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2011/05/25 19:46:51
Subject: Re:Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Actaeon sequential art Fluff..... okay i mean comic !!!
( So had a busy week this week , apart from boarding up our dining room window from a long overdue accident with football , Bailey and fate ( 30 mins ago ) obviously not 30 mins ago if your reading this long after i posted )
I have started work on Actaeons 2nd chapter ..YAY That was all you at the back yaying btw. Especially Monkey who i know is reading this when he should be doing something far more productive with his time
@Vik Cheers mate i hope so the stuff iam working on at the moment is tying together several elemants of Praxian history, there should be some cross over with The 1st Praxus comic when done.
@Lord Kaesar II America obviously had not enough stereotypes for the animators to draw[i] upon .... Nah ! i think Chibi has it spot on.
@PDH , WOOT Royalties hand over yer teef ! Thanks Peter glad you like it mate. If you and Vik carry on i shall have to creat proper proportioned screen savers
@Vik I took it to the bank , but it had become a artsy wine bar and the post office had shut down ! ( Social In joke for the UK )
@Baiyuan Many thanks Baiyuan , i can tell your a story teller just from your minis actually , they tell a great story , all the ones you have shown What was you novell about mate? maybe you could send me what you have ? i would enjoy reading no doubt . I have several stories to complete too , none 40k related , but all sci fi , My favourite is about a young man who suffers seizures after starting a new school , but with which he travels to different realities , eventually he lives out many lives , in these other realities and becomes rich in knowledge from his travels , this translates into power , and as we all know , power corrupts. Its acool idea to create minis 54mm minis form your unriwritten story. I find that all my ideas change by the time i come to write them down. they get used up in other project too, kinda recycled .
I also got a rather nice suprise in the mail , that i totally forgot about! Well some readers will be aware that a while ago i enterd a dakka competition to write death skulls orky poetry ! if such a thing can exsist well I won and The talented EyeOfHorus who ran the comp offered a painted ork of your choice as prize i chose Badrukk and he arrived out of the blue yesterday. Many thanks to EyeOfHorus for his kind generosity .
We da lootas an freebootaz knicking stuff from shivs to shootaz
eyeing up da umies tanks, so we can kitbash dem urm... thanks
kannon, pulsas, burnas, cutters. We da tinka Gork Mek nuttaz
all da time we finding fings, and makes da stuff dat bruvvers bring
Uvver orks dey fink where barmy, why not WAAAGH along wiv army
jus get yer ed tested yer Brainz, but Mad Doc Grimsnik sez wer sane
dey dont want the fings we uze, instead dey all grogged up wiv booze
an even Warboss, he can't see, but grabs our goodies when ready!
So into Dakka we do ride, our paro nature makes us hide,
behind the blue stuff on our hedz, painted on wiv grotling legs
Ere we go the the end is near, Warboss has his BIG GUN Cheer
whilst umies run an cower in fear. Looted Rhino,... Death Skulls ere!
wait... take da shot, double one, oh dear.
I have also ordered some hunting dogs for the Riders de la Morte , from here http://www.grippingbeast.com/product.php?ItemID=289 they havent arrived yet , but i look forward to them giving me some fun with the Morte.
In other news i have been doing some over time in the research department and just wanted to share some inspiring links i found .
First off , Regular listeners will know that i am a bit of a Hayo Mayazaki nut and Sief and Valrick are certanly inspired by princess mononoke , well i was rather happy to find photos of the actual Ancient forest that inspired that movie , its on a protected japanese island of Yakushima i think this will be my insperation for the dark woods of Praxus too.
very cool links... it is rather depressing to see humans had to live that way...should give us all a humble feeling of gratitude as to where we currently live...and that we (the ones that can communicate via internet) have it good...way better than nay of those poor and misstreated souls that lived there...
that kowloon aka walled city gave me the willies...no escape and you have to claw yourself through gak and gravel and other bodies to make a living..or better a dieing...
did i get your fluff information right? 30 million living on praxus and 23 of those 30 live in praxus prime the capital city... so the rest of the population is spread rather loosely over the better part of the planet?...big citylife...in fact such a big city... they never sleep, as this city cant have enough bed for all...^^
by the way... needless to say that the artwork looks verrrry cool, totally official and also i like all those neat tine tie-ins to the rest of your fluff!
and i raise my shoota in RESPECT for da next grim dark cookie kronikles! been waitin`for ages, heck lifetimes for a new part of that saga!!!
cheers mate!
your fan vik
(and on a side note...a highly collectible screensaver by yours truly?hmmmm...but how could i benefit from that... i would never be able to read your posts again after i unplugged my mouse...)
