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She’s trying various combinations of Wulfen, Blood Claws, Wolf Guard, and characters.

Also usually a following Wolf Lord and Battle Leader giving it re-rolls on all 1’s (pretty cool on eight mobile lascannons that can’t be tarpitted - do NOT charge a Spartan with a Daemon Prince) and Njal giving it cover & DTW coverage.

There is, of course, an element of ‘I hope I get first turn’...

 lindsay40k wrote:
She’s trying various combinations of Wulfen, Blood Claws, Wolf Guard, and characters.

Also usually a following Wolf Lord and Battle Leader giving it re-rolls on all 1’s (pretty cool on eight mobile lascannons that can’t be tarpitted - do NOT charge a Spartan with a Daemon Prince) and Njal giving it cover & DTW coverage.

There is, of course, an element of ‘I hope I get first turn’...

Interesting, thank you

Hmm. New page. Needs some content.

…Defiler attack!!!











Had enough of Stompfeets the Knight blowing me up when I play my best mate. I’m gonna Warptime this in her face and snip some legs. Got some magnetised mounting points for icons and trophies. It’s got to earn them first, though.

Starting point was to make it scuttling sideways like a proper crab, and for the top to not be the torso of a gunbot but the turret on the critter. Instead of a head or sensor array, the top hatch bears a prisoner. We’ll let him out when he admits that Horus was right.

Face took a lot of work. Heat bending didn’t work out on the Carnifexes tongue. Ended up gently forcing it, using layers of poly cement to get the surface to go pliable then set. Got WIP pics somewhere.

Scourges were made by separating the three whips on each one, drilling right the way along (cutting off the tips to get in the live end), then running a paper clip all the way along so it had a flexible core that holds a bend. Worked superglue down the hollow core, ran the pin down and immediately bent it so the glue would set it into place. Green Stuff made skin inside some spare Helbrute arms.

The Defiler Reaper autocannon looks more like a Butcher Cannon and I wanted to de-emphasise it as this model ain’t going to waste time shooting. Sliced up a Terminator RAC and mirrored it, then mounted it with some tubes and pin. A few leftover Beastmen bucklers made for hatch covers & Legion icons.

Whilst basing it, it occurred to me that (1) these feets are perfect shapes for glowing effects, and (2) some fractured and molten ground will add to the intensity of its rushdown. The blending took forever. Worth it

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Nice build, and lovely work on the glowing extremities.

Brilliant build dynamizing this model ! Completely looks the part as a fast paced assault crab !

You don't usually see the defiler kit get a lot of thought put into its posing - and you never see one based! - so props on both fronts That is one savagely aggro spiderbot <3

- Salvage

Great work in general, but it’s amazing to me how much better the defiler looks without the goofy kit-supplied head on top.

Reinforcements have arrived!









First squad of troops. Technically the second, as my ratty Cultists turn out to owe their loyalty to Mortarion!

Overseeing their work:









I’m pleased with the colour scheme (which has lost some of its cartoonish saturation in the image processing). Went with Heresy colours, with some copper corrosion to add a bright colour to the cracked porcelain, rusty iron, crusty bronze, and mouldy biomass. The overall effect reminds me of the toilets in my first school. I’m looking forwards to the challenge of contrasting it with a different finish on the same white when I come to add some World Eaters.

I mentioned some WIP Defiler photos. here we go:



Bending the tongue was tricky. I’m not a fan of the ‘apply an open flame to plastic’ method, especially with a domestic workspace. I used brute force, gradually applied, with a layer of poly cement applied and allowed to fully set whilst a rubber band held it in position. A sculpting tool handle pressing on the back side encouraged it to bend in the desired places and prevented sudden shearing. After a few days of stretching, it stayed put in the position I wanted.



Made the legs fit on a Knight base. The scourges were drilled right the way through, I think 1.75mm, then a thick paper clip run through them and superglue poured in with it. The shape was quickly pressed out whilst the glue was still wet, the pliable metal preventing sudden snapping and allowing me to focus force on key spots that were less pliable.

But, one Defiler isn’t enough!



