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Azazelx wrote:Great looking stuff here. I especially like the way the scaffolding is coming along - and the Ultras look great!

Warboss_Waaazag wrote:Nice looking terrain.

Thanks guys


Deadzone Plague finished

Stage 3




The family all together

"A new life, no more markers, no more fighting....why does this s*** always happen to me"

Isaac could hear the frontier town going to hell outside his tiny apartment as he finished strapping on his engineering suit, one of the relics of an old life of insanity and terror he hadn't been able to escape even out here.

He shook the dust off of his plasma cutter and loaded a fresh power cell, a woman screamed in the building next to him making him wince.

As he activated his helmet and looked out the window, it was carnage, hulking creatures tearing the townsfolk apart with claws and teeth. With a heavy sigh Isaac made for the door and the madness, time to do what he does best....

Time to survive



Isaac Clark in Deadzone


It's not come out in the picture but the black of the suit has a couple of green washes on it so there's a green tint.

Small update on the comm centre

I've done the basic floor I went for a panel look in the end. (I was going to get some sulaco floor grating but it just cost too much

I've cut out 2 of the panels for me to get some wires/pipes added underneath for more depth. (And make the plain floor tiles less boring)

I've cut out the steps from some embossed plasticard, here's the step panels dry fitted.



Close up


And finally I've added the doors for "roof access" and the "toilet".

Not as much done as I'd hoped this week (kidney infection has knocked me out for most of the week)

I Painted the toilet/roof access wall



I need to get a toilet sign printed and a sign printed with "roof access". But I'm happy with how it looks, the area before the actual ops room will be in this light grey colour. With the ops room being a dark grey.

I've also added detail to the emergency generator on the ground floor, and plastered the balsa stilts.( I would have left them plain but when I tested one the wood grain came through too much to count as steel girders)



Close up on the access hatch, just card embossed with a bic pen and plasticard handles.



Close up of the on off switch.



The square gap over the hatch will have one of those AK interactive headlights acting as a warning light/ generator is on or off light.

Other details



The gaps will be vents which I'll make and add after I've painted the rest of the generator (like the wire fences, and steps).

 soulcow wrote:
I really like the comm centre you're building, will keep an eye on this

Thanks Soulcow

argonak wrote:When you said you paint terrain with a kitchen sponge, what did you mean? Like, dabbing? I'm curious because I ussually end up using large brushes and its never really quite the coverage that I want.

Yep just a dabbing, I can only get it to work with flat surfaces so it's great for Deadzone tiles. Warning it does get very messy.

With the bit I painted for the comm centre the sponge wasn't working because of the door frame and the corner. So I ended up stippling with a brush instead.

soulcow wrote:And I am curious how you made the scaffolding. Have you pinned these rods into one another, or have you only glued it? If you glued it, how sturdy does it feel? Or is it meant to be part of a scenery piece, so it is attached to something else?

rods weren't pinned just glued together with superglue (a lot of superglue). It's going to be a freestanding piece just the frame by its self is strong enough to hold a two metal Stanley knives (started to bow so I didn't try anything else) so it will be able to hold any models that would be able to use the scaffolding. It should get stronger with the floors added.

I was going to use BBQ skewers (awesomely strong) instead of plasticard rods but the scale nutter in me couldn't get past the fact that with the skewers the piles would be too big. (About 10" in diameter if you scaled it up)

Nuka Cola in Deadzone!

"Cola, Cola never changes!"

Like I said earlier on I wanted a few of my Deadzone tiles to still have company logos on them (colonists can paint over everything but the company logo from the containers, because of free advertising). I was going to do a coca cola one but I couldn't resist the fallout reference.



P.S sorry if you came here for lots of fallout stuff, I do want to do some more later on but not enought time at the moment.

Comm Centre update

Only a small one, the base colours are going down on the ground floor



I wanted the emergency generator to look like one of those CAT ones, still lots of painting and washing to do.

