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Mate , that is gonna look pretty awesome as "Not" Predator , Vindicator etc etc

Nice work here!

That is some fantastic plastic work man! Damn fine job!

the tracks now remind me of a heavy loveaffair of a landraider and a russ....but very good looking nvertheless!!!

as for the bitz... you´ve rouled out almost everything i would have gone for

@ Big H: I really hope so mate.


Thought I'd play around in 3d for a bit as there was some thing on the radio worth listening to, so I'm re-making the weapons starting with my hellgun.


No idea if this will turn into something. Darn sight quicker (and easier on the eyes) than doing so by hand.

Thanks all
N.

You probably heard of shapeways?...there you can printyour stuff later on...
Gun loils very good already!

That tanks looking great, a beautiful piece of scratch building there,
how long did it take you to build that?,
just curious, as my work always seems to end up being more complex and time consuming than I ever anticipate .

Thanks hk ,
how long? too long! I started in july, I know exactly what you mean, something that starts off simple can turn out much harder than expencted. Luckily I use CAD for building and vehicle pieces like this it really saves a lot of time and tears.

to give you an idea most of the model is is built up by laminating multiple pieces of 0.5 and 1mm plastic. More pieces means more bits that can go wrong.

I noticed your stuff on ebay btw, what resin are you using?

Yeah that eagle flying buttress on Ebay was actually my first experiment with resin,
and I think it work out quite well for a first attempt.

The resin i used was Polycraft SG2000, I use their Silicon for my molds as well.

@ hk1x1: I know the stuff, its tough as hell, for a first experiment it looks great.

Bit more 3D work.

Nearly finished the infantry weapons (except for a melta and plasmagun)

I don't really like the weapon's butts, I'll probably have finished the sniper rifle in an hour or two.

Also having lost both of the magnetised hull multi-meltas that I've had. I thought id make my own along with a lascannon, heavy bolter and Heavy flamer. (the dark block is just a backing to build from).

I'm happy with the multi-melta, the H.flamer is very wip as are the other two.

Thanks

N.

Hey all,

I've been busy the past few weeks and have finally finished casting a little something for someone.


I don't have any images of an assembled cast I didn't have enough resin for some of my own, but with the molds that's not much of a problem.

Also I've posted up a Traitor Guard army for people to take a look at in the Showcase section: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/558147.page
here is a taster for your entertainment.


my second finished converted tank and I love it.


time for some plasticard work me thinks, I fancy building some terrain!

Thanks for reading.

Been playing around with a few ideas I've had knocking around for a while:

Some sort of contraption ... lol I have no idea what I was thinking of when I made this, besides the buttresses and the little maintenance hatches I'm going to make up some air vents for the sides, some piping on the other end to the console and maybe some sort of power transformer on the top., It's a bit low to the ground as it stands so I'll raise it up on some foam-board or whatever.


And I was browsing though the dakka gallery a little while ago and came across some thing really cool by a dakka member called "marcineczek0" his gallery, Thought I would try and emulate the shape to make a duel lift to an underground facility and air vent building with some roof space and other things.


Thanks for reading.
N.

the tank bitz look very impressive!

the renegades are an amazing bunch...

and those two terrain pieces have a great start already!

you are making some fine progress. I like everything I see .

The buildings look promising.

Tank is badass! The building are a great start too! Can't wait to see how they turn out!

Those resin tanks look very impressive, well done .

I cant tell if that's a black and white photo or if the casts are actually that grey color,
If they are that color could you tell us which resin you used, or if you used a coloring agent?

Thanks everyone,

@hk: Lol the pic is full RGB. The resin is Polycast G26 from Sylamaster, they sell coloured casting resins in the UK. Its more expensive than and not as tough as other types but the quality and pot life are good, It doesn't smell, flexible under heat, generally decent stuff. Be warned Sylamaster's postage and isn't cheap and if your interested I think the resin is made by a company named "Sika" and looking into it Its cheaper to buy from Sylamaster than the manufacturer. The pic of the tank casts represents approximately 1.8kg of the stuff.


I'm just playing around with some ideas for that lift building I'm not sure what to fill up the blank walls with, I want to put some form of arches on the side. with reinforced/buttressed corners (to cover up the join lines. but I also want to use some of the flying butress casts that I have lying around and at the same time add at mid-level platform over the slanted back with ladders to the top and ground. Hmm ... I'll try to do a mock up of some sort.

Also I'm having some parts 3d printed by shapeways just to see what I can get away with, so I'm waiting for a phone call saying "we can't do that" , but I think the process will take a few weeks, so fingers crossed and I'll post up when I get them.

