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Awesome! How did you make it?

First, I took a Tau Shield Drone bit, cut off most of the stalk, and filed the shield generator down to create a flat section. I glued the Marine torso to the disk, making sure the seam was minimal.
Then, I took four Necron Wraith claws, and slid the little slit between the claw and the rectangular thing into the rim of the shield generator. Then, I cut an Omnispex in half and put it where the stalk used to be, to cover up the bottom.
I do wish that the torso was a little bit longer. I may add some green stuff cables or other bits to elongate it later.

Kickass thanks man . I definitely need to grab some Necron bits to flesh out my bitzbox.

If you're looking for a slightly beefier torso for another spider dude (maybe a heavy-weapons guy) the Kataphron Breachers torso is slightly bigger than a Marine's and comes attached to a bunch of cables where their midriff should be

Thank you! I should be able to find one in my bits box, I have a ton of stuff in there.

No probs consider it payment for the how-to for the spider legs

Whatever you're thinking about doing, you should, and you should also post pics

Yes sir!

That was fun! Made him taller, and installed a cable connecting his eye directly to his gun sight. Also, replaced his genitals with a computer running Windows 95. Should come in handy.

Neat definitely improved, although I can imagine the Astartes in question might not think so about one particular 'improvement'...

Could have been Vista. But even I'm not that cruel.

Some more work-

 Verviedi wrote:
Could have been Vista. But even I'm not that cruel.

Now that's a real-world example of 40k-style technological regression if ever I've heard one...

 Verviedi wrote:

Some more work-

Nice! These guys are going to look really sweet

Here's a little AAR while I work on some terrain.



I got crushed in this game, by the way.

The Daemon Prince charged my Dunecrawler. Its first rounds of attacks whiffed, doing no damage. The Dunecrawler hit back, hitting on a six, wounding on a four, but the DP passed his invuln. The Infiltrators charged in, and got utterly wrecked by the Bloodcrushers and Daemon Prince attacking them.
The Dunecrawler attacked again.
It hit on a six.
It wounded on a five.
My opponent rolled a one on its invuln.

Instant kill.

This is the second time that specific Daemon Prince has charged the Dunecrawler and gotten instakilled. My Dunecrawler is a badass. Thank you, Cognis Manipulator.

Haha!

I think you should put an honorary daemon skull on its base as a badge of honour

Either that or a little tally painted as scratched onto the side of its armour

I'll give the Dunecrawler a tiny, subtle Mark of Khorne... And pehaps make a new Modified Astarte, made out of a Berzerker dragged off the field...

We're going Full Renegade, folks! Hold on to your mechandendrites!

Getting to work in my Barracuda, again. It's almost done! Removing the superglue fogging was annoying, but I did it (after this photo was taken)





Photos taken on the bathroom counter, due to minor technical difficulties.

Also, WIP breacher. Overhauling the old paint job. I really don't like Past Verviedi right now.

Looking forward to seeing the overhaul V, and the finished base for Free Hugs

I love what you're doing with the flyer base, Verv! I might have to steal that idea for my DA flyers, albeit smaller.

Thank you! The base and acrylic rod are from Dragon Forge Design, so check them out if you're interested in replicating what I did. I love the nice, tall, thin rod, very pretty. Much better than the X-base, which is about 3" too low.

Suggestion on the Barracuda base: do something to integrate the ruin into the rest of the base. Right now it's a little too obvious that it's a separate ruin piece glued onto a flat base. Think about how it would work in the real world, either you'd have some kind of floor inside the walls still visible, or the dirt would have piled up high enough to not be a flat surface against the wall. Adding some extra dirt is probably the easier solution, so I'd do that. Same thing with the little spike bit, file off a bit of the square end where it's sitting on the ground so it looks like it's embedded in the dirt instead of just sitting on top of it. And then color-wise you want to add some of the red dirt accumulated on the ruin, so it's all one coherent whole (weathering powders are good for this). TBH this is one of the harder parts of getting a diorama to look good, but it's a really important thing to do.

Also, I'm not sure if this is the poor quality photograph or an actual thing, but the fire warriors don't stand out very well. The dark color against the dark walls makes them almost invisible at first glance. A slightly brighter revision to the fire warriors and some weathering/color tinting on the walls might make them stand out a bit better.

I'll get right to work when I get home. Should be able to do all that to a decent quality. Thanks for the advice!

EDIT: Dirt added. Drybrushing with Martian Ironearth worked pretty well, will have to use proper weathering powders when I get my hands on them. Also, switched out the Fire Warriors. Expect better images at some point.

Definitely looking better now. The only real problem is that the piles of dirt around the ruin look like they're obviously added on to a flat base since the texture is so different. It's probably too late for it now, but in the future you probably want to spread it out more. Or, ideally, use a clay/greenstuff/whatever surface across the entire base. You squish the ruin into it so it's embedded in the ground a bit, then add the dirt material simultaneously across the entire surface of the base.

I think applying some Martian Ironcrust to the edges of the dirt would blend the texture, it's about halfway between dirt and ironearth texturewise. I'll pick some up today, and test it out. Thanks for the help.

Very early WIP of Knight base. Squished the broken pipes into some greenstuff to make little slopes, and added sand to make it look like they're being consumed by the desert. I have discovered that Martian Ironcrust is a godsend.


And my cat has spent more time playing by dropping a single Necron Scarab down the stairs, than he has spent playing with his real cat toys. This is astoundingly annoying to wake up to.

Now that it's (almost) done, I realise that the bit of wreckage covering the other end of the pipe looks awful, and should be replaced with some generic rubble or just sand and GS.




I think the Ironcrust forms a nice transition between the dirt and Ironearth. Your thoughts?

Definitely getting the right idea with embedding stuff in the ground, the pipe is exactly the kind of thing you want to do. The main thing you need to do now is some more color blending to tie it all together: dirt tinting along the pipe where it meets the ground, etc.

Thank you for the words of advice. Here's the project as it stands at the moment. I think it needs a little bit more red dust at the bottom, but the effect is beginning to show. Also, I need to rust the iron.






Just noticed a gap, that'll get filled too.

Looking stunning dude I especially love the varied texture you've got on the Knight base with some areas cracked, others compacted and yet others dusty/piled up with rubble.

For the main base did you paint it mainly in standard paint and then brush over with some texture stuff, or does the texture stuff only crack occasionally?

First, I squished the pipe and wall bits into some Green Stuff, to form slopes, and applied sand. Then, I primed, basecoated, applied Martian Ironcrust close to the pipes. The main paint is Martian Ironearth. It cracks when the pain is thick, so I applied a coat of varying thickness to the base. The flat areas are where the paint was thin, the cracked areas are where it was thick.
The toxic ooze is a flat area full of a mix of Castean Green, Straken Green, Rhinox Hide, and Moot Green. I then washed it with Agrax Earthshade Gloss, and finally washed it again wih super watered-down Castellan Green to create the effect of it running off through the sand. I then applied thick Martian Ironearth around the edges, to create more contrast and show the ooze running through the cracks in the ground. After that, I hit it with a thick layer of gloss varnish.
The final step was drybrushing the whole Martian Ironearth/Ironcrust/sand area with Kindleflame.

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Oh goody goody, can't wait to see those Hoplites done!