Hey Maus, been lurking for a while and gotta say that I love your stuff! Really great ideas. My favorite models have to be the Bounty Hunter and 47! Your terrain has progressed very nicely since the first posts! Keep up the great work man! One thing that I use on my terrain (one of these days I'll get around to posting pics of it) is to wash them down with diluted Asphaltum by Americana it is alot like Devlin Mud but alot cheaper from Micheals. Try it out if you are looking for a good dingy look to your stuff. Works well.

I assume Michaels is a DIY? I'll look for something likewise here.

Anyone have a good color suggestion concerning the sofa?

IT should be a really obnoxious sofa like a dingy orange with yellow stripes or something hideous to that effect thats my two cents on the matter.

 MauS wrote:
I assume Michaels is a DIY? I'll look for something likewise here.

Anyone have a good color suggestion concerning the sofa?

Sorry for the confusion Maus. I just was thinking of where I buy most of my paints. Over here Micheal's is a chain of craft stores. Don't know what you guys have for an equivalent.

On the sofa front I think a really tacky floral pattern would work too.

I know those will be awesome when finished, but right now they look like crackers.

Lolz @ Skalk... crackers... they'll look awesome when done for sure... Its the sofa i'm still not sure of. I was thinking a fallout-ish beige and olive stripes, but it would show too clearly that the cussions are all of different sizes...

Go for a solid color (like a classic blue plush color), it'll hide the irregularities

geez maus you have the craziest guys, i love every one of em!

gotta agree...for now your furniture looks indeed tasty after some lick of paint this will be some awesome details for any piece of terrain...

Another detail piece you can do is an old coffee can full of cigarette butts on the railing of the trailer porch.

Another good plan Rustbucket... I love new ideas, so keep em comin!

To all a late but great X-Mas and newyears by the way...

These sort of ideas come pretty easy to me since I have lived most of my life in the rural South of North Carolina. I don't consider myself to be a redneck by any means but when you see it every day and work with many who are you get to know the lifestyle pretty damn well!! Pretty much nailed it with the Confederate flag over the railing. More ideas would be things like caps/ shirts with John Deere logos, Natural Light beer cans, Dale Ernheart NASCAR #3 on anything and trucks with raised suspensions, Keep it all coming!

Hey people! Another small update here, some color on the sofa, and a wasteland wanderer called Jack of the Rippers...
Take a look, and then let me have it
All comments welcome... specially suggestions and positive criticism









Dont be silent now !

I like his pose, very reminiscent of a traveller, with his belongings in a sack on his spear.

Not too fond of the ripper though.

Lonely travler with some cool conversions all over, love the crossbow great use of grenade luncher and crossbow reminds me of the crossbow from that really bad Van Helsing Film

The bag hanging from the spear is a great idea gives that wonderer feel to him, the only down side is the shoulder pad looks a little on the heavy side (think it is one the wizards collars )

Overall great job

@Ghosty: Thank you, I love the sack a lot myself too... it just somehow happened while i as fiddling with some leftover greenstuff. My GF thought it was anoying and poked at it with a cocktail stick. That gave me the idea.
The ripper is one of three that will be clustered besides him. Its not nearly done, all i did so far was cut it in half to make it look like its burrowing. The other two will be in various stages of exiting the ground too. And they'll likely have collars, maybe even a leash.

@ LDD: Thanx! I'll take another look at the shoulder, see if i can make it a tad smaller. ( The Van helsing with whatshisnamewolverine? It kinda does yes... i see it now... and as such must change it... hrm...)

You guys think the sofa color is okay, or too dark maybe?

 MauS wrote:
@Ghosty: Thank you, I love the sack a lot myself too... it just somehow happened while i as fiddling with some leftover greenstuff. My GF thought it was anoying and poked at it with a cocktail stick. That gave me the idea.
The ripper is one of three that will be clustered besides him. Its not nearly done, all i did so far was cut it in half to make it look like its burrowing. The other two will be in various stages of exiting the ground too. And they'll likely have collars, maybe even a leash.

@ LDD: Thanx! I'll take another look at the shoulder, see if i can make it a tad smaller. ( The Van helsing with whatshisnamewolverine? It kinda does yes... i see it now... and as such must change it... hrm...)

You guys think the sofa color is okay, or too dark maybe?

No the colour is fine a dirty sofa what colour are they any way what do you need to change I hope you don't mean the crossbow the film was crap the crossbow rocked

hey maus!
nasty peice of work there with that sofa

in fact seeing such pieces i always assume it to be of rich and dark red... faded due to long overuse to orange in places... but i gues that´s just me...

the lonesome travles looks really mean...using that wizard head was a cool thing to do... the crossbow with mag... i see the helsing referrence too, but for a more modern type of mini i would get rid of the bowstring... like it was propelled by energy...just like chewies crossbow...

but a truly nice compsition...and actually i like the ripper... has a touch of that old movie my enemy mine...

suggestion- find something that will look like tiny buttons to fill in the upholstery holes in your couch. Nice job so far w/ paint but (sorry ) still looks like saltine crackers to me.

Buttons, good point! thanx... Tiny balls of gs will do i think... must try tomorrow

Happy new years everybody!!

To you to mate

I like the look for the sofa. Buttons will definitely help. Are you planning on making another sofa? You have got me wanting to make one and this is what I am going to run with but if you like the idea please feel free to use it too. Leave one of the seat cushions off, make it look like the bottom is torn, and use a spring from a pen/ mech pencil to look like a spring is poking through.

