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super blood/guts monkey. Its important to be subtle with blood I find.

I hope your referring to models Weety. Excellent base Monkey a good characterful and best of all finished piece.

I can hold it a long time.. That space marine is fantastic. great basing, and tones.

love the crackle paint on your big ball monkey

the rusty marine is rather grim and , how did you do the blood drips on the chain axe ? i think the blood needs to be a bit glossy though

Cam - Thanks a lot dude, I think it's his pose that sets him off.


shaso - Good to hear - I'm a firm believer in chaos being just that....chaotic, weird, freaky.....not normal


Dr H - You say that like there's looking nice in a non-corroded way


weety - Glad you approve.....although the dark gods aren't so sure about subtle.....


Llama - Well she does the odd sacrife to the painting gods I think. Cheers, and yes indeed, good to have some finished stuff at last


panda - Still holding it? You're looking fairly blue now..... Thanks a lot.


neil - Oh you say that to all the boys.
Thanks man. The blood is very fine copper wire loaded with paint so it forms a drop at the end. It is glossy in RL, but not super glossy as it hasn't been sealed.



OK, so back in the saddle...for now at least. Severe lack of progress on most stuff, let's see if I can keep it ging this time around...


Personal gak:




So gained enough motivation recently to start in on stuff again, and the latest League terrain comp ( http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/609100.page#7093794 ) has also piqued my interest....



Cultists:



Couple of basic, very minor weapon changes to some Dredd cultists as I know I won't be painting them up for Mega-City use. May grab a few more at some point as basic cultist cannon fodder...




And Slaanesh has blessed this cultists with some extra arms, as is her wont.


Daemon:



Originally going to be some kind of champion, but turned into a daemon....the tentacle tongue is just a place-holder at the moment - I've lodt the real tongue, if I don't find it soon I'll probably use the tentacle.


Servitor:



Servitor/skiitari for the dark mechanicus...needs a bit of wotk on the back still.



LOER 11:

Red Harvest won the last terrain comp, and has set the new one up with the idea of Roads...

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/609100.page#7093794


Initially I thought of a bridge/walkway section for my orky/hive terrain, with a couple of ramp sections so it could stand alone or act as a bridge between existing pieces. Also considered another rotating bridge to go in there too.
As I was cutting out the basic plasticard sections for the bridge itself I was left with a piece that I was considering turning into a footway. Then as I was playing with it I had an idea for a more chaotic type of road, one that seemed more suitable considering my 'current' focus is chaos. And although I do immensely enjoy making the orky terrain this promised to be something new...

The Road To Nowhere:



Initial concept, with random figures to see if rough positioning was viable...and I think I like it

The challenge is to get the Möbius strip sturdy enough and to find a suitable method of suspension for it. Plus the fact that the several figures needed are going to be th bottle-neck...hmmm, how long does it normally take me to FINISH 6 to 8 minis




So, it needed to be at least two strips of plasticard to be stable enough, and I figured well, why not add some curves and holes into the equation...semed like a suitably chaotic thing to do. One strip longer than the other to allow the overlap when I glue them in place.
Roughly rounded off the edges, not too finely as I'm not sure yet what the final finish will be on the surface.




Decided it would be easier to glue one Moebius strip (Yes, I'm going to switch between spellings, just because ) together first, then attach the other piece to that...clamps are your friend here


And we end up with...




So, now to start figuring out the figures themselves...and the whole suspension thing too



Thanks for stopping by, sorry the biscuits were a bit stale and the tea was cold, but they've been sitting there a couple of months now

Good progress on both fronts.

Liking multi-arm guy.
Yay, for the many and varied tentacles.

Good idea on the strip detailing.

Escher style mind warp art great for Chaos or really really bizarre Order.

Dr H - Cheers!

Always with the tentacles.....

Well, a plain asphalt moebius strip just wouldn't be weird enough would it now?


Llama - Definitely chaos in this instance



Not a huge amount of progress to show today, plenty of stuff started, but not much worth sharing yet.

Contemplating various finishes to the Road To Nowhere (henceforth known as the RTN), and how they might help with the presentation of the thing. Current top runner is to add some tentacles (hey...who would have seen that coming ) at various points and have one of them making some kind of connection to the 'ground'.

The road surface could get some extra plasticard striations added, and maybe some GS ridges and get a nice glossy or semi-organic finish.
Or it might get a covering of very fine sand (much finer than my usual basing material) out of which the tentacles will blend.

