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Thanks for checking out my thread.
 
This is the Sister thread to my “showcase” thread the “The Inquisitor diaries” which you can find here…

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/698675.page

While there will be items on here from a variety of sci-fi manufactures, all are tied into the same head cannon that ill go into more detail in the showcase thread.

But i like to have all my ski fi collection cross over into my 40k head cannon
e.g the Mantic warpath verse is a number of sectors south of the Segmentum Tempestus and west of the ultima segmentum founded by rouge traders.
There are Remnant fleets of Xenos (and sometimes human races) that were evicted from their planets by the Imperium during the great crusade.
Predators are still hunting anything they can, they love Catachan and hunting space marines.
Every now and again a strange man in a blue box shows up goes “nope” and leaves again.

Here will have Work in progress images and some discussion on any rules I’m working on to incorporate the various minis into other game systems so they can cross over. (I should have a Deadzone - Xenomorph ruleset done at some point).

I find i’m more productive/focused when i do a thread like this.

July 2016 Update

Hobby Budget
Hobby budget of max £100 per month but ideally less than £50, As an incentive to spend as little as possible I'm going to put anything under £50 I spend into a piggy bank and save up for a Warhound Titan. (Wanted one for ages)

I'm also going to try and fund a bit of my hobby through EBay and here (selling terrain if people will buy it and things I'm not going to use), if eBay income makes up any of the £50 target spend I'll count it as half towards the budget total. (Another incentive to selling stuff) e.g. if i spend 50 but all came from money i made from selling stuff on eBay i’ll only count as £25 towards the £50 target.

But thats a lot of Reading heres some pics of things I am working on…


Albion Rifles imperial guard

UK (mostly WW2) inspired imperial Guard.



Got quite a few tanks to finish but I'm waiting on an airbrush purchase (got the cash saved just need to get one) before i do it.


Deadzone Enforcers


I-pad armour on the standard enforcers with the special characters in colourful armour.

Deadzone rebs




Tried to get them looking as individual as possible, so their a rag tag group. (think serenity and start wars rebels)

Xenomorphs




This is all the Xenos i have, despite the poor effort by Prodos with the treatment of me as a backer the minis are fantastic.

Infinity PanO


Ultramarines


lots to do and add, for a start i need to finish my hellion conversion nd get another sniper scout made.

Their true scale btw (or close enough to make me happy anyway)

Vs primaris



Thanks again for checking my thread out.

Please drop a comment if you like what you see or have any feedback, I really appreciate it and it helps keep be motivated.


Previous OPs

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Projects

Never ending/non priority
Albion Rifles imperial guard
True scale Ultramarines ( fill out the tactical squad, finish the scouts, some bikes and an achillies from trot pose sicarius conversion)
True scale Deathwatch
True Scale Chaos Marines
Deadzone Rebs booster set
Inquisimunda

Near Future
AVP painted
Deadzone Enforcers Pathfinders, jet bikes and peacekeepers


Distant future/Dream Projects

JoeRugby's Random but slow blog - March 8th update

Not much done this week gym and work taking over hobby time.
This week I've finishing assembling and priming my enforcers and plague (minus stage 2s, need to find non baby heads for them) and my ultramarines sergeant.(minus his right hand because I couldn't decide what to kit him out with).

The current todo pile



Gunship

I've managed to lose one of the doors for the gunship so that's not helped my mood , I have primed the undercarriage to see how it took the primer and to give it a test paint this weekend.

Better Scale picture of the Star Wars gunship with guardsman bob showing that he could fit into the transport compartment.


In addition to looking for to lost door I'm still looking for a suitable mini gun for the nose cone. I've seen some nice brass 1/35 chain guns on eBay but haven't been able to find measurements for it yet. I'm going to have a rummage through my bits box to see if I have any tau burst guns but I think it might be to chunky.

Deadzone - Rebs


My main goal this weekend is to get these finished. I'm going for a very mixed style for them( think rag tag band of outlaws). which gives me a chance to try some freehand.

Deadzone - Enforcers


As mentioned their all primed now, I've converted a sergeant with a catachan powerfist. (It looks like he's got one of those toy hulk hands if I'm honest)
And I've started to convert a defender but I need to come up with a stand in/salvaged shield.


Ultramarines

16/03/14

I found the door! Hidden under a scarf

Deadzone - Rebs
I've completed my Rebs like I wanted this week whoop!


More Completed photos can be found in the showcase forum.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/585004.page#6636472

I can now add something else to my project list

Deadzone -Enforcer progress


More paint added! all have been dry brushed codex grey to bring out the black and rest of the painting started the ones at the front are closer to being finished than the ones at the back.


shotgun arm for my not-defender completed still trying to come up with an idea for a makeshift shield. Any ideas?

Ultramarines

I've added a little paint to the ultramarines but nothing photo worthy, I need to look into how to magnetise different hands for my sergeant.

Gunship
I did do a test paint of the underside of the model and the primer and paint went on really well. The red painted areas on the original actually show through as detail when undercoated so I'll look to incorporate some of this in the final paint.

Ill look to get the rest primed and base coated this week.

I think I'll end up going for this brass etched kit as the mini gun for my gunships nose cone.

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but I can't find measurement for it, anyone able to help?

Long time without doing much hobby stuff

Started back this week,


starting to base coat my gunship

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I still need to settle on a mini gun for the nose I might cut up a tau burst cannon as a stand in till I can find one I want.

I'm hopping to have the base coat finished this week.

painting up some Deadzone scenery


Most of the tiles are going to be the light grey, with some coloured tiles being backgrounds for company logos as per real shipping containers.

I need to get some stencils done so I can get some logos on the blue ones.

Have any of you made stencils for this kind of thing before? If so any pointers would be appreciated.
At the moment I'm just going to get some logos printed out onto paper and cut them out (and hope I don't make a mess of the cutting)
I was thinking getting some laser cut but I think this might be too expensive.

Gunship basecoated



Just need to get the inside done and I'll get it put together ready for some details on the outside.

I'm still struggling too find a minigun for the nose that I like.

Tonight I'm going to work on my deadzone scenery, Cue lots of swearing as I try to cut out some stencils for the company names.

Deadzone scenery is almost done



I'm happy with how the company logos and stop signs came out.

I went for the carver inc logo from the nexus psi book because it was the easiest logo if I'm honest.

When I get some more battlezones I want to do a shensig(sp) and a Wayland Yuatani wall too.

I just need to finish off with a little blood splatter and add broken windows to the (you guessed it) windows.

Gunship assembled and detailing started


Action shot.
Get to the gunship


I'm still looking for an appropriate mini/chain gun for the nose any suggestions would be welcome.

Couple of bits to update

The Rebs got some reinforcements



I started putting in windows on the deadzone scenery





And more paint was put on the gunship.

Nice work, I just saw the Gunship in your DZ batrep and it really does fit the DZ clean-sci-fi look. I can easily see Enforcers or Rangers using one for close insertion drops. The terrain is looking good too.

 Paradigm wrote:
Nice work, I just saw the Gunship in your DZ batrep and it really does fit the DZ clean-sci-fi look. I can easily see Enforcers or Rangers using one for close insertion drops. The terrain is looking good too.

Cheers dude

I love the shape of the republic gunship kit, it's a shame it's now OOP or I might have been tempted to get more to do a black hawk down type scenery piece.

Checklist for completing the bird;
Add decals and details: name on the side of the cockpit some warning decals, some rungs/ladder leading to the cockpit.
Find a mini/chain gun I like and get the nose code finished.
Learn how to weather models
And weather it just a little bit

Weathering is easy and fast if you stick to the simple methods. I don't know what you've looked into, but here's a few good methods that are fast and simple:

Sponge weathering: tear up some sponge/scouring pad and dip it in a little metallic paint. Dab it on the leading edges of wings ect to give nice and small chipping effects. To add depth, go over the edges of some chips with a slightly lighter shade of the base colour.

Chalks: Get some cheap artist chalks in various colours, grind them up, and brush them on. Black for heat damage, brown/red for mud, red for blood.

Washes: Cover the desired area in black/brown wash. Self-explanatory.

All of these take a little practice to get the balance right, but can add some really nice looking 'special effects' to models and scenery.

Thanks for the weathering tips para.

I haven't looked into it at all yet

Fail spoilered move along please

Well terrain day was a complete fail

I didn't manage to get anything from my shopping list in town most crucially I couldn't get any hardboard to base any scenery on and I was too stingy to spend or foam board that cost five times as much as ebay.

A trip to B&Q and an ebay shop later and I have this.



8 x 3mm A4 foam board
Wire mesh
Filler
Balsa wood 2 x cylinders and 2x rectangular
Filler
Badly cut hardboard

At some point soon I hope I will have the time to make this



This is the floorplan my command/comm centre. As mentioned before it will be raised with a antenna with a sniper nest coming out the roof.

I also want to get a mini park/ memorial garden made to add a bit of colour to my Dead/grimdarkzone and AVP games.

Whoop look what I got through Royal Mail today



Managed to grab this on ebay the other day.

Soo much plastic


My hands are shredded after cleaning all that with my Stanley knife.

I'm going to build a gatehouse/ keep similar to the front of the box but with the gate the 2 towers being separate pieces

Here's the concept for the towers ( very lightly put together)

Outside


Inside


I don't know about the corner buttress going all the way up yet.

Now to get the other tower and gate sorted out.
Use plasticard to fill in the outside peg holes and straight gaps (copying terrain tutor on this)
I'll then get them sprayed and painted individually before putting together properly and gluing.

And here it is all lose fitted together



I don't have enough pieces to make the door box that I wanted so I'll just get the towers done for now and try to pick up the bits to finish the door box

I also want to get 2 of the landing pad hatch openings for the top floor instead of the flat floor panel I currently have.

Nice stuff, that'll make a very cool centrepiece!

Cheers dude

It does add a lot to a table. Ideally I'd have a half cube width section added to the back and running the whole length of the table but I'd have to sacrifice a bunch of walk ways to do it.
So there's a wall going the entire length

Maybe when my Battlezone bitzbox gets bigger

Quick update
(Please ignore the fetching ironing board cover)

Enforcers are done



Well almost. I still need to find a shield for my defender conversion. I don't think I'll use the engineer or the missile launcher so they will go into the for a paint on a rainy day box.


I like to think their walking away from an explosion in this pic.

Ultramarine Scout now has a head




Still some green stuffing to do on the head but looks great to me. I'll not try to get the rest of the sniper team done.

Riddick



One of the few sedition wars minis I haven't sold. He'll get some use in grimdarkzone as Blaine but no shooting.

The depth in the black hasn't come out that well in the pics but I'll use a similar technique when I get my aliens from prodos if fox approve of course.

Gunship gets an eye and a gun



Started work on the camera and gun for the Rebs gunship. I did buy a 1/72 rottary cannon but it was too small

Neat work, you've replicated the Mantic scheme almost perfectly on those Enforcers, and the clean white is very commendable!

 Paradigm wrote:
Neat work, you've replicated the Mantic scheme almost perfectly on those Enforcers, and the clean white is very commendable!

