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 gobert wrote:
It’s blooming cold here today but the sun is shining on my minis shelf unit!

Does a nice job of highlighting your progress.

Cheers,

CB

Not Online!!! wrote:Oh, so you fill more ranks

But, where is your staunch line of spears?

Yep, I want to get all of my High Elves all painted up this year. These guys will be joining the 40 others I have bringing me up to 52 Spearmen. I’ll have as many Archers too I think.

mcmattila wrote:Excellent work on the Void Panthers, as always! I really like what you do with the gold and that purple pairs really well with it for that royal look.

Thanks man, Regal is the look I was going for, thanks for seeing it!

theCrowe wrote:With his hand in the air like that he could almost be swinging a clacker like a 40s football fan. It'd be hard to convey that without a vintage striped football scarf too but I fear that would blow his whole high elf look right out the window. As we all know high elves don't do football, they like rugby.

Ha! It is a bit like the old clackers! Not sure how Elfish it would be, but I think whatever I give him, it’ll be an awkward pose.

Captain Brown wrote:

 gobert wrote:
It’s blooming cold here today but the sun is shining on my minis shelf unit!

Does a nice job of highlighting your progress.
Cheers,
CB

Everything thing looks better in the sunshine!

Works been mental this past week or 2 so I’ve not managed much hobby time of late. I did squeeze an hour and a bit in. I was in a bit of a Blackstone Fortress mood so I laid down some colours on the Poxwalkers and the Mechanicus chaps from Escalation. I did a few different tests with contrast, using Fyreslayer and Guilliman over Bleached bone, a mix of Bleached bone and white then another just the primer. I used a 1:1 mix with Contrast Medium.

The Fyreslayer was much paler than I expected so there’s not as much tonal variety as I wanted, still they all seem a decent base to start from. I’m quite excited about the yellow Mechanicus guys though

Thanks for looking

Well, i'd say they will Turn out good? Nice yellow btw

I like the spread of skin tones, with the different sculpts I think you've got a nice variety of poxwalkers there.

Not Online!!! wrote:Well, i'd say they will Turn out good? Nice yellow btw

I hope so, and yes, you’ve got to love Averland Sunset, it’s a great yellow!

Don Qui Hotep wrote:I like the spread of skin tones, with the different sculpts I think you've got a nice variety of poxwalkers there.

Thanks Don, hopefully they come out as a cohesive unit by the end.

Work continues to be nuts especially with homeschooling. I have a big deadline on Friday which should ease things, even more so if Boris keeps his word and opens schools again the following Monday. That’ll be the release of a lot of time and hopefully stress too, not just for the grown ups, the kids are really desperate to get back to school!

I picked up the Ad Mech and Poxwalkers again. I didn’t really get much done as the metal work took AGES! I mostly did bits on the Ad Mech to the point they’re pretty much ready for their washes. The Poxwalkers just got some metal bits adding as I had them and the Leadbelcher out. I might park them for the next session and get the Ad Mech boys moving

I’m wanting them to have a bit of orange to the yellow, which I think Seraphim Sepia will give them. I hope so as I don’t have any Orange wash! The Servitor will get some Hazard stripes on his power claw, I might do some on the bottom of the other lads gown too, or I might go for cogs. If I go cogs, do I go white or black?

Thanks for looking

Hope some relaxation is on the way, a colleague of mine said in the last teams meeting that her kid is also anxious to get back to school, a sentence seldom uttered before Covid

Poxwalkers look cool with their mixed skin tones and Admech guys are well on their way. Hope the Sepia wash works out, also it doesn't really go towards orange in my experience.
And Admech cogs are of course black & white

I really Like the darker poxwalkers.

Really like yellow on the ad mech stuff, it works well with the metallics. The sepia tone might give a nice brown/orange hue, the orange wash I've found doesn't seem to do a whole lot on yellow surfaces in my experience but contrast yellow might be what you're after?

Viterbi wrote:Hope some relaxation is on the way, a colleague of mine said in the last teams meeting that her kid is also anxious to get back to school, a sentence seldom uttered before Covid

Poxwalkers look cool with their mixed skin tones and Admech guys are well on their way. Hope the Sepia wash works out, also it doesn't really go towards orange in my experience.
And Admech cogs are of course black & white

Yeah, it seems the closer we get the more anxious she’s getting. The first week is going to be a big one I reckon. Thanks for the Sepia pointers, I think I’ll try it out on the Servitor first and see how we go. Yes the skull and cog ad mech symbol will be black and white, I wanted to give his cloak a nice trim too, or maybe one side should be black and the other white, or maybe do a meshed gears pattern?