But there's more to consider before making that decision.

Also starting to rough out where and how I want the characters so that I can start building them. I want them to be interacting in 3D space rather than utilising non-Euclidian geometries as it will make more 'sense' to the viewer, and will probably end up being more aesthetically pleasing considering some of the interactions I want.



Obviously I can't let you go without a couple of pics, so here's what did get 'done' today....



Another of the D'Basqueville bodyguards, switched the arms from the original plan as I found these which are less chunky than previously planned. Still need to come up with some kind of shoulder guards though....




And another combat servitor rolls out of the dark forges.


That should tide you other till next time.........

Just to mention it - 'cause I don't think it could be done, at least not without some industrial size gear -, but it is what came to my mind when I first saw it: it should definitively be levitating.

A heavy duty electromagnet on the base, and evenly - and polarity-wise, properly - placed magnets on the strip? Or a flexible magnetic strip, as the material used for fridge magnets?

Of course, metal models would be out of the question then.

Not wanting to mess with you here, tentacles would look ace, but a levitating Möbius strip? That would be something else entirely...

On another note, although I think I've mentioned it before, those small tracked units are great!

Nice creations there! mutant servitors and daemonic bad guys, Moebius loop road is also a cool concept.

Lt - Unfortunately I think the servo-grots have hidden all my super-conducting materials otherwise.....

I'd guess it would have to be a super-conductor moebius strip floating over a base, not sure if you could do it with magnets due to the way the twists would interact with the polarity. Or possibly you could have an elctro-magnetic loop with the strip floating inside it.

Would be damn cool I agree, but yeah, guess resources and time are against me in that one.....

Now here's some damn cool magnetic levitation:




And here's the effect using a moebius strip as the road....




And here's an explanation of it for the scientifically curious....






shaso - Thanks a lot dude! Let's hope I can do justice to the concept....

Cool videos to boot!

Science, cool stuff and the occasional model....look at all the goodness this thread provides


Ok, still in the planning stages with figures for RTN, so nothing to show there.

Couple of other tit-bits for you though...


Leggy Linda:



A long, lithe, luscious, leggy daemonette whose eager to please....
I spent a couple of hours trying out different arms before going back to two of the original arms. GS work at the 'waist' still needs some work....


Apothe-scary:



And every 'good' chaos warband needs a decent apothecary...
Originally planned to have more tools coming from under the leg unit, but couldn't get it to work quite right, so just the extra arm at the front and a light underneath.



And it's about time for another interesting concept ....



An idea for a dark magos, possibly originally a Magos Biologis?


Thanks for stopping by.....TTFN....

CRAZY JUST CRAZY no not you your models I really feel like these were inspired by the Jason and the Argonauts film either way great work and like the twisted warp road idea now thats thinking out the box

Hope the therapy is working out for you mate as well

Always with the tentacles...

Where would the world be without tentacles...

I nearly mentioned the superconductor levitating thing for the Moebius strip. Very interesting physics and chemistry involved.
But it can be tricky to get hold of high-temp' superconductors and liquid nitrogen, at least the magnets are reasonably easy to get.

Good work on the various people;
Liking the D'Basqueville bodyguard. Looks a slippery customer...
The servitor looks a mean beasty.

Only one thing to say about Linda; She's got legs, and knows how to use them...
Apothe-scary is cool. Where'd the legs come from?
And that is one interesting concept.

Keep it up. Good work.

There is the theory of the moebius, A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop, where time becomes a loop.

When we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again, When we reach that point, whatever happened will happen again.

Best trek episode/orbital track ever...

Hope your knees and yourself feels better soon.

Really digging the 'old school' vibe you've got here! I know it's a wrong term since it suggests more Rogue Trader era stuff, whilst this is more 2nd/3rd edition style. Kinda miss that old madness from time to time!

hey mate.... I was fearing to look into your thread and be squashed by too much info... well... you used the clever road of a hiatus to spare me from that... it is really bugging me (tho I have an explanation for my own needs...) how so many talented fellas here suffer from the "big grey feeling"... I hope you get better... (no point in adding here soon as I know that road myself...)

