Now, let's see if i remember how to upload images properly.. interesting interesting.

As per regular order I forget to haul out the camera until I am halfway done, enthusiasm and that nasty virus known as 'inspiration' getting the better of me I am afraid.
In any case this little thing is intended to go with my Raven Guard army once it's finished and painted, and yes yes I know there are no valid rules for such a thing but I plan to use the Forge World rules for the new Assult Ram for this little thing, friendly games and all that so it will not pose a problem.. besides I need something interesting to put on the landingpad if that piece of terrain shows up..

Feedback would be much appreciated. =)



Now.. if this works as intended this -should- be the basic hull with wings attached.
Fairly simple so far, the nose is simply the Valkyrie's transport compartment with a box-shaped hull made from four sheets of plasticard extended from the valkyrie part.
Wings are not converted and just glued onto the hull as they are, the valkyrie engines attached where the wing meets the hull, the small canard wings at the nose are from the SM Drop Pod kit as you can see, I had one used for spare parts and was too lazy to scratch-build the canard wings from plasticard.


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Aaaand I failed spectaculary!

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You've got the image tags backwards.

Should go like this [ img]....[ /img] Without any spaces of course.

Ah, thank you very much good sir, and as always a solution just generates a new problem.
Heh.. this right here Ladies and Gentlemen is just why I usually never bother to post my work.. Me+Computor / Server = Catastrophic Circuit Meltdowns. ^^



Side view of the picture in first post, obviously figured out the little problem with the picture ^^


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Now, technical difficulties sorted out and everything...

work progresses: Positioning of Cockpit and dorsal airintakes for the main engine.
intakes made from the Valkyrie's tailbooms, cut to an appropriate length and the cockpit simply by cutting the original plastic vnoe part of the valkyrie in two and sticking the bottom part on the top part to make it longer.




Lower shot but otherwise the same, yes i know I need to clean up the mess that in my kitchentable.. some RG stuff in the background I see now..



Ground view to show groundclearence etc.



Side View


Rear View


But what of the Ordinatus? Yes! You shall Have Pictures of the Grand warengine of the Centurio Ordinatus once I dig them out of the data-archives and upload them. wich should happen quite soon.


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Yes, Ordinatus it is, All Hail the Omnissiah!

Base for this is two baneblade kits slammed together, rhino added for size comparison.

Tracks assembled and put together end to end.



Drive compartment door from the Rhion interior and a few scraps of plasticard to cover the gaps in the sideskirt, uniformly made on both sides.



two fronts added side by side and the baneblade top plate added to form the basis of the engine's command deck.



Baneblade bottom plate added to the side to form the deck, I plan to mount the gun a bit off-center over the flat deck and not center-line where it would hang halfway over the command deck, unnerving the crew for no good reason =).




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Added some plasticard to the top of the nose around the cockpit, fixed up the base for the rear and some additional detail to the rear.



Engine fans added to the bottom, felt like the wingtip thrusters could use som help.
I also started to build up some random junk around the flying stand slot-bit so it won't stand out too much, the melta on the table will be mounted on the side below the nose canard wing.



Here I have added a forward sensor and some small stabilisers, a friend of mine noted that if I wanted to convert it to a stormraven gunship it would be a perfect spot to add a couple of assultcannons...



Main engine exhaust added, stolen from an SM drop pod.

Little update on the Ordinatus, some more deckplating fitted and I have started to build up the rear with plasticard.

Sweet! What variety of Ordinatus will this be (armament choice, that is- it is obvious that it will be of the AWESOME variety of course).

Sweet Omnissiah! These builds are epic!

I was going to say I was a little sceptical about the back end of the shuttle until I saw the exhaust mounted there. Looking forward to progress on these two.

Thank you, basicly the Ordinatus weapon will be some sort of really big laser gun, perhaps something akin to a volcano cannon.
There will be a pile of anti-infantry guns ofc. for perimeter defence and I am thinking of adding a couple of linked autocannons for some airdefence with all those damn vultures and orc fighta-bommerz zooming around the local apocalypse-scene.

As for the shuttle I did intend to lengthen the tail a bit and not end it in such a abrupt fashion but the design I was toying with was giving the craft a little too sleek profile and i wanted to capture the very 'blocky' and non-aerodynamic design of imperial aircraft design.
Also i reasoned that this way it would resemble more closely the futuristic flying WWII beach landingcraft it is.


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Another update, planned to do so tomorrow but it comes now instead.

Again, I have been tardy with taking photos during construction so unfortuneately no documentation exist on work after the last uploaded pic and this batch..
Will try to remember to do so in the future.. also bear with the crappy pictures, I don't have a proper camera and have to make do with the once integrated in my cellphone, wich is pure crap and can't take closeup's worth a damn.

