gobert wrote:Cool lights, hopefully you can get them fixed to frame with better tape. The sump is developing nicely and I definitely like the black on the new platform

Thanks, part of the problem was I had no black tape, so had to use white stuff that's mainly for shrink wrapping so relies on being flamed to properly seal...

Olthannon wrote:Man I love stuff like that, lighting on game boards is just so cool. Really nice scenery!

Thanks, it's mainly to give some colour options for back lighting, unfortunately, the white light photos as blue

Dirk Reinecke wrote:Excellent work on the Necromunda terrain. I look forward to seeing what you do with you new supply drop.

Thanks, I look forward to seeing what I do too...

youwashock wrote:Lots of cool stuff happening here. Love the train. A super cool and unique piece. The sump diver is a great idea. And you even built a place for him to hang out!

Thanks, I've actually done a bit of work on the boat, got an angled front on it, but I keep forgetting to take photos...

So first up:

MOAR TAPE!
Still couldn't find my black tape so used yellow, but this time I put a few extra bits on it.
If it falls now, I'm gonna have staple it or something...

Finished painting the sump silos:




For the "liquid" I used the dark green foundation paint then lightly stippled a swirl or two of orange after that I stippled some tesseract green in swirls and then filled in the gaps with more.
The floating rust crust(?) was done with some lamian medium and white contrast, trying to blend it out towards the middle...
Quite happy with it and now I have an test for if/when I paint my sump boards...

Started on another tower:

I liked the SecMech platform I did earlier and wanted to do a taller one. Also wanted to integrate the ladder and add a replacement wall to save the ZM pieces:

(Ignore the Necrons, that's what I'm doing, even though I have only a week left to finish them...)
This is my result, I've added in a few bits from the marketplace set, cut the awning a bit so it fits in my grid limits.
Put a box and an offcut chunk to provide some support to the frame. It is not glued to the floor for modularity...

I then measured and cut up one of the fences to act as platform extensions to reach another platform.
That's it for now...

Nice work, love that scum on the top of the liquid, that looks properly realistic.

Great work Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Just another day left to get these guys finished:

Colour isn't far enough away from my test models for me, not enjoying these as much, probably the paint scheme...

Beautiful ZM terrain. I like the use of third party materials. That last tower looks fantastic.

Olthannon wrote:Nice work, love that scum on the top of the liquid, that looks properly realistic.

Thanks, it just something I saw at work and decided that I need to incorporate

Captain Brown wrote:Great work Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Beautiful ZM terrain. I like the use of third party materials. That last tower looks fantastic.

Thank you, trying to get more variety out of the ZM kit. I do use like 90% GW kit though but I'm trying to get away from that.

Anyways this month I've been struggling to keep up with a "unit a month thing", I choose the Necron warriors that I got with Imperium magazine and couldn't get into them...
But last couple of days I sat down and forced myself to get them done:

Not a great picture due to putting the finishing touches on them five seconds from bed...
But I didn't have a good time with them mainly due to not replicating my test colour scheme very well.
They are however easier to do and the colour shift is much more noticeable
Also finished me some Scarabs:

And changed up the glow on the Royal Warden:

I really like the Tesseract Greens fluorescent look and it feels more correct than the orange I was previously using
Now I have some breathing space to do what I like for a while, maybe I'll finish building the outcasts...

I like the color combo on those Necrons. The sump turned out awesome.

Base coat and wash

The green looks cool on the Necrons, green works well with purple I think. The lights and new terrain look cool, as for the new gangers

youwashock wrote:I like the color combo on those Necrons. The sump turned out awesome.

Thanks, but I'm half regretting it because I'm not sure how to translate it onto the bigger necrons...

gobert wrote:The green looks cool on the Necrons, green works well with purple I think. The lights and new terrain look cool, as for the new gangers

Thank you, I love the tesseract glow paint, I think I'm gonna need to find some more florescent paints...

Anyways onto what I've been up to...
First up some Ur Ghuls:

These guys were very simple, Dawnstone, Agrax, drybrush Dawnstone back on and a final drybrush of Celestra grey.
I chopped the slottatab into some pegs to pin them to the bases and then started using the LED strips to do some fancy lighting:


With those guys photo'd I started picking out random minis to have a go at, playing around with lighting colours and the settings on my phone:





Also finished up my Forgeborn and the single Stimmer I have left:

Redone base layers post wash

What I'm calling done

Better run, better run, out run my gun...

We can do it!

New kids on the block

Bigger is better...

Also did a small bit of work on my sump diver, couldn't find arms I liked so made my own:

Just sprue slurry over a wire armature

Bulking up

Final layer, gonna do a bit of sanding and carving when that's dry and maybe add some thing to it...

Then I got my Imperium magazines and received this guy:

He has a very blanchitsu vibe to the sculpt, and while its way out of my painting style...

...I've been trying to keep it grimey...

...And I'm happy with my results so far...
Most of the painting has been done with stippling and with less bright colours than I normally use.
Red is an old terracotta paint highlighted with the very red looking skin paint, (will update when I can check the paint labels)
All the lights where white and Tesseract glow, the brightness of the colours makes an excellent contrast to his robes.
Obviously I now have to replicate it on his arms and weapons now and I'm currently making a zone mortalis base big enough for him...
The official ones only go up to 40mm and I believe he needs a 60mm one...

See you next time for more fun!

The lights work really well at giving the Blackstone Fortress vibe. The Ur-Ghuls look great. I did a very similar scheme but yours seem to have a bit more definition, I might need to go a step brighter on the highlights.

Loving the Ad-mech dude. I think you’re hitting the blanchitsu style pretty well, and the tesseract glow gives a great contrast to the grime

Again amazing action shots!

Love the comment about not having suitable arms and making your own

AM mini looks marvelous already, very sinister

Been a bit ill, massive headache and trying to read dakka dakka on tiny phone screen hasn't been fun which means I haven't been keeping up with peoples blogs very well, or my own for that matter...
Thanks for the kind words *squints* Gobert and Vertibi
Managed to do a bit before my partner tested positive for Covid, quarantining my hobby space, yay.
Presenting Dominus Amstrad:



I noticed his metalwork seemed a bit bright and the use of washes didn't really bring it where I wanted, so I ended up splodging some dryad bark on and wiping it off, sort of like how you do an oil wash with out sacrificing a paint brush.

Here's the base as it was after making it:

unfortunately I didn't take any WIP photos of it, but it was made form some left over bits from a ZM floor tile and a 60mm base with the top cut off leaving the rim. A lot of cutting and filing later the rim and the ZM bit were glued together with sprue slurry and then sanded for smoothness...
Not perfect but I'm happy with it...

Ah welcome to the covid club, yeah I got the headaches and such over Christmas. Your techpriest and necrons are looking great, really like the bases too.

 Olthannon wrote:
Ah welcome to the covid club, yeah I got the headaches and such over Christmas. Your techpriest and necrons are looking great, really like the bases too.

Thanks,
Well now have finally joined my partner in quarantine, I can get back to some hobbying:
Got me some more base layers on some cultists that I started two years ago...
They'll probably be my unit of the month:

Just gotta get another brown layer on them and then they can have an Agrax wash.
Colours are just all the browns and greys I have for their rags and some Sotek green for the armour...

I've also been picking at the Outcasts kit for a while trying to make "civilian" Underhivers, for some reason I haven't put any pictures up:


And finally, a bit of work on my Sump Diver:


Stuck some green stuff on them to make some gauntlets, elbow pads and some folds a bit of sanding later should sort them out...

Love the sump diver and can't wait to see the civilians

The sump diver is coming together well, his new arms seem to be working out for him!

Very nice Dominus Amstrad there Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Love the sump diver and can't wait to see the civilians

Thanks, I'm struggling with making them civilians to be honest, only happy with the briefcase runner at the mo

gobert wrote:The sump diver is coming together well, his new arms seem to be working out for him!

Thanks, wasn't sure for a while but paint fixes many things

Captain Brown wrote:Very nice Dominus Amstrad there Guardling.
Cheers,
CB

Thanks, I'm very happy with him myself, might have to repaint my two Skitarii to match him...

Any how been off with COVID so surely lots of time for hobby?
Turns out no, I discovered game called Tunic on game pass and that's been keeping my brain busy all week...
Did get a surprising amount done this weekend though...
Aside from a lot of catching up on Dakka Dakka plogs, I started smashing together bits out of my terrain box:


Not sure what I'm doing with these yet, just making progress...

Managed to finish off some cultists for March's unit:

Not quite finished as I ran out of painted bases so I fixed that while watch Babylon 5:


While waiting between layers on the cultists I slapped some paint on this guy:


It was not fun, the cast is terrible and undefined, maybe I'm just to used to modern stuff...

And finally, the Sump Diver:



Tried to copy the grubby look that Amstrad had with this one using mostly stippling, but switching over to regular layers for the visor..
I had a hell of a time trying to make it look as if they'd just come out of the sump and then gave up and settled for some splashes...

Untill next time!

Love the toilet! it may have been a pain to paint, but it looks pretty cool.

The blue and green on the cultists is really nice, they’ll look great on their new bases.

The sump diver looks great, you could hardly tell he wasn’t a bought mini. The shine of the green light adds a really cool effect as well

Chaos Lavatory is a timeless classic. Sump diver turned out great. Love the reflections in the visor.

The mutant bog is great, the sump diver looks fantastic, really like the depth on the gun.

Nice little conversion there of the Sumpdiver and a great paint scheme.

Cheers,

CB

Just gotta echo the others, magnificent work on the sump diver, top-notch from conversion to paint! Love the terrain bits you built and great work on those cultists!

Hope you feel better and Covid hasn't hit too hard!

Some quick bits I knocked up last night to have some progress to show today:



Still gotta make an engine or something for the sump boat

The sump diver came out great. Excellent sculpting skills on those arms.

Excellent work on the diver and all the bits- I envy your productivity!

A possibility for motive power for your sump boat is maybe something I saw in Thailand where the sampans had a 4 cylinder car engine with a steering arm mounted to it and the whole weight of it was counter-balanced by a very long prop shaft:



Good luck with whichever route your choose!

The terrain bits came out well. The sump boat is looking good too. Meet Cats idea on the propulsion sounds appropriate and cool

gobert wrote:Love the toilet! it may have been a pain to paint, but it looks pretty cool.

The blue and green on the cultists is really nice, they’ll look great on their new bases.

The sump diver looks great, you could hardly tell he wasn’t a bought mini. The shine of the green light adds a really cool effect as well

Thanks, he does look cool just be being the sort of thing GW doesn't even try anymore...

youwashock wrote:Chaos Lavatory is a timeless classic. Sump diver turned out great. Love the reflections in the visor.

Thank you, happy with them myself

Olthannon wrote:The mutant bog is great, the sump diver looks fantastic, really like the depth on the gun.

Thanks, that was accidental, changed my mind about the colour three different times but didn't finish any of the layers

Captain Brown wrote:Nice little conversion there of the Sumpdiver and a great paint scheme.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you

Viterbi wrote:Just gotta echo the others, magnificent work on the sump diver, top-notch from conversion to paint! Love the terrain bits you built and great work on those cultists!

Hope you feel better and Covid hasn't hit too hard!

