^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
^^

Page wrap sucks vik

well.... a new page should be filled with new goodness....unfortunatly that is lacking atm^^

Ya where's all the crazy contraptions you come up with??

well... i am atm studying to become a nursery nurse...yeah...even male ones are needed^^...and it´s almost end of the term and i still have to do two homeoworks...and other stuff school related that prevents me from going after my dear hobby....darn...

All work and no play makes Vik a dull boy

Well I guess in Germany you must become nurse vik Von domm before you can be dr. Vik or Von domm. Good luck man, I hope you do better back in school than I did recently.

at theo...lol... yeah...germany is really high on papers... you even have to have papers when you want to go to the loo^^

and dave... oh yeah... you got it mate

Papers please!

Papers, we need no stinkin papers! Unless we're out of plastic.

When you get the papers back vik you should use them to wallpaper the fort, all the A's will look excellent.

LOL....i wish it was all "A"s^^

In Germany do you guys go by the a,b,c,d,f grading scale, o do you do the grade point system.

grades by numbers , ranging from 1 to 6...6 being the epic fail...currently i am a rather good student... i had far worse times when i was at school^^

Vik wants a Sehr Gut! grade. Perhaps even a 1.0?

want yes.... getting it... well...

i get disatracted way too often for my own best...

recent disatraction...iron man 3... just watched it...

Not sure about all of them, but this funny bit explains a few of them
http://www.funnyordie.com/articles/b322d1fb52/iron-man-3-on-facebook?playlist=featured_pictures_and_words
The Heartbreaker and Hulkbuster are my favorites.

LOL...good find... when you klick the link... there is a discussion with the mandarin...


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oh and from the movie i liked "IGOR"... that name just calls for respect... looks even heavier still than the hulkbuster...


and whats the heartbreaker for??

In case he ever has to break up with Pepper, it has a reinforced crotch.

 dsteingass wrote:
In case he ever has to break up with Pepper, it has a reinforced crotch.

Won't help, he may be the technical genius, but I'm sure she's figured out how to crosswire a few things from being around him.

Iron man 3 was sick. Breathing fire was overrated..

and only used once... now that cool (read hot) skill could have been used more often... fing fang foom?


and yep... if tony ever breaks up with pepper he sure has it coming...whatever that may be^^

Whatever it is it's probably going to be on fire.

My Mantic Enforcers are like a whole platoon of Iron man suits!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
My Mantic Enforcers are like a whole platoon of Iron man suits!

Have you any pics for scale purpose ? Do they look as good as the art work as I was tempted but was not sure

also... puppetwars have iron man heads on sale...just saying

Shas painted several of them and showed them on his Blog LDD

^that

Should have looked there first really yes I got those heads

Okay, LDD, so you do not have to backtrack like those on my story thread do,,,,

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Defiance games trooper(IG scale basically, Mantic Enforcer, and GW SM captain

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Okay, LDD, so you do not have to backtrack like those on my story thread do,,,,

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Defiance games trooper(IG scale basically, Mantic Enforcer, and GW SM captain

Thanks for that but I all ready back tracked mind you it was fun any way and you have done some cool stuff

purple and marines and blue IG´s... heresy I say in her majesty´s name

I really need to work on my stuff to fill up my space here again^^... I am still one homework and two exams away...but I am getting closer^^

Well you are a sucker for colour I give you that all though you want to pass those exams after all to fill the spaces you need models to get models you need cash

argh.... no discussion over cash on that thread!!!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
argh.... no discussion over cash on that thread!!!

Vik.. finish school. I have faith in you. For the steam punk and Viktoria do whatever it is you are doing, for the sake of doing it well and getting it done.

Also, I didn't discuss.

Thanks for that but I all ready back tracked mind you it was fun any way and you have done some cool stuff

Well then, cool! glad you liked the back track!

Vik, you know full well I am opposite of you colors wise you Red!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
argh.... no discussion over cash on that thread!!!

I concur, should be a general rule of thumb

at comrade... do you realize how long it takes for me to actually recognize you when you change your avatar???...lol...

cool pic... who is the artist?

at shaso... lol... you call me red? a red even^^... i can live with that... i take it even as a compliment^^

well... at theo... i can´t really discuss or argue over money... it´s like the starving can´t agrue about what food gets on the table, eh?^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
at comrade... do you realize how long it takes for me to actually recognize you when you change your avatar???...lol...

cool pic... who is the artist?

at shaso... lol... you call me red? a red even^^... i can live with that... i take it even as a compliment^^

well... at theo... i can´t really discuss or argue over money... it´s like the starving can´t agrue about what food gets on the table, eh?^^

hahah hahaha tricked you. You got a good point vik.

haven´t you heard? I am wise beyond years

Ha! careful now Vik, of course it is better than being called other things over there.

yup... but red could get you hammered into the concrete these days again... times are shifting again...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
yup... but red could get you hammered into the concrete these days again... times are shifting again...

If red is concrete hammering.. whats a rainbow..

Oh that is that Germany has had a resurgence under different names of a certain bunch that got them hammered back in the 1940's Now they use different names, play at being Republicans and all that cammouflage.

yup... but they still smell of kacky^^

they can try to pose as righteous guys... but some are still able to smell the brown stench!

and rainbows... well these might get you into trouble here too

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
yup... but they still smell of kacky^^

they can try to pose as righteous guys... but some are still able to smell the brown stench!

and rainbows... well these might get you into trouble here too

True, I have followed this sad turn of events, and they all need to be riveted to a wall and made fun of and tomatoes tossed as they shout "Auslander Raus!"
Of course back in 1984, I had fun going into town and buying model kits in Neu Ulm, had a collection of 1/72 scale tanks as they fir inside our desk drawers more easily, and could play wargames in the barracks.

well they scream that even louder... the opening of the berlin wall let some ugly urchins resurface it seems...

on a totally unrelated note... my son felix will be coming back tomorrow... we all had a rather saddened time when he was away... my oskar was the one that felt the absence of his brother the most... he is used to sleep together in the same room...they talk themselves to sleep and so on... now it is all quiet in that room all of a sudden...

and me...well I am feeling down because of the trip of felix too... but tomorrow all will be back to normal again...

for compensation...(mine^^) I have started a little welcome back present for felix... some of you may still remember the playmobil pirate ship I've build when my wife and kids have been on a trip...about a year or so ago...

well this time I've built something else... didn´t take WIP pics inbetween... but well come and see...they say^^... I've built a gun... just a gun? well my son is quite into star wars the clone wars... and there is one gun he always fantazises to shoot with... the Z6 rotary blaster... or for you not star wars fans out there... I've built a kids sized handheld gatling gun ...

see below :







the first coat of paint was done with cheap wallpaint... I will later on get the thing in the cellar for some spray can painting... you see some gaps where I couldn´t reach with the brush...

ALSO...

this is my workstation I have mentioned...

I have made this with just basic tools... and now I have togiether with some slef made rulers a very trusty means to get me straight cuts without the fear of slipping baldes etc...

I hope the pics are self explaining...if you have questions don´t hesitate to ask me^^:















cheers, vik

Ah, hand crafted toys for his kids! Vik is a spoiler he is!

well^^.... I try my best.... kids are made for being spoiled every once in a while, eh?^^

Great work vik. I'm sure Felix will appreciate he gift, and terrorize the neighborhood. Now he can be a 1:1 scale juve for your necromunda gang. You can all dress up and run around Berlin doing live action tabletop gaming

A few pics are worth long explanations
Thanks for posting this tuto!

