Nice job on the repaint, weety.

Out of interest, who else is in line for the stripper?

And with that, congratulations on 3,000 replies.

The 'blue trooper' is next - he is from Paranoia; a very old short lived GW game - http://www.collecting-citadel-miniatures.com/wiki/index.php/Paranoia. I did a reasonable job on him way back but I think he deserves better. Hes already been stripped and I'm in the process of painting him.

There may be others. The painting inquisition will swoop down swiftly upon any mini with an inadequate paintjob.

Hey, it wasn't that short-lived, we played Paranoia for years back in the day.

Paranoia the RPG is still going strong - currently being produced (under license) by Mongoose Publishing.

Hey, weety, man i love this blog. I'm just doing a few pages at a time but what i've seen is fantastic. Classic models with classic paintjobs! This is the reason i got into the hobby and your blog is convincing me to have a session of painting individual or small groups of models again. Sadly, it's to easy to forget this original flare and it's great to see you've held onto it! Keep it up and hopefully i'll finish reading this treasure trove soon!

Thanks lostsoulcasy'slaw. I hope you enjoy the rest of it! Classic models are so irresistible. I must catch them all!!!

I apologize for calling paranoia short lived monkey. I was just quoting a website. Whada they know anyway. I like to think that there's still people out their playing confrontation and rogue trader rules!! I will always remember every rule from the 2nd edition w40k and would feel confused and angry if I was to play 5th ed. I think thats why I was always good at W40K because I remembered all the little rules and used them to my advantage. Its a classic case of rules-nerd syndrome

lol, I guessed it had come from a website If I recall correctly (and there is by no means any certainity to that) it was published by Elysium Games, GW had the license to distribute it. Don't have any of my old stuff to check that, but I'm sure some knowledgable fellow will point out any errors.

If I still played then I reckon it would be RT and Confrontation rules for me, they're the last rule sets I played with Although I certainly don't recall every rule, or even every one of our house rules, excepting any that are noted in my RT book.

Dysartes - I saw that Mongoose grabbed several licenses some time back - they got Dredd too didn't they, maybe Traveller as well? Are they new editions or total re-vamps do you know? Just out of interest.

Old games never die, they just get revamped. No I guess I'm exaggerating when I said i remember every rule - but I do have one of those trick memories when it comes to nerd stuff and passing exams. Shame I can't get a job passing exams really.

Went and hi-jacked my dads printer to try some new backgrounds and it turned out he was all outa black ink - so I ended up with this happy accident, the washed out look gives it the feeling of distance I think;

Heh! That's a great background to go with that mini! So ominous...makes me think a Genestealer or Plague Zombie is going to pop out of the dimly lit background to Nom Nom that guy.

Good thing he chose PLASMA as his outfit's accompanying accessory. PLASMA is all the rage in Paris this year.

In case you didn't notice, I really like that mini and the background.

I must get some more of these industrial backgrounds. They look good with the necromunda figs.
Dad's printer is very hard to use as somehow its ended up with Latvian as its default language and we can't find the menu to change it back as its all in Latvian! Or maybe its Slovakian.
He is a very fashionable fellow with his matching leather and steel hat-and-jacket combo, accessorized with holsters and webbing, designer ripped jeans and this years must have item; the plasma pistol. I like his fatness best - you don't often see podgy necromunda figures - they all have to live on synthdiet and free-range rat burgers - it makes one wonder where he gets his love handles from? Maybe he cannibalizes his victims? Or perhaps he has a secret stash of archeo-junkfood, twinkies maybe.

"In the grim darkness of the 41st Milennium, deep in the twisted hive-city of Amuurica, one podgy scummer is on a quest. It will take him from the slimy tunnels of Tac'o Ba'al, up to the greasy spires of The Berger King. Join us for the epic tale on one paunchy man, his trusty (usually) plasma pistol, and his endles drive for one thing and one thing only...

...fast food."


I love the paintjob. Particularly the stitching running up the back of the vest. It's like it 'used' to fit, and then after he tore it he haphazardly stitched it back together.

Actually I think he generally prefers slow food as it can't run away as quick...

fast food, slow food, medium food and things other people wouldn't consider food at all reheated via plasma gun on the 'simmer' setting

Nice avatar weets... looks... bitchy. "You never take me out to anywhere nice anymore and when are you going to ask your boss for that promotion?! I work my fingers to the bone around here all day and all you do is walk in, plant your fat *ss on the couch and complain about what I'm cooking for dinner! My mother was right, I should have married Dave Grubek... at least he's going somewhere in his life. etc. etc. etc."

Like the new fig, he's full of character. Must be a bad man... he'd pudgy where food is scarce... and has a specialist weapon, even amongst the Astartes. Granted he'll only be able to shoot if 5 times at best before it kills him... but hey... more meat to go round then, eh?

Love the new background. The red tinge just makes it feel more alien and outer-spacy.

Back in my day plasma pistols didn't hurt as much. But I see why they changed it - back in my days of taking advantage of the rules I would arm entire assault squads with plasma pistols.

Here is Chopper McChopperson, pitslave and part time lumberjack

I pretty much love any ganger model that uses a cut up tire as a shoulder-guard. That looks great. The blue-jeans also came out really well.

That sawblade is awesome, and it's so huge you could use it like a shield if you had to... not sure if articulates that direction though.

Well he could certainly use it to block quite effectively - could even slice up the enemies weapon!

If I played w40k anymore I would totally use this guy as a servitor bodyguard for the techpriests

Sounds like a very part-time job, can't see there being much lumber in the underhive.

Re-paints look sweet (if Chopper is a re-paint, not sure if I recall seeing him around these parts before - my memories not what it used to be ).

Washed out background looks cool, very evocative.

Avatar switches from real red-head to fantasy red-head. Story of my life.

Maybe he cuts synth-wood? grown ina vat init.

Hes not a repaint - I did show a picture of this dude painted but I certainly wasn't resposible for it -got it off ebay. Its often cheaper to buy a mini that is lagged in paint

Fair enough. To be honest, if he's going to be waving that big saw around then I'd let him cut anything he wanted As long as it wasn't attached to me.

You're not wrong about the paint-glopped minis, plus it gets harder and harder to find the old-skool dudes anyway, so grab 'em where you can.

If anyone has a paint globbed mini they cant be bothered to strip then I will have it if you are cheap!

He might cut metals and plastics too if he is asked nicely.

Looking great! Those jeans are super cool and the metallics are nice and gritty

nice new avatar weety... and

git? is that a quote of somehwere or OT from your life? lol...sounded very convincing...^^

Wow, that's a great idea Weet!!

No thankfully... but look at weety's Avatar... can't you just hear her ragging some poor bloke out? Head is tilted just a bit, mouth wide open, eyebrows raised... her left hand is probably doing that chick "snapping the fingers" thing.

Thankfully it's just a bolter she's carrying

Fear the 'snappy fingers'.

One can only imagine the challenges of going through life with a buzz saw for an arm....would have to take great care in the bathroom.

Lol. :-)

Dstiengass what was my great idea? I had a few too many glasses of wine and now I'm confused.

I see what gits means - she does look annoyed and ready to emasculate someone.

And yes I fear the pit-slave will end up being a space eunuch if he goes for a piddle and uses the wrong hand

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yeah right LOL

..the printed industrial bg
and the pitslave groin gag...
both great ideas!

Fantastic!

Got a present today, Late valentine gift!:



Very happy with that.

I went on a hunt through all the models I had obtained and never stuck together and stuck em together this morning. There's about 50 minis yet to paint. I will show pics once they are primed. Here's the first lot, a couple of bikes (I-core?) and some really old khorne fiends:

LOL weety!! Well played!

More random goo. Void viridian lizard rider, RT khorne marines and a beastman

Those Bikes!

Where?Who?What?!

