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More progress!

So this week I've spent more time applying paint to plastic, and I think I've finalised the crimson hunter. So I'd like some feedback on the figures, and if anyone can think of anything obvious I've missed then that'd help too!
The bases are unfinished so far. Started to apply a snow effect when I first started but I'm not that happy with it so I've decided to scrape it off the other bases and just apply a coherent snow once their all done (and I find a way of doing the deep, crusty snow drifts I'm after...any ideas?)

Firstly the Exodite Lord on Carnosaur/Avatar




Then the second guardian squad. Decided to build some unhelmeted so I can mix them within both squads. Still need to finish the bright lance cold one.









Then we have the warp spiders



The Warlock Solnier, who'll accompany the support weapon beasts



And the finished Farseer Khadroni



Then we have the WIP shot of the crimson hunter. Still need to get a flying base for it. It and the wraithknight will both be painted in the same way as the Avatar, with the dinosaur being blue and grey, with the same green armour.



So what do you all think?

-Mark

Awesome job! I love your solution for the twin-linked catapults on the jet cold ones. The WFB and 40k parts work really well together.

How much is the height difference between your wraithknight and the regular one? It seems like the turret could sit lower with a taller base.

What are the armor bits used on the tail of the dragon? Along with the saddle, they balance well with the rest of the model. The turret needs a little more bulk. The gap is probably too narrow for the regular wave serpent turret though.

Best Exodite army I hjave ever seen. Good stuff, keep it up.

Nice work. The colour scheme plays to the Eldar Exodite theme without looking like wood-elves-in-space, which is great. The Avatar is awesome.

Thanks for the support guys, keeps me motivated painting all those little scales!

 k0v wrote:
Awesome job! I love your solution for the twin-linked catapults on the jet cold ones. The WFB and 40k parts work really well together.

How much is the height difference between your wraithknight and the regular one? It seems like the turret could sit lower with a taller base.

What are the armor bits used on the tail of the dragon? Along with the saddle, they balance well with the rest of the model. The turret needs a little more bulk. The gap is probably too narrow for the regular wave serpent turret though.

The back armour is cut from the support battery base, in the same way the avatars armour comes from the guardian support platform. The front armour is a combination of wave serpent gun shields and war walker cockpit.

Thanks for the idea of the wave serpent turret.....spent all evening searching for the one I know is here somewhere, but I think you're right that it'll be to big, so I'm going to scratch build one from plasticard.

Now I just need another platform to build the knarloc/dinosaur/shadow weavers....

Wow, great work! I really like this army, lots of character

Here we go again.

Not much so far this week.....decided that the warp spiders didn't work how I'd envisioned them, so work has started sorting that...
Going to give them the same legs as the guardians and fire dragons, but obviously a bit more dynamic. Luckily the shadow spectres are easy to take apart at the waist.

Also thought I'd do some more work on the display base.
Firstly cut the drainpipe into 15 pieces for the towers (and broke 4 Dremel cutting disks and 2 hacksaw blades in the process!), then bored holes with my new hotwire polystyrene cutter and glued them into place. I then used the cutter again to carve the mountains so they looked more natural rather than stepped




Then I started building the platforms and buildings. These were cut from foamcore, and the tower tops and main buildings were wrapped in thin card. Then all of them apart from the central platform were glued down.




The central on was left free as I want to get all the detailing on the towers and walls, as well as handrails before I fit the plasma ball and it's battery pack.

Still have to decide where to place the LED crystal generators.

More to come on Friday...
-Mark

Okay, so I said more on Friday, and as it's Friday I think I'll just leave these here.....










-Mark

Awesome. That is literally the best weaponised dinosaur I've seen

Seriiously, though, great work. The conversion looks very natural.

In soviet Russia, dinosaur extinct you!

Great paintwork on the dino. All around awesome conversion as well.

Well now aren't these guys just amazing. I really like how you did the armour on the carnosaur's, makes them look really impressive !