Also, this gatling gun is awesome! What is it made of? Foam?

that is the plan... oskar soon is getting two handblasters like a commander does... and I still have a bolter made from wood that I need to finish... then we charge and storm every playground in our neighbourhood ^^ and size them for our own^^

Sounds like a plan Vik!

the gatling is made pure wood... and screws... I bet you could smash someones head in with that hyena^^...

as for the cutting setup... I built this thing with first a wooden plate... then I added a two sided rim...this provides a strong back to where I could put the to be cut material against... it thus can´t move anymore...and I don't slip with the knife...
then I use the appropriate thick ruler from my shelf... I have varying length ranging from small 1-5 cm and long 1-5 cm rulers as shown in the pics... this add up to thicknesses of way over 30 cm and thus I can create quite big cuts... also this setup makes cutting up squares quite easy and very quick...

I just put one ruler against the other and thus combine their width... a fairly easy and trusty method...


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 shasolenzabi wrote:
Sounds like a plan Vik!

and we all know that we love it when a plan comes together, eh?

Ah, a father's love. Currently my eldest has a 3-D cardboard horse in his room that was the result of his life-sized puppet knight (that he made at school) needing a steed.
The things we do for them...

... yup... sometimes we need to do these things^^...

I just hope he likes it^^

and a cardboard horse? why not then make a cardboard horse for your terrain? like a Trojan horse... only with lasers attached?

If you do that make sure to save the cutoff from making the horse, because horses leave trails . Thank you very much I'm here through Thursday.

Oh dear...

Well, after the plastic toys got smashed by those other kids, I am sure Vik is making sure that the next batch for his kids are tougher and more 40k like in sturdiness!

That's a fantastic toy Vik!! He'll be quite surprised indeed!

I just keep thinking predator now, looks great though and wood construction so built to last are you going to add a strap to this as it could be quite heavy I imagine ?

Old duffle bags and the like could supply the strap

Who are you referring to as the " Old Duffle bags "

..resisting a Sean Connery 'your mother" joke right now

Now kids,,,neutral corners and all of that rubbish

 lone dirty dog wrote:
I just keep thinking predator now, looks great though and wood construction so built to last are you going to add a strap to this as it could be quite heavy I imagine ?

Well if he doesn't make the strap out of wood it won't be too heavy.

I give up

Never give up LDD

Never give up, never surrender!

LOL I couldn't even if I tried

I might have to steal the cutting table idea. The cutter I've been using is not working too well.

Sharpen that blade Theo!

don't get me started on my sharp blade soapbox again

 dsteingass wrote:
don't get me started on my sharp blade soapbox again

Hmmm, you have one?

 dsteingass wrote:
don't get me started on my sharp blade soapbox again

Please, I always make sure to have sharp knives around. You never know when you'll be in the mood for a....

Theo, LOL!

LOL.

Love the gun, Looks awesome. What stock did you use for the barrels?

My son wants a Halo Assault rifle made. Only trouble is it will weigh a ton.

 Camkierhi wrote:
LOL.

Love the gun, Looks awesome. What stock did you use for the barrels?

My son wants a Halo Assault rifle made. Only trouble is it will weigh a ton.

Not if you use light materials, or a light wood like pine

 Camkierhi wrote:
LOL.

Love the gun, Looks awesome. What stock did you use for the barrels?

My son wants a Halo Assault rifle made. Only trouble is it will weigh a ton.

Just improving his physical fitness in order to get him ready to fight aliens.

Oops, Theo's picture got deleted !!

They deleted knife fighting lobsters, but not lederhosen? Guess they like the eye candy

 Theophony wrote:
They deleted knife fighting lobsters, but not lederhosen? Guess they like the eye candy

Nowt so queer as mods

Rotary gun for the kid, will it have the back pack ammo bin and belt feed?

5 barrels are minium good sir.

 cormadepanda wrote:
5 barrels are minium good sir.

Through the genius of German engineering, this four barrels outdo your five barrels in output

6 barrels of autofire goodness

^ Ultraviolence durch technic?

sorry to be back so late ... homework and familyreunion (son got back from his first school trip) and then a longer weekend due to public holiday cut my online time up to zero... chatting to you fellas can really mean a drawback if one has to meet timeschedules...^^ but i am soon back to full speed here in these lands... big projects planned and lots of time to work on these too... so prepare for the best^^

lone dirty dog wrote:I just keep thinking predator now, looks great though and wood construction so built to last are you going to add a strap to this as it could be quite heavy I imagine ?

it is a biut heavy... but well it is based on the clone wars rotary gun... wielded by...hevy...^^...so^^.. but it will eventually get a strap... we´ve decided to that already...and my wife has plenty of materials for that as she is sewing for the family what i glue and cut^^...so ideal match^^

Camkierhi wrote:LOL.

Love the gun, Looks awesome. What stock did you use for the barrels?

My son wants a Halo Assault rifle made. Only trouble is it will weigh a ton.

the barrels are made from pine wood... rather light and easy to work with as you probably know...

and for those that are unable to count... it has six barrels^^...(ok...it should have had eight... but well you have to work with the materials at hand^^...



cheers, vik

it would have been heavier if you went big enough to fit 8 barrels Vik.

yup way heavier as it would have been more bulky as well and thus i would have needed bigger logs of wood then for the middle part... thus making it heavier the way i woldn´t know if my son would play with it at all...realism is not always your friend here

Ah, but it would build him up!

LOL... he could do with just that to be frank^^... but he is more of the clever kind than the muscled one ...well with a big gun he could be both, eh?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
LOL... he could do with just that to be frank^^... but he is more of the clever kind than the muscled one ...well with a big gun he could be both, eh?

It's the clever ones that build the real things

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
LOL... he could do with just that to be frank^^... but he is more of the clever kind than the muscled one ...well with a big gun he could be both, eh?

It's the clever ones that build the real things

The real clever ones get someone else to carry and use them.

 Theophony wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
LOL... he could do with just that to be frank^^... but he is more of the clever kind than the muscled one ...well with a big gun he could be both, eh?

It's the clever ones that build the real things

The real clever ones get someone else to carry and use them.

Thats what the brother is for or dad even

well, funny thing is his brother is indeed way stronger...and heavier set... thop younger in years he can wrestle with him eye to eye, toe to toe... no quarter given... but you are right... i am the dad... the binary load lifter all my life

My twins are boy (zack), and girl (Lilly), they now look to be two years different in age as Lilly can still fit size 4t clothes and they are both eight years old. You line the three of my kids up next to each other and everyone believes they are each two years apart. Lilly has always been tiny since birth, but is feisty. I remember fondly when they were two they were playing in the family room and zack wrestled Lilly to the floor n laid on top of her as she tried to get up. She kept squirming n didn't surrender, zack feeling good about himself got up and began walking away. Lilly tackled him from behind, took him down and laid on top of him while he cried. I laughed my but off.

LOL, Binary Load Lifter

Never seems to amaze me how parents take so much joy in their children play fighting

Ah, well, I have sat for parents, and find my energy spent if the kids decide they wish to use their energy and wear me out, The youngest have used me as a make shift jungle Gym, that burns me out in moments, having to use my arms as climb bars and such for them to hang like monkeys off of, or they climb me as if I were a mountain(And no , you do not have to break out the jokes on my size!).

I'm not advocating child experimentation but...if you could just install a small energy tap on kids, you really could solve the world's energy crisis

 dsteingass wrote:
I'm not advocating child experimentation but...if you could just install a small energy tap on kids, you really could solve the world's energy crisis

I agree, they could with all that unbound energy!

My Puppy is also a VERY efficient power plant! ...hmm

 dsteingass wrote:
My Puppy is also a VERY efficient power plant! ...hmm

Yes,but my kids don't poop in the yard....well they haven't in at least six years I wish I had there energy yesterday when shuffling rooms around. Carrying dressers up flights of steps gets tiresome.

Yeah, puppies and kids, natural energizer batteries!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Yeah, puppies and kids, natural energizer batteries!

Well my youngest girl loves to wear pink.