Anyhoooow... lots of plasticard.
Plastic components on the right side is from the baneblade rear armour, the land raider's interior powerplant and sliding doors.
Some cities of death plastic walkways for quick floor and a pretty mechanicus symbol from the same kit smacked on the front over the demolisher cannon's mounting point.



Now the gun pipe is not fixed in place, it will be worked on a lot more than this and is just there to give an impression of how long it will be, the little observation deck running out over the barrel will be raised, probably 1-1.5 inch.

Size comparision: Rhino and CSM



A little closer.



Top down view.



From the side.

That's not what I expected, it's many times better than I expected, and what I expected was awsome. This is great stuff.

Very nice indeed. I'm assuming you'll be adding recoil mechs and gun support mounts.

Slightly off point if you get the chance I would love to see a closer photo of the missile system on your rhino transport. Look inventive and uber cool to boot.

And just like that I feel incredibly small =(

In all seriousness it looks good, though I agree with Lennysmash it needs a kick ass recoil system.

These are really cool, i like the storm raven/thunder hawk thing, you better come up with a raven gaurdy name for it. Also that Baneblade is something special, any idea for rules?

Great use of parts in these models! I have always had a suspicion that some GW kits are supposed to fit together and that one day they will post instructions on how to make some monster machine out of regular parts (sorry, I got a bit carried away there!) Loving the ordinatus!

Nice tank reminds me of a les edward painting behemoth tank or something .

First off; thank you for the positive comments.

Lennysmash: it's not something special. just the terminator cyclone ML glued on the rhino's stormbolter 'dish', I use it as a hunter-killer missile on the tanks in my BT army since I always felt it was a bit unstrategic to have a one shot ML system without capability to reload it during prolonged combat.. originally I used it on my predators as a nod towards the Command and Conquer: Red Alert russian Mammoth tanks (old computor game from the mid 90's).
Feel free to steal the idea ruthlessly

Preliminary rules for the ordinatus will be something along the lines of 3 Structure points, 3 voidshields, 14 13 12, BS4, Warlord Titan Volcano Cannon for the main gun with the Disruptor Beacon and General staff Strategems and a transport of 20 for the skitarii support elements. 1500 point in a first draft seems reasonable to us in our gaming club.

As for the gun it will be bulked out with a lot of plasticard and I concur, it does need a badass recoilsystem.

Small Problem: I have managed to completely break my phone and with in my camera so this means that until I can lay my grubby little claws on a new one I have a problem with bringing you updates.
I will try to steal a digital camera or something from friends, someone must have a camera somewhere...

oh.. and do remember: cellphones and a sink full of dishwater don't mix.

Well, after some expense I have now accuired means to take new pictures, also known as a new shiny Camera!

So some progress with the ship, made a nice melta for it, added some basic plating to the lower hull and a few bits and pieces here and there.




more armorplating.



Side shot.



as seen from above ^^






As for the ordinatus I have ran into a problem, I needed it presentable and at least a little painted for an Apocalypse game (20k points on each side) but without a functioning camera I couldn't take pics.. Sorry about that.

However i didn't have time to finish the gun so it remained a basic unadorned pipe.. now however I have removed it from the hull and started building it 'Good and Proper'.




Aaand here's the basic shape of it all.



Close up, a little burry though.. not mastered the camera yet.



Holding it up to the hull, more stuff will be added to the hull around the mounting point in time to bulk it out a bit.. and yes.. recoil system delux is being planned.



Random stuff I am doing some work on on and then.. no overall plan on how it will turn out at all. Ordinatus towering in the far distance on the kitchen table.

wow good work, The assault shuttle is actually bigger then I thought. Forgeworld shows us some bad size comparison pics.

Looks amazing my man

ooh my bad : I mixed the assault shuttle up with this: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/CAESTUS-ASSAULT-RAM.html

sorry.

The vehicles are brilliant!!

I have long wished to have the nerve to tear apart a couple of models (especially expensive ones) and meld them into one giant new one. I have to say that I really like the Ordinatus model.

Keep up the great work.

What a great blog. I love the shuttle.

The tank looks epic, but I am not fond of the main gun design and how it integrates to the chassis.

Wow that is amazing.

Wow. I am loving the massive tank. thats so cool your going off.

I cant wait to see its full glory. I'm not surprised the mechanicus worship machines now I've seen that ordinatus

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Random Picture Post!
This has nothing to do with anything, besides the colourscheme for one of my Dire Avenger squads for my eldar army wich is by now about 50% done when it comes to painting..
not much new on the big things this is acctually about, just cutting up plasticard in various forms but nothing worth showing as of yet.

however some feedback on these would be nice.. too dark? too much gold? why the hell I even bother to plow down 3-4 hours per model in a standard troop unit? fielding avengers with shimmershield?! am I Insane?!

so.. Exarch time! and no.. still working on the flag and knife for his back.


side.


another side

How did you do that colourscheme on the Exarch?

