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camo.... but then again why would you need a real gun with camo if you're not in the military.. wait... forgot this is America, everyone needs a painted gun git! its the American dream!

Its a product called duracoat, and mostly cuz its cool looking. I'll see If I have a pic when Im one my computer.

Actually, a lot of shotguns for Turkey hunting are done with camo... just assumed most of this was factory applied as I think it would be a tough bit to get something after market that would actually survive the riggers of the hunt. But I suppose they can make paint to survive just about anything.

Sorry, kind of a traditionalist myself when it comes to fire-arms... I think natural wood and blued steel.

The paint I use is actually more resistant to scratches then the gun it self without the paint. Its baked on though, so wouldnt work to hot for minis.

MasterSlowPoke wrote:

fatty wrote:nice looking models. after i build my dark eldar coven i will dive into one of these RT era chapters. do you know a old almost forgotten chapter with lots of bikes? not white scars everybody knows them.

None of the Badab War chapters are particularly noted for being full of bikers, but most of them could work. The Raptors seem to be an obvious choice. The Fire Hawks are noted as being headstrong and preferring shock tactics, which fit bikers perfectly. If you're particularly brave, Minotaur Bikers would be another great choice. I'm going to be doing Lamenters bikers myself, although not set during the Badab War.

If you have a friend with IA9, borrow it and read about the chapters. The rules in it might be terrible but the fluff is good.

I have decided on a fluff build raven guard army with old skool models. i have posted a topic in the swap shop about it

on the topic of the american hunters and there camo they make me laugh. not bad intened but you get dressed up in all your cammo and then put on a bright orange vest so that other hunters dont shoot you i find it funny

The operating theory is that deer don't see blaze orange, however there is recent evidence to dispute that. My blaze orange actually has a camo pattern on it so it breaks up the outline of the "clear" vest in the middle of the "not clear" woods. Hasn't helped me much in the last couple of years though... I blame the vest!

Many an outdoorsman will take off said vest once they get to their spot they take if off

well i dont go hunting that often. me living in the Netherlands we have too have a permit too go hunt and then you have too see a shrink too see if your a nutter and blablabla. luckly for me i got one of those things because of an intership at a rangers office. once there where too many boars whe got out too shoot them.

I live in Wisconsin! Every nutter with a checkbook and a gun is welcome to hunt here!! *sigh*

thanks gitsplitta for your summary on page 56...
i just scrolled in the recent threads page over your blog and read that line from you. i always wanted to read oyur blog but so many pages i wasn´t able to catch up on anymore. maybe one day i will look to the later pages...but for now i will stick to your blog on the following pages.

i love your very unique army concept. stealthy marines. that is something that just had to be done.
great it was done by your skill.

keep up the inspiring work, vik

Hey-ya Vik, thanks for getting us back on topic!

It seemed to me that the blog might be more attractive to new readers if they could cut to the chase and get all caught up in one post. Since this blog could go on ad-infinitum (or until lego needs to buy a new server just for my pics), I'll continue to make summary posts with links on the OP as we go. Even people who've been with me for a while might not have seen everything... so the summaries might even help them put everything in context.

To bad I missed the topics of camouflaged weapons. I dont know much about guns....but I find it strange that weapons intended for hunting animals are camouflaged. I must be the only one that doesnt realize wild animals train in Spetsnaz special operations....so having a camo gun is completely neccessary when tracking down a turkey Im not exactly sure why people hunt anyway...I thought we have progressed beyond that....cant we buy prepared turkeys in stores in this modern age? Im sure we have plenty of hunters and subscribers to the 2nd amendment in here just waiting to blast me for this post....but it just doesnt make sense to me is all

I don't know much about hunting, in brooklyn one could say hunting is something done on street corners or not at all.

