Viktor von Domm wrote:as a rather uneducated german i have to ask for either quotations notifications or a translation... you sir have a written accent thats got no matching in translation...
cockney- heavy london accent, e.g: in oliver twist...
Send em up the funnels when they needs a sweepin guvna! Lawks a lummee and no mistakes gawd bless em
send them up the chimneys when they need sweeping boss! looks a _______ and no mistakes, god bless them
seriously nothing... i had to clean up my work mess^^ to allow the celebration of my five year old son^^ yeah...he is that old now... nearly a man^^
he was very good, even tho three of his guest canceled their invitation (all boys) due to illnesses...so we partied with four girls and my sons^^ and he was a good host^^
so after that, meaning today we had a slow go and i will probably be not able to do something hobbyrelated up until monday i guess...
don´t give me your long faces here^^
vets will have to wait up until i get some more unused bodies and i need a good source to get my hands on some characterfull possible vets looking heads...suggestions welcome...
maybe i am as good as it gets and the family gets to play a bit with putty and me doing the fourth HWT base with sandbags...
Viktor von Domm wrote:seriously nothing... i had to clean up my work mess^^ to allow the celebration of my five year old son^^ yeah...he is that old now... nearly a man^^
he was very good, even tho three of his guest canceled their invitation (all boys) due to illnesses...so we partied with four girls and my sons^^ and he was a good host^^
so after that, meaning today we had a slow go and i will probably be not able to do something hobbyrelated up until monday i guess...
don´t give me your long faces here^^
vets will have to wait up until i get some more unused bodies and i need a good source to get my hands on some characterfull possible vets looking heads...suggestions welcome...
maybe i am as good as it gets and the family gets to play a bit with putty and me doing the fourth HWT base with sandbags...
vik
no long faces? Aw, I wanted to do a long face... : - (
characterful heads? How about casting praetorian heads? Or the einstein heads?
or this guy's head-
hmmm i am more in for scruffy looks with the vets.... something between pirate and gutter would suit me well...battlehardened and a bit of lost faith and to much seen bloodshed...
Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmm i am more in for scruffy looks with the vets.... something between pirate and gutter would suit me well...battlehardened and a bit of lost faith and to much seen bloodshed...
A-team veteran, mercenary veteran or survived-a-campaign veteran?
sarge with cigar..."I love it when a plan comes together" kinda thing?
big muscly heavy weapons carrier with mohawk? maybe even an ogryn?
crazy valkyrie pilot?
can't think of one for faceman...There aren't many guardsmen tht enjoy the finer things in life, are good at maths and are womanisers...
Viktor von Domm wrote:yep sound cool, but if i use an ogryn for BA baracus it is a slight hint away from racism then^^ and we cant have that...
well, he's abnormally strong and tough and is...uhm...not the brightest...
In the film, hannibal shoots him in the shoulder to get him to get out of his van. He shouts "Oi!" "I'm sorry, I know first aid, it'll be alright." "You put a hole in my van!"
or something like that.
yep saw that movie, i always thought he was a bit underused in the series...far from dumb in my opinion tho...and he had some episodes all on his own, even with the occaisional loveinteresst...the film left much to be desired...
Viktor von Domm wrote:yep saw that movie, i always thought he was a bit underused in the series...far from dumb in my opinion tho...and he had some episodes all on his own, even with the occaisional loveinteresst...the film left much to be desired...
true...
he came across as dumb in the film...like he got "mad" when they tricked him into flying in a cargo container strapped to a plane...they were arguing who was gonna let hin out, and murdock did and calmed him down with some pie or something like that...
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Yeah but what was in the pie?
Could have been laced with sedatives...
So why did they not just give hime the sleepy pie before the flight!
Morons!
later on they did before loading him onto a plane...they were getting shot at so they got into a tank...then baracus woke up like "this plane's a lot smaller...why's it got a turret on?" "we're not in a plane"..."We're in a TANK?! I'm gonna ki-"*more sedatives*
or something like that...
in the tv series it was a well cared for running gag to get BA in a plane... tehre was even one episode i rember they had sleepy pills in a burger and he ate it them with hannibal... doublechecking the burgers with him and changing them a multitude...and giess what, he still got his sleepyburger^^ hannibal knows his mates and knew how often he wold change them... all knowing eye of hannibal...^^
Viktor von Domm wrote:in the tv series it was a well cared for running gag to get BA in a plane... tehre was even one episode i rember they had sleepy pills in a burger and he ate it them with hannibal... doublechecking the burgers with him and changing them a multitude...and giess what, he still got his sleepyburger^^ hannibal knows his mates and knew how often he wold change them... all knowing eye of hannibal...^^
^^
B-"You sleepied one of these burgers, didn't you?"
