[spoiler]Hi, this is my first post here on Dakka. I want to show you what I did on my chaos cultist. Some ideas have been "stolen" looking around here, and maybe it's not a great job, but it's my first. I also have some almost finished terrain, wich I just started painting, and I'll shoe you the very first I painted. Both cultist and terrain have been planned for Necromunda.
Comments and criticism are very welcome, thank you.

Awesome! Exalted!

And here the terrains:

I really like what you got going here! The buildings look great! Can't wait to see the cultists painted!

Absolutly Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ishould make some of that stuff for my Space Marines!!!!!!!

Ember

Very well done, any tips on how you did the rust? looks brilliant.

Amazing conversions. Very inspiring! And the terrian looks like it could make a great settlement. Perfect for the shoot-out scenario :-D

Thank you for your words.

@idunnomaybe: for the rust I aplly a quite dry mix of baking soda, vinylic glue and water, it gives that "crispy" texture. Than for painting I use a burnt brown for base, and then drybrush various mix of brown, orange, red and yellow. In the end some silver on some edges and a dark brown ink over the details.

Very creative and inspiring.

Hi, I have some pictures of my progresses. I've been painting some terrains, others are in progress now, and I've painted almost all the cultists, too. Pictures of the cultists will come later this week, for today I have some terrain to show:

Oh yes yes, oh yey. Very cool thread. Loving the cultists really characterful. Where did the funky drill arm guys drill come from?

Great terrain too, really like the idea of stuff like the fungi field, very characterful and different

EDC

Thank evildrcheese. That drill shoul come from the necromunda pit fighters, but I'm not shure, I've had it laying in the box for years. The fungi filed idea is inspired by the book "Metro "2033".


Today I'll post the pics of the cultists I've painted so far:

Here some other pics; your opinions and advices will be very welcome.

I have some wip terrains not shown yet.

Hi, the city has grown and I have some more pictures. I'm trying to give it a bit more of personality, especially building a market (and merchants are already being built), water vapour distillers and, mainly, a table. This is the first part of 4, still not sure if even the other 3 will have canals (one at least will).
So here's the pics; thanks for viewing and c&c welcome.

Inspiring! Great job

Hi, here's some pics of the latest models i painted. In between there are finally: the warband boss (the one with the chaisword on his shoulder), the merchant (first of more to come, the one qith the horse), the butcher (the bluish-skin alien), and the biggest model I've ever painted, the lotr troll conversion.
Hope you'll like them.
Thanks for watching! C&C welcome.

Double posting because I couldn't left out these other pics, especially the last:

Your Necromunda terrain looks great, the canal especially, and I love the way you've modified the Cultists to give them a lot more individual character.


Is the Tau Stealth Suit supposed to be a Spyrer? I love the jumping effect.

@Veteran Sergeant: thanks very much, my aim is to have a nice overall glance.

The tau wasn't supposed to be a spryer, I just wanted to try that conversion, but your idea is interesting! Maybe I should try to put a spryer gang up, let's see!

Holy warp, that is an impressive warband, great conversions and awesome rusty/post apo paintjob.

Awesome! Reminds me of fallout.

Hi everybody, took some pics of the latest works. The antenna house's wip can be seen on a previous post. Worm and tents are not my ideas, I followed those how to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RJ8Jqu1Y7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzLSXMgzWpk.

I am currently painting more terrains and working on some minis, so more updates soon.

Hope you like them, c&c appreciated.


b-tone

Woah! that is some seriously awesome stuff!

Hey mate, I love your conversions !

I wanted to know: what are you trying to accomplish? As in, whats your end-game goal :O?

@STG: thanks very much!

@teban: that's quite a question! It all started without a serious background idea, all I wanted to do was to paint some terrains I built some time ago, and build some more, since I like it very much, and try to convert and paint some chaos cultists, using simple and fast yet effective techniques. Then I started to plan something. To the classic 40k gothic look, I prefer a more post-apoc look, but not totally low-tech, referred to a necromunda style game, wich I've always wanted to play. After some basic terrains (houses and industrial buildings, mostly), I wanted to give more personality to my city, so I started the markets, the farm ecc, and the same idea is behind my latest minis (the majority of them still very wip, so didn't appeared here yet), for example the butcher and the troll, wich I imagine to be a center piece for a future fighting pit. So now I am focusing on characters, like merchants, chariots, keepers for the markets, diplomats, not directly envolved in a warband, but a lot of fun to create. I am also planning 3 other table-pieces, so that I can finally put all the terrains together, and make them inhabited.
Hope this could answer your question. Thanks for your interest!

b-tone

So rusty. I feel like a need a tetanus shot just looking at these terrain pieces. Beautiful work, sir. Subscribed!

That's awesome . I love the idea of building your own 'city' - That is one of my goals as well (I have a very early WIP of my sanctuary 101 table).

Will you create rules for your characters or base them on something such as necromunda?

