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 Camkierhi wrote:
Lots of big stuff going on these days!

Just amazing bud, absolutely amazing. Roofing is just perfect. Crown looks great, personally rivets and your done, but up to you.

Just a little question, are you done on the door way, just that it needs a lintle. I know you probably have this in hand, just a silly little thing.

Yes It will have a lintel (well spotted ), as well as an inner door frame that will support a set of large wooden double doors
that have been barricaded and sealed.

Thanks for the advice everyone, Extra rivets it is

Late to the praise party but I'm finding the build (as well as your other projects) riveting! (See what I did there? ) can't wait to see the paint job you do on it....

Awesome work I really love the tiles,

agreed crown really makes the skull, and rivets!

I just spotted the rubble infill between the two sides of brickwork..... great detail! Really has the feeling of a properly constructed structure!

Thanks for comments guys, I appreciate it .

Update: As I start work on the throne room interior, I thought I'd share a new addition to the diorama.
This Idea came out of nowhere really when I found these cheap Dinosaur Skeleton toys at a nearby shop,
they where so cheap in fact that I ended up buying six of them.

I now had a large selection of Dinosaur bones, and it didn't take long before I'd decide on what to build,
an Undead Dragon.

The basic Dragon shape (or Wyvern if you want to get technical ) is done, just have the back spines to sculpt,
as well as a few other small details.

What I'd like to do is add pieces of dried skin hear and there, especially on the wings so its somewhere between a skeleton and a zombie.

When its finished it will perch atop the ruins of the Corner Tower, drawn to the power of Nagash.

something abut the head looks....off.

Woooh nice!
The idea of using these cheap dinosaur bones is genius
The way you have them layed out is already good, but...
(yeah, you knew this was commin' didn't you?)
I think you need to prolong the tail a bit more, to balance the body - you have a rather large and bulky torso, so I think you need a longer tail.
And as the shrouded lord pointed out....the head is a bit on the "heavy" side. I mean a Trici is a rather heavy set boy, an Elephant or a Rhino rahter than a slim fly-boy
The neck is thin and in proportion to the torso and tail, but the head is a bit too heavy looking.
Any way you can make it look lighter?

What size is it, can you post a scale shot with an Imperial Trooper?
Maybe....
Cheers
klaus

Wow, those bones are very cool - sooooo many uses. The dragon/wyvern mock-up is great.

Gotta say though, for some reason I'm getting a Conan vibe off the castle at the moment...

Looks great, brilliant use for them, off to buy some. Must experiment.

Oh and really does look great, the head issue is only slight and maybe its a lack of teeth thats throwing it. It's a bit beaky maybe!

Excellent work.

Thanks for the feedback guys, I was hoping I was wrong about the head being to big and bulky,
but it definitely is out of proportion.

The other head I have is way too small, but I can get another that should scale perfectly with the body.
As for the tail, I think it will look better once I've added on the back spines that will join up with the ones on the tail.

As requested, here's a scale pic of the dragon next to a space marine,
I've removed the legs and wings just to give you a less cluttered view of the body.

I'll try and pick up the other head next week while I do the rest of my Christmas shopping,
and yes I have left it to the last minute

tsk tsk tsk.

WTF !!!! first "Castle Grayskull" and now "Dungeons and Dragons" (all be it a dead one LOL )

Yes I have to agree the head does seem a little large in comparison, though you could use it as a trophy on the wall

By the way can I ask what shop you found these in at a good price I only ask as I want some large rib bones for some Apoc Sand Dwelling Nomads

I think I got a terradactyle one of those things for my brithday from a friend who knows I liked dinosaurs when I was a kid...

the castles not glorious enough......let's add a dragon .

Love the crown on the skull, perfect addition to show the regality of Nagash. Now the castle just needs ugly curtains (tattered of course) to match his old models robe. Of at least brackets to show where he got his robe from.

 lone dirty dog wrote:
WTF !!!! first "Castle Grayskull" and now "Dungeons and Dragons" (all be it a dead one LOL )

Yes I have to agree the head does seem a little large in comparison, though you could use it as a trophy on the wall

By the way can I ask what shop you found these in at a good price I only ask as I want some large rib bones for some Apoc Sand Dwelling Nomads

I was just in town and saw these exact 'Fossil Hunter Dino Tubes in Poundstretcher for £1.99 a pop... I got a couple for the kids (Tyrannosaur & Mammoth) and three for me... (Tyrannosaur; Triceratops & Pterodactyl) for £9.95

http://www.poundstretcher.co.uk/toys/fossil-hunter-dino-tube.html

 Ruglud wrote:

 lone dirty dog wrote:
WTF !!!! first "Castle Grayskull" and now "Dungeons and Dragons" (all be it a dead one LOL )

