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crazy, cool stuff neil, love it

Cheers Ruglud.

Thought I Would share this totem nest I built for Jonathan Hartmans Lesotho 212 game in January . As WD have kindly popped it in this months Blanchitsu.

Not been building much of late but I Wouldn't mind makiing a new board next year. Been enjoying collecting the munda models though.







http://distopus.blogspot.com/2018/01/lestho-npcs.html

http://distopus.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-birdman-of-lesotho.html

Lovely stuff Neil! Big fan of the skittering skull

Neil! It's been too long again, loving that totem, it would look great in a city square.

Also the praise is almost exactly one year late but I never saw the hive city and it is truly a thing of beauty! I thought I was the only one mad enough to build something at that scale but of course you would have beaten me to it

What are the plans for a new board?

Cheers chaps,

@monkey reminds me of the weird spider toy in toystory 2.

@Commander I Kinda hop GW make some sort of hive scale model again , like the one from the hexagonal campaign game , but much bigger and more detailed .
Nothing fancy re new board , probably a human peasant grox farm for 40k board for a small skirmish game that has resided in my head for years.

Your work is just amazing, wonderful to see a bit more, miss the "regular" updates but understand life, and get that you are busy. Looking forward to any updates you do throw our way.

It's good to see back and posting, I wasn't sure how permanent the hiatus was going to be. I got hooked on your amazing Mechanicus Manufactorum, so more updates are always appreciated.

Just saw the totem in WD, amazing work! I love the nest, both conceptually and aesthetically.

@ cam cheers buddy ,Yeah my hobby as been sporadic for a good few years . I might drop some stuff from the blog on here at some point , but I am looking forward to getting something new done after Xmas .

@Syro Thanks , yeah not as much free time as before , so I have to be choosier with projects. I have a hankering to build a stone / wood mediaval 40k pylon .

@mc Thank you , based on Mr Blanches artwork though , so credit where due.

That is incredibly atmospheric. It really does look like a nest!

Wow - I really am looking forward to catching up on this blog - a lot of great stuff has been done!

Hey bro. Haven't been on here for a long time but was thinking of you and PDH recently and wanted to say you were a massive part of my childhood. Sold it all awhile ago, wanted to meet women. And focusing on more useful hobbies, finishing my Carpentry apprenticeship etc. Would rather my kids just be normal kids. You understand, no one wants an artist for a son. But you are a real wizard with the models. This stuff is samey samey, but when you are good you are bloody good. Your not bipolar by any chance are you. Anyway. Stay well stay strong Kia Kaha from NZ.

Hey grag glad to hear your doing well mate. I ditched the hobby for over 20 years 2010 was my comeback year. Cant believe its been nearly 9 years since my 1st post. The doctor told me i wasn't bi polar but for a while i thought i may be. I have been working full time for a year so not much hobby time but i have a few pokers in the fire so to speak . Hope your carpentry is successful you have a great artistic eye. Always enjoyed your grimdark narrative models.


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Aye up folks, Grags post has inspired me to put up some stuff i worked on this year. Not had as much hobby time as previous years but i am getting back in the swing of things.


so i made some imperial army types a while back. based on the classic gallagher wd front cover





these then became the basis for a long held dream to create a ten man old school tactical ig squad

















https://distopus.blogspot.com/2019/02/imperial-army-types-wip.html?m=0

Love the retro-inspired IG soldiers, Neil, and great to see another update from you!

Oh so good to see, really inspiring stuff. Came back around looking to get the itch back in me and here in the first blog I look up, beautiful models just oozing inspiration all over.

Those retro guard are wonderful. Where are the parts from?

Hey Folks , not had much hobby time over crimbo, but i did start another terrain project last year , still a ways to go ..

@Krauty, hey buddy , hope you are well mate, yeah updates a bit slow of late.

@Cam He mate, glad to hear your getting inspired again.

@Kestral , yeah i loved making these , they are in Shibboleths collection now , the bits are scouts , old school guard bodies and hybrids


a few shots of the spire i am working on:

That is amazing oozes atmosphere.

Oh, my god! I LOVE this thing! The scale is absolutely stunning. The corrosion, the overlap, the disintegration, the aggregate mess. It's just fantastic. Really evokes the grimdark horror of an semi-abandoned yet somehow still barely-functional factory. This totally looks the part. I can't heap enough praise on this thing. It's just fantastic.


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I can't believe I've never come across your blog before. This whole thing is fantastic; I really love your aesthetic. This is all truly inspiring stuff.

You need a disclaimer at the start of that post, I was not ready for all that amazing looking terrain!

No idea how you dirtied up the first piece so well. It looks like it's been neglected for a century just collecting all kinds of dirt, I just want to take a pressure washer to the whole thing

And wow, the large piece is just mindblowing. So much detail crammed into every square centimeter, fantastic...

Beautiful atmosphere neil101.

Exalted.

Cheers,

CB

Neil showing GW how it’s done .

Always so much to look at and take in here.

This is about the most impressive table project I've ever seen. My favorite pic/detail is the dusty computer room. So much atmosphere! Good luck with finishing the rest of it!

Thanks folk, i finished the build of the ashwaste citdadel.





5 ft 6 inch high 4 feet wide 6 feet long if your interested
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Cheers

Neil

Jaw-dropping stuff, Neil. Astonishing work!
How have you resisted putting some figures on there?

Oh man, that's just ridiculous. I too demand to see it populated!

I also have the perverse wish for you to meet up with Lord Blackadder and get side-by-sides of this with his Titan!

@Apologist Thanks mate , i havent there are plenty of little dudes and dudettes scattered about .
@Gwyn , it will be eventually when finished no doubt. a titan is about half the height i think.


a few more shots with base coat.

this "raises" quite some questions... "how" and "why"... alsthough i know the answer to the why..."because"

but how on earth did you bring it in the backyard of yours? weight and height sure makes this a task like moving a piano... and the looming fear of destroying it in a blink of an eye....

that aside... truly mad genius of an artist... we wouldn´t have expected anything less than amazing...

cheers, vik

Wow, that build is amazing and cool to now see it get some color!