Excellent chop job on the adv heroquest chappies. Very snazzy.

ldd - Obviously

Not a problem, always glad to let peeps know what they've got coming

Well I have no plans for mine....yet But they are cool!



Dr H - I try my best Glad you approve.



shaso - As ldd found, those are from warchimera http://www.warchimera.com/pl/p/Hammer-Anti-Aircraft-Defender/28

I think I need some more multi-peds - I can think of multiple uses for them



weety - Thank you. Who knows, they may even see some colour at some point


Ok, not a great deal done, but did come up with an idea for the latest LOER comp http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/629845.page

I'm thinking of a steam-punk style road accident:



Rough sketch - Neo-Londinium, heart of the Electric Empire: A one way street in the rough district of Mek-Town, home to The Clockwork Bordello, the Electro-Coil Inn, Dirty Vik's Steam Emporium and other nefarious dives. Construction site on one side of the road, buildings and an alley on the other. A roadster has collided with an automaton. A police tread-bike has turned up at the scene, and there's a variety of bystanders looking on - norms, servo-punks and mecha.

Not sure if that'll be the actual car used - as some of you mayrecall, that's a partial build that was originally destined for the grots. If that's not legal then it'll b another three-wheel design.

And started on some of the automatons....



Your standard tracked robo-servant, a large steamy R2 unit, and a pair of carrier legs....although what it's actually carrying I have no idea yet




Right, off to wind the clock-springs and shovel some coal......

Dirty Vik is very interested...

And even tho you currently try to avoid the car idea... Would love to see a steam automobile made by you...!



Cheers, vik

shaso - As ldd found, those are from warchimera http://www.warchimera.com/pl/p/Hammer-Anti-Aircraft-Defender/28

I think I need some more multi-peds - I can think of multiple uses for them


Thanks! they look interesting and about Chimera sized, interesting take on the set up inside and also the hatches as firing shields, up to 8 men can fire out of it realistically, as opposed to the GW Chimera set up.

Yeah that Multi-ped looks of a big chunky size!

Every time I look at your thread MT I'm sure things get even more bizarre, keep up the excellent work

Road crash looks cool so far

I like the idea of an everyday accident. That's good thinking that is.

Great idea for the comp, going to be a challenge for you to keep it "straight forward"!!

Everything is a crazy as I expect coming here, so business as usual.

That looks well gud monkeytroll. Very 2000AD with the droids and copbike. Hope it slides together nicely. Don't forget to paint skid marks on the road, that way the road accident investigation droid will have something to look at.

Vik - There will definitely be some kind of vehicle there A full-on steam powered automobile may have to wait till after this piece, but I'm thinking I might like to spend some time exploring this world....


Shaso - Yep, they're a pretty good match in size to the chimmy, no doubt we'll see yours in action before mine


Gir - Good-O, that's what I like to hear


Dr H - Got to love making the everyday interesting


Cam - I'm sure I have no idea what you mean. Everything is straight-forward with me


weety - Thanks a lot! 2000AD is a comparison I'll always be happy with


Slightly more done to the dio....

Warehouse detail:

Added a strip of plasticard to the bottom of the brickwork...




Then added a very thin strip to the top of that strip....




Then added some blocks below that....




Hoping for a worked stone look for the base of the building.


Added some I-beams to the top, and some thin strips up the corner...



Went back and forth a lot with how to top the walls, eventually went with the I-beam to act as a kind of conduit for various wires and ables that will be strung along. Went with a re-inforced corner basically to avoid some tedious brick work on the corner Leaving that corner strip higher than the beam for now as I haven't decided whether it will extend past the bricks or not yet.


Added some more re-inforcements on the horizontal, and started to add some vents....



The current plan is to not finish the interior at this point - the diorama is meant to be viewed from the front, and I know full well that I could get caught up adding all sorts of detail inside. However I felt there needed to be some basics in place for me to work with later.

And added the (interior) roof....



Still trying to decide on a suitable texture for the exterior roofing on this one, though I have now settled on a flat roof.



Stuck a sheet of plasticard to the cork covering the pavement and building area. I'm planning on using the cork texture as the road surface, so this brings everything up a bit from the road.
Then added a couple of thin strips to act as the kerbstones...



Then laid the paving...



I did use textured card here rather than cut the individual slabs out myself - mainly because I had the stuff, and figured I really need to start using some of y stuff rather than just hoarding it


Also cut windows and doors out of the brick textured plasticard I'm using for the bordello (slightly different patterns for the warehouse and the whorehouse) and then used that as a template for cutting the foamboard structure. Doors and windows will be embedded in the foamboard, and lintels will be added.

Then put the pieces into place to check everything was still looking right...




Still debating whether the lower floor will get a 'bay window' displaying the goods a la red-district style, or will just be a blank wall. Or possibly a window onto a sitting-room.....but I'm thinking it would either be an area that wasn't visisble to the outside if it was for waiting clients, or an area for advertisng the wares....


So, not a lot happened overall, but I thnk I've spaced it out enough to look like a rea update

This looks really good so far, you had my attention when you said whorehouse lol.

Bay window sounds like a good idea....theres some nice Malifaux ladies that would fit in to that theme quite nicely, not that I would know what said women would look like...

Yeah, Malifaux has a few I'm thinking of using here, as do a few other lines - I'm starting to wish I had made a bit more room for the brothel Maybe next time!

Not a great deal to report, mojo been a bit low recently, plus a stomach bug for a few days over the weekend, but figured I should post something to prove I'm still breathing


Put together a swordsman for Slaanesh




Started a bit of colour on some guys from earlier....




And introducing Devii and Torii....



Created in the flesh-vats of Ursalon VI.....corrupted by decades of service to chaos.....the spawn of horrific xenos rape.....rogue experiments of the Magos Biologis.....creatures from beyond the galactic rim.....
The origins of Devii and Torii Blund are not a matter of record, but are certainly found in any number of rumours. Known as the Bug Brothers (but never to their face) the pair have been spotted in the employ of many nefarious heretics across the fringes, and have a large price on their heads.

FLESH VATS. Never get tired of those two words put together. Excellent work!

Love those Adv Heroquest guys.

Glad the colour scheme reflects the chaos of the creations and great use of the dreamforge exhaust thingy

And here we are again, brilliant, beautiful buggy things. Wonderful mate. Your mind must be a truly wonderous place! LOVE IT!

Brian - Always a classic pairing And thanks!


Fifty - Only two months on and already a splash of colour I hope you're in no hurry to see what else I use your bits for


ldd - It's not all black, black, spikes and skulls over on the side of chaos you know Well, this way it'll see use before the rest of the leviathan does


Cam - Thanks a lot man! It's....a place, yeah, I thin we're safe to say it's a place...we'll leave it at that.....


Continuing to struggle with my mojo, but figured a small update on some LOER stuff might be alright




So, realised that all the measuring and cutting I'd done on the foamboard and plasticard for the windows was based around the wrong sized parts Or, to be more accurate, that I'd originally decided to just use the inner part of the frames, and realised it would not only look better with the whole thing, but also fitted the width of the foamboard walls better. The window frames I had were actually casement windows with the arch above them - one of the reasons I'd decided to leave off the outer parts originally - so I had to carefully trim them down square - couldn't be doing with figuring out brick archways above all the windows.




After getting the fit right I then stuck the two walls together.




And decided that now was a good time to start getting the floors in place for later internal work. Half-mil plasticard for the follr, with a couple of i'beams to rest them on - I'll think about planking them up at some point in the future. Decided a bit of support structure to keep everything square was in order, then added a bit of flimsy plasticard to act as the ceiling of the lower storey.




Once the floors were in place I realised that I didn't want rectangular sections for the floors - they needed to be triangular to fit in the dio properly




So I ripped out all the floors, chopped them to size and glued them back in place again When they were rectangular I was going to leave them open so you could see the i-beams in place, and maybe a bit of wiring, debris and the odd rat. They're a bit messy after the hasty re-fit though, so now I'm thinking I may blank them off with a plasticard strip and just paint it black.




Added the opposite pavement (minus a couple of slabs where the construction site has 'over-run'), a few paving slabs down the alley, a couple of drains in the gutters (completely invisible in this shot...may be just visible as background for some guys in the previous post) and splashed some black and grey around just to get a feel for how things looked.




And then had a look at the current lay-out to check it still works ok.


And that my chums is where we're at......


Live long and prosper......

Looking good MT, you did make me feel like a dirty old man though having to zoom in to see the young ladies lol

Whats that lil plastic tank unit in the bottom left of the last picture ?

Nice vignette. You've put quite a bit of effort into those buildings and it shows.

Coming together nicely and glad to see some old projects coming back into play that little hover mobil to the right is looking great still

Have to ask what is the little 3 wheeled thing out side the brothel made up of ?

I see the col gravis CC Kickstarter wheels and a Anvil Industries shoulder pad but what's the rest

O yes the Sentinel exhaust section as well

Giraffe - Well if you felt the need to zoom in to see them that means you probably are Not that there's anything wrong with that


CURNOW - That's the track uniot for weapons from PDC Gaming - came from a KS couple of years back. A quick look at their facebook page and website seems to show they're not running anymore.


Warboss - Thanks alot!


ldd - Thanks Roy! The little vehicle's main body is the old sentinel - the second version, not the original egg one, with Gravis wheels and sntinel exhaust as spotted. The front wheels are from Brother Vinni's securiton.


Not a massive update at the moment, more of a query.





As mentioned previously I had to re-do the floors in the brothel after realising they overhung the dio base. I'm now wondering whether I should do the same for the roof?

If I do the roof will be cut off along the blue line....which fits with the rest of the building, but strikes me as looking a little off somehow.

So thoughts....full roof, or cut-off roof?

Any diorama where you have to cut off the overhangs will look a little weird. The very fact that the buildings are incomplete starts that whole odd feeling. But I like the slanty roof and I think it's important to put aside your discomfort and create a consistent theme.

Tricky decision. I would say, that as you have gone so far to cut the floors down, then the roof should match. Then you can imagine the imaginary cut-off from the rest of the imaginary world that is has been cut out of...

Looking good all round.

One option may be a model railway style backscene continuing the model on into a painted 2d landscape

I agree that the roof really should be slanted - think I just needed to put the options out there to check reactions - thanks guys

Can't go with the painted backdrop as I do intend to come back to the interiors at some point - as long as I can stay away from them long enough to get the rest done

So, how does it look with the cut-away roof?

Let's have a look at where we're at....

First off, a bit more colour to the base, plus a fence, plus a manhole cover...




A couple more gubbins to the warehouse exterior, plus some of the obligatory rivets...




Some lintels, some gubbins, and even a touch of paint to the brothel....




And the layout, plus added flash just to throw the colours off




And that about covers it for now.....

Weird I posted about the cut away roof section but it has not posted

Anyway looking good my man the little details are really adding the sense of realism to this diorama, I like the addition of the fence as it seems to expand the area more so.

I think the cut away roof was the right choice all though my earlier post would have disagreed with it, so good call and obviously a reason it did not post

Couple of questions is that a walkway between to 2 buildings ?

Also have you considered adding some kind of guttering sorry dont want to add to your work but even in the future world it must still rain

Anyway looking awesome

Good detail work. Roof works. Good job.

ldd - Thanks - just hope I can get more of the detailing done before the deadline

Cutaway roof was really the only sensible choice with the rest of the layout - might have worked if I'd left all the bordello floors rectangular, but would have just contrasted too strongly against the cutaway floors. I knew in my heart that it needed to be so, just needed to put it out there before going with it

Kind of - it is a walkway, and it is between the buildings physically, but it's not designed as a means of getting from one building to the other. I see it more as the denizens of Mek-Town have added walkways, small rooms and the like wherever they can throughout the area, this just happens to be the end of one such run. It could even be connected to a fire escape further back along the alley - who knows?