The whites a cheat to be honest.

It's just coat d arm's light grey painted over black undercoat, the black drains the grey so it looks white but I didn't have to put on loads of layers.

Battlezone fort update

After a few trial games I've decided to add another level to the towers and a connecting walkway/gunfloor.

It looks better on the table when there are a few two story buildings but it does mean can't make two towers until I buy 6 more fortified windows.

Lots of stuff undercoated yesterday, annoyingly I ran out of spray with a tray of Battlezone bits to spray.



Fort/gatehouse progress

Built and base coated



Necron Ned and Guardsman Bob showing the size of this monster.

As I'm incorporating more 2 story buildings into my games I had to make it taller so it would still be an imposing centrepiece.

Now it's assembled and glued together il cover the plug holes I don't need and finish the painting

Lots of details to add still (ladders between floors, an armoury in the base and some comms) and I'm wondering if I should get it based.

I need 6 more fortified windows to do the other tower. If anyone has some spare please PM me

Plague sighted

With the Rebs and enforcers painted time to move onto the plague.

I'm going to stay close to the Mantic scheme but make them darker pink and bone instead of pink and white.

Here's my take on the "Tyrant" stage 1,


I love this model, this and the enforcer sniper are easily the stand out minis from Deadzone so far IMHO.

And here is the stage 1 getting ready to make bob a "berserker" stage 2


I don't know if I want to drench his hands in blood yet. More plague to come soon

Current pip pile

In addition to the stuff I sprayed yesterday I've got these on the go


Finally started to get my zombicide season 1 stuff painted, can't decide if I should texture the bases or not.

Battlezone tiles base coated, I love painting with a kitchen sponge for base coating scenery.



And from that and that and my earlier pile of tiles came a Hab block

Only base coated so there's a lot of detailing to do but it will work on a table until I can get around to doing the fiddle bits. I think a couple of these on the board will look sweet



(2 partially painted plague are about to have bad days)





I think It looks like something that could have been put together from shipping containers.

I've not glued it together yet but I might glue the flat walls together so it's quick to put together but still easy to store.

I need to get the remaining tiles undercoated (stupid spray can running out), I want to get a landing pad done and I'll have a play with what's left.

Great stuff!

 pretre wrote:
Great stuff!

Cheers dude

Nice work!

Thanks para

Despite the heat and preseason I've managed to do some things this week

Fort update




Filling the plug gaps on the gate section was a pain but I'm happy with the result. I now need to get the plugs on the tower filled.

Lots of other work to do still but it's got enough colour to be used on the table, speaking of which here the table layout I'll be using today.




I'm not a fan of the landing paid, I think it might be awkward to play around but I'll find out later.

Plague stage 2 "Berserker"




Kept it similar to the "tyrant" from the earlier post. I also didn't want to have the one berserker doing parkour so I changed the arm to make him look like he leaping at someone.

Still can't decide if I want to cover them in blood

I also started work on my comm Centre


I need to decide if I'm going to put a "power sub station" (aka a box) on the base by the struts.

And have started to change my ultramarines from normal bases to lipped ones.

Plan for this week.
Finish my gunship chain gun
Paint the rest of my plague
More work on the comm centre
Get some zombies painted.
And I want to get my 5 tactical marines finished
(Most of this wont happen but it's nice to dream )

Challenger tank distraction

I didn't do anything I'd hoped to do last week aside from re basing 2 of my ultramarines



And play testing some rules for marines in Deadzone based on the enforcer peacekeeper rules.



So today I decided to do build something and found a kitech 1/48 challenger 1 in my pile of unbuilt toys.

Here's the contents



Bit disappointed with the lack of detail and the amount of flash on the sprues, but then you get what you pay for.

I'm not going to put the motor in because it's going to be used for mars attacks and maybe as a tank for Ariadna if I go for them as my welsh faction. (I love making up rules what can I say and tag vs tank sounds cool)

Half an hour in



And a few more mins and we're done(well almost there's some gaps in the kit that I want to fill with green stuff)



Size comparison, with a chimera and guardsman bob




Was an ok kit to build very quick, but with very minimal instructions, not a lot of detail and a lot of bits that didn't finish together I'd rather pay more for a better quality kit if I could find one.

That said it was less than a tenner so....

The tank looks very cool, I've always been partial to the Challenger. It doesn't look under-detailed to me, especially for the price. Scale model kits don't tend to have detail as deep or thick as 40k kits just because they are not built for gaming so much as display.

 Paradigm wrote:
The tank looks very cool, I've always been partial to the Challenger. It doesn't look under-detailed to me, especially for the price. Scale model kits don't tend to have detail as deep or thick as 40k kits just because they are not built for gaming so much as display.

I think it's because I've only done 1/35 tamiya kits in the past, where you get a lot more details (a mount for the machine gun, no gaps between parts, a more detailed target system on the coupla etc) and I'm grumpy

But your right the printed on tank is more than good enough for tabletop use and it's the right size.

The challenger 1 is a very cool tank the challenger 2 is even cooler IMHO but alas I can't find a 1/48 model of it, I hope that airfix will release one as part of their British forces range.

Comm Centre Terrain

As earlier in this thread I want to make a comm centre piece of scenery for use in Deadzone, AVP (if it ships when it ships ) and now Infinity when I get Operation: Ice Storm.

It's going to be about 10" tall in the end, the ground floor will be the stilts with a backup generator surrounded by a chain link fence.
The 1st floor will be as below.
And the roof will have an antenna with a dish and maintenance platform aka snipers nest.

The whole thing will be modular for ease of storage/gameplay

Here's the plans for the 1st floor



I'm going to flip the "glass door to the other side of the floor because it didn't make sense they would have a massive window looking straight into the ops room.

Progress
main walls cut out


I made a rookie mistake and gave too much room for the removable roof over the front window so I need to cut this out again.

And here's the test fit for the 2 floors together

(As always guardsman bob is there to provide a size comparison )

Stairs
Here's the plan for the stairs leading to the door.


I was going to make the steps out of foamboard but I'll get some double tread plasticard instead (when I've got some money in the hobby fund again)



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So I've dabbled on and off today and I've managed to get the main shapes and supports build



Here's the piece fitted together to get a feel for the layout



And

On the stilts.



Tomorrow after the gym I'll build the stairs(with temporary steps) and get the posts set for wire fence on the ground floor.

Not as much done as I wanted

Stair frame is done



And what it looks like with the 1st floor



Aside form that I've just done a tiny bit of painting to my paint pile


and ripped off magnetised the Gun arm for this chap. Because I can't decide on which gun he ends up with.



First time I've done any magnetising and I'm a fan , I thought it was going to be more of a pain than it was that biggest pain was finding a pin vice with a chuck big enough for a 2mm bit.

Gunship chaingun is completed



I'll get it painted and finish assembling the gunship tonight

More progress on the comm centre

A new roof cut out and posts set for a chain link fence. I've also cut out clear plasticard for the 3 windows and the glass wall/door leading to the ops room.


I also started to build some scaffolding, mainly to make areas of any games more game accessible without adding ladders you wouldn't have normally on a building.
Not sure if I should add so e cardboard to look like the clips you would normally get on scaffolding.

Gunship assembled and mostly painted




I want to do a little bit more weathering (only done some wash streaks so far) and get some model plane decals on it for some extra details.( Ejection warning etc)

I'm really happy with how it's come out so far.

I think it will fit in for deadzone and infinity nicely (operation:icestorm has finally sold me on infinity I just need to decide if my Welsh/British Infinity faction are going to be a small Ariadna clan or Pan O.)

Ultramarine progress
I've done some more work on my Ultramarines, the sergeant now has his bionic(well magnetic) hands and I've put together a missile launcher for the tac squad/kill team.


More pics in the spoiler tag


Still more painting to do and I need to add more pouches to the missile launcher dude.
Anyone know of a good chainsword sheath bit?

And the whole gang so far



Next up for the squad will be a plasma gunner/ tech novice.

Nice work. I really like that sarge!

 Paradigm wrote:
Nice work. I really like that sarge!

Cheers as always para. I want most of the marines to be in military poses if I can but the SRG being more melee orientated demanded a heroic pose. Getting him to stand in that position on that base was a right pain (i was lazy and didn't pin him)

Got paid today yay!!!! there are now funds in the hobby budget

So I've ordered the plasticard to get the steps done on he comm centre. I'll a little stumped at the moment on;

What to do for the floor detail? Do I just draw in tiles on some card or should I try to do dome decking like in hadleys hope(aliens)?

Should I cut off an inch and a half of the doorway so I can add a door that slides up and down?

And how should I go about making TV monitors for the ops room?

Because of this the plan for today is to tackle my current painting pile, with the remaining plague stage 3s the priority.


P.S.
I want down to firestorm games today and checked out their copy of mars attacks and the minis are looking good the faces overall looking on par with the restic ones from what I can see detail wise and the faces on the marines and Martians were really good. Edwins sword still looks like a sex toy though

Great looking stuff here. I especially like the way the scaffolding is coming along - and the Ultras look great!

Nice looking terrain.

Azazelx wrote:Great looking stuff here. I especially like the way the scaffolding is coming along - and the Ultras look great!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Nice looking terrain.

Thanks guys


Deadzone Plague finished

Stage 3




The family all together

Nice work!

"A new life, no more markers, no more fighting....why does this s*** always happen to me"

Isaac could hear the frontier town going to hell outside his tiny apartment as he finished strapping on his engineering suit, one of the relics of an old life of insanity and terror he hadn't been able to escape even out here.

He shook the dust off of his plasma cutter and loaded a fresh power cell, a woman screamed in the building next to him making him wince.

As he activated his helmet and looked out the window, it was carnage, hulking creatures tearing the townsfolk apart with claws and teeth. With a heavy sigh Isaac made for the door and the madness, time to do what he does best....

Time to survive



Isaac Clark in Deadzone


It's not come out in the picture but the black of the suit has a couple of green washes on it so there's a green tint.

Small update on the comm centre

I've done the basic floor I went for a panel look in the end. (I was going to get some sulaco floor grating but it just cost too much

I've cut out 2 of the panels for me to get some wires/pipes added underneath for more depth. (And make the plain floor tiles less boring)

I've cut out the steps from some embossed plasticard, here's the step panels dry fitted.



Close up


And finally I've added the doors for "roof access" and the "toilet".

I really like the comm centre you're building, will keep an eye on this

Not as much done as I'd hoped this week (kidney infection has knocked me out for most of the week)

I Painted the toilet/roof access wall



I need to get a toilet sign printed and a sign printed with "roof access". But I'm happy with how it looks, the area before the actual ops room will be in this light grey colour. With the ops room being a dark grey.

I've also added detail to the emergency generator on the ground floor, and plastered the balsa stilts.( I would have left them plain but when I tested one the wood grain came through too much to count as steel girders)



Close up on the access hatch, just card embossed with a bic pen and plasticard handles.



Close up of the on off switch.