Great wanderer, MauS! Not too sure about the rippers, but I understand that he's a WiP. Are they exotic pets that accompany him around? That pose is very characterful, and I really like the greenstuff work. The weapon mod is ace too!

I'm a little on the fence about the sofas right now, but they do look good. The shanty town was a work of beauty, however, and I'm sure you'll sway me with a pic of one in amongst your other scenery

Keep up the awesome work!

Thanx guys...

The rippers will be exotic pets yes, and companions in combat (there will be some loose bases with the critters as well...
I'm thinking of adding some fur to them to make them less 'tyranid' and more say... critters...

Sofa amongst scenery pics will follow this weekend. Got a game and will be taking pics.

woh this dude might be my favorite of yours, really cool look to him!

A work in progress for Papa-Nid's Hero contest. Not a captain like Viks... but a Heroic leader of survivors during the necropocalypse.
Green stuff is the next step... Can you spot all the parts?







More coming soon... also in the pipeline, sofas, tables ladders chairs, etc... We rescheduled the game to next week, so no scenery-sofa shots yet...

YEY Guess game

Ok
Head Empire Flagellants
Arms Empire Militia
Torso Cadian
Legs Marauders
Hand Zombie
Grenades Space Marine or scouts
Pouches Ork I think
Skull Flagellants
Axe heads Space Marines

Am I correct

10 out of 10

 MauS wrote:
10 out of 10

Great what do I win

... is that axe head made out of foam rubber? It's HUGE. Even a Daemon Prince might have a tough time hauling that boat anchor around. Don't get me wrong, it looks awesome, but wow... you're kind of pushing the SoD for Heroic Scale there.

i like that bugger... tho... one thing puzzles me... he is blind... and he is a leader... er...??? whut?... and nice collection of cutoff´s and bitz! specially the double axeblades... very nice idea... or is he not blind at all and you will make this bandage around his eyes like some sort of mask? that´d be brilliant^^

Its heroic scale anything is plausible

@ LDD You win the honour of being the one that knew... All hail LDD... the one that knew :crowd cheers:

@Skalk: No foam rubber here nope... I figure he's a hero... I've seen simple 20th century movie heros carry bigger stuff around, so I figured a powered ax would be fully possible. Besides... if it can be powered to kill even better, it can probaby also be powered to weigh less or something... Note to self, add powerpack.

@ Vik: he is a Hero, not a Leader by the way. I look at him as someone who inspires other survivors to bring the fight to the undead. I kind of took the idea of Zatoichi or Ruger Hauer's Blind fury. A not that big, not that tough blind guy wielding a twin battle-ax of lightning doom... I'd follow him... from a distance

Thank you for the comments guys, appreciate it. Specially Skalks and Vik's, they forced me to think about the stuff i made mainly because i liked the look. And behold, things can and will be explained Whahahaha. Thats always good !

:cheers:

Maus

Edit:
@ Vik: Argh! Cursed thee be! I have now seen the 'eye mask idea' and to the nine hells with thee, for I can now no longer UNsee it... Argh... eyemask it is then... where's my green stuff and my dremel...

... I'd follow him... from a distance

that made me smile so wide!!!

@ Vik: Argh! Cursed thee be! I have now seen the 'eye mask idea' and to the nine hells with thee, for I can now no longer UNsee it... Argh... eyemask it is then... where's my green stuff and my dremel...

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA lol... i knew it would be a cool idea... actually seeing that head i couldkick myself in the rear for not ordering the last time such a head for my own needs when i had the chance... actually i think i will expand on more heros after i finish my captain whatsnot hero...!

Heya guys... its me again. Not with the hero, he's still being worked on. Noooo, with sofas and chairs and table. Vik's comment last time made me think... I do indeed need a RED sofa. So I made myself one. Also a chair to go with the first sofa, a table for them both, and some flooring to keep it all modular. And to prove it fits in my buildings, some pics of that too.










And as icing on the cake another hero/heavy for my necropocalypse. For now I dub him Autocannon Bob. 'Lazy' autocannon Bob







As always feel free to questiopn everything. Suggestions on improvement are always welcome...

Wow, Nice miniatures. Love the style. Subbed.

Thank you Scrazza... Any constructive critique you can throw at me perhaps? I love Wows, and ooh's and aah's... but i really really freakishly love criticism actually. Hope you enjoy the thread and throw it all at me... Only one thing better than silent lurkers... And thats noisy, commenting lurkers

Great pose on the autocannon guy. Maybe it looks like his right foot ought to be on something, like a can, to make his toes curl up like that. Will you drill out the gun barrel? That's a good habit to get in to and really looks a lot better.

lol... i was rather curious as to why MY sofa has succesfully travelled all the way to the netherlands... but now i understand^^ lol...

the red...correction... faded red looks very good! the shots inside the house reminds me of old times... when i used to play jagged alliance 2... those were the days! when you went into houses you had these walled apart looks of rooms too... so thanks for that lil piece of memories! how do you make this furniture by the way? the table looks as if it is from a set... i detected by the way some mold lines on the tables feet...(sorry dude^^) but if you´ve sculpted all the sofas and chairs from putty... respect! that must´ve been quite a big amount to make all this! but it sure was worth it!

as for the gunner... lovley arangement of bits! a truly maus conversion to the detail! specially i love the "dangling" feet look... just one minor nitpick here too...the bum of said gunner is hoovering a bit in the air... suggestion: raise the amo box a bit and you´re set! oh...and for the sake of all of us... drill the barrel out!


cheers, vik

Barrel will be drilled!
Vik, the sofas are DAS clay... dries in the air, costs and weighs little... perfect for stuff like sofas.

