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I really like the eyes on your dread. They make the model "Pop".


I finally took some shots of my RT Orks. They are in my Dakka gallery. I'll just put one here so that I don't clog up your thread.



These were my first WH40K army back in 1987-88 when Rogue Trader was published. I still haven't finished off the minis I bought then (22 years ago). Your blog has me thinking about painting a few of the cooler ones - especially my Ork dred and buggy.

Your dread seems very much in the spirit of the original game before it became so Grimdark. Your color palette also reminds me of the RT era. I like that.

Ohh, nice old-skool orks, I really regret not picking up on orks back in the day.


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Re: Friggin' Sharks with Friggin' Lasers on their Friggin' Heads

Prototype test subject operating within parameters.

That stargate is awesome!

I suggest you starting making more now...I think it will be popular!

Hm. Wondering if you could get some melted plastic and make it have like a water effect in the middle.....

Been away for a while - back and in love with the progress: the stargate is gorgeous, that is seriously a lovely piece of work and quite honestly doesn't even need paint on it.

And the scratch built Dread is AWESOME! It looks great on the base, overall it is very cohesive and I'm getting Dread-inspiration. Can't say it enough - that Dread is so cool.

Wow that shark made me cackle like a kookaburra. I think you are onto a winner. those space orks are awsome JB! So funky!

Thanks for all the praise, it keeps me from getting lazy - speaking of which I really must go to the studio before work today and continue mug making and stargate carving

the shark head is from a current set of LEGOs...sorry for that spoiler^^ my kids would tear me limb from limb if i would nick their loved ones from them...^^

also what a way to use some oop lasguns...tstststs
but truly this is what a real supervillian needs in his channels surrounding his underground secret hideout...at least a dozen...could be varied with just some fins on a base with some watereffects...^^

yeah, do some more great work on the stargate! how do you keep the clay workable for so long time?

I am smug 2day! It is done and finished. Now firing and glazing is all thats left. The stargate was kept moist with cling film - or sarran wrap as I hear its called in USA. This isn't a permanent solution as cling film is slightly permeable to water.

feel a bit stupid to ask, but is it 28mm scale or bigger? did you have a mmini for reference when doing the sculpting?

looks as if you just stole a mini from a set of the series to be used for stop motion sequences^^
the console is beautiful!

this will be so awsome when painted...like awsome³

I would say it is roughly the right scale but I didn't actually measure it or anything - it will shrink a bit anyway when its fired. But is is pretty much the right scale for RT minis and might look just a tiny bit small with the newer taller space marines. but I wont know for sure till its fired.I will post shots with some minis soon

That thing is beautiful!!!

Its looking fantastic hon.

You're supposed to be terrified, not laughing like a maniac That's a shark. With a laser gun. On it's friggin' head. See that reaction just goes to show what evil geniuses have to put up with these days. Granted, alliteration levels are up, there's a definite increase in cross-species knowledge, but it's so hard to get the levels of fear and awe from the staff.


Sweet looking stargate though That metallic blue looks like it'll be very nice in place.

ha just noticed the shark , lol and the updated stargate. so can you get stargate figures? the runes look really nicely detailed , i bet its tricky getting a fine detail look with clay, but you seem to manage alright.

I have a friend wo has some Jafa and SG-1


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Lol looks like they beat me to it! oh well - you will probably be the only one with a ceramic stargate anyway

very fine details are hard to in ceramic but its possible with patience. The main limitation which is evident when comparing mine with the metal one in that link is that I have had to make the thing just a little thicker than it should be simply to minimize the possibility of it falling apart during the drying process. Also very thin ceramics is vulnerable and I wanted to make it strong enough that it could be used as playable scenery.

Painting an inquisitor tonight - very slow progress though

just a curious question: is it possible to give clay a steel skeleton like concrete? i know that the later is not cured in an oven but still, could that work?

Im doing Cold One Knights* for a friend in the US, payment is a stormraven (Flying brick)

*he's calling them Deep One Knights

victor - there is in fact a way of doing this - one needs to use Nichrome wire as it has a high melting point and is resistant to oxidation. Its also very expensive - 125 grams costs 15 pounds. But I might get some is it seems like the answer to a lot of problems.

sounds cool dee - you should post some pics!

ouch....for me who deosnt use a oven to "backe" clay i would also add something like PVA glue...reading itz now seems a bit stupid now...well i thought what works with plaster could also work for clay...nope, or?

I think the pva would vaporize within the clay - this would either lead to explosive shattering if it wasn't well mixed or possibly some kind of porous cratering effect where tiny amounts of pva had burned away out of the surface. I'm not sure I care to experiment!

Inquisitor is going to be off-white bone and navy blue with gold and purple details

I remember reading about the Perry's when they made their first master sculpt for casting after being hired. They didn't know the moulds were formed in ovens, and just as they did for all their sculpts used plasticine in the core of their master, which led to a slight exploding incident in the workshop.

Weety I got something to show you! Was trolling my pdfs last night building a army (if any one is reading this I scanned all my stuff before leaving the uk because books are heavy). And I recalled something...when I get it on this computer I'll PM to you...

For your stargate...

ouch... *facepalm* when using as discribed by me PVA inside a clay figure then it is the same as using an egg in the microwave.... burst about to happen... silly me...
my knowledge of all handywork is all try and error learned and i try a lot...hmmm but if we play this idea out it could lead us to some unique selfmade cracked earth bases...

Lol. Of course there is a type of ceramic ware called sagger firing were people deliberately cover and embed a piece of pottery with organic materials, chicken wire, bits of glass etc and then build a ceramic wall around it in the kiln to protect it from the jets of super heated flame and vapour etc. This leads to some beautiful but basically random patterns - http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=sagger+fired&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GPCK_en___GB388&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1024&bih=607

manokok I am curious now. Show me show me

hmm the pics in the google search look really good...

Work in progress

He needs more detail yet

Impressive Stargate...

I didn't get the Lego-Shark thing, but I find it funny !!!

I think you need to have watched the austin powers spoof spy movies - the evil genius wants sharks with lasers on their heads to guard his evil hideout and gets very angry with his evil henchmen. Its a classic cinematic moment!

I don't remember that moment... I have only watched one of those once, and some time ago, so it may either be the wrong one, or I have forgotten about it entirely...

From Goldmember I think yggs - tbh I haven't seen it myself, but knew the reference



just need to clean up the mouth and maybe another layer of water effects (the water is a little bit greener than the pics show)

Inquisitor looks cool so far, maybe some freehand on that gaping white space on his calf?

And yeah vik, I'm thinking a squad might be cool Maybe a little war-band using some of the secret-agent figures they had on the site weety got those honeys from.