The flyer looks great, but that melta would tear throught the side of the ship's hull once fired... it's too darn close

exarch colour is black undercoat, 40/60 Hawk turquoise/Chaos Black highlight, followed by a 80/20 Turquoise/black and then a pure turquoise highlight.
It is then highlighted 60/40 turquoise / white then roughly 30/70 T/W, each highlight a little thinner than the previous and with a lot of water in the colour.
Finally watered out white is 'dotted' out on the extreme highlights, gold is highligthed from tin bitz through dwarf bronze, shining gold and mithril silver; each new colour blended 50/50 with the previous one before applied on it's own.

And yes, I know the melta is a bit too close for comfort but it is the 41st Millennium, stuff with the aerodynamics of 15 shipping containers clobbed together in awkward angles fly at many times the speed of sound without breaking apart and there are space elves running around in pointy hats.
Have a look at the Caestus Assult Ram from FW, that melta would do the same. *shrug*
So somehow it survives.. very efficient thermal shielding and improved magnetic containment fields would do the trick.

Very nice work..

The Exarch looks really good. I like the colors.

Great conversions!

Fantastic. Just amazing.

If you magnetize the guns then that could be a stormraven.

When i first saw the tank i thought it was going to be a giant exorcist or something of the sort.

That would of looked cool but this looks awesome

(Now i want to make something that fires 20 small blast templates or gets 5d6 s8-10 ap1-2 missile shots)

Now this post will relate quite a lot to the dangers of heat to plastic models, since there has been a small 'accident' with the ordinatus construction. (I blame heretic scum infiltrating the blessed forge! a full purge is in motion as I write this message, All shall be purged. Deus Omnissiah Vult!)

What happened is I had a little party and i had nowhere to put the ordinatus, so like the fool I was I put it on the stove and slid it back agains the wall beliving it safe from flying bottles, spilled beer and people falling over it.
Little did I factor in the possibility that 'someone', being a bit drunk, would lean against the stove and somehow,.. accidentally turn on one of the heating plates with his god damn ass.

So.. even worse this was the plate that the Model was acctually standing over.. wich resulted in.. you guessed it!

so.. i was quite quick on my feet so the burned whreck should be salvageble with some time and plasticard... but still I would like to convey a warning to you all.

DO NOT EVER PUT MODELS ON A POTENTIAL HEATSOURCE!!!

follow this simple rule and you will be spared much hard work.. and your flat won't smell burned plastic for a week.


The whreck in all it's fallen glory.




what's left of the deck.





what's left of the gun.




So began the work of clearing up the mess left by the






Shouldn't be too hard to put the hull back together.. I have after all loads of spare parts.

Ouch - that is quite a lot of damage.

A rather cool PLog - I will be watching what you do with this.

Oh no! I feel like crying. Stupid fire...

That's a terrible accident, will heighten safety measures in my forge right away so no foul plasma torch bearing heretics can get in !! I hope you salvage the model as it's a really nice one
It actually looked like it had been blown up

Aw dude... I just found this and thought: "hey what an awesome super heavy tank this guy got! Maybe I shall leave a kind comment about it" *switches from page 1 to 2 * "........ " ah well. Despite the chaos infiltrators this is an amasing tank and I wish you good luck in repairing it!

tragic... well, you have something incredible there, it is just more of WIP then it was a couple days ago... it is only a slight step speedbump. a chance for revisions and improvement!!!
i will be following closely, good luck!

oh no, such bad luck
any Techpriest would have commited suicide i think.
But you have to see the positive side. Now you can spend more time with your precious machine!
I will follow the reconstruction very closely.

oh man that looks so cool even when its destroyed , them melted plates will come in handy for scenery i bet !

Aaaah no! The Ordinatus was looking so beautifull and realistic! (as in: GW could have released it) I hope you can rebuild now and make it look more awsome then it already did, form the ashes a fenix will rise.
A thought of me was, Ordinatus makes me think of ordenance ofcourse, have you considered giving it a ordinance like gun? Like on a Basilisk?

I would have commited murder.

Thank you, but after all, it's just plastic.

As for the gun I think I will scrap the original concept and make it a humongous plasma cannon.. perhaps a plasma annihilator like the one found on the Imperator titan.
Work on the shuttle progresses on shedule, should perhaps update with some pics tomorrow, it's down to hull textures and gap-filling.

Love that exarch. Great color scheme. I spend about the same amount of time on my troop choices, you're not the only one!

STC_LogisEngine wrote:, but after all, it's just plastic.

expensive plastic that is :(

Looks like a really cool project.
To bad about the accident with the plasma wielding heretics though.

Looking forward to seing it being restored/completed.
Also looking forward to seeing more of your other projects. The Rhino/Drop pod thingie looked really interesting

Burn your friend. See how he likes it. Damn Heretic. He works for Chaos!