That mold line... hrm... The table is indeed from one set or other of some kind of doll house play set... i cut most of the legs off to make it the correct height.

The autocannon gunner is at the moment still separate from the gun. With greenstuff he'll eventually be on a cushion he put atop the ammo box

Thanx for the heads up on the moldlines and the barrel guys

Got to have a cussion on an ammo box. An essential

@ Mordain: Yep, a bare necessity. A cushion is the bare minimum Lazy Bob needs. Some other demands he made were his own Thermos and coffeecup, and a bong...
I can make him a cushion, I can make him a bong, no problem... but I think he's pushing it with the coffee...

 MauS wrote:
Thank you Scrazza... Any constructive critique you can throw at me perhaps? I love Wows, and ooh's and aah's... but i really really freakishly love criticism actually. Hope you enjoy the thread and throw it all at me... Only one thing better than silent lurkers... And thats noisy, commenting lurkers

It's hard to give c&c to someone who is way better atconverting then me. But from now on, I'll follow your blog (pics specifically) more closely.

Hero contest update:





Ax arm is still loose... still looking for the correct position...

c&c welcomed

i already had my lil speach about the sausagy "A" on the hero thread... the mask is pure awesome sauce.... wish i could sculpt like that!...

and a cushion for lazy... LOL... yeah... but pleae make him a thermos... that would be cool... with the cap as a cup...(i am not that fond of bongs to be fair...)...

and... air dry clay...of course!!!!

Face mask is the bomb POW WHAM !! CRANG !!!

Is he going to be holding anything in that large mit of his? Some sort of book / holy scripture / ipad? Or is it an 'Alas poor Yarrick' moment...

@ Ruglud: At the moment i'm not even sure i'm sticking to this hand... I'm not convinced on the pose yet... I'm exploring the possibilty of giving him a garbage-can-lid shield... or perhaps even a pistol...

The mask is just awesome incarnate. It came out fantastically. And it looks like Vic has already comented on the A

The A will be great when done, trust me

The coffee table and other sofa REALLY puts it into perspective and it looks great!

MauS wrote:@ Ruglud: At the moment i'm not even sure i'm sticking to this hand... I'm not convinced on the pose yet... I'm exploring the possibilty of giving him a garbage-can-lid shield... or perhaps even a pistol...

but i am.... i love that pose... so many interpretations possible for that pose... with an axe like this... a so big one at that too... an open and anarmed hand... i think that is way better this way.... what you could do know...COULD... is to make a bit of GS flame/blast/ spellworks from that hand then... if done with some OSL this could top the current amount of awesomesauce ... but only just

Complete Badassery going on here Maus! The furniture is excellent, and the Hero is fantastic!

The open hand i like too... It will stay. But i'm not at all sure on the zombie hand i'm using now. It looks... i don't know... just off...

I'm looking through my bits for hands now, but so far haven't found any that says 'come get me if you dare' as much as the zombie hand does.

@ Vik: I contemplated some fire or smoke from his hand but decided against it. My hero is actually just a nutcase in a superhero costume carrying a humongous poweraxe and hunting zombies... Hero perhaps, but not a mage, wyrd or psyker.

@ Skalk: I tried the buttons, but they just looked too big. I think the rest of the furniture ties it down a bit too. Now to make a dozen or so more, some fridges, freezers, sinks, toilets.... pff... too much...

@ Dave: Thanx, coming from you thats a big compliment. I'v started copying your tags by the way. Did you design a tag for yourself too? Cuz if so i'd like to steal that for on my shanty walls too

lol, no..It was an homage to all of you, my esteemed League Brothers!

Good, that means I can design my homage to you myself...

Hero WIP:





And spoiler/teaser for next model:





Both very much WIP, looking for good color combinations... So by all means not set in stone yet...

The bright colours on the Hero are great. I'm looking forward to seeing it progress

Purple and green are very much super villain colours (Lex Luthor, Green Goblin, Riddler, Joker, loads more) - are you sure he is a hero?

The hulk is green... with purple pants... and he's a hero right?

Update on the hero:







Moar pics in my gallery... Still a work in progress...

amazing hero... the colors are very vibrant! he riminds my a bit of kickass... and that vizard with the big sword looks promising too... only the yellow beard... a bit too cartoony for my taste... but the armor/clothes of him... what a cool outfit...and again great GSskills!!!

maus your models have an interesting quality to all of them, very unique in style and I love them! very... Maus-esc if I must say so

That guys paint scheme is so comic book which is great love how he turned out great job, although I did like it black and green but thats just me.

The second guy is cool but loose the beard LOL unless thats his power weird annoying beard guy

Its a power-beard

 MauS wrote:
Its a power-beard

OK then you win, don't want a beard wiping

fething Awesome \oo/

Nice tights!
He is saying "Come here..I wanna show you something"
LOL@Power Beard

Could it count as an extra power weapon?

Yes, but you would not get the benefit of it in CC unless you played that combo in 2nd Ed or Necromunda. Then you'd be a death-dealing powerhouse.

Let the coincidence be that i play necromunda, be it altered, and not much else

Just build a servo that lifts the beard to reveal..Another Power Fist!

