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Thanks for checking out my thread.
 
This is the Sister thread to my “showcase” thread the “The Inquisitor diaries” which you can find here…

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/698675.page

While there will be items on here from a variety of sci-fi manufactures, all are tied into the same head cannon that ill go into more detail in the showcase thread.

But i like to have all my ski fi collection cross over into my 40k head cannon
e.g the Mantic warpath verse is a number of sectors south of the Segmentum Tempestus and west of the ultima segmentum founded by rouge traders.
There are Remnant fleets of Xenos (and sometimes human races) that were evicted from their planets by the Imperium during the great crusade.
Predators are still hunting anything they can, they love Catachan and hunting space marines.
Every now and again a strange man in a blue box shows up goes “nope” and leaves again.

Here will have Work in progress images and some discussion on any rules I’m working on to incorporate the various minis into other game systems so they can cross over. (I should have a Deadzone - Xenomorph ruleset done at some point).

I find i’m more productive/focused when i do a thread like this.

July 2016 Update

Hobby Budget
Hobby budget of max £100 per month but ideally less than £50, As an incentive to spend as little as possible I'm going to put anything under £50 I spend into a piggy bank and save up for a Warhound Titan. (Wanted one for ages)

I'm also going to try and fund a bit of my hobby through EBay and here (selling terrain if people will buy it and things I'm not going to use), if eBay income makes up any of the £50 target spend I'll count it as half towards the budget total. (Another incentive to selling stuff) e.g. if i spend 50 but all came from money i made from selling stuff on eBay i’ll only count as £25 towards the £50 target.

But thats a lot of Reading heres some pics of things I am working on…


Albion Rifles imperial guard

UK (mostly WW2) inspired imperial Guard.



Got quite a few tanks to finish but I'm waiting on an airbrush purchase (got the cash saved just need to get one) before i do it.


Deadzone Enforcers


I-pad armour on the standard enforcers with the special characters in colourful armour.

Deadzone rebs




Tried to get them looking as individual as possible, so their a rag tag group. (think serenity and start wars rebels)

Xenomorphs




This is all the Xenos i have, despite the poor effort by Prodos with the treatment of me as a backer the minis are fantastic.

Infinity PanO


Ultramarines


lots to do and add, for a start i need to finish my hellion conversion nd get another sniper scout made.

Their true scale btw (or close enough to make me happy anyway)

Vs primaris



Thanks again for checking my thread out.

Please drop a comment if you like what you see or have any feedback, I really appreciate it and it helps keep be motivated.


Previous OPs

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Projects

Never ending/non priority
Albion Rifles imperial guard
True scale Ultramarines ( fill out the tactical squad, finish the scouts, some bikes and an achillies from trot pose sicarius conversion)
True scale Deathwatch
True Scale Chaos Marines
Deadzone Rebs booster set
Inquisimunda

Near Future
AVP painted
Deadzone Enforcers Pathfinders, jet bikes and peacekeepers


Distant future/Dream Projects

JoeRugby's Random but slow blog - March 8th update

Not much done this week gym and work taking over hobby time.
This week I've finishing assembling and priming my enforcers and plague (minus stage 2s, need to find non baby heads for them) and my ultramarines sergeant.(minus his right hand because I couldn't decide what to kit him out with).

The current todo pile



Gunship

I've managed to lose one of the doors for the gunship so that's not helped my mood , I have primed the undercarriage to see how it took the primer and to give it a test paint this weekend.

Better Scale picture of the Star Wars gunship with guardsman bob showing that he could fit into the transport compartment.


In addition to looking for to lost door I'm still looking for a suitable mini gun for the nose cone. I've seen some nice brass 1/35 chain guns on eBay but haven't been able to find measurements for it yet. I'm going to have a rummage through my bits box to see if I have any tau burst guns but I think it might be to chunky.

Deadzone - Rebs


My main goal this weekend is to get these finished. I'm going for a very mixed style for them( think rag tag band of outlaws). which gives me a chance to try some freehand.

