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Should only have been two... this one and the dreadnought show-off thread...

STOP TYPING SO MUCH! Took forever to catch up!

Sorry WM... been that kind of week.

BBL, your dread is not little or crappy, don't put yourself down.



Basing tutorial is finished... can be found here, and in my sig as soon as I get that changed too.

Basing the Gitsplitta Way


I am really freakin' tired.

Great work Gigs!

Thanks RP! Really appreciate that! It's a good feeling to see that little detachment start to come together after all this time.

Gitsplitta wrote:Samurai pattern 40k helmets would be astounding...

Was working on this before I started the 40Skaven, not simple as I first thought, the idea would be to get hold of some of those grotesque masks people use for bloodpact armies and combine them with a layered SM helmet, I also found that SM armour is VERY different to samurai armour so a lot of work goes into changing the shape of the shoulderpads etc...

...this is not me stating in any way shape or form that I will start producing samurai marines! was just experimenting is all

I have every confidence in you Blackhand... if anyone can do it, you can. Though I don't expect you'd need to produce the entire armor to fill the need... helmets, power weapons, back banners and shoulder pads (at most... you could probably get away with must the helmets and weapons) would do the trick for most folks. Then you could produce them in little samurai upgrade kits, enough in each to upgrade 1 marine. Then make another really spiffy helm or two for commanders and you'd be all set!

Man of your skills should be able to do all that by Easter maybe... after you finish the Mantis Warriors of course... *grin*

*poke* *prod*

@ Gitsplitta: boucening around today and saw this ::

http://www.theassaultgroup.co.uk/store/product.php?productid=332&cat=31&page=1

Dunno if thats useful to you.

They have Naginatas and Tachis as well.

thats a pretty cool website they have some cool weapons for modern usa

Sageheart wrote:thats a pretty cool website they have some cool weapons for modern usa

Yeah, just wish they had put up some size comparison or measurements on the swords.

Ok, probably shouldn't post this but I need to share....poured the mould for the Mantis wings.....total whitewash :(

The strips I used for the "vanes" on the masters were literally a tenth of a millimeter proud of the wing but it was enough for the silicone to get in, when I pulled them out of the mould they tore off and basically wrecked the masters.
Despite a whole lot of very thin silicon where I didn't want it I thought that a few casts would clean up the mould (ripping out any bits of silicone I needed gone)

So I tried a cast.

Not great, I popped as many bubbles as I could then lay a piece of plasticard over the mould to flatten out the resin and make the flash as thin as possible. This actually worked, the resin came of it fine and the flash was minimal...but the wings are so damn thin that the few bubbles I didn't find went right through the wings,

So I will give it a few more casts and see if I can get the hang of the mould, if not I may have to go back to the drawingboard and build a version 3 wing with thicker plasticard.

Don't worry gits, I'll get there!

Aww... That sucks Blackhand. Keep trying. You do some great casting work.

I'm sure you can figure it out! Good luck on it!

That sucks mate; totally the place to share it, too.

Don't sweat it Blackhand, I appreciate everything you're doing... I just hope it works out so all your effort isn't wasted. Could you post a pic of one of the failed castings? I know it's not something you're excited about but I think it would be quite useful for those of us who are experimenting or considering casting to see. You can often learn more from your failures than the successes.

Gitsplitta wrote:You can often learn more from your failures than the successes.

Point earned for use of Dad-ism

LOL! I am what I am...


I have a question for those of you who are young and hip and blog savvy and all that.

What the heck does "moar" mean?? I see it all the time & I don't get it. (I understand what "more" means of course but I don't get the misspelling.) It's usually issued in a one or two word exclamatory statement so I'm thinking it actually refers to other words that would make an ineligible sentence?

Its just interwebs speek. doesnt have to mean anything to the non-1337 of the world. It's kinda like the  just a typo that turned into a meme.

meme?


(at least I get the 1337 reference)

A meme (pronounced /ˈmiːm/, rhyming with "cream"[1]) is a postulated unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. (The word is a blend of "gene" and the Greek word μιμητισμός ([mɪmetɪsmos]) for "something imitated".)[2] Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes, in that they self-replicate and respond to selective pressures.[3]

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme for more info.

Or anything or Reddit or Digg really......

I think "MOAR"="more", but when you say it, you say it loudly like ROAR. That's a guess. But yes. WM is right, it's just interweb speak.

Thanks WM (and GS)... that's an awfully formal sounding definition for what is essentially a squidgy idea who's definition changes based on the whims of it's users.

Gotta love that 1337 speech

I've never heard moar till dakka dakka, and even then I don't believe I have ever used it. I don't really get the point of it, if i wanted to say more louder I would put it in caps or place an explanation point next to it....

well git about the katana i know a way. it takes a bit of sprue a piece of sanding paper and a lot of patience. ik know a chap who did this for a samurai goblin army.

I hear it alot in the chats of the online game i play n my usual reaction is to start typing in spanish.....until someone starts typing back in spanish and the limit of my spanish is quickly exhausted lol

Yggdrasil wrote:So awesome, I can't help but share this piece of awesomness with you (just be sure to replace every "Barney Stinson" with "Gitsplitta"!)

Like button.

@fatty: That's a good idea. I'd been pondering how to scratch-build my own katanas, but I didn't think about using a sprue as a blank. I could also hammer one out of brass wire, that might be a bit more durable than plastic.

@Polari: Meh, it's just me being clueless... people can spell however they'd like!

@Fifty: I LOLed again... and then I think if that whole production with "Gitsplitta" inserted and I LOL even more... too funny!

Cheers guys, commiseration is appreciated

I will get a pic up tonight (hopefully) of the first cast, I will also have a go at a cast using talc powder, something I have never needed to use before but may be necessary in a mould this thin.

If this goes well, all good, but if not I will pick up some thicker plasticard and try a V3 wing, possibly with the "power vanes" glued down with plastic glue instead of superglue so that the bond is harder and closer and will not allow the silicon to get under it (I really thought I had them glued down well!)

Hey Blackhand, can you get ahold of soap stone down there? We used to make (pewter) molds out of soap stone, but we'd keep the powder that came off of them while we were sanding the slabs flat... it makes an outstanding mold-release agent.