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2013/12/27 01:57:28
Subject: Nerdfest09's Blog now with nothing much EXCEPT for finished Orks! :-)
You could say I'm in the Zone! or i'm well on the way! I got up today and made a coffee, then realised it was 26 degrees and a little hot for drinking coffee at 8am! so I grabbed a cool bottle of water and hid in the nerd room and got to gluing some boards together!
i'm going to sort of break each little bit down so i don't flood you too much, firstly a couple of pics of the work i've done so far, the framework if you will you'll see a few of the tile edges don't meet up perfectly but that was always going to happen along the way due to the fact I had to cut the tiles off an edge of each larger tile, but I really don't think it's going to impede the overall look, I'm happy with it so far!
Righto, that's what I'm working with and now for the additions to give the Flesh Eaters Ship (c'mon people what shall we call their flagship??)
Storage area:
Spoiler:
firstly the storage docks, filled with ammo, crates, fuel, promethium, spare parts etc....
Medi-Bay
Spoiler:
Next up is the Medical bay area, should be able to run this along one length of wall. lots of good little bits here including a waste chute for human waste...... like arms and legs etc.
Engine room
Spoiler:
Engine room/maintenance area is going to be cluttered but still usable for a game (I hope)
Command Deck!
Spoiler:
Command Deck for seth and friends! a lot going on here and the room will be the only one that's not an actual tile that fits in with the others, or I won't have enough room to detail it like i want to, it'll be more of an area where we need to get to reach during a game rather than a battlefield :-) but it will be full of win!
everyone need a sentry gun on the wall right!
Now thanks to Theo I was given the idea to have a navigator type servitor or somesuch hanging over a pit filled with wires and cables connecting them in midair! the first thing I did was make some cables and fill the bottom of the 'pit with them!
Chapel
Spoiler:
Here's a simple one, the Chapel, I don't imagine Marines sitting for a service so decorating the walls with some suitable bits should convey the feel.
Random add ons!
Spoiler:
additions, these will be shared among the tiles to add detail to random walls throughout the ship, whether they really flow or not I'm not concerned with as I am going with the rule of COOL!
here are some of the bulkhead lights added, the plan is to use the airbrush to give them a osl glow (fingers crossed, although i may need to research)
now a bit of a shout out to the dudes i sourced and approached my materials from
the floor tiles were laser cut mdf from Angry Badger gaming, very helpful and with fast service and excellent communication with me throughout! they've got some really cool and different things popping up on their website that may interest some of you,cheers Terry for all your help!
http://www.angrybadgeronline.com/
and now for me the hardest and most important part was the walls! I was helped by a local Australian company who also sell on ebay, they don't usually do custom work but I convinced them it was a worthwhile project and Luke was simply amazing in emailing me throughout and had a very good grasp of what i was wanting to achieve, not to mention the quality of all of the products I have gotten from these guys is excellent, they have a brilliant skill set with working with the extruded polystyrene sheets and i'm more than happy and will be using them again!
http://www.blueforgeterrain.com/
So? ideas, paint schemes? thoughts? I crave them at this stage! it's shaping up to be bigger than i thought but ooodles more fun!
talk soon!
Damo
Flesh Eaters 4,500 points
" I will constantly have those in my head telling me how lazy and ugly and whorish I am. You sir, are a true friend " - KingCracker
"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur
"I think the NMM technique with metals is just MNMM. Same sound I make while eating a good pizza" - Whalemusic360
2013/12/27 05:54:51
Subject: Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
wow, what a great load of bits...
this is going to be good....
i look forward to seeing this board come together...
as for paint scheme suggestions, i see rust-red floors and walls, scuffed with some silver...
maybe black consloes and stuff...
i could easily see a clean white sci-fi environment, with some neon blues, but that would be a nightmare to paint...
best of luck...
cheers
jah
Paint like ya got a pair!
Available for commissions.
2013/12/27 06:16:02
Subject: Re:Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
Nerd, I will be disappointed if the flesh tearers allow their emperor given vessel to become rusty . It needs a clean look except for maybe some areas hat have battle damage from boarding actions. If need be the league of extraordinary janitors can make their way to you to help clean up the hulk.
