Well, we mass produce the parts...

Quick painted Broken, for a side project...

Lift tower finished:







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More pics and walkthrough here.

^Nice work! And good use of those terrain bauble sprues.

That is gorgeous, really excited to see all the terrain together as a gaming table!

Started reorganising the storage space, as the current storage area is being overrun with terrain, for some reason... Still very WIP.

This week's modeling article was a tutorial on adding arc markings to non-MEdge bases. Like this:




Article is here: http://www.thecommguild.com/roller/thecommguild/entry/modeling-spotlight-adding-arc-markers

Sweet!

Sorting out the pile of stuff downstairs. It's possible I have more whippy sticks than I actually need...

Hah, that's horrible :p

Last of the underhive structures (for now!) painted up and ready for action!










All together with a couple of ring-ins to fill in space:






More pics in the walkthrough (not much of a walkthrough this time, as the process was mostly the same as the previous buildings) here.

That's my favourite of the lot, and the whole table looks amazing!

Excellent set!

This week's article is a tutorial on making marble bases using adhesive vinyl!



Tutorial is here.

That new project smell...

Intriguing!

Things coming together...

That looks ace. That would make great kryptonite

And after a bit of trial and error, and some delays thanks to the weather turning weird and stuff taking forever to dry... the first batch of crystal outcrops are finished:




Walkthrough here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/786394.page#10742321

Wow... that's spectacular!

Agreed, that's some really cool terrain!

The finished buildings look so good!
The weathering is spot on and I really like all the graffiti on the walls.

Nice going with the crystal terrain!

Crystal terrain is awesome, real eye-catcher!

Cracking terrain, as usual. Nice use of those crystals.

Gotta agree with Gits, they are spectacular!

Thanks, guys... it was all very experimental, so I'm rather glad they turned out ok.


Meanwhile, I put together some Nimbus suits for MEdge... looking forward to getting some paint on these bad boys:



Model spotlight article with some conversion tips here.

Getting some hat on...

En Guarde!

Is that an... Ood?

It's a bit rough, but yes. Planning on using him as the psyker.

Full bonus points awarded

insaniak,

So jealous of your Necromunda terrain. Interesting way of recreating the old classics using your Maelstrom's Edge stuff. I have been commenting on your other terrain thread.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks!


This week's modeling article is up - got some paint on this guy, converted waaay back and sitting in the cabinet looking all grey ever since...







Article and more pics here!

Nice job! Very characterful.

Oh, I like that. Drone fits in just right up there. Nice colours too.

Thanks, guys!

Some progress on my Guard. I added the first infantry squad, using some more Maelstrom's Edge SecDef, and a heavy bolter, chainsword and bolt pistol left over from some Space Marine scouts. Also replaced the armoured Commissar's pistol with a storm bolter - Since in 2nd Ed, regular Commissars didn't have access to armour, I'll be running this guy as a Yarrick stand-in.

Things are starting to get heavy...

OOoh, yeah... 2nd Edition Annihilation Barges incoming...

So, as fun as it can be to just build stuff at random, for the sake of winding up with a coherent and usable force at the end of the process, I decided to sit down and write up an army list for my fledgling Guard army. This involved a combination of trying to figure out something that was going to function ok on the table, while looking at what I can make using Maelstrom's Edge minis with a smattering of 40K parts where absolutely necessary. What I came up with is below... It's a little character heavy, partly because that means not having to build as many infantry squads in the absence of tanks, and partly because I just can't resist the allure of all of those psychic powers flying around the table.

I'll expand on this later with another command squad and some more infantry, and maybe look at some vehicle or rough rider options. Right now, I'm putting together the second infantry squad.

LOL! Love the "Walking Head".

Skull barges for the skull....err...bot, yep skull-bot, that's what I was going to say Phaeron, honestly, no consisting with those new-fangled deities here, no sir.

I love Ogryn, keep those in the list for sure

Interesting work, that biker, saw him and thought "I am da Law!"

Converted Marsayan Hypnotist for Maelstrom's Edge, with a Bombshell Miniatures helmet:




Walkthrough here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/787010.page#10761137

Nice, the orange flight suit works really well, especially when paired with the helmet.

That's really cool... helmet totally works.

It's like an astronaut with big puppy eyes.

That thing is freaky, really great paintjob!

The orange and fish-bowl helmet really are such an iconic look, great mini!

Next Guard units...

