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Outstanding Monkey, love it.

Is it wrong I like the walking Wang-cannon? Looks cool tbh lol

Good work MT. I like the little floating missile launcher.

Good stuff! and the shaping of the Moebius is also looking good too!

Everything is looking great man ! Can't wait to see all of it together, dark stuff

Catching up!

Damn the Dark Forge stuff is spot on. The servitor drone is brilliant.

The road is totally chaotic and reminds me of the realm of chaos books. The blue tentacle is my favourite bit

Lt - It's not lovely Well just having it's own strange way is enough


Cam - Thanks you!


SJM - Well, not wrong as such....unless it does get a torso and really does become a phallus gun - then it might be


Dr H - Cheers. It is kinda cute I think - may get some buddies now the road's done (for a certain value of done...see later)


shas - Thanks - the shape still looks good now it's done, not so sure about the rest of it


Truecrusader - Thank you! I'm afraid waiting is very much the name of the game around here though


PDH - Thanks a lot - I know I'm doing something right if you think it's spot on Thought the servitor would be up your street.

And good to hear the road has a RoC vibe....always a good thing. It was a lot of fun, but I didn't do it justice I feel....and....well, read on....


So frantic painting and a bit of modelling today meant the road got 'finished'. A couple of weeks in the doldrums meant I'd dropped behind and had to rush it through....paintings not where it could have been, and looking at the pics I can see lots of little (and not so little) missed spots. But it's done in time and I can say it's another piece done....or can I?

Many repairs were undertaken today as it was dropped around lunch time....couple of the plasticard 'arches' broke, several tentacles ended up shorter than they were and a few of the slimy strands got busted.

The legs it stand on aren't the best display idea for a boat either...during a choppy patch this afternoon it toppled over....cue more repairs.....

Thought it would be a cool idea to video alonf the path of the road to get a feeling of the never-ending moebius strip......that really required a lot more thought to make it work For some reason I started the photo-shoot with detail shots, which were a pain because it was now obviously dark and two of my daylight bulbs have blown so was a bit awkward getting decent shots.

And then I dropped it again.....having just taken one shot of the complete piece....which is no longer a complete piece.....

Characters came off, the strip the hanging dude was hanging on has broken off, one aem and two backpacks are no longer attached and a few more slime strands are broken.....

All should be fixable, but absolutely not going to happen right now.


So....here's a couple of dodgy attempts at videoing the piece....and they will be dodgy...looked bad through the lens, and after the mishap I haven't even bothered to look them over yet....you may well be seeing them before me









There's fifty odd pics in my LOER 11 DONE gallery http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-30344-43533_Loer%2011%20Done.html, I won't post them all here, just a selection...feel free to go and have a wander through though.....








When I re-fix it I'll try and put some shots together in GIMP for a better look.

Well, guess I need to build some more stuff now, been far too much painting recently

I liked the first vid , attempt to add Pink Floyd's "Mettle" for the soundtrack was nice touch.

Well Monkey got to say it is every bit as spectacular and wonderful and weird as I was expecting. Off the charts buddy. Absolutely brilliant.

Going to take me a while to "inspect" it properly, but first glance, it is a very serious contender bud, it is my personal favorite entry. Best of luck bud.

That is brilliant horrific and cool sad to hear about the damage though.

Sir, you did not disappoint.

It came to be all that was expected from it, really an outstanding piece

Really sorry to hear about the mishaps, I trust the damage is solvable once you feel like it again!

Ok, that's officially one of the most insane models/dioramas I've ever seen!

Crazy stuff monkey. Pretty incredibly fabulous. Hope it fixes easy.

This thing is equal parts awesome and disturbing.

I knew he would do it. that is one winding and twisted road there.,

shaso - Cheers! The Floyd was just what happened to be playing at the time - if I'd finished half an hour earlier it would have been the Chemical Brothers But it does kind of suit it, so all's good


Cam - Thanks a bunch! The issue with so many details and the overall design is it was a bugger to get good pics of...once I've fixed it up I'll spend some time figuring out the best angles...


