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Did you make that Space Pup? He's pretty funny. Other stuff looks great, as we expect on a regular basis.

Lol no I wish, its a cute little thing I found, made by these guys, here is a link to their newsandrumours thread:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/441038.page

Those are great! any plans for the others?

Great conversions Jpaint! They have so much character. Would be cool to see a whole army of them

Wow the Inquisitor model is looking amazing so far.

That chibbi primarch is so cute! I must have them all lol.

All the new additions are great, and the fact you're getting into =][= 28 is just exciting, lots more awesome conversions and painting from you can only be a good thing!

One thing I'm not sold on though is having the DE scourge head exactly the same on the ranger and the IG. in isolation each of them looks great, but if they are together it seems a bit weird that the IG grunts have helmets as good as the elite ranger sniper, or the ranger has a helmet as terrible as those issued to the grunts. . .if I made that clear at all.

Man, inquisitor is looking awesome. I downloaded the inquisitor supplement myself the other day and it is a fascinating part of 40k. I'm not really clear on what inquisitor 28 is though? Is it a separate game? Different sized models? Please forgive my ignorance...

As for the eldar link, seems like a pretty cool idea to me


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Oh, and the space puppy is hilarious!

Great stuff, love it all!

The WIP Inquisitory stuff looks awesome, and I love the idea of an ordo Xenos inq working with the Harlequins. Very unique, I look forward to where this project is going.

Those juices are not flowing dude!! .............. they're practically Gushing! and we all now Gushing is better than just juicy right? you best be careful your juicy gushingness doesn't flood your models off your table! because they all look wickedly cool and very individual and creative! I love them so far man! :-)


.... now back to my corner of the web!

@Whalemusic - not personally, but i may be tempted at some point in the distant future! they are damn cute!

@Bepob - alas as with allthe things I do, i only wish I had the time.,#

@Giraffe - Thanks man ! yeah i'm excited to see if it meets the picture I have in my head

@Sheep - As per usual Sheep your perceptive comments are most welcome and reflect exactly my current worries! I agree that unfrotunately the eldar rangers are going to need a different design if they are going to be remotely involved with the guard, back to the drawing board!

@San - Sorry San, this reply might have been interesting a month ago but seems a bit like picking up a dead conversation so I am sorry, but as far as I know Inquisitor 28 is used to refer to a variety of things, either small games of 40k using just an inquisitor and his retinue or using the proper inquisitor rules but just using 28mm models instead, I'm mostly just using it as a modeling excuse for the time being and will also be trying to stick to the restrictions ni the recent inquisitor codex, just to keep it usable if possible!

@ghost - Thanks!

@Paradigm - Yay! thanks, i thought it would be a relatively unexplored avenue in terms of modelling, might be fun!

nerd - Oh nerdy nerdy nerdy...what will we do with you!



So I have failed to do barely anythign since my last update guys....i apologise, i really do, but my enthusiasm has dried up with the onset of illness, the stress of christmas and being away from the bulk of my modelling stuff, but hopefully i will be able to get a little bit done in this limbo period before the hideous work recommences...sigh.....

First thnigs first though, i got the single coolest 40k related present ever from my sister this christmas, CHECK IT OUT!!!: If anyone is really interewsted i'll try and get some more pics when the lighting is a bit better




As for the modelling side, this is just a flying visit so i'll drop my current WIPS here, with no explanation, (I know, i'm terrible!) and flee, I will return later, but for now I'm going to make the most of a brief hobby window!

"Don't mind me, just going to put a mauled IG officer, some witch and ranger conversions with no explanation and be on my way".

Jerk.

Hahah! of course whale you deserve an explanation really, well the mauled guy is a WIP statue, as either an objective marker or something similar, I'm messing around with GWs new cracking paint to get a cracked stone effect that I will then repaint in grey (Y) Hopefully will look quite cool!

The middle two women are my WIP eldar harlequins, I wanted them to be seriously dynamic! and the new witch elves look like just the base kit to make that happen! the one with the hair flowing behind her though I'm a bit unsure about, it somehow completely changes the look of the model.

As for the ranger conversion, that is my WIP ordo xenos inquisitor who is buddies with the harlequins, I still havn't finished the green stuff on her yet, but id say the basic structure is all there now, just needs detailing, pretty pleased so far!

They all look really great, the first harlequin is my favourite, shes very dynamic and has everything flowing in the right direction.

Yaaaaaaaay!

Great WIP ! The GS job, especially on the Harlequins, is pretty awesome...

Planning on a whole squad ?

Nice WIPs, still very interested to follow this project.

That painting is just awesome, very much in line with the aesthetic and nicely composed. I'd love to see more pics (pictures of a picture!?). What medium is it done in?

Is that cracked effect on the stone just from the GW paint, or part sculpted?

Keep it up.

Wonderful work J-paint. Those conversions/GS'd minis are just fantastic!

Even without paint they are shaping up like fantastic models J! I can even see some Elysian Drop troop legs hiding there lol! :-)

@giraffe - Thanks giraffe, the second harlequin is proving a bit more difficult to look dynamic enough, its a bit of an annoying pose with the arm above the head. We will see, i may have to bend her arm a bit,

@STC - Its not much yet!

@Yggdrasil - I was/am, but its quickly becoming my nemesis, I forgot why i gave up on my last harelquin project, i LOVE the concept to bits but I struggle to put that in miniature from that I am happy with, in both a modeeling perspective and painting, the bright colours make it far too easy to make it look goofy, and the checks make it the most time consuming thing ever!

