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This is getting better and better! Your gs wprk looks awesome and i can't wait to see the complete board! Very well done sir!
And your secret ingredient just.....
Made my day!

The underground dioramas inspired me so much im going to 3 layers of diorama 1 under bunker ammo stores 2 sneaky holes for troops to pop out of 3 zone moralis demonic summoning areas and containment pens. By the way if I hadn't mentioned your work is swagmaster.

He is secretly Leman Russ. This is y he 2 op 4 me.

Oops! I mean I said nothing inqui-

*blam*

Aw man. So good, I really don't know what to say. I'M in awe.

D

Hi guys (and galls?)

Wow thank you guys for all the nice compliments. Here's a new update on the Great hall inside the temple fortress.

@Stormwall: Haha.
@E.earnshaw: the hall is getting shape. Hope you can see where I'm going with it.

It is comming along quite nicely if I must say for myself all though I spend a little to much time on the runic poems that go on the inner wall. I did allot of research on the tree of life and the referrences to it in Nordic, Viking, Celtic, Roman and Christian beliefs. And it is all some what the same and I find it very facinating! And also I've spend some time learning the Runic symbols equivilent to the Romanic symbols.

Funny side note on something you might not know; the Runic name for there alfabeth also starts with the first characters like the roman one: F U Th A R K

Well and after I choose the poems it was also allot of work to figure out how big I had to go to get it on the wall just right so It would fill up nicely. Also the runic alphabeth didn't had any "." to end sentences but they did had the ":" to symbolise the end of words. So I've invented the tilted square to indicate the end of a sentence. That way you could all decipher the poems if you wanted to... Like you have entered a real millenia old temple to hunt for treasure









So here I've pre fitted elements that make up the great hall. Note that the pillars are not yet carved out...






Here I've carved out allmost all the elements for the great hall and placed them together for another pre fitting. I must almost constantly do this because there is no real guidance on how to build this. I have designs but I usually figure things out as I go.. That way I also keep some artistic freedome to alter and improve to get better results. (Like the runic poems).






And here I placed 3 squads inside for size comparison and to see how much figures I could stack inside... And it is certainly "Big" enough.






Here I'm glueing all parts together to form one solide piece that will be the great hall. This way I can close gaps between parts with greenstuf and other materials before painting starts.











Well that's all for tonight. Tomorrow I hope to get started on the lighting and with a bit of luck I will be able to finish it. So I can start the painting and gluing inplace all the elements for the great hall. And hopefully start finishing up the great hall and facade by the end of next week. In the two weeks that will follow I hope to finish the rock working on the main mountain. And I can hardly wait to go start finishing the vegitation and snowy effects on the entire board. Really looking forward to that moment.

Cheers!

Amazing.

mind...... blown

This is truly epic Rem! This deserves a professional photo shoot with well done miniatures when its all said and done. You are talented and this is the most amazing game table I have ever seen!

I love it when people use runic properly.

More kudos to you

A bit hard to decipher on these pictures though, I'll wait for the final photo shoot.

One thing I don't get though, why "Holj tree", did you use the j for y ? or is it not elder futhark ?

Anyone got any superglue or gaffatape my jaw fell off .

That is just stunning work

Thanks you guys and gall for all the nice words again. Can't say it enough that it motivates me to the bone.

@Kelly502: that's exactly what I planning to do. But this is just 1 out the 3 boards that will form a space wolves inspired battle table. But Ill ask my uncle, Marc Jacobs, to make pro pictures of the first board when its done. And I hope that it will be some where around christmas or new year it will be finished.

@e.earnshaw: you can have my pva, superglue or ducktape if you want

@morgoth: no it should be a Y. For as far as I know the Y is translated to the two tilted hooks. Which would state Holy tree. If I did it wrong please correct me.

Here's some more progress pictures on the lightning. Although I didn't make as much progress as I hoped I do like the lightning so far. Really like the redish glow bownsing of the pillars bottoms and the top sides. It's a shame I don't have time to work on it tomorrow. So tuesday I hope to finish the lightning on the great hall and for the most part on the facade. Where Im planning to do a top roof like piece for the tree facade where lights will be put in to enlighten the tree sculpture.

After that it will be painting time once more before I can start wrapping up the rock work on the big mountain. Looking forward to that part because it means the end is near! Enjoy!

 Remco_Tuerlings wrote:

@morgoth: no it should be a Y. For as far as I know the Y is translated to the two tilted hooks. Which would state Holy tree. If I did it wrong please correct me.

Well I'm like the only donkey-cave in the thread so I might as well do that yes.

Elder Futhark is phonetic, so if you want to write "the", you use <th> and <e>, but if you want to write "thee", you use <th> and <i>.

So the y that is associated to jera is only used for "you" or any word where you pronounce the y not as an i, and of course anything like "jerusalem" but then there's no doubt a j is pronounced j.

"thine" would be <th> <ï> <n> for example.


Still, most people are used to mistakes in Futhark transcription, and most people who read and write it for fun will get your text



The temple looks real good, it would be better if there was light up to the top of the poem, as I guess it's not something the SW would hide (lighting without an "n" , otherwise it becomes dangerous).

And I was wondering how rookie Space Wolves would forge camaraderie by pushing their schoolmates in the hole of the forge. Or did you plan something else for that ?

