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She looks just like a techie should look! Well done Scarper, also love the goggles!

The Good Green wrote:Great job, Scarper. Where is her torso from? I thank you the need to include some women in my human force. I don't know if it would have been such an imperative if not for your (and a few others) great examples. Thanks and keep up the good work!

That'll be the missile launcher woman from Colonel Schaffer's Regiment, if memory serves right. And it should, considering I have her right in front of me in my army's colours.

I really like this one Scarper!! I really like her with the pistol and goggles! She is awesome!

awsome work as usual! (i'm snowed in too!)

No worries.

I'm really impressed with your GS skills, that hat is cool. What tools do you use?

The new girl is looking good....have you magnetised her arm?

As for injury rolls....anything is better than dead.

Peter

@neil101 - Thank you! The variety comes from having very poor impulse control when it comes to finding new bits

@The Good Green - Wow, that's really high praise - I don't know what to say! Thank you so much Her torso is that of 'Rocket Girl' from Schaeffer's Last Chancers. She lost her head and both arms, so it looks fairly different though.

@Monkeytroll - Thanks a lot, that's really kind. In my original sketch she had cropped, bright green hair! I think a short style is probably in order, so I'll probs leave it as she is. I'm really worried I've jinxed her by planning this - she's survived one battle already, but was the only one to go out of action. I seriously dreaded that injury roll Thanks for the comment!

@Rose_mountainz - Thank you!

@Lord Kaesar II - Good eye! That's right, she was based on Rocket Girl.

@talons_58 - thanks very much! I'm glad you like her

@azekio - thank you!

@PDH - Thanks a lot, that means loads coming from someone with your GS skills *happydance*
At the moment, I'm using some "Royal Sovereign Clay Shapers" - mainly the chisel and taper point. I use all kinds of stuff depending on what I'm going for though - thumb tacks and hobby knives can be really helpful when I want something to stick!
The arm is actually blutacked at the mo - I'm hoping it'll be a permanent change if she lives long enough! *fingers crossed*


Bit of a piecemeal update I'm afraid - It's still snowing here, so I've been sledging, built two snowmen, almost crashed my car and joined in many snowball fights, but done no priming whatsoever. I have had a chance to sort out Ferret's base though, so hopefully her pose is a little more natural now -


I've also done a little more to fix the arm on this model. Hopefully she looks a little more proportionate now? Thanks for all your input with her guys, honestly, it was really really helpful:


And finally, today's new model is Coop, another juve. In fluff terms he deserted the PDF after he was called up and conscripted at 16. After a few weeks on the run, he was caught and assigned to a penal legion. His overseer was killed in a rebel ambush, however, and he fled again. Several years later, he met RiffRaff in Ravenport. She disarmed his collar (though he still can't remove it without getting killed), and together with Twitch they ran a trade caravan between local settlements. All three of them joined up with the 21st Jackals hoping to get transport back to Pinepoint (the Remnant base, where conditions are pretty good) once they've found something worth calling out evac for.

He is very close to RiffRaff, and his pose (once I've based him) will be angled on a rock half submerged in sewage (his right foot will be under the waterline) poised to help her climb out.


He's currently an early WIP, but I'd love any tips you might have. Thanks for reading!

she looks A LOT better

On the subject of the plasma gunner on top of the building I would sudgest you get a piece of clear acrilic and paint the back of it much like you would paint the back of a shop window to create a sign / perspective view remember to put a layer of undercoat over the finished artwork them maybe some brown parcel tape as you really don't want the glue to mess up all your hard work painting a nice perspective view

Yeah, that arm's a big improvement now. Coop's looking cool too, like the hair and jacket, and love the idea for basing.

His waist coat is very good! as is his hair, he looks like he straight outta a 80's action flick ! just needs a cammaro

The gang leader is looking very sharp now. Good stuff.

But as for Ferret? Seeing her at this angle only shows that with those legs she will never look right. They are just so wide and bulky. It is like she is wearing the Wrong Trousers.

I feel that your new juve (whom looks very nice) could do quite a bit more work on his groin. I'm sure it's the way it is simply because he's not yet finished, but it just looks a bit messy at the moment.

As for the female ganger- I like it! looks so much better proportionwise this time round. I'm sure it's been stated already, but your modelling technique has come leaps and bounds from when you started!

The girl with the sword is DEFINITELY looking better now! Kudos.