It does indeed rain, however each roof has a large umbrella in place, connected to a series of small fires. When the rain extinguishes more than one fire a small steam circuit is tripped which unfiurls the umbrella. Once the inclement weather has passed it is a simple task for your robo-servant to head roofwards and re-light the fires.

Actually I have considered gutters, at least for the bordello - with it's flat roof the warehouse has drainage built into the roof (which you may or may not see ). I've been waiting till I've finalised how I'm working the roof before adding the guttering though, as that will ahve an effect on it's placement. I thought I had some roof-tile-patterned plasticard in my stash (I'm using this project as an excuse to actually make use of various bits that have been hoarded for a rainy day - if I don't use them now they'll just sit around for another few years ), but the only ones I could find were too small a scale to work well, so jury's still out on that one....


Dr H - Thank you sir!


Today, I have been mainly painting tiny bricks....






Figured that red would be a suitable colour for window and door frames on the bordello. Not convinced with the lintels so far - not sure if they should stand out a bit more from the brickwork.

Warehouse starts off a bit grimier than the whorehouse, but they'll both be getting weathered and dirtied - Mek-Town is a dirty, steamy, seedy kind of place

Hopefully have some more to show later today - progress is being made with the automatons and the vehicles...(I think..)

All of this building goodness! I like the new buildings!

LMAO I actually believed that mechanism for the rain

I see your point as to the flat roof I actually meant for the brothel more so, love the brick work very realistic especially picking out individual bricks

Also the metal work is nicely done the mix of metals finishes, once you add the weathering there will be nothing stopping you.


All those bits hidden away for a rainy day yet when it rains can you find them I think you have raised your standard on this one mate I just can't wait to see the cars added to this now

Shaso - Thanks mate! Been slacking on my catch-ups, I need to head over and see what you've done with your hanomag soon.....


ldd - They use those in the upper class areas of Neo-Londinium, not many folks in Mek-Town can afford them, or the robo-servants

Cheers, I knew it would look too flat if I left the bricks all the same.



Okay, first off a little something from the finished pile.....Yes, there is such a thing - although, obviously, it's not so much of a pile as an occasional figure, but that doesn't scan so well.....



To be honest there's not a lot different to the last time you saw him, but you know, I feel that I should mark the occasion of finishing something in some small way Hmm, actually, I do believe that's the first finished figure of the year


Meanwhile, back at the brothel....

Some robots:





The fallen - Automaton Red 2



The shocked - Automaton Pink 4



The contempltive - Automaton Green 7



The angry - Automaton Green 3 (I'm sure he was supposed to be Blue 3....guess the old blue on yellow caught me out again )

All need a litle tidy up around their number plates, and AR2 needs the loose wires coloured.



And the cause of the accident...



The Tesla Buggy.

I really needed this one to be the cause of the accident rather than the vehicle based on the old sentinel, as I wanted the driver to be out of the vehicle - the accident happened a few moments ago, giving the police bike a chance to turn up. The old sentinel really needs to have a driver in place due to the solid nature of the body - I'm really not up for trying to hollow that out
The older version of this looked just a little to big to be trundling down the narrow streets of Mek-Town, so I chopped down the fron roller legs, filled in the floor and any gaps from the previous attempt, re-did the two 'wings' and added some gubbins to them, then put a console, chair and lever inside fro detail. There's still a bit of detailing needed on the side, plus one side needs a step for access, plus I need to add a rim to the bubble canopy, and create the hinge.






Kept the girls out of shot this time to save GirrafeX's eyes from straining too hard

The sign outside the brothel is made from some nicely shaped sprue that came with my Wrath of Kings KS. It was originally planned to be horizontal, but it looked a little too clunky/large there, so fitting it vertically worked well, and enabled me to add a bit of detail to the front. I've been trying to create a female silhouette out of watch parts to place on the sign, but not had much luck so far - I may end up with just a standard silhouette with cogs etc surrounding it.....

Loving the diorama - excellent work so far mate

Good progress all round, MT. Good brickwork.

Don't forget a little light for the sign. That is, unless you are going to make it a neon sign...

 monkeytroll wrote:

Kept the girls out of shot this time to save GirrafeX's eyes from straining too hard

Thanks for thinking of me.

Those robots are looking very nice, its nice to see it all coming together.

Surely it needs a red lamp?

Ruglud - Cheers mate!


Dr H - Thank you sir! Well there were originally plans for leds and EL wire and various effects....but they've all gone out the window now And time is running ever shorter now, so we'll see how I go about showing illumination in a hurry


Gir - Not sure how many are going to make it into the competition entry now due to time constraints, but there will be girls for you to ogle over at some point


Llama - Indeed it would have got one, and who knows it still might....


So here's where we're at presently...








There'll be something done in time for end of comp, as I have tomorrow off work, not sure exactly what will make it to the entry though.......

Looking good nice to see more fantastical civilian modelling rather than the same old thing

Good work MT. Keep at it. :thumsbup:

Llama - Cheers! Never enough civvy stuff going on, but then again, it is a war-gaming forum I suppose And I hope that even when I do the same old stuff, it's not the same old stuff


Doc - Thanks! I will.......


So, finally started on the driver and a couple of the girls....




And kind of finished......

Didn't get it anywhere near what I was hoping for, bare minimun of figures I needed for the scene (victim group, driver and a solitary passer-by - afraid none of the girls made it to the final photo-shoot. Still, I guess that saves Giraffe's eyes ), and even then they're not really finished paint-wise.

Here's a few of the 'finished' pics....




More here if you're interested....http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-30344-46243_Loer%2013%20Done.html


So, lots to do still - girls for the bordello, random denizens of mek-town, furnishings for the bordello, workers for the construction site, interior details for the warehouse, more cables and wires, litter and debris, posters, police.....and possibly a few more random bits that I think of along the way.

Brother's wedding in a couple of days, so there's that to prepare for, then maybe a few chaos builds just to cleanse the palette, then back to this dio maybe over or after Easter.

Cheers for stopping by......

Although you never finished it what you have done is awesome mate and best of all it tells a story, that still has to be one of the best uses for a crappy leman russ turret and the knocked over robot is hilarious

Plus this is something you can go back and revisit add to later, I'm also really liking the ladies of leisure your adding especially the cybernetique one , well that girl has enhancements

The actual work you got done and the quality in the time frame is great, hey maybe you can add the only fools and horses to this as well I always wanted to see that finished.

well congrats to your brother " SUCKER " LOL no hope it goes well

really like the scratch build hover car. your piece came together nicely. well done!

That looks really good MT even without the Girls

I really like those robots its a great scene

Looking forwards to seeing more gir.....progress after Easter.

Cool! More of this sort of thing please!

Good job, MT. Nice looking piece even if you didn't get all you wanted done.

Look forward to seeing more of the girls... progress on it when you get back to it.

ldd - Thanks man! I will indeed be re-visiting the piece, and adding further details to it....I have plenty of bits put to one side for it. SHould have gone for something smaller if I was going to finish it

The Trotterz won't be added to this...orks don't fit in this particular world....I'm not even sure if any aliens do. I plan to expand on this world with further pieces so we'll see what occurs...but at present it's more a kind of retro-future Earth, don't think the inhabitants have expanded past the moon, or possibly Mars yet.

The Trotterz are still lying around the place though....so someday.........


Gawdam - Thanks a bunch!


Gir - Hah...cheers! Don't hold your breath...but there will be progr...I mean girls


Llama - Thanks! I'll definitely be entering this world again, and although there will be conflict I think I'll be using it to explore the more 'civilian' side of things.


Dr H - Thank you. Progress (and girls) will appear.



So, even though I didn't finish the piece I still placed third - chuffed to bits with that considering how much more I want to add.

The doc won with his wonderful crashed UFO, and so continues the cycle by running round 14:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/643658.page

Go there....read....think....make Spread the word and participate....It's the Law (that's what Joe told me....)


I think my entry is going to be more orky based, if that's correct then I'll be posting my build updates back on my cybork blog, but for now......

Well....sorry gang, those girls never did appear did they. I have done across a few still trying to make it to me-town on my recent trawl through various bit likes though, so not impossible.

Right, let's see if we can remember how this all works

Just over three years, wow, better not make any promises but we'll see if I can't produce a few bits and pieces in the future.

*** Insert lifestyle and many heartfelt apologies, memories and "I missed you guys" remarks here ***


That was less traumatic than I expected


Ok, the proper stuff (no, no rivets yet):




Inquisitorial retinue with just a touch of colour...they've had a splash of yellow added since but that's for later





The Lancer, pip. CSM who seems to have taken a leaf out of the mekboyz book...





Chaos marine put together to see if I can still build stuff....he's currently all blue, not sure I like it, seems a bit too ultrasmurfy to me


Note to self, use laptop next time, too many autocorrects on the tablet, and I'm still not sure those pics will actually appear


Anyway, I'll leave now whilst you're all still reeling from my being here. It may take me a while to catch up with all your shenanigans in the meantime

Welcome home bud.

Models are looking great, Inq are awesome, bike thingy is inspirational, and the Chaos dude is pure Monkeytroll.

....oh my look who crawled from his stone...

well...as a professional or better habitual lurker...:welcome back...!

cheers, vik

We'll look who's back in town, good to see you back mate.

Hope to see that crazy converting style of yours return, I did miss your updates always one for pushing the bar of wackiness.

Welcome home

Nice retinue you got going on, been bitten by that bug I see.

Love the termie wheelie lol nice yellow/orange tone gives it an industrial feel, especially with that damage and scratches.

But marines tut tut you failed me ha ha ha although it's cursed so will let it slide

Welcome back. and with paint... shock, horror...

Yeah, liking that terminator mono-wheel.

Welcome back! That monowheel termi has a bit of a necron destroyer lord feel... I'm loving it

Cam - Cheers, and good to be here!


Vik - I was just playing hide-and-seek, seems I hid too well..... And thank you!


ldd - Thanks dog! I'm fairy sure conversions will still be the name of the game

Always been an Inq fan, just could never settle on which direction to take with a retinue in 28mm.

If remember correctly yellow was my go-to for easy weathering...

Ahh, your memories slipping if you don't remember any marines in my work - of both sides, but obviously chaos is the more fun


Dr H - Merci mon ami! I mean, 3 years off, the least I could do was show a splash of colour....you know it won't be common.


CK - Danke! His tech-marine and apothecary had obviously spent some time watching grreenskins, took a little bit from everywhere when the re-built him...


So easing my way back in with a few concepts...still require cleaning and final posing/loads in most cases...


A little alien/mutie scumbag:






Needs a bit more gear round his waist.



A typical three-legged Slaaneshi marine:









Not sure if he'll keep the powerfist. Legs need rounding out a bit in profile, thinking he'll get circular feet, although the possibility of wheels did just occur to me


Jellyfish McGee, the tentacular chopper:






Think it has to be melee for this guy, ducking and a-weaving on his floppy, bouncy, slimy limb-likes



Another typical three-legged follower of Slaanesh:






Not sure if I want to extend his waist a little. Looks slightly off, but that's normally a good thing in my book



Snaaake:






Looked like he was just chilling and needed a gin in one hand, but I think I'll go with the pistol of plasma death for now. This gu has had a touch of glue and green-stuff already, so probably the first of this bunch to get fully made.





And plenty of gluing been going on with this one:











Needs a few more accessories, maybe some chains, definitely some sort of backpack to ensure he's a marine champ rather than a daemonic entity.



And that'll do for now methinks...thanks for popping in, and the warm welcome back!

Back two minutes and look a page full of abominations ha ha glad to see that streak hasn't been lost, I am starting to think you have some kind hate for legs or at least the everyday variety ha ha

Someone's back with a vengeance . I don't know why, but that first three-legged chaos marine has a strong 'my little pony' feel to him.. You should give him hooves and paint him up in rainbow colours

Cool jobs all round.

ldd - Not sure what you mean, some of them have three, that must surely show some leg love...


CK - Hmm, I see what you mean, maybe I'll switch the head out, think the 'mane' is adding to that vibe. Or maybe I won't......I like the idea of hooves


Dr H - Thank you.