I really like your RTN project... I was wondering...if you cant get the magnetics all worked up... I would suggest using thin nylon cable to let the whole thing hang in the air... (it will probably be never a true playable terrain piece... but an awesome diorama... paralleled to nothing out there...) and have a frame around everything... if you hand the frame then on the wall it would be a 3D picture... you could even make a non square frame then...

and your minis look awesome and freaky... so nothing new there....

as LDD stated... seems you ate a great helping of harryhousen pie

That Zoat style model is awesome. The simplest way to balance the road would be around a tower or peak.

dog - Nah...it's both The daemonette was actually partly inspired by a John Blanche sketch, but I can totally see where you're coming from, the sculptor of the succubus model obviously took some cues from Harryhausen. Outside the box, but inside the tesseract

And thanks....it's definitely helping


Dr H - True, true

Yeah, it's interesting stuff - I'd seen the Moebius strip before, but looking for it again lead me to that first one where they 'lock' the sled at different angles - that was cool.

Cheers for the comments The apothecary's legs come from a Warmachines kit - one of the Convergence of Cyriss faction.


weety - Now I want to add an MP3 player to the base loaded with that track Thanks!


Malika - I'm happy with old school - that encompasses RT and 2nd Edition to me That old madness is the best part to me, always miss it


Vik - Hey, none of my threads ever progress at the speed of yours And thanks, I appreciate it

Hadn't thought of suspending it until you mentioned it....wall frame won't really work as I you really need to be able to rotate it (plus I have little spare wall space, and no really solid walls ), but hanging it from a tentacle is down as a possibilty

Thank you, that's what I'm always aiming for

Think that's all down to the head sculpt, but suprised I didn't catch that myself.


Llama - Thanks, glad you like Who wants simple? That would be an idea, but I want there to be line of sight across the middle so not this time....


Ok, so some ideas for the characters...or rather, idas for their 'uniform' styles, was just figuring out the general look, not the actual pieces themselves....

1:



Scion legs, DE arms, modified Elf torso and head.


2:



Scout legs, Scion torso, cadian arms, Dreamforge head


3:



Elf legs, Dreamforge torso, cadian arms, Elysian head. Arms don't really fit the style on this one.....


4:



Scout legs, marine torso, cadian arms and head. An old favourite of mine that I never actually get around to making, was my idea for an Inquisitor's Storm trooper squad way back when....


5:



Dreamforge legs, cadian torso, Scion arms, hellrider head. Only arms other than the DF ones that really work with the legs....


Marine:



And was thinking that it might be fun to do a kind of true-scale marine for the CSMs.


Like I said I was planning for 4 characters, wih two slightly different versions of each, originally two marines just because I felt they worked better in a duel formation which is part of the 'plan'. Athough I guess if I went with a powerful dark eldar or harlequin they could face off a marine.....

As is often my way though, I'm considering another direction now.....the idea of some of the figures actually being daemonic entities forming out of the essence of the road itself.....
Need to think on that a little as it will affect the dynamics of the pieces somewhat....and not sure if I do go that route whether to keep the theme of multiple instances of characters caught in the time loop - I'll probably need to cut down to 2 characters if I go this way, so it might be more effective to just have different guys........


Road:



So, was adding some extra layers to the road when I came up with the daemon idea mentioned above - and figured I should stop here if I'm going to be bringing creatures out of the road itself...I can then add anything I feel necessary once they're in place....


Others:



Concept for a marine - quite possibly one suffering with a slight case of possession....




Take one old rough-rider/hybrid that was planned for my stealer cult many, many moons ago, add one old jet-bike that's been lying around for a while and hey....we might have something here...... Figure he'll make some kind of Slaaneshi cult biker.....




Some kind of scavenger/cultist....the jester hat could work into a possible Cirque de Terreur - I'm working on a stilt-walking musician type so we'll see where that goes....




And a sweet little critter....


Thanks for stopping by....see you anon.....


edited for disgustingly poor spelling.....

hmmmm.... your characters I can only say the first one actually spoke to me... the others look not that good to me to be honest... too mishmash for my part... the first one has that interesting head...that makes him stand out and he looks as if there is a story about him waiting to be revealed...
the idea to have characters ooze out of the road is a good idea... but I would rather use some kind of horrors or nurgle thingies use for that job...

what I also could see is a small platoon of maybe four or three poor wee IG´s and they get startled and strangled by the new road they have to "travel"...

also... that "jester" character looks quite interesting too on second look...