@Paradigm - Thanks paradigm, your the only one who picked up on the picture, tommorrow I will take some better pictures for you, its an oil painting on canvas, hopefully will be a bit clearer with better pics! As for the stone, it is literally just the new paint, really cool stuff!

@Gits - The GS is actually not as good as i thought, having undercoated it! can still see where it ends, and i thought I had been soooooo careful damn it!

@Nerd - You can indeed you living saint! I was struggling to make it look like my inquisitor wasn't wearing a dress, when i spied your little bag of elysian goodies and i thought.....ah yes! Nerd has done it again! talking of which, your overly generous commissar came through this week! I am truly incredibly grateful, and as such i will lop of his head asap and put him to good use

Nothing new today guys, feeling rather ill, and have spent the majority of the last two days copying this fellow: I put down some block colour on the first harlequin but tbh i'm pretty unhappy with the results, but i'll put them up for you tomorrow.

Excellent! I couldn't hope for a better end to the Commi! having his head lopped off and used by you (not like that!) is truly wonderful :-)

lol! It is not the most fitting end for a honoured hero of the imperium, but he will be reincarnated, unless i get distracted.....which is not impossible.

If you happen to get distrac.....

Nerd - lol! exactly!

Well as promised for paradigm i took a few more snaps of my picture which i'd like to share, think they do it alot more justice.

The whole thing, any gallery votes please go here:



And a few more close ups of a few of the best elements:







Now I have no picture of the harlequin i promised, but i have finished up the imperial statue, i for one am really really impressed with the results of the new cracking paint, what do you all think? (also tried to do a clever all in one image, only took me half an hour, damn technology! ) Sorry, the second to the left is a bit out of focus on reflection,..but what the hell!



Finally a tiny bit more work on the inquisitor, getting really excited about this one, is fitting the picture in my head pretty well so far!

Awesome, those pics really do show that painting to be great. Truly a cool thing to have on display.

I'm amazed at the effect you got from the stone paint, that really is remarkable. I may have to pick up some of these new-fangled technical paints, as I've seen several people to great things with them.

That inquisitor is shaping up to be very impressive, and certainly unique.

Well, the cracks in the stone looks quite realistic, not to mention the moss you added.... That's a win for me !

Good progress on the =I=...

that statue is amazing mate. i didn't even know there was new cracking paint! great use for that figure and i agree with Yggdrasil - the moss is what "makes" it.

the picture looks great. is it a print or did your sister paint it?

Holy Crap. Another Thread i seemed to have missed. Lots of great inspiration for my Mechanicus log. Really Thankful you have a picture of the Ramshackle stuff next to a 40k mini. Was going to purchase a few but now thinking the scale is too large.

@Paradigm - They really are worth it, pick them up!

@Yggdrasil - Thanks A bit of moss always helps stuff look old.

@San - The Pic was actually all painted/designed by my sister, (jesus, you asked about that 3 months back, apologies blackadder!)

@Physh - It is a little large for most stuff, but they have some smaller stuff too, its good if your after cheap and cheerful, but it doesn't match GW for wuality of clean-ness imo.



Oh wow, has it really been 3 months since I last posted here, well I did warn you all this damn phd stuff was going to devour my time, but now I am a bit more settled I'm hoping to strike up a bit more of a healthy balance!

So I must say that what with work and real life in general I have been generally unable to get much into much hobbying lately, but myself and Bubble attended the forge world open day and I have to say it was fantastic, really boosted my enthusiasm for all things 40...and 30K.

As if that wasn't enough the new guard codex has also invigorated me to pick up my brush and sculpty stick and dive in.

So there isn't a great deal to show at the moment but I have ordered the new scions and have made a mock up of what I want to do with them, my obsession with tinkering means i couldn't possibly use them as they are, even though they are fantastic, but here is my current plan for them, you'll have to excuse the odd colour filter I choose in a dreamy state



Now I (wierdly for me) have not lost enthusiasm for my previous obsession, my inquisitor who is slowly but surely getting paint slapped all over her, here is her current state:


Now I figures seeing as how as she is from the ordo Xenos she could have some really exotic companions, (one of the main reasons i wanted to make her in the first place) And inspired by the insects and syther from pokemon, remember him?! I came up with this guy, who I have to say kinda freaks me out!




He's bloody massive!!





Which leads me on to the thunderbolt pilot above who is still PIP, but I was really happy to pick up, as I really wanted the model ever since I first saw it.


Now other than that I have a few more guard (I refuse to call them astra militarum....I feel like a child, but I'm still bitter) PIPs: A few more crows and a vostroyan who i thought looked really cool:






Also I briefly got inspired to make guard with roman velites style wolf headdresses, but i cant work out how to make the back look less goofy so I have give up for now:



Finally as I said I went to the forge world open day, and even though I was sooooo restrained I still came away with an iron hands mug and some thallax guys......Tbh this is originally a mechanicum thread so it's only fair!

Now I have no problem with the normal heads btw, but i don't actually seem to be able to stop myself changing stuff! at least it's only the head!



Incidently I had no idea these guys were so frigging huge!!!




Now finally finally, I wanted to mention that I have finally relented and bought an airbrush! I'm absolutely terrified of it though, can't wait to try it! Hoping to give it a go over my 4 whole days off for easter!!!





.....And finally finally finally I totally forgot at the time to put up a picture of my trophy from nerdfest's painting comp, so here it is, in all it's glory, it now sits in pride of place on my modelling shelf, thank you Nerd!!!

That's quite the update. I love the head swap on the Thallax and the Inquisitorial companion. I can picture the Inquisitor saying "I choose you, Scyther!"