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Good find with those zomblins...they are pretty cool

thanks monkeh. they have a good looking night goblin looking necromancer on a skele-squig too. not to mention a lot of other interesting sculpts. Some nice night goblin lookin ghosts as well!




so I have recently purchased 4000+ points of really old orcs and gobbos, most from 91-94 i think? Including an ollllld wyyvern which is DYING for a goblin on top... In any case, most are painted too! will get good photos and update blog with them soon, trying to identify them all still. I'm hoping I can salvage the paint jobs (need lot of tidying up, highlighting, washing, eyes painted to match my style etc.. have to decide whether to use old paper banners on them or make new ones etc), update the bases etc. (remove flock, paint edges black, add ballast, paint and add tufts/static grass... any tips on how yall do this would be great. I figure just use a knife and scrape the crap off. Pics in gallery of the lot minus the 75 wold riders, if interested

Also picked up 16 bret knights, a friar tuck bow fella, and a damsel. So hopefully have that project in works before long.



I also have gotten a commission painting some hobgoblin looking gits with revolvers from Malifaux for a local. Will post photos of those when done. A buddy showed me some artillery on ebay that sold for $35+$8 shipping.. had 2 old metal lobbas and some truck bits, hodge-podgey looking. Quite a bit qas scratchbuilt I think. It didn't look bad or anything but I'm thinking I could make better looking ones scratch built (but using 50% gw parts just no metal lobba kit) and charge the same $ and it be worth my time? I have boxes and boxes of ork bits on sprue, leftover vehicle kit parts, unbuilt truck kits, etc... ripe for creating!


I have been cleaning up my workshop/office/gaming room or whatever and have been trying to get everything organized/staged. Hoping to start putting in some serious work soon and get my NG undead army out, the TK, and then have to get back to the squig cult and freebooters.... Will start updating this huge lot a bit later I think. Will use them as is for time being while I fry bigger fish. (even if this is the biggest proverbial fish I suppose)


Been trying to decide on the TK theme.... should I use VC skeletons on the old undead chariots? or Night goblins painted as skeletons? (didn't want to get too confused when playing VC vs TK).... Figure I could do the VC night goblin skeletons in red robes, while the TK are in blue robes?.. figured could use BFSP archers as skeleton archers I need for TK as well.

Thanks for reading and all the feedback guys.

finished my first commission, some malifaux dudes. customer just said wanted blue robes and gave me free reign.

was supposed to be a cheap paint job, put nearly double the quoted time into it, didn't want to turn out crappy looking minis.

hopefully he appreciates em when he receives tomorrow!

pictures are bad I know, hopefully have lightbox access before long.

and what i've been up to for me




boo!!!!

kinda a cluster

we have

spider riders as hex wraiths needing bases finished

titan forge ghost dudes the outstretched arm guy and ones with hands behind his back will both be holding scythes behidn their backs (after though, didn't realize ya could take wraiths as heroes!)

titan forge zomblins testin blue robe color


cheers mate

Think it's ready for paint?


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better photos of malifaux commision. doing handlers this week








tried to achieve a draining magic look or whatever with the guys with their hands open, as the card said they could do that.

Not dead, I'm alive, still workin'

Finished spider rider hex wraiths (no converting at all just painted em like ghosts cuz I'm LAZY)

Finished the skeletal spider steeds for black knights

Considering giving vamp on hell steed a jawbat from Titan forge to ride on? Maybe sculpt wings on a squig I already have to save monies.

Been working on old gw skeletons, Titan forge zomblins, noisy ghosts, and these black knights

Also managed to clean/update a doom diver, pump wagon, rock Lobba, and squig catapult from last big purchase I made. Just have them washes of agrax and a little highlighting. Bases doom diver, rest to come


how the hell did I manage to get my photo upside down, lets try this again

Hell yeah, pirate Orks! Subscribed for sure! YAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

 Squigsquasher wrote:
Hell yeah, pirate Orks! Subscribed for sure! YAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!

waaaaagh! love your enthusiasm



I haven't touched the freebooters in some time. have gotten really bored with 40k but hopefully we will start seeing rumors of a new ork codex and maybe that will reinvigorate me.

I have a bunch of my orks half way painted. should finish them up really.

Should hopefully have pix of malifaux commission posted this evening, as well as my hex wraiths and black knights.



