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I was wanting to do ball joints on the robots shoulder and hips to make him more flexible.

Dave, now I have to order a disco ball for the after hours janitor party.

Edit: size comparison for Killbot Alpha


Edit2:
Servo skull army begins. Shall I use codex:marines? Or any other suggestions out there?

Side view

The Bolter may have recoil issues How strong are the anti-gravity motors on those things anyways?

Ha Ha. Nice. You should do one literally dragging an ambitiously huge gun...

 dsteingass wrote:
The Bolter may have recoil issues How strong are the anti-gravity motors on those things anyways?

Come on Dave, your bringing reality into the mix when talking about a flying skull and a gun that fires five round bursts of .75" ammo which could only hold maybe ten bullets in the clip?

Well to get around it the servo skulls are "enhanced with extra suspensors to assist in helping to carry heavy weights "

I don't think there will be an actual army of them, although I have an offer for 50+ of the skulls from someone, this was just trying to branch out from the janitorial staff. The other idea might be to use these guard version skulls and desecrate some marines. I'm thinking of hollowing out the
marine armor and running guitar wire through the armor joints with the flexible sections removed to show the wiring. The story could be something close to. World with a limited marine presence is taken over by a rogue adeptus mechanicus techpriest. He kills the marines to try and keep his projects under wraps, and his servo skulls abscond with the armor and weapons to help defend him from the coming reprisal force. I kind of like the idea as I always wanted to do an iron hands army and have lots of bits hanging around for them.

@Dr. H, servo skull with thunder fire cannon? I may have to consider that.

Played around with one servo skull. May I present the first iron skull marine. An offshoot of the iron hands, the iron skulls continue with the cybernetic replacements, but continue to replace parts over time. As they continue their cybernetic e elocution they have learned an art of transferring their minds into the servo skulls that are common in the imperium. The skulls are able to attach and separate easily from the bodies which have become permanently fused with their armor. This separation allows the marine to escape even the worst battle damage and become joined to a new body allowing for greatly reduced attrition levels in the chapter.

The ships of the iron skulls are unlike any other imperial vessels. Though they house astartes troop bodies, they are unusually small. This is due to the skulls ability to remove themselves from the host body and travel the ship freely. The corridors are cramped in comparison, with many access points blocked to only allow the passageway of servo skulls.

More possibly later. Waiting on supply drops for the necromunda bloodbowl board.
Inspiration


Here is the first iron skull.





Unsure of color choice for this guy, as if I'm ever going to paint .

I like the look of the neck tubes!

Thanks dave they are mechandrites that the iron skull uses to manipulate the armor. Lots of artwork today. Probably wont get back to the project, but I did get a supply drop today of basic servo skulls(16) have arrive. Might do a picture later, but I'm chilling right now after mowing the lawn, weeding the garden, cleaning the house, fixing five sections of fencing, doing laundry, and a partridge in a pear tree.

Hopefully I get back to terrain next week, the order I placed will improve my work considerably, and has been on hold for a while. Called the vendor and it is being pulled today, should have by weds.

Reminds me must send galorn an order, and zinge, possibly madrobotminiatures as well .

I love the idea of the Servo Marines!

Quite like that Servo-Marine.
You could paint them as if all the armour panels were collected from many different chapters...although that would be very difficult to make look good...OR do that but make it look like they were re-painted either badly or chipping off to reveal the original colour...again may just look a mess.

As they are a servo-skull janitorial army, you could do them all really really cleanly painted as if they get touched up all the time...OR do them as if they've been stripped back to the bare metal/ceramite/plasti-metal-polymer-stuff that they are made of...

I've been accidentally collecting new 1:18 Cobra Troopers almost at the rate you're collecting servo skulls lately!

'accidentally'

Mechanical voice: "Workers assemble. Worker absentees have been duly noted and further absenteeism shall be disciplined. Remember, be productive, be dutiful."

Was playing Space Marine again while off internet access.

 Briancj wrote:
'accidentally'

They "accidentally" released a "Dollar General" line, there are like 16 of those stores around here
Then I "accidentally" found out about the 3 3/4" Adventure Team figs and got them, and now my x-acto is drooling to customize vehicles...I think I've "accidentally" found a new rabbit hole

There's a Dollar general within walking distance of my house. Guess where I'll be in the morning thanks for the tip Dave. Just back from the final vbs for the week for our kids and hung up my Father's Day present. The wife bought me a solid brass bell to mount outside and ring to call the kids in from playing in the neighborhood. It's about 10" tall and even a light swing on the clanger draws the neighbors out of their house.