I just read that post aghast, I can't believe that mate, rotten luck. Thank frak you were able to salvage the majority of the model. Battle damage in the extreme I think.

I feel your pain - But on the other hand I'm looking forward to the plasma annihilator. Drunk friends and miniatures don't mix

im really sorry,really a shame.

but it seems you take it quite well.

cant wait to see it fixed and ready for battle.again ^^

I wasn't really feeling the gun anyways, but I have no doubt the rebuilt model will look fantastic

That tank is a cathedral on wheels.

FTL

Wow everything here is awesome! love the exarch! and what luck!? sorry man!

wow, I thought i was dumb for leaving some marines by the toaster... but that tank was a catastrophe

Plasma reactor meltdown?

yeah! plasma reactor meltdown - I am totally with you on rebuilding it but in a way its almost a shame as it would have made a great terrain piece - the warped and twisted wreckage of the once great warmachine type deal

Yes, another update.
Just on the shuttle though, I need to rethink the hulldesign a little on the Ordinatus due to that the Plasma Annihilator gun that I have been scetching on will need a slightly different approach to how I build the gun's mounting on the hull.
I will need some more time for scetching and testing before I can re-launch this project.

So, I have finished the hull's basic shape so now it's mostly texture and detailwork left.. and gap filling... and ofc. the paintjob

Missiles etc.



Bottom Hull.



Misc.



Feedlines etc.



Frag assult launchers from the dreadnought kit and etched brass aquila

Looking good! It is coming along very quickly.

Thank you all, it's turning out nicely here.

The ordinatus will be quite different than it's current incarnation but i think it will become much better in it's second incarnation.

GOOD MERCIFUL CRAP

the preceding statement applies to-

A - Your vehicles are insane, one can only admire the industrious nature of working and designing such large pieces. Your assault shuttle should be my Storm Raven BTW lol! I really love that you didnt just mash the valk backwards with a LR hull. The thing that bugs me about most SR conversions is that people leave the wings tilted at the default angle on the struts, I LOVE that your wings are straight!

B - The painstcheme on the exarch is excellent, I don't recall seeing a black nmm style application before. Not one that remained looking black anyways lol .

C - The oven disaster. I suffered a huge model mishap myself this year, I can imagine after getting it so far along seeing that hole in it must have been rage inducing. You clearly have the talent to fix it though, and if not, BEST TERRAIN EVAR lol!

Amazing, thanks for sharing!

I really hope you're keeping track of schematics and bits used for that flyer of yours

WOW I love the Ordinatus Engine, so sorry to hear about the melta accident, I would proberly have killed my friend if that happened.
I love assult shuttle your making.
also nice missle thing on the rhino (love the nod towards C&C)
your paint scheme on the eldar is amazing.

Have no fear, shematics exist.. after a fashion.. but the Mechanicum forgets nothing! we do however not share much data..


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Right.. Updates will probably be down this week, I have had an unexpected development in the form of a pile of frames with variousDark Eldar on them that needs assembling and painting ASAP.
But as soon as I am done with the filthy xenos and their impure techno-sorcery work will continue on the blessed machines of the most holy mechanicum.

Update Time!

Things are comming together nicely now that those pesky Dark Eldar modles are almost done. (don't get me started on the raider, all that negative space and perforated decking means you have to paint all the parts and then, only then put it together.. bleh.)
so without further prattle there will now be pictures, pictures and.. some more pictures.

Soon in the skies of the forty-first millennium, transforming your friends to rapidly expanding clouds of steam...



Adding detail at the moment, vents, sensors and random funny bits.


Same as above but on the other side, the etched brass is from GW's 40k basing kit.



Adding thin plasticard to the hull to create a little texture to bind the model together nicely, poor picture though since the ink pen i used to mark up the pieces smeared a little
but you should be able to get the basics anyway



Now, about the Ordinatus Engine; I havn't simply had the time to put more work on it but as I was looking through earlier posts I came to the conclusion that I needed at least
put up some close-ups of the rear areas for you to see.



and the other side.



And now, for something completely different:

I put down the final brushstrokes on this little thing last week, wich for those who wonder the Chaptermaster for my Black Templar army.
And yes, i know.. I do not use the standard colours for the BT, I just liked this one better and since when I was painting this army I knew that the next where a Raven Guard
army so I did not want to paint two black SM armies in a row.






All kinds of feedback on everything would be nice.

While i am at it I'll throw up these too, a slightly converted Captain Korvydae and dreadnought for my RG army.
but are still WIP's but it's just minor details and the finishing touches on the bases left.

Wow your raven guard look fantastic i love the silver armor and pose on the first guy

Those are all really well done!

That ordinatus rocked - it's such a shame it got damaged though. Hope you can get it back to its former glory!