As far as 40k goes, I had been considering starting a different army to maybe generate more interest for myself. I was thinking, grot rebels sounds like fun. I saw the chibi space marine someone made using shoulder pads, was thinking maybe I could maye a "space grots" army. Cheap marines in pods from SW, ADL with gun, longfangs, a runepriest, maybe a lone wolf (c'mon a grot lone wolf? yeahhhh) ... and have allies for them.. maybe blood angels? mainly so I could bring death company grots, lol.

Ok too many projects on my plate as is


If anyone has good links on imperial grot heads/models (like a commisar) drop me a link.


Also, is about time for another supply drop of plasticard. Plastruct bent me over on shipping last time and didn't tell me shipping rate until after I paid, frankly kinda upset me. So if y'all have any distributors online I should be supporting lemme know!

Been a minute since I have updated, busy busy busy.

finished these guys up for a fellow at the FLGS







My buddy plays dwarves in fantasy, and needs a grudge thrower (or 6) built, and the first of which I got the idea, thinking about dwarves and horses, and what to do with his BFSP pony from the grudge-cart.. (knowing he liked lord of the rings)... Lets make a "grudge-pony thrower"!

I'll update with a picture later, currenlty looks a bit like a trebuchet with the cart as a weight, and the horse all bug eyed (cartoon style like slayer in my corpse cart) in mid toss.



i have a commission for a fellow here on dakka doing a forgeworld biker nob painboy, its about done, need to fix syringe, fix all the finecast/fw bubbles (believe he got a set of miscast bikes, then a set of good ones to replace them. so i have been working with the miscasted stuff).. Need to green stuff the guts up, including coating the intestine the grot is holding onto.. wrap handlebar in grip tape etc. just about done other than that though.







sorry they are out of focus, i was pretty tired.

there are more earlier WIP shots in my gallery that are more in focus if you want to see more details.



got some new shots of the jet







vrooooooooom!

hopefully have a bigger update for you all soon on the squig-front. Should have tonight to paint away and trying to get my 3000 point army all painted up.

I'm amassing all of the squigs I have and will get a good shot of them, it makes me happy just looking at that many squigs ready gobble up stuff.

Nice work!

I love the trike and the paintjob on the Dakkajet.

I remember seeing the sketch o the guy with a cart o dynamite, and I really liked it, you did a great job with the colors.

Thank's fellas. I appreciate it. Night goblins are a labor of love.... In case anyone didn't know... and respect to all skaven players, everywhere. oh my god.

I based 140~ goblins and 20 squigs last night.. (already had them attached, cleaned up etc just needed sand glued down...)... I also managed to make 4 war machine diorama base things with cut outs for a 60mm round to spin an aim, and 3 crew each... (dont need no stinkin bullies!)

so much work. Hopefully tonight I will get them all primed. Hopefully hook up the airbrush and (finally) use it for first time since I got it for my birthday last August... busy man I am :/ The plan is to prime the 10-20 squigs I have left that aren't primed red (30 i bought on ebay were primed red, figured just go with it) in orange and yellow. I had considered doing some blue squigs too. Still might.

Still need to sculpt my manglers. need 3 more for upcoming tourney. Was just gonna cheap out and put a squig hopper + a squig on a 60mm base and call it a day but.... sigh... if I'm gonna do it, might as well do it right.....


My 3k list also calls for a 2nd pump wagon (this one with the sail)... so I figure it's an oppurtunity to mix the night goblins and freebooters up a bit... and I think i will make one of my planned squig chariots into a pump wagon with a pirate-ship sail (with pirate squig captain).. kinda breaking theme of army, but who gives a gak.


and for like the nth time, I'll ask (not that i'm annoyed or anything, im definitely not, just really looking for answer and hopefully someone will read this!)... I have seen spellscape miniatures blog a long time ago paint these squigs up... and I REALLY like the hard line extreme highlight and have NO clue how to achieve it. it looks like bleached bone almost. That can't be right. In any case, any tips would be appreciated. I have so many of these buggers to paint up!

http://spellscape.blogspot.com/2008/02/squigs-and-night-gobos.html

Here's an update.

Wizard hat boss, boss with terrifying mask of eeee! And painboy biker

And manglers!





May need to add a flip to his other ear?






Almost done with this guy too





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My planned force for armies on parade. Sans skarsnik, a squig gobba, and a display board/finished painting.

The pump wagon needs alot of work still, most importantly a sail crows nest and spiky rolls. Not to mention tiny squig crew with pirate hats? Idk maybe no hats.

