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I think your sculpting looks very good... my only issue would be that the transition to the chest neck work of yours could be a tad smoother...

@LDD - TRUE, in fact I have removed one vent and he looks better so I think your gut on the issue is correct.

@ Vik - I think this may just be an issue with the colour change on the photos but I have not looked at that area for a while so will check it out, cheers for pointing me in a direction


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Here is the hand cleaned up a little more

whoa.... that hand looks awesome...(I know an overused term...but fitting here...) I specially like the use of sprue for talons... very cool idea!

Nice work. Definitely looking better.

First layer of paint is on.









It's an interesting model to paint. A mixture of fairly large mono colour areas and then some very density packed fiddly detail. Now the base colour scheme is done I am fairly happy. May try and lose some of the green from the skin and push even paler but it's a slow process so I am going to have to take my time

Fun model to paint....i really love his rancid arse wound. The colour scheme looks good so far.

@PDH - Yes I enjoyed your own recent work on this fella. It's hard to know what to do with his missing bum cheek, it's just there, staring at you, challenging you not to model over it.

Hey all, I've been assisting in Bath all week so have been away from the hobby bench but itching to get back and carry on with the various projects. I've ordered myself some tools and tube makers from Masc mini and I think its really going to expand what I can have a crack at!

Currently I have go finish basing and painting the plague bearers that surround my Prince, then I want to get my scavvy e's painted before my Escher parts arrive from the TGG kickstarter.

There is also the ongoing mystery of how to build my marauders, I have been getting massively into Hannibal the TV series recently and would love to build a marauder and beastmen cohort based around antler and stag Iconography. That's the big project along with my marines to allow me go start to play

Hey all, it's proving to be one of those periods of time when all you want to do is hobby but everything else gets in the way.

Few bits and Bob's though. First up my contemptor featured a few pages back is on eBay. Item number 111398224434. If you are interested check it out.

In terms of hobby the only thing that's been happening is I managed to sneak in a gang fight with beard legend last week. It provided the regular amount of carnage and mayhem. Smiler my two headed scavvy managed to remain unwounded despite being hit by 3 heavy stubber rounds and 3 boltgun shells only to be taken out when he closed in by a stub gun.... He died. I've included some pics below. I almost rolled beard with sheer force of numbers but made the mistake of hunkering down when I reached hard cover in the centre of the board rather than continuing the charge. I was then whittled down to a bottle roll that, classic scavvy style, I failed.

That card terrain puts a smile on my face :( nice wee batrep

So, after a while away filming and catching up with various non modelling projects this week I finally got round to some gaming. Oli and Beardlegend headed over and we got a good afternoon of gaming in. It was standard fair, Oli lost several Gangers in what is becoming an alarmingly regular occurrence, my Scavvys outshot every other gang, so many sixes and Beards ridiculously hard Juve Loki caused mass carnage.



Oli has also knocked out some cool terrain that I thought I'd post as he is not on here and, well, I just really like it







In amongst the exploding weapons, bottle rolls and drawn combats though, I realised that , although I enjoyed playing games with my scavvy gang immensely, I missed the experience of playing as a non outlawed house. I wanted to have territory, role on rare trade and onleash with a heavy stubber.

As a result I have started a new gang, Escher were the first gang I owned when munda came out so it seemed fitting to return to the source.

I had everyone I needed apart from a suitable leader model so I set about fixing that problem today







Apologies for the camera perspective making the las pistol look massive, I can assure you all it is nicely to scale. Still a few bits to fix, only using the central hair strand from the dark elf model made her look less extreme and more punky but my attempt to cover the bald gaps on either side hasn't really worked, I will have to lay down strips rather than the rake effect to make it fit with the rest of the hair I think. In general though I'm pretty happy, she is nice and dynamic which will stand her out from the other gangers

Anyway we play on Wednesday so I only have 24 hours to get her and everyone else ship shape, its going to be a rush.

Nathanie1 out

That's really nice. Good job.

What's the original model?

its the GW dark elf sorceress Dr H.

I like that model... I just wonder if the mix of GS went a bit bad?... looks funny in a way?...

I especially like you you did her holding the grip of her sword... that is a nice trick you used there I will have to remember that one!!!

and that slaughtered kids toy digger is a really good collection of LOS breakers... compliments to your friend!

@vik there is GS and liquid GS on her hense the different colours.

Started kitbashing a second heavy today, still very rough and essentially just pinned together at this point but the general shape is there

Rrrrrr....nice one! Really hot...any chance she could get a cigarette in her mouth...lazy sucking on it...that would probably be the pinnacle then...

That second heavy is looking really good! Very tank girly i think. GW needs to have more female models that arent overly elfy and thin and whatever. I feel like if I was going to add a female to an imperial guard army she would look more like that model you made right there.

