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What is that grey rivet strip made of?

Found it in the model railway section of a model shop, I think it was for an 'iron' footbridge.

Very nice IG and SM you got there! Keep up the good work

Liking the mechanicus LR, not too sure on the round turret but perhaps it is because it is not yet painted?

Man that stuff was a good find!

I'm not 100% in love with the Pred turret, however a mate is also doing an Ad Mech LR with the same turret (and I had the parts).
The turret weapon is supposed to be a Conversion Beamer, so it's ancient, revered tech that has been salvaged and (lovingly) refitted to a newer chassis.
Should look better with paint, I'm toying with the idea of painting the turret a different colour to look like it's from another tank . . . .

That's my story and I'm sticking with it!!

Whilst waiting for some parts to arrive for a couple of tank builds, raided the bits box and the 'when am I ever going to be painted box':

Ash 1 wrote:Whilst waiting for some parts to arrive for a couple of tank builds, raided the bits box and the 'when am I ever going to be painted box'

OHH I have that box too! It's one of those cheap, plastic organizers with three drawers. Problem is all three drawers are chock full of 'when am I ever going to be painted' minis

The Catachan with the bolter is my favorite though for obvious reasons.

some nice looking bits box raids there, i like the IG zombies

Nice cadian zombies! where'd the bodies come from?

Got to love a good bits box raid! Mine is currently bursting (literally) with marine bits, must be at least a battleforce or two of then stuffed in those little containers!

IG zombies are cool indeed, very well executed.

The zombies are from Grindhouse games Incursion series, part of the whole Weird WW2 stuff. These are Sturmzombies 1.
They are a little bit on the tall side, however, as they are all stooped over they just about fit.

http://www.grindhousegames.com/products/sturmzombies-i#feature

Must...Resist...Zombies...

Nope, too late, they are just too cool!

I used to be subbed to this thread and lost it? Glad to be back, stunning work!!!

Favor to ask- can you tell me (and the collective "us" that would love to know the answer) how you did this:


I don't have words for how much I want to learn to do that (or even something remotely close, it would be light years beyond that I am doing now)

Greatly appreciated if you get the chance to explain that a bit.

And yes, re-subbed.

Loving the admech stuff, and I agree with Skalk we need a tutorial! Can't wait to see those cadian zombies finished and keep up the good work

Yes Yes! Need a tut for that!

Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated.

Mmm . . . the old Pegasus bridge . . . long time ago . . . hurting head to think back that far . . .

Looks like: Black primer; Tamiya TS-61 Nato Green or TS-2 Dark green; dry brush with what looks like a pale grey; paintchips - outlined some sort of yellowish colour poss Vallejo Japan Uniform; The dark area of the paint chips either a mix of black and dark brown or Vallejo German cam.black/brown.
The muddy bits of the bridge were sprinkled with sand whilst the primer was wet; once all the other stuff was painted a lot of brown earth tones were painted, brush shreddingly dry brushed; followed by a liberal dose of pigments - varnish to taste.

I have two tanks on the go; one actually made Ad Mech - which I'm going to have 'another' go at salt masking; the second will be IG, fairly knackered/crusty - same approach as other IG tanks, lots of paint chipping.
I'll do a load of WIP/PIP pictures of both.

In the mean time:
Bits box mash up;



@ Commander cain: Just looked through your Random progress log and was going to post some long winded (but nice) comment, when a warning message popped up that I would be breaking a Forum protocol for Necroposting! You need to add an update!!!

Funny you sould say that Ash, you are the second person today to say that! I will post a big monster update over the weekend, patience young one!


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Loving the trooper, I really want to pick up some of those FW gun packs, is that vic's penal trooper torso I see?

EDIT, never mind, I just remembered that the heads she designed were seperate...


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I was thinking it was these, great conversion kit!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/400057.page

Ash 1 wrote:Looks like: Black primer; Tamiya TS-61 Nato Green or TS-2 Dark green; dry brush with what looks like a pale grey; paintchips - outlined some sort of yellowish colour poss Vallejo Japan Uniform; The dark area of the paint chips either a mix of black and dark brown or Vallejo German cam.black/brown.
The muddy bits of the bridge were sprinkled with sand whilst the primer was wet; once all the other stuff was painted a lot of brown earth tones were painted, brush shreddingly dry brushed; followed by a liberal dose of pigments - varnish to taste.

The entire effect is paint? Wow. Thanks for posting that. I'll likely give that a try soon, different paints but will attempt to replicate process and hopefully get some results. And again, stunning work on the conversions.

Funnily enough a lot of the 'chipped paint' was due to missing a fair amount of mould lines, I camouflaged them with the chips.

The torso is from an old Citadel Hive ganger:
Second row, far right 'tech 4'
http://www.solegends.com/citcat911/c2036imphivegangers-h.htm
It's been in my bits box for quite a while, I chopped his legs off for this Commissar:

I liked the boots, I have a few more from this era in a sort of Chaos mob, I'll dig them out and take some pics over the weekend.

thats a sweet grab, love the use of the chaos arms

Diggamob.

These boys were painted quite a while back:







The rest of the 'mob' is a mixed bag of Cawdor, Goliath and Orlock gangers, some Tallarns with all their Imperial icons removed and a few Mordhiem blokes with guns . . .


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Got a bit of Paint on the LR. Need to go back and clean off more salt as it's dried in a tad crusty:



Now that it's red will it go faster?

Those guys are old! You have certainly done them justice, the first dude has a certain Frankenstein look to him!

I absolutely love the LR now that it has a basecoat and take back my comment about not liking the turret as it fits in really well now.

Picked up an old basilisk from eBay, it's a bit of a beast . . .





Was going to give it a bath in a vat of Dot4 but couldn't resist tearing it apart first and test fitting these:





Not sure wether to go with as is or stick this on



I may actually save a few of the rust patches with masking fluid as I quite like the shape of some of them . . .

Can't wait to see some more of the land raider! Also I know you'll do an amazing on the basilisk and I can't wait to see it finished!

thats some sweet looking artillery

Old idd! all rusty and everything love that big ass mutha cannon! And I don't hesitate for a second that you will do that old model justice gl with it

The lump of pipe stuck on the front has gone. . .

This is the replacement:

MMM artillery! Man I accidentally found and had to pick up this monster kit yesterday

and sort of OOB kit reviewed it in my Necro thread.
There is going to be a whole lotta DAKKA around DAKKA soon!