I love the back of the Ordinatus. Looks very grim dark!

Nice "black" templar marhsall (they don't follow the codex astartes so no chapter master, sorry just had to say that). I recgonise the Emperor's Champion black sword, but what are the other parts of him?

I love the Raven guard, very good, I love FW dreads.

Nice little details on the assult shuttle, looks good!

Looks like Sicarius as the base with Pedro Kantor bits, probably some other stuff as well.

Great stuff here. I love your flyer that you are building, looks like the love child of a valk and a thunderhawk lol.

I like the most part of your super heavy although one part i did not was where the huge cannon was placed, it just seemed to me as though it was sticking out the front of a building. Perhaps use the chance now it needs rebuilding to re-model a proper mantel and housing to make it all gel a bit better?
*edit* maybe add some pistons and movement mechanisms like on the bassi?

anyways good work all round, hope to see more

Tank you for the kind words.

@ Commissar Agro; the body is the Sicarius model with the ultramarines symbols removed and replaces with aquilas or skulls, the head, left arm and backpack is from the pedro kantor model and the swordhand from the emperor's champion model.
They all fit together quite nicely and only a little cutting and filing as needed to produce a tight fit of the parts so no greenstuff was needed to fill any gaps.

Nice work whit the shuttle! maybe the front wing must be shorter, i think.

I hope you repair the Ordinatus Engine soon, it's amazing!

Random Pic post!
well.. just one.. damn xenos thing has been keeping me away from the machines of the blessed mechanicum.. but as soon as I am finished with it's vile crew it is out! out I tell you!
Through the door!

The dark eldar plastics are pretty, but a bit tricky to paint.
they are also a complete nightmare when you are handed a box of frames with a cheery 'here you go, good luck' without an assembly guide.. took a while to identify what parts went where and what had to be painted before assembly.. quite a lot was the answer.. quite a lot.
However the quality of the plastic is nothing short of amazing, everything is a snug fit, beautiful details and loads of extra bits.

So for a first review the denizens of the dark city are lovely, absolutly amazingly lovely, but I would however say that because of the level of detail they are not a forgiving army for people that has not mastered a certain range of painting techn.. *sigh* ah to hell with it.. if you aren't good painters then don't bother.. you will just be dissapointed.
I am not saying this out of malice but as a warning because i think that people might feel that they have thrown away their money on something that they in the end are dissatisfied with and end up selling on Ebay for less than what they bought them for.

This is not a model range that will play well with our friends; Dip and Drybrush I am afraid.

Nice paintjob, and damn you! I don't want to start collecting dark eldar!


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What a nice, quality, and totally random blog this is turning out to be. More please

The flyer is excellent.

The big tank is really cool. Then plasma overload and I was sad. Plasma cannon sounds like an improvement.

Exarxh is magnificent, love the scheme.

Templar likewise great conversion.

Looking fprward to seeing the raider completed.

Overall a joy to read thankyou.

Your stuff is simply breathtaking, ill defiantly be watching. Shame what happened to the ordinatus, THAT is what a melta bomb will do to a tank! The lander is brilliant too, it would be a good storm raven count as. Keep up the good work!

Now, i have been a bit lazy with updates but it is quite simply because there is not so much to report on.
work progresses but is just little texture stuff like drilling small holes to emulate the valkyrie plastic parts on the 'white' plastic, adding little silly things that just makes it come together as a whole but are not individually meaningful.
I will not bore you with pictures of that damn lander that you have seen a million times but now with an additional 50 barely visable holes and a few additional armored cables, because it is pointless and above all not really interesting for you.
But at this rate I will probably start painting it some time next week.
So to keep you happy and build on the whimsical randomness I'll tease you with a photo from my work in progress eldar army (started it back in 97.. still not finished ><
so.. one little fireprism is all you get... for now.




Now, this is a chaos sorcerer I built out of stuff from my bitbox to try out a colourscheme for the army.
However it is a mothballed project that has been put in cold storage with the comming of the presend Codex:CSM wich I quickly developed a deep loathing for.. the previous one was perfect! talk about fixing that wich was not brken and in the prosess making complete crap out of the resulting product.
Hopefully they will get it right the next time.
I am still a little unsure on these colours though, you goys got any thoughts or ideas?

Some great looking minis. I love the silver that you did on the BT chapter master.

Thank you, it's not that hard really and having a strong lightsource helps when painting metal to keep the highlights in the right spot.
Alos having reference matereial when you paint is a great help, pictures of chromed stuff is usually the best since it gives you the extreme end of mirroring and clear references is much much better than subtle ones.

Well, i have been a lazy cat and not been working awfully much on the original projects.. been painting painting..
so.. I thought I'd share some DE pics with you, the raider is almost done with just a gunner and 2 crewmen left to paint and once done with those i got 3 reaver jetbikes to put some paint on too.

