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lol, thanks vik, I'll definitely be calling a few peeps 'you candelabra' now

See children, playing with toy soldiers is very educational, you can learn all sorts of things

always to the fore to lend a hand in the misty world of swearing...after all a mindset from the gutter has to be cared for... otherwise your bound to get civilized... and who wnats that?

it´s like the cheesecolored skin of winter... the merest sunray can spoil it with tan...

Ahh, back in the gutter again Where we're most comfortable

You go cheese colour? I always think I'm plucked chicken colour without any of that fabled 'sun light' I hear so much about.

hmmm... this could be actually a trick of the eye combined with what my surounding familymembers say about my odors...the chicken skin is very discribing in nature... texture and all...

well as i have lil kids i get dragged all to often in a week out in that sunlight... you can imagine how hard it is to keep a noble shade of skin on my likeness in such circumstances...

"What is this! whats all this shouting about , whats going on here i wont have shouting here.. this is a local shop for local people! " So back in da gutter, didnt take long
speaking of candelabras i have an update yeh but first i would like to thank You Monkey,Perky and Vik ( sounds like a comedy trio ) for all the creative input , it really did help , with the brain freeze i seemed to be having well i got over it and took all of your advice well.. not all but most. The candles were a cool idea thanks perky and your right about the head monkey , funnily enough i had tried that head on a quadreped...( rhymes ) and it worked a treat. so i finished the conversion ..i think? doesn't look so hot at the moment but , i hope once painted it will tie a lot together.. what do you guys think less gothic?
as some artist i think once said , Not sure if i like it ...but its what i meant

oh, nearly forgot ... fluff first



Diary Entry 11th semester 4th Cycle 8th lunar 9794M41
Hunt Major Actaeon , Riders de la Morte

Bah! Damb and blast. Buggering feth! Filthy gutterscum! Valrick has escaped me!
Those damnable bloody filthy hive bottom gaks warned that feral monkey and his mangy hound that we warranted him! I was this bloody close. I could smell his fething stinking hound , his pungent scent is in my BLOOD! I will have my revenge on this coward. I have asked the adaptus Provendum to withdraw rations to this sector. I guess the rank of Major has some useful privileges.
My men have started questioning those thought culpable in his desertion. Its paramount I wrap this up presently , I am already behind on my new found responsibilities. The quicker I have him in custody the better. He cant evade me forever.


Diary Entry 11th semester 4th Cycle 13th lunar 979M41
Hunt Major Actaeon , Riders de la Morte

These bloody headaches, will they ever cease, I have had no success in tracking down the Criminal Valrick. , his accomplices are doing a fine job of hiding him amongst their own. And the ridiculous
Arbite, judge Lion , refuses to send in her enforcers , what is the point of an Imperial Arbite if not to help capture Criminals and subjugate unlawful citizens? “Its not my jurisdiction” bah! Do I have to do everything myself. The only positive to come from this weeks , fruitless endeavours, is the Vulgus have started to react to the rationing...hits em where it hurts.. well if no one else shall help I think I shall speed up the progress. I have ordered my riders of death, to enforce the curfew. Someone must know where he is ?


Diary Entry 11th semester 4th Cycle 15th lunar 979M41
Hunt Major Actaeon , Riders de la Morte

Ha! I knew it ! If he was in the city I would have had him by now. Valrick has fled to the wilds. I have conformation. The young Corporal Talien beat the truth out of a rioting Vulgus after curfew . This boy has potential. Well the Vulgus didn’t know where he was exactly ,if he did he took it to his grave!
If it weren’t for these confounded headaches I would be out their right now. the medics say its probably the Occular implant. Some times it takes a while to settle in . The Commissar has asked me to Organise a ceremonial Hunt for the Young heir, Antal . I told him if he could just wait a few more days I shall be fully focused on the job. I have to find his lair soon. But, If I cant have the man I shall have his friends... I ride with the Morte tonight, we shall feast on the dead, and I shall have my revenge.

Wow, great fluff, and the model's aweseome. Another job well done.

hehe, headaches...suits him ...

the steed now looks a bit like a tech version of Seith reindeer steed...the lascanon cables...nice idea...the back now looks very suitable for your damian inspiration...and i really love the base... this is very cool and athmspheric looking...what are the bottles for?
and it seems Actaeon has still some more prostetics work to endure...

this si shaping up real nice now...

and i like the fluff...am i unfair to say i hope valricks going to do Actaeon in for good?...^^

cheers, vik

Love the Cable Antlers they look Gnarly. I think Atm it is hard to tell exactly how cool it will look when done but i suppose the pudding is in the eating (painting?). Reading the fluff i think only the Snarly voice of Sean Pertwee would suffice in a movie Starring Actaeon. A thing i really like is the way you have made Actaeon a dark mirror of Valrick both in fluff and model, espeicially now that he has exchanged some of his humanity for machinery, great touch!

Having seen how you did the wolf this will look great I am sure!

@Scrazza, Thank you mate, glad you like

@Vik Thank you matey ,head aches , aye he needs some sleep no doubt The bottles are from the wfb old edition boxset , from the dwarven pony , all chopped up
tsk wishing ill of the nobles will get you in big trouble

@Perkustin cheers i, thought gnarly as well , (pans laberynth actually) sean pertwee , would make a good valrick actually, il give him a bell your right it hard to tell anything at this stage , its all in the head until its done . Glad you noticed the mirroring of Valrick , i thought he should be as opposit as black from from white.

