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So my Iron Wolves have now seen action in 4 fifth edition tournaments, and transitioned into 6th edition with Quartermaster III. They’re still a work in progress, but for each one I’ve added a little more detail, and tweaked a little here and there to slowly get them to where I want them to be…
Here’s a more or less finished teaser of the Wolf Lord:

Teaser is right! Thats just not fair From what i can see it looks sweet.

Finally got my attack quad finished... so that would be the Scorpion MkIV:



For anyone who's interested, it's up for grabs in the UTC online store, along with the Ultramarines Captain. You can find them here.

:O how you make?

Dear Iain,

Your skill with plasticard is offensive and makes me feel bad about myself. Cease modelling immediately.

Sincerely,

Tom

walker90234 wrote::O how you make?

You might need to be more specific...

It's basically a regular Marine bike with an attack bike sidecar reshaped to fit in over the rear mudguard, and new mudguard assemblies built from plasticard.

MajorTom11 wrote:Your skill with plasticard is offensive and makes me feel bad about myself. Cease modelling immediately.

Quad - lite...




I actually did a few of these up last year, as demos for a quad bike-building tutorial for the first Auscon. One of them was painted up for my Imperial Dragons, and the others have been sitting around waiting to join the party. With us moving house later this month, I decided it was better to clear some space in the cabinet and sell the unpainted ones off. I can always build more later

So these guys are up with the Captain and the Attack Quad in the UTC online store, along with a bunch of freshly listed Dark Vengeance components. [/shameless plug]

Nice, clean build insaniak... glad you're showing them off.

So, far too long between updates, what with moving house and getting prepared for a new carbon-based lifeform in the house... But I decided that it was time for my little gaming group to dust off Necromunda and see if it still holds up to a good kicking...

I have a completed Escher and Orlock gang, but needed a few extra gangs for other players... So after a rummage around in the bits boxes, and a bit of prep work and undercoating, they're on their way:



Goliaths (mostly the starter set plastics with a few modifications here and there) and Ratskins, with Schaefer's Last Chancers filling in as Van Saars. More soon...

Good to see you back in the saddle insaniak.

Good to see some work in here !

Goliath Gang with most of their base colour in place. The leader has also had a wash at this point, just because I got impatient and wanted to see how he would look...



I deliberately went for a fairly basic scheme with these guys, because I just don't like the Goliath models enough to spend any large amount of time on them. They're purely being done to have a spare gang for other people to use.

The leader with just a wash looks much better than the others !

Did you make a few headswaps ? (HB dude, for instance)

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Did you make a few headswaps ? (HB dude, for instance)

I think there are quite a few SW heads in there. Nice to mix things up

Yeah, there are a few Space Wolf heads scattered through. The Heavy was a second-hand model, and the previous owner had nicked the head and heavy bolter for a Chaos Marine conversion, so I had to find replacements. The other couple of head swaps were just to add a little variety to the plastic Starter set models. There's also one in there who had his legs swapped for Gorkamorka ork legs.

I'm building some Juves out of Chaos Marauder parts, but they'll be in the next wave. I want to get the Ratskins and Schaefer's not-Delaques done first.

Small update on the Goliaths. Base colours all finished, and initial washes applied.



There are a few 'crazy eyes' here and there that I need to go back and fix, the leader's melta cabling needs a brown wash, and the weapons and boots need another layer or two of black wash, but while that's happening and I'm figuring out basing, they're effectively table-ready. So at this point I'll probably put these guys aside and start in on the Ratskins.

They're gangers... "crazy eyes" seems appropriate.

Great models! You never answered what you were using for the cockpit. I would like to know. That bubble fighter looks sweet.

Cypher-xv wrote:
Great models! You never answered what you were using for the cockpit. I would like to know. That bubble fighter looks sweet.

I'm thinking a PM to insaniak might work better at this point.

Though you never know!

No, I'm still here... just been a while between updates due to an increased level of baby in the house.


Hoping to get back to work soon, as I need the flyer and some scouts for a tournament next month


And for anyone still wondering, the cockpit is from an old Seaquest DSV model kit. A flatbed sub for lugging cargo around. I picked a few of them up cheap years ago, intending to turn them into antigrav cargo haulers for scenery... but this seemed like a more productive use

I just read through this blog. Your work is AMAZING insaniak! Keep it up! Please!

And here I was hoping to see something new on the workbench!

Insaniak you TEASE!

Hey Insaniak, I love your stuff! What did you use as a border for you display board? I'm building one right now and I might need to do something similar.

Lucarikx

RiTides wrote:And here I was hoping to see something new on the workbench!

Soon... I have some second-hand scouts bathing in simple green as we speak, and am just planning out how to swap the fighter over to a Dark Talon analogue and then finish it off.

Lucarikx wrote:Hey Insaniak, I love your stuff! What did you use as a border for you display board? I'm building one right now and I might need to do something similar.

You mean the stripping around the outside? It's just plastic edge stripping, from the builders section at the local hardware store.

So, apparently it's been over a year since there were any actual updates in this thread. Which is horrible.

So: new beginnings!

 insaniak wrote:
Quad - lite...




I actually did a few of these up last year, as demos for a quad bike-building tutorial for the first Auscon. One of them was painted up for my Imperial Dragons, and the others have been sitting around waiting to join the party. With us moving house later this month, I decided it was better to clear some space in the cabinet and sell the unpainted ones off. I can always build more later

So these guys are up with the Captain and the Attack Quad in the UTC online store, along with a bunch of freshly listed Dark Vengeance components. [/shameless plug]

Great plasticard skills, although i would have added a slightly larger tube over the current rod, now it looks like they have no front-wheel suspension.
Love the stormclaw

Looks like the beginnings of old-school land raider treads...

 Jehan-reznor wrote:
Great plasticard skills, although i would have added a slightly larger tube over the current rod, now it looks like they have no front-wheel suspension.

Totally agree... However the point of that particular conversion was for something that relatively inexperienced modellers could build in a one-hour tutorial. So it was kept fairly simple deliberately.

Things are begin to grow...