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i have read here that for starters you could use an old car tire... pumped up it could stand in as a compressor to save you some costs...

one day you have to share , at least with me, your patterns for those vehicles^^

mxwllmdr wrote:
I am military, will retire soon actually, to Las Vegas.

Nice! Congrats! And thank you for serving! If I had stayed in I would have had my 20 in July last year.
But if I had stayed in, I would not have met my wife and would not have had my beautiful daughters. At least that is how I keep from kicking myself every day!

and you might have a good try at egtting shot at... now you are alove and...as you said kicking... that is something to look forward to each day of the week!

this is the most wonderful scratchbuild ever

Capitansolstice wrote:this is the most wonderful scratchbuild ever

Thank you, however, the blackadder built a Lucian that I had trouble discerning from a forgeworld. Seriously, serious trouble discerning it from a forgeworld. What ever you think of my work please see his work. It is amazing. he is working on a thunderhawk at the moment.

This is some seriously great scratch building, major up vote. Looks great. You make me wish I could start building mine.

Jabba! Hey, thanks for coming by. I appreciate it. Hey you know of the Blackadder, right?

I saw his, and I think I like yours better, It has curves!

Uhhhhhhh, Thank you, a lot. I think he is the best I have ever seen. Any idea why he hasn't posted in a while?

Umm, well I was following his thunderhawk thread which is INSANE by the way, and he said things had been really hectic, and that he was doing other things

Great work man! The head turned out great!
Can't wait for the wepons

Keep it up!

mxwllmdr wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:this is the most wonderful scratchbuild ever

Thank you, however, the blackadder built a Lucian that I had trouble discerning from a forgeworld. Seriously, serious trouble discerning it from a forgeworld. What ever you think of my work please see his work. It is amazing. he is working on a thunderhawk at the moment.

I have to say, you and Blackadder are my favorite scratch builders to date! I would love to see you try to build a thunder hawk, you certainly have the skills to pull it off

Commander Cain wrote:

mxwllmdr wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:this is the most wonderful scratchbuild ever

Thank you, however, the blackadder built a Lucian that I had trouble discerning from a forgeworld. Seriously, serious trouble discerning it from a forgeworld. What ever you think of my work please see his work. It is amazing. he is working on a thunderhawk at the moment.

I have to say, you and Blackadder are my favorite scratch builders to date! I would love to see you try to build a thunder hawk, you certainly have the skills to pull it off

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/411560.page

overachiever

Yes, probably, but it feels so good!




Incidentally I picked up a small resin casting kit from Hobbly Lobby today. Hope to have some promising results to show tomorrow.

sounds good... i have recently also thought about doing some castings... it is the begining stages that is so awfully expensive...

Too all my fellow soldiers not able to be with family this season, All my Family and friends, both with me and online MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

That is awesome. Great progress on the titan by the way. The Carapace looks fantastic. Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

now that is some weird looking nurgle titan...lol

merry christmas to ye too... countdown is ticking heavyly towards chrimbo...

The casting experiment didn't quite go as well as I had hoped it would. I was able to do a one sided mold fairly well but the attempts at glove molding and two piece molding didn't work. I have determined that I have the wrong kind of mold material for them. I have putty mold and will need to get liquid silicon mold to do anything other than one sided casting. But, here is what I was able to get good:




I belive that I will still have ample uses for this technique but am anxious to get my hands on some Mold Star 15.

And, I started the Toe Guards. The back three on each foot are glued on but the front one will be magnetized so that the detail can be easily painted and showed off. Here is where I am on them:



And, Mocked up as if the Magnets were in:



More tomorrow or Tuesday I hope. Bye for now!


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I just realized how orky my tree looks. LOL

well the green, eh?

the legs of your reaver looks very good... and the casting is also looking very good to me... what specific has not worked out the way you planned it? can´t seem to see the same thing...maybe if you wash it a bit with badab black it would be more showing...

Thanks, Vik, and I haven't even started the bulk of the lower leg detail yet.

I didn't even show the casting failures. The glove mold was too difficult to get open to remove the original (a combi-flamer) and it kept leaking too much to get a good casting. The two part mold, which I could not have done with the putty, wqas made outof plaster and that, apparantly has sulfer in it. The resin will not set right with a sulfer based mold and I didn't know that when I started.

I will eventually get the silicon based mold star stuff. The Adeptus Mechanicus Emblem I casted turned out very well, actually, you may just not be able to tell it from the photo.

fromm what i saw i thought it looked quite decent to me...

the rest sounds not so good to me... by the way... what is a glove mould? i guess i know that already yet the term is new to me...

and one of these molds had sulfur in it??? is that hazardous in a way?

A glove mold is where the entire original is encased in a solid piece of molding material and, when cured, the mold is cut away and the mold is pealed away in one piece.

The sulfer isn't really hazardous, unless you consider the fumes when the resin starts to bubble and foam and pour out of your mold. Hahaha, lol, that's funny.

But not really funny, just like a giggle kinda funny.

And only after it's done and you know it isn't going to explode. Yeah, then it's giggle kinda funny.


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Okay, so I turn 40 this year. Am I getting too old to play with models and other toys?

Dam where have I been? God I've missed loads of progres. Like the Christmas tree, how did you make it? Btw the carpace armour is great loving it. Oh merry christamas too!

HAZZER

mxwllmdr wrote:
Okay, so I turn 40 this year. Am I getting too old to play with models and other toys?

Nah there is a guy at my FLGS who is pushing 60. He says things like "Great Scott!" while playing so you are most certainly not to old for playing with models. Nice work on the toe guards for the titan btw, personally I think they need to be a tad bit taller but that's just my 2 cents

mxwllmdr wrote:A glove mold is where the entire original is encased in a solid piece of molding material and, when cured, the mold is cut away and the mold is pealed away in one piece.

The sulfer isn't really hazardous, unless you consider the fumes when the resin starts to bubble and foam and pour out of your mold. Hahaha, lol, that's funny.

But not really funny, just like a giggle kinda funny.

And only after it's done and you know it isn't going to explode. Yeah, then it's giggle kinda funny.


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Okay, so I turn 40 this year. Am I getting too old to play with models and other toys?

Look at it this way... by inquisitorial standards, your not even middle aged until at least 150 years old.

HAZZER wrote:Dam where have I been? God I've missed loads of progres. Like the Christmas tree, how did you make it? Btw the carpace armour is great loving it. Oh merry christamas too!

HAZZER

Thanks Haz, the tree took about three minutes to make. I immediatly saw a hundred ways to do it better but it's simplicity is it's charm i think.

i hope when i reach the big fourty i will still be having a hobby life! if that is then playing with toysoldiers... now that stands on a totally different page... but and that is the main thing here... hobby it will be...and this brings the whole basket of nuts that this toyrelated hobby carries with it too... a real hobby has to have some quirks and weirdness to it... otherwise you might as well call it a job... hobby is for passion... life without passion...eh? see the flaw... get on with the constructing mate! or drink more of that stuff you just took before you asked that question because ye sure hasn´t had enough^^