The square gap over the hatch will have one of those AK interactive headlights acting as a warning light/ generator is on or off light.

Other details



The gaps will be vents which I'll make and add after I've painted the rest of the generator (like the wire fences, and steps).

 soulcow wrote:
I really like the comm centre you're building, will keep an eye on this

Thanks Soulcow

When you said you paint terrain with a kitchen sponge, what did you mean? Like, dabbing? I'm curious because I ussually end up using large brushes and its never really quite the coverage that I want.

And I am curious how you made the scaffolding. Have you pinned these rods into one another, or have you only glued it? If you glued it, how sturdy does it feel? Or is it meant to be part of a scenery piece, so it is attached to something else?

argonak wrote:When you said you paint terrain with a kitchen sponge, what did you mean? Like, dabbing? I'm curious because I ussually end up using large brushes and its never really quite the coverage that I want.

Yep just a dabbing, I can only get it to work with flat surfaces so it's great for Deadzone tiles. Warning it does get very messy.

With the bit I painted for the comm centre the sponge wasn't working because of the door frame and the corner. So I ended up stippling with a brush instead.

soulcow wrote:And I am curious how you made the scaffolding. Have you pinned these rods into one another, or have you only glued it? If you glued it, how sturdy does it feel? Or is it meant to be part of a scenery piece, so it is attached to something else?

rods weren't pinned just glued together with superglue (a lot of superglue). It's going to be a freestanding piece just the frame by its self is strong enough to hold a two metal Stanley knives (started to bow so I didn't try anything else) so it will be able to hold any models that would be able to use the scaffolding. It should get stronger with the floors added.

I was going to use BBQ skewers (awesomely strong) instead of plasticard rods but the scale nutter in me couldn't get past the fact that with the skewers the piles would be too big. (About 10" in diameter if you scaled it up)

This build is really inspiring. It's coming along great.

Nuka Cola in Deadzone!

"Cola, Cola never changes!"

Like I said earlier on I wanted a few of my Deadzone tiles to still have company logos on them (colonists can paint over everything but the company logo from the containers, because of free advertising). I was going to do a coca cola one but I couldn't resist the fallout reference.



P.S sorry if you came here for lots of fallout stuff, I do want to do some more later on but not enought time at the moment.

Comm Centre update

Only a small one, the base colours are going down on the ground floor



I wanted the emergency generator to look like one of those CAT ones, still lots of painting and washing to do.

Slight problem, the gap between the generator and the fence is only just big enough for a 25mm base as I'm going to be using a lot of lipped bases in AVP and on minis I want to look extra pretty I'm going to have to extend the fenced area to the pillar by the stairs this should be easy it just means I have to drill 2 holes and add more fence posts.
(And the OCD reason is that there wouldn't be enough room for anyone to open the generator hatches to do maintenance )

Unbelievably slow Ultramarine progress

I've done the highlights to Srg and the missile launcher dude. More kit to be added to both.


I think I've decided on the pose I want my fifth squad member to have so I should have him made this weekend.

Thanks for looking

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
This build is really inspiring. It's coming along great.

Cheers Waaazag

A poor week hobby wise, the focus has been on rugby not hobby.

(It's a unique and unusual torture wanting to paint, but your post gym arms start to shake the moment your about to put paint to a mini)

I added some signs to my comm centre doors



Roof access painted 7 times the last being yesterday (damn gym arms )

I did buy one of these

And I'll get started on that as a reward for finishing my ultramarine squad and scouts.

And finally I found these in Ikea


I think their for candles but I think they will do great as basing materials. They have loads of different colours too including blue and red rocks that could be done to look like crystals on your minis.

Ah, a mini-Levi! I have one of the big'uns and there a great kit to put together, you should have some fun with that. Any plans for gaming use, or is it just a display piece?

Nice attention to detail on the doors!

I'm going to do the very unoriginal thing of painting up the mini Levi as a grey knight dread knight (I can't stand the exo thing).

If I can get them cheap off of ebay I might add some grey knight brass etch bits. (And maybe shave down the pointy elf shoes )

But this along with my grey knight term is are in the very large and expanding future projects pile.

I forgot to mention in the earlier post that the ikea things are only £1.75 for 750grams so I thought they were a bargain. I've based my forge father brokkrs tonight so I should have a comparison shot with the fine stuff compared to my smelly sand soon.

Managed to get some hobby time in last night.

More paint went on the ground flood of the comm centre and so did the steps.





Once I get my wire mesh order from ebay I'll have the fence done. After the fence I just need to add some warning signs and a makers decal on the emergency generator.

And I started basing my forge fathers and zombiecide minis.



Half done with my smelly sand and the other half with my ikea find. I'll post some comparison pics when I've got time

Smelly sand? Looking good so far.

Not a lot done since my last update.

Alongside my op:icestorm box I'm getting the paint I want for the floor of the comm centre, Ive just got my mesh for the fences but I've got to flatten it out before I start messing with it (looks like it came off a roll so curved at the moment.

The main delay is fear of messing up the oops room section.

I did however undercoat a lot of stuff

That's a tray of zombiecide zombies, zombiecide dogs, my deadzone brokkrs, some old genestealers and some Sulaco bases I got off eBay

Speaking of the sulaco bases, here's some painted with a 40mm base for my brokkr bike.



I've started to practice my xenomorph paint scheme for when AVP eventually ships


Not great pics sorry, this is just black primer, codex grey highlights a black wash and gloss varnish patches.

I also got these weird alien dog things from Hasslefree another eBay win

The legs needs some green stuff to fill the leg connections

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Smelly sand? Looking good so far.

The sand I use for basing is from the beach it smells a bit in the box.

He has gribblies!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
He has gribblies!

thought I'd accidentally posted a pic of my bday suit for a moment

Man I'm getting old I actualy needed to google what gribblies were ,

Looking good, Joe!

A pulled shoulder and real life (I'm buying a house ) have ruined my hobby time.

All I've managed to do since the last update is;(sorry for the bad pics)

Fail at making and applying a serial number stencil to the gunship

I'll have to try again once I'm less angry at paper, paint and craft knifes

Blue tacked a marine together

(I have since undercoated the plasma gun and arms)

And starting fences on my comm centre terrain


Task for this weekend is to sort out the hobby corner

It's got too messy and the more messy it is the less I want to do hobby stuff.

Also very happy that my op:icestorm has arrived.

Not so happy that in the 2 and a bit months Since I put this order in, Wayland are still waiting on some Ork heads to send me :(

Good to see they got your copy of Icestorm to you, I too got a bit annoyed with the waiting but it is damn well worth it as a set. Looking forward to see what you do with it.

From the great sort out

Albion rifles imperial guard

Basically I wanted British ww2 imperial guard, quite low tech (the guys with no guns are waiting for a good 28mm scale bren gun)

This is Commander Shepard from when I started a Cadian force years ago.

(And I was playing mass effect obviously)
He needs a bit of a repainting to fit with the rest.

This is a conversion for a primaries psyker, I need to add some green stuff wires to the back of his head before I paint him.


Here's a close up of the infantry squad blobs

New heads, shoulder pads shaved down aside from the SRGs left pad. Grenade launchers made to look like those single shot ones you get in COD. Torsos green stuffed to remove the pecs and the power cell of the rifles moved from underneath to the side.

My Catachan devil vets (I've had these guys I one shape or another since the black crusade global campaign, the fluff was that the commander rescued them from that planet that abbadon blew up and they just stuck around with him and his Cadians.)

Catachan, Cadian, parts mostly with some bits from chaos marauders and Necromunda.

As I wanted them to be slightly lower tech than normal, sentinels didn't seem right so I gave them a scout jeep.

There's another jeep ready to be kit bashed in my pile too.

And of course you can't have guard without tanks

I stopped painting them when I couldn't get the soft edges on the camo makings . I'm going to have another go with my sponges when I get a chance. Otherwise they will have to wait till I get an airbrush.
I've got another leman Russ and a baneblade still on sprue too.

I'm going to get pictures of my ultramarines and deadzone stuff later

Thanks for looking


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 Paradigm wrote:
Good to see they got your copy of Icestorm to you, I too got a bit annoyed with the waiting but it is damn well worth it as a set. Looking forward to see what you do with it.

Ta Para

Looking at how small some of the detail is I feel I might ruin these, but we only get better by going out of our comfort zones

Ultramarines so far


I've got to buy, make and add a multi Melta for the second hatch on the land raider. Both it and the rhino need some highlights and weathering.

Terminators

I might rip off the shoulder pads and replace them with forgeworld ones. I'm tempted to add some purity seals to em as well (it's this constant tinkering that stops me from varnishing my minis)

And the in progress tactical squad I hope to have the plasma gunner done this week. I want him to look like a tech marine in training so some tech stuff on the belt, a cogboy shoulder pad from the rhino kit and some his backpack to look like its carrying a high power vox.


There's the scout too but I didn't take a close up. Still working through these the most difficult part was finding different heads because I don't like the scout ones.

Theres an entire box full of marine bits, a drop pod, two bikes and a new tac squad kit to make in the pile too.

I think because I'm no playing 40k anymore some of the motivation has gone from getting these projects finished and I've prioritised Deadzone because I'm actually playing that.

Nice looking Ultramarine detachment there! Very sharp blues and clean whites!

I doubt you'll have too much trouble with the Icestorm minis, they are packed with detail but that really helps, actually! Just block in the colours and hit them with a wash and Bob's your Uncle!

I can sympathise with the 'not getting to play much' bit, I haven't had a game outside of pressganged family members since about March!

Ha pressganged family members tend to be poor adversarys too, or far too favoured by the dice gods.

Ta for the kind words as always dude. I was going to go for a bright clour scheme for the infinity mins but after seeing yours I'm thinking of changing my mind.

I was hoping to get some small flag decals so I could add them to the fusiliers shoulders(xcom style) but alas I can't find any small enough. Some are easily done but the UK and Welsh flags are way outside my skill at the size I want them.

Scaffold Update

So my scaffold has been sitting on my shelf for a while and it's a really quick win to get it done and build some hobby momentum.

But I couldn't decide if I should do the platforms as wood planks or try to sci fi it up a bit. And planks won't add much weight which will stabilise the piece.

After a lot of Umming And Ahhing I decided to just breakout the coffee stirrers and go for the wood planks, even in the future your going to go as cheap and hasslefree as possible.



Still to do on it
add a ladder in the gap, paint the new plasticard I added, put a wash on the planks(I want to keep them light n piney) and I might try to model a turned over paint bucket plus spilt pain to add a bit of cool factor too it.

Thanks for looking

A tiny bit of progress on the comm centre and scaffold.

Comm Centre
I've painted and added some extra details to the floor of the comm centre.


Time to get the opps room done, I need to get some office chairs and server stacks from ainstys and some screens from antenocitis.
Tomorrow I'm going to get the vents for the generator and warning signs for the fences done.

Scaffold
Although it doesn't look like much I have painted the new poles on the scaffold and but a light wash on the planks.

I'm going to buy some leaders and try out my paint bucket idea tomorrow. Almost done.