Those are amazing minis! And I've never seen them before, what on earth are they?

VOID 1.1 minis, from the now defunct I-Kore company. They made an amazing plastic box set, but it fizzled for some reason.

She complains that she has nothing to paint, then pulls out half a hundred unpainted minis.


Then agin, in weety's world that'll only keep her going for a couple of days

Nie marines by the way

I counted them today - I have 203 painted minis and probably 120 unpainted. I think I musta spent a surprising amount of squids over the last two years... I've slowed down on the buying now though - I've only bought 1 in the last two months, I'm afraid it will have to stay at that level until the greater depression is over

See, nothing to paint.....except these 120 guys over here


That's a bit like me saying I have no models to build

Although you have a far better ration of done:undone. What other wonders do you have waiting for you to sprinkle your magic colouring dust on them?

Well mostly a great big pile of space marines and chaos marines. Theres one or two more chaos squats whch I'm quite looking forward too, and a chaplain on a bike somewhere. Marines always take me longer to paint - I think the large flat areas daunt me

Bah, those flat areas are just places to practice your blending

And you've been holding out on us..you've got unpainted chaos squats??

i actually really like the void stuff... i own a couple marines of that range and planned to include them as stomrtroopers for a one day catachan army project...tho they are less detailed than GW the smoother look of them somehow appeals...

I agree - its a trade off- less detail but more style. More futuristic and less gothic. Hard to say which I like more.

Repainted the blue trooper - he was a pain to paint, so very small and detailed but also covered in tiny flaws. I think I made it look better though:

Before



after

Well I'm of to do that most rare of British activities; paid employment. But before toddling off to feed the machine and pound my treadmill here is something I dug out for amusement. I'm thinking of givning the armless one a mass of tentacles instead of an am to give him a more obvious mutation.
Don't take this to mean I'm actually going to paint them, just that I haven't forgotten them.

Remaining chaos squats:

monkeytroll wrote:See, nothing to paint.....except these 120 guys over here


That's a bit like me saying I have no models to build

Although you have a far better ration of done:undone. What other wonders do you have waiting for you to sprinkle your magic colouring dust on them?

sounds like the stereotypical comment of a woman with nothing to wear except all that stuff in her bulging wardrobe...

I've never found it an issue when a woman has nothing to wear - suits me just fine

Love the idea of a bunch of tentacles for arms, always a classic mutation, and we need to see more of your conversions on here.


And don't think of it as a treadmill - think of it as an opportunity to scavenge cheap modelling materials That is, unless it's your turn to run on the treadmill to power the tills today.

Nakedness is a good default state. Saves on wear and tear, clothes last longer when you are naked. Its no good outdoors though...

Actually work was quiet as a grave today. You can be sure there's a recession on when even the budget discount store is empty.

So do you like my blue trooper? Not sure where to start with the bikes - I need to watch Akira again

Yeah, granted, nudity, outdoors and British weather don't really go together well.

And bugger, forgot about the blue trooper - talk of nakedness does that I find

I liked the old version, but the new job is cleaner, and the changes to the lour pattern work well, make him look more like a private security guard type - sort of a corporate feel to the uniform, if that makes any sense.

Akira always good for cyber-bike reference

Yes - that's his look - Future fuzz. Space security.

aye... for those bikes akira is probably the best you could get for as an inspiration...

and i too forgott to mention the blue trooper...he is looking fine...but i can´t help to say...i wonder if you had not added the blue...cause i liked that monochrome look of him quite strongly...reminded me of star wars a bit...

and yeppers...britsih weather...you could loose serious bitz to the cold if hopping around in the nudes^^

I'm going to go against the consensus and say that I prefer the Blue scheme. It's a nicer contrast and makes the green visor positively glow.

Now back to lurking.

blue

BLING!!??!! MY EYES!!!

That's me at page 60! So much great stuff!

I'm getting quite psyched for painting my Necromunda squad, i just need to get them greened first!


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And i'm up to date! Got even more inspiration for my gang along the way. Keep up the great work!

He did look a bit starwars when he was white didn't he. But blue is good. He is Buxton the Blue Trooper.

My pet project for today is an all rogue trader scout squad. I just need one more to make the five... Getting started on a paint scheme and replacing a missing head. They should look the bomb.

Scout squad sounds super! Is the guy with the eye-patch a scout? Looks a bit adventurous to me, but still cool.

Weety has the same problems as me, no models to paint, well, besides the bucket of them hiding in the closet!

I thought that scout with the bionic eye had some sort of odd growth until I realized it was just the paint!

The repainted trooper looks great, he has a very corporate look about him.

The one that looks that looks like an adventurer is a scout - I looked him up and he is like the first ever prototype scout. I have two of them and I've already painted one up to be a random adventurer type.

Bloody buckets of space marines. I suffered for a while from having more money than sense, now I have more space marines than sense and precious little money...

money isn´t precious... the things we do with it are precious... even sometimes verging to the capricious...

I like the color scheme of the Blue Trooper better now, but I don't know if it's the light or what, but the visor looked better to me before.

You know you're a badass when you can dual-wield bolters...

I should have one of the very early plastic space crusade scouts, lmk if you want him - no charge but will need seriously stripped.

That would solve my problem of getting a 5th - is he one of the squad or is he the sarge? (sarge had a chainsword)

It's this guy:

Though the other arm appears to have been eaten by bitz box. It'll be in there somewhere...

somehow that mini reminds me a bit of the comedian...

Are you in need of the sarge? Not sure but I may have one kicking about - I use those space crusade scouts for my Crusaders Penitent chapter.

Love those scouts weety , Advanced space crusade is my all time fave game ;-) , also the void bikes are great . jealous that monkey has a load of them though :-(

That's the one inmygravenimage. Just the very one - I would love to include him in my squad, he would fit right in.

which comedian von dom?

Monkey - nah thanks for the thought, but I always thought the sarge looks a bit daft - his armour seems to big for him.

Cheers neil! I think monkey has one of everything stashed away on his barge somewhere. Usually half finished...

I think he means the comedian from watchmen, It was my first thought too.

prototype is spot on!

He even has a shoulder pad - Spot on indeed. 2 Scouts nearly finished - give me a half hour to do the bases and they are set - they are all going on sculpted bases - will make em look like a real squad.

Finished!

interesting scheme... and do these two scouts testify to the fact that you do now assembly line painting?^^ only joking^^

Very short assembly line this one... I have done it large scale in the past - the first block of imperial guard and squats I dd for this blog were painted all together that way - painting all of one colour, then all of another etc etc then all washed in a generic brownish wash. But it just doesn't give the interesting results I like.

Love those scouts Weety... well done!

weetyskemian44 wrote:Very short assembly line this one... I have done it large scale in the past - the first block of imperial guard and squats I dd for this blog were painted all together that way - painting all of one colour, then all of another etc etc then all washed in a generic brownish wash. But it just doesn't give the interesting results I like.

the individuality you are able to come up with your minis and the time (next to none...you are damn quick!) makes this stuff you do so cool... iguess even tho you did a remarkably job on those two scouts...hopefully you don´t get too often into something remotly akin to a run of the mill job^^

I wouldn't dream of it!
Well if I do I will be sure to strip it and try again.

My missing headed scout lost his replacement head this morning and I couldn't find the blasted thing - so tiny. But I have lots of those plastic SM heads so I re-did it and this time pinned it on.

I think I did a better job this time round.

Nice GS work! Good to see one of those old heads turned into something useful.

Good job with the paint and the new head - and they get bases too? Whatever next

And you're wrong.


Nowhere near a quarter of the stuff is half finished

Hey weety, box-o-goodies is on it's way!

They're looking great weety; pm me your address and I'll send you him (whether I find his arm or not!)

Groovy! Looking forward to the postman bringing things.

The scouts are Ace ! :-) really like the muted tones and bases!
congrats on the cool hair too.