- 'Ratling' stand-ins made from Epirian Contractors with SecDef arms and sniper rifles.
- 2nd Infantry unit with Sergeant's sword and plasma pistol stolen from Space Marine/Wolf Scouts, a MEdge Karist Radwave Emitter as a Meltagun stand in, and a lascannon made from a SecDef Chaingun with a barrel replacement. It's smaller than most modern 40K lascannons, although slightly larger than the Rogue Trader-era Guard lascannon. I think the barrel is too long, though, so will probably shorten it.
- Eversor Assassin stand in - an unconverted Karist Shadow Walker from Maelstrom's Edge.
- Inquisitor Lord stand-in - a Karist Kaddar Nova with some leg reposing and a right hand and staff (cybel glaive) taken from the MEdge 'Faction Expansion sprue'. The staff will serve as a force rod. He also has a Karist pulse pistol on his hip, which will count as a hand flamer.

Next up - scratchbuilding some mortars!

Very creative subbing in!

Mortar team prototype...

Very snazzy, I like the little medge terrain bits incoporated.

Marsayan is rocking some cool dance moves while using his psychic powers to get everyone to do the macharaina(sp?).

Nice little mortar scratchbuild. Will it have the spider legs from the robots or the drone type fans. If it gets any sort of mobility that is.

Yep, nice little mortar.

 Theophony wrote:

Nice little mortar scratchbuild. Will it have the spider legs from the robots or the drone type fans. If it gets any sort of mobility that is.

While I did initially consider having the heavy weapons on spider drone legs, I'm going with the mortar base just having a built in suspensor unit, to avoid it needing a huge base.

This week's modeling article is a painting tutorial - I've redone one of my earliest MEdge tutorials on painting lenses, and added in a couple of different methods.



The tutorial is here



Also, here's some robots:

New Wheels In Progress...

Thanks for the tutorial on painting lenses insaniak.

Cheers,

CB

Getting a mighty Judge dredd vibe just now.

Mule conversion finished. I'm calling it the 'Aurochs' Automated Transport, for my Maelstrom's Edge Epirian force.







More pics and a walkthrough here.

Excellent work again!

WIP Wednesday - because nothing says 'Inscrutable Alien' like chameleon paint...

Nice. What for basing? I think it'll be important.

I'm doing this guy to match my crystal outcrop terrain. The relatively pale stone should make for a nice contrast.

Vehicle looks great and the colorshift alien looks appropriately spooky!

Finished colorshifting Angel. He's a sod to photograph, but I'm really pleased with the effect.





Brief walkthrough article (including a little 360 degree spinaround video) here.

Looks phenomenal! I like the gs world colour shift paints also, but as you say a pain to photograph. Great for bugs and beasties.

So, stepping back a sec: that mule is so well done, especially the tires. The weathering is a little thing overall but it really helps to sell it.

So, the Angel - how did you prime it prior to the colorshift paint? How easy was it to make it look good? I bought some of that from GSW but I haven't cracked it open yet. (edit: never mind, I see you answered these questions in the other thread)

Yeah, I was really happy with the tyres on the Mule. I hadn't tried doing 'dirty' wheels like that before, so it was a little experimental.

I have to say [again, I suspect] that your Necromunda homage is really fabulous. Great attention to detail, true to the original, beautifully crafted, and nicely painted. Your rust effects, both bare metal and over paint, are top notch. Full marks!

Excellent Angel, really like the basing.

Nice work that angel is very, alien.

Definitely an alien feel insaniak.

Cheers,

CB

That thing looks fantastic. Good job!

Thanks, guys!

Next project off the bench: An escape pod kitbashed from various parts from the two Maelstrom's Edge terrain sprues!









More pics and a walkthrough here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/788154.page#10791752

That's ace! Love looking at it and figuring out the parts!

Very cool work! Nice touch on the weathering.

Very nice. Everyone needs a handy escape pod.

WIP Wednesday... a social media tradition that I occasionally remember!

Working on a bunch of articles for the next couple of weeks. A robot to add to the escape pod diorama, some Quickshade-painted Epirians to update an old article, and a rodent ball for a new, top-secret thing!

Is it a death star?
Is it a life-sized lightsaber training droid?
Is it a couple of dome buildings?
Is it a big old radar dish?
Is it the return of warhamster?

Who knows? Only insaniak knows! Keep tuning in to find out....

It does actually look rather Death Star-esque in that pic, doesn't it?

Escape pod looking very snazzy - thanks for sharing!

The Scarecrow is still one of my favourite kits. This head you gave it is another great customization!

