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Those look great graven. Have to show it to Thing1 (the would-be drummer), I'm sure he'll love it!

Graven, you sir are inspired and inspiring all at once.

Is here a grot somewhere that is pushing a plunger from the old dynamite igniters? That would be excellent for "Da Finaley" that sets of the fireworks

 monkeytroll wrote:
Drum kit looks boss, love the squig with gong beater in it's mouth

Yeah, it's probably the highlight for me

Gitsplitta wrote:Those look great graven. Have to show it to Thing1 (the would-be drummer), I'm sure he'll love it!

Thanks mate, it is a little bit deranged! I found some of the mexicork bits and so some have been incorporated here.

LeadLegion wrote:Graven, you sir are inspired and inspiring all at once.

Cheers Bri, long time no dakka, how's things, you back up anytime soon?

Theophony wrote:Is here a grot somewhere that is pushing a plunger from the old dynamite igniters? That would be excellent for "Da Finaley" that sets of the fireworks

Sounds cool. I DO have a grot with a giant rokkit somewhere now you mention it...

And a little paint:




And with base wip:

Very Majestic Graven, from the back posts you seem to have been quite prolific with your modelling in the last 3 months, impressive

Yeah, that's coming together nicely

What happened to the teddy bear army base

Goff rok'rs are awesome though, that drummer is amazing

Been silently following for long, and loved the flyer, but the base is now stealing the show!

Awesome

graven... you will simply outshine your avenger with such a cool base!... so much win!!!

the drummer and all those cool speakers, I love the lights on the stand and that you actually play with the stand in such a way to give it a real meaning instead just a mere support role !

this will go down in history!

by the way... you do own a punch for those fleur de lils, how big are they?

cheers, vik

I managed a quick 3 day visit a few weeks back. But that'll be until until May I'm afraid. Work is keeping me very busy at the moment. I'm booked up until the end of April.

Knightley wrote:Very Majestic Graven, from the back posts you seem to have been quite prolific with your modelling in the last 3 months, impressive

Cheers mate and jolly nice to see you and emerge from the land of lurk! Hope all is well and little dude awesome.

monkeytroll wrote:Yeah, that's coming together nicely

Thanks for the vote of confidence buddy

Ruglud wrote:What happened to the teddy bear army base

Goff rok'rs are awesome though, that drummer is amazing

One thing at a time mate. There's plenty of other flyers in the sea... or something.

And glad of the drummer login.

Littletower wrote:Been silently following for long, and loved the flyer, but the base is now stealing the show!

Awesome

To bring out a lurker is the highest praise of all. Many thanks indeed mate.

Viktor von Domm wrote:graven... you will simply outshine your avenger with such a cool base!... so much win!!!

the drummer and all those cool speakers, I love the lights on the stand and that you actually play with the stand in such a way to give it a real meaning instead just a mere support role !

this will go down in history!

by the way... you do own a punch for those fleur de lils, how big are they?

cheers, vik

The fleurs are about 3cm high. Thanks so much my friend, and you've actually got me thinking about something... See below

LeadLegion wrote:I managed a quick 3 day visit a few weeks back. But that'll be until until May I'm afraid. Work is keeping me very busy at the moment. I'm booked up until the end of April.

Popular chap. Will try to catch you then.

So, further thought. Is this too much?


A few grot crew hanging off? This would be under the nose of the Avenger though. Might be too much, or possibly good excuse for stairway jokes?

Hmm, think it'll work due to the context...can we see a mock-up with it roughly in place?

Too much? Nope, think it will tie everything together very nicely. I'd ditch the transparent flight stand and use the lighting rig as the stand instead.

Thanks chaps. Ask, and ye shall receive:

I think it works ok, what do y'all reckon?

Really bummed out today, just crappy personal stuff.


Anyway, a primer mishap nearly did for some SoB, but I think I've rescued them without need for stripping. Hopefully, more paint to follow soon!

Now that looks amazing.

My thoughts and prayers are with you both.

mate, my deepest condolences, no matter how long the little one was able to grow, it is a loss no one can prepare as for...reading this always makes me very thankfully we have two great healthy kids already...currently we´ve closed, so to speak the shop...I have no idea how to cope with such outcomes...I wish you all the strength you need to get through the next weeks... your wife now needs your kids more than ever, they have to cuddle her on a daily basis...


to your base...I like the new way your stand develops, the ladder is a cool idea and what you´ve planned for the ladder with grotz added too!, one thing tho...now with the avenger added for the early look, I think it needs to be raised a bit, I think there needs to be still a bit of space underneath the flyer...look like it is already resting on the ladder now...