Thanks, Covid was a small blessing for me, I felt healthier while I was off than either side of it

Meer_Cat wrote:Excellent work on the diver and all the bits- I envy your productivity!

A possibility for motive power for your sump boat is maybe something I saw in Thailand where the sampans had a 4 cylinder car engine with a steering arm mounted to it and the whole weight of it was counter-balanced by a very long prop shaft:
*Snip*
Good luck with whichever route your choose!

Thanks, pretty much what I had in mind, but I don't have the right parts at the moment, probably going for a shorter prop though...

theCrowe wrote:The sump diver came out great. Excellent sculpting skills on those arms.

Thank you!

gobert wrote:The terrain bits came out well. The sump boat is looking good too. Meet Cats idea on the propulsion sounds appropriate and cool

Thanks, I think I may have to build something from scratch...

After all that catching up, here's this week's progress:

Finally started on my Tau hab domes.
I've had the parts for years now, and the concept for even longer, just some polystyrene hemispheres with some slightly naughty resin bits I had knocking around...
A bit of miliput for gap filling and then some spray mount glue and sand:

Left over miliput went into press mold:

I'm sure I can find something to do with this...

Next is some more zone mortalis stuff...

Finally painted another tile, this one with a sump corner, I actually finished this one with some additional stippling, splatters and bit of detailing, but forgot to take a pic.


Also got my platform tower done, forgot to take a pic of the top, but it's pretty much the same as my previous platform...

See you next time

The sump and tower came out really well. The tau mammary hab units should be cool when they’re done too.

Phwoar. She's got a cracking pair of hab domes.

The ripple effect on the water is awesome!

Some more nice Necromunda terrain there Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Pic of finished tile:

Got 3 Aggressors on the paint queue ATM, that counts as a whole unit, right?

Love that sump pool, the variation in the colour is great. You have a good eye for the colours in there.

And yeah, 3 Aggressors is a min-size squad, I think you can count that!

gobert wrote:The sump and tower came out really well. The tau mammary hab units should be cool when they’re done too.

Thanks, I tried thinking of a joke, but I just ended up standing there like a right tit

Olthannon wrote:Phwoar. She's got a cracking pair of hab domes.
The ripple effect on the water is awesome!

Thanks it's literally just stippling with some orange and some tesseract glow

Captain Brown wrote:Some more nice Necromunda terrain there Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Love that sump pool, the variation in the colour is great. You have a good eye for the colours in there.

And yeah, 3 Aggressors is a min-size squad, I think you can count that!

Thanks, 3 man aggressors for my April unit it is!

So with the plan to do some more Howling Griffons this month, I got some red and yellow contrast paint and tried it out:

Not great, oh well I can easily use the colours for lights instead...
No short cuts for me this week:

Wazdakka Red, Averland Sunset, Eshin grey, some Leadbelcher and then an Agrax Earthshade wash.
Plan is to layer up with the base colours and then brightenil it with Evil Sunz Scarlet and another yellow, before adding some edge highlights...

Also started working on a double height door:

The green stuff has not worked very well as a filler so will be changing that for some sprue slurry...

The door frame has been trimmed to fit and a topper from the double wall piece fits almost perfect with my arrangement
Plan is to build a double high wall to go with it but I'm looking for ways to save pillar bits...

Glad I came by this blog, looks to be a lot of cool stuff going on. Will have to have a proper read through from the start when I get some more time.
Good start on the aggressors, nice solid base to work from. You definitely made a good choice going with the non contrast route.

 Guardling wrote:

Olthannon wrote:Phwoar. She's got a cracking pair of hab domes.
The ripple effect on the water is awesome!

Thanks it's literally just stippling with some orange and some tesseract glow

Even better, it's a great look for a simple technique! The Howling Griffons look good, I always fancied painting them up after I saw them in an old WD. I've zero experience with contrast paints so I have no idea, is the yellow a little too thick?

Door looks cool too!

Yep, the traditional paints look to be the right choice! Already the aggressors look very nice and grim dark, that’ll be the magic of Agrax!

Awesome start for the Aggressors. Not an easy scheme to pull off.

The finished ZM tile looks amazing, love the swamp corner. Aggressors are off to a good start!

Having a bit of trouble being motivated at the moment so made very little progress:

Got some layers on the aggressors to brighten them up a bit, but I'm gonna have to force myself into some painting time tonight if I want to hit my deadline...

Guardling,

Any progress is progress.

Cheers,

CB

PS: When it hit a painting wall I call out my gaming group to gather for a painting night (although for the last two years they have been virtual painting nights).

 Captain Brown wrote:
Guardling,

Any progress is progress.

Cheers,

CB

PS: When it hit a painting wall I call out my gaming group to gather for a painting night (although for the last two years they have been virtual painting nights).

CB is spot on, might feel like you've not done much but if you're feeling utterly demotivated, getting even a wee bit done is a big win. It's easy to sack the lot off entirely

By the way, virtual painting night is such a good idea CB!

Thanks for the boost guys, I failed my unit a month challenge, so to cheer myself up I pre-ordered the Ash Wastes boxset from my FLGS.
Out with some friends for the weekend now, hopefully I'll be back on the hobby train soon...

Yay! Progress!

Picking away at stuff yesterday:


Putting some tents together, idea being for Ash Wastes.
A bit of filing and cutting was required to have fabric walls for the big tent

Also put some bits together for another elevated crane:

This time its going on a ZM tower, that I can hopefully stack on another tower later for extra hieght.
I noticed that the crane base sort of fits diagonally over a ZM pillar so I cut off the remaining bits (badly)

Plan is to add some garden wire cables and a control point...

Started work on some Outcasts...

These guys have been on my desk for a while, slowly being added to in an attempt to get Underhive Civilians...

Well I noticed that I had some spare Van Saar bits while trying to find empty hands:


Tada! A Van Saar bounty hunter. Much civilian...

We got a worker with a rocksaw:


Obviously part of a clean up or maintenance crew removing obstructing debris

We got a man with a mug:


I'm tentatively calling him Mugsy Balone... Could be a barman or patron, maybe even a shift manager...

Penultimatly we have an Underhive doctor of some sort...



And finally from me I picked up my copy of Ash Wastes today on the way to the cinema to watch Doctor Strange and the Mountain Multiverse of Madness.
It's a very heavy box and while walking I nearly kneecapped my self with a swinging corner.
Got it home now so smelling all the new plastic goodness and starting building stuff already...

Some thing weird that I noticed however is the Outrider -- uh -- rider is significantly larger than a standard Orlock, but their heads and shoulder pads look compatible...
As for the rules, I don't really care, probably just going to scan through them for fluff and pretty pictures...

Napoleonics gamers have long had the idea of 'eye candy' on the table: non-playing units that are there simply for the look and because they are fun to build and paint- like commissariat, encampment, sutlers, etc. I've long held that Warhammer should have these as well; if nothing lese they are sight blocking (at least until the multi-melta hits 'em). Nice looking crew you've put together.

Love the outcasts! They are some fun models.

Cool update! The crane towers are great little features. The NPC Outlanders all look good. Can’t wait to see what crazy kit bashes you do with the ash wastes stuff!

Some nice work Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Great necromunda work! The blue on the doc is really nice.

Meer_Cat wrote:Napoleonics gamers have long had the idea of 'eye candy' on the table: non-playing units that are there simply for the look and because they are fun to build and paint- like commissariat, encampment, sutlers, etc. I've long held that Warhammer should have these as well; if nothing lese they are sight blocking (at least until the multi-melta hits 'em). Nice looking crew you've put together.

Haha, yeah, that agree, at least give us some more empty hands. I'm going to have to get over only using GW stuff soon...

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Love the outcasts! They are some fun models.

Thanks, GSC arms go really well with them as well which is where the most civilian arms are at the moment

gobert wrote:Cool update! The crane towers are great little features. The NPC Outlanders all look good. Can’t wait to see what crazy kit bashes you do with the ash wastes stuff!

Thanks, I'm still working out the hab units right now

Captain Brown wrote:Some nice work Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks!

Olthannon wrote:Great necromunda work! The blue on the doc is really nice.

Thanks, the blue is Temple Guard Blue and Agrax wash, mixed with Clestra Grey for the fabric and straight for the armour

So playing around with fitting the AW (ash wastes) hab units this week:

The tall platform set up is two ZM platforms high, which means one SecMech platform tall.

It can also be built one ZM platform high:

The hab unit is about one ZM platform high, give or take a few mm...

The hab unit itself fits neatly inside a 3x3 ZM tile thing, forgot to show a pick, but the AW pillar does not go on top the ZM tiles very neatly.

I've since built both the Outrider quads and put some base layers on them and I don't like them.
Sure they look cool, but whoever designed how they were assembled needs to share a cell with the person who did the Stronghold walls.
The only point of contact between the riders legs and torso is literally their belt buckle.
A lot of the bits in the quad are small and easy to break and you have to paint before assembling.
On the plus side the gun mount can rotate or be removed

Realised that I essentially have a spare Orlock gang:

I think the Ash Wastes need an AdMech presence...

Looks like the ash wasted terrain will be a good match for the rest of the Necromunda stuff. Good luck meshing it all together! Good to see that the airlocks won’t go to waste and will expand the Ad Mech influence

 gobert wrote:
Looks like the ash wasted terrain will be a good match for the rest of the Necromunda stuff. Good luck meshing it all together! Good to see that the airlocks won’t go to waste and will expand the Ad Mech influence

Haha yeah, but it does reduce the number of "proper" Skitarii

Anyways the first thing up this week is a present from my partner:

Some weird altars...
My partner keeps threatening to start up a D&D campaign and *shudders* invite people into the house so I suspect more similar gifts in the future.

I just straight up copied my Blackstone necrons scheme and added a glow to one of them for a swappable active one

I had a few hours to my self and plenty of nice weather so used the opportunity to get some stuff spray primed:

Used up two cans of primer but now I have one less excuse not to start painting terrain...

Started on this guy a while ago:

Not sold on his green outfit, definitely sold on the red bike though...
For some reason the Agrax Earthshade wash came up very glossy on this one, probably because I was more liberal with it than normal...

This guy also has the honour of being my test ash wastes base. It's Astrogranite painted over with Clestra grey and then Skeleton Horde contrast.
Got a very handy spreader and tutorial in this month's Imperium Magazine...
Plan is to drybrush with some cream later, probably pallid flesh.
I also plan to use this method on the legs of the AW hab units...

The Outrider Quads are getting there:

Done the wheels black to start with then added the Contrast White, which matches Clestra grey nicely, and then some Skeleton Horde. Again plan is a drybrush to finish it...

My ash wastes Skitarii gets some friends:

Now I have an idea of what to do, these guys were a bit easier and neater.
No idea what their guns are or do, just went with what looks cool.
I spotted a Forge World scheme in one of this months Imperium Magazine, black robes/coats, red armour and grey undersuit as well as being considered dodgy by other AdMech Forge Worlds, sounds perfect...
They may be joined by a grungy Kataphron later as their "brute"

Lastly built up another regular Orlock with the intention of having a guy with harpoon launcher...