Also is there a name for he ship yet?
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
2013/12/27 07:07:15
Subject: Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
Also I thought I would pop by and say I also love your ork skintone, especially their pinkish lips and I'm totally stealing that if and when I do orks again.
Theophony wrote: Nerd, I will be disappointed if the flesh tearers allow their emperor given vessel to become rusty . It needs a clean look except for maybe some areas hat have battle damage from boarding actions. If need be the league of extraordinary janitors can make their way to you to help clean up the hulk.
Also is there a name for he ship yet?
i didn't mean that the ship should be rusty, but a nice Mechanicum style red...
rust-red is how i would describe the color...
cheers
jah
Paint like ya got a pair!
Available for commissions.
2013/12/27 07:37:51
Subject: Re:Nerdfest09's Blog now with nothing much EXCEPT for finished Orks! :-)
nerdfest09 wrote: You could say I'm in the Zone! or i'm well on the way! I got up today and made a coffee, then realised it was 26 degrees and a little hot for drinking coffee at 8am! so I grabbed a cool bottle of water and hid in the nerd room and got to gluing some boards together!
i'm going to sort of break each little bit down so i don't flood you too much, firstly a couple of pics of the work i've done so far, the framework if you will you'll see a few of the tile edges don't meet up perfectly but that was always going to happen along the way due to the fact I had to cut the tiles off an edge of each larger tile, but I really don't think it's going to impede the overall look, I'm happy with it so far!
Righto, that's what I'm working with and now for the additions to give the Flesh Eaters Ship (c'mon people what shall we call their flagship??)
Storage area:
Spoiler:
firstly the storage docks, filled with ammo, crates, fuel, promethium, spare parts etc....
Medi-Bay
Spoiler:
Next up is the Medical bay area, should be able to run this along one length of wall. lots of good little bits here including a waste chute for human waste...... like arms and legs etc.
Engine room
Spoiler:
Engine room/maintenance area is going to be cluttered but still usable for a game (I hope)
Command Deck!
Spoiler:
Command Deck for seth and friends! a lot going on here and the room will be the only one that's not an actual tile that fits in with the others, or I won't have enough room to detail it like i want to, it'll be more of an area where we need to get to reach during a game rather than a battlefield :-) but it will be full of win!
everyone need a sentry gun on the wall right!
Now thanks to Theo I was given the idea to have a navigator type servitor or somesuch hanging over a pit filled with wires and cables connecting them in midair! the first thing I did was make some cables and fill the bottom of the 'pit with them!
Chapel
Spoiler:
Here's a simple one, the Chapel, I don't imagine Marines sitting for a service so decorating the walls with some suitable bits should convey the feel.
Random add ons!
Spoiler:
additions, these will be shared among the tiles to add detail to random walls throughout the ship, whether they really flow or not I'm not concerned with as I am going with the rule of COOL!
here are some of the bulkhead lights added, the plan is to use the airbrush to give them a osl glow (fingers crossed, although i may need to research)
now a bit of a shout out to the dudes i sourced and approached my materials from
the floor tiles were laser cut mdf from Angry Badger gaming, very helpful and with fast service and excellent communication with me throughout! they've got some really cool and different things popping up on their website that may interest some of you,cheers Terry for all your help!
http://www.angrybadgeronline.com/
and now for me the hardest and most important part was the walls! I was helped by a local Australian company who also sell on ebay, they don't usually do custom work but I convinced them it was a worthwhile project and Luke was simply amazing in emailing me throughout and had a very good grasp of what i was wanting to achieve, not to mention the quality of all of the products I have gotten from these guys is excellent, they have a brilliant skill set with working with the extruded polystyrene sheets and i'm more than happy and will be using them again!
http://www.blueforgeterrain.com/
So? ideas, paint schemes? thoughts? I crave them at this stage! it's shaping up to be bigger than i thought but ooodles more fun!
talk soon!
Damo
I looked around and couldnt find one so...
I made a model and ran it to shapeways (I'll be getting one printed up myself at some point to mold and then cast.) of a removable doorway that scales to ZM.
