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Love the acronym idea for your force Reminds me of the Junior Woodchuck officials in Don Rosa comics And great stuff all around!

And how dare your partner think about inviting people to the house to have a good time dungeoning... the audacity Altars look cool and of course we need batreps, if and when the campaign may commence in the future!

Olthannon wrote:Love the ash wastes Skitarii, that Orlock kit looks good with the vanguard helmets.

I quite like the green on the biker, it's a nice contrast from the bike. The red bike looks excellent, great weathering!

Is that a purple beard on the outrider?

Thanks, he originally had a brown beard but it didn't look right with the others all having dyed hair

Captain Brown wrote:Guardling,

Keep working on that pile of grey and give it color.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks!

Olthannon wrote:Great work on the Skorlock. A lot of swagger in that model. A very cool idea to give put the white and black admech colours on the belt buckle. Looking forward to seeing the rest painted.

Thank you, haha that was an accidental, I ment to shave them off but forgot so just painted them instead...

gobert wrote:Yep, the skorlock is looking fantastic! The conversion on the heavy Bolter is cool, he’s also carrying the pintle around for when he wants a ride or it gets a bit heavy.

Thanks, yeah if you look the original (N17) orlock heavy weapons have bits for pintle mounts on the bottom as well, so I though I'd keep it on...

Viterbi wrote:Love the acronym idea for your force Reminds me of the Junior Woodchuck officials in Don Rosa comics And great stuff all around!

And how dare your partner think about inviting people to the house to have a good time dungeoning... the audacity Altars look cool and of course we need batreps, if and when the campaign may commence in the future!

Haha yeah, unfortunately our previous attempts to use minis in D&D have just been forgotten as soon as interesting stuff happens, but my partner has been collecting a whole load of the printed card terrain for a few years now...

Not been up to a lot lately, just moved onto night shift so sleeping is a bit erratic at the moment
But I did notice that I had forgotten to start painting the gunners for my quads:

Put some AdMech arms on an outcast with a hood, great idea but I think I have the wrong arms for it...


Just also remembered that I'm supposed to be doing a unit a month:

Kroot for the last minute easy win!

A unit a month is a good pace...I am getting through about half that myself.

Cheers,

CB

 Captain Brown wrote:
A unit a month is a good pace...I am getting through about half that myself.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks, the main objective behind it is to actually finish painting my Tau, but I keep getting distracted by other stuff...

So made the deadline with the Kroot, just because they're super easy:

Literally just colour, Agrax and colour again, trying to keep the last layer in stripes for a bit of texture...
Bases used that grey sand paint the I received with the Imperium Magazine which, although looks different, is a lot easier to use than my original basing method.
Unfortunately I am missing the flock I originally used with the static grass, but it's not really noticeable...

There were some conversions on the original models too so they get some highlights:


A standard bearer, thier hand and rifle is missing, shall have to find it next time I have a clear out of my desk...


We have a musician as well, Blue Beak the Bard, and they now have me pondering the sort of music that Kroot would produce, probably not a lot of wind instruments...


And finally Fish eater, stuffing their face with bits from an WHFB Empire Cannon...

That's all for now see you next time

Looking good Guardling. I like the blue warpaint and the orc parts.

Kroot obviously listen to Norwegian Death Metal. I like how that musician came out.

Nice work.

Cheers,

CB

Re-Krooting! Love it.

A unit a month is a good idea to keep the progress going on an army, and even better if you have quick units to help keep you on track! The kroot came out well, I quite like that the banner bearer is missing a hand, it gives him a bit of a back story!

Olthannon wrote:Looking good Guardling. I like the blue warpaint and the orc parts.

Thanks

Meer_Cat wrote:Kroot obviously listen to Norwegian Death Metal. I like how that musician came out.

Haha thanks, not sure Kroot can do the screaming themselves, but I'm sure they can find some volunteers...

Captain Brown wrote:Nice work.

Cheers,

CB

Cheers

theCrowe wrote:Re-Krooting! Love it.

Thanks, nice to see a lover of puns

gobert wrote:A unit a month is a good idea to keep the progress going on an army, and even better if you have quick units to help keep you on track! The kroot came out well, I quite like that the banner bearer is missing a hand, it gives him a bit of a back story!

Thank you, I actually found thier hand recently and promptly lost it again, perhaps I'll give them a stump later.

Started working on some more terrain, basic idea was to make some sort of portable generator for Ash Wastes:

Plan is to put that in there...

Very carefully cut the side bits off so that I can use those bits again later

I then glued some signpost plastic into the gaps and glued the container together.
You may notice it's suddenly painted, it just a older one that I mangled for a previous project, to save on the nice pieces...

Boom, fits nicely.
Still removable at the moment for painting, gonna fill the gap inside with cables and computers...