Deadzone - Enforcers


As mentioned their all primed now, I've converted a sergeant with a catachan powerfist. (It looks like he's got one of those toy hulk hands if I'm honest)
And I've started to convert a defender but I need to come up with a stand in/salvaged shield.


Ultramarines

16/03/14

I found the door! Hidden under a scarf

Deadzone - Rebs
I've completed my Rebs like I wanted this week whoop!


More Completed photos can be found in the showcase forum.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/585004.page#6636472

I can now add something else to my project list

Deadzone -Enforcer progress


More paint added! all have been dry brushed codex grey to bring out the black and rest of the painting started the ones at the front are closer to being finished than the ones at the back.


shotgun arm for my not-defender completed still trying to come up with an idea for a makeshift shield. Any ideas?

Ultramarines

I've added a little paint to the ultramarines but nothing photo worthy, I need to look into how to magnetise different hands for my sergeant.

Gunship
I did do a test paint of the underside of the model and the primer and paint went on really well. The red painted areas on the original actually show through as detail when undercoated so I'll look to incorporate some of this in the final paint.

Ill look to get the rest primed and base coated this week.

I think I'll end up going for this brass etched kit as the mini gun for my gunships nose cone.

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but I can't find measurement for it, anyone able to help?

Long time without doing much hobby stuff

Started back this week,


starting to base coat my gunship

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I still need to settle on a mini gun for the nose I might cut up a tau burst cannon as a stand in till I can find one I want.

I'm hopping to have the base coat finished this week.

painting up some Deadzone scenery


Most of the tiles are going to be the light grey, with some coloured tiles being backgrounds for company logos as per real shipping containers.

I need to get some stencils done so I can get some logos on the blue ones.

Have any of you made stencils for this kind of thing before? If so any pointers would be appreciated.
At the moment I'm just going to get some logos printed out onto paper and cut them out (and hope I don't make a mess of the cutting)
I was thinking getting some laser cut but I think this might be too expensive.

Gunship basecoated



Just need to get the inside done and I'll get it put together ready for some details on the outside.

I'm still struggling too find a minigun for the nose that I like.

Tonight I'm going to work on my deadzone scenery, Cue lots of swearing as I try to cut out some stencils for the company names.

Deadzone scenery is almost done



I'm happy with how the company logos and stop signs came out.

I went for the carver inc logo from the nexus psi book because it was the easiest logo if I'm honest.

When I get some more battlezones I want to do a shensig(sp) and a Wayland Yuatani wall too.

I just need to finish off with a little blood splatter and add broken windows to the (you guessed it) windows.

Gunship assembled and detailing started


Action shot.
Get to the gunship


I'm still looking for an appropriate mini/chain gun for the nose any suggestions would be welcome.

Couple of bits to update

The Rebs got some reinforcements



I started putting in windows on the deadzone scenery





And more paint was put on the gunship.

Nice work, I just saw the Gunship in your DZ batrep and it really does fit the DZ clean-sci-fi look. I can easily see Enforcers or Rangers using one for close insertion drops. The terrain is looking good too.

 Paradigm wrote:
Nice work, I just saw the Gunship in your DZ batrep and it really does fit the DZ clean-sci-fi look. I can easily see Enforcers or Rangers using one for close insertion drops. The terrain is looking good too.

Cheers dude

I love the shape of the republic gunship kit, it's a shame it's now OOP or I might have been tempted to get more to do a black hawk down type scenery piece.

Checklist for completing the bird;
Add decals and details: name on the side of the cockpit some warning decals, some rungs/ladder leading to the cockpit.
Find a mini/chain gun I like and get the nose code finished.
Learn how to weather models
And weather it just a little bit

Weathering is easy and fast if you stick to the simple methods. I don't know what you've looked into, but here's a few good methods that are fast and simple:

Sponge weathering: tear up some sponge/scouring pad and dip it in a little metallic paint. Dab it on the leading edges of wings ect to give nice and small chipping effects. To add depth, go over the edges of some chips with a slightly lighter shade of the base colour.

