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Glad to hear that you're settled again styro. Sounds like you've got a good plan, will be fun to see it come to fruition!

Did Whale ever shoot the sandbag and get pics?

Crap, I forgot. If we get a nice day any time in the foreseeable future, I'll try to remember. Its currently a balmy 12 degrees out, so not the best weather to do, well, anything.

Glad the move went fine, good to see this project get some more love.

Story-wise it might be more interesting if "il Duce" was stepping out of the hole in the sand bag wall left by say a Krak missile or some such. No reason to leave perfectly good cover normally, but definitely leave when the heavy weapons have you in the cross-hairs.

Thanks guys. I've been away too long (1 month)

Now my only road block is reference material. I need to find more links for death, blood, guts and gore (bullet holes in sand bags).

well I think I found Gore: http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Quick_n_Easy_Gore
Blood: http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?autocom=ineo&showarticle=298

I've seen a few dead bodies but I cant seem to find them again. I remember seeing one cut in half and they painted the the slices to look like a straight cut and you can see the innards. I also seen a few with intestines hanging out

But it happens every time when your looking for something you never find it.

any help on searchy would be appreciated

I've added a spine to the skull

So... after your last couple of PMs. I'm hoping to see more progress here, as there is a good chance that your traitor scum might be facing of against my Omnissiah Guided loyalists.

Work harder!

I'm hoping to get a fair bit of progress myself over the next couple of days. Libby should be at tabletop standard, with just a reword of his backpack needed once I get some GS. 2 12 hour Holiday shifts with hopefully not much to do might lend itself to getting part of my SternGaurd squad done.

That's really fine work Styro... amazing what you can do with such a small object.

So after the GS cured on the skull and spine I made a 2 part mould. I made the box out of lego, then filled it with clay and then I gently pushed the piece in place. I had to build up the clay up to the mid spine (hence the blue areas). then I added the sprues



then I poured the rubber over to get this Rubber mould



then did the other side



When I did a few casts. I noticed that a bubble formed in one of the eye sockets on the mould. So when it casts it looks like it has an eyeball. Unexpected but awesome
I tried taking pictures but because the resin is white you cant see the details. So I dint bother posting it. The skull turned out great. I guess the spine details were too small to cast, but it still looks pretty cool

In the meantime I was also working on my first body. This is a Corsair that died slowly from his wounds.



I started working on head not sure if I like it tho



The major problem that I see will be painting the blood. Red on red

Gah, can't see the pics. Stupid work filter. :(

I have GS some skin onto one of the casts. I cracked the skin and tore bits off to make it look like he burned. This will be a part of a Corsair that was hit by a missile launcher.




I'll have to make it bloody and paint the skin cracks black for burn skin. I've tested two different types of blood but I'm not sure which is better



For both I panted them bleached bone.
For No.1 I gave it a wash of Devlin mud, then red ink, followed by dabbing of Tamiya clear red.
For No.2 I just washed it with red ink, then dabbed the clear red follow by adding a little black to the clear red

I find No.2 more bloody, but you see more detail in No.1

Thats kinda gross.

In a good way.

Nice work.


I think I like # 1 slightly better, but its an incremental difference.

I agree on all three counts. Nice to see you're still plugging away styro!

I have been making progress... I promise! So far I have sanded the base. Using 3 different sifted sands. Fine, coarse and mixed. In the craters and cracks I used the fine sand, then I went to the coarse sand for the lip of the craters, and the mixed sand for the rest. I primed it, then with my air brush i painted the sand bags. I gave it a very light Devlan mud wash (I had to do this over because the first time I used to much wash. I didn't like it so I painted over it)

The painted the sand bags



Here is where Il Duce will stand. Even though I never did get those photos of a sandbags riddled with real bullet holes. I tried my best. I added sand, but it will look better when painted


On a side note I have created a blog of my other works that never got finished as well.

Lords of the Maelstrom (A Red Corsair Blog)

Check it out and help motivate me

Good to see some progress~!

It's looking good Styro! Nice to see you're making progress. Will definitely sub to your other blog.

Gits

THese are both such awsome projects. Im not a fan of boondock saints. I know, herasy. its one of the few movies i didnt finish. BUT... i love your work. both of you. the flying ninja mantis style kick over the wall is so awsome. kudos both of you. this project really stoked me out. some of the projects you see here dont have an ounce of the spirit that this one does. Awsome. need i say more. Awsome.

Been a lot of fun for me, and that's still the only vanguard model I've managed to finish... :-)

well... I will finish eventually! ... some time this year... maybe? I really wish I was teenager again, no responsibilities or commitments... oh well I guess i just have to wait for retirement then!

sennacherib wrote:THese are both such awsome projects. Im not a fan of boondock saints. I know, herasy. its one of the few movies i didnt finish. BUT... i love your work. both of you. the flying ninja mantis style kick over the wall is so awsome. kudos both of you. this project really stoked me out. some of the projects you see here dont have an ounce of the spirit that this one does. Awsome. need i say more. Awsome.

Thanks. It is alot of fun. I trying to come up with ideas for the other dead Corsairs. Right now I'm finishing up one body where he bled to death from his wounds. Still holding his bolter even tho his clip is empty and has no more. So all thats left is to do .. is die.

Keep it up!

Reading Git's WIP MW chapter come together, and then cross-linking into an awesome diorama piece... You two and many other contributors and constant sources of inspiration.

Cant wait to see what's next - the bled-out Corsair and the spine/skull blood look amazing.

Ya Gits' MW are amazing. TBH his blog is very inspirational and right now it's the only thing keeping me going forward. Everyday I'm on Dakka at work, but at home I paint once or twice a week if I'm lucky. If only there was a way to combine them... my work and my hobby. But I guess that would take the fun out of it

Oh ya ... I forgot about the bloody skull. I have painted it a while ago, just need to take pictures. I didn't get the look I was going for, but it still looks pretty cool. I promise to take photos tonight.

Please do! Your greenstuffing and scratch-building skills are very good. I am envious. (I can't see that small any more... even with an optivisor...).

As promised pictures of the bloody skull and spine with burnt skin




Front


Right Side


Back


Right SIde

Now THAT... is grim-dark!

;-)

HA ha! I had to Google that!

o-O

Great work bro~!

Grimdark indeed.

great looking skull, very grusome

Horrific! I love it. The dead Corsair's pose is great, but I think his head should be leaning the other way.

The skull and spine bit is remarkable. Great scratch building.

So I finished painting the 'bleed to death' marine. I'm not too happy with the macro shots. To my eyes the battle damage looks good. But when I look at these macro photos all I see are blobs of colour!

I still have gore to add and paint his bolter




Maybe I'm not getting the technique right