Cheers !

@Cleatus: thank you!

@teban: did you uploaded any pic of your table? I'm interested, but couldn't find them!
For my characters I'll follow necromunda rules, since I'm not an expert gamer at all..

Hey b-tone .

I have some terrain here and there. As soon as I get my terrain back home (I've got it at my local game store), I'll upload some photos for you to see

Cheers!

Wow, seriously impressive stuff here!

Hi, I've been working on my biggest and most complex piece of terrain, so here it is, ready to be painted. Hope you like it!
It is meant to be a storage point, and the start of my modular tube pieces. The thing I like the most is the chain-operated elevator.

I've been working on some alien mercenaries, those are gonna be a new merchant's guard. More pics on the gallery

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/807933-.html?m=2

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/807941-.html?m=2

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/807936-.html?m=2

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/807939-.html?m=2

Thanks for watching!

Hi all, I've finished my biggest piece of terrain ever, here are the pics. I've also painted two more air collectors, so the 3 are completed! Pics below, and wips in the previous messages.
Speaking of minis, the 4 alien mercenaries whose wips I've posted before are painted too, I'll post pics as soon as I make them.
As always thanks for stopping by, your opinions are very welcome.

Those are some wonderful rust effects you have going on there on the large terrain piece. I really like the condensers too. Nice work!

@Cleatus: thanks again!

Here there are my painted "aliens". My goal was to mix GW parts to create some new races, and experimenting while painting them; I must say I'm happy with the result. Let me know what you think:

Very interesting and characterful aliens !

Those are great looking aliens! Very weird and dangerous.

I love how you've stuck to an aesthetic so perfectly. Great work!

KernelTerror, Oguhmek, LeCacty: thank you very much!

My next project in a new terrain, and I'm going to something a bit different. I've always been fascinated by those great jungle terrains and tables, or even just minis, mostly because of the strange and weird plants, so I decided to try and make some. The result is shown below. But the problem is how to include plants in my rusty and toxic vision; so I'm thinking about some kind of greenhouse, relatively small but loaded with different plants, placed on a concrete base and surrounded with tubes, air filters etc.
What do you think? Suggestions are very welcome!

Brilliant plants B-Tone, this should be good. There could be a toxic spill in near your greenhouse, a small oasis of radioactive slime with the vegetation going crazy and mutated around it !

Hi, I'm posting my latest wips. The first one is meant to be a diplomat or a noble, and I will maybe go for a slightly different colour scheme for him, still undecided. The second is an alien merchant, part of a serie of four, and everyone of them has his own piece of terrain (you can see the wip pics posted ealier); I'll post a full pic of them as soon as I finish to paint everything. Then there are 3 new gangers, which are the start of a new unit, something like veterans. The one with the drone is a communication expert, has a microphone and an amplifier-drone to transmit orders. The last pic is a toy gun crried by a kind of beast I made mostly for fun and exercising in sculpting.
I already have started painting them, so I hope to post more pics soon.
As akways thanks for watching, opinions welcome.

Creepy, unnerving and yet sexy conversions. Brilliantly well done models.

Thanks Marine_With_Heart, really appreciated comment! I'll post painted pics in a couple of days, I think.

Here we are, the last wips I shown are now painted. There are 3 fighters, a diplomat and the beast-pulled gun. The last alien merchant is missing, I'll show him soon along with his 3 companions (and the relative scenery pieces).
But next project is to build other 2 sections (1 is already painted, in a total o 4) of the gaming table.

Well done ! Damn that diplomat is full of personnality. You keep hitting the mark representing the inhabitants of a place at the fringe of the imperium, far from the light of the Omnissiah.

Thanks KernelTerror, you understood my idea.
This is my latest paintjob, an obscure flying alien merchant, and even my biggest greenstuff effort, so far.

Excellent GS work.

I also like the hover-speaker guy

Sinister looking fella, excellent sculpting

Very cool stuff, I really like the flying alien dude.

EDC

Thanks a lot guys, your appreciation is very motivating!

Awesome stuff! I especially like your use of draft animals and the more spindly, robot part guys. Brilliant! The best part of 40K is projects like this. The only suggestion I could offer would be to mix up the metal rust effects - get some other metals and tarnishes in there while keeping the overall red/brown theme. GW has lots of different effects with slightly different effects that would look good. I look forward to seeing a whole table. will there be puddles of sludge and scraggly vegetation?

Kestral, thanks so much. I appreciate that the things you like the most are those in which I put the biggest effort and creativity! Your suggestion is good, I think I should improve my painting skills and try to add some variety.
Coming to the table, I've just finished the 2 sections I was building (will upload photos soon), so now there are 3. Those last 2 are quite plain, because I have a lot of terrain to put on. But for the fourth and last I am planning to do something more elaborated, there must be a continuation of the canal I did in the first, but not sure yet. We'll see!