Chalks: Get some cheap artist chalks in various colours, grind them up, and brush them on. Black for heat damage, brown/red for mud, red for blood.

Washes: Cover the desired area in black/brown wash. Self-explanatory.

All of these take a little practice to get the balance right, but can add some really nice looking 'special effects' to models and scenery.

Thanks for the weathering tips para.

I haven't looked into it at all yet

Fail spoilered move along please

Well terrain day was a complete fail

I didn't manage to get anything from my shopping list in town most crucially I couldn't get any hardboard to base any scenery on and I was too stingy to spend or foam board that cost five times as much as ebay.

A trip to B&Q and an ebay shop later and I have this.



8 x 3mm A4 foam board
Wire mesh
Filler
Balsa wood 2 x cylinders and 2x rectangular
Filler
Badly cut hardboard

At some point soon I hope I will have the time to make this



This is the floorplan my command/comm centre. As mentioned before it will be raised with a antenna with a sniper nest coming out the roof.

I also want to get a mini park/ memorial garden made to add a bit of colour to my Dead/grimdarkzone and AVP games.

Whoop look what I got through Royal Mail today



Managed to grab this on ebay the other day.

Soo much plastic


My hands are shredded after cleaning all that with my Stanley knife.

I'm going to build a gatehouse/ keep similar to the front of the box but with the gate the 2 towers being separate pieces

Here's the concept for the towers ( very lightly put together)

Outside


Inside


I don't know about the corner buttress going all the way up yet.

Now to get the other tower and gate sorted out.
Use plasticard to fill in the outside peg holes and straight gaps (copying terrain tutor on this)
I'll then get them sprayed and painted individually before putting together properly and gluing.

And here it is all lose fitted together



I don't have enough pieces to make the door box that I wanted so I'll just get the towers done for now and try to pick up the bits to finish the door box

I also want to get 2 of the landing pad hatch openings for the top floor instead of the flat floor panel I currently have.

Nice stuff, that'll make a very cool centrepiece!

Cheers dude

It does add a lot to a table. Ideally I'd have a half cube width section added to the back and running the whole length of the table but I'd have to sacrifice a bunch of walk ways to do it.
So there's a wall going the entire length

Maybe when my Battlezone bitzbox gets bigger

Quick update
(Please ignore the fetching ironing board cover)

Enforcers are done



Well almost. I still need to find a shield for my defender conversion. I don't think I'll use the engineer or the missile launcher so they will go into the for a paint on a rainy day box.


I like to think their walking away from an explosion in this pic.

Ultramarine Scout now has a head




Still some green stuffing to do on the head but looks great to me. I'll not try to get the rest of the sniper team done.

Riddick



One of the few sedition wars minis I haven't sold. He'll get some use in grimdarkzone as Blaine but no shooting.

The depth in the black hasn't come out that well in the pics but I'll use a similar technique when I get my aliens from prodos if fox approve of course.

Gunship gets an eye and a gun



Started work on the camera and gun for the Rebs gunship. I did buy a 1/72 rottary cannon but it was too small

Neat work, you've replicated the Mantic scheme almost perfectly on those Enforcers, and the clean white is very commendable!

 Paradigm wrote:
Neat work, you've replicated the Mantic scheme almost perfectly on those Enforcers, and the clean white is very commendable!

The whites a cheat to be honest.

It's just coat d arm's light grey painted over black undercoat, the black drains the grey so it looks white but I didn't have to put on loads of layers.

Battlezone fort update

After a few trial games I've decided to add another level to the towers and a connecting walkway/gunfloor.

It looks better on the table when there are a few two story buildings but it does mean can't make two towers until I buy 6 more fortified windows.

Lots of stuff undercoated yesterday, annoyingly I ran out of spray with a tray of Battlezone bits to spray.