The warboss on squig had a break on spear so magnetized an axe blade in the shape of a night goblin, frowning when he's lookin at you and grinning in backside of blade. Need to paint it up

That painboy on bike loks excellent! loving the gut entrails and the grot. very cool

 bigfish wrote:
That painboy on bike loks excellent! loving the gut entrails and the grot. very cool

Thank you very much. Here's a link to thread with completed photos.

Cheers!

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/527171.page#5621414

May I say that the Terrifying Mask of Eeeee! is the best named wargear item ever.

Anyway, great work as always!

 Squigsquasher wrote:
May I say that the Terrifying Mask of Eeeee! is the best named wargear item ever.

Anyway, great work as always!

Right? it IS the best named wargear! I might have to use it as a crown of command as well, depending on what my list calls for. hehe

Thank you!



Looks like i did have a photo of the in progress unit fillers!




and a shot of my cheap ass plastic case having part of my 3k army laid out on it for transport.



da PLAN!

cut those footprints out (DONE!)

liquid nail steel sheet to bottom of container (NOT DONE)

magnetize bottom of movement trays (NOT DONE)

magnetize whole army (80% done!)

I still need to add a shelf unfortunately I think, or carry 2 boxes. unsure which will win/be easier.

Also working on this guy:



FLGS needs 6 and thinking of trying to make it marketable online/shippable. Hoping to get a prototype built in next couple of weeks. Design may have to change a bit because these are coming out to be more expensive than I planned/hoped for (but still cheaper than the modular gaming table on indiegogo. Granted the weight capacity are very different. I think a grown man could sleep on mytable and the other table visibly sags in their photos under the weight of the RoB board it seems? In any event I hope this chap gets funded and gets his tables made! I hope I get mine done as well thought I'm currently not trying to get crowd funding.

My other idea was to make a carrying/display case for game tiles. a box with shelves for RoB tiles (or home made magnetized equivalents) to slide in and enough vertical room (say a minimal size for just boards, a mid range height between boards for infantry to stand up on top of, and a 3rd design with levels for monsters/tanks/etc? One could skin it in plexiglass for display purposes, or whatever they want. Could have a tower with a 24"x24" foot print with as many boards as you wanted tall stacked up each acting as a display board for a particular army? just ideas floatin around da noggin. FOCUS!


So busy busy busy over here. Spring cleaning, working on my armies on parade display board ( a mushroom village!) for my night gobbos, and trying to get my night gobbos finished of course. 6 weeks!

sob. just lost my whole post to getting logged out whilst posting. grr

i live in moore, oklahoma so if you've seen the tornado in the news you can understand if updates are sporadic in near future. i'm ok, so is my family. our houses, pets etc all ok. we lived about 1 mile north of the center of the destruction. many friends and their families were not as lucky and lost very much so i am counting my blessings. tornado has given my hobby projects plenty of time to dry. with power back on last night I looked around the hobby room and remembered I had my metal lined boxes lined with books still!

so here they are









i had even wrote up a mini tutorial/helpful hints i learned while doing this but all lost >.<

pics are side ways, sorry. im a failboat

i'll retype some of the tips real quicklike

30 mil magnets = good for plastic infantry not for movement trays or metal

60 mill = acceptable for small metal models (havent tried big ones) and for movement trays if line bottom to stick it to fridge or metal case/toolbox whatever

hobby lobby 4.99 1" wide strength 3 magnetetic adhesive tape or whatever the feth, is similiar to 60 mil in thickness in strength from my observation. so is a good local supply. you can line bottom of trays with this stuff instead of ordering 8.5x11 sheets if you have hobby lobby locally

Wip pump wagon. Needs ropes, pirate hats on squigs, sculpt board around ones feet on top of squiggy rolla. Also have another small squig to be running inside but gonna paint him first before glueing in for easy-mode

Here's my planned 3k tourney army all fit in a single tote finally! YEAH

Just missing the savage Orc shaman. Trying to find a suitable model on foot to convert. Want to put a saddle or throne/platform on top of him with a goblin riding and whipping him

i present, the savage orc shaman







still needs basing but, there it is!

Man loads of gobbos to paint. Less than 2 weeks to armies on parade. Real life been a mah. (Those of you who know who j roc from trailer park boys is will get my humor).

I want mo' variety of squigs so I decided to sculpt a count as arachnarok. Gonna do some troll sized ones as well and have a cave troll be a herder for them!?