Quite looking forward to skalk's competition, this should be fun.

aye...that comp will be fun for sure... I am eager to see what you will produce!

the plan for the building sounds good.... now get a move on

Thanks for the info, I'm going to experiment with the Polycraft SG2000 resin I've been using, as it's worked really well with my molds so far,
I just don't like the ivory color, so I'll try some of their resin color dye and see how that turns out.

Good luck with the 3D printing, heres hoping they can do what you want .

@hk1x1: Best of luck with that mate. if you go for a black colour you should only need a drop or 2 of colour to give a nice off-grey colour.

With luck I should get my 3d prints tomorrow I really cannot wait to see how bad they turned out lol. Just kidding I've used one before and I sat with it watching, mesmerized by how cool the process concept is.

Got started on the junk pile piece, I have a pile of junk all ready + 60mm base.


miscast bits, scraps and offcuts of plasticard, scrap pieces of resin,some test pieces that didn't quite work out or got abandoned (including; a filing cabinet, a terminal/computer and a fridge!?), a random plastic servo gear, a laboratory tube connector and a random suitcase thing. Appart from that you'll see it when its done .

Good luck to anyone in the comp who reads this.

Thanks for reading
N.

good luck to you too noodles... where is that file cabinet from?... cool thingy!

Its all plasticard, more or less all the bits there are things that would probably end up in the bin.

made it yourself? cool!... that is something i should attempt too!

I'm sure it wouldn't take you 5 minutes to knock one up Vik , It's a box with some bits stuck on lol, as it happens that's my second attempt the first became the fridge because of its size.

I got my prints from shapeways and I think I chose one of the absolute worst materials for photographing, so you may want to zoom in to see any detail


and here is what they look like in software:

any blob-y bits (especially in the vents at the bottom) are bits of the dissolved supporting wax that collected and I haven't cleaned off

So there is copies of all the infantry weapons that I hand made so far, 2 round vent covers and 2 muzzle breaks for my tanks that I found too difficult to make by hand (yes I cheated). So now my vanquisher gun now has a muzzle break:


The only big thing that I've noticed is the sniper rifle is missing its ammo clip, I'm not sure what I did wrong there for that not to print out, but otherwise I'm very impressed with the results, hell I've even got drilled out gun barrels!

I've only done something simple here basically nothing that couldn't be done using hand tools but what this technology is and what more it is possible to do with is awesome. I think the main problem will come from people failing to take full advantage of or failing to realize the possibilities this technology offers. I'll probably return to my usual cynical self soon enough.

Thanks for reading
N.

whoa.... those look brilliant...in every sense of the word mate!!!... i am not doing sweet talk here but this is the same style and quality of work anvil or mad robot does!...
the vents look really nice... i could think about a dozen uses for these... and muzzles for tank barrels... i bet that´s something new...

and that file cabinet will be done

I also ordered something in the frosted plastic from Shapeways and tossed the idea of trying to take photos. The melta and grav gun look more questionable than everything else, and the muzzle on vanq turret looks solid.

@ Moltar: Questionable, how so? (btw its a meltagun and my redesign plasmagun ), glad you like the barrel muzzle.

@ Vik: Thanks . There are quite a few bits companies using shapeways to make the master models ... and really who can blame them It really does save ones eyesight, the only hard part is judging how much detail seeing something 100x the size on screen its really tempting to add more and more fine detail that probably wouldn't print let alone be seen.

Not knowing the resolution of the print I didn't take into account tolerances on those muzzle barrels, school boy error I know. I should have mentioned they are made to fit onto evergreen plastic tubes, when I've corrected my mistake I might do some more

I've been making sprues of the weapons and I'll be hollowing out the vents to lower the cost a bit and maybe give them more uses, when thats done I'll put things up so anyone can buy prints, with a cheaper material than the one I used they shouldn't be hugely expensive.

Also nearly finished making the "junk pile" waiting for some things to dry on it before I can add the final details and start painting.

Too much to do, not enough time.

Thanks
N.

PIP of my "junk pile"


I have no idea what I'm doing, but I managed to get some paint on some genswick in the process while relearning how to paint!

also making one or two tanks...


2 are going to be ragnaroks, 3 are for someone and the other... no idea... yet.

Thanks for looking.

I'm looking AND commenting, for a change.

Like the wires on your junk piece.

The printed guns are cool too.

Ah, I was starting to wonder what happened to you. so, 6 more vehicles to build , tasty!