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Ah well thats cool... any artist i know?

cooll work maus... just came back from a small weekend trip to the eastern sea... will comment more indepth to your cool looking minis later on!

Cool, hope you had a great trip Vik. Was it a whole family thing?

yup... we went to the sea just at a sudden idea of my wife... the kids got all exited and then we had to search for a hotel... that was almost a turning point... spontaneous trips... thats something new for us... but it was tremendous fun...even tho it was hot as hell... come to think of it.. i think it s fresher in hell^^

btw... answered your question in the comp thread... hope i could help... don´t strain yourself with the material... maybe you coat it with PVA or even superglue before priming? heck a coat of milliput should work to if it comes to this...

And some more critters:

Wheel 2


And with wheel 1


Truckin on




Were-thing




As always comments would be much appreciated... specially things to improve

you will definatly get an indepth comment on your last two updates... just now is not the time... but i love all!!! the orks cetainly have a very monkey troll approach^^

no artist you would know, just a dad who bought his unnaturaly talented 16 year old daughter a music video...

Ooo I like the guy in the truck pics! and the were thing too!

This is a really awesomely crazy blog you have here! very creative, keep it up Maus!

Blatant fiction selfpromotion:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/427288.page

For those that like reading erm... stuff...

Oooh I've got a great article on using fishing line, clear resin, and five-minute epoxy to make running water in a fountain!

http://www.hirstarts.com/tips15/tips15.html#44
Go here and scroll down a bit to:
Making Water for Fountains and Pools

Wow, I'm impressed, MauS. The amount of character you put into each and every one of your minis... nice work man, nice work!

Thank you thank you

Updated my fiction thread... wrestling with my arena... not much to show as missus took the camera to her mothers to show the travel pics... arena is based and the stones are done. Sand has been added to the central floor and coloured. Now working on the 'Thunderdome' cage and barbed wire.

Nice find on the toy truck, I always look out for vehicles in the right scale and they are often tricky to find. It looks great.

By the way I can see you are into modern/quirky characters - check out Crooked Dice's range of heads and bits, they have plenty of stuff that would look right at home on your minis.

Hey Guys,

Back after a little hiatus, and i have a confession to make...
I abandoned all previous projects, and started a small shanty-town. This in part due to my new addiction, called fallout...
So yeah, thanx for that Vik and Dave...

Anyways, i'm more and more sliding away from necropocalypse, and toward fallout. Not that big a change i think, I just need to build a lot more shanties and garbage, rubble and junk. And i'll likely need some cola machines soon, so i'll likely pay Galorn's site a visit before long.
Heres 5 shanties so far, and I would appreciate any pointers, tips, critique etc...













They are all works in progress, and I plan to add tags to them of all members of the league. Aye, blatant theft of Dave's work of art. Let me know what ya all think people. And give it to me straight up. Gently healers usually leave stinking wounds remember...

hmmm... i like them... what is a bit turning me of atm is the amount of rust... a bit less would be better... suggestion: sponge on some other colors like green or blue to the corrugated iron walls... thus giving the peeled off effect a bit...

as for adding the league members tags... artistic theft is the greatest form of flattery...so i´ve heard

oh... a thought just crossed my mind... you only did box-shaped sheds... why not make a tent-like one? more triangular than angular...?

the tower in the middle looks interesting... like a stronghold version for the underhive^^

oh and the details like signs and graffity already look very cool!

does that by the way mean you will do some fallout-ish characters for that inspitation too? i bet you come up with some very cool dudes^^

oh and don´t thank me... i just wanted to share the pain a bit with addicting others to FO too

Ah yes... there will be fallout inspired minis for sure!! Specially some in feinforced leather, some with merc armour... etc...
And definately there will be raiders... and ghouls... and and...
I should stick to one thing at a time hehehe

The tower is like a stronghold yes, and as a high point in the necro-hyves...

Good point on the squareness... I usually make my bases rectangular or square, dunno why. It kinda forces me into square buildings too. I should remedy that...

I'll try some yucky green sponging on one too see if that fixes some of the rust issues. Not sure bout the blue...

Shanty town looks great! Excellent build and the rust looks excellent, really like the fading from one color into another. Looking forward to seeing more work along this line, it's genuinely inspiring.

Thank you Skalk! Coming from you i consider that a huge compliment for my work!

I tried Vik's suggestion for the sponged green or blue, but immediately scratched the idea. I didn't like the look one bit. It looked too new to me, and the plan for the necropocalypse shanty-town was nothing to do with new. Albeit a good suggestion, I tossed it aside.

I have however build three more shanties, so now its paint again. I must, for i have run out of Foamcard...

Haha! Awesome! Absolutely excellent, but the signage should be weathered a bit more. Shiny new signage on shanty buildings..


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..And MOAR rivets next time

I agree steingass... but the boards are all so small i need smaller rivets... Must look up ways to make them smaller...

Edit: Good one on the signs... hadn't thought bout that one...

Those ...."buildings"... look really good, MauS! I would love to see a whole town in fallout-style!

Working on just that MrMerlin. The shanties combined with my generic concrete housing makes it look fallout-ish already... but i now need several (20+) bases of random generic rubble. Can't create a fallout look without lots of rubble...

Anyone have some good tutorials on doing rubble bases quickly??

Yes. Get your hands on a regular real brick (or 2) and a hammer. Put it in a paper bag and wrap the paper bag w/ a plastic garbage bag. Beat it up pretty well but don't go all psycho on it or you'll wind up w/ more dust than rubble. Glue to a base, spray black, drybrush gray, ruined city in just a couple hours!

Good tip, i'll try that Skalk... just regular brick you say?

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MauS, these are fantastic! Havent had a chance to go through the whole blog yet, but these figures are oozing character. Definitely will be watching with interest!

I hope when you have the time you will check out the lot of it Fango. I'm pretty sure if you like these you'll like some of the others too.

Thanx!

Yes. Here's the formula:

I can work with that yes
Hackin an smashin will be fun.

Some beginning furniture for The league shantytown...
Hope you like. Lemme know...







There will be more... if these turn out okay i'll likely do my first venture into casting. Things like sofas and matrasses you can never have enough