That's going to work out fine with the ladder there, looks great Go with that idea, with some dangerously teetering grots that'll be awesome.

Thanks chaps. My temper's on a knife edge, tbh. Still, having a whiskey, toasting a life never lived.

In terms of their ladder, maybe lowering it to the bottom of the pistons?

Do you mean chopping the base of the ladder off so the bottom of the pistons are just above/level with the base itself?

If so, I vote 'Aye'

If not, I vote 'Dinnae'

Option one - aye

I too vote for a lil chopping...but after your sober again ...

and if I was at your place it would be quite some time to get to that stage again... take it easy on the whiskey...

Thanks chaps. Appreciated all round.

Anyway, the ladder, chopped:


And a closer view of da tek crew.


I honestly don't know which is my favourite - the two bickering, the one swinging desperately to fix the lights, or the one holding Da Finisha who's about to get hit by a flaming bottle of TerKilla...

Now this is rapidly becoming my favorite model of the moment. Brilliant work.

I'm a little late to the news bro, but my thoughts and prayers are with you and the misses. Was sh far enough along where the kids and family knew? Sorry if I'm too nosey.

those bickering are my favourite ones...love that kind of attitude with grotz, ladder looks now way better ! and I EXPECT now a snappy sign on the end of the ladder (upper position is ment...)
the conversion of the gnobblar to grot holding that big rolling pin is a nice one too!

Looking great, love the bickering pair!!

How about a grot with a lasso trying to catch your dark talon by the cannon? like trying to catch an errant balloon escaping the stage show

I hate to say it, but that base is taking over as the main focus from the flyer - it's so dynamic and characterful... I wonder if the flight stand should be taller to compensate?

The base is almost too awesome to use as a base I'd probably make the band a separate diorama. Use it as an objective instead.........

Camkierhi wrote:Now this is rapidly becoming my favorite model of the moment. Brilliant work.

Thanks matey

Theophony wrote:I'm a little late to the news bro, but my thoughts and prayers are with you and the misses. Was sh far enough along where the kids and family knew? Sorry if I'm too nosey.

Thanks mate, and not quite, so there's that at least.

Viktor von Domm wrote:those bickering are my favourite ones...love that kind of attitude with grotz, ladder looks now way better ! and I EXPECT now a snappy sign on the end of the ladder (upper position is ment...)
the conversion of the gnobblar to grot holding that big rolling pin is a nice one too!

Cheers I'm thinking some kind of arrow on the top also, Dis Way Up!

dantay_xv wrote:Looking great, love the bickering pair!!

How about a grot with a lasso trying to catch your dark talon by the cannon? like trying to catch an errant balloon escaping the stage show

You are silly man

Ruglud wrote:I hate to say it, but that base is taking over as the main focus from the flyer - it's so dynamic and characterful... I wonder if the flight stand should be taller to compensate?

Spoiler:

My best wishes to you and your family, truly awful news. Puts a lot of the so called RL work gak we worry about into perspective...

I know what you mean, but I always like my stands to be dioramic, simply because I hate the things so much. This spoiler has examples of my other ones:

I reeeeally don't like flight stands

And RL...

Llamahead wrote:The base is almost too awesome to use as a base I'd probably make the band a separate diorama. Use it as an objective instead.........

Spoiler:

Really sad to hear about your loss good luck with coping

Well, see previous ;


Been continuing the clearout, to take my mind off things, and end up tweaking the tail of the Avenger in the process:


Still needs a bit immediately in front of the tail, I think, just to tidy it up (this was where abortive attempt at WW2 style wire was, you may recall). I had always intended to add these wee strips of rivets (More rivets makes it go faster. Or grimarker, anyway) and the Fleur just fitted there too perfectly not to use.

Speaking of rivets, next job will be getting the rest of the rivets etc added to flight stand to complete the gantry look and then - to the primer-ing! Although, does the surface of the base itself need anything (e.g. treadplate? urban rubble? left plain black, like a stage, with hazard edging?) After the last primer hiccup, I'm going to try black car primer for the base/orks. We'll see...

Cy'all,
graven