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hmmm... that´d be probably sooner than we all would like then...

What is an army when it is beaten and destroyed ? Surly it is finished then

that got you another quote in my sig...!!! that is so much insight into the subject!!! priceless!

and just for your all information...

yesterday i had a meeting with all these new parents of the class i soon will attend and help to get their kids to grow up to be good school boys and girls... it was very interresting but also very exhausting so i was in no mood to stop by and add to the banter yesterday... i was totally talked empty so to say

and yes shrike... go to your lil guardsmen... they need you!!!

forgott to add it

now there^^

it was just that the meeting was sterting at six in the evening and went to 10 ...which isn´t really my chatty time anymore...and mind you...all that awful smiling you have to do is really taking the energy out of you...

yup... i bet it will get complicated... nut i have to see this through... three years of taking the dumb out on me and after that i can name the price in my new found profession... nursery nurses are highly sought for atm and male ones even more... then i will look for a nice indoor job

lol... i must have more than just one stalker it seems...*shakes head *

actually the kids really liked me in a first week i did when i had my tryouts... and since i am still retaining some of the attitude i have here in work too i guess we will get on with all like a house on fire...there will be no survivors^^

nothing new there...

so.... put your drinks if you have them on the table... you need your hands free... to steady yourself or to just madly aplaud for these awesome looking bitz courtesy of RS Jake...!!!

in the following pics i will present to you the still untouched pieces i got as a very friendly gesture from jake so to kind of test them and i will do that with the utmost pleasure...really my heart leaped up in my body as i saw the envelope!!!

so here are the pics...later in that post some questions to jake tho...

steampunk guns...




when i tomorrow clean them up from the very thin flash i will show you way better pics than these...!

the nuka bottles...still on a twin sprue so to say^^




and a collection of heads...they really look top notch!!! fine detailed and totally something i want to use!!! and that is telling something as i still have the odd relation to skulls... but those lovley skull heads form jake lookhighly detailed and very cool looking...








well the pics don´t to the artistic deed of jake enough credit... i had it seems some serious lighting issues but as i said better ones tomorrow!


vy the way jake.... the helmeted female heads are these all yours? the googles look so damn fine!!! and the assasin with the small antenna ...super cool!!! also the brown bare one... my fingers itch like hell to get the GS out and start making a cool hairdo for that one!!!

and well as i said above... usually i am not really that fond with all those endless skulls all over the range of GW but you sir ...you may actually change my view on that! if someone wnats to do traitor guard... or a customized steel legion...these heads are a perfect fit in my view!!! really to have seen the whole range already in your thread was all good... but now as i see the stuff here in the resin "flesh" i have to say... wow... way better... your casting seems to produce a very good quality that other major companies should investigate in!!!

cheers, vik


soon about to start a project with all that cool stuff!!!!

combine diet coca cola and mentos in my mouth to compensate

warning before you do that would be nice.... saw a vid online of someone doing that and it is not for the faint of heart!!!

at max... a bit repititive aren´t we...old man


and childe... vid is a blank...

er....

they said I'm a rarely exceptional and endangering species...

FIXED that for you...

and well as long as you keep the fountain inside you and your infamous innards i am all right i think... beind a thick wall anyways...

lol tomorrow when my kids are back to kindergarden then i will start to work on the projects... one of these days i really have to get me some bluetac tho...

thank you for that hazzer! i really apreciate that!


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at jake... specially the helmeted heads i see could be your making! this is some design you should definatly do more in...

later on i will start to work with jake´s stuff and will let you know what will develop out of these... i need to make a big plunge into my bitz boxes for these^^

oki lads and ladies...

update time... i had to think and rethink my porper use of jakes cool looking steampunk guns... the initial plan was to use the wargames factory greatcoat trooper bodies... but the arms i then had to use never really matched up with the shoulder section of the bodes and i had to cancel that idea... instead i then took out my second plan and started converting empire militia men...

for the gun wileding arms i used a blunderbuss holing combination i (in my view) cut up quite neatly and left enough space to pace jakes steampunk gun inside without hurting the cool bit in any way,.. that was my intention and i am proud that this was achieved... i couldn´t have beared with the fact of hurting those guns^^...

currently i am contemplating if i attach a backpack if vic´s lead scotsmen


as a means to suply power to the gun... your thoughts?


