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Thanks guys

I have some nice fine fibre point drawing pens that I'm going to see if I can draw text on that book with and try to varnish over the top without it without smudging. I'll let you all know how it goes.

Now to paint the town Valkyrie red.

Pics tomorrow, but for now here's the base for that nurgle model I made a while ago and forgot to share.


OMN.

I think Nurgle has infested my body so burn the demon burn it with fire .....

Looks interesting strange and obscure which I guess is fitting for Nurgle ........

Get well soon mate.

Painted the valk interior red:


I found that more fun to do than I thought possible, under all that red there are layers of grey airbrushed on to give lighter and darker areas for the red to cover. There's a few patches to touch up where the masking tape didn't quite cover but nothing major, besides most of it isn't going to be visible after I stick the roof on.



Writing on the book is done, just drew on the paint and sprayed it with acrylic matt varnish this morning. Basing done too, pelenty of rubble added to cover up the places where I glued sand to the model rather than the base.


Cloak & sheathed sword added to the vigilator. I'm not sure whether to use that small shield as a clasp or sculpt something new. This guy is going to be in black armour, I've decided he isn't going to be an imperial fist, a marine on some legion exchange program maybe; whether he is raven guard or even a former luna wolf who has become a blackshield I am not yet decided.
The cloak is ok I messed it up in a few parts, it's made from really thinly rolled out greenstuff cut into shape then layed gently over the model, the problem with doing this is every time you try to correct something before it's set you usually make things worse.

And lastly a WIP shot of my master of signal.

There is a second aerial to make, I'll re-make that lens thing, add cabling etc. I hope the head will fit in the torso, there's a brass rod going through it atm so I'm relying on eye to check.


OMN.

Fantastic work on the Libby! The cloak and sheathed sword add a ton to the Vigilator too, very nicely done!

Hey that Vigilator looks pretty speak and awesome, can't wait to see him painted especially with your skill

Nice work with that green stuff cloak. I find it can be tricky to get the shape and flow of the fabric right, but yours looks great .

The cloak works well and keep the mini shield as the fastener for it, I wondered what you meant about painting the Valk red

But I decided to keep quite on it, now I realise it's the interior I gather to represent the lighting ?

Can't really tell much about the master of signal from the pic to be honest with you, but I am sure it will look good

Thanks everyone.
I put all "skill" with that cloak down to fluke. But yea thanks all I like how that model has turned out, glad to hear you all agree.

Agreed the signaller isn't great, it's a crappy picture and there's a fairway to go on it, it's based on the FW model here: https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-GB/Legion-Champion-and-Master-of-the-Signal
It'll look great when I'm done I hope....

And yea LDD it's meant to indicate lighting, no jumping on stage mid way through Das Rheingold with a bucket of paint.
I happened to pick a particularly bright and vibrant red, it'll do for now.

I just had an email this morning saying that Shapeways have free shipping this week starting Monday 7th March until "March 13, 2015 at 11:59 PM PDT".
Just in case anyone is interested. It's about time I wrote a thread in the news section about my shapeways store.

Plenty to do,
OMN.

After seeing the master signaller on FW I understand where your heading now, don't forget I ain't a marine fan so have a limited understanding of them.

But looking at the reference picture yours is on track mate, you have created a decent alternative if not better IMHO.

As for the lighting tone it should work well, you got crew and if so how you gong to tackle them ?

I like to get my stuff from you casted in resin to be honest, but I do have a look at your store every now and then to see what's added.

How's the mini coming by the way

Good evening! Epic blog and cracking minis. I've not had time to read everything though. The breacher shields are epic! Where do they come from and how do you get hold of them please? I'm making EC breachers and I've been hunting for shields like the ones you have - plenty of room to create a "human shield"

Hey, the breacher shields are from my shapeways store "Uncanny Automaton" it's linked in my signature, there's free postage by the end of the week too.
Thanks nice to know you like them .

