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2021/10/29 09:30:26
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Sword-Wielding Bloodletter of Khorne
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Beautiful work
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2021/11/02 00:55:58
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Hi All!
Spooky Diorama is done!
Apologies in advance, but this is basically going to be just a big photo dump as I'm very proud of how this turned out, and it was a challenge to get all the various details into just a few shots.
Anyway:
The big guy
Crawling out of the grave and gettting toasty
I'm pretty happy with that sheild tbh
Candles, more candles (very happy with how they turned out too)
With the amount of fire needed to get this level of glow, those candles must last about 3 sseconds each
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying
The mosh pit around the disco ball
Disco's had mosh pits right?
The better seats are closer to the band
And some arial views:
Cheers all!
KT
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2021/11/02 03:26:37
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Mind blown.
Absolutely awesome work!
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2021/11/04 02:24:45
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Cheers Youwashock - im pretty happy with how they turned out
But, its time to move on to Novemeber's new challenge which is...
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... osl.
haha, no, its ok good chance to practices some more.
Anyway - time to revisit and old model that I am NOT going to convert. At all. Because the sculpt is just too good.
Yeah baby. He's coming back!
THis guy had a previous painted existence dating back to 2009 and was one of the earliest photos I ever posted here!
Unfortunately this lad was not able to survive a 1 metre drop onto a hardwood floor (this is why DP's with wings are better lol) and he has been sitting like this in the warp waiting for a chance to return to realspace.
A little acetone and he's both stripped of paint and gently moisturised (according to the bottle of acetone I used) and ready to rock and roll
I originally planned to put some wings on him, but every pose I tried just looked worse than the DP itself. Its a classic, seems reasonably popular and it'd be tough to get another one for a reasonable price in Australia.
So no conversion on the min.
But the BASE tho...
You can see from the earlier pic that I've mounted it high on a decorative base that I'm making at home. This base is a lasagna of garbage and trash i.e. the following:
1) The lid from an empdy drain cleaner tub (its quite thick plastic), trimmed and sanded down
2) a thin *real* 60mm base superglued on top (superglued so it can be 'cracked off' reasonably easily if I *REALLY* want to play a game with it in the future).
3) a rough disc of HIPS polystyrene plastic (cut from the lid of the crappy watercolour paint dish - I used the blue base in my last diorama)
4) 'shards' - i.e. offcut bits - of HIPS left over from other builds (the aforementioned lid and crystal CD cases)
5) otehr scraps of polystrene - mostly sprue, a bit of leftover coathanger (from the nurgle DP) and a busted dental floss holder
6) I then covered most of this in aluminium foil (from yogurt lids)
7) the 'cables' are left over bicycle brake cable
8) a mostly complete layer of Milliput (this is obviously not trash of course)
9) and back to garbage - bits of garden bark I stole from the front yard of a house I walk past every day. not quite finished with this bit yet.
Current state:
So, do we have any guesses at this stage about how I'm planning the OSL?
(on a little kill team update - progress is hindered by these challenges, but does continue. current wip gretchen dude:
Cheers all!
KT
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2021/11/05 03:09:23
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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2021/11/05 22:17:24
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Wow! The diorama turned out great kt! Excellent mixing of the light sources, the extra brightness on the flames worked well.
The reimagined daemon Prince should be cool standing over his fiery pit of doom!
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2021/11/09 02:07:13
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Cheers Gobert, I'm pretty happy with how the skele's turned out.
Time for another super quick update and I like to start today's post with the BASE:
so the flames have grown since my last post
This was a multi-stage process, but very comfortable with the result
then undercoat
Then yellow
and finally the one I posted at the top with reds and oranges blended in
as for the DP himself:
Base coats
Nuln oil and volupous pink as a wash
added an old blue wash
and then I started mapping out the OSL
Might look a little odd at this stage, but
This is the angle that he light will be coming from, so I think It makes sense...
Cheers all!
