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Wow! that is pretty amazing! I particularly like the battle damage on the fist and helmet. Can't wait to see it finished

+5 Nerd Rep if you figure out how to make your backpack hum like the backpacks in the movie Ghostbusters when you turn it on.

Don't worry, we all see through your thinly veiled attempt to convince your significant other to lug around all your sweet convention swag in her backpack. Mums the word on it though.

drukawski wrote:
Don't worry, we all see through your thinly veiled attempt to convince your significant other to lug around all your sweet convention swag in her backpack. Mums the word on it though.

LOL, I wish!~

I'll be running support and tech on her all day. I should dress as a servitor or tech priest, lol

Anywhoo, these are some WIP seals I'm working on while watching the Sharpe's series..



Here is a group shot of some in differnt stages.

Finnlock wrote:LOL, I wish!~

I'll be running support and tech on her all day. I should dress as a servitor or tech priest, lol

You know this never occurred to me until just now, what do you do when the inevitable costume failure happens? You must take a battery powered hot glue gun or something with you to piece things back in place should they come loose or fall apart? I mean the whole thing is essentially just spray painted foam and plastic hot glued in place right? Are there sewing seams in the costume? you bring needle and thread, or just super glue holes shut?

Inquiring minds want to know: Do cos-players carry a costume version of the emergency roadside kit we all have in our cars?

Project Bolter:

While Raven is out of town I desided that I really needed one of these in the armory..they are iconic of everything that is 40k.
That and I was bored....

It has a working slide and cocking lever, they are linked toghter, so when you pull the cocking lever the slide opens.
I like the look of the scoped bolters, so I added a cheap airsoft sight I had. It's offset and I like the look of it. I probably will change the angle and way it's attached, but I wanted it on to see how it looked.

Still a lot to add to do before I can start painting it, like the iron sights and a lot of detailing, but here are some WIP pics.






Shot with the bolt pistol for scale.

Those purity seals kind of look like cookies; delicious cookies of righteousness...

Oooo, now THERE is an idea!

LOL Purity Seal cookies!!! I f*cking love it!!!!

I am soo going to have to make some of those.

Finnlock wrote:
LOL Purity Seal cookies!!!
I am soo going to have to make some of those.

QFT
I don't like the angle of the scope and it is not GRIMDARK enough...yet...

Commissar Agro wrote:
I don't like the angle of the scope and it is not GRIMDARK enough...yet...

Well it *IS* still WIP

I agree about the scope angle, you can see on the mini's it's more along the side

Looking great, and you're right; a bolter was missing from your armoury. like the look!

I likethe bolter, I think you need to make a giant scope as a human sized one is just too small. Perhaps some PVC pipe with glass bottle bottoms for lenses?

So if the police raid your house would they think your some sort of insane terrorist with a bunch of weapons and armor and crap? Interesting conversation indeed. Very nice work would love one of these suits just so I could chase children and cats around my neighborhood.

Haha I was painting IG and watching the Sharpe's series with my dad.

Truely awesome. I am very impressed.

This just gets better and better, looking forward to seeing the finished product

Finnlock wrote:Oooo, now THERE is an idea!

LOL Purity Seal cookies!!! I f*cking love it!!!!

I am soo going to have to make some of those.

Being an amateur baker, that would be easy: any sugar cookie recipe and red food coloring, cut out rounds and give a little mash in the middle. You can do I symbols separate (and a darker color if you like) and just plop on top and bake.

John wrote:

Finnlock wrote:Oooo, now THERE is an idea!

LOL Purity Seal cookies!!! I f*cking love it!!!!

I am soo going to have to make some of those.

Being an amateur baker, that would be easy: any sugar cookie recipe and red food coloring, cut out rounds and give a little mash in the middle. You can do I symbols separate (and a darker color if you like) and just plop on top and bake.

we can have a 40k tea party! or better, a dinner! with a glass of vintage M39 amasec (red wine) roast grox (roast beef) etc etc.

The bolter and back up back pack are looking great this really should be your job.

Your work is absolutely stunning- highly ambitious, and executed perfectly.

I realise there are some on pg.1, but I was wondering if we could see any more recent pics of the full costume with Powerfist, helm, etc.

Keep up the great work!

templeorks wrote:The bolter and back up back pack are looking great this really should be your job.

If I could go back and do it again I think I would go in for prop making, I enjoy it very much. I really wish I had access to some of their tools and equipment...!

CadianXV wrote:Your work is absolutely stunning- highly ambitious, and executed perfectly.

I realise there are some on pg.1, but I was wondering if we could see any more recent pics of the full costume with Powerfist, helm, etc.

Keep up the great work!

Thank you for the complements

But I think I will hold off on posting full suit pictures untill Games day, got to keep some mystery

You tease...

Great stuff, it really is. I agree about the scope though. Everything else about the gun is oversized compared to a regular human, so why not the scope too?

I made the iron sights on the top, however I made it about an inch short of being flush with the front of the gun... I was looking at a picture of storm bolter which is shorter..it was done and puttied before I realized I had made a mistake.

It looks okay for the most part and I have an idea how to save the design.

Also I added some pipe to the scope, makes it about 5" longer over all now.

I'll be out of town for a few days, so I don't know if I'll get WIP pics up before then, but I will after.

we can have a 40k tea party! or better, a dinner! with a glass of vintage M39 amasec (red wine) roast grox (roast beef) etc etc.

You forgot the Sacra!

we can have a 40k tea party! or better, a dinner! with a glass of vintage M39 amasec (red wine) roast grox (roast beef) etc etc.

OT i know
lol correct me if im wrong but i always envisioned amasec as like a brandy or scotch.

You know aged and whatnot and i think it fits the image of an imperial officer or inquisitor drinking rare scotch then wine but idk

edited for stupidity

Well I did some more work on the Bolter. I may end up changing a few minor things, but for the most part it is
all puttied and ready for painting. The barrel is an old one I had from the bolt pistols I'm using as a place holder, I will be making a new one for the bolter.



Shot of the cocking lever, which is linked to the ejection port cover.Pull the cocking lever and the ejection port opens.

Ejection port open.


With the scope.




Scale shot.

This is the thing I dislike about the 40k models. In the fluff Bolter rounds are perfectly efficientt, in that they don't have a casing. This means that an ejection port is completely unnecessary. However, I completely understand you putting one on the gun, as the models, pictures etc all have them.

It's a discrepancy within 40k, and is only a factor because GW wanted to make the guns look like we expect them to, not how they would actually look.

But other than that (which is more my over-pedantic-ness than anything) the bolter, and bolt pistols look freaking awesome, and I can't wait to see the bolter all painted up =D

Oshova

Actually, bolters have an ejection port for the purposes of ejecting jammed rounds. (Which, in some fluff, is a fairly common occurence).

I was just loking at lexicanum and no where does it say that bolters don't have casings. I think you were thinking of autoguns which have caseless bullets

Commissar Agro, an autogun is just a futuristic version of a rifle, and use solid ammo. solid ammunition use cases just like the rifles we use today. boltgun rounds are meant to be self propelled, and so the entire bolt round should be propelled out as it has its own propulsion, think of a mortar.

Bolter rounds have a casing with enough propellant tp shove it out of the barrel until the round's rocket propulsion can power it sufficiantly enough. If it relied on the rocket alone, it would be fairly ineffective at close range. Look at the Gyrojet for a real life referance.

Now then, everything looks awesome Finnlock, and kudos for havin a girlfriend whos into all this!