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lol... i just commented thr oposite on your tank thread^^ i have to do both...and i think whlie the one is setting the other can be painted... so...^^


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and besides i just so love me converting stuff... that is the main part of the hobby for me...cobbling new minis out of miserable ones^^

Of course! tanks from thin air and scraps, making sad minis happier.....

Steam knight is wicked mate! your getting very creative in your old age.. how are you going to tackle the visor, with blending? also nice sponson addition

Love the steam knight vik

Nice use of bits, and definitely has that steam-punk feel you want for your guys, good job.

Forget painting the tank, get a force of those guys built up

Vik's Trads are Epic. Look it up in the Encyclopedia Stengassia..Under Epic, in the E's..there is a picture of Vik's Treads.

Vik, have to say that you and Demitry100 inspired me with your tanks to scracth-build a vehicle of my own and I already have something in my mind!
And btw - the Astroknight is good, very clever use of SM shoulders! Reminds me of the space suits from UFO: Afterlight game, like this one:


Keep it up!

Interesting suit there, maybe that would make a good sculpt!

You should really take a look at my friends Diesel Punk Marines if you haven't seen them.

Cheers!

please send my deepest regards to your friend speedfreak....his army has kept me through this all to short five pages in a constant state of awe... mind if he would join dakka to contact him? his thread is so old on BOCS that it would be no point joining that board too for me....
my own army attempt is a bit a mixture of steampunk and diesel punk elements so pointing out his army was an education and a half... i half secretly mused the use of killa kanz bodies for my own line of work for quite some time...and boy is this a good execution of my idea^^

at shaso... i bet someone already did that^^

at storag...lol... i currently play that game again^^ and i do see it as part of some influences that flooded into that work... also a bit of starcraft you could say is also in there^^

at monkey....

Forget painting the tank, get a force of those guys built up

lol... always temptation is it you offer^^ and i am certainly not the man to stop you from doing it... mind you you are trying to tear down doors already wide open^^ (dunno if that was a good translation of a german proverb...) as i already plan to make at least one more^^
oh and i painted the sponson guns too^^

at neil... the visor will be a ruined blening attempt^^ colorwise i am totaly in the unknown depth here....my next one will have to have an open one to have some face sticking out^^ and old age.... my hair is falling off and i have wrinkles all over (believe me^^) and you call that old age? so long as me jools are still working i am as fit as i care^^


worked on the steamknight some more... pics later... the main thing currently is that i am at a loss as to how to "close" the steampack...also the oven door is a bit uneasy task on me... can´t find the bitz to make a sound look.... so i went for some old curtainhook wheels... the ones i way back used as amomags for my aussie vets... guess i have to make way more GS work on him...

also i mave mused about adding a certain hammered look to the sides of the backpack...any other ideas?or is a door really needed if we take the dieslpunk influence into acount and think about some other fule as coal?


vik

If coal powered yes. a door would be needed for loading, otherwise either electric or liquid fuel of some sort needed.

if i go again coal... then i would add a shovel to each knigt i have thought... some sort of other fuel i think all depends on the painting later on...

Anything to heat that boiler!

Posting the inks to you this afternoon Vik!

so fellas, that steamknight saw some more greenstuff action today... finally decided to makie him steampowered and thus i modeled a boiler door for the heating chamber...

greenstuff reminds me always of chewing gum... when you pull it it starts to go a kind of greyish color...yuk^^

here are some pics of my latest work...










the uneven look on most surface is intentional... it should painted look like:



or



or even



what do you think? and should i really do another steamknight...i have a torso front and a pair of unused termy legs still around...and after that i might feel even the need to mistreat some of my still assembled but unattended termies...


vik

Is he fighting vampires?

why do you ask?

he seems to have a cross in his hand lol

nope... that is his mount for the arms...i am musing to paint the body before attaching the arms...that way i might get some better results with him... those bitz are cut off mortar feets...^^ well he looks a bit creepy that way^^

do you recon the beaten copper look would be a good choice?

well i am off for now... read ya all in the nighty night^^


vik

See you later and the beaten copper will look great

Yes, nice beaten copper look. What is the targeter bit on his shoulder from?

ohoh... thaT TARGETER WAS IN A BIG BITZBOX I GOT FROM EBAY:::I TENDED TO BE LUCKY SOMETIMES ON EBAY AND A BITZBOX IS SO (ups a capslock disaster^^) nice to search through once you had it in the mail...loks definte imperial but i´d be damned if i know....

I got lucky once, went into a small hobby shop here in town, and bought some guy's HO scale trains bitz box for $10. I guess some guy sold all his train stuff and all that was left was the biz box. I took it. It's full of cut up train cars, lots of rivety bitz.

Hmm, sponson targeter from one of the land raider variants? Don't recognise that exact design, but the basic design looks the same.

Yeah, can find some nice bits in a train set bits box.

hmmmm rivets^^

well actually i always am on the look out for treasureboxes^^

Vik, you really should do the second one I think. Hope they will recieve some heavy guns to make up with their bulky appearence.

I'm not the one for CC but don't you think that this copper it overbeaten? I mean.. so much damage on such small surface makes it look more like it's made of a thin copper foil to my eye, rather than of a decent sheet of solid metal. And when painted it might look as.. Finecast, if you know what I mean
Not sure I'm able to express my fears correctly but I came to conclusion that, considering the scale we all work with, a detail should have some space around it to be perceived as a intended detail and not as just a bad quality.

Don't take this critics to close please and keep up if your choise is intended on this matter

i think you have a good point there and i apreciate it full haertly! i had my doubts too about the structure... to tell you the truth i came up with that beaten copper idea because i wanted some different structure but i feared i would ruin it any way...so i thought why not make it even more beaten looking...but that fear is also now verified as i think that structure looks way too nurgle to me eyes...i will have to do something about that.... nurgleish look is the least someone should associate my steamknights with...

and i am currently working on a second mini even as we type^^ the first one was made from stuff from the new termies boxes i had in a bitzbox... the second one is of the old stuff ...a tad shorter edition and needs to be stretched firstly...to get the same height at least.... the look will vary slightly form knight to knight.... and i have gathered bitz for at least five atm^^ so stay shocked with me^^

and again... i really like guys that can say the truth in front of an "artist" as we need to know the dirty thruth.... after all being creative doens´t mean we have to keep living in wonderland^^ i want to make down to earth sculpts but with a head still in the clouds so i need earthing!!!


thanks storag!

Viktor von Domm wrote:thanks storag!

You're always welcome friend! Might I suggest a tool for you that helped me to smooth the GS on several ocasions:

This thing women use to polish their nail's surface.. foolish creatures! I found that it's much more usefull when applied to GS or even paint Helps ro remove and smooth unwanted relief. I think that after some polish, when the edges of bumps will become a surface, this will look more like a beaten metal.

LOL

hmmmm one side is more beaten looking even...so i too had thought about doing something to even the look...i take this is very fine sanding paper block? only just for fingernails then...hmmm miht have to take a stroll through a drugstore tomorrow...


at dstein... well my grandpa always tole me to use the right tool for the right job^^

dsteingass wrote:LOL

Yea, It is laughable.. but still..

Viktor von Domm wrote:hmmmm one side is more beaten looking even...so i too had thought about doing something to even the look...i take this is very fine sanding paper block? only just for fingernails then...hmmm miht have to take a stroll through a drugstore tomorrow...

It's more tender than any sand paper I had run in to. They usally come in with 2 or 4 sides, have a try