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Rose_Mountainz wrote:http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

^this. A thousand times this. Shame dude. But those cultists look promissing.

Rose_Mountainz wrote:http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/
Sorry to hear that they didn't fit dude. Have you tried every design? It looks like some of the more bulkier could fit.

Full of win.

I've got an idea...Get a huge drill bit. Drill into a CSM head. Stick the PIP head inside the CSM head! Now it's the right size

That sucks though. They look really great too. What a shame. You should boycott them until the make them 1.2 times larger. But you're right. They look great on IG. I think that's what they had originally planned for them.

That land raider is secks-C. Loving the ramp. It really just screams 'rage raider'

Kinda sucks that they are too small for the CSM woulda been cool to have them on and all.

You folks are cool. Thank you.

@ Rose_Mountainz- That cracked me up so much I not only bookmarked it, I shared it with coworkers. I heard it at least 20 random times today. I did try all the different heads. My friend Daichallar is coming over tomorrow night to play a game and he's going to give me an opinion in person. He feels since they are all bare heads they would actually be "to scale" and that I'm seeing them as too small because I'm used to huge helms in the same space that the "smaller" head would be in, which in theory stands to reason but I don't agree because I've got headsw/o helms from the CSM sprue and they are much larger. But I'm not going to give up completely just yet. If he's persuasive I'll paint one up and post here for opinions.

@ Scrazza- Welcome back! I'll admit that while not my first choice by far I'm really digging on the Cultist angle. I'm a huge fan of Necromunda and I used to play a Genestealer Cult back in the day (shameless promotion of my other thread, go check it out!) so maybe once I have my Land Raider and my Death Guard Berzerkers and 6 or 7 more Plague Marine squads done I'll give them some serious attention. The possibility for conversion is almost limitless. That will be a cool project. This of course is subject to some change if the heads work out (re: above paragraph) but I'm pretty sure that I'm riding the last thread of hope for them on Plague Marines.

@ Samus_aran115- I actually did that. I took a Skull Champion helm ( I have at least 20 of them, not sure when that happened...) and tried coring it out and fit a gas mask head into it. I'm not posting a pic of the result. Suffice to say it was a genuine fail. I really, really wanted this to work. But all is not lost. I have some awesome Cultists waiting to be made.

@ zadelistol- No doubt. You of all people know how much I was looking forward to those heads coming in. But it is a ... ha... small matter. I have other things I can focus on and there are other companies to try. I just won't be spending as much $$$ on a chance this time.

That said, if anyone knows of a company that has gas mask heads that might fit what I am trying to do, please post here and I'll check them out.


Update for tonight- Getting work done on the "big three" projects I have open right now. First is a bit of progress on my Chosen squad (who have been named "The Lost")




Not even close to being done but a little work here and ther eis helping them get that way. I'm going to be experimenting with blending on these. Right now I'm figuring out the base colors and will start to mess with things from there. Also caught an illegal model. Can you spot which it was from the previous picture? Hint- in 2nd Ed he'd have been a CC monster.

Next is my Terminator squad. Not a lot of progress but I'm plugging away at it as I can. I should be able to finish the Heavy Flamer tomorrow:



Last is the Land Raider. To get the look I am shooting for I decided to cut back on the front hatch even more. You could say that I'm modeling for disadvantage since I'm moving the point of disembarkment further back on the vehicle. Another example of how I'd sooner play a cool looking army than a WAAC army. I'm posting these pics because (1) it was a lot more work than you'd thing it should be to cut all that stuff out, and (2) it'll make for excellent before and after pics once it is done:




I'm not very excited about any of these projects right now, admittedly I'm still a bit wrapped up in pouting over the PIP heads. But I'm doing something and that's what is most important right now. Push through the low spots and keep chugging away. The Shelf of Shame shall not claim another model!

Thanks one and all for your posts, it's always appreciated. Three day weekend coming up but once again I find myself laden with social activities (such as a 2,000 pt battle w/ my friend Daichallar tomorrow night.. he got 6 Kans as a gift recently and has already put them together complete with magnetized weapons! and I'll be watching as my FNP save is negated in CC. Ha. ) so probably no major updates for a few days but I'll be back as soon as I can be with more Death Guard misery to share.

I peed myself when i saw your daemon prince. It is amazing as with you whole army. Keep it up.

Yeah. I was looking forward to them as well. But atleast you have something to help with Apoc.
Hmm. as for what model it is, not sure. I would have to take a MUCH closer look at it. Which, just getting off of work I am too tired to do so. I hate graveyard shifts but I love staying up at night. Lol.

As for the LR:
Should have a door that works, well like a normal door. opening down the middle from top to bottom and a ramp that pulls out from the bottom. I think that would make it look epic, but thats just me.