Theophony wrote:My twins are boy (zack), and girl (Lilly), they now look to be two years different in age as Lilly can still fit size 4t clothes and they are both eight years old. You line the three of my kids up next to each other and everyone believes they are each two years apart. Lilly has always been tiny since birth, but is feisty. I remember fondly when they were two they were playing in the family room and zack wrestled Lilly to the floor n laid on top of her as she tried to get up. She kept squirming n didn't surrender, zack feeling good about himself got up and began walking away. Lilly tackled him from behind, took him down and laid on top of him while he cried. I laughed my but off.

LOL i know that feeling to the letter...the two radcals did just that a week ago in the backyard fighting under my supervision and i kept making suggestions ofr little oskar how to best his older brother... well... in the end he stole the shoes of his older brother... man... i was such a proud dad

dsteingass wrote:LOL, Binary Load Lifter

i knew you would take the joke^^

lone dirty dog wrote:Never seems to amaze me how parents take so much joy in their children play fighting

i think it is twofolds... first it shows how capable of definding themselves they are... second... you get a small part of revenge of all the night hours wasted for changing bedwear and stuff... and for having the slurry all over yourself kinda like cosmic revenge

shasolenzabi wrote:Ah, well, I have sat for parents, and find my energy spent if the kids decide they wish to use their energy and wear me out, The youngest have used me as a make shift jungle Gym, that burns me out in moments, having to use my arms as climb bars and such for them to hang like monkeys off of, or they climb me as if I were a mountain(And no , you do not have to break out the jokes on my size!).

they love to do that with me too! we have that stunt where they climb up my knees and then stand upright and "walk" on my shoulders... it is really quite the circus show^^

shasolenzabi wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
I'm not advocating child experimentation but...if you could just install a small energy tap on kids, you really could solve the world's energy crisis

the thing is with kids... most of them even cash out more than they actually have...thus sometimes they are able to just fall asleep all of a sudden as then the energy level is suddenly so low...only sleep is an option... really ... they have extra amounts of ...well...negative energy...

I agree, they could with all that unbound energy!

dsteingass wrote:I'm not advocating child experimentation but...if you could just install a small energy tap on kids, you really could solve the world's energy crisis

dsteingass wrote:My Puppy is also a VERY efficient power plant! ...hmm

Theophony wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
My Puppy is also a VERY efficient power plant! ...hmm

Yes,but my kids don't poop in the yard....well they haven't in at least six years I wish I had there energy yesterday when shuffling rooms around. Carrying dressers up flights of steps gets tiresome.

shasolenzabi wrote:Yeah, puppies and kids, natural energizer batteries!

the thing is with kids... most of them even cash out more than they actually have...thus sometimes they are able to just fall asleep all of a sudden as then the energy level is suddenly so low...only sleep is an option... really ... they have extra amounts of ...well...negative energy...
dunno tho if it would work with puppies... but you would be at least on safer ground


as a not kids related note... i worked on my entry for gitspitta´s comp... i am making a mantis warrior... found all the bitz i want to use... now it is assembly time^^

DON'T FORGET TO POST PICTURES OF THE BITS BEFORE THE BUILD. its one of the rules Vik, don't want you out before your in.

er...darn... i wanted to do just that...f...k...

well anyways... here is my update on my mantis warrior...

did git really want an explosion shot of my bitz for starters???... guess i should r.t.f.m. for once...














i hope git is still accepting this model...as i put quite some work in it...and it gets a very cool looking base...

that gets shown tomorrow...


darn...


vik

Nice build chief

thanks mate...

This is a task that without the "blog View" buton I could not undertake

5/10 pages of It at the time and is already full of awesomesauce, starting with the paper tanks and arriving at the amazing rivetto squad on page 20sh (blog view of course )

I think I can manage to get at this point in the next 10/15 years, but I have nothing to do outside work, so I think I can do It

Keep building stuff, but slower please

P.S. Nice use of the Ogre fist weapons there

I really like the fist spikes (cesti?). Glad your in the competition, now we just need Dave to make a MW getting his but handed to him by some imperial guard

That marine is off to a great start!

Love it, love the pose. Great start.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Love it, love the pose. Great start.

"Hugs for the Hugs god!"

SelvaggioSaky wrote:This is a task that without the "blog View" buton I could not undertake

5/10 pages of It at the time and is already full of awesomesauce, starting with the paper tanks and arriving at the amazing rivetto squad on page 20sh (blog view of course )

I think I can manage to get at this point in the next 10/15 years, but I have nothing to do outside work, so I think I can do It

Keep building stuff, but slower please

P.S. Nice use of the Ogre fist weapons there

from time to time i draw someone new into this antlions pit of a thread
welcome selvaggio! many thanks for the high praise... the recent months have been a bit slow on progress so you may quicken your pace through the thread once you reach the newer stuff^^ or maybe not
soon i have summer holidays from school and i intend to use them wiseley^^

Theophony wrote:I really like the fist spikes (cesti?). Glad your in the competition, now we just need Dave to make a MW getting his but handed to him by some imperial guard

regardless their name... i thought i needed to use these for the build as the concept of the MW screams archaic bloddy wristed knuckle fighter to me ... no fancy weaponry needed when a piece of sharpened metal suffices to disembowel a creepy heretic^^... (which will follow soon!) also i doubt that dave would do a matis warrior...but getting his but kicked by an awesome catachan...hmmm.... i think we should give dave a nudge^^

cormadepanda wrote:That marine is off to a great start!

thanks mate!

Camkierhi wrote:Love it, love the pose. Great start.

thank you too mister!

Theophony wrote:

 Camkierhi wrote:
Love it, love the pose. Great start.

"Hugs for the Hugs god!"

LOL...it currently look as if he wants to give one terminal bear hug, eh?

well... i promised in gitsplitta´s thread to show the parts i used... and a bit how to...

well here goes:


these are the ogre fist weapons...(i really don´t know the name for them...) i got rid of the big spikes on the wrist guard... and then cut out the ogre fist... what a bloddy work, mind you... then i realized that i only needed a small part of the wrist guard and got rid of most of it...as you saw already in the model...


then i used these big tyranide plates i still have, together with some ornamental decoration from some elves i got in a bitzbox (how i love random bitz boxes!!!! conversion paradise!) together with some bigger "rivets" this creates my version of the mantis warrior shouldpad icon...


and these nid guns... i can´t recall atm their name provided the spikes for the mandibles on the beaky marine helmet...


and this is the base...
the motto will be..."preying mantis..." get it

plan is to make it look like some avatar movie terrain...cross your fingers for me^^


cheers, vik

THAT base is wicked cool!

What is it?

we went to an artshop yesterday... basically it is a shroom? i think?... dried up pplant stuff they had there in one section... lots of more good usable stuff...
i am thinking pink... glowy pink on the ´shroom heads...
i think that will look even more wicked^^...(gosh...i love that word^^)

also...the whole base is covered first with a thick cork piece...then i built from the cork a rock... after that i placed the shroom bitz...then everything got covered in thick PVA...and then i liberally aplied huge amounts of superglue... this created that uneven surface... there was once a thread about that methode...

That's going to be a really nice base Vik. Look forward to seeing it complete.

I think I remember hearing about it once before. Probably down in the tutorial section; dive through that now and then.

Looking rather exotic so far at any rate.

thanks doc!...i already rpimed it... hopefully i get some time in the evening to start some light painting excercise on the base^^

Really cool idea with the base Vik . 'Shrooms for the win , always figured you might be hiding something vik.

i am hiding way more even... i have layers over layers of hidden stuff...i am an onion in modlers temrs^^

You could be a parfait! But I actually prefer onions.....oooo, you could be an onion parfait,with more onions underneath I'd try it....once.

I'd try it....once.

er...i am mildly confused....

Great looking base Vik, and I like the sound of that paint job, cant wait to see it.