Tiny touches of colour applied, but not enough worth showing. May attempt a bit more over the weekend, but I really need to be concentrating on my costume for BladeRunner Secret Cinema....


So instead, a few more bits of plastic stuck together (most still need cleaning and detailing):



See, 2 normal legs..






Needs some waisty type shenanigans..



A little noise marine:





Shorter legs (there's a longer legged version still waiting on weapons) meant a ranged loadout for this one.



Short style snake marine:







Probably build his base up a little bit to stop him feeling short-changed



Bit of terminator action:







Needs something on the back of the axe, and not convinced on the fist as yet....



More Snaaaake







Went back and forth several times between marine and terminator bodies, so possibly variants on this to come. Fist will be getting some kind of firearm built in, still looking at parts. Again, axe needs something to the rear.



Lars 'The Dragonfly' Maeflin:










Still in need of some pouches, and some tiny gubbins around the wings.


Maybe it for a few days, depends on how costume making goes...

Great to see you back!

Llama - Thanks mate, still feeling my way back in, but all good so far.


Had the idea earlier of actually going back through my blog to see what I was doing....should have thought of that earlier. Seems I had different ideas for several of the bits I have just re-purposed. Also seems I must have a box of semi-painted turquoise marines somewhere...have to find those babies.


So as a special treat, just a touch of colour (yes, that does mean I may be failing horrendously to get a costume ready for ....eek... Wednesday) :


The Inquisitor and his retinue:












Ugghh..forgot what close ups of paint look like. Obviously a lot of cleaning up to do before I progress further. Still debating on the colour of the jewelled netting on his robes, was thinking turquoise, but that does bring the whole scheme very close to various of my chaotic guys. At present I think his feather will be dark blue/black, but that's liable to change.



A battered veteran renegade:









Chips on the green need highlighting, face need tidying and various details.



And a colour scheme found for the ratkin:


















Boots and belts will be black. Wanted a cleaner look for these guys rather than the ubiquitous dirty-grimy-tattered-rats-in-space look. Not decided on the headgear yet, or whether to fade their noses pink or black.

Thanks for stoppin' by.

Some interesting models, as always. Loving the dragonfly dude

Nice job on the colouring in. Good collection of models.

As it's Wednesday, can we assume you got the costume done in time?

CK - Thank you, as always. I'm liking him too, I found those 'wings' and had a marine in mind, but then I was looking at bits, saw the tentacle and knew it would go with them and needed to be something else.


Doc - Got to pull the crayons out now and again Maybe even start a new habit...

Well....I got a costume done, didn't quite get to where I wanted it, but it did the job (and I discovered non-solvent UHU acts completely differently to normal UHU)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BiSEjmnBLvS/?taken-by=zac.monkeytroll


Fantastic time was had, as always at Secret Cinema - wandering around the rainy neon lit streets with replicants, LAPD, blade runners and trouble makers.




So another tiny splash of colour, this time including bonus fluff/hair


Tzeentch flavoured marine...or is he:







Part of the turquoise horde:







And a couple of new guys getting ready to hit the primer... (once they've finished being cleaned up obviously).

Answering the age old question of how do snakes get on a plane:











Played around with several weapon types for the end of the tail, but decided some kind of rattler affair worked well enough.



And in for the final sprint:











Technically not actually ready for primer as each arm needs a tiny bit of greenstuff, but close enough. Whilst I'm there I might add something to the back of the head, possibly a cable, he doesn't have any cables yet...



Thanks for stopping by, I'll get some biscuits in for the weekend.....

Looks like you had some good fun The last guy reminds me of an opponent in 40k: Dark heresy - he was bad news - nicely done. Oh, and the costume looks pretty cool Is it some kind of LARP event?

CK - I can imagine trying to base him is going to be fun

Secret Cinema is an immersive film event - you spend a few hours 'living' in the film world before watching the film in a bespoke setting, with actors playing out sections of the film in real-time around you. The big events have huge sets, large casts, lots of work, often with 1k audience on a nightly basis - you get assigned a character and can get involved to a lesser or greater degree in the spectacle before the film (this time around I was a PI who was working with the Blade Runner division of the LAPD, working to infiltrate the replicant community - except I decided I was a sympathiser and so did things my way - and got fairly drunk i the process). I have had some amazing times at these, all completely different experiences.

https://www.secretcinema.org/sc-presents/

Good to see you back. Really, really weird stuff you have going on here. The best of the best I'd say is the Inquisitorial retinue, looks very Blanche. The rest of it makes me want to give you a hug and the number to a good therapist.

 monkeytroll wrote:
CK - I can imagine trying to base him is going to be fun

Secret Cinema is an immersive film event - you spend a few hours 'living' in the film world before watching the film in a bespoke setting, with actors playing out sections of the film in real-time around you. The big events have huge sets, large casts, lots of work, often with 1k audience on a nightly basis - you get assigned a character and can get involved to a lesser or greater degree in the spectacle before the film (this time around I was a PI who was working with the Blade Runner division of the LAPD, working to infiltrate the replicant community - except I decided I was a sympathiser and so did things my way - and got fairly drunk i the process). I have had some amazing times at these, all completely different experiences.

https://www.secretcinema.org/sc-presents/

Ooh, interesting. Sounds a bit like LARP, but rules-light. Good fun to be had

Skalk - Many thanks amigo, it is good to be playing with plastic again. Weird is always my aim, really, really weird is a bullseye. And probably the highest compliment I could receive is to mention Blanche.
Or to mention therapy


CK - Definitely fun



So enjoying the lovely weather for a change, so hobby stuff has mainly been ideas related, but did start a little something.


First, let's cut one of those boring monopose hellbrutes in half, and clean up the arms whilst we're there, just for any future usage.




Then we'll follow doctor's orders and chop up some sprue too.




And glue a few pieces on top of those legs. Add a little height, helps with the self-image sometimes.




And we'll glue a touch more of that lovely sprue to something like...hmm, what have we got? Ooh...I know, an olde-worlde Chaos dread




Put that together and it starts looking a bit more interesting.




And a bit of gs to hold it together. Mixed this time with a bit of milliput to provide a firmer hold for that hefty chunk of white metal.




There'll be further layers of gs for detailing, but just added a bit of texture in case it doesn't all get covered.


Thinking it may get the hellbrute's old melta, still contemplating a close combat choice for the other, maybe extend claws or some sort of power tentacles out of a power fist, but not the old hellbrute one.

 monkeytroll wrote:
...First, let's cut one of those boring monopose hellbrutes in half...

Probably the best thing that can happen to it...

Then we'll follow doctor's orders and chop up some sprue too....

Too right.

Good work.

Knew you'd approve Doc


So as my sculpting prowess has not been tested in several years, and as it had never reached the heady heights of goodness, we'll take a cue from the old dread and add some cabling...







And better add some to the legs to help tie it together.







And then we'll have a look at those all important weapons








Thought I'd go with a version of the power flail as a box to the second (I think) chaos dread kit. Took a while to find the bits to get the arm a suitable length, was originally planning it to be further back as though he was about to lash them forward, but couldn't get that to look right at all. So he's either just slashed up some follower of the false emperor, or he's starting a backhand swing.

May play with switching out the barrels on the melta, but I think it feels more up close and personal than other ranged weapons.

Both arms will obviously need a bit of cabling whichever way they go.

That is a stunning model sir! Love the motion in the whip arm.

Wow. Really, just stunning work. Love the Gs work and the movement of the model. Excellent hellbrute. Just excellent.

Apollinaire - Thank you kindly. Let's hope I finish it up as well as I started then.


genom.cor - Much appreciated, thank you.



Been playing with ideas for demonstrates and little gribbly things, but got those weapon arms in place.











Need to get a cable in place between the combi-dakka and the body (used part of a 'bus weapon as the little ridged detail ties in with the lead dread body).
Then maybe some thin wiring and possibly a tentacle....

Then time to hide it away in the corner...err...I mean paint it obviously, yeah, paint it

I love your kit bashes and conversions. That dread is awesome. Your orks are still my favorite. But for me it’s all about the orks.

Excellent to see them back that Dreadnaught is excellent ties together well.

Nice work, MT. Pose works well with the lashes. That's the backhand to end all backhands

schank - Big thanks! The mad doks and meks will return to their chopping at some point, never fear. But chaos was my first love I'm gaming and modelling, so it seemed only fair that my return to dakka should give the flesh-labs the work-out they never really got first time round. It's only a matter of time till the pieces going together form patterns that are more orky than chaotic.


Llama - Thanks very much, been having fun with the dread, especially as it was just a case of picking up the hellbrute and seeing what occurred


Dr H - Thank you. He sometimes misses the ball, but he never seems to lose a game.....



So dread-brute has been getting a bit of clean-up and tidy, nothing worth showing though.

Did start playing with some daemonettes though (a dangerous game, but oh so fun)...








Needs a belt and some trinkets, possibly some work on the waist, depending on how I do the belt. Maybe some work on the loincloths, add some more prominent folds.






Bit of tidying, maybe a tail








Fair bit to do round the waist area, and tidying on the arms. Considering this one had somewhere to attach the legs, they gave me far more trouble than the first girl.



And a couple of gribbly little things









No good angles for the bigger one, hopefully when painted and based he'll present better. May redo the legs on the walking head.



And something that feels a bit more nurgly than slaaneshi







Head and wings are still being considered. Possibility I might try building a pair of lift rotors like the bloat-drones.



Cheers for stopping by.....

Holy crap I love your work. Orks where my first love. But I love what your doing with chaos. The the whole demon and mutation aspect of it. Makes me want to do some myself. But still so much orkiness to work on. And necromunda has tikled my fancy.

Gods I have missed you....

I love thinking out side the box and you sir are so far outside the box you are positively on another planet!

Wonderful work, keep it coming.

schank - Orks let me take the craziness of Chaos and up it exponentially, I'd not really touched them before I found Dakka, but when I did there were a few blogs showing what could be done (Arakasi and Commissar Khaine in particular) and I found a while new world to play in. Many thanks indeed.


Cam - Missed all you guys too. Good to be back at it. Coming from you that's high praise indeed, merci mon ami!



Just need one little piece to finish the dread-brute off, and then I can get him primed. (I think it's a grenade/smoke launcher that I'm after, have a space on one shoulder that needs filling, I'll have a good root around tomorrow)


Found lots of 'new' toys today whilst trying to find some bits for graven. Whole orders I'd forgotten about, some which will probably be forgotten about again before they see knives and glue, but some which I've started poking at, and a few big pieces I need to think about, before starting to chop.


So with that in mind, not an awful lot of actual work took place, but there was a little bit...


Bringing you that heavy heavy claw'n'bass sound:







There's still a need for servitors in Slaaneshi warbands, the slaves can get worn through so quickly. And any self-respecting Slaaneshi magos is going to want big claws and sonic weapons on his servitor right?
Needs more gs work around the waist, rebuild part of the belt, and I expect he'll need a few cables after that.


Big jobs:







Still sorting through loadouts for the big guy, and looking for something to close up his undercarriage rather than gs. Also needs feet. Maybe.



Feel my tentacles:





Arms and backpack not glued yet, left arm and pack may change. Right arm is going to be a bit Lovecraftian wolverine with three claws tentacles writhing out from the knuckles to worm their way into some poor loyalist's brain.


Not sure if progress this week will be fast as I chop up new found goodies, or slow as I contemplate chopping up other new found goodies


Thanks as always for stopping in.

Wow, I did not know you had a blog dedicated to Chaos MonkeyTroll, I'lll definitely be following it now. The moebius chaos ring is just amazing. And in your later builds, I especially very fond of your old school chaos dread revival !

Looking forward to the next updates.

That guy with the sentinel legs is looking pretty amazing

Cool jobs.

What's the body piece for the big guy from? Looks necron, but not GW.