Slight problem, the gap between the generator and the fence is only just big enough for a 25mm base as I'm going to be using a lot of lipped bases in AVP and on minis I want to look extra pretty I'm going to have to extend the fenced area to the pillar by the stairs this should be easy it just means I have to drill 2 holes and add more fence posts.
(And the OCD reason is that there wouldn't be enough room for anyone to open the generator hatches to do maintenance )

Unbelievably slow Ultramarine progress

I've done the highlights to Srg and the missile launcher dude. More kit to be added to both.


I think I've decided on the pose I want my fifth squad member to have so I should have him made this weekend.

Thanks for looking

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
This build is really inspiring. It's coming along great.

Cheers Waaazag

A poor week hobby wise, the focus has been on rugby not hobby.

(It's a unique and unusual torture wanting to paint, but your post gym arms start to shake the moment your about to put paint to a mini)

I added some signs to my comm centre doors



Roof access painted 7 times the last being yesterday (damn gym arms )

I did buy one of these

And I'll get started on that as a reward for finishing my ultramarine squad and scouts.

And finally I found these in Ikea


I think their for candles but I think they will do great as basing materials. They have loads of different colours too including blue and red rocks that could be done to look like crystals on your minis.

I'm going to do the very unoriginal thing of painting up the mini Levi as a grey knight dread knight (I can't stand the exo thing).

If I can get them cheap off of ebay I might add some grey knight brass etch bits. (And maybe shave down the pointy elf shoes )

But this along with my grey knight term is are in the very large and expanding future projects pile.

I forgot to mention in the earlier post that the ikea things are only £1.75 for 750grams so I thought they were a bargain. I've based my forge father brokkrs tonight so I should have a comparison shot with the fine stuff compared to my smelly sand soon.

Managed to get some hobby time in last night.

More paint went on the ground flood of the comm centre and so did the steps.





Once I get my wire mesh order from ebay I'll have the fence done. After the fence I just need to add some warning signs and a makers decal on the emergency generator.

And I started basing my forge fathers and zombiecide minis.



Half done with my smelly sand and the other half with my ikea find. I'll post some comparison pics when I've got time

Not a lot done since my last update.

Alongside my op:icestorm box I'm getting the paint I want for the floor of the comm centre, Ive just got my mesh for the fences but I've got to flatten it out before I start messing with it (looks like it came off a roll so curved at the moment.

The main delay is fear of messing up the oops room section.

I did however undercoat a lot of stuff

That's a tray of zombiecide zombies, zombiecide dogs, my deadzone brokkrs, some old genestealers and some Sulaco bases I got off eBay

Speaking of the sulaco bases, here's some painted with a 40mm base for my brokkr bike.



I've started to practice my xenomorph paint scheme for when AVP eventually ships


Not great pics sorry, this is just black primer, codex grey highlights a black wash and gloss varnish patches.

I also got these weird alien dog things from Hasslefree another eBay win

The legs needs some green stuff to fill the leg connections

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Smelly sand? Looking good so far.

The sand I use for basing is from the beach it smells a bit in the box.

 shasolenzabi wrote:
He has gribblies!

thought I'd accidentally posted a pic of my bday suit for a moment

Man I'm getting old I actualy needed to google what gribblies were ,

A pulled shoulder and real life (I'm buying a house ) have ruined my hobby time.

All I've managed to do since the last update is;(sorry for the bad pics)

Fail at making and applying a serial number stencil to the gunship

I'll have to try again once I'm less angry at paper, paint and craft knifes

Blue tacked a marine together

(I have since undercoated the plasma gun and arms)

And starting fences on my comm centre terrain


Task for this weekend is to sort out the hobby corner

It's got too messy and the more messy it is the less I want to do hobby stuff.

Also very happy that my op:icestorm has arrived.

