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WOW! What does it count as exactly? A battlewagon?

Wow. Just wow. And you want me to make a blimp? This just seems sooooo much better. Definitely worth the wait - though do I see where some of the pieces have been clipped from the sprue? If so, I hope you clean them up! (I tend to clean up as I go - possibly one of the reasons my progress always seems so slow...) Looking forward to seeing this make it to completion!


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Just noticed you're in Perth (my home town!) I'll be in Perth all of November with Da Dark Angelz in tow

Bossasaurus wrote:WOW! What does it count as exactly? A battlewagon?

Well originally before I Frankenstein-ed it, that was the idea but you could fit two or three battlewagons in it so I would have to say no probably a Stompa or a BW if my opponent agrees (it's not like it will be of any consequence to them only me).

Arakasi wrote:Wow. Just wow. And you want me to make a blimp? This just seems sooooo much better. Definitely worth the wait - though do I see where some of the pieces have been clipped from the sprue? If so, I hope you clean them up! (I tend to clean up as I go - possibly one of the reasons my progress always seems so slow...) Looking forward to seeing this make it to completion!

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Just noticed you're in Perth (my home town!) I'll be in Perth all of November with Da Dark Angelz in tow

Yeah I do a big clean up before I paint and I work out the final kinks for instance the strut that holds the hull together and is meant to have the stand attached. Can't take the weight of the damn thing so I will need to screw it in place.

We should organise I game or two for when you're here, we can see how the denizens of the "Under Imperium" the "Skave" fair against the might of the "Ar'deptuz Orkstartz" AKA "Da Dark Angelz"!




Tomorrow I will be flat out with work and same the following day what I will be trying to do is get the last of the Storm Vermin painted and make a start on the cleanup and the GS work for the Airship, if I'm really lucky I'll get time to GS the Skaven Warlord to captain the ship in his Pirate hat and then by the end of the week finish the Merc Unit off which now thanks to the Stompa box has a bunch of Grot revolutionaries to be made and GS'd up to join the ranks. This will bring the Unit to 28 Models I think which is just nice!

Buy the end of the week say Saturday I hope to have finished off the models that are all half done, then I can move onto the Tank Busta Squad which I'm looking forward to as I want to GS dynamite to Giant rats and make the Warpstone Hammers,
I'm also looking into the use of Grot weapons as a base for a Clanrat grade gun if it works out then the Mercs may be out of a job, even though they suit the Army fluff I would personally rather field an entire army of space rats.

SELF-FAIL.

Sorry about that again, posted the wrong damn thing. UGH!

So, your airship is lookin' amazing! Kinda makes me want to start working on something like that when I get the cash.

Oh, come on. first you make me look bad with your incredible talent, and now you make me look worse by getting that awesome piece of badassery done when you stopped updating for a few days, despite being sick? I haven't updated for a little bit on my blog because I had to cover shifts at work for a friend over the whole weekend, and haven't been able to get anything done. How am I supposed to compete with the level of greatness you put out?

Seriously, Santobell, stop being so awesome. You're making us all look bad

amazing airship!!!

LeBaron wrote:SELF-FAIL.

Sorry about that again, posted the wrong damn thing. UGH!

So, your airship is lookin' amazing! Kinda makes me want to start working on something like that when I get the cash.

It's all good mate, everyone face palms now and then.
Everyone should start a project like this or make something ridiculess, it annoying and painful and it takes time and hurts your brain but in the end all the pain is nothing compared to the achievement of actually pulling something like this Airship off honestly at the start of the build I was [pretty sure I had just blown my money on the stompa but now best bucks I've spent on the hobby in ages my "Trick" when making these things is to never go so far as to be unable to make/fix it back to the original kit until I'm sure it's going to work in this case it was about 40% through the build I went stuff it and hacked up all the body panels to make it happen.

CodGod wrote:Oh, come on. first you make me look bad with your incredible talent, and now you make me look worse by getting that awesome piece of badassery done when you stopped updating for a few days, despite being sick? I haven't updated for a little bit on my blog because I had to cover shifts at work for a friend over the whole weekend, and haven't been able to get anything done. How am I supposed to compete with the level of greatness you put out?

Seriously, Santobell, stop being so awesome. You're making us all look bad

Um ok no more caffeine for you... I don't aim to make anyone look bad just trying to make my army look as good as possible I want it to have that I could buy it at the store look I'm failing of course but I'll get close.

Hawkins wrote:amazing airship!!!

Cheers matey thanks for the positive feedback.



Small Update
I purchased some small LED's to light up the underbelly with.

Aye, I may just have to do some work on that. Thinking of picking up an AoBR Tues when I go and pick up Fable III so I may have some bits to play with.

