I've been hanging around for a couple of months now, back on Dakka after a very long absence from the hobby. (6-7 years)

I made my first purchase of modelling supplies a couple of days ago. Some Tamiya and Vallejo paints. ($45 for a can of primer and 6 paints.) o_O




And then took apart an old, badly painted bolter marine, and hit him with a quick coat of tamiya spray primer. Now going to try and decide on a color scheme for my Iron Hands sucessor chapter.



I know, nothing really exciting yet. But its a start. If my local GW has a box of Iron Hands I may pick that up next payday. (Just over a week from now.)

Other than that, its going to be dissasembling old minis for parts and making do with what I have on hand as the money slowly rolls in. This will probably transition to a Grey Knights blog once they are released.

Hey Wolfshadow , When you get some progress on the marine bolter be sure to post us up some pictures of your work.

I will be keeping an eye on this thread

~UnDeAd~

Some of the detail is obscured, as I didn't strip the mini, and this is more just to mess around with paint for the first time in....... ages.

The tamiya blue paint leave a definate gloss finish. Will def need some dullcoat/matt varnish to tone it down.

Looking forward to getting my hands on some of the weathering powders and washes. That will have to wait untill I can get some more $$. I forogt just how far a couple of drops of paint can cover. :-)

Looking goos so far , although it is slightly hard to tell from the picture , i would be sure to use some dullcoat to take the shine off of te blue. Also what weathering powders will you be using Forgeworld ?

Nice work so far ~UnDeAd~

Probably not forgeworld. There is a local hobby shop run by a freind of my family that I will be buying from. It will be whatever he carries. I saw a few pigments/poweres that he carried. Again, not sure I'm keeping this color scheme. I like the blue but it is way glossy.

I'll hit GW for some colors that he doesnt carry, the big ones being the sepia and badab black washes, along with bleached bone.

This guy probably wont make it into my force... But I just had to get some paintning in. I'm already fining it much easeir to deal with detail work than when I left the hobby.

Welcome back. I came back after an extended break as well. There's a surprising number of us (old timers that came back) popping up these days, I see threads all over Dakka from them. We should all get together and talk about what brought us back.

Looking forward to seeing your work.

WIP CSM being 'redeemed'.













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Did some more work.

They need to be dulled down a bit, but for average squaddies, I'm not totally unhappy with these guys.

I especially like the converted chaos dude, with the chainmail and the helmet.

Was nice to spend some time working with the exacto knife and the paintbrush for the first time in 7 years.







C&C Appreciated.

What Legion are you working on, and do you have any specific plans or are you just looking at the stuff you have and going with whatever inspires you?

A comment on your photography- it's dark. Even the lighter pictures are dark. Not sure what advice to offer except maybe reposition the lamp or something.

It will probably be an Iron Hands Sucessor Chapter. Not sure what iconography it will use.

They will have close ties to the Adeptus Mechanicus, lots of techmarines and dudes with bionics. HQs will probably be a MOTF, and either a Libby or a Captain. If the Iron Hands ever get another rule set or spec charachter, I'd probably use him. I'm contemplating, fluff wise, them being a SM force accompanying a Ad-Mech search fleet on a 'crusade'/STC search.

Def planiing a Thunderfire Cannon or 2 in there, and possibly a SM superheavy based off of the Turrets Machinator is working on.

Most of those pics were taken really late last nigh with a desk lamp. Will see if I can get some more pics up today in more natural light.

Cheers.

Welcome back to the hobby how do you find painting miniatures with the tamiya's? i only ever used them on vehicles and found it slow going because of the drying times.

If you thin tamiya down with water, drying time isnt too bad. The big thing is to work with small amounts and thin it out. I find it takes 2-3 drops of tamiya paint to cover pretty much a whole mini. And tamiya is cheap. $3.25 a bottle. Although its only a 10ml bottle...

If your airbrushing, thin it down with some alcohol. Its tack dry almost on contact if you have a thin enough coat.

More progress:

God, I cant wait untill my holiday pay comes in and I can buy some new minis as opposed to repainting.

Yeah,i buy them for because they have better colours for them, and at £1.50 a jar they are a 3rd cheaper than gw paints.

I'd recommend getting a high % Isopropyl alcohol to thin tamiyas if working with any quantity. No good for thinning small amounts as it dries too quick. IIRC, GW paints dont react well to alcohol thinning. They used to get all gummy on me.

I always buy thinners with them, it should also say i only use tamiya on vehicles, stupid keyboard must have missed that out lol

Progress on SGT.

Nice thread.

I have also had an absence from the hobby. I was with friends when walking past GW local store and they siad they wanted to start an army choas/necrons and they both spent about £200 to get a small force. I just went in the cupboard and got out my space marines, 13,000 points and counting - all of which i am re-painting.

also i only use GW paints, so it's great to read up on guys using others. keep up the good work.

Coming along nicely mate, I also have used tamiya paints in the past but mainly on Resin models, I find it tacs better to the resin than the GW or Army Painter posts do, but I've always found it too thick on the models I lose detail to quick and again the drying times has always held me back as well.

That said my only source for the stuff until recently was a Toy store and they did not sell the Alcohol based thinners which is probably where all my issues stemmed from.

Keep em coming!

Santobell wrote:Coming along nicely mate, I also have used tamiya paints in the past but mainly on Resin models, I find it tacs better to the resin than the GW or Army Painter posts do, but I've always found it too thick on the models I lose detail to quick and again the drying times has always held me back as well.

That said my only source for the stuff until recently was a Toy store and they did not sell the Alcohol based thinners which is probably where all my issues stemmed from.

Keep em coming!

TY Santobell. Most of the Tamiya stuff thins fine with water. I work with tiny amounts on a plastic lid thinned down with a drop or two of water from my brush cleaning cup. (If the waters not too dirty.) The alcohol is more for when it gets old and is starting to thicken up, or if you are airbrushing. If you think with alcohol when airbrushing, it dries super fast... almost as fast as you can get it on the model, if your working under bright, incandescent light from a desk lamp.

love that dak is on the screen when you took the photos

Element206 wrote:love that dak is on the screen when you took the photos

I spend WAY too much time on Dakka. It's become something of an addiction. I tend to get fixated on forums once I become a member, and Dakka has such a wonderful scope of topics to discuss and comment on. Between here and my Gaming clan forums (Which I moderate), the forums for the computer games that I play, and a couple of other wargaming forums I can generally kill a 12 hour shift @ work with little to no problem.

wolfshadow wrote:I spend WAY too much time on Dakka.

Impossible. There's no such thing. And I'm not certain those words can really be used in a sentence. I think I just quoted a hallucination.

De-chaosed bakpacks and bolters




Squad shot, so far.

It might just be lighting, but the last pic has your blue much darker then before. This looks awesome! It might be a little bit "night-lords"ish though.

powerclaw wrote:It might just be lighting, but the last pic has your blue much darker then before. This looks awesome! It might be a little bit "night-lords"ish though.

Thats the lighting indeed. Not sure why that pic the paint looks so dark. But thats the color I'm going for... almost a midnight blue. Once I get my hands on some black wash we shall see how things go. I'm using Tamiya royal blue over light grey tamiya spray primer.

