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the thing is with canibalism... it has it´s nutrition value... really..only on a social level it is forbidden... the amino acids provoded by human flesh can be made as effortless as possible to new human proteins again... beef, pork or whatnot is always packed with energy loss... really i am not joking...

but speaking as a human feeling person...i am not even able to kill a maus for a living...sorry bad pun

that orky monorolla...seems to me you have looked into monkey troll stuff^^ good one there.,..

and well the tank looks cool but nevertheless weird^^ i bet that is the point tho^^

and as for suggestions...always and forevermore...deadpool...really and if you are up to it... i need a captain america mini... i want to do that soon for my kids...^^

and you are a brave man maus to chopp away so much from a catachan commander... i dunno if i had the guts to do it^^ but well he looks ace!!!

well they do have some rules for kroot in the underhive too

heres a linky
http://www.yakromunda.com/index.phppage=library&search=kroot

*sigh* i need more plasma rifles for my tau.

er...on that matter...what does a tau plasma gun look like?...i am always confused with tau weaponry a bit^^

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440288a&prodId=prod1060253 his left arm (our right)

ah.... ok... thanks bama...then i actually do own a few^^

vik i would love you and trade my first born to you for them

..It's hard to model "The Shakes" one gets from eating too much human meat

er... bama you make me all blush...^^ or do you just want to have the plasmas? hmmm i will look into my bitzbox tomorrow ok?^^

and no need for your firstborn... i have two of these already... really one must know where the lines is drawn... three kids would be a crowd^^

lol vik yea i would like the plasma rifles they want 5 bucks for one on ebay >.<.
well from waht i know flattery sometimes gets you where you want to go.

but back to maus get kroot!

i´ll see what i can find... but i can´t promise... could all be a totaly misunderstanding... sometimes i see things^^... but if i have those... they get into a letter...^^

wooo vik you are one of the coolest german dudes i know considering all like 6 of you guys that are pretty cool in their own right thats kinda hard to top.

Gotta get me a box of kroot then...

nice additions! a mix of colofull characters indeed, and i like the posing of 47!

This stuff is EPIC. I don't know how I missed this thread up utnil now.

I love the loader and elevated crosswalks. Your minis are very distinct and cool as well.

Your wheeled chimeras make me want to build one for myself.

Thank you thank you... now stop making me blush guys...

but its so much fun!

Obviously

Say... does anyone have a spare female head?
I'm thinking of doing a schoolgirl in uniform next, but with mostly fugly catachan heads it will likely be a drag queen. So i need a nice girly head... can anyone help me out?

if you are in dire need of a female head... i think i recently got some DE heads... and i do recall having a banshee head...

and bama... i am still reminding myself now to have a look... familylife got inbetween... but promised is promised!

i just traded all my de stuff so i have no angry woman yelling faces left

Hey man,

I appreciate the amount of work you've put into your pet project. I can relate: I'm big on converting army man models from the dollar store, as well, I enjoy making GS models, too.

So, speaking of the work you've done, I thought the pinecone tree was quite clever. That particular breed of tree is quite common in my area, I see the cone a lot, yet I'd have never thought to turn it into the base of a jungle tree. That's quite ingenious. My one bit of criticism regarding said-tree, however, is that unpainted it lacks a cohesive look, with the base and the plastic aquarium plant being quite different both in colour, texture, and look. If you gave the entire thing an undercoat first and then a quick paint job it would help blend the model together. Though, painting aquarium plants is kind of a drag... you need oil paints else the colours just crack off with handling.

The other thing I wanted to mention was in regards to your "green building." It's a monstrous thing, and that's super cool. There's nothing like a huge looming behemoth structure on the battlefield to remind your troops just how small and frail they are! While the building should be huge, and indeed, it is, bigger is not always better when it comes to the more subtle features, in this case, the ladder. As it is, the ladder (being cut from a light gauge cardboard, I'm assuming?) is disproportionate from the models. Its rungs are very large- too large for a model to cling to. As well, because of the nature of the material used to craft it, each rung, being wide, flat, and very sharp-edged geometric, has the appearance of being crafted from something akin to sword blades. That is, visually, the ladder does not look like something you'd want to cling to.
I used to make ladders this way, also. But I have for a while now been producing ladders from rounded bits of balsa wood of plastic pipes / tubes, etc. I would encourage you to look into new ways of making ladders; more to-scale and from materials that better represent the real life devices. While your current ladders do allude to what they are, taking extra time to produce more convincing extras will go a very long way to add more intense and realistic detail to the complete structure. Not everything needs to be made from cardboard!

