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Just bloody awesome! I really honestly love the shade of bone you did on the Girldar.... Eldar, it's perfect and I am a little curious to see how it would look on a Deathwing Terminator? and you know what else is bloody awesome? the red on the OTHER Eldar! so good!

they are 2 very impressive paintjobs mate!

love the back story dr.

nerdfest09 wrote:Just bloody awesome! I really honestly love the shade of bone you did on the Girldar.... Eldar, it's perfect and I am a little curious to see how it would look on a Deathwing Terminator? and you know what else is bloody awesome? the red on the OTHER Eldar! so good!

they are 2 very impressive paintjobs mate!

Thanks NF
Yeah it would look good on a Terminator. Maybe one day, for commission (as I've already got a Deathwing Terminator in my army) I'll do a squad like that.
Thanks on the red as well, there's a much more subtle shading on that then the bone.

cormadepanda wrote:love the back story dr.

I thought I may as well make it an official rip-off of your army . Glad you like it.

The flame painting on the base is quite impressive as well!

 dsteingass wrote:
The flame painting on the base is quite impressive as well!

Thanks Dave. It really is ridiculously quick and simple as far as painting goes. I use an old, worn down, paintbrush and paint large triangles with the side of it, in red, all round. let that dry, then do slightly smaller triangles in orange, then dry and then smaller yellow ones. Job done.

It's quite impressive! I'd like to see that same effect with really hot blue source flames too!

 dsteingass wrote:
It's quite impressive! I'd like to see that same effect with really hot blue source flames too!

Yeah, it's simple but effective, just what I wanted for the bases.
I use it as the only thing that ties the whole army together (so everyone knows which are mine on the tabletop, for example).

It was decided as fire due to how I did the first squad leader banner (a dragon breathing fire) and as fire is a perfect example of entropy (the basis of the army) in action.
[the science bit]Fire takes large, complex, compounds and structures (e.g. wood) and converts them into smaller, simpler things (e.g. CO2 and IR radiation) that can have a larger number of permutations in their arrangement and therefore a higher entropy, and entropy always increases in nature.[/the science bit]
All future banners will also get fire on them as well, as I did on the only other banner I've done so far (on the Dire Avenger Exarch).

Yeah, blue flames are cool. I'll find somewhere to do some (probably not on a base, but maybe for an HQ... will have to see when I get round to that).
I did do some stylised blue/green flames on the chap below;

So that'll have to do you for now.

When did these blue flames come up, I have never seen them before, it looks great.

 cormadepanda wrote:
When did these blue flames come up, I have never seen them before, it looks great.

Thanks Comrade. They happened here, before the wave serpent, Guardians 7 and 8.

You see the wave serpent was so amazing it blew our minds and we clean forgot them.

They are awesome mind you.

Ha, yeah. Thanks Cam. That also means that they are all the way back on page 4... The vast majority of my army is in the first 4 pages so far... again, that's the Wave Serpent's fault.

There are useful links in the very first post for those that want to (re)discover the rest of the army.

 Dr H wrote:
Ha, yeah. Thanks Cam. That also means that they are all the way back on page 4... The vast majority of my army is in the first 4 pages so far... again, that's the Wave Serpent's fault.

There are useful links in the very first post for those that want to (re)discover the rest of the army.

Or i demand army photo op. NAOW

Nice specialist troops there doc.

You may enjoy my latest updates as well.

cormadepanda wrote:Or i demand army photo op. NAOW

You mean like those 5 pages ago...

shasolenzabi wrote:Nice specialist troops there doc.

You may enjoy my latest updates as well.

Thanks Shas.
I'll have a goosey...

Hope it was a good one!

Yes exactly like 5 pages ago, but add more explosions.

Aye Shas, walkers galore.

I'll think about how to achieve that for the next blog milestone Comrade...

In related news; I am currently planning future army members and will soon decide upon what will be next to build

In other news; I am currently painting a model for commission and planning how best to start casting things (I've pulled out some lego and given it a clean), so soon, my preciousssssess.