Coop looks pretty cool too. I'm not sure if it's the light or what but it doesn't look like the tops of the boots (in GS) blend too well with the rest. Hard to tell in the pic though, maybe it's fine.

The basing idea is awesome though, and it's looking like it'll work out pretty well. Without the basing and the angle though, it looks like he's just saying there saying "What? What're YOU gonna do about it?"

Scarper wrote:Never heard of him. American serial killers aren't as famous as you think outside of America...

I actually named him after this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ridgeway
It's an ancient road my dad did a charity hike on a few years back and I liked the name.

Thanks for the heads up, anyway.


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Edited that a couple of times: I was a little bit terse in my initial response, but your wording pretty sarcastic, and I'm lacking sleep after a night shift. Sorry if you read it!

Heh no harm no foul. I like your Ridgeway a LOT better in any case. I like the models quite a bit.

As far as Gary Ridgeway goes... he is one of the most prolific of these monsters in history and he came up in my Abnormal Psychology course.

The Ridgeway is a gorgeous hike that i have done a few times myself

The models look good too.

I like Coop and cant wait to see him painted! He really looks like someone you want on your side!

Hey again everyone! Been away from Dakka for about a month (I'm sure you all totally noticed ), so sorry for the abscence! Few medical things to do over Christmas, I'm sure you understand. Does give me a chance to read through a proper plethora of updates on all the threads I'm following though, so bonus there! Not much update either, I'm afraid - been out of action a while. Picked up my brushes again today though, so hopefully haven't deteriorated too much

@azekio - Thank you! Glad you like.

@mullet_steve - Thanks a lot for the suggestion! Again, my freehand could use a fair bit of work, so that might be a little out of my league. I might give it a bash though, cause that sounds like an ace idea.

@monkeytroll - Thank you! I'm trying to get a bunch of story going between my different characters, so I was thinking of doing a few other 'interacting' kind of bases too

@neil101 - Hahaha, thanks! I'll have to dig him up a partner to share cheesy lines with

@terribletrygon - Thank you! And I do see what you mean about Ferret, but I'm kind of fond of her anyway just for all the work I put in. Thanks for all the tips though - I can hopefully get the proportions better next time. Or at least learn from her hideous deformities for when I'm making a scavvy gang

@ghosty - Thanks for the tip, and the compliments. I was going for a 'ragged top' look under his belt, but you're right, it did look pretty busy, so I got rid of it and replaced it with a simpler arrangement. Thanks for pointing that out, might have missed it otherwise! And that's very kind of you to say, I'm blushing

@Zefig - He totally does! And I've done a little more work on the boots since that shot, so thanks for the tip. I'll get some more photos up soon! Thanks so much for the compliments.

@Rabid Ferret - Thank you! And sorry again for being kinda crabby - you caught me at a bad time

@corpsesarefun - It really is. I'd love to go see it myself - It's supposed to be amazing!

@talons 58 - thank you! Really glad you like him.

Today is Riggs and Loki, painted up. Hope you like em, paint jobs not the best, but I'm just getting back into the swing




And a natural light shot:


Finally, Coop managed to roll specialist on his last skill gain (seriously! ), so I'm trying to equip him with a flamer that won't wreck his profile. I figured a big IG job would be ridiculous in the underhive (they all seem to break after 1 shot anyway, so why would you lug that thing around!?), so would anyone object to this being a flamer? I'm worried it looks more like a super soaker!


Great to be back, and sorry again for going AWOL. Would love to hear your thoughts!

i think its a very realistic looking flamer, i like it

Just add a small pilot light and maybe beef up the actual body near the tank (the styrene tube between the grips) and it'll look fine.
Keep in mind though that traditionally flamethrowers use 2 tanks, one for the fuel and the second for the propellant (usually a small high pressure tank of compressed air). From this angle it just looks like 1 tank.

i love that flamer, great work!

can we have pic of whole (or almost whole) necromunda gang

Nice flamer

Nice vietnam style flamer, and great pose and paintwork with one man and his dog. i like your wooden boards.

its back. Hope you're ok.

Riggs and Loki look cool....make sure you use the dog rules http://www.wargamerau.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=79749. The only thing I would try and change is his eyes...they look a bit big.

As for the flamer....I think the end needs something more....a pilot light....a flamer nozzle. Having not played with the new Blood Angels that much are their hand flamer nozzles smaller then regular flamer nozzles?

