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Ifalna wrote:Dysartes, would the devastator weapon be an entire metal SM arm with what appears to be a rail gun? If so, I have it here, was wondering who owned it.

I checked for Tycho 1st ed and he seems to not have the ott sunlike hat, maybe it is optional Personally I really like the assassin as a model, though his "My guns are way too big and I can't move" body stance is a bit silly

Probably, Ifalna - can you post a pic, so we can ID which it is, as that description is a little vague. Could be a lascannon or plasma cannon, though.

The "Tycho 1st ed" reference comes from the fact that he was used as Captain Tycho in the battle report where the character first appeared, where he got hit with the psychic attack that froze his face. However, the figure wasn't marketed as Captain Tycho, and it wasn't till the release of Codex: Angels of Death in 1994 that Tycho got a specific figure (and rules).

If you can get it, Simple Green does a nice trick for removing paint (and dissolving super glue) without being painful on your hands or stinking to high hell.

There must be a lot of people who bought a crap ton of marines right when BA were popular. I got a lot of them some years ago with the old Las/plas Razorback, the characters, some of those Sgts you have and all manner of pop together guys and horrid heavy weapons people, etc. They haven't done much other than sit in a cabinet, though the dread I repainted along with the Razorback.

Nice work on the gobbo too. Fix that axe and I would imagine lots of folks who love hating themselves with a Goblin warlord will pay top dollar for it

Ifalna's flying Island ... any close to halls flying castle?

you mean howls moving castle surely. or maybe laputa the flying island - classics

The Ifalna flying island would not be as impressive sadly, more like Monkeys cloud!

Fable 3 has ... distracted me slightly this weekend I am ashamed to say. Aiming for 20 Saurus today and hopefully most of the Saurus's shields which are all still on sprue for ease of painting. They will be exact copies of the templeguards bar all the bone detailing, so they won't take long at all.

As for stripping these old dudes, Dettol has always worked wonders for me so I will stick to that ( love the smell and it is so freaking useful as a product ) it should sort out both the plastics and metals and not wreck my hands if I splash anywhere.

Nothing wrong with Monkey's cloud!

Dysartes wrote:The dude with a cat on his knee is an unnamed Blood Angels Captain figure, from around the same time that the Ultramarines captain was from.

Looking at those last pics, L-R....

Pic 1:
Devastator marine without heavy weapon (metal, 2nd ed), metal tac marine, plastic tac marine from 2nd ed starter set, metal tac marine without gun

Pic 2:
Scout sergeant, terminator with lightning claws, Blood Angels Captain

Pic 3:
Ultramarines captain, Sergeant with bionic arm, Vindicare assassin (original sculpt)

Pic 4:
BA Captain with overly thick paint.....

Actually, in the first pic it is:

plastic heavy weapon trooper with missile launcher (2ed starter set), plastic 3rd edition trooper (both 3rd starter set and marine kit boxes), plastic tactical marine (2ed starter - god they were awful!), 2ed metal marine(had horribly proportioned plastic arms)

The golden legend with eye patch is indeed v1 tycho - v2 had the same pose (actually same base body and details) with a different weapon and head.

Still got mine from the early 90's...

CMDante wrote:Actually, in the first pic it is:

plastic heavy weapon trooper with missile launcher (2ed starter set), plastic 3rd edition trooper (both 3rd starter set and marine kit boxes), plastic tactical marine (2ed starter - god they were awful!), 2ed metal marine(had horribly proportioned plastic arms)

The golden legend with eye patch is indeed v1 tycho - v2 had the same pose (actually same base body and details) with a different weapon and head.

Still got mine from the early 90's...

With regards the Blood Angels Captain, Stuff of Legends would disagree that he was marketed as Tycho - though, as I've previously mentioned, he was used as Tycho in a battle report before Tycho was an official special character.

Ifalna can confirm if the others are metal or plastic.

Gosh I am back at last, sorry for the dissapearing act, have had an insanely busy week or so at work now.

1st pic were indeed all plastic, and the final guy is crazy out of proportion allright. Work on the Lizardmen has continued onwards and is progressing nicely, Slaan and Salamanders have not been sent yet so there is no rush right now and it is nice to take the rest at a leisurly pace. Weekend for me starts tonight so I am expecting to get plenty done, including the first test for this months slot of 9 Deathkorps and an Emporers champion which are going to be lovely to work on between the lizards, nice break up from the blue!

Decided I am going to strip the old metals, including Mr Tycho/Old BA captain, though I will treasure the pics of his oiriginal paint job forever. I figure I can paint him up nice enough for him to regain some of his prior dignity.

Dysartes, that page is fantastic. I love Macragge. That has to be the worst positioning I have ever seen. I know he is meant to be on the throne, but it would be so easy to just have him standing and looking like he has very bad constipation. Fantastic

Ifalna wrote:Dysartes, that page is fantastic. I love Macragge. That has to be the worst positioning I have ever seen. I know he is meant to be on the throne, but it would be so easy to just have him standing and looking like he has very bad constipation. Fantastic

Glad to be of assistance, Ifalna - there are some classics amongst the old stuff, though there are some howlers in there too.

yes I would agree. dispite my love of old minis I dont think I could bring myself to love that macragge. And the leman russ model is a bit pants as well. the captainsat the bottom on the other hand are some of my all time favourites

Test model for steel legion tabletop unit done.