It's kind of the cultural thing to do out here. Aside from that though, it's a chance to spend several hours in the woods, by yourself, 15' up in a tree being as quiet and motionless as you possibly can. Forget the whole shooting things aspect... it's a wonderful experience & you'll see things you'd never see otherwise. The only deer I've ever shot had been hit by a car and was slowly dying... I just put her out of her misery. But I have also seen some wonderful things too. I've had young bucks prance around right below my stand, or fawns actually stick their noses into my blind wondering what was going on in there. Of course I didn't shoot any of those, but the experience was worth it's weight in gold.

huh, interesting, maybe someday I'll have to try it. I usually try to stay away from nature, when I when to college it was really an experience to deal with black skies, bug noises, and woods as far as the eye could see. Couldn't sleep for nights, I wanted to hear a police siren or something! But what you explained sounds beautiful, should look into it

Gitsplitta wrote:@Santobell: All of the scouts (with the exception of the Telion figure) are from a long way back. I'll be honest in saying I don't remember exactly when... but the last edition I played before my break was third, so they are at least that old. That is my "counts as" Telion figure, my scoutmaster Darius Stone. He is a newly painted figure and painted to my character standard using my "new" scheme for MW green, as opposed to the scouts which were painted a long time ago to a much lower standard (though I did a lot of "finishing" work on them lately). Eventually, I may update the green on their shoulder pads to match Stone's... but that's a project that can wait a while.

Is the scout you're talking about the guy with the missile launcher? I think he's the only plastic I have shown... I have about 4 or 5 others like him, one with a heavy bolter. They don't really fit in my scout force, so if you like him/them I'd trade them all to you for a marine for my Deathwatch squad painted in your colors. Just a thought.

Nah no need to send them I can't use scouts in the legion and yep they are form 2nd ed boxed set you got Orks and Bloodangels including those scouts.
I went ahead and did a Deathwatch guy anyway (caught me on a bored day).

here's some pics





Camera flash has kinda messed with the shading a bit but he's pretty nice in person.
A Deathwatch from the Lamenters Chaptor.

I'll send him along with the Mantis Marine once I get the shoulder pad etc.

as summarys go i will use that for my own blog, its the right thing to do to keep them fans coming back more easyly^^.

as for camo huntingweapons, well those nasty turkeys, deers and whatnot hvae learned their lessons and if they see any oblong black or shiny metallobject the run for their lives...
its a shame nature doen´t act the part its supposed to do...as for camping in the nature to admire it, yep do that, the more we learn from it the more we regain the respect we have lost so much for it in the run of civilization.

at santobel:
whats that mirror material? is it the kind of pics you usualy make? looks interesting.

cheers mates, vik

I live in merrie englande, so only rich nobbs really hunt with guns as its expensive and you need land a hunting licence and a gun cabinet and an 'understanding' with the police. But when he was really poor a friend of mine hunted rabbits successfully with a high tension hand catapult (probably illegal I'm sure). Low tech weapon provideth rabbit stew... Now I think poverty and the price of meat are good reasons to hunt.

Yggdrasil wrote:

Gitsplitta wrote:OMFG is that funny! Where the heck did that come from? That was Legolas right?! LOL! Thanks Yggs, you made my night!

That's from an "awesome" TV series called "How I met your mother"... check the link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_Stinson

This show is really funny, easy to get even for non-English-native-speakers, if only for the character of Barney Stinson, who's "supposedly" the hero's best friend. This guy's awesome.

One of the most famous quotes :

Fifty wrote:

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"!)

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MOD ALERT : I demand that this post by Flinty be remembered when the Like Button feature is released !!! (for that's probably the only one I'll ever get )

Back on topic:

See, you claim to be sluggish hobby-wise, but your preview of all the awesome work you've done denies it! Also, thanks for the basing tutorial, it's really nice...

in Holland its the same however in my intership I had the pleausure of hunting with some of those snobs of yours Crown Prins Willem Alexander of Holland and prins Henry i believe forgot his name. but yeah out in the nature its great you can see the landscapes.

he Git i Love Winscosine because they have a town where its against the law too curse while heaving intercourse its hillarious

Viktor von Domm wrote:@ santobel:whats that mirror material? is it the kind of pics you usualy make? looks interesting.

cheers mates, vik

The Reflective backdrop is a Photo light enhancer (that's what the guy at the store told me anyway) it's a flexible panel of mirror plastic with tiny domes all over it the idea behind it is you shoot light at it and instead of a reflection the light gets refracted and if you curve the surface you can take a single light source and have it shine light from many angles, it works better in theory but it's better than the normal light I can provide. I'm also using a desk lamp as the light source and it seems to remove the yellowing effect I normally get.

