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This how every army should be. so filled with fluff, creativity, and awesome modeling. Glad your back!

@Monkeytroll - Thank you!

@dsteingass - Cheers, man! Really glad you like him. Not 100% I've got the skills to make eyeglasses in 28mm scale though - might have a bash on a different model though, it's a challenge now!

@MauS - Haha, yeah, I know what you mean! The hard work is done now though, just the wreckage of a convoy to hunt through, and that's someone else's job
Not 100% what seven-dwarf prey means, but thanks for the kind words!

@Rogue wolves & Cap'n R - Lol, nice idea! Might have a play round with that and see what I can do. Don't think Branan would get much of a look in on their booze supplies though...

@Ragsta - It is nice, isn't it? Someone really awesome must have given it to me... (thanks again!). Cheers for the tip on the pen - I was thinking something like a dark green, nothing you could mistake for a smoke.

@Lonedrow - Thanks so much, man, that's really kind to say. Glad you like it!

Today's update, rather than some painting (sorry!) is another new ganger. This is Colm, one of the heavies. He's the son of factory workers killed during the rebellion, leaving him homeless. Living rough in Ruckarnlan, he developed a tendency for firestarting. Wracked with guilt after accidentally killing a refugee family in a building he believed to be empty, Colm handed himself to the authorities for punishment. Assigned to a penal legion, the impulses that Colm had wanted to supress were actively encouraged, and he served for many years as a specialist. After the evac, the survivors of Colm's unit carved out a place for themselves in the Skew Spire, before eventually following a vox transmission to Quadring. I'll write up some proper fluff for him eventually, but that'll cover basics for now!

Hope you like him, and please let me know what you reckon.





And of course, I can't leave you teaser-free, so here's a very early WiP on a different ganger's base.


Enjoy!




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Oooh, and I meant to ask -

Does anyone know of a model or part featuring a skinny male shirtless torso? Doesn't have to be GW or anything - I just need a bare chest part that isn't the kind of roid-rage catachan / marauder style. Would be majorly grateful if anyone could help me out!

Yeah, liking Colm

Flamer's nice, gs on the tunic is good - did you sculpt the hand pouring the bottle?

Nice books too!

Ah, so now you're using the high land guard heads from Victoria Lamb, I like that. I bought a set of those too and there are some nice looking ones, but I hadn't had the balls/chance to use one yet, I'm still not sure about the egg-like shape of the heads.

Good new stuff, but I didn't expect anything else from you mate!

Dude, that's awesome!

Goliath juves are very skinny - but you would have to file off all the bondage gear!

This is some really cool stuff mate!

^ you could also look at a bit of sculpting on a zombie like torso.

and i love this guy, how did you make that flamer?

Hey all! Thanks a ton for the comments - will try to reply properly this eve or tomorrow. I'm off to a peripheral attachment in an hour or so, and won't get a chance to do anything til the weekend, so to tide you over, here's a group shot so far



Obviously, feel free to click the image for a bit of a scope.

From left to right: The Warden, Raston, Lodge, Colm, Sidekick, Tollen (currently just a pair of legs and some books!), Branon / Tracker, Caleb / Latchkey, Magpie.

Hope you enjoy!Please let me know what you think, and I'll get back to all the kind people who commented tonight. Thanks again!

Skinny torso... hrm... You could try to use an eldar torso and buff the wais with a bit of GS. Thats what I'd do. Another possibility is coating a standard roid-rage torso with liquid GS to fill out the distinctive muscle lines. That way you can make it less buff, but i'd would still be a barrle chest
Why not go for a beerbelly??

When do you need that torso? I could always see if I can cook something up for you...

man scarp, you really want me to have a heart attack dont you! im sure you already forgotten which models are my favorite of yours... anyway a much needed team shot, and i will be sure to stare at them for a few more hours before i blink a few times.. then stare some more

Great group shot , the latest guy is superb , what is the water bottle top from ?

Thanks for the group shot! The attention to detail in your conversions is excellent.

Thanks for all the comments, guys!

@Monkeytroll - Thank you! And no, only bits of it. You've actually seen it before - it belonged to twitch before he caught a hand wound and landed a bionic. Maybe one of the docs in the Spire isn't as reputable with spare parts as he makes himself out to be

@Baiyuan - I had similar reservations as well. They're a little strange, like someone's left them out in the sun and they've melted a little. I think they'll be fine with some careful selection of which model to use them with, but I was kind of disappointed. They've got such great potential, it just seems a shame for them to be limited!Cheers for the kind words, and I'd be really interested to see what you do with them! Hope you get a bit more hobbying time - sounds like you've been rushed off your feet lately!

@dsteingass - Thanks, man!

@Weety - It is a little... unsavoury, isn't it? Thanks a ton for the tip though - I'm bidding on one on eBay right now, so hopefully I'll get a chance to test it out.