I've also tried out using sponges to get a disbursement effect on my challenger tank camo.


Not happy with the outcome so I definitely need to get an airbrush. I'm going to watch the series on beasts of war when it comes on but do you have any suggestions?

Thanks for looking

P.s. Anyone know of a manufacturer making 28mm fire extinguisher?

Started putting my operation: icestorm minis together (after messing up my card cutting for the generator vents )

Here's a size comparison of the fussiliers and Nomad grunts(not even going to try spelling what their called yet ) with guardsman Bob.



Their bigger than Infinity minis used to be maybe this is a consequence of using digital sculpts?

But they are glorious and still within my scale tolerances,

After a lot of time messing around with restic the ease at cleaning metal was a breath of fresh air. Even if I did come very close to chopping off the Nomad girls pointing fingers.

Thanks for looking and apologies for the poor photos, I've only got the iPad for internet an pics at the moment any tips on taking better pic with my current set up?

Hello to anyone stopping by

Can anyone suggest a good Hasslefree process of taking pics with an I-pad. Not getting good pics is starting to effect my calm.

I currently don't have a laptop or a good camera, is anyone else in the same position as me and what works for you?

Thanks for any help

I don't have a camera or anything either. I just use my phone (see my blog! ). Good lighting helps a lot. I think taking pics under a white light works out better. I just hold my mini up to the light at an angle where its lit up as clearly as possible. Sometimes it comes out a bit lighter then it really is but there are apps to fix that or the auto balancing thing the dakka gallery uses is good too.

Or you could build a simple lightbox. They're easy to make and work well and probably more practical lol. There's lots of tutorials online.

Ta for the help ckig , I need to invest in some decent bulbs and make a light box.

Comm centre update

Vents and signs added to ground floor



Need to buy a red lense from ak interactive and do the door and the ground flood will be complete.

Objective for today is to finish off my ultramarine combat squad/kill team.

Great stuff here! Quite an eclectic mix. That power box is awesome. Can't wait to see more, Subbed!

Me likey, me stay!

Great stuff, really like the different styles with the tanks, looks cool.

Love the little details like the sign! Keep it up!

Awesome terrain piece there!

Clear pic makes that image look good!

Nice terrain piece. I thought it was floating on water at first, because of the rippled glass surface it is on.

Have fun painting the Icestorm minis. Oh, Alguaciles-- All-Gwah-THEE-lays with the TH as in thing not these. Or just pronounce it as 'S' the way Spanish speakers do on this side of the Atlantic. means sheriff, more or less.

That terrain is really coming along nicely.

Awwww thanks guys

Massive hobby motivation boost.

No further progress on the comm centre until I get my ainsty castings order through.

Slightly side tracked by man flu but I've finished my Ultramarines Kill Team/combat squad.





Now to get the faces painted on my Icestorm grunts

 Red Harvest wrote:
Nice terrain piece. I thought it was floating on water at first, because of the rippled glass surface it is on.

Have fun painting the Icestorm minis. Oh, Alguaciles-- All-Gwah-THEE-lays with the TH as in thing not these. Or just pronounce it as 'S' the way Spanish speakers do on this side of the Atlantic. means sheriff, more or less.

Terrain Jesus?

Alternatively you could call your nomad force a bakunin sectoral force and then call the grunts Moderators

Moderators is a lot easier.

P.s I like the new forum name for Red Harvest

I hate painting eyes

After 2 hours of ruining good models I'm only at this stage.


The 1 black line on a white orb normaly works for me but today I might as well have used crayons

And now I can't even get a decent sized pic I give up for tonight

By the time you clean them up they wont be that bad.

Ta Camkierhi

Infinity Operation: Icestorm painting has started

Ive been very hesitant with painting these infinity minis, for fear of ruining the cool models and I didn't have a definite paint scheme in mind

Infinity PanO fussiliers painting progress

I love the fusiliers, so much so i've already picked up the booster box and I'm trying to get hold of 2or3 more of the combi rifle guys(not miss PanO2014, one is enough of her) to try and convert.

Most base colours and eyes done

Infinity Nomad Alguaciles painting progress

Most base colours and eyes done. In hindsight I should have just primed the black at the start.

Resin supply drop
Ainstys castings http://www.ainsty-castings.co.uk

Not amazing casts a few bubbles but nothing horrendous
I'm now going to be ready to start to finish off the interior of the comm centre the only question is do I wait for antenocitis kickstarter to pick up the monitors I need for the ops room

And yes that's a Tardis how could I resist.

Zinge industries http://zinge.co.uk


Really awesome casts no bubbles from what I can see, lots of great little details including keypads for my comm centre doors.


And finally ...............
Tall scale marines

Some better pics first



And the money shots





I've followed the classic "true scale" method as done awesomely by vet sergeant here
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/437416.page
Where I've gone differently to the srg is I've made the torso thicker by 1mm and added an extra 1-1.5mm to the torso length as below.


I wish I could find the original tutorial still so I could chuck a link up. A lot of hard work but well worth it to settle my OCD.

And a massive pile of Space Marine plastic to tall up when I have the patience.


Thanks for looking

Nice work.

And the tall scaling is awesome, nice job thickening the marine torso. Great stuff.

Hooray, a convert to red-bereted Fusiliers! Coming along nicely, it has to be said!

TS Marines do look cool, I really have to try that myself one day, although probably with Chaos or Deathwatch.

Nice supply drop as well, that stuff is quite the varied bunch and a TARDIS to top it all off! Dr Who Deadzone mod anyone? (Daleks would, of course, be completely OP )

Glad I could provide some inspiration. Your Tall Scale Marines look fantastic. Very dynamic. I especially like the way the Plasma Gunner turned out.

Camkierhi wrote:Nice work.

And the tall scaling is awesome, nice job thickening the marine torso. Great stuff.

Thanks Dude

Paradigm wrote:Hooray, a convert to red-bereted Fusiliers! Coming along nicely, it has to be said!

TS Marines do look cool, I really have to try that myself one day, although probably with Chaos or Deathwatch.

Nice supply drop as well, that stuff is quite the varied bunch and a TARDIS to top it all off! Dr Who Deadzone mod anyone? (Daleks would, of course, be completely OP )

I want to get a TS deathwatch squad done at some point (along with chaos, space wolves and grey knights or go mad first), they just take so long to do I normaly get distracted by less labor intensive hobby stuff.

A Dr who deadzone mod could be cool, I think he'd fit more in with Mars attacks tho . I just like the idea of putting the TARDIS in ransom places on a board as an Easter egg like the Nuka cola tiles for Deadzone.

And I recon my bad ass Enforcer Sniper could still one shot a Dalek

Veteran Sergeant wrote:Glad I could provide some inspiration. Your Tall Scale Marines look fantastic. Very dynamic. I especially like the way the Plasma Gunner turned out.

cheers dude, I'm glad you approve.

have you made any further progress with your marines?

Nope. Haven't touched them in a hobby sense since April, lol. Too much going on over the summer.

They've been fighting Space Hulk battles. That's about it.

Infinity stuff is coming along nicely. Nice work on the marines too. Look much better when they're embiggened (it's a word! ). Did you make those bricky bases too? They look good!

Veteran Sergeant wrote:Nope. Haven't touched them in a hobby sense since April, lol. Too much going on over the summer.

They've been fighting Space Hulk battles. That's about it.

Hopefully you'll have a quiet autum and winter and we can see some more

ckig wrote:Infinity stuff is coming along nicely. Nice work on the marines too. Look much better when they're embiggened (it's a word! ). Did you make those bricky bases too? They look good!

Cheer dude.

The brick bases are old factory bases from micro art studio

Been slow going This week but nothing unusual there

Infinity PanO fussiliers painting progress

Infinity Nomad Alguaciles painting progress

Washed and ready for more work

Comm Centre update

door cut and base coated

The gap in the door frame lets it click in so I can have it open or closed

Started painting the lockers

Glass wall and door



Mars attacks kickstarter drop

The box

Soo much stuff

Not happy with the deluxe mat

The details are very fuzzy compared to the paper mats or the deadzone mat, is this just mine or are yours like this too?

But at first glance I'm happy with the rest of the haul, bent bits n all.

Martian reinforcements - somehow I've managed to get two more bugs and an extra regent.

Human reinforcements - so many bent gun barrels, and both of the natalyas were bent down to being flush with her base.

Lots of scenery - I'm going to get most of the ruins stuck together and fill in the plug holes.

And cars, lots and lots of cars

I love these and can't wait to get them painted

This week I want to get the infinity grunts done, get some Mars attacks painted, cut the desk and add the window frames in the and finish painting my TARDIS.

Thanks for looking have a good week

The PanO and Nomads are looking great after the wash, and that's a ton of stuff to keep you going over the winter.

 Paradigm wrote:
The PanO and Nomads are looking great after the wash, and that's a ton of stuff to keep you going over the winter.

Ta dude

Starting to plan my Mars attacks painting, I think I'm going to paint up one of the trucks as joes mechanic's truck now I just need to find a towing winch to add on the back

Does anyone reading this know what camo/colour scheme US national guard vehicles and marines should be using for action in the US?

You see they look great. Eyes look brilliant.

Love the Mars Attacks kit, looks so good.

 Camkierhi wrote:
You see they look great. Eyes look brilliant.

Love the Mars Attacks kit, looks so good.

Cheers dude

In the end I had to give up on the brush and go to the micro pen to get the pupil done how people can then get an iris is blows my mind.

I'm hoping to have my Tardis and scaffold finished today and I'll post some pics tomorrow.

Excellent glass wall and door. May have missed it as I don't get to read much anymore, but where are those lockers from? They look good, and I could make use of them .

Almost sorry I missed out on Mars attack. Those cars look terrific, and the rest are getting nothing but good reviews(aside from the bent stuff).

Thanks theophony

The lockers are from Ainsty castings http://www.ainsty-castings.co.uk, there are a few air bubbles in the casts but no deal breakers.

The website is a pain to navigate so here's the link to the storage lockers
http://ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/272/osCsid/e812b09191d582609a553cd0652bf1fd

Here's the lot I got from them

Man that is a huge box. Wonder how much it weighed lol.

Icestorm stuff is coming along nicely!

7.9 kgs

Thanks dude, really hoping I can get some good progress done on them this week.

Only a tiny update this week

Thought there wasn't going to be any hobby time between work, Farcry 4 and I went to the Wales v New Zealand match, shame about the result but the best seats I've ever had...



But I did manage to sneak some hobby time in mostly trying getting the Girlfriend into Mars Attacks but some modelling and painting too.

Scaffold update

Deadzone ladders added, sadly their not 3" tall so I'll have to fill the gap in the middle, so it doesn't look like its floating.
I might also add some more poles to beef it up a bit and there's still the spilt bucket of paint I want to add.

Wayland Yutani Battlezone tile

I might redo the middle of "Yutani" and "better", it's difficult getting the proportions right because of the gap in the tiles.

Cars

Only base coated couldn't wait to get them painted.