Man this thread is like crack

But your seals and doors are looking absolutely epic, the greenstuff work was fantastic and once again your painting skills really bring your work to life, the colours used to get that rusted and green look was really unbelievable. Loving the work and really looking forward to the final product! I feel almost as invested in this as you, just from watching

Do you know what great company the clients army is if so do another seal on the mountain of it just an idea.

Hi Guys and Galls!

@Morgoth: Wow that really helps.. ashamed now the writing has more flaws than I thought It would have... should have done my research a bit more careful before I started translating and writing the poems... But then again.. If I had to be really original and traditional with the writing in runic I should have learned ancient nordic language first because that is the language it would have been written in, but I guess English will be more commonly understand . Hahaha thanks for the spelling correction on the lighting Its less of a shame to see I did write it wrong consistently though still I feel a bit dumb right now with all the language flaws (*Committing Sepeku to save my honor).

@Solar shock: hahaha thanks! That is what I hope people experience when they look at my thread. All out tripping!

@e.earnshaw: I don't think he has any real general sign for his army. So... he can now use the one I designed hehe

Man I cant wait to start finishing the rock works so I can start painting and then layout all the vegetation and frost / ice / snow effects to give the landscape the wintery feel I picture in my mind when I dream about it. Really think you guys will like the end results.

Tomorrow I hope to finish the lighting (Yes I though of it Morgoth thanks!) on the great hall and facade tomorrow so I can start the painting and after that work my way up with all the rock work. Have a good night every one! Back with an update tomorrow!

Rem, you keep this up and some of us are gonna feel insignificant...

Those ramparts are amazing. Kinda biased though, look at my name haha. Gave me some ideas to steal with my guntower.

As I said don't worry, I play LARP, have met quite a few people who use elder futhark in a recreative way, and all of them including me continually make mistakes, some even promote it so that our "secret" texts are even more secret.

As you said, nobody knows proto-germanic so writing english in elder futhark is already pretty warped, it doesn't matter anymore.


By the way, the moon runes in the hobbit ? they're readable in English.

If they can do it, you're more than fine.


I can't wait for more pictures.


The one sure thing is, if I ever need to make dioramas, I'll hire you as mood consultant (can't wait for the pro pictures of the tomb cave and then everything else).


What are you planning for the snow ? I've done a bit of research in that so I might be able to help you.

Hi guys.

@Stormwall: Haha yeah I'm glad you want to use my work as inspiration and every one is free to do so! But I certainly don't hope that is true that some start to feel insignificant... I don't want anyone to feel that way. Maybe I should post the ugliest thing I've ever painted in this thread as an equalizer... Can I hear a "Hell Yeah"?

@Morgoth: OOOOoooohhh *few if the makers of the lord of the rings can do it... I certainly can! thanks man, I feel allot better now.

As promised a small update on the lighting situation (please forgive me the crappy pictures):

I'm almost done.. Still have to finish 2 series of lights (wall lights and lights above the other door.) Then I can start preparing the great hall for painting this weekend what would be an awesome sight. After that is done I need to cover the floor, rampart and floor with the clay covering to finalize the modeling of the great wall. Then it is some more painting.

I guess the end of next week I will be able to start working on finalizing the rock work on the big mountain. So I can start painting the mountain during the week. AND THEN FINALLY!!! In the second week of december I can start finalizing my first board by applying the vegetation and snow effects.

It would be awesome If I could treat you guys good quality pictures for christmas presents.

















As some one asked before: I'm planning to do a small railing around the edge of the hole in the floor that links the forge chamber to the great hall like so:





And here is one of my Grey wolves Sergeants checking out the blast door.

What is that door made out of? Also... this is turning out to be even cooler, my favorite part is the forge below the viewing area. It reminds me of a viking greathall with a fire in the center.

@stormwall: thats a resin cast from the zone mortallis line from forgeworld. I plan to scrape off the eagle iconography and replace it with some small scibor celtic shields. Like I did with the door on the side mountain entrance (it is the same door). Using these doors saves me a stupendes amount of time and it looks instandly cool and finished. But finding good cool doors was a though task because there arn't manny other webshops that sell blastdoor-ish cool looking doors that also are in the right size or style I was looking for. Almost was giving up the search and was planning to make them my self when I found the forge world zone mortallis doors. So I bought them.

And about the forge / fire pit. That is exactly where I got my inspiration from! I was watching the series Vikings with Ragnar Lothbrok where they also have a big fire place in the centre or thegreat hall. (A real awesome inspirational series for people that are interrested in Space wolves or viking / nordic times) so yeah thats where I got the Idea.

When is part two of the board being made because I will be ready to do mine by then and as its in two, 2ft by 4ft sections we will finish at the same time. Can on dakka you do joint threads?

I don't know what to do with all of this awesome. My brain is having trouble processing it all.

Hell Yeah!

This is so amazing, i can't wait to see more.

You have an amazing skill. I'm in awe.

Btw, if you ever decide to make resin casts of that tree/ crest door I want one. I saw that and started drooling.

Dang, I thought there was an update.

But yes, echoing the above. I would pay for a copy of that tree. I'd remove the wolf and add a circle for a chapter brass icon. (working on some Scandinavian marines.)

The updates will continue in a few weeks my friends.

I have been so damn bussy building two new rooms and finishing them after work I had little to no spare time left to do any building or painting. But where almost done finishing the new hobby / workshop / wargaming room. So I to can't wait to continue working on the board!

Greetings Remco