Well well well, what's all this then...

I thought that the toilets would be the ideal test subjects for mould-making and casting practice.
Simultaneously testing the use of top-fill casting (on the left),
bottom-fill sprue casting (yes, I do need to cut some of the air release channels later),
and how best to cast the cisterns.

Much head-scratching has led to this point and much effort went into the layout and plasticine placement.
The silicone is poured and we will all have to see how it turns out tomorrow as I want to give it as much chance of being fully cured before poking it, that and I would have to stay up 'til 2am at the very minimum to check it.

Until tomorrow.

Biting nails.....Can't wait.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Biting nails.....Can't wait.

If I didn't already bite my nails out of habit, I would be too.

A couple of observations:
The two components of the silicone are more viscous than I expected. This means than I probably should have stirred for longer (it has a 45 min pot life after all). And probably could have left it to sit for longer to let bubbles out...

I should have also used a larger mixing pot, as it was very full and meant I couldn't stir it as easily as I could have.

A pouring spout probably works against you, as I ended up with a thin stream of fluid rather than a sheet (which would remove more bubbles).

My initial plan for measuring the volumes of the two components could have been better and I need to remember to use 10% more of each as there is quite a bit of wastage left in the pots.

So if this pour works out well, it'll be a miracle. Fingers crossed.

Next thing you know, you'll be making plastic injection moulds This certainly looks very professionally laid out, my fingers are crossed for you

Thanks Ruglud. I do have some syringes (I "borrowed" from the lab) that I've placed with my casting stuff, so I'm nearly there...

It appears that all the "if"s came out my way and the first half of my first mould looks good on first inspection.
This is the moment that you don't often see in moulding tutorials...the plasticine that needs cleaning off...

Assuming that there isn't any hidden bubbles (which I'll have a look for while removing the plasticine) this is the perfect start to my endevours.

Congratulations looks amazing. Really cool.

Thanks Cam.

This plasticine is a bit of a pain to get off, but as the only issue I can't complain.

I'm very excited to see a toilet mold around here!

I never knew a thread being updated with toilets would actually be so enticing and enjoyable to follow! ........

Brilliant! they look great! mold process did not fail you!

dsteingass wrote:I'm very excited to see a toilet mold around here!

It does bring the possibility of scale toilets that bit closer.
I want to get the moulds for the boxes done before I move on the casting as it will be more efficient the mix one batch of resin and cast many things than mixing many smaller batches of resin for each individual mould. (time permitting, as the resin has a short pot life so there is a balancing act of quantity and time). So your patience is still required...

nerdfest09 wrote:I never knew a thread being updated with toilets would actually be so enticing and enjoyable to follow! ........

And I never knew that I'd be casting (and enjoying the making of) replicas of my own hand crafted scale toilets...

Below is a picture to show you how the two parts of the mould separated (top) and the final, cleaned and tidied, mould.

You can see that the cisterns broke in the process, but that was to be expected as I've broken them like that before while cleaning them up (It's probably easier to replace the pipes with bits of paperclip as was originally used).

The only bubbles I've noticed are one where the sprue meets one of the toilets (not a problem as that will need chopping off anyway), One where the air channel meets the top of the lower cistern (also not a problem), and then each toilet has a bubble where I had drilled out the hole (not a major problem, as most people will either be drilling the holes deeper for empty toilets, or filling them in with water effects).

Running water into the "in" hole also leads to water coming out of all (I repeat, ALL) the "out" holes, almost simultaneously, so that shows promise.

It's not the best looking mould, nor the best constructed, but if it proves to be serviceable then it's all good.

I have also poured the first half of the first box mould:


That is all for now. Come back later.


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 shasolenzabi wrote:
Brilliant! they look great! mold process did not fail you!

Thanks Shas, it did not indeed. Lets hope my luck holds out for a while longer.

Good all round dude.

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