And the night lordish look is pretty much what I'm going for. Except my guys are loyalist.

Prob going to get some sort of ChapterHouse shoulder pad for them, but not sure which one.

I need a "Hand" or "Gauntlet" name for them if I want to use Iron Hands pads.

Thanks for the comments folks. :-)

Tooo much time on dakka?? Now I am new to all this forum thing, never been into it before but decided to extend the amount of people I talk to about my Hobby, but I don't post I just look through thread after thread.
Even as I type I am at work waiting for a delivery on my Blackberry. I think I should be glad we have wireless here to make it all quicker!

usukgoose wrote:Tooo much time on dakka?? Now I am new to all this forum thing, never been into it before but decided to extend the amount of people I talk to about my Hobby, but I don't post I just look through thread after thread.
Even as I type I am at work waiting for a delivery on my Blackberry. I think I should be glad we have wireless here to make it all quicker!

I Dakka @ Work and @ home too. :-)

Sgt, with De-Chaos'd backpack




Plasma Gunner WIP

THngs have been pretty quiet for me modelling wise the past couple of days. But I'm working on a pretty big trade that could end up with SIGNIFICANT renforcements for my battle brothers.

Now to decide on a Chapter Name.


Iron hands sucessor, somthing with either 'hands' or 'Gauntlet' in the name....

Obsidian Gauntlets?

Welcome back to the hobby. However, I see you need a name and, seeing your paint scheme, would like to suggest the Cobalt Fists (fists works better than hands for me on that one) or the Steel Gauntlets. It might just be me, but I figure Steel should be the natural successor to Iron. Steel Brothers, perhaps, using their parent chapter's symbol to show a continued allegiance to the Iron Hands and the pact with the Adeptus Mechanicus

Welcome back to the hobby Wolf Shadow, I too was out for a bit and actively getting my army back to strength (note to everyone do not sell your army) and your squad is coming along great.

Thanks Guys. I appreciate the encouragement. I still have plenty of SW if I really want to game, but TBH, I'm more interested in the painting and modelling aspect right now.
There are so many conversion opportunities with some of the wonderfull new small companies offer bits, custom shoulderpads and so many other fiddly bitz to play with. I just wish I had another $5-600 to throw at the hobby. A company of nohing but FW marines would be awsome. :-P

Hey wolf, coming along nicely. With the photos it's a little hard to see & make specific suggestions, but you might thinking about lining the recesses with a dark wash (use a brush) and some edge highlighting to make the pop a bit. My apologies if you already have these covered, as I said... hard to tell.

I'm really low on supplies (6 paints, and a can of spray primer and some plastic glue) , so no washes yet. Hopefully I'll be able to pick up some supplies on Wed or Thursday. Hence why everything is still WIP.

I'm hoping to pick up a box of IH, and some paints at the local GW, and some major re-enforcements in the nature of a pretty major swap with another Dakka member.

Really need some dullcoat (Purity seal) to dull down the minis too.

Yeah, you want to protect the fruits of your labors... just came back from my FLGS over lunch and resupplied with paints and dullcoat... necessary supplies.

wolfshadow wrote:Thanks Guys. I appreciate the encouragement. I still have plenty of SW if I really want to game, but TBH, I'm more interested in the painting and modelling aspect right now.
There are so many conversion opportunities with some of the wonderfull new small companies offer bits, custom shoulderpads and so many other fiddly bitz to play with. I just wish I had another $5-600 to throw at the hobby. A company of nohing but FW marines would be awsome. :-P

Just sell your soul. I hear you can even trade it for sprues if you can't get cash. :p

PerilsoftheBrush wrote:

wolfshadow wrote:Thanks Guys. I appreciate the encouragement. I still have plenty of SW if I really want to game, but TBH, I'm more interested in the painting and modelling aspect right now.
There are so many conversion opportunities with some of the wonderfull new small companies offer bits, custom shoulderpads and so many other fiddly bitz to play with. I just wish I had another $5-600 to throw at the hobby. A company of nohing but FW marines would be awsome. :-P

Just sell your soul. I hear you can even trade it for sprues if you can't get cash. :p

I would, but my Soul is already heavily mortgaged for the promise of plastic Grey Knights.

Haha. Sometimes you have to take out a second mortgage. So is life.

wolfshadow wrote:I spend WAY too much time on Dakka. It's become something of an addiction. I tend to get fixated on forums once I become a member, and Dakka has such a wonderful scope of topics to discuss and comment on. Between here and my Gaming clan forums (Which I moderate), the forums for the computer games that I play, and a couple of other wargaming forums I can generally kill a 12 hour shift @ work with little to no problem.

I know what you mean. I am the same way at work as well. Its a good thing something like this exist, otherwise I would ACTUALLY have to do my job! Its like my break between breaks. I try to act like a stranger to the internet once I come home...I figure I can always jump on during the next work shift . So between Dakka and assembling my models at work, I stay pretty busy

Well, no modelling updates as of yet. Hopefully that will change tomorrow and thursday.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to pick up an Iron Hands box @ the local GW. Thursday, I'm hoping to complete a major trade that will significantly augment my chapters combat abilities.


Anyhow, a bit of fluff. I've tossed a few ideas around. This is what I've come up with so far:

Background Chapter: Ebon Gauntlets

Sucessor Chapter to the Iron Hands Space Marines, they follow the Codex Astartes, but have a significantly higher % of marines that have visible cybernetic Augmetics, as they have some of the same reverence for the Omnissah that their parent chapter does.

The Ebon Gauntlets are a fleet based chapter, who recruit on worlds that they campaign on, with particularly noteworthy members of the PDFs and sometimes particularly brave members of the Imperial Guard that they have fought with are offered the chance to test to undergo the process of becoming a Space Marine. They are Fleet Based, as their homeworld was destroyed by a Necron incursion, wiping out their Fortress Monestary, and causing heavy losses to the reserve companies of the Chapter, which they have still not recovered from.
As such, the Chapter has a virulent hatred for the Necrontyr, and will sometimes divert away from whatever their current primary mission is to destroy any Necrontyr forces they may encounter. Their hatred of the Necrontyr has resulted in a fairly cordial relationship with the Ordo Xenos of the Inquisition, with many Veteran Marines serving with the DeathWatch, and almost all members of the chapter command structure, Librarians, Chaplains, and line Command Staff have served in the DeathWatch at one time or another, and many still wear the DeathWatch shoulder pad to honor that service. Many veterans still use the Ancient DeathWatch pattern bolters in their tireless fight against the Xenos threats to the Imperium.

The Chapter has ancient ties still with the Ordo Mechanicus, and the Chapter has a higher than average number of Techmarines. The Master Of the Forge frequently sees direct combat, overseeing operations and maintaining watch on the # of Dreadnuaghts and Thunderfire Cannons that the Chapter fields.

They also maintain an ancient SuperHeavy Fellblade tank that they TechMarines will, on dire need, remove it from Stasis, and field it from their primary Battle Barge.

So I managed to grab myself a box of Devestators, aws well as some crazglue and some azureman blue and badab black wash.

Yay.

Gods above, I'm hoping the sswap shop is kind with the availablity of the minis I want to get for this army over the next few months, otherwise I'm going broke.

