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Thanks Vik. You are right about the red, it is a contrast color, but is isn't ENOUGH contrast is it? I think they need more. The red is actually red rust weathering powder.

And the damn macro photography is foiling me again, everything is sort of gakky grainy. I will have to play with that.

Viktor von Domm wrote:well, these are looking cool, and the red hints on the base gives the minis a bit of color against the muted tones on the bodies... the three of them somehow remind me of the last mohawk...that movie... they have quite an indian feel to them...just realized that the guy on the far right has a crossbow^^ would have been nice to get him a tube and a fuse like some fireworks...

well i call it a night for tonight...

wish you a good start in the new year...even if it turns out to be all our last^^
cheers, vik

Last of the Mohicans?

I was purposely giving them a Miami Indian look. As close as I could anyways, since we basically performed exterminatus on them hundreds of years ago.


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The rest of the gang to do yet:

Three gangers/scouts

A shammy

And for some reason, I have 2 Chiefs/Gang leaders and a mutant pet rat, which I don't see any rules for the pet in the Outlanders book.

TBH, I totally forget where I got these, I know I got them secondhand, probably about 5+ years ago. They weren't painted, but they were covered in that wierd metal corrosion/rust stuff. I thoroughly cleaned them with a dremel wire wheel, then soaked them in lysol disinfectant. The corrosion did not return after a few days, so I primed them and this is the first I've done anything with them.

white metal is able to corrode? didn´t expect that...

the right guy on the last pic i own too... thought i baught that as a sort of collectible mini off of ebay...but i expect it wont sell any better, eh?

by the way... the rat tails...are they fake or mutations...fluff wise?

and at fifty... yep...that´s what i ment...thanks for the catch^^

and well...at dave again... i imagine your guys to be sacavangers in the hive... so i think they would like to travel mostly unnoticed... so any big contrasts in their apearances might be unwanted...

as for the graininess... how far away is your cam from the minis? maybe try to zoom in on them and have the cam on a tripod? and use the timer function? also more lighting would be good too...tho i have to say... that was the first bacth of yer pics to actually sporting a white background! for that improvment^^

The tails are part of the rat skins they wear as clothes, they are not mutations or part of the gangers, from what I can see, but yeah, I remember wondering the same thing Vik!

Doh! Why didn't you guys point out that I forgot the eyes?? I'm doing my job over here, do yours!




Yeah yeah, the top guy's eye is a little wonky, I wish I could see as well as the camera could on that one!

..Now that I got the camera to do my bidding, I can clearly see there is much more refinement I could do to these Juves, and I will, but for now, I MUST move on to gangers.

now that is what i call photoquality!

much better now... whatever you did... just do it that way^^

as for the eyes... just the first looks a bit mishappen...thr rest specially the eyebrows looks very good! also nice to now better see those bases... very good work there mate!

oh and about the missing eyes before... they werent missed by me... i wont paint them...too much frustration potential there... so i assumed that you would leave them as were...which was also good looking but now that way much more personality^^


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and about the tails... with 40k one ever can be sure that these aren´t some weird abominations^^

Fluff-wise, I imagine they are exactly what would happen to ANY humans who were isolated from "Society" for hundreds or thousands of years, they would breed, and survive, and after a few generations, would have formed their own societies and practices. Hives are big places, and Imperial society would have also forgotten about these people in the underhive.

yup... seeing the chiefs and the shaman that is exactly what you just described... also they give a nice mad max vibe

as for the earlier question concerning colors... i guess the shaman could do with a shiny belt full of red shells... as kind of an amunition talisman... sort of armor of faith...in a cargo cult way...

Yeah, but he has all those shotgun shells, but is hefting a stub pistol in the air..Do you think he should have a proper shotgun instead?

i just had to read about stub guns... as it turns out they are just regular pistols in our times... er... i thought they were more like sawed off shotguns...pistol from... well then it doesn´t make any sense in keeping him with that gun... instead get him a nice shotgun then...

By your command...

Clipped the barrel and iron sight rail from the stub pistol, added 2mmx1mm styrene tube (same size as the Chief's shotgun barrels)

Used two slices of 2mm half-round sandwiching a strip of 1mm for the pump (or fore-end)

And more tube for the magazine. I need to plug the magazine tube with something yet and carve finger grips in the wood.

I'm loving the Ratskins dude! Great work...

And the kustom shotgun is ace! I'm so going to have to steal that

Thanks man! Please Do! And all I ask is that you show me a pic!!

the first pic got me confused...but then ....boy! what a cool thing! if you cast anything... then make your own brand new davemade shotguns...i think you could do them pretty well that way! you totally sold me that look! hope that red smear is not your blood there?

Haha, no.. did you notice on that Raboesh styrene I sent you, that the ends of the pieces are painted? That's just the red paint on the end of the stock styrene.

dsteingass wrote:Yeah yeah, the top guy's eye is a little wonky, I wish I could see as well as the camera could on that one!

