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Hey guys! So I decided to make my own log now. I'm about to start a serious army and not just buy stuff without any big thought about it..

So what can you expect to see in this thread then? Well, Since I want my army to stand out from everyone elses i'm doing some conversions on mine.
Also I got my own paintscheme and such.. No big deal. Almost everyone has there own scheme so..

I'm also looking for some help from you guys. Since i'm still learning ALOT on how to paint and build it would be really nice if you would help me with techniques and such.
or if you just want to check in and look at what i'm up too that works just fine!

Anyways! I hope you'll enjoy what you see here and please leave a comment


To start this thread off then. I'm currently working on a Flight stand for my Vindictus Gunship. That is a converted Valkyrie with a whole bunch of wepons on it.
The base itself is about 2 troopers in there observation post with one looking out over the street and the other one is sitting in cover doing something i haven't come up with yet




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A small update on the base.

I redid the guy looking out at the street and made him look like he's drinking some water and resting his right arm on the window.

I'm also putting some grenades and ammo in the windows in case of an attack.

I also made the other guardsman that's resting in cover. he injured his arm during his assingment and they had to stabalize it.



I made some texture on the pavement and trimed the sides down. I also cut out the shape for the stand and now i'm waiting for the last piece to dry so that i can texture that one up too.

after that it's time for the ruble and stuff to go one there.

Awesome looks cool as hell.

really cool flight stand!

Thank you guys

a small update then.

so iv'e finished basing the stand and all that's left now is painting.



it's still wet from the watered down PVA. one other thing is that i wount get any primer until the end of this mounth.. so i wount be able to continue that much on the stand until then..
But i will finish the guardsmen standing in there.

Also I made a small conversion on one of the lasguns. i think it ended up pretty well and i'm considering making a bunch of them for the rest of the army. some with regular lasguns and some with the shorter version


and finally the basecoated guardsmen and their guns.

Hello, I haven't had much time to paint since my last update but i'm done with the guardsmen now.



I'm happy with how they turned out and i must add that painting skin overall is my big nemesis..

2 pics of them in place at the stand





and finally a teaser pic of my next update. what lies inside that really beaten up pagage?



a hint: it's from Forgeworld

i like the sceme your going with for the guard, and hmm larfe FW box, im going to guess 1 1/2 chaos dwarf trains!

Rogue Wolves wrote:i like the sceme your going with for the guard, and hmm larfe FW box, im going to guess 1 1/2 chaos dwarf trains!

Chaos dwarf trains

Nah, not really but here's another hint:

it will have this text one the front of it.


and this "art"



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HAHA! i just found the train! it's awesome! xD but no it's still not a train

hehe i thought you might like the train, and i have no idea what it is... but i like it already

Love it keep it up !

Great paint job on the Guards, the base looks a bit cluttered to me, but maybe its just the dirt? or the wheel idk, just my opinion though. Subbed

Thanks guys

Wh40kPicasso wrote:Great paint job on the Guards, the base looks a bit cluttered to me, but maybe its just the dirt? or the wheel idk, just my opinion though. Subbed

Yeah i see your point there and i have also thought about it.. i wanted something to break up all the other ruble that's why i put the wheel there. hopefully it'll look better when i get some paint on there.. otherwise i'll just remove the wheel.
thanks for the opinion anyway, i appreciate it

UPDATE TIME

so what was in the poor beaten up pagage then? it held a Marauder Destroyer! with 4 sets of Hellstrike missiles too


when i first saw that pagage i thought that nothing in it could have survived the transport..
but there's some moments you when you get really happy being wrong. and this was such a moment.

nothing was really damaged. just warped. and here's the most warped pieces





at first i thought i had to talk to forgeworld support to get a new canopy and a new wing.. couse they looked terrible.
then it was time to get rid of the exess resin.


after that was done i tried to bend the warped pieces back in a somewhat better shape. and i think i did quite well with that acctually




well, i did well enough to keep them and not order new ones

ther's still some small things to fix and i'll do that when i wash off the releaseagent.

Looks like you have a good project ahead of you, always good to stay busy! It's always good to have an outside opinion i think, and i'm always happy to provide it

Hot water helps with the warpage, but yeah, for the amount of money they charge, you would think that they would clean/trim, and unwarp the pieces before shipping them. It is why I like some of the other companies out there like Old Crow, I never get the pieces ins such conditions from Jez as I see FW ship out, and his stuff is far less expensive.

Wh40kPicasso wrote:Looks like you have a good project ahead of you, always good to stay busy! It's always good to have an outside opinion i think, and i'm always happy to provide it

Yeah i surely have. i'm beginning to think if i have bit off more than a can chew it's my first time playing around with resin. and i go and buy one of the biggest things i can i'm happy i didn't buy the Warhound titan i thought of first. and it's opinions and critisism from others that makes any person better. so please continue with that

shasolenzabi wrote:Hot water helps with the warpage, but yeah, for the amount of money they charge, you would think that they would clean/trim, and unwarp the pieces before shipping them. It is why I like some of the other companies out there like Old Crow, I never get the pieces ins such conditions from Jez as I see FW ship out, and his stuff is far less expensive.

yeah they're extremely expensive. and iv'e noticed on some peices it looks like they've acctually "glued" on some exess resin. :/ i don't really know how to put it.. but i'll put up a pic and you'll see what i mean.

hey didde... i only clicked on the link in your sig... just to be on the safe side... thought you were in high numbers with this thread... but it seems i am still early here to join the party!...

the base looks simply stunning... so much love for detail...

you say you look forward to helpfull suggestions and guidance... i think you do a very cool job all on your own already!

how you coped with the warp-forge... well this will teach me in the future...and you say you have a nemesis in skin painting...HA! i don´t think so....have you seen my skin? or for that matter my lacking eye painting? you did these tho!

by the way i like your shortened lasgun... more of such conversions!!! and ... great choice for poses... that is what makes the IG so special and interesting... the character you put into these is instantly transfered to your viewers... you reach them so directly! cool stuff... i will be definatly be here for the long run!!!

cheers, vik

Oh Wow! Great Diorama base man!..Really ACE work!..And you got one!! Awesome!! THe warpage sucks, but it's fixable with a little hot water!

