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Mmmmm devils food cake... Stop making me hungr!

Congratulations on being asked to take your Talon to your local GW, hoefully it will inspire a lot of other people to let their imaginations loose and start kitbashing...

Mrs appreciates your kind words chaps! me too for that matter
Avenger tweaked, gs done, and touched up paint:

On to the base, methinks!


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C&C?
Cheers,
graven

Looking pretty amazing, colours are good, shape is good, yup pretty brilliant my friend.

Tiniest little thing for me. I would pick out detail like weapon tips etc. Maybe put some metalic on the back of the engine exhausts, when paint would not stick. But I am being a bit fussy and its a personal thing is all.

Thanks kindly matey! Nothing fussy about it, good catch! I'll try a gunmetal blue drybrush I think. Also I still need to do inside the engines, now that I think of it.

That's really well done graven. You should be very proud of that!

Thanks chaps. I've added more metals to barrels and exhausts, and really gone to town with soot and smoke:

Have I dialled it up a notch, or gone too far?

Portside


Butt shot!


And belly


Depending on your C&C, possibly time to move on to da orks...

Looking far better actually.

Perfect.

Nothing really to add, it looks absolutely brilliant.

Very nice indeed amigo

And appreciative of the fact you got the navigation lights on the correct sides (for this millenia anyway )

Awesome..... just awesome! some great work in there!!

Great! I'll take three...

Spot on

Its Purdy.

Llamahead wrote:Looking far better actually.

Yeah, but shoulda had a rawl plug on it...

Camkierhi wrote:Perfect.

Nothing really to add, it looks absolutely brilliant.

monkeytroll wrote:Very nice indeed amigo

And appreciative of the fact you got the navigation lights on the correct sides (for this millenia anyway )

Navy family

MagosBiff90 wrote:Awesome..... just awesome! some great work in there!!

Thanks kindly! Might bounce some weathering ideas off you...

Gitsplitta wrote:Great! I'll take three...

Littletower wrote:Spot on

M0rdain wrote:Its Purdy.

Thanks to you all - I'm touched (quite possibly in the head, but that's another matter...)

Next question: on the stage, should I do the rhino doors as if from different chapters (i.e., EXPLICITLY rhino doors / different colours) or will that just distract from the whole shebang?

Who's your opponent? When looting gubbins always make sure the chapter your regular opponent plays appears somewhere. My Ork Nobz in Verminator armour were painted in deathwing colours as two of my arch nemesises played Dark Angels and the entire society seemed to use them as objectives so........

Randomness of colour does seem to be orky. I agree with Llamahead use opponents colours if possible.

Agreed,.. I like using my fellow Warders chapters for my Lamenters bases. Minotaurs and Red scorpions being my all time favorite!

Flyer looks great. Much better with the engine streaks.

Sorry I've been a bit quiet, trapped a nerve in my back the other day lifting washing and ended up like an inverse turtle, face down, unable to stand. Am now just about back to some semblance of normality, whatever that is. Apparently, according to one 15-yr old pupil, that's what happens when you get old (I'm 35...)

Llamahead wrote:Who's your opponent? When looting gubbins always make sure the chapter your regular opponent plays appears somewhere. My Ork Nobz in Verminator armour were painted in deathwing colours as two of my arch nemesises played Dark Angels and the entire society seemed to use them as objectives so........

M0rdain wrote:Randomness of colour does seem to be orky. I agree with Llamahead use opponents colours if possible.

Opponent? What's that? You imply I actually get to play with my toys?

Solar_lion wrote:Agreed,.. I like using my fellow Warders chapters for my Lamenters bases. Minotaurs and Red scorpions being my all time favorite!

Flyer looks great. Much better with the engine streaks.

Well I think I might go down a dakkanauty colour scheme then. And thanks for kind words, cheers, streaks just had to be done.

Of course, now it's just glaring at me, waiting for its base

So, I've blocked in the black of Orks' jackets, along with green skin, but that's boring. Base, you say?