I like the idea of a 'pirate skaven' and every time I picture it in my head, I get something that looks like a skaven dressed up like this.

LeBaron wrote:Aye, I may just have to do some work on that. Thinking of picking up an AoBR Tues when I go and pick up Fable III so I may have some bits to play with.

I like the idea of a 'pirate skaven' and every time I picture it in my head, I get something that looks like a skaven dressed up like this.

Yeah my life will stop for that game yet I'm so lazy I'm having it delivered to my house lmao, jack sparrow I was thinking of using his hat as a base for the captain

Well, great minds think alike. I just can't see a Skaven captain dressed as anything but Captain Jack Sparrow. It would just add to the epic that is everything you do.

Given the awesomeness level of the stuff you've already done, I doubt you'll have any problems, but in case it helps, mention of the hat made me remember this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/242410.page#747541, which has a nice tutorial on greenstuffing tricorn hats which I've wanted to try for a while but never found an excuse to do.

LeBaron wrote:Well, great minds think alike. I just can't see a Skaven captain dressed as anything but Captain Jack Sparrow. It would just add to the epic that is everything you do.

I whole heartedly agree!

CodGod wrote:Given the awesomeness level of the stuff you've already done, I doubt you'll have any problems, but in case it helps, mention of the hat made me remember this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/242410.page#747541, which has a nice tutorial on greenstuffing tricorn hats which I've wanted to try for a while but never found an excuse to do.

Yeah that's the Tut I've been working off, I just felt his were a tad on the big side but the technique is sound!




Update:
Captain Skarloc still in metals and greens and with much work still to do

Hat and eye patch are still setting in these shots, once it's firmer I will add tears and a hole or two plus fill-out the inside of the hat and add some more detail to his body.






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Concept Update - The Tankhammer -



C&C please

I absolutely love that airship, can't wait to see how it looks fully painted.

Damn that captain looks cool!!

I am hoping to pick one of those models up when I am in the big smoke next month, will have to do something a bit special to differentiate from yours now though

Captain Skarloc is looking great. Must read that tutorial myself! (Not that I need pirate hats, but anything GS related is useful...)

Tankhammer handle is very long, makes it look a bit flimsy - like it is more likely to break than what you hit...

wib wrote:I absolutely love that airship, can't wait to see how it looks fully painted.

Base coat going on tonight, the paint scheme in my head is dark grey/metal on top eroded red and rust on bottom with glowy green bits here there and everywhere.

BLACKHAND wrote:Damn that captain looks cool!!

I am hoping to pick one of those models up when I am in the big smoke next month, will have to do something a bit special to differentiate from yours now though

Better be quick they are selling out fast! that one was the last in WA I had to ring around to found the store who had it and lucky enough for me it was my local store (well local as in 1 hour and 30 minutes drive away local).

Arakasi wrote:Captain Skarloc is looking great. Must read that tutorial myself! (Not that I need pirate hats, but anything GS related is useful...)

Tankhammer handle is very long, makes it look a bit flimsy - like it is more likely to break than what you hit...

Tankhammer is Photoshoped lol I was originally going for a really long pole-arm style to it with a over heavy looking shard in the head but I think your right it would break under it's own weight

Still much to do though I did get the GS done on the Airship so paint tonight hopefully!


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Airship is 50% base coated I'm waiting for it to dry now and I have begun assembling it's crew

First Mate "Tanqt" a Rat Ogre with a sword arm and armor plates on his shoulder, cape on his back and if I don't run out of GS in the next few hours he'll get an eye patch.

Cabin Boy "Skihst" of the Crows Nest

and "Limpy" the peg legged giant rat.

Pics up soon


Update

Ran out of White Base Spray sooo hand basing white models for me dammit


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Tanqt


Skihst


Limpy



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Base Coated ship with crew for scale and test placement

Looking good. What color is the ship itself going to be?

So the the jist of the scheme is the image below but more rusty and exposed metals etc.



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Better look at the rusty style

Awsome work. That thing is freakin' huge. My Long Fangs would love to shoot @ it. :-)

That airship is incredible! I have to say when i first saw it it just screamed Freebootas. Hopefully the paint job will go a long way to de-orkifying it though. Any plans to add sails?

I absolutely love love love the airship and the captain is perfect!!!! This is a beautiful and inspiring blog!

So inspiring that i just bought my buddy's IoB Skaven... I just hope I can live up to you and Blackhand!!

Santobell wrote:So the the jist of the scheme is the image below but more rusty and exposed metals etc.



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Better look at the rusty style

Holy , it's Battleship Yamato!

Now, I have the urge to go out, buy a battleship, and convert it.

