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Reedsburg, WI

Yes the small detail of painting th3 inside of the ears really makes the model pop. Looking forward to the basing. It was my favorite part of painting my Tau.

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Thanks, Wyomingfox! I'm fiddling with bases now, have no real plan and still not fully decided between snow bases and urban- although leaning towards urban. Mostly because I haven't included a good, strong color to make each figure 'pop' if I put (realistically) white fatigues or camo against a white base- might seem kind of blah. But I've some ideas for the urban setting- simple stuff, but out of my normal lane, so all good learnin'. I also went back and retro-fitted some foliage to the Rangers and Regulars, I'll get a pic up directly.

Some work done tonight:



Basecoating is done, time for washes, dry-brushing and some detailing. And as you can see, made a start on the bases. I've some police crime scene tape and industrial hazard marking tape I want to put down and will probably add something in the way of debris (spent shell casings, broken bricks, bent steel) to give them some more character.

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Surrey, BC - Canada

Meer_Cat,

Exalted the Automated Extraction Facility a couple of pages back. I was unable to comment when you created that terrain due to absence.

Good luck on the army.

Cheers,

CB

   
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Thank you very much Captain! I'm flattered that you thought enough of the piece to comment, let alone Exalt the posting- I don't think any of my work has had that recognition before. I had some fun building it and added some skills to my repertoire. While I regret not weathering/rusting the tank more thoroughly, I was pushing to meet the deadline for the most recent League of Extraordinary Riveters and did so by undertaking a much simpler paint and weathering scheme.

Thank you again for your kindness. It's good to see you posting again.


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What page was the base on? Now I want to look it up

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Hi Wyomingfox- the extraction facility build started on the bottom of page 38 and carried onto 39. I learned a lot on this and got to try some new things. Thank you for looking in!

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To paraphrase the line from Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark when Salah says "Indy, my friend! I am so pleased to see that you are not dead!" I'm not dead, just been a hectic couple of weeks.

The good news is that the first fire team of Winterguard Close Quarters Battle specialists (aka: The Snow Pixies) are done. I got the time in to try a couple of little flourishes and am overall pretty pleased with how they came out.

One of the 'flourishes' was to try to improve my photography using Camkhieri's suggestion to make a backdrop. I think it helped give the camera some help in sorting out what is supposed to be in focus in the foreground, whilst setting the depth of a given background. I just plunked an unpainted, undiorama'd, un-anthing'd demolished wall terrain piece by the people who make Tehnolog and I think it actually looks pretty good! Maybe all this painting and terraining and sanding and stuff is highly overated?





I used a number of different washes and airbrush tints to try to give the hair some dimension and think I succeeded with yellow, pink and maybe the purple (I need to drybrush some of the original Wisteria back on, it's too dark on Major Tanya). Green and blue aren't there yet.

Remember I couldn't decide whether to do urban warfare or winter/snow bases? I combined both, using AK's Terrain Snow and Micro-balloons from the SnowCat project.

Another flourish was putting some time in on the shotshell holders on the shotgun forearms. Signal Red, Brass, US Dark Green webbing and Nuln Oil wash.



Aaaargh- I'll try for a better picture. I actually have a lot of upgrades to show off for all the Doom Pixies- new basing materials, new hair washes, some work on the faces, so more pictures follow later.

And one more of Major Tanya, just because she's a pretty cool figure:



I really want to do the second fire team, because the round number 10 resonates with me, but I also really want to try out some ideas I have for their 'counts as Chimera' transport, so may do that first. Plus there is the LOER competition and I have an idea for that, and I found a neat gubbin in the barn working on stall lights last weekend, so that needs doing......

The Doom Pixies were great value when I first discovered them, but given the crappy economy and recession that isn't plus possibly some popularity that I may have helped generate in a small way, they've gone beyond what I'm willing to pay, so what I have is it (and I have a lot to go, so that's really not a problem). So more definitely follow, and soon.

Thank you for looking in.

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Finland, Espoo

So much great stuff!

The Winterguard project is very interesting. I especially like the "Snow Pixies".
Using the background piece for the photos was a good idea!


   
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Thanks very much for looking in, Ezki- and more Snow Pixies coming soon!