After a pretty massive trade witha fellow Dakkaite, I now have more than enough models to keep me going for a while. I placed an order with maxmini for some Bionic bitz, and I'm hoping to order a box or 2 of Iron Hands from GW at some point, which aside for a tank or 2, should leave me in pretty good shape for this army, with plenty of bitz left over.

I'm really hoping that they give us a plastic Libby at some point. That would make for some nice conversion/kitbash possbilites.

If the wife hasnt hijacked the camera, hopefully I'll have soem pics later on today.




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Wait, what? Pics you say?


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Slightly better pic.

Looking good. I think that an IronHands successor has the best potential.
I like the blue marines. The only thing that bothers me, is the guy with a powerfist, thats pointing at the ground.

shortsonfire79 wrote:Looking good. I think that an IronHands successor has the best potential.
I like the blue marines. The only thing that bothers me, is the guy with a powerfist, thats pointing at the ground.

He's a kitbash from some De-chaos'd CSM. One of my first test minis for the scheme. I really liked the PF, but also really liked his bolt pistol, which closely resembles a DW patter bolter. Hes posed looking down the sights/tageter of the BP shooting at somthing. Having the PF upwards without bending the arm looked kind of silly. Basically he was from parts that I wanted to use but only had a few available. Not sure if he's going to stay put together at all. He may be 'sacrificed' for the benifit of the imperium. (IE used for parts.)

I'm not sure where I got those MK1 helmets. I think I might have either bitz ordered them or bought an Iron Warriors box or somthing. They are metal.

Anyone point out where they are from. I bought them so long ago I don't remember.

Got to muck around with some models @ work:

EDIT... ignore my insanity, due to the internet I am forced to tolerate at this moment i thought I was posting in a different thread.

btemple0 wrote:Well, I know that on LBursley's website that he has a tutorial where he airbrushes a space wolf, maybe you can get some ideas from there.

I will gladly look into all the airbrushng tutorials once I have an airbrush.

I really have to figure out how to get some decent photos. The ppics really dont show the detail on the minis that well. I didnt get all that much done this weekend as I actually had to do 'work' while @ work yesturday.

Hoping that the OT that I have to work this holiday season gives me a nice bit of $ for models. We shall see what comes from the swap shop as well. :-)

I have my eye on quiet a few conversions. I want to see if I can find someone to sculpt me a 1 head for artificer type armour, and then maybe make a few extras.

Practice Practice Practice. All I can say about taking pictures.

Best advice I can offer for photos no matter what they are, make sure your light source is in front of the model. If the light is bright behind your model it will always be a dark picture.

Looking good btw

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Best advice I can offer for photos no matter what they are, make sure your light source is in front of the model. If the light is bright behind your model it will always be a dark picture.

Looking good btw

You know, thatas a surprisingly straightforward, obvious piece of advice that will probably help my photos immensely.

And thanks.

Hoping to get a bit done a bit later on. Gotta love night shift.

So things have be quiet on the modelling front for the past few days. Been working the swap shop pretty hard though, and should have some bitz and reiforcements on the way soon. I also caved, and bought 2 boxes of Iron Hands off the GW website, along with the Techmarine with Servo Harness. (Potential MOTF)

Also went out today and hit a couple of local business for some sensible purchases.

A Bitz box and 2 Micropens. Micropens are surprisingly cheap and holy **** is the tip tiny. .07mm

I got a black one and a red one.

Some progress shots.

Termies




Dev Squad (Mostly done)



More Devs/A WIP Dread

I really like the amount of "Chaos" you have in your force. Gives it a pre-Heresy look and feel.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I really like the amount of "Chaos" you have in your force. Gives it a pre-Heresy look and feel.

Yeah. Thats mostly some old Iron Warriors heads that I had floating around, and a handful of Chaos Space Marines that I had that got chopped up and 'purified' for the benifit of the cause.

Hey wolf... have you decided how you're going to do the bases?

Gitsplitta wrote:Hey wolf... have you decided how you're going to do the bases?

Not yet. Prob something to do with sand and rocks, as I live right next to a beach and basing materials are free.

My last ones were pretty simply done with PVA and sand.

I want to get my hands on some cork for 'rock' but TBH, it migh just be easier to go down to the beach and pick up some real rocks.

EDIT: Anyone have any ideas on how to do a Psychic hood from plastic? I'm going to do my Libby out of a plastic kitbash, prob with one of those bloody awsome new Kromlech Kopesh' for a force weapon. I really dont like most of the metal libbys.

You might experiment with colors and textures. The right base with colors that compliment/contrast the figure can really make it stand out. I don't think my figures would look anywhere near as good as they do without the basing system I cooked up.

I'm not suggesting you use MY basing system mind you... but I think considering carefully how the base will interact with the figure can make a big difference in the overall effect.

Oh, I definately will contemplate the basing scheme. I may hold off on basing for a while so I can figure out a scheme once I have the budget for some decent basing supplies. I dont even have any PVA glue on hand at the moment.

And I really am stoked to get into converting/modding some minis, but so much of that is on hold waiting for bitz and ordered stuff to arrive in the mail. Even my 2 IH boxes from GW haven't arrived yet.

Maybe you could take a small diameter thin walled piece of PVC pipe, and then use some actual wires from something like a cat-5 cable or some guitar or other wires, to fabricate a psychic hood.

btemple0 wrote:Maybe you could take a small diameter thin walled piece of PVC pipe, and then use some actual wires from something like a cat-5 cable or some guitar or other wires, to fabricate a psychic hood.

Yeah, I'm looking around at various conversions.

And WOOT! I just got 10 Deathwatch Bolters in the mail thanks to a trade with a Dakka user (Thanks fett14622) Looking forward to making some SternGaurd vets with them. Now I just need my GW shipment to come in.

It looks like my space marines took the wrong C-130 and ended up on the other side of the country im "visiting", so at least you will get to have more stuff to work with than i will for a while, and thats anly because i have not touched my Space Hulk Termies just yet

Ah the joys of Military transport. Which branch are you with, and where are you at if it doesn't violate OPSEC.

Army and in Afghanistan

WIP Devestator


And Some DW Pattern bolters, and a WIP SternGaurd SGT with Powersword.

Just read your exchange on basing and I will say that if there's any doubt,don't base them. I do not dislike the flock I used for my Death Guard, but by the standards miniatures are judged by now I have been found wanting by a few people. The only reason I'm not doing something else is that the flock I have on my miniatures right now if the same flock I made back in 1995 and have maybe 4 lbs of it still. My IG, Genestealer Cult, Death Guard, Orks, Orcs & Goblins, and more are all flocked wiht the same stuff. It's not terrible, but it's not what I would be doing right now if I didn't already have 1/2 my army on it. Waiting until you *know* that is what you want will make you a lot happier over the years.

More work on the powersowrd. Its drilled, pinned, and has the cable added. Thats the Bionic CHainsowrd arm from the command sprue IIRC.


@ Skalk... I'm not going to do anything base wise untill I have a decent # of Marines ready to go. It will prob be a mix of sand and rocks.

Very early WIP Librarian conversion.