That would make him... Chuck Norris 8)

..>And??

Well... wouldn't the real chuck norris come after me for copying his thing...?

The real Chuck Norris is kind of a religious whack-o nowadays.

Nonsense...
Chuck Norris did not become religious... religion became Chuck Norris

HAHA- I remember the first time Vik heard CHuck's real voice speaking English..apparently they overdub him with a badass voice in German

They dub everything in germany... Hell, they even dubbed arnold schwarzenegger in an interview , even while he was speakling german... Cuz otherwise people would not believe it was him... They did not know his true voice, only the german dubbed voice... So even his german, was dubbed, in german...

LOL..that's bizzare..but funny..and strangely believable

arnie is not really speaking german...nor is he speaking english... what he utters is gibberish... but with teeth as big as horse teeth... it is...er...understandable...(bad pun indeed...)

and maus is right... everything gets dubbed here... peeps from switzerland too... or our own self owned dumbasses...lowclass peeps with harsh slang too... really!... but seriously... every film gets dubbed... no one can speak a second language here most of the time... i fear we are one of the dumbest folks around...

.....The swiss.....

Don't worry Vik I can barely speak English and that's my first language

Nah Vik... germans are NOT the dumbest people around. That title belongs to the americans by a mile

lol...dave i knew i would get you with a comment like this

at LDD...lol...why have i heard that kinda comment before

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
lol...dave i knew i would get you with a comment like this

at LDD...lol...why have i heard that kinda comment before

Usually with the Americans only kidding guys

 dsteingass wrote:
.....The swiss.....

A classic posted once again for Dave:



And @ MauS... do you have any idea how many sons and daughters of Deutschland immigrated to North America over the last 300+ years and now have their genes swimming all throughout the general population now? And furthermore- if we ARE that stupid, wouldn't that likely begin at the beginning of education... you know... like maybe... in kindergartens?

LOLZ @ Skalk... well... yeah... You guys are kinda askin for it with the 'Kindergartens' ...

er...skalk... do american kids go to kidergartens at all? never knew this...?

Yea I went to kindergarten, and anyone I know has been as well.

oh....

Yes, we all went to Kindergarten, right before 1st Grade

More WIP shots for the contest:


Weathering an old plastic toy


Wheels melting down on the heater, dogs not caring at all...


One needs a dead , slowly skeletalised driver...


Ow looky, flat tires (molten wheels)






Rusty she goes...

That's really fething cool Maus! they really look like flat tires! Pretty (and lazy) dogs too!

Hey guys, here's my pics for the hero contest. AXionMan is done!
He's been a thorn in my side for a while, been thinking about doing some OSL, but in the end I think the purple axe color doesn't allow decent OSL on his purple clothing without it all looking off... So decided I'm done with him. Now back to the dumptruck for the vehicle contest, and afterwards i can finally get back to my zombies, shanties, survivors, furniture and mold-making (soon more about that moldmaking, but think civilian torsos amongst others)

i did mention that you wrecked truck is as sweet as a wrecked ...er...car? well i did on the other thread...

and i did mention that i need to use more brighter colors on my next mini i make...well i did on that even other thread...

good looking AXionman... the axe is truly lovley looking... OSL is not the solution to everything!!! only one small problem i have... this guy could have done with a cape... ragged and with lots of torn holes in it... that would have added that sorry ex-super hero look which i take as a vibve from him...

or he looks like those long lost wrestlers of our youth we loved... very well done... i am not winning that hero comp in any way...darn...

I'm afraid i'm not winning either Vik... but we tried my friend... we tried... And i'm pretty sure with Dave on board I can forget about winning the vehicle competition as well...

well... you are right with daves corvega... that one is totaly wraped up

i dunno about the hero comp tho...yours is one heahy converted mini as you can get... and as much as i understood panda that´s what this comp was all about... painting was a mere sideeffect... i guess we´ll have to sit down and wait patiently...argh feth it...^^

Nice Conversions Maus...

Thanx Galorn!

I guess you are right Vik... all we can do is sit and wait... Ack, waiting, I hates it my preciousss

all we can do is sit and wait

smells like rick astley???

WTF Rick Ashley? Noooooo
I can take a good thread-jacking as much as the next guy... but Rick Ashley...

Vik, what have I ever done to you to deserve Rick ashley in my thread? I haven't won the competition yet...

'I sit and wait... There's an angel, contemplate my faith...'
There... I see your Rick Asley, and I raise you a Robbie Williams!

a wobbly williams?... hmm... be grateful that i haven´t posted a youtube vid of rick

so... since we both are sitting our collective bums off to wait for the results... what will you make up now? any new plans heading our way?

At the moment working on my Truck for the vehicle competition... just a few days left, and I need to give Dave a run for his money.

After that its on to sculpting and then molding some civilian torsos... So far I'm thinking one with shirt and neck-tie, one with open shirt, a t-shirt/longsleeve torso, a hoodie... I'm open for suggestions on any non-military torso ideas...

In the meantime i'm convertion some necropocalypse Beast-men gangers, and some Skaven gangers, and I still have a gazillion zombies to build.

In short, nothing much planned, so if you have a nice idea for me to tackle, or need something sculpted or such, just let me know...