For this week's article, I dug out one of my very first MEdge tutorials and dusted it off with some new pics, as the original photos were (in hindsight) a bit awful. This was a tutorial on painting with washes, which you can find here.

#WIPWednesday - It's still Wednesday somewhere in the world, right...?

Hmm. That's no moon

And it seems it's already been causing massive damage amongst the near population

Blood sacrifices must be made!

Finished pod diorama!








There's a walkthrough of the background painting here!

Very inspirational, as usual! My one thought would be that the floor looks a little clean. A bit of detritus there, or a tiny bot or critter, might give the scene even more character.

That station needs a LOT of TLC!

Beautifully done insaniak!

Thanks, guys!

 Sgt. Oddball wrote:
My one thought would be that the floor looks a little clean. A bit of detritus there, or a tiny bot or critter, might give the scene even more character.

Yeah, I did consider scattering some detritus around, but really wanted to keep this one simple.

Having said that, I've been playing a fair bit of Destiny 2 lately, and running around in the Arcology on Titan is really inspiring me to put something together that will let me really go to town with the clutter...

Painting...

Hmm, gonna go with some kind of lander/drop-pod....

It all depends, is that is a leg or a gun?

Got some slightly better pics of my old 'Mule' cargo drone conversion - for those who didn't see it the first time around (I think it was in my old blog thread) this was based on a Maelstrom's Edge Hunter Warmech. Walkthrough here.


Click for embiggened pics...

That's some lovely chipping right there.

I absolutely love your treatment of the metal insaniak. It has just the right amount of dull grey, rust and shine to be totally believeable. Well done!

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with that one, and it's one of my favourite MEdge models to date...


Meanwhile, this week's article is a SPACESHIP!












Walkthrough here.

Love the spaceship. Looks like somebody’s headed to Namek.

Ah, so it WAS a leg!
I agree with Graven and Gitsplitta, the metal is looking great.

Brillitant!!

Love the bluing on the thrusters especially.

Thanks, guys. As I mentioned in the article, it wasn't at all what I had originally intended to do with that rodent ball... but it was a lot of fun to put together, and I love the retro feel to it.

For this week's article, I had another play with Coorshift paints, this time on a plastic Shadow Walker kit for MEdge:

(click for embiggened pics)




Walkthrough here.

That's one of the nicer Shadow Walker paint jobs I've seen. Looks proper assassin-like!

So, the universe might be broken... I needed to change the FEP film on my 3D printer, and couldn't find my spares. Looked for them on and off for two days, finally gave up and decided to order some more and just hope the old ones would show up sooner or later, and then found them right before I hit the order submit button...

That never happens.

You must have done something right in a former life...

Back at work on the Necromunda stuff. Trying to get back into the habit of doing some non-work-related hobbying of an evening, which has been tricky thanks to some ongoing health issues leaving me with no energy to spare by the end of the day... but, theoretically at least, I'm finally finishing these boys off.



Added some juves made from Chaos Marauders with a little height trimmed from their waist so they don't tower over the plastic gangers, and an oversized heavy courtesy of the new Goliath range. Now I just need to get some paint on them, and finish off the detailing on the rest of the gang.

New modeling article - somehow, in all this time, I had never got around to making a building using the MEdge terrain sprue and a tissue box... So here 'tis:

(Click for embiggened pics)







Walkthrough of the build here.

New thing under construction...

Hulkamania runnin' wild! (one of your marauders looks kinda like Hulk Hogan)

insaniak,

Great to see some old Necromunda get pulled out again.

Cheers,

CB

Is that a ball tank? Giddy applauding and school girl giggles .

Always love seeing the old Necromunda lot, and the Maelstrom's Edge stuff as ever looking great!

Finished ball tank! Built from a DIY Christmas bauble and parts from the Maelstrom's Edge terrain sprues.

(Click for embiggened pics)








Walkthrough here.

Mad wizardry I tell you Really clever bits use dude.

Thanks!

I'm particularly pleased with how the viewports came up. Flat, glass areas are tricky to paint, but I think they look convincing enough.

 insaniak wrote:
Finished ball tank! Built from a DIY Christmas bauble and parts from the Maelstrom's Edge terrain sprues.

Oh.

Oh yes.

Very creative!

Next one off the workbench - I'm plundering the pet supplies section again, with an environment dome made from a hamster igloo.








Walkthrough here.

It's a home from home. A model sci-fi home made from a hamster ho...

Very nice work. I like the weathering.

Very classic sci-fi! Just the right amount of weathering too

Ball Tank is awesome!