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Reinforcements have arrived.

2 Boxes of Iron Hands, and a Techmarine in full servo harness arrived with 2 minutes to go to UPS 7pm shipping deadline.

So 20 Iron Hands Pads, 4 Sets of Cybernetic Legs, 8 Cybernetic Arms. 8 heads, (1 miscast) and 4 Chest pieces, plus 2 Thunder Hammers and 20 Tactical Marines. Lots of shiny bionics.

I'll have to call GW customer service about the mistcast head sprue tomorrow. They would have just closed.




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Some progress on the Libby. Mated him up with a set of legs from the Iron Hands set.

Tactical Marine/SternGaurd WIP Shots








As always, C&C appreciated.

Cheers!

Hey wolf, looks nice enough, but it's a bit hard to make any meaningful comments "at range" so-to-speak. I realize you have camera limitations, but that may be why you aren't getting more help.

Yeah, I need to figure out some better techniques for photographing the minis.

Natural light works best, but alas, its winter in Canada. Natural light (Especially when you work afternoons and nights) is at a premium.


I'm going to have to work out some sort of background for them to take shots.

You need to get us CLOSER too. That's a biggie.

I cant really get much closer without loosing focus on my camera, and it auto-macros.

The pics are pretty high detail, as its a 14 megapixel camera. You can zoom in pretty tight in the gallery.

Maybe I'll try doing some cropping before I post to the gallery...

That would be a great idea!

Also, if you click on the images, it does take you to the gallery shot where you can zoom in pretty darned close with the gallery zoom function. The big thumbnails that it posts to here dont do full justic. :-)

Problem is that takes me out of your thread and makes commenting just one more step more difficult. It's not a big deal, but if you're trying to interest people in your project and get them to take time out of their day to volunteer advice... you want to make it as simple a process for them as possible.

Oh, I totally agree.

I dont really have a lot of image software, and frankly my computer is commiting seppuku lately.. but I shall see what I can do.


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Mucked around with the Camera, my desk lamp and some cropping. Hopefully these will draw some more C&C




A little doodad I made for painting heads.





And another shot of the WIP marines

Doesn't look like you prime them before you paint them... if not, you should.

I prime them. Using either GWs spray or Tamiya Spray. Only thin with paint on the Libby is the head, which was primed seperately. (On the little stand thingie..) Also, some of the older models were swaps and primed by other people. Oh and the torso came out of my bitz box preprimed. I think that whole sprue was preprimed GW skull white.

The one pic of the tactical marine is really picking up some file marks on the leg that dont really show up at anywhere close to tabletop distance.

And I really need to pick up some more paint colors. Some tin bitz, gold and sepia wash are a definate need.

Looking at the tac marine now, I need to hit the pad with some gunmetal to bring it back up a bit... The pad with the fist on it is too dark. I might switch that to chainmail wshed with black instead of boltgun... Have to try it once I get some chainmail paint.

Sorry, the legs of the guy on the right look like bare metal, just though I'd mention it. Nice little gadget you made for working on the heads.

Gitsplitta wrote:Sorry, the legs of the guy on the right look like bare metal, just though I'd mention it. Nice little gadget you made for working on the heads.

I think hes still working on assembly for that one
Looking great Wolfshadow. The head painter was genius. and the shoulderpad for the librarian looks really good, where did you get the pipe things for around his chest?
THe deathwatch marine looks good too, though I was told with my own DW that their whole left arm is painted silver

All hail to the Omnissiah! Lookin' good!

He's no longer Deathwatch though, he's returned to the Chapter after Deathwatch service. They just wear the Pad to honor thier time spent in the DeathWatch.

The Cables are, IIRC, some 1/35 scale tow cable that I had sitting in my model toolbox for some reason. They've prob been in that toolbox for the better part of 10 years, since my Dad died. Most of my tools were his.

Still trying to figure out how I'm going to tie them into the backpack then out to his yet to be constructed Force weapon. (Prezmas... I'm waiting on you to release those steampunk weapons and the new Egyptiuan feel swords. )


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Contemplating an idea to have the SGTs armed with Servo arms to represent Power fists. Just to give them a more Techmarine/Adeput Mechanicus feel.

Thoughts?

Oh, and my photo updates may be sporadic as my home computer has pretty much committed Seppuku (Motherboard/CPU are close to totally shot) It only runs for 15 minutes before it shuts down.

It looks like the Omnissiah is displeased with my efforts thus far. The curse of the Machine God is upon me. Both my home PC and my Digicam are pretty much borked. PC is wear and tear. Wife damaged the Camera and I can't seem to get it to work. Which sucks as I started work on the Libby's paintjob for the body at least. Along with a SternGaurd vet armed with a Combi-Melta.

Waiting on my Maxmini order and my Chapterhouse order. Debating putting a placeholder Power wsowrd on untill Maxmini releases and ships the wonderful SteamPunk weapons.

Trust in Omnissiah, He will guide you.

wolfshadow wrote:So things have be quiet on the modelling front for the past few days. Been working the swap shop pretty hard though, and should have some bitz and reiforcements on the way soon. I also caved, and bought 2 boxes of Iron Hands off the GW website, along with the Techmarine with Servo Harness. (Potential MOTF)

Also went out today and hit a couple of local business for some sensible purchases.

A Bitz box and 2 Micropens. Micropens are surprisingly cheap and holy **** is the tip tiny. .07mm

I got a black one and a red one.

Micropens are what dreams are encoded with. Can't say enough good things about them. I'm excited to see some completed models

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Micropens are what dreams are encoded with. Can't say enough good things about them. I'm excited to see some completed models

Wait what? Progress?

Wife appears to have fixed the Camera.

Not much, but some. Work was busy, so despite 2 12 hours shifts, I wasnt able to get much done. Did get some paint on the Libby WIP, and a SternGuard vet with Combi-Melta partly done.



And One more piece of the puzzle. Przemas from Maxmini sucessfully got me my order





So I now have a CRAPTON of Resin Bionics to convert with.







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Nice work, they're coming together slowly

That's .. a big sword. What kind of size are the chain blades? I'm looking at getting some different chain weapons for another project of mine. Is Maxmini good to deal with?

The Chain blades are... to put it mildly, HUGE. The big chainblade is easily the height of a marine. Could be used to represent a Relic blade or an eviscerator easily.

Quality of the bitz is excellent, minimal flash. Details on the Bionic heads are fantastic, well beyond my ability to really do justice to at this point.

If you just want chain blades, IIRC, you put what you want in the comment field of your order, and they are willing to ship you specific ones.

When I get home, I'll put a tactical marine next to one of each of the swords so you can see how big they are.

Based on this order, I'll definately be ordering from Maxmini again.

At this point I'm waiting on some more paint colors, and possibly some weathering pigments before I can call stuff 'done'.

Depending on how much $ I get for Xmas, I might order the DeathWatch conversion kit. I'm gonna get raped on the conversion rates for GWE though. :-(

Wow! Can you say "chew faster because that's a HUGE bite"? You should not be bored for quite some time.

Your photography is getting much better. Focus is an issue on a couple shots but overall the lighting is a huge improvement.

Looking forward to seeing how your conversions work out.