Asked to base it completely on



The result is below, tabletop so 3 layers 1 wash, though I cheated and washed with dev mud after the white prime as well. Personally I would rather the highlights be starker, but going to mail it to the owner and see how he feels. Back shot was ruined by blur, but it is boring anyway so no major loss.

Nice Ifalna... clean, striking... very good. I can't tell... is the barrel of the gun drilled? Always makes a huge difference to me in the way a figure looks, though that might be beyond the realm of a tabletop standard.

Just very clean with smooth blending... hard to argue with that.

BTW, your source picture doesn't show up.

Good looking stuff. Nice to see the different projects on one blog. Keeps it exciting.

Duur Gits D: Fixed, thanks for letting me know. Showed for me but likely due to it already being downloaded on this pc, I botched a link from yahoo mail instead of the actual site.

I may well drill the barrels, there is only 9 of these to TT standard so its not really a massive waste of time or anything Soon as I get feedback on if he wants it kept this way or any alterations ( highlights are so neutral that it really only pops irl, I would prefer a bit strong on the browns especially ) I will start on the other 8, then there is a karskan Sarge (?) to do in cameo and a emperors champ to character standard, which is going to be nice because a blog full of tabletop has to be a bit disappointing.

Edit: Also, I found some of this in a hobby shop and decided to test it out as the brush cleaner I have is fantastic, so surely the soap would be too!



It cost a fair bit, but I was amazed when I got it home. I always get paint all over my fingers when I am speedpainting units, but this stuff cleaned my hands completely and did not dry out my stupidly sensitive skin. It is green and smells like Spearmint, I would be tempted to use it for all handwashes but it is a bit too pricey to waste Tried washing my painting plate with it too and it is clean as new. Really impressed and am happily recommending this on.

Pretty nice, though the model looks a bit to yellow. In the picture you used as a reference, the color is more of a tan...Still, good work...as always

_Tim?

Aye, tonights work is to darken down the yellow and brown down the red at the owners request, but keeping the neutral highlights to keep it a bit gritty Tried out the kolinksi's and wept tears of joy. They are stunning.

Yesterdays work was 28 (my god) saurus, all they need doing now is their gold and weapons which is quick, shields are painted and just need to be stuck on. I think this is the largest amount I have ever batched at one time and I am pretty sure at some point I zoned out and entered another plane of existence, I lost about 5 hours yesterday that I can't recall.



1 more unit green skinks, then the Slaan and salamanders and this army is done. Can't wait to get a shot of the entire army assembled and ready to go.

Lookin' good Ifalna. This will be an imposing force when complete.

are they a commissing or for you?

Commission, I don't actually play anymore. Cross between not having the time and not having interest as I mostly just played as a past time with my friends back in Dublin

fantastic painting skills

Cheers Dee.

Heres the colour version the owner decided on, browns are not highlighted but you get an idea of the finished model now. Will be taking light box pics once I get a few more done as the glare is really detracting from his helm and mask.




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Ohhh goody! Looks like we have flooding again in Cork tonight. Here's a pic from our apartment window last time this happened.




I may have some extra time to paint if it happens again

Wow, what is causing the flooding? That is really crazy!

_Tim?

Crazy winter storms usually. The best part is that last time this happened, there was a water shortage as all the main pipes broke.

So we had flooding that was making cars float away, but had to go to designated drop spots to get water from council fire engines. Makes sense right?

What a pain in the...

The yellow looks much better now! Much dingier.

_Tim?

water water every where but not a drop to drink. this makes me happy to live on a hill.

Ifalna wrote:Crazy winter storms usually. The best part is that last time this happened, there was a water shortage as all the main pipes broke.

So we had flooding that was making cars float away, but had to go to designated drop spots to get water from council fire engines. Makes sense right?

Just sieve through an old pair of tights until clear, then boil for 20minutes, unless it's seawater it's then safe to drink!
That way you can just lower a bucket out of the window to get water

As for the painting, those mini's look great, especially the steel legion (shame no-one really fields them anymore) and looking forward to what you do with the OOP stuff! can recommend dettol personally, has never failed me yet. I've got a bunch of the 2nd edition starter box plastics sitting about, there is a good possibility the missile launcher guy is plastic (as the starter box had identical missile launcher guys to that one).

Ifalna wrote:
So we had flooding that was making cars float away, but had to go to designated drop spots to get water from council fire engines. Makes sense right?

Yeah, makes sense to me after the number of times we've heard the council tell us we can't live at the marina because we're on a flood plain 'But we're on boats, we float' 'Sorry it's a flood plain, can't live there' 'If it floods, we're fine just a little higher, we float' ' No, it's a flood plain, that means it could flood' ' Yes, and we will float...' ad infinitum

monkeytroll wrote:
Yeah, makes sense to me after the number of times we've heard the council tell us we can't live at the marina because we're on a flood plain 'But we're on boats, we float' 'Sorry it's a flood plain, can't live there' 'If it floods, we're fine just a little higher, we float' ' No, it's a flood plain, that means it could flood' ' Yes, and we will float...' ad infinitum

Perhaps it would flood so spectaculary fast that your boat would be catapaulted into a nearby orphanage. You need to keep on top of these situations D:
Update on lolstorm, it is now nearly completely dark at 4.pm, and the sky is an angry navy grey. Forecast is on the ball so far.

What floor do you live on? At least you won't have to worry about re-charging your wet palette, you could just use your couch!
:-)