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Bionic canine then ………. Cant some one take the monkey from the empire set and give that a 40k makeover …….. That would be a cool pet.


Life is full of stress and misery just so we can appreciate the smaller things in life ……. And the fact that we never have the money or time to do them.

OMG, an excuse to rivet a dog! YES!

Good to see the workstation overhaul... now looking to see some modelling!

well...rawson already riveted a horse...and a horse is a horse of course...

lone dirty dog wrote:Bionic canine then ………. Cant some one take the monkey from the empire set and give that a 40k makeover …….. That would be a cool pet.

Tell you what, I've actually started converting the monkey when I worked on the leader for the miners. I considered making it a demolition monkey. I gave him a protection helmet and removed the powder keg to make room for a melta charge or something. I'll take a pic tomorrow.

Riveting a dog or even a monkey is greatly encouraged!

Don't know about the rivets, I'm going for a slightly more futuristic vibe. Hope is supposed to be the gruesome topnotch work of the admech flesh smiths.

Yay pets! I can't wait to see your take on "domestic" animals in 40k. I had tons of fun building my servo-pup, but honestly wish I had gone a little bigger with him. Obviously there aren't a lot of base models to go around, so you really have to be creative with what you have to work with.

Just you wait! Domestic really doesn't catch it...
As a reminder:

You're such a tease!

Is that a dire wolf?

Cute puppies! I'm interested to see what comes of this

l really like the glowing green highlights on the glowing green animal, although i think some of the features might be a bit blured out by this paint job

Great cant wait to see the monkey ……. thats sounds bad


Post the pics then

That is definitely not domesticated, and that glow aint healthy either VET !!!!!! RSPCA !!!!!!!

Vitruvian XVII wrote:You're such a tease!

QFT

Yes I am, but that pic is from last year, I posted it during the PMW contest. You can see that Samarianne holds a kroot rifle as a proxy.
Meanwhile Hope has changed a little as well. I swapped most parts of his "armor" to give him a less clunky, more streamline look.

Update:
I decided spring clean is over. Back to work.

And back to work I went. Before I finish Hope I want the base to be ready, so that's where I started. Cut out the frame for the door. Bent the door. Added another piece of wall. Exchanged the floor plating (still not sure yet). And so on. The positioning of Samarianne and Hope within the scene and in relation to each other is giving me hell. It either looks wrong or they are so close together you can't see much of either miniature. Have to come up with an idea...
Here's a mock-up.

Awesome so far big B!

Thanks Dave!

Update:
I've been a good boy tonight! No worries, no private details, I'm referring to the fact that I sat down to paint for a couple of hours. And even though I had to do something not related to any complicated endeavours, the fact remains that I painted.
I wanted to do something fresh and simple, but not completely pointless, so I decided to launch another attempt at creating a paint scheme for my huge, but completely unpainted Tau army. And say what, I made it.
I actually already knew quite well what I wanted, but had to figure out how to achieve it.
It's something like this, so Sa'Cea with an urban/wasteland/desert twist. Let me know what you think about it, just because I'm curious.

My last attempt using pure charadon granite turned out way to brown. This time I used a mix of a new shade of grey I bought, charadon granite and dark sea grey and it worked quite well. I'll be adding to the mix until I get exactly the right hue, but it's pretty damn close now.
For the other main colors I already found convenient ways to paint them too. So there is basicly nothing (except lazyness and lack of motivation) that's stopping me from painting those 50 primed firewarriors, that collect dust in my cabinet.

liking that bent doorway mate , and very neat and tidy work area you have there baiyuan.

how you can be so creative in such a tidy and clean enviroment is a mystery for me...

hmm nice sceme on those tau, and vik.. i have no idea! my work "desk" was literaly a floor covered in 'junk' since i didnt take a desk with me when i moved!.. took me a couple days to reorganize it, but dont worry its getting back to the messy state

The display base is looking good the door is a nice touch indeed, it makes you feel the area is larger than what it actually is.

Like the Tau scheme, although how it turns out in practice will be the decider

Nice clean up ….. However I always find that you clean the room and 2 days later hey presto chaos returns …….

bent door(way):
Glad you all like it. It's an elementary part of the story the complete scene will tell. I used Hopes claws and head for the deformations, because it's Hope's doing afterall.

clean workspace:
I appreciate tidyness and structure and have a hand for achieving it. Unfortunately I lack even the slightest talent for maintaining order once achieved and my criteria for when it's time to clean up again are very generous.
The table already looks much less orderly, but that's what it's good for. The overall system I established during my overhaul will persist though and makes it a lot easier to keep a certain level of order. It's a big step forward that my kits are all in one place, the miniatures in another and all my tools are in drawers and not scattered across the desk.

tau paint scheme:
What do you guys think about the color for optics, lights, energy packs etc.? Blue? Green? Yellow? Orange?

Blue, with internal Tesla-coil arcing effects!

One of my ideas exactly.

Btw I'm on frontpage today.

Woot! Go Baiyuan, it's your birfday..

Happy Birthday to you …….. I think you should paint optics,lights and energy packs black .

Happy Birthday mate...I hope it is actually your birthday or I'm gonna look stupid for copying others here haha

HAHA, I don't think it is Big B's birthday, lol
But he made the Front Page!!
-so it's like his birthday present!

Hold the birthday wishes for seven more days. 24.03. it is.