Llama - Horrific and cool works for me, thanks!


Lt - Well thank you, and glad to meet expectations. Everything should be fixable, may need to re-work a few bits to strengthen them after snapping - primarily the 'hanging dude'. My real concern is that I'll now be looking at all the bits I didn't feel I finished properly and will no doubt try to get them up to scratch - meaning it'll be hanging around in bits for a while longer - increasing the chances of further breakages or slowly edging into the 'to do' pile....


Malika - Excellent, good to hear, thank you


weety - Thanks a lot! Should be easy, but see above comments


Zogg - Just what I want to hear, thanks!


shaso - Well, I'm glad someone did.....


Well, I'm chuffed to bits - even with the mishaps I managed to finish an entry in time, and not only that, but somehow managed to win, plus got the honourable mention as chosen by my peers!! All warm and fuzzy inside

Obviously the originality won everyone over, as I really don't think the majority of the painting was up to scratch.

Well, that means the next round of the comp is down to me, and well....that can be found......here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/619261.page


And with that done (for now....) I can get back to some chopping and gluing. Let's open the doors to the Dark Forge once more.....oh, hold on a minute, what's this? http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/13500/289929.page#7271840

The right honourable Gitsplitta is running another Mantis Maker competition, and I had an idea for a corrupted Mantis Warior that I thought I might try....

Then I had another idea...

And another....

And another....

And damn him, now I think I'll have to do a small contingent of corrupted mantids just to get some ideas out of my system...oh well

So, the idea I think I'm going to enter is probably a jet-bike bursting out of concealment....








Probably based on that last one, with a true-scaled rider....


And then there was the option of a guy on foot....














And then I had to stop for a bit as I had no more torsos in the pile in front of me........

Great work on the corrupted Mantids.

They do look brilliant, yet again your mind is a wonder. Love the bike idea myself, but they all look good.

Scroll-down through the advancing mutational stages of corrupted MWs. Fantastic.

Last one's the best, though maybe too much far out for the Comp...

Llama - Thank you!


Cam - And thank you! A wonder, hey? That's one thing it's been called Yeah - that was my problem....I couldn't decide which to do so now there's a whole warband forming up


Lt - Hah...that does kind of work....if I'd actually planned that it would have been brilliant I'm liking that termie a lot myself - thelegs were planned as part of a servitor a page or so back, but I think this is where they're staying now



And so when I left you I'd run out of to-hand torsos to continue with the Dark Mantids (yep, the warband has a name now ). On a perilous trek through the chaos of my work-romm to find more I came across a few bits that I'd forgotten about, some of which are still being blu-tacked to various other bits inan effort to find just the right sort of madness, and some f which I could immediately use.
Namely....



Brother Sabera of the Second Instar from the Dark Mantids warband.

He gained a bit of stowage and then went so far as to get some base colouring laid down.....




I plan for the brown to get some striations to go withe the carapace feel, and plan to add a fade effect to the green on the bike to help differentiate the rider. Gloves and weapons are still a bit up in the air for now...well, not a bit so much as a few miles up still I was contemplating a black/green for the weapons but that may yet change...


Oh, and some paint splashed over on to a couple of his brethren whilst I was at it...not really worth showing yet, but hey, it's progress, and you don't get to see that often round these parts




I'm thinking that I'll vary the colour placemnt slightly when more start to see paint...I'm partial to the idea of warbands having a set palette but having some autonomy in how they use it individually.

Hopefully more soon.....

Nice team, and good-looking ride. More?

Great jetbike where did it come from?

Lt - Thank you. And yes more, always more......


Llama - Puppetwar was the source for the bike, with some very minor modifications. It is a great looking bike, I'll certainly pick up some more at some point.


And just as a minor update, another jet-biker....