H-"mmmaybe."
B-"heh heh heh- I outsmarted you this time!"
*switches the burgers 3 times*
B-"OMNOMNOM see? I chose the one without the sle-"*SNORE*
H-"Ilove it when a plan comes together"
M- "It doesn't work if you say it every minute."
H-"have a burger."
M-"Thanks! OMNOMNOM"
*SNORE*
H-"I love it when a plan comes together."
Careful Vik
There are itinerants and street traders that would be cool, but just be careful of Shrike
If he tries to get you to have a hot dog stall just say no
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Careful Vik
There are itinerants and street traders that would be cool, but just be careful of Shrike
If he tries to get you to have a hot dog stall just say no
nothing new... just did some ebay to get me more kits and stuff...speaking of kits...my kid felix is with me, he is a bit ill, so i hope i will be getting to do some hobbywork in the evening...
Viktor von Domm wrote:lol...why do you have so many breaks^^
to make up for the fact that WE DON'T GET PAYED. £5 a week isn't enough to effectively support a hobby like this, which is why us kids either have paper rounds to make a little extra, or get into cheap, unimaginative hobbies, like blowing £200 quid on a games console, and then playing that for 3 years.
You can donate just £5 a month to help save children's hobbies. You'll recieve a free donator's pack with a poster and regular updates of how your child's doing. And together, we CAN make a difference. ^^
man thats so sick...
*makes searching gestures* "get yourself an honest job you urchin..."
and rember rule one when it comes to donating money...:whover gave me some money for free? see...i said get lost, bugger...
felix is still ill, but he is now in is nap sleep for midday...(speach impediment...^^)
begging kids in front of a GW... now that would be a sight for sore eyes...would be nice to see what happens and how the redshirts would react...
but i still completed the fourth base deko of the sandbag barrier...and did a small tryout of a bit of sculpting with FIMO...tried myself out to make a dead tree...we will see what came out of the oven later...
well its only smell...and this means i am still alive...rotting flesh doesnt smell after berries^^ i suppose^^
so then to show some lifesigns in tabletop means i will present my first four sandbagbarriers as advertised...they are now fully cured and the former squishy FIMO is now as hard and durable as plastic...
also i had a little go ad modeling a dead tree... maybe i use him for base decorating or i will make a terrain piece from it...we´ll see...
so here are now the pics...:
as you can see i have not acomplished a uniform look of sandbags here...goes to show i have much to learn in the art of sculpting...
tell me what you think about the tree...should i stick to simpler forms for now or am i on the right way here (though at the beginning)
Add some lichen to the tree, then it'd look better. I know you're going for the "dead tree" look, but there's colours of lichen that pass as dead/scorched foliage.
how should i do that? on 28mm scale what wopuld lichen look like? never done that... and besides i dream the dream of a muddy table...lichen would be a bit off topic then?
by the way my wife said to me the tree looked a bit like a kid had its way with putty...*sobs*
make some grooves into it...
brown lichen would work, I use lichen all the time, it's great- when you have some left over, just dump it on the table- instant bush!
just rip it apart and glue on!
this might help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feSING-q6s0&feature=player_embedded
I think it looks TT-quality, but all your other mini's make it look like crap (that's a backhanded compliment there), and a few grooves and some fauna are all that's needed.
bad pun grabs coat hits the highway on a one way trip to Tumbleweed Town, near Lonelyville.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Before I go, I use those plastic scouring pads. Either the ones on washing up sponges or bought in a pack.
You can tease out the stuff and add flocking* for leaves. Will try and do a tutorial if anyone is interested as need a few trees for fantasy and a new skirmish game have just started.
i have thought about herbs and tealeaves too, that sponge parts sounds interesting to say the least...a tut on that could be very helpful here...and a simple pic as a reference for the scouring pads would be nice as there are zillion different forms of that around...^^
no need for lonley ville, tho the pun got lost on me... speach impediment right there^^...
Just took a few pics to try and illustrate.
Sorry for the quality taken in poor light.
Bog standard washing up pad. The rough scourer pulls off tehy sponge easily.
You can also buy packs of the scourer pads cheaply.
The scourer is then teased apart and with care can be made even thinner.
Trees made a while agao and suffering a bit, they need fixing and having some better foliage applied.