And by all means Vik... don't post Rick Ashley...

ok... i wont do the last thing you mentioned... it is hereby forgotten, erased and deleted from my mind deal?

and you mold? or rather sculpt?

color me intrigued...

as for suggestions on civilian torsos... what about

and



also... nurses and nuns... who doesn´t love these

and if you do beastmen and skaven gangers... you know deep down inside your soul that you have to do lizardmen too

oh and i cross my fingers for your truck... i wanna see dave on his toes at least^^

True, i have to do lizardmen too... But... I have none here, so they'll be on the to-do list. Coveralls and Haz-Mat suits are a definate plan!

Concerning the other question: Aye, I sculpt... I sculpt, and then mold the sculpts. Had meself a nice molding workshop last week, and I must say my first molded torso (standard catachan, just to try) came out fine

Thanx for the ideas and advice Vik. Good to see that some people still visit my blog...

I visit! I just don't have anything useful to contribute

Neon Leon (AKA AxionMan) looks great though!

I don't think I'll win the vehicle comp because Bruticus isn't into Fallout. I only wanted to win to do the "what can you build with 1 necromunda bulkhead" contest idea

@ Dave: Knowing you, with one bulkhead you'd be able to build an entire space hulk, so if ever that contest comes up i'm not joining!
I'm guessing Bruticus is more into the ruined warhammer vehicles indeed, and as he was showing examples I saw a couple of nice yellow trucks and loaders come by... so i might have a chance yet. But honestly, if it comes to pure awesome-sauce, your fallout stuff tops all.

@ Vik: Darn you and your coverall idea! Now I need to sculpt legs and arms too! Thanx for that, love it truely. Keep them ideas comin!

Oh yeah before I forget...

WHahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhaaaaaahahahahaha @ Neon Leon!!! I'll be sticking to that name I'm afraid...

Hahaha Bruticus is a "purist" when it comes to Necromunda, he scoffed at my idea of introducing brick buildings into the underhive

. I only wanted to win to do the "what can you build with 1 necromunda bulkhead" contest idea

that is something i want to see soon... even tho i then have to go bitz hunting but it is a true worthwhile task!


and maus... we´ll have to do some serious talking about your self made products then... if i/you come up with something cool... i want to get my paws on that as well

and i am atm starting to scratch my head for new ideas... damn those danfrafts

I know, the downfall of that would be if people didn't have the bulkhead part...maybe not such a good idea logistically eh?

@Maus- you flatter me with your praise, thanks man

well...if all else fails... scratchbuild a bulkhead yourself...

Well here's the vehickle contest done... Some of the graffiti used (like skalk's name,) ties it all in to my shanty-town and necropocalypse city, hence the 74th street tag, some crap bout the emperor etc... The entire thing is deliberately only based on a cd, and kept clean, because it needs to tie in with my scenery. I didn't want to do any basing at all at first, but then the judge might consider it a still moveable vehicle despite the four flat tires... Anyways, enjoy... And I wonder if anyone gets the 3:16 reference

Many thanx to Skalk for allowing me to use his name for graffiti without him knowing it. Somewhere this week i'll show the other league members where their names ended up. Told ya i'd steal that idea Dave!!

























Hope ya'all like it guys...

maus... for that rivets for life you would be instantly a member lucky for us you are one of us already!

and all of the rest of those graffitti takes... just priceless...tho i hope for you that it will actually be priced

I am honored and humbled. Rivets for Life!

yeah... kissing doesn´t last...but rivtes

Rivets are forever... better than diamonds...

you sure? well.... in that case... i can send you some of my ready made rivets if you send me some of your diamonds...

Blood Rivets!

Will you settle for diamond drop threadplates?

any day mister... anyday

It will not be this day... nor this week or month.
Missus and me are moving out next weekend... it will be some time till I'm active again I'm afraid...

Reactivated Expect weirdness again soon

now that is good news!... i am eager to see you join in the fray for the current LoeR comp mister...

 MauS wrote:
Reactivated Expect weirdness again soon

Excellent... I look forward to seeing the results...

Forgive me guys, nothing new yet... Just got out of surgery, had my groin ruptered... Now recuperating. Hopefully i can get some stuff done next bcouple weeks cuz i cant work either way... Just letting you know, all you fans you...

Oh man! So sorry! Heal up man! Take it extremely easy please!

I wish you a speedy and restful recovery.

 MauS wrote:
Forgive me guys, nothing new yet... Just got out of surgery, had my groin ruptered... Now recuperating. Hopefully i can get some stuff done next bcouple weeks cuz i cant work either way... Just letting you know, all you fans you...

I'll keep you in prayers. Hopefully it's just the way you translated it, but that sounds particularly nasty. Just think of all the extra miniature time you'll have while on the mend.

Ouch! Get well, rest easy! NO SEX.

Dude I've heard of a "hard on for modeling" but thats silly... Get well soon man. take it easy.


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Found this link
http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/

Has a ton of Vintage posters and such to print out and use on stuff...

Nice link Galorn... Bookmarked!!!

Yeah, got some time on my hands now yeah, so i'm making some sofas and stuff to send to galorn for molding.

As for the translation... well... according to google translator its called groin rupture. Liesbreuk in dutch. Its when the stomach wall in the groin area tears, and yer intestines try to tickle yer prostate and stuff... Nasty, but fixed with an hour's surgery. Recovery time takes longer because well... its a delicate area... so no walking around and stuff... So here i am, on the couch, with all my stuff two floors up... So in a day or so i'll make the trip up there.
Thanx for all the kind words guys... and nope, indeed no sex for a while...