Although that shot does make him look like a khaos kayaker



The last shot shows the options I'm contemplating for the lift exhausts...leaving them as plain holes in the body, turbo-fans, or jet nozzles.....I like all three for different reasons, but tending towards the turbo-fans at present.
Found the main body along with the jet-bike, and thought it looked suitably insectile to become something for the Mantids...need to mess about a bit to figure out if it'll be a normal jet-bike or maybe an attack bike version with heavier weaponry mounted on the back carapace.....


And a further trooper...



That's all, you may carry on now.......

Great stuff all round. I like the middle jet outlet myself.

Your Mantis comp. bike is AWESOME.

Anyone else racks their brains to come up with an idea for the Mantis Maker comp'. MT has enough ideas to create a whole squad/army.

Good collection of ideas and good progress on the one that is most likely to be entered into the competition.

Lots of really neat ideas in here - I'm particularly impressed at how that one Jetbike seamlessly combined a Space Marine bike with Dark Eldar and Eldar bits. Keep it up!

Cam - Thanks dude. Yeah, I'm thinking the turbo-fan look works better, but I'll wait till I've put it together a bit better before deciding for sure.


Dr H - Creative genius or easily distracted layabout? Who can tell? And cheers!


Pekel - Thank you. If you're referring to the one with the 'serrated' mandibles at the front then I'm really pleased with how well those front parts meshed - just need to get the rear sorted out now



Another layer added to Brother Sabera, and put a bit of a fade onto the green - pics didn't look all that different though tbh so I didn't bother uploading them.

Instead I thought I'd use that old fall-back of some supply drop pics - boxes have been steadily piling up over the last year and I've not mentioned many, so here's a couple that came through the door recently....



Rewards from the Mechadrome KS from Gunfight Games (in the guise of Necros from these lovely forums). Three of the light mechs (these are 15mm scale), not entirely sure what they'll become, but you know...mecha....had to get some.



Also got a couple each of the tracked and walker drones - obviously I wasn't going to pass up on track units - may have to pick up some more at some point


And after the postie misplaced my original parcel from Mierce, an email enquiry got a very rapid response and I got the replacement 2 days later - excellent service.



Seza - Blade Abhorrent from the Ysian faction.



A giant, three-legged, claw armed lass? Pretty sure I can find a use for her somewhere




Dawn of Khthon - five lovely snake ladies. Already had a couple of the snake men - they were nice, these are even better. Another one that I pledged for without any clear idea of where they would end up, but snake-ladies? How could I resist

Right, that's it, that's all you're getting in place of an update this time round, I'll have some actual 'stuff'' for you next time.....

And a bit of progress with Brother Sabera...



Not convinced with the striations on the brown now I've put them there...I'm wondering if there needed to be more, closer together.

No further progress with the bike, a little bit of colour added to some of the other Mantids...

And in other news, I received a big ol' bag'o'bitz today courtesy of Red Harvest - my prize for the last LOER comp!!



Woohoo...plenty of bits to play with there...arms, torsos, heads, shields, insignia, icons, etc etc etc. Including a complete metal termie, an old-skool metal servitor and right in the middle there you can see some old GW tracks, circa 1987 - I think from a wartrakk/skorcha. And I do love me some little tracks Even got part of an original vindi, and the turret from the original whirlwind!

Excellent stuff, thanks a bunch Red - really appreciated!

And what better way to celebrate getting a bag o bitz than to build something out using some of the parts provided (well, I suppose you could always build something using ALL the parts provided, but you know, that would require a little longer.....)



So we have a nice little imperial servitor built only using parts from the prize bag - obviously I could have built a variety of marines out of the parts, but that would be no fun really would it?
I'll have to cheat a little and fill the gap in his 'helmet', but I'm ok with that

Thanks for stopping by......

Oo, lots to comment on.
The mech looks nice. Do like a good mech.

The other things you show there look nice sculpts too.

Like the green fade you did on the bike, looks good.
The stripes, are they a pattern or weathering? I'm assuming a pattern and they can therefore be nice and regular. Maybe they could be sharper/thinner.
Or maybe some smaller ones interlocked with them. Probably heading towards tiger stripes then, not a bad thing, but maybe not what you are after.

Nice prize and good use of them.