TARDIS

Now I just need a mini Dr who and some Mars attacks stats.

I am still going to do what I can with my terrain, but this is looking good!

Very cool! Especially liking the TARDIS and the WY building!

The rugby result was a bit of a surprise, I thought; Wales pulled out a lead, I think it was something like 16-11 when I went to get a cup of tea in second half, and by the time I got back to the TV, NZ were well out in front. Looks like you had a great seat, though!

Wayland yuan I for the win , also great job on the call box.

shasolenzabi wrote:I am still going to do what I can with my terrain, but this is looking good!

Ta dude

Paradigm wrote:Very cool! Especially liking the TARDIS and the WY building!

The rugby result was a bit of a surprise, I thought; Wales pulled out a lead, I think it was something like 16-11 when I went to get a cup of tea in second half, and by the time I got back to the TV, NZ were well out in front. Looks like you had a great seat, though!

Thanks

Yea there was a chance of winning but alas another year to the losing streak to NZ.

It's not all bad as there were some good performances, figures crossed for the South Africa game on Saturday they need to beat at least one Southern Hemisphere team this year.

Theophony wrote:Wayland yuan I for the win , also great job on the call box.

Thanks

Any of you guys reading able to point me to what camo I should be painting my Mars attacks US marines, truck and abrhams tank in?

2014 review and 2015 plans

Finished in 2014 (assembled and painted)
Deadzone Enforcers
Deadzone Plague
Deadzone Rebs
Deadzone Scenery.
True scale ultramarine combat squad
3 resin Mars attacks cars
Mars Attacks board game scenery
Scaffold scenery

Not as much as I would have hopped but there's always this year.

2015

Nothing done so far this year, Christmas, Dragon age Inquisition and new job have taken over everything. But finally I've got some me time

Quick wins
Gunship (just getting some decals on it now I've added the ship reg to it)
Pan O Fusiliers( just need Union Jack decals)
Nomad Aguacile

Current projects
Priority
Comm centre scenery
Mars attacks boxed set to paint
-marines
-Martians
-Heroes
-More Scenery (glued and green stuffed)
Mars attacks cars and resin crashed saucer to paint
Pan O Orc
Nomad mobile brigada
Deadzone forgefathers

Never ending/non priority
Albion Rifles imperial guard
True scale Ultramarines ( fill out the tactical squad, finish the scouts, some bikes and an achillies from troys pose sicarius conversion)
True scale Deathwatch
True Scale Chaos Marines
Deadzone Rebs booster set (Kraaw painted but I just can't be bothered painting the rest)
More scenery

Near Future
Memorial Garden scenery
The Rest of my Mars attacks stuff
The rest of operation icestorm
Pan O Cutter
More Pan O fusiliers (got the boxed set and I'm going to try and get at least 2 more of the ice storm ones to try and convert)

Distant future/Dream Projects


Thanks for reading as a reward here's my finished scaffold scenery.





Mars attacks painting WIP tomorrow.

Nice touch with the split paint there! Looking forward to those various projects. Possibly a dumb question, but is that scaffolding just sprue or rod? Because if it is that simple, I might have to try it myself!

I can completely sympathise with having too many things to get done hobby-wise! Just this year I've worked on Space Marines, Eldar, 3 Deadzone factions and 5 different LotR armies! Maybe, unlike me, you'll manage to focus on one thing without getting distra-

Oh, shiny!

The scaffold bars are just plasticard rods Superguled together.

I used a lot of superglue so there was a mound on the joint areas, its pretty dolid with the support bars and the stirrers glued on but when i originsly just had the frame it felt very flimsey.

Might have to try that then. It could be a good way to add some height to a Deadzone board but keep visibility.

It's worked quite well for me in deadzone and infinity. For me it's mainly used to give access to the top of 2 storey buildings without having to add a ladder that looks a bit out of place/just there for gameplay.

Mars Attacks

Apologies for the poor pictures finally got some decent light to take pics but by the time I was able to take them the sun had hid behind a cloud.

Marines WIP

The front row are were finished but I'm not a 100% on the uniforms. I want them to look like the marines in battle: LA. So less brown more grey.

Martians WIP

The Front rank are the most further along still need to add some highlights after a dark wash and add the metallics to the hoses, weapon etc.

Eva finished

IMHO she looks good in real life, in this picture not so much.
I don't know if it was me being too heavy on the primer but when I came to painting her hands and gun there wasn't much detail there. So I drew in e fingers with a micro pen.

Cars finished ... For now

Really happy with these so you'll have to put up with more pics of them.



I don't know if I should add car numbers on the roofs of the police cars, licence plates and to truly send me crazy try painting the taxi sign.

Thanks for looking
CnC always welcome

The Marines look good! A grey/urban camo pattern would be cool, but they are fine as they are I think! And the cars are very nice!

The vehicles and mars attacks minis look great!

Ta gents

I finished off the first 2 Martians today. I'll get some pics up tomorrow.

I'm happy with the result but the clear plastic domes didn't sit very well on them might take a bit more messing around in the future.

Martians painted, still need to do the bases at some point but I can't make my mind up on how to do them yet.

I think I might buy some of the Pegasus loose bricks and use them on some of the bases but I kind of like the cartoon paving stone base I did with the Martian Srg so.....I don't know.


Thanks for looking

They look great! If you can be bothered to do it for each one, the paving slab basing does look great!

They look even better with the clear helmets on!

Thanks guys

I went with the cartoon paving for the bases on these guys I'll get the other 10 based differently so there's a nice mix.



MA Marines
Still can't find a great reference pic for the marines uniform in battle:LA. They won't look much different to how they are now to be honest but I'll have the satisfaction of knowing.

crashed SUV


I'll give the bottom a spray of model mates mud brown when my order comes through

MA terrain

This is some of the terrain that is going to live in the Game box so I haven't spent ages on it. For the rest of the Mars attacks terrain I've got I'll glue them together and fill in the gaps/joins.

And since that Tardis purchase I just couldn't resist

Without a base they actually look the right height too


Thanks for looking
Apologies for the photo quality and C & C welcome as always

The Martian bases look awesome, as does the flipped car.

Given the height of those new Daleks, I think you could get away with basing them if you want to. I wish someone did Ecclestone/Tennant-era Daleks in scale at a decent price, I just can't stand the new ones. Well, I say new, they pretty much got phased out after a series or two! How's that for a retcon?

Should look decent painted up, in any case. Any plans for the Heresy Minis Not-Doctor minis? Would round out the set rather nicely!

 Paradigm wrote:
The Martian bases look awesome, as does the flipped car.

Given the height of those new Daleks, I think you could get away with basing them if you want to. I wish someone did Ecclestone/Tennant-era Daleks in scale at a decent price, I just can't stand the new ones. Well, I say new, they pretty much got phased out after a series or two! How's that for a retcon?

Should look decent painted up, in any case. Any plans for the Heresy Minis Not-Doctor minis? Would round out the set rather nicely!

Yea the I-Daleks were a bit poo weren't they. But I'm not a fan of most of moffats run in charge of the who verse, it's a shame really that the quality of the scripts isn't there for Jenna Coleman and Malcom Tucker (he'll never be Peter cappaldi again) cause they are awesome.

Which is why I'm going to go for this Not Doctor from Crooked dice


I am tempted by Heresys Not Tennant tho.




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Test piece for My next piece of scenery once I finish the comm centre scenery.

Just paper and card to check the measurements.

The Big important Bank




It's going to be a ruin so it should be quite a quick build, the time consuming bit will be embossing brick patterns to the walls.
Just over 6"x6" square and 7" and a quarter high, maybe 2 floors with the second being more of an inner balcony.
There will be stairs leading up to the doors which I hope I'll be able to get hinged.
I might magnetise the sign so I can change it to an administratum/post office if the desire took me.
I'm really tempted to add a clock tower on the roof above the door with an actual clock. But this might be too adventurous.

Just need to finish the comm centre now but adding the window frames is scaring me

That is looking really cool! And I love the idea of it being convertable to a Post Office.

Enforcer Unit A32 holstered his rifle as the last smoking corpse,, something that might have once been human before the Plague ravaged its form, fell to the ground, still twitching. Behind him lay a trail of caranage a mile wide, smoke rising skywards in black streams. He sighed quietly.

"I only came to Nexus Psi to post a bloody letter!"

Definitely a narrative campaign in that!

Now I've got the urge to repainting my enforcers in Royal Mail uniforms

Progress has been made (only a tiny bit but still)

Windows and frames are in.


More interior detail added




New back wall painted, desk added and screens painted.


Next I need to make switches (lots of switches), finish adding the screens to the monitors (I might add a coat of gloss varnish over the screen pictures), make some things that look like shutter housings for the windows and Buy 2 keyboard minis (anyone know where I can get these aside from the office set from thormillion?)

I might glue the back wall in now so I can get started on the outside but it will make adding the keyboards a pain later.

Also I repositioned the arms on my aiming true Scale marine

The gun was a bit too high before this position looks more like a real aiming position to me.

I've got the pad to myself today so I'm hopping to get a lot of hoppy stuff done (in between the rugby of course)

Thanks for looking.

I'm hopping to get a lot of hoppy stuff done

Hoppy stuff? so you're a home brewer (It is legal in the UK,no?)

I note a Cote D'Arms paint pot in the bottom photo. How is that brand to use?

Nice detailing on the interiors. How do you intend to cover the exposed foam at the corners? I like the way the stencil on the glass door looks.

All looks good, especially the scenery.

Ta para

 Red Harvest wrote:

I'm hopping to get a lot of hoppy stuff done

Hoppy stuff? so you're a home brewer (It is legal in the UK,no?)

Opps . I did knock back a few Heinekens during the rugby yesterday so maybe that counts

 Red Harvest wrote:

I note a Cote D'Arms paint pot in the bottom photo. How is that brand to use?

I love Coat d'arms paints. Their the old citedel paints (when they were in the same pots).
I've not had one dry up on me yet, they cover well (the White of my Deadzone enforcers is just one layer of the light grey colour) and I find the paints do not need much if any watering down to use.

I used to get them from Artemis Blacks but now I've Moved to Cardiff, Firestorm dosent stock them

 Red Harvest wrote:

Nice detailing on the interiors. How do you intend to cover the exposed foam at the corners? I like the way the stencil on the glass door looks.

Ta
The whole of the outside is going to be stippled with a pva & poly filler mix to look like concrete so that should hide the exposed foam.

So, what color outfits do the royal post people wear?

 JoeRugby wrote:
Next I need to make switches (lots of switches), finish adding the screens to the monitors (I might add a coat of gloss varnish over the screen pictures), make some things that look like shutter housings for the windows and Buy 2 keyboard minis (anyone know where I can get these aside from the office set from thormillion?)

There are these:

http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=430_435_468

Although I haven't bought anything from them (yet), so I can't comment on the quality.

Terrain looks great! Nice details in the interiors.

That comm center is looking awesome!

Thanks guys

Zogg wrote:
There are these:

http://blackcatbases.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=430_435_468

Although I haven't bought anything from them (yet), so I can't comment on the quality.