Hello, here are the 3 completed sections of the table (sorry for the not-top-quality pics). As I mentioned before, I'm still working on a plan for the fourth.

But firstly I want to show you a completed monster I made some time ago, but just painted. You will find the link to the tutorial that inspired it earlier.

Thanks for watching!

Hi, I finished one of my favourite projects so far: a trading wagon. My aim here was to combine hi-tech (the floating cart) with pure animal strenght. But less words, more pictures:

(as always thanks for watching and c&c welcome)

Your models have a wonderful Blanchitsu feel to them, and your terrain is stunning. This whole blog shows that weird, creepy, dirty side of 40k that you really only see in John Blanche illustrations and passages of the Inquisitor and Necromunda rulebooks. I love this blog and I look forward to seeing more from you in the future.

Thanks a lot Brother Srm for the great feedback! I may non upload news often, but quite constantly, so keep checking this page out!

Ive always pictured greenhouses full of aqairium plants, aka obscura, stimbush and the hardcore only brainleaf...i hear the brain leaf trip is like the old terran mushrooms of the himalaya, but with more dribble and ramblings.

Brilliant stuff here the pig thing is awesome.

Love it, that pig wagon is one of the greatest things I have seen this year!

Thank RedHavoc and Llamahead for your kind words, and rustproof, talking about greenhouses, here's my take on that subject. I imagine that on a dusty, polluted and rusty world, plants and flora in general don't grow spontaneously, so they have to be kept safe inside envirorment-controlled structures, which are even useful in order to collect oxigen. Let me know what you think!
After the "jungle" pics there's my latest wip, who's supposed to be a medic with an operating chair (human remains to be added).

Hmmm that medic is very promising, interesting !
The greenhouse is gorgeous, however I feel it still says plastic box. Maybe painting the lower trim would help ? Still, top notch realization !

Thanks KernelTerror! I understand your point; I've been thinking a lot about what material to use, and how to get rid of that plastic feel, but couldn't make it any better! Even though I must say I'm not very good at taking pictures, and it's actually a bit better in reality..

Plants look amazing but with the lid on you can't really see them

Honestly painting or carding on a frame wouldn't be to difficult and would help with the plastic box feel. Top notch work however. You seen the League of Extraordinary Riveteers? There current challenge is "Make some Noise" and you'd be a top draw contender.

b-tone,

Great and unique stuff, especially the terrain and some of your characters. Keep it up.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks Seventyone and Captain Brown! @Llamahead: the frame could be a good suggestion, I'll try something and go back to the greenhouse after I finish my new project. I've seen the League's challenge, and I must say I've been wanting to do something on the music theme for a while, since I am a musician..sadly I'm not ready to take part this time, still looking for the right idea!

Really awesome stuff. I love the hover cart pulled by the giant pig, really cool.

EDC

Completed the medic, along with his operating table (which seems particulary difficult to take photos of) and an acid-bin where to put corpses.

holy cow, how did I miss this blog? You sir do some amazing Blanchitsu stuff, I hope you're a member of the inq28 Facebook Group where you can share your stuff with like-minded modelers

Wow. The medic, operating table and bin look awesome. Proper grim dark.

EDC

Excellent, very nice progress on the medic project !

You have some really imaginative stuff going on in here. I really like it!

Great stuff so far.

If I may ask; what torso did you use for the medic?

Thanks everybody. Tonight starts the painting of the medic; I'll wait a bit for the table, since I'm placing a body on it, and I'm still undecided about its colour.

@Mymearan: I'm not a member of that fb group, I don't know it. I'll look for it!

@Frank&Stein: the torso is from ad mec sicarians.

Completed the medic, along with a servo skull and a "waste" barrel. Also painted a communication drone operator which was waiting from some time. Hope you like them!

Now that is yicky. Excellent stuff.

Creepy ! I love it !

Wow, what a thread. I'm working on some necromunda terrain at the moment and yours is so inspiring. I love your work with the squad of aliens as well, nice mix and match with the parts.

Very nice. That waste barrel is perfectly disgusting.

EDC

They are wonderfully grim

Thanks everybody!

Here's the final result of the medic station; and a shotgun ganger too.

Hi, I've finished all the market pieces and finally made some scenic photos of them all together. hope you like them!
Next related project I have in mind is a beasts vendor, but it's still in a projecting phase. Ideas are welcome! Even if I think before that I'll go for something different, for example a vehicle, since I've never painted any.
Enjoy the pics and thanks for watching! (and sorry for the blurred ones, I must improve my photo skills; and for some stalls already showed).

Absolutely fantastic work here.

One thing I took note of early on is how all the settlements have water tanks on the roof. A nice touch of vermasatude in an otherwise insane universe.

Nice work, really funky vendors

Thanks!

@Kid_Kyoto: you spotted right about the water tanks, and what I'm trying to do, whatever vermasatude means!

Amazing stuff!

Everything is bristling with character, looking forward to seeing more

How did you make the drawers?