Believe it or not, the doors colours etc. are homaged as follows:
Front centre, Dark Angels (MissDee)
Under the Whirlwind launcher amp, Minotaurs (brianchj)
Whirlwind launcher amp, Death Guard (MagosBiff)
Right of centre, Nova Marines (Stoney Boy, one of my closest friends - also, my original Epic army as a kid)
Far Right, Lamenters (Solar_Lion)


Clockwise from Under Generator:
Order of Blue Tear (meeeeee)
Mantis Warriors (gitsplitta)
Knights Carnelian (me again)
Gray Nights (Knightley - note squiggles )
Star Phantoms (Yggdrasil)
and back to Lamenters again.

Obviously the base itself needs a bit of tidying, but as a first pass I'm reasonably pleased. I appreciate that there's no insignia or anything, but it's just a gentle nod to my fellow dakkasauruses. Mostly these will be under instruments, orks, etc. It was fun to play with the new Ryza/Typhon paint combo, certainly.
Happy also with how the generator and amp are coming along, although a long way off.


And a quick group shot WIP (crappy phone pic)


I'm seriously considering painting the band's banner White to break it up a bit, writing Hot Blak on and *gulp* doing a checkerboard border, or possibly on the tassles. As for the band, probably blue jeans, red and bright colour splashes elsewhere. Thoughts, mes amis?
Cheers,
graven

You can, and will... stand again!!

So why didn't you wheel your models to the head of the bed and work on them from above?

Yep, gotta be denim for the rockers, and checkerboard border sounds great for the banner - micro-pens will be your friend there.

Bonus points for Hot Blak on the drums and/or speakers

That's dedication, crippled himself to spend more time at home modelling, and doing laundry, now that's a man, she can't ask you to do it ever again now, well done sir.

As to the model, well it's amazing. Nuff said.


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Why is it double posting me?

Dude get well soon, I've also had the "thrill" of a major run of back spazms... The stage is looking really cool too. It's almost sreaming for LED spotlights...

I know that pain. A bit ago I managed to pinch my spine while bending down. Put me out for about a month, unable to use my left arm.

That's a nice cake. I wish I had specialized in cake instead of ceramics. Same skills, but you get to eat it afterwards.

The flyer base is going to rock hard.

Thanks for all the kind words gang. Sore but mobile
Early WIP:

And for MT


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@ gits - I'm like the south that way going to try your checkerboard technique (indeed, have begun to.
@MT - honestly, why didn't I think of that?
@ Cam - I know my place and cheers mate
@galorn - yeah, it's not fun. And leds are not happening! Stop trying to be a bunch of bloody troublemakers!
@anvildude - yikes. Mine's just a nuisance, really. Hot packs really help.
@ weets - same basic techniques and tools... hint, hint...


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btw - really annoyed at myself, painted the skull and its hair white when I meant to leave it black/metal as servo skull operating lights

Nice...Bonus points awarded

It'll be fantastic graven. I'm really excited to see this base all painted up. You need to make sure that it's different enough stylistically that it provides a nice counter-point to your flyer, rather than blending in with it and muddling up the whole thing.

Time off from work(good)
Wife never having you do laundry again so you don't hurt your back....PRICELESS.

we know it was all planned.

As for the pupil that called you old I hope you gave him/her a failing grade on their next assignment. Add a little note to it saying "Old teachers are grumpy.....and vendictive " of course you give them the proper grade, but make them think for a bit.

Thanks MT did you notice that the tour is 'Year Ded'?
@gits Me too, hopefully no fear of that, see pics below.
@ Theo - day off I'm just glad my chair at work has wheels and lumbar support she's actually a star pupil bless her...

progress of a sort:



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Tidied up a bit, added light, started blocking in colours.

I think I need to focus on the individual elements now, or I'll end up rushing...


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and with deck plates etc

Looking great so far my friend!