Very neat and some of the more chaotic stuff I've seen. Those old Urban Mammoth/I-Kore figs are great for conversions.

You are a crazy old wizard, that's for sure. Of course, now I want to get & convert a helbrute...

KernelTerror - I can't blame you for not knowing as I've been inactive for a few years Much obliged that you stopped in, and thanks for the kind words. That moebius road is in a sorry state these days, but that means I may scavenge the protagonists for a new lease of life.....


CK - I've been playing with that body on tracks for a looong time, never really got anywhere - although I have a few so will try again at some point - as soon as I thought about legs it all made sense Pretty sure he'll keep those arms, just need to tidy up the actual leg joins, and decide on feet.


Dr H - Thank you!

It's from the Puppet Wars not-necron range Their not-canoptek-wraiths, which I obviously needed for the robotic claws and 'tails' (as seen below)


kestral - Many thanks indeed! They do have some nice parts for chopping.


graven - That I am And of course you do......who in their right mind would want to use one as is???




Been trying to put together a corrupted magos all week, but it just wasn't happening. The 'base' was two bits I glued together in the distant past, ostensibly to make a robot-snake marine, but never got that looking the way I wanted either, hence attempting to make a dark mechanicus out of it. And then today, when messing about with the parts I'd put aside for backpack bits I put one in the head-space, and boom.....realised it was a servitor, and knew what bits were needed elsewhere.












I like the look of the eyes as they are, but know that I should really be adding another layer - either the lenses themselves, or something behind the lenses, as they don't make a lot of sense to just be thick old lenses coming straight out the front. But we'll see....



And once the servitor was done, the magic came together from completely different bits:










Still needs a bit of work. Axe head needs changing, extra arms and vents on the backpack, some additional limbs coming off the lower body. But I have all the pieces together, just need to figure out exactly how they fit.



And although it's not colour, technically it is painting....















And that's about it. As always, thanks for stopping by.

That Helbrute dread is beyond spectacular.

Some nice progress! +1 on, the hellbrute, that's a lovely piece of work.

Brilliant stuff looked at the Daughters of Khaone models?

Hrm. I know I wrote a reply when you first posted that bastardized Dreadnought, must have closed it by accident (I post from work mostly). Since then so much more have gone on, but that dread is excellent. I mean wow, it's really good! The GS really makes the transition across the decades work.

The rest of your stuff is excellent modeling and paint coming along well, I can see where you're going with this. I also wonder how many Hieronymus Bosch prints you have in your house.

graven - Ahh, too kind amigo. Let's hope I don't mess it all up in the colouring stage hey I mean, normally that would be several years away, but maybe I'll look at some actual painting....it's not just an M blog after all.I


CK - Thank you sir. I'm still liking it a lot myself, always a good sign.


Llama - Many thanks. I have a box of the Melusai and two Cauldrons of Blood, all stewing in the flesh vats. I keep switching out torsos on the Melusai snake bodies, otherwise you would have seen one by now. Think I have the first one coming together now though. All sorts of ideas for various parts from the Cauldrons, some you may see soonish, some maybe later.


Skalk - I mainly post on my Fire tablet atm, so have numerous issues (biggest being bloody auto-correct) - completely understand losing replies. The original is a classic sculpt, that needs surprisingly little to blend it with more modern pieces - and luckily it ties in very nicely with my own predilection for tentacles and cables and such
Off the top of my head I can only think of one book I have dedicated to Bosch - wonder where that is.......



So alongside the dark magos, I've been trying to figure out a corrupted Inquisitor as a foil to the more loyalist one seen earlier. Fairly sure I now have the base sorted:



Very much still in the blu-tack stage, but you get the idea.

Unless I go this way:




At least I have the first acolyte sorted for whichever comes to life first:





And just a bit of fun for now, but when playing with the female body I couldn't resist seeing what might occur like this :






And the turquoise horde moves ever onwards...... albeit slowly



There's more metallics on these guys than show here




Squiggly Pointy and Noisy-lost-my-chopper




Armour dulls the senses




Lost his head in the excitement over meeting Dale Winton




Coming home from the dungeon party




Which way? I can't see you man....




Can we make a full set between us?




The heavy mob




En pointe




Got the moves like Jagger


Far from the best pics, but they show progress at least.

Trying to find the right balance with the inks, I like the vibrancy and colour, but it's a little patchy as more layers go on, and I'm not getting the highlighting to work as intended. Indeed the best highlights were when I just had a thin white on the edges before I re-layered the turquoise. I may try a thin white with a drop of ink to edge with. Not overly happy with where a lot of the flesh tones have gone either. Have some more pinks, purples and stony colours coming, so I can play with different tones.

Jokes aside, you're building some incredible stuff here. The Blanche influence is apparent but it's not the definition of your work. To me it's also Lovecraft meet Geiger meets (insert name of any insane medieval artist commissioned by the church) meets Monkeytroll. Because in the end, you have the final influence in how these models look.

Your work has frequently been edgy, always the stuff of nightmares, and shows the impossible and horrific side of Chaos. Truly illustrates the consequence that awaits all that turn from the Emperor's light.

Haven't seen a group shot of past accomplishments in a long time. If you've the interest and have the opportunity to do that I would really enjoy it. Or I could not be lazy and surf your photo gallery.

I'm loving that hellbrute, great update of a classic model!

Twisted and Colorful, that will be a good batch !

I turn my back for too long and Slaanesh pops up...that’s just a bad imagery there . Loving the oldschook dreadnought conversion. I always liked that face/head but the body never worked for me. Lots of cool other kitbashes in the lot including your flying chaos marine .

Hadn't actually got around to praising you on the Chaos dread and the overall great effect you've achieved on him and your latest batch of guys with that boney flesh. I think i see you went about it with washes?

The boney flesh reminds me of stuff from that old computer game 'Darkseed', which if memory serves had some genuine H.R. Giger designs in it.

The conversion is really seamless on the dread, it's almost like it's a model you could buy off the shelf, hopefully you don't see that as a backhanded complement hehe (it's not meant to be ).

All looking seamless with some paint on. Good work.

Skalk - Oh stop it you, you'll make me blush Seriously, thank you so much. Those were all influences on me growing up, along with many others, no surprises there.

"The impossible and horrific side of Chaos" - fantastic, these are the aspects I was always aware of from my introductions to the warhammer worlds, so to know some of that shows through tells me I'm on target with my aims.

I'm always a little wary of group shots when so much is unfinished - but with a long weekend coming up I'll try to focus on finishing enough for at least a few small groups.


CK - Good to hear that, thanks. I think the legs were the weakest part of the original, so it shouldn't have been surprising that this swap works as well as it did. Although putting it on a Trygon body was still an option Oh wait, I have other plans for that.......


KernelTerror - An apt description indeed, many thanks. Maybe use that on a tagline if I ever make posters for the Cirque de Terreur.


Theo - Don't turn your back on the old gods....never can tell what they'll do when you're not looking, they're bad enough when you are. If I pull off a reasonable paint job maybe I'll have to source another torso from ebay...I have at least another hellbrute, and who wants to make them as is? Thank you.


Perkustin - No worries, I'm still easing my way back into dakka-land, so not expecting lots of traffic here. Washes indeed - before I dropped out for a while I was playing with priming white, washing a brown/flesh/back and then drybrushing back up through cream to white to give me a base for colours, then using inks and washes primarily. Haven't got the technique quite right yet, as I think it needs a more subdued palette than I tend to use, but it's all practice right?
Definitely took it as a complement




So I've mainly been dusting off (literally) various guys and gals to see what state they're in, and what repairs they need, so no progress to show, and little in the way of interesting new concepts - none I think I'll go with anyway.

But I do hate to update with no pics whatsoever, so I'll just drop the one to satisfy my own whims.



Edited for ninja doc....

Dr H - sneaking in there, thank you sir!

Is that a cryx deathchicken you've harvested for papa nurgle? Sweet!

That 'en pointe' guy with all the tentacles really makes me uncomfortable to look at. Kudos!

 monkeytroll wrote:
...Edited for ninja doc....

Dr H - sneaking in there, thank you sir!

I do try.

Good... er.. thing, you have going there.

graven - Partially correct It is a cryx deathchicken......


Scraper - I'm certainly happy with that as a compliment


Dr H - Keep at it It is a thing isn't it?



So I had planned to finish a few things off to see if I could make up some sort of group shots. I picked out those that were closest to actually being complete and those that belonged with others, and as it was a subset that looked realistic I dusted them down, repaired any errant limbs, and put them next to my chair.

Then quite obviously I picked up some bits and built this:









The magos is still coming together, so the flesh-vats obviously popped out another survivor to see if it could help. Unfortunately it's more combat orientated than techy, oh well.
Flesh came out more purple than I intended, but it's fine. Once the rest is finished there'll be some touches of red and yellow where flesh joins metal.


Made a start on the little servitor too:



He, in the other hand, was meant to be that purple.


And on the subject of servitors:






Really struggling to get these brasses showing clearly, I'll have to try editing the pics next time round. Not sure on torso colour yet.....



And a touch of colour to the leggy daemonettes :














First needs her 'clothing' finishing, second needs more colour on the head sections, then both will get various washes/glazes over the claws. Still deciding if I want to add a souvenir to the second one's chain.



Also got these two prepped :






I'm now thinking the would-be acolyte might make a good astropath for one of the gestating rogue inquisitors/dark magi. So a bit of a think on whether to change up his polearm.



Couple of the latest marines got prepped too:









And found a scheme I liked so much for the turquoise horde that I have it to three at the same time :










So, wasn't what I meant to paint, but it is paint....almost in danger of this becoming a real P&M blog rather than just an M blog




Oh, yeah, and that guy.....

Tentacular Spectacular !

graven - hmm, I now believe that some of the d'Basqueville crew, or more likely the Cirque de Terreur, should be housed in the Moulin Rogue,


So managed to finalise the dark magos:










And then managed to get some colour on him too.....














Should have gone a shade darker with the robe highlight I think, we'll see how a couple of washes bring that together. Missed a mould line on his shoulder too...



And just in case you were wondering what happened when R2 met Cthulhu..... (I know you were)

The arch magos is outstanding. You cannot tell it's a kitchen.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
The arch magos is outstanding. You cannot tell it's a kitchen.

Agreed! My first impression was dining room but with a "den-ish" feel to it.

I was going for lounge....So I think Skalk pretty much got it......

My autocorrect freaking hates me

I feel your pain graven - mainly updating on my Fire tablet, and the auto-correct is horrendous...(it just decided auto-correct was anti-virus for instance)


As the magos was getting close to an actual completed figure I decided I'd better whip up a base for it.

Thought I might try something other than my standard rubble/urban wasteland type thing and figured something similar to this guy might work well for mechanicus dudes



May also re-purpose this base at some point...


So started on the platform, one wide strip of thin plastics to build up the sides, and a partial circle of slightly thicker stuff for the floor. As it was very thin plasticard, thought a couple of internal beavers would be a good shout.



Cut out a strip for the front face, glued it in place, and trimmed down to get things flush.



Found some off-cuts of two different textures for the two levels, but then to shape and attempted to file them smooth. But too heavy-handed with the tread-plate it turns out.



Glued some of the detritus from my cutting mat along the bottom to represent....err, detritus, and added a support for pipework



Added a couple of pipes, a hazard plate for the edge, and a bit more cheap stacked against the lip.



And dropped a bit of colour on it.




Added a few years to the bottom, and dusted some up for possible placement on top. Too many colours on the washes there, should have all been a bit thinner. Since given it a quick sponge with silver and an all-over wash with flesh to tone it down a bit. Will probably get some rust powders stabbed around when figure goes on.
It still looks a little busy colour-wise, and not as good as I wanted - quick, late night work - so it may end up going to a servitor instead.



And praise the Omnissiah, this looks completed (bar any touch-ups that I notice on the close up pics)

Archmagos Stallax Norii


















So I see one of his eyes is wonky, missed a wash on the backpack skull, couple of wires and backpack doo-dads need tidying.
And think he needs a darker base, that one is too busy in terms of colour.