In other news I received a package containing some of those new arms for the shields, along with some storm shields, a set of combi-plasma and a hand full of other things .
I've just managed to get them all washed, dried and given a grey spray. Pics on their way!

Edit:

@LDD: Thanks mate, I forgot about the crew and there are meant to be some heavy bolters inside as well ... not like I cant add them later I guess, the pilot & gunner I plan on painting as normal along with the cockpit, but the heavy bolters and their gunners I'd like to paint the front of them normally then airbrush the top and back to give the effect of illumination, at least that's the plan.
Which mini? if you mean that signaller guy, not much happening atm, distracted elsewhere. I'm painting one of the boarding shields up for show atm.

The writing finishes off the librarian nicely.
He's no longer approaching someone for an autograph.

Nice GS work too.

Man I wish I could sculpt that helmet and backpack with the ease you did.

I've had decided to just pony up 20$ for the RT model of him.

You did a great job on the libby, reminds me of pastel shades almost. On another note do you sell the little shields as well in your store?

Awesome. It's really cool seeing all your little conversions and 3d printed bits.

EDC

Sorry I was trying to be subtle obviously too subtle mini ....... tank

Just one thing won't the gunners be effected by the lighting in the cargo section ?

Just had a look on what I think is the store. They look great but they're a bit beyond my price range :( is there any likelihood of sales or reduced prices over time? I was after 15... :p

 Camkierhi wrote:
Great works in progress, like the look these guys have.


OH and people, call him, PM him get yourself some of his stuff it is BRILLIANT!!!

I can back that up! I have some of it, and it is great! toaster, radio, and tanky bits are sweet

I've had chance to get some images up so here you are:

Here's a selection of some of the bits I've worked on, all I've done so far is give them a warm bath with a fair bit of washing up liquid and scrubbed with an old toothbrush then sprayed grey:

From top: Shield for an officer and shield of rivets, then two shields with some iconography modelled on, then at the bottom a pair of stormshields one with an IF logo symbol. Also shown is the reverse sides of the shields, with the stormshields having two different sizes of hands, ... the new plastic cataphractii have larger hands.

The arm fittings are great so far, however I'm finding that I'm going to have to make the rest of the arm holding the shield as well as an arm to hold a bolter as it seems my plan to use the plastic arms has fallen through a bit.

Stormshield on a terminator:


Stormshield for the Praetor:


The option of combi-plasma, since I didn't know this FW upgrade set contained them until this weekend when I actually bothered looking ... so I'll probably withdraw these.


These shields might look a little ... grainy or rough, but that'll clear off and with a bit of smoothing they come out ok, started painting one I made earlier.


A word of warning for anyone trying to wash little tiny resin or 3d printed things (like my shoulder shields or whatever the proper name is) when pouring away all those soap suds, pour it through a fine sieve, sometimes things get trapped in the bubbles and away to the sewer they go. It was nothing hugely important thankfully just reminded me how much of an idiot I am.

I'm a little run off my feet atm, working on a commission as well...

@DrH: Cheers mate, I'm surprised how well it worked, next time I'll have to try something a bit more ambitious. It's probably my favourite librarian model that GW have produced.

@Stormwall: Thanks that head is a third attempt, "ease" feels more like trial and error. I do yes, they have the same arm fittings with them as the regular shields. I've half a mind to fill in the gun hole (?) and turn those into combat shields or something.

@LDD: No progress, I opened the file a few times to work on it but I'm a bit stuck :(. However I'll be putting this marine madness to the side for a while, so I'll try and do some more on it, at the very least I can get the track sections finished.

@rtb02: I'm trying to see if I can combine some now, however it's a big file and is taking ages to upload (thanks for the crap upload speed ISP) and auto-check, I estimate I can get them to under £50 for 15. There are sales and free shipping events (like this week) occasionally, I only wish I knew when :(. They just announce them as they start or as happened around Christmas time there was a "new offer each day". I'll also see if I can get them into a cheaper material

I was planning on resin casting these at some point that could be a while away at the rate I'm going.

