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(Modhail's playing post-vacation catch-up...)

Nice Fleet officer!

Got the other arm on the fleet officer done tonight, he got a master crafted bolt pistol that he´s aiming at some invading beastie...

Haven´t got time for much here, so just some quick piccies for now. Will add more tomorrow after finishing touches and basecoat.

Nice!

Thank you for the kind words guys.

Anyways, as promised a painting update! I´ve only done the very first layer here, so be kind. The coat will be much deeper eventually, and all the bits that are orange will eventually be gold and/or bronze. Lots of stuff to do, but these are the basic colors blocked out.

I´ll have to put him aside for now, since I´ve just decided that I want to be in a blood bowl tournament this sunday, meaning that finishing my team will have top priority. But I´ll be back with you guys on monday, to resume work.

This guy looks amazeing. Great work

Good luck with BB

Looks cool, but why would he have an inquisition symbol on his gun?

@ph34r: Ahh, well that would be because of the fluff. You see, the gun is actually a master crafted weapon, given to him by inquisitor Sigismund when he was chosen as his interrogator.

Forgot to mention that....

@Aurelion: Thanks a lot, I really tried to move away from the look of the bits that were in the box with this one... As for the BB team, it´s gonna be difficult, but I think they´ll be ready for sunday.

That would make a killer mordian officer I have him too but with that paint it screams mordian

Nice work... can't wait to see him painted

Looks good.
I was thinking of doing a rebel militia with the empire figures and some 40k weps.

That new guy using the imperial guard model is ace.

ABH

This is a great project! Very inspirational!

Wow, awesome project! I gotta ask, though, what rules did you use for the tyranids in "Hulka-munda" a while back?

Hey wow, thanks for all the comments guys!

@Sonofruss: Yeah, right now he´s very Mordian´esque. I´m hoping that I can move away from that with some freehand detailing on his coat, as well as some hints on his base when he´s done. But even so, looking mordian isn´t necessarily a bad thing...

@konf, abhorsen, DrunkenSamurai: Thanks a lot. As I add to this group of models, I consider them more as elements in a story, than just models. Lots of fun

@Rocketeer: Thank you good sir. For the nasty gribblies, we went with the profiles from the old second edition Codex, since the rest of Necromunda is based loosely on that, we felt it would be best to fetch the nids from that as well.

Still not back in the painting and modeling, sadly, but I have hopes for some time early next week.

Looking forward to it

I'm inspired!

Wow. I just found this thread last night, and powered through reading the entire thing between last night and this evening. So, thanks for keeping me up 'til 0300 before I had to get up at 0700 this morning...

On a more serious note, I love the models here almost as much as I love the battle reports. I've been an Inquisition junkie since I discovered 40k, back with the release of 2nd ed, and as soon as Necromunda came out I was a huge fan of it as well. Now you've inspired me, and I'm halfway through writing up an e-mail asking if my friends have any interest in playing some =I=Munda!

Keep up the awesome work, everyone!

Looking good! Now you just need a layer of wash/ink/dipping to the figure!

Hey all. Have been holding off on posting, not wanting to drag this thread back to the front page, but since it´s here anyway I might as well.

Shane, I´m glad to hear you liked the stuff I put up. Rest assured that more will be coming, though I´ve been rather busy lately with Space Hulk, getting my IG army tournament ready, and the soon to be released skaven..

Malika, the fleet officer has quite a ways to go yet, I´m considering freehanding some stuff onto the border of his stormcoat, and overall he needs layering and washing.
But I needed to get colors onto him, to see if they matched my vision of the model. Hope to get back to him soon.

Oh, and also; The new BB pc game is amazing, it´s stealing sooo much time from me...

Now I have to go searching through to find your Guard army. I'm just getting back into 40k after a long hiatus, and the army I've decided to do this time around is Guard. If yours is anywhere near as inspired as your =I=Munda stuff, I think I'm looking forward to hours of staring at it, followed by hours of trying to incorporate your ideas into my own army. Thanks for all the inspiration!

Doing the cool thing and just read through this entire thread, and some really wicked stuff!

Amazing unique conversions, really fine storytelling, and best of all enjoying a game with people who share your interests
Makes me sad about my local gaming scene, but really fun to read about!

Keep it up guys!

Hiya Dakkaites!