I now have a nice fixed point of reference for taking pics. I rest the camera on my desk to take it. Lighting tends to be my biggest issue. Probably because I end up taking my pics @ 2am, and I havent figured out how to over-ride the camrea and have the flash kick on even if the camera thinks there is enough light.

And I still have 3 more packages incoming. 2 Trades, and a Chapterhouse package.

I need Green Stuff, more paint, and some weathering pigments, and I should be good to go indefinately after all that comes in.... or once the Maxmini SteamPunk weapons are released.


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Head of Libby WIP, ready to be glued to body




Randomly Tacticooled Bolt pistol for libby, WIP

Scapped the bolt Pistol Didnt end up working out.

Power weapon effects on the Libbys Force weapon.

I really do need some better brushes.

I may have 4 of the actual Deathwatch conversion metal Shoulderpads free if you want them, PM me and i will see what i can do.

PM definately sent. :-)

Light box time? I made one the other week, which only took me about 10 minutes and $5 to make. Just take a cardboard box, cut off the top and one side, tape tin foil on the whole of the inside and put a paper backdrop on it and you're done. So easy and effective!

I like your huge swords too. haha

PerilsoftheBrush wrote:Light box time? I made one the other week, which only took me about 10 minutes and $5 to make. Just take a cardboard box, cut off the top and one side, tape tin foil on the whole of the inside and put a paper backdrop on it and you're done. So easy and effective!

I like your huge swords too. haha

Wait untill I get my Green stuff, and can sculpt some artificer Armour for my Honor Guard. I have 2 MASSIVE Chainswords for Relic Blades... They are freaking massive.......

Hey again Wolfshadow , this thread has certainly progressed a lot since i first commented , your picture quality is looking a lot better and the models are looking pretty good to me. I like the effect you have done on Libby's power weapon looking pretty effective.

Keep up the good work and i think you mentioned plastic grey knights somewhere a while a go , could this be true ( Fingers crossed)

~UnDeAd~

The box is ready, and I should be getting it out of here provided everything goes well on my end

btemple0 wrote:The box is ready, and I should be getting it out of here provided everything goes well on my end

:-)

Awsome.



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Someone was asking how big the Chainswords were...

BIG!





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WIP SternGaurd

Your army is looking good and I like all the Tech your adding to your marines. I can't wait until my Red Corsairs Destroys your chapter and takes that Tech off their bones. Huron could use more bionics.
BTW whats the name of your Master of the Forge? I have a Dreadnought sarcophagus for his broken body that needs a name.

Little friendly advice for the Ebon Guard. Stay clear of the Maelstrom, and you Chapter will strive.

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At first I had a hard time with taking photos. Few pointers: Light, lots of light. If you can, use a piece of paper to set your white balance. Tripods and timers. At least make sure you use the timer feature. That way you dont have to hold it and the camera doesn't move when taking the photo. If it's a dark model use a light background, vise versa. Lastly and one of the most important steps: Editing Software. I use Photoshop but there are other really great free editing programs out there. All I do is crop, Auto levels, Auto colour, Auto contrast. Save, done.

That being said can we see a group photo of you army together. I'm not sure I can wait to see it in person.

My MOTF doesnt have a name yet.... or a model. I've pretty much decided that he's going to be converted. I dont like the Techmarine torso I got all that much. It's too busy... to many dangling cables that dont seem to have an actual use....

Although from the brief preview, I may have to pick up the new IA book... hopefully people will let me use the rules for the SOM chapter master.

@ Strofoam04. The Scarborough Town Centre GW doesnt care what time you come in to game anymore. they have 40K nights etc, but you can come in at random times and game as well now.

Maybe you can De-chaos a iron warriors warsmith or something like that for your MOTF. IIRC it does not have that many wires and where that is lacking maybe look into getting some guitar string of the thicker variety to Create your own wires. I had done something similar to make a Space marine captain, so i could attach a bolt pistol to his PF arm and gave me the free hand for an auspex, but unfortunately that mini is half a world away from me so i cannot get any pictures for it.

btemple0 wrote:Maybe you can De-chaos a iron warriors warsmith or something like that for your MOTF. IIRC it does not have that many wires and where that is lacking maybe look into getting some guitar string of the thicker variety to Create your own wires. I had done something similar to make a Space marine captain, so i could attach a bolt pistol to his PF arm and gave me the free hand for an auspex, but unfortunately that mini is half a world away from me so i cannot get any pictures for it.

I might do that... I love his powerr fist, and could use that elsewhere.



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Progress~!

Some stuff on the go. Libby is almost done. Waiting on some GS and more colors of paint at this point. May just leave him as is.




Some SternGaurd Bolter Marines, with the SGT almost done.



My Captain from before. Decided that he didn't fit as a Captain for my force, so... he's now the Chapter Champion. First Marine in my Honor Gaurd squad.




Styrofoam04 : army shot

SternGuard Combi-Melta (AKA SternGuard # 6) 4 more, 2 with Combi-Weapons to finish a full squad, or possibly 4 with Combi-Meltas so I can have 3 in each Combat Squad. The other combi-meltas will have to be converted somehow. Looking at possibly getting some of the Chapterhouse Melta or flamer bitz for that.

Get some black wash on that gun and you'll be in good shape.

He hasn't been washed yet.

I got some paint for Xmas. So between the colors and washes that I got, it should be enough to 'finish'the guys I have. Amazing the difference what 4 colors of paint and washes can make.

And as of today, updates got text only for about a week or so, as my wife is wandering off to England with the Camera. Hopefully she'll make a stop in Nottingham and pick up some FW stuff for me. :-)

Great work so far!


Where did you got the big chainswords?

Those are the Kromlech Post Apocalyptic rippers available from www.Maxmini.eu

I am cheerfully waiting for several of Maxmini's projects to release as they have a BUNCH of stuff coming out thats going to be awsome for this army.

I want to order more stuff from ChapterHouse, but I havent got my first order from them as of yet.

Thanks,I am a huge fan of huge chainswords!

They come in a pack of 3, 2 big Chainswords, one big powersword. If you want the chainswords specifically, I think you can make not of that in the order form. Prezmas is awsome that way. :-)

Hey man been looking at this thread of yours, i gotta say that your modelling is amazing, im not really one to talk about painting as im kinda av, but i would suggest some highlights on ur squaddies to lighten em up a bit, the whole thing just looks a bit dark, but again im not one to talk and thats just my opinion, great work tho

I'm not partcularly good at edge highlighting, and I tend to f*** it up when I try, so for the moment I've held off on that. I'd prefer to be a bit more subtle and darken things down with washes rather than lighten them up with highligting. I may do some zenithal rather than edge highlighting at a later point, once my skill is up to it.

Things will also get weathered with weathering powders once I get some, and decide on a basing scheme.

Much of my limitations are supply based at the moment, as I'm getting back into the hobby on a VERY limited budget basis, with most of my purchases coming from trades. Model wise out of pocket cash purchases have been limited to my initial purchase of glue, several colors of paint and a can of spray primer. I really need some better brushes, some weathering pigments and some more colors of paint, especially blue shades for power weapons, and some more metallics for general use.

totally understandable i just thought id throw my 2 cents worth in is all

I like that pistol. What did you end up doing with it?
The libby turned out great! I love the power sword's paint job. And great work with the sternguard.

shortsonfire79 wrote:I like that pistol. What did you end up doing with it?
The libby turned out great! I love the power sword's paint job. And great work with the sternguard.