Will try and get aroubd to sticking some Oregano or Marjaram on and re painting
Hero quest! YAY ! I loved those peices of terrain , the bookshelf sarcauphagus , arrh happy days . The scourer is a cool idea Chibi , i have loads as well , they look like willows btw.
lol Hero Quest is ace! Needed some graveyard scenery pronto and the HQ pieces fitted the bill really well! Saves me having to start scratching some, at least for a while.
The trees would have benefitted from better scatter and technique, but they were not too bad at the time for a first attempt. Bit battered now so they may get a pruning and some new spring leaves at some point!
with catachans as base for the troops, there is little chance to not get this implicatin firsttime^^...
today came my order from bits and kits^^ horray^^
so i am now in the process of making some new minis...
happy happy joy joy!
i am atm building a catachan command body to be the main leader of the gang...the one body standing with one foot on a skull...the guy is cool^^
also i now have this officer arm with a stick, and this will be my aproach of maybe even a commissar or a highranking officer...i am not sure which atm...both will get slightly raised bases to highlight their superiority...
lol... was about to do some pics...but fuzzy me left the cam in the bedroom... now my wife is soundly asleep and i dont wont to disturb her for mere photoshots of WIP minis...
so delay until ´mnorrow but then in daylight and this will be so much better...
question regardless:
i am currently doing the cadian version of shotgunner vets and i think about which heads to use...:
got ten of them for a whole squad even one of them has a micro attached to his helmet so i could make a vox vet that way...
as for sergant: (sorry real minipic)
also i could throw in the occaisional
as to look as if they had masks as well...
and for a leader of catachans i found this in my bitsbox...:
with this body
he looks a bit like the commander from the movie avatar...
nice! I can imagine the skipper now, stood proudly on a skull, shotgun resting by his shoulder, smoking a fat cigar and uttering the line "I love it..." you know the rest.
I hope he has a shotgun...maybe a massive one with a drum mag...
And I really hope you paint stubble on his chin...
sorry to disapoint you but he got the catachan bolter arm... he is positioned in such way that he looks at his troops from a bit higher poit and has his weapon posed in such way as if he is jsut showing as much machismo as he could muster...of course he holds a bowie in his othe hand in a friendly non menacing way too^^
i think i bought him a couple of days ago in the metal flesh so to speak^^
this here:
but i overflow atm with mins... did a major order/ auction via hordes of bits on ebay.com...
god and by the way... in some days my 40 warzone mins should arrive... seems i have now enough minis to create three differnent footslogging armies for IG...gosh i must be mental...
The cadian model with the shades is ALWAYS a winner, a full squad will look great. For the bald fistmaster of doom i would maybe suggest giving him a bolt pistol as the las pistol doesn't fit with the Power fist IMO.
at perkustin:
yep thats true if your going for that bald action hero look there is no fun in only doing a fancy laspistol...got someboltpistols so i swap them...
and i also thought a full squad would look ace...a bit cold looking but cool nevertheless^^...so a vet squad in shade it is^^
and shrike...yep, frightingly oh too many not painted...
so peeps here at dakka it is pictureupdate friday^^
done four cadianbased vets with shotguns...fully kit and meaning business...
the last pic is a bit blurry, the cam didn´t quite focus right for the outreaching gunarm of the "broken" footslogger...^^
and here i did a commanding bushwhacker...i had this vision of:
so i made him:
despite the fact that this mini has an eyepatch he looks mightyly the spiting image to me...true badassery at work^^
and this is the total opposite of the former as here i made a gentleman of an officer...with moustache...for shrike^^ he will get a treatment for the redesining of his upper head as of now he still has a metalcup of a fantasy helmet on top...
thanks peeps, comments would be greatly apreciated^^
that eyepatch guy looks completely badass. My old FLGS manager had an army of catachans with cadian heads, they looked ace...shame they had a crappy paint scheme...
That jolly good chap...what's he going to be? CCS? PCS?
that is a very good question... and i currently have no answer to that, probably a CCS char but it could be any other special character...i just have an inspirational hit at the back of my head and i am then in the process^^ no real concious thinking involved^^
for the paintscheme of the catachans i have thought about the needed red... of course black boots and then something to get a bit of british contrast too... like a bit of brownish pants or even white... but white doesnt work to good with catachans...
hmmm...i definatlky didn´t want to use green here... that would be to sterotypical catachan looking and wouldn´t blend in well with the rest of the victorian army...even if the aussis are downunder they should at least look like they are loosly stuck with the whole army together...