I want to engrave papa nurgle into it, but the wife says


We had a huge bell in our yard growing up, and I has moved with my parents the last two houses. The thing is about 24" wide t the base and the envy of a few churches. You can hear it ringing over the traffic a half mile away. Lots of crazy memories with the bell. My nurgle team is even called the bell ringers, with the mordheim town cryer as the coach quite possibly the coolest metal figure ever made by GW.

@Dr. H, great ideas , maybe I'll have them wear orange jumpsuits/armor with yellow hands to simulate the rubber gloves. The iron skulls....."Cleaning up the galaxy one filthy xeno scum at a time!"

Next Week, Theo Scratchbuilds a USS FLAGG!


I could so do that....

 dsteingass wrote:
Next Week, Theo Scratchbuilds a USS FLAGG!


I could so do that....

Holy Dave, did you build that? if I built that I'd be broke. Because I'd have to get back into gijoe hardcore making my marine chapter look like a garage sale pick up bin.

Haha..NO, but I could start it all too easily

Except I'd NEVER buy white carpet like that..EVER

Dave you should build it but slightly taller, and make a doorway for juju. It could be both the Flagg and a doghouse at the same time.

White carpet is ridiculous. I have worked in home improvement for over 17 years, selling carpet for a good amount of the time. Though most fibers won't stain, you just can't keep light colors clean, especially with pets.

The next staff member of the league of extraordinary janitors has been assembled. I call him captain stabby.




hobbits eating all the time and leaving crumbs everywhere. But who you gonna call......

Awesome! Every Janitorial Staff should have armed security forces

If I built that, Bean would be up my butt (and on the deck) the entire time!

The Army Builders at Dollar General to look for are obviously the COBRA Trooper and Duke

AVOID any of the Movie Roadblocks except this one with the .50 cal, and AVOID any of the Movie figures with a gimmicky zip-line- Hasbro used less articulated figs in those for the most part. If you find a Joe Colton fig though, I WANT IT (2 if possible)..It's a Bruce Willis GI JOE...who wouldn't want that?

Just ran up to the local one. They had no gijoes ,they had the sets you got he jeep out of. Might o back later today. Just FYI there is a $5.00 off coupon on their website for today only. $30.00 purchase required. Might gets some jeeps for the iron skulls.

Did you look in the area with cheap carded toys? They usually have one peg, that's all

Find the marked peg!!

He checked both sections, nada. They were busy putting out paper towels and had already worked the toy freight. So maybe next week.

The peg is marked..make sure you verify the peg, and check behind power rangers

I am wise behind my ears , I know most of the basic tricks, they didn't have any, but I'll try another store today.

In the mean time the third member of he league of extraordinary janitors is almost ready, actually he's suiting up right now.

And profile

He's waiting on his human serf to carry over his armor for the right arm mechandrites to attach to.

Big servitors

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Big servitors

Big servitors with power armor.

Dave I he led three different dollar generals. All they had were snake eyes and storm shadow. I saw the sets you picked up, almost bought my own fleet to fight yours, decided my limited budget should go to my already crazy hobby. I'll keep an eye out for them though. The packages didn't even show those guys though.

Also went to the Lego store. I was highly unimpressed. One of the staff was telling a mom to buy one of the Lego Star Wars sets because it had admiral Akbar in it. His reasoning was because Akbar was also in Star Trek. Everything they had there was the same as the local toysrus store, without the sale price. I couldn't talk myself into buying anything even though they had a promo of buy $75.00 and get a limited edition kal-el minifigure.

Akbar was in Star Trek? LOL! the only cross over from SW to ST was the Breen helmets were based of the bounty hunter helmet Leia wore in RotJ,,,,,,LMAO!

That guy was a moron. No exclusives caught your eye?

None caught my eye enough for the wallet to come out. I'm still weary about spending money. Well not as much, but I spent a bit this week, we will see it come about mid week.

Honestly, as collectors, lady geek and I aren't finding much in Lego either, I suppose it's summer, light on releases. Ladygeek is waiting for the tower of orthanc kit. As far as joe goes, the DG joes are only A few repaint figs http://www.dorksidetoys.com/basic-specialty-figures/

The imperial star destroyer caught my eye, but the 399.00 price tag quickly turned my head away. I think it's because I reason with my kids...."okay for the price of that you could get 4 of those, or just one o those and save your money for x y z. I'd say I'm sounding like my parents, but you've heard of some o my collections.

Stay tuned later in the week for new episodes of C.S. . (Cranium Support Inquisitors)
Featuring Gilbert Grissly

Needs his lab coat before busting dr. H and his nefarious gang of near do wellers