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Great lookin' models there Reaper! I'm ready to be blown away by your painting.


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Good to see things coming together.

The Land Raider Achillies is now built and in fact undercoated too.



Just for Whalemusic360, here is a mock up of the special character, what do you think? want to keep terminator arms he comes with?




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I don't know why this one isn't showing either, no where near the end of the page.

Does it fit pretty flat on his back? Do the termi arms still fit? Those look a bit weedy as is (even in anatomically correct). Also, did you get the package I had sent with the harness?

Yes the backpack arrived yesterday. I can make it fit flush and probably get the terminator arms on too if you want.

Sounds like a plan. I think if you use the Termi arms, and cut off the ax blade part of the ax, it'll make a reasonable thunder hammer. Open to ideas on that though. His equipment is Servoharness and Thunderhammer, so that's pretty much what I'm looking for. Thoughts?

Easily doable, if that is a word! I will have a look for a thunder hammer if not I can build one.

Couple of pics of the test model, he isn't finished yet but you can get the idea from him.

Green looks good. Helmet looks a bit flat though (I know, you said you weren't done).

Yep, I'll work on that!

So the test model is finished, unless Whalemusic360 has any other suggestions. I am quite happy with the green, that helmet is not my favourite but I have some awesome models to work on with the rest of the force. Everything barring the Razor back and the thunderfire cannon is made and undercoated. The thunderfire cannon is fine cast and needs some work before I can get it to fit together and I have started interior detail on the Razorback that needs doing before I stick it together. Here a a couple of shots;

Looks good to me! It's kind of a weird helmet, but the black lining helped a ton.

I like it Reaper... nicely done.

Thanks guys, the other helmets will probably be a bit more subtle. Should see a lot of progress shortly when I have assambled the last models then it will all slow down again as I set about detail work.

Love him, great osl, and I really dig the crusader helm.

So small update, I have been working on the interior detail for the razorback and it is now all assembled ready to spray the exterior. Pics!

The bolter really ties it together as a SoM tank (though I suspect the bright green outside will too). Looks like it's been around the block a few times, I like it.

I'm glad you like it! I have also done the Rhino doors too so you can swap off the Razorback turret and make it a Rhino if you want so it is a bit more diverse for gaming.


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Oh and I also did a bit more on the test model on the advice of a friend, just a bit of brass to break up all the silver.

Killer, always like the easy swaps. Sounds solid on the brass. I understood the leaving lots of silver, give them that mechanical feel, but I think the brass will help break it up, as you said.

Are you using a Land Raider to hold the rhino for painting?

Yes that is my landraider proteus for my Death Guard!

Right my fellow Dakkanaughts, I need some advice..... I have recently been given the opportunity to buy a web store off some friends of mine. Price aside (we haven't settled on that) is it worth me and my wife investing in. I have crunched some numbers and realised that it will be quite a lot of work for minimal return. It would only stock X-Wing and Magic (MTG) to start off and it seems very unlikely that we would be able to stock GW products or Wyrd's. So as I play Magic and X-wing I would see a personal discount on those items though my purchasing power has really been hit since the baby came along and the wife isn't earning so not that great a benefit. The site though established is not easily found on Google and it has some social media pages associated with it. About 55 followers on facebook. My friends are selling up as it has been too much work for them and there is three of them! It has always been an ambition of mine to own a store and this seems opportune but is the timing wrong and is it really a "for the love of it affair" rather than "make some money" as it initially seems? Opinions?

I'd say its not the right time for it the market is over saturated with webstores for Magic and miniatures in general at the moment.

There is really strong competition from the likes of Wayland Games, Firestorm Games and Triplehelix Wargames, Amazon also stock X-wing.

If you cant beat their prices then I don't see why people would use an unknown store, even if its Badger friendly (my guess)

I believe Weird and Corvus Bell only supply to shops with physical stores as well so you wouldn't be able to stock their games.

I've always wanted to run one my self and did have a MTG singles site but pulled out as the amount of money and time it takes to keep a shop running and updated is quite unbelievable.

In short just an online store I'd say no, physical store in the right location with online support then it could be possible but a lot of work.

I'd say very much what GX hit on. Obviously can't speak much on the uk market, but you'd be going against giants, a web store doesn't have the loyalty of a brick and mortar, and unless you can throw great prices out there, not a lot you can do to get online presence quickly.

Thanks guys, I really welcome your opinions. I think we could compete on price but probably not volume & there is no way in the forseeable future that we would ever have a bricks & mortar shop so that limits greatly what we can stock. I suspect we are going to pass on this opportunity.

Beautiful work on that control panel Reaper, very delicate. I'm impressed.

Thanks Gits! More progress to be done this weekend!

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The green is done now on all the models except the Forge farther dude. Started work on the first Serg, the combi-grav one. Here are a few pics;









He clearly needs more work but I am pleased with how he is coming on. What do you guys think?

You know the rim is suppose to come off the shoulder pad?


Overall I really like the way he is turning out. I think the green case on the gun is to much green though. Black or silver might be better.

The inside of the shoulder pad and the cog on his knee are shouting for something to go there. Squad # maybe?

Oh right! Lol, I thought that was part of the shoulder! No worries I shall trim that up. I can also make the gun more metal, not a problem. Yes those areas do scream for something more, do you want numbered squad markings?