Cheers Mr neil. I'm in a more muted painting mode at the mo. I think it would be dull to always paint the same way don't you think.

Speaking of dull and muted I felt like painting something dirty. So it had to be nurgle - I've gone and muted the paint scheme while keeping the colours roughly the same. Also we have a lot more corrosion and mottled textures. Hope you like it:

Ah, the old-school autocannon - very nice, weety.

Yeah - it always amuses me when these youngsters refer to mini's that were made in or around the year 2000 as oldschool! Time flies when your having fun...

NICE!!! Now our hefty friend with the plasma pistol really has a reason to step lightly in the old factory. Should make for a good shoot-out but I think my money will be on Nurgly there. He's got a bit more range and a much higher rate of fire. The power armor and Feel No Pain doesn't hurt either.

Yes - range is king when you are fighting a fat man with a pistol.

On a side note, while travelling the wastes I came across a super mutant giving birth to a man. Or maybe they are conjoined twins - "Start the reactor Quaid. Free Mars... urrrhg"

I'll add that image to the the other freaky things that I hope don't bother me while I'm sleeping tonight.

That's just....

"Congratulations Mrs supermutant brute, you've given birth to a healthy 12 stone man"

Love the Nurgle marine Weety looks excellent.

I'm going to have to see if I can find one now, he looks very cool in a rotting/festering way with that Autocannon.

Loving the nurgle cannoneer! Lovely texture on the green armour, very nice

And yep, that's proppa old-skool is what that is


I assumed the mutant just had a wierd fetish for phallic puppetry.

The Nurgle guy is great, the gun actually looks quite good for its age. I think you dialed in the mix of Nurgle grossness and crisp lines rather well!

That Nurgle marine is spot-on weety! Great work!

The Nurgle guy is sweet, your not doing me any favours, i'm trying to keep away from Papa N for the time being.

A supply drop from mister G. splitta

The marine is getting painted and posted back to fight with gits inquisitorial squad.

Every time I see those old Eldar helmets, the face grill makes me thing of The MAXX. Every. Time.

weetyskemian44 wrote:A supply drop from mister G. splitta

The marine is getting painted and posted back to fight with gits inquisitorial squad.

Seeing the Wraithlord laid out like that makes me want to build one so that it is knock-kneed and has glasses...and maybe a pocket protector.

Um...is that Eldar shooting the marine in the head? Gits is gonna get back a slightly damaged Sphess Marine.

Loved the Maxx chemical cutthroat. Watched the film like 5 times.

The Space marine has very waxy ears so the eldar has kindly agreed to unblock them for him.

Digging today at the allotment and uncovered the most enormous boulder. We've begun to raise it up with levers and blocks of wood but I wish we could explode it or something. But only terrorists get to use explosives these days so its levers for us. Maybe we will light a fire on it tommorow and crack it, sounds like fun!. Hands are too tired to paint now.


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Oh I also got some more scouts today - they are in the stripper - Monkeytroll is totally right, fairy powerspray is much nicer than dettol and it works better

What are you doing in the allotment - practicising trench warfare? I'm fairly sure carrots don't need that sort of depth.

*Insert joke regarding strippers and insertions here*

Seeing these minis with a fresh coat of paint lets me take a big sigh of relief. All too often, these paint-clogged models have some amazing stuff underneath them, a fact you prove time and time again!

hmmm... got tow wraithlords still unused in my drawer... will be interesting to see what you do with that one... planned to do something with them for months...

yup...big boulder...check^^... will give a nice satisfaction to have this one out of the soil...one you have it out of the soil...^^

Nice job getting the gunky paint offa those eldar weety. I am genuinely looking forward to seeing you give them some TLC.

Monkeytroll - you gotta have a good depth if you want really really big carrots... We are doing it extra well because we might enter the local giant vegetable competition!

Thanks comander cain - its one of my favorite things to strip off a really thick paintjob and see what lies beneath

Von dom - get em out! It can be quite hard to decide on a paint scheme for eldar though as you basically have the whole rainbow tho choose from.
It will be immensely satisfying to remove the boulder because it proves that we aren't just useless modern humans who can only press buttons. Also its the biggest one I have found so far!

Cheers gits - they actually looked quite good with their thick basic paintjobs - nice choice of colous I thought - one of them appeared to be painted in humbrol enamel paint, which amazingly came off in one sheet like a robe. Fairy powerspray - maybe there is a cheaper generic that will do the same thing?

Here are the scouts I got - 99p each! Bargain.

They look like later models than my other scouts, they have a greater standardization of armour and weapons and the style looks later. But they all appear together in the 1991 catalogue. The older looking ones had no slotta's when I bought them so I can't check.

If you're referring to the single eldar model... I painted that with acrylics myself. Probably (given it's age) with Poly-s paints, then followed by a couple of layers of gloss coat to protect it. Not sure about the dread as that was picked up off e-bay.

Musta been the gloss coat that made me think of enamel paint.

I quite liked the luminous green grass he was standing on - wish I had a pic now

I have plenty more where that came from.

really like that scout on the left , I always wanted him.

The scout on the right looks painfully constipated. Probably due to his severely deformed torso. I had those same scouts as a kid, but I ended up chopping em to pieces for conversions and now their bolters serve my assault marines and I think one of the heads got transplanted onto a RT tactical marine, lol.

Now I had always thought that power armour has some kind of nappy device inside... Maybe the same goes for scout armour and he is having a personal moment... Or perhaps he is clenching in the hope of finding a suitable bush soon!

I should have a nice space marine librarian ready for perusal later. He is looking pretty good but needs detail work. Going to be more subtle than my previous librarians (less shocking orange).

Next 2 weeks I am doing Jury Service!! So I may be a mite busy for much dakka or painting. Also can't tell anyone the juicy details till after the cases have all been dealt with. Its very exciting though.

Congratulations, it's...an old man! Have a cigar!

You've lost me...?


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Oh wait... I get it now!

I'm sure I can get some better shots of this but these aren't bad - very pleased with the paintjob, I spent a good few hours on this one. I seem to have forgotten his backpack...

I had that librarian!! Very neat figure! Nice work weety... you should be proud.

Heh! His face makes me think that some of the scouts didn't turn their homework in on time, or maybe they were shooting bolt pistols in the Library.

That's a cool mini and a super paint up.

Great stuff, i adore that Librarian, really interesting miniature!

Have been meaning to ask, have you painted hazard stripes/chevrons on bases before? A la classic Necromunda style, i don't remember seeing an example in your blog. I'm not sure where to start because obviously the stripes will have to taper towards the top, i'd like to mark it with miniature masking tape but i wouldn't know how to apply it.
Thanks in advance for any advice!

brilliant looking libirian! very good painting-fu here...

tho i have to act like a jerk again...i see two mold lines on each gauntlet...but fixing this would ruin the paintjob...so i should have better shut my gob i think...

Very faint mould lines mr von dom - I think I will have to leave them.

LostSoulCasey'sLaw - I'm afraid I have never done chevrons on a base before - and if I did I would probably do them freehand as I am inclined to do... I'm sure someone else has a clue though...?

Cheers JB - He does have a very sour face doesn't he - Looks like a grumpy teacher I remember.

The pictures aren't quite doing him justice - tried to take more today but they all came out blurry. I think its my particular choice of background for this one that has my camera confused.



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Also good news - a certain plastic scout arrived in the post today - Thanks inmygravenimage!

He's fantastic - so much attitude in that face! Love the GS work on that scout from the previous page as well - totally fits the older (better! ) artwork for scouts. Your blog is one of my favourites, Weety, you never disappoint

weetyskemian44 wrote:LostSoulCasey'sLaw - I'm afraid I have never done chevrons on a base before - and if I did I would probably do them freehand as I am inclined to do... I'm sure someone else has a clue though...?