Doing a spot of recycling this week...





Full walkthrough here.

Brilliant use of those bottles!

Last two projects are really neat, but the ball tank is great. Who doesn't like a ball tank

I can't believe it took me a second to see the paint bottles.

Or should that be,

Nice work converting those paint bottles!

(It took me even longer to see the Coat d'arms pot)

Everybody back in the pool!







Walkthrough here.

I know I saw something move. Get out! Get Out! GET OOOoo......glub glub glub.

Love the recycling project you did there.

Getting some paint on my Goliath juves... Complicated by the fact that I started this gang five or six years ago, and don't appear to have recorded what paint I used anywhere, so there's some guesswork involved.

Strong Tone wash done on the juves, so they just need some final detailing and bases (which I'll do on the whole gang at once when everyone's otherwise done). Also started work on the new heavy, and transplanted the rest of the gang onto Maelstrom's Edge bases (for arc of sight marks).

The therapeutic pool cures all kinds of skin conditions and afflictions. Just, whatever you do, do not stay in for more than thirty seconds.

Oh and when you shower off make sure you remove all of it.

The Pool is Great dude

So... here's a thing...

That is quite inspiration work!

A little more sculpting done this morning... For those not familiar with the original Necron range, they were fairly limited. I thought it would be fun to expand my 2nd ed Necrons with some of the options that were introduced with the 3rd ed codex and later. This was an attempt to create a Heavy Gauss Cannon for the original Necron Destroyer. We'll see how successful it was once I can get it printed...

Test print. It's just a fraction too large, and some unfortunate support placement left some damage on the print when I removed them, so I have adjusted the scale a tad and tweaked the supports for a second test. Not too shabby so far though, I think.

After some feedback elsewhere, I decided the cannon was just a bit too long, so shortened it up a bit. It's still long enough that its recognisably different to the regular cannon even when they're not side by side, which was my main concern with it size-wise, so I think that'll do.

Also started on some backwards-compatible rules updates...

Slight detour to the left this week, to experiment with dipping models with wood stains...




The trooper was painted in basic colours and then dipped in charcoal wood stain. The drones were just sprayed with army painter Platemetal, and then dipped in the same stain.







Tutorial here.

Getting out into nature this week, with some trees made from expanding foam and some plastic interior decorating plants...





Tutorial here.

Man I love those trees!

insaniak,

My wife would kill me if she suspected I might poach some of the plastic plants to make terrain.

Really like the Paint Bottle tower, I think that may inspire me to make a radio tower now...just need a good idea for the dish.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers, guys.

Meanwhile, throwing some dice around in the grim dimness of my carport...

Jeez- you put a couple of rusted out 1982 Ford 150's on the streets and that's my hometown!

Looks great!

The full battle report is now up here


Some army pics:

Finally getting some paint on a project started some time ago.

Love that derelict water tank. Really nice work there.
And a nice table spread all around.

The time has come to use up some of my hoard of Badab Black wash...

Everything is better in purple, excited to see them progress further!

Coming along...

Indeed it is. Looking good.

Those look dangerously close to being part of the Emperor's Fabulous

Love the mint green against the purple - great colour choice!

And the terrain is inspiring as always. You have got me really tempted to get my hands on some of the MEdge sprues!

Thanks, guys. Will have proper army pics of the purple guys once I get some more of the force completed, but meanwhile, here's some various marines in action in MEdge:







Pics taken for a release article for my updated 'Imperial Marine' faction rules for MEdge, which you can read about here!

Some light remodeling...

Ooh, that's very glowy. Pimping your scenery even more?

Nice!

I get it, you're remodeling and adding lights . . .

The Balrog?

Beautiful terrain work, as usual, Insaniak.
The fuel pylon is very well done.

Good work on the purple exo-lords too!

God minis and terrain, can't wait to see the lighted stuff in more images

Ah, a Havok Battleform. Not seen one of those in a while.

Cheers, guys.


Meanwhile - A little something I'm working on for some sculpting practice. Still very, very WIP...

I didn’t realise deodorant sticks were OOP forcing hobbyists to 3D Print their vehicles! nice one!

Also finished my cooking grill, for now...



More pics and a walkthrough here.

Plan is to add some more bits and pieces to the base to turn it into a bit of a mini-diorama, camp scene sort of thing.

Just saw this on the book of face. Fab stuff.

And a little more on the tank. I'm taking some small liberties with the design where it seems appropriate. For example, the tanks on the rear blocked the turret traverse on the original, so I have brought them forward and sunk them into the hull a ways.