Bill Clinton once told me BJ's aren't sex, so they are cool right??

Get well soon mate!

Bill for the win eheheheh

Get better man! You got stuff to finish!

ouch... that groin rupture... did you carry too much around? heavy lifting and such stuff can cause this... that´s why i prefer a lazy lifestyle...tho my wife does her best to prevent me from this

get better soon... and a BJ is probably not helpful... even if some man out there calls it no sex... some parts on your parts still move and this might cause other regions to move too... and i am sure these then aren´t ment to move atm...

again... get better... and be careful on that journey upstairs

@ Vik: Nope, wish i had carried some heavy loads or stuff... nope, i just simply coughed... that was enough...

ouch...again... that must be a really bad case of being sick...I think if you smoke this would be the time to quit then

Feth! Bad things never come alone they say... Its like fethin feth even... First this surgery thing, and now this morning I go check on my babies (my rats) and find my favourite Azrael has passed away. Call me a freak, but i loved the little critter.
Consider me broken for now...

ach man... I understand you...

thank the lords this still has to happen to me... loosing someone that is directly important to me... I fear that day with all my heart...

hope you have something to do to cope with that...

vik

@ Vik, I think with kids, if that would ever happen to me, i'd probably have to be admitted to a mental home. Azrael was my favourite Rat, i breed the little critters and this one was just by far the most tame one I ever had. She went everywhere with me, bar, shop, work, everything. She was perfectly trained too, reacted to her name, brought things to me upon request, even rode my dogs when i walked them.

I try to cope now by giving the other eight rats a lot of love, because with the surgery my dogs have to stay clear from me. Pitbulls do have a tendency of being a bit overenthousiast, which would ruin my groin. My gf takes care of them both for now.
Some people call me stupid for loving animals this much, but I don't care. Men are allowed to cry i say, even when losing pets. I dread the day I ever lose someone close. I have difficulty enough coping right now, let alone using a person....

I'm sorry to hear that MauS, losing a pet is like losing a piece of you, I know.

Men are allowed to cry i say

i fuly agree... although it sometimes is hard to even get loose that much... society sadly trained us to be so often the logs...i try to teach my soons otherwise...

if i´d loose my kids... i really wouldn´t know what to do with my life...

MauS wrote:@ Vik: Nope, wish i had carried some heavy loads or stuff... nope, i just simply coughed... that was enough...

Thats how i herniated the disks in my back. Aren't genetics fun...

MauS wrote:Feth! Bad things never come alone they say... Its like fethin feth even... First this surgery thing, and now this morning I go check on my babies (my rats) and find my favourite Azrael has passed away. Call me a freak, but i loved the little critter.
Consider me broken for now...

Sorry to hear that, my condolences on your loss, it helped me to reread the narnia books when i lost a close pet (reading about aslan's country and all)

dsteingass wrote:I'm sorry to hear that MauS, losing a pet is like losing a piece of you, I know.

Indeed.

Actual progress update: Sofa and sofa-chair are now drying/hardening out. After that they will be turned into casts, and the casts will be detailed. If i can find my camera -charger i'll try postin pics later...

that is a most funny thing... can´t tell how often i have heard that line

...If i can find my camera -charger i'll try postin pics later...

almost like that line in star wars....

i´ve got a bad feeling about this...

I know i have it... its in a box... but now to find the correct box... Darn move makes me lose everything. Its like my brushes... been looking for them for days... Turns out they were in the basement... Maybe the charger is there too, hrm...

MauS wrote:Actual progress update: Sofa and sofa-chair are now drying/hardening out. After that they will be turned into casts, and the casts will be detailed. If i can find my camera -charger i'll try postin pics later...

Awesome!!

MauS wrote:I know i have it... its in a box... but now to find the correct box... Darn move makes me lose everything. Its like my brushes... been looking for them for days... Turns out they were in the basement... Maybe the charger is there too, hrm...

Try the one on the left... its always in the one on the left...

It's the last one you'll look in

With two contests running I couldn't resist building one piece to combine the two. Brian's 'built-on-a-cd' contest, and the League Gun emplacement contest can easily be combined, if you are me
Here's some prelimenary pics now i finally found my charger, camera, and all the supplies for my modelbuilding again. The idea is to build a gun emplacement, on a cd, hidden in a heap of garbage. The beginning is here, now its on to adding more and more garbage, junk, bags, sacks and discarded stuff. Garbage bags will be built created after everything else, as they cannot and should not be primed... Here's the pics, please leave comments...


The obligatory cd, in this case a copy of the Best of Bon Jovi. An ideal cd to screw up...


Surplus model stuff, the other requirement in Brian's contest. The garbage bags will also be filled with excess junk.


What is a gun emplacement without a gun? Twin linked heavy bolter with either laser targeting, or maybe just a flashlight...


The beginnings of a hidden emplacement. Not yet hidden, but it will eventually be covered in a mountain of garbage.


Leave comments please

Welcome Back Man. looking very promising indeed.

the only thing i am a bit feeling akward towards your piece is if the twin linked bolter suffices enough in the role as a gig gun... other than that it looks really promising... and it´s good to have you back!!!