I would eat an onion parfait once vik, not really to appetizing after I typed it.

man.. to many layers here. We must go deeper.

thanks kh1x1!

at theo... well i guess if you did it again... you have the house for yourself alone...for the time beeing^^

at comrade...aye...deeper...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
thanks kh1x1!

at theo... well i guess if you did it again... you have the house for yourself alone...for the time beeing^^

at comrade...aye...deeper...

Reminds me of pictures of people in Florida going under their house to pull out alligators and snakes. Don't know if you saw it in the news but a guy here in the states caught a 19 snake that was loose and growing in the wild. I dislike snakes.

I'm like Indiana Jones with snakes

Nice fungus Vik!

I've had lot of run ins with snakes. When I was 5-6 I was running around in our yard barefoot and stopped mid stride hen my mom screamed for me to "stop!", my heel was on he ground but my foot was just off the ground and the sound of her voice froze me where I was. Just then a copperhead slid under my foot, I would have stepped on it, but it's body rubbed giants the soul of my foo as it continued on, I just got queezy thinking bout the feeling again while typing this. When I was 8 we were at the lake of the ozarks going waterskiing. Before we got onto he boat another water skier wiped out near the shore, and hit a Nest of water moccasins. He died as he tried to get to the shore. We had snakes ll over our backyard growing up next to some woods, when m wife and I had our last house I was glad because here were no woods around for the snakes. But after every hard rain I'd be mowing the lawn and kill a water moccasin that got washed down to us in he culvert from the nearby ponds.

I dislike them very much, trying not t "hate"

Aw man, I have had snakes as pets, Boas and ball pythons, very smart ones too! they could even count the rats I fed them! so when one got bigger rats but just 4 not 5, she turned her head at me as if to "Stuff to you!" as the back of the head is the snake's vulnerable spot, but now I know a snake insult from that experience. Same snake had crawled on my head during a fever/headache and she cold compressed/Massaged the the pains away. It's us Humans who assume that every square inch of the planet is ours.

Speaking of counting rats, ferrets are good if you have aviaries and can train them to catch mice and not the birds. One quick nip to the neck, they'll dump it in a corner and hunt for more.

They really stink though...

I love em, but my wife (a biologist) is terrified of them. One time we were at a park that had a python and it decided to climb up the glass to measure itself against her (and yes, it could e eaten her comfortably)! Ah well.

Yes, Ferrets can be a little strong aroma to get used to, but if properly de-scented not so bad.

Ah, the wife is a biologist and afraid of animals, we have instilled in us a fear of snakes and reptiles, I subbed Reptus Minis for Chaos Marines for my Chaos army. But I have the old 30dollar codex, the newer codex looks nice, but hardbound an 50bucks puts me out

well here we are all pampered as there are literally no deadly animals fighting against us... and we don´t get the amount of guns here too... so what to do throughout the nights I ask ye?...we are a sad nation I tell you in no short order

on a totally unrelated side note...
I GOT A BIG SUPLY DROP BY THEO TODAY!!!!
materials and minis galore!

see for yourself:


wooden sticks...they feel almost sexy to the touch... soft and silken! I love them... will be very useful soon!


I first mistook these as PC Rods... but they are in fact cardstock rods... that means they will love PVA! which means I can play with them with little effort!!! and they come in lotsa different sizes! very cool I might add


when cardboard and wood gets praised...lets not forget about PC... this selection of cool stuff consists of granny grating, square tiled PC and diamond pattern and plain PC... and we know what wonders these can form, eh?


now some would say our fair theo is getting a bit insane... but who am I to argue...? right... he included some lamps and even a real searchlight...I need to make my own leagues searchlight I think ... also... those magnets...man... I didn´t knew how strong these were??? really... don´t underestimate these for a sec!! they are tough!...also I got that bunch of these red and cool and highly detaild rods he already got from dave!...wow... we´ve seen them getting some use in your thread already... and they are very versatile!. the whole selection is surrounded by chains... yeah... that will get some nice uses soon as well! and those nice small cloth pegs...!

enough?...not by far!



catachans galore... I even got marbo! he´s probably making a secret attack at the heart of Europe now^^...
by the way... o love those snipers...really... it is the most stylish way of getting rid of unwanted peeps




and these fellas finally drops my last walls I had built up to get me from making my own ´munda gang... these orlocks have a fething megaton of conversion potential! and the many weapon options they come with provide me with the means to make many cool and storytelling new models!... these models have places to go and other plastic soldiers to kill for sure soon enough! and that is no cheap postponed announcement... I will tackle my ´munda project asap... after I finish my current to do list... namely MW, temple, and brotherhood...then I will dive into the underhive

mannnnnnnnnyyyyyy thank you´s to theo for this cool care package!... I hope soon you get some good kharma for that awesomeness!

cheers, vik...(off to play with plastic men^^)

holy balls thats one hell of a supply drop glad to see some hobby karma come round to you vik!

cant wait to see what you do with those red things those things are awesome.

Theo has blessed planet Vik with many goodies! Now to see what Vik makes of it all and what new weapons or buildings he comes up with from it all?

yup...yup^^....*rubs hands*


well firstly... off top get the kids back home...then some^^

I got my karma last week , just took customs and the post office a few weeks to get to Vik. I was worried it had gotten lost in the warp, as I sent it a week before a package to Australia, and this came two weeks after that arrived. Vik is truly deserving of the love, he is always blessing my thread and everyone else's with his presence, insight, and most importantly the drive to make us each better.

Now to sit back and watch the magic happen.

That is a nice haul indeed! Hobby karma FTW!

Scrolling fast, this pic looked like fireworks.


Funny part is the first thing that came to mind wasn't "wait what?" but "what's he going to do with this?".

Nice selection of bits and pieces you have there Vik, I wonder what you'll build....
I would say the possibilities are endless..ish

Theo that is a generous drop Vik you lucky lucky sod first you got a Sly Marbo and then the necro plastics those pistols arms are so cool.

Yes it was, Vik has to make something cool now eh?

yes.... me <--- i am a really lucky bugger, eh?
i will use everything to greatness... you can all be sure of that!

and theo... customs took ages i think... but in the end i got a seal and no charge... so it was toll free for me even... call that a super sweet icing on an already sweet cake^^

i think whenever i sent and receveived something from america it always is a so so situation... somehow it is not the distance... stuff from australia...namley vic miniaturs has traveld with godly speed... once everything was stuck at customs... and took almost like a month... then the next one took less then a fortnight...? i really despise customs... they are a scurge to traffic!

at LDD... indeed the arms of the orlcoks are stunning... these will be the biggest foundation of my gangers... i just need to find a cool theme...(in my mind i also dream about a gentleman gang of steampunky lards... but with my current range this will take some more time...now i will need to find some nice inspiration for a conventional 40kish gang with a nice twist...?)

I am sure you will come up with some weird and crazy scheme, plus you have the parts to play with that concept now

i want and need to start with some munda stuff... really there was never much doubt that i wouldn´t move to that field, now was there?^^

Catachans, materials, a gang?! Vik.. you are ready to impress me.

Well that's quite some haul. Who needs 2 kidneys eh? Especially when you have kids/ambulatory donors.

LOL... we aim to please....we certainly do


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 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well that's quite some haul. Who needs 2 kidneys eh? Especially when you have kids/ambulatory donors.

you sir deserve fully well your screen name...bloody horror... :gasp:

Vik + Necromunda = All kinds of excellent...

high praise... even before i started,,, i better quit now at the pinnacle of my fame

Want to see your take on this, i really do!

Stop posting Spam an get to work

lol... tomorrow... not tonight

-=]_,=- sings chorus : Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam..Lovely Spam..Wonderful Spam

The various plasticard sheets should be a big help... I didn't know it came in different patterns/textures for a long time but once I found it I was in love

 RiTides wrote:
The various plasticard sheets should be a big help... I didn't know it came in different patterns/textures for a long time but once I found it I was in love

i often went to hobby shops and drooled at the shelves of patterned PC... so expensive... but it really is most inspiring!

on a side note... tomorrow i hopefully will be able to provide you with some MW pics... all heavy WIP still but i aplied the first basecoats!

cheers, vik

ooh cool.. do supply those pictures.