Tonight I've got only a brief update on the start of the next Doom Pixies project; I've gotten a fair amount done but still at a stage where the results don't look like a lot. I want to post now as I may not have opportunity over the upcoming weekend and the fight between insurance companies is finally over and the crew will be here on Monday to break up the concrete floor and replace the drain pipe that (they claim) has been causing all the flooding problems. So, I may literally have no place to continue working for a little bit. It is progress though, so I'll take it.

The ride for the Pixies was going to be a BTR-50PK, but I got a kit in 1/35 scale and the footprint is much too big- it is as big as a Shadowsword tank. I'm saving it for when the Pixies need a Shadowsword and I'll use it as a basis for kitbashing.

No problem- I also had a 1/35 BTR-152 armored personnel carrier kit- also 'way too big.

So I settled for these 1/35 Renault UE tankettes to make into Doom Pixie transports; I say "these" because when I bought the kit, I thought it was one vehicle with three possible variants- turns out it is three total vehicles, so I've got some fun work for a bit: not just building and weathering vehicles (which I enjoy) but converting some of my Doom Pixie infantry into vehicle crewmen (always a challenge working with cast resin figures- they're brittle).

The Panzerjeagers have the Hanomag variant I built as the Athena Command & Control Vehicle? The Doom and Snow Pixies have the 'Honey-mags'.

Here's the start:



Snow Pixie for scale. I've got some ideas for heraldry/logos to try with these as well. Hopefully I can break out my airbrush when the time comes, it'll make painting a lot faster and easier.

More follows soonest!


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Looking absolutely fantastic mate, the Pixies are just awesome. Such a characterful army, looking forward to how your transports turn out.

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Not where I should be

Here's hoping the pipe works go smoothly and you are back to some semblance of order soon.

Like where you are going on the transport. It is a shame 1/35 is just a little big and 1/48 just a little small. Even the 1/56 scale ( supposed 28mm scale) is way too small. GW knew what they were doing! But I think your girls will work in perfect in your choice of wheels.




 
   
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Thanks very much, Olthannon! I'm having a great deal of fun messing around with these and trying some new things, so it's all good for me. I'm cautiously optimistic about the end result as I get started building the tankettes.

Thanks for the good wishes Cam! As it turns out, the workmen did a pretty good job, as far as I can tell: the concrete they installed over the new pipe is nicely laid and amazingly, there isn't a ton of dust and debris everywhere. They really cleaned up after themselves nicely. Of course, to balance that, they left the sliding glass door wide open- the one that faces the walkway at ground level, where passersby can see three 3D printers and a ton of modeling stuff, but hey, you can't have everything, right?

Vehicle for Warhammer-ish games is a perennial question, and it relates directly to the figures themselves: do you model true scale or 'heroic' scale? It's like setting up those nice porcelain buildings for Christmas: do I go for realism or whimsy? Should people be as tall as the first storey, or just the door way?

In the end, I try to balance both, I guess. The BA-64 SnowCat has the footprint of a Chimera, but clearly isn't modeled to be a squad-level transport; which won't stop me using it as one if I ever get to game it! The Doom Pixies are already somewhat smaller than their IG counterparts, but I don't know if I can call them 'true scale', I mean, how tall is a mutant killer cat lady, anyway? But I did want something for them, at least at first, that was smaller and more nimble, like they are, so settled for the Renault tankettes.

No worries on all those gargantuan 1/35 scale kits though- I got them for very good prices and can resell easily (it's a crime what model kits are going for these days) but am more likely to convert them into super-heavy tanks- especially the BTR-50PK- that's just too cool a vehicle not to do something with.

No model building tonight- work ran long- but hopefully tomorrow. Thank you all for looking in, it means a lot.

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First Honeymag done, second begun. This first one is the heaviest variant, with two built up (and literally bolted on) armored cupolas that mount heavy guns. I've Warhammer'd them up to include a heavy bolter (more or less 'hull mounted') and a lighter, infantry version plasma rifle in the commander's perch.

