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Big... mucking... sword.... LOVE IT!! :-)

dont know if i already said this once but it would be more realistic to turn the sword 90 degrees too the left. if he would draw it now he would shatter the blade. but otherwise love the eyes it did draw me in the model like this

Meh. Grimdark space future. Sword is made of future metal.

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Also, I forgot

Glad eyes work

Just for fun I fiddled with one of the pics... shows graven's work off a bit more I think. Love the arm poses by the way... very cool. Eyes are awesome!

Its a bugs life innit?

Miss Dee wrote:Its a bugs life innit?

Cheers gits - I shouldn't take photos on 3 hrs sleep!

Gits, I am using my 2000th post to tell you the marine I am making with your bits will be in a dynamic pose like Graven's or Inushi.

I wanted to make a 2k posts thread, but I didn't want the shame of it being locked.


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PS.
My new post ranking is really funny, and I want you to see it before I switch it to 'Blood Drenched Death Company Marine' or "Stern(?) Iron Priest with Thrall Bodyguard'
Or maybe I'll keep it...

No... you're using your 2000th post to remind me that I STILL haven't sent you your bits!! (sorry) PM me again tonight when I'm home and I'll get them set up to send (along with Inushi and Sage's marine).

And congratulations on 2000 posts!!! Wooo-hooo!!

High five
Also, My 1k post ranking thread died because I didn't feel like doing it anymore, and tons of people kept coming in and saying it was dumb, etc. I may just go write up who was in what place now, so to leave it finished.

Graven: Nice marine, love the shooting pose bud! Gotta be happy with that. What did you use for the sword on the hip? Black templar sheath?
Fatty: Again man.. misconception. Please do some historical reading. On the sword draw, they hang perpendicualr. When drawing you cock the sheath to 45, not 90 to draw as it allows the smoothest arc and keeps a cutting angle.
Gits: On the 20-30% scale thing I'll take some size comparisons next time I'm at home, that's the exact size I was trying to up it by (well I guessed roughly a 5th) so I guess we'll see.

Man, those mantis heads came out nice!

I love the new avatar, and the Iaido katana drawing mantis warrior. Always nice to check up on your progress.
You really do have quite the following

what a quater turn is 90 degrees right? let me see a full circle is 360.. half is 180... quarter is 90 so yes we trun it 90 degrees too the left before cutting or if we draw it the way the mantis warrior holds it we have the sword up much higher (and i hate to draw it like that). and what does this mean perpendicualr? finally a english word i dont know.

and too be honest i doesnt mather how manny books you read all styles have a different way of drawing but this perticulair case its in real life imposible off course in our imagination everything is possible.

@monkeh what books did your read i like too read them as well. and do you train yourself? if so what style i think that could explain a lot. not trying to pick on you just curious thats all.

@monkeh: it's the sheath from a Hordes Legion of Everblight swordsman. Got a couple more kicking about somewhere.

@fatty: perpendicular is straight up and down.

Having the sheath like that worked well with the arm/hand position I was going for. The other rationale for having the sheath that way is that, quite simply, it shows off the detailing to its best!

I'll try to get some more detailing done tonight.

Perpendicular line is line 90 degrees off another line, like so:
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Think corner? But, Gits excellent stuff, though do ya have to make 2 pages in just 2 days? I keep having all this backtracking it has me trying to catch my breath! But, cool work etc. etc. Lord Kaesar II has hereby spoken, blah blah blah. Excellent stuff.

LOL! Yeah, the thread has kind of assumed a life of it's own. I really like that though. It's fun to see people take things in their own unique directions & put their spin on things. Besides, right now I'm up to my neck in cub scout stuff with the kids so updates will be few for a couple of days at least... so if there's other stuff to talk about (like graven's cool MW), all the better!

graven's mantis warrior is awesome! would be nice to get some more pics of it so we can really see the wings.

club scout stuff, sigh, the good old days. haha, hope it turns out well for you gits!

Hey, got to use my airbrush to do some cool painting on Thing 2's car... so there's a gaming tie-in... and more practice with the brush. At this point that's worth it's weight in gold to me! I needed a break anyway. I don't suppose it looks like it but I've been spending almost every free minute at the painting table on those two tanks and my family was paying the price. Needed to spend some time with the kids doing something else... just for sanity's sake.

but sanity and warhammer doesnt go together!