The pistol ended up not working out, and was scrapped unfortunatly.

And thanks. :-)

So... small, boring picless update.

Things have been quiet on the modelling front, as I just built a new computer. So thats been taking my time up a bit.

Buuuuutttt.

Prezmas just released his wonderful 'SteamPunk' weapons set, so I ordered a couple. And my ChapterHouse shoulder pads order came in the mail. So I have lots of 'hand' covered shoulder pads. Oh, and a friend of mine said that he was going to order me some of the larger shoulder pads from CH for my termies.

I had been unaware that you had started a blog wolf (I get in the habit of not looking for new ones, just the ones im subbed in already). Love the use of kit bashes, my favorite thing to do, especially with some of the bits you got, like the rippers. Havent seen the steampunk weapons, I'll have to check em out.

Thanks. Kitbashes are what most of what my conversions will be.

Although I'm looking for a local supply of GS at an affordable price so I can at least attempt to do some major conversions. I have some rather (for my skill level anyway) ambitious plans for my MOTF/Chapter Master.

Due to some unforseen complications on my end I ordered you a conversion kit, since i cannot send mine from my end for some reason. I had to find some means of keeping my promise to ya somehow, anyways have fun with the pads.

btemple0 wrote:Due to some unforseen complications on my end I ordered you a conversion kit, since i cannot send mine from my end for some reason. I had to find some means of keeping my promise to ya somehow, anyways have fun with the pads.

HOLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats awsome. I know its not that much in the states but for some godforsaken reason its like $40 to order it from GW Canada.

Either way you look at it I did promise you the pads, but if you ar elucky they should be there within the next week or so, depending upon the weather and the like, and I know all about that lake effect snow you get since I was raised around that daggone lake.

By the way make sure to PM me when you get said parts, otherwise I will have fun over my night shift talking with GW customer service.

btemple0 wrote:By the way make sure to PM me when you get said parts, otherwise I will have fun over my night shift talking with GW customer service.

Will do.

I'm waiting on...... 4 or 5 shipments to arrive. :-)

Thanks to Btemple, I have a full DW conversion kit. So loads more bolters, shoulderpads and heads.

He is all sorts of awsome.

I'll trim and prime up the shoulderpads and bolters hopefully tonight.

PC gaming, after a long hiatus due to lack of a working PC has taken up most of my time lately.

Going to try and do some work tonight.

good on ya

Work actually getting done today.

I have 1 tactical Marine at about 85%, another at about 25 %.. Should be able to get both to the 95% done mark before I go home from work. These guys will have either bionic assisted or DW pattern bolters. If I get lucky, and things stay quiet I might be able to get a 3rd Marine in.

Having way to much fun with my Maxmini resins and some of the metal IH parts from the GW kit.




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Yay! Actual Progress!

Edit: Btemple0, Not obvious from the pose but the one with the bionic Leg has one fo the Bolters that you sent me

@ Work, working on a Melta tactical and another couple of Bolter marines.

Will get pics up tonight hopefully when I get home from work

Quiet sunday 12 hour shifts are cool for getting work done on models. Goal for today is to get up to at least combat squad strength on the tacticals, if not a bit futher.

I can tell that it is a Deathwatch bolter, as it is just a wee small looking in the front hand of the marine, but as to if it came from the kit I sent I have no clue.

Oh yes, I got some great news, I got an email from GW about the new gk release, then again anything shiny that GW comes out with that I get an email about I am already waiting impatiently for, so maybe we will see some new GKs on your blog.

Count on it. :-) I'll have at least a box of Termies the day they release here in Canada, if not a full army worth. Starting to save up now.

I have enough stuff to work on untill then, with my recent trades, bits from ^Freindly Dakkaites^... And one more big trade waiting for mid month to possibly move ahead.

I got 6 guys done over the weekend. 2 that I have pics of already, and 4 more. Hope to take some pics when I get home form work tonight.

So I had some issues getting the camera charged, but finally did.

These guys are at about 85-90% done. Basically need a badab black wash and some touch up work. I'm quiet happy with the way the bionics turned out on most of them.

Beakie Shot 1



Beakie Shot 2




Melta Marine



Bolter Marine




Bolter 2




Bolter 3



Bolter 4

Nice work on the bionics wolfshadow. Who made them?

They are a mix of Maxmini, and GW bionics from the IH set.

And now, with thanks to Nick from Chapterhouse, I bring you a Ordo Xenos Pattern Combi-Melta.

Woof! That's a BFG...

Its tiny compared to the commanders Combi-melta.

Thats a DeathWatch metal bolter, which are a bit on the small side compared to the plastic bolters.

The Combi-bit from CHS fits perfectly on the top of the bolter. Jsut had to chop of fthe front 2/3 of the targeter, and file the top of the bolter flat. Took about 2-3 minutes, with most of that being filing. If I had a dremel tool, prob would have taken about 30 seconds.



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Great to see they are going to good use

Indeed. And the shoulderpads will start to make an appearance soon as well. Most Vets and SGTs will have a DW pad.

Need to get more primer though.... Ran out. :-(

At least you can have primer, I have to prime the "field expediant way" using an airbrush, which broke, and now I cannot paint that nice baal predator kit that came to me in the mail.

Tank brush and thinned down white or black paint. is the ultimate field expeidient. I do that on small resin bitz.



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Tonights work, so far.






Needs a bunch of touch up and a hit of Badab black wash... But hes getting there.




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Tac squad WIP.

SGt and 2 Bolter marines left to do.

Sooooo.....


A big TY to Prezmas. I got a package from Poland today.




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Your MOTF should love the one of those axes IMHO.

ill second that they are perfect

The big axes are going towards my Honor gaurd squad as Releic blades. MOTF will prob have a Thunder Hammer. I'm leaning towards getting IA 10 and hoping that my Opponents will let me use the rules for the The SoM Chapter Master.

they should do, if the rule is in your codex then there isnt any reason why not

Tyranic Marta wrote:they should do, if the rule is in your codex then there isnt any reason why not

Well, IA isnt exactly a 'Codex'... But as a IH sucessor, its about as close as I'm going to get for any current IH rules.

Which sucks as I have 2 TH from the IH kit that at the moment, I cant use. May use one on my MOTF conversion.... we shall see.

Going to try and start on my Chaplain tonight. Need to come up with something for his Crozius though.

its games workshop rulings right? so it should be fine

cut the top of one of the hammers, add a gear like thing and BANG BANG cool chaplian wepon

bigmek35 wrote:cut the top of one of the hammers, add a gear like thing and BANG BANG cool chaplian wepon

I was thinking about somthing along that line... I have a Cool servo skull bit that would go good in the middle, but I need to find a Gear in the right size.

Starting with Assault Marine legs, I have a Chapterhouse skull Helmnet, and a IH Bionic body... He'll have prob a bionic leg from the knee down, and a Bionic hand.

see i say thing that are smart sometimes!

bigmek35 wrote:see i say thing that are smart sometimes!