The kit only came with parts for one heavy like this- I have some extra parts that came with it (from a different manufacturer) to equip the second with the heavy bolter cupola and a cargo bin that bolts on the back and the third will only have the cargo bin. Although the pictures on the box show a 'Screamin' Meemie' type multiple rocket launcher that bolts onto the cargo bin and I bet I can scratchbuild that.... we'll see. I'll finish the hatch on this first one when I see how I'm going to stick a crewcat in.

I'm excited to get the hulls built, so that I can get on to painting and decaling them and also heavily modifying some of my Doom Pixies into crewcats. Let's see, if they're in woodland camo they are Doom Pixies, if they are in winter camo they are Snow Pixies, I guess these must be Mech Pixies, or better yet- Panzer Pixies!

I think I'm on the right track to build all three- but one at a time. The parts are so small and fiddly, it's like playing tiddly-winks assembling the bogeys. And you see the track segments in the foreground of the pic below- these kits are extremely detailed and very painstaking to put together- made by a Polish company.




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Reedsburg, WI

Neat looking model, but the tracks look pretty fiddley to put together.

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The tracks were a horror! At one point I considered fixing a rubber band around the bogies to have something to guide them along and glue down to, but the clearances were too tight. I'm hoping what I learned from the first will make the second go easier and that the third will be a snap, but you see me here not holding my breath.

The good thing is, I have (I believe, anyway) a minor talent for muddying up vehicles- so a healthy dose of mud, crud and possibly snow will hide a lot of the crazt quilt look (fingers crossed).

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I admire your perseverance. Exactly once in my life, I have tried to build a tank with separate tracks like that. I gave up well before the half-way mark, and have never wanted to try anything like that again.

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I didn't realize these were individual track links either, when I bought the kit. I built one before- a B-6 self-propelled Soviet artillery piece and it was enough to make me build a small shrine and light a candle to the guy that invented stretch-rubber treads to put on tank models. The track units from the SP howitzer wound up on the ammo carrier I scratch-built several pages back.

And those links were intended to actually, you know, link together. These don't, you have to glue them up.

Having said that, we're getting them done- and mud hides a multitude of sins.

Thanks for looking in!

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Some progress tonight:



The third Honeymag tankette is really nearly complete, despite the look in the photo- just needs the bogeys, rollers and drive sprockets assembled and attached and then the tread links themselves. This one I don't have the heavy weapon assembly for and not sure if I want to scratchbuild either that or a missile rack. It does have the basket/box for hauling supplies, so I may do that.

As is usual though, there is a lot more I want to do with these, not least of which is people them with crewcats- drivers, tankette riders and a scout sniper. It might be that whilst I am kitbashing those and painting them up, I will also scratchbuild something to make an innocent little tankette goods-hauler into an assassin of the battlefield.

Thank you for looking in.

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All three Honeymags are done and primered, here's the vehicle group shot:



One done up as an InfanteriePanzer, the middle as a FlammPanzer and the last as a FlugabwehrraketePanzer (Anti-aircraft Missile). What else would the Panzer Pixies ride around in? The sharp-eyed among you may recognize the flamer attachment for a plastic Terminator Marine from the original Space Hulk boxed game. I'll add a hose from the barrel to the flamer shroud when everything is painted up. You got 10 plastic figures (I think) basically standing there in the same pose, armed with bolters. This flamer piece pressed down on top of the bolter to make it a flamer. I think 4 came with the game and most people only ever used 2, as squads in the game scenarios were 5 Terminators, one of which was the flame gunner. Very shortly after white metal Terminator figures started coming out with lightning claws, heavy bolters, chainfists and all the rest, and Space Crusade came out with scenarios you could use them in. I've got my original boxed set around somewhere, with two painted up squads of Termies and a bunch of plastic Genestealers (pure strain ones) that were really quite good figures and all the game tiles- I'll dig it out and post some pics to the Oldhammer blog.



Scattered in front are the figures that I'm going to use as tank riders- I cut down one of the CQB shotgunners to actually ride in a hatch, but the rest will either be standing on the cargo platform in the back or- two of them- are posed such that they 'sit' on the front slope fairly convincingly. I prefer vehicle models- especially armor- to have lots of crew or infantry support with them: to me this is what gives them animation. Otherwise they are just static, lumps of plastic pretending to be lumps of metal just sitting there. Thy could be abandoned, they could be museum pieces, they could be kiddie rides for a quarter in front of the local supermarket- without people to give them scale and life, they don't hold much attraction for me.