Good job I never get distracted halfway through anything...
Super easy conversion really, just trimmed a few bits off the spare heavy bolter from the quad and fitted it as if it were the regular heavy weapon choice...

Till next time!

Love the ash wastes Skitarii, that Orlock kit looks good with the vanguard helmets.

I quite like the green on the biker, it's a nice contrast from the bike. The red bike looks excellent, great weathering!

Is that a purple beard on the outrider?

Trying not to call them Archeotech Recovery/Sanction Expedition...

Guardling,

Keep working on that pile of grey and give it color.

Cheers,

CB

Great work on the Skorlock. A lot of swagger in that model. A very cool idea to give put the white and black admech colours on the belt buckle. Looking forward to seeing the rest painted.

Yep, the skorlock is looking fantastic! The conversion on the heavy Bolter is cool, he’s also carrying the pintle around for when he wants a ride or it gets a bit heavy.

Love the acronym idea for your force Reminds me of the Junior Woodchuck officials in Don Rosa comics And great stuff all around!

And how dare your partner think about inviting people to the house to have a good time dungeoning... the audacity Altars look cool and of course we need batreps, if and when the campaign may commence in the future!

Olthannon wrote:Love the ash wastes Skitarii, that Orlock kit looks good with the vanguard helmets.

I quite like the green on the biker, it's a nice contrast from the bike. The red bike looks excellent, great weathering!

Is that a purple beard on the outrider?

Thanks, he originally had a brown beard but it didn't look right with the others all having dyed hair

Captain Brown wrote:Guardling,

Keep working on that pile of grey and give it color.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks!

Olthannon wrote:Great work on the Skorlock. A lot of swagger in that model. A very cool idea to give put the white and black admech colours on the belt buckle. Looking forward to seeing the rest painted.

Thank you, haha that was an accidental, I ment to shave them off but forgot so just painted them instead...

gobert wrote:Yep, the skorlock is looking fantastic! The conversion on the heavy Bolter is cool, he’s also carrying the pintle around for when he wants a ride or it gets a bit heavy.

Thanks, yeah if you look the original (N17) orlock heavy weapons have bits for pintle mounts on the bottom as well, so I though I'd keep it on...

Viterbi wrote:Love the acronym idea for your force Reminds me of the Junior Woodchuck officials in Don Rosa comics And great stuff all around!

And how dare your partner think about inviting people to the house to have a good time dungeoning... the audacity Altars look cool and of course we need batreps, if and when the campaign may commence in the future!

Haha yeah, unfortunately our previous attempts to use minis in D&D have just been forgotten as soon as interesting stuff happens, but my partner has been collecting a whole load of the printed card terrain for a few years now...

Not been up to a lot lately, just moved onto night shift so sleeping is a bit erratic at the moment
But I did notice that I had forgotten to start painting the gunners for my quads:

Put some AdMech arms on an outcast with a hood, great idea but I think I have the wrong arms for it...


Just also remembered that I'm supposed to be doing a unit a month:

Kroot for the last minute easy win!

A unit a month is a good pace...I am getting through about half that myself.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
A unit a month is a good pace...I am getting through about half that myself.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, the main objective behind it is to actually finish painting my Tau, but I keep getting distracted by other stuff...

So made the deadline with the Kroot, just because they're super easy:

Literally just colour, Agrax and colour again, trying to keep the last layer in stripes for a bit of texture...
Bases used that grey sand paint the I received with the Imperium Magazine which, although looks different, is a lot easier to use than my original basing method.
Unfortunately I am missing the flock I originally used with the static grass, but it's not really noticeable...

There were some conversions on the original models too so they get some highlights:


A standard bearer, thier hand and rifle is missing, shall have to find it next time I have a clear out of my desk...


We have a musician as well, Blue Beak the Bard, and they now have me pondering the sort of music that Kroot would produce, probably not a lot of wind instruments...


And finally Fish eater, stuffing their face with bits from an WHFB Empire Cannon...

That's all for now see you next time

Looking good Guardling. I like the blue warpaint and the orc parts.

Kroot obviously listen to Norwegian Death Metal. I like how that musician came out.

Nice work.

Cheers,

CB

Re-Krooting! Love it.

A unit a month is a good idea to keep the progress going on an army, and even better if you have quick units to help keep you on track! The kroot came out well, I quite like that the banner bearer is missing a hand, it gives him a bit of a back story!

Olthannon wrote:Looking good Guardling. I like the blue warpaint and the orc parts.

Thanks

Meer_Cat wrote:Kroot obviously listen to Norwegian Death Metal. I like how that musician came out.

Haha thanks, not sure Kroot can do the screaming themselves, but I'm sure they can find some volunteers...

Captain Brown wrote:Nice work.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers

theCrowe wrote:Re-Krooting! Love it.

Thanks, nice to see a lover of puns

gobert wrote:A unit a month is a good idea to keep the progress going on an army, and even better if you have quick units to help keep you on track! The kroot came out well, I quite like that the banner bearer is missing a hand, it gives him a bit of a back story!

Thank you, I actually found thier hand recently and promptly lost it again, perhaps I'll give them a stump later.

Started working on some more terrain, basic idea was to make some sort of portable generator for Ash Wastes:

Plan is to put that in there...

Very carefully cut the side bits off so that I can use those bits again later

I then glued some signpost plastic into the gaps and glued the container together.
You may notice it's suddenly painted, it just a older one that I mangled for a previous project, to save on the nice pieces...

Boom, fits nicely.
Still removable at the moment for painting, gonna fill the gap inside with cables and computers...

Started on the half silo:

Seeing as it's going on its side, I'm gonna need to cap the ends

Bottom gets some Mantic pipes

Top gets a flag as a curtain...

Also working on some bits for my ash wastes AdMech warband:


Kataphron ended up having its top half swapped with the heavy stubber torso from the Dune rider to downgrade the weapons loadout.
Its on a magnet so I can swap it out later.
The servo skull on the enginseer snapped off so it gets an extra cable to hold it place.

Signed up to Instagram recently, mostly to find more minis to look at, but it is very easy and quick to post up my own minis and WIPs
@eyemonolyth if you're interested
See you next time

Hopefully the hand makes another appearance so you can reunite it with the standard bearer!

Loving the ash wastes scatter kitbashes, they’ll add some great obstacles for the bikes and buggies.

The ad mech are looking great, really fitting the ash wastes explorer theme well. The red and black look nice and brooding too

Tried out a stubble wash, looks alright...

That stubble wash came out great!

Nice careful work on The Device, also.

Love the silo/tent with the flag door, that's awesome.

Great stuff Guardling! Your Ash Wastes admech are really cool. Great conversion with the servitor swap. The yellow cabling looks great, nice contrast with your other primaries.

Love the blue hair, how did you do the stubble?

Good to see you on Instagram!

gobert wrote:Hopefully the hand makes another appearance so you can reunite it with the standard bearer!

Loving the ash wastes scatter kitbashes, they’ll add some great obstacles for the bikes and buggies.

The ad mech are looking great, really fitting the ash wastes explorer theme well. The red and black look nice and brooding too

Thanks, the scatter is also a good way to use up those half bits I've been left with from previous conversions..

Meer_Cat wrote:That stubble wash came out great!

Nice careful work on The Device, also.

Thanks! Need to get a few more ideas for the device to honest f

RexHavoc wrote:Love the silo/tent with the flag door, that's awesome.

Thanks, the flag's from the Scion kit, I don't like the other side of it, too specific, so finding a use for the Aquila side was great

Olthannon wrote:Great stuff Guardling! Your Ash Wastes admech are really cool. Great conversion with the servitor swap. The yellow cabling looks great, nice contrast with your other primaries.

Love the blue hair, how did you do the stubble?

Good to see you on Instagram!

Thanks! The stubble is a mix of some Vortex Blue (very OOP, used for the hair), Agrax Earthshade and water at mix of something like 1:3:6, not sure I eyeballed it

Anyways onto my week:
Got my Outriders finished:


Did the tyres different on each quad:
one I used Eshin Grey, White Contrast, Skeleton Horde, and a drybrush of Pallid Flesh...
The other was painted Celestra Grey, sloppily dry brushed with black, Skeleton Horde again, drybrush of Pallid Flesh...
Seemed like the second way would be better for larger pieces like terrain so:

Got started on some Ash Wastes terrain, I'm happy with how it's come out so far

Spruced up Iratus for an Instagram shoot:


Just put a few purple washes on him and fixed up some little bits that were... Irritating me...

Also had an idea but couldn't find the right hand for it so:

I tried sculpting my own, took me two tries and a few hours, but got something I was happy with and the right scale

Finally I also started on something I wanted to do for a while, make a physical version of my avatar:

Started with some slabs of sign board

Drilled and carved a hole for a 6mm BB that had been rolled around on some sand paper for grip

Covered it in sprue slurry to help with gaps and stuff and while I had the green stuff out worked on the eyelids.
That should be cured today so I'll be poking that later...
Just gotta do like 8 tentacles... Already made up some armatures on a holder for them

See you next time!

Trees!

Some of those are clearly ex-trees.

Are the rings modelled or did you draw those in?

Looking delightful Guardling! Those trees look awesome.

Looking forward to seeing how the physical manifestation of your avatar goes, you’ve made a great start. The open hand for the delaque looking chap turned out well, and looks a good size fit.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Some of those are clearly ex-trees.

Are the rings modelled or did you draw those in?

Haha, they're Mantic models, so detail is modelled on

Olthannon wrote:Looking delightful Guardling! Those trees look awesome.

Thanks!

gobert wrote:Looking forward to seeing how the physical manifestation of your avatar goes, you’ve made a great start. The open hand for the delaque looking chap turned out well, and looks a good size fit.

Thank you

So been up to a few things this week despite my shift pattern (and thus my sleep) being all over the place...
First us I had an idea to make a server/wait staff for a party:

This is what I needed the hand for...
I did try to make little goblets for the tray but they turned out too fragile to make at the right scale, so settled on some tumblers instead, bottle is some whittled down sprue...



Made some tentacles for my Eye Monolyth from Fimo:

I made a lot more than I'd need so I could experiment with fit...
The ones I wanted to keep got positioned on blue tac
and then blended together with green stuff.
They then got primed with old foundation paint, sanded, primed, sanded and primed until I was happy enough with the results:

Just gotta paint it now, which is going to be awkward seeing as the original image has a colour shift effect on it...

Also did a repaint of my Skorpius Dunerider.
I thought it looked like a British LCU so I had painted it as one, but I has decided to replace the original brown with red as well and adding build ups of dirt from the ash wastes:



Can't avoid the ash...

I originally bought it a while ago with the intention of using it as a sump boat, I thought I'd return it to it's intended purpose as an AdMech transport.

See you, space cowboys!

The Dunerider and its combat vehicle load are both excellent- the sand/dirt/weathering effect on the diamond tread floorboards of the cargo/troop space are really top notch.

Supplies!

That should be enough to get me started filling up some ash wastes hab blocks...
Also, cat!

...I mean some more MDF boards to glue my Zone Mortalis tiles to...

Nice work on the dunerider and the waiter. Your scenery is looking excellent. What a lovely cat!

That waiter is a great idea, he looks very snooty and probably stab you in the back for using the wrong fork for the fish

But I love the purple beard on the Orlock quad driver, looks so great!

