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Certainly an interesting idea, and yeah they don't really look very swarmy in their original state unfortunately =/

http://www.reapermini.com/OnlineStore/03262/sku-down/03262

^^ this is more what I'd like to see, been on my wish list for forever

Thanks for all the positive comments.

Interesting that you should link to that. Hadn't seen it before, but had a plan for an arm sticking up from the next swarm It's gotta be done


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Nasty little fethers (the scarabs!) Great job TP on King toaster chappie - he's looking great

Great work on The Traveller, that metallic work is pretty superb!

Thanks Para. Disappointed that he got the dreaded frosting today though will be trying to save it, but hugely gutted.

Oh noes :( that sucks may your restoration efforts go well!

You might have already seen this, but your DA Scout Squad made the Dakka homepage earlier! Well done and well deserved, mate!

Paradigm wrote:You might have already seen this, but your DA Scout Squad made the Dakka homepage earlier! Well done and well deserved, mate!

I can't believe it!!! Today was the first time in well over a month that I loaded the homepage and was amazed to see my minis there!! So stoked It's only my 2nd time and the first I really like. The other was the Zoanthrope dio that I am proud of, but I've got better since then (or so I think )

Guildenstern wrote:Oh noes :( that sucks may your restoration efforts go well!

Thank goodness it did! Phew. The frosting wasn't heavy, but bad enough that it needed fixing, here he is all varnished up nicely

Oh and that scuttling noise won't go away

Scarab swarm complete. Had fun making this. Simple, basic and the modding made it a far more appropriate model than the stock. Will be doing more of these in the future

Damn but they turned out absolutely cracking. Hard to tell the originals from the casts. Great job

Thanks Jan. Truth is though modding aside, the Necrons would still look pants if I painted them badly and thanks to you being so kind in letting me use your "old metal" technique they look so much better than they would have otherwise IMHO.

Disappointing that the Thokt accent colour is blue so there are too many similarities to your AdMech (sorry about that). It wasn't planned and the Draknehoff Nightshade wash that I put on last doesn't show up well in photos.

It does happen sometime that washes/shades just dont seem to turn out right in the photos compared to what's right there in front of you. But hey ho - you've got the original so to the camera - lol

I've got a lot of RL stuff that's taking a lot of my time. Therefore I'm going to stick with the Necrons for now, because I know how I want them painted and I therefore won't have to spend my preciously small hobby time planning/debating/testing.

Therefore hear are a bunch of (as my dear friend Januine calls them) Toasters

The two that are pinned are from ages ago and just need a bit of detailing so I'll slot them in to the production line when appropriate. After this I'll try and look at the Epirian Contractors, ai'm just a bit nervous I'll mess the scheme up.

Get your toast on and go full cylon! Cracking mate.

lmao full cylon...

it's too bad you can't give them that singular eye the Cylons had! that'd be awesome!

That swarm looks awesome!! wishing I hadn't already based my son's now lol oh well he'll probably need more...

Grats on saving your poor overlord! I hate that frosting issue grrr glad it turned out all right

Ah the cylons......

Love em!

One of this batch has only got one eye interestingly. It's not central though. We'll call him a Cylon anyway just for laughs

You could cut between the eyes and GS at the nose. It would be very quick...

Graven, you're like that little devil guy on Elmer Fudd's shoulder in the Looney Toons cartoons!

Remember the Necron Immortals have got a central eye. Maybe I'll make them red. Not sure how that would look with the blue scheme of the Thokt, I'll have to see....

Hey. Brief WIP. Managed to get 7 warriors looking a bit like this. So now only need to block in the black on 4 more and then paint the blade on all of them. Finish bases and cut rods and we're done. Not much to do but need a little time, would've done it today but got greeted by the chirpy face of my toddler at my painting station at 1am and hence ensued Daddy duty.

Cheers for looking.

Bloody kids eh? nice n shiny but I still want cylons!

Very nice job TP. Plasma works well. Blues set of the cold metals very nicely

May was a disaster for hobby and to keep up with Paradigm's challenges I need to really be invested in the models, so I am delving in to Doctor Who.

Here's the plan for June (some will get done):


Have realised I need to take a press mould of Davros' head and shoulders though before painting (can't buy him anywhere for a reasonable price). That way I can make a Davros Emperor in the future if I ever feel up to the conversion challenge.

Hey. Couldn't sleep at all last night. Was on the computer until half 1 then just couldn't get my brain to shut off. So at 3am I gave up and started working on some hobby. Was in no fit state to paint, so I went to modding. And a brief comment from Januine reminded me I now had all the components to finish off my Broodlord base.

To recap:
Bought a bunch of brilliant Fenris bases for Space Hulk and Deathwatch: Overkill called Sulaco and Sulaco:Hive
The gent at Fenris hadn't made any 50mm bases in these styles
I bought blanks and planned to make my own
Painted Broodlord hoping to have the Bases from Fenris in time to press mould some elements to sort something out for one of Paradigm's challenges. But alas the delivery came too late.

Now:
The plan was to have the Broodlord a little higher to increase his imposing position. To use a 50mm base to fit in with the DW:O Patriarch being on a 50mm. I wanted more skulls and thought it would be fun to have him on a pile of skulls overflowing on to the floor with a couple more helmets thrown in. He would be raised by standing on the moulded pipe outlet sat on a cross of girders to allow me to use a smaller base's grill to create the press-moulded GS for the base. And because it fits with the posture of the mini I offset the cross behind the centre of the circle. Image 1 below shows the initial cross and GS, with the Broodlord pointing at a Deathwing Terminator's head.

Image 2 shows the four angles of the nearly finished base. Januine has suggested that the mesh may not work and the pipe is a little stuck on, which I think are fair comments. The pipe was meant to have been ripped off by the Broodlord and flung aside, I can add some detritus later to address this. The mesh was to hide some sins and add to the pile of mess around the "nest" of the Broodlord in an attempt to tie together the original base and the new. Happy for thoughts as to what to change to on those points.

And finally, image 3 shows the base ready for priming with the Broodlord removed. When primed I will be using GS to merge the last few components prior to painting. I can the use BFTBG on claws, splatter and dripping from tongue and some nurgle rot from the pipes.

That's a really nice build and you've definitely got the aesthetic there. It must be something in the air (summer?!) I couldn't sleep either and did lots of little hobby jobs.

Sweet work TP - that's gonna look the absolute business all painted up

 inmygravenimage wrote:
That's a really nice build and you've definitely got the aesthetic there. It must be something in the air (summer?!) I couldn't sleep either and did lots of little hobby jobs.

Dictionary definition:
Hobbyfever
In times of high pollen, the hobbyist develops an inability to sleep and instead spends the time hobbying hard



Thanks for your kind words

Been a while since I've painted Necrons- at one time I had 40 warriors unpainted. Had to bite the bullet and batch paint ALL of them. Soooo boring but very rewarding in the end. Loving your Thokt Dynasty warrior

The Broodlord will look awesome when he's done! Love the base.

Cheers Angelofvengeance. I'm pleased with how my Necrons are coming on. Never expected to have an army forming of them.

On to new matters now. Trying to keep a couple of projects going concurrently so have Dremeled the bars off the Daleks, Davros and 4th Doctor. Have also started to use my press mould hexagons to make parts of the Dalek bases

Damn, I love what you've done with the base of the brood lord!

EDC