In the first project, I got the hang of tightly binding up a chassis and adjusting the ball and socket limb joints. Managed to make a more scorpion-like gait just fit on the large base. Then, applied extra thin poly cement to the seam - it flows in between the parts by capillary force and gets things fixed together, and spillages barely affect the surface detail. Get some!



Took a jewellers’ hacksaw to the feet and pinned them to the base with thick paperclip. I’ll need to get under this to paint it properly, and there’s no way it’ll remain fixed to the base and upright with just two unpinned points of contact. Adding axial lines (the underside of the base has a grid you can work off) made it a lot easier to centre the model.



As before, the ‘turret’ will not double as a ‘torso’. It’s a hefty part, though, so I ran several paper clips through it for securing it to the arse of the chassis, growing a tail, supporting two guns, and running a third contact point to the base. You can also see here how I fixed the pins from the feet to the base.



One of the rods connecting to the chassis runs through to the ‘tail’. The ‘arm’ rods are each anchored to an internal side wall, so the structural layer of green stuff can be applied from the inside and firmly pressed into place.



As you can see, the direction of motion and firing is dead forwards, and the centre of gravity is nice and central.



A lot of GS pipes were pressed out with copper wire cores. This made them retain their shape when I bent them to fit the tail’s posture, then a layer of skin was put over them. The base was given my standard treatment of rubble, skulls, and Daemonic organic growth; a taut ‘strand’ was made by a thin poly rod being glued into place, then skin sculpted over it. The broken rock around the feet combines with GS & superglue to add structural stability, and there’s a hole drilled into the plastic ruin that’ll be used by that angularity bent pin on the turret to give the machine a third point of contact, hopefully ensuring it stays upright.

And that’s almost it for WIP corner! The scorpion is now built and being painted; forgot to take further snaps before the spray can, buuuut here’s a WIP from the next thing I’ll be uploading:



I needed to support a leaping Maulerfiend (because there’s no such thing as too many Daemon Engines) and found I could run a pair of pins up a Marine’s legs and through two bits of ruin. A biker body had the perfect ‘shoved’ posture and limp limbs. I haven’t done a diorama base before for this army, but having finished this project I’m happy with the end result. I’ll be posting the finished pics when my summer flu frags off.

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Lovely death guard there - for a given value of 'lovely' obviously . The verdigris works nicely as a touch of colour against the main scheme.

Always nice to see WIPs, and looking forward to seeing the second defiler completed. Good tip on the plastic rod strand - I'm forever failing miserably to use putty for that, will try to remember this next time.

And the prospect of a leaping maulerfiend is exciting - always think using 'victims' as the supporting base is a great visual idea.

Rrrrrr!











Reposed the Maulerfiend as a bounding quadruped and gave it a lion’s mane of tendrils. Ran metal rods through the Novamarine body and into the chest to support it. People seem to think it’s a crush attack, but if you look high you’ll see the decapitated head, still glowing at the edge where the tendrils struck. It’s working really well as a distraction Carnifex so far. First battle it joined, I got first turn and it died from overwatch. Damned Blight-haulers! Got it into a fight once so far, and it completely whiffed before getting gunned down.

The daylight dimmed the second I took my shooting box outside, and I think I’ve over-compensated with the image settings. Still, you can see what’s going on, and the base isn’t masked in shadow, so that’ll do.

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Brilliant beastie doing a rampage is brilliant Had to look hard to find the marine head but that's a pretty great detail

- Salvage

Awww, he's just like an over-eager puppy bounding for joy at the prospect of chasing heads

That's some great posing there.

Nice heat treatment on the smoke-stacks too.

You've made the Maulerfiend look good... That is an impressive feat for such a horrible model!

Your stuff has some wonderfully dynamic posing; especially the Defiler. It's rare people pay that much attention to it, and rarer still that they pull it off successfully.

You're Touched by the Gods.

How come everyone's name is written in the Latin alphabet except for Gudoza?

 Excommunicatus wrote:
You're Touched by the Gods.

How come everyone's name is written in the Latin alphabet except for Gudoza?