Still pretty darn awesome dude. I rather like the base colours the way they are.

I like it. A lot. No need to scrap the base (ja! See what I did there?), maybe just tone down the orange rust on the lower part a bit?

"Added a few years to the bottom" You, sir, are a poet.

P.S. Auto-correct woes? You won't really know what that is untill you try to use two languages simultaneously on the same device, trust me.

graven - Thank you sir.

Lt - Many thanks. I still plan on hitting it up with some rust powders, which technically is adding more orange rather than toning down, but I hope it may even everything out a little.


No decision as yet, I suspect I'll make up a variety of bases and see where they go before commuting to any.


And thus Epsilon Serpentis Three Gamma has no base of his own, and is presented here on the same base previously frequented by his master. (Think of it as two pict-captures taken as the magos and his trusty servitor pass by a security cam if it helps)












I used some of the gloss gel I use to seal my abstract works on his eyes, but it's not dried as expected, left them a little grainy.
In dire need of re-stocking my paints, I keep opening them to find they've dried up drier than a dry thing that's been dehydrated. My Vallejo and P3 ranges are mainly inks, washes and a few odd colours. Time to start building up again.

Great job, MT.

I see no problems with the base either; like it.

edit: and you have ninja'd your way in there as I typed this time.
Good job on him too.

Those snake things are amazing. I am.particularly.glad to see that the Magos still.feels.the need to wear a belt

Really loving the Adeptuus Mechanicus is he created as a specialist drain cleaner or a chimney sweep?

Dr H - Thanks, and....... ...thanks. Still haven't got round to further base shenanigans, so no changes there yet.


Flinty - Cheers! That's part of his coupling system. When he gets home of an evening after a hard day's Magosing he takes off the metal snake and attaches the plushy snake, so as not to scuff up the hab-unit.


Llama - Thank you. As a high ranking Magos he is fully equipped for multi-purpose duties, and can function in both roles, as well as squiggoth-scale endoscopy.I


So mainly ideas-focused recently as I think about some upcoming projects I'm prepping for - plus a bit of time spent back in Tamriel on The Elder Scrolls.

As proof of life I submit some marginal colouring....



The deadly dancers of Troupe d'Basqueville, had planned pink and purple, but the brush said otherwise.




Fixy and Stitchy - tech-support and first-aider for the turquoise horde. Should really start thinking on a name for that warband.





Close enough to finishing that I now need to figure out who he belongs to in order to determine how he gets based...



And the smaller stuff I've been playing with....

I had this guy a while back


But I'm not really feeling him these days, so he got bisected.





One half will likely be something like this, maybe a little more gribbly.


Other half I like a lot, but couldn't figure out a good 'shell' for his back. Haven't found a good techy type solution yet, so for now I just delved into my trusty bag of tentacles.




Many moons ago I got caught up in Block Mania and spent some coins in the Judge Dredd kickstarter. Although Iwas really excited about the figures as they slowly rolled in, I've realised I'm going to do little with them, so am going to sell on most of them, keeping back a few that I can use. One of the few I had painted was a fatty, and looking at him the other day, realised he had the makings of a great champion



Those are fairly standard placeholder arms at the moment. And still debating on the walker as here, or having him float, with a couple of daemonettes in smaller floating hemispheres pulling him along. I think the latter is more likely, but this isn't bad as a concept.


Have some leave coming shortly so hopefully get some more painting done, get a few more blu-tacced guys glued up and finalised, and start work on

Trygon/Soulgrinder mix as a daemon prince

Dryad Hamadreth into a Slaaneshi hellbrute type thing

28mm Dropzone walker into a hellbrute

Ghost in the Shell spider tank into a stalk tank


Or maybe cave in on payday and go grab some arkanaut floaty things and some custodes jetbikes

 monkeytroll wrote:
...but couldn't figure out a good 'shell' for his back...

I see what you did there, you're not getting that past me, no sir-ee.

Good work.

Those dancers are uttery creepy, good work!

Also I thoroughly approve of this ... err .. thing's base That's basically how I make mine.

Dr H - I honestly didn't even register it until after I'd typed it..... I just thought he looked like a homeless turtle guy, and only caught it when I proof-read Although as I'd also been playing with the spider tank kit my subconscious was probably fully aware of what I was doing.
And cheers.

OMN - Thank you. The models are excellent, all I did was some arm swapping.
I think my main issue with the base is the paint, bit of a rush, could do better. Still haven't built any more yet, I'll get on that soon.


First day of a long leave, and afternoon was productive. A few tiny touches of paint across several models, but not enough to warrant any new pics. But did get some building done.


I thought the Sylvaneth Drycha Hamadreth has potential as a Slaaneshi walker, like a daemonette in an exo-suit.

So first thing to do was put the legs together.



Adding an extra one obviously Originally was going to clean off all the branches, but I decided they just needed tidying a bit to become tentacles. Adjusted the fit of one leg to even them out a bit when the third went in.




The rear armour actually made a decent thigh guard with minimal fuss, and liked a few rods inside the gaps.






Some form of gatling cannon seemed an obvious choice to me....mainly just because I like gatlings. Had a fitting from part of the rear armour that was reasonable as a mount, just needed some work to get a good placement. But after looking at it force while I figured this was a sleeker, more agile walker, so close combat called.




That looks more like it.





Whilst I was fiddling with weapons I also found the power plant I needed - that poor hellbrute model has been quite useful to be fair Also shown is the right thigh armour. A case of poor planning there to start with - I had filled the space with greenstuff, marked out some borders, then went to find some hex rod that I wanted as a press for the hexagonal holes. Came back and realised the only rod I had was far bigger than I needed. As in hard job to get two holes across the thigh! Had a very vague idea that there might be a tiny Allen key set somewhere, but not convinced, and no idea where, so had to pull out the gs which by now had been in a while
So instead I found an armour piece that I didn't intend using, cut it up, thinned it out, bent it about, glued it in place, and tidied the edges with greenstuff.






Added a few obligatory cables and tentacles, and after trying a few heads settled on a sister's of silence version. I had been tempted to use a bald head and cable hardware it into the walker, but decided against it in the end.















There's a couple of places that need some more greenstuff once cured, and I think another cable and a touch more work on the front plate to bring it together, but good to go.

I've left her with pointy stabby type feet for now, but I reserve the right to add the other toes if I want










I think that'll do.......

 monkeytroll wrote:
I thought the Sylvaneth Drycha Hamadreth has potential as a Slaaneshi walker, like a daemonette in an exo-suit.

I fakking love Drycha mecha conversions. And yours is no exception, cool end result and great head choice.

- Salvage

Salvage - Thanks, much appreciated!

And so into the painting...... (I know....shocking, right?)












Once the metals get a highlight I'm planning on some subtle washes/glazes over the top to break up the silver slightly. Or maybe try fading some of the silver into bone......

The other hellbrute got a bit of attention too, but mainly on the cables, so I'll leave pictures till there's a bit more to show.

Your demons are awesome. Love the fat man. Reminds me of the bad guy from the old sonic games.

I see your creativity and awesomeness have only flourished in my absence. Slaaneshi is looking very nice and well executed. I guess I'm going to *have* to wade back through what I have missed

Schank - Many thanks! Dr Robotnik lives!


Arakasi - Well as I've been out for a few years myself I'm not sure flourished is the right term And I'm not happy with my current painting - too much reliance on inks and washes, and trying to rush through it. Need to get some pieces finished that will forced out of that habit.
And I think it'll be paddling rather than wading, what with my absences....I seem to recall even the cyborgs got little love for a year or so before my break....


Didn't feel like a painting evening today, so looked around for something to chop up


And I found something







Although to be fair, there was only a little bit of chopping....the original legs had been chipped off previously to use on some scuttling thing (used to be some kind of crab-man - claws have also been donated to the Limbs For Slaaneshi Veterans fund).
As a bit of a change this one is favoured by Nurgle. No idea what it is yet....a servitor maybe?


And as I had the greenstuff out...





Gap filling the fur, and smoothing the arm joints....Although I wish I'd looked at the picture earlier, that close-up shows it's not as smooth as I thought.
This fella will end up as a daemon Prince for the Slaaneshi beastmen that are floating around somewhere. Don't have any suitable claws for him yet, so may have to attempt some real greenstuff work. Considered some techy bits on him, but had nothing I liked. Possibly a weapon hand, have to see where he goes.






Mainly gap filling again, to allow further sculpting later, but a few details crept in. Only thing I know about this guy so far is he'll have at least three arms.


Interestingly, all three of these guys have no plan in place - no blu-tacc'd concepts or mock-ups before I started, just straight in with glue and greenstuff, which isn't unheard of, but is definitely unusual across several projects, especially when they're all of above average size. Wonder where we'll end up?

Making stuff is so much more satisfying than buying something! It's amazing to see the finished results of your mind's creativity... keep up the fantastic work!

Private Benjamin - Many thanks! I, like many others in these parts, have an inherent inability to make something out of the box


So didn't have to try and sculpt a big claw for my beastman keeper of secrets, managed to piece one together out of the region bits not being used for the other daemon prince.



Also got a set of talons from one of the daemon princesses I have laying around - no longer sure who's from where as they've all been sitting untouched for years. (After commenting on someone's titan-forge daemon the other week, saying I must get one as it would suit my techno-slaanesh vibe I actually discovered I had one I'd completely forgotten about )
And after several different fits I decided on the soul-grinder's sword.


And after priming and washing





More just to get a feel of colours than anything else. Red cloth, reddish armbands, belt either black or red leather, claw purplish, think I'll change the breastplate to brass, and thinking the sword may have a blue lava type effect (black with blue shining from the cracks), gold details.

I was thinking I might try for a pale skin, with blond fur, almost albino like. Not sure if I can pull that off.
Not sure I can pull off all that skin on a big model anyway Going to try and take my time with it, work on layering and blending. Was tempted to start earlier, but I need more paints, and knew I'd just end up rushing through with the wrong colours and being disappointed in the end. So he's definitely sitting aside till payday


As I'm pulling out various kits I bought years ago to see what they actually are I did come across a set of Japanese spaceships (United Nations Combined Cosmo Fleet from Space Battleship Yamato)


I believe they were probably bought thinking there might be some interesting gubbinz for orky meks to play with

Started only pushing bits together (I do love how most Japanese kits fit together) and realised these were the squid I was looking for.

So a quick delve into the bag of tentacles ...











These are the two baby squid-drones. There's two more similar to cone, then four bigger ones

Floating cyborg squid - The inevitable results of a team-building /bonding session in town between the dark mechanicus and the dark biologus...

Nice conversions on the big Mierce bull

- Salvage

Good work all over.

Like the robo-squids. The sort of thing Dr. Robotnik would be proud of.

Salvage - Cheers Boss! Tried to keep it fairly simple, but did discover I actually have another version, so may try some more interesting chop-shop shenanigans with that one (don't hold your breath obviously)


Doc - Merci! Hopefully he'll be more nervous of them when done.


And on that note, four littl'uns and a big'un under the brush.....

Great looking KOS , well executed, even just the wash phase makes it look menacing.

I must be the only guy on DakkaDakka that doesn’t have a stash of space ship Yamamoto

Those robo squids are ace.

I'll have to look for that kit for my own space fleets.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Schank - Many thanks! Dr Robotnik lives!


Arakasi - Well as I've been out for a few years myself I'm not sure flourished is the right term And I'm not happy with my current painting - too much reliance on inks and washes, and trying to rush through it. Need to get some pieces finished that will forced out of that habit.
And I think it'll be paddling rather than wading, what with my absences....I seem to recall even the cyborgs got little love for a year or so before my break....


Didn't feel like a painting evening today, so looked around for something to chop up


And I found something







Although to be fair, there was only a little bit of chopping....the original legs had been chipped off previously to use on some scuttling thing (used to be some kind of crab-man - claws have also been donated to the Limbs For Slaaneshi Veterans fund).
As a bit of a change this one is favoured by Nurgle. No idea what it is yet....a servitor maybe?