I wish I could take pics at work... I made an epic Crozius. :-)



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So I spent last night @ work working on somthing... not workish :-P

Lack of sleep, excessive amounts of caffeine, a Chapterhouse Skull helmet, liberal use of the bitz box, and my mystery part, a gear from a broken printer...and copious quantities of superglue fumes later.

Behold.



















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Where's the printer part?

(on the top i would say)

Tyranic Marta wrote:(on the top i would say)

Yep.

The gear on the top of the Crozius is the printer part.

Along with 2 servo skulls, the haft from a techmarine axe

thats a damn good kitbash mate

The worst part was the inside of the gear was solid plastic. So I had to hollow it out. Used a pin vise to drill out holes around the perimiter, then a hobby knife and a file to clear it out.

well you did a great job, although im still partial to my own kitbashes, as everyone is, although its got more to do with them being chaos than anything else

anyhoo i was wonderin if you could upload some pics of the thunderhammers your gonna use for the motf so we can see em, (for those of us who havent )

I can upload pics tomorrow. They are just the standard IH thunder hammers that come in the box set.

My MOTF is a while off. Going to have to get some GS and plasticard first. I'm going to replace the one really clunky Servo arm with something a bit more combat oriented (Think IW Warsmith arm) I'll prob do a few Honor Gaurd Artificer Armour marines first for practice first.

I'm half thinking about seeing if I can pay someone to sculpt me a few artificer armour torsos and legs.

sounds good, and yeah ok i just havent seen a thunder hammer 4 so long i need a refresher on the actual model and it would be nice to see what your talkin about

Edge of the picture... 2 Thunderhammers.

aahhhhhh cool thanks

theyre pretty cool, looks like you have a lot of kitbash opps, shame theyre all metal

Those are all the Metal IH bits from the IH box. I've already used a good # of them for my tactical, Sternguard and Dev marines.

Hopefully tonight I can get the 3 tac marines needed to finish my 1st 10 Man tac squad. (2 Bolters and a SGT) done.

yeah thatll be good, i recently finished my army, soooo stoked, still looking for more models tho

Wait, a full, legal troops choice? WHUT?

10 Man Tactical squad, pretty close to TT ready. Some touchup and basing needed.







And a Company Champion that I have about 75% done.






Continuing with the theme that most of the Veterans and Command Staff of the chapter have served with the DeathWatch hunting Necrons.

Looking great man

Squads lookin' good!

Try a dark wash on the deathwatch pads, it makes the letters pop out a bit more.

btemple0 wrote:Try a dark wash on the deathwatch pads, it makes the letters pop out a bit more.

It's hard to ell from the pics but theDW pads have been hit wth a badab wash.

First off, apologies for not having been back sooner.

And then... wow! You've been really busy! The Chaplin is amazing! The conversion on the Crozius is inspired and very well done. The Company Champion is well done too. It's obvious that you've been putting more time into this project.

Yeah, this weekend was kind to me as work was quiet. I imagine that things will slow down a bit. I do want to get another tactical squad out of the way, so at least I'll have the semblance of a playable army.

Looking @ the Stormraven kit, I'm hoping that there are enough people who dont like the turret that the swap shop will have a few available. Looks like it might make a nice RB turret.

Your pictures lighting is really harsh. I think it is washing out many of the delectable details you are putting in and giving the models an unnatural shine. Try and diffuse the light, through a this piece of paper or reflect the light of another surface.

Thats from the flash of the camera... I'm using a small digicam, and if I don't use the flash, well.. then the pics aren't well lit enough. My photographic skills are definately just a WIP as my army

WOW! Great work, I love the weapons. Tho for some one soo busy where do you find the time? You done so much so fast. I've been working on Gits' model for almost 6 months now!

I cant wait to destroy and scavenge your army, ha ha!

Styrofoam04 wrote:WOW! Great work, I love the weapons. Tho for some one soo busy where do you find the time? You done so much so fast. I've been working on Gits' model for almost 6 months now!

I cant wait to destroy and scavenge your army, ha ha!

12 hour night shifts are a bonus point. Quiet enough that I can get some 'work' done....after about the first hour of paperwork it gets pretty boring.
I have all my bitz in a portable box, and I generally have a Rhino-sized box full of tools, and stuff on sprue to work with. Although I traded my last Rhino box, and had to use the AOBR box, which didnt work as well as it doesnt fit in my backpack well.

I'm going to be gunning for having at least a 1000 point force ready for 3 weeks from now.

I might even be able to get that up to 1500ish.

(Stuff on hand to paint: 2 Dreads, Predator, Whirly, Rhino, Razorback(TLLC), along with a whack of marines.)

Stuff on the way in trade: Vindy, Rhino, 5 scouts, Techmarine/Servo Harness....and various bitz/shoulderpads on order/incoming from trades.

You might try taping a couple of layers of wax paper over your flash, it acts as a pretty good diffuser without decreasing the light output too much.

Gitsplitta wrote:You might try taping a couple of layers of wax paper over your flash, it acts as a pretty good diffuser without decreasing the light output too much.

Hrm.... time to check the kitchen. Not sure if we have any in the house though.

Thanks for the tip though Gits!

I learned a few tricks before I got my light box. Actually with my camera the opaque lid to a can of dullcoat fits perfectly over the flash and makes a great diffuser!

Gitsplitta wrote:I learned a few tricks before I got my light box. Actually with my camera the opaque lid to a can of dullcoat fits perfectly over the flash and makes a great diffuser!

Gits = McGuyver... LOL.

So the chaplain has a printer part, so he can do some TPS reports on the side?

I am absolutely loving your modeling. Cool looking chapter and very unique.

Rabid Ferret wrote:I am absolutely loving your modeling. Cool looking chapter and very unique.

Thanks.

It's been a slow week for me modelling wise. But hopefully will pick up soon.

Got another trade in the mail. (Some scouts and a techmarine)
I went out in the freezing cold temps today and grabbed some supplies.

Some Sheet Styrene for converting supplies, along with some primer, and some milliput 2 part epoxy putty to attempt some sculpting. Hopefully its similar enough to GS that it will work.

From what I have heard, it works just as good, if not better, but then again that was in a differing area climate-wise, where we could just open a window and the 110 degree heat either helped the curing or melted your mini.

Ok... trying to get off my butt modelling wise.

I broke out the big brush, and got to work on some vehciles that were sitting around.

Not too exciting, but points wise, if I get everything here done progress wise, I'm in not too bad shape for fielding a legal tabletop army, with a few marines swapped around.

I'm not too keen on using Tamiya paints on miniatures, but I totally understand when it comes to costs. Your Tac squad looks good when its grouped together though, and the Chaplain looks pretty hard core too - nice head

What kind of basing will you be going for? For me its all about basing, brown or rocks would compliment your colour scheme I think.

Get that 1000 pts done!

Jihad_Ragsta wrote:
I'm not too keen on using Tamiya paints on miniatures, but I totally understand when it comes to costs. Your Tac squad looks good when its grouped together though, and the Chaplain looks pretty hard core too - nice head

What kind of basing will you be going for? For me its all about basing, brown or rocks would compliment your colour scheme I think.