Not so happy that in the 2 and a bit months Since I put this order in, Wayland are still waiting on some Ork heads to send me :(

From the great sort out

Albion rifles imperial guard

Basically I wanted British ww2 imperial guard, quite low tech (the guys with no guns are waiting for a good 28mm scale bren gun)

This is Commander Shepard from when I started a Cadian force years ago.

(And I was playing mass effect obviously)
He needs a bit of a repainting to fit with the rest.

This is a conversion for a primaries psyker, I need to add some green stuff wires to the back of his head before I paint him.


Here's a close up of the infantry squad blobs

New heads, shoulder pads shaved down aside from the SRGs left pad. Grenade launchers made to look like those single shot ones you get in COD. Torsos green stuffed to remove the pecs and the power cell of the rifles moved from underneath to the side.

My Catachan devil vets (I've had these guys I one shape or another since the black crusade global campaign, the fluff was that the commander rescued them from that planet that abbadon blew up and they just stuck around with him and his Cadians.)

Catachan, Cadian, parts mostly with some bits from chaos marauders and Necromunda.

As I wanted them to be slightly lower tech than normal, sentinels didn't seem right so I gave them a scout jeep.

There's another jeep ready to be kit bashed in my pile too.

And of course you can't have guard without tanks

I stopped painting them when I couldn't get the soft edges on the camo makings . I'm going to have another go with my sponges when I get a chance. Otherwise they will have to wait till I get an airbrush.
I've got another leman Russ and a baneblade still on sprue too.

I'm going to get pictures of my ultramarines and deadzone stuff later

Thanks for looking


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 Paradigm wrote:
Good to see they got your copy of Icestorm to you, I too got a bit annoyed with the waiting but it is damn well worth it as a set. Looking forward to see what you do with it.

Ta Para

Looking at how small some of the detail is I feel I might ruin these, but we only get better by going out of our comfort zones

Ultramarines so far


I've got to buy, make and add a multi Melta for the second hatch on the land raider. Both it and the rhino need some highlights and weathering.

Terminators

I might rip off the shoulder pads and replace them with forgeworld ones. I'm tempted to add some purity seals to em as well (it's this constant tinkering that stops me from varnishing my minis)

And the in progress tactical squad I hope to have the plasma gunner done this week. I want him to look like a tech marine in training so some tech stuff on the belt, a cogboy shoulder pad from the rhino kit and some his backpack to look like its carrying a high power vox.


There's the scout too but I didn't take a close up. Still working through these the most difficult part was finding different heads because I don't like the scout ones.

Theres an entire box full of marine bits, a drop pod, two bikes and a new tac squad kit to make in the pile too.

I think because I'm no playing 40k anymore some of the motivation has gone from getting these projects finished and I've prioritised Deadzone because I'm actually playing that.

Ha pressganged family members tend to be poor adversarys too, or far too favoured by the dice gods.

Ta for the kind words as always dude. I was going to go for a bright clour scheme for the infinity mins but after seeing yours I'm thinking of changing my mind.

I was hoping to get some small flag decals so I could add them to the fusiliers shoulders(xcom style) but alas I can't find any small enough. Some are easily done but the UK and Welsh flags are way outside my skill at the size I want them.

Scaffold Update

So my scaffold has been sitting on my shelf for a while and it's a really quick win to get it done and build some hobby momentum.

But I couldn't decide if I should do the platforms as wood planks or try to sci fi it up a bit. And planks won't add much weight which will stabilise the piece.

After a lot of Umming And Ahhing I decided to just breakout the coffee stirrers and go for the wood planks, even in the future your going to go as cheap and hasslefree as possible.



Still to do on it
add a ladder in the gap, paint the new plasticard I added, put a wash on the planks(I want to keep them light n piney) and I might try to model a turned over paint bucket plus spilt pain to add a bit of cool factor too it.

Thanks for looking

A tiny bit of progress on the comm centre and scaffold.

Comm Centre
I've painted and added some extra details to the floor of the comm centre.