EDIT: one little nit-picky thing: you gotta get a dark grey or similar urban coloured tabletop. The green grass clashes hard with the post-apoc / cyberpunk aesthetic of your units and buildings.

Finally, I'm really digging your individual unit models- namely, the punks and freaks. There's a ton of unique character in each model. I love the drunk guy, the clown, the croc handler and the afro soldier. They're hilarious but oddly well suited for the theme of the game. It's great being able to produce any model that you feel like for your own game and amusement, eh? Placed on the battlefield, I'll bet they add a ton of life to the table top.

@ Flu:
Thank you very much! Thats the kind of criticism i love and want to recieve. Good points all, and things I will be certainly looking in to.
The big green monstrosity is actually just something I fiddled together while watching some chick-flick with my girlfriend, and is by no means a good piece of work. Indeed, I myself would never climb such a ladder. Normally I'd use staples, matches or stuff like that, so as to make it more in scale. But at that time all i had was cardboard,and the idea of having a ladder is there. But a well point, and well taken.

The pine-cone palmtree is actually a piece of scenery for my 1/72 vietnam wargaming. As are the green tableboards. I have since painted the other sides of the boards black and brushed them gray, so the buildings will from now on look to be in a city, instead of the irish countryside. And as much as I agree that the plants should be painted, I'm not even remotely thinking of going over my entire collection of Vietnam scenery to do just that. Too much, too fiddly, and not worth it. They look suitably green for a southern vietnam jungle, and i'llk stick with that for now. But anything that will be built new, will be painted suitably. Because anything I build these days, is for my necropocalypse board. My nam board does still see extensive use, but there will be no more work done for that. 28/32 mm is my fetish these days.

Thanx again for your well put comments Flu, they are much appreciated! Keep them coming, thats the stuff that helps me improve. No more cardboard ladders hehehe

Working on a camera crew at the moment. Pics will arrive shortly

cam crew? cool... if you do such stuff as non combatant... a lil how to or step by step is always nice... as i would love to do more non combatants out of my assorted bitz from time to time too...

Sheesh Vik... a how-to...
Man, thats a tough cookie. I usually get my inspiration ad-hoc... The same with these two (camera-man and interviewer). There was this richard gere movie on yesterday, in which he plays a war correspondent in Serbia (the name eludes me, feel free to help)
At that moment I was fiddling with some bits, and yes... out came the sandingpaper, the knife and the bits box. 20 minutes later I had removed all detail from a marauder torso and militia legs, removed the tube from a catachan bazooka, and turned a radia and ammo box into a camera. Some more bits later i had also turned some dark eldar stuff and militia torso and marauder legs into the interviewer. But as far as how-to's go, I wish i could do that. Its just trial and error here tho.
So as for my tutorial: Be Gutsy! Do not fear screwing up... its bound to become something...

actualy i can picture the cameraman now pretty good! i bet he looks very good... the catchan bazooka arm is a strike of genius!

and yep... one has to have the guts to do all that getting rid of the details...

and... i am the least person to help you with the gere movie... him and cage are my most ...non loved for a lack of a nicer word actors out there^^

I'm uploading some WIP shots... mind ya, they are very much WIP...









As stated, very much WIP. I try to take pictures regularly, as the macro sees more than I do ( almost blind ). This way I can see what needs reworking. I'm open for advice people, and can use it too, so shoot!!!!

better than having a word update like i did today

Alabama, nonsense.... I did a word-tutorial on buildings which even enticed people to try it out... Not a picture in it. As long as you know how to explain stuff... everything's fine

look at the size of that...wait for it...cam^^

cool looking cam at that...specially that searchlight!!!

tho he looks atm a bit busty methinks

and the interviewer looks a bit as if he is trying to fence with his mike^^... the nono pointy finger is looking cool tho^^ also good use of the pouch as a taperecorder (?)

only nitpick on him would be the DE head... i am not atm feeling it... but that might change... maybe give him a nice hair do like this:

those look pretty snazzy their maus. i agree with vik not digging the de head right now maybe if you clipped the pointy ears it wouldnt be so bad or like vik said glob some hair on em and cover them pointy ears