And excited to see your avatar coming to life.

Meer_Cat wrote:The Dunerider and its combat vehicle load are both excellent- the sand/dirt/weathering effect on the diamond tread floorboards of the cargo/troop space are really top notch.

Thanks, it's just contrast paints and a leadbelcher dry brush

Olthannon wrote:Nice work on the dunerider and the waiter. Your scenery is looking excellent. What a lovely cat!

Thank you, all cars are lovely

Viterbi wrote:That waiter is a great idea, he looks very snooty and probably stab you in the back for using the wrong fork for the fish

But I love the purple beard on the Orlock quad driver, looks so great!

And excited to see your avatar coming to life.

Thanks, a full noble party is getting put on the list of things I want to do but probably never will...

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Anyways, today's update is a bit all over the place...
First up, I finally painted up my Monolyth avatar:

With a bit of drybrushing and stippling I managed to get a nice colour transition...
Seeing as I wasn't really able to model the ridges on the tentacles, I painted them on instead...
Here they are finished:

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Next up I made an Ash Wastes scrap pile:

Made out of scraps...


It about the right size to stick between two ZM pillars in case I want to use it in the Underhive...
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I have been working on some interior stuff for the Ash Wastes hab unit:

I wasn't a fan of the massive holes in the floor so I covered them with some plasticard ...

Got some 3mm signboard to block off a doorway with some rivets I had saved and a Mantic greeble for the outside...
It took a while to do as when I first assembled them I had glued the roof down for some stupid reason...
Also made a table:

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Got some new storage solutions for my bitz box:

A lot more room now, and less chance of catastrophe if I drop them... Again...
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Started assembling some of the TT Combat boards to glue my ZM tiles on:


Cut a hole in one.
I'll be honest, I wasn't that impressed with them, they were caked in soot that kept rubbing off, even after I scrubbed it wit a rag and the fit wasn't brilliant, requiring me to trim many of the tabs...
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Also thought I'd try out these things...

It took a while to get them as I kept forgetting to pick them up from the drop off, at one point I was in the building next door and still forgot them.
A test:

While rinsing the brush, I noticed:

Bubbles!

Had an idea so put some very quick basic colours on a chaos marine with an Agrax wash:

Weapons (leadbelcher) were picked out with rust and the whole model coated in the verdigris:

Then with a damp brush I wiped it down and added some details:


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That's all for now!
I think...

Great updates Guardling. The tentacles of your avatar are deeply unsettling, like giant earthworms. Scenery is looking really nice, good mix of colours.

I forgot the Fire Warriors:

Got a couple of days to squeeze them in for unit of the month...

Really liked the Ash Wastes scrap pile. Very nice mix of bits that provide cover, but look random enough to be a pile of garbage.

Cheers,

CB

Olthannon wrote:Great updates Guardling. The tentacles of your avatar are deeply unsettling, like giant earthworms. Scenery is looking really nice, good mix of colours.

Thank you!

Captain Brown wrote:Really liked the Ash Wastes scrap pile. Very nice mix of bits that provide cover, but look random enough to be a pile of garbage.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks!

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So managed to do my unit of the month, by the skin of my teeth:

Some Fire Warriors!
These guys were like finished at the last few minutes of June

A group shot of all Fire Warriors so far..
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Didn't get a lot else done as I was packing for a holiday related to a different hobby with my friends, one of which had to be rushed to hospital...
They're fine now but it has obviously kept me from doing little more than unpacking super late...

Nice work on the Fire Warriors, hope your mate is doing okay!

 Olthannon wrote:
Nice work on the Fire Warriors, hope your mate is doing okay!

Thanks, friend is doing okay, they can't do anything strenuous for time being so perfect time to move house!
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Anyways, due to helping with house moving, I've only been picking at things this week, mostly scatter bits from TT Combat:

I am slightly annoyed at the print lines on some bits considering that they're resin casts....

Plan is to clutter up an AW hab unit to make it lived in...

Also got a tent, not sure if I am going to use it for ash wastes:

But if I do I'll weather it up...

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There were some stumps and log piles included in my blisters that are definitely not Ash Wastes stuff so I made a campfire, primarily for D&D:

Just superglued them down onto to a sign board circle And covered the lot in Astrogranite...

Base colours, Dryad Bark for the logs and Steel Legion Drab for the earth...

Drybrushed Flayed One Flesh and copious amounts of static grass...

That's all folks!

These soft bed thingies (matresses? is that a word) look great. Love the cardboard boxes too.

Tau army is growing.

Some neat little terrain pieces there.

Cheers,

CB

Canny stuff there Guardling, the chairs and the mattresses look very realistic.

Finally making progress on a hab unit:

Super atmospheric shot! That is one grimdark living room

Guardling,

Yes, a very neat little photo.

Cheers,

CB

DoctorDanny wrote:These soft bed thingies (matresses? is that a word) look great. Love the cardboard boxes too.

Thanks,

Captain Brown wrote:Tau army is growing.

Some neat little terrain pieces there.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, it's been a chore getting them painted though, they're almost too small for me to hold...

Olthannon wrote:Canny stuff there Guardling, the chairs and the mattresses look very realistic.

Thanks, they're just washes and drybrushing

Illumini wrote:Super atmospheric shot! That is one grimdark living room

Thanks, clearer shots today...

Captain Brown wrote:Guardling,

Yes, a very neat little photo.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you

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Not much done other than finishing my first hab unit:




Interior:


Quite happy with how it turned out, might try and add some pooled up ash to the top of the unit but I'm worried about ruining it....

Plan for the next hab unit is a toilet/bathroom block....
See you next time!

You’ve been busy Guardling, great job on the hab-unit. It looks very lived in, though I wouldn’t want to live in it . The floor finish is really realistic too

Fantastic work making those hab units look like actual residences!

They look great with all the little additions and of course the paint job.

Exalted!

Cheers,

CB

The hab unit turned out great. I like the weathering and colors.

The completed unit looks excellent, I really like the contrast between the nice leather chesterfield and the grotty mattress

Amazing hub unit and the added stuff really makes them look inhabited. And the action shot actually gave me also a bit of The Matrix vibes with the chesterfield

Thanks all, not been up to much, life's being a bit much at the moment.
Some Stealth Suits are on the queue for unit of the month:

Other than that, I've just been picking at some Orlocks to get them all up to the same level of painting...

So scraped in the unit of the month, put the finishing touches on some XV25 stealth suits last night...
Presenting Delta Alpha Two ( at least I think that's what the tag is saying):

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In other news looking on Instagram made me sketch somebody else's idea:

That I then made a good attempt to build:


I've put some pipes and platforms on the curved surfaces so the there is somewhere for minis to balance...

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Went exploring small independent game shops around my city and picked up this guy:

Was labeled as a Gazer and looked similar to my Avi (geometric shape with tentacles), so didn't realize that it was an off brand Beholder until I built it, but hey, something new to do...
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Lastly some updated Orlock shots:



They're roughly the same level of painting now and I've made an attempt to give them all mirrored shades...

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See you space cowboy!

The tower looks fancy, is it some kind of fixed gun? The sketch looks like it has a barrel and plasma coils?

I love how moody the orkocks look in their pics. The coloured lighting is a great addition to your scenery.

Great job on the scenery and the Tau!

Happy birthday to me:

Happy birthday! The Ridgehauler is an awesome present!

Happy birthday Guardling! Looking forward to seeing the ridgerunner painted up,

"There are 364 days you might get unbirthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know." [i]The Mad Hatter, "Through the Looking Glass"[i]

That's a lot of haulers!

Happy Birthday! Enjoy playing Racing cars! Remember, Red Unz go Fasta!

Mitnick wrote:Happy birthday! The Ridgehauler is an awesome present!

Thanks!

Olthannon wrote:Happy birthday Guardling! Looking forward to seeing the ridgerunner painted up,

Thank you, stand by for pics...

Meer_Cat wrote:"There are 364 days you might get unbirthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know." [i]The Mad Hatter, "Through the Looking Glass"[i]

That's a lot of haulers!

Haha, yeah, my bank balance is not that great at the moment, I shall have to see when my next unbirthday is...

gobert wrote:Happy Birthday! Enjoy playing Racing cars! Remember, Red Unz go Fasta!

Thanks! Unfortunately this one is not going very fast...

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Been a bit difficult to do anything lately due to the heat that seems to be bothering all us Brits, but I have managed to polish off a bunch of unfinished terrain...


Here's the plasma whatsit that I have stuck on its side for interest...
Had to chop off and replace the little nubbin on the top to get it to fit in my 3*3 ZM grid pattern.

Got lots of pics of all my terrain at the moment, like fifty pics,which dakkadakka is not going to enjoy uploading, so gonna have to ration them out.
On the bright side I'm probably sorted for Instagram posts for the foreseeable future...

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Onto the Ridgehauler...


It's been done up with an Orlock crew and their colours (sorry no red):




I wasn't a fan of the new guilders as crew, or their weapon systems for that matter so with a bit of hacking:

Was not an easy conversion, a lot of little cuts and checking fit and filling gaps just to get some contact points...
But worth it.
Just gotta get the navigator in there as well which is gonna be tricky, especially as I don't want to do the wrist mounted satnav...

See you next time!

Nicely done Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Nicely done on the Ridgehauler, my second one is going to be an Orlock version so good to see it's possible to convert the crew.

Captain Brown wrote:Nicely done Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you!

Rolsheen wrote:Nicely done on the Ridgehauler, my second one is going to be an Orlock version so good to see it's possible to convert the crew.

Thanks! While it is possible to convert the crew, it's not easy, not very many surfaces touch without gap filling, on the bright side, because they're in such a small space, you can get away with some dodgy positioning ...
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Speaking of dodgy positioning...

Started working on a Navigator for my Orlock Ridgehauler.
Legs are from the Ridgehauler, torso is Catachan and arms are Orlock.
Idea is for them to be a Juvie earning the right to drive, so they're a bit smaller than the rest of the crew (in order to fit the space I have left in the cabin.
There's a young looking Van Saar head that I'm trying to put hair on but I seem to have lost my green stuff...
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Also some terrain pics:


These were made because I wanted to find a use for the doors I had from one of the Kill Team sets (Rouge Trader?) As well as not using up all my ZM wall bits...
The undersides of the flooring was pretty much carved out to make room for the pipes, should probably have taken some pics to show...
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On holiday soon so who knows if I update next week, but I still haven't started my unit of the month yet, I'm thinking Tau Pathfinders...

Surprisingly quick for me, my Juvie Navigator is finished:


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See you next time!

Loving the Ridgehauler and the terrain. The map is an excellent little addition.

Sweet updates, hopefully the red container helps with the their speed! . The Juve navigator is really cool, the map being a great touch. A compete terrain photo shoot would be super cool…

Those Eschers are fantastic nicely done

Olthannon wrote:Loving the Ridgehauler and the terrain. The map is an excellent little addition.