Glad to hear that enjoyed the link and found something positive about the heads not fiting at least. Ok cool, looking forward to a painted mini with one of the heads then!

I have an idea for that door.Get the two dozer blades from the two chaos sprues. Fit them together so they form the hatches! My friend did this, and it turned out bootiful!

Oh, and you tried that? Wow, I thought I was mad scientist or something They'l look good on the cultists for sure though!

Chin up mate, so the heads are too small. Just give us Nurgley traitor guard to drool over - your army won't mind some lovely cannon fodder I'm sure

Hails to all. The holi-daze is almost over. I've been working on some stuff and will have new updates soon. Very excited about a score I made on eBay, just a bunch of troops but they went for very cheap and while I have no idea how I didn't get sniped at the last second I'm grateful for the good luck on my part. I also rec'd my order from HOB so once I get the ol' motivation fired back up I'll start laying into the GS with a discerning vision and expect to be offering some WIP photos before long.

Next projects on deck (in no particular order)

- finish the Terminator squad

- GS the Land Raider

- finish a couple more squads of Plague Marines

- finish "filler" models of Special Weapons and Aspiring Champions

Lots more coming. Lots. Pics w/ next update. And as always, thanks for reading.

Was wondering what happened to you.
Got worried the warp sucked you away to party with Slaanesh XD

No, although that would be preferable to the truth. I'm just overwhelmed. Project X was a disappointment, my Land Raider seems to be resisting every idea I throw at it, my Terminators are annoying me, the "Lost" are demanding much more attention to detail than I have motivation for, and the horde of Death Guard that were destined for gas mask helms are sitting (literally) inches from my Shelf of Shame.

It's a motivation issue more so than burnout. Just not feeling it.

The up side is that I'm far from inactive, I've made a lot of new terrain and the table is looking great. Played 3 games this weekend. Got stomped in the first two but pulled out a stunning victory in the third.

I'll be back on track soon. I am looking forward to getting things back together and start churning out the diseased brutality that is the Death Guard!

Ah. Don;'t throw the gas mask plagues onto the shelf of shame! they deserve to be fielded before they go there!. hmm. i will look around for something suitable to try to help out. And I'm still wanting to know what project X is.

Keep your chin up. I was uber non-motivated, and then out of the blue, got 6 Marines done this weelkend. (Pics later tonight hopefully).

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:No, although that would be preferable to the truth. I'm just overwhelmed. Project X was a disappointment, my Land Raider seems to be resisting every idea I throw at it, my Terminators are annoying me, the "Lost" are demanding much more attention to detail than I have motivation for, and the horde of Death Guard that were destined for gas mask helms are sitting (literally) inches from my Shelf of Shame.

It's a motivation issue more so than burnout. Just not feeling it.

The up side is that I'm far from inactive, I've made a lot of new terrain and the table is looking great. Played 3 games this weekend. Got stomped in the first two but pulled out a stunning victory in the third.

I'll be back on track soon. I am looking forward to getting things back together and start churning out the diseased brutality that is the Death Guard!

OK Skalk here is a big motivation for you. Go out and treat your self to a new airbrush and compressor! That will get your paint juices flowing again.

GreyDeathOne wrote:

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:No, although that would be preferable to the truth. I'm just overwhelmed. Project X was a disappointment, my Land Raider seems to be resisting every idea I throw at it, my Terminators are annoying me, the "Lost" are demanding much more attention to detail than I have motivation for, and the horde of Death Guard that were destined for gas mask helms are sitting (literally) inches from my Shelf of Shame.

It's a motivation issue more so than burnout. Just not feeling it.

The up side is that I'm far from inactive, I've made a lot of new terrain and the table is looking great. Played 3 games this weekend. Got stomped in the first two but pulled out a stunning victory in the third.

I'll be back on track soon. I am looking forward to getting things back together and start churning out the diseased brutality that is the Death Guard!

OK Skalk here is a big motivation for you. Go out and treat your self to a new airbrush and compressor! That will get your paint juices flowing again.

I second this!
We are all here drooling over this project*or at least I am* Keep it up Skalk

That or take a little break from painting your Death guard, buy a metal blister that is anyting but a marine and paint that just to take a break from the small dissapointment.

Thanks all. I'm over it. Winter sucks but enough is enough.

Short update as nothing is actually *done*, but I finally got back to work.

The Terminator squad is coming along nicely. I expect to have them done in a week or so. Have only been painting them at work on lunch.



