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Turns out my floats are probably ABS, neither of my glues will touch the stuff ... super glue it is.

I think they'd look good painted blue with paint flaking off to reveal a rusty layer underneath, streaking down the sides. With white faded numbers and maybe an imperial eagle stencilled on.

@LT: cheers for stopping by, good to see you.

I posted up a pick of a few WIP genswick a little while ago, they are now nearly finished, I got started on them last weekend, and I'll have them done by the end of the day.


Thanks for stopping by,
OMN.

3 weeks absence, time for an army shot to take stock!

I decided to put some time in on getting an army shot of what the finished models in my Genswick army looks like so far, I feel that whilst the contents of the last 30 pages might vary wildly at times at least the bad pictures offer some continuity.

The infantry blob so far; it's nearly finished I've got two Cyclops controllers and four stormtroopers to make. As well as another 1-2 squads: assault engineers (when I stop blowing funds on other things and get my Vic lamb order in) and maybe a sharpshooter squad which I'd like to add. There are some spare grenade launchers and flamers on the side that I don't particularly want to make dedicated squads for too:


Support weapon teams:


The finished tanks:


Yes I'm still working on two more Ragnaroks, the destroyer-Ragnarok, the earth shaker + tow vehicle and a manticore, they are just going slowly I don't know how I'm going to make the destroyer's gun mount, idealy I'd like to make it swappable with a demolisher cannon, still a pile of my new bits will be finding homes adding detail to these tanks!

List looks something like as follows (using the 5ed codex):

Command squad: autocannon, MoO, Astropath

2*{ Commissar: bolt pistol, power weapon}
2*{ priest: shotgun}

Stormtrooper squad (6) plasmagun

2*{
Infantry platoon:
Command: 2* grenade launcher, bolt pistol
2*{ inf squad: flamer, power weapon}
2*{ inf squad: meltagun}
Lascannon HWS
Autocannon HWS
}
mortar HWS

3*{ Veteran squad: shotguns, 2* meltagun, heavy/flamer, demolitions}

3* cyclops demolition tanks

2* Heavy mortars
1* Quad mortar

2* chimera: multi laser, H.Flamer

2* Basilisk: H.Flamer

Devildog: Multi-melta

Medusa: siege shells, enclosed crew compartment

Ragnarok Eradicator: 3* H.Bolters, H.Stubber

Then there is also the 6 leman russ tanks I've got packed away somewhere...

Now on to stuff wot I've been doing recently:

More guns for my turret [Clockwise from top-left: Infurno cannon, melta cannon, multi-laser, long-barreled autocannon, lascannon mk2]:


Tank upgrades, I'm very happy with how these have turned out:


There are a few other bits not pictured that will surface at some other point as I flit between projects and try to resist making everything in CAD.

Back to the BBC Proms.

Thanks for looking at the pictures,
OMN.

All looking good - now, for pomp & circumstance

They all look amazing. Fantastic army shot. Turrets look very exciting, really like them.

As to your bits I can vouch for them being amazing, thank you for the prize package, some bits in use for this rounds efforts.

Great to see you about.

Damn that army is looking tops and love the tanks especially the off set turret chimera as for the turrets and weapon load choices I can confirm they are stunning pieces in the flesh

The tank conversion kits are FANTASTIC !!!!! to say the least well wroth the investment as is all the pieces in his current collection.

Hey Noodles , why so quiet ???

What you been up to lately ?

I've not really been doing much in the way of modelling, outside of modelling on my PC anyway.

Shapeways has another free post offer, this time on orders over $35 (pre-tax amount unfortunatly ...).
So I've been throwing together some bits 'n' bobs for that, re-worked the plasma cannon (with left and right handed versions...) added rifling to the cannons ( you'll have to search for the other variants). Other than that I've been slowly adding to some other projects like the Pholus [chrome spell-checker says "Pholus" should be spelt "phallus"] and more add-ons for that turret of mine.

There is also WIP of; 4 Genswick Stormtroopers to fill that unit of 6 to full strength along with the two Cyclops operators, strewn across my desk untouched for a while now. I'll get some pics up despite there being not much to show.

I've been meaning to do airbrush two of my emplacements, but I haven't had much drive to do so, or even finish the valk...

Thanks for your comments peeps, I do appreciate them, even if it does take me 3 weeks to say something.

OM (not doing very much) N

don't stop him creating Big H especially when it's cool stuff for me to use to convert my stuff with

That new plasma layout is looking pretty damn sweet indeed and the new cannons are a must for my tanks to be kitted out with.

Got a week off coming up so the big build is going to begin at long last

Pictures time!!

I briefly picked up my paintbrush to get started on the crew for the Vendetta since the interiour is going to take some work, also I've forgotten about adding the side gunners.


Here is as far as I've gotten on the 4 Gens storms and the Cyclops controllers, just putty work to do on these and equipment:


A bit more fun with some resin bits; adding more details for the Ragnarok { The brass mesh on the side is an 'Panniers' from secret weapon minitures. Also my second emplacement has a periscope on the top.



Two chaps from my bits box; left an officer maybe with a FW boltgun; right a tech servitor / junior enginseer or something like that. The cables are from a FW "MECHANICUM SCYLLAX GUARDIAN-AUTOMATA ", nice source of mechanicus bits them, that I picked up from an ebay bits store.


I'm thinking of adding some thing as an add on to the Genswick, something different that could fill a different role to the rest of the army, something that stands out. Maybe a super heavy, maybe a small number of Imperial Fists, no idea what though, any Ideas?

Shapeways has free post on any order till the end of Monday 31st EST. I had a go at making a human sizetorso in a flak jacket, I hope I've got the dimentions & proportions right I threw one into my order so hopefully it'll be OK when I have it in my hands.