Thanks, I prefer a more low tech look for my gangs...

gobert wrote:Sweet updates, hopefully the red container helps with the their speed! . The Juve navigator is really cool, the map being a great touch. A compete terrain photo shoot would be super cool…

Haha thanks, I've got another red container with a thermic plasma whatsit in it for extra power...

lordbickerstaff wrote:Those Eschers are fantastic nicely done

Escher? I've almost forgotten about them, gonna need a vehicle for them, but I don't like the jet bikes GW brought out, too high tech
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Anyways all I've had time for is Pathfinders this week, I'm on holiday now and the internet is terrible...


Not sure I like the idea of the Ion rifles giving the Shas'la cancer, definitely a 40k thing, just fits better for the Imperium rather than the Tau
Also painted this thing up, not sure what it is (other than a stationary missile drone) as I don't have it's codex:

Lastly, seeing as you're not supposed to take Pathfinders without a Devilfish:

Although apparently in modern 40k they're no longer a requirement...
Gotta figure out how I'm putting colours down, need more steel legion drab on it.
Engines are way behind due to needing lots of gap filling ...
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Decided not to bring any painting stuff with me on holiday but partner decided to bring along this:

Idea is to ease the friends we're staying with into roleplay so that my partner gets a chance to start using some of their impressive collection of D&D stuff...

That's it for now, see you next time!

Oww hadn't checked checked your stuff for some time. I love the necromunda truck. Good details (like the map).

The turquoise horde grows...

Cheers,

CB

Good work keeping the monthly progress going, the Pathfinders look great. Good luck filling the gaps on the devil fish, it looks a cool model.

Tried working on some AW Nomads last night...
...
...Ended up doing something completely different:

WIP names: the Thief, the Worker, the Freeman, the Drunk, the Fool, the Crier, the Veteran and the Cultist

Some excellent updates, Guardling. Love the civilians.

Top left corner (the drunk) looks an awful lot like Rik Sanchez!

Great bits of kitbashing though nice one

DoctorDanny wrote:Oww hadn't checked checked your stuff for some time. I love the necromunda truck. Good details (like the map).

Thank you

Captain Brown wrote:The turquoise horde grows...
Cheers,
CB

Thanks, gonna have to do an updated horde Cadre shot soon...

gobert wrote:Good work keeping the monthly progress going, the Pathfinders look great. Good luck filling the gaps on the devil fish, it looks a cool model.

Thank you, the gaps are mostly done but I keep finding new ones and damage

Olthannon wrote:Some excellent updates, Guardling. Love the civilians.

Thanks

lordbickerstaff wrote:Top left corner (the drunk) looks an awful lot like Rik Sanchez!

Great bits of kitbashing though nice one

Haha I didn't notice that, shame I didn't give her a white coat

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Been trying to get my Inq28 on, it's a genre(?) Along with Blanchitsu I absolutely love looking at but struggle to actually replicate.
So finally finished my attempt at an inquisitor:


I'm provisionly calling her Miss Fister, but deffo need something more, uh, appropriate...
Main body is a SOB cannoness (?) with a Palanite Enforcer (or Subjugator) shoulder armour and an Orlock powerfist...
Some WIP:

Apart from an initial drybrush of Dawnstone over black, she's all contrast paints to try and get that grimdark look...

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Obviously an Inquistor need some followers:

Left is a Repentia(?) That's had some surprisingly well fitting arms from an Escher Deathmaiden and face from a regular Escher ganger...
For some reason I base coated them like I normally would instead of trying the contrast method, probably because I don't have that many contrast paints and payday is a long way away...

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Did a bit of green stuff on a nomad biker:

And started assembling some regular nomads, no picks yet...

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Lastly, I put some base layers on my civilians:

The Cultist (bottom left) got bit of a change, I decided the Admech rifle wasn't good as an indicator for her devotion to the cult of the machine, she now has a ZM doors computer for a backpack and is holding one of the smaller arms from a Kataphron servitor ...

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That's all folks!

Lots of cool progress Guardling. The grimdark experiment looks to have worked pretty well. I wonder if a slightly lighter grey on a few areas like her face would have given them a bit more focus?

The nomads are looking like a fantastically ragtag bunch. Plenty of variety to keep the interest going. I hope the white and orange dude keeps a similar scheme, he looks cool

The Cultist:


Jarree is not very bright, but she loves the Machine and has worshipped the Mechanicus since she was young.
She wishes to be a Techpriest herself.
The Dominus tells her this can be done after a year of service in the Skitarii, but once she is there, she may have a change of mind...

The Fool:


Pula was once a well liked and respected man who successfully conviced his work crew to demand better pay from the guilds.
It is said that, during celebrations with his friends, a band of hired thugs snuck into the outpost and beat him into a coma.
His friends cannot look him in the eye.

Zombie sprue severed head?

Man that was a good set.

gobert wrote:Lots of cool progress Guardling. The grimdark experiment looks to have worked pretty well. I wonder if a slightly lighter grey on a few areas like her face would have given them a bit more focus?

The nomads are looking like a fantastically ragtag bunch. Plenty of variety to keep the interest going. I hope the white and orange dude keeps a similar scheme, he looks cool

Thanks, I did highlight a few key areas like the face with white.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:Zombie sprue severed head?

Man that was a good set.

I think it's from the skeletons command sprue, it was originally attached to a ladder of bones.
It's been in my bits box for at least 20 years from when I had a small skele/vamp WHFB army
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Anyways been up to lot of assembling lately...
First up some additional Underhive Civilians:

These are the Guide, the Witch and the Guilder.
Painted up two of them late last night but still working on their stories...

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Had a Kataphron torso kinda going spare, so sorted out a spare set of Ambot legs for him:

It's got a magnet in it so I can swap the torso out for the Dunerider one

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Finally got round to assembling my Ash Wastes Nomads:

These two are set up as a heavy weapons team, with a bit of converting for the spotter/loader to have a slung weapon

One sniper got their rifle from the bug rider, the other got one of the rifles from the Underhive market kit. Design language says air rifle/dart gun to me

Boss gets a bolt pistol from a OG plastic Orlock and thier partner get dual pistols thanks to the bug riders...


The rest are pretty much stock, except one has had the missiles cut off their backpack and replaced with a canister...

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Then I realised I had all these Underhive Outcast arms with no bodies and loads of old Empire Militia bits so...



Like the look of them so far, tried a few heads out on them looks like Orlock heads are the way to go as everything else is either too big or too small...
Probably going to add some pouches and green stuff straps or bindings later.

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Lastly made some more terrain:


Not sure what this is yet, I had a broken bit of SechMech floor so elevated it to the height of a ZM floor and added some pipe and Miliput.


This is just some curved sprues that I thought could look good as a sort of metal "skeleton in the desert" thing...

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That's all for now

Awesome conversions!

I really like the ash waste nomads. They have so much potential for conversions.

Lots of projects on the go there Guardling.

Your first two civilians that are painted up are looking good.

Cheers,

CB

+++The Witch+++


His mother called him Nugget, first as a term of endearment, now with disgust.
Just like his uncaring mother he hears whispers, but unlike her, he does not hear secrets...
Instead they chant with glee each time he hears the squeal of pain from a small animal.
Perhaps he should start on something bigger, after all, he no longer needs to use his hands.

Excellent stuff as per Guardling, great bit of kitbashing. Really characterful minis, works so well for Necromunda.

I love the witch.

Makes me miss the Empire Milita sprue even more

Fantastic stuff Guardling! The cultist and fool turned out spot on. I love the broken screen on the cultists back, seems like she’s been given the bad job of carting back broken items, or did she get upgraded with whatever the Dominus had laying about? The gingerbread man puppet on the fools hand is amazing though! Where on earth did you find that?

+++The Guide+++


Torm, is an expensive Dome Runner, he charges double everyone else, half now, half on arrival.
Shortly before the final stop, he disappears leaving his fee uncollected...
The gangs say he is a wise man.
This is because he knows the final payment is always a bullet.

DoctorDanny wrote:Awesome conversions!

I really like the ash waste nomads. They have so much potential for conversions.

They do, it helps that the torso on the bug rider is separate too as it helps with turning them into bikers!

Captain Brown wrote:Lots of projects on the go there Guardling.

Your first two civilians that are painted up are looking good.

Cheers,

CB

Haha yeah too many projects at the moment, now I don't know where to start

Olthannon wrote:Excellent stuff as per Guardling, great bit of kitbashing. Really characterful minis, works so well for Necromunda.

Thanks!

Kid_Kyoto wrote:I love the witch.

Makes me miss the Empire Milita sprue even more

It was a good sprue I made my OG Delaque gangers out of it because I couldn't afford/find real Necromunda gangers at the time

gobert wrote:Fantastic stuff Guardling! The cultist and fool turned out spot on. I love the broken screen on the cultists back, seems like she’s been given the bad job of carting back broken items, or did she get upgraded with whatever the Dominus had laying about? The gingerbread man puppet on the fools hand is amazing though! Where on earth did you find that?

I like to think the Cultist is super dumb and thinks that if she just slaps some tech in her ports she's AdMech and the Dominus wants nothing to do with her, hence trying to pass her off to the Skitarii..
The puppet is from the Frostgrave Female Wizards set, I saw they had a nice selection of bare hands, they're a little small but look okay when paired together. You'll probably see quite a few of those bits in my paint queue...

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Anyways not much done this week, painted The Drunk, then realised her story was a bit anemic, so I then realised that she needs a bar for the background of her shot:

 Guardling wrote:

Torm, is an expensive Dome Runner, he charges double everyone else, half now, half on arrival.
Shortly before the final stop, he disappears leaving his fee uncollected...
The gangs say he is a wise man.
This is because he knows the final payment is always a bullet.

Fantastic fluff.

 Kid_Kyoto wrote:

Fantastic fluff.

Thanks!

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Kinda lost my mojo last couple of weeks, so to cheer myself up I bought a CAT...



It came with some free models too:

These are gonna have to make up for failing my last unit of the month...

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Got some more civvies that just need basing on the way, so see you soon!

You can't go wrong with CAT content!

The Necromunda civilians look great, so many cool ideas and execution. Love the fluff bits!

Nice updates Guardling, the red tones on your CATs is really excellent. Gives them a faintly organic quality which is cool.

I love those little CAT models, I keep thinking I should get some for my Ad Mech. I have some plans for another techpriest and I like the idea of a swarm of little robots.

+++The Drunk+++


Amsac or coolant, Bray doesn't care, she'll have it even if she has to spend coin she doesn't own.
She was someone once, a loving wife to a charming man, but now he is a shell and so she might as well be.

+++The Crier+++


"Mama Mouth" Chiral is always there with the days news and pious recital against the mutant.
She knows everything that is happening in the dome.
But when she closes her mouth, people forget she is there.
And when her neighbours are discussing their secrets behind closed doors...
She listens.

these civvies are outstanding! a true representation of just how wacko the imperium's "regular" guys are...

some theft-worthy ideas here methinks

+++The Thief+++


"Snatcher" Barin, is fast.
Faster than a Goliaths temper, faster than an Eschers blade. Once he has his prize, no-one can catch him. Not fast enough to flee an Orlocks gun though, but that is why he wears armour.
He does it to keep his father in clean clothes and his mother in wine.
He loves his parents, but sometimes he wonders if he should run from them as well.

Nice one Guardling, love the stories behind the models.