Also put some work into another Aspiring Champion. This is a "rescue" job, it came in a batch of eBay models that was pretty messed up. So I'm messing it up even more to match my army scheme. He's carrying a Power Sword, this will be my first one in years. I'll post pics when it's done, I'm going to try something different (but alas no airbrush).





My Land Raider is still annoying me, but I really want to field it. The bits from HOB are here, I have the GS I need, and even bought some modeling tools. Now all I need to do is get some work done. The front hatch is a challenge. I want it to resemble a fleshy gaping maw. I'll figure it out.



I've also put together a few more Traitor Guard but they aren't worthy of a picture. They are on the back burner until I get some real work done.

Thanks for sticking with me during the down side of this project. I'm back on track and genuine updates will follow shortly.

Power swords aren't all that bad Skalk. Glad to see that your back in action

Good stuff to see you back dude - keep at it. Work is a pain in the backside - work and lack of motivation go hand-in-hand I find

The advice of taking a break to paint something else might not be a bad idea, I find with painting my Iyanden Eldar (got yellow!?) I can get very demotivated but have a ton of other more interesting things to paint when yellow-based despair sets in.

Looking forward to seeing the Terminators finished!

Glad to see you've found some motivation Skalk!
Might I suggest changing the colour of the power sword? Just to add some more contrast. Purple or red perhaps?

@ btemple0- Agreed. I've been sorting my bitz bins and finding stuff that will work well with my Traitor Guard. They do not have anything on them that directly ties them to the Death Guard, they paint up like Necromunda Scavvies. A good general "Guard gone wrong" force. I won't be sharing them for a while but they are my "gah I am sick of green and bronze!" backup.

@ zadelistol- Thanks it's good to be back at it. As soon as I finish SOMEthing... ANYthing... I'll feel like I have less bearing down on me and have some focus. Once I decide exactly how I'm going to make the maw of the Land Raider work I'll fly through the rest of it.

@ grantosjones- The green & bronze combo has been getting on my nerves but I'm pushing past it. It's not the painting, it's the "everything else". But I'm still at it. Granted I have spent over an hour just picking away at the dried paint on my table trying to decide if I really want to paint of not... but I'm back to it. Those Terminators are almost done and just because I hate them so much right now I'm going to ensure that they lead the charge in my next game. If they survive then they will have absolved themselves. If they die (especially against Tyranid close combat or Ork withering fire) I will feel some sense of vengeance against them. Either way balance will be restored.


@ Limbo- It's going to be a contrasting color for sure. And between you and tipios I finally did it... a plastic BR Space Marine Dreadnought is on the way to be horrifically mutilated and join the Death Guard. Don't hold your breath on seeing it though, if I frontload it ahead of the Land Raider I have a feeling I'd be lynched.


Just a short text update, no pics to share this time because I've decided to cheat a bit. You know that I surf eBay constantly looking. Recently I scored 2 auctions that I could not resist. Both were Plague Marines units, already painted. One was of 8, another 10. I have whittled them down to the holy number 7 and I will be running them along with the rest of my force. I've done very minor touchups to give them a more connected feel but they do look quite different. One is kitted out to be a perfect Chosen squad, the others are just grunts. The new Aspiring Champion I posted a pic of the other day came in the same eBay auction but I could not stand to look at it so I brought him over to my force with a more similar paintjob. He's also the first Power Weapon in my force. That whole "no armor save" thing has been looking better and better lately because other people have been using it on me... ha.

More coming soon, I have a bunch of things that are close to being done.



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Ok, here they are. Squad Excermentum.



I am so sick of looking at Terminators right now I don't care if I never paint another ever again.

On the up side, here's my new Aspiring Champion:



I don't like the Power Sword so I'm not going to do a closeup. I need to practice that sort of painting technique before sharing.

So there we go. Something is done, balance restored, driving ever onward.

I like the whole gasmasked heads idea, looks great.

Love the dude with 3 eyes.

I understand the whole getting frustrated witha paint scheme. Its good to have somethinge else to work on.

Very nice terminators, champion is great too. The metal on his nurgle icon especially catches my eye for some reason.

And screw the land raider! Dreadnought!!

Keep up with the raider. Dread are very much hated in chaos*fluff mostly*
I really don't like the frenzy rule so I haven't gotten one.
I decided my next purchase will be AOBR for the marines to convert and gonna trade the orks here.
I like that champion, and why power fist? Initiative 1>< That's probably why I don't use them. But...that double S looks good.

@ Lord of Death Mountain- It's an idea that is on hold, what I tried didn't work out as well as I had hoped and other projects demand my attention. I may revisit it but for now the gas mask idea is shelved.

@ wolfshadow- Thanks, I'm pretty happy with that once considering what it looked like when I first got it. I wish I had taken a "before and after" set of photos but was so out of practice I forgot until after I'd done a lot of work.

