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Cleaning wait what? what happened yeri?

 yeri wrote:
thanks, honestly it's kind of a ADD problem I have, when my FLGS doesn't have a part I need I try a different idea I have kicking around in my brain. I really need to focus on an army and stick with it, and I'm wishing right now that I brought my IG home for thanksgiving break instead of my orks. maybe I'll be able to crank out something here this week, but I don't exactly have many bitz to work with, and in cleaning up my minis for room inspection by my resident advisor some of the mini's that were glued with the brittle GW glue broke, I'll try to repair them when I get back, but all I've got that wasn't damaged at all was ZOCOM. I've lost some vets and a lot of my old samurai, oh well.

that's what happened, I had to clean my dorm room for thanksgiving break, and I knew that some stuff broke as I was cleaning, but when I got back today I saw just how bad the damage was. the worst part is that the GW glue refuses to allow a part to be glued back on so once they break they stay broke.

Why not just switch glue? I use standard plastic cement from the hobby store and I pull my guys apart all the time and put them back together as I play with posings, or worse, decide they aren't tall enough and start completely over.

You can also use a file to create a new surface.

I did switch glue, that's why ZOCOM is unharmed. and I'll look into that once I finish with the samurai orks.

after some soul searching I've decided to re start this blog, and we're going back to Shinshima and back to the samurai IG. I've got some more samurai coming in the mail, and I'll get working on some fluff tomorrow morning. until then I've got some work to do on a prototype samurai terminator that I might get done tonight to show you, so be patient.


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here's the first mini of my new samurai army:


that's right I'm jumping on the bandwagon with some samurai deathwing, and this time it's not just going to be various types of IG, so now there's going to be both samurai DW and RW as well as IG. we'll see where it goes from there

Nice lookng; that guys is kinda big though.

lol, I'm going to join you on the wagon to finish my Chess MArines. The new Deathwing Command Squad is the jackpot for my project.

Basically that guy is wearing a modified Z-One suit, so he's more piloting the suit than wearing it. but anyways here's the fluff I promised, basic premise is that we are skipping ahead twenty years to focus on the twin children of Shiro and Innari as they attempt to take back their home planet from a civil war that was ignited by Shiro's death. here's the premise and introduction:
Twenty years ago Shiro Adama unified Shinshima under his rule as shogun, but his reign would be short lived. One year after his coronation at a ball celebrating the anniversary of the event a massive blast engulfed the palace in flames. There were only three party guests who survived: the twin children of Shogun Adama, who were mere children at the time, and the shogun’s cousin inquisitor Vladimir Medvedev. Witnesses say it was no ordinary fire that engulfed the palace. they say that on that night you could hear otherworldly screams and see twisted figures moving in the flames, a pair of fighting spectral dragons being the most common ones seen. Vlad was not in the palace at the time, but witnesses say he sprinted into the burning building and battled the pair of demonic dragons. After beating the devilish lizards into submission he was heard to scream: “ENOUGH!” before beating his hammer into the ground. With that a gust of wind seemed to emanate out from the palace and snuffed the fire like a child blows out a candle. Through the cloud of ash Vlad emerged carrying the children one underneath each arm. Without stopping he walked all the way to his transport only whispering one sentence as he walked down the palace steps: “they were after me, they killed the wrong Adama.”
No one on Shinshima saw the children for another nineteen years, and with the Shogun and many of the most powerful daimyo killed in the fire the resulting power vacuum plunged the planet back into civil war. In the meantime the twins grew up under the care of “Uncle Vlad” and the watchful eyes of the inquisition. They were trained as interrogators and when they reached maturity they were granted their Rossetts. Their first assignment was to assist Inquisitor Medvedev in the investigation of their parent’s death, an investigation he had been keeping on hold until the twins were ready. Now the Twins have set out to their homeworld to put an end to the war and reclaim their rightful place on the throne.