Yeah at the moment until I can do something more repeatable that's basically how the shots turn out I need to setup somewhere just for photo's but space is a premium in my household at the moment.

sound like a good find...how much had you pay for it? i´ve built me myself a lightbox... to date it is also used for stuffing odd ends of my curent project in, but generally it was a box for diapers and some white paper...wirks for me but when i start painting minis agaiun i will build sometjing better...

thanks for the quick reply.

vik

I love it when the blog kind of assumes it's own life without my input... really suggests the development of a community rather than just a "lookie what I did" blog (which would be boring).



@Santobell: Thank you, he's beautiful! He'll have a place of honor within my squad.



I sort of took the night off last night... had a nice spaghetti dinner with my family, bottle of wine, chatted with my wife, etc. After the wine... and then cognac... I didn't feel that I should be painting. However... I was not totally idle. My studio where all the modeling, gaming and painting happens has devolved into a complete disaster area. With the arrival of the air brush and the need to set up a spray booth... I decided to attack the problem directly and re-organize my space. I made good progress all things considered, but there is still much to do. I brought in a long folding table from the basement & set up next to my work bench. It will house a new site for my light box (which was long overdue) and a space to do the airbrushing. I have a lot of stuff to clean up, throw out and put away yet... but I'm hoping the newly organized work area will facilitate a more robust level of production on my part. I'll be tied up tonight with a cub scout meeting and more cleaning... but I hope to be back at the painting desk by Friday.

Gitsplitta wrote:@Santobell:

Is the scout you're talking about the guy with the missile launcher? I think he's the only plastic I have shown... I have about 4 or 5 others like him, one with a heavy bolter. They don't really fit in my scout force, so if you like him/them I'd trade them all to you for a marine for my Deathwatch squad painted in your colors. Just a thought.

I really like those missile launcher scouts, if you don't want them I would love to grab them from you, or one of them.

Sure Sage... I have the one in the photo with a ML & one of the same type with a unique heavy bolter (think it came with the scout unit). You're welcome to both if you'd like.

@ Vik - Cost me about 9 dollars Australian I bought two so 18 bucks no idea about the conversion rates.

@ Git - I still have a little highlighting to do on him but yeah he's turned out pretty good, I'll try and get some good pics of him and of my other stuff (Skave and Legion etc) this weekend after the game Vs Da Dark Angelz (which I just finished the board for oh and btw if you ever need a good cheap base for a board Paper War-games or P-Works boards are awesome the board looks amazing)! I have my camera and tripod now so it's just a matter of time before I get the shots right I'll re-post a better shot once I'm done with it all.

Oh and don't leave your blog for too long mate it takes on a life of it's own!

^^it´s alive^^

will have a look in a local phot - shop to see if this is buyable in germany at all.

at gitsplitta, i reorganize every once in a while. my workspace is very limited so everytime i start a new process i have to tidy up. and damn its always worth it, or rather deeply needed^^...i tend to spread my stuff around me and after my "shift" i have to step really carefull over everything...^^

vik

Gitsplitta wrote:Sure Sage... I have the one in the photo with a ML & one of the same type with a unique heavy bolter (think it came with the scout unit). You're welcome to both if you'd like.

awesome! i would love them! want me to sned you another marine for them?

@Sage: You don't have to, but if there's a chapter other than your own that you'd like to try and paint just for fun, I'd welcome him into my Doomwatch squad. Anyway, I've got the scouts set aside for you, when I finish your Tranquilty marine I'll send them all along.



With all the talk of how I do my bases and tall grass & my completion of the basing tutorial... I thought I'd re-post an older pic. This is one of the objective markers I did for one of the boys as my son's birthday party last year. It is the tall grass thing taken to a ludicrous extreme and is meant to be kind of funny. At least I laugh at it every time I look at the photo. It does however... reinforce how good tall grass can be at hiding things...






No real updates from me... last couple nights have been busy, tonight I'm taking Thing 1 to the FLGS for kids gaming night and tomorrow opens our gun deer season so I'll be freezing my you-know-what off in the woods... at least near dawn and dusk, and on Sunday my father-in-law comes to dinner so I'll be smoking ribs all day. So... lacking any real progress I offer you a bit of contextual humor.

I will get back to work eventually... but life goes on & sometimes even 40k has to wait it's turn.

mmmm ribs hunting you sir have a great weekend ahead of you.