Time to get the opps room done, I need to get some office chairs and server stacks from ainstys and some screens from antenocitis.
Tomorrow I'm going to get the vents for the generator and warning signs for the fences done.

Scaffold
Although it doesn't look like much I have painted the new poles on the scaffold and but a light wash on the planks.

I'm going to buy some leaders and try out my paint bucket idea tomorrow. Almost done.

I've also tried out using sponges to get a disbursement effect on my challenger tank camo.


Not happy with the outcome so I definitely need to get an airbrush. I'm going to watch the series on beasts of war when it comes on but do you have any suggestions?

Thanks for looking

P.s. Anyone know of a manufacturer making 28mm fire extinguisher?

Started putting my operation: icestorm minis together (after messing up my card cutting for the generator vents )

Here's a size comparison of the fussiliers and Nomad grunts(not even going to try spelling what their called yet ) with guardsman Bob.



Their bigger than Infinity minis used to be maybe this is a consequence of using digital sculpts?

But they are glorious and still within my scale tolerances,

After a lot of time messing around with restic the ease at cleaning metal was a breath of fresh air. Even if I did come very close to chopping off the Nomad girls pointing fingers.

Thanks for looking and apologies for the poor photos, I've only got the iPad for internet an pics at the moment any tips on taking better pic with my current set up?

Hello to anyone stopping by

Can anyone suggest a good Hasslefree process of taking pics with an I-pad. Not getting good pics is starting to effect my calm.

I currently don't have a laptop or a good camera, is anyone else in the same position as me and what works for you?

Thanks for any help

Ta for the help ckig , I need to invest in some decent bulbs and make a light box.

Comm centre update

Vents and signs added to ground floor



Need to buy a red lense from ak interactive and do the door and the ground flood will be complete.

Objective for today is to finish off my ultramarine combat squad/kill team.

Awwww thanks guys

Massive hobby motivation boost.

No further progress on the comm centre until I get my ainsty castings order through.

Slightly side tracked by man flu but I've finished my Ultramarines Kill Team/combat squad.





Now to get the faces painted on my Icestorm grunts

Moderators is a lot easier.

P.s I like the new forum name for Red Harvest

I hate painting eyes

After 2 hours of ruining good models I'm only at this stage.


The 1 black line on a white orb normaly works for me but today I might as well have used crayons

And now I can't even get a decent sized pic I give up for tonight

Ta Camkierhi

Infinity Operation: Icestorm painting has started

Ive been very hesitant with painting these infinity minis, for fear of ruining the cool models and I didn't have a definite paint scheme in mind

Infinity PanO fussiliers painting progress

I love the fusiliers, so much so i've already picked up the booster box and I'm trying to get hold of 2or3 more of the combi rifle guys(not miss PanO2014, one is enough of her) to try and convert.

Most base colours and eyes done

Infinity Nomad Alguaciles painting progress

Most base colours and eyes done. In hindsight I should have just primed the black at the start.

Resin supply drop
Ainstys castings http://www.ainsty-castings.co.uk

Not amazing casts a few bubbles but nothing horrendous
I'm now going to be ready to start to finish off the interior of the comm centre the only question is do I wait for antenocitis kickstarter to pick up the monitors I need for the ops room

And yes that's a Tardis how could I resist.

Zinge industries http://zinge.co.uk


Really awesome casts no bubbles from what I can see, lots of great little details including keypads for my comm centre doors.


And finally ...............
Tall scale marines

Some better pics first



And the money shots





I've followed the classic "true scale" method as done awesomely by vet sergeant here
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/437416.page
Where I've gone differently to the srg is I've made the torso thicker by 1mm and added an extra 1-1.5mm to the torso length as below.


I wish I could find the original tutorial still so I could chuck a link up. A lot of hard work but well worth it to settle my OCD.

And a massive pile of Space Marine plastic to tall up when I have the patience.


Thanks for looking

Camkierhi wrote:Nice work.