Hey Vik , Yep rather depressing , but facinating too. apparenetly no natural light reached the floor, so you had to run miles of cables through the bottom layers , for electric light. The diogram of kowloon is fantastic imo , pure art , that i will no doubt rip off at some point . Glad you like the Hydra system picture mate, it took quite a while. But i have a newer addition of photoshop and illustrator , so i can be a bit more adventurous .. yippee!
GDCK , i actually was waiting for this mini to continue believe it or not , i had wrote him in to the script , so i had to wait ...
but now i can continue. and yes 23 million in praxus prime
The other continents are sparsley populated , it was one big farm really. its produce changed from grox herding to praxa flower cultivation.
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2011/05/25 22:38:31
Subject: Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
it is in the negative mostly that we get fascinated in...sometimes it is possible to have a positive fascination but mostly the other...
appernetly no natural light reached the floor, so you had to run miles of cables through the bottom layers
...those chineese we have much to learn from...if all else fails how not to do it in the real world...^^ on tabletop you could show us all you wanted... saw recently a female fox...^^ and i say we live in the post modern days so anything goes... for a given value of anything^^
is it worng to get a salivating feel for GDCKs....?^^ also i just realised that the GDCK abbreviation reminds me of the one of the DKoK...lol...
and good to hear you upgraded your graphic tools... this is a benefit for all your followers^^
I remember that poem! Thought it was really funny at the time, and I really liked that someone had set that competition up at all - such a unique task! Didn't realise it was yours though, good job
Inspirational links are inspirational. The walled city is amazing and terrifying at the same time - a monument to humanity's ability to adapt to anything, but also deeply tragic. I hate to think, for example, of your health after a few years with no Vit D at all, and all the crime...
Just a heads up - might be my comp, but I think the link for your second spoiler'd photo of the walled city is down.
Glad to see you're still making progress! And didn't mean for that post to sound all depressing - hive life is fun in fantasy, but reality brings a little too much darkness, y'know?
2011/05/25 23:31:48
Subject: Re:Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
No worries mate , i get it , i think my work takes me to bad places sometimes i actually failed to see the horror in that place ,just the amazing ability to survive and prosper. It didnt sadden me at all , just made me think wow ! What does that say about me Its probably because i came from a the idea of what would an actual hive be like , not what shall we pretend a hive is like. I have noticed in my work i take a more literal view of 40k , i think this is because i want to highlight the human side of things , this will enevitably take me to these places . But i hope i redeamed myself with GDCK , i did say that when ever i get too depressing withing this blog , these guys will show , up! looks like i was just in time
Automatically Appended Next Post: btw link is working for me at the moment ...thanks for the heads up though
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2011/05/25 23:41:59
Subject: Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
Oh no, no, I'm glad you posted the pics and info - they're fascinating! I think it's really interesting to show a human response to the darker side of 40k universe - so much of the official fluff GW puts out glosses over the deaths and suffering of billions in a sentence, I really think things like this bring hive life home. Great inspiration if you're working on a smaller scale, anyway! Sorry, internet has no capacity for converying tone...
And I'm sure not thinking of that kinda stuff just indicates an optimistic outlook, right? No worries!
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2011/05/26 00:04:43
Subject: Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
Me optomist! lol i shall tell Amber that one .;-) though to be truth full i think i wish to show the horror to show how we can overcome it, and survive, Though that in itslef is a tad gloomy. I do think of myself as an optomist in some ways , a truthfull optomist.maybe.....
tone lost on the internet ... Yes sarcasm and wit and apathy would be lost on robots too thats why we should never invent them !!muhahha
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2011/05/26 00:32:25
Subject: Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
Well, there are the spire hives that most are now familiar with thanks to GW's Grimdark imagery, but they also mention that when the planet makes those not possible(earthquakes and such) Spawl-hives would be built instead.
low lying, but spreading for miles, and then walls erected to protect them from enemies
Or Island using water as part of it's defense
But always, no matter how tall the buildings, they spread out like this
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Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2011/05/26 00:47:49
Subject: Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
I always like the idea of the water hives on sludge seas , and the fallen in hives like , but especially the skull , which had 3 mysterius holes through it. will post the fluff when i find it.
nice pics those shazo is the bottom one south africa? with table mountain in the background?