And as I had the greenstuff out...





Gap filling the fur, and smoothing the arm joints....Although I wish I'd looked at the picture earlier, that close-up shows it's not as smooth as I thought.
This fella will end up as a daemon Prince for the Slaaneshi beastmen that are floating around somewhere. Don't have any suitable claws for him yet, so may have to attempt some real greenstuff work. Considered some techy bits on him, but had nothing I liked. Possibly a weapon hand, have to see where he goes.






Mainly gap filling again, to allow further sculpting later, but a few details crept in. Only thing I know about this guy so far is he'll have at least three arms.


Interestingly, all three of these guys have no plan in place - no blu-tacc'd concepts or mock-ups before I started, just straight in with glue and greenstuff, which isn't unheard of, but is definitely unusual across several projects, especially when they're all of above average size. Wonder where we'll end up?

That robot in the first pics would make a great Chaos titan in 6mm scale!

Good job on the squiddies. Good colours.

Theo - Thanks, in twilight it looks like it's done, then I see it in light and remember I now have paints and need to crack on.....I'm blaming the heat for not doing so

And don't worry little Petey doesn't have any batt......what's that Pete? Oh yes. That is a very fine spaceship cruiser you have there. hmm. Sorry, yep just you....


KK - Thanks a lot. HLJ are obviously a good bet, but you know this stuff better than me There are a few more kits in the same range that are rather nice too. I've been dreaming of a full army of robo-sqids recently.......


Malika - True. It's only gained one arm so far, so could still go in a variety of directions....


Doc - Cheers. I haven't progressed further as yet, I'm now debating their actual origin, which may change the scheme - at least on the technological parts.

They were planned (in as much as I 'plan' anything) as servitor types for some dark mechanicus, or at least a dark magos connected with a Slaaneshi warband. Then I started thinking a bit of weathering around the 'vanes' on some of them might be nice, show them as multiple working parts rather than a whole. That coupled with vague ideas of creating more cyber-cephalopods (currently planning an octopus as I have a great body for that, but keep forgetting to pull out the milliput - GS tentacles will not hold the weight of this one) has led me to question what I want them to represent, and that will in turn affect the scheme. Industrial yellow is always a favourite of mine when it comes to weathering, red might be good, but a little too close to the bio-parts, green if they're militarised - none of those feel right if I keep them as Slaaneshi, mechanicus or otherwise.
Basically, I'm thinking about it



And with uncanny precision, I have a new post with new stuff, rather than finishing old stuff. It has been ridiculously hot in my water-borne tin-can though, so I really haven't felt like painting would work all that well.

There's been the afore-mentioned arm on the nurgly thing, but that's not worth a show. There's been some cutting and gluing and prodding around some nurgly marine types, but that's all still just various pieces.



So there is a new daemonette to go hang around with the other girls as they wait for full make-overs in acrylic colours.





And I figured the couple of cultists I have awaiting final touch-ups paint wise need some more back-up.



Like the others, a very basic weapon swap on a Judge Dredd cultist.




And a sigmarite sister (?) waiting for her new GS hoodie to cure so I can finish it off. Think she'll be keeping the two daggers...she's some kind of priestess or oracle in the cult, going to have her hood extend into the 'scarf' as a rank signifier.


The actual basic members from the Sect of the Sacred Internal Light are all armed with fairly basic weapons, these are the guys sitting in the pews during the standard meetings and ceremonies, dressed in their robes, with whatever weaponry they could get easily.

They also have a more active arm comprised of the Light Bringer units. These guys have a bit more training, and access to a reasonable armoury. They're the trouble-shooters, the snatch-squads, the guys that actually get stuff done.



The heavy. Considered having the hammer resting other way up, with his hand resting on top, may still go back there. Originally it was going to be a huge chainsword, but..... Might also give him another hand weapon in his other hand.




The blade master. Started with eldar blades, didn't feel quite right, switched to two of the larger ad-mech blades, but they felt a little clunky together, so a classic katana/wazikashi combo updated for the 41st. May have a bionic hand for the larger, may get a head swap too.




The sniper. Was going to base the rifle off a skitarii weapon, but felt too much.




The gunslinger. Was going to be the tech-guy, with more conversions than just a head swap - may still be.....




The tracker. Illicit technology provided by the cult. Wheels and possibly mechadendrites to be added.




Together with the already started leader (for now, already has several formidable opponents lining up to relegate him to second-in-command, or possibly The Enforcer) and The Shotgun Guy.




Oh yeah, and there was this guy:



The Watcher. A vid-pict capturing scribe-servitor for a radical, or perhaps heretic, inquisitor. I like him, but he's sitting on the side for a while as I decide if I like him enough to actually make him in this form.



Thanks for popping in.

Looking good. Quite taken with the blade master and curious to see how the Watcher turns out.

Gunslinger is a glorious kitbash. You mad wizard you.

Arakasi - Thank you. Blade master was originally going to be the Sniper, but I was having too many issues getting the arm and gun right.....As is often the case, all the better for it I feel. Still debating whether she gets a snazzy van Saar helmet, or a harlequin half mask, or just keeps her head - either bald or with a punk-do. I'm curious too....it's not quite what I was after, but close enough that I don"t want to disregard it just yet.


graven - Cheers fella! Just a minor head swap though It's tempting to take him out of the gang and work him up as a Wesley Dodds Sandman though



Priority of the day: getting the various cult members glued down, under-coated, and first layer of turquoise down.

Not going to surprise anyone if I reveal now that is not what happened.


Recently I've doodled a number of little sphere based thingies on the edges of various notepads atvwork. Tentacled, legged, winged, tracked...And The Watcher was the first attempt at doing something with the idea. As I've stated, not quite what I wanted, but almost there. So started hunting for alternative legs (rather than just switch to a different variant - I know the tentacles one would seem a no-brainer for me ).

Sentinel is too big, but that idea is a place-holder for working with a bigger sphere - too big for a scribe, but potential for something there.
Old egg style sentinel not too bad, need to thin out the rather spherical hip joint though to avoid just a bunch of spheres. And still a little bit too big.

Don't immediately see the iron strider legs, but think they'll be too long again. So go digging in some boxes. And The Watcher goes out the window...




So we start with the armiger hips (told you Watcher was relegated )



Need to narrow them, so the hip joints get sliced off and saved for later. The opening this leaves is a little small for the ball socket that's going in there, so cut away a bit of excess plastic, and funnel shape the opening a bit. That then gets filed smooth, but that was after the picture.





Torso of the armiger gets put together, making sure the tentacles and pilot survivor are in place and he can seeing the open-top.

No! That's not where we're going, don't fear. However the top does stay off, as I don't know what the top will be. In fact I realise at this point that all I do know is something about the legs.

Time to play with some blue-tac then.




These fit nicely along the top edge. May be handy knowing that later.




That looks like it might be kind of fun. Requires some filling underneath, and either green-stuff to complete the 'exhaust fins' or some rather awkward chopping of the remaining tyranid armour to utilise the plastic. But still interesting.


As the blue-tac is out, and things are getting tried, it might be worth seeing what can be done overall.




Now that does seem promising. May need a 'tail' to balance it out a bit if so.




Interesting. More Slaaneshi with that head, will need some fiddling to get it to fit better, and a bit of work to get the armour segments looking right. Armour may be a little too angular against the rest.






Big rotary cannon and some tentacles you say? Why not indeed. Pretty standard load out for me, but always a fun one. The original head looks a little small now, and gets lost with that angular segmented armour. Shoulder pads seem okay though. That'll depend on what armaments end up there I guess.

The legs are a tiny bit shorter than the originals, I had thought I was going to create an extension similar to the bottom of the sentinel legs, but it seems fine without it I think. Maybe if it gets that actual loading I might do it, just to bring it a little taller?


In the middle of this fun, also chopping away at another pair of legs



Now pay attention. Not to me, to what you're doing. If you don't, you may just end up with a huge cut right down the length of a thigh, rather than across a hip. If you're sawing sonething...give it your full attention, and ensure you know where you're cutting and why.
Little right angle chunks taken out of the hip...plus a little space to fill with that bit of green-stuff you get left over after making whatever it is you're making






Another baba-yaga steed for some Slaaneshi rider. I think this one may not get an actual steed's head, maybe just a servo-skull wired in under the front. Tail will come when I green-stuff the connecting tissue 'tween bio and mechanical.




Sorry watcher....Maybe next time?





And for those who accuse me of getting side-tracked too easily I give you :









Giant spiky robot-fish monster from the depths? Who ordered that?


Couldn't help but notice the armiger torso made a good head for something, and when I thought of those shoulder pads as eyelids, well it was obvious


Now, there is another armiger in the box, so who knows.....maybe that will become a thing.......


Thanks for stopping by, stay frosty.

Let me get my flamer to serve that fish robot monster up, no cyber-sushi here.

Great options all around on the Knight. I liked the first one the best .

I like that you just let your dark muse take you where you wish.
No extension required. Looks ace.
On a separate note, "fish robot" feels very blight drone to me. In a good way

Good work. Nice combination of bits.
I like that last thing, has a good personality in that pose.

Theo - I think you might need a heavy flamer at the very least, he's quite a beefy fish......

I'm still umming and ahhing on the basic build....I think it's going to be close to that first one......But not totally sold on the exact details of the entire carapace and shoulders......



graven - She gives me no options......

Cheers, I've come round to agreeing with that....for this iteration at least

I have several times picked up that body and wondered what exactly it needs for a blight drone style thingummy...although with a Slaaneshi twist....



Doc - Thank toy, appreciated.

I like it too....it was just a fun thing, purely for that photo and statement........But now it's in there......working it's way through the bit bits box in my head........



So finally started chopping for the LOER comp.....






Some wordy stuff about those pics on the LOER thread....


And in stark contrast to my whimsical fish related statement at the end of my last post, let's carry on with some existing projects.....





A quick little poxwalker








And a quick nurglitchy marine. Just to get a taste....










A little more of the techno-organic steed action going on..this one airborne.












And as I continue passing bits of the hellbrute off as other things, here's his torso armour acting as a trike.

A marine head will be added to front of the 'torso' , something to suggest there were once shoulder pauldrons at the top of the wheel arms......haven't decided on if there'll be little creepy arms at the front. This is a biker who has fully become one with his bike, and quite likely a daemon too.....



Sorry? You can't recall seeing any of those previously? Well they were existing projects all right....they had existed in my head ......

Nice use of the hellbrute torso as trike mudguards.

Good work.

Yeah, much better use for the Helbrute part that using it for the Helbrute.

Arakasi - Thanks, inspired by my use of a marine dread for that ork trike all those moons ago


Doc - I knew you would approve of any alternative use for hellbrutes



So finally got round to uploading photos from my compact the other day, which has work on my LOER entry. Apologies for those who have already seen my posts over on that thread, but progress on any figures is tiny at present, and I felt a need to keep this thread moving

I really should have done some colour correction to these first ones, they're not quite the right shades, but give the idea.

If you weren't following, I was working on the idea of chaos barricades formed from flesh, a very literal meat-shield. Plan was to use some of the techniques I p!she's with back when I made the moebius strip roadway.







This is after the first layer of crackle has dried, and a wash of nightshade applied.






This after a second layer of crackle and a yellow wash. Wasn't acting in quite the same way as I recall from the moebius strip experiments. For now I'm putting that down to possibly using different inks. I'm wondering if I was using my W&N calligraphy inks back then.....I didn't this time because I have also found that they're not as water-resistant as some, and can blend with other layers, so I use them less now. I had to fiddle with different mixes to actually get the ink to flow and fill the cracks in the way I wanted, but even then had to apply overly heavy layers which, as you can see, have coloured everything.....previously I was getting good results with the ink just flowing through the network of cracks and filling them. My final blend here was a mix of GW washes and vallejo inks, with just a splash of Averland Sunset.