Not Online!!! wrote:I really Like the darker poxwalkers.

Thanks Not Online, I’d hoped for much darker, but that might have to wait for a future expansion of their ranks.

Tyranid Horde wrote:Really like yellow on the ad mech stuff, it works well with the metallics. The sepia tone might give a nice brown/orange hue, the orange wash I've found doesn't seem to do a whole lot on yellow surfaces in my experience but contrast yellow might be what you're after?

Thanks TH, I’m trying to resist buying more stuff at the moment...

Which brings me to my reason for posting... I seem to have bought more stuff! in my defence I paid less than a £1 per mini inc P&P for a squad of 10 Assault Marines for my Void Panthers. The down side is I think a few of them need heads and most need shoulder pads. At one point I had LOADS of the latter, but I seem to have used most of the up. I might need to strip some more stuff to free some pads. Helmets might be a bit more of a downer, I’ll have to check my bits box tomorrow. Maybe their heads will arrive with them and we’re just not in the photo?

 gobert wrote:
Works been mental this past week or 2 so I’ve not managed much hobby time of late.

Same here, just managed to finish the Necromunda figures for the painting comp on the day before the end.

You could always post a wanted add on the Swap Shop for heads and shoulder pads.

Cheers,

CB

I like how the poxwalkers are turning out. Having painted 30 or 40 the varying skin tones will break up the looks of the mobs. I’m a fan of seraphim sepia for yellows but have never used the yellow contrast paints.

Captain Brown wrote:
Same here, just managed to finish the Necromunda figures for the painting comp on the day before the end.
You could always post a wanted add on the Swap Shop for heads and shoulder pads.
Cheers,
CB

Yeah, everything is just on top of itself at the moment, hopefully things will settle down as spring progresses and the vaccination program continues! I’ll take stock of my bits, but the Swap Shop is a good idea, eBay seems a bit silly sometimes.

Yorkright wrote: I like how the poxwalkers are turning out. Having painted 30 or 40 the varying skin tones will break up the looks of the mobs. I’m a fan of seraphim sepia for yellows but have never used the yellow contrast paints.

Thanks Yorkright, they’re early doors as yet, but they’re fun models. I think I need to up the rust content on them though. Thanks for the thoughts on Seraphim Sepia, I’ll be giving it a go when I get the painting sticks out again

Evening all!

My Assault Squad has arrived, I was a little worried that some might be recasts, but they had been sprayed a colour that looked a bit like resin. Sadly, there is bad news, in that they mostly have odd poses and I can’t seem to pry them apart . The good news is that I have managed to find enough chainswords to arm them all, less an eviscerator and special weapon marine. I need to dig around a bit for a couple more right handed bolt pistols to go with the left handed chainswords. Then I need to sort some pads for them

Bearing all of that in mind I spent most of this evening cleaning mould lines and prying apart minis as best I could. Plastic Cement is a :bleeep: the last 10mins were spent posing the first few;



I’m thinking the first dude on the left might be the Sergeant as he has the skull on his helmet and his left arm is a bionic raised to lead the charge. I might try to build up some of the Sector Imperialis so he has something to jump off, maybe all the Sgts need to have a cast of the Space Marine Heroes Series 1 Sgts fallen statue?

If anyone has any ideas for prying apart plastic cement or work with odd poses, let me know. I’m also considering painting the jump packs black like the bikes, what do you think?

Thanks for looking

gobert,

Once plastic cement has bonded polystyrene together...it make a permanent bond as it melts both sides together.

As they are jump troops, you can always have them leaping into the air with a little brass rod going from the heel to the base and adjust the angle to make you happy with the original poses.

Cheers,

CB

No idea about the cement other than cutting them apart. As for the jump packs they would look good painted up like the bikes.

The bikes look great. So, naturally, any paint job based on the bikes must logically also look great.

Yep, all you can do is take a blade to the joint, cut and reset it in a better position. Probably after some judicious trimming and likely followed by a little greenstuff touch-up. It's a long and arduous job but there's no other way around it.