2011/05/26 00:52:36
Subject: Re:Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
almost choked with righteous fury... that was my line....creepy livemotto stealer! *shakes fist menacingly* ...er... after that tempertantrum i say gosh the fromer broken link to the forest/jungle pic...glorius contrast of mother nature to the hives...
seems when you say when you get too depressed and then the GDCK rise again inside you...seems like a good description of a split persona^^ and i know what i am talking of...er...who said that...*slaps his own cheek*...
at shasos pics...i am musing now what is worse... the skyskraping hives with no natural light as common shown in fluff or the spread for eternity hives...like in brasliia or in the townships... gosh we can all be more grateful to not having to struggle for a living there...
also this all hivetalk reminds me to this:
and this raises the question, who was first with the hiveidea? the dread megapolis or the 40k hive? dunno, someone?
i knew on a subconcious level that citadel did a preslotta judge dread range...but who invented the megapolis idea first? after all the comic was first then the minis...
really? where can i read about that? would be quite a good read i expect...as a google quick search revealed he is born in 1855, so quite a forward thinking mind he must have had...
Me niether , and yes it is, but i guess they are both fiction. Did you know they are in the process of filming a new judge dread ... urgh...
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/judge_dredd/ let it die !
i really loved 2000ad though a true visionary comic
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2011/05/26 10:16:34
Subject: Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
for some reason i picture the future not with megapolis or hives... rather small villages after an upcoming WWIII...back to basics in a bad case kind of way...
and yep, seems the old babel painting was a major influence in all those hive setups...
You asked about the story of my novel, it's quite generic sounding 40k stuff with some personal twists and no big battles. It began as the background for a warband I started for Inquisitor the game. They are basicly guardsmen, but a wild mix, no last chancers just survivors, who ever made it to the rescue pods is in. The emergency exit takes them to a closeby planet, they go down in the middle of nowhere and when they finally manage to get to a populated area they find out, that the authorities are not to be trusted, so there is nowhere to turn to. That's when the actual adventure begins, a bunch of very different personalities more or less united by a mutual cause, saving there asses, or maybe the planet.
Summing it up like that it sounds terrible, like a Gaunt's Ghosts ripoff, but I'm aiming for something completely different. It's not a group of hardened and disciplined veterans led by an inspiring officer in big battles. It's a group that consists of totally different characters, not all of them soldiers, not all of them human (ok, I can tell you it's an ogryn) and the most important thing is they don't have a true leader. There is a commissar who thinks he can pull the "do what I say, or else..." thing, but very quickly finds out, that without any backup, outside imperial hierarchy and surrounded by companions more terrifying than your actual foes, it's not a very good strategy.
One day, when I finish some of the miniatures I will start to put the story online. If you want to read it any earlier you'd have to have very good german language skills.
Visit my I-munda/Necromunda P&M Blog: Eye for Detail Visit my Infinity P&M Blog: Reckless Abandon Scarper: "That is incredibly detailed...shows an attention to detail that goes beyond anyone you'll fight."
The Good Green: "Ok, That is incredible. Such attention to detail... I'm convinced you would benefit from a straight jacket ;~P Thanks for raising the bar."
PDH: "Yeah Bloody Baiyuan's Bloody eye for detail . Bet he doesn't sig that one"
PDH: "I'm not saying anything that you might sig against me. Made that mistake before!"
PDH: "Thanks for joining Dakka and spoiling us with your work. "
2011/05/26 12:58:43
Subject: Neil101's 40k Manufactorum Update Praxus and cookies !
I asked Abi to give me a hand with the pliers but she told me in no uncertain terms that Neil really doesn't want my teeth and that she would kick my arse if I did remove any. I really love that girl. So mate you will just have to take this high praise, from a couple of days ago, as payment...
"Peter that's a nice picture on your desk top. What it is?" asked Abigail.
My enthusiastic reply was "Oh yeah it is cool! It was done by a guy on the Dakka....that's a chain sword lance."
Her disdainful response "Ugh Warhammer" with a roll of the eyes.
The high praise is that it is still on the desk top. She removes things she doesn't like...the hermaphrodite for example last all of 30 seconds.
The one thing I love (imagine an Ork heart Orkmoticon) about your blog is the fantastic research material. The walled city really is how I imagine an hive to be. So for my small contribution to Praxus and a thank you:
Some dreadfully small pictures of the URS building at The University of Reading
( 30 mins ago ) obviously not 30 mins ago if your reading this long after i posted 
)
That was all you at the back yaying 
.... Nah ! i think Chibi has it spot on. 
Royalties 
hand over yer teef ! Thanks Peter glad you like it mate. If you and Vik carry on i shall have to creat proper proportioned screen savers 
What was you novell about mate? maybe you could send me what you have ? i would enjoy reading no doubt . 