Hit it all with a couple of drybrushes of my fleshtones to bring it back close to my plan, and made a start on some red washes in places. Again I had to mix inks, washes and paint to get the flow I wanted. You can see in places that the yellow didn't take in all the cracks....not so much a bad thing as just a different thing - it's not what I wanted, but the effect is still that of damaged, oozing flesh.







Looking at the general effect. I'm not sure how effective the magnetising of the ends actually would be in a gaming scenario, I just figured it might give a bit more robustness to the overall layout, not convinced it was really worthwhile, but hey-ho






And some shots in the evening light which show a better colour. (Benefit of working in polystyrene on a boat is that the piece floats if it falls off the railing when being photographed........ ) Also show how the yellow has more tinged the entire thing than filled the cracks as intended. I'm definitely going to have to play more and make notes on how various inks/washes/paints act with the crackle......
The various tentacles will ge some subtle washes of colour on top - I was originally planning for them to be multi-coloured, but in the end figured they work better as being really the same as the main bulk....this is chaotic, but manufactured more than magical.....


And then today I started to physically play with ideas for the mobile flesh vats. These get placed at strategic points and then the meat walls flow forth to create a defensive position. I see these as being used by the dark mechanics and their allies, hints of the warp mixed with biological tinkering.






First one I tried. Chopped up a tube of vit-C tablets, added fans to the top, additional vat off the rear, tracks, and the extrusion nozzle. Quite like these, maybe a tad small.




Second version used a couple of party shot glasses, again with fan, additional containment vessel, tracks and nozzle.



A variation with two nozzles either side. This was one of the first extrusion ideas I had, albeit with tall narrow apertures rather than cylindrical pipes.


The second version is a bit bigger, and although this is chaos, with pressurised vats holding warp-tainted ingredients, that still feels a little better to me.
It may be that I use both....I did originally conceive the idea of a couple of secondary flesh-tanks with a larger control vat, so may push in that direction a bit.....

So onto locomotion. I had thought of walkers that settled down before extrusion processes began, which looked cool in my little mind-movies, but didn't seem to get as a static model. Sure that idea will find use somewhere though.




A track unit set completely under the main vat. Logically makes sense, feels a little ungainly (which isn't always a bad thing, but....) That could just be because I haven't found the right unit though.




Tracks built around the main tank. This feels better to me, and also brings the whole thing slightly lower, which makes sense as it's a fairly tall narrow shape.




Flying version. Makes a lot of sense, flies in, drops into position, more mobile than the tracks, so good for rapid deployment of defenses. Would have to switch out the secondary vat for this style, and figure out a landing gear type affair, but has potential.




Low rider. Presents smaller target profile than all the others, which seems sensible when you consider this is a defensive mechanism. Not feeling it as much as the others though.


And starting to play with ideas for potential control vats, not sure where I'll end up, but presently thinking maybe the first two, a couple based on the second variation - maybe minus the secondary tank for those, and one larger unit.

 monkeytroll wrote:
Looking at the general effect. I'm not sure how effective the magnetising of the ends actually would be in a gaming scenario, I just figured it might give a bit more robustness to the overall layout, not convinced it was really worthwhile, but hey-ho

Heresy! Magnetising is always worthwhile!

It's been a while, so my memory may be a bit foggy, but for the washes there should be a couple of more things you can try:

Mix in Lahmian medium to dilute the wash

and/or use 'ardcoat on the surface first (and let dry!) so that the wash flows better.

Arakasi - Well, this is the Heretical Ramblings, so...... You're right of course, playing with magnets is always worthwhile, even if the results don't actually warrant it

Both worthwhile suggestions that I will be trying at some point, but definitely not what I did when playing with the moebius strip.





I'm guessing it was that I was using those W&N calligraphy inks, as I was just dropping in straight over the crackle. I'll try to put aside some time to do a full range of tests on the stuff and make notes here. All effects are useful, but handy to know which does what


So started in on the two smaller versions of the flesh-vats whilst I decide on the second variety. Just runs and fans glued in place so far, so not much different than the concept pics.


Did however put this dude together








Most of the Slaaneshi beastnmen so far have been more barbaric, with the exception of the ratkin, who I now think will likely be joining the ranks of the beastmen. I wanted some more high tech versions, and the arkanaut torso just looked perfect for one of my ideas.
I'm thinking this guy is probably a sergeant of sorts, so I either need to come up with a squad for him, or decide what he and the potential other two I can build are.....



And started to put some actual colour on the daemon prince for the beastmen...







Unfortunately, due to my slowness with a brush the pictures were under artificial light so doesn't show up so well.
Based with Vallejo cobra leather, selected wash of reikland flesh, a tidy up with the leather, then a layer of tallarn sand. Several more layers to go. The fur has a heavy drybrush of a tan/yellow mix, that'll likely get a wash and a re-brush, then once the flesh is done it'll get hit with a light yellow, possibly an off-white on top.
P3 blighted good for the metals, and variations in screamer pink for the loincloth and wristbands.

Great!

Beastman looks nasty, deamon prince is coming along beautifully, and the barricades are utterly disgusting, which I reckon is the point,

Maybe a three-legged landing gear for the flying "seeder"?

I have tried drawing inks, they (the ones I used, local brand, at least), do not cure, and keep being water soluble after drying, so only resulted good for a last layer.

Ok haven’t posted for ages but as always you never underachieve to impress me

You some how always manage to combined the strangest of kits and household remains and create some kind of masterpiece.

Where to start, besides the mass of bio mechanical creations which I love from the fish to the walker beast (the watcher) so much so I want to build one of my own damn you

Also love the little bots and the tentacle octopus things, they all remind me of childhood cartoons and anime that I loved so much as wee snapper.

Which brings me to the trike that is pure genius love it so much, you have an imagination that seems to combine the oddest of parts yet some how works every time.

Last but not least is the Sarge beastman that is so cool and badass, which I think would work better than the FW necromunda as a replacement.

Thanks this has been a real pleasure to read and admire, plus to steal from in mass ha ha ha hope you don’t mind buddy

Once again glad your back and creative as ever, plus the two pics of the watcher which are my favourites.

Hey Monkeytroll, brilliant thread, mate.

You've got a serious eye for bizarre conversions. Some serious "wtf" gak going on. Do you consciously work through parts looking for bits that work well together or do you just put glue on a bit and throw it into the bitz box and see what it gets attached too?

That shot of your desk in the OP is inspiring and terrifying.

Lt - All good to hear

Three legs is a fairly common theme around these parts, so very likely I'm slightly less inclined towards the flyers at the moment though, as using those fans to make the props is the only way to get enough right now without scratch-building them all, and that just won't happen quickly. And the problem with Those fans is they have now been used in the two smaller versions, as vents, so it would take some doing to make them obviously something else on two models in close proximity.
Doesn't mean I won't go feth it and use them anyway

Yeah, I found that they started blending with the next layer when I've used them for normal minis, which is why I didn't use them this time round. But if that's what I used previously I need to know, at least I'll know to seal it between layers, or maybe another layer of crackle will do that.....time to science the feth out of stuff.

The other alternative I just thought of was that I used the last of my precious old-school GW inks on the strip......



dog - Good to see you around buddy Appreciate all the kind words, and I fully encourage you to go build something Some big-ass bio-mechanical cyber elephant carrying a gun-toting robo-mouse maybe? With tentacles.

And always happy to have ideas looted, it's the way we all grow.

And just like old times, I need to nit-pick on one detail.... that's an as yet un-named bio-armiger/daemon-engine/war-servitor, The Watcher is the little one dude with legs......



Shrub - Thanks for stopping by dude.

'wtf' is what I like to hear, always a compliment to big-meks and dark magi More semi-concious I think

Let that desk serve as a warning....it only gets worse from there on.........



So no building today, but may have a poke around the bits this evening, but did make an effort to carry on with the big fella.





Layer of karak stone. Later on I realised there was supposed to be zandri dust before this....







Ushabti bone and some colour on claws. This layer was not as smooth as it should be, could do with being thinned a touch more, also a bit ragged with the brush in some places.









Final touches of screaming skull, a highlight on the fur, and a start on some details.

Needed more layers, and probably should have stopped earlier to prevent brush fatigue - longest I've sat and painted in many years. Thinning the last layer more would have made it all a little smoother, and indeed, could probably have thinned all layers a bit more, maybe take each colour layer to three thin coats rather than two to build it a little slower and smoother.

Tempting to try an overall wash to bring it all closer together, but I'll avoid that.

I was also trying some new brushes for the majority. Had read some good reviews on Raphael, so picked a couple up a while back. Much bigger belly than W&N, but all the reviews stated they kept their point as well, or sometimes better, and the extra load they could hold seemed good for a big guy like this. After the basecoat yesterday I tried out the size 1. Much bigger head than I'm used to on a model style 1, but was really nice. Until about two -thirds of the way through the session, when the point got lost completely. I'm a slow painter, so I clean throughout even single colours to prevent paint drying inside the hairs, but it still blew out. It has a good clean and re-point with brush cleaner since, I'll give it another go later to see how it performs. It could be this heat is affecting things.

Today I was using the 00, again much bigger than my usual, but nice to use, the bigger belly means it would maybe obscure tiny details up close, but those sort of details I'd likely still use a series 7 or similar for anyway, as I wouldn't be loaded with paint so much. Towards the end of today the point starting fraying a bit again, enough that if I was doing very fine details it would be no good. Again, cleaned and repointed for further testing.

So maybe I got a bad batch, maybe the heat is affecting the paint (Well it is certainly, whether that's the reason for this.....), maybe I'm not as careful as I could be These two don't strike me as viable alternatives to my trusty W&N at the moment, but I'm willing to acknowledge it could be any number of factors at present.

4 armed beasty is looking good

Good work on the beastie. Looking nice.

Good range of concepts for your tanks, but I'm surprised you haven't tried one with legs... or tentacles...

God's do you have some gold here monkeytrolla Flesh wall is revoltingly awesome. That prince has a sexy sexy butt (and paint job) and the beastman conversion is simply perfect. You must follow up with a unit of some kind, even an officer if you can stretch it. You can get away with a command squad of 3 guys if you take a heavy weapon team and only model one on the large base. Alongside whatever you come up with, or the FW model, as an officer .. ugh, so perfect ..

shaso - Cheers dude, not as smooth as I wanted, but I'm happy enough considering how long it's been since I tried any real painting


Doc - Thanks! I mentioned somewhere that I did consider walkers for the vats. I envisaged them wandering up to the deployment zone, then crouching down to expel the flesh. But although my little head-movie looked cool, I couldn't get it right in a static pose. I'll put it down to these being old heretek pieces that were designed by a whole other group of magi to my walker and serpent obsessed lot


genom - Cheers Of course he has a sexy butt....he is a Slaaneshi prince after all The beastman will get a unit at some point, but need to come up with them first, my current guys are either too barbaric for him, or my ratkin, which I think will get a rat leader. Of course there's always a chance that I'll build two more then decide I want them as a unit, with a new sarge



So found an old bitspudlo rhino in my pile, and with everything else I obviously decided to have a crack at it.

Seemed to be missing a few bits, and not the best fit, but onwards....



Roof was one bit missing. Quick template from card, transferred to 1mm plasticard. The space looked about 3mms thick, so two templates, and then some spars from offcuts. Now you may be asking why double thick roof, and not double thick spars?
Because I didn't think of it till I had done the cutting




Spare and front glued to one side panel so I can adjust for best fit of second side panel.




And then it got to here.

I was thinking the chunky tracks would look good really rusted, so the next thought was to make it Nurgly...




And that became a Nurgle predator. Still working on sponson weapons, and trying to find a good turret for the twin-linked corrosion cannon.


And as I was contaminating things, I finished off the Nurgle battle servitor .








Not the nearest work on either, but I have been on nights this week, and currently been awake for 29 hours, so I'll accept it (until I wake up tomorrow and re-look at them....)I

Thanks for stoppin' by.....

