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I like cats.

Thanks Finch

Sabre tooth woman: meaw

S'alright Blackhand. I feel I have really contributed to this thread.

Blackhand, do you ever get tired of being so ridiculously awesome?

I really doubt he does Manchu. You should see the shoulder pads, shields, and arms he made and cast for a project or 2 I'm working on. Great stuff all around.

Some people would be too modest to reply to the last few posts....


.....I am not one of them.


No Manchu, I do not tire of my awesomeness, ridiculous as it is

Oh and congrats again on your ascension to MODhood, I see you've been poppin' and Lockin' already, Fine work sir, fine work!

In case anyone was wondering I did get some minor work done last night

Extended the bottom exhaust to meet up with the engine block ( Thanks WhaleMusic I missed it first time round!)
Repositioned the cigar in Logan's mouth
Began adding detail to the extended forks to tie it in to the rest of the bike.
Added some GS feathers and Sabre tokens to the rider's legs and chest.
Also test fitted the stormbolter between the forks tucked under the headlight and I think I like it better than the wheel arch.

So tonight i should be able assemble the nearly finished bike....hopefully.

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Lol, so humble is he.

I'm actually glad you missed em. I typed and deleted it like 4 times before posting it. I thought it sounded a bit, I dunknow, douchey. I kept using the "Excuse me sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?" voice in my head (youtube it).

Damn Blackhand! I wasn't all that bothered about trying out my own conversions, but your blog is truly inspirational.

I now have big plans for my dreadnaught, might pm you for some help if you dont mind as this will be my first attempt.

Keep going buddy, great job.

No worries Hangfire, I always like to brainstorm ideas as I end up with as many ideas for my projects as for the person I am talking to!

Oh and don't ever worry about mentioning things I may have missed Whalemusic, I may appear to be basically perfect but I have been told by my Fiance that I have at least two faults...maybe three.

the angel has faults! what are they, let us know your secrets!

An Angel? Maybe physically....but no I wouldn't say I'm exactly an angel....I'll happily let others say it though

I guess my major flaw is my endearing modesty followed closely by my inability to accept praise

On the update front...sorry I've got nothing tonight. A friend of mine came over and we leeched each others hard drives...holy crap that sounds bad!!! Honestly I am happily engaged I just hate going to the DVD store with my partner..she takes aaaages to choose a movie.

Back on topic I did get time to test fit the Easy Rider together and apart from some issues with the custom pad fitting he looks good..well my friend yelled "It's Wolverine!" when he saw it so it has the effect I was going for

Will get some pics up tomorrow night..I think


Cheers

BLACKHAND

Faults include not being able to do 2 things at once!!

Where are the floating castle updates damnit!?



I have a general dislike for marines, but I can appreciate the cool conversion workage!

I'm really not sold on the cigar. I think it looks plenty like him without it. But then I never liked cigars on otherwise excellently modelled Angry Marines either. Something about it just jars with the whole SM vibe and you don't have the excuse of a parody army to hide behind here.

@tortured robot - I know, I know....those dirty Skaven! I have been stalling on them the last couple of weeks. Partly due to receiving the Ikit Claw modelling and carving off his power claw and being pretty disappointed in how it is posed. I have spent a few evenings trying kitbash a figure that looks realistic but I haven't liked any of them. I may end up putting it aside and moving back to the castles till inspiration strikes again.

@Morgrim - I've never seen an SM with a cigar before but part of why it may be jarring for you is the era that Wolverine was introduced to you. In the 80's when I first read the X-men comics Wolverine ALWAYS had a cigar in his mouth!, he would fight while smoking, drink (yes he was a boozehound!) while smoking and woo the ladies while smoking! There was even a scene in antarctica where he was tracking a lost X-man by scent, WHILE SMOKING!, another x-man asked him how he could smelll anything while smoking a cigar, he simply says,

"Practice"

Now your moden day PC Wolverine may not be seen too often with a stinky fat cigar hanging out of his mouth but the "cool" wolverine in my head always does

I'm not going for parody here, but I have been having fun with the marvel characters, do you remember the deadpool assassin from earlier in the thread?


Sorry, early morning wall of text over!

Cheers

BLACKHAND

"Practice"

I know right? Sheer...Total...Coolicity

Anyhoo, I have a few pics of where the Easy Rider is at the moment,
Have begun adding a GS lion pelt, draped over the seat and packs.
Had to rebuild the hinge between the forks and the gas tank as it was too weak and snapped off while I was handling it.
My friend convinced me to try adding some extensions to the mufflers, still not sold on them, what do you think?










Damn just saw that one of the cuffs on the fork had slipped before I took the photo..this will be fixed, honest!

C&C is welcome of course!

Cheers,

BLACKHAND

I like the extended racing cans, though I don’t think the bottom left one is straight.

Indeed...one of the mnay things I noticed after the pics were taken

Same... on my work bench model looks flawless…. Close up photo? Reveals dodgy green stuff, random paint brush hair sticking to the face….. Oh and you have forgot to paint half a lasgun.

Photography is a cruel Mistress!

QFT

Coming along nicely Blackhand. I like the new, beefy forks.... makes the bike look much more substantial and "battle worthy". I also like the exhaust extensions. They change the shape of the bike in profile and make it's connection to a standard bike less obvious. Also it would seem an obvious point of modification for a bike like this.... can anyone say Holly glass packs? (don't know if they make motorcycle exhausts, but you get the idea)

The only thing I don't like is the thing in-between the forks. Is that a gun? Looks like a block of swiss cheese...

Storm bolter isnt it?

nice! very nice sir!

Ok, massive apologies here BH but I'm going to sound like a bit of a fan-boy douche.

When I asked for something special I really had no idea you would produce something of such an awesome calibre. You've really added a lot of character to what is essentially the same boring biker model from 15 yrs ago.

Lol, Thanks Gits! I was expecting Rama to get on and pop my little ego bubble but you beat him to it

I may have been hasty in drilling out the barrel of the stormbolter, and the fact that is a SW bolter and is covered in skulls and stuff might be making it hard to recognize so I will go back to the drawing board with the weapon.

And Lennysmash, I really just wanted to do something worthy of the gift And yeah what's with the entire SM range getting updated every week and yet the bikes still look like a box on two wheels?

Don't even get me started, my other army is Eldar, so seeing the new reavers makes me cry when I think about the 20yr old jetbikes and 15 yr old vypers of the CWE.

Here you go Blackhand just to get you started on ideas


The Bike look excellent be nice to see it finished with the foot rests and the weapon mounted etc... go go no time for posting build stuff and make it quick!

Impressive

i also dont like the stormbolter on the bike, but everything else is boss!