Very classy shots B-Tone, definitely grimdark and strange, but in each case there is no doubt what is what. The potential for stories in these builds....

This is amazing! I'm completely transported into this world you have created! Also the H2O sign is such a spot-on piece of modelling and painting.

Thanks very much, really appreciate those kind words!

@ Llamahead: drawers are made with a rectangular piece of styrofoam, for the body; then pieces of plastic (I use old calling cards) are shaped and glued to rapresent drawers, directly on the styrofoam (left) or over another piece of plastic card with some rivets (right). Then an iron wire is bend and the handle is glued on the plastic. Easy as that!

This planet need some Inquisition to clean it up, i defiantly spotted imperial citizens interacting freely with Xenos and mutants.


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Hi, today I'd show some new models I've been working on lately. Let me know what you think, c&c welcome!
Thanks for watching.

Fantastic stuff, I love the poses you were able to get out of them!

Thanks Kid_Kyoto!

Got your hands on some GSC I see. I really want some of their shotguns for conversions, I think Flesheater Ghouls would make awesome renegades if they had shotguns.

You see well, EmberlordofFire8. I agree GSC have really cool bits and lots of potential conversions.

ps

Glad your exterminatus hasn't arrived yet!

That is all looking great, and I can't wait to see it painted

So grimdark...

Brilliant work as always.

Thanks! Have some other wips in progress, I'll show them as long as they're ready, then the painting will start.

Please do the planetary asap. That looks so fething cool!!!

Thanks LeCacty, I'll try to paint it first!

Here the last characters I was working on:

For the hound, I think something should be added to the termy head. As of now it just looks like a hairy termy. As for the cloaks, just keep working at it! You'll get it soon enough
Everything else is great as usual

You're reight about the termy head, I agree! Maybe a couple of horns?

b-tone wrote:
You're reight about the termy head, I agree! Maybe a couple of horns?

I think that would work alongside merging the chitin w/ the fur a bit. I'm thinking fur along the back of the neck that kinda blends/leads to the chitin if that makes sense

Hi, as last post of the year I'll post something totally new to me: vehicles!

The first one is meant to be a tractor, a recovery and carrying tank, let's say a working vehicle. I'm also making some pallet with various stuff to be put over it.

Second is an armoured car, with a little armour, light weaponry but meant to be fast in bringing order (as enforcers) or gangers where needed.

Both of them now needs some last touches and some dirt (made with sand and glue), then they'll be put on the painting queue.

Please remember those are my first vehicles and my first time with plasticard, so don't be too cruel on your judgment. Especially this time, comments are very welcome.
Happy holidays everybody and next post will be something painted, I swear.

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@LeCacty last picture is for you, I put into practice your advice and I think you was right (even if the pic is blurry, sorry for that).

Your vehicles are pretty good for a first attempt!
Some feedback:

The plasticard work on the tractor looks good. I wonder about the placement of the exhaust pipes though. At the moment they are coming out of the wall right behind where I imagine one of the crew to be sitting. That's not impossible, but it does make me wonder where the vehicle's engine is. Perhaps you could extrude the cabin structure slightly into the cargo bay on that side to suggest an engine compartment?

The body of the armoured car is okay, and the chasis is too (classic lego wheels ), but I think the body sits awkwardly on the chasis, it's a bit nose-down at the moment. I also don't think the radiator at the front works. Is the "engine" top hatch from the Leman Russ hull the one with a radiator mesh texture?

Overall though, these are solid builds.

The vehicle looks really great as does the termy!

Really liking the alien sheep.

I really like the tractor. Fantastic level of detail, and gives me something to do with all of my spare tracks! I don't like the wheels or the forward tilt on the other vehicle though, sorry.

Crazy good vehicles.

WooooW .... Very good conversions, and ideas!

The hound is looking adorable! And sinister, but also adorable. I love this whole thread.

Thanks everybody for the feedback, really appreciated!

@Turaxa: about the tractor, I'm conscious the pipes position is a bit strange, but I imagine the engine to be somewhere under the cabin instead than where one of the crew is sitting, so that the pipes are just passing through the cabin. I don't know if it sounds realistic enough but I must say I like it as it is!
The armoured car is another matter..I'm not 100% convinced about it, don't like the radiator (it comes from the ork trukk) wich fortunatly is not glued yet, but don't like a plain front..I'll figure something out! But one thing that I like, to be true it was the first inspiration for that vehicle, is to have it nose-down, I find it gives it a somekind of mean look.
By the way thanks for sharing your thoughts!

b-tone wrote:
Thanks everybody for the feedback, really appreciated!

@Turaxa: about the tractor, I'm conscious the pipes position is a bit strange, but I imagine the engine to be somewhere under the cabin instead than where one of the crew is sitting, so that the pipes are just passing through the cabin. I don't know if it sounds realistic enough but I must say I like it as it is!
The armoured car is another matter..I'm not 100% convinced about it, don't like the radiator (it comes from the ork trukk) wich fortunatly is not glued yet, but don't like a plain front..I'll figure something out! But one thing that I like, to be true it was the first inspiration for that vehicle, is to have it nose-down, I find it gives it a somekind of mean look.
By the way thanks for sharing your thoughts!