Cheers,
OMN.

I saw churn out more of the combi-plasmas; they actually look good! Maybe just streamline/slim them down a little more to reflect the one-use quality of them?

Man those shields are really awesome.

Although weirdly I think I'm more impressed with the arm bit for holding the shield.

EDC

Here's a less crappy shot of my master of signals:


I finished painting that shield after, practice towards getting my paint scheme nailed...

...and the back with handhold attached to a chopped up arm, as I intended it for...

... just wants a spray with matt varnish to seal in the oils and get rid of that glossy finish, I'll go over the lenses and screen with a brush on gloss after.

With the arm attachment as it is it works nicely and can give a wide range of more 'dynamic' poses, depending on what arm was butchered, it should even be possible to repose some normal SM arms to fit with it and since it's so big you can use it plus the shoulder pad to cover most of it. But still I'd like to make the rest of an arm to do so properly however I'm probably going to have to write a suit of commands to do inverse kinematics for wire frames properly.

I've also had a play with ideas for the tank scheme for the fists I'm stuck between a standard all yellow & black look, or to use a solid grey (for urban environments) for most of the armour but still keeping yellow and black parts, here's a render of what it might look like on my pholus ... since this is to paint the vindicator:


Next on the hit list is to work out what basing to give the fists and, since I'd like to make something that wouldn't look out of place in a starships hull (zone mortalis) how the hell I'm going to make it. Since until I get that done I can't really start painting.

@Kepora: Yep I can thin them down a touch.

@evildrcheese: I think both parts required a similar amount of effort to make, however the shield took a significant amount of imagination.

Thanks for reading,
OMN.

I really like the look urban not- Camo - makes a lot of sense to me.


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I really like how that shield has come out, very nicely done

Lovely vehicle work, nice detailing. Figure conversion work is stunning particularly like the finish on the inside of the shield.

Love the shields going to be thinking along these lines soon ish myself.

I personally like the grey mixed in with the yellow black scheme.

And as always your conversion skills are in another league bud, fantastic work.

Master signaller has come on well like the attention to detail makes for an interesting miniature, nice paint work on the sheild.

Although I actually like the shine on the shield, don't normally but seems to enrich this.

Go urban grey I always find fully yellow vehicles a little garish, adding the grey tones it down without distracting from the colour scheme.

Grey it is! Just as well, I'd make a pigs ear of it if it had to be all yellow, besides a darker shade will help cover up the many imperfections.

I havn't done a great deal, got some more work done on the valkyrie and 2 of the squad I plan to have it carry around.



I also got around to assembling the Cataphractii:

Magnetising the arms to make them interchangeable left me with the problem of what the hell to do with those shoulder plates, after much fiddling I just glued them to the bodies so I can equip them however I want now. I'll buy another set of arms to stick shields on and make an assault cannon.


On my list for this year is 4 zombies, so... 4 zombies (these have been in a box for ... I don't know):

I would be painting these tonight but I don't feel like I could sit down to do soemthing right now.

I'll just quietly leave this here:



Thank you all for your comments,
OMN.

I wasn't sure on the shields, the printing resolution wasn't very smooth, but the one you have painted up is great!

Just a matter of cleaning them properly.

The trick is to spray them with rattle can primer, then "shave" them with a knife blade and a file to smooth parts down, using the primer to mark where you haven't cleaned but leaving the primer in recesses as a filler.
Re-spraying and cleaning until they are smooth enough.

Not sur ehow I feel about the "'eyyyyy!" thing going on here. XD I'd replace one of the arms with either a melee weapon of some kind, a gu he's lugging around (maybe at rest, like that one Scion arm cradling a plasmagun by the underside), or maybe some kind of hand-held piece of tech. Maybe that data scroll from the Skitarii?