And your colour choices are fantastic as well very striking.

Sooo....long time no updates...but this hasn't been forgotten.

Firstly I finished the crimson hunter. It's had a bit of a redesign since the WIP photos.
I rebuilt the pilot using a Reaver jetbike pilot and handlebars, then the back armour was changed from plates cut from a support weapon platform to plates cut from the guardian platform to match the Avatar's. I also added the hip parts from the war walker for some extra details.






Then comes the shadow weaver platforms. The previous WIPs were a bit rough. I decided to replace the heads of the Knarloc with the head and neck of a cold one, then sculpted scales in the same rough places as the cold ones. The armour is built from the support platform base itself, supported with milliput. Be aware that they still need detailing (straps/gems etc.)




Finally some work on the armies on parade board. All the bridges and supports are in place, although the central platform is still removable to make it easier to install the plasma ball and to detail the area.
The foam has been carved, and covered with a papier-mâché with polyfilla and black paint added to start the rock texture.
The turrets are mock ups while I wait for some wave serpent turrets and electronic components to arrive - the turrets will eventually rotate 250 degrees clockwise, then automatically reverse themselves while there is power. The turrets will also light up with blue LEDs.
The generators will have a decahedron crystal mounted in the middle with a fading blue LED mounted inside.







-Mark

Binary, your builds are fantastic! Such creative use of monsters, WHFB components and eldar fluff. My only critique, if i may, is that i wish youd thin down your paint a little bit and perhaps take some more time in doing your edge highlighting. Such awesome models deserve the same work ethic in painting and it seems like you're pushing through the painting to have a finished work. Still fantastic work and blog, but i bet a little more patience when painting will net you a really big reward
Cheers
BB

This is brilliant, I want to exodites again now :( I love the display board, it looks fantastic, can't wait to see it finished. Looking forward to the next up date

Young Logan

That display board is shaping up very nicely, and as before, the dinos of all kinds are looking awesome.

Didn't realise it's been so long since the last update, well that's what holidays will do for you!
All has not been forgotten though, and I appear to have reached a few milestones without realising.

Firstly with the army itself I've finished the modelling of the shadow weaver beast and their handlers





These are the next on the painting bench so hopefully should be done before the middle of June.

Most of the progress has been with the armies on parade board.













Handrail stanchions, rails, plasma ball and floor detailing is all installed, next job will be fun with electronics- build the circuit for the generators, wire up the plasma ball and build the cradle for the turret motors. Then onto the paint!

-Mark

Damn your awesomeness!

That's one heck of a display board, and more awesome gun-dinos!

Oh man that is an awesome board and even more awesome models to go on it

*crys*

Was in the Bristol store yesterday and asked about Games Day - still no confirmation either way whether it's happening or not though. Hold it is - I want to see this proudly on display!

What a fantastic looking board, and it's not painted yet!

The Exodites are going to look grand strutting around on that magnificent structure.

So, are you going to LED light the plasma sphere? Either that or fit a battery operated tea-light in there...

Eagerly awaiting more!

This is a really amazing looking army and that display board is beyond words!

I really like your Carnosaur/Wraithknight. The weapons turret is especially nice and gives a needed height boost to the model. I used the Carnosaur as a platform for my Exodite Fire Prism. The Carnosaur is an excellent model and lends itself really well to Exodite conversions!

Keep up the amazing work, I can't wait to see this project grow!

I'm seriously loving this! Your iteration of the concept is much more faithful to the original idea than most!

Thanks for the replies guys, feedback from you lot is what keeps me focused!

Phutarf wrote:Oh man that is an awesome board and even more awesome models to go on it

*crys*

Was in the Bristol store yesterday and asked about Games Day - still no confirmation either way whether it's happening or not though. Hold it is - I want to see this proudly on display!

Alex at Bristol (and the guys at cribbs actually...)has offered me cabinet space when the army's done, so either way you'll get something!