Some good stuff here the Slaaneshi style marine is particularly good if rather clean by your standards

You really do love mixing it up don't you mate although there are some strange combos it has given ideas and after all beauty is in the eye of the beholder or should that be creater

Either way interesting and thought provoking stuff and where the hell is that jetbike from

Yeah, it's interesting stuff - I'd seen the Moebius strip before, but looking for it again lead me to that first one where they 'lock' the sled at different angles - that was cool.

Yeah, that's called "Flux pinning", should you want to look it up (or haven't already).

Good ideas you have floating about for the chappies. Look forward to how they progress and how the strip-tentacle-daemons turn out.

Nice line out!

And I like the idea of the characters either being part of or coming out of the road, I think it would go well with the 4 dimensional / chaossy (either or the same?) concept.

I am liking the blends, I am also so used to my Dreamforge guys as are, that one guy you made looks so stocky! (It's the GW proportions.)

Like the monster blends of parts very creepy vibe

Vik - That's fair enough, most of the others would require a bit fo work to make them, err, work. They were mainly to get ideas flowing for various uniforms rather than the actual characters themselves - although the first one may well end up joining an Inquisitor now.
Yep, the idea is for more daemonesque type things to be forming out of the road rather than characters- although now I'm also playing with the idea of there being malformed 'copies' of the characters coming out of the surface.....really need to stop exploring different tracks and get a move on with whichever direction I'm going to go in.....

See, that's just adding fuel to the different directions.... I've been thinking of chaos 'champions' from various warbands/cults stuck on the path....but there's certainly merit in having a squad together, and even having the Emperor's lackeys caught there....hmm, how about an Inquisitor and his warband......

The jester is part of the general chaos stuff, not for the RTN. As stated he may very well become part of a Cirque de Terreur, possibly with links to the Troupe D'Basqueville.....


Llama - Thanks! Well, he is only a concept at the moment - plus if he does end up on the RTN then I want him to stand out a bit from the general mutated mess that is the road...or at least one version of him if I have multiple versions...


dog - 'There ain't a problem I can't fix, 'coz I can do it in the mix....' It's the strange combos that lead to interesting places

Jetbike is an old Fenryll piece, there's a rider floating around somewhere, some kind of armoured space-suit.


Dr H - Yeah, I was aware of the concept, but hadn't actually seen a demonstration of it before, so that was cool

Cheers, and me too


Lt - Thank you!

Yeah, I'm fairly sure that's the route I'm going now...at least for some of the participants....


shaso - Cheers! Yep tricky to mix the DF limbs in with standard GW stuff - heads and torsos are a bit easier though.



OK, whilst I'm still working out ideas and practicalities of the involved parties I started adding some more aspects of the road itself in...




I've also realised that the surface should be in a state of flux between different forms, and so really there should be some treadplate or similar in there somewhere...wish I'd thought of that earlier....



And in other news, reports just in of new servitor-drones being worked on in the DarkForge, one example of which has been seen semi-operational....



Bit of tidying up to do, some little knick-knacks to be added, and still debating whether the four small ports will be for 'limbs' or maneuvering thrusters...


Right, there's your proof of life.....I'm off.....

Nice mix up there monkey

I like the road so far and some other texture would add to it nicely maybe some partial objects as if they are being dragged through, mind you I am surprised not to see the stretching out arm

As for the drone that looks bloody awesome especially the tentacles, I was thinking it needed some servitor arms but when you mentioned the positioning thrusters it made more sense.

Either way great work keep it coming

Ooo I like that drone he looks like he'd make a great pet, flying up to you when you get home, wagging his tenticles happily and drooling foul icor onto your boots. Do you suppose he's house trained?

dog - I think if you look closely at those pics you may be able to see a hand....there were two arms and three hands at that point...there will be more, I just needed to confirm figure placement before adding anything else.

Yeah, it was originally going to get smaller mechadendrites with manipulators on the end, but then I realised I quite liked the look as is......


weety - Fully house trained and able to perform many household tasks, although he has a tendency to let tea brew for too long......



So, been working if my placement fo figures was still viable with some of the changes I've been contemplating with the line-up....and at this point I think so....obviously nothing is set in stone still, but.....

So test shots of poses....only a couple of the figures are correct at the moment, but it gives me something to work with, both for more road surface shenanigans, and the actual figures. ANd I really do need to start getting somewhere with them if I'm to finish this.....




That's all for now...thanks for stopping in.....