I think the radiator could be helped by being shortened or lowered so it was behind the spikes so all of it would be flat with the front of the truck. One critique i might have about the truck is the back axle, the way its raised doesn't look realistic, you could put a suspension coil/arm coming from that flat part to the wheel or possibly a panel to show wear the axle has been removed from the bolted up, if you were going for a 'jacked' look. alternatively you could drop it to match the front. otherwise really impressive work, esechily with the details work on the tractor.

Hi, a good purpose for the 2017 could be to paint everything I already have built, minis and terrains, before making more. Hard to realize..
Took a pause on the vehicles, since your comments convinced me to work some more on the armoured car, so in the meanwhile I started painting. Here the first finished pieces: "King", the merchant, and his retinue, made of his hound and two bodyguards, one carrying his strongbox.
Hope you like them!

Creepy... so well done

Excellent stuff might be worth looking at the Rogue Stars ruleset.

Just been though the whole thread fantastic stuff dude, subscribed and looking forward to what you do next

Magnificient, all of them, that signature rust is always efficient !

Very cool stuff on here. Love the vehicle conversions.

EDC

The bodyguard really gives me Quake 2 vibes, which is awesome!

Looks great,but King I like the most.
Hound look like a crazy sheep which drinks blood of small children Crazy stuff

Amazing work, the minis really come to life with that paint job!

IGtR=: thanks!
Llamahead: thanks for the suggestion, never played rogue stars, but seems interesting!
JoeRugby: many thanks for the effort and the support!
KarnelTerror: thanks mate!
evildrcheese: glad you like it!
Le Cacty: that seems a compliment!
ROTTEN_FACTORY: yes the intent on the sheep was (something like) that! Proud you like it!
stonned_astartes: thanks! it's been my most careful paintjob.

Wow, the Blanshitsu is strong in this one

Thanks Jehan-reznor!

It absolutely was a compliment!

Hi, here's my planetarium, with a slave attached to it, so that his punishement makes the device turn. I think it can work as an astropath, in my vision.
Hope you like it!

That's a really original idea, and wonderfully executed. Great work!

That's straight up neat though it makes me feel so sorry for the little guy, and his hair. His wonderful hair.

Thanks guys! Ah in fact he seems less concerned about his rotting leg than about having soft hair!

Just looked through this blog for the first time, and now I'm stealing all the ideas

Great work man, lots of inspiration for converting my chaos cultists

Thanks a lot for the viewing, glad you like it!

Yes, the Planetarium is just brilliant

Very groovy. Can't help but think of the opening sequence from one of the Conan movies though (gonna guess the Barbarian)

EDC

Yep, it's the Barbarian: he turns that kind of mechanism for ages. Another inspirational sequence in that movie you made me remind of is the pit fight..I've always wanted to make an arena, someday I'll try it!

original, freaky and Grim

love it

Love it!

The planetarium is great (nice rust effects), and I love King and his retinue.

Hi, time for some new pics today!
First, 3 models just painted. Two have recently been posted as wips, and rapresents a crucified daemon and a scythe-armed alien, both poses I've wanted to do for a while; the last instead was laying on my desk half painted from months, and is another kitbashed alien.
I also painted an house I built long ago, so I decided to take some pics of all the finished houses I have.
Hope you like them!

Neat little slum city you got going there!

Wow. Now all its missing is some spaceships. I will await their arrival.
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Rusty and beautiful. Fan-tastic work, sir.

A perfect shanty town, which almost makes me feel like a need a tetanus shot looking at it.

In a good way of course

wicked as always man! Amazing little shanty town.

Illumini: thanks!

EmberlordofFire8: yep that's something I've been thinking about a lot..and sometimes, they will arrive!

Cleatus: thanks! Next rust show will maybe be about my industrial buildings..

amazingturtles: thanks! Good idea, but even a gas mask could be useful!

stonned_astartes: thanks!

Hi,
it's been a while since my last post, 'cause I've been moving to a new home, but slowly kept modelling, so I'm back with some new wips.

First a rough rider; the beast is clearly inspired by the tauntaun. It will part of 3, so 2 bodyguards and a character, still undecided who and how he should be.

Then I made a shaman, with a servan carrying a totem. Them are both inspired from paintings by Jonas Burgert, specifically "Stuck Hirn" and "Kaltlauf". Still not sure if the shaman is completed, or missing something.

Then I decided to add more factions in my settlement. So what came out was my first unir of enforcers, which have been also given a surveillance drone, and a couple of lizard, inspired by the rogue trader's space slann race. Those two are meant to be bodyguards of a diplomat or general, still to be imagined.