I’m drawing on loads of languages and not strictly constricting myself in how I’m writing them. Kotar’s updated appearance has a slogan transliterated into Heiroglyphs

I’ve got a few more projects finished, folks, just waiting for good light to get them photographed...

That's fantastic work!

So awesome.

Aaaand good light appears! For half an hour. It was long enough!

Kicking off the show, we have an opening performance from the scorpion Defiler:













Between two Defilers and a Maulerfiend, and apparently an incoming Land Raider price cut, I reckon I'm set to field an armoured Spearhead at the drop of a hat. But, wait - the eagle-eyed might have noticed that my mecha-beasts don't have explicit Marks. Ah, well, that's what the little magnetised mounting points are for; and I've put together a few more icons to pop into place where necessary:





Now. For the main event...









Noise Marines with head sculpts! The guns are bolt weapons with a Warp Talon vane, a vehicle gungoyle, a small tube inside slices of larger tube, and cables pressed with a green stuff tool and built up with layers of skin. I chose artists who get a lot of airtime on my speakers.

Ozzy, Geezer, Tony, and Bill:









Otep:









LL:









Johnny:









Max:









Zack:









He was the first one I did and I had a bit of size creep go off. Finally, Marina (and Pearl):









Winking expressions aren't easy on a non-human face! I'm really happy with how she looks on the table or shelf.

There's a few more to be shot, and a couple of Death Guard units on my table. All as and when, with the winter light.

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As in Max Cavalera?

Yeah. My first ever gig was Soulfly in, what, 2001? Whoa, I feel old


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Tell a lie, it was 2000. On... this very day. Whoa. Eighteen years, gone by like that.

At Milton Keynes Ozzfest?

I have a t-shirt from that gig that I still consider to be 'new'.

EDIT - No, not Ozzfest in December. Also, that was 2001.

Anyway, they're great. Johnny and Max get my vote as stand-outs, though that's largely personal bias 'cause Sepultura were the first band I ever got into in a big way.

That's takin' it to a whole new level!

Fantastic. The weapons are brilliant, and the heads are amazing, some awesome sculpts there. Top job

And please, old? My first gig was in the 80's.....when Donnigton was still Monsters of Rock, not Download

CAAAAAASH with a shout out to Otep for me

Great work on the crew, impressive sculpting for a really personal touch. Defiler ain't a slouch either, those white hot claws!

Can’t have Noise Marines without some Berzerkers:









I love these old minis. They’re showing their age, especially in the paucity of leader options and antique low quality backpacks, but their abundance of arms - chunky hands notwithstanding - enable a load of poses, and I’ve used them a lot over the years to make diving pistoliers, dual-wielding gunners, etc. And they’re really compatible with Heresy stuff - especially the Maximus suits.

I made Sfázo about twenty years ago. Only gave him a white undercoat and some gaudy splashes of red. Gave him a few adjustments - some Word Bearers accoutrements, fine tuning of his pose, and switched his combi-Melta for a Chainsword. Felt great to give him the paintjob he’s been lacking all this time.

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Oh, and speaking of Khorne… decided that, with Vigilus making Warp Talons good again, it was about time I expanded this unit:









The grounded one is the old (like, 1994) Juggerlord. I can’t help but think he’s picked up some dance steps in a space hulk

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 Excommunicatus wrote:
At Milton Keynes Ozzfest?

I have a t-shirt from that gig that I still consider to be 'new'.

EDIT - No, not Ozzfest in December. Also, that was 2001.

Anyway, they're great. Johnny and Max get my vote as stand-outs, though that's largely personal bias 'cause Sepultura were the first band I ever got into in a big way.

I did see them at that Ozzfest, as well - and also have my t-shirt from that event! I caught Soulfly headlining in Nottingham the year before. Now, I haven’t been to a gig in years... last one was PUSA, I think.

More and more beautiful work, just wonderful.

Decided my Death Guard leaders need some protection:









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Man, those really are some choncky models. Really dig the look in white, I'm used to these dudes being green with sludge and a side of more green. White armor + brown cloaks (and a side of green) is very nice.