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2021/11/09 15:31:35
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Looking good kt. That skin colour looks gnarly, he should see someone about that! The fire pit looks great and the OSL looks to be coming quite well
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2021/11/10 02:40:35
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Thanks mate
just a single pic update today - progres on the OSL highlights
Cheers
KT
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2021/11/10 15:21:04
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Another epic in the making. Really digging the sculpt on that fire.
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2021/11/11 06:18:19
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Cheers
Another super quick update:
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2021/11/12 07:02:01
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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He looks nice and toasty warm! You’re really getting on with this OSL malarkey
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2021/11/13 16:49:30
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver
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This OSL daemon prince is going to be amazing, if your OSL undead diorama is anything to go by.
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2021/11/16 03:05:04
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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gobert wrote:He looks nice and toasty warm! You’re really getting on with this OSL malarkey
Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll wrote:This OSL daemon prince is going to be amazing, if your OSL undead diorama is anything to go by.
Thanks guys, the osl practice has been a lot of fun
But...
We interrupt this ChaosDiscordComp with a word from our Model of the Month.
SQUIG
We now return you to your normal Daemon Prince over a Roaring Fire programming
Progress?
Some.
The big lad is now attached to his base
It lines up... reasonably well. I dont think its perfect, but its a bit too late to change things now. Oh well. Still pretty happy
To be honest, I think it looks far better from a different angle:
The NMM turned out more yellow and grey than gold and iron, but I'm still pretty happy with my results so far. I will do some more touch ups, but nothing too significant.
That big wrinkly gun arm was hard work to get anywhere near NMM... lots more pracitice required!
Quick close up of the sword from both sides
And the backpack/skin
so I think Im at the finishing touches right now. I'm leaving it alone for a few nights, getting a little distance so I can come back to it later in the week - maybe even next week - with a fresh set of eyes.
Time to go back to my Ork Kill Team for a little while
cheers
KT
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2021/11/16 04:35:20
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Sword-Wielding Bloodletter of Khorne
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Looks great! Tho you could've made it harder by making the sword glow too
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2021/11/16 05:10:51
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Oh i thought seriously about it lol
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2021/11/16 17:42:13
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Fixture of Dakka
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Very nice work darkkt.
Cheers,
CB
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2021/11/18 16:02:24
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Crushing Black Templar Crusader Pilot
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Gorgeous OSL on the last couple of pieces
Thanks for sharing
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Relapse wrote:
Baron, don't forget to talk about the SEALs and Marines you habitually beat up on 2 and 3 at a time, as you PM'd me about.
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2021/11/29 23:05:43
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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2021/12/01 04:09:51
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Sword-Wielding Bloodletter of Khorne
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The OSL is fantastic, obviously, but I do also like the colour change as the backpack mutates.
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2021/12/01 04:51:45
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Ding-ding-ding! Winner.
That looks amazing. Fantastic tonal range.
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2021/12/01 23:20:07
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Ancient Venerable Dreadnought
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Yep, like the others said, this guy looks great! Thanks for Captain Facebeard for pointing out the backpack too, your skin to metal has always been good, but this is even better!
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Goberts Gubbins - P&M Blog, started with Oldhammer, often Blackstone Fortress and Void Panther Marines, with side projects along the way |
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2021/12/02 02:51:53
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Cap'n Facebeard wrote:The OSL is fantastic, obviously, but I do also like the colour change as the backpack mutates.
youwashock wrote:Ding-ding-ding! Winner.
That looks amazing. Fantastic tonal range.
gobert wrote:Yep, like the others said, this guy looks great! Thanks for Captain Facebeard for pointing out the backpack too, your skin to metal has always been good, but this is even better!
Thanks lads - I am *super* happy with how this bad boy turned out. Feels good to do a paint job that you feel does justice to the sculpt itself.
The skin-metal also turned out better than I expected, and better than my prior efforts, which was nice . Part of this is me improving (which is good cos I'm doing a fair bit of practice!) but I also think that the fact I didnt use true metallic paint here helped a lot. Blending tan & purpley coloured paint into TMM steel and silver is a reall challenge. Another reason to keep practicing my NMM!
And now - its time for a new challenge - or should I say - challenge s. That's right, plural baybee.
hahah that is super misleading tbh - what's happening is that Im doing my monthly discord challenge AND im going to use the same models to submit to this month's DakkaDakka challenge ( https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/802271.page)!
