great operation flashpoint , i highly reccomend this great old jem i have been playing it for ten years and if you can look past the dated graphics , you could create some nifty missions with the editor along with this cool comunity mod. link to mod , watch out for annoying popups though
http://ofp.gamepark.cz/index.php?showthis=10756

OFP as its abreaviated to is best baught as the game of the year edition http://www.google.co.uk/products?hl=en&xhr=t&q=operation+flashpoint+goty&cp=23&client=firefox-a&hs=i87&rls=org.mozilla:en-GBfficial&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wf

I think the autocannons look great on the sponsons, if i remember right autocannons are an option for the sponsons on the Valdor (definitely the Malcador) so would fit great. I am not sure what you could do with the smaller weapons though. The scale looks to be a pefect match btw. Do you think you will be going for interior details? Seems pretty ambitious but i guess if it's the centrepiece. Finally what about gothic/decorative detailing do you reckon you'll 'grimdark' the tadpole up?

As for the other pictures, my goodness you are a mad miniature scientist, next you'll be building an Airship lol........

are the pics with the FW Krieg soldier and the Scout converted one the sponsons of the tadpole? if so, i need to get hold of a model in 1:36 soon for me...the size looks really good...
your scratchbuilt/kitbashed tanks i am not sure if i should call them frightingly or genius...very original and your certainly not the man i would leave unchecked in the vicinity of my kids toychests or even my camera stes^^
the camera turret is a sight for sore eyes and be sure of that^^

the autogun works really good for the sponsons , but if i was you i would not go there, and use only the given guns of the tadpole...i tend to kep my conscience as clean as it gets, even so it is tarnished enough^^ as is...

also will you be giving us some fluff about use of dinos as rides? would be nice as i dont for now see it fitting with the frail but vailiant praxeans to use such lizards...

and the more i see of your bren gunner the better i like him...be sure to produce more good ones as so he doesn´t stay my favorite^^

vik

smelly war-gamer! Lol sorry I had to laugh at that. Get in the shower and dont forget to scrub behind the ears - the tank sponson is cool and I love that tank with the humongous gun - what is that? personal fav is the dino-rider!!!

I'd go with the auto-cannons, they look good in the sponsons. Nice job on the heavy weapon too.

Have your kids lost a dinosaur recently?

@Shaso!
Yep busy bee little old me , making minis and drinking tea thanks for popping in matey

No problem! I like the choice of superheavy, the Tadpole, I had considered it for making my Malcador actually, but went with the Char 1B instead.

sorry its a quick answer guys i forgot to do it before i posted


@Perky cheers i went with the auto cannons , the scale is near perfect. even better for the perry models, i doubt i am gonna do the interior , maybe next time, and i am adding gothic detailing about now.

@Vik sorry mate i didnt have any dkok minis in thses pics , maybe you mean thetank commander head? but yes they are on the tadpole sponsons , kids toybox's beware muh hah ha ha ! ( vanish's with black cloak)

@Weety soon i promise

@Monkey Cheers mate , i did go with the auto cannons as you can see, and the dinosaur is from the heroscape boxset , i had to hack off the ork that was sat on it

@ Shazo just had a look at that thanks for the heads up , looks like a good one.



Hey guys another small update , nearly finished the tank , turns out it was a tricky build no small part due to 2 elemants of the instructions being wrong, i made the tracks up as sprecified and it turns out that they were for the Mk5 version so i had to lengthen them , and also a slight misprint about the box on the roof , it was shown the wrong way so it took a while to figure out what i had done wrong I guess it would have been a quicker build if i had not been converting whilslt building, or at least if i had the design fully worked out before i started. i actually managed to keep the sponsons moveable something i normally fluff! so i am, in the process of making the main weapon , i wanted some kind of archaic laser or tesla style gun , but got to thinking about the old graviton gun or conversion beamer prototype weapon, still thinking obn how to implement this But i also finished the last beast rider special character, he is based on Ashitaka from the studio ghibli movie princess minonoke you may also notice that Valrick is inspired by this movie a little also , a great movie btw and if you havent seen it here is your chance http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3371638
conversion beamer fluff http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Conversion_Beamer
Graviton gun fluff http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Graviton_gun

Awesome, didnt have to wait long, luckily you're a quick worker! Really like the implementation of 40k weapons on the tank wonderful work. Wouldn't put the tank commander on though, kinda clashes with the 'trundling fortress' look of the tank. Where on earth did you get that goldfinger style laser weapon? IT IS SOO COOL!

Traitor: 'you expect me to surrender?!'

Praxian tank commander: 'No mister Heretic i expect you to DIE!'...

EDIT: I spy some GS sculpting, good work mate.

I must say your chaps are looking pretty snazzy out on the town. Also love the interior of that tank.

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How wide are these in comparison to Land Raider track links? I have a LR I picked you cheap that I am turning into an Ork BW, but it has no treads, and these look pretty cool...

the main gun really says tesla to me^^
read the fluff about the graviton gun and it is a good one, but following the fluff would work best with some inquisitor?
what will you do with the tracks of your tank, will they be fixed in a way? as i understood you they are made of rubber? so do they put the construction of the model under stress? and what about time? might the tracks rot as some sort of rubber sometimes does? as i never build a set of a tank myself i think your info might be very usefull for future projects here...

your ineterior crew looks really good, how will you make it possible to see them after full assembly? or are you one of these rare artists that create a "tomb" of art, seal it with glue and smile inwardly whenever you think of the beautiful mystery you only know of...? that would kill me good sir^^...
so here is me hoping you do some really out of the box creation and doing the interior completly and still showing and also keeping the tank full funktioning in the battlefiel under the rule wysiwyg...

your reindeer looks really good, your greenstuffskills look like you getting better by the project!, that rider is a very good headsculpting work!

i could have said more but the dark character of your pics doenst allow me more^^...seems we have to help this artist for more sunny weather^^

vik

Uber cool goings on as per Neil!

Tank and everything else looking very good!