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Benches? Or plastic spoons for seats?

Also, well done on the egg!

Much appreciated Not Online.
Hmmmm, plastic spoon, that is a quite brilliant idea actually, I'll keep that in mind, thanks !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Much appreciated Not Online.
Hmmmm, plastic spoon, that is a quite brilliant idea actually, I'll keep that in mind, thanks !

No worries, hope that helps.

I already commented on the arena in the contest thread, but wow, that egg turned out really cool and good. I couldn't really see where you were going with it for the longest time, but I should have know it would be impressive keeping your past creations in mind.

Thanks a lot Syro_ !

So after spending way to much money on random plastic bits from the hardware store, and looking for spoons that would be small enough yet not too recognizable, I finally gave up and built a tool to make seats :


And here is a first quarter of the arena with some seats rows. Once dry it will need a second pass in order to make it look cleaner, but quite happy with how that turned out :

Note that the steps are of different heights, thought that would make the thing more interesting, hope that'll still look good.

Nice! I love seeming custom made tools made for a particular job. It looks like it worked well. Sorry to hear about the wasted money though

Thanks Syro_ ! Glad you approve.
And no worries about the stupid buys, it's part of the game I guess ^^.

There are now seats all over the arena !


Tomorrow, I should get some time to power up the sander, and work on the contact surfaces of the four blocks, in order for them to connect properly, then finally, on to basecoating !

Sides sanded, base coat applied, and a quick and dirty drybrush to have a better view of the textures and of areas that need improvements.

Now I can start adding details to the thing !

And detailing work almost done on one quarter of the arena :

Well done absolutement superbé.

Thanks a lot NotOnline !

Second quarter of the arena now detailed, but I need to pick up the pace...


More material already used, or to be used later...

Third quarter done, not a lot to do on that one though, just a few addition to delimit the balcony properly (more jointing will follow), some alcoves, and a mass of wires...

Seems to go well enough.
Also Mon Ami, quand a nous jouons une partie du Roulette ou eile mit weile?

Tout à fait mon cher, jouons terra à la roulette du Chaos !

Finally finished the detailing of the fourth quarter of the arena. Some more joint work to do to properly integrate some of the pieces, then on to painting !

 KernelTerror wrote:
Tout à fait mon cher, jouons terra à la roulette du Chaos !

Finally finished the detailing of the fourth quarter of the arena. Some more joint work to do to properly integrate some of the pieces, then on to painting !

Meanwhile i thought i was productive then you show up and just slam that down.

Also rien ne vas plus. You have won spawnhood

Spawnhood yay ! More appendices to sculpt greenstuff !

Reworked the arena floor today, making it completely flat. While the original setting with kind of a platform was interesting to let some models have the higher ground during battle, it also proved terrible to have the different quarters properly fit together. With a bit of cutting and the addition of aluminium pieces, it now connects better. I just have to redo the texture...

And finally finished the arena, just in time for the LoER deadline, damn that was a hard one, lesson learned I guess, next time I will not be attempting a 80 by 80 cm build...

There are definitely places that would justify more touch ups, and I clearly gave up on more details that I initially thought of, but it is at a state were I feel happy about it. It will be nice to work on something else too I reckon !

Looks great! And looks like a lot of work since your last update. it must have been quite a push finishing that in time, congratulations

Thanks a lot Syro ! It was quite a push indeed !

Nice work on the trophies / gribbly things in particular

 KernelTerror wrote:
And finally finished the arena, just in time for the LoER deadline, damn that was a hard one, lesson learned I guess, next time I will not be attempting a 80 by 80 cm build...

There are definitely places that would justify more touch ups, and I clearly gave up on more details that I initially thought of, but it is at a state were I feel happy about it. It will be nice to work on something else too I reckon !

Now this, this i like.
Soon you can play an apocalypse game over a whole dark mechanicum battlefield the seize off a room!
Impressive.

Thanks folks !
I can't wait to see what the next LoER challenge will be, so I can add more insanity to the city !

Have not posted in a while, but have made some progress nonetheless, with more wiring, demon faces and ribcages added to my knight :


And the start of a dark mech mortar team (chain to be added obviously) :

Dark mechanicum mortar Team?
Ok now my interest is piqued.

I expect the LoER contest kept you pretty busy. I'm glad you're back to working on one of your chaos knights, the others you made amazed me. I have high expectations for how this one will turn out.

Thanks for the support Syro_, it did take all of my time yes ^^ ! That knight trio is an humongous project too though, I'm glad to be reaching the final steps of that one !

Thanks Not Online !, here is that team in its final stage, still questioning replacing the mortar's mouth with a more demonic one, but we'll see how it looks with paint on it. And then build 9 more maybe...

And yet another grotesque knight assembled, tomorrow, I'll start painting it !

He seems malnourished, have you tried feeding him beer?

Woooo! Congratulations on finishing!

Ahaha Not Online !, regarding the waist size ? Yeah, that comes with the design of these knights, but of the three this one probably has the widest shoulders, and thinner waist. I'll see as painting goes along wether a rework of that area feels necessary...

Thanks Syro_ ! Just in time for the new chaos knight codex, hopefully they do not make that dual gatling setup illegal ^^ !