Pics! we ant pics man!

Eager to see your MW, even in a basecoat. Mine maneuvered over to the side of my desk and is hiding until I get inspired again .

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Pics! we ant pics man!

Here's your ant pics shaso


Sorry, usually it's my iPad causing the humor, I" could ant" resist

ok...here they come...

no ants....sorry shaso^^



note, the pics are auto adjusted... in person the green looks very leaf- like looking... which I actually totally love! thanks gitsplitta for making me try that color... also the shoulder pads I realize are still not fully seen...I need to take tomorrow some better pics all around the minis to better show my self made paddesign...

and here the khorny adversary...


and this is the primed and then two first layers of color on the base... hopefuly I can get the look of the base to look like the glowing plants in avatar...:





if I do something wrong here then please help me get it right as I never did such effects before...!!!!!!!!!!!


thanks mates, vik

holy crap paint on viks log!

THE END IS NIGH THE END IS NIGH!!!!!!!!!!


jk buddy

thatsa very deep green you got going on and im no osl expert all i can do is drink your beer and root for you to get more done so thats what im gonna do.

LOL.... yeah.... have a pint on me.... I bet that gives some good kharma waves around the globe..dunno when they will arrive tho... hope it will be when I am painting.. and not at the loo^^


dunno if I achieve actual OSL...which I would love to...but a glow effect... that is the main thing I aim for... tho if I get the glow right... than the OSL at least on the rock would be possible?....

as for the green... autoadjustment made it look a bit weirder... in reality it looks like a really strong and living sapling... or a juicy leaf...

Nice start Vik. That base will be epic with glowing 'shrooms.

That green is bloody brilliant it looks great so far impressed and the fists are a work of genius BIG WELL DONE

That weird plant thing is a great find very outer planet world looking

thanks mates!... the shroom to paint is a very tedious thing to do... if it weren´t I could even dream my way towards a full board with these as a plant live all over... but I guess this would take my sanity to new lows^^

You really do want the green to be that deep, it looks epic.

I need to take some daylight pics I think...then we need to discuss the way from there... what do you think about the first layers of the shrooms...and the stems...what colors should they have? as dark as now or another color?

Well, i meant to say "We want pics" but it was late and I was tired. Oh well, fire ants!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
what do you think about the first layers of the shrooms...and the stems...what colors should they have? as dark as now or another color?

I can't really tell on the current shroom colour, the picture is a bit dark for me (I think I have the brightness on my monitor much darker than anyone else...). But starting dark is good and if you blend them up through the colours in your reference pic' they will look cool.

As for the stems, I would say dark. As they will give contrast to the glowing shrooms (and therefore make them look brighter) and you could (maybe) use the stems to show osl, which will look better over a dark base colour.

I would work from the darkest pink ( if the pic is the reference ) to the almost bright white if that makes sense yes a whole board of them would be your death

the pic is rather dark per se DR H...
blending is the main problem...

as for dark stems... dark as in dark puple or dark as in black?

and LDD... yup... my death.... and a living testament to not do it this way


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at shaso... fire ants... I see what you did there

Aha! I've had my grubby mitts on that VERY SAME aquarium plant at the store! Very cool deep purple color tho

in fact it is no aquarium plant...but still awesome^^...

but I do own a small collection of aquarium plants nevertheless^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
the pic is rather dark per se DR H...
blending is the main problem...

as for dark stems... dark as in dark puple or dark as in black?

Ahh, fair enough. Many times, someone has put up a picture and everyone else seems to be able to see things I can't...

Blending, I can't help you with much as I use different paints than you.
However, something you could try if blending is not working is feathering.
Use the smallest brush you have and do many tiny tiny thin strokes out from the centre of each shroom.
Start dark (as LDD said) and work up in as small increments as you can (the nearer the shades the better the blend) all the way to white at the very edge.
If you offset the strokes of adjacent shades you can get them quite close together and it will look a smooth colour transition and will actually give a little texture that smooth blending won't.

What are the stems now? I would say dark purple with black for shading.

cool....that is a very useful help! I will try that for sure!
the blending is a very hard method for me... but many small strokes... that I probably can manage! that´s exactly the kind of tip I was hoping for!

well...gotta go to sleep now...
cheers, vik

I'd have started with white to make those glow, but either way works fine. You got a good green to contrast nicely with it already.

Very cool plants Vik, a whole board would be killer (you'd be dead like you said) , and we don want that. I love the fact the hug for the hug god mantis warrior is going to show some love to the berserker .

 n0t_u wrote:
I'd have started with white to make those glow, but either way works fine. You got a good green to contrast nicely with it already.

Oh yeah, that's a good point. The white is at the middle in the picture.

Start nearer the stem and work outwards is the easiest thing to avoid splodges on the already painted bits.

Glad to help Vik. I'm far from the expert on such things. We all learn from each other on here.

Did I miss it? What is it then if not an aquarium plant?

For a good glow- the trick is to have lowlights as well as highlights- you'll have some places shading into very tiny slivers of white, but you'll also have some places shading into specks of almost black.

Glowy shroom trees!

 dsteingass wrote:
Did I miss it? What is it then if not an aquarium plant?

He said a few pages back they are dried plants he found in a shop. Some type of shroom. I'm sure the aquarium ones are probably just replicas of the real things.

thought they were built from plasticard and cardboard

I also think that you should paint white closest to the mid and paint darker the further out you get. you could also try layering like the way you paint lenses. it takes a hell lot of time but it works

Looking awesome. Love the marine.

And my 2 pence worth.....Deep purple to start, or possibly very deep blue through to purple, then through pinks to white. I am by no means an expert. Some of the best work I have seen for that would be Arakasi. His shading work is truly amazing.

Love the shrooms, btw.

Yep lots of shading for those trees

Oh vik. Sweet, just make sure if you want a good glow effect you build up to a solid white somewhere no matter how thin.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
i am by far struck only feel the guilt of having done a bad job, so no offence taken here^^


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So i went on with the painting with "dun it duncan"...
now i went for a more darker scheme alltogether and made a few needed touchups of red with mecharite red instead of blood red...this gives the whole mini another mood altogether...
also i did the capace and helmet firstly black and then steely and then again went over the steely bits with flesh wash to create a somewhat brassy effect...
hope it shows now...
also i washed the trousers with ogryn fleshwash and the white face too... so the trousers then received a rather heavy drybrush of undiluted white and where washed alter with fogryn wash again...also i couldn´t help but did the base too as i saw i reached quite a good level with the mini real soon...well there will be some work still on the mini but in concerns for the overall paintscheme i think i was kind of satisfied for now...
do you mind? do you think its not suitable? then tell me^^ as i would gladly do another testing before i go into large massproduction^^

the base of course will get a bit of a wash too and thus a bit of grittier look then...


vik

ah almost forgott the pics....silly ole me^^




cheers mates

You just can't paint a Cadian red and brass and call it steam punk

Conversions, especially steam punk conversions have need a lot more effort then that; I can just paint a cadian with blacks and blues and call it an ODST

Bosobo, it is not the included Cadians, he has other minis and has made tanks and mecha for his army that look to be steam powered. That cadian is merely another "redcoat" of the Viktorian Guard.

Actually.. i never seen a army shot from Vik! that would be something worth doing.

You mean Vik assembling the regiments or parade ground drill? yeah that would be cool

Yeah Vik!

Go on Vik, you know you want to.

