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I am very lucky indeed. I have a mix of official, unofficial and self-made fluff to work with. Really helps when it comes to building armies and modeling too.

Well last night I started work on the actual assault cannon, I harvested some plastic tubing from my sons lollys.

(Bah the image has been redacted :()

I am not mean in not letting him have them lol, he is only 16 months to not good for him, but the nice lady at the chip shop keeps giving them to him, so I may have to go in for some chips over the weekend as I need the “stick” lol.

I used 2 of the tubes and cut 6 pieces of equal length, and the 3rd lolly had the paper stick , so this worked well for the central rod. I then stood this upright gently in blue tack. I then brushed the super glue down a section of its length, and stuck a portion of the rod on. Ti then repeated this until I have all 6 barrels attached then sanded it to flatten and even out. (I may need to file it one I am happy the glue is fully dry.



I may actually have to do some painting!! And put the modelling on hold until I get some more tube. So over the weekend there may be some progress with my tactical squad. I will have to amend my process slightly with the red undercoat, but this is a good thing I may be able to go straight to the babadab black wash. Is this advisable? Or should I do a coat of blood red first or maybe the red wash (cant remember its name off hand)

Loving the work on that assault cannon, once that is done I'm sure it'll look amazing. With regards to the paint, I think go with a coat of blood red before the wash and then maybe hit it with a black wash after and pick out the highlights again with blood red.

Its probably best to go with the coat of blood red as you say, to tie the colour in to the rest of the army. Just in case the foundation red is off (which i think it is) I was just trying to save myself a step lol. I had better start attaching all those limbs to something then

Looking good! man! keep it up!

Due to some “fun” that was had on Friday night at my evening job. I now have a lovely Sovereign mark on my forehead.



Eddited image - thanks for the heads up Vik

So my plans for painting that night one I got home were scuppered. Then Saturday night it was the night of the Muppet, and I ended working late. So no painting or modeling was achieved this weekend :(

Hopefully now that my mind has stopped spinning, I can get some fresh water into my pots and start painting Montymus tonight. He is all ready blue tacked to the top of a paint pot. Lets hope the knock to my head has not impacted my painting skills. Lol.

ok...that link is not working...but may i say that i feeling mighty dumb as to up to this point i have not subbed to your thread mordain...

it is rather embarrising for me, as you have such a full range of awsome models and ideas collected here... well better late than never so they say^^

that skull turret will be simply awsome and totally unique... from now on i will follow this thread very closley...

by the way i know i lurked here before but somehow i didn subbed... but the lil pic of your gatling like gun caught me again^^

cheers mate and good healing to your bummend head!!!


vik

Thanks for the Sub Viktor Von Domm

The Turret came about because I only had a rhino and had to scratch build something to turn it into a RB. But I am very pleased how it is going.

The head is getting better, just trying not to scratch it so it does not scar lol.

Scratch it! You know you want to! Chicks dig scars!

what did happen to your head anyway?? is that a dent i see under the scratches? ohoh... and i doubt that he is in need of a babemagnet... i have to say i scrolled through most of the discussions (sorry^^) but i happen to catch that he is a fresh father... so i expect he has a lady already...^^

The Turret came about because I only had a rhino and had to scratch build something to turn it into a RB. But I am very pleased how it is going.

and rightfully so!

Viktor von Domm wrote: so i expect he has a lady already...

Fathers need lovin' too! Especially simpathy from thier lady! Unless you got the wound from doing something stupid...they never give you simpathy for that.

I know this all too well.

Anyway Mordain, I hope it didn't hurt too much. Good luck!

Unless you got the wound from doing something stupid...they never give you simpathy for that.

... take a seat... relax...and if you must cry... don´t feel bad about it... you are among friends here...

Yes i am married

I have a second Job as a Doorman at the weekends. Some guy took offence to me telling him he was too drunk for another drink and me taking his drink off him. 5 mins later he stumbled over nearly falling onto the floor and then punched me in the head. lol. He then swiftly left ... with some help.

ouch.... living a life of danger...that is something i hope you get paidn enough for... i wouldn´t trade places with you...

I actually work at a Bowling Alley, so most of the time its fine and there are no problems, but there is always one that spoils the fun.

Anywho i got round to washing out my water pot and tidynigaway all the plastic dust and clippings on my desk and decided to break out my paints. I thought i would put down some blood red first over the red foundation. but on comparison to another model it has made no difference lol. So that will save me a lot of time I put some Liche Purple onto his hands and feet, and some bolt gun metal on to the ... metal bits Tomorrow i hope to lay down a babadab black wash. then i can start on my blending up to Blazing orange



I got bored of doing production line painting with my last tactical squad. so i am hoping to do one or 2 at a time to keep the spirit alive.

That and look for spots to Rivet




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Viktor von Domm wrote:ouch.... living a life of danger...that is something i hope you get paidn enough for... i wouldn´t trade places with you...

I have worked in worse places, and also transported Prisoners, my day job is much more sedate now lol


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RSJake wrote:Anyway Mordain, I hope it didn't hurt too much. Good luck!

Nah i have a thick skull

you have an intersting CV i am sure...^^

do you paint your minis like that all the time? and how do you bring the bitz together? i always painted my minis after glueing...with every miserable effect that creates... but i was always rather fearful to make the models glued together after the paintjob... access to all areas is sure a fine thing... but sometimes i am careless of glue splatter so i think i would ruin the mini and its paintjob...

spots to rivet? hehe...