The joy of barbequing.

Cheers,

CB

gobert wrote:I didn’t realise deodorant sticks were OOP forcing hobbyists to 3D Print their vehicles! nice one!

I think the problem is more that many gamers haven't seen one in years.

insaniak wrote:And a little more on the tank. I'm taking some small liberties with the design where it seems appropriate. For example, the tanks on the rear blocked the turret traverse on the original, so I have brought them forward and sunk them into the hull a ways.

Looking good!

Now we need a detergent bottle Impulsor.



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Where are those Imperial marines from, I like the Roman Space look.

They're from Anvil's old range of Exo-Lords, sadly discontinued when they decided to make the jump to Primaris scale.

Love the grill. Even in the grim dark of the far future, people gotta eat.

A little more sculpting practice... Put together as a handy reference tool for another project.

Some junkyard terrain, put together from assorted leftovers...









Walkthrough here.

That is an excellent idea and execution. Definitely following your walk-through sometime in the not too distant future. Maybe build a more area-terrain-type junkyard as well.

I absolutely love your terrain work!

Yet another great example with the junkyard terrain.

Very nice work. Rather dramatic too. Should be an excellent compliment to a gaming table.

WIP Rapier. Gun platform from PDC Gaming, servitor is an old Necromunda Goliath with a bionic arm made from a Maelstrom's Edge Scarecrow shoulder and repair claw from the Master Bot Handler.

I picked up one of these gun platforms from the Kickstarter originally to use as a Thunderfire, but then when I recently saw he was selling them as a bundle of 6(!) on eBay, I grabbed a passel to use as Rapiers and Thudd Guns for 2nd ed 40K and Necromunda.

Had a play with the fantastic Einherjar (Space Dwarf) kit from Wargames Atlantic - Dwarves are all well and good, but I thought it would be fun to build some stubby alien scouts, using Einherjar bodies and weapons, and alien heads from the Maelstrom's Edge Broken Infantry kit.

(Click to embiggen)





More pics and walkthrough here.

I love those! Perfect fit for the Broken faction

New WIP...

Hope you didn't steal it from a child, it's supposed to be easy
Excited to see what this will be!

Protip: When you're digging through your toolbox for a particular drill bit, the one that you just threw back in there because it was the wrong size will still be the wrong size when you find it again in 10 seconds or so...

LOL! Too true!

Some progress on the Rapier.

That's a seriously good yellow

That's in part just the photo, sadly. So far, it's just a single coat of Iyanden Darksun over Army Painter Plate Metal spray, and doesn't actually look as bright and clean in real life.

Hmm...

ooh.... love those! They could be creepy stalked eyeballs!

More pics:





Made from Christmas baubles and hot glue. There's a walkthrough here.

They look amazing!

Wow, that terrain is amazing! Very alien!

Wow, those look really cool and alieny!

Neat idea on the trees insaniak.

While I do not really have a board set-up that would use those...I might do something for Necromunda for glowing moss.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers, guys!

Meanwhile, some greatcoat troops, kitbashed from MEdge Karist troopers and Wargames Atlantic Les Grognards:






Shadow Walker:



Praetorian:



All painted with Army Painter paints, because I felt like sticking to a single brand for a change to see what would happen...




Walkthrough here.

Saving those Christmas Bauble terrain ideas for later \

Also the cybernetic arm on the Goliath works great. Just as Boxy as I think their tech should be.

Absolutely outstanding stuff - love the creepy alien plant terrain, and the greatcoat troopers, those are some great conversions, feel like they could be useful for all sorts!

They'd be fantastic as techno-cult for Dredd. Hmm...

Yeah, the Grognard bodies and Karist arms fitting together so well was a very nice surprise.

I've orders a box of Raumjager now to do something similar with some Epirian parts...

I really dig your metallic on those dudes.
Not sold on the alien tree things. Feel like they should be eyeballs

I've been largely avoiding the new Necromunda models, as the scale creep makes them look odd against my existing collection. But for Goliaths, at least, scale creep didn't seem like as big an issue, and I loved the look of the new Stimmers and Forge Born box. 1 of each assembled so far, with the Stimmer just built as normal, for use either as an Ogryn or with some retro-fit rules for original Necromunda. I made some modifications to the Forgeborn, so I can run her as a regular Juve or Ganger, switching out the welder-thing for some regular weapons and shortening her thighs to better match the proportions and height of the older models. She's still a fraction taller, but doesn't look completely out of place. Still needs some gap filling...