So, the raider.. sorry about the poor quality of the pictures but I don't have any special lightsource or a tripod for the camera and my hand is not the steadiest in the world.







the almost done crew and gun.




Thoughts and feedback on the painting is most welcome.

Great Scheme on those DE.

Cant wait to see your take on the Jetbikes. Those are some great models.

i really like you dark eldar,they look really nice.

thank you, these models are straight out of the GW 'black box' intended as display models for my local premium store in Karlstad, sweden named 'Games and Fantasy'.
I will put some paint on the shuttle / (hopeful stormraven, jeez.. I have been getting petitions for commisions on this one in droves.. people don't seem to like the 'landraider with a crashed valkyrie on top' type all that much..) probably somewhere around thursday next week when I have finished the DE Reavers.
Until then, Hang on.. I have some funny ideas on my projects.. oh you will so love the ordinatus engine.. I have this great .. Grand Idea! Mouhahaha!
It will blow you Mind!

/ Love & Haywire grenades.. STC.

Sucks to hear about your Imperial Maus tank; I hope it liiks better after it's repaired.

Very neat highlights, well done sir.

Better pics would really help

Oh and might I suggest more molested corpses on the sides of that thing?

These fellas are the most evil guys in the whole bloody universe (as we know of yet at least).

You may suggest more corpses stuck on the sides, beneath or even on the mainsail.
However i am not at liberty to convert it since it is intended to be a displaymodel for a store and it will be abit confusing if I start converting victims slung to the hull, people might think it is included in the raider box etc. and that is fallout I don't need.

So it's box contents only I am afraid.

Wow, this is some amazing work! The randomness is quite appealing, actually. Keep it up, and are those some FoW bases I see under your DE crew? Maybe you should mix it up a bit more and show some of those...

Your work is absolutely stunning. The painting is ace, and your custom creations are simply put impressive. The one piece I like the most has to be the assault shuttle, but please, could you make the leading and trailing edges on the wings tapered? I have always wondered why conventional aerodynamics have been rendered useless in 40K.

Very nice stuff!

Continued awesomeness... thanks for sharing!

Tank you very much, I blush at the egobolstering you people give me.

Building for GW Sthlm or GW Gothenburg perhaps?

Nope, this one's for a Premium store in Karlstad (waaay better than the GW stores belive me) called Games & Fantasy.

Looks great. Why do we have to have so many great converters here?

Wow, i have really forgotten to update things around here.. oh well.. life gets in the way of ones hobbies on and then.
I must say that i was really thrown by the pics that GW leaked on the Stormraven a couple of weeks back, I sincerely hoped that it was a conversion but that notion flew out the window quite rapidly.
After all it is an obvious studio picture and the model quite simply isn't a conversion, wich makes me a bit sad.. I mean.. it just doesn't fit into the ranges in any way at all!
It looks like some mishapen lump that flew out of a modern animated disneymovie, it does barely tie in with the imperial designs at all and has a number of failed attempts in it's design to tie it together with the Space Marine tank designs, simply put: someone in the design studio didn't get his tea, someone was on leave and now we sit with a future release on par with the unexpected and confused release of the Dark Eldar army back in the 90's and the good old 'Virus outbreak'-card.. those of you who have been playing the game a while know what i mean and if not.. Google it.

To be perfectly honest it is the single most hideous piece Games Workshop has ever released.. even the old Nagash model to the WHFB range is more acceptable than this.
Games workshop has always released great things, they have in most cases gone from clarity to clarity in reworking their old material in new forms and relesing new and exiting things, the constant is that the quality of design has almost always improved greatly.. not so much this time I am afraid.. this time they Failed spectaculary.


While playing a game last weekend, steamrolling a friends blood angels with my black templars, we touched on the subject of this odd model.
Needless to say I was overtly critical in my views, I have over the years come to expect much of GW and are holding them to certain standard in their releases, my friend was less so but he still wasn't especially positive.
In any case we got a little loud and started getting some comments about our views on the stormraven from a few people who thought it looked 'badass', 'omgcool' and a number of other inconcivable superlatives praising this, in my view, flying dumpster.
The entire thing escalated a bit.

The whole thing more or less ended with one of them saying 'well you do it better yourself then!' since he had run out of arguments in his favour by wich I replied 'Fine, I will!'.

And here we are now..

Since a little bit of my stupid pride is on the line the assultshuttle will be slightly adjusted to become a functioning Stormraven Gunship, red paintjob and all.
This is where you come in, I would need some advice on how to arm the damn thing, assultcannons, multimeltas, lascannons? I have little idea of what a Stormraven 'should' be armed with and i am not that hot on the BA codex so a little help from you BloodAngel players and know-whats would be highly appreciated.

I have to agree with you - the new model looks rubbish.