Like the Badass sergeant Quaritch and the gentleman commander, both the poses are great. The trooper with the broken arm is cool but needs a strap for his gun (i think there's an arm in the catachan sprue holding a Lasgun one handed with a strap actualy).
hmm i think then i have to make one myself as in that pose i wont get it transfered to the mini... but your probably right...i just wanted to do this onehanded shooter and then i saw the broken arm arm and thought this was a justifed excuse for this pose when i use the broken armn with the onehanded one^^...but it needs support, your fully right!
if you find an arm which bends a 90 degrees at the elbow and the forearm goes flush against the torso, sorta like the marine bolter trigger arms, glue a BP on it and elongate the barrel with a bit off a 2mm plasticard rod.
INCOMING!
The only one I could find...
have you seen alex rider: stormbreaker? There's a bit in it where the bad guy is about to shoot the good guy, and he rests his pistol on his arm, but then he gets shot...
ähm... the link is for a box of bitz...and some hopefully good to use minis...next to nowwhere is there a valk in the auction included...? missed the link?
and valks around here are so steep in prices i have to entirely shut them out for my biddings... just like a landraider prices are so damn fixed...
serioulsy i don´t have a frigging clue... it sort of constructed it by itself...there will be some work still on it so this might be maturing ...maybe i redo the feet from scratch...and the head and hands need work too...but i just did it to laern and out of fun...
hmmm...sounds like fun but not really something i am inlcined to do...
but i can see that this would be a funny thing to see a whole 40k army with teared fingernails for sickles...and then some feets for tanks...
nope, this persons personality depends on my sculpting skills...even the sex is still in the dark...could be i sculpt it after all for my wife as a standup model...
but i learned it needs desperatly a skeleton when next time i sculpt something...
do you have the measurements of an ogryn? height of complete mini, and the dimensions of torso, head, legs and arms length ... could be a nice thing to try an ugly face first time...
nope. I think about termie size...
anyways, it's chico. It's the mirror scene in duck soup, where chico dresses up as groucho and puts on a fake moustache and glasses...YOU LOSE! ^^...damn it!
lol... was for real searching for a pic of bart or homer with a broucho `stache...but found this instead...and you can add any text you want...it´s like a swiss knife for the internet...
^^...damn it...
that's my new catchphrase for posting with vik...
okay, gotta go get ready for school... hopefully I won't execute my thumb uuh, read you in a few minutes!
nah, it's got no clothes (AKA bandages/plasters) on now, and earlier in the week (wed/thur) the skin started to peel off the top. I cut it off with some small scissors to stop it catching on stuff and now it's okay. It's healed together now, just a line and a patch of a layer of missing skin shows it ever happened. That sounds quite bad, doesn't it? It's perfectly fine.
I never knew you were a marx fan..."let me outta here! Or at least throw me a magazine!" "I'll see my lawyer about this as soon as he graduates from law school!" "sounds to me like mice." 5:45-5:49
thats good news shrike, and so long as you remember when slicing through bread about the nasty things that could have happend, then you are again a bit more grown up...see there is the flaw right there...ah and the obligatory ^^
Never thought of that...clever vik...
If you want to hold a hostage, why bother using ropes that can be unknotted? take cable ties! have you seen hot shots: part deux?
just though of cable ties...hostages...then that bit at 0:12 with the guy to the wall...it got stupid around 30 min in, but there were just so many outrageousl stupid things in it...
well 54 mm is a hard fact, so thanks for that...the rest is a bit lost on me... what avater -esque avatar? or do you actually mean mine new avatar?^^ phew... close one here^^ thought i was thick^^
ähm...i think we are in a capital missunderstanding here...
the pic in my avatar is the normal catachan HQ body...just a bit of `shoped texture ofer a for now unpainted mini... i try however to sculpt me an ogryn out of FIMO...i just recently rediscovered the stuff and after todays lazy and try and error sculpting with that stuff i want to give it a go for real and i think the ogryn is a good start so i can practice on a bit bigger scale...so i have never yet worked or handled an ogryn before...
i am currently working on a version commisioned by shrike of a now baptismed Marbo! witha boltpistol and camocloak...is this then the right char for such a model?
cut out the right arm wielding the sniper lasgun...glued a boltpistol there...
cut of the left arm the supporting one... cut a shouting arm/steadiing arm from the HWT and glued it back to the shoulder of the cloak arm...then cut of the boltpistol muzzle, drilled a fitting hole for an elven lance cut to size...and used a piece of Q-tip as a muzzle...and glued it all together... figured the sentinel/tank driver head would underline the übercool look just right...
so that was that...
then i mounted the berret head on the posh officer... took a pic for you dakka:
and then i got five nice lil zombie dogs in the post...
and i have them here on some different bases...next to a catachen metal lasgunner i tried with the afore mentioned only wash technique...:
well now would be a good point for some comments...
by the way... now that would make me happy... medling with minis and getting paid fr it and even get the bits to do so for free...so i guess next update should be with my postadress and bankacount^^
I'm not getting it...though it WOULD be nice for my birthday in 4 weeks... *hint hint*
nah, he's awesome. Looks like he's hiding in a bush, having eliminated hostile sentries and is just ready to assassinate a traitor governor or someone important...nice work!
