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Thanks for the encouragement!

Here are a couple pieces I am working on.. Grot Bionics!
I plan to make a couple more arms, a torso, legs, and backpacks. hopefully they will cast well and I can mass produce them.

Awesome find at the garage sale! Love the creativity you have put into your terrain. Hope to see more!

I laid down the primary colors on my fallen tower. Hopefully by tonight I will have finished adding the remaining colors so I can wash, weather and highlight it tomorrow.

blue? interesting
cant wait to see what happens

You do some great work man! keep it up! subbed!

Awesome stuff! That looted wagon further up is just great. I never see ork players using tau gear on their looted wagons, its always the same IG or SM stuff. Really unique...i didnt see it finished so im hoping you post something on it soon! And of course the painting on the orks is fantastic(k)!!

Thanks for the support guys!

I decided to list all my works in progress...

To Do list:

1) Fallen manufactorm tower (done)

2) Scratch built cyber grot kit
a) mold and cast the 2 torso's and arms I have created(done)
b) finish sculpting 2 sets of legs
c) finish scratch built back pack and servo arms
d) build servo skull
e) sculpt cyber head

3) Mold and cast squig scuplt
4) Fisher price airport (done)
5) Destroyed tank scenery (done)

6) Ork looted wagon
a) add additional armor and details
b) make custom grot turrets
c) prime and paint

7) Army painting
a) Ork warboss
b) Ork painboy
c) black ork conversions
d) 25 + pig iron guard miniatures(done)
e) 2 phskers with hot chick guard
f) 2 chimeras
g) basilisk
h) chaos rhino
i) Mk1 repressor conversion
j) custom Aspiring champion
k) add highlights, improve paint job on previously painted minis..
l) 100+ tyranid models

8) Set up vacuum chamber
a) clean up pump, and top off oil
b) buy a brushed aluminum pot with wall thickness 4mm+

9) Setup pressure chamber
a) research best pressure range
b) buy pressure pot

10) Resin base molds for each army
a) CSM & Rebel IG- metal flooring with rivets and warp effects (discretely placed eye balls and tentacles)
b) ORK - dirt/mud, copious amounts of bullet casings, a few bones/dead things
c) Tyranid - organic, Alien, egg sacs, rippers?

The fact that you cataloged and listed your projects makes you a better man than I am. Once I had the idea to get all of my unpainted minis out and line them up for painting...that was too much for me to ask myself, too scary.

Quick tip, if you're stuck using cheaper plaster than dental stone, you can add a little bit of watered down PVA glue to the plaster to at least make it slightly less crumbly, but it will take longer to set. Also, brushing on watered down PVA after the plaster dries will help strengthen it as well.

I honestly dread painting troops. The problem is I love building them! It just alot of repetitive details to paint. Terrain is a different story because each piece is unique. So building projects keep floating to the top of the list while my armies sit neglected


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Terraformer wrote:Quick tip, if you're stuck using cheaper plaster than dental stone, you can add a little bit of watered down PVA glue to the plaster to at least make it slightly less crumbly, but it will take longer to set. Also, brushing on watered down PVA after the plaster dries will help strengthen it as well.

Thanks for the tip! I really enjoy your work BTW. I use a wall patching product called "fix-all". It is really cheap, dries pretty fast, and will hold up to some serious abuse. The only issue I have is minor chipping if dropped on concrete. Haven't had a problem with it crumbling at all. I have had some success eliminating bubbles by soaking the molds in water mixed with a couple drops of flow aid, a tip I got from the hirst-arts website.

Ok so I finished off my fallen tower scenery. Well I still have to spray it with a matte seal (bad weather right now) and then add a couple glossy highlights. Comments and Ideas are always welcome thank you for looking!









Tell me what you think!

Wow! Looks great! Have yo gotten anywhere on the got you teased about earlier?

thanks RS! I have made some progress on it! I am completely scratch building it with the intention of making it a kit. I finished detailing a servo arm last night, almost done with a super dakka arm. in the next couple days I hope to mold 2 torsos, 4 arms, and one back pack. once I cast these I will do more work on the legs. Maybe when I get home tonight I will blue tac one together and snap some pics.

You rock! Can't wait to see the fisher price stuff. Its this kind of creativity that really makes the hobby for me. Right there with you about painting troops - I'd farm it out if I could afford that. Much more fun creating them.

Can't wait to see it! I too love converting/building stuff...HATE painting! (it scares the BeJeebus out of me!)

Here is the cyber goblins I have been working on, still a long ways to go as far as details.

one of two generic torsos taking shape

arms and backpack bits

A couple shots of the dakka arm tacked to a torso with a temporary head and pointy arm


A couple shots of the mech kit tacked to a different torso with a temporary head



Again the heads are only temporary. I plan to sculpt cyber type heads. The mech kit will have guitar wire type mechandrites and maybe a tool bag full of wrenches. The dakka arm will have a sculpted bicept and shoulder. After I cast the top half I will work on a couple leg sets.

Those are brilliant! Freaking awesome!

Forgive me if you mentioned it before, but are you making these for an IG based Grot army?

I can't wait to see more!

Awesome! He looks like a Goblin Mega Man posing with his outstretched finger! Very cool!

RSJake wrote:
Forgive me if you mentioned it before, but are you making these for an IG based Grot army?

No they are just for my standard ork army at this point. Its more of an exercise to prove to myself that I can make a pose-able miniature kit from scratch.


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I do love Grot IG Armies though..... so who knows

Either way, I can't wait to see the end result!

I got inspired and quickly turned out another servo arm. It only took about 15 minutes and I snapped some pics and made a tutorial. Hope it helps inspire you.
Tutorial : http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/402303.page#3414552

Oh, wow, really amazing stuff here - awesome skills. That terrain piece works really well - great as an objective marker.

...and, seriously... $3 for two completely intact boxes of Space Hulk?! Nice find!

Keep up the good work.

check out my latest tut: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/402584.page

BALLZ!! That's incredible work! The terrain is lloking great. I love the blue flower thing, it's a great detail.

Those servo arms and sculpted grots

Subscribed!

Very nice terrain, the colours remind me of a planet from Mass Effect. The last guitar sring hand is just what I was looking for to make my next grot!

That's superb stuff.

And thank you for tutorials - it's very handy.

WOW


the FP conversion is getting borrowed, Thanks Sir

Here is a sneak peek of my WIP grot cyber legs

very smart mate genious idea on the terrain

Your plasticard work is brilliant, I exalted your tutorial for reference,very handy.