Get that 1000 pts done!

WHats your problem with Tamiya? They've been around for ages and are great to work with.

Once I have n airbrush, they have a great range of colors, for fairly cheap.

I guess paint is a "YMMV" thing.

Keep up the painting, you should have a decent force here shortly.

Nice work so far

I have been a lazy wolf this past week. Work, lack of sleep etc. But even on my days off, I just could not get inspire to work on my models.

Hopefully todays arrivals will help out.

More Heavy Support



Wheels for a Tac Squad




Termie Shoulder Pads... Though I'm not sure how I'm going to get these to work with AOBR termies... It may require extensive surgurey.




Hopefully tomorrw will bring some progress on the heavy support front.

What are you doing with the vindi? anything special?

Nothing major planned. Its a trade, and it appears to be missing some parts. (Vindy crane and ammo, hatches etc...)

I should have enough hatches and accessories in my bitz box to finish him off. Also going to use some spares to create a Rhino hatch of my Razorback... I just wont glue the rear hatch on so I can pick and choose.

That would give me the follwoing vehicles:

2 Rhinos (1 RB possible) (Tac Squads)
1 Predator
1 Vindicator
1 Whirlwind (Rhino possible if I can come up with a rear Hatch)

I feel sorry for loyalist Meq, you guys cant kitbash your vehicles nearly as much as chaos can

Yeah... I see what you mean. Although IH and sucessors get to KB a bit more than most. Lots of bionic bits.

And I've got a bit of a primer buzz going on.

Just hit the vindy with a coat of Krylon. Loving it. Great, fine primer for about 1/3 to 1/4 of the price of the GW crap, and the Krylon can comes with a nifty adjustable nozzle. Would totally recommend anyone switch to the Krylon primer. Great stuff, signifcantly easier to control how much you overspray due to the nozzle.

excellent might look into that

im so stoked with my chaos vehicles, ive got 3 rhino's a land raider a pred a defiler and a dread, and they all look so epic, youve seen most of em on my p&m thread

You should be able to use a hatch from a rhino if you have any spares. They are all the same really. If you really want the ammo loader thingy, you pay the postage and I'll send one. I dont like em, so I dont use em.

Thanks for the offer Whalemusic, but I'm not set on having one. Not sure about the wisdom of having large cannon shells flaoting around on the outside of armour. :-P

I should have some extra hatches in my bitz box.

TBH, things will probably be slow untill I hit my midnight shift as I just installed World Of Tanks, and its freakin' addictive. I get to satisfy 2 cravings blowing stuff up and running around in cool looking WW2 armour. (I've said before, my Dad used to be a military modeller, and I grew up with books of WW2 tanks all around the house.) Modelling wise, I find military modelling too restictive.

New Vindicator? We're twinsies! I just picked one up today on eBay. I know it's not the most "Nurgle" vehicle out there but after having my ass handed to me one too many times recently by IG and Orks alike I'm going to add some scary firepower to my Heavy Support. If nothing else they'll spend their time trying to blow that up instead of my Land Raider or Dreadnoughts. Ha.

Looking forward to seeing how you convert yours and fill in the missing parts. An that whole motivation thing... I had it knocked out of me a while ago but it comes back. Taking a break for a while actually helps I think. I felt like it was wasted time but when I came back to it I got more done with a "fresh start" than I ever did with a 3am "second wind".

In any case, do what you feel like doing. It'll all come together.

@ Skalk... The vindy is going to be pretty much stock. If I can scrape up some $ for the CHS sheilds, I might grab a few of them for vehicle iconography, but at $2 a pop, that can get pricy quick.


I've been more than a little sick this past couple of weeks, and haven't gotten anything done. Hopefully I can get back on track this week. I was hoping to have a playable army by this coming weekend. We shall see. I might be able to scrape together a 1k point force.

Played my first game today. 1800 points, non-optimized list. Did ok, lost 2 objectives to 1... Grr, plague marines. Was a great game though. Took out a DP in a turn of shooting.

sounds good, plauge marines are blimmin annoying even i dont like em and im chaos, the trick is to ignore thier armour, if you can do that then they drop like flys

Oh ,and Obliterators firing plasma cannons = DO NOT LIKE.

haha yes the most op 4 price model in the codex can be a bit annoying especially when it uses one of its nastiest weapons

Heh... Anything firing a plasma cannon is bad news for the person fighting it (got nearly an entire assault squad wiped out by some plasma circles landing on them :( )

yeah pc's are nuts, but not as nuts as a deepstrikeing twin linked melta/multimelta, where is your tank now???

You should play with the play group I play with then, they absoloutely refuse to use anything that might "get hot"

Tyranic Marta wrote:yeah pc's are nuts, but not as nuts as a deepstriking twin linked melta/multimelta, where is your tank now???

Ohhh... Don't get me started on ds'ing twin linked melta. I played a force 2 different times that had Vulkan and a dsing ironclad... Land Raider died first turn twice.

LOL....

He had 1 Autocannon using marine that deserved a sniper medal. Took out a dread and a predator. The plasma marine from that squad got eaten by his plasma gun.

Other notable moment... My vindy got its main gun destroyed... so in a WTH moment, I attempted to tank shock a pretty close to full strenght unit of CSM. It worked. :-) Tehy regrouped next turn, but it delayed them.

Ok, sorry folks, but due to various real life concerns. (Namely being out of work for a bit... waiting on Gov't paperwork...) this is on hold for at least a month or 2. Same thing with any stuff that I said I would send out, and if you never got it. (Mainly to Gits, if he reads this).

Very sadface to not have any cash to even get out of the house right now, as the new GKs are super sexy. and I'd love to at least get a box or 2 of them to mess around with.

No problem buddy, been there.

LOL Gits. Just posted in the other thread, to get to you directly... And you beat me to it here.

Your painting can still continue can't it? what about games? I still want a game! I need to add Ebon gauntlets to my Red Corsairs!

Styrofoam04 wrote:Your painting can still continue can't it? what about games? I still want a game! I need to add Ebon gauntlets to my Red Corsairs!

Well, I'm moved into my new place. Have to get my desk set up yet, but hopefully next pay will give me a little cash to play with, and/or some time to do some modelling. There are a few bits and pieces that have me excited to do some converting, so we shall see how that goes.

Hope to get back up and going within 2-3 weeks, at least on a limited basis. And maybe in 3 weeks I can get a game or two in.

Cheers.

welcome back wolf

Styrofoam04 wrote:welcome back wolf

Thanks bro!

I've been wanting to destroy Your army and take the plunders for a long time now.

So when your are ready for a game let me know ... Or you can just surrender now.

Need to get some sort of proper list built. I really want to get some sort of HQ/Retinue thing going on. I'm thinking about a squad of Assault Termies lead by a Captain or somthing but I havent made up my mind. Maybe jsut a squad of termies in general. We shall see.

Oh, and I found my dice! No templates, but I do have dice now.

Hey, welcome back. Just got back here again myself. Between the two of us in different places, we haven't talked in... wicked many months. Hoping things come back together for you soon, I have always enjoyed your work and I'm looking forward to seeing more when you have the chance.