...and apparently some more mould line removal on the old bolt pistol. Oops.

Nice work on trying to match the newcromunda with the OG.

And the terrain looks fab, in a proper cartoon-y, sci-fi manner!

Thanks for sharing

The atlantic kitbashes look really fancy.

A conversion of the plastic Angel kit from MEdge, whipped up last week for a putty tutorial, and painted this week with Army Painter paints and Quickshade.





There's a walkthrough (as usual) here.

That is possibly my favourite Angel conversion.

Thats awesome!

I had a look at the original sculpt and think yours is much better

The angel kit is a lot of fun, simply because the possibilities of what you can do with it are practically endless. I love the fact that it's so easy to make it unique.


Meanwhile, just for something different, here's a snapshot of all of the terrain articles that I've put together for Maelstrom's Edge to date. There are a few of them...



...and all found here.

Wow. You are a one man manufactorum!

Looks like a neat advent calendar

So, a few months back, my daughters bought me a Batman action figure for my birthday. Somehow, he wound up 'living' in the loungeroom, with me moving him to a different position each night after the girls go to bed, Elf On A Shelf-style, which gives the girls no small amount of amusement.

Since it's the first of December, I decided to Christmas things up a bit.

Batman on the divan!

Festive! I love it Batastic.

Very amusing.

Reminds me of the snickers commercial with the football player

"Would you like to ride with me?"
"would you like to ride with Batman?" (Just insert Santa in there)

Now you just need Robin with a red nose.

Way better than elf on a shelf.

Having a play with some Renedra desert buildings:









Walkthrough here.

Great getting 2nd ed ork vibes from them.

You know, for a simple box that turned out pretty well.

Another WGA/MEdge kitbash - Greatcoat Contractors, this time.






Walkthrough here.

Looking great insaniak!

Put together my annual Christmas decoration...




Walkthrough here.

 insaniak wrote:
Another WGA/MEdge kitbash - Greatcoat Contractors, this time.






Walkthrough here.

Greatcoat contractors?
Better!
Smock contractors!
Good to see a man of war in literal combat dress. Those parts go together really well, and I'm glad to see the fallschimjager combat smock going beyond. Quite a cool look.

So festive!

Slight change of pace, while I'm on holidays... Actually painting some 40k stuff again. My brother decided a while back that while he enjoyed playing, he hated painting, so asked me if I would finish his last couple of half-done units. After languishing in a box for day too long until I finally had time to look at them, I painted up the second combat squad (still needs chapter badges and unit numbers), based the whole squad, painted the Librarian's staff (converted from a thunder hammer he was running with previously), painted the tank turret and sponsons (converted from a razorback, using a model tank turret, land raider sponson plates and a plastic tubing autocannon barrel) and painted the banner for the standard bearer.

Shiny bronze knights!

He should be quite happy with those. Beautiful work on the standard.

Yup, he's pretty happy so far

A little more: some recycled terminators coming together, accessories on the predator, a quick techmarine thrown together from the bits box (will be necessary for 2nd edition) and chaplain conversion waiting for some green stuff to cover the Dark Angels symbols.

Yup, I think I'm painting Techmarines with metallic red armour from now on...

Coat D'Arms Bright Gold, light coat of Army Painter Strong Tone, then a wash of Blood Angels Red Contrast.

Still WIP (obviously) but coming along.

I think you just nailed ironman's colour scheme. Looks great.

Ride Eternal, shiny and... Red?!

Really happy with how the metallic red matches the tone of the gold.

Metallic red techmarine looking good. And I always love watching you play around with terrain

Thanks for sharing

I agree that the red fits well with the gold. Your brother is getting a neat army.

Kicking off the new year with another hardware store building kitbash:





Walkthrough here.

That's very cool!

Great new tutorial, and praise the omnissiah for the inspiration at the hardware store!

Thanks for sharing

Are you sure you don't work for GW? Where they put armored troops inside armored robots (Grek Knights and Centurions), you put Vents on a vent . Your design is still miles ahead of theirs too.

Meanwhile, a secret cache appears!



Made from the iris portal on the MEdge terrain sprue #2, some Karist weapons, and a little foamed PVC.

Walkthrough here.

Secret Caches are the best kind. That's a great little scene you have set up there.

Nice work on the hardware store building as well.

A blast from the past... Chaos Dreadnought for Warhammer 40,000, built and painted back in 1996 or '97. Base and autolauncher added later, and it used to have a banner pole with a crucified skeleton, that has gone astray somewhere over the years.