I broke down and ordered some 'guard position' Nekkomimi Winterguard- you can still get them fairly inexpensively, and a couple of other doodads. I'm still a little saddened that the price has gone up so much, and even some pieces aren't available anymore, even though I understand why.

The apartment is still in disarray- they haven't started, let alone finished, fixing anything yet- but Monday or Tuesday I hope to root out my airbrush and everything I'll need to give the vehicles their basecoat of flat, light grey. I'm probably not going to try to give them any sort of camo pattern, although they will get a good grubby weathering, as I have some great decals to try out for them.

Vehicles first, then the Panzer Pixies.

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Those lil tanks look like a lot of effort! I have a half built B-4 howitzer that has attested to me the pain of some scale models...

The look good all together. How did you decide on the design?

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Thank you for looking in ph34r!

Believe it or not, these were all historical configurations for the Renault armored carriers. The French used them pretty much like the British used the Bren Universal Carrier. But when Germany knocked France out of the war, they captured so many they put them to use in a lot of different roles. The ones with the machinegun towers on them (what I'm calling an InfanteriePanzer) were for patrolling roads at night, especially after the Maquis started getting more active. They never had a 'fire and forget' missile carrier, but they did mount the Nebelwerfer multi-rocket bombardment weapon on some and many were used to tow V2 rockets into launch position.

Except the FlammPanzer. That one I pretty much made up; it looks almost Orkish, with the drum strapped on the side.

I had to up-gun them with Warhammer shooty things-the correctly scaled MG42s that they really carried were just too spindly!

The Soviets are usually my go-to guys for interesting looking vehicles that are perfect for Warhammer 40k, but the Germans had some and even the French, British and Americans had the odd one here and there.

One project I have the basic pieces for is an M50 Ontos type multiple heavy weapon carrier- possibly with pairs of auto-cannon, lascannon and heavy bolters, each. I just need the 26 hour day to get to everything in my Pile of Shame.

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Got some work done yesterday and tonight, results as follows:

First up, found this wonderful Rustoleum 'Chalked' paint. I wanted a blue-grey like the German Army of World War II and this is darn near spot on:



It dries very smooth and very dull- exactly what I wanted. On a side note: all the spray paint cans are locked in a case now, a clerk had to open for me to get the one I wanted. I asked her why and she told me that many people would spray paint on the shelves, the floor or the walls to test the color (I suspect some out of pure cussedness), so now they have to lock them up. I know it's a small thing compared to the crime raging out there, but really: so-called 'ordinary, normal' people think it's okay to vandalize someone else's property? The Walmart I went to keeps a very clean store- most of them do. The floors are nicer than almost anybody had when and where I was growing up. And some jerks mess it up buying paint? Makes my blood boil.

Anyhoo- rant over. Here's a closer up of one vehicle, to show off the color:



Next, the rest of tonight was spent applying decals. These are Panzer Pixies, so I wanted lots of color and an anime feel to them. I think I succeeded:

Front slope:


Left side:


Infanterie Panzer, right side:


Flamm Panzer, right side:


I used Walther's Solvaset (I've also had good success with Decal-Fix) to set the transfers; believe it or not, there are no wrinkles or air bubbles in those decals- the Solvaset snugged them right down over the small moldings in the armor and the imperfections of my gluing the pieces together. Wonderful stuff.

Next step is to paint everything that shouldn't be Wehrmacht blue-grey, treads, guns, and then weather everything. I've got the Dipping paints from Green Stuff World plus my other washes and secret recipes (lots of actual dirt, really) and the vehicles are done. Then it's on to the nine tank riders I've got and the whole thing will be finished. I don't intend to mount each vehicle on a base and turn them into mini-dioramas; they'll sit on my photography backdrop and platform scenery (just as soon as I make one).

Thank you for looking in.