Peter

The flamer looks great. I don't know why, but I like flamer equiped gangers. It supplies some aweseome moddeling possibilities.

Wow, that's a lot of responses for a day, thanks for the welcome back

@Rogue wolves - thanks! I was looking at real ref pictures, cause I realised I'd never actually seen a flamer outside the GW world. I'm glad you like it

@Nowlan - You're right, it's only got the one tank at the mo. Will have to squeeze on a compressed air tank at the back, I guess. Good shout on the pilot light too, dunno how I missed that. Thanks for the tips!

@Sageheart - Thank you! And of course
Here's a slightly blurry pic of the painted guys so far (though 2 still need basing):

From left to right: Ferret, Crow, Skragg, Twitch, Riggs, Loki

And these are my current WIPs, at various stages:

From left to right: RiffRaff, Murdock, Farrel, Coop, Coop's head.
I'm hoping they'll all look pretty coherent when I'm done!

@WillFrost - Thanks! I'm glad you like it.

@Neil101 - Thank you! They're lolly sticks, splintered with the GW sprue cutter

@PDH - I'm doing ok now, thanks! Been a busy few weeks, but I'm forgetting it now I've shrunk Riggs' eyes a bit - you were right, I'd gone over the lower lids. Hopefully it shows in the group shot above. And seriously, seriously thank you for that link! I spent a couple of hours that I should have been revising last night reading through a lot of those scenarios and rules, I've been trying to get my hands on them for ages! Gonna make some of my games one hell of a lot more interesting, for sure

@Scrazza - Thanks! They do have a certain air of badassedness about them, don't they? Though in Necromunda that tends to quickly turn to 'Oh gak' as it jams the first time you use it, and you end up in charge range of some close combat monster that you were hoping to flambee...

Pretty mini update today - a long overdue base for Skragg. It doesn't look like much, but I used some new techniques, and I'm very happy with it. Hope you like it too!


Fluff update to come over the next few days, but I'd love to hear your opinions in the meantime!

that group shoot looks awesome! I would love to see some fluff as well. Great stuff, I've always loved this blog

No worries. While GW may have screwed over Specialist Games all the stuff is still out there thanks to geeks on the internet. What are you revising for? I feel bad distracting you from possibly important things with Necromunda related goodness

The group shot is nice...but my eye sight is terrible so I'll take your word on the eye lids I have my internet browser set to 140% zoom for pretty much everything these days.

Peter

@Sageheart - Thanks so much! Very kind of you to say
@PDH - Hahaha, don't worry: if it wasn't necromunda goodness it would have been something else. I've got an exam in 'special senses' in two weeks - ENT, opthalmology and derm. Far from exciting, and incredibly detailed - necromunda stuff has never looked so appealing! The group shot is blurry as anything anyway, so don't blame your eyes; it's just a quick placeholder til I get a few more guys painted up. I find it hard to believe someone who paints as painstakingly well as you has poor eyesight anyway

Update today is part 1 of 2 of Skragg's story (the guy with the stubber and the mohawk). The speaker is Riggs, and I'm hoping the voice I've given him isn't too corny. Hoping to do something like this for every model, with Riggs talking through the team to a newcomer. Might see how this one goes down first though! I'm trying to get the 'shades of grey' vibe of Necromunda, but I'm pretty sure this is OTT. Let me know what you think, anyway!

The guy with the...? Oh, you mean Skragg! Big guy, spiked hair, doesn’t talk much, carries a gun that looks like you couldn’t lift it? Yeah, that’ll be him. Don’t take offence or anything, he doesn’t talk to anyone. He’ll smile at you, laughs at jokes and that, but he’s been with us for years and I never heard him say a word. Nothing wrong with his head though - You know he built that gun himself? Two autoguns, few pipes from a condenser we found out near Saltash, couple of rings out of an old piston, Throne, I don’t know. Put it all together with that welding gun on his hip. Makes his own bullets, too! Keep an eye on him next time we’re out in the wastes. He stops every now and again, picks stuff up and pockets it. Trash, utter junk. The kind of thing you don’t look twice at, but give it a week and it’s part of a firing mechanism, or he’s put an autoloader on your shotgun. Murdock reckons he’s some kind of idiot savant, but I’m sure he’s all there. Just keeps himself to himself, y’know? Just cause someone don’t talk, doesn’t mean they don’t know how to.