Least a little zeppelin, with little use other than being cool.

Thanks for watching and, as usual, comment & criticism (and ideas) are welcome.

Super cool B-Tone! I missed this blog...

Thanks! Me too I must say. Longing to paint and get some new models done!

Hi, I have completed the first two models in the new home! They are two workers for my settlement. I am planning to have other two (for the moment) and to give them the truck with the crane I showed before.
And, since I mentioned I moved, a pic of my workspace.
Thanks for watching!

Man, so much great stuff here. My favorites are the Fungi Field and the King on the hoverbike.

Subscribed and Exalted. Keep up the excellent work.

Thanks, that's very generous! I've started painting the enforcers, so they'll be the next update.

Sounds good glad to see you back and I really want a hover cart.

Nice work.

Hi, I'd like to show you sergeant Rako's squad, quite small for now, maybe I'll increase it in the future. It's made of him, two enforcers and a surveillance drone.
Thanks for watching!

I've missed so much cool stuff! Love the workers, and the drone's kickass too.

I have to say thought that I absolutely love the Slaan and the other weird dude made from the Plaguebearer body. They're really cool!

Thanks! Well the rider from the plaguebearer body is being painted now, so I'll show it soon; and for the space slann I'm planning something cool for a boss, still missing some parts but soon I'll post a wip.

Oh sweet looking forward to seeing them come to life

The models look great, but I think we need more light in the pics in your new setup to really see them well

Really great to see you back in action, with such cool conversions!

Terrific work- and a modeler after my own heart: find the random household bit of junk and figure out a way to work it into a project, to the point where the observer can't tell what it was, originally!

Each individual piece is executed well, but taken together as a whole, the vignettes are really something special.

I'm looking to swipe any number of ideas from you!

Wow I just looked through this thread and there are so many great things in here. I think these kinds of projects where someone's creativity really comes through to build a world are really fantastic. The attention to details on the conversions and terrain is great and I'm really brought back to my old days of making terrain from random household items disguised as interesting tabletop scenery. In particular though I really surveillance drone for some reason though. Looking forward to more stuff!

Excellent conversions but I don't like the rusty shields on the Enforcers as i imagine them to be elite troops sent to crush the slum dwellers and would therefore have well maintained equipment.

Inspirational work. The drone reminds me of Kosh from Babylon 5.

Thanks a lot for the precious feedback and for all the appreciation!

@RiTides: I'll try to get better pics!
@Llamahead: I see your point, I thought a lot about their shields, if give them some more colour, but in the end I decided for more homogeneity in the settlement.

I painted my rider, so I present you Ghu Yay, the ronin mercenary (plus a little surprise in the form of a zeppelin):

Hi, I've been working on the space slann boss, so here's a few wip pics. The (not so original) idea is to imagine a classic whfb slann into 40k, so the first thing was to make him look fat and lazy. In the right arm I plan to give him a fan. Coming to his transport, the idea was a floating pool in wich he'll be immersed.
As always thank for watching and feedback is appreciated!

Oh, man, this keeps getting better. Love the ronin.

i really like the floating pool idea! The tubing and such already looks good. I did think it was a bathtub at first.

Sweet! What an excellent idea looking forward to this immensely.

Are you planning on doing something with the head to make it look a little less Tyranid?

Thanks youwashoxk and amazingturtles!
@ Ynneadwraith: yes but still not sure on what to do, maybe I'll try to fatten the neck. Any suggestion (considering my very limited greenstuff skills)?

Hmmm, thinking about it the really iconic Tyranid thing on the head is the carapace on top. Could you shave that off to make a smooth head (also looking mare amphibian)? That wouldn't require any GS skills at all

The slaan boss in his bath tub omfg
Brilliant stuff.

The Ronins amazing the zeppelin is excellent and the Slaans bathtub is awesome.

Thanks Ratius and Llamahead, that's very generous!
@Ynneadwraith: shava that off is a good idea, I'll test it, thanks!

Awesome work as usual, b-tone! I agree with Ynneadwraith about the head, though.

Beautiful zeppelin - I love the paintwork on the canvas!

Lush stuff dude, your Blanchitsu is strong

EmberlordofFire8, Scarper, JoeRugby: thanks a lot! Appreciation is really motivating.

Today I've got some stuff to show. First, painted ones. They are Ahrkaa the shaman and his acolyte carrying a totem.

On the wip side, I've finished the space slann boss, flattened his head (thanks Ynneadwraith for the advice), gave him a bit more belly and a pair of nipples. Oh, and a fan!
Then the second rider with the tauntaun-inspired beast is ready for painting (see the finished first one some posts ago). Last, a biker, a model I've wanted to work on for so long. He's been given some fluttering hair; white things you see in front of the bike are meant to become lights.

Thanks for watching, hope you like what you saw!

The shaman is awesome.

Thanks youwashock!

