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Nice looking Dredd

Have to say that artwork is one of my favorite pieces of GW art - really love your model of it so far

Really enjoying this blog, it has to be one of the most varied on Dakka! Love seeing some of those old minis, and the Dredd looks great. Now you need to come up with some rules for him for Necromunda

Cheers guys, glad you're enjoying this Mystery Tour of Miniatures...

Finally completed the Black Templars piece... Pleased to say that it's my first completed mini for several years. Hope you like...

Very nice indeed!

Could be quite a fun objective - capture the flag!

So bit of a photo dump coming up - this is basically my project 'to do' list for the year, although doesn't include the Vehicle comp entry, Thunderhawk Gunship scratchbuild or IG trench diorama...

Plus I'l be attending Salute again this year so no doubt more will be added...

Let's start with my collection of Doctor Who minis - from Heresy and Crooked Dice - the Tardis console is Fenris I think... There's also a couple of Tardis models that my boy has squirreled away somewhere to be painted...


As already seen in this thread, here's Dredd, based on the recent movie, also my unopened Wargames Foundry 2000AD preview pack from a few years back...


Some gunfighters - these are larger than 28mm scale from Paper Street Soap Company - got them at Salute about 6 or so years ago IIRC, nice sculpts, obviously based on a pretty well known actor and series of western movies...


Some Copplestone minis - ignore the paint jobs, was experimenting with base colours...


More Western goodies - this time from Black Scorpion - some of the nicest sculpts I've seen


Westwind wild west gunfighters - another 'not' Clint here


More Black Scorpion - bit disappointed with the quality of these - a plastic/resin figures, tons of flash... and they have a wire dolly running through them and some you can actually see the wire... Still, I love the sculpts...


As above... Look closely at the guy centre front, the wire is showing through his outstetched arm !


Hasslefree goodies - 'Not Hot Fuzz' figures


More Hasslefree 'Not Buffy and gang' plus 'not Scooby Doo', think I've got a 'not Shaggy' somewhere as well to go with him...


Mix of Hasslefree and Heresy - Left to right - 'Not Kick-Ass'; 'Not Hellboy (conversion)'; 'Not Snake Plissken (Esape from NY)'; Templar - will be paintedas per Indy Jones and Last Crusade; 'Not Predator' - Hurn I think they're branded as...


Lastly, my Marauder Giant - when I got him he had two right legs, so I had to sculpt a new left one - made it so that he had a false leg constructed from a cannon and a cauldron ! His story is that he comes from the coast and used old ship bits and sails for colthing / armour... Was going to change his club to appear like a ships mast with crows nest and ropes Pretty keen to get him completed...


That's all for now folks, thanks for looking

Small update, but one that has taken a few hours to make... A scratchbuilt plasticard cantilever toolbox...




And now I've just realised that I've forgotten to make a top / lid for each side of the cantilever. Idea is for it to look like one of these...

Feth it, am I annoyed... I was making the toolbox at the family dining table as I usually do, then just after the last photo I tidied up so that we could sit down to eat. Went to look in my hobby cupboard today for it so that I could finish the detailing ans start working on some tools but I can't find it anywhere... Simply disappeared from the face of the Earth... Now I'm gonna have to make a replacement. :(

That sucks! I can't even start to think how much of a PITA that toolbox was to make.

Also, love the random collections of models above. They look pretty cool

Yeah it was a real fiddly little bugger, but with the knolwedge in hand of the first build, any subsequent attempts will be easier and quicker (I hope...) BTW, I still can't find it, so am giving it up for lost... can only presume it went into the recycling bin and I'm damned if I'm looking through that lot for it...

Yep, random figures... That's what happens when you go to Salute with too much cash in your wallet... I'm sure I'll come back with another horde of minis this year and they'll go straight into the 'to do' list

Righty, so I remade the toolbox and added some scratch made tools and painted as well !



Have also put some paint on the entire model...

lovely scene setting.