Great backstories! I'd really like to see the ash waste nomads fully painted.

That kit has lots of potential for all sorts of guard and traitor regiments.

Lots of cool work still going on here. The stories are great, am I right in thinking the drunks husband is now a Servitor? Hopefully you’ve got a mini lined up for him if he is!

Viterbi wrote:You can't go wrong with CAT content!

The Necromunda civilians look great, so many cool ideas and execution. Love the fluff bits!

Thanks!

Olthannon wrote:Nice updates Guardling, the red tones on your CATs is really excellent. Gives them a faintly organic quality which is cool.

I love those little CAT models, I keep thinking I should get some for my Ad Mech. I have some plans for another techpriest and I like the idea of a swarm of little robots.

Haha I'm tempted to do the same, they are supposed to be the Admech equivalent of a school science project ...

osjclatchford wrote:these civvies are outstanding! a true representation of just how wacko the imperium's "regular" guys are...

some theft-worthy ideas here methinks

Steal away, I'm unlikely to use them so someone should!

DoctorDanny wrote:Great backstories! I'd really like to see the ash waste nomads fully painted.

That kit has lots of potential for all sorts of guard and traitor regiments.

I agree, you could probably mix in a few bits from the cultists or traitor guard...

gobert wrote:Lots of cool work still going on here. The stories are great, am I right in thinking the drunks husband is now a Servitor? Hopefully you’ve got a mini lined up for him if he is!

Haha, no, but that's actually a better idea than what I was hinting at.
There are a few strands between some characters and about half of them are in the same web

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Anyways, as you may of noticed I picked up the Into The Dark Kill Team box, mainly for the terrain, then for the Navy Breachers and then the CAT...
Oh and Kroot too, just to add to my Tau:

Got some base layers on and a wash, built them as regular warriors to fit into 40k (at least until tau get Kroot shotties).
Heads are compatible old Kroot, and so are some of the arms, so there are a few old bits on my new Kroot.
For some reason I thought that the Hounds seemed a bit large so I finished them up and took a comparison photo:

Woof they're a bit small, OG hound looks like they could swallow the new dogs whole...

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So now I've got these new Navy Breachers I thought I should get started making:

...and started some Palatine Enforcers...
Decided that they needed some more Imperial looking weapons...
Got a Subjugator with a bolter and shield on the way...
Also gave a guy a coat, gonna be the watch captain or something:

Gotta figure out heads, looking at the Scion beret heads I have, not a fan of their helmets, they look to much like primaris wannabes

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See you next time

 Guardling wrote:

"Snatcher" Barin, is fast.
Faster than a Goliaths temper, faster than an Eschers blade. Once he has his prize, no-one can catch him. Not fast enough to flee an Orlocks gun though, but that is why he wears armour.
He does it to keep his father in clean clothes and his mother in wine.
He loves his parents, but sometimes he wonders if he should run from them as well.

Love these stories and the fact that he has extra armor on his back too!

Nice work on the Into the Dark stuff, I guess those Kroot Hounds as sneakier for being inside the ship?

+++The Veteran+++


Orbus was a proud and noble man who obeyed orders without question.
He spent years training in the Guard preparing to fight the enemies of the Imperium. When finally called to arms, he found himself against a dome of unarmed men and women who wailed and prayed for the Emperor to save them...
Orbus was a proud and noble man who obeyed orders without question.

+++The Guilder+++


Mercer enjoys the power his job gives him.
All he has to do is raise a fist, not in anger, but holding a pouch.
Desperate men clamour to betray everything they hold dear in the hope that he will drop it in thier hands...

Nice updates Guardling, I really like the ming vase too!

 Olthannon wrote:
Nice updates Guardling, I really like the ming vase too!

Thanks, the blue and White of fine china seemed appropriate
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Anyhow quick update:
I finished my Kroot on time for Octobers unit of the month but haven't had time to get any decent pictures:

+++The Worker+++


Tirm has a tool, he has had it for a long time, he looks after it, oils it, listens to the noises it makes as he uses it.
He knows the noise it makes when he uses it on a man.
His tool keeps him paid.

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Quick behind the scenes:

Tirm originally had an outcast body, but I had rediscovered some GSC models that felt more right for his model.
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This is probably the last civilian model for a little while, I can't get anything I'm happy with for The Free Man so I'm going to scrap him and start fresh.
This does mean I have a couple of Outcast bodies left over for some new characters, as well as my recently discovered GSC miners...

You’ve been a busy hobbyist! Great work on the civvies, they continue to come out with loads of character.

 gobert wrote:
You’ve been a busy hobbyist! Great work on the civvies, they continue to come out with loads of character.

Thank you gobert!
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Back to being busy!
Got me some Kill Team Kroot photos ready:
(See if you can spot the original Kroot parts haha)




Very quick paint job, to get them good enough, my hands have not been kind to me lately...

Also took a spare arm from the new Kroot to add to my old Standard Bearer who was missing an arm:

Yay! Now need to get a wiggle on with Novembers unit...

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So been picking at some new conversions, seeing as I have all these outcast arms free and a few empire militia bits lying around:

A couple are some really old models I made with a plan to use them as Gue'La insurgents for my Tau army...
Whether they were allies or enemies, nobody knows...
Also got this guy:

Calling him Fat Petr for now, the torso is an old attempt at green stuffing that looks alright to me..

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While we're on the topic of Necromunda, I got some enforcers basecoated, as well as a new Subjugator with a Delaque Webber and shield combo:

Not sure about him, might put the Webber on a regular Enforcer and give him something less flimsy...

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Because I can't have only one active project at a time, I started working on my version of something I saw someone else do on dakka (forgotten who, sorry)
Anyways they made a like a 40k version of a building made of connecting Chacon huts, I thought I'd have a go...
The idea:

What I've got so far:


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Lastly, the thing I'm doing at the time of writing:

Picked up a can of GW White Scar and Army Painters Fur Brown from my FLGS.
I can tell you that one rattle can is not enough for all the ITTD terrain.
Yes I know they're still on the sprues, probably going to do most of the painting on the sprues too...

See you space cowboy!

Great looking Necro stuff!! Especially like the scenery the little Container-house-thing looks cool. Might have to steal that idea.

 Lord Borak wrote:
Great looking Necro stuff!! Especially like the scenery the little Container-house-thing looks cool. Might have to steal that idea.

Thanks! Steal away, its what I did!

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Speaking of the container, got some more bits on it...
Outside:

Inside:


The roof will be removable when finished so I can access the inside, so I'm arranging bits to be seen from above...

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Also painted up my test pieces for the new Kill Team terrain, going for an off white based on the interior of some of the warships I work on:

Started with a base of white spray paint then picked out some electrical boxes with celestial grey.
Next was a wash that I'd made from near empty pots of contrast paints and washes, came out very close to Agrax.
I followed that up with a dry brush of Corvax White and then picked all the cables out with Black Templar contrast and the ribbed ones with Leadbelcher.
Skulls are skull, lights use various contrast paints and then I dabbed some bits with dirty down rust...

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Also got some Ash Wastes Nomads on the go, but fell asleep before I could take a picture of them, I may be getting old...
Should finish them this week for my unit of the month...
See you next time!

The interior is incredibly detailed already- great build!

Damn!! That interior detail looks awesome!!! I love the little books.

Really good stuff Guardling, as the others have said, the interior work is very impressive. Nice work on the Kroot!

Meer_Cat wrote:The interior is incredibly detailed already- great build!

Lord Borak wrote:Damn!! That interior detail looks awesome!!! I love the little books.

Olthannon wrote:Really good stuff Guardling, as the others have said, the interior work is very impressive. Nice work on the Kroot!

Thanks all!
Did a little more on the interior:

Picked up one of those tentacle rollers recently so had bit of a play with it.
I'm a bit too impatient to wait for the GS to harden a bit, but I'm starting to get the hang of it...

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Anyways onto unit of the month:

Got me some Ash Wasters painted up.
Been hard doing these guys due to being plagued with hand cramps but got them to a point when I'm happy with them:

Got my boss with a bolt pistol from and OG plastic Goliath and thier gunslinger partner got an extra pistol from the bug rider sprue

The sharpshooters, one has a gun from a bug rider, the othe has what appears to be an air rifle from the Underhive Market set

The AT team, spotter gets some binocs and a slung rifle again from the bugs


And finally some basic boys...

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Lastly made this little guy:

There was a goblin like familiar on the Frostgrave Wizard sprue that I've been using for my civilians arms, so I cut his head off and used a winged skull decoration from the old cities of terrain...

The Malignant Cherub is suitably nightmare-inducing, well done. The Ash-wasters are terrific- that tan/brown color for their outer wraps is perfect. Thy come off looking like much more belligerent and formidable Jawas with the glowing eyes.

I never would have thought I'd need a tentacle roller for greenstuff, but you've showed me I was wrong- those armored conduits are a great trick! Now I must go buy one and it's your fault.

Very enjoyable read tonight.

Great blog! I'm enjoying the terrain and necromunda/Inq28 models. That's a sort of thing I'm also getting into and it's nice to see some inspiration and painting ideas.

Excellent stuff Guarding, really like the cherub!

Anyone know what this thing is?

He's got a khorne symbol on him...

Olthannon wrote:Excellent stuff Guarding, really like the cherub!

Thanks!

ph34r wrote:Great blog! I'm enjoying the terrain and necromunda/Inq28 models. That's a sort of thing I'm also getting into and it's nice to see some inspiration and painting ideas.

Thank you, I'm glad I can inspire others so they can, in turn, put up stuff to inspire me!

Meer_Cat wrote:The Malignant Cherub is suitably nightmare-inducing, well done. The Ash-wasters are terrific- that tan/brown color for their outer wraps is perfect. Thy come off looking like much more belligerent and formidable Jawas with the glowing eyes.

I never would have thought I'd need a tentacle roller for greenstuff, but you've showed me I was wrong- those armored conduits are a great trick! Now I must go buy one and it's your fault.

Very enjoyable read tonight.

Thanks, the roller is great, but I need some more practice with it, I find it hard to get an even roll...

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Anyways onto this week's update:
Ash Wastes Skitarii:

Rumors of an intact portable void shield generator draw the Mechanicus out into the Ash Wastes
Despite thier small unit size, the Archeotech Recovery and Survey Expedition are well programmed with appropriate combat litanies.








Took a while to get to finish painting these guys, so if you haven't seen them before, they're Orlock bodies with Skitarii arms, heads and back packs...
Pretty simple to do except the shoulder pads need cutting down to make room for the arms which is where the models are ugliest.
The Kataphron has a magnet in its torso so that I can swap it out for the Dune Riders stubber servitor as well as a spare set of Ambit legs that need to finish...

See you next time!

Great to see the gang all together, the camo on the dunerider is really nice. Brilliant conversions, looking forward to more!

 Guardling wrote:
Anyone know what this thing is?

He's got a khorne symbol on him...

WHFB Champion of Khorne from the 80s.

https://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/File:Chaos_Champions_Cat_89_12.jpg

http://solegends.com/citcat1989/cat1989p015-00.htm

Olthannon wrote:Great to see the gang all together, the camo on the dunerider is really nice. Brilliant conversions, looking forward to more!