Guess it was a long shot! I'd try free handing it if it wasn't for my selective OCD, i really feel the need for the measurements to be right for this.

Yes its hard to be perfect with free hand and macro photography shows what the eye can ignore.

I got a slightly better shot with this new background - points for whoever guesses what it is.

Eye of Sauron?

maybe that background is the all seeing eye of mordor?^^


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argh... ninjaed...

Libby looks great, good work on the face.

Cheers commander!

Eye of sauron? - nope, guess again!

Hmmm. Could be ginger hair but i can't place the image...

Nope...

I'll give you a clue - you see this everyday but this is a very close up view

The libby looks very nice weety, I like the way you did the blue on the armour.

The background suits him really well, no idea what it is though.

Sun spot, weety?

The back picture is very apt , great mini weets . love his face

hmmm... who can see it every day...? only brits or all around the world? hmmm... somehow it reminds me of the backside of these card games... magic the gathering or probably a yu-ghi yo card^^ lol...

or is it some kind of food related product packaging???

Its an object that every living thing on earth that has eyes has seen every day (with some minor exceptions) unless they stayed indoors or were in a cave... But no-one actually sees it like this picture as this is an extreme closeup.

Of course your suggestions are giving me ideas for other backdrops - I'm sure I've got the tolkein bestiary somewhere - thats got they eye of sauron in it...

The sun, weety? And by which, I don't mean to red-top newspaper...

Poppy?

Dysartes wins the imaginary prize! 200 points and a giant teddy bear. You are quite the intelligent cat Mr Dysartes.

Thats right it is a close up of a sunspot on the sun...

Bravo and it's a great backdrop.

PM me, I have your hazard stripe solution!

I thought dsteingass might know what to do!

I'm afraid I won't be painting much as I have this jury service malarkey everyday for a while... But in mini collecting news I managed to sell some books and used the proceeds to get some scavies! Having seen ifalna's cawdor nurgle squad I wanted to paint something dirty and diseased.

mmm Rot!

Looking forward to the diseased ones weety.

I'm currently painting a batch of Nurgle stuff its quite fun and different to the norm.

Cool! Nurgly Scavvies will be fun. And all of those old Necromunda figures have so much personality too.

This loathsome lot came in the post today - in the stripper with them!!

yeah...clean them with....wait for it...fairy^^

THose are some great figs! Cant wait to see them Weetified!

weetyskemian44 wrote:This loathsome lot came in the post today - in the stripper with them!!

They're Scavvies, though - why do they need to be cleaned?

So I can enjoy making them dirty again I guess?

I'm looking forward to making them filthy - I shall go do some research on diseased skin and festering rags...

Ready for painting - zoomable pic I hope.

Nothing like a fresh clean painting surface ready to work on! Those look like fun figs.

they look suitably fresh weets , now to go and mucky them up again ;-)

muck them up with feeeeeling!^^

mmm, festering sores...

Festering sores is the look I'm going for...

getting back down to a bit of painting today - The prototype scavy is done. I'm pleased with his look - they will make a great gang or nurgle cultist squad.

"Oh mah gawd dat tung!"

That's grimace inducing.

But pretty awesome. I've never seen that model before.

... insert obligatory Gene Simmons reference.

Old three arm was one of a small line of "mutant" scavies (more mutated than the rest); there was a guy with an enormous hand, a dude with spines growing out of his back and this chap.

Well having made a start I might just get the squad done before I run out of steam. More jury service tomorrow and then my family are visiting so I probably won't. Gotta keep the mother and father happy in case I should need a loan...

I'm kidding of course.

He looks great and rather yucky at the same time.

I failed to notice that he had three arms the first two times that I looked at him. Power of observation - FAIL.

I can imagine the loan request.

"Mum, Dad, I need a loan. My 80's and 90's era figure collection still isn't complete..."

Nice work as always, Weety.

Hey Weety, I came across some Spyrer figs that need stripped and repainted if you are interested, PM me

Couldn't get on the internet for a while there. Had to wait to get paid... The first sign of hard times when these little 'essential' luxuries can't be afforded.

JB forewarned is forearmed - or maybe three-armed.

Cheers all - my output has slowed down a bit recently... I have plenty of time but I need to recharge the creative batteries.

Nice to have you back weety!

Looking great. Old models like these really should be redone and brought up to date on their paint jobs. Good job man i hope you come up with some new ideas and get them posted.

Thanks papa piggy - i like your trailer trash avatar.

a marine for gitsplitta;

I decided to go imperial fists for this one, felt like painting something yellow for a change - he's not finished yet but he looks OK from the front. Gotta get some insignia on there too.

Nice shading on that marine! Some insignia and he is perfect.

The imperial fist is looking very nice so far weety, I like how you've done the weathering on him.

That's perfect weety! Thank you. Excellent choice of chapter too.

Well its been two weeks - And I finally got the guts to attempt to freehand an imperial fists icon - and it was damned fiddly

As I was saying last time I haven't really been in a painting mood - lots of hard, demeaning till work, sore feet and repetitive strain injury followed by being too tired to hold the models steady. I swear I'm going to take my own stool into work one of these days - its inhuman to have to stand up straight for 6 hours at a time. But enough of my griping. Here is the finished marine for gitsplitta's special squad.

Nice freehand, weety.

Now that's great Weety.... well worth the wait!

Cheers! Hopefully this might get me going again - but then there are always times with any fun activity where you just need a nice long break or it won't be fun anymore. I'll see just how I feel later, maybe I will paint something random.

Or maybe I will read lain Banks' new sci-fi book "surface detail" Bound to be another complex jewel of a book. His sci-fi concepts always go one step beyond into a world we can barely recognize, a sex, drugs and rock n roll space opera where planets and stars are engineered to suit purpose and occasionally destroyed by sentient space going vessels the size of small countries. Where death is truly not the end because they have the technology to create heaven or simply be reborn.

But when your government administrates the afterlife, how long till they construct a hell?

weetyskemian44 wrote:But when your government administrates the afterlife, how long till they construct a hell?

I'd assume they already have - and criminals guilty of certain crimes would be executed and consigned there for a defined period.

I also have surface detail sitting waiting to be read. I found the ending of matter utterly disappointing though, but am assured that this is more of an Algebraist in the quality stakes.
/OT

Nice fist, too! How are you for old school figs just now, anyway?

I think I still have an uncertain number waiting to be painted. A real mixed bag of things too - Sometimes an excess of choice hinders me in making up my mind what to paint though.

I liked matter - but the ending had a certain abruptness.

Dystartes - Its probably some complicated metaphor for the prison system and the nature of state tyranny. Bound to entertain me.

Oh Banks... his stuff is such a great read, I'm glad I discovered it.

I definitely love the naming convention for the Culture Ships. It's one of my favorite things and radically changed the way I name Capital ships from now on.

The GSV "Size Isn't Everything" is one of my fav names

Others I like:

Big Sexy Beast
Frank Exchange Of Views
God Told Me To Do It
Resistance Is Character-Forming

I'm afraid I chose to read instead of paint...

I think my favorite one so far has been...

"All The Same, I Saw It First"

Lulz.

I wish he would have a crippling car crash near my isolated homestead so I can kidnap him and make him write faster.

Only kidding

'Misery' much?

Just need to photoshop a pic of your avatar's head over the classic image of whats-her-name with the sledgehammer...

Nice job on Marine McFist of the Fisty Chapter there

Surface detail was very cool. Think my favourite Banks scene is from Excession, where there's a couple of drones exchanging ever more ridiculous Ship names.