All my Necrons were glued together fully before paining, and my First marines were also all glued together for painting. But i found especially with the tactical marines, i just had to poke at the chest eagles under the arms and guns, and could not do them justice.

So with my last batch that I modelled (that which started off this blog) my command squad I decided to paint the arms and back packs separately. It makes it a lot easier to paint them all as all the areas are much more accessible (especially under arms and the chests etc) I have not had a problem gluing the bits on so far, but the last batch were all pinned. I have found that using the gel super glue rather than its runnier counter part you have much better control of where the glue goes, and it will also bridge small gaps and imperfections where needed. Although I have run out of the gel at the moment, I will see how it goes with normal super glue. Luckily my latest batch is in a bottle with a brush so again I have much better control of where I want it to go.

The downside is that you don’t get to see how the model will look as you go along and you have to pose it before hand with small amount of blue tack. I then take a photo for reference purposes so that when he is painted I can glue him back together in the original way I intended. This is also the reason I am doing one model at a time, so that I don’t get any of the arms mixed up. (As the shoulder pads are all glued on once I have posed the arms and back pack with blue tack, so that I can have the pads in the best position for the arms and backpack.)

But there is then a great measure of satisfaction gluing it all together in the end. For instance, there was no way I could have painted my champion if I had not done it all separately.



Time for lunch now, some beans on toast. Then back to Dakka for the rest of my Lunch Break



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Viktor von Domm wrote:you have an intersting CV i am sure...^^

Now I work in employment law, so there is much less chance of getting lamped by a drunkard lol.

I just love that the axe handle is a toothpick. Way to go M0rdian!

Gitsplitta wrote:I just love that the axe handle is a toothpick. Way to go M0rdian!

Not that i use toothpicks too often, ... but the Hammer handle in this conversion was one as well lol



They are really handy, when i don't own any PC rod

I've used them myself. My wife found some with one flat end with some decorative routing... those are perfect for weapon handles!

Sounds like the ones my in-laws get in spain. Mm maybe i should ask them to bring some over next week lol.

i too have to say that the toothpick handle idea was a very good idea... second issue that hooked me for real on this thread... i really like it when someone tries a cheaper yet good looking option to survive in this expensive hobby...

and i too use atm a bottle of that gel super glue... next time i want to give that gorilla glue a try... read quite good things about it...

and those breast details like aquillas or wings....these were always the stuff i had to curse the most about while paining SM...^^

Well I have not bought any models in 2 years, all the current ones I am building and painting are the result of a trade. (Traded away the orcs from my AOBR to Zablorg ) And this is why Montymus is styled the way he is, as a tribute to Zablorg.

I put a devlan mud wash over Montymus last night, then went back to the RB. I decided as I still need some more PC tubing (or a lolly stick as it is in this instance ) I thought I would look into the Lasplas. Looking through my Bits box I found an IG Lascannon which I could fiddle with but has the basic shape. But for the Plasma guns, I only had 1 spare in my SM bits yoghurt pot so I thought I would have a go a scratch building some. RSJake’s latest Steam Punk weapons are inspirational, so I thought I would try my hand and something. I found some sprue that was relatively without knobbles, and cleaned it up. (Note: I decided to change my blade on my hobby knife, and OMG I forgot how sharp they were when new, it was like a hot knife through butter it was beautiful) I then cut four pieces of equal length and glued them together in pairs. Having upturned one. ( in a sort of /\ \/ manner) I will then use this as the basic shape for the plasma guns. I should be able to score the coils into it. There was nothing worth taking photos of, so once there is more progress I will take a photo.

I have tomorrow off work as I have a retinal screening test where they will put drops in my eyes to dilate the pupils and take photos, but I cant drive after for 4 hours. So sadly won’t be able to drive to work *shucks* so hopefully I can get some fiddling done before hand, before I become light sensitive, and attacked by my son once he is back from nursery

sounds cool....would love to see a scratchbuilt plsma weapon...and even from sprue...that is a very portable talent if it works out^^


also be extra careful...after those drops i doubt if you are able to hobby away undisturbed...

So now that the sprue plasma block had dried i was able to attempt to bring forth my vision lol. Here is what i planned, based losely on the Normal Plasma gun.



I then used a hack saw to cut out the plasma coils, trying to keep them even lol. I edged the copils with a small rim. For the vents at the front, i scored them with the craft knife and then drilled in slighly with my pin vice. then using the point of my round file i rubbed them out to be a bit deeper. They are a bit ragged, but i cant think of a way to smooth them out.



Then this morning before my appointment, i took a rivit that had a hole and glued it onto the front for "barrel" effect. then using some GS i had previously rolled out into a thin sausage and left to cure, sliced off some tiny "rivets" although they are not technically rivits in this instance, although we could say they are and added them to the back. Now i just need to replicate this for the other side of the las plas

a very good step by step...and you don´t have to stress your imagination to see a plasma weapon in the makings... very good work mate...and i do smell fresh rivets^^

oh and good luck for your apointment later on...i hope the aftereffects will fade quickly... my wife had them for quite a long time sadly at one time...

Sat in the waitinvroom.with the drops in. but mg dyes are starting to. not. to focus. i can nite even read what i am posting lol

I like the scrach built plasma block M0rdain! Very nice Btw my blog had an update too!

lol...mordain...what was in these drops... you write as if you are drunk...lol...and you get those big eyes then... you likley now look like:

Yeah i did look a bit like that



So as i was off work, i sat with my son and did some colouring with him, well he scribbled on a bit of paper and i decided to sketch up the plasma gun and colour it in