After a while I finally painted my first big vehicle. It is meant to be a support and heavy work tank. I weatherd it pretty heavy, but I'm happy with the result. Hope you like it!

Suitably grungy. It has a lot of personality. Even sort of looks like it has a face.

Very nice! Definitely fits the 40k look of civilian vehicles being basically demilitarised tanks

Excellent work as always, what are you going to use for the liquid in the shanns boss pool

Thanks guys!
@youwashock: yep it's a bit staring at you!
@Ynneadwraith: that was the idea using the leman russ sides!
@stonned_astartes: I ordered a bottle of vallejo water effect, I've never used it so it will be my first attempt, I'm very curious, it doesn't seems too hard.

Awesome stuff! My particular favorites are the garden of red plants, the planetarium and the Taunton rider. I love how you're not just using the bits in new ways but also sculpting quite a bit of new material. When will be get to see some diaroma type shots with the terrain and figures together with a backdrop? I'd love to see that. Keep up the good work, I loved reading it.

Thanks kestral, I must say the kind of shots you're asking about has been on my mind for so long and I reallt would like to see all my stuff together with a nice setting. Sadly that's not possible for now, since I recently moved and most of my terrains and miniatures are still at the old place; plus my table in only 3/4 completed. But don't worry, those shots will come as soon as I can! Thanks for following!

Hi, it's been a while, here's why: I decided to stop all my ongoing projects to start something I've never done before, some fantasy stuff. The inspiration came from mordheim and dark age of sigmar (or aos28).
I opted for a city built over water (lake or river) and to make it modular. As you can see, bigger bases (20x20cm) are for buildings, smaller ones will be water. Right now I have finished 2 houses, and started working on a tower.
About the warband, I got some archers and gunmen, the idea is to have some nobles hunting.
Enough talking, here some pics:

Wow. I've always wanted to build an AoS city, but I have to finish my existing 40k projects first, before I start something new.

Awesome looking houses, this looks like it will be an incredible looking city.

Looking lovely dude

Can't wait to see the progress

If your interested in aos28 and Mordheim can I recommend Frostgrave as well?

Thanks guys for the kind words!
Thanks Llamahead, I'll give it a look, even if I'm more interested in building and modellind than playing.

I started painting the first house, and almost finished assemblying the warband, so expect some pics soon.

The Bestiary and specialist scenario scenery n Frostgrave are excellent inspiration for that.

Hi, I've painted my first fantasy stuff, and I'm quite pleased how they turned out.
The house base is not painted because it's going to be part of a modular series, and I'll paint all of them at once.
The warband is based on the idea of noblemen of various houses going hunting together, that's why the different colours, the fur and the expensive guns.
As always comments and criticism are welcome, hope you like the pics and thanks for watching!

Lovely work on the house especially enjoying the planters.

Lavori fantastici, mi fai venire voglia di fare un po' di fantascienza oltre che fantasy.

Thanks everybody!
I've painted the second house, along with a bridge, some crates and gave bases to the band. Here's some pics, hope you like them.

Awesome looking stuff. Love that warband.

This is gonna be so cool when its done!

Hi! Some progress on the city: two new foundation, one is for the tower (you see it's still wip), and the second will host a tavern or inn; three city guards, in their white and blue uniforms; three more bridges and two ships, just arrived from games of war (which I found really cool and cheap!). Hope you like the pics!

I love them! They could be used for AoS, WHFB or even mordheim. I will definitely try and make some of my own.

Neat little town, well done ! And of course the possibilities in terms of gameplay are really enticing !

Hi, it's been a while since my last post, and I have a lot of wips going on. I put aside the fantasy city to focus again on the grim future. I'd like to give my rusty city more personality, writing some fluff that I'll post as it's ready. In the meanwhile I hope you enjoy this models I put together, and ideas and comments are more than welcome.

The first one is an evident quote of the Star Wars pod racer, definitely one of my most ambitious works so far. It is based on two Lego engines, connected by a tauros piece. The seat is an old warhammer bit.

The second is this big mosntrous creature I've been planning for a while, based on tyranids head and legs, but instead of a shell it has a leathery skin. It is ridden by a mercenary ork-ish creature, known as Obi Shattarq and for his savage approach to his enemies (or his master's).

In order to keep my market and merchants ranks growing, I planned a new caravan. It will be led by Rakko Senpaj, who trades in exotic (and often dangerous) beasts. Showing off his health being carried by a hover seat, he is followed by Ghu Yat, a human computer which keeps accounts of trades (inspired by Dune's mentat). The group is closed with a big beast carrying a cage which will contain a cruel creature.

Lastly there is a space marine scout bike conversion I've been thinking over for a while, and turned out pretty nice I think. I used a Lego turbine in the back, and made in plasticard the front engine.

In the last picture you can see that on my painting list there still are the enforcers vehicle, the space slann boss and the second tautaun-inspired beast plus rider (for those I still have to imagine some story).