Enclosure
http://shpws.me/ql51
Ooh I like the name the Charnal Forge! easier for me to say! glad stage one is coming along to your approval! I tend to have big plans that fall over when i start! this feels different though thankfully, and I shall be keeping an eye on that design Galorn looks sweet! I've a couple of doors to include but some blast doors would be better in areas.
@Weety: steal away my dear and thank you very much! I get a bit of a blush on when good painters that I follow like my stuff! those Orks are fun to paint and that skin is surprisingly quick to do.
@Theo: I cracked up with the League of extraordinary Janitors don't fear I shall make sure the Flesheaters run a tight ship
@Jah-joshua: Hi dude thanks for having a look! I thought about rust red colour but decided against it due to the Marines being red themselves but looking through my paints I have found I own three bottles of Vallejo Air light grey (why I don't know!) and some white, so after reading the FW masterclass book I think a light slightly weatherd colour would give good contrast?
I'll be waiting for some more tiles to finish the boards and then once I have them all together it'll be a mass primer day! what do you guys think I should replicate as far as layout designs go? open spaces? I'm not sure what will be more beneficial to make better mazes for war?
Flesh Eaters 4,500 points
" I will constantly have those in my head telling me how lazy and ugly and whorish I am. You sir, are a true friend " - KingCracker
"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur
"I think the NMM technique with metals is just MNMM. Same sound I make while eating a good pizza" - Whalemusic360
2013/12/27 10:17:16
Subject: Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
Looking good, Damo. I could see a nice bone white for parts of the ship working well with the red armour of the marines - or perhaps only for designated "clean" areas such as the Apothocarium, Bridge, etc?
Something like the Chapel could be done in.. say, copper/brass/bronze flooring, and the engine rooms in more utilitarian greys and metal floor.
Just throwing some ideas out there, I'm always impressed with how quickly you manage to actually get stuff done, in contrast to myself.
You could steal bossfearless ideas in his dubstep tau build and use some small keychain picture frame LCD screens on he bridge to be view screens. Download some pics of your hellsack if you still have it, or some cheeses Star Trek original series sort of images onto it to aid in the "realism" department . They also would create some actual OSL effects.
LOL, Theo your mind is an amazing place, never change.-camkierhi 9/19/13
I cant believe theo is right.. damn. -comradepanda 9/26/13
None of the strange ideas we had about you involved your sexual orientation..........-Monkeytroll 12/10/13
I'd put you on ignore for that comment, if I could...Alpharius 2/11/14
2013/12/27 14:29:17
Subject: Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
Nerd-tastic! The seams on the walls demand weathering concentrations, that much is for sure. Think of reinforced concrete bunker pour lines.
"dave you are the definition of old school..." -Viktor Von Domm My P&M Blog : It's great how just adding a little iconography, and rivets of course, can make something look distinctly 40K-adamsouza
"Ah yes, the sound of riveting.....Swear word after swear word and the clinking of thrown tools" "Nope. It sucks do it again..."- mxwllmdr
"It puts together more terrain, or else it gets the hose again...-dangledorf2.0
"This is the Imperium, there is no peace, there are only rivets" -Vitruvian XVII
"I think rivets are the perfect solution to almost every problem"- Rawson
More buildings for the Building God! -Shasolenzabi
2013/12/27 14:35:23
Subject: Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
no worries, mate...
i check in on your stuff all the time, i just don't post unless i have something to contribute...
actually, i'm just in it for the dogs, and the nude photos...
i like the white/grey idea, but i was suggesting something darker for a big project, because i still do everything by hand...
i need to remember that some lucky buggers have airbrushes, and can do big stuff much easier now...
a light grey will definitely pop, and show off all the details...
cheers
jah
Paint like ya got a pair!
Available for commissions.
2013/12/27 17:53:09
Subject: Re:Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
2013/12/29 09:14:09
Subject: Re:Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
Very busy again! relaxed and chilled with a brush in hand! got a lot of little works done to show you all!
I got the first coat of green on Gits Runts, even with the one coat over a washed primer it starts to look orkish already
chained up my command deck psychic guy! need to do some kind of frame to hang wires into his head with? I'm not real good with making stuff like that so any helpful hints are needed.