I only discovered the dakkadakka challenge the other month, and this is the first one that aligns with my discord challenge so its the perfect opportunity.
The theme for the challenges this month is "Open". No restrictions, go wild.
My Brain: - This is a great opportunity to knock off some models that have been lurking around for a decade! December is busy with work and family, its time to take the foot off the painting pedal and ease into the end of the year. Nothing too hard, no conversions, no OSL, no NMM, right. ...right?
Also My Brain: hahahaha greenstuff go brrrr
That's right, its "Biting off More than you can Chew" time once again - I'm doing an 11 person Traitor Marine Kill Team Squad.
First up - Icon Bearer
this guy is actually a mid-biold Master of Possesion (MOP) but the big assed icon means he will sit in this role nicely.
This guy started as an exercise designed to see if I could make a weird pointed pyramid head with teeth that a guy described on the discord.
I threw one together quickly, really liked it and then decided to make the whole MoP model.
Starting with a Dark Angel Veteran body I did some upscaling and am currently here:
It's not a MoP without a little hand flame, so he's got that too:
As an Icon bearer, this will be ignored.
Cant be an icon bearer without an icon tho Time for some sprue scraps and greenstuff
And I carved up a Dark Angels backpack for this:
Oh. Icon bearers need a sword I think...
I'm making a smoking censor too:
Final steps are to do his feet, legs and extend the robes a bit.
Next up is the Aspiring Champion. Not much done yet, but because I was raiding the bits box I grabbed this as its base body:
very little chopping and changing gets us this
and a start on the head:
The final space marine is... not started yet.
But will be a heavy bolter dude
These three will be my entry into the Dakka Dakka challenge - which is limited to 5 models max.
For the discord I have also committed to 8 cultists, which are based on these craptachans:
You can the work i started a decade ago as I was building a traitor guard force... sigh, i musta really drank a lot... anyway, they will heavily changed cos I despise the craptachan sculpts. I'm thinking of basing them around Mai Varnus (or at least how he ended up) in the Word Bearer's book Dark Apostle.
oh, lunch break is over, I better get back to work lol
cheers all
KT
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2021/12/02 03:43:51
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Sword-Wielding Bloodletter of Khorne
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Why didn't you pick something complicated to do?
Pyramid head is great, just creepy enough to not look silly.
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2021/12/02 21:17:41
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Rampaging Khorne Dreadnought
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Loving that sorceror man. Amazing work on that Icon, I find it pretty hard to come up with a design for those.
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2021/12/03 08:03:16
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Cheers folks I think pyramid head’s head might be a fraction too wide, but I’m otherwise comfortable with it so imma leave it for now.
The icon needed to have most Of the spikes replaced as I made them too thin, glad I did, looks far more striking with chunky spikes
Quick update-
Storm cast conversion progresses:
And I’ve gotten a little further on the icon bearer:
Want to start on the cultists soon - I’m thinking two stubbers and 6 auto pistols + brutal weapon. Mostly because converting the brutal weapons should be fun
I’m planning on disguising the ugly heads by modeling them on the Varnus character from Anthony Reynold’s book Dark apostle.
Cheers
KT
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2021/12/06 02:37:38
Subject: Re:Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Morphing Obliterator
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Progress shots from the kill team build
Aspiring Champ
Begun work on the cultists
Start with ugly catacjan head
shave its head, add chaos star and get up in its grill (by adding grill).
Where are its pocketsess?
Never mind, armoured pockets!
And scratched together some stubbers from left over tubes and sprue + bits
Cheers
KT
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2021/12/06 03:44:09
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Walking Dead Wraithlord
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Bringing those killer sculpting skills out again. The Champ's helmet is really sweet.
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2021/12/06 21:12:44
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Potent Possessed Daemonvessel
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Oh yes, that is a beautiful smile !
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2021/12/08 14:40:54
Subject: Darkkt's 2021 P&M Blog
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Grisly Ghost Ark Driver
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Those heads are amazing, great sculpting!
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