Yep kudos on the freehand weets, Never read any space opera sci fi .. haven't really found anything i enjoyed reading for a long while , got bored with Gaiman's small gods , although I am a long time fan of his work ,tried P.K. Dick , and was quite impressed , then found a compendium of sci fi , with an intro by Mr C. Clarke , Loved that , I think I like short stories .. no patience for the epics ;-) .. really enjoyed the classics like Orwell and Robert A. Heinlein and Huxley , maybe i should try them again ..

tried some Jorge Luis Borges stuff a while back but it left me cold ..

would you recommend Ursula le guin's work ? I remember you selling off some stuff a while back .

sorry for the ramble ..
found a nice list of would be contenders for me..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Time-Classic-Sci-Novels/lm/QP3UJ0EBT3NV

Weety, I have a question for you...do you approach painting female skin differently than male skin? I mean, I know a lot depends on the sculpted features of the model and all, but just curious...

Dstiengass - yes I suppose I do - I would give the skin tone a smoother thicker finish with less of the underlying grey tones showing through. Also its important to give eyes eyeliner and lips a touch of gloss.

Neil - I would recomend ursula - she writes very profoundly - her sci-fi is sublime. Maybe a little pretentious at times. She also does fantasy and does it well.

Read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" the other day - Its very philosophical and most of the novel seems set in boot camp but is excellent for all that. I'm not sure I'd like to live in a universe where only ex-military are allowed to vote or run for office...

Thanks monkey! Good to see you back - I may be gone for a while myself as they keep raising my hours in work and I want to milk it while it lasts. Excession is probably the best one and isn't so heavy that you can't read it in the bath...

Definitely misery chemical cutthroat - recommend reading the book it is so much nastier than the film

Cheers weets , will give her a go , see if she can rekindle something...

quote "Read Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" the other day - Its very philosophical and most of the novel seems set in boot camp but is excellent for all that. I'm not sure I'd like to live in a universe where only ex-military are allowed to vote or run for office... "

yeah i read that a fair few years back , i noticed a lot more emphasis on the skinnies in the book.

Aye take the money whilst the goings good . hows your allotment going .. and pottery stuff on the horizon ?

Many, many people have told me that Starship Troopers is a very good film, but I still have a hard time with that due purely to the sheer amount of nerd-rage that was coursing through my system when I first watched it.
Not sure why that particular adaptation caused so much anger, it's not like I expect Hollywood to ever be faithful to the source - hell, Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream... are at the top of my favourite film and book lists respectively - but something caused a real surge of teen angst that week I suspect

Ursula has some lovely stuff, and a lot of great shorts. As for Dick, he's da man Ocassionally his style loses it's way a bit, but for sheer ideas...wow! And there's a hefty catalogue of shorts there again Neil.

And, yes, make the dollar while you can weety

I also am inquiring into any news on the ceramic front

Well Mr monkeytroll I personally was actually surprised by how much of the book I recognized in the film. It could have been a lot worse! Still I think the emphasis of the book was completely different to the film - And where were their armored suits and jetpacks? Terrible really...

Neil I think you will enjoy ursula's shot stories her writing is very beautiful, almost lyrical and she deals with some very profound concepts around space travel, time dilation, matter transference, immortality etc.

The pottery is a no-go atm. I need a studio nearby or the rising cost of petrol will screw me. Its not my first priority unfortunately but I have resisted the temptation to sell the equipment so it will happen eventually.

Allotment is great! We have pulled 3-4 coffee table sized boulders out of the ground plus countless smaller ones - we have enough to make a small stone circle now! And the vege is in the ground and growing. I just wish there was such a thing as a meat tree...

The film, while somewhat enjoyable in it's own right... really wandered far-afield from the book, both in actuality and in spirit. Too bad, as the book was clearly an inspiration for the original creators of 40k.

Two stories from the production of Starship Troopers:

1) Verhoven STARTED with power suits. They had 'em all mocked up. But he didn't like how you couldn't see the actor's faces all that well, so he ditched the concept. All of it. All gone.

2) When they first land on the bug planet, you see some tentacles/claws skittering along a ridgeline. That scene was done five times, with CGI, or mechanical stuff, or... Eventually, the take that Verhoven liked, was a few guys running along the ridgeline, waving claws on sticks.

--B.

I loved Starship Troopers as a movie. It was bad, but it was a lot of fun to watch. It had a high budget, lots of random actors... I mean really, Neil Patrick Harris AND Michael Ironsides... Michael Ironsides is both incredibly awesome, and has one of the coolest names in history.

It has violence! Nudity! Spaceships! Bad one-liners!

What wasn't to love?


Now the second one? That was... that was bad. It was all, "Well, we don't have that rockin' budget from the first movie, so what do we do? ... ... Oh! I know! More nudity!"

...yeah... that didn't work.

I quite like the one where its just a squad of guys holed up in a building and the bugs are swarming at them - I think it was number 3 or 4? Verhoven always does loads of sequels - remember how many robocops there were.

Chemical Cutthroat wrote:I loved Starship Troopers as a movie. It was bad, but it was a lot of fun to watch. It had a high budget, lots of random actors... I mean really, Neil Patrick Harris AND Michael Ironsides... Michael Ironsides is both incredibly awesome, and has one of the coolest names in history.

It has violence! Nudity! Spaceships! Bad one-liners!

What wasn't to love?


Now the second one? That was... that was bad. It was all, "Well, we don't have that rockin' budget from the first movie, so what do we do? ... ... Oh! I know! More nudity!"

...yeah... that didn't work.

mate you have that covered just right! i am totally with you on all acounts!

and i liked the first one...and after half an hour of the second movie i fell asleep... that doesn´t happen so often with me^^ the thrid movie i didn´t even try in fear of dislike...

The movie was supposed to be cheesy and a bit OTT though, I still love it!

Oh I know Vik, I have NEVER been able to stay awake through The entire Two Towers...ever

ow...not that is unforgivable... that maniac suicide speach of theoden is among my favorite battle lines... he really had a death wish... the thing it makes me want to turn off is whenever the story turns to fordo and his male friend... i really can´t stand frodo with all his whimpering...

I watched the two towers in the cinema - and all I can say is they need more comfortable seats in those cinemas. Or maybe reclining couches.

Here is what I have been painting this week - very slow but I'm happy with it. He is a techmarine and I will paint his pall with the blowtorch soon - they will make a great pair.

ah weety... an actual update of yours was greatly missed...and that tehcy looks very good...those warm looking lights are someting new i think for your guys! i like them...

as for the two towers... well i can´t count how often i have seen that one...tho i must say the more i see it the harder it is to stay "focused" ...

WOW! THat bolt pistol look so tiny! Really Nice orange lenses!

It was from the era of tiny bolt pistols - they are a bit daftly small in the hands of an astartes - looks less silly on the guardsmen.

Nice techy! Quality lenses, and love the dusty, rusty legs. Saladfingers would approve.

I like rusty spoons...

I feel the model is a poor sculpt, but it has a sense of humour - he is looking at his watch and wondering if its time for a cuppa. Or maybe thinking "sh*t its half past 9 and I forgot to pick up milk and now the shops are closed and I'll have to take my tea black"

Or just possibly he is checking his wrist mounted chronometer to set the timing of the antimatter exposive charge he has laid under the ork camp

Well, this is the future, I think that's a bit more than just a watch. He's updating his facebook status - 'Explrng abndnd warehse, v excitng. Got frnd rqst frm a Mr G Steeler, any1 knw him?'

Never ever accept friend requests from G Steeler.

Lol yes - he has a "bomb timer" app from the app store. He's a techmarine after all. Maybe there is even a miniaturized tea's maid in there so he can have tea anytime he likes.

That would certainly be holy technology to be revered and worshipped.

Tea anytime? That's madness...MADNESS. How could that fit into the GrimDark of the 41st century? Nope...sorry, there has to be suffering...suffering Succotash!

So yep, he can have an automatic Succotash dispenser but not a miniaturised tea slingin' tart.

...tea anytime...pfft!