I haven't been updating my Necromunda gang for ages, and it has stared at me from the shelf...their grey eyes tearing into my very soul!
I decided I couldn't take it anymore, so after seeing Gerbrith's awesome progress on her gang leader, I decided to finish my gang leader too! The reason I hadn't really made any progress was indecisiveness. I couldn't decide what color skin I wanted the Kroot to have, their armor, the decorations, the quills etc. etc. Finally after some fiddling I decided on a scheme and got painting!

I debuted my gang back on page 9 of this thread (Linky here for ease of navigation ^^).
In some flash of insane brilliance I actually remembered to take WIP pics as I assembled my leader, so lets go through 'em and see how he evolved!


Here's where it all started! The bitz for the leader are on the right side. I was in Faroe Islands, staying at Xanthos's place so I had plenty of time to fiddle around with models ^^

Here's a list of bitz in the model:
* Kroot Carnivore Squad bitz
* Cadian Imperial Guard squad bitz
* Dark Elf Corsair bitz
* Old Bloodletter axe
* A basing kit barrel methinks
* Some brass razorwire
* Some rubber roofing material (blue corrugated stuff)
* Greenstuff
* Florist wire

Here's the first blue-tacced mockup of the leader.

I was still trying to decide on the pose and arsenal here, experimenting with allsorts of bitz.
I peeled the flamer off of a Cadian special weapons guy and fitted it to a Kroot knife arm. I clipped the Bloodletter axe in two and pinned it into a kroot-rifle arm. The rebreather mask sortof just happened! Its made with greenstuff and came out great imo!

Modelling work done

Here I'd decided on a pose and most of the conversion work is done. Though its not visible, the hosing on the flamer wasn't complete. I had to turn the valve on the fuel tank to allow for a side connection. Then I pinned a length of florist wire between the existing plastic tubing and the fuel valve. Then, using PVA glue, I brushed on layers of glue until it was the correct thickness. It was about 3-4 layers. This worked awesomely! You got a nice solid smooth finish and you could vary the thickness as much you want! (by the thickness of the glue and amount of layers).
The connection between the plastic tubing and wire/glue tubing was still abit visible. I contemplated sanding it down but in the end I decided on making a greenstuff connector to hide the joint. It also kinda makes sense if you want to uncouple the flamer from the tank, without removing the tank!

Ch'pekk ready

And here he is!
The yellow triangle on the front is to determine facing.

Here's a 360° view of the beast ^^


And here's his roster information.
Name: Ch'Pekk
Kroot Gang Leader
Equipment: Flamer, Flamer reload, Power axe, Grapnel, Respirator, Flak vest
Skills & upgrades: +1T, Iron will & Step Aside

Now that I've got my leader finished expect updates on the rest of the gang! (unless you want them someplace else Xan?)

Really nice job you have done here, i can't wait to see more.

Oi, a sneaky Kroot update! Very Nice Protocon, your GS skills have grown mightily!

This is fine for updates, I had almost resigned this thread to the depths of the forum, but life is better.

This pf course also means that I´ll have to get back to Munda for a bit....

He looks awesome great work I love the red skin and the dial on the flamer.

@Xanthos
I am quite skilled in Necromancy, so its no wonder this thread lurched back to life! ^^

@tcraigen
Yey! Someone noticed the fuel dial on the flamer! =D

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

Way to go Proto! Awesome job on that Leader. He comes out great, and the red skin tone is delicious. =) I also like the cloak a lot, looks like it actually came from a green animal, and not like it was dyed green on both sides like so many other claoks one sees.

Nice touch with the spinning picture too. =)

Since Protocon went ahead and ressurected the thread, I now feel compelled to share my leader with you peeps. ^^ I finally finished sculpting her, after ages of not feeling like it cause it's my first sculpt and I didn't think she'd get as good as I'd like etc. You can see the initial stages here. Eventually I did away with all my silly excuses and finished her. Protocon offered to paint her for me and he did an awesome job of it in my opninion. My favourite parts are the freehand on the gun and back of her coat. I was very demanding and asked him to keep at it until he got it the way I wanted it, and it worked out just right. =)

Without further ado, I present "Keynote", the leader of my gang.



So there she is, I should've made a post about her sooner, but I sort of fell of the face of forums and didn't get around to it. =p

Hey Gerbrith, I know I´ve said this before, but I´ll tell you again: Your modeling is getting really good these days.

I think many people may not realize that the model is a full GS build, it´s that clean.

If I were to comment on one thing, It would be that she´s too "normally" proportioned, compared to many of the models around these days, and their heroic proportions. This makes her seem thin, when she´s actually closer to human proportions...

Still nothing to show from me...

I may be oblivious or something , but did Xanthos put in where he bought the mechanic from?