So... kind of an off-the-wall question...


Are any of the blog visitors going to Adepticon in April??

Solar_Lion, Ice Angel, a friend of his and I will all be there as "The Wardens of the Maelstrom". Is anyone else planning on attending? It'll be my first non-FLGS 40k event of any sort in 20 years of gaming... so I'm kind of excited. Would love to get together with folks at some point. Since I'm a "big-event newbie" I'd appreciate any suggestions or advice people have. I'm signed up for a couple of classes and the combat patrol tourney on Sunday (still have no idea what army I'm going to bring for that). But really, would just love to meet everyone in person.

Beuler? Beuler?

I read that FW is going to have a booth there, and you can order models and have them bring them, so now I really wish I was going :(

I thought about that... there are some things from FW I need to get, but I've heard the lines are HUGE... I don't want to blow my whole day standing in line when I could pay $20 and have them delivered to my doorstep. I'm paying a heck of a lot more than that to attend the event. Seems a poor choice of how to spend my time. Rather be playing pick-up games or sitting at the bar with comrades.

I think Jason from dice roller (Not on here) will be going and afew others who helped do operation: Killzone

Wish I could, sounds like fun, but contractual obligations keep me where I am.

Gitsplitta wrote:OK guys... finally have a chance to weigh in on the decal question.

I had not intended to do the MW symbol in decals, I was going to execute it in plasticard on the round doors (natural since the old symbol was on a yellow circle. However the idea of making a spray template is *really* intriguing... I'll have to put some serious thought into that. I think a simple stencil made in masking tape would do the trick, that way it would adhere tightly and be less likely to bleed through the edges. It had better work perfectly though because there's no fixing it (the doors are gradients too).

Git,

This would would well for future Rhino/Razorbacks:

Step 1 - Cut out a Mantis Head in plasticard
Step 2 - Prior to attaching doors, gradient color.
Step 3 - Mask off all of door.
Step 4 - Hold Template on center of door, cut out masking tape, and remove the center.
Step 5 - Paint center.

Alternatively, you could reverse and paint the base in a green gradient for the mantis head, then go back and mask off only the head area. I'm not sure how detailed you want the head area to be, and how much freehand you're planning.

Got it... thanks Heff, I may well give that a try. Though I always have shows the tanks with the doors on, they aren't attached yet... just sitting there.

I would love to go to Adepticon, i dont know if ill have the time or the money! but if i do go, ill make sure to find you there gitz!

I, too, would love to go.
Alas, tis not to be.

Perhaps next year Ill manage...


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Aha! and A bit of progress!

I (mostly) finished the blade for the Power Katana Concept!


(Blade is washed with Delvan mud to bring out detail)

There is a considerable hamon on it (you might just be able to see it- it comprises a good 50% of the blade) and power gubbins are glued on. Im going to file and shape the gubbins, so they are smooth on the top, more like the current power sword bits.

Next up are tsuba designs and tsuka.

Wow this is a long thread!

You really did a great job with these Mantis Warriors, Gitsplitta! The tranquility pattern marines are my favorite!
This is making me want to start up a marine army!

Jump in, the water's fine!! (and thanks, they're my favorite too)

A bit of progress tonight. Painted the treads on one of the tanks. Hope to get the other one done tomorrow as well as the intake vent borders.

Here's where we are at the moment. If I'd have made my stencil a little smaller so the hinges weren't involved it would have worked better. Anyway, turned out OK. I'll do the other door with this same stencil and then re-do it for the other tank. I did take step-by-step photos. Not sure if this version worked well enough to call it a tutorial really, just more of an experiment. I opted for red borders on the air intakes as that was how I did my original MW vehicles all those years ago... and it carries the color of the eyes and plasma guns nicely.




Edit" Woah! Ramos! didn't see your update with the photo... sorry bud. Very nice. It looks a little cutlassy rather than katana-like. Perhaps the curve transition to the point is the issue?? Should be angular transition from the blade edge to the point. Can you try adjusting this & then we can take another look at it? Might be the width of the blade in relation to it's length too, though that's something we wanted to increase to make painting effects more plausable... In any case, really nice work... Clean and crisp, nice job!