Let me tell you young jimmy me'lad, you don't know grimdark till you've faced down a dozen angry marines wanting Lapsang Souchang when all you have is a single Earl Grey and a couple of old camomile.


Don't you know Tech marine is a derivation from Tec Marine, which came from Guilliman's 243rd appendix. It was later discovered to be a misprint of Tea Marine, but by then the damage was done. Nevertheless they still seek the mystical Secret of Tea, Continously blueprints.

Tea Marine

LMAO

Possibly something is lost in translation - a tea's maid was a 1980s invention that made tea and had an alarm clock so the tea would be ready when you woke up. Not a female tea making servant...

Hence fitting better into a tea (I mean tech) marine's equipment.

Perhaps... I really want an armored rolls-royce from copplestone castings - they look perfect for the genestealler cult limousine!


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Or maybe the Lanchester 6 x 4 Mk. II Armoured Car - http://www.copplestonecastings.co.uk/range.php?range=VEH as it is bigger

Lovely tech support guy weets, the orange is a vibrant contrast .

Gotta say i wouldn't turn down that snow cat , been thinking on these for some civilians of praxus

Tech support - lol, I am picturing him in a call center "Have you tried pressing the on button?"

Another plague victim for papa nurgle:
...

Very repugnant.

Hey gits - I'm posting your marine tomorrow. I've been very slack on that.

Pustule face there looks very bubonic, nice work.

Actually I quite like the idea of there being a tiny space-fairy in a maid's outfit, with a samovar, all hidden away inside his funky new casio

No worries weety, I'll be excited to get him!

Ewwww....that Nurly fellow will certainly stand out in a crowd. His name is probably "Boyle".

You almost want to hand him several tubes of skin cremes; I say "almost" because I don't think any of us want to get anywhere near him.

...Tea Maid...yep, lost in translation...but it does make me want a cuppa right now.

Boyle McScabby?

I did some riveting on my armoured pickup. I could never join the League of riveters - its too fiddly for me This is another vehicle for the orlock gang and I will be atempting to make it look as rusty as possible I expect. Maybe I should create my own league - the League of rusty spoons?

Is it too obvious that the wheels are from lego? Anyway special thanks must go to monkeytroll for providing the chassis and lego wheels. Cheers

....

fiddly work it is^^ but it is also quite rewarding and can create an inner peace

the truck looks very good... only the tire pattern is obviously lego looking... but i wouldn´t bother changing that... i think it is rather fitting to the overall look of the car...

The rivets are certainly necessary to the amoured look. As I used green stuff for them it was a bit of a chore getting them roughly the same size and getting them to stick to the car instead of my finger! Also kept dropping them - I think if I had the technical resources to make plastic rivets it would be more fun.

well...there are so many ways...if it is for small rounds of making rivets i would suggest shasolenzabi´s methode... he used thinned PVA and just aplied small droplets on the model... the GS methode for me is one of the hardest i think...also IF you do this i would advise you to first make the rivets and then let them cure completley... then aply them with super glue...

the rod methode dave uses is one of the few that gives best results but also takes some time to get used with... my own with the holepunch set is by far the easiest... tho it needs the tools... a very small holepunch sometimes can be bought in artshops...1-1.5 mm it should be for delicate models...

Yeah, the Lego wheels look pretty boss actually. Nice and hard edged and solid looking. I say keep em' for sure.

Pick-up looking good - bit of colour and a lot of rust and it'll be sweet as

For gs rivets best method is probably to roll out thin sausages the diameter of the rivets, let it cure then slice rivets off at your leisure.

what i said^^

I will bear that in mind next time - these ones were made soft, pressed on soft and then I smeared a little superglue over em to stop them from falling off later. Hope it works. But with hindsight your proposed cured sausage method sounds better.

Hell I'm drunk right now - good thing I have spell check. Old friends got me into it.

I gona watch die hrd 4 - Its not the best one but it does have a lotta amusment - old man vs computers and all that

well...skol^^

as for DH4...hmmm...best part was from thate female adversary...maggie Q... the rest...well...best forgotten

Well it did it for me when I first saw it - but I was drunk so my critical faculties were hampered. But thats ok they are now too.

Skol? what the beer?

no...the swedish (?) drinking salute^^...you folks probably say cheers^^

Salut!

Oh dear I wasn't going to drink last night but when the gang turn up in town its too rare to miss. Great conversations about Freudian-ism and lots of beer in funny shaped glasses.

The truck looks really good now I have smeared on some black wash. I'm going for the kinda desert dust and rust look aka mad max 2. I must remember to do an anarchy symbol on it somewhere and maybe get the other truck out and do the same.

I am feeling very enthusiastic for armoured trucks and cars atm but I don't think I can afford copplestones ones so its toy cars and plasticard for me.

Lego is awesome, and always wins. Have you looked at ramshackle's vehicles? Great fun, modular, and cheap as chips resin.

Hmmm ramshackle - I will go take a gander at that


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Didn't like the vehicles but the parts catalogue will be useful. The vehicles look a bit too simple.

Fair enough. The Tridlins are great!

Lovely Truck Weety! -And the coat on that scaavy really looks moldy and moth-eaten and nasty!!

It's the GS that is a pain, plastic or even paper rivets are much easier.- Also jewelry-making beads, or even split peas work well for big, orky rivets

Split peas! That's a big rivet. I've got mad max on the brain today - the saxophone riff from beyond thunderdrome is stuck in my head and I found the first film in a charity shop - I was looking for toy cars to mad maxify, no joy yet, all the wrong size.

Wow!

Splendid truck is splendid!!

For rivets, Weety, have you tried Instant Mold?


I make a small "tool" of the Instant Mold about the size of a small pencil. Heat up one end of the Mold, and find a small rivet that I like the size and shape of, and press the mold to it. The rivets I usually find are things like the little "buttons" on the bottom of plastic pencil cases, or pretty much anything like that. even the tip of a dull pencil.

Anyway, put a very small piece of GS in the indent of the tool, and use the tool to press the rivet onto the surface you want to rivet.

It may need a bit of cleaning up when the GS cures, but it makes pretty good ones. As shown on my Steampunk War Walker:




Just in case you want to try again.

If you don't have Instant Mold, I would try the Styrene Rod method that Vik mentioned.

Intriguing RS... how about a pic of the tool?

I'll have to get back to you on that. I thought I had a pic, but I don't know where it is.

I'll get a few pics of the process too!

Cool walker - Thanks for the tip

Painting has begun!

Work in progress - needs more rust and dirt plus paint the wheels

Nice old looking metal there, look forward to the full rusting

Very cool Weety!

The effect on the truck is very grainy - I achieved it thanks to stupid stupid army painter primer spray - normally its a bloody disaster but for this a grainy effect was just what I needed!

Looks cool like its been caught in a dust storm

Yep - thats what army painter does sometimes - seemingly at random. I was hoping it would do that this time though.

Some rust and stuff has been added to the truck - also I've had a supply drop (it was payday) of 10 sheets of plasticard in five different thicknesses; 2mm, 1mm, 0.75mm, 0.50mm, 0.25mm - I might make some more mad max vehicles. There's other things I need though and if it will ever stop raining I will go car booting and get a whole bunch of battered toy cars for parts.

Anyway here's the gun truck - I maight apply a layer of dust (army painter primer maybe) and then dull that down with some dark umber wash

Nice work on the gun truck. I personally don't think that you need the layer of dust, but that's just me

Ah, the old RT-era Techmarines. I love the one with the wrench and the oil can.

Nice truck, Weety. You'll have a whole mess of ganger love at this point. Now you need to build a Hiver display cabinet for 'em all.

--B.

Its pretty necessary - I need more space!! The two shelves I'm using now are almost entirely full.

eye candy courtesy of dsteingass, Yeld, Orrus and Jakara spyrers at maximum contrast - they should be fun to paint but I'm going to take an age deciding what colours to use.