Sosuke and Hinata sat in the briefing room on the Light of Dawn as Uncle Vlad began the briefing. “as you know we’ve come out of the warp above Shinshima, and in a few hours we will be making planetfall in the black tortoise. As you also know the patriarch would quite like us to find his favorite grandson’s killer, and has provided us with near unlimited resources to accomplish this. here’s what we know: the device that immolated the palace was a Daemon-Forge bomb. The device used the souls of those it killed to fuel the spread of the fire, and then used the raw soul-stuff to create a new daemon. Or in this case a pair of daemons. The creation of daemon-forge bombs and even their existence are not common knowledge, but we’ve traced the creator of that particular device to a smith known as Muramasa, since deceased. Our goals for this operation are: find those responsible for the palace bombing, and if possible restore order to this planet. This will not be a by the books operation, officially this is not an inquisitorial investigation, we will only have at our disposal the resources of our dynasty. I will leave it to Lady Katia to explain the resources at our disposal.” Vlad sat down and his wife Katia stood up.
“our primary base of operations will be a floating fortress known as “the Black Tortoise” it is loaded with all the munitions and supplies we would need to establish a beachhead, as well as facilities to repair and even produce new equipment based on the rapid assembly device cousin Alfred found. We have been supplied with a set of Z-One suits; however we do not have anyone trained in their use. We also have some experimental weapons at our disposal. Among them are a man portable lascannon, and an experimental plasma cannon for the Z-One suits. The only thing we are short on is manpower, so we will need to recruit locals to our side.”
“on a side note, you two should probably keep your masks on for any public appearances until our position in secure. There’s no need to tip our hand too early. Now get ready, we drop in two hours.”


I'll have some of the new experimental models ready for photos soon, but I need to get ready for class right now so it will have to wait until after class.


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Gosh it took me awhile to upload my most recent works, but here they are:


this first one is a stormtrooper samurai, who will be some of the only samurai that I will be using as IG this time, as most of them will be getting power armor.


the next one I'd like to see if anyone recognizes, I'm using it as a lascannon team:


and the final one for tonight is an ashigaru with a shotgun:


that's all I've got right now, but I'm working on a warrior monk to use as marbo, his pistol just needs a little work right now. maybe I'll get him done tonight.

Oooh! Tankbuster from Red Alert 3!

Nice work, looks like you haven't run out of samurai parts!

Liking the shotgun guy - converted IG flamed right?

keep the work up.

thanks everyone, I had forgotten about this project with everything that's been going on (classes, designing a game, life in general) anyways the warrior monk is done, but I don't have good light right now to get a good picture. I'll try to get a picture after my class today. also I've been watching the old Kurosawa movie "Yojimbo" and now I feel the need to make mini based on the main character "Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field" AKA "the ronin with no name" (if any of you have seen Clint Eastwood in the "Dollars Trilogy" his character was directly inspired by the ronin from Yojimbo)

in other news I'm going to make the samurai army a series of armies based on specialist situations as the twins try to re-take Shinshima. the first two will be a DW list made for running the warlords out of the former capitol, and the second will be a RW list for seizing the fertile rice fields of Kanto to feed their growing army. I'll see if I can get some fluff done before class today.

one final note: I've also got a RW apothecary and a basic RW biker done as well, I'll show them to you after class.

also: @ Decio: you're correct, it is a tankbuster from RA 3, and I actually was out of samurai parts, I had to order some more.
@Legion of Damnation: yes it is the nozzle of a IG flamer, would you like me to make a mini tutorial about how I made it?
@Comradepanda: nice to see you, and I will keep it up!

Yay, I know so many things!

If you make Kanto terrain, you should hide some Pokemon in it. Also, give one guy pokeballs instead of grenades. lol

actually the Kanto region is a real place, it's the area around Tokyo.
anyways here's the bikers:

I got distracted today so I wasn't able to get a picture of the warrior monk. also I've hit a snag as I'm running low on GS, but there will be more coming tomorrow along with some stuff to make some more bikers and a avenger strike fighter.


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hey everyone, I just haven't been able to put down my Napoleonic imperial forces, but I like the fluff for this blog better, so I've decided to fuse the two blogs. from now on I'll be including my work on them in this blog, along with fluff combining the two. expect updates soon.

while i admire all your work on samurai type gear, have you tried a method to get straighter lines for those of with ocd? (me)
Perhaps roll the green stuff flat - line it, cut it, then place on the piece?

I totally agree with you, but I can't do anything about it right now, as my room is too cold to work with GS right now. but anyways I got some of the Napoleonic stuff sort of done. some of it is waiting for a part, but here's what I've got so far:


this is a Raptor Class Avenger Strike Fighter. it still needs it's bolt cannon, but that's about all it needs.


this is one of the bikers for the Aust-Germanian Napoleonic army. in the fluff the grunts refer to them as "Der Sitzkriegers" because they never get off their bikes in combat.


this is one of the characters that will be introduced in this chapter of the fluff, Wilhelm Price. he's ridding an experimental steam bike, and I'm using him as Samiel.

that's all I've got right now.

the avenger is very appealing. that is a conversion i have yet seen done with the space potato.