What are the zombdogs for?
well i am currently a bit tense on legs and torsos, but comes the day i am with a filled bitzbox again i would gladly accept a challenge by you^^ consider it a friendly deed^^
also i would encourage all to feel a hell lot more jealous^^
So what rules? Marbo, but with a poisoned (2+) bolt pistol?
maybe since the lasgun has the same to hit & wound but more shots, have the BP, because of the lengthened barrel, increase his BS by +1?
well the zombie dogs going to be my dogs of war... hur hur hur...
no the other thread here is about the rules for dogs... remember?
ruleswise for marbo or rather connor i cant say... it was a mere tech challenge...also it holds my very first self cast torso^^ crappy beyond regognition but nevertheless DIY^^
shame I can't properly take a look at the torso, too many limbs in the way...
rules for the dogs of war...maybe call the handler hammond?
shrike wrote:points- 50pts per unit
dogs
WS4 BS- S4 T2 I4 A2 W1 Sv- Ld7
move through cover, furious charge, counter-attack.
release the hounds- if a squad is outnumbered 3 to 1 or more, the dogs get +1A per dog that is outnumbering them.
12" movement
hard to hit- 5+ cover save all the time, +1 cover save modifier when in actual cover (stealth).
handler
WS3 BS3 S3 T3 I3 A2 W1 Sv5+ Ld7
lasgun/laspistol, dogcatcher.
dogcatcher- functioning like a smaller variant of the mancatcher, dogcatchers may be used instead of the normal lasgun/laspistol and CCW during that turn, functiooning as a power weapon.
minder- if the handler gets killed, the dogs gain the rage USR.
the handler may take a horse (turns into a rough rider, dogcatcher counts-as a lance)....+15pts (becomes T4 with +1W and +1A)
may take up to 10 additional dogs....7pts per model
unit composition- 1 handler and 5 dogs.
mr-squigi wrote:Hunting dog WS 4 BS 0 S 3 T 3 W 1 I 4 A 1 LD 8 SV -/-
Cydog WS 5 BS 0 S 4 T 3 W 2 I 5 A 2 LD 9 SV -/-
Unit type: beast
Wargear: cc weapons (teeth)
Options:
Any dog may take:
Flak armour.........5 points each
Any cydog may take:
Caprace armour.......10 points
Bionic jaw (rendering cc weapon).........10 points
Special rules:
Move trough cover, leaderless, scouts, furious charge
Leaderless: if the cydog is killed than the dogs gain the rage rule.
cyberdog isnt my thing i think... mounted handler would be supercool, but currently i have no lighter rider here...should be a lighter rider as it would be fitting to a chase crew...
also if notmounted it would be a cool thing to have him in one hand four to five leashes...
so i would opt for the first one... but then again what would i have to say to rules anyway me being a noob^^
I agree, and by making numerous other rules for things, I can tell if something is outright OP. To tell if it's slightly OP or decent will require some test games...
So morining to all, the postman rang about half an hour earlier today and brought me my newest addtion to the ever growing fold of the victorian army...:
behold the Pickelhauben Trenchers:
40! Warzone minis...consisting of four teams with :
nine regular trenchers:
and a heavy Weapons wielder:
and a sergant each...:
this is an army on its own accord...^^
as i have expierienced the plastic of warzone is rather harder than the GW stuff... so this will be a major pain to just get these minis out of their frames...
but as the frames are all alike i can built afterwards a whole mess of things with it... towers and buildings and maybe a special version of pillboxes comes to my mind...fitting for trenchers in my book^^
Oh, I used that for my crazy camo patterns, get's me done fatser than going one guy at at ime, so prime them, the add your red to the first dry guy, and do that until they are all done, then the armor colors or the dry-brush color for the fabric, and then the armor color, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
this cycle repeats until all 10 are looking fit to fight, and then the next squad get's done the same way. It is very factory like but it does work.
today i got a really busy postman... at first i gt me a weety mug with two goliath shotgunners inside...
then i got a fully loaded and meaningful bitzbox i bought from ebay with lots of cool its and odd ends...
and then my order from hord of bitz...american bitzordersite va ebay and also now on their own ...where in the post...
i have now lots of bodies, legs and arms and weapons to make new minis...
this means:
if there are some peeps out there that want to make some suggestions of me making some fun and goodlooking minis out of catachan and cadian bitz then speak thy intentions...
but remember here is the main rule: the rule of cool totally aplies...only the cool may be chosen!