Hmmmm, rusty.

Good job. Looking forward to seeing what you do with your plasticard drop

Very nice job weety... I can see that cruising around a hive world somewhere... getting rival gangers out of those hard-to-reach places.

Oh cool, you found wings!! Awesome!

The truck is as all your stuff, Badass. I think the humidity is what is causing your unwanted texture from the rattle can though.

Well it is pissing it down here... has been for ages - we were meant to have a drought so of course it had to rain for weeks just for ironic effect.

Its been a productive sunday, here is a freshly diseased scav:

Everyone who likes a good B movie should watch "straight to hell" its got elvis costello, denis hopper. courtney love, cathy burke, grace jones, edwad tudor pole (sex pistols and crystal maze) and the Pogues both as actors and as musicians for the score. What a delightful romp in the desert.

Not much of an update but seriously its a rough diamond. Plus the weekend is nigh and I might finish those scavies soon. Love to ya'll

Sunday is my only warhammer day atm. Boohoo.

Snapped this little beaut up for 99p. I think its space hulk? Or advanced space crusade maybe. Its got the oldstyle ork bolter - one of my favorite of the old guns. A little green stuff to splay out the arms - I find it displays the details of the figure better and its easier to paint the torso.

This is the first hybrid for my delaques. One of their number has given 'birth' to a creature which they cannot help but serve. They are all its slaves now and will provide hosts.

Nice. From one of the Space Hulk supplements, I think Deathwing - but that's mainly because I can't recall the title of the other expansion

Look forward to seeing the paint job you give him/her/it. If you're down to one day a week of hobby time at least that means mere mortals have a chance to get stuff done before you finish a few squads off

And on the B-movie tip, did you catch Hobo with a Shotgun yet? I picked it up the other day, but not got round to watching it yet.

Really want to watch the hobo/shotgun film - Rutger Hauer has such a great face. When he does an angry look you really know about it.

I'm thinking of an aubergine purple/grey green/creamy lilac scheme for the hybrid.

I just love Rutger Hauer... he's had so many great films... several of which definitely make the B movie rolls.

Escape from Sobibor is on british TV atm - Rutger Hauer doesn't really look very jewish but who cares - the joy of the film is seeing those nasty SS death camp guards get shanked. Its their comeuppance.

Hey wets ,Jealous of your upspyerers so lovely these guys , They would make a great comeback as finecasts to chop up.;-)

A nice bit of Hybrid fluff too..

Hobbo with a shotgun , insta classic..

Cheers neil - the Genestealer thing is my very favourite thing fluff wise - its so sinister and dark. I will have to come up with a coupla more paragraphs of fluff for them - make them seem more real (I haven't written creatively since school but the amount of books I read it should be ok)

The scavies now have a 5 man squad! Got some pics today - they look suitably unpleasant and ready to spread the word of decay to the underhive or wherever. I want some zombies now!

Got my marine today Weety, he's wonderful! Thank you!

Those gangers look great... paint job really suits them.

I am glad he arrived in one piece and stuff - My Bf is hassling me to paint your dreadnought now, he used to do eldar himself. I really should - its a little daunting though - all those big smooth areas just waiting for a big mistake to ruin them!

In other news I am moving back to car primer - it is so much smoother than army painter (they do great brushes though)

If you ever get an airbrush weety (even a cheap one)... I've got the primer for you. Once you use it... you'll never go back to the can.

(and I'd love to see you do that dread)

Car primer? Like the self etching stuff? I've used it a couple times on other things, but never on models.

GW's overpriced cans... despite being overpriced, work splendid for me. But that may be because I prime black and not white... I dunno.

I might look into alternate primers, but I'm so terrified of change!

Self etching?

Yeah I've never seen a bad black primer. It must be more reliable.

Those scavvies are marvelous!



Edit to correct my stoopid autocorrect.

Frikkin' technology...

I work in the automotive field, it's what we call it. *chuckles*

I think it's because of the way it sticks to the metal and applies super-smooth and all. It's good stuff, but it can be runny sometimes.

They are the one shoe gang... They could only find left footed shoes for some reason (plus one of they only has a right foot anyway)

The scavvies are ace! I love the character of the older sculpts, and I'm always really impressed with the variety in your colour schemes! Nice to see a bit of colour in amongst all the grimdark

Scavvies look great, good job.

Of course, if they're to stand a chance against the gangers they'll need to pimp some transportation...bring on the slime-mobile

Oh no monkeytroll you've set the wheels in motion now - just need to find a scale model rubbish truck or maybe a muck spreader?

Scarper thanks, I love the colours. Making new ones is my favorite things. I think the most colourful thing about these guys though is their swollen boils...

..Sounds like a personal ad in the Nurgle Bugle

Oh excellent choice madame...

Rubbish truck (that's a garbage collection vehicle to our colonial friends ) for a chimera, muck spreader (that's probably still a muck spreader ) for a hellhound/'whatever-the-chemical-weapon-version-is-called-I've-forgotten-right-now'.

We just call em' Garbage Trucks. Or Trash Trucks. And I have no idea what the hell a Muckspreader is... unless you mean a Honeywagon... one of those big trucks they use to suck out septic systems and stuff.

Even the gross aspects of life aren't immune to our different nouns across the pond!

Honeywagon? That's going to be a disappointment for someone expecting a van-load of sugary bee goodness (do earwigs make chutney?), or a van full of hot chicks

Yeah, I have NO idea why they are called that. But... yep... that's what they're called.

I think it's someone's idea of a twisted joke or something.

It's called a manure spreader

Thats the one dsteingass - They have a proper countryside smell and leave fertility in their wake...

I don't think they make a scale model muck spreader though.

Honey? best just not to think about it I guess

Yeah, they're probably called that here too, but that's not what anyone actually calls them, they're muckspreaders to us


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Hmm, Britains probably have one in their die-cast range...


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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Britains-42080-Samson-Manure-Spreader/dp/B0007WTZG6

http://www.scalefarm.com/09575_discontinued-britains_britains_howard_rotary_manure_spreader.htm

...That is the joke of calling it a honey-wagon in slang

My kid has one for his toy farm. The articulated crop sprayer is also most impressive. Incidentally, @mt, kudos on the izzard reference. 10 points.

Lovely work as always, Weety. Dying to see your work on the Spyrers, i need inspiration for my Patriarch.

Reallynice work. Looking forward to the Spyrers,... are you aware that the first edition Tau codex has a list of vocabulary. The Tau word for flight is Yeldi and the word for Strength is Orrus

Brother Paen wrote:Reallynice work. Looking forward to the Spyrers,... are you aware that the first edition Tau codex has a list of vocabulary. The Tau word for flight is Yeldi and the word for Strength is Orrus

The first Tau codex claimed that they made the Spyrer suits but GW dropped it out of regular canon so we don't know if it's true currently. I'm delving into the back story for my Necromunda gang who are heavily influenced by the Tau.

I won't get into it so we don't get OT but most of the information i collected and the start of my fluff are in these threads:
Necromunda Noble Houses
Casey's Necromunda Gang: La'Rua 005

You've got to admit...compared to the bleakness of Imperial 40k worlds, the Tau way of thinking probably appeals to a lot of people, especially those with wealth.

well it took me a long time, but i got through it all.... before reading this i always thought old models where not for me, well how wrong i was.. i am so envious of most of these models (munda,IG,and squats) not to mention i love your pottery! now that i am finaly caught up i can watch this thread in real time!

Ah well its not really moving very fast in real time rogue wolves... I keep having to go to this horrible invention they call 'work' to earn 'money'. But I have finished a nice genestealer hybrid and will get photographing after work. Thanks for looking and I'm glad I could expand your appreciation of oldschool miniatures.