Thank you!

bbb wrote:
+++Snip+++
WHFB Champion of Khorne from the 80s.

https://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/File:Chaos_Champions_Cat_89_12.jpg

http://solegends.com/citcat1989/cat1989p015-00.htm

Thanks for that, I have the wolf headed one with the hammer as well, I had originally thought that they might be chaos knights from epic or something...
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Anyways onto what I've been up to:
It been hard to stay motivated, I find Christmas a pretty stressful period so I have been mostly hiding in a corner playing video games instead of painting...
But I have done a few bits over the past few weeks that I've forgotten to post.
First up:

Tenish years ago I made these guys in my first attempt at civilians.
They were cool for a hot minute and then I decided that I didn't like them so I dismantled them for parts
So recently I was playing with GSC bodies:


Tirm has some friends... Although if you ask them, they'd say that they're just coworkers, especially since Pula had his, uh, accident...

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Also been making some juvies:

A couple of innocents playing ball

A less innocent playing hard ball...

Also got some paint on some actual outcasts:

Not quite finished yet, need to do their bases, and some more of them before I do some in situ photos

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Lastly, I had a SoB repenter converted with some Death Maiden claws and was in spired to replace her head with a Blackstone Fortress Negavolt Cultists:


Calling her Euryale, for obvious reasons, thinks she needs some fluff, but I know I'm going to forget about it in a few days...

Some great posts as usual Guardling. That negavolt cultist head in the last one is inspired. Loving the ad-mech/orlocks and ash wastes guys, they’re super cool. The ittd bulkhead test looks good, certainly looks like the off-white painted lagging on warships to me, probably with cables in unexpected places hiding behind it too!

Really digging the vibe of this thread. Loving the terrain story telling.

gobert wrote:Some great posts as usual Guardling. That negavolt cultist head in the last one is inspired. Loving the ad-mech/orlocks and ash wastes guys, they’re super cool. The ittd bulkhead test looks good, certainly looks like the off-white painted lagging on warships to me, probably with cables in unexpected places hiding behind it too!

Haha thanks

Roknar wrote:Really digging the vibe of this thread. Loving the terrain story telling.

Thanks

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Well I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, I'm now suffering from the all the cake and cheese I've stuffed myself with, but I did get some pressies to share, my first actual forge world minis:

Got me that Palatine Enforcer lady with her robo-doggo and a rouge doc with a few extra arms

Put together the Enforcer and her doggo first, swapping out her stub gun for a Delaque Webber, adding a holstered pistol and some (probably) flashbangs.
And then I ate some Christmas dinner, blacked out and:


Suddenly had a painted robo-doggo...
Will call him stripe after the evil mogwai from gremlins, joking, he's covered in hazard stripes...

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Got me another civvy painted:
The Lookout:


While the other juves play and fool around, Miala keeps an eye out for anything hungry...

This gal is a Frostgrave female wizard, with outcast arms and a spare hand grafted on from a rouge psyker, she is pretty short compared to my other models so seems better to use her as a juvie

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Lastly been sprucing up some of my older models:

Updated on the left, original paint on the right...
Been fixing mistakes, adding better eyes and more markings as well as a purple shading wash to improve my models.
Just done the Eschers and now working my way through the Goliath's so I can get some nicer pictures for Instagram...

That's all for now, see you in the new year!

Great stuff in here, I love the civvy models in particular.

Ah, I’m jealous of the forge world minis! The paint job on stripe is really cool, blacked out hazard striping seems to be the way forwards . The updated Goliaths are looking fancier too.
Hope you have a good New Years!

Haighus wrote:Great stuff in here, I love the civvy models in particular.

Thanks, they've been my favourite to make, just need stories for everyone....

gobert wrote:Ah, I’m jealous of the forge world minis! The paint job on stripe is really cool, blacked out hazard striping seems to be the way forwards . The updated Goliaths are looking fancier too.
Hope you have a good New Years!

Thank you, I was thinking that hazards stripes might be the way to go but wasn't sure how to put them on the Enforcers as well.
I have one already in Judge Dredd colours but I'm not feeling it...

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So first thing first down in the hive:

Started with finding a use for all my pipes, I've pretty much used up all my zone mortalis walls so looking for more ways to use the platforms

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Some paint on some juvies:

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Building some Guild of Coin thugs:

Heads and torsos from the ridge hauler kit, legs are catachan and arms cadian.
Was originally going to give them las or autoguns but didn't want to cover their chests, gotta show off those ridge runner torsos...
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Broke on old servitor so decided to rebuild and improve him, he's called Donatello:




Donatellos sole purpose is to roll out black paint in thick straight line...
Then his friend takes over:


Leonardo's sole purpose is to spray thin yellow lines over any thick black lines he finds...
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Lastly for the week
A Frostgrave wizard for use for D&D:



This is the new model for Eric the Cleric, his patron is Pelor (sp?) A sun god, so I wanted some yellow and a sun motif on him...

See you next time!

Morning interesting conversions Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Those 2 servitors are incredibly sad, particularly Donatello. Forever dragging around that roller, poor sod. Still, probably the most 40k thing I’ll see all day!

Yeah, those servitors are tragically brilliant.

Not sure on the amount of hazard stripes, might be too busy...

Was gonna call him done but realised that I forgot to put a head on him...

Nonsense- he's Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)

Striping is good as is, don't change it.

Rock on!

Brilliant dark humor with the two servitors. They are certainly busy in Necromunda hive.

Brilliant stuff Guarding, I love the world you have created with all the lore and NPCs. The servitors are ace.

Captain Brown wrote:Morning interesting conversions Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you!

gobert wrote:Those 2 servitors are incredibly sad, particularly Donatello. Forever dragging around that roller, poor sod. Still, probably the most 40k thing I’ll see all day!

Thanks got plans for one more, but trying to make it four...

Haighus wrote:Yeah, those servitors are tragically brilliant.

Thanks

Meer_Cat wrote:Nonsense- he's Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)

Striping is good as is, don't change it.

Rock on!

Well now he has a name!

Illumini wrote:Brilliant dark humor with the two servitors. They are certainly busy in Necromunda hive.

Haha certainly are

Olthannon wrote:Brilliant stuff Guarding, I love the world you have created with all the lore and NPCs. The servitors are ace.

Thanks
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Been busy doing quite a bit of painting this week
First up got the fuzz painted:



Made a guy in a coat as a Watch Captain, I'm imagining him as more of an official than an active duty Enforcer, doesn't mean he can't do the job though...


Next up is PFO Roland, equipped with a grenade launcher for crowd control...



Lastly for the cops, my version of Scrutinator-Primus Servalen, I switched out her stub gun for a Delaque Web Guantlet.
I have a couple of Subjugators with bolters on the paint queue but I'm aiming to keep my Palanites more interested in arrests than shootings and so I'll be getting a few more Webbers in their hands.
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From cops to hired thugs in a uniform, here's some of Mercer's goons:


Here's Guilder Coss


And here's Guilder Scal
Guilders Scal and Coss spend a bit more coin that they earn, but as they do their job well, Mercer turns a blind eye...
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Lastly some innocent Juvies playing ball:
+++The Catcher+++


Joss' ma says his Da is a famous 'Bowl player from the pict screens and was forced to leave them by his manager. He sees this man surrounded by fine food and finer women and thinks that if he plays well enough his Da will notice and whisk him away...

+++The Pitcher+++


Daev knows that despite what Ma says, his Da is not a 'Bowl star, but throwing a ball for his brother is something to do that costs him nothing...
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See you next time!

Edited for moar fluff!

Some servitor WIP:



And a child? Or is it a mutant?

Servitor looks excellent, nice use of bitz. I like the horrible little boy as well.

Love the tale of Daev and Joss, even in the underhive there’s room for kindness… unless the stripey boys spot them playing next to a “no ball games allowed” sign

Because I can't stick to doing one thing at a time:

Like the Necro models you have painted Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Lovely bit of GS work there, keen to see how that ends up!

Olthannon wrote:Servitor looks excellent, nice use of bitz. I like the horrible little boy as well.

Thanks, stuck on the boy for the moment

gobert wrote:Love the tale of Daev and Joss, even in the underhive there’s room for kindness… unless the stripey boys spot them playing next to a “no ball games allowed” sign

Haha, thats another thing to make right there

Captain Brown wrote:Like the Necro models you have painted Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Thank you

Olthannon wrote:Lovely bit of GS work there, keen to see how that ends up!

Thanks

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So What have I been doing the last few week?
Unfortunately the answer is being super depressed:

Anyways managed to have a mental health weekend and now I'm feeling a bit better...

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So what have I managed to squeeze in hobby wise?

Got some paint on another Sevitor:



Michaelangelo's sole purpose is to maintain and replace the decorative skulls scattered around the dome

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Speaking of servitors, my final planned servitor, code red:


Gave him some paint:

Not happy with the red clothing, makes it look more like skin and highlights that the base model is a Flayed One so I have started putting some celestia grey on him...

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Put some paint to some ITTD terrain:

These bottles I believe have rules for sucking the air out of a compartment, so I painted them up as a fire suppression system which if it used Halon would be functionally the same rule wise...
If they don't remove the air, then its just an AFFF system instead...

Also up is some barricades:

Tried to do as much "correct" colouring for the industrial stuff as I could and tried to remember that things can be plastic in M41
I think it needs some labels though, EVERYTHING has a label on a warship (sometimes it even says something helpful)

Done a wall as well:

Unfortunately my wash didn't come out so good on this piece so gonna have to go over some of it with Agrax.
Overall I'm happy with how previous pieces have come out, but I keep thinking I should have followed a simpler drybrush metal over brown route and rusting it up...

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Peekaboo:

Painted this guy up, forgot his name, tried to go for a nitrile gloves and hood, make him look more medical professional than BDSM lover...
He needs a base and then he'll get a proper picture.

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Also picked out some scatter/greebles I have and put some magnets in them:

most of my ZM stuff has magnets in it for the ZM greebles so it makes sense to do the same to the resin bits from TTCombat.
The electrical boxes are from an eBay bits order, I think they're Mantic...

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Also on the not GW front:

Some fancy stuff from Mantic that I got for a present some time ago...
Tried to keep the paintings generic enough to use for both Necromunda or the D&D campaign my partner is still threatening me with...
If the portrait with a field in it looks wrong, its because I forgot to put something in it, I was thinking a tower or a tree...

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Some progress from last night:

Got a Ridge hauler promethium trailer a while ago and have been slowly building it until I got to a point where I could start painting.
Not happy with the hazard stripes, gonna have to widen the bottom of the whites stripes see if that fits.
Trailer is off colour compared to the drive unit because I used Mournfang as a base instead of Dryadd Bark, but a slobber of Ratling Grime helped on the underside

Lastly on the ashwastes vibe, I made some trees:

Kinda inspired by the pipe/cable bushes in Necromunda Hired Gun, I wanted to have wires coming out the pipes but it doesn't look right.
These are Mantic pipes with some spare GW bits, cap ends from a ridge hauler and who knows where the valve wheel is from...

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Thats all for now, recently had a little sort through of my Warhammer stuff so it might be time to figure out all the projects I have going and get them organised,
See you next time!