It is all for now, I hope to start the painting and to show some of these models finished. In the meantime thanks for watching and happy modelling!

Looking good sir! loving the pod racer and the hover bike. Also the cage has a rung bend, has something scary escaped.

Wow, these last projects are a brilliant way to come back to dakka, congratulations !

Thanks guys, I appreciate it!

Nice! Really liking the new guys, the mournfang-pulled cart especially

Started painting the wips, the first done is mercenary Obi Shattarq on his beast. Quite happy how they turned out, especially his converted belly and the beast's skin. Let me know what you think!
Thanks for watching, soon more painted stuff.

I love the syule of your houses, they have that gllomy, a bit 'nightmare before christmas' feel.

Merc is lookign good, looking forward to the other models as well

Thanks CommissarKhaine, other models are already paint in progress!

Hi, pics day today! Finished the latest add to my ever-growing merchants group: Rakko Senpaj. He trades in beasts and creatures, from those used just for their meat to the more exotic ones, used to fight in the arena or maybe for the private joy of some wealthy costumer. In this case, he captured a fierce and savage fighter, who will certainly make a great show in the fighting pit (and so a good profit). Rakko always goes with his account keeper, Ghu Yat. He's been genetically designed and bio-mechanically augmented to be something like a human computer.

After them, a couple of pics of my raider (wip page 6), painted and smoke-given.

Also some new wip: a forklift, along with some pallets, always keeping in mind to emprove the "realism" (I know sounds weird, but you get it) of my city.


As always thanks for watching, let me know if you like it! And the space slann are almost finished, so I plan to post them in the next few days!

Looks excellent. The smaller biker figure fits well on the SM bike.

Dude! I love the cart/cage I've been meaning to do something like that myself, but found that the Mournfang was too big for the cart (was going to use a Corpse Cart).

Looks great with yours though

Thanks guys, your feedback means a lot!

Meanwhile I painted my small space slann group, it was a lot of fun! I think I may add more elements in the future. I imagine the boss C'quu Ka'r and his retinue as a diplomatic team sent to start a commercial route. At the moment I'm filling his tub with water effect, but every thin layer takes forever to dry!

Here are the pics, hope you like them! Thanks for stopping by.

Holy crap. I love everything about this. The scratch builds, kit bashing and your use of the bits in non conventional way. Awesome work. I want to be part of this world.

Thanks schank23! Even if I wouldn't recommend to be part of this world!

Excellent to see some paints on these last builds, brilliant realisation. I am especially fond of the decayed/rusty metallics, as on the space Slann leader's throne, or the mad-max-esque bike.

Keep it up !

Wow.. one of the most original ideas I have seen here for a while. Just so full of character.

I like the dirty/decayed look you have achieved on everything, it's a really good effect.
Do you have any quick tips for how you do that?

Ooh nice I like these a lot. Especially the vaguely Tyranid look to them. While I don't actually agree with the whole 'Tyranids are remains of Old Ones' theory, it is still nice to see a nod to that being a possibility

Thanks guys!

@KernelTerror: thanks, I've been trying to improve some techiniques and do some no-rust metallics, happy you like 'em!

@Pacific: my paintjobs are quite easy: base colour, dark brown wash, some orange/rusty wash and then sponged dark brown! Lately I'm also using some vallejo rust weathering effect, which I like very much for the opacity it gives.

@Ynneadwraith: glad you like them! I've been playing with a tzaangor head which was more tortoise-like, but in the end I decided for a more aggressive look!

Again thanks for watching!

Finally painted my flying biker. Must say I quite like the weathering, especially on the bike, and the effect given from the high position given from the base and the smoke; let me know what you think!
Thanks for watching.

Very dynamic model! My only (very minor) gripe would be that his skin looks very clean when compared to his equipment. Excellent freehand on that face though, it might be a shame to cover that uop with dirt and grime.

Thanks CommissarKhaine! In fact I wanted to give him a pale and polished skin to contrast the dust an corrosion of the vehicle.

Nice! Looks awesome all painted up.

Thanks a lot mate!

Hi everybody,
keepin' on flyers, I painted (and finally managed to post some pics) my pod racer-inspired vehicle. Still no ideas about how to fit it into my background, but I must say I like it a lot, and hope you like it too! It's been a lot of fun to build it (you can see wip pics a bit behind) and especially to paint and weather.
Let me know what you think and thanks for watching!

Looking great, the weathering and the fumes make it fit in your universe !

Now THAT’S podracing!

Just make sure he takes that little Anikan kid out. Might change the out come of episode 2 and 3. Looks awesome.

 schank23 wrote:
Just make sure he takes that little Anikan kid out. Might change the out come of episode 2 and 3. Looks awesome.

To think, if only Sebulba had won. Anakin would be stuck in his desert hellhole. Palpatine wouldn't have his puppet. The Jedi wouldn't have been massacred so easily. The Republic might have survived.

Sebulba screwed up bigtime there...