Personally I see these assault landers setting down amid the enemy lines, so they should be armed with weapons to clear entrenched infantry and perhaps weapon emplacements (I don't have the BA codex so I don't know what they should officially be armed with).

I'd probably go with a long-mid ranged anti-armour weapon and a long range anti-infantry weapon (since it is supposed to be a gunship as well as a transport).

wow, it sure has been some time since i posted here.. this winter has been way way to stressful to spare any time on my hobby projects I am afraid.

Well, I should have more spare time avalible and finally get these projects ready once 2011 is here but I have a small update on something completely random.
I built this more because I found an old chimera box in my storage and had a flash of inspiration to play around a little.. took me about an afternoon to finish and then throw a lick of basic paint on it.. at wich point I came up with the bright idea to add moving parts to the missilebox doors and removable missiles inside.. wich means that I dug out the tools and cut off a few things and removed the box 'doors'.. about here I thought 'hey, pictures dang it!'.. just thought I'd ecplain the scraped off paint in a few places, it's there because there are details cut off.

Anyhow, this is my manticore, clearly influenced by the MRLS Missile Artillery.. wich probably was the original inspiration for the manticore anyway..






and with the missile 'box' lowered.. of course it's a movable part!






Well that's all I got for now, Happy Holidays everyone!

Really nice concept, great execution! Incidentally, is that airbrushed camo?

Nope it is drybrushed cammo, I don't own an airbrush.

Very Nice. I like that concept. Only thing is there is no visible indication that it's a missile launcher.

Needs somthing on the front of the missile box.

Great job. I think its really well done and resembles the MLRS or GMLS quite well. I for one dont need to see the missiles, to know that box contains something that hurts!!!

I'm not sure how I've missed this thread of awesome before; I can't wait to see the assault shuttle finished. I love the Manticore concept too.

@ Wolfshadow: that is why I am peeling off the hatch and rebuilding it so it can be opened and reveal the (soon to be constructed) missiles within, the entire idea of housing the missiles in an armored box is so that they cannot be hit and detonated by schrapnel or small-arms fire is kind of made redundant if you drive around with the front hatches open all day instead of just at the moment of launch.

I have been scetching a little on making a contrail on one of the missiles out of greenstuff and some kind of socket so it can be placed and removed to simulate the moment after launching a missile.. though it might be a fun challange to test myself with.

That MLRS is wonderful. You could have more than 4 missiles in there that you remove in blocks so it looks like it can ripple fire properly

endtransmission wrote:I'm not sure how I've missed this thread of awesome before; I can't wait to see the assault shuttle finished. I love the Manticore concept too.

I'm seconding endtransmission here : I've missed a lot in here!!!

Some random thoughts:

- Ordinatus : Too bad it burnt, but it looked really nice as a plasma reactor meltdown marker... These were large battle damage, almost worth being kept 'as is' !!! I especially like the use of the cities of death building kits, it's definitely in the 40k feel...

- BT chapter master : awesome conversion, and pretty painting!!!

- Manticore : as Arnie_DK mentioned, you sure don't want to know what's coming out of that box!!!

I'll be following your progress with attention!

That is the best manticore I have ever seen, love the MLRS design!

Great job!

Thank you, perhaps someone can reccomend a viable weaponcombination for a stormraven.. I am a bit unsure what works since I don't play Blood Angels myself..

Neither... What are the choices? (I don't have my BA Codex right now)

Very nice concept! It is easily identifiable as a manticore without even needing massive rockets.

Well, damn.. no updates since M38 here.
I had to move across the country and then start working at my engineering degree so there has been no time at all for this stuff, most of my things are still collecting dust in a storage facility.

But I finally excavated some of it from the vaults and will be posting progress reports again within a few days.
The ordinatus will however remain in the stasis vaults but work will commence on the shuttle again wich will see a few changes in design.
I have over the winter succsessfully bough, traded, begged and looted a heroic amont of studded Mk V / VI Powerarmor shoulderpads for the marine army that will appear in these pages in the near future.
After much soulsearching I have decided on the BA Codex for organisation purpouses since I do want assult squads as troops and also a chance to field the shuttle in the guise of a Stormraven gunship, however I will stay well clear of the typical BA units like Sanguiary Priests,
Deathcompany, Baal Predators, Sanguinary Guard and all kinds of Special Characters.

Ravenguard was the preliminary idea, even bought some FW stuff for it but then IA10 came out and hit me like a ton of bricks with the beautifully remade Charcarodons.
I have always nurtured a soft spot for the spacesharks since I first took up the 40k hobby back in '95 but the appaling lack of background, silly chapter heraldry (aka the angry meatball) and let's face it; not the best name there is (yes yes, I know. The Rainbow Warriors hade the worst beating with the stupid-name-stick) always kept me from starting up a shark army.

So it hangs in the balance, Ravenguard or Charcharodons.. by the time the shuttle is finished a chapter will have been chosen.