Really excellent models Guardling, the servitors look fantastic.

Having gone through something similar a couple of years ago I know how much of a nightmare it can be with a problem landlord and suddenly having nowhere to go. Hope it all sorts out and you can find somewhere else.

Raphael's sole purpose is to collect skulls to be placed in boxes.
Sometimes, these skulls can be a bit too fresh...

The servitors are really great. Very creepy.

Good work Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Some fun little terrain pieces. I particularly like the Halon Drench System, it seems an appropriate 40k fire suppression system.

Thank all for the kind words, IRL is hopefully getting sorted soon. I'm going to have a few busy weeks and very little money for a while afterwards, good job I have plenty to do in my pile of shame...

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Anyways, on to some minis, and we have my take on the Forge World Doc Arachnos:


Tried to keep a look of white lab coat with nitrile gloves...

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More painted stuff in the form of a Gheistskull:


It got a little bit of plasticard added to the base to try to replicate a zone mortalis base and I'm starting to get the hang of using dirty down rust...

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Also painted this guy up:

Not sure what he's supposed to be, either a child or a midget, just found a grot and grafted some human bits on it...

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Got some paint on my pipe trees:


Also a metal skeleton:

Not super happy with the look of the rust, might add more Dirty Down later...
The sludge is Dirty Down Moss with some Tesseract Glow on top which I quite like...

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Onto my "big" project for a while:


Provisionally called Inquisitor Lamia, she started as a Greyfax model that I got with the Imperium magazine and then I got distracted...
I cut up a few tails from Necron Wraiths trying to find the right look and then scratch built something that works for me...

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And then every Inquisitor needs some minions and suddenly I had some Deathwatch:




These guys are based off the chainsword primaris marines, and I tried to cram in as many pouches as I could on them.
Like my other marines, these guys are supposed to be "true scale", or at least scaled to the Necromunda scale...

They've got some base colours now, a test scheme uses Ratling Grime over Eshin Grey for the black with contrast Black Templar for recesses and some edge highlighting...

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Lastly because I forgot:

I picked up some Gryph Hounds a while ago when I attempted to start a Howling Griffins force because of the obvious, maybe it'll make a move over to the Inquisitors retinue...

Good work Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Loving the conversions!

Very inspirational, especially the Watch Captain conversion and the Inquisitor and retinue. May need to kitbash some Deathwatch now.


Capt. Hodgeheg

Nice work all around. Inquisitor Lamia and her pals look very cool.

The doc looks cool Guardling, certainly looks like a white lab coat and nitrile gloves to me. The green lighting gives him a mad doc vibe too
The inquisition and deathwatch look super cool too. Where’s the imperial eagle from on the front of the griffhound?

Thanks all
@Gobert the Aquila is off the top of the "electric fence" things then cut in half so I had two
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Some final wips on Inquisitor Lamia:


I have no idea what the gun is that makes up the end of her tail but I liked the idea of something that could lock together and wreck someone's day...

 Guardling wrote:
Thanks all
@Gobert the Aquila is off the top of the "electric fence" things then cut in half so I had two
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Some final wips on Inquisitor Lamia:


I have no idea what the gun is that makes up the end of her tail but I liked the idea of something that could lock together and wreck someone's day...

Really cool model.

There was a time Ordo Xenos Inquisitors could take conversion beamers, seems like a good fit for weird archaeotech gun.

Ohh, that is a fantastic concept. Very 40k!

@Haighus: Thanks, I don't actually play so I don't have very many rule books to check what legal or not, I'm just going by what looks cool...

@Illumini: Thank you

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Anyways, I got myself a new place to live last week, but it is grim. I spent most of my time cleaning, removing rubbish and documenting defects.
I've been spoiled by my last landlord, so now it's back to regularly scheduled broadcasting...

Now that's done, I have the sad task of packing all my hobby stuff...

This sad pic is my ONE THOUSANDTH IMAGE!!!1
that's my entire hobby space packed away, I had to some pretty heinous things:

Like dump all my minis in one box, hopefully they'll be safer that way, there'll be a cas-rep later...

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In the meantime I have some painting WiP pics of my ordo xenos warband:







The Mentor and the Salamander marines are more or less done, but I'm not sure about the edge highlighting, might need some blue in it...

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That's it for now, gotta get furniture in place this weekend, but hobby stuff is pretty low on the list of priorities right now, hopefully be posting again by the end of the month.
See ya!

Good luck with the move! Had a similar experience last summer, not pleasant.

Oh, I don't care much about current rules, I think conversion beamers were an option for Ordo Xenos Inquisitors in the 5th ed Grey Knights codex I mentioned it only to point out there is precedence in the lore for Ordo Xenos Inquisitors to use a big weird cannon

The warband looks good.

Moving sucks, especially if the new place has issues. Hopefully the landlord gets them sorted.

The inquisitor and her retinue are looking awesome. The juxtaposition of her bow and arrow vs the tail gun is fantastic!

Good luck with the move Guardling.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks all!
Managed to get myself set up in the new place, got a new desk too:

Looks a lot nicer than the old one and now I have a terrain shelf

And now the minis are spread out again in their proper boxes time for the cas-rep:

Most just lost their bases
Two spindle drones, surprised it's not more given the small contact points
UR-025
The little juvie also lost his base
As well as an old plastic Goliath ganger I had lying around who has completely lost his base.

Finally Tech priest Amstrad lost his servo skull

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So now I got my stuff back together and some room it's time to catch and finish all the different projects I've started over the years:

Like this paragon warsuit I got from the magazine last week...

And this train carriage that existed in my head...

And I wanted some guitar wire for making cables as well...

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Anyways this is where I went with the warsuit:


I'm having problems with the crotch (and bum), can't find the right part for it and hands hurt too much to make anything small enough...
I am also having trouble finding the right head, I have nothing I like left in my bits box...

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That's all for now!
See you later!

The War suit conversion looks good. What's he for? First thing I thought of was a 54mm scale Inquisitor!!

As for his bum/crotch you can always cover those up with some tabards, chainmail and armour plates.

Quick update while I can, my current obsession is Dragon Quest Builders 2:


Filled out the spare Autocannon magazines with some filed down sprues so they match the loaded one better...

 Lord Borak wrote:
The War suit conversion looks good. What's he for? First thing I thought of was a 54mm scale Inquisitor!!

As for his bum/crotch you can always cover those up with some tabards, chainmail and armour plates.

Thanks, it's for the sake of making things, probably will be a denizen of Necromundas Ash Wastes...
As for crotch, I was avoiding a tabard as it makes it to sistery, might look into chainmail, not happy with the current round bit....

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Been busy working away so got some time for a Van Saar Instagram shoot:






Glittering carapace moves through the Underhive like insects... Valen does not like this analogy, he views the men and women of Van Saar as superior, not bugs to be crushed underfoot...

I've had these guys for a while but looking back I only took one photo of the gang that wasn't brilliant...

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Got a few hours to put some paint on my warsuit:

Tried experimenting with stippling thin layers on for the red and white, happy with it so far, gonna add some thinned down washes for additional shading and weathering ...
Still undecided about the head, now ering on the side of one the Skittarii sallet helmets...

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That all for now, away for work again this week so gonna try and find some time to do more on Inquisitor Lamia...
See you later!

Love the warsuit, I've been looking at ideas to convert some SOB warsuits I've got and this might just be the best so far

Really nice updates Guardling, the white and red on the warsuit is fantastic.

Excellent work Guardling! The Van Saar pics are awesome, really moody underhive pics, thanks for sharing. The warsuit is coming on really well too, I wonder if giving the circle bit some nice OSL glow would change your mind?

@LordBickerstaff: Thanks, this has very much been a make it up as I go along conversion, but AdMech servitor parts go quite well with the Paragon kit
@Olthannon, thank you, I had originally accidentally painted it the same as the Van Saar so had to find something that didn't match what I already had
@gobert: Thanks, crotch light is an idea I may add later, but I'm not really confident enough to try OSL

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First up, been trying to catch up on all my little projects so got some outcasts done:




There's no rhyme or reason to their colour scheme, these guys are just criminals that started working together rather than an actual gang.
Seeing they blend in well with other civilian, they'll be great to do a perp hunt with some Enforcers

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Onto my main project, the Warsuit;
The Servitor known as UR-464:




About half an hour before posting I decided it need a bit of fluff:
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What's next? Well, Inquisitor Lamia is nearly done painting and I'm in the process of doing her base, should of taken some WiP pics but forgot. Also getting some ideas to flesh out her warband a bit...
See you next time!

So been a busy bee the last week or so...
My display shelf did not survive the move to the new house (on purpose) so it's time to make a new one:

Here's what I had bodged for pictures:

Looks alright and all but doesn't really make any use of the larger space I now have and the background is just foam board cut offs that I've jigsawed together...

Time to change that with a quick trip to Hobbycraft:

Got me some new foam board, a couple of cheap paints and some modge podge to throw in with the other bits I already had.

I was super prepared and had measured the inside of the shelf accounting for the thickness of the foam:

Pretty much a Perfect fit!
In order to save money on the big sheets, I decided to do the floor in three pieces that were taped together, the idea being that the seam could be covered in with sand.

I then painted my background:

Started with the cream paint mixed with some water and Podge Podge and then added more and more chocolate paint as I tried to get a dust cloud look...

While I was waiting for that to dry I started on the floor:

I used some spray glue to do some uneven patches of model train ballast and suspicious sand and then fixed it all with some spray varnish I had.
I'll be honest, that didn't work out as well as I hoped.
I ended up mixing some chocolate paint and water with Modge Podge and the forgetting about it for most of the week...

When I got the energy to continue I hit it with a dry brush of the cream paint, but this didn't look very good and quite different from my existing ash wastes, uh, ash (right side)

So I made up a wash to try and get a similar colour to Contrast Skeleton Horde (left side)
I heard somewhere that you can used dish soap as a flow improver so I did, but then I had to use a hair dryer to knock out the bubbles when using it.
I also added a bit more Modge Podge for sealing.
No idea if the soap helped or not but it went down well enough and gave a colour that I was happy with.

A quick dry brush later and I was ready to fit:

Looks good, fits good, my only issue was as I had only painted one side there was some warping...
I mostly solved that by leaving a box of shame on it over night...
Haven't got lights back in yet, gonna need some rethinking for that.

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While I had the Modge Podge infused paint out, I thought I'd quickly do the sides of my Necromunda tiles:

Much nicer...

Wait, I might as well do these as well

So much for quickly...
But now I have done something on my unfinished tiles I can forget about them for at least another year...

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Now I have a background:

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Rumours are abound that the insidious xenos known as the Tau may be trading in the Ash Wastes.
While xenos trading is not unusual on Necromunda, the vast distance from the Damocles Gulf where the Tau are usually limited to does bring some cause for concern.
And so the Ordo Xenos sends Inquisitor Lamia and a Death Watch assault team to verify thier presence and discover how they have travelled so far so quickly...

Inquisitor Lamia:



Trying to do some sandy weathering with some washes of Palid Flesh, kinda getting the hand of it...

Death Watch Kill Team:




Phew, that's another couple of projects actually finished!

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Time to start working on another old project:

See you, space cowboy!