Me too, but so far i've heard it would do if it seemed immobile... So i'll probably rivet it to the floor

yes... that would make it immobile^^

and i´ve read the judges allow it... so this is all good^^

Some progress report on my tale of two contests adventure. It actually become just 1 contest, because after my brilliant plan everybody decided to mix the contests of Brian and the League, resulting in Brian deciding that entries that were not unique would get minussus on score. So i dropped out of that contest, specially since i had gotten permission first. Not that it mattered, because it now means the base of my gun emplacement will be bigger, and will contain lots more debris... Anyways, just some progress to show, not nearly done. Feel free to comment after looking at the pictures:













And to keep in spirit of the original plan i had, some progress on a second contest, the bad ass contest:



The bike is meant to be the ride for my bad ass biker (chick) probably... Its from a kinder surprise egg... All the other stuff is all for the gun emplacement contest. I'm keeping the gun for last

Shoot guys, lemme know what i should improve

improve???

where, how?

i see so much win... your shed looks so lovley... so much detail... and you have an eye for scale i have to say... those junk bags... awesome!!!what did you use to fill these up? what size would that be?

the bike looks quite good... i am a bit uneasy currently on the paintjob as it feels a bit uneven...brushstrokes and so on... but very akira like!

Nice job has an east Asia feel to it, you know those shacks they build over there.

Once again the rubbish bags are just the dogs you know whats never get tired of seeing them also like the pallets and boxes nice scratch builds

As for the bike needs a new paint job as Vik mentioned, looks a little scratchy unless thats the look you're going for.

You got a picture of a mini next to it ? I never get anything like that in my kinder eggs I always get crappy craft things

The4 bike is not at all as it should be, its just to show what exactly it looks like. It will have a nice flashy glossy paintjob.

The bags are just plain garbage bags, cut to a size of about a cm across and 5 high.
Folded, filled with a tissue, and tied down with a garden wire it looks the part.

The pallets are stolen from on-site here, don't know who i saw do it, but they work! The boxes are cardstock and math... I did that at school once, and for a reason lolz...

As for the kinder eggs... the secret is to buy one every time ya go shopping. After twenty or so bugs bunnies you will eventually get something usefull... A coming project will be three racing cars i have from those eggs, which next to a 22mm model look like a scale car to them. So a model with a remote, the cars filled with dynamite, and presto, missile launcher proxy

Thanx a lot for the feedback guys, its appreciated.
I hope I will do the bike justice. Now to finish the paintjob on the shed. It will recieve at least 4 dirt washes.

Also, did ya guys notice the paper below the model? Tiny newspaper pages? They will also be scattered all about.

Dam missed the paper they look ace where did you find the link for them ? I have some 40K posters and some papers Galorn sent me but those look pretty cool.

As for buying a kinder egg each time I go have you seen the price of those dam things they aint cheap and having a draw full of monkeys, rabbits, dinosaurs along with spiny kaleidoscope things I could not cope with LOL

LDD... concerning the paper:

Google newspaper ( add another term like zombie for more specific newspapers)

Save the image

Open word

Load up the image

Adjust size

Presto

Works for posters and such too:

oh yeah... the newspaper totally escaped me...^^
sometimes i wonder with kinder eggs contens too... but i never had then a model for scale comperance with me...i knew eventually someone would be able to work with these...

I have a mac with no word program

Lovely shed and trash and posters!! I've been googling those same Fallout posters recently.

Sorry about the contest. I voted you be allowed.

Thanx for the support Dave. It wasn't that much of an issue really, it allows me to focus more on groundwork and littering now

LDD... Buy a decent pc, buy windows!
But seriously, doesn't MAC allow you to add pictures to a program so you can adjust size and print the simple way...???

Yes..he just doesn't want to learn

You know me to well

I will try and have ago there must be something somewhere on this thing

Progress:

now that looks sexy as help!!!!
And the bikeress looks very fitting!

I thought you would have painted her by now looks great but you all ready know that

I like the bike, but I'm hoping you'll add a few more colors.

She will have sponsors, decals and race numbers
Ow yeah, and weathering and chipping of course

Hey Maus, those garbage bags are amazing - gotta try me that technique. Hut also looking amazing, as LDD said, It has a certain vibe to it that makes me think Vietnam...

The bike, wow that's some Kinder Surprise there. For some reason though I'm imagining the Kill Bill paint job for it and rider

Now that would be a cool idea too... Tho instead of yellow red would look cool as is too! Not too sure about the decals tho

It'll be subtle racy, but not Superbike like racy. It will be glossy, and then damaged and chipped... Nothing stays new in a necropocalypse, not even bass ass chicks on bad ass bikes

Of course you won't disappoint us

I'll surely try not to...

.>And don't call me Shirley!

Looks like a plan coming together

Its coming together slowly yeah Shaso, thanx

Moar progress, playing with her pose, settled on this sort-of getting on her bike gunning pose finally... required a lot of cutting up stuff, and a fair amount of green stuff so far.
She will be blonde...





The base is Rivitzone by the way, excellent bases made by local god Galorn...

Have you considered to maker asien?
Looks very badass already...but what kinda gun will she wield?

Thats the million dollar question Vik... I have no idea yet. I've tried different gun ideas already, but the Dark Eldar arms look really flimsy when holding a lasgun or bolter type weapon. So i'm open to ideas on the weaponry...

Anyone got a mac-10 laying around?

Asian... hrm... Darn you boys and your ideas...
Asian is a very good option really...

Seriously I think I have... Got it from zinge... But I think specialy the mac 10 is a gun you could scratchbuild most easily...from sprue even... Hmmm if you pm me your add I could rummage in my buzz box for frailer guns...