Thanks mate, base has been touched up as was too yellow, have also added some dead grass and leaf litter. Will get some photos up before the weeks out...

Finished the 'Old Truck' Posted pics in the competition thread http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/120/499362.page#5336387

Here's a couple of shots though...

didn´t knew you´ve put so much self made details into that terrain bit... the tool box is a gem of beauty... maybe one day you will find the original one again...

but for now you did an awesome job mister!

What Vik said! Out-fething-standing man!
What thickness plastic did you use on the toolbox?

by the way... the wrecked dio totally made me miss the whole suply drop on that huge load of minis!!! why so many western minis? what are you up to mister???

Viktor von Domm wrote:didn´t knew you´ve put so much self made details into that terrain bit... the tool box is a gem of beauty... maybe one day you will find the original one again...

but for now you did an awesome job mister!

Thks Vik, got a funny feeling that the original went in the bin by mistake!

dsteingass wrote:What Vik said! Out-fething-standing man!
What thickness plastic did you use on the toolbox?

Cheers Dave, the plasticard is a mix of 0.5mm for the sides & 0.75mm on the base of each section. The cantilever and handle are also 0.5mm. Tools made out of the offcuts from my plasticard bitz box... Theres a club hammer, several wrenches, couple of screwdrivers, a crowbar and a stanley knife

Viktor von Domm wrote:by the way... the wrecked dio totally made me miss the whole suply drop on that huge load of minis!!! why so many western minis? what are you up to mister???

Always been keen to get a wild west game up and running. These figures have been in my collection for a while now, just never found the time to get them painted up... This may be the year though and if I do, expect to see a scratchbuil western town



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Good news - I got my rebuilt Laptop (Dell XPS) back today. Been down for the last week and I've been having to steal the wifes Tab or the kids homework laptop to get online, hence why I haven't posted much!

Problem now though is, as the HDD died, I haven't been able to recover much of the data - luckily I have a back-up external HDD with all the photos, music and most documents so not lost too much, but... I've lost all my weblinks which I'd amassed over the last 15 years or so. Going to have spend a lot of time now finding them again...

expect to see a scratchbuil western town

leans back for the upcoming show

I've lost all my weblinks which I'd amassed over the last 15 years or so.

ouch!!! ouch indeed...

if you are looking for something special don´t hesitate to ask...

Vik, let me add, I need to get the T-hawk finished first before the wild west take centre stage...

Oh and then there's the IG diorama to also finish up

i am ok with anything you make

Love the Black Templars diorama, it really looks like the artwork which I have always liked. Your modelling and painting skills are great, and I might try something similar to your diorama if you don't mind.

Thanks for the kind words - go ahead and do it, if I can inspire others to try this type of work then all the better...

man... i don´t know why the last comment had to be anounced to me through the other thread of yours... after all i am subbed to this one too...i think...???

but it was cool to look through the pics of yours again! man you have quite some nasty talent mister!

Like I said elsewhere (I think...) I've had to work some on the castle in the back garden. It was leaking :( It's now fixed I hope...



Needs a repaint and then I gotta lay a new lawn (going the Astroturf route so no more mowing and weeding, plus hosepipe bans will no longer worry me

astroturf? do you mean plastic grass or what?

and that tower looks super cool... my kids would never get back in the house if i had a garden with something like that!

Yup, plastic grass. No more muddy feet... YAY

Only downside is it's much more expensive than turf, but I never have to mow it, so worth it, plus I don't have a big grassy area - about 56 sq meters is all - used to have double that but the rest of the garden is now taken up by decking and a big extension on the back of the house...

isn´t plastic grass a bit too spikey for bare feet?... i still remember that stuff not too fondly from long ago school times on the soccer grounds....

No no no, wont be getting any friction burns on this stuff, it's really quite comfy under foot and much more realistic than the old Astroturf pitches - has several shades of green and even brown strands woven in. It's good stuff

well then... come the nuke you still have some lawn to shoo away from those post nuklear raiders