Lamby wrote:What a fantastic looking board, and it's not painted yet!

The Exodites are going to look grand strutting around on that magnificent structure.

So, are you going to LED light the plasma sphere? Either that or fit a battery operated tea-light in there...

Eagerly awaiting more!

Oh better than that...the generators will be lit with fading blue LED's, the turrets will have targeting lights (and the prism cannon crystal will be lit) as for the plasma ball.....converting the USB to battery, so actual PLASMA!

Had an idea today for the army list for ToS.......think of a banner with eldar writing, when you put the Imperial Translator (tm) over part of it the army list appears......hmmmmmmm...

-Mark

Interesting idea about the translator. How are you thinking of doing it?

However it works, I imagine most of your opponents will have an absolute blast playing such an awesome army.

Sooo....it's that time again.

Firstly some fun with electronics. The generators for the board are built, wraithbone uprights built and tested in place to make sure it all works. The whole generator assembly is removable, allowing batteries to be changed, and the power switch to be operated.




Still working on the plasma ball and the cradle for the motors, although the circuit with the latching relay is wired and tested.

Now.....warp spiders.....hate the GW model, and as shown earlier the original plan was to use converted shadow spectres. Now with 7th, and spectres being legal in Throne and Skulls, and the fact I thought the models didn't quite fit the theme I was going for I decided to play around with some bits.

This is what I ended up with. Swooping hawk body, Dark eldar blaster barrel, Eldar corsair jet pack (with 2 sets of wings) and the head is from the shadow spectres, with a white lion top knot added

Unpainted



And painted




Thanks for looking

-Mark

Very cool, almost like dragonflies with those wings. So in the end, are they Spiders or Spectres?

Paradigm wrote:Interesting idea about the translator. How are you thinking of doing it?

However it works, I imagine most of your opponents will have an absolute blast playing such an awesome army.

Now this may sound a bit odd......an oval section of the banner (which will be 6ft x 3ft if the mrs lets me get away with it!) will have eldar runes in (basically the words of the army list, but only half of each letter). The "Imperiel Translator (TM)" (or iTranslator) will be a clear sheet of plastic with the missing parts of the letters on. The sheet will then be detailed with various touch screen buttons, data etc, and given a surround made from foam core to look like a Padd from ST:TNG.
Lay the "iTranslator" over the banner and voila! The army list appears.

Paradigm wrote:Very cool, almost like dragonflies with those wings. So in the end, are they Spiders or Spectres?

In the end they're staying as spiders. Don't think the shadow spectres fit the theme as well as warp spiders do, and with enough counts-as in the army, the original models still looked too much like shadow spectres.

-mark

My god, this eldar terrain is SPECTACULAR! Nice work. Keep it up.

Here we go again.....

Now I know it's been a while since the last update, so this is going to be a bit of a photobomb, as a lot of progress has been made with both the army and the board.

Firstly, now that we have a date for armies on parade (finally!) I've started painting the board. Mountains have their base coat and dry brush to bring out the texture, the towers have had their base coat applied, just the detailing and the snow to go.







I then set the army up to decide on placement









Now for some shots of the army, as it's finally finished! I know a lot of theses have been seen, but I sat down over two evenings this week and finalised (then applied) the snow on all the bases so that it was consistent across all of them.
The snow is a mixture 25:25:50 of PVA:white poster paint:bicarbonate of soda, I experimented a bit, and this gave me the deep, crusty snow drift look I wanted. Now to translate that onto the board......May have to bulk buy the bicarbonate!

Crimson hunter



Wraithknight





Avatar





Guardians





Fire Dragons


Dire Avengers


Shadow Weavers


Warp Spiders


Farseer, Shadow Weaver Warlock, Jetbike Warlock


Jetbikes


Army shot


There will be more updates as we get closer the September 13th, next should be a couple of videos showing the generators, webway portal and the turrets....

C&C always welcome!
-Mark

Great work! Love the Cold One weapon platform.