Lucky fella , good job on getting your mug, and two goliaths as well , cant be bad! as for your new minis , i suggest a dog handler , Logan suggests a animal tamer , and rhohan suggests a pilot . post pics soon matey
hmmm for your bunch i will do them all^^...concerning painting i wont give you any garanties but the minis will be my next projects in line...
the doghandler ...i wanted to do him anyway... how should he look like? would he be cadian or catachan as a base? or what else do you think...
the animal tamer...now this could be a truly nice thing... ask Logan if he has a special animal in mind...the animal might be tricky but i can see a wayaround nearly any choice here^^...if i was the daring type i woudl be so bold as to suggest here a hawk or even an eagle?
the pilot is a very cool thought, do tell rhohan that from me...something like that is cursing through my mind for quite some time... does he want him seated to walking?
i will be making some mockups real soon...^^
cheers to the four of you^^
by the way... on your recent work i saw your logo...very intriguing... the two upside down "1"s... looks a bit as if you say something like neil lol...just belned in oneanother^^
Here's a conversion challenge... I havent seen this kind of thing made by anyone...
In case my drawing fails it is two troops carrying a wounded comrade out the battle.
Obviously it would require three models and some significant conversion work with the arms and legs.
i think i grab that idea at the horns^^ and to boot it even more i expect a medic to come around before weekend too... so i could make this as some kind of small "M.A.S.H." diorama^^...consider this idea in my book^^
what kind of injure would you want me to do to the ...injured? lost limb or a shot to the torso as i think is shown in the pic...?
Surprised they care enough in the Imperial Guard to help the wounded.
Wouldn't he be shot by the commissar for failing to dodge enemy fire or maybe be burned by the inquisition for tbeing tainted having had his body corrupted by xenos/chaos?!
How's about a commissar standing tall, right arm straight out with bolt pistol, other arm behind his back, using painted cotton wool to have asmoking barrel, and a guardsman with half/no head kneeling down facing away from him? Execution!
then you have no place in the ranks of the imperial guard! go and join the eldar if you want to go flower-picking! This is war, not the neighborhood watch! *bolt pistol -> face*
Ahhh so this is what you've been doing - silly me I thought you'd been taking time off... Looks like I missed a bit - the progress so far is very steamy and a little bit punk
been working on a ninja/deadpool conversion... recently i got a fully and delicious packed bitzbox from ebay and one brutaly painted mini looked already much like deapool for me...
and then the worst thing in a modlers life happened...
MY GLUE WAS DRY AND NO NEW GLUE THERETO REPLACE...
arghhhh....having a vision of what to do and no materials to work with...very frustrating....so ´morrow i need to urgently buy me some glue...
after that the modeling/conversion mayhem may take its ugly course^^
at neil: if you and your sons might be in favor of sporting some pics as how you want certain chars to look like i am very open to suggestions...
also the gates of hell need more of soe decent suggestions... not too brutal please...
the progress so far is very steamy and a little bit punk
ha ha no glue! this is the worst, kind of torture. deadpool ninja , sounds great. I will tell the boys what you plan in the morn , they are keen draughtsmen so i expect they will enjoy the challenge. ;-)
so i still can´t provide pic updates, but i can tell you all i went heavy on the conversion job....
perkustins suggeted conversion /diorama idea is very hard on the way... three minis modeled to a very forward extent...tomorrow will be the finishing touches on that...
then i worked for the ogryn...see other thread^^
and also i did some groundwork on my deadpool...he looks now recognizable but still some work there...
and i tried myself out with a lil pressmoulding with GS...used a cabelbinder to make a pressmold to later be used as a amobelt...