@manoknok thanks for the vote of confidence mate

not much of an update , showing some work in progress of a side line , i have been wanting to try some true scale minis for a while , and i finally sat down and started kitbashing them , very early yet obviously , will take this slow as a background task. primed Actaeon, sorry no fluff just yet.. and sorted out his colour schem a micture of crocodile and the deamon thorn thing from pans laberynth oh and damien and admek i also thought i would show the lovely Dark Eldar Perkustin kindly sent me , i have been wondering how to base him for a while , but i think i have settled on an Amethyst stone.

oh and i finally got around to sorting out the praxus timeline proper, so i changed the dates in the actaeon diary to reflex this

Fluff+++++++++

014-021.M31 - The Great Scouring/////

Unknown1 "Sir We must retreat...all is lost .... "

Unknown2 "And leave all that we have gained ....NEVER!"

unknown1 " There is no hope for us if we stay... we should fight a retreat back to the Eye and return when it is safe.... we must abandon the machine...."

Unknown2 "Notify the Primarch, It is in his hands now..... "


++++++++++++END

The predator based Chaotic is my fave so far, the one 'weilding' the two guardsmen. I think the (masterchief?) legs would look better as legs for marines personally. The mutated guy is cool as well, barely any refinement is needed to complete him. The only chaos marine i dont particularly like atm is the twin Heavy bolter, seems a bit much to me. Nice amythyst rock, perhaps he is claiming i for its refractive qualities, just what was needed for some new weapon/torture device. Are you just using the predator bodies for scale (bang on btw) or are you gonna use 'em largely unmodified?
EDIT forgot 'bout the crazy demon vessel engine/ drednought, great start + Amazing skills on creating something so dreadlike from random bits (Neil's children cry as he drags another of their beloved toys into his manufactorum dungeon, cackling wildly as he goes).

Thanks Perky, Theyre going to be a full conversion given time and luck although i do like the look of them sans armour legs , kinda like they just said sod it , emperors not the boss of me anymore , not wearing those sodding things anymore.

so another mini update .
just some praxus fluff and pics , that have been sitting around awhile gathering dust. hope you like.
thought it was time to start showing more info to those that want it about Praxus.

Wow, impressive use of board game minis! The heroscape stuff looks fantastic so far

Is it wrong i am drawn to the 'other' portion of the population? What is it that lurks in the filth of lower Praxus, forboding music plays in background..... BTW that first pic is MIND BLOWING: hieronomous Bosch meets giger via Frank Herbert (Not an artist per se but i think you get what i mean). EDIT: Any idea of population total i think hive worlds have in the region of a few trillion, if i remember right praxus has one not counting the capital?

Firstly great paintings/chalkings?

And that model above the dark eldar...holding the two guardsmen is seriously ingenious!

YOU HAVE TO FINISH THAT and PAINT IT UP!

In fact you could call it 'Finish them' mortal combat stylie!!

So thats true scale...! It will terrify all the normal sized minis to death, they will be like "aaaaaahhhhh Godzillllaaaaaa" and running for the bunker. And those true scale marines will get back strain after an immortal lifetime spent bending down at doorways and squeezing themselves into rhinos.

I think I'm just reacting badly due to a subconscious fear that minis are getting bigger and bigger every year and that when I am old and frail they will be bigger than me. The 'mini' store will be like some great multistory car park full of kids with fat brushes exclaiming how easy it is to paint the new bigger 41st edition space marines, as they scale the scaffolding surrounding the marines torso.

lol weety^^

yesterday i saw your TS Marines.. and i was a bit ...hmmm... the predator ones doesnt look too bad to me, but i saw some scout mixes and thought they are pretty leggy... meaning the legs do mostly for the TS part... and thats looking out of sclae to me...
the predator mini is probably meant to be a TS CSM so the use is probably cool in the mix^^
dont get me wrong you certainly are no match here for posing good sir! this is story telling at its finest... again^^
probably the slaanesh marine is the best of the lot for me, dont know what buts and things you used...but you did great there...

and then to your drawings and charts...

the first one literally made me loose my jaw...seriously get your slef together and get to school to get a damn degree chap... you have a duty here...this art has to be somewhere else too to get seen in the whole world...lest it might be forgotten to early... i see artgalleries anbd museums and such things... your name must be known. this is no flattering from me, you probably know me quite good, if you do crap i tell you, if you do art...wish i was there with you to kick you in the bum for letting that stuff collect dust!

probably should keep my lid shut know...*comes back* arghhhhh

and now to something completly different:

charts for fluff... never seen this done...you took the hobby to the serious level... i see some kids in the future doing school projects to interpret these charts and write examens about what could have been done in such situation...to solve political/economical problemstructures...

*comes back again...* i refuse to talk about individual artsketches until you unpacked your whole range of things done on that subject!

vik, still enraged...

Hey fellow creators of new worlds and extra dimensions

I have a small update but first things first, thanks for the comments

@Kenshin thanks Kenshin , they are halo and predator action clix , but the big dino is heroscape added plenty of greenstuff now to hide theri humble origins

@ Perky , cheers matey, i actually made a piece of work entitle other whilst at Uni