Yes I have to agree the head does seem a little large in comparison, though you could use it as a trophy on the wall

By the way can I ask what shop you found these in at a good price I only ask as I want some large rib bones for some Apoc Sand Dwelling Nomads

I was just in town and saw these exact 'Fossil Hunter Dino Tubes in Poundstretcher for £1.99 a pop... I got a couple for the kids (Tyrannosaur & Mammoth) and three for me... (Tyrannosaur; Triceratops & Pterodactyl) for £9.95

http://www.poundstretcher.co.uk/toys/fossil-hunter-dino-tube.html

You are a scholar and a gentleman much appreciated

That looks to be a good sized project!

Good use of the skeleton parts.
I didn't think that the head was that much too large. With the added flesh to the body that would bulk up quite a bit more and the head would be in proportion... maybe.

Ruined roof and the crown on the skull look brilliant. Good work.

Have a good Christmas.

Happy New Year everyone, and welcome to 2015. Now although I don't Believe in New Years resolutions, there is a list of things I would like to get done this year.
My biggest goal is to get this Nagash Diorama Finished, which also means you'll get to see me paint some actual models for once .

Getting back into painting is something I've been meaning to do for a while, also I think Nagash and the other models in the diorama
deserve the best paint job I can possibly give them, so I need to get some practice in.

I already know which Vallejo box sets I'm getting, but if anyone has any suggestions on paints they found particularly useful,
I'd welcome the advice.

The final thing I have planned for this year is making more terrain products, but rather than making more large Resin piece's
I'm going to focus on simplistic terrain that everyone can use, such as walls, rocks, cliffs and small buildings.
I'll also be ditching the plaster in favor of Extruded foam (Styrofoam) which is so much easier to use,
especially now I have a new Hot Wire cutting board.

Very nice, where did you get the HW cutter from?

Holy crap... didn't realize the scale of the skull archway until it was put into place

Nice idea and great cutter looks like a start of a good business to me

Also got to pound stretcher at long last not one pack have to try another one me thinks

Get your self an extractor, I had the joy to use a bigger version in a product design workshop a few years ago

Good luck with it! Certainly a lighter idea.

as for paints, the Vallejo model colour range are good, I'm more or less using them exclusivity now. don't forget to look at the mediums range, like the glaze medium etc.

For flaking paint get a masking medium

Tamiya does some texture paints that are good, only one to avoid is the grass one (really it's static grass in paint...).

Ruglud wrote:Very nice, where did you get the HW cutter from?

I got it of eBay, heres the link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HOT-WIRE-CUTTER-TWO-CUTTERS-IN-ONE-Polystyrene-depron-Blue-and-Pink-foam-/261720716123?pt=UK_ToysGames_ModelKits_ModelKits_JN&hash=item3cefc5335b

Physh wrote:Holy crap... didn't realize the scale of the skull archway until it was put into place

Yeah I wanted to give it all a real sence of scale, and also have the doorway large enough that Nagash could walk through it,
If he wasn't so busy floating everywhere .

lone dirty dog wrote:Nice idea and great cutter looks like a start of a good business to me

Also got to pound stretcher at long last not one pack have to try another one me thinks

Same here, I also found nothing left at pound stretcher. I might just have to sculpt the Dragon's skull from scratch,
at least that way I can get the scale right.

OneManNoodles wrote:Get your self an extractor, I had the joy to use a bigger version in a product design workshop a few years ago

Good luck with it! Certainly a lighter idea.

as for paints, the Vallejo model colour range are good, I'm more or less using them exclusivity now. don't forget to look at the mediums range, like the glaze medium etc.

For flaking paint get a masking medium

Tamiya does some texture paints that are good, only one to avoid is the grass one (really it's static grass in paint...).

Thanks for the tips, I'll remember those

Wow. Just wow.

Before I get back to work on the Diorama, I thought I'd show you the new foam bricks,
that at this moment have taken over my desk and half buried my keyboard .

I've also built a few new pieces of Scenery using the bricks, and for once managed to finish and paint them.

Very nice, liking the first one with the autumnal leaf litter a lot

 monkeytroll wrote:
Very nice, liking the first one with the autumnal leaf litter a lot

second this any chance you could tell me what its made from

 kencotter wrote:

 monkeytroll wrote:
Very nice, liking the first one with the autumnal leaf litter a lot

second this any chance you could tell me what its made from

Its made from a mix of two types of earth flock, with a small amount of static Grass added in.

Here's a link to the eBay page I got the flock from: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111387599709?_trksid=p2060778.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

great thanks alot