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I think I finished painting my entry now.

The idea was to represent debris piled up to a walkway supporting pillar in a war-torn (its 40k, everything is war-torn...) factory building, I'm tempted to write "please stand by" on the terminal monitor and i just noticed the keypad is keyless...



I should really take more care of my paints, the above was basically painted as with water colours

@ Dr H: Thanks the wire on top really is wire. "looking AND commenting" so ... thats one up on me then, try not to pull a muscle there

@ shas: Thanks shas, not dead yet.

Yeah, I've been lurking for a while.

Good job. I like the dirt streaks and the chipping.
And I see you have a cog similar to Vik and myself, Wonder how many others will have one...

Great work on the junk pile, the computers a nice touch.

Nicely done junk pile!

Specially like the way you managed to give it height without unbalancing the small base, the walkway/overpass pillar was a great idea.

A lone stoic pillar that refused to fall. The computer idea was funny since it looks like an old Radio Shack TRS-80. Good work all around!

Great junk, Noodles! The lone pillar is awesome looking.

Hey everyone, I hope you all had a very merry Christmas

Thank you all for your kind words, I'd love to have a large factory on a terrain board with arches like that inside ... oh well.

Thank you to all those who voted (and not just for me) in skalk's terrain comp. I think I did quite well considering I avoided not using oils or powders. I know everyone keeps mentioning the monitor but really It's only there because I planned for the monitor to have "please stand by" written across it.

For the last two weeks my PC has been freezing within 5 minutes of starting up ... I might have fixed it

I finally started getting some paint on a previous junk pile and added a pair of small girder piles as I found a pack of plastic girders lying around.


a few more genswick using the last of my bodies, including a master of ordnance (far right) with the worst sculpted mustache. The guy on the far left will probably be an "astropath" when I can find some suitable arms, it's an old unfinished model that was going to be an officer styled after Rommel, but got left at the wayside some time ago.


The tank pile is growing, the sides of the tanks are nearly done now, filing corners and filling gaps. The hulls are , besides the three wip you see below there are another 2 at the "pile of plastic pieces stage" with the third on the drawing board/shelved, though I seem to have messed up the measurements on half of the parts... ho well.



Lastly I'd like to give a shout out to The next round of the LoER's terrain competition hosted by Camkierhi -->> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/570324.page Don't forget to sign up.

now to continue feeling ill.

Thanks all and unless I post sooner, A happy new year to you all
N.

Nice junk noodle err the model stuff I mean LOL

The Genswick look great and the tach looks fine in the picture to me, are those guns conversions or 3d sculpts you did your self ? Either way look great mate

Rommel looks great although he is missing his bino's

Nice stock pile of to be tanks what measurements have you done wrong then ?


Don't worry the sickness will pass after about 2 or 3 weeks

Happy new year everyone

Thanks LDD, the guns are resin copies, I have made some weapon sprues for 3d printing I'm just fiddling around to see if I can make them printable in the cheaper plastics, but as they are they are good to go.

Speaking of 3d printing I've finally got off my backside and put my round vents up for printing http://www.shapeways.com/model/1541762/6-round-vents-28mm-scale.html?li=search-results&materialId=6. I've also hollowed them out to reduce cost and make them more useful (portholes?), anyway.

The tank hulls so far, I must have read something wrong as I ended up with massive gaps on the joints on the right tank, thankfully that one is for me and it's nothing that can't be fixed with enough filler
bottom left is a WIP of a tank destroyer hull just to show how I build. I start with a skeleton of 1mm plastic with ribbing built up on the sides, with a layer of 0.5 mm plastic as a "skin" generally anyway, this one i'll be getting more WIP shots of as I go.


so here is my second ragnarok so far with the turret for scale, the 3rd is under construction coming along much more smoothly.


and incase anyone wanted a closer look at the side details, so far i've punched out 96 of those little discs ...


and lastly a possible hint to the new year (I made this last month, but my putty has gone all lumps since ... strange)


Thanks for reading all,
Noodles

Hmmm, tasty, tasty tanks!

Thanks shas

bit more progress.


and I've been giving some thought to Cam's League terrain competition (see banner in my sig for the link), I'd quite like to make a small factory building, like a small office or workshop, as part of a factory complex here is what I had initially planned and built in the summer:


It's made from laminating 1mm and two layers of 0.5 mm sheets, this was to make the windows.
If you look closely you can see the sides (with windows) are buckled and bent, for some reason whenever I laminate sheets of plastic they always do it no matter what I try these where held between two plates of aluminum with clamps holding them in place. closer side on look

the side with the broken window is worse than this, I broke the window trying to straighten it

ideas on how I can fix or avoid this in future anyone? the only thing I can think of is using something like an I-beam to try and force it flat.

Anyway I'm thinking of recycling this to make a re-purposed building as a makeshift billet, with packs, other equipment and sleeping bags made from green stuff, and adding my own touch of Gothic, I doubt it'll be as good as my generator but we'll see, either way I've got an A3 sheet of plastic with this competition written all over it.