Looking forward to it

ANGRY MEATBALL!!! yes that was probably the least grim-dark chapter symbol of all time. But they are ripe for re-imagining

Great work. Sad about the massive tank, but you have not only modeled it all great, your painting is beautiful too!

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for the storm raven, the turret weapons are twin linked assault cannons as standard, which can be uograded for free to twin linked plasma cannons or twinlinked lasxannons.
It also has twin linked heavy bolters
in the nose, which can be traded for typhoon missile launcher ir twinlinked multimelta.
As a further option it can also have hurricane bolters a la landraider crusader & if thats not enough there are 4 bloodstrike missiles mounted underwing.
Hope that hekps. Btw been following this for a while & tou do some truly amazing stuff.
I cinsidered getting the stormraven and trading out the turret for a FW turret off a razorback, we ahall see.

Fantastic looking tank cant wait too see it in its full glory!

Well this sucks, since I don't have my camera I have to use my cellphone to take progress pictures.. problem is that my cellphone died two weeks ago and I am stuck with an old one that I use as a backup.
This in itself is not a problem, however it seems like it's sotware is too old to be compatible with my laptop (running windows 7) so I can't transfer any data at all.. datalink, bluetooth.. nothing works..

Thin makes me kind of a less than happy camper. I had made some really nice progress on the gunship, added more armorplating, assultcannons and typhoon missile launchers, air controlsurfaces on the mainwings, new and larger stabilizer fins and started work on the bloodstrike missiles. Even had some spare time to repair and convert a cut-up and busted Landraider from a discontinued Landraider Ares conversion project.. wich looks quite good concidering the state it was in when repairs commenced, drew quite a lot of inspiration from the new Landraider Achilles pattern to repair the severely mauled front and managed to make a great start for a visable extra armor upgrade on that model too.

Dunno what to do, perhaps I can load them onto a friend's phone via bluetooth and then piggy-back the pictures on his phone to my computor.. who knows? Pictures will be up the second I solve this FUBAR technical issue.

i take it your phone doesnt have a memory card in it that you could plug into a card reader or anything?
Or use a friends camera?

Well, finally tracked down my camera so I will be posting updates on saturday.

I have started to paint a pile of marines in the grey hues of the Carcharodons, and thrown some paint on the flying thing as well.
Last week I bought myself a stormraven box, thouhgt I'd see if one could do anything fun with it.. the one thing with that damn kit is that you _Have_ to convert the damn thing.
I put the hull together with blue-tac and damn.. that is one ugly flying dumpster.. however there is few things that cannot be redeemed with a pile of plasticard and some enthusiasm.
So I have started cutting and sawing that thing to pieces and assembling things in a slightly different way, I stole some inspiration from MajorTom11's delightful photoshop work but
it will become a slightly different beast once compleated.

The big issue is what to do with it, I will hardly need another one for my Carcharodons army and if I do I will build another one based on the valkyria kit.. hmm.. do I really have to start
up a small Grey Knights army? tempting but I had intended to let Dark Eldar be my next army project.. I already have two marine armies.. do I really need another?.. tricky.

UPDATE! UPDATE TIME!

just.. too long in the making.
had 50 million things going on this spring.. little time for hobbies etc.

anywaaay...

been rethinking the weaponsloadout on this thing.. now with assultcannons..




Oh yes, I re-made the tailfins too. They where too small, and the siluoette became a bit odd with those so I made them bigger.






Added some controlsurfaces to the main wings, added a little something to the design I think.






What is that Land Raider in the background of the last shot? I hear you ask, well.. it's a salvage project.
I made a Landraider Ares for no good reason a few years back and now it's being re-built into a Redeemer, it's a bit trixy since I carved up the entire front of it to fit the demolisher cannon..
Some pictures for you.








I am sorry about the slightly blurry pictures, mind you they are taken with a less than good phone camera.

Really cool update!

anyway, what about the Ordinatus!?

Nice!

The ordinatus is still in the freezer when it comes to actual construction.
I am doing scetches mostly, having some severe trouble to decide on the gun.
I have been playing around with some designs for a Plasmaweapon and a Particle cannon that I think might work.. still not decided though.

I had one idea to crack up the hull and add another baneblade kit to the equation, essentially making it three baneblades long and wide, wich would require an even larger gun..
then I have to move up to Imperator titan-sized guns and that will pose a whole new range of problems.

Shuttle is looking pretty ace

STC_LogisEngine wrote:
I had one idea to crack up the hull and add another baneblade kit to the equation, essentially making it three baneblades long and wide, wich would require an even larger gun..
then I have to move up to Imperator titan-sized guns and that will pose a whole new range of problems.

this is gonna be moooore big! hope too see it soon!
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maybe you have to think about some other rework.....example: about a cargo bay for bike or speeder!