Brother paen - I did not know that. The tau are all a bit new to me - but it would explain why the spyrer suits are so high tech (I first thought maybe they were stolen eldar tech)

Casy's law - I haven't decided what colour (or combination thereof) to do them. Its tricky to paint something so rare and beautiful for fear of ruining it. I think I will go over to the gallery and see how other peeps did it first.

Inmygravenimage - izzard? as in eddie?

Thanks for the links monkeytroll - its all your influence that got me making these necromunda vehicles - well you and mad max...

Thanks everyone for all your comments, jokes and anecdotes. Keeps me from drifting off into boring stuff like animal portraits, landscape painting, sunsets and all that.

Now I have to paint up my Hellhound to look like an airport fire engine, to go with my Imperial Navy theme.

Not going for the muck-spreader look then? Lol

Right so here are some pictures of my hybrid and a little story I wrote to go with him:

The Golden Cuckoo by Allexis Weetman

It was a tough year in hive dock facility 00176884/D#101. Trade had been up, but the space dock regions were plagued by a lack of infrastructural maintenance. Rust and corrosion vied with electrical failures for the attention of the techs. But the real reason for the hardship that year was closer to home.

The workers of D#101 were comparatively well off compared to those living in the adjacent inner hive, and they lived with their burgeoning families in clustered hab-units, suspended beneath the gargantuan gantries of docking bay 6.9. Walkways and suspended tramways connected the whole together in a working unit. Here the little children of the workers learned to live life high above the base of the hive, their rookery protruding out from the main body of the city like the branch of a tree.

But nothing lasts forever. Chaotic entropy enters the systems of the hive and only with constant vigilance can it be countered. That year vigilance faltered and died. The subdivision of the crèche was full with every child beneath the age of 13 and old enough to be torn from mother when the abyss opened up and swallowed their lives whole.

It started in a single support – a hairline fracture surrounded by fatigued metal escaped the notice of the maintenance crew, rust seeped in. A hard winter expanded and contracted the steel and the support no longer held, the huge strain transferred to other areas and life hung by a thread.
The thread snapped.

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“Don’t shed tears life partner” said Dugoe to his sobbing lover, “I found us a new baby, a child who won’t ever die! The others on my shift showed me the child after yesterday’s rotation. He is truly a miracle, a beautiful boy so strong and healthy that to look upon him is to love him. But we have to keep it a secret and now I’ve told you you must come see the child and be anointed with his love, we all must!”

Luraan looked up, her face smeared, hot and red, “I just want my b-b-baby back! Oh but I know its hopeless… take me to this child I’m going to love supposedly if it will shut your jawing mouth”

The two huddled figures struggled up the step-way to the hab-zone, below them a vast expanse of empty atmosphere broken only by the distant ground.

“You will see Lur, you will see. Everyone in Docktown will have a new baby soon, it is a blessing, maybe from the Emperor himself who has taken pity on our poor childless souls. Even you may be with child”

Luraan blushed and bowed her head, since her first child had been killed she had been rendered infertile by the low level radiation in her work station and she had not hoped to have another.

The two continued their long accent. Being of lower class their use of sky-trams was limited. Luraan agreed to visit the new child, maybe this would be an opportunity to boost their status in the precipitous town.

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The life form had travelled far…

Its journey had been spent in a long aestivation, a deep sleep filled with the dreams of a new world and a new opportunity to turn a planet to its will. The hive mind node within knew that it was one of many such seeds sown to the galaxy, a little spark of life that could inseminate a world, assimilate genetic code, become one with the local population and manipulate it from within.

It traveled first in a spore pod for many centuries before coming to a system where it detected life. It found structures and ascertained that here it could find faster transport.

For months it traveled sealed in the cargo hold of the great ship Chalice of Purity.

Finally in orbit around a world it could sense was seething with life forms it broke from its hiding place and by stealth and instinct boarded the shuttle bound for the surface.

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Luraan gasped as the foetus within her kicked.

That night months ago they had gone to see the baby was clouded in her mind – the baby had been strange in some way she thought, but then it had done something to her mind and all she could see was this perfect child, new and fresh and helpless, and she must help it, help it grow. It had kissed her and then she had known that she would have child and that it would be special and that made her feel strong.

Marceel, the man who had shown them the golden child, had been working in cargo transfer when a six limbed angel had come to him and told him he would be with child, and lo it came to pass that a child grew in his lower intestinal tract and was born somehow… a miracle! His character changed during this time and he was no longer the feckless drunken lowlife of old. He worked hard, made friends, brown-nosed all the way up to supervisor status, all the time a strange lump in his belly grew and spoke to him “talk to this man, make him like you, compliment this arrogant foolish official, gather friends around you, make yourself strong”

Now another child was growing in the more congenial environment of the woman’s barren uterus. Another miracle, Praise be.


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Please, I...I just wanted a little extra ketchup for my french fries... don't hate me because I'm purple. And have claws. I'm one of you! ONE OF YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Cool set-up weety... nicely done.

Its my first piece of fan fiction - I hope you all enjoy reading it. Constructive criticism is welcomed.

Very cool Weety! ...But you didn't use enough extra unnecessary vowels in words to be properly British
I'd like to see
Armour
Colour
Aluminium
and other British words that make me grin

yeas - I had to alter my Word to spellcheck for UK english because it kept thelling me to spell foetus fetus. Proper britich spelling! (whoops)

LOL- I'm just kidding

you started the post with a hearty "Right" though- That's proper British

lol, I think you'll find that the differences you see are down to solid British craftmanship ensuring the words are built properly, compared to that sloppy Yankee make-do approach

Nice little hybrid you have there weety, and enjoyed the fluff. Some very nice writing there, but Luraan's initial words seemed to jar a bit - specifically the ' take me to this child I’m going to love supposedly if it will shut your jawing mouth' part. Just struck me as not hitting the right tone, I'd have left it at 'it's hopeless....'

But that's just me

Yep, Eddie is the particular brand of Izzard graven mentioned - 'Bees make honey? What? Little fuzzy flying things, and they produce the yummy sweet stuff to put on your cereal and toast? How's that work? Do earwigs make chutney? Do spiders make gravy?' (There'll be a bit of paraphrasing in there )


Yep, me and Max, wandering the world getting peeps to build weird post-apocalyptic vehicles on the cheap It's all our fault

Animal portraits - Grox, catachan devils and 'nid monstrosities maybe?

Landscapes - Burnt-out cities, barren wastelands, Slaaneshi pleasure fields?

Sunsets - Nothing beats a nice sunset over a burning pyre of heretics.

I don't see an issue there

That was a quality post monkeytroll - it had wit.

Yes proper british spelling is the way to construct a solid sentence! Extra vowels all round.

I have actually watched that particular eddie izzard bit but I am terrible for forgetting stuff.

I should give painting warhammer stuff a go really - I suppose I get nervous because I learned to paint from copying photos and there are no photos of the 41st millenium

Sorry, I just can't resist

yes, properly built

some phrases i didn´t get but in the end the story had me at my throat! now being left with only this small pice of your ideas wraped up in fiction i stand lonley and forgotten...or to put it in another way...: more! definatly more!

weetyskemian44 wrote:Yes proper british spelling is the way to construct a solid sentence! The correct number of vowels all round.

Fixed that for you, weety.

Quite right Dysartes!

Dave, you complain our words are too long, then you build cars longer than our buses

monkeytroll wrote:
Dave, you complain our words are too long, then you build cars longer than our buses

I see nothing wrong with that! I had a '55 Desoto when I was in my teens...I think they were thinking of this car when they wrote "Love Shack"! It was as big as a whale!

Cult limo in the making there for sure

HAHA yep, we sure had some boats man! We all had those old late 70s, early 80's land yachts as our first cars at 16!!


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..I'll be honest..there always was something calm, and reassuringly American about driving those old beast-cars though...