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Sweet Jesus that is looking dashing there old chap ok a little bleed but on the whole very tidy work and great choice of colour as I think Rogue Wolves may have commented on once

That is looking friggin awesome I have to say well impressed here I need to dust of my airbrush (or buy a new one at least) and get started ace work and inspiring ...

Like the idea of the tracked unit for spraying hazzard lines that is Epic "WALL-E"

lol...at first i thought that was just a shadowy hole in the levels... great work mate... you begin your journey to professionalism...it is a stony way but you are running downhill it seems^^

Still a good tower, and it makes me remember past games

Been thinking about getting back into Necromunda and this blog just might push me over the edge. My hats off to you. All of my hats.

Rogue Wolves wrote:now lets get to the great weathering like your snack machine!.. oh and i guess i cant go a post without saying it.. i love you color choices

Thanks again Rogue! Color choice is usually the hardest part for me, but this one just sort of worked out well. The weathering will be a bit less on this one, I really want to recreate the rust just beginning to spread from the panel lines similar to the original artwork for this tower.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looking great!

Thank you sir!

Rawson wrote:! You have an impressive rate of progress! Looking great, mate! "In the grim darkness of the 41st millenia, there are no handrails, only hazard stripes"

Absolutely! The painting servitor keeps doing his job day after day, hundreds of years after he was programmed to do so!

Rawson wrote:! Now, Dave. Didn't we learn our lesson about overspray before? Hmmm?

Yep! And I neglected to use the extra tape, just because I was running low. It's all good, I will be able to easily touch that area up with the airbrush I just want the damn workday to get over with so I can get it done.

shasolenzabi wrote:Now that tower is looking very Necromundish!

Thanks man! That's the whole idea! I'm glad to hear i'm getting it right!

lone dirty dog wrote:Sweet Jesus that is looking dashing there old chap ok a little bleed but on the whole very tidy work and great choice of colour as I think Rogue Wolves may have commented on once

That is looking friggin awesome I have to say well impressed here I need to dust of my airbrush (or buy a new one at least) and get started ace work and inspiring ...

Like the idea of the tracked unit for spraying hazzard lines that is Epic "WALL-E"

Thanks LDD!
If I had to buy a new one, I believe I'd go for an Iwata- I have read many good things about that brand.

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol...at first i thought that was just a shadowy hole in the levels... great work mate... you begin your journey to professionalism...it is a stony way but you are running downhill it seems^^

Thanks Vik! I don't think I can be called a
professional" though unless I am making money I may leave some of the darkness for shadow- we shall see how well I can touch that up inside with the airbrush- it'll be a difficult angle, but should be doable.

shasolenzabi wrote:Still a good tower, and it makes me remember past games

Thanks bro!

whigwam wrote:Been thinking about getting back into Necromunda and this blog just might push me over the edge. My hats off to you. All of my hats.

Awesome! Thanks whigwam! Much appreciated. please link me if you do! I want to see your stuff

It's looking really good man!

Damn I want an airbrush now - Its never going to happen though.

My idea for archeotech - Crashed star trek shuttle... Or a tie fighter. Probably not though - why would they be there? But I love visual jokes. Maybe an Apollo style space capsule.

No seriously. Suspended animation pods? Giant robot? Enormous Tesla coils?


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OOOh ooh - the voyager space probe!

Blimey you go through so many damned pages, so quickly! Seriously though your work is amazing and the painting progress on the towers is epic.

Looking great Dave! WoW! I am really impressed by the progress you are making with the airbrush! Impressed and envious!

Thanks Weety! Some good ideas there.....V'ger!

Thanks a lot Farty! much appreciated man!

Jake, thanks man, Honestly, I am impressed myself at what I have learned. It is a tool that I actually WANT to use now more than a regular brush. Although it is no replacement for a brush, it sure makes the painting go fasta!

hmm... i like that idea of weety...a sarcopahargus of the hibernation type...like they did in planet of the apes...i am of course talking of the very first one...not that other gibberish...where that hottie from the very first minutes shows up as a mummy after the crash... that would be a nice thing to make...also it would be a challange for you to work with clear PC...eh?^^

Hmmm,, cryo-tube with a body in it, and frosty still, Ooh! it's fresh!

Yeah, but it needs to be some long-forgotten tech that was once actually used in the city. Imagine them building a dome over a ground-level city of today, then they keep building on top of that, over and over and over. If it crash landed there, it would have had to crash thousands of years ago with no one ever noticing it was there for thousands of years. Inquisitors would have made damn sure ANY Xenos tech was removed looong ago. These are good ideas on their own, and would make great modeling projects, but they don't really fit into the underhive setting. It's kind of like the old rule of thumb for a Halloween costume "If it requires explaining, it isn't that good of a costume" you know what I mean?