Won't be as good as yours but I can only hope. Keep it up!

wolfshadow wrote:Awsome work. That thing is freakin' huge. My Long Fangs would love to shoot @ it. :-)

Long Fangs like to shoot at most things and I can see why they'd like it so much, they are getting old and it's getting harder to see the smaller targets with each passing winter... big ole Airship = a good tall tale to tell around the table feast

Maledictus wrote:That airship is incredible! I have to say when i first saw it it just screamed Freebootas. Hopefully the paint job will go a long way to de-orkifying it though. Any plans to add sails?

I feel the paint has gone a long way to do just that but I really feel that once it's done and dusted the crew will be the big standout I'm going to get a screaming bell and some cannon crews to really flesh it out.

joshoftheforest wrote:I absolutely love love love the airship and the captain is perfect!!!! This is a beautiful and inspiring blog!
Wow thanks, it's good to hear people enjoy it as much as I am.

So inspiring that i just bought my buddy's IoB Skaven... I just hope I can live up to you and Blackhand!!

Blackhand is the one to beat we all bow to his Awesomeness, I've begun toying ideas for my next project now that this one is in it last half of completion the Demiurg so I'm hoping that will live up to these guys and continue to provide hours of Awesome for the Dakka Community.

LeBaron wrote:

Santobell wrote:So the the jist of the scheme is the image below but more rusty and exposed metals etc.



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Better look at the rusty style

Holy , it's Battleship Yamato!

Now, I have the urge to go out, buy a battleship, and convert it.

Won't be as good as yours but I can only hope. Keep it up!

Yes I guess it is the Yamato

Warp Smoke Paint test


Side on View (the painted side)


Bit Blurry but a Detail shot


The Wood Deck


YARRRHG!







Update: (Tunnel Rat)
Now I was going to abandon this machine but a lot fo people like it... not sure why but hey why not finish it so here it is nearly done I need to paint it and add some sharp jagged bits to the warpstone chunk.

As darn tootingly good as your army is looking, I think we all want to know how that bear lost all it's hair :?

Tunnel Rat looks nice. What's it count as?

Fantastic as always!!

ghosty wrote:As darn tootingly good as your army is looking, I think we all want to know how that bear lost all it's hair :?

Too much Caffeine thats how it happened honest ... well maybe not but it's my story and I'm sticking to it!

LeBaron wrote:Tunnel Rat looks nice. What's it count as?

Looted Trukk or some such thingy

joshoftheforest wrote:Fantastic as always!!

Cheers again...


Update (Completely unrelated crazy project)
I have begun making the master mini's for my Demiurg project to see how they work, basically the plan is to make one body a few heads and arms and cast them all to make the army.

Anyhoo



Not the best photo's sorry I'm still waiting on my camera cable form Olympus
so far he is made out of an ork a terminator a SM tech priest and a BA honor guard backpack the gs work at the moment is mainly to hold him together not to look pretty once it sets I will bulk his chest out a bit and add some details then do his granite arm out of GS.

Feel free to C & C

Yes, yes and YES! Love the armour, great look with the plates on the thigh, the whole body has the perfect, squat bodybuilder look.

Need a closer and clearer look at the head but it seems to be on the right track.

What are you thinking of for the arms?

BLACKHAND wrote:Yes, yes and YES! Love the armour, great look with the plates on the thigh, the whole body has the perfect, squat bodybuilder look.

Need a closer and clearer look at the head but it seems to be on the right track.

What are you thinking of for the arms?

From the Concept pics I have managed to drag up the Demiurg are made of or turn into with age some kind of rocky/crystalline substance. A lot of the images show one exposed arm made from this and one good arm or weapon arm so I'll keep in line with these images mostly there is also a few pics of something called a surcombed which appears to be a Demiurg who is made completely from stone and is much larger than the normal soldier.

From what I can tell the Demiurg are rare even in their own armies and use a lot of drones/robots even their ships are crewed by automatons so the army would be made from

HQ - Demiurg
Elite - Demiurg/Surcombed/big bot
Troops - Bots
Fast attack - More bots/Transports
Heavy Support - Demiurg/BIG Tanks

As for the head it's rough, my first attempt to make a head that small, though I'm learning to work with such thin/small stands of GS I think I'll run with it for now I'm confident that the helmet will be fairly easy for me after attempting this head but I may in the near future (once I get a magnifying glass and some finer tools) redo it but for now I should be able to make a reasonable cast of this one to get me through.

In fact here is test shot with a wash on it so you can see better how bad it is

The Skave are really cool and that airship is epic.

That Demiurg is fantastic, finally armoured Squats that don't look rubbish. Nice sculpting on the face and the torso btw.