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@grimdork It's May 24 so you have plenty of time! There are a lot more detail in the first rules & info post

@kingpin looking great! I love the sprue chaos. I missed the WiP pics if you posted them. Did you just wad it up or use heat or..??

 TerrainWalker wrote:
@grimdork It's May 24 so you have plenty of time! There are a lot more detail in the first rules & info post

@kingpin looking great! I love the sprue chaos. I missed the WiP pics if you posted them. Did you just wad it up or use heat or..??

i placed a couple of sprues ontop of eachother and placed them inbetween two glass bowls and chucked it in the oven for a couple of minutes.

Brilliant

Tried wuth a heatgun first but was not happy with the results, thankfully have alot of sprue

Indeed, 4 weeks left

KINGPIN54 wrote:
Tried wuth a heatgun first but was not happy with the results, thankfully have alot of sprue

good to know

I have had pretty good results with multiple hot water + bowl in microwave attempts. Have to be darn careful tho grabbing it. Also, epic duck mike on MWG mentioned a method for warping/bending sprue (cuz I'd asked ages ago, when working on another project); note I didn't try this! user beware etc etc. Sometimes you have to be careful when playing with fire and so on

Ya, the sprew did give me a nasty burn, damn stuff look all gooooyy and nice but burn hotter than porridge.

Pain for the Sprue God!

Your sacrifice will be remembered by Slaanesh and its cohorts.

I knifed myself in the hand really bad a while back, while working on my Titan, so I'm hoping Khorne is going to take note and give a few 6s when I finally get to use it.

ouch guys that's not how you hobby!!

must be a guy thing I just had to pull my youngest son off my power saw this last evening, thankfully before another emergency room trip. He's at that I'm 15 I know what I'm doing with everything kind of stage sigh

erm anyway, sorry off topic a bit. So, I'm really stuck on the portal part still. I'm going to just let that sit there for a while and stew whilst I work on other stuffs. Still need to do the vegetation I wanted to add on.

The main thing at this point with that, is I want relatively matching vegetation on both sides, but in keeping with my colours. So while the "earth" side can be natural colours, the "malifaux" side needs to be browns and sepias. I'm not sure I can repaint flock to do that is all. I'm going to try with some close as I can get type stuffs first, and see how that looks. Then if it needs help I'm going to try my airbrush I think. Once it's very well glued down... already blew a bunch of flock off something once accidentally working on it too soon lol

Make your own flock, easy to do and cheaper. Plenty of youtubes on it. I actually made some from kitty litter wood pellet stuff recently and very happy with results. (not so happy with cat squatting on the models after mind you! )

On the portal, try a little heat treatment on a laminated laminate pouch or maybe a big enough piece of clear acetate, that way you will maybe get a blurred vision through the portal?

 Camkierhi wrote:
Make your own flock, easy to do and cheaper. Plenty of youtubes on it. I actually made some from kitty litter wood pellet stuff recently and very happy with results. (not so happy with cat squatting on the models after mind you! )

On the portal, try a little heat treatment on a laminated laminate pouch or maybe a big enough piece of clear acetate, that way you will maybe get a blurred vision through the portal?

lmao oh lord that image!

and yeah the main thing for the flock is I dont have a blender, really want one... for terrain reasons. N stuffs. Need to get around to getting on lol (makes it a lot easier to make clump foliage as well)

and oooh you gave me an idea! I have a bunch of some stuff left over I think one year from those do it yourself shrinking type plastic covers for baskets...

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Second flash, gonna run out of data, this is my dude coming out the warp all is submitions, data bad! Ligging off!

@guildenstern, not sure where you live, but we got a small blender here for less than 10usd. Well worth it for making flock and clump foliage! Also, I throw in my table sweepings then dump the result into my rubble mix container occassionally

Submission submitted.

And sprue-warp-gate looking pretty legit there

Exciting times! 3 finished entries in, but still 3 weeks to go!

Arrrrgh!! it's sitting there staring reproachfully at me :( just because I got distracted by my son's Ghostark... so easy to do...

Anyway, time to get the flock moving

Just took the foam cutter and shaped the hill a bit. If I get a little motivation, I should be able to make the deadline.

I’ll update with a pic later.

 Guildenstern wrote:
my son's Ghostark

Commissar Death Budgie frowns upon this xenos affiliation and urges your offspring to return to the Emperor's light.

That looks amazing Kingpin. As for the rest of you, stop getting distracted, this is the league here, we are very ser......oh squirrel.

That should be the last of the large scale carving. Still some smoothing and shaping to do. Then that whole paint thing.

 TheEyeOfNight wrote:

 Guildenstern wrote:
my son's Ghostark

Commissar Death Budgie frowns upon this xenos affiliation and urges your offspring to return to the Emperor's light.

Lmao!

That marble/melty sprue altar/portal is coming well along, quite neat!

That foam looks really smooth Nev, good going!


Alright guys. I'm calling it. I know the deadline isn't here yet but between work and a teething baby I give up. I should have known better but there's just something about that 10 week window that gets me every time. I think it's like that thing you shouldn't do with money, y'know make payments so you can have it now but you have to watch out getting more payments than you have income over time etc. Like that, just because there are 10 weeks, doesn't mean we'll see that much productive hobby time to devote to such a project, and half-assing it kind of poops on the point of the competition (to stretch yourself as a hobbyist) so bah. Calling it

One of these days.

:/

Hey Grim sorry to see you drop, but understand bud. We are not about pressure, we are about fun.

So feeling the pressure with all these amazing entries added a door...

And some steam...


Let's get too it peeps, few weeks left yet.

Sorry.....no pressure...right....fun....ok.

Grim, fear not. RL is fast more important. Cam looking good mate!
Two weeks left my friends! Nearly there and my goodness what impressive goodies you've come up with!

I'll post some final digital WIP shots either later tonight or tomorrow- I think I'm about ready to start printing. From there, it's just clean up, a little sculpting, and the paint. I'm hoping to do the paint right in this circumstance, as painting is definitely my weakest area.

Looking at the picks again i just might try do a better job at the photo submission, been out of action for about a week now due to flu but better now....some great stuff from everyone thus far.

Struggling to motivate for the finish line - think I've hit 'the wall'... Must power through... maybe get something more done this weekend?

 Ruglud wrote:
Struggling to motivate for the finish line - think I've hit 'the wall'... Must power through... maybe get something more done this weekend?

Have to break through that wall!

That way you'll have more rubble and a nice ruin

But yeah I know what you mean, I still need to finish my piece too =/