I really like the look of the servitor but it feels a bit skinny around the waist. Weirdly, I don't know if it's because the legs are quite far apart?

Wow ! That is a cool tank, the tracks and track will should look great once rusted.
Excellent battle servitor too. Skinny indeed around the waist, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. When I first saw it, I thought "Demon plague scarecrow"

Keep it up !

Nice salvage job on the Rhino!

Servitor looks good, nurglification came along great!

Nice work, MT. Good Nurgle-isation.

graven - It definitely is skinny in the waist area - the base for the legs was one of the Forge World mechanicus servitors, which all have skinny waists, and the body I used is a bit bigger than those, so emphasises the waist. It's fine with me as it throws proportions off, which I do like in my chaos - although to be fair that's a look probably better suited to my Slaaneshi guys. I did briefly consider that the 'ammo' tanks might go on the waist, but that looked terrible to be honest.


Kernel - Thanks! There will be rust. Demon Plague scarecrow hey? There's some interesting ideas that could riff off of that.........


Lt - Cheers! I suspect I'll find the roof sometime, and then have to come up with a use for that....


Dr H - Thanks bud! A brief diversion from one patron to another...good for the soul or something



So received a supply drop from graven the other day with a few Nurgly flavoured bits. One thing I like to do sometimes with packages like that is see what I can do using just the contents....so I figured why not?



Now, as I have little in the way of Nurglitch amongst my bits I could already start seeing pieces I'd want to use for my little corrupted force, which cut down on what I could play with.




This is what I chose to work with.




And this is how they looked after chopping. Cleared the standard pole of the partial standard, thinned it a bit, then got it nice and raggedy. Removed the skull and a bit of chain from the other standard, kept the forked part for potential use as a claw if I didn't like how the other arms worked out. Chopped off the guy's head and both lower arms. Cut the skelly arm in half, and split the spear (the spear head got removed just after this shot), and also performed surgery on the ork arm and choppa. Finally, removed the weight from the flail.

They all went back together a bit like this:









A grave(n) walker, one of Papa's favoured, risen again to spread the word (and a nasty touch of flu too). Did consider removing one leg and re-sculpting a green-stuff tentacle, but although I allow myself GS, that seemed too much.



I also found a suitable 'turret' for the predator:




Plus a bit more corruption. Still need to add rivets to those panels, and figure out the sponson weapons before deciding if it needs more rotting fleshy touches of chaos.










And speaking of flesh, a touch more work on the flesh vats:



Going with the treads against the side, but with a bit of a cover.




And the start of the Master-Vat. Possibly on a version of the previous two, but with bigger tracks.....possibly something else. And a faint possibility it might not make it there and become something else entirely.....it looks quite good on a tank body for instance....



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Oh, yeah.......also got some colour on the grave(n) walker....










Not quite finished, but mostly there. Think I might re-do the flag.

Thanks for stopping by.....help yourself to biscuits on the way out....it's fine, they're supposed to be that colour......

Well done on the grave(n) walker - a testament to your abilities. I wonder if that would make a good competition - have these bits, see what everyone can come up with. We couldn’t have you enter of course, maybe judge. No issues with the servitor waist, but that turret base looks a bit anaemic for the guns on top...

I love that walker, he's a real cutie

Arakasi - I like the sound of it, but hard to ensure everyone has the same bits to start with It was one of my favourite parts of the DCM secret santa, seeing what I could make out of the package

I do agree with the turret base. All the others I tried were too big, seemed to overpower the actual vehicle, so in the end I went small, hoping it would be low enough to not be too distracting. That obviously failed I may look at spreading out the contagion further across the top, see if that helps. I'll wait till after I decide on the sponson weapons anyway.



graven - he's a lovely fellow when you get to know him. Hard to understand without his lower jaw, but he manages to get his point across.



Small progress on the flesh-vats



Interestingly, I did these slightly different to my previous methods. I have previously glued the end of the strip down with pva, then pinned it, to hold it in place and create rivets, then covered it all in pva.
This tme I glued and covered in pva first then pinned.

And this time:



May be something other than the order I did these in, but not seen that compression around the pins before...




And attaching them to the vats, with attachment method shown.



Also, finished the grave(n) walker....

Still, great ways of Nurgl-a-fying the army. Me Likey.

Awesome. I really like the master-vat.

You're a talented chap. All looking lovely.

shaso - Thanks! Slaanesh will always be my patron, but a bit of happy corruption is fun to play with


insaniak - Cheers! Not sure the master-vat will get done in time, so for now holding it off to see what it becomes....


graven - Aww, thanks bud.



So the vats are coming together now.









Details added, including the all-important rivets.




And base colours down. Originally was thinking it would all be metallics, but went for the red as I picked up brushes....

Still deciding on just how weathered they'll end up.



And as I'm trying out this Nurgle lark, thought I'd play with another pox-walker based off the same figure.



And a start on 'skin' tones.




Enjoying these little builds, think I'll have to dig out my Sedition Wars box ....might be fun to see how many variants I can get out of this guy.

All looking properly disgusting,

Not going to lie, love what you're doing with the random Crap I sent you.

Nice (disgusting) work on all the things.

It's ok, Nurgle has tentacles too.

Lt - good to know


graven - I love having random crap to play with, looking forward to starting some marines with some of it.


Doc - Thank you. Good point



So quick update on the vats.













Need to do the control panels and a few more drips/stains.....but calling them done otherwise.

Don't know why but didn't enjoy painting these after base coat. Felt like a chore, and didn't like the results. Obviously a few years off has not improved my techniques Heavy sponge of greys and browns, then silver over the red - which looked terrible, so pulled it back with a sponge of the red, but it's not what I was after at all. By the time I got to the verdigris I was really not happy, and it shows. Normally that's my cue to shelve it for a while, but I did want to get these done to add to the walls.

Maybe I'll come back and redo them at some future point - use it to practice my old weathering techniques possibly.


I did however go and pull out my Sedition Wars box.....there are several spaces where I pulled bits out for Slaaneshi styled shenanigans, but now looking for Nurgle naughty nick-nacks I pulled a few more out.

(Edit - just noticed there's still no rivet hole for the missing rivet....better make sure I pick that up)


Started with a couple more based on the guys that graven sent across.













(So there are Doc....So there are )


These guys on the other hand, love painting....neighbour a little as I finished the red patches across the three newbies, but still.






I think I have three more.....which is nice


So final touches to vats, then hopefully a nice evening so I can take photos outside.

Then I have some cyber monsters, some Inq, and some plague marines to look at....


Thanks for stopping by, aromatic spire clusters are available in the gift shop......

Looking good Graven. What did you use for the fans on top of the vats? Just little PC fans?

Also digging the muties. They look like they're straight out of Dead Space, which I heartily approve of.

I think what happened with your different method causing the ‘squeezing’ was the PVA hardening the card up, it could probably be avoided by using a thin pin vice drillbit to make pilot holes for the pins. Nice technique! It’s giving me ideas...

Good job on the vats and muties.

Sometimes the odd bit can seem like a chore. Putting it to one side can help, but that can lead to the shelf/cupboard/basement* of shame growing if you don't come back to it.

*I appreciate that some of us around here may not be in the right place for a basement to be a thing.

This is where deadlines can be good to make you push through and finish something; gives a sense of accomplishment that can feedback into motivation.

And an artwork is never truly "finished".There's always something more that can be done, there's only ever a time to stop... for now.

snrub - Cheers bud! The fans are vents from a big bag of them I have.....I think they were from Antenociti's Workshop, I have a vague feeling that they were part of a small Kickstarter he did fort errain some years ago - but could be wrong there. I don't have any fans that small unfortunately, if I did they'd all get used fairly rapidly (by my standard ).


lindsay - I think it was a mix of that and the fact that the strips were now glued to the ball, so as one moved everything moved. I did actually drill holes this time as I was using plasticard - just because I was using strips for other detail work, otherwise I would have probably gone for actual card, I've used both previously. The effect isn't that noticeable once painted, probably because they're small balls, but to be honest it's useful to know that effect comes from gluing first - I can see that being something I might want to try deliberately whenever I get back to my cyborks.....


Doc - Thanks!

Indeed, if this hadn't been for the LOER then they may well have ended up buried under a pile of sprue for years to come


So finished pics of the walls.... not the greatest pics as after the first session I realised I really needed to pull out my light box for outdoor shoots, but next day was looking too much like rain to do anything....ah well.


























And shots of all the individual wall sections (spoilered for lengthy repetitive reasons )



And a quick scale shot:




Overall reasonably happy with it. The actual walls I do like, just not overly keen on the flesh-vats. The builds were ok, but as mentioned earlier, I found painting a chore for one of those odd reasons that occur, and I am well aware that they are nowhere near the standard I can get to - particularly in relation to the weathering. And I can see some egregious errors such as the still undrilled hole where a rivet is supposed to be missing....

But.....I did complete both parts in time, so happy with that at least


So, back to building ....

First up the Inquistion comes knocking again:









Originally was going with a pistol, but then decided that all the head wiring is a psi-amplifier, so just a staff to help channel and direct that power. Not sure yet if she's an actual inquisitor or an acolyte, that'll decide on what extra decoration she gets...symbols, scrolls, seals etc


And on to the beastmen:







Yes, still needs clean-up

A companion for the earlier beastman sarge....this time with bionic legs - which still need work on the hooves. The pistol arm isn't attached yet, needs to be adjusted a bit, want that at more of a at-rest position, hanging more straight down to complement the chainsword resting on the shoulder. Also still needs pouches and gear distributed around the waist, a backpack,and horns - possibly culing up and forward.








Another cyborg beastman, this time with potential to be corrupted by Nurgle. And as should be obvious from the blu-tac, that arm is not set in stone yet, possibly getting the other one chopped too - more likely if he does indeed get all poxy....



And on the subject of Nurgle:








Why should Slaanesh get all the three legged goodies?

Still needs some detailing on the 'waist' area, and potentially gets a slight lift to the torso.


And just to keep those marines company on those long lonely nights crossing the warp:







A little brother to the bloat drones. I'm thinking the abdomen may get a re-working, bulking it up, so the proportions aren't as sensible as they are here (the wire currently goes into the abdomen if you're struggling to see which way is which....that's a tongue coming out of the maw on the other end


And on the subject of drone type thingummies:










Was going to have a relatively smooth underside.....now I'm thinking something like this, a mass of small arms, blades, saws etc, so that it swoops down and chops up it's victims....


Well, think that's it for now.

As always, thanks for stopping by...

Nyaaw... Baby blight drones. Cute.

I really like that Kukri shaped chainsword. Where did you get it from?
Speaking of chainswords, good use of the mini-knight chainsword too! And the knight legs too actually. Both work great as bionic upgrades.

I do love your gribbly nonsense. Excellent, baby bloat especially

Oh so good to see you at work.

Snrub - "ahhhh, who's a cute little pox carrying cyber-maggot? You are...yes you are.... "

The beastman's sword is from FW, one of the Orlock weapon packs. I wish I'd had more of a look, noticed on your blog that you grabbed some renegade and ogryns on last chance recentlty, could have done with a few more.
The knight stuff is great, but I was a bit disappointed that there's just one sprue, crammed though it is.


graven - good that you do as gribbly nonsense is kind of my shtick


Cam - much appreciated amigo, and likewise



So, termie-three-legs (names have been changed to protect the corrupt) is detailed and awaiting the touch of primer.










And baby bloat drone is also done












I thought about some arms or weapons other than the 'stinger' but decided against it. Once painted I'll probably add some ichor dripping from the sting.



Also messing around with ideas for big brothers to little bloaty...








The mouth works a little better if the head piece is turned, but it looks too squat that way, and it's easier to put a weapon under there than on the sides.









Need to find the next size down for arms if I keep this style. Also need more nurgle suitable heads.....hello ebay.



And that will do for today, thanks for stopping in.