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LOL! Like it!

nice painting scheme^^ the plasma gun looks very good...and those pupils are huge...^^ hope everything is back to normal tho...

Rather busy weekend, but sadly not on the hobby front. But I did manage to fiddle about with the IC lascannon and make it look different for my Lasplas. I made good use of the good old toothpick And of course some nice small rivets



Although i am not sure how much of this will be visible as it will be recessed slightly into the turret.

THAT...i beseach thee...needs more pics...how many bitz did you use for that... or is it all scratchbuilt...it´s hard to tell from the lightsource...

weekends are always full...with kids anyway... we went ice-skating...not me, becuase i can´t... but at least i could freeze...and pretty good at that^^

I will try to take some better pictures tonight.

It was an IG Lascannon, I cut off the cabling from the bottom (as it won’t fit in the turret, I may still model something different there). I then cut some plastic into an L shape to fit over the hollow that was on this side. I then glued that down. In the flip side I carved off the IG symbol and the small rivets that were on there. And before you yell heresy about removing rivets, all will become apparent. Because the plate I added did not have rivets I wanted the flip side to have matching rivets, to I sliced some off my GS sausage roll, and glued them onto both sides. I did not like the way the IG barrel looked so I wanted to alter it some how, so I trimmed off the bump (semi circle, or half a solid tube. Which ever is a better descriptor?) off either side. This now looked way to thin so I trimmed some cocktail stick to size and slued them into the gap on both sides. I am still considering adding some more rivets to the front of the barrel.

Lets hope that I am in the right frame of mind tonight to do something useful, be it painting or modelling.

Nice conversion, like the sleekness of It!

And good news, i found another lolly stick that i can use to make the second assult cannon. So i just need to cut the flat plate to size for both guns. I am thinking of attaching some metal to the plates, rather than a second magnet. i have trimed up a bottle cap for one, into a small flat semit circle. No what did i do with that anvil, so i can faltten it out ... mm i ahve a feeling it was my dads rather than mine. .. pants..


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SelvaggioSaky wrote:Nice conversion, like the sleekness of It!

Thank you I think it looks a lot better.

have you considered using earsticks... these


for your needs? i bet you could then make a plethora of assault guns...

ooo what an awesom idea. i can save up all the used ones

NB: Cotton buds

that is one of those words i tend to forgett oh so often

and i would strongly refrain form using used ones... i think the primer wouldn´t take too good on them

Haha, they would be cleaned first

But I was able to create the second assault cannon out of sweetie tube. But there is no picture of that as it’s the same as the last one

As requested here are some more photos of the lascannon. Sadly it was not until I got to work that I notice that they were a little blurry Grrr. But hopefully it will give you a better idea.



This one is where I trimmed off the existing rivets and the IG symbol.


Here you can see how thin the barrel was before I added the tooth picks.

seeing this now i am wondering how you can use the wood grain to your benefit...hmmm will your tank look weathered? i think this offers a good oprtunity for weathering...and scratches...

with your interest in riveting^^ you should try to get some very thin plasticcard/ styrene rods to cut the rivets in a massproduced looking way...tho there is nothing i am atm seeing that should make you feel unconfortable with your recent work!

just an idea for future works...

Looks really nice, might have to start thinking about converting some of my own

I am not sure about weathering ATM. I have no plans for specific weathering. But the washes I will use will have them looking far from pristine. I have got a whirlwind, but have not posted pictures in This blog, so may be I should drop them in.











I do not like the amount of brush strokes that can be seen, this is one of the reasons I now have a can of Army Painter red spray. Hopefully this will improve the look of my next vehicles. Also I will be using Devlan Mud rather than Babadab black as a wash, and I will try blended highlighting rather than the extreme edge highlighting.

At the time I did not have a Gryphon sepia or Devlan mud wash, so the bone colours need some work. It’s something I should probably go back and touch up.

Not sure if the wooden tubes of the LC will be metal or maybe light filled tubes (but that may look to plasma gunny. So we shall see.



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NB this is about a year old.

Cool! A whilrwind! Don't see many of those now-a-days.

At the time of buying it (or getting it as a Christmas gift) I was not sure about my army list, but I wanted a tank and I thought it looked cool. Also I remember facing one on a battle field and fearing it. Therefore I had to have one. It may also have something to do with pie plate / tank envy from playing my Necrons. (Where I either had none or 1 pie plate / tank if I ran my Monolith)

I expect 6th Edition will put the teeth back into it.

nice psychedelic highlights^^ looks very disco in a way^^...but i mean that in a good way!

as for the toothpicks...i like the idea! make it look like necron gaus rods...that would be something new!

Nice stuff man! Keep it up!

Sorry for the delay, The in laws have come to stay so I have had to tidy up my desk in the spare room :( so all my modelling bits are away for the week :( Also I have decided to spend a bit more time with my wife in the evenings as I have been neglecting her a bit recently. So my picture updates will be a little les soften. But that does mean I will have to be a bit more effective with the time I have in the spare room. Also I may start painting on my lap again in the lounge to gain some extra painting time.



But good things come out of spending time with the wife I bought her some clothes for valentines, and she bought my Space Marine for the xbox (good old ebay £10.50) And as I was picking up her parents and had a 4 hour round trip, I decided to listen to an audio book, so I’m listening to the first book in the Horus Heresy. And rather enjoying it. (it’s the first 40k book I have ever read / listened to)

Also as I was a bit geeking deprived (I had to skip my Dungeons & Dragons session this week as well) I came up with the idea of a side project of making a marine in my office colours so I can have him on my desk lol I work for;



Therefore the design I have plumped for is



I will try to make sure there are some rivets in there some where. This project is down the line a bit, but will come into play if I need a break from all the red.

Neat colors, you'll learn to hate it around marine 17.

Its ok, i only ever plan on making one to have on my desk at work


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He will be the enforcment wing of ACAS, the "boys" that need to be sent round when money is owed lol.

nice idea... that scheme is interesting... a repo marine lol...

and lappainting... er... i stick to lapdance if it is all the same for you^^

I took a couple of photos of the progress I have made so far on Montymus, I have completed the highlighting of the red, and laid down a base coat of brown, black and boltgun on some of the other parts, the boltgun already having a wash of devlan mud.

I am pleased how the highlighting has gone so far, and now that the in-laws have gone, I can finally get back into the spare room and do some painting tonight.




Hopefully tonight I will work on the purple highlights, and try for them to not be as stark as they normally are, or a tleast have a better gradual change. And depending on how that goes, work on the bone colours.

His face kind of looks like the Sasquatch from "Sanctuary". I don't mean that as an insult... it's interesting contrasting a bestial face with the tidiness marine armor. I realize the face my not look bestial when you're done with it... but right now that's what strikes me, and it's pretty cool.

Well my inspiration for the model is pretty Bestial, when screaming into a microphone. lol

colors look good, shading in particular... where i have some difficulties with is the forehead and that massive hairdo... he has some weird looking hairline... a small spot of black to make the curvature a bit more convincing maybe?

Here is my inspiration for the conversion,

I am sure that he would be proud to be called beastial lol.

Viktor von Domm wrote:... he has some weird looking hairline...

Ill have a look at it when i get home, but he has an odd hair doo in real life (see above) with all those massive dreads.

well... as you bring a referrence up for your mini...you might as well say who has inspired you... as i can´t say that i know that dude^^ and probably he would like to be called that way...looks like a metal head^^

it´s just that the hairline is at one point a bit higher than would be expected...^^

The inspiration is Zagblorg And i belive this photo was taken when he was in Funeral Hag.

I will take a look at his hairline tonight