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Hi Mate,

Having purchased some of your plaster blocks.... and been extremely happy with the product... I recon these will be a nice new addition to your repertoire! As you have shown with your little terrain pieces they will work very well.... my only one thought... and this is only because I like to destroy and break everything..... but I REALLY like the damage effects and scrapes and dents you can add to the plaster blocks... I am wondering how the foam would react to this treatment..... but like I said that's only a very minor thought I had.... I guess you could just use plaster blocks for the damaged ones and foam for the rest.... so in essence I have answered my own question, making my point null and void! Ignore me.. Looks really cool!

And really like those little packs of flock... just picked up a couple.. cheers for the tip!

Hi everyone, sorry it's been a while since my last update, been busy with a new large scale project ( yes I started another one )
and working out plans for a new Business venture, which I will talk about at a later date once everything's in place.

As for my other recent big projects, the Nagash Dioama and my Necron Tesseract Vault, I will be getting back to those at some point
so they've not been abandoned, just put on hold.

What I can show you now is my recently reorganized work Space, which should at least for the moment help me keep the place tidy,
I hope .

Is that poster a...zord?....zoid?

 the shrouded lord wrote:
Is that poster a...zord?....zoid?

No It's a piece of art by one of my favorite artists, Keith Thompson.
Here's a link to his website if you want to see more: http://www.keiththompsonart.com/index.html

Working areas tend to stay clean and tidy for about two mostly three days , good luck with your projects I would really like to see that Vault finished.

Many interesting looking projects on those shelves.

Tell us honestly, you cleaned up just before you took these pictures, right? Or is your work space always this clean? Or is this the first and last time your new work space will be this clean. Because mine is an absolute mess. Every time I "clean up" I find old half-finished projects buried under my scattered bits.

dubovac wrote:Working areas tend to stay clean and tidy for about two mostly three days , good luck with your projects I would really like to see that Vault finished.

Yeah I'd like to see the vault finished too, it will get there eventually .

Dr H wrote:Many interesting looking projects on those shelves.

Most of them are half finished model projects, and large scale sculpts. I really must stop starting new projects
before I finish the old ones .

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Tell us honestly, you cleaned up just before you took these pictures, right? Or is your work space always this clean? Or is this the first and last time your new work space will be this clean. Because mine is an absolute mess. Every time I "clean up" I find old half-finished projects buried under my scattered bits.

You got me, I had just spent four days reorganizing, rebuilding and tidying up the entire room.
The reason it looks tidy now is that I filled 14 bin bags full of rubbish, before that it really did look like a wasteland
and you couldn't find anything, or see the floor .

Teehee, I knew it!

Know that feeling well.

Nice space, and glancing at contents of the shelves, nice collection.

I hope your area stays this clean...it will not, we all know it.

Sorry for the lack of activity recently, the reason for this will become apparent later in the year .

For now though I think it's about time I started painting again, and for that, I'm more than likely going to be asking for your help and advice,
as it's been years since I properly painted any mini's, and my skill set kind of stops at dry brushing.

I've just received my first batch of paints as you'll see below, with a set of Wash's currently on the way.

The three Battlesuit's I'm Painting are going to be test piece's for a much larger Tau project I'm working on,
so I want to try a range of different techniques including blending, chipping, weathering, painting optics and maybe some OSL.

I'm in no rush to do this, as I want to get it right, and avoid making a mess of my other project.
I'll be adding updates as I go .

All for the Greater Good!

Thought I'd try a Farsight Enclave look for the first Battlesuit.
Just the base coat, but it's a start .

Hey mate!

Really nice looking workspace!

VVV jealous of the space and looks like a huge amount of projects/work etc!

Defimetly going to use spme pointers when I look to replan mine!

I never used to like painting, but I'm actually starting to enjoy this .

Looking great so far. I was wondering, since I see that you bought game colors paints do you found hard to work with them. I am asking since I buy model color line and they seem much better. Game colors have, how would I put it nicely, thin consistency and pigments are not so strong.

dubovac wrote:
Looking great so far. I was wondering, since I see that you bought game colors paints do you found hard to work with them. I am asking since I buy model color line and they seem much better. Game colors have, how would I put it nicely, thin consistency and pigments are not so strong.

I'm actually finding them great to work with because of the thin consistency, as I prefer to paint using many layers,
and using thinner paint means I wont obscure any detail.

I haven't tried the Model color range yet but I do want to get some, just to see what their like and how they compare to the Game color.

I also prefer thin layers, but for my preferences I like to thin them down by myself. Those game colors are too thin of my taste. But they are great for shading areas, giving tint to some other color and generally they mix excellent with model color range.

As always pics from Forgeworlds open day have started to appear all over the internet, one in particular though has caught my attention.
As you'll see below Forgeworld have built themselves a Tau Titan (or knight), It's called the KX-139, and it's a behemoth of a battlesuit.

Now the reason I'm interested in this, and why I'm posting it here, is because for the last four months I've been kitbashing my own Tau Titan.
It's still a work in progress, and doesn't have a name yet, but I want to get your feed back on both Titan's.

So let me know what you think, and if anyone has any questions about how I built my Titan, just leave them below.

Yours is by far the bigger. But by god I approve. It looks awesome, very Tau and very dangerous!

That thing looks dangerous! Like a huge predator! Really cool

I can't believe how huge that thing is man! Great work! It looks much faster and more lithe than the FW one which seems kinda bulkier by comparison. Is it pure coincidence that your right-sided gun looks so similar to the FW Titan?

Dude, those are really cool! The SMs need backpacks though...


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Dude, those are really cool! The SMs need backpacks though...

That KX-139 is beyond battlesuit. It has hit titan level

NidLifeCrisis wrote:
I can't believe how huge that thing is man! Great work! It looks much faster and more lithe than the FW one which seems kinda bulkier by comparison. Is it pure coincidence that your right-sided gun looks so similar to the FW Titan?

Yeah I did notice that . Actually at one stage I did have the barrels the other way up, in which case it would of looked just like FW's version.
But it is just a coincidence, maybe we where looking at the same reference material, and concept art.

I think the FW one looks decent, though I can't get over the trio of big guns in the middle. It looks like someone literally just stuck them on the back of the model.

I would say that I prefer yours. Mostly for the same reason given by NidLifeCrisis. Yours looks sleek and fast, even for its size. It looks like something the Tau would design to stealthy hunt down other races' titans and take them out in a quick ambush. Not a walking gun boat like the FW model.

Taking a break from the Titan now, as I contemplate how I'm going to paint it.

In the meantime I've started work on a Kastelan Robot conversion, using the parts from both standerd robots to build one of my own.
So far I have the head torso and arms together, and I'm working on the legs.

Its beginning to remind me of a cross between the the giant robot from Fallout 3, and a Cylon,
But tell me what you think .

that head is a vast improvement how did you make it

The main shape of the head was made from the Kastelan Robot pelvis half's, which were trimmed down and glued to
an upturned lower leg piece.

I'll post some better pics tomorrow, so you can see the details .