Thanks all.
OMN.

The Grenswick are coming along great dude.

As for something different, go marines but have a go at true/tall scale.

Maybe a deathwatch kill team as a spec ops unit?

Got a little airbrushing done on 2 emplacements. This is the undercoat that I'm aiming to apply a chipping medium or liquid mask fluid to expose as much of the under layer as I want then airbrush them Genswick [Russian] Green. The weapons will be painted to match the rest of the turret

First with Mk1 laser cannon


Second with Mk2 laser cannon, search light and commanders perescope. This second one I'm hoping to paint off as a show piece to display some of the other weapons when I remember to clean them up to paint..


As for other projects ... I'll probably just get on with trying to finish some of the other projects that I've started and put on hold, I could do a small marine force however, some counts-as scouts with a LS storm and a predator backed by some DS terminator goodness, maybe, as much as I'd like to do some HH stuff...

Also I keep forgetting to mention; I have 3 of these tank hulls (pictured below) which are surpluss to requirements, I have 5 but after cutting back on some projects I only need 2. They are assembled and glued together, generally as you see the one below but with the exception that I have removed the thin piece that runs perpendicular all the way down the side of the track sections, this is because it is fragile and prone to damage, there is also some deformities made to the hull from making the molds (since the hull was not made to be molded basically), if anyone is interested i'll take some pics for them.


@Joe: Cheers for the input, I had thought about trying true scale the only issue I have is that there are so many different ways of making them and I have no idea which method would be the best for me to do. Easiest for a spec-ops unit would be to pick up a pack of anvil industries' not-marines, since all their stuff seems very cool.

Still forgot to make those valk side gunners....

OMN

Hey there Noodles - those emplacements are looking lovely. The weathering is excellent, really nicely done. Sponge method?

Are you looking to sell the hulls. I'd be interested.

Nice work on the cockpit.
Turret work looking excellent.
Like the guys they look great for bits box boys.

I think I would go with something older looking for the marine angle.

Cam has swooped in!

My radio, well, I am debating what color to make the body. My thread has the choices I was looking to do. My room mates when asked went with 2-3 of the sporty colors

Cheers all.

Yep Januine, just sponge weathering so far.

@Cam: Yea the tank hulls are for sale, I'll get some pics of them for you.

@Shas: I should have given you more than one shouldn't I. Whilst they were designed for the "sporty" colours that your room mates went with, I like the idea of the wooden ones, might have to try that myself.

OMN

 OneManNoodles wrote:

@Shas: I should have given you more than one shouldn't I. Whilst they were designed for the "sporty" colours that your room mates went with, I like the idea of the wooden ones, might have to try that myself.

OMN

Yeah, Had I known such inspiration would strike!

Dude , love the turrets and Ragnarock ! Really good looking pieces , if I can get little H off of WHFB and back to 40k I'd be up for some !

Ref. Truescale marines. I saw a guy on dakka making some awesome Truescale simply by using forge world tartaros termie legs and marine / terminator bodies, I was thinking of doing some plague marines in that style.
Anvil look super cool as well and you can easily stretch them out by adding a plasticard spacer at the waist and maybe the legs too if you can be bothered.

Keep it up matey, no one is making bits like you ! You need a kickstarter project !

So I put some masking fluid on one of the turrets, then sprayed it green here's what it looks like before the mask was removed:

After:


It does want a bit of touching up and filling some of the beige up, because its hard to be exact with the masking fluid even more so when you are painting it on with a cocktail stick. Also I should have tried harder to get more small bits of the undercoat showing through to reflect more smaller chips.
Then I'll have to add some bare metal to some of the more worn areas before varnish sealing for decals and oil wash / streaking.

@BigH: Cheers mate. Dakka member MonkeyBallistic makes some awesome truesacale mk3 marines using the FW cataphractii legs, thing is that's a bit over my hobby budget atm I'd rather just add a unit of tartaros terminators a unit of breacher marines (both are amongst my favourite marine models around ATM).

I'll have to pick up some yellows to airbrush with, I did have a shopping list around here somewhere...

OMN.

Ooh. Very effective. Highly crusty!

nice stuff man. hairspray technique may work really well fro you on these fellas

Nice weathering!

Pretty effective chipping.
Once tied in to the rest of the emplacement with some more weathering, it should be great.

Nice effect plenty of scratches and scrapes although I really liked it in the desert tan finish myself

Solid weathering on the emplacement!

Very Effective! & Inspiring as always! Those emplacements are brilliant!

Those turrets are looking good ! Get the oils on !

First turret oiled up.


I filled in some of the chips so there wasn't quite as much of the bright undercoat showing, along with some fresher deep scratches. It's still glossy as I've not yet been able to seal and matt after the oil layer.
Should probably get started on number 2.
Lascannon Barrel might need a bit more work.

Then I can get to work on the base, I've got some stick-on tufts of grass to use, but I'd like to go for a more earthy-sandy base colour, for some reason I don't think the urban rubble look that I've been using for my infantry's bases would look quite up to scratch. Also an excuse to use more powders!

Thanks for all your comments
OMN.

Looking spectacular! It'll be great once it's a tad less shiny!

Turned out another master piece I hope I can do mine justice, the run lines look spot on great effect achieved and once it's had a matt varnish should look perfect.

The only thing it's lacking is a welcome mat though

The best thing about using oils to do streaking is that when you mess some thing up, it's not set in stone as it were, you can go back and remove or add more as you see fit.

I might write "get off my lawn" onto the second one since it's going to have a big ass flamethrower on it