well, also i think i finished my first complete mini of the felix freedom fighters... the arbites unit for my son...it is still rather dark in it´s scheme but i think i am not able to come up with any suitable ideas to get more detial and contrast to the mini...

well here are the pics...:
















cheers, vik

Again, early days on the SWAT guys

er...i didn´t get that...

yup... you gotta have that stuff to really apreciate jakes work.. the detail is so tiny and crisp!!!

er... where in that pic is anything sculpted my her???

and yes... i think childe you are right... the bitz alone justify the use^^

lol... i knew she was a good painter too^^ but i was more about her sculpted stuff^^

hmm... the highlight issue again... i did a soft drybrush with iceblue before the wash tho...

and yes... those plates get some further treatment

lol... that is quite the amount of work to look forward to^^

well you aint seen nuthin yet... new update strting...NOW!

so gents... here it comes... the before shown pics of that steampunk soldier were only rather rough WIPs...

groupshot of things in the works...:





and then the new really up and coming steampunk soldier... note the boiler on his backpack... and the conection with a cable to the steampunk lasgun...the "magazin" i used as a inbetween storage point so to say... i fugured a direct connection would be not my style...and the magazin as such would be too tiny for my stlye too... so a combo would be better...

see for yourself:








also... i just had to give the standard lasgun a bayonet...it is from the DA kit... and also the base is not done yet and probably a bit of resculpting of the body will happen with GS soon...

as for the other fellas... i am currently still figuring out if i clipp off the pistol grip of the sniper rifle... i think it looks fishy atm for what i am going for... and the laspistol will also get a pwercable to a steampowerpack soon... same goes to the sniper rifle...


cheers, vik

thanks mister^^

well you don´t want to be short on length with a tool like this, now do you?

and also it has way more personality... i still recal that fight in saving private james ryan... where that german kills slowly the one GI... that is so nasty... come to that i also recall such a knife fight in All Quiet on the Western Front... nearly the same situaton...

oh... the head is definatly too from a fantasy GW kit... but as i got them from a bitz site i can only say that it is from the standard emperial kits...not really sure which one...

and the pitol wielding chap need some changes to really be done... i have to look at it for longer it seems... there is still lacking that certain something with it for me^^

and well what can i say... the empire stuff certaily feels as if someone has designed it to work splendidly for conversion work... have you noticed that the range of hand on these is remarkably more diversified thab the 40k range?...

thanks a lot to you both neil and shaso!

yup... the empire kits... i think soon i have to really look into getting me more unique shaped arms to get even more chacterful poses for my minis...

actually those i have in abundace too...and i don´t really like them...

i know i promised to get you those pics earlier... but the last copupla days have been quite lively, so hobby time i only did the modeling... but tomorrow i take those pics and then we talk

had a look but still not sure where that particular head comes from...

harharhar...

that sounds interesting... will take those pics later on... was on a big voyage to get some tax documents and stuff sorted out at the offices for soon to get into work properly... now having a bit of a postponed breakfast/lunch and then it will happen^^...

bitz boxes are always like easter and christmas together^^

yup... definatlly no look of constipation on my mug


also...update time...had still much fun with jakes guns and did my conversion work on these...

i am now thinking about attaching some kind of smokestacks to those backpacks...too much? or in dire need? your thoughts?

pics:












i think i will aply a generous amount of LGS to these powercables as i think they need to be thicker...and maybe look like those old cables you got in the early thirties... you know, those textile ones? like:




i bet LGS could simulate some kind of texture there...

also i need to figure out how to sculpt something as a better fitting hat for the sniper...that bowlhelmet looks dumb in my view... any ideas for that?


cheers, and thanks for your helpful advice^^

i had my doubts about the stacks too... if not someone has some good reasons why they should be there i will leave them out...

as for the cables... well i second your need to that these should hang more loose.... but i couldn´t get that done... i tried even to loose the PC rod a bit up by aplying glue to soften the rod more but to no avail...

and guitar wire... i heard that it is pretty sturdy and hard to bend... i tried floral wire too but that didn´t really work out that well too... i was rather glad that the rod did the work i assigend it to do so to say...

cable ...hmmm... those network cables... do i need to cut a bit of that up to get at the sigle cables inside?