Really good shout mate

Thanks

shasolenzabi wrote:So, what color outfits do the royal post people wear?

This
definitely not a uniform for post human bad asses

But I think my Brokkrs might be moving to a Royal Mail winter look

Which would look kinda bad ass on my space dwarfs to be honest

So Dk Gray trousers, white shirts, safety orange vests or the red/black jackets

The red/black jackets Shas

A little more progress

Shutters made and added


Door also made for the chain fence.

This needs to be painted and glued in.

Screens finished and added


I've ordered some keyboards from black cat bases one I get these I can finish off the interior and move on to texturing the exterior.

True Scale Marines

Refitting the arms on that Marine has encouraged me to start my next batch of True scale marines/finish off my scouts and terminators.

The only mini I have a plan for at the moment is the biker who I want to be resting with one foot off the bike aiming at something with his bolter.

Here's a scale shot of a heightened scout (1.5mm already added) and terminator (2mm's already added) next to one of my true scale marines and of course guardsman Bob.

I need to add an extra 2mm to the terminator and 1mm to the scout.

Thanks for looking

Not a lot of hobby time over the last few weeks, most of my time has been spend doing up my house before I move in.

My experience with lack cat bases seems to have been the same as others, absolutely no communication since I placed my order so I've put in a dispute on PayPal to get my cash back. Such a shame.

I lost patience waiting for the rest of the interior to be finished so I glued the back wall on and textured the exterior walls.




Just stippled poly filler and sealed it with watered down PVA to make it stronger.

I also managed to get the exterior painted and weathered yesterday.


The bare wall at the front is going to have a C2 stencil on it (to add a bit of colour)

I also fixed the roof, so it's now less warped and sits flush with the walls

That leaves me with the following to do before I'm finished

Ground floor
Buy AK interactive lenses to add warning light to generator.
Paint and add door to chain link fence

1st floor exterior
Print out C2 stencil and paint on

1st floor Interior
Add switches and door handles to interior
Order and add keyboards to Ops room
Paint and glue down Ainsty office chairs

Roof
Build "communications" tower - will be about 4-5" tall with a maintenance platform/sniper nest at 3" again in keeping with Deadzone.
Build Roof AC vents
Texture and paint

Better get back too it then


Thanks for looking if anyone knows anywhere else that makes some affordable keyboard models please let me know.

Those windows turned out very well. And it's always interesting to see how everyone does texturing, as long as they are not using sand.

The building looks awesome! It's detailed, but generic enough to fit with anything from moderns to sci fi, at least on the outside.

Oops not updated the thread in a while. (Been waiting for some good light to take some pics of my infinity and Mars attacks progress)

So I haven't got pictures of that but I do have loads to show with my comm centre piece.

Wall of pics starts in ....
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2
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Communications tower


Maintenance platform

Because health and safety exists everywhere

Fun with homemade stencils

Air conditioning units

More Interior detail

Fire extinguisher, Keyboard and mice added. I also added a spilt can of coke to the desk.

Last few pieces to be sprayed before they are painted and glued on


So almost finished

My next update should be with the finished piece

Thanks for looking

Great stuff! As always I'm impressed by your ability to get such good results from what seems to be quite simple starting points!

Seriously impressive work. All looks spot on. Love the tower, brilliant scratch building, nice and clean (modelling).

Where did you get the air con units from?

Thanks both.

 Camkierhi wrote:

Where did you get the air con units from?

It's part of a vent from the Mantic Battlezone's landing pad ( the one that slots into the floor tile with the gap in it) with some card wrapped around the bottom.

Finished ....Finally done after many months on and off.

I think I hit the brief I set for myself, Usable for multiple systems (inquisimunda, infinity, AVP(when prodos send me mine :(), deadZone etc)

I have faffed a bit with the build to be honest, but that was partly down to using some new techniques and materials. It's not perfect but I have learned a lot making this which will hopefully make my next piece better.

Thank you all for looking and commenting it's really helped keep me motivated to finish this build.




P.S here's a boat load of pics
Litter and the worlds toughest litter picker

I think guardsman Bob is putting to much faith in the chain link fence


An Orc shows his manners by closing the door behind him



The good mannered Orc taking in the view

Great piece!

Thanks Dude

Another long gap with the updates, just didn't have the light to take decent photos

Mars attacks

Marines

The minis are ok some better than others and some with hardly any facial detail (this might have been me being heavy handed with the spray mind you)

I tried to get 'em to look like the marines from Battle: LA, which is why they're in desert fatigues. Finding a good reference photo was a right pain.

Initially they were a lot yellower but I re-base coated them in grey and added the camo again to make it less deserty.

Heroes

Eva and Prince Charming from Shrek.

Eva I've tried to get her looking like a cop - Duh. Not a lot of detail on her shotgun (again this might have been me being too heavy with the spray paint.

Only issue with Charming was a bendy sword but hot water to the rescue

Martians


I love these guys

They were fun to paint and there was a decent amount of detail on all the models (for board game plastics)

The only niggle I had was the helmets not fitting very well.

Cars so far


More Mars Attacks Heroes




I didn't have the patience to do freehand all over bucks shirt so he's just got the one bit of pattern on the back.

Lots more Mars attacks minis to do.


The group at the front all need the hot water treatment.

The grey minis are my Anvil industry kickstarter minis and some Republic commandos waiting to be based.

My first painted Colony 87 mini




I love these minis and I should have a couple more done soon.

Thanks for looking.

More progress done on my op-icestorm stuff

Infinity

Finished the mobile brigada and Orc from the Op-icestorm set

Mobile brigada




Orc



Here's the Orc with the other Pan-O minis I've finished so far.

I'm going to try to get the rest of the Pan-O finished before I go back to the Nomads.

Both need some decals to finish them off but as no one makes decals fo infinity and I have been unsuccessful making my own this will have to do.

Thanks for looking.

Looking good! The Brigada and Martians especially!

Thanks Para


Dreamforge Eisenkern Stormtroopers



I've wanted to have a sci-fi German force for a while and these models are awesome.
Some of the best plastic minis I've put together for ages. I'll probably use them as Imperial guard storm troopers in anything 40k universe related.

The Eisenkern fluff shouldn't be that had to merge with 40k for my own Narrative. Same as the Warpath universe fluff being mostly the same but being formed by rouge traders who have been forgotten by the imperium until now.

I'll get some Bundeswehr decals for them at some point, and I'll get the accessories set before making any more of the 20 I've picked up.

Anvil industries Republic commando test mini




I'm waiting on some Union Jack decals from fallout hobbies for the left shoulders.

Another awesome mini. I picked up a squad of Republic commandos in anvils recent sale. I might use them for vets in my Albion imperial guard army or near future Brits in anything else I play. (Maybe up armoured U.N.I.T. troops for Dr who )

Thanks for looking

Awesome as usual! The Anvil and Dreamforge stuff looks like it would work really well together (as opposition factions), especially with that paintscheme. I really need to get some of boh at some point!

Cheers dude

I honestly can't recommend both ranges enough, the stuff I've had through from anvils kickstarter is epic.

Big post......

Test schemes for some Orks


Going for blood axes because I wanted them rocking red camo patterns(so they can be sneaky but do it fast... duh!!). I'll also end up using them as Orx in Deadzone.


Dire Avengers

Got some dire avengers finished....



And I've built up the rest of the squad....


Made 4 of the dire avengers into Women by adding some boob armour from the Eldar guardians sprue. Very easy conversion the hardest part is getting ahold of the female torsos


Finished - Mars attacks - Martian Marines

Pics taken without the helmets as they don't photograph well and my pics are bad enough already.

Finished - Mars Attacks/Antenocities workshop -Crashed Saucer

Love this bit of scenery


Finished - Anvil industry's - Natalya Federici PROTOS Avatar

Fluff from the anvil website for her
Natalya Federici, Vargo's daughter, heir and prodigy, is a rising star within the new Republic, in overall command of the Republic's armed forces. In the face of the Unity Councils numerical superiority, Natalyas determined and brilliant tactical leadership has allowed the Republic to hold the line for now. Natalya fights on the front line through her PROTOS battle Avatar, and will directly lead one of the SHARD strikes against Unity City. The PROTOS avatar is an advanced prototype, controlled by Natalya from a distance with a remote Mind-Link, she ocupies the PROTOS as though it were her own body, experienceing the world and slaying her foes through its eyes.




I was trying to get it to look like the Metropolis robot.

All the anvil stuff I've had so far has been amazingly cast and this mini was no exception.

Finished - Colony 87 - Lord- Governor Manduc Greiss



Love these minis two more to finish from the set before the next wave Kickstarter in February.

Painting in progress pile


Thanks for looking and sorry for the shoddy pics

So I built a diy light box frame from some of those IKEA led click lights, tissues and a cardboard box (all very Blue Peter )

Not amazing but def better in my opinion.

WIP Mawe




I'm unsure about the skin tone... I wanted them to look similar to the dog creatures from DOOM so the skin tone should be lighter really.

What do you think leave the skin as is or start again and make it paler/pallid?

As always thanks for looking.

Lots of eye candy, light box works well.

I like the tone you have.

Wow, that lightbox makes a load of difference! I think the skin looks fine (though I'm not familiar with what you're basing it on), if you wanted to go paler you could just add some more highlights with a little 'cold' grey/off-white in your mix at the most stretched areas of skin, that would lighten the whole tone while not destroying the good work that's already there.

Hi thanks both

Still on the fence about the skin might have a go at lightening it up first.

More experiments with my lighting set up

Complete fail initially


but managed to get it better


Took some better pics of Anvil industry's Avatar



Finished Morat

Eyes were a pain on this guy,but that might be down to me doing the eyes last instead of first.

I wanted a muted colour scheme for the mini so the face and white hair poped.

I need to sort out his base but I haven't decided on what the combined bases will be.

Thanks for looking

Good stuff, lighting is definitely sorted now!

Those female Dire Avengers look very nice, might have to borrow that idea.

Thanks both.

@GiraffeX - be warned its a pain trying to find bits sellers selling the female guardian torso for a decent price, I struggled so much I ended up buying a eldar guardians squad just to be able to do it......

Pretty exciting hobby week with my partial AVP pledge showing up

The predator and Alien minis are stunning, and when you get them they do make the wait slightly more tolerable in hindsight

the marines are really good sculpts and casts but their too big ( about 34/35mm tall on average)to go with the rest of my collection so that takes the shine off them. I'll get a size comparison pic done soon.

Missing the arm from one of the preds and the head on the power loader is miscast, otherwise the rest of the minis ( that are approved) seem all there.


PIP
The current mid painting pile

Hasslefree Mawe's, colony 87 merchant, GW scout sniper, infinity pan o drop trooper, and a load of anvil industries republic comandoes in the background

The Mawe's skin is finished just need to get the rest painted and based now

No idea how I'm going to do the leaping Mawe's base

Current pile to be undercoated before the rugby today ( 2 of the infant aliens already made it into be painted)




Deadzone Marauder goblin sniper
Same theme as my 40k tester ork with black red and grey camo. I'm planning on using 40k Orks for my Deadzone Marauders.