Started on the half silo:

Seeing as it's going on its side, I'm gonna need to cap the ends

Bottom gets some Mantic pipes

Top gets a flag as a curtain...

Also working on some bits for my ash wastes AdMech warband:


Kataphron ended up having its top half swapped with the heavy stubber torso from the Dune rider to downgrade the weapons loadout.
Its on a magnet so I can swap it out later.
The servo skull on the enginseer snapped off so it gets an extra cable to hold it place.

Signed up to Instagram recently, mostly to find more minis to look at, but it is very easy and quick to post up my own minis and WIPs
@eyemonolyth if you're interested
See you next time

Hopefully the hand makes another appearance so you can reunite it with the standard bearer!

Loving the ash wastes scatter kitbashes, they’ll add some great obstacles for the bikes and buggies.

The ad mech are looking great, really fitting the ash wastes explorer theme well. The red and black look nice and brooding too

Tried out a stubble wash, looks alright...

That stubble wash came out great!

Nice careful work on The Device, also.

Love the silo/tent with the flag door, that's awesome.

Great stuff Guardling! Your Ash Wastes admech are really cool. Great conversion with the servitor swap. The yellow cabling looks great, nice contrast with your other primaries.

Love the blue hair, how did you do the stubble?

Good to see you on Instagram!

gobert wrote:Hopefully the hand makes another appearance so you can reunite it with the standard bearer!

Loving the ash wastes scatter kitbashes, they’ll add some great obstacles for the bikes and buggies.

The ad mech are looking great, really fitting the ash wastes explorer theme well. The red and black look nice and brooding too

Thanks, the scatter is also a good way to use up those half bits I've been left with from previous conversions..

Meer_Cat wrote:That stubble wash came out great!

Nice careful work on The Device, also.

Thanks! Need to get a few more ideas for the device to honest f

RexHavoc wrote:Love the silo/tent with the flag door, that's awesome.

Thanks, the flag's from the Scion kit, I don't like the other side of it, too specific, so finding a use for the Aquila side was great

Olthannon wrote:Great stuff Guardling! Your Ash Wastes admech are really cool. Great conversion with the servitor swap. The yellow cabling looks great, nice contrast with your other primaries.

Love the blue hair, how did you do the stubble?

Good to see you on Instagram!

Thanks! The stubble is a mix of some Vortex Blue (very OOP, used for the hair), Agrax Earthshade and water at mix of something like 1:3:6, not sure I eyeballed it

Anyways onto my week:
Got my Outriders finished:


Did the tyres different on each quad:
one I used Eshin Grey, White Contrast, Skeleton Horde, and a drybrush of Pallid Flesh...
The other was painted Celestra Grey, sloppily dry brushed with black, Skeleton Horde again, drybrush of Pallid Flesh...
Seemed like the second way would be better for larger pieces like terrain so:

Got started on some Ash Wastes terrain, I'm happy with how it's come out so far

Spruced up Iratus for an Instagram shoot:


Just put a few purple washes on him and fixed up some little bits that were... Irritating me...

Also had an idea but couldn't find the right hand for it so:

I tried sculpting my own, took me two tries and a few hours, but got something I was happy with and the right scale

Finally I also started on something I wanted to do for a while, make a physical version of my avatar:

Started with some slabs of sign board

Drilled and carved a hole for a 6mm BB that had been rolled around on some sand paper for grip

Covered it in sprue slurry to help with gaps and stuff and while I had the green stuff out worked on the eyelids.
That should be cured today so I'll be poking that later...
Just gotta do like 8 tentacles... Already made up some armatures on a holder for them

See you next time!

Trees!

Some of those are clearly ex-trees.

Are the rings modelled or did you draw those in?

Looking delightful Guardling! Those trees look awesome.

Looking forward to seeing how the physical manifestation of your avatar goes, you’ve made a great start. The open hand for the delaque looking chap turned out well, and looks a good size fit.

Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:Some of those are clearly ex-trees.

Are the rings modelled or did you draw those in?

Haha, they're Mantic models, so detail is modelled on

Olthannon wrote:Looking delightful Guardling! Those trees look awesome.

Thanks!

gobert wrote:Looking forward to seeing how the physical manifestation of your avatar goes, you’ve made a great start. The open hand for the delaque looking chap turned out well, and looks a good size fit.

Thank you

So been up to a few things this week despite my shift pattern (and thus my sleep) being all over the place...
First us I had an idea to make a server/wait staff for a party:

This is what I needed the hand for...
I did try to make little goblets for the tray but they turned out too fragile to make at the right scale, so settled on some tumblers instead, bottle is some whittled down sprue...