I remind you:

Tortured-Robot wrote: ... you dont know how bad something looks until its monitor size

I also remind you, I have never painted anything this size. So, when I say they look amazing, please believe me. They look amazing and that shotgun is fething fantastic. I love this thread, never know what you're gonna see.

Looking great dstein! Everything is looking great so far and I can't wait to see the rest of your gang painted, if they're going to be as good as the juves!

Thanks a lot Max and Farty!

Let's see if we can build another shotgun in the same fashion:

Rectangle curved at one end for the shotgun body, and a piece of tube notched

The first slice of magazine tube glued on

two slices of half round and a slice of rectangle

Made into a sandwich

clamped in a vice, and using only the width of a saw blade to create the grips

More magazine tube

Magazine cap plugged with rivet rod.

And slice the rear end of the barrel at an angle like so to complete the look.

And here is the other angle.

Wow, great tutorial, I'll definitely have to give this a go now! May need some more plastic rods in other shapes though... I only have round at the moment...

Great tutorial, I'll have to try it out when I make someone with a shotgun in Inq28!

THanks guys, you could easily use 2 scraps of regular 1mm sheet styrene glued together before cutting if you don't have strip. I have not usd anything here bigger than 2mm


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..Which I will now demonstrate by trying to build a wooden stock for the shotgun:

2 scraps of 1mm styrene

glued together (I used superglue here to expedite the build)

Sketch on your stock design

Clip and cut the rough shape

Use a flat and round file to smooth everything out

With a bit more notching action, the stock and shotgun are joined

Size comparison with lasrifle


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Here I have sketched the area for the shell ejector

and gouged it out with a drill bit, knife and file

and penciled in the hole so you can see it in the pic



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Some paint

Not perfect, I gougued the shell ejector on the wrong side of the body.
So this is a "Left Hand" model shotgun
But I didnt research at all, I just built this from memory or the warp, or whatever.
but really quite a decent basic pump shotgun for a lucky ganger eh?


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waiting on brown ink wash to dry



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And there you have it!
How to build a shotgun




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Happy New Year!

At the stroke of midnight, my grandfather used to fire his shot gun off outside to herald in the new year. I guess this is my way of doing the same

Nice tout man! look like you put a lot of time into your shotgun but the effort was worth it! Looks really good have you ever thought about making a few more then casting them in resin? anyway looks good man!

oh yeah, I just have to make a few more in order to make a decent one for casting.

Do you ever take a break Like the idea for the shotgun will borrow that for my orks if you don't mind and thanks for sharing, the how to was great easy to follow and crystal clear great work. I like the idea of the left hand shotgun my grots were all issued with left hand screwdrivers they keep them next to their glass hammers I still think the juves need warpaint but they do look great have you the Brakar ratskin mini the hero holding a massive stubber that figure is amazing you must have it.

THanks LDD, I just took a break, and everyone bitched about it, so no

Nope, these are the only Ratskins I have, original Classics.

Nice shotty tutorial! I love the original Ratskins, I prefer them over their second incarnation. Nice to see them getting some love!

I thought this guy was an original Ratskin:

Oh wow! I have never seen him. I didnt know that Ratskins could have Heavies! Is he a Special Charachter perhaps? All I have are the original Necro rulebook & Sourcebook, and the Outlanders book. I also have the re-released Necromunda Rulebook. In the Outlanders book, they only list Chief, Shammy, ratskins, and braves. Very cool though.

Here is the first Ganger of the New Year! Sans the basing- I will do all three Gangers bases at the same time to maintain some painting rythym- yesterday, Vik's shotgun idea distracted me a little bit Time flies when I grab knife and plastic

wow...ok steady here... first things first...

a)
that new ratskin looks super! if the eyes here are a mishappen, i would still leave them as is, they look somehow to me like warpaint or that stuff footballers use to balcken their eyes for contrast ...really great mini...

as for heavys... i thought since you could equip your gangers for necro anyhow you like so each group should have the possibility to have heavys...

and then the shotgun.... well let me say i had to instantly show my wife your tut... and i do show little of the contens of dakka to my wife to avoid those sheepish grins you might get from her...:( but with that work of yers i just had to risk that^^

i am very proud of you! what a great gun! and i second the idea to massproduce HER^^ lovley piece of massdestruction!
in the fullness of time i really have to give that idea a try myself... but! that leaves me with another idea... now you could make other nice guns too...like to create a weaponsrack full of different guns? a cool scenery piece as a objective marker...just a thought!


happy new year mate... and a great shout out to your grandpa for this tradition^^ which you fully well followed in your own fashion!

cheers, vik

The heavy is Brakar the Avenger, an old special character. He's a 'first generation' ratskin modle, so you're right about that.