@Capitansolstice - Thanks a bunch, glad you're enjoying!

@Rogue - Good idea, I'll have to try it out. The flamer's not too complicated, really: It's one of the DKoK ones from FW with a few modifications. I cut down the barrels, flipped the nozzle, cut away a lot of the trigger mechanism, used a cadian knife handle as a new grip where the fuel intake usually goes, along with a cut down cadian special weapon hand, then sculpted a new fuel intake on the back, and finally sculpted a strap. It sounds kinda complicated when you write it down like that, but it's really easy to do, honest!
I do know you've got a bit of a soft spot for the QA, I was actually posting cause you asked for a group shot a fair few pages back! Thanks so much for the kind words though - it's a massive motivator.

@MauS - Hmmm, the eldar one could work, I think. I'll see if I can score a part off a friend who collects, just to try and dry fit, at least. The catachan chest I think would be even more bulked up if you got rid of the muscle definition - they'd have a chest like a gorilla! Well, even more like a gorilla I guess. Thanks a lot for the tips though, I'll try em out

@Neil - Thanks a lot, that's really kind to say! The bottle is mostly grey stuff, with the fuel nozzle off a spare bottle from the DKoK flamethrower. Wish I could say it's some ingenious kitbash, but this is pretty much it's intended use

@Skalk - Thanks a bunch, Skalk! With the 1 a year rate I seem to put things out, I really have time for it

In case anyone was planning a holiday, I would recommend ruling out Kirkcauldy - there is arse all to do here! Hannah and I have managed to catch completely opposite shifts (I'm on 12h nights, she's on 12h days - D'oh!), and I'm considering bringing my sculpting stuff along next week just to kill time til my shifts start Still - hopefully I'll get a chance to update this weekend, once I'm done essay-writing. Wish me luck!

Very nice stuff indeed.

see, now with the QA, i couldnt tell you who my favorite is, i just love em alot! although i might have to say the warden, only because he was the first, and i remember him from a while ago!

@Galorn - Thank you!

@Rogue - Ah, that was what I thought. I'll have to see if I can get him a cameo in more shots!

Not much of an update today, weekend turned out to be a lot busier than I planned :( Still, here's what I've got:


Very early WiP of Caleb / Latchkey. The sign will be different (it's an entry point for a QA protectorate, and the reason they were raiding a caravan in the first place), this one's just a placeholder. He's mostly blu-tack at the moment, but hopefully you'll get an idea of the body language - I was going for pain. His left arm will be clutching his abdomen. In the QA's very first outing on the tabletop, Caleb was doing ace for a juve before he caught a wrench to the gut and went out of action. He made a 'full recovery', but I thought even the QA wouldn't make someone in such a condition join in the post-fight mop up I also thought the furrowed brow on the head I used would be excellent for conveying pain, I haven't seen it done very often in models before, and I wanted to do some vaguely tricky posing that I haven't attempted before. Hope you like him!

Remember this?

I've been playing a few more 40k games than usual, and I could really use some transport for my boys - footslogger guard tend to get minced. BUT I don't think chimeras fit the remnant feel at all, so I figured it's time to get a few more trucks on the go! Ideally I'll get some work done on this, then paint it at the same time as the Jackal truck. Maybe some day!

Only fair to say, I stole this design so far pretty much verbatim from the trucks on the front page of gorgon's awesome blog. There's a lot of really cool vehicle modding in there, so go have a look!

Finally, a little progress on Raston's base. Not my best work, but a quick paint job, and I'm happy with it for a base.


Hope you like, and please please please let me know what you think. Would love any advice, tips or comments, good or bad, so be as mean as you like. More to come soon!

that is a very natural pose on the sign man, i love him

"I used to be a juve like you, but then I took a wrench to the gut"

welp scarp, looks like im going to have to scower through ALL of your writings, my Black Crusade groups dm is rewarding XP this week for nicely written backrounds..

Scarper wrote:

Very early WiP of Caleb / Latchkey. The sign will be different (it's an entry point for a QA protectorate, and the reason they were raiding a caravan in the first place), this one's just a placeholder. He's mostly blu-tack at the moment, but hopefully you'll get an idea of the body language - I was going for pain. His left arm will be clutching his abdomen. In the QA's very first outing on the tabletop, Caleb was doing ace for a juve before he caught a wrench to the gut and went out of action. He made a 'full recovery', but I thought even the QA wouldn't make someone in such a condition join in the post-fight mop up I also thought the furrowed brow on the head I used would be excellent for conveying pain, I haven't seen it done very often in models before, and I wanted to do some vaguely tricky posing that I haven't attempted before. Hope you like him!

Great start! You're amassing a very characterful unit there, Scarp! Hmm, right hand on the sign, left hand holding his stomach. Will he have some weaponry?