I have nearly finished the very cool Techmarine I started I wasn't feeling in a painty mood but as soon as I started this guys again I was just completely zoned in and wanted to get it done! I didn't quite get him done as much as i wanted but hopefully next time he'll get his body and then the harness done!
Loving these heads! totally happy with these so far progress wise! such a huge difference between the Forgeworld ones and the much softer new GW Libby head not that it's bad, just the details seem to bleed a bit when compared to the very finely detailed FW ones! but that aside I'm nearly done on the skin tones and have the detailing and hair left
There we go! I may finish these models before i dive headlong into 'The Charnal Forge' as usual, lets catch up tomorrow eh!
Flesh Eaters 4,500 points
" I will constantly have those in my head telling me how lazy and ugly and whorish I am. You sir, are a true friend " - KingCracker
"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur
"I think the NMM technique with metals is just MNMM. Same sound I make while eating a good pizza" - Whalemusic360
2013/12/29 10:11:15
Subject: Re:Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
Snrub wrote:I like how the heads get progressively angrier as you go along.
Starts out just kinda sullen, moves on to a pissed of sneer, starts yelling, and just goes full RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE.
Also how do you get that nice brassy gold on your techmarine?
lol I never noticed the angry progression of the faces! but yep, that's exactly what it looks like! which brass bits do you mean? the bright copper bits or the more bronze/gold bits? I'm happy to help
Gitsplitta wrote:Most excellent update my friend. Grotty grots, humans in chains & screaming marines.
What could be better?
Love the way the tech marine looks. Very well done!
Thank you master Gits! 10 Grots a leapin' i'm toying with the idea of doing some subtle differences in skin tone on them and see what happens? I know i can churn them out with my normal Ork skin in a sitting but I feel perhaps some darker or different blends might be cool?
humans in chains sounds like a Chaos love song? and I do indeed like that Techmarine too! my first one i've painted up and now i want to do more with servitors
San76 wrote:All looking fantastic. How do you churn them out so fast! Love the red on the tech; looks almost molten!
Thanks San! how do i churn them out so fast? easy I only paint the front and show photo's that look better than they are ... No really I just have a day a week where i paint for about 4-5 hours with the music cranked while Nerdwench is working, but I plan what i work on and aim to finish a certain part or colour as I go, and if you notice I have much faster updates once I learn my own version of painting a certain colour, like red, I can do a 10 man tac squad in a day if I'm in the mood!
Malika2 wrote:Nice miniatures and all, but continue with the Zone Mortalis stuff, very inspiring!
Yes sir...... it shall be done......soon
Now I did something silly, or rather not silly just feeble minded I was going to magnetize the Libby arm right yeah, well I forgot and glued it on but all is not lost, the pose I ended up with with the staff arm and other open palm look great imo and I was mucking around with other heads I've painted and the Commander Culln bare head looks freakin' cool in the body but I'll show you later!
Flesh Eaters 4,500 points
" I will constantly have those in my head telling me how lazy and ugly and whorish I am. You sir, are a true friend " - KingCracker
"Nah, I'm just way too lazy to stand up so I keep sitting and paint" - Sigur
"I think the NMM technique with metals is just MNMM. Same sound I make while eating a good pizza" - Whalemusic360
2013/12/30 19:03:42
Subject: Nerdfest09's Blog I'm now In THE ZONE........ MORTALIS! :-)
Say hi, leave some love
or i'm well on the way! I got up today and made a coffee, then realised it was 26 degrees and a little hot for drinking coffee at 8am! 
so I grabbed a cool bottle of water and hid in the nerd room and got to gluing some boards together! 
I was helped by a local Australian company who also sell on ebay, they don't usually do custom work but I convinced them it was a worthwhile project 
it's shaping up to be bigger than i thought but ooodles more fun!
Flesh Eaters 4,500 points
. It needs a clean look except for maybe some areas hat have battle damage from boarding actions. If need be the league of extraordinary janitors can make their way to you to help clean up the hulk.
what do you guys think I should replicate as far as layout designs go? open spaces? I'm not sure what will be more beneficial to make better mazes for war?
Imperial Fist, IG and GK WIP: 
. They also would create some actual 
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