@ Limbo- The metal I use is Ral Partha Bronze w/ a wash of Griffon Sepia and a light dab of Devlin Mud. And about the Dread vs. Land Raider.... well, read on.

@ zadelistol- I think you'll like the update.



























Yeah, put some space in there on purpose for dramatic effect.

It's one thing to say that I'm back. It's another to show it. Today's update is work I did last night. Still a long way to go, but now I really feel that this is something I'm going to finish shortly. WIP- Death Guard Land Raider:


Left Hull TL Lascannon - basically the same thing as the right side, draped in necrotic fleshy stuff. I noticed the thumbprint after I took the pic and fixed it but didn't bother w/ a new pic as these are WIP and are presented with the expectation that they are not necessarily representations of the finished project.




Left Hull Rear Hatch- Not much really, but is a dig on where this Land Raider came from. Look behind the Nurgle icon. Recognize what got ground off that hatch door? Hhahhaha





Right Hull Rear Hatch- I've always thought this head looked great but was completely stupid w/ the model it was intended for use with. I've been wanting to incorporate into the iconography of my Death Guard army for a while now but it never seemed "right" until now. Comments? And the white mixed in w/ the GS is super glue, I was a bit impatient and started to apply GS before the glue has set so in typical Skalk Bloodaxe fashion I just mashed it all together and made it work. At least I think I made it work. I am going to go back over it a bit to enhance that whole "face pushing out of the fleshy ick on the side of the hull but being restrained by sinew and tissue" look but overall I'm happy with this and with exception to cleaning up the mold line (which I am doing no matter what) could go "as is".




Right Hull Front- This is the only part of the project I'm sort of "ehhhh" about. Tentacles. They have their place and can look cool, but I'm not sure about using them here like this. Originally I was going to use organic spiky bits here, but as you'll see in a moment I used those for the maw as teeth and wasn't sure I could sell the idea of the exact same sort of bits side-by-side but in completely different roles. So my question to all who read this is- what do you think? Are the tentacles ok or should I replace them w/ the original spiky bits idea?




Front hatch: "The Maw"- THIS is the part I am most pleased with, it defines the entire vehicle. I've seen other people use this and while I credit them with inspiration, I like this a lot more. That said, it's not completed because there's spots I need to fill in and blend it all together, but this is a fair representation of where I'm going with this and it's only going to get better as I tie everything together:




Death Guard Land Raider overview- In all, I think the idea was solid and the progress I've made is in line with the original plan as much as possible. Setbacks aside, this has been a fun project (once I was able to focus on it again) and I think the end result is going to be impressive.




You'll notice a distinct absence of treads. I decided to take the advice I was given earlier in this thread (thanks to all who pointing me in that direction) and send a little business to Machinator, he is a casting & conversion GOD. Go check out his threads and marvel at the absolute awesomeness he has created. No, really. Go now. I'll wait until you come back.

*time passes*

Welcome back. Wasn't that stuff AMAZING? I bought a set of Oppressor Pattern 0 Tank Treads and as soon as they arrive I'll be fitting them and looking forward to grinding my enemies to paste with them. And it's also another part of making this Land Raider a guaranteed "one of a kind" vehicle. I'm still curious why the GW Chaos Land Raider has the Imperial Aquila on the treads... actually I think I know why, but is it very cynical and I'm not going to hijack my own thread.

So rejoice one and all! Skalk Bloodaxe has returned to the front lines with chainaxe in hand! Death to the xenos scum! Death to the False Emperor!

Not totally sure about the tentacles. TBH, I think they take away from it, and to me they aren't that 'nurgle-y

However...

I freakin' LOVE the loading ramp/maw thingie. That is awsome.

That is a really cool land raider.

Chaos Lord: "Right men into the raider and pray to Nurgle to doesn't chew its food".

wolfshadow wrote:Not totally sure about the tentacles. TBH, I think they take away from it, and to me they aren't that 'nurgle-y

However...

I freakin' LOVE the loading ramp/maw thingie. That is awsome.

That's it. I only had to hear one. I agree. I'm scrapping those right now.


@ Melkhiordarkblade- Thank you for the compliment, and the quote cracked me up. I didn't even think of it from the passenger's perspective. I can imagine you'd want to board thrugh the side hatches...


I'll be back. I have some tentacles to rip out. I knew that was going to happen. If I don't like it why do I just do it anyway? Gah...

It is a small matter. It's Saturday, no one is home but me, I have a Bolt Thrower / Obituary / Cannibal Corpse mix blasting on my stereo, and lots of beer in the fridge. I could be be doing a lot worse things right now.