Dam the base looks that good how the hell is the rest going to look you really have breathed life in to the base cant wait to see this completed with paint, the guards look great.

If I can give you one piece of advice, itwould be to be careful with the nose piece, it's sheer weight is an issue, get it really snug and pinned to the fuselage halves first, not last!

thank you guys

Viktor von Domm wrote:hey didde... i only clicked on the link in your sig... just to be on the safe side... thought you were in high numbers with this thread... but it seems i am still early here to join the party!...

the base looks simply stunning... so much love for detail...

you say you look forward to helpfull suggestions and guidance... i think you do a very cool job all on your own already!

how you coped with the warp-forge... well this will teach me in the future...and you say you have a nemesis in skin painting...HA! i don´t think so....have you seen my skin? or for that matter my lacking eye painting? you did these tho!

by the way i like your shortened lasgun... more of such conversions!!! and ... great choice for poses... that is what makes the IG so special and interesting... the character you put into these is instantly transfered to your viewers... you reach them so directly! cool stuff... i will be definatly be here for the long run!!!

cheers, vik

Welcome to the party vik it's nice too see you here! and thank you so much for those kind words! they're much appreciated haha my thread is not even near the high numbers.. hell.. my views ain't even in the high numbers yet. but hopefully they'll grow. and more conversions like the lasguns you say.. well.. then i wount make you dissapointed i try to make small conversions on everything i do

dsteingass wrote:If I can give you one piece of advice, itwould be to be careful with the nose piece, it's sheer weight is an issue, get it really snug and pinned to the fuselage halves first, not last!

thank you so much for that advice!! it's great to have someone here that's been throuh all this before got any more great advices for me?



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Done with the washing now. the only good thing about not having my gf at home is that i can use the kitchen for my hobby without having her whining about it




and up in the left corner is 2 teeny tiny bits that i forgot to mention.. that's the only thing that was broken when it arrived.. didn't notice them at first thouh. it's one of the antenna bits that sits right behind the cockpit and a powercable thats places at the tail. why on earth would anyone make cables hanging from the aircraft

anyways! next up is what i hate the most.. cleaning.. but that will have to wait until tomorrow!

At least you can tell the misses you have done the washing up

I want one of these but I don't think I could invest the money or the time

wow DiDDe, thats some project you have there, and its going to look so awsome when its done!

Paint the cockpit first, fit it in , then mask it all for the rest of the painting. The pilot and Bombadier don't fit in there so easily after a coat of paint, mine was a really tight fit.

Looking good there Didde!
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lone dirty dog wrote:At least you can tell the misses you have done the washing up

I want one of these but I don't think I could invest the money or the time

Yeah they're really expensive but i bought it to myself as a birthday present.

Rogue Wolves wrote:wow DiDDe, thats some project you have there, and its going to look so awsome when its done!

haha i hope it will come out ok havn't really figured out how i will do the weathering and some other stuff yet.. but i got the time and i really don't wanna rush it eighter..

dsteingass wrote:Paint the cockpit first, fit it in , then mask it all for the rest of the painting. The pilot and Bombadier don't fit in there so easily after a coat of paint, mine was a really tight fit.

yeah i was thinking about that too! nice to get comfirmed that it's the best thing to do

SilverHayabusa wrote:Looking good there Didde!
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welcome silver and thank you



i said yesterday that i would have an update for you guys today. but unfortunetly i haven't had the time at all to work with it,,
i was on duty today (working as security) and i got an alarm that i had to check out.. and that took 5 hours!
and now i have gone to my parents house and wount get back home until this weekend.. so my next update will have to wait. but you guys are used to late updates and stuff so i know you'll survive

Best kind of birthday presents the ones you buy your self : looking over my shoulder sheepishly

yes... mold cleaning is the worst part of the hobby... just after the paying part

haha yeah atleast then you know that you'll get what you want

and vik.. paying is nothing compared to cleaning all those got damn moldlines! and when you think you're done and you have painted it all and think that you wanna share that nice little piece of art with everyone else. putting up a pic and all.. and that's when you notice.. THERE'S FRIGGIN ONE MORE LEFT OF THEM!!!! that sneacky soab got throuh the cleaning proces undetected.. and now it's ruining my pic!

god i hate that feeling.. -.-'

lol DiDDe, you mission, should you choose to accept it, is to rid the world of moldines forever!

didde... i so feel a raging sympathy now for you... i have that feeling and happening to me too... bet that there isn´t someone out there that hasn´t felt like that too^^

at Rogue Wolves... NO WAY MAN! i mean.. i bought a pack of cadian shocktroopers awhile back. and decided to cut loose and clean them all in one go. i really thought i was going mad there. i don't know how long it took me.. but without those icecold beers there i probably would have..