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Holy crap.
Stellar work, Januine! There's so much to love there.

By the way, I just noticed you GS'd his axe handle, was that also a roller?

Cheers Buttery. The axe handle is GS around a straightened paper clip. You know the brass square of grating you get in the GW basing kit? Well I cut that in two and then used the two pieces as a makeshift roller to get that pattern on the axe shaft. Worked out ok

That's genius! I ask because I rescued a tech marine as part of a cancer charity build I'm doing, and the previous owner mangled his axe. That patterning is very close to what they use on the GW handles.

At first I tried using the GS rollers in different ways to get a patten but just didn't work. The grating 'roller' was a last ditch effort of desperation. Luckily it worked out - lol. Those two wee bits of brass have now earned a place amongst all the other tool

Stunning piece. Adding painted designs to the servo skulls was a real touch of brilliance.

Think I'm bowing out. A cat related thing happened.

Unless I can find a new head.

It paints the model or it gets the hose!

Be nice to see a different head on that model actually, fed up of same old screamer everytime.

Januine, that is amazing. Nuff said.

I've got two cats here, you can have either of their heads

I plugged it into a cork. Kitty ran off with the new toy. Found it this evening, far too late to work on it.

Argh! That's too bad about the cats Buttery. I know I have come close to turning my two into gloves a few times after catching them rampaging on my work bench. Hope you can salvage your work.
Great to see everyone else finished. So many great ideas out there

Oh it's not broken, but I didn't do anything today on the assumption that I'd have to use eidolon's spare head.
So he'll be finished, just not tonight in time for this.

You might have 24 hours yet bud, time for paint!

Looking forward to the line up at the end, fantastic work here.

I'm not home to do anything Sunday.

Nah, I'm not sad, rushing a Primarch is never a good idea.

Pity to see ya go, Buttery. But yeah! Take your time- Its an expensive mini and care should be taken. Looking forward to when you do finish him, though. Keep us updated


@Jan: UUUUNFFFF!!!!! Thats SO GOOD!!! Seriously, damn it... Very very impressed. Incredible build, fantastic colors... Fitting addition to your admech

I'll be lucky if I can get something close to that!


So Im only just now starting anything... hmmm.... No, no this was not a totally bad idea.


Not a bad Idea at all

Rushing a Primarch is NEVER a good idea, especially if he catches a glimpse and turns to attack you.... then you're shagged!


Oh and guys it's the 10th of January here :-) know what that means!

THank you very much Ramos - really high praise from someone of your calibre - much much appreciated
Onto his bodyguard and retinue next o.O

 nerdfest09 wrote:
Rushing a Primarch is NEVER a good idea, especially if he catches a glimpse and turns to attack you.... then you're shagged!

I wouldn't turn my back on Fulgrim in particular for very similar reasons.

It's going well despite missing the contest, there's a Primarch thread that once I'm home again, I'll share him in.
I got my hands on some metal decals for EC, so I pimped his cape something awful. Big Phoenix wings down the side.

Whoo!! And with minutes to spare, heres my entry.

"Oi! Where'd evvabody go?"
-- Skaz, late Artillery Grot







WiP


In my mind this is an instant before a "No,no, no, nooooo!" moment. Poor Skaz...
But you know what they say, "You never hear the toe with your name on it."


Titans have been on my brain all year (I blame the epoxy fumes), so this idea just came to me late last night. I knew I wanted to build a toe from a warlord, possibly with something running away in terror before getting squashed. But then I found a very old bag of FW resin containing all of the Grot workers/crew, and this guy caught my eye. Just a perfect lost expression...

Base is made with SWM Mud effects and powders, Toe is scratch built from plasticard, grot is FW.


Anyways, Best of luck everyone!

Sweet work everyone! :-) she's all done now i'll start getting her all judged........

hmmm... just checking did you post the results somewhere?

I haven't even got the final entry sheet or score sheet yet. It'll take a bit to go through everything, write up comments and whatnot. Give it a week or so.

^ Indeed Whaley is correct I'm working the next 8 days straight so when I get a chance I'll be doing my side of the judging and I'll send through to Whaley to do his judging etc! :-)

*poke*


Sooooooo How are the judges doing? I trust my bribes TOTALLY LEGITIMATE GIFTS arrived safely?

Lol i'm just waiting on Whaley's votes and she'll be good to go! :-) I don't know how you knew Ramos, but i've always wanted a Mustang

Sorry, been busy at work. I'll get it done soon. In my defense I've had it less than a week.


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Ok guys, just sent Damo my score card. I gotta say, I have the battle for 3rd really close! It will be interesting to see who gets it. As always, if anyone wants a more detailed critic once scoring is out, just shoot me a pm.

Holding breath still!!!!

Judging done! such a bloody great list of entrants this time and the ideas you all submitted were probably my favorite part seeing how each of you thought about something a little different for this was a joy to behold and the results speak for themselves.

You all have my apologies for the delay in the final judging but I think you'll find the recipients worthy and I hope it makes you all hunger for more for the next one!

so with a smile and a tip of the hat I present the WINNER of the 4th Annual Nerdcademy is.......




And now for number 2!



Number 3.........



Once again, thank you all for taking the time to enter and have a bit of fun I shall get another one organized for you all soon well done to the winners for the comp a hotly contested and close finish!


Damo

I gotta say, all the models the round were great on their own merits. The model that won 1st place really did it for me honestly, and you can see the cinematic effects of the top 3. Good job all!

Some pretty amazing pieces there. Almost as amazing as the "piece" Januine is going to get to display!

Grats all!