Made some tentacles for my Eye Monolyth from Fimo:

I made a lot more than I'd need so I could experiment with fit...
The ones I wanted to keep got positioned on blue tac
and then blended together with green stuff.
They then got primed with old foundation paint, sanded, primed, sanded and primed until I was happy enough with the results:

Just gotta paint it now, which is going to be awkward seeing as the original image has a colour shift effect on it...

Also did a repaint of my Skorpius Dunerider.
I thought it looked like a British LCU so I had painted it as one, but I has decided to replace the original brown with red as well and adding build ups of dirt from the ash wastes:



Can't avoid the ash...

I originally bought it a while ago with the intention of using it as a sump boat, I thought I'd return it to it's intended purpose as an AdMech transport.

See you, space cowboys!

The Dunerider and its combat vehicle load are both excellent- the sand/dirt/weathering effect on the diamond tread floorboards of the cargo/troop space are really top notch.

Supplies!

That should be enough to get me started filling up some ash wastes hab blocks...
Also, cat!

...I mean some more MDF boards to glue my Zone Mortalis tiles to...

Nice work on the dunerider and the waiter. Your scenery is looking excellent. What a lovely cat!

That waiter is a great idea, he looks very snooty and probably stab you in the back for using the wrong fork for the fish

But I love the purple beard on the Orlock quad driver, looks so great!

And excited to see your avatar coming to life.

Meer_Cat wrote:The Dunerider and its combat vehicle load are both excellent- the sand/dirt/weathering effect on the diamond tread floorboards of the cargo/troop space are really top notch.

Thanks, it's just contrast paints and a leadbelcher dry brush

Olthannon wrote:Nice work on the dunerider and the waiter. Your scenery is looking excellent. What a lovely cat!

Thank you, all cars are lovely

Viterbi wrote:That waiter is a great idea, he looks very snooty and probably stab you in the back for using the wrong fork for the fish

But I love the purple beard on the Orlock quad driver, looks so great!

And excited to see your avatar coming to life.

Thanks, a full noble party is getting put on the list of things I want to do but probably never will...

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Anyways, today's update is a bit all over the place...
First up, I finally painted up my Monolyth avatar:

With a bit of drybrushing and stippling I managed to get a nice colour transition...
Seeing as I wasn't really able to model the ridges on the tentacles, I painted them on instead...
Here they are finished:

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Next up I made an Ash Wastes scrap pile:

Made out of scraps...


It about the right size to stick between two ZM pillars in case I want to use it in the Underhive...
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I have been working on some interior stuff for the Ash Wastes hab unit:

I wasn't a fan of the massive holes in the floor so I covered them with some plasticard ...

Got some 3mm signboard to block off a doorway with some rivets I had saved and a Mantic greeble for the outside...
It took a while to do as when I first assembled them I had glued the roof down for some stupid reason...
Also made a table:

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Got some new storage solutions for my bitz box:

A lot more room now, and less chance of catastrophe if I drop them... Again...
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Started assembling some of the TT Combat boards to glue my ZM tiles on:


Cut a hole in one.
I'll be honest, I wasn't that impressed with them, they were caked in soot that kept rubbing off, even after I scrubbed it wit a rag and the fit wasn't brilliant, requiring me to trim many of the tabs...
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Also thought I'd try out these things...

It took a while to get them as I kept forgetting to pick them up from the drop off, at one point I was in the building next door and still forgot them.
A test:

While rinsing the brush, I noticed:

Bubbles!

Had an idea so put some very quick basic colours on a chaos marine with an Agrax wash:

Weapons (leadbelcher) were picked out with rust and the whole model coated in the verdigris:

Then with a damp brush I wiped it down and added some details:


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That's all for now!
I think...

Great updates Guardling. The tentacles of your avatar are deeply unsettling, like giant earthworms. Scenery is looking really nice, good mix of colours.

I forgot the Fire Warriors:

Got a couple of days to squeeze them in for unit of the month...

Really liked the Ash Wastes scrap pile. Very nice mix of bits that provide cover, but look random enough to be a pile of garbage.

Cheers,

CB

Olthannon wrote:Great updates Guardling. The tentacles of your avatar are deeply unsettling, like giant earthworms. Scenery is looking really nice, good mix of colours.

Thank you!

Captain Brown wrote:Really liked the Ash Wastes scrap pile. Very nice mix of bits that provide cover, but look random enough to be a pile of garbage.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks!

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So managed to do my unit of the month, by the skin of my teeth:

Some Fire Warriors!
These guys were like finished at the last few minutes of June

A group shot of all Fire Warriors so far..
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Didn't get a lot else done as I was packing for a holiday related to a different hobby with my friends, one of which had to be rushed to hospital...
They're fine now but it has obviously kept me from doing little more than unpacking super late...