All Sgt need statues sounds like a perfectly reasonable rule. Though, does the size of the statue increase with rank? Do captains get ruined statues on plinths? Does the Chapter Master stand on the shoulder of one of those statue terrain pieces. It's a slippery slope once you establish precedent for lower ranks.

Black jump packs sounds pretty interesting. Looking forward to seeing how that looks.

Nothing to do but cut it. Your efforts so far are paying off. Looking forward to seeing them painted.

That cement looks like nasty stuff. Maybe listen to some angry music while you hack at it.

Freezing tends to help debond the plastic as it isn't a true bond throughout so you might get lucky and be able to pry them apart. +1 for the black jump packs, I think that'll be a cool look.

Captain Brown wrote:gobert,

Once plastic cement has bonded polystyrene together...it make a permanent bond as it melts both sides together.

As they are jump troops, you can always have them leaping into the air with a little brass rod going from the heel to the base and adjust the angle to make you happy with the original poses.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers CB, sadly it is a permanent bond, though I think I’ve managed to rescue most of them. I haven’t made any of them flying but just shy of half of the squad are leaping from raised positions, and others are in slightly odd sprinting poses!

Yorkright wrote: No idea about the cement other than cutting them apart. As for the jump packs they would look good painted up like the bikes.

Yep, cutting was the most effective method I tried. Levering with my needle files just snapped a file!
Black Pack = 1, Gold Pack = 0

DJJazzyJeff wrote:The bikes look great. So, naturally, any paint job based on the bikes must logically also look great.

Thanks Jazzy, I too am leaning towards the bike scheme
Black Pack = 2, Gold Pack = 0

theCrowe wrote:Yep, all you can do is take a blade to the joint, cut and reset it in a better position. Probably after some judicious trimming and likely followed by a little greenstuff touch-up. It's a long and arduous job but there's no other way around it.

All Sgt need statues sounds like a perfectly reasonable rule. Though, does the size of the statue increase with rank? Do captains get ruined statues on plinths? Does the Chapter Master stand on the shoulder of one of those statue terrain pieces. It's a slippery slope once you establish precedent for lower ranks.

Black jump packs sounds pretty interesting. Looking forward to seeing how that looks.

I did break out the GS on a couple of them, and did a bit of Armour Mk mods to another, all in the name of getting a proper Corvus Mk6 Marine! Those 2 (donor and recipient) took far and away the longest to prepare! The original owner of the Mk6 legs ended up having the centre of his torso drill in order to be able to remove the legs, it worked surprisingly well! As for the Sgt on a statue... I totally forgot and got carried away creating a broken lamp for him to jump off of! on the plus side I’ve dodged that slippery slope for now
Black Pack = 3, Gold Pack = 0

youwashock wrote:Nothing to do but cut it. Your efforts so far are paying off. Looking forward to seeing them painted.

Cheers youwashock, painting will be a while off yet, but they’ve been fun so they might jump the queue if I can get some decent priming weather.

Don Qui Hotep wrote:That cement looks like nasty stuff. Maybe listen to some angry music while you hack at it.

It sure is Don, to the point that I’ve started to minimise my own use of it . . I didn’t put angry music on but I watched Batman Begins, which Christian Bale sounds angry in most of the time

Tyranid Horde wrote:Freezing tends to help debond the plastic as it isn't a true bond throughout so you might get lucky and be able to pry them apart. +1 for the black jump packs, I think that'll be a cool look.

Hmmm, I wish I’d have spotted this sooner! I’ll give it a try with my random box of Tacticals that need even more attention than these boys.
Black Pack = 4, Gold Pack = 0

So Black Jump Packs are the overwhelming favourites, which is just as well as I’ve been getting a wee bit excited about them being black all week! As such I stayed up extra late getting them disassembled and rebuilt. Following the success of the press moulded pads I’ll be spending a few minutes each evening this week getting their shoulder pads ready. Then with any luck the weather will be decent enough to get them primed. Here’s what they look like rn

There’s still a couple of dodgy poses, but some of that is down to my limited bits library leading me to using 2nd Ed plastic arms. They look a fair bit better imho, with the Eviscerator, Sgt and the running chap with the blue gun being my favourites.

Thanks for looking, C&C welcome especially if you have ideas to improve the poses (like I put the wrong arm up etc)

I'd say their poses seem good and overall i wish the eviscerator was more common as a bit. Maybee the one directly to the right of mister melta could have his torso aligned more torward the running direction?