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The panzer pixie tanks are looking great Meer_Cat. That paint is a nice find. (I agree about how frustrating it is that some people are so self-centered and lacking in basic politeness and class to not spray paint a store's shelves and floor). I also like all the decal work, it fits nicely in the theme. I'm looking forward to your continued progress on this.

   
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Thanks much for looking in, Syro- this Doom Pixie kick is lasting a lot longer than I thought it would! No painting tonight, but hopefully tomorrow.

In addition to finishing these Honeymags with their tank riders, I'd like to finish the full squad of Snow Pixies with five more, do the command group that I have, add the second TomCat walker and I've got two pieces of heavy armor for them in mind(good grief, another uniform pattern to think out!). Plus everything else in my Mountain of Shame.

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Oh wow, way to use an old 40k imperial sprue for the missile launcher. I owned a couple 2nd edition rhinos back in the day and had to take a double take when I saw your tanks.

Thanks for the review on the Solvaset! Another tool I'll look to add.

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I'm glad I can give something back for all the tutorials on your pages, Wyomingfox, and thank you for looking in. I can't remember how long I've had those missile bits kicking around! I was going to scratchbuild something like a 'Stalin's Organ' multiple rail missile launcher, but with things still at 6's and 7's in the apartment it was hard to muster any enthusiasm. I was looking through all my junk for more ready-made alternatives and found a model hobbyist's 5 gram crack bag of plastic goodness. I do like the look of it and only wish I had a third machinegun tower so the third vehicle cold ahve a sporty decal like the others- but I'm happy with the surface to air anti-aircraft missile!

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A little work done tonight- tracks base painted and the first of several layers of dirt and grime applied. The trick for me is to keep the level of dirt evocative of Day 10 of a field deployment- not Day 100, which is more my forte.

Been thinking about how to do a light grime on the top surfaces and am undecided between thinning down Nuln Oil or something like that or applying a mist via airbrush.

For now, here's what we've got:





Tracks are base painted flat black, with Greenstuff World's Dipping paint Elfwood Brown splashed on top. I really like these dipping paints- I also used a green shade for the Tom Cat Walker and am impressed with their coverage.

Two more shades of brown for the lower half, some black, oily grime for the top and then detailing for the weapons and mostly done. Oh, and rust for the exhausts and manifolds. Some limited stowage but not a lot, as the tank riders will be the focal point to hopefully make the vehicles pop.

I may hold off on doing the tank riders until I get my LOER project started/done. I was pleased to get my last one in on time and want to try for two in a row.

Thank you for looking in, more follows soonest.

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Have you successfully thinned down nuln oil that amount before? I have very inconsistent results when I try to thin down a wash with water. I don't know if you would need to make it into a glaze or something using medium? The airbrush idea sounds interesting, but I know nothing about air brushes. Good luck either way

   
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Northumberland

Really liking these tanks, nice work on the tracks!

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I'm glad you left a comment, Syro- I've never really tried to thin a factory made wash before! I tried my thinnest air brush 'oily wash' instead in a couple fo places and didn't like the look at all. Thank goodness for Vallejo Game Wash Pale Grey- same as I used on the coats of the Snow Pixies. It dulled down the shiny paint and decals and is pretty subtle- I basically painted it over the whole of the upper half of the vehicle and it is still hard to see. I may go back and stipple some more on the really obvious raised places: like hinges, grab irons and panel outlines.

I tried some acrobatics with the FlammPanzer- was applying different brown wash to the treads- and tossed it, almost caught it twice and watched it hit the floor in slow motion (which is concrete, at the moment, until they pull their head out of their fourth point of contact and get started fixing things). Even then it didn't immediately burst into shards- it waited an entire second then fell apart. So, a lot of time gluing things back together and we'll finish up with brown washes and finishing the grey wash tomorrow.

Also basecoated the hatch covers and have a couple of ideas on how to mount them depending on whether there will be a driver in heads up or torso up pose or no driver at all. Definitely time to move on to the tank riders.




Not sure if I'll be able to participate in the LOER this time or not- I can't find half the things I already had for my idea and can't haul everything out from where it's stacked in the bedroom in case these yokels actually start work. Venting, sorry- coming up on three months of bunker life, now. We'll see.

If I can refrain from throwing my toys on the floor, more follows soonest!

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