I could write fluff explaining WHY there is an 8-story yellow bannana building in the underhive, but people are mostly going to look at it and say WTF?

Simple, ancient medicae facility buried during rebuilding

dsteingass wrote:Yeah, but it needs to be some long-forgotten tech that was once actually used in the city. Imagine them building a dome over a ground-level city of today, then they keep building on top of that, over and over and over. If it crash landed there, it would have had to crash thousands of years ago with no one ever noticing it was there for thousands of years. Inquisitors would have made damn sure ANY Xenos tech was removed looong ago. These are good ideas on their own, and would make great modeling projects, but they don't really fit into the underhive setting. It's kind of like the old rule of thumb for a Halloween costume "If it requires explaining, it isn't that good of a costume" you know what I mean?

I could write fluff explaining WHY there is an 8-story yellow bannana building in the underhive, but people are mostly going to look at it and say WTF?

lol...but that halloween rule is sure what you should stick with... that is very sound reasoning...


but the cryo thinggummy sure is one heck of a close shave there... and you could gather lots of referrence pics from oh so many games...


but here is a new contestant... how about...:

a jetbike...everyone knows they are damn next to nonexistant nowadays... so a crashlanded one could be found...and this is awsomesauce all right... besides i doubt if the inquisition is THAT effective as you describe them...basically they are a bunch of flatfoots and brownnoses...and we all know how they can get sidetracked by a donut...

Ah, a damaged but salvageable jetbike rusting away down in the depths.

Yeah, I like the idea of a medical facility, lots of cool equipment possibilities there! I love the idea of a Jetbike too! But I think i'd rather have a jetbike gang a-la- The Hell's Angels, all hopped up on downhive drugs and just out to cause havoc!

I was thinking a potential salvage thing,,,you know, an objective for the gangs to battle it out over.

now we are cooking with fire!... madmax meets the underhive... that would be classy... also it is done already... dunno where but one guy is making a biker gang for munda... i have it in my subded list...deep down somewhere... he doesn´t update so often...

as for archeotech... mostly you just take your average not needed toaster or printer and give him the sledgehammer treatment...the remaining bitz that can be put on to a base...=instant archeotech^^... but you make this a really tough nut now...hmmm... i would strongly like to make a good recomendadion for that...but somehow i only get the not really good ones from my mind... that is now a matter of personal creative honor...

ok one more try... what about a lathe? with some old weapons on racks and on the actual lathe? many options for a cool archeotech thingies to get salvaged? you could try yourselv with making some eldarlike guns for once...

oooh! Machine tools! now that interests me!
Elves just aren't an interest for me, unless the activity is killing them with Dwarfs Love a good grudgematch!

And yep Shas, I can definitely see gangs duking it out over some rare hover-tech for sure!

well of course the lathe idea would work with a bolter workshop too...

Or a bolter lathe.

exactly!

Holy Crap! when I got home today I had two packages of Dakka Karma!! It REALLY DOES come back around if you pay it forward- I COMPLETELY believe in it. And I am NOT a man of faith.
First, LDD is the MAN! He sent me these cool OOP Metal Catachans! I've never had any of these older flamers- I like them!


And then, Galorn suprised me with this big-ass box of his casted stuff! He even sent me a wall mold he made!


If you aren't familiar with Galorn's terrain, you MUST check out his thread!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/391231.page

I cannot begin to explain how good it makes me feel to be a part of this EPIC community of hobbyists that we call Dakka! Sure, there are some on here that give all us geeks a bad name, but they generally don't hang out on the P&M Forums, for lack of talent on their own. But It makes me really feel glad to be counted amongst some true friends!

hmmm... these walls...do you have already plans for them? some of the parts looks really coo....well actually i cant see any that doesn´t qualify for coolness^^

and those catachans...lovley...yep...dakka is a cool place to be...i had my share of nice happenings in the mail too due to some frieds on dakka...as you fully well know...but other s did that too...and when i can i spring into action too...^^ it is always nice to do some helpful acts...


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just checked his stuff out...again...i knew his work...but somehow never subscribed to his thread... cool guy...

He basically built his walls exactly like I built my walls for the 20mm Stalingrad and Euro village but he did it in 28mm and added rivets! They are perfectly universal for anything at all really. I don't have any definite plans yet, but boy is my imagination going wild sitting here looking at them!

and since you have made the new steps with the airbrush...the sky is the limit... that will fill quite abig space on your table i bet...

/scratches stubble thoughtfully.....

thinking before springing into action...lol^^

I have been waiting all day to do this




Touched up the blue with the airbrush and used it to slightly weather the stripes with a fine mist from above