That leader is one of the coolest conversions of DE sorcerer needs a little tidy up here and there but overall nice work and as Vik mentioned nice job with the sword hand good trick.

The heavy looks good to and is that body the Maxmini gorilla fighter girls ?

@vik - I originally played with her smoking so it's weird that you said this, I will look into it.

@roguewolves - thanks chief, completely agree there is a lack of good non-barbied female miniatures out there. I backed the toughest girls in the galaxy kickstarter but won't see any minis until September.

@LDD - thanks man, as always your critique is useful. Tbh I do not know how to get a smooth finish on my putty work. I smooth it as much as possible with water during the process but I can't seem to replicate what I see others manage on here.

Yes I feel particularly smug about the sword hand, it came off well.

Yes it's a maxmini body, there is a new gaming shop that has opened in bromley so I suddenly have access to other miniature companies products, it's a steep learning curve but there is some really cool stuff out there!!!

Perfect sword choice for the Nurgle conversion and I like how the Escher are shaping up - great bits choices so far!

Cheers,

Dante

As to the smooth finish what do you use as a sculpting tool ?

If you look at CMDante tag you see the rubber tipped brush looking things in the right hand the corner great for getting a smooth finish easy to find online or local art shop

I believe they are pastel brushes or something but easy to find, they come in several sizes and shapes I find the smallest and mediums sizes work best, also they have 3 stiffnesses white,grey and black white being the softest and black the hardest.

I mostly use black but the other 2 can be useful also I used the flat head and rounded tipped mostly, there are a couple of other shapes which I have but use rarely hope it helps.

Also have you tried varying your GS mix depending which way you mix it ( more blue or yellow ) alters the consistency which works in different ways might help.

at Nathan... lol weird...but I think her whole character implies smoking...

and also... I dunno if this is Europe wide... but this Thursday LIDL sells these silicone tipped brushes for dead cheap...if you have the chance grab yourself a fist full... I have already planned to do this

http://www.lidl.de/de/crelando-pinselset/p180558

Hi all, thanks for the feedback, unfortunately I already use these tools, clearly I am just not using them right yet, luckily it is fun to get better

I really like the idea of making an Escher gang with a mix of 3rd party and official bits, I've been eyeing some of these 3rd party sites with half a similar plan. I think some of the Toughest Girls stuff would work too with some converting, maybe some Witch Elf parts... there are certainly more possibilities than there were a few years ago.

I think your GS work looks good mostly, maybe it's just the leader's boots in that first pic that look really lumpy. I found that using liquid GS and then sanding helped me get a smooth finish, but you need especially fine sanding stuff. The rest of the gs is really sharp.

I like the leader's punk hair but I am not so keen on that face sculpt, it's a bit 'animated series'. A bionic eye might help. The heavy looks cool, nice club

@ bruticus - cheers chief, yes they were slightly misshapen I have gone back and sculpted them a little and they look a lot better. Thank you for the kind words, appreciated as always, yes the face is still a little too fantasy isn't it, I will see what I can do.

@ LDD - thanks for the detailed info earlier, maybe my tools are too soft?

@Vik - she would surely smoke cigars? I'm on it

@Dante - thank you for the kind words, I'm a huge fan of your work so I'm stoked you have looked at my page!

Here she is again, same concept slightly better execution, Christ I love grenade launchers.





You can find out how boom boom betty and all the othr girls fare at our campaign page on yaktribe, search 'Big Trouble in Little Dorrit'. First game tonight.

Here us the rest of the girls....





Just minor alterations but I'm really happy with them.

I have also made a ganger to represent whichever one of my hives survives to adulthood. She looks fairly simple but there was a lot of work involved re-posing the metal body and each arm is made from a variety of sources. I can't wait to paint this one which is not an emotion I often feel.





and her dog, trenchfoot.....

oh.... that last girl really is a sweet child... I love that head!...where is that from... she reminds me of tank girl... but only slightly...

eshers are really a cool gang... way cooler than the delaques in my humble opinion...(really...a gang of weird guys in trenchcoats and completely bald???...WTF???)
your smoky girl looks good with the thumper...but to be honest... she was cooler in my book when she was wielding the plasma gun... you need a certain amount of balls to wield such a suicide gun^^...

You've got some great conversions in this Escher Gang. I'm going to go look through the rest of your PLOG. I love your Heavy with the bar resting on her shoulder. Very cool model!

That latest model is really cool, chock full of character. It's no wonder that you are excited to paint her up haha!

@ fireangel - thanks that's very kind, apologies it's a bit of a mishmash but necromunda is far and away the strongest theme running through it



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@ rogue wolves - thanks dude yeah I feel like I have upped my game with her.