Still holds up man.

 insaniak wrote:
A blast from the past... Chaos Dreadnought for Warhammer 40,000, built and painted back in 1996 or '97. Base and autolauncher added later, and it used to have a banner pole with a crucified skeleton, that has gone astray somewhere over the years.

Yes, I can see the round base was a later addition...although still far enough back in the past you used green flock on the base still.

Cheers,

CB

Can't share all of this one yet, but the latest Maelstrom's Edge sneak peek features a glimpse of a model that has a cloak sculpted by me... Very excited to see this one in plastic, and can't wait to release it.

It's getting rather tempting to make some sort of industrial structure out of old sprue...

 insaniak wrote:
Can't share all of this one yet, but the latest Maelstrom's Edge sneak peek features a glimpse of a model that has a cloak sculpted by me... Very excited to see this one in plastic, and can't wait to release it.

Wow, congrats! That' super awesome.

Thanks. It will be even more exciting when I get to full models, but, you know, baby steps...

I like your industrial structure idea.

Mistakes may have been made...

When I bought this model from Troll Soup, I thought I was buying a resin fansculpt of the Rogue Trader dreadnought, completely overlooking the '100mm tall' bit that was clearly listed in the product description.

I'm not disappointed, though...

They had goofy nicknames for the different variations of those if I remember correctly... unfortunately now I can't remember what they were.

Eddy, Fury and Chuck (Deredeo, Feribundus and Contemptor, respectively)

Awesome.

 insaniak wrote:
It's getting rather tempting to make some sort of industrial structure out of old sprue...

A power grid of some sort?

CB

The sprue tower has me thinking of the teleporter rings from Stargate .

Also if you turn them on their ends they might be like the new 3D printed bunkers the US Military is making out of concrete. They have a gigantic printer that lays down layers of Concrete in giant horse shoe shapes and then lifts them up on end to make sections of arches. you put 4-5 of them in a row and a truck mounted missile system can pull under it. They are also making 3D printed barracks called B-huts.

Another thing coming together...

That's some quality weathering right there

I'm lovin' that!

The finished (for now) gun carriage. Still have two more weapons to finish off later...

Impressive weathering on the dozerblade

Thanks for sharing

Continuing my tinkering with the PDC gun carriage, I built a new version of the Epirian's faction objective, using Epirian Hunter and Drone parts and the track unit from the gun carriage:





Walkthrough article here.

Very nice! Creative too.

Thanks!

Just for the sake of comparison, here's a shot with the Uplink Relay alongside the Hunter and the regular gun carriage.

I love your conversion... but I have a soft spot for the dozer blade...

I did consider leaving it on, but the Uplink Relay really needed to be on the medium sized base, and the dozer blade pushes it a bit too far over for comfort. The unconverted gun carriage is on the MEdge large base.

Nice work insaniak.

Cheers,

CB

Love what you did with those Insaniak! Excellent conversion and you nailed that weathered dozer blade.

I bought those kits when they were kickstarted and was very sad to see them go. Might have to pick some up now for some projects of my own...

One of the fun things about the current state of international mail is having stuff arrive long after you've completely forgotten you ordered it...

I can't even remember what I was planning to do with these bad boys...

Blast from the past, as I'm still working through the cabinet taking new pics of stuff - Limited Edition Kroot Shaper, from Games Day 2001. Painted... I dunno, a while ago, although sometime after 2001, presumably.

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Kroot are a really interesting mini-army. Tbh I find them much more interesting visually than the T'au! Like, the bones hanging off the cloak, the more primitive and vicious weapons, the hair-spines, all the cool things on this model that you brought out so well in your paint-job!

So, here's a thing... I have a whole bunch of old Rogue Trader-era beakies sitting in a box downstairs, and I decided that if they were going to be sitting there, I might as well do something with them. So here's a test paint for a new Space Marine force, which (for now, at least) I'm calling the Ebon Crux.



It's a bit rough as this was just thrown together in between doing a bunch of other stuff today. The chapter badge in particular needs some refining... but it's good enough to see how they'll look. I'll probably put them together as a second edition force - a couple of Marine squads, a squad of the old plastic scouts, some original Space Hulk terminators and a metal Rogue Trader-era Dreadnought I picked up off eBay some time ago. Maybe a Predator or Whirlwind (the old kitbash version, just because I can) if it will fit in points-wise.

They're great, and i love the heavy weathering. Maybe they've been lost in the warp?