Scarper wrote:I've been playing a few more 40k games than usual, and I could really use some transport for my boys - footslogger guard tend to get minced. BUT I don't think chimeras fit the remnant feel at all, so I figured it's time to get a few more trucks on the go!

So the remnant are being fielded as a guard army? I must have missed that somewhere...

Beautiful work again, your minis have soul , i have been playing rage , just completed it , and all the way through i kept thinking this is the QA lol i expected to see your characters around every corner. Keep it up , so inspiring .





http://uk.ign.com/images/games/rage-xbox-360-926417/3499826
http://vg-resource.com/?p=1185

Also thought you might like these 40k rogue trader Apoc style pics , if you havent seen them already.

Very nice Scarp, liking where you're going with this guy.

Out of interest where did you source that sign?

Like the new truck - unsure if it wants orky wheels or something closer to those on your other truck. All good either way I guess

The sign looks like the ones the guys from Pinselknecht Productions sell:
http://www.pk-pro.de/index.php?page=categorie&cat=17&x61bfa=86e68f5c17295d9be0242f952646ac13

@Neil: Are those RT pics from the RT rulebook?

Hmm, some interesting stuff there Baiyuan, thanks for the link.

And yes, those are from a little fluff section on Logan's World (back when the Eye of Terror 'blinked' every ten years to allow Imperial access to The Lost Worlds) in the RT book.

That sign is wicked! Where did you get it? Is it from model train accessorizes? I want some!

Hey all! Thanks so much for all the responses! I don't really have time to respond right now, but I promise I will when I get a chance tomorrow. They are really appreciated!

Wasn't actually planning an update today, but a bit of a bug made me cancel my plans, so I had more time than I was expecting. Nothing too exciting, and not particularly well done, but a couple of NPC-type models I just knocked together. They'll be arbitrator-controlled in scenarios, that kind of thing. Really simple conversions - one's based off a Valhallan, the other is half an empire archer with some Cadian and FW parts.

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I also made some progress with basic shapes for the truck! Hoping to pick up some of that new liquid green stuff for gap filling.


Apologies for the small update, but it's been busy at this end. Thanks so much again for all the comments - will reply tomorrow! Have a good weekend

i really like the look of your cadian/archer guy

Thanks Rogue!

Ok, so I promised replies yesterday, but this weekend has turned out to be incredibly busy, for good reasons and bad, so sorry about that! Hope this picture of a terrain piece I'm almost done with makes up for the tardiness




(Morrigan was displeased about modelling)

I've also got some better pics of the quick NPCs from the last update, as the last ones were pretty awful. Hope you like them, and please let me know what you reckon!



@Rogue - Thanks for the compliment! Feel free to borrow whatever you like from the stories, my ideas are hardly the most original anyway I'd love to see anything you come up with though!

@prototype_x - I SO nearly made that joke, but I've seen a fair few blogs do it already. Totally made me laugh when I read it though.

@Rawson - Thanks a ton, man! That's really kind to say. He's got a big rucksack on that you can't see in that particular shot, and a knife/hopefully power knife eventually is hanging off the side of it. He's pretty underequipped though - two knives and nothing else til he makes ganger!
I'm a necro player through and through, but not many of my mates play. The Remnants (the guys protecting Pinepoint, with ex-PDF gear and rudimentary training) sometimes see an outing as a small guard army, and I've got quite a few of my early models from a couple of years ago who come out to play. I try to keep it in character with the Caitiff story, and they've got no heavy armour and few heavy weapons, but I'm not a big fan of the large scale stuff.
The Jackal cells / QA group are my main focus, and I'll just post a few guard things if I happen to be especially proud of something

@Neil - You have a serious talent for saying things that make me smile for ages. Thank you so much!
I've been wanting to play RAGE for aaaaages - I'm trying to resist it because it's exactly the kind of game I always get sucked into and spend hours and hours on, and I do NOT have time for that and my work right now. You're not helping me stay strong!
Thanks a ton for the RT pics too - I'm not too experience with some of the older GW art, but I think I prefer it to the modern stuff. It's pretty silly and a little rough around the edges, but it's got so much more character than the stuff you get in codexes and the like today. I can easily imagine exactly how that merc would act, for example, which I think is pretty amazing. Thanks a bunch!

@monkeytroll / Skalk - Thanks! I'd love to use some of the other truck wheels, but I'm actually out of them. I'll try and de-orkify these ones a little, but I think for a well-loved and used wasteland truck, the armour plated ones aren't that far off I think Baiyuan might be right for the original source of the signs, but I got 'em here, from hasslefree's etched brass architectural section. Tons of cool stuff in there, take a look!

Sorry for the delay on replies, hope you like the meagre amount of new stuff

terrain looks cool man, nice little detals.. and where did you get the face on the rightmost npc?