Not Online!!! wrote:
I'd say their poses seem good and overall i wish the eviscerator was more common as a bit. Maybee the one directly to the right of mister melta could have his torso aligned more torward the running direction?

Thanks Not Online, the side on chappy was a tough one, I didn’t fancy butchering him so tried to show him running off whilst trying to shoot something off to the side. Tenuous I know!

I’ve been having a touch of the old hobby ADHD lately, so I swapped the stinky glue for good old PVA today. I snook in a quick crafting session on my display board for the Void Panthers whilst Mrs gobert was also crafting (a rare moment where the kids were otherwise engaged, and not with screens!). The kiddos decided to join the craft fest too and thought it was hilarious that i was doing miniature tiling, not that you can see much of it under the sand;

I’ll blow most of the excess sand off tomorrow and see how it looks. I’ve used a few bits from the SMH bases and casts of fragments of the Sector Imperialis Ruins to add some more interest. There’s even a Necron skull hiding in there too, but it’s hard to spot from that angle. I tried a few different materials, card for the tiles (small and large), a sausage roll container for the tread plate, some play dough that I hope cracks when it dries and an unused screen protector for an old phone. The first few listed look ok, but the last seems to have a film inside and out which may end up hiding the cracks when I prime it. If it does I’ll try to score along the lines if I can see them.

Thanks for looking

Assault marines are coming together nicely, you seem to be able to do a good rescue job on them. Never used plastic cement, didn't know it would bond that much.
Display board tiling looks cool under the sweeping sand. It's always good when the kids are able to occupy themselves and one gets a little hobby time while the day isn't yet over

Hey mate,

Those assault marines look great as a group. Patience pays off! There's just something right about squat marines too after all that primaris.

Terrain looking good, nice eclectic mix of things to paint up. Hope you have success with the screen protector, that seems a nifty idea and I'm sure I have a few of those lying around. Awesome to hear you got some family time sharing the hobby too!

Always nice to see old plastic terrain make an appearance gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Keen to see how you get on with the display board, always think they're great for photos! I've actually picked up some assault marines for a fiver from facebook marketplace, we'll see if I can rescue them like you're doing with yours.

Viterbi wrote:Assault marines are coming together nicely, you seem to be able to do a good rescue job on them. Never used plastic cement, didn't know it would bond that much.
Display board tiling looks cool under the sweeping sand. It's always good when the kids are able to occupy themselves and one gets a little hobby time while the day isn't yet over

Cheers Viterbi, a bit of daylight hobby time is always welcome, that’s for sure! I think I’ve rescued most of the squad, there’s still one or two that look a bit off, but I’ll get shoulder pads on them and see how they look before deciding whether to change them up or not.

tzurk wrote:Hey mate,

Those assault marines look great as a group. Patience pays off! There's just something right about squat marines too after all that primaris.

Terrain looking good, nice eclectic mix of things to paint up. Hope you have success with the screen protector, that seems a nifty idea and I'm sure I have a few of those lying around. Awesome to hear you got some family time sharing the hobby too!

A bit of family hobby time can’t be beat! I think I need to disguise the edges of some of the pieces I’ve used with some more sand and sprue debris. I’ve yet to build a Primaris Marine, I’m kind of excited to see how they compare size wise, but you can’t beat classic Marines!

Captain Brown wrote:Always nice to see old plastic terrain make an appearance gobert.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks CB, hopefully I can get some paint on them at some point this year!

Tyranid Horde wrote:Keen to see how you get on with the display board, always think they're great for photos! I've actually picked up some assault marines for a fiver from facebook marketplace, we'll see if I can rescue them like you're doing with yours.

Yeah, the photo background is my main reason for doing the board, I’d like to do one for each army eventually, but that will probably take a while. Let’s see if I have enough stamina with this one first good luck restoring your bargain Assault Marines, I’m sure they’ll look resplendent in white!

No hobby time yet this week, but aim to get a few hours this evening hopefully to make some good progress on the Mechanicus dudes from BSF:Escalation

Good job rescuing those assault marines. Looking forward to seeing them painted up

Fantastic job on the assault marines.

I thought they looked like too close to garbage when you first shared them in their raw state and asked the questions, but great to see that you have made treasure from trash!

Thanks for sharing