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Great save mate! Love it. I was at WEST - my feet were steadied by schnitzel

inmygravenimage haha... sounds good mate! i think it should be a once monthly occurance! atleast.....

Thanks again for the comments guys....... really happy with how this has turned out..... and gave me a chance to have a crack at using the weathering pigments properly.... and the technique for the tarps..... Next up is going to be the Crassus...... NEED to get it finished.... and also get some more mould mockups for the Estoc done also!

Cheers,

Amazing rescue job, great classic terrain piece

Like how the green tarp gives contrast to the extremely decayed turret.

Really well done on the salvage work! Makes for a really good and cool piece of terrain for part of an old battlefield.

Hey All!

Sorry for the long quiet time.... RL been taking its toll!

Managed to get some time back on the table and had a crack at the Crassus..... Finished the forward section and added a whole load of rivets..... got some paint work done and then a minumal amount of damage...... then added some dirt and dust........

I know the back half of the model isnt finished yet but i really wanted just to get some painting done and some detailing.

Got to admit IMHO these little 2mm 1/2spherical beads are great..... £1.99 for 1000!

Anyways.... thanks all for the comments! And ahain...... all C&C would be great!

Nice work. Looking good.

Looking brilliant. Just keep it on the top shelf eh!

Joking aside, looks brilliant, nice colouring, excellent details.

Dr H wrote:Nice work. Looking good.

Camkierhi wrote:Looking brilliant. Just keep it on the top shelf eh!

Joking aside, looks brilliant, nice colouring, excellent details.

Hey guys! Thanks for the comments! AM definetly getting hasppier with my painting and managed with this one to keep the damage to a real mimimum! Will get on with the rear half of the hull and rear access ramp!

Haha... and Camkierhi yes indeed.... being kept safe!!

I like using those small sterilite containers, like the shoe boxes, for stuff like this. All the materials I'm using go into it-- so I won't lose any pieces-- and the lid goes on. A nice way to protect things.

Those beads make nice rivets.

Given the shape and size of that thing as it is, it would make a nice start on a drop ship too.

It's amazing the difference those rivets make, as this is really starting to come to life now, great work. .

Hey All!

Thanks again for all the comments.... really appreciate them all!

Got the hull finished for the CRASSUS.... got it bas coated and added the red regimental stripes..... Happy with the back end.... was going to have the original large ramp but decided against it for a more pronounced troop entrance....... its not going to allow for very fast deployment..... but i dont think thats a huge issue....... going to get the weathering done tonight so alls thats left is the track units that i am looking to salvage from the partf os the Macharius.....

Cheers all..... again all C&C is welcomed!

Ahoy!

CRASSUS Hull is now finished.... Added a couple of old bullet holes at the front end of the carrier..... and then added some more dirt and dust..... A rolled up camo net to the side.... and like i said earlier... all thats left is putting together some tack units.....

Cheers All!

Nice work Magos. Good weathering.

Thats looking very nice, love the rust and dust !

Awesome work, loking brilliant.

Looking great, weathering is spot on!

Hey guys,

Cheers again for the comments...... No work done tonight but thought i would put up a pic showing the scales of the armour i have.... starting with the Rhino up to Estoc and then Crassus.....

3 diferent weathering techniques on each one........ i swear i will find my final technique in there somewhere!!

Cheers Guys,

Hi guys,

Hope all is well,

Not had a lot of time to get anything done this weekend, but i did get a real quick start on a terrain peice i have been wanting to do for ages....

Real basic start but got some cool plans for this!!

Updates soon... cheers guys!

Sorry for not popping by sooner and commenting.

Those 3 look brilliant, and who's to say they should all be identically weathered! They look awesome together to me.

Interesting start on the terrain project. looking forward to this.

Ahoy everyone!

Hope all is good with you all and you enjoyed Easter.... no rest for the wicked i am affraid..... 0 days off as of yet...

But hey..... managed to get some work done on my next little terrain/objective marker piece..... (Basically my wife has said that my hobby budget is only as much as i can raise from selling some pieces... so along with "Ancient Glory" this next piece is going to be up on Ebay at some point to get me some pennies to finish some other bits and bobs... llol....

Well hey... here it is..... An Imperial flyer has taken a renegade missile strike to its engines and been downed behind enemy lines.... that was 10 years ago and during the constant fighting between loyalist and renegade forces.. the ruined hull of the forgotten bird has been left to rust and rot under the constant hail of fire from both sides.. unable to be recovered or revived.

A muddy base with a sparce covering of grass and mud will be placed under the flyer and it will be semi-buried... hense the incomplete hull...

Hope you guys like it,.

Cheers & Thanks,

Looking good. Nice weathering.

Good luck with the fund-raising.

Well that looks like crap in a really, really, good way!

Looking brilliant. You certainly got weathering sorted.

WWhat kinda supplies are you needing?

Thanks for the comments guys! Really appreciate them all! Got a polyfiller/gravel & sand base planned for this one... with pieces or wreckage strewn around... and might well add some bullet marks and lasgun streaks accross the hull. then its business as usual with a heavy mud effect and dust etc.

Camkierhi.... to be honest i am needing to get myself some new paints.. and varied colours.... the majority of the materials from my builds are coming from salvage i can pick up here or there... or scavenged old bits and hand me downs from people who have them as surplus.......

It is my goal to start to work on a couple of legion pieces... either World Eaters or Luna Wolves...... so am looking to get some whites and blues etc..... andget my painting skils built up with those colours... instead of my usual grey...

Looks great! Looking forward to more pictures of your progress.

Hey all! I hope all is well!!

In my quest to raise some funds for my modeling i trawled the lengths and depths of E-Bay and came up with a little beauty i thought i could get my teeth into. I think it is a modern American APC of some type... but for my purposes i am seeing it as a Chimera stand in or something......

When it arrived it had very minor damage and had been given a quick grey coat of paint so i tiried it up hit it with some primer and got to work..... If i am honest i am UBER HAPPY with the results and IMHO i think its probarbly the best model i have done yet!

Still need to finish the tracks and then i am looking to add an auto gun system like the one i added to the Estoc assault Carrier.... they are WIP and i will share them once i have them in one piece!

OH.... i am thinking of naming it the "Claymore" troop transport with automated anti personel weapon system.

Should be sometime next week i can get it finished....... but am actually thinking of keeping this one...... DOH!!!!!! fundraising FAIL!

Good work. Looks nice a grubby. Spot on weathering.

Excellent work. No idea what the model is, but could easily count as rhino.

that looks like a M113 with skirts...

and pretty nifty looking it does too

Great work, I need to sift through your blog and see how you do your weathering and get some pointers.