Thanks for reading
Noodles.

oh....happy new year noodles...

that horse looks nice... as do those started tanks...

and it seems I need to speed my efforts for the comp...so that no one can say I ´ve copied ideas....^^

Its a pain in the ass , but when stuff is so long it warps , you need to make it in three or four parts and weld it together.

At least that what you do with metal trailers , machines etc etc.

@ Vik: Thanks, ah there is planty of ideas floating around I'll bet

@ Big H: I've taken your advice here, thanks for the tip I'll bear that in mind next time.

Managed to just about get the bent bits to flatten out a bit by adding a thick layer of card to the outside wall facing.


and the results:


WIP interior. The red line on the top marks where the roof will sit eventually and be removable.


A long way to go with this, I've got my idea for the outside sorted, interior is a bit of a blank slate besides sleeping bags and other kit / equipment as mentioned in my previous post.

Thanks for stopping by,
N.

will this be a flat top house then?...what kind of building will it be? the tiled floor suggest some kind of easy cleaning room...hmmm....

Probably not a comfortable one thats for sure... But really I'm not certain on the building type, I'm using the tiled look basically because it looks nice.

The Idea is that It's like a small site office as part of a larger factory complex, some where for small pieces of paperwork, a desk or 2 the odd chair easy cleaning floor for muddy boots. Or I could make it as a small machine shop, as above but with some form of machinery inside.
The only other thing it could become is a gloried toilet using some of Dr.H's amazing loos!

The roof was originally going to be flat , with a hatch for access, a vent, detritus blown up there and what not... I might change it for an angled corrugated roof.

So I'm obviously very decided on what this building is going to be.

Yay.

Ahem... good work straightening the walls out. Look forward to what it may become.

Update on the league competition entry:

This is the general look i'll be going for, simple and subtle, but there is going to be problems on the corner joints that i'll have to mask over, I think I've got some right angle strips of a suitable size but there is still a little warping that going to make things interesting.


with a whole load of arches on the strip ready to go, these should finish the sides off then carving the buttresses into shape and window frames next.


working hard on the tanks too;
The stug is taking shape, it's hard to make out but there are thin hatches on the front most glassies, the other two vehicles are likewise endowed, with vision slits and hatches. I'll get some shots up of those tomorrow with luck

All three of the tanks have rears identical to this, the exhausts were pretty fun , its literally just a tube blocked at both ends then a second, smaller, tube stuck into the side.


Thanks all, more coming soon.

N.

Three out of four walls down,
the fourth is still unattached and unadorned for now and there is even a roof (ok its just a slab of plastic, but its the thought that counts right).
still very rough but the look i'm going for should be visible now



Yes that is a table on the roof and why not .
There will be a second both going inside.

N.

Arches look very nice.
Table is good too.

What else does a roof need to be? A bandstand? Dance Floor?

Building looks great, and the table is ace, even on the roof

You could call it a terrace and leave it there too...

The STuG life has chosen you!

Some nice work there buddy , love the Stug, very skilfully done !

@ Dr H: thanks mate

@ Littletower: if I had time I'd put some deckchairs and a coolerbox full of beers there too

@ shas: quite possibly.

@ BigH: thanks mate, It's coming along nicely


Before my pc decided to implode last week, I managed to do a bit of casting.

New space marine Vindicator using a damaged cast of the LandRhino, I've managed to scrounge some parts together and found a classic vindicator demolisher cannon



some miscellaneous terrain bits including a copy of one of the buttresses for the league competition, It seemed a bit quicker than carving plastic. The big things on the left were inspired by some of the makeshift barricades seen in fallout 3 around super mutants, I've got an idea for using them to make a counts-as aegis defensive line.


Some of you may remember I had a play with 3d printing a little while back, well I made some resin copies of the little round resin vents that I'd made, I've got two open molds being used to cast these atm I'll probably make a third using the best casts to copy along with more small useful bits, when I'm ready.


I've got piles of uses for these. Below was made whilst the shrine competition was running, the vents finish it off.



Thanks all
N.

Nice casting.
Grey always looks more professional (probably just because it's easier to photograph).

Even though it's better to get perfect casts, mis-casts can still be used for damaged applications (battle-damage or neglect).

Thanks Doc, It really is amazing what a bit of colour can do.

Thats more or less what I was thinking with the worst casts, I haven't been hugely careful with casting any of the pieces for the most part apart from the tank.
It seems with an open topped mold just "brushing" the resin into recesses to dislodge bubbles with a lollipop stick seems to work well enough.

First of the tank looks great mate really pro looking now did you make this yourself or is it an actual model ? Sorry got a bit lost with the post.

Now those resin vents are the bomb if you ever want to sell any can I take a set of 8 of your hands they would work great for my SP laboratory that still needs finishing

Awesome work mate keep it up before long I can see you running your own little business

Nice adaptation work for the molds! Love the vents too! May want to get together with Zinge that is how top notcht the vents are.

Thats some great work there mate , nice vents !!!!! Ooo-er.