PM sent... And darn you, after checking out some asian biker chicks it is decided...

Black leather, Asian looks... She'll be awesome. It unfortunately does mean the bike will not have racing sponsors and such, just some fancy racing stripes/visuals

You should add a green strand of hair or blue to that braid... These tokio ridge chicks just cant decide on one color

She so needs one of zinges SMG pistols or the Machine pistol, either of those would work and rock

Braid orange to tie in the bike theme and totally black leather

Subtle markings/vinyls...





Now to wait till the decals dry and then a couple more layers of gloss, a polish, and then its on to weathering and chipping. Not too much though, i like the idea of a well maintained bike, even though the world is run by zombie gangers...

What ya guys think? Enough vinyls, too much, too little?

Looks perfect in my humble opinion
Are those orky decals converted? Tho I am not too fond of these imp decals in that context .tau or eldar would have been the better choice. If you need some I have plenty of both

I like the shiny look shouts care and attention in an Apocalyptic world, although I am also a little lost as to the Imperial Emblems ?

Looking forward to the riders paint job, how you going to achieve the leather finish ?

Gloss paint, satin varnish or Gloss varnish ? or some way unknown to mortals ?

The imperial markings are sort of like brand markings, indicating that the bike is imperial built. I kept them small so they don't draw too much attention but still break up the red. Maybe tau might have looked better, but the bike is human built after all...
Besides, they are really hardly visible with the naked eye.

As for the rider... well, still not decided on a color scheme. It'll probably be a dark color, maybe indeed black leather. Vallejo black and gloss varnish should work.

The ork decal has been converted indeed, if converting is the correct name. I cut a set of teeth in half, and took one half on each side of the bike. I'm thinking maybe a Scorpion green pinstripe around it, but not sure yet.

That's what I've meant, the green could look quite dashing...
I asked about the aquilla to know how your own game/fluff world is to be associated to mainstream 40k world..
I was always assuming you had come up with a universe of your own device and you use just the buzz for helping achieving your vision...but I guess I am projectingy own views here

I do indeed use the buzz, and mostly my own vision, but the core rules I use are necromunda, but altered lots. In honour of the basic set that started me, i still adhere a bit to Imperial fluff...

Ah I see... Honoring what brought one to this game is of course a valid motive!

Oooh! nice shiny and red!

Biker progress:








Not sure yet if i'm going for black leather, or latex/rubber mistress outfit. She'll be armed with a desert eagle courtesy of Vik von Doom...
No way near done, and not really the best pictures due to the glare of the gloss bike coat...

That is so bad ass looks perfect mate exactly as I imagined really coming together nicely

Whoa...she looks sexy in that brutal vicious way where you expect whips and thorns...very cool tokio style!

Sorry not been here before, most excellent.

She looks so mean!

PMS probably Shaso...

*wipes monitor* LOL...

I love the base your using...

You should Galorn, you made it

No updates yet people, waiting on some nice guns by Vik von Doom for the bad ass... Will update as soon as there is progress...

Cross fingers for quick arrival...

Some more progress... Almost done with her, the base needs finishing, and the face needs a lot more work. I still need to drill the barrel, and paint and attach her indiana jones whip. Gun is courtesy of Vik Von Doom, the most excellent base is Rivitzone, by Galorn. Many thanx again for both, they suit her perfectly! I decided finally NOT to do black hair, as the entire model became much too dark that way, and grimdark is something I try to avoid in my models, wether they are GW or not...
I'll leave these pics here, check out my gallery for more...

She's done!
And if i say so myself, she's pretty bad-ass...









I'm pretty happy with how she turned out. What do you guys think? Anything you'd like to see up closer?
Feel free to comment, as I still have about 24 hours or so to work on her if needed. Or... not, i think i'll just keep fiddling if i go there...

Anyway, comments and criticism is most welcomed people... don't be shy, don't be gentle...

Absolutely stunning mate, really awesome.

By far the "RED-ist" thing I have seen.

Working on the gun emplacement now the bad ass comp is over. I believe I have a few more days, and a lot of work still to do...































There's more pictures in my gallery, in the Contests folder.
Let me know what you think guys,...

Looks absolutely brilliant.

One got 2 things I can say anything about. It's awfully clean rubbish, and the sheets of paper could do with being scrunched up a little. I suspect you are going to rectify these before I said anything. It is a brilliant piece of scenery and such brilliant use of materials.

Other than that what cam already mentioned I can't think of anything to add about the gun emplacement. As for your biker chick...she is awesomeness incarnate...one of the meanest looking models I have ever seen...

Thanx guys.

@ Camkierhi: Everything will most definately be smudged and filthied... There's no such thing as clean trash. Thanks for noticing it though. There will be more papers, and they will be folded, crunched etc... These are all mostly flat as they are on the floor and will be obscured mostly by even more rubbish...

@ Vik: You humble me good sir, thank you. But honestly, if you guys hadn't helped out with ideas and advice, and if you personally had not supplied her whip and gun, she would have been a lot less cool... Now go bribe ruglud and Panda so I can win some bragging rights

Fantastic Maus! I love the posters especially!

Figured you would Dave, them being fallout posters and all

 cormadepanda wrote:
FIrst Place!
[spoiler]

MauS wrote:She's done! My entry, my preciousss... More pictures in my gallery, feel free to vote guys an galls...
And if i say so myself, she's pretty bad-ass...

I WON! I ACTUALLY WON!! WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!