Think I'll make the camo a bit chunkier in the future


Mars attacks scatter scenery

These have come out better than I'd expected,

Thanks for looking, C&C welcome, and should be more posted tomorrow

Great works all round.

MA scatter is nice and clean and looking great.

Going to do the same with 40k orks for deadzone myself. This guy looks a bit too busy for me, but that is a totally personal thing, good job, just a bit busy.

I WANT AVP

And I am thinking of getting those Maws and using them as squigs for goblins to ride on!

What are those red casualty figures from? I'd like to get my hands on some of those. Also, I really like the Mars attacks scatter terrain. The trash cans are my favorites.

Thanks both

@Cam - He is too busy, there was something nagging at me about it and I think that hits it on the head, thanks
I want to go down the camo look for the Orks if I do bigger camo patterns that should make it less busy.

@waaazag - Their casualty minis from Mars attacks, 2 marines and one Martian.


Colony 87 Noblewoman

The penultimate mini finished from colony 87



Very Happy with my skin work on this one.

It took me ages to work out what colours I wanted for her clothing, but I think the blue n turquoise works.
Went with a skin coloured body suit for her clone pet, to play on the creepy factor a bit more

Only the merchant to go now

Anvil Industries Wardrones

Not my best pics on this one

I was aiming for them to look similar to the chappie robots..



Their ok, the do look better in real life, the edge high lighting hasn't come off that well.

I might come back to them as not 100% happy

Xenomorph

So I couldn't wait to paint my AVP Aliens (been waiting over 2 years after all).

Here's my test paintjob for the Xenomorph



Really simple letting the beautiful mini do the work, just drybrushed, washed and the done painted in gloss varnish.

I went for metal claws to match the teeth, but I'm not sure this is movie accurate (my Google fu showed both)

What do you reckon metal or black claws?

Thanks for looking

Noblewoman and Drones are good... but that Xenomorph is fething perfect! Simple paintwork or not, it looks exactly like it should. Lovely tones, great use of the gloss varnishing, great base too!

I reckon the claws might look better in the same gloss black as the head... At the moment, they look ever so slightly 'tacked on' as most of the mini is so monochrome. Either works, though.

 Paradigm wrote:
Noblewoman and Drones are good... but that Xenomorph is fething perfect! Simple paintwork or not, it looks exactly like it should. Lovely tones, great use of the gloss varnishing, great base too!

I reckon the claws might look better in the same gloss black as the head... At the moment, they look ever so slightly 'tacked on' as most of the mini is so monochrome. Either works, though.

Thanks Para

I see what your saying about the claws, I'm going to rewatch the alien films this week and give the other one I've got primed glossy black claws

Great looking Xenomorth.

EDC

Thanks EDC


Not a lot of 40k done recently that should change with my dire avengers being primed on the weekend and a hooded head being found for another scout.

Going to have a crack at some more "true scale" marines this weekend using the Horus heresy plastics. (Ideally a ultramarine and a black legion chaos conversion)

Ultramarine scout sniper

Finished another one

2 more and Telion to go

Went nostalgic with the blue eye paint and Mohawk


Aegis defence line auto cannon
I do love this bit of scenery, the rest of the line will make it into my pile soon.




Febs mini purchases

Only 2 purchases this month and their possibly 2 of my favourite 40k minis ever

Love the death corps commisar I just think he looks completely bad ass.
Same for this orlock ganger

Thanks for looking and any C&C is most welcome, should be back on weekend with more stuff.

JoeRugby’s assorted Sci-fi thread – 5/03/16 – Colony 87 wave 1 finished


Not a lot finished this week, but everything in my active PIP pile now has some more paint on it than just primer.

PIP


Dire avengers got a blue base coat, republic commandos now have the black armour plates ready for a black wash.

No progress on the rest tho.


Xenomorph 2
Decided to go with gun metal claws instead of the silver in the last one.

I did try black gloss claws like the head but it didn't work for me.

Now to clean the rest of my pledge ( was too excited to clean the 2 I've done so far and some of the paint did flake on thie second one)


Suffer not the "Alien"......

Colony 87 merchant

Got the colony 87 merchant painted.


Which means

Colony 87 Wave 1 is Finished

Group shot!

If you like these minis btw please check out the Kickstarter for wave 2 here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/62661939/return-to-colony-87-28mm-sci-fi-civilians
( you can pic these minis up in the Kickstarter too)

Thanks for looking

Once again the Xenomorph steals the show, fantastic stuff and the new claw style definitely works better!

The Colony 87 stuff looks awesome too!

Thanks a lot Para

Crashed Aquila hulll

Another great bit of 40k scenery


The rest is coming along but I need to sort something with the cockpit as I don't like that there's nothing inside.

Thanks for looking I should have the wings up tomorrow

Not got a lot finished this week it's mostly been sorting out my pipe of shame.

And yesterday's hobby time was spent cleaning cleaning resin

PIP

Dire avengers and republic commandos now base coloured and washed.
Teach and claws done on the mawes.

I'll get some bases done on the mawes this week to try and get them finished.

And some cheeky brokkrs made it into the panting pile too, my intention is to still paint them like Royal Mail postmen.

WIP

Enforcers, TGG Tina, and brokkr chief To get based then they can move into the spray me box below.

Crusher needs some green stuff work done on the join points

The large pile of aliens and the colonial marine need some pose adjusting with hot water.

spray me pile

All this stuff is ready to get primed

Thank's for looking, I'm putting the finishing touches to some bits so should be more up tomorrow.

Enforcers



Put together some of the plastic enforcers for a crack at v2 of Deadzone in a few days.
Soon to be joined by the enforcers from my WIP pile.

Once their pained I'll sell off the old restic enforcers. (Apart from the sniper cause the sniper is the 2nd most bad ass model in the Deadzone range.)

I gloss varnished the white armour parts to look like an Iphone case for a clean sci-fi look.


Crashed Aquilla lander



More progress on the crashed lander, just the cockpit to go but that's going to take a fair bit of work to sort out the gaps.

Happy with how it's come out so far

Thanks for looking

Nice work! Great Enforcers and the terrain is awesome!

Nice work on the Aquila. Those Aliens look interesting to paint. Good stuff.

Thanks both

Great work on the Enforcers, looking at yours I definately need to revisit mine.

The crash looks awesome, nice weathering and detail. good job.

The enforcers in restic would have been better if they'd been in fewer pieces. The Plastics paint up really nicely though, and you've done a really good job on yours

Thanks both

Anvil Industries Republic Commandos

When used in my "Nateverse" (40k head cannon where I try to fit other sci fi settings in e.g mantics warpath universe is a subsector south of the segmentum tempestus founded by rouge traders after the heresy)

AKA

Albion S.A.S
"Who dares Wins"
"The S.A.S regiment has a heritage going back to the first colonisation of the Albion system and even Terra itself.
For decades before the dark they were the elite of Albion's military, and that's all that is still recorded of them just the initials a motto and barley two sentences.

No one knows what happened to them, many think they were discarded by the techno knights of the noble families during the dark.
When Guilliman brought the great crusade to the Albion and united the Colonies they were just a footnote in a militarum history textbook.
It wasn't until 1000 years later that they would be reformed.

Major David Stirling during Waaagh Mary, recognised the need for an elite Commando unit to perform the tasks high command would wait 11 years for the Astartes to arrive for, after a lot of arguing eventually Stirling got his own way.
Named because he remembered the motto from his days in the Scolar, the S.A.S performed lightning raids and assassinations crippling the Ork invasion leading to Albion's forces eradicating the greenskins before the Astartes arrived.

The legend restored it has only grown since."




Size Comparison
Now to get them to fit a bit better with my collection I added a mm to the bottom of their bases


They now fit in well enough for me, definitely within my OCD tolerances.

Thanks for looking and reading my bit of badly written fluff

They look cracking, good stuff!

Very much approve and like the idea, hey this is a fictional infinite universe, so what you say goes. I personally like the idea so much going to steal it.

Thanks both

Steal away Cam

Reposed Xenomorphs

Not a fan of the regulars drone Xenomorph poses, too upright and stiff for me.

A bit of hot water later and this is what I got






Thanks for looking sorry for the blurry pics

31/03/16 -

PIP

Active "Paint me" pile is looking a little intimidating at the moment, but there are a few things very close to being completed

March Purchases

Well within budget this month, £26.47 spent.

Picked up a new workbench and jigsaw so I can start doing scenery again but that's a household purchase not a hobby one ;P

Brute Force
Very much a mantic almost mini, fell in love with the concept art in the Kickstarter but the mini doesn't live up to it.



I'll make some rules to use her In Deadzone.

Thanks for looking

1/04/16 - Infant/Drone Xenomorphs

Xenomorph Infants/Drones

N-verse fluff
"The Xenomorph is a recurring threat amongst the stars, rarely seen in the numbers purged during the great crusade they still show up on space hulks, rouge trader vessels and remote colony's (1).
Xenomorphs are deadly creatures but often overlooked for more numerous and dangerous species (2), Xenomorphs have no space faring capacity so outbreaks while bloody are usually self containing.
As I will discuss later Xenomorphs are Parasitic, needing a host to propagate. After the initial larval form (3), the Xenomorph will quickly develop into the below specimen.
It is hotly debated among my colleagues if this form is mearly an infant form of the Xenomorph or acts as a drone within the hive structure.

Please Note all Xenomorph forms have acidic blood capable of eating through most personal protection shy of power armour(4). Precise Weapons that cauterise their target are preferable when dealing with these threats
So while you may wish to hit them with your hammer "of overcompensation" Inquisitor Dario please be mindful of splash back.

1. Likely as a result of unauthorised salvage of said space hulks
2. Genestealers share a lot in common with Xenomorph's but understandably gain priority over them from my colleagues.
3. Crudely referred to as chestburster
4. With enough volume/ repeated application the acid will eventually penetrate/ dissolve most substances."
..............Inquisitor Justice Sedante Ordo Xenos




Last recorded image of PanO fire team Delta


"For Macragge"
Pict recording from the Purging of Colony 2871


Fluff bits over
the grey is a lot darker in real life, looks like I'll have to play around with my lighting set up again.

While these are finished for the time Being ill come back to some of them at a later date to add drool


Thanks for looking and reading

Totally in love with that bit of fluff and the models. You have nailed them. Fluff is awesome bud.