And the tall scaling is awesome, nice job thickening the marine torso. Great stuff.

Thanks Dude

Paradigm wrote:Hooray, a convert to red-bereted Fusiliers! Coming along nicely, it has to be said!

TS Marines do look cool, I really have to try that myself one day, although probably with Chaos or Deathwatch.

Nice supply drop as well, that stuff is quite the varied bunch and a TARDIS to top it all off! Dr Who Deadzone mod anyone? (Daleks would, of course, be completely OP )

I want to get a TS deathwatch squad done at some point (along with chaos, space wolves and grey knights or go mad first), they just take so long to do I normaly get distracted by less labor intensive hobby stuff.

A Dr who deadzone mod could be cool, I think he'd fit more in with Mars attacks tho . I just like the idea of putting the TARDIS in ransom places on a board as an Easter egg like the Nuka cola tiles for Deadzone.

And I recon my bad ass Enforcer Sniper could still one shot a Dalek

Veteran Sergeant wrote:Glad I could provide some inspiration. Your Tall Scale Marines look fantastic. Very dynamic. I especially like the way the Plasma Gunner turned out.

cheers dude, I'm glad you approve.

have you made any further progress with your marines?

Veteran Sergeant wrote:Nope. Haven't touched them in a hobby sense since April, lol. Too much going on over the summer.

They've been fighting Space Hulk battles. That's about it.

Hopefully you'll have a quiet autum and winter and we can see some more

ckig wrote:Infinity stuff is coming along nicely. Nice work on the marines too. Look much better when they're embiggened (it's a word! ). Did you make those bricky bases too? They look good!

Cheer dude.

The brick bases are old factory bases from micro art studio

Been slow going This week but nothing unusual there

Infinity PanO fussiliers painting progress

Infinity Nomad Alguaciles painting progress

Washed and ready for more work

Comm Centre update

door cut and base coated

The gap in the door frame lets it click in so I can have it open or closed

Started painting the lockers

Glass wall and door



Mars attacks kickstarter drop

The box

Soo much stuff

Not happy with the deluxe mat

The details are very fuzzy compared to the paper mats or the deadzone mat, is this just mine or are yours like this too?

But at first glance I'm happy with the rest of the haul, bent bits n all.

Martian reinforcements - somehow I've managed to get two more bugs and an extra regent.

Human reinforcements - so many bent gun barrels, and both of the natalyas were bent down to being flush with her base.

Lots of scenery - I'm going to get most of the ruins stuck together and fill in the plug holes.

And cars, lots and lots of cars

I love these and can't wait to get them painted

This week I want to get the infinity grunts done, get some Mars attacks painted, cut the desk and add the window frames in the and finish painting my TARDIS.

Thanks for looking have a good week

 Paradigm wrote:
The PanO and Nomads are looking great after the wash, and that's a ton of stuff to keep you going over the winter.

Ta dude

Starting to plan my Mars attacks painting, I think I'm going to paint up one of the trucks as joes mechanic's truck now I just need to find a towing winch to add on the back

Does anyone reading this know what camo/colour scheme US national guard vehicles and marines should be using for action in the US?

 Camkierhi wrote:
You see they look great. Eyes look brilliant.

Love the Mars Attacks kit, looks so good.

Cheers dude

In the end I had to give up on the brush and go to the micro pen to get the pupil done how people can then get an iris is blows my mind.

I'm hoping to have my Tardis and scaffold finished today and I'll post some pics tomorrow.

Thanks theophony

The lockers are from Ainsty castings http://www.ainsty-castings.co.uk, there are a few air bubbles in the casts but no deal breakers.

The website is a pain to navigate so here's the link to the storage lockers
http://ainstycastings.co.uk/product_info.php/products_id/272/osCsid/e812b09191d582609a553cd0652bf1fd

Here's the lot I got from them

7.9 kgs

Thanks dude, really hoping I can get some good progress done on them this week.