ALL PICS TOMORROW, will do a photoshooting to show all process...
cheers, vik
and neil... your sons already have some sketches to provide?
need some input still on the pilot and the animal trainer...which animal to use...a snake would be easy^^
nice, looking forward to pics.
how's about a sniper team lying in wait, one crouching with binoculars, one lying down aiming down the sights, with foliage on the base?
i saw that in the gallery even... i don´t want to do too much snipers as i have already quite a lot metal ones lying around waiting to get painted... but the spotter is always a nice touch...
sometimes you freak me out...though not now... thats so hilarious^^
rememberes me to hte sesam street... the shlemiel one... always selling stuff like letters and things so common that black marketing wouldn´t be necessary...
shrike... Love that idea for the guardsman execution, but it'd be better if it was just before the shot to keep the rest of the men in the army on their toes.
Deadpool looks a bit scary , like an evil scarecrow , bankrobber! are you sure he is not a renagade ;-) congrats on the pose as well , its pretty tough to capture movement with the catachans , good worrk matey. are you gonna do a red and black paintjob as well?
paintjob should match the black and red deadpool so yeah... and it would even fitt my army scheme^^
i think your right the head looks like scarecrow more than deadpool...seems i have to do some research for him again^^
as for poses with catachans...
i give you an early look at a request from you and Logan...;
i suggest a dog handler , Logan suggests a animal tamer...
i give you Fetch, the, well you decide...,either the tamer or the dog handler...it´s for now a rather context related mini...
and for some reason i cant really fathom i am quite attached to the catachans...somehow they ring a bell in me... quite more than the current cadians...the cadians lack in my opinion a bit of charcter... the catachans while bulky and unrealisticly musclepacked have at least that stallone and arnie feel about them...well there are some heads in the options for cadians that also give a bit of flair to them but you have to hunt like hell for them....
by the way, i used an old spacewolf head here ... expect to see soon some GS work on this harh hairdo of him^^ something wolvie like i guess.... by the way didn´t you want to do some pics with your chaps?^^
Hey the new dog handler guy looks perfect also , like the dog has just ran off the edge of the screen. Brilliant head choice too. i am envious of that cool looking head. i agree that the catachans have more expressive heads than the dour cadians.
qoute " by the way didn´t you want to do some pics with your chaps?^^ " ? not sure of what you refer matey.but ia sure the boys will love these as soon as they see them.
reference pic mate, reference pics of sketches from your boys^^...
and the head is a rather simple and brutal conversion of this here:
and needs abatch of GS tobe fully acceptable...
in the nearer future i have to seatch for cheap bases as i lack a lot in this department...also i grew very hesitant now to use my GS as it is lessen in rapid movements^^
and ask foremost rhohan how he would like his pilot^^ this will be my next bigger project...
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:That is the expression I would have if a giant was coming towards me with a scalpel blade!
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yup he does look cool
Nice work Vik!
told my wife that the very miniute, cause she asked me what was so funny up there...(me sitting on a platform over our telly and couchset...) and she loled too...
so now i´ve had a bit of work done to get back to the true spirit of steam punk...the story behind is...:
my youngest son came to me and asked me to build a mini soldier for him... how could i refuse that demand?^^ no way^^
so he sat on my lap and we both looked at my fingers while i scratched away the mold lines and glued the first of the three now finished true steampunkish guardsmen...
behold:
they were so much fun to be made that this will be definatly not the last batch to be made in that fashion...
yep faer to my sind this rather ridiculous weapon is a mortar of the pistoliers set... my son saw that and he is a true man... always go for the biggest gun first^^
Automatically Appended Next Post: i still got some of these gatling ones but i fear that this is the last mortar one...
they are the best steampunk ig men i have ever seen , ..plese please cotinue with these beauties vik , we demand brass and airships , for the queen . we want more we want more we want more.! if you you do i will post that thing i was talking about ;-)
lol.... definatly more to come... at least a squad if i can help it... still got an amount of bits to help in that matter...
tho i will have to be very careful not to repaet myself...seems i will end up cutting some minis i have purchased earlier to get some bitz from them.... canibalism art...
and yep i try to instil some artful sense in my lads...very important!
vik
Automatically Appended Next Post: lol perkustin... serial killer... that cracked me up^^
sometimes when i look at him he reminds me of a smurf gone bad...
well actually he is standing like all the others... he is th flamer guy and he is for now without the base resting against the wall for support^^...so no imaginary chair...
well the flamer canister makes him so unbalanced...and i figured even when he is the flamer guy he needed not hold his flamer at the ready... when cutting work has to be done^^ as the old saying goes...:
well matey... stay close to your flamer and even closer to your chopey...cause Promethium isn´t grown on trees..."