Make it a family affair, enlist the kids in rounding up the troops. I'm sure your ice is good at getting herds of little ones in line as well .

 dsteingass wrote:
Yeah Vik!

exactly...

and... we don´t feed them, eh? you know who?

today no pics... but i painted... the base, the ground got yet another drybrush in blue...a bit brighter now...theni realized i overdid the drybrushing a bit and i coverd the blue ground with asurmen blue... which now looks rather decent to work further from...

also the MW got some serious work done... hard to descripe... but i started with details... i´ll stick to the leafy look for him...and i will add some yellow and red spot colors here and there... but in essence he will be green... different hues of green but he will look like a walking leaf...

and khorny got some metal work done... atm i am a bit unsure of this mini... he is kinda the weak spot...(well obviously as he is the victim to be^^) from an artistic point of view...

and i think i will wait a bit till you all have settled as to how to work with the plants^^

and dave... i got a big twig like thing in an artshop... it was completly white... and dry... costed me just one €... rather cheap for such a good looking item!...and the moment i saw that thing i knew i would want to use it fot this project!!!...


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an army shot... mates... we are so far away from an actual army shot ... million miles away^^

soo by the way in our summer holidays i wanted to review the issue of the STEAMPUNK AIRSHIP (only caps for those of little faith ) with my sons help...^^

then you sir need discipline! *cracks whip* discipline!

LOL... you reapeat yourself from thread to thread

well i guess some folks need discipline...and be fruitful with their hobby adventures...

well...a bit of discipline never hurt...

thats not punny

yes...cos it is funny

Oh oh, Vik is trying to do stand up

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/530146.page
Kickstarter for steam punk figs Vik

Nice troops for Vik, they even had redcoats as it were.

Viktor von Domm wrote:soo by the way in our summer holidays i wanted to review the issue of the STEAMPUNK AIRSHIP (only caps for those of little faith ) with my sons help...^^

*pinches arm* did... did that just happen? Is it returning? *faints*

oh yeah... I am already subscribed to meridian miniatures thread here... good looking stuff and no mistake... but there minis are all rather historical scale than heroic scale... one would need to build a whole army from these to hush up any scale issues...

and yep... airship build mate... your dreams will be come true ... my head atm is full on ideas to how to get this floating again^^

also... update on some mantis warrior related stuff...I think the pics will speak up for themselves...here they come

here is the mantis warrior...spotlight on his shoulderpads:



khorny adversary :




and the base...



and this is the current look:



still all very WIP...the base needs lots of more coats of course..


cheers, vik

Are those mushroom stalks or something? They look awesome!

One trick you might want to use, if you want something eye-catching for alien scenery grab some multicolored craft feathers from the art store and bits on top, to look like fronds. It's a way to make it look glowing and bright without a fancy paintjob or engineering anyway.

But also, sometimes the cheap dollar stores sell the cheap little fiber-optic lamps and that is also a great base for some trippy scenery.


Oh and Steampunk Airship? Our hearts have been broken too many times Vik.

Looking good Vik!

most impressive vik! love the base and the guys are looking treat too the mw is coming along very niceley love the sublte blends on him.

I love the stalks vik. I had checked Avatar out from the library the day you posted your first pics of it and was waiting to see how it turned out. I like he shoulder pads as well

Good progress on the shrooms Vik. Good effort on the shoulder pads of the Mantis as well.

That green is proper lush. Love it.

I'm a big fan of the base and especially the plants on it.

The MW and his foe are still very WIP and look monotone at the moment. It's tough to pick out details yet.

Plants look awesome, and the MW tones are great.

thanks to everyone...

at JB... specially thanks to you mister...yes... I am fully with you the pics you see now are a bit monotone on the MW and the KW looks still heavy WIP...both have changed a bit since these pics where taken... but for the details I am still a bit unsure...

at meade...

I think most of your comment is a bit lost in translation to me...I think you are onto something very useful for me here...but do you really mean actual feathers?...and some light illuminated dio is already in the works...but for the shrine comp

as for the broken hearts... I will do my best to mend what has been broken in the past...


in other news...we´ve been to the movies...we watched epic...fitting term really... quite fast paced and with really nice aesthetics!...and we watched it with the whole family.. and my sons took the movie like champs... which is for me quite a big thing...as there had been quite some frightening moments...!


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by way... after a long research I have finally found the name of the ´shrooms...they are called musa stems... and I think are in fact banana related stems...?and I think I've paid too much for the one stem^^

http://decofleur.hosting1.troublefree.nl/musa-stem-gebleicht-25pack-p-7925.html?language=en&osCsid=c01367445d493f6e2d695806e55779d8

Ah, progress! liking the where this is going Vik

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

at meade...

I think most of your comment is a bit lost in translation to me...I think you are onto something very useful for me here...but do you really mean actual feathers?...and some light illuminated dio is already in the works...but for the shrine comp

I think they are actual feathers just cheap and dyed for craft purposes. Very useful for outlandish vegetation!

and these fibre optics are cheap, for $5 in my neck of the woods. You could make a tree out of that by twisting wire around the plastic threads and then twisting them, the result is a tree with glowing tips at the ends of the branches.

Where art thou updates vik?

thanks shaso!

and meade...seems I got you right at the beginning then... feathers...hmmm... this would look a bit then like artificial eyelashes then?...interesting idea!

and those fibre optics look interesting... I saw this setup in a gift shop recently... I imagine a bigger terrain piece would make some awesome effects on the table...

at jackal...and back to you

fiber optics would be cool, but i like vik's musha plants better. Vik, any work done on your fort or are you more like me where one project completely side-tracks another one?

Vik does get side tracked,,,,,,steamer air ship as we recall in the League, so much promise had that project.

I remember it fondly from ages ago when I would come to the painting and modeling blogs before i began to follow any real builds. I keep seeing the dystopian wars airship at the flgs and thinking of Viks build.

well... during the time of the rearanging my desktop here i got rid of the first one... now...my head is spinning like crazy to get started with one anew...BUT... first i really have to finish all my ther comp entries...for once... because i am in fact someone that gets permanently sidetracked... and the next big thing totally replaces my need/wish to complete the project at hand first... i always get the sad face from my wife when she sees me starting something new...^^

i think i should move my steampunk army more in the lairs of VSF and thus have a good excuse to make fancy looking gretchkins too

but first is the steampunk airship...i made today my son draw some sketches to have him more involved into the scene...
in two weeks summer holidays starts and then the building will start too...(this year holiday vacation got canceled due to money shortness...:( )

Bummer about that canceled vacation Vik.

Getting the lads in on the airship project, I bet the son felt like a ship wright doing the designs for his Dad

yup... he is very good at it i might add... i even made him do some top view shots and so on... he is very good at these perspective changes... for a seven year old chap this is quite good (of course i am biased as he is my son...so to speak one of my two topmost long time projects!^^ )

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
yup... he is very good at it i might add... i even made him do some top view shots and so on... he is very good at these perspective changes... for a seven year old chap this is quite good (of course i am biased as he is my son...so to speak one of my two topmost long time projects!^^ )

Well, those pretty much grow on their own once they get started Vik, LOL! good to hear he has the eye for such artworks.

Sorry to hear of the cancellation of the vacation Vik. We aren't doing one this year either for the same reason. But there's lots to do around our new house as opposed to our old one so we spent the funds on other things like: memberships to the botanical gardens, science center, and pool passes. The history's and art museums here are free except for special showcases, he Saint Louis Zoo is world recognized and free except for parking, but our grandparents gifted us with a Zoo friends membership which covers that, or free if you get there upper early. Also have the kids enrolled in vacation bible schools at four separate churches this summer. So four weeks where we get to drop them off for a few hours and have quiet time, and they get to have Funwith kids their own age and get more bible knowledge pumped into them

Hey, i just posted my updates on my P&M, and even a model in showcase!
Ok, it took me what, 3 months for the update? its there now though haha.