His story isn’t the happiest though – you sure you want to hear it? Well, take a smoke, it’s kind of an epic. Nah, don’t worry bout it, got packs of them back at camp. Factory uphive gives ‘em out to anyone who asks – figured they’d stop all the raids that way. Most of their profits are offworld or something, I dunno.

Right, well I can’t tell you about Skragg without telling you about Scout, the kid we met him through. First time I saw either of em, they were in this drinking pit together in Hole, Second Best between them. This was maybe two years back, I think. We’d been following these rumours of some kind of tech stash that had been uncovered near Lent (turned out to be bunk, before you get your hopes up), and Murdock had us out hunting for someone who knew the area. We’d had a fair few choices, loud mouths proclaiming themselves the best around, wanting paid upfront. Crow’s a good judge of these kind of things though, wasn’t having any of it. We’d heard mention of Scout from a few different people, this kid who’d been in town for a few years, supposed to be the go-to guy. He wasn’t like the others – he was calm, relaxed. We’d heard his name and he knew that. He was 16, maybe 17, no older. Sitting at the table with Skragg, this giant of a man, just talking away at him. Told us he’d learnt his way around scavenging for tech to sell for as long as he could remember, and if we wanted a guide in the badlands, he said, he knew routes that few others did. He knew where the local gangs holed up, and where the local wildlife hunted and nested. If that sounded useful to us, he said, we could hire him and his associate for a 10% stake of whatever was found. No questions about what we were looking for, who he’d be working with. He was good to his word, too. While he was with us, raids went smoother, we didn’t get ambushed once, and no one got et by sumphounds.

He was a great guy, too. Generous with what he had, great sense of humour. Laughed at himself – not many men around who’ll do that, a real rare quality. He was always with Skragg though, just talking to him. The guy never replied, of course, but he always listened, and listened intent – had that look, you know what I mean? Just complete concentration. Always together. They were more than just friends – maybe that way, maybe not. Never felt it was my business to ask.

He told me they’d been partners in the scavenging business since they were kids – they’d been slaves together, working a chem pit in the Northern Wastes. Do you remember Derrick? No? Ah, well, little settlement to the North West, got overrun by the QA maybe 10 years ago. Everyone killed or captured, Scout and Skragg included. Reckoned he was 6 years old at the time. Second night they were in the mines, a friend of his dad’s, a barkeep named Garret, caved in the skull of their guard and made a run for it with four of the neighbourhood kids in tow. You ever met the QA? They’re pretty soulless, even by badlands standards. One of the kids was shot in the head as they ran, and Garret took a bullet to the gut, bled out in a dome 2 hours later. That left three of them. Skragg, aged maybe 7, Scout, and an older kid named Relleck. They did what any kids would do in the situation – panic. Scout wanted to go South, keep running until they found another settlement. He’d heard horror stories of what happened to kids who tried to pass through the hive on their own, but he knew it had to be better than the fate that waited for them in the mines. Relleck wanted to go back, thought that if they returned, hands in the air, they’d let them rejoin the chain gang as if nothing had happened. They’d have been crucified, for sure – the QA don’t forgive the killing of one of their own. Skragg, as always, said nothing. They argued for a few minutes before Relleck pulled the pistol off Garret’s belt and pointed it straight at Scout. For a few minutes, no one did anything. No one knew what to do. Scout cried. He told me that - no bravado, you see? They stood there, for what felt like minutes, just looking at eachother. Eventually, Relleck realised the position he was in. He broke into a smile, and told them to walk. He could at least save himself, he told em, if he bought the escapees back. He'd tell the QA he'd caught them trying to make a run for it, thought he'd be a hero. He told em he wouldn't care if they got boiled alive. Without a second’s hesitation, Skragg elbowed the kid in the face, put him flat on his back. He broke his wrist and took the pistol - Relleck was writhing on the floor. He shot him three times (slow and deliberate), then wordlessly handed the pistol to Scout. Without a credit between them, they headed South, into the badlands.

You may have noticed that Scout does not have a model - this may be a hint as to how he fared in his first few games. If you like this, please let me know - I could use some motivation to write the second half!

Aww poor Scout!

/Motivate

Hmmmm the subjects sound incredibly interesting....after a quick google search.

As for my poor eye sight and painting....I think the two are connected

I enjoyed the story please continue.

Peter