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Loving your work so far cat wait to see more love the mantis warrior SM. possabily fisrt time back on dakka for months!!! Btw blog has had update….
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Lets see, the head of the steam punk guy. I was planning on using the ork as I loved his hat :-) but he has not been glued on so open to suggestions. The trouble I had was that the only heads I have are Space Marine, a couple if orks and a few IG. The IG heads all looked too small in the Sm chest peice. I think I need to add some rivets to the boiler and maybe some to the belt and coat as studs. And maybe some studs to the hat, I do like that hat.

In regards to the flyer base, that will be for my stormtalon. I decided to go to town on it as it is such a large peice. The under carriage of the ork bomber has had the hole filled in and will be hung from my celing on nylon thread over my monitor.

I enjoyed making the Mantis warrior Gitz, thanks for the compliment. Vic, I believe the chainsaws are meant to emulate the fore arms of a praying mantis.

and is there any special tech geeky fluff about the mantis form beside mimiking the matis forearms? just curious...^^

to be honest... there is only one true steampunky head in all the plastic kits of GW known to me... and it is in fact my favorite head...



that one has all the needed feel of the steampunky... if you have him... cool... if not...get him^^

and if the head is feeling too small...don´t get worried... as he is sitting in a hardsuit... the head is meant to be smaller in comarrision to the suit... after all... if he would pull off the armor...then his head would be redicioulsly big compared to the rest of his body...

Good point, I will see what heads I have, and if not the right one. Add a moustache too one :-)

adding a flourishing ´stache always helps to add a steampunky feel

love it!!!!!!!!!!

Well Here is an update on the Space marines that i got my Neices to design a colour scheme for. They are finally finished

Here is the first inital design

and here is how i interupretted it.


I decided to go for the infamous plasma guy as its a fun design.


And here is the finished product.



And here we have myother Neices colour scheme.

and here is how i interupretted it.


This one i decided to make holding a lascannon. T did a lot of repositioning with the leg, and had to convert a rocket launcher into a las cannon.



And here is the finished painted product.





It was a lot of fun doing these, and as i received a pack of 3 marines in Secret santa this year, i am going to write to my Cousin and ask her kids (my God son and sister) and ask them to colour in a picture for me, so i can do 2 more

In regards to my Steam Punkery Guy, that currently has the name of Barron Von Klinkerhofen, here he is headless posing with a lovely gun by rsjake, whihc was the inital muse to the project.

Taking into account what Vic said about the head, i had a search through my available heads. I found one that i throught was suitable, but he needed a mustache adding. Also as it is smaller i added a ring of GS onto the neck of th emodel to raise it slightly and also will act as a continuation of the cravat wrapped around his neck. The photos are not great as i had a lot of trouble trying to focus on my mobile. (lost the charger for my actual camera.)

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Now i just need to find somehere to spray my models

with the two marines you really did a very good job... love the bright schemes... and the plasma guy effect never grows old on me! that one was planned for my own marine army a long time ago too!... and the lasconon...very cool conversion/scratchbuild!

as for the ´stache... not to sound too dickish...but when i picture a ´stache from that alleged timeperiode...they allways look more pointy...like:

How could a comment from the land of awsome 'staches, ever be considered dickish

it should come off easy enough, and gives me something to sculpt tonight

looking good mordain!!!! keep it up cant wait to see the stash on that guy!!!

 M0rdain wrote:
How could a comment from the land of awsome 'staches, ever be considered dickish

it should come off easy enough, and gives me something to sculpt tonight

the land of awesome `staches... i thought everyone referres to us as "krauts"


looking forward to that new style then

Only Americans of German decent call you krauts... and then we're doing it knowing that we're also krauts, just relocated.

LOL... really only the former germans do this? funny...

I've never heard anyone that wasn't clearly of German decent do this. I suspect that it would be considered a discriminatory term if people of other nationalities used it... but it's OK if we use it on ourselves. To be honest I don't typically hear many slang terms for people of different nationalities or derivations. That may just be the type of people I hang out with but all-in-all I think it's a good thing.

(sorry for the derailing M0rdian)

actually the name i only know of because of old WWII movies... and i see how the explanation of the above mentioned would be the only possible funny way to use that term... and it is always the people we hang out with... after all friends are often quite like us... so if you are not known for using such discriminatory terms (which we all just knew here!) then probably a lot of your friends are just like that...

i happen to have mostly non smoking friends... only relatives do smoke^^ (you can´t just pick your family as you can with friends )

and also sorry for that minor derail mordain

I guess I've heard it most from my dad (WWII vet) when he's talking about their vacations to Germany to visit our relatives. He always says it with a smile on his face and an affected German accent. So that would jive with your insights.

may i ask where your family is from?

Taken to PM.

answered there too... over now to the regular programe in full speed and highest attention! °o°

Great work, just spent most of my work day going through the PM Blog up to the latest post. You have helped me greatly with the post about converting 2 meltaguns into a MM. May also have to make a missile launcher into a LC. BTW, that is one in the "Optimus Prime" scheme is of my favoites you have done. Cheers. Subscribed and looking forward to seeing your progress.

Thanks Lord_Osma Optimus was great fun to do.

And Vic and Gitz, you are always welcoe here what ever you talk about

Should put some more photos up tomorow

While waiting to work out where i can base coat my miniatures, i painted up Neo one of my Tactical Marines.






Then i found a good enough place to base coat, so got as much done as possible.
So Barron has had a black base coat and then some codex grey and a babadab black wash, i decided to try out NMM for a change.


Its not the best picture, as i did not have all my lights on, and my son
is sat on my lap watching cartoons on my other monitor

He looks great M0rdian! Well done mate.

Little hooked on Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 atm, so there wont be much progression on my painting lol. Still on the forum during the day though

may i ask a new pic of that double wielding marine? from above? love the gangsta pose! and if possible a wip shot as i would like to know which parts you used for the dual wileding of two boltpistols...!

Of course you can have some WIP photos vic.




The arms were standard pistol arms, but they were repoisitioned in the armpit and at the wrist. Then used the stick from a lolly as the barrell (after triming off the existing one)

I'll try to remember to take one from above tonight just for you.

thanks for the WIP pics! greatly apreciated... an above pic would be nice too! whenever you are ready!... of course... repositionings... i thought you would have some solution that wouldn´t need plastic surgery (LOL) but that is cool too! this guy probably couldn´t be any more badass ...even if he tried...although... an e-guitar probably on his back would have helped a bit

As requested a top down view of the Gangsta Marine.

I am so pleased with how it came out

He looks fantastic!

those barrelmuzzles just look awesome! i need to adapt that for some guardsman...!!!