Vik... I want an army shot.. i want to see your... COLLECTION.

LOL! all those redcoats and soon to be red coats

Sorry to hear about your vacation, but at least it gives you more time to model

which i do...modeling that is ... i am working despite better knowledge on two secret projects that just have leaped from my mind... but i gotta soon return to the other projects of course^^...

and comrade... we´ll see about that...tho no guarantee^^

Ahh Vik and his secrecy!

I need to see a shrine mister. Quit with the distractions already.



Oh and an airship.

Oh and a fort.

Oh ok just get a move on will you.

 Camkierhi wrote:
I need to see a shrine mister. Quit with the distractions already.



Oh and an airship.

Oh and a fort.

Oh ok just get a move on will you.

AIRSHIP!

VIK FREAKING FINISH SOMETHING

Stop procrastinating young man and paint and model! I wanna see the finished models you've been plodding away at!

He did finish his tanks.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
He did finish his tanks.

He needs more finish less project.

This talk of an airship now has me thinking.
Skaven airship / hiant heli.


Edit: Anyone got a tut on how to sculpt wooden texture?
I can do most things, but i can say this is something ive never even thought about haha.

Vik was making, then sidelined an airship for his Viktorian forces.

i think tomorrow i will be able to show you what i am working on... i think you will like these^^

finish...? i am german

To do a wooden texture on a large scale maybe use an impression mat? Wife uses that for sugar craft, principle's the same.

ah... graven... good of you to drop in... i wanted to ask you a favor... since your wife is so good in icing and cakemaking in general... i would like to see/show my wife a small collection of her works... we need to do every now and then some cool looking cakes for school and other times ... any helpful pics would be gratefully to be seen!

also... as for wooden texture... i used PVA a heavier coat on what to texturize... let it set for five minutes or something and then with a stringer brush make the wood grain...

Thanks peeps
Want a skaven air force for no reason, other than it seems like a good idea.

Airship, choppas and alot of da vinci style gliders all fit the bill.

if you go da vinci... pay the ultimate respect to DA MAN... and make his tank...really... that tank concept screams to be used...

Ah, Da Vinci's "Turtle"

yup.... when doing the pic research I got a strange feeling I have to do my own soon too

Vik, if your doing a large area of wood those wooden stick I sent can be bought in bags of 100 for about $5.00.

Viktor von Domm wrote:i think tomorrow i will be able to show you what i am working on... i think you will like these^^

finish...? i am german

You should have finished an empire for your viktorians if you use that excuse. Klaus would prove my point.

that was a rather poor joke i made ... finish?... the northern nation on the skandinavian island?

also... please give me a bump here as i am about to drop an update on you...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
that was a rather poor joke i made ... finish?... the northern nation on the skandinavian island?

also... please give me a bump here as i am about to drop an update on you...

Humpdy dumdy bumpy? What are you showing!?

Oooo, Update....

at theo *swears* now that if i could lay my hand on here in germany would be extremly cool...as i think the measurements of these sticks are pretty just that what i would love to use till i "die"...

really... they have a width i am most eager to use...

er... and now we interrupt the current discussion for a most surprising update...viktorian steampunk air cav is soaring this very minute through the sky...hold your monocles and tophats dear gentlemen:







and this is after some more serious work today:









also... note...the stand for the flybase... it is indeed a clear chineese eating stick... you get these nowadays at IKEA...!


oh...and on a totally unrealted note...
my wife got me this big new cutting mat...



and i started also on this new build:






some broken hearts might get mended now, eh?


cheers, vik

Nice work! NOW take some plasti card, smooth it, green stuff it, rivet it and paint it mate. Den i get off your case about your work.

well tomorrow i planned to do some drill bit sanding on the cockpit... and i need to figure out some way to get the tail done...and some way to make good looking engines...

Very nice vik, that airship will be grand. I'm glad you decided to "nut up" on this project sorry I just had zombie land playing in the background I've steered away from the zombie craze until now. I think I will be forced to make a necromunda loot counter in the shape of a Twinkie now

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
well tomorrow i planned to do some drill bit sanding on the cockpit... and i need to figure out some way to get the tail done...and some way to make good looking engines...

engines look best as jet turbines. A common approach is to cut out all the blades that go in some ring, and then glue them to a center rod.

LOL... the size of said twinkie... would that be the size of the central park maybe

and yep... the airship is a character must... IF this one will be the true thing... remains to be seen.... it will get to the amount of finished as all my models do secretly i had planned a two blimp airship... with a landing platform in the middle... the current one has some flaws so this one will be the classic one blimp and gondola one^^

Good start Vik.

For the engines I built for my WS I used the tube for the pump from a soap-pump-dispenser and for the fan blades I cut a circle of card, cut slits to make the blades (not all the way into the centre), then twisted them slightly in the same direction and then fixed them in place with superglue.
A blob of putty in the centre. more to fill the gap around the edges...

Then add pipes and wires and give it some paint...

Nice Start Vik! I look forward to more!

Haven't tried these guys Vik, but they have the same size sticks I sent you but in 18" lengths. @0.20 each seems decent. Not sure if they ship international or not, and minimum order is $25.00 online, but you can call them for smaller orders.

http://www.thebalsastore.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=452&category_id=218&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

Otherwise I'll check at hobby lobby the next time I'm there, I think that's where I got them from. Make sure to use their coupon and get 40% off the item

hey theo, don´t go looking at hobby lobby on account of me... sending big amounts of wood across the ocean would be quite too much on postage... i am stretching my fingers atm for some similar stuff here in germany... when my school free time hits me, then i will visit my favorite artshop balsa wood is just too common to send it around the globe ... your care package tho opened up some new doors to materials ...so that was a good deed^^

at Dr H... brilliant looking engine!... your thread is still on my need to start to read list

at dave...thanks mate... not really done any work on the flyer today... but tomorrow we have a school free day... next week is a presentation week and we did all our needed planning and prep work already so we got a day free^^... which will be used

Vik, the guy from that web site called me back. He does ship internationally, and those are close outs. Also they are hardwood, not balsa. The company just specializes in balsa products. Once these are gone they are gone, his manufacturer is out of business for these.

Awe vik, school free day = jet turbine engine day!

Thanks Vik Look forward to what you will do.

at comrade...exactly...(man... you are pushy^^)

at Dr H... no need to blush^^

at theo... man... you should no as a man of faith not to tempt another man

 Viktor von Domm wrote:


at theo... man... you should no as a man of faith not to tempt another man

Vik were not supposed to talk about the picture of me I sent you, that was part of the deal

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Please have clothes on...please have clothes on...

only two lil kids spewing milk from their nose...harmless joke

Hmmm, been busy making a faster flyer eh Vik?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
only two lil kids spewing milk from their nose...harmless joke

Well I hope you didn't make your kids do it just for the photo op. there's plenty of pics on the Internet to show that same effect

Wonder how this plane is going to go.

Vik will have an airforce.

if he ever gets it done

 alabamaheretic wrote:
if he ever gets it done

LOL! There is that, but Vik usually finishes the smaller one off projects, it was a good feeling when he got the superheavy tank finished

yea it was a good feeling it just was a long and ardous process i know you can't rush a genius but still...

Vik will complete this as long as the world does not end. This is one of those modeling projects that we all have the desire to do, but just need to step back every now and again to look from a different angle. It is also one he has a big passion for, so he is doubly encouraged to complete it.

so taht means we need to feed him more amazing hobby related goodies to spur him on or we can get a dominatrix and a crop whip so he can learn to be more disciplined...