Thanks cam, always good to know when someone else enjoys my head cannon

2/04/16 - Facehuggers

the lifecycle of the Xenomorph starts as an egg birthed from a Queen organism.
Theses eggs host the "Facehuggers"
"Facehuggers" are The Delivery system for the Xenomorph parasite, a seemingly weak and insignificant threat that sometimes proves more deadly than its adult counterparts.
Small and stealthy once the Facehuggers latches on it, is impossible to remove without killing the victim (1)(2), in addition the eggs are often placed like organic land mines.
The Parasite can bond with most biological beings in the galaxy the resulting Xenomorph will adopt trades from the host creature (3)

1- so far successful removal of the Facehugger has taken place with the victim surviving, but there are rare accounts of the Xenomorph larvae being removed post "hug" with the host surviving.
2- we have discovered corpses of ork victims where (in typical Orc fashion) have tried to chew through the Facehugger to escape it's grasp. Needless to say the corpses are found with their faces melted.
3 - So far we have encountered Xenomorph variations from most creatures in the galaxy including Grox, Yndij,Tau, Eldar and before their final cleansing Morat. Thankfully there are no recorded cases of an Astartes being infected to put to rest the debate on if any Astartes traits would be passed to the Xenomorph Variation.

..............Inquisitor Justice Sedante Ordo Xenos




I was a bit lazy with these to be honest just base coated, then washed but I like the result anyway.

Thanks for looking and reading.

Good stuff on the Xenomorphs and Facehuggers, and the 'action shots' look ace!

Thanks para

Great aliens and Facehuggers I like the basing too very discreet and interesting.

Thanks Navarro

4/04/16 -

"Crusher!!!"
........last words of guardsman Kenny of the 75th Albion rifles before he became a smear on a hab wall.





Metal claws didn't look right on this guy

Family photo

All the xenos I've painted so far, still got the runners and predalien to paint up in my active pip pile.

Trying to get both to look like their movie counterparts to add a bit more colour to the Xeno force.

Thanks for looking

Awesome stuff once again!

Ta Para

Terrain & Scenery

Finally got around to buying a new jigsaw and workbench so I can get back to making some scenery.( finally!)

I'll be doing something with these


....This


Building this


Finishing this


The battlezone fortification sprues are a right PITA to work with but I want this to have another tower, It'll all be glued together because of the fortification sprue issues.

.....And this




Had this at Christmas, had a few near misses with ruining it so pretty scared of this beast.
The door sections are crazy fiddly and fragile and I've broke (but managed to repair) 3 of the 8 I've put in so far.

Thanks for looking C&C always welcome.

Loving that building, really nice, would like to see details of doors.

Battlezone stuff is great, but I agree can be a real to work with. Not quite as advertised.

Looking forward to seeing what your idea comes out as.

And that beasty is cool as chips. Brilliant.

Thanks cam

Anything specific you want to see and I'll try to get some pics later?

Super Happy Panda Noodle Bar

I fell in love in love with this kit when it was first shown.

My Girlfriend got me this for my birthday a couple of weeks ago, Firestorm had a delay getting it so I only got it Saturday.



Here's what you get in the box.


MDF is pre coloured Pro tip - there is a layer of paper over the top of the white bits to avoid any laser soot/ burn marks. Don't be a muppet like me and email Antenocities workshop asking Why it's not coloured :( ( a big thank you to Nadine at Antenocities for being kind to me when I realised I was a muppet)

The panda is gorgeous but really fragile until you glue it all together.

Leisurely Progress after 2 episodes of 24


Really easy kit to put together

Only issue I have is that there no instructions for the kitchen area table, or where the resin parts (other than the door pieces and what you can see in pics online) are supposed to go.

And 1 episode later
All the external MDF parts are all done (really easy kit), I've added a bit of paint to the kitchen counter (still not worked out how to assemble the table yet) and painted the the edge of the Panda sign black.



Now to clean up the resin pieces, get them painted and in the building.

I'm debating on magnetising the Panda sign for storage/ make it less likely to get snapped of when I'm being an oaf.

Do you think I should paint the edges of the White parts to get rid of the MDF charred brown? And Should I magnetise the Panda or just glue on?

Magnets.

No paint, looks superb as is.

Great kit bud.

Oh and if you dont mind hinge details.

20/04/16 - Super Happy Panda Noodles finished

It's finished









Close up of the pantry


Ended up gluing the panda to the piece, the area for the magnets was a little too thin for the ones I own.

Might go back and get a couple of varnish coats over the TV monitors and I need to clean up that yellow smudge on the shelves :(

Review
Negatives
No instructions for the interior placement and table build - you can work it out from pics online tho
No floor - this is the big let down for me, I would have preferred it to have a floor but your mostly going to use on an urban table so shouldn't look that weird.

Positives
That Panda is so damn cute......
Really easy build
Great detail on the resin bits
Don't need to paint anything if you don't want too but the resin bits look really nice with the extra colour.
I really love that panda.

Overall really happy with the kit, if you play sci fi games and can get your hands on this I think you should

And that really cute Panda thinks you should too


Thanks for looking

P.S Cam I'll get you pics of the hinges tomorrow

Excellent stuff, once again your attention to detail is very impressive!

That's a cool looking building. Though I'd probably chop off the giant Panda and try to make it much more dingy and run-down looking so the "Happy Panda" is a bit more ironic and sad, lol.

But I like my Sci-Fi dystopic. I mean, after all, there needs to be a reason why everyone is unhappy and fighting all the time.

Thanks both

lol like the idea Srg, but maybe everyone is fighting to get some panda noddles (where panda in the protein )

That panda is really damn cute. Why not just apply your own floor? Seems reasonable. HOLY GAWD MY CHEST POPPED. I love your xenomorphs. So awesome.

Nice work on the noodle bar. Not sure how good noodles made from panda would taste though. A bit like bamboo maybe?

It is a fairly detailed kit. Antenocitis make excellent products. It does illustrate one of the limitations of MDF though, the difficulty in making curved pieces. That front piece would look better if it had been resin or plastic, and thus without all the cut marks on it.

Nice work, sir! That will look great on the gaming table.

 Red Harvest wrote:
Nice work on the noodle bar. Not sure how good noodles made from panda would taste though. A bit like bamboo maybe?

It is a fairly detailed kit. Antenocitis make excellent products. It does illustrate one of the limitations of MDF though, the difficulty in making curved pieces. That front piece would look better if it had been resin or plastic, and thus without all the cut marks on it.

Maybe the panda makes the noodles?

Finished product looks brilliant, looking to get one i think, or steal the idea and see if i can't scratch close to it.

And with Panda, just make your own floor.

Thanks for all the comments guys

cormadepanda wrote:That panda is really damn cute. Why not just apply your own floor? Seems reasonable. HOLY GAWD MY CHEST POPPED. I love your xenomorphs. So awesome.

Thanks

I initially thought your comment about your chest bursting was due to the cuteness of the Panda

Red Harvest wrote:Nice work on the noodle bar. Not sure how good noodles made from panda would taste though. A bit like bamboo maybe?

It is a fairly detailed kit. Antenocitis make excellent products. It does illustrate one of the limitations of MDF though, the difficulty in making curved pieces. That front piece would look better if it had been resin or plastic, and thus without all the cut marks on it.

Ta Red

Very true about the MDF, I was going to run filler over the curved surface to get rid of the cut marks but when I assembled it I liked the look with the additional lines rather than a smooth surface.

Also I reckon panda would taste like chicken......

Edit: according to Google Panda should take like fattier beef

Re- Floor - I will make a base for it eventually maybe incorporating some seating (so customers can be charged and extra 10% for eating their panda noodles onsite)
Just a shame for me that it didn't have something there from the get go like the 4ground stuff I've played with so it could be a self contained unit.

P.S Later than said (blame Dark souls 3) but here ya go Cam

Stoic arms door Hinge detail

Doors are all made up of 3 pieces (door itself and the 2 rectangles with the holes)


The door pegs go into the holes.

You glue in the bottom and top bits to the building (making sure that you don't glue the door)

And it moves (even if you break the top bit putting it in then repair it)

Ooo nice door hitting action. I actually really like that structure. A lot, nice for some interior fighting.

Like ALIEN NABBING PREDITOR COMBAT SPACE MARINE KILLING FRENZY GUARDSMEN ACTION.

Ta Panda

April overview

April Hobby purchases



That comes to £96.83 so just in budget. Putting a spending freeze on for the next few months (only limited edition/crazy deal purchases) got more than enough to get on with especially with Deadzone KS shipping soon.

Also got these for my bday at the end of March, I'm not opening the Overkill box until I've cleared one of my PIP draws, and I'm going to try to "tru scale" the marines like my Ultramarines.

Which brings us nicely to

April PIP

Can't remember where I saw this but someone suggested using one of these from ikea

For organising hobby bits. It works really well so I've got a shelf for tools and ongoing minis. A big thanks to that hobby dude whoever you are.

AVP

Theres only a few Alien warriors still needing some green stuff after being reposed and that will then be all the Xenomorphs ready to go.

Got the missing bits for my power loader, marine and predator from Prodos so they should be in the PIP mix soon.

Misc

Loads going on here
A no prize if you can identify all the minis in the pile.

GW/40k

Dire avengers are still there, really struggling to find the motivation to just get them finished.

They have now been joined by an orlock ganger(one of my favourite ever GW minis) and an engineseer.

Onto the finished stuff

Runner Xenomorph test



Tried to get her looking like the movie version, not perfect but it looks good to me.

I've got more bases from Fenris, so I can get the rest of the runners finished off shorty


Enforcers
Another batch of enforcers finished.

"MyVerse Fluff"

"The Enforcers of the Co Prosperity sphere(1), are an attempt by the Rouge trader Dynasties to have their own Astartes.
Armoured in Xeno tech (2) each enforcer is stronger, tougher (3) and faster than an unenhanced human, but not to the same degree as an Space marine. (4)
They are the backbone of the ruling elites power and as such serve only the 7 Rouge trader dynasties who run the CoOperations(5) this is In part due to the cost of maintaining these Enforcer units and partly due to trade agreements with the Forge fathers who provide the Power Armour the enforcers use.

1. A large sector of space south of the Segmentum Tempestus founded by Rouge Traders.
2. Many of my colleagues believe the Forge fathers are an off shoot of the Squat abhumans, but limited contact means no conclusive evidence has been found.
3. Enforcers are able to operate after serious injury even limb removal, it's believed to be some form of combat drug similar to slaught but far more refined.
4. For an account of Enforcer vs Astartes see Lord Inquisitor Hofstadter's "Audit of CoOperation" where Hofstadter engineers a confrontation between his Deathwatch bodyguard and a group of Enforcers to intimidate the Rogue trader he was meeting with.(6)
5. Pronounced Corporations by themselves
6. It worked

..............Inquisitor Justice Sedante Ordo Xenos




Keeping the iPod armour on these, pretty happy with them though I'll probably re do the power knife

Family photo


All my enforcers as they stand (most of the old restic ones are going to the EBay), I went back and redid the armour on the sniper and the Peacekeeper captain to match the rest.


Thanks for looking and reading

Enforcers are looking great.

I have some ideas for fixing up my hobby space too, just got to get the urge to do them.

Your April buy pics remind me I need some cork bottle stoppers for an idea I have.....

Good stuff, liking those Enforcers a lot!

Thanks both

Aliens look good, terrain looks good, enforcers look good. Good work all round Joe!

Can I ask what the Ikea shelf is called? Looks like it might be handy for storing my queue of unpainted minis, depending on size.