Fort/gatehouse progress

Built and base coated



Necron Ned and Guardsman Bob showing the size of this monster.

As I'm incorporating more 2 story buildings into my games I had to make it taller so it would still be an imposing centrepiece.

Now it's assembled and glued together il cover the plug holes I don't need and finish the painting

Lots of details to add still (ladders between floors, an armoury in the base and some comms) and I'm wondering if I should get it based.

I need 6 more fortified windows to do the other tower. If anyone has some spare please PM me

Plague sighted

With the Rebs and enforcers painted time to move onto the plague.

I'm going to stay close to the Mantic scheme but make them darker pink and bone instead of pink and white.

Here's my take on the "Tyrant" stage 1,


I love this model, this and the enforcer sniper are easily the stand out minis from Deadzone so far IMHO.

And here is the stage 1 getting ready to make bob a "berserker" stage 2


I don't know if I want to drench his hands in blood yet. More plague to come soon

Current pip pile

In addition to the stuff I sprayed yesterday I've got these on the go


Finally started to get my zombicide season 1 stuff painted, can't decide if I should texture the bases or not.

Battlezone tiles base coated, I love painting with a kitchen sponge for base coating scenery.



And from that and that and my earlier pile of tiles came a Hab block

Only base coated so there's a lot of detailing to do but it will work on a table until I can get around to doing the fiddle bits. I think a couple of these on the board will look sweet



(2 partially painted plague are about to have bad days)





I think It looks like something that could have been put together from shipping containers.

I've not glued it together yet but I might glue the flat walls together so it's quick to put together but still easy to store.

I need to get the remaining tiles undercoated (stupid spray can running out), I want to get a landing pad done and I'll have a play with what's left.

Great stuff!

 pretre wrote:
Great stuff!

Cheers dude

Nice work!

Thanks para

Despite the heat and preseason I've managed to do some things this week

Fort update




Filling the plug gaps on the gate section was a pain but I'm happy with the result. I now need to get the plugs on the tower filled.

Lots of other work to do still but it's got enough colour to be used on the table, speaking of which here the table layout I'll be using today.




I'm not a fan of the landing paid, I think it might be awkward to play around but I'll find out later.

Plague stage 2 "Berserker"




Kept it similar to the "tyrant" from the earlier post. I also didn't want to have the one berserker doing parkour so I changed the arm to make him look like he leaping at someone.

Still can't decide if I want to cover them in blood

I also started work on my comm Centre


I need to decide if I'm going to put a "power sub station" (aka a box) on the base by the struts.

And have started to change my ultramarines from normal bases to lipped ones.

Plan for this week.
Finish my gunship chain gun
Paint the rest of my plague
More work on the comm centre
Get some zombies painted.
And I want to get my 5 tactical marines finished
(Most of this wont happen but it's nice to dream )

Challenger tank distraction

I didn't do anything I'd hoped to do last week aside from re basing 2 of my ultramarines



And play testing some rules for marines in Deadzone based on the enforcer peacekeeper rules.



So today I decided to do build something and found a kitech 1/48 challenger 1 in my pile of unbuilt toys.

Here's the contents



Bit disappointed with the lack of detail and the amount of flash on the sprues, but then you get what you pay for.

I'm not going to put the motor in because it's going to be used for mars attacks and maybe as a tank for Ariadna if I go for them as my welsh faction. (I love making up rules what can I say and tag vs tank sounds cool)

Half an hour in



And a few more mins and we're done(well almost there's some gaps in the kit that I want to fill with green stuff)



Size comparison, with a chimera and guardsman bob




Was an ok kit to build very quick, but with very minimal instructions, not a lot of detail and a lot of bits that didn't finish together I'd rather pay more for a better quality kit if I could find one.

That said it was less than a tenner so....

The tank looks very cool, I've always been partial to the Challenger. It doesn't look under-detailed to me, especially for the price. Scale model kits don't tend to have detail as deep or thick as 40k kits just because they are not built for gaming so much as display.