Im ashamed!
Ive never seen that da vinci turtle tank before :(

Now thinking of making one for skaven.
Spinning under carriage fitted with blades, and warp lightning guns instead of the cannons

 Jackal wrote:
Im ashamed!
Ive never seen that da vinci turtle tank before :(

Now thinking of making one for skaven.
Spinning under carriage fitted with blades, and warp lightning guns instead of the cannons

Sounds great, just make sure o paint it yellow. It can be the Da Vinci Cheese Wheel of Death

alabamaheretic wrote:so taht means we need to feed him more amazing hobby related goodies to spur him on or we can get a dominatrix and a crop whip so he can learn to be more disciplined...

lol...kinky... I think this might distract me a bit further from finishing my stuff even more^^

Jackal wrote:Im ashamed!
Ive never seen that da vinci turtle tank before :(

Now thinking of making one for skaven.
Spinning under carriage fitted with blades, and warp lightning guns instead of the cannons

hell yeah, make one... I will defiantly make one on my own... I had this planned quite a long time already!

Theophony wrote:Vik will complete this as long as the world does not end. This is one of those modeling projects that we all have the desire to do, but just need to step back every now and again to look from a different angle. It is also one he has a big passion for, so he is doubly encouraged to complete it.

that comment is two fold... one... big joke on my expense...two...big compliment... I settle for the latter and we all live happily ever after

Theophony wrote:

 Jackal wrote:
Im ashamed!
Ive never seen that da vinci turtle tank before :(

Now thinking of making one for skaven.
Spinning under carriage fitted with blades, and warp lightning guns instead of the cannons

Sounds great, just make sure o paint it yellow. It can be the Da Vinci Cheese Wheel of Death

now that is a cool thought...I wont do there is no yellow in my flag

shasolenzabi wrote:

 alabamaheretic wrote:
if he ever gets it done

LOL! There is that, but Vik usually finishes the smaller one off projects, it was a good feeling when he got the superheavy tank finished

mate...I got shivers down my spine for that lovely comment!

alabamaheretic wrote:if he ever gets it done

ah.... ye of little faith

n0t_u wrote:Wonder how this plane is going to go.

ask and ye shall receive!...scroll down further for the current update...

Theophony wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
only two lil kids spewing milk from their nose...harmless joke

Well I hope you didn't make your kids do it just for the photo op. there's plenty of pics on the Internet to show that same effect

those where not my kids... spewing milk over the kitchen floor... my wife would go ballistic... milk has the tendency to reek after a few moments...at least that´s what she always says...


so... update time...:

so...here is the flyer as is... it got some serious...half-finished engines...thanks for the how to hints on the propellers Dr H!!!









as you also can see I have built up the canopy of the cockpit, of course this will need lotsa rivets before we can call it finished

and the current look of the engines backside... I have currently no idea how to close/seal this ideas from your side would be greatly appreciated!


and also I have worked on the gondola of the airship... here you can see the current look... together with the blimp... which was deemed from my wife and my son felix as now to be too small for that giant gondola...darn^^...









for stability reasons I have drilled four holes into the bottom of the gondola so that it will rest on for stands ...


cheers, and have faith with my ability to complete something

vik

PROGRESS!!!!! Now I see a twin engine flyer just needs weapons added.

Airship gondola, how big is it.

Nice nice vik!
Progress is getting quicker too.


Im now trying to think of how to start a skaven airship.
The balloon is a real pain in the arse since i have no ability to work with anything other than metal, plastic or resin
So tomorrow i shall hunt through all the cheap £1 shops looking for a kids toy or such an item for the balloon!


Edit: Im a dumb gak!
Water guns have a perfect shape tank on them, and they are plastic!
I need to aquire one.

also... there was a fella here that made his "ballon/blimp" from a smaller football...go have a look into the gallery...and jackal...paper-mâché... the skill of the old ones n ever stops to amaze!

at shaso... the gondola is big 26x9x7 cm are the measurements... I have to solve the size issue of the blimp soon... also... this is still not the airship I secretly wanted to do... but it is the airship I will do now^^...

and guns/weapons are planned.... I want to add rockets and some lasgun-ish weapon systems...

Paper mache and me dont mix all that well vik, i hate the stuff after years of playing with it at school.
Dont get me wrong, its nice to work with and shaping it is so easy its unreal, but its just a material i really dislike to use on models

Closest i use to that is card, and thats only for small cut and stick details that i cant be arsed to sculpt instead

Anyways, 11pm here and im booked in at 8am tomorrow to have more work on the tattoo (5 hours worth) so im heading off for the night.


Hope to see more progress when im back tomorrow vik
I am painting stuff, just a warp lightning cannon, so slow since its big, blocky and a ton of hard to reach spots.

That flyer really reminds me of something but I cant work out what is it a show a toy a movie looks really cool though and the canopy is the bomb

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
also... there was a fella here that made his "ballon/blimp" from a smaller football...go have a look into the gallery...and jackal...paper-mâché... the skill of the old ones n ever stops to amaze!

at shaso... the gondola is big 26x9x7 cm are the measurements... I have to solve the size issue of the blimp soon... also... this is still not the airship I secretly wanted to do... but it is the airship I will do now^^...

and guns/weapons are planned.... I want to add rockets and some lasgun-ish weapon systems...

That will be a BIG airship Vik as that is a HUGE gondola.

shasolenzabi wrote:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
also... there was a fella here that made his "ballon/blimp" from a smaller football...go have a look into the gallery...and jackal...paper-mâché... the skill of the old ones n ever stops to amaze!

at shaso... the gondola is big 26x9x7 cm are the measurements... I have to solve the size issue of the blimp soon... also... this is still not the airship I secretly wanted to do... but it is the airship I will do now^^...

and guns/weapons are planned.... I want to add rockets and some lasgun-ish weapon systems...

That will be a BIG airship Vik as that is a HUGE gondola.

yup... quite big... which means the blimp needs to be seriously resized to fit to the gondola...what do you think regarding the spikey look? will I get away with that in a steampunky context?

lone dirty dog wrote:That flyer really reminds me of something but I cant work out what is it a show a toy a movie looks really cool though and the canopy is the bomb

well... I can say I have been influenced by GW valks... but then I somehow went further... ^^

Jackal wrote:Paper mache and me dont mix all that well vik, i hate the stuff after years of playing with it at school.
Dont get me wrong, its nice to work with and shaping it is so easy its unreal, but its just a material i really dislike to use on models

Closest i use to that is card, and thats only for small cut and stick details that i cant be arsed to sculpt instead

Anyways, 11pm here and im booked in at 8am tomorrow to have more work on the tattoo (5 hours worth) so im heading off for the night.


Hope to see more progress when im back tomorrow vik
I am painting stuff, just a warp lightning cannon, so slow since its big, blocky and a ton of hard to reach spots.

oh... I really hate to have hard to reach places on models... I think this is why I scratchbuild as then I can avoid these^^...never knew you had ink done... what do you have...? lately I see so many peeps with tats...also... it highly depends on your materials you use for paper mache... thin easy to soak tissue paper together with PVA... works like a match made up in heaven!

It will all work out in what details you give it Vik, and you know the drill, "Rivets, lots and lots of rivets!"

RIVETS RIVETS EVERYWHERE. Viktor, the gondala is good, and the flier is coming along nicely.

That flyer is looking ace , as well as the airship gondola. My comment was meant as supportive vik, no slap intended.

all is good

details on the gondola will of course involve rivtes... and some filigree work I have done on my big red tank... this will have lots of aretful metal work... it will be a posh job^^

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
all is good

details on the gondola will of course involve rivtes... and some filigree work I have done on my big red tank... this will have lots of aretful metal work... it will be a posh job^^

Good to hear

Flyer is coming along nicely Vik. Well done on the fan blades, look very neat (most of my attempts were not). Look forward to seeing the rest of the engines as they progress.
I used loads of internet pictures of real jet engines as inspiration for my detailing work, although if you're basing the flyer on a Valk' you could follow that, or will you be steampunk-ing these up to the max?

Interesting design for the gondola, look forward to how this progresses.

Now build tiny escort planes.