Here's the arachnarok squig wip just first layer of putty and lips/eyebrows/eyes







What y'all think?

subbed, will be back

Updates on squig narok, and 3 count as trolls.







Still pretty rough

update! just needs chains, and ropes, and nail heads, and a bad moon or two, and of course, goblins!

then painnnnt!





scale shot



anything look off?

That is looking good!

some comments though:
I don't like the way he is moving forward, seems silly and off to me, maybe re-position him slightly on the base?

I also think the tower/goblin base on top of him should be larger and more elborate with various levels, maybe some little spots on his sides, more similar to the one on the spider set, this one seems to small to me, but it might just be the angle that the camera shows it.

All in All though Awesome stuff here!! Love the ideas, and it is coming out in the correct directions!




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Just noticed the Pump Wagon........SO COOL

 Sageheart wrote:
That is looking good!

some comments though:
I don't like the way he is moving forward, seems silly and off to me, maybe re-position him slightly on the base?

I also think the tower/goblin base on top of him should be larger and more elborate with various levels, maybe some little spots on his sides, more similar to the one on the spider set, this one seems to small to me, but it might just be the angle that the camera shows it.

All in All though Awesome stuff here!! Love the ideas, and it is coming out in the correct directions!




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Just noticed the Pump Wagon........SO COOL

Thank you very much for the kind words! His position isn't my absolute favorite but, I had to make some concessions. The framework of his lower leg isn't strong enough to support te entire model in case of a fall I'm afraid. So I wanted to connect I base at 2 locations which meant having him rest on central rock that has brass pipe in it. I didn't want the support to show huh meant lettin him sit on the rock.

Once I established that was the "plan" I decided to try to make it look like he was stomping around a bit? I think I mah need to make claws on that foot larger and maybe curled a little?

Maybe that would help translate stomping better?

In any even, hopefully squig narok #2 will have a better pose.
I think I may make him crouching ready to jump?


The framework up top is a little larger than pics show. Should shoot it from above tonight. I had considered addin a walk way around perimeter of the fence like the arachnarok has but I wasn't sure
If it would make it look like he was wearing a big hat. Especially if I use the BFsp tent up top as a catch web shrine... I mean at first I was on board with giant squig with giant wooden wizard hat but.. Didnt like idea of it in practice

Thanks again for comments on pump wagon, since then I have added pirate hats to all those gits!

if it's not obvious as of yet, I didn't finish my entry for armies on parade in time. My boss left town week before leaving the biz up to me, which lined up perfectly with my GF breaking her tailbone (falling off a stripper pole in our living room doh!) , which really cut into my gettin-crap-done-ability.. Which has lead me to go ahead





well CRAP

this is how my most recent purchase arrived in the mail >.<

they were all together, assembled, on bases as manglers... you can see they all broke in transit.....


contacted buyer just now, sheesh...


Hope it all resolves itself! I know he will take returns, if I pay shipping.. but kinda rubs me wrong way to be out $5 on shipping for someone else' error in packing carefully..

Now I only paid $52 USD for all of these, which is alot lower than what buying 8 bosses on squigs would run me anyhow.... but I'm curious, do you feel I am right in asking for a partial refund? I agreed to pay $52 for them as is, not broken. I realize that legally, it seems, I need to return them, in order to have a leg to stand on for my refund... but then im out $5, and have no squig bosses.... I know, I want to have my cake and eat it too, what do you think?

Got a 20$ refund from that ebay deal! Bwoop bwoop! Super cool seller! Gotta strip these guys soon. Walmart didnt have dawn power dissolver so gotta hit up another one

Started workin on a squig wyvern model for a goblin (count as orc) warboss.. At this stage it looks a bit like sperm lol

So I was gonna put this guys wings on covering his face like a vampire. Like so






Here's how I ended up puttin em on






Still a bit of work needed but hopefully finish it and the count as spider soon.



Anyone have any opinions on a saddle versus just hanging onto a rope or chain? Maybe a wooden picket fence around seat?

Need to texture most his skin, finish find on spine, and then add ropes and chains around him an a seat + rider.

Any input appreciated!

I liked both versions of the wings set up, but I have to say the Dracula version was my favourite.

As for the saddle I have a couple of ideas, one you could use a coffin lid cut in half for the back of the saddle seat as a back rest or even a broken gravestone.

Secondly as for the reins maybe chains connected by piercings to the squig skin, gives it a more evil feel hope this helps some and it looks great so far.