they look like a bunch of evil minded pensioners, out to cause trouble at the bingo hall , eyes down 22 . Seriously they look real nice , now some paint please ;-)
thanks chibi... i wanted to built this squad up to a ten men crew and then go for painting...
i have seven now and it looks like i could do three more tomorrow...also a steamy comisor would be nice...
and i begin to feel the need for my own inquisitor... that could be a good retinue for him...?
how nice of you to ask about my current work^^ and so timely...*cough* thanks^^
so ladies and gentlemen...i proudly present the hitherto unnamed squad of my ten stemapunky veterans...
in full detail and with following up charctershots...
and now the charctershots...two each...to better admire them^^
sarge
they will all get unique and maybe even speaking names to their bases...which in fact are curing now as i write here...
i have already pinned every mini on a cork and have primed them in our cellar...
speaking of...i might have overdone that prtiming on the models... is there still a posability to correct the minis and get rid of primer or have i maybe ruined my work here?
i will control the effort on them in the morning...
Viktor von Domm wrote:and now the charctershots...two each...to better admire them^^
sarge Oh, I say! Look over there! Those chaps look like they need a bit of whipping into shape! I've got a jolly big gun, yet I am throwing a weapon the size of a fist! How ironic... Pow! Pow! Pow! Oh, now you can shoot me while I reload my gun, but- Pow! I have two! See above for mildly humorous caption.
I have a jolly big gun, and like my dear frined over there, I am wielding a tiny weapon and choose to get close instead! Double irony! whoever thought that firing two guns without aiming would be fun?! Bravo! What?! You want me to say something funny?! We're in the middle of a war! Just keep a straight face and walk towards them! Just like in WWI! See my helmet? It's terribly frightening. And yet again, I have a big gun, but use a knife! Jolly good fun. *Hawhumph...BOOM!* Wow that was fun! Now how do I reload this thing? I have a grenade but...THROWING KNIFE!
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at shrike...
i give you that ...some of your comments are too damn right...tho i have to say in defence they did make snese to me when i was building them...
and as for the flamer...he uses the machete when a flamer is just not the right kind of weapon...one might ask when this might be the case?...well look at his fingers on his left hand...i think he just wants to clean his fingernails...
at shaso...
feel free to lend a hand in naming the crew...^^
there are some names known to me^^
william tanner made me laugh^^
the sargents name sound really cool...something in the lines of theis i had thought for them...some british sounding names with the occaisional influence of other countries as this is a multinational endeavor^^
at shaso...
your nicknames are very nice, some of them will definatly be used...
blaster and toothpick and two shots and i definatly like pretty boy... reminds me of faceman^^
the flamer guy i think needs something not to obvious, mabye something with a hint of sarcasm... like cook or something in that line of thought^^, maybe even "freeze"
so yesterday it was priming time...
did some more minis too as i want to stay ahead of the gae and have something to do inbetween...if i get bored by a scheme... so i did some catachan plastics and some warzone minis too...9 of the later and i still have 40! of em still on sprue... now i am contemplating to do a force for them too...
and maybe i go the full martial german route here...what fo you think? some nasty ones...maybe with a little choasy taint too? this could be a whole new thing then...
and if so what choas gods would be fitting? more WWI setting as they mostly have pickelhauben and the overall gear looks that way...
well i quit the banter and here are the whites^^
groupshot of the primed work:
catachans and warzone germans...
and here are the new guys...:
behind them you can even see their first step prepared bases to be later used...
i mounted the steamslodiers on corks and pinned them... the bases will be a bit uneven and also i think with them i want to do a next step in painting...thus preparation is more thought through...i hope this will help...
Viktor von Domm wrote:but i fear charlie and thomas and david are a bit to modern for my likes...
how about gorge or robert? are they posh enough?
what do you think... am i crazy or what^^
charlie's a classic WWI/WWII name, not modern at all...
they are indeed posh enough.
not as crazy as me.
wait...you can SEE ME?!
AAAAAAAH!!!
either my webcam's bugged or you're here...in my room...nah, that'd be stupi-*SCREAM AS SHRIKE SPOTS VIK CROUCHED UNDER GAMING TABLE*
painting Yeah! , he looks cool Vik lots of time consuming details on his back i see. very neat job . top marks and classic red and black colour scheme too.
sorry neil he is a grim dark german infested by choas and he wears catachan green with vermin brown and all over adevlan mud wash^^ but the pic is crappy tomorrow under daylight everything will come out way better...
got ten of them for a whole squad even one of them has a micro attached to his helmet so i could make a vox vet that way...
he looks a bit like the commander from the movie avatar...