Does my heart good to see the old beakies get some love.

Settling on rules for them... I think they'll wind up as Dark Angels, so I can run the ancient Termies as Deathwing. Also gives me an excuse to pick up some Vincent Black Shadows later...

Another one from the cabinet - Orc Shaman, one of my favourite Avatars of War models. I use this guy as a Weirdboy in my 40K Ork army.

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That's a cracking sculpt and a great paint, total snakebite weirdboy vibe.

Love the leather/cloth on him! Great work.

You don't get much more classic Ork than the Shokk Attack Gun. I had one of these in my first army, which I (foolishly) sold and wound up tracking down another on eBay a few years back for the sake of nostalgia.

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I have one of those! Love those last two models, especially that shaman... wow.

Great Rogue Trader Marine and perfect stand-in for a wierdboy

Thanks for sharing

Test crew for Stargrave coming together... Since I haven't seen the full rules yet, this is pieced together from the crew creation rules excerpt based simply on what I think looks cool rather than how effective it will be in an actual game (which is how I tend to build forces for most games anyway), and the Captain and First Mate may need some tweaking once I get to see the equipment lists, but this is where they're at for now.

Mostly Maelstrom's Edge models, with a couple of ring-ins and useful parts from Hasslefree Minis and Wargames Atlantic. The Pathfinder (in the hat, front left) still needs a little putty on his legs, and then I can get some paint on!

Wayback Machine activated... My Sorcerer Lord 'Doug' - converted from whatever I could scrounge from my limited range of parts and painted back in about 1995.

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^ That there is a mighty fine assemblage of random

That Tyranid backpack! So good.

All good stuff, love the beakies!

Yeah, that Nid backpack is brilliant!

Cheers, guys. And yes, the tyranid abdomen backpack remains one of my favourite conversion bits from my collection...


Looking forward to getting some time to work on new miniatures, but for the moment most of my time is taken up with this upcoming lovely...

Some nice restoration of old models there insaniak.

In my group, most of those models see the table still (at least they did before COVID).

Cheers,

CB

"Welcome to the Argosa! She ain't much to look at, but... well, she ain't much. But she's what we got, until we can afford better."

"Uh... why does it look like a Fleet Courier?"

"'Cause she IS a Fleet Courier. Cap'n picked her up cheap at auction after our last ship... er... [mumble]. Come on in, y'can meet the rest of the crew as soon as you've been through The Process!"

"Er... The process? What process?"

"It ain't much. Probably won't even hurt much. Cap'n calls it Colourisin'."


Used my recruit, Dave, as a guinea pig to test the colour scheme for my fledgling Stargrave crew. Still needs basing (which I'll do all together at the end), a lens painted on the barrel of his 'energy pistol', and some final highlights if I feel like it later...

Dave's looking pretty good! Excited to see the rest of them.

That ork with the shokk attack gun is bringing back very fond memories of destroying a terminator squad in a bunker with one shot. That gun was so hit-or-miss. Of course, the big metal gun made the model so top-heavy it was nerve-wracking to stand him on any elevated terrain! I haven’t seen one in years. I’m so glad you painted him.

Dave looks good. Red and black is always a great dynamic scheme. Or is that dark orange? Either way, looks good with the neutral khaki as a third color.

 The Riddle of Steel wrote:
That ork with the shokk attack gun is bringing back very fond memories of destroying a terminator squad in a bunker with one shot. That gun was so hit-or-miss. Of course, the big metal gun made the model so top-heavy it was nerve-wracking to stand him on any elevated terrain! I haven’t seen one in years. I’m so glad you painted him.

Always happy to fuel the nostalgia!

Or is that dark orange?

Yup, Gryph-Hound Orange Contrast over a bone basecoat.

That's very striking insaniak, nicely done.

Great scheme! How unified are you going the paint the crew? Are we going "rag-tag individuals" or "there's a ship uniform" or something in between?

They'll all have variations on the main colors, but individualised for each model.

Love the start of the Stargrave crew. I too have been busy working away on something, and I haven't yet put my order in! Priorities....

Still, nice that so many people are inspired I guess

2nd Stargrave crewman finished (aside from the base) - This one's a runner, named Lanky (L4-NK). Based on a Maelstrom's Edge Epirian Scarecrow with a pistol hand taken from the SecDef Lieutenant.

Love the orange on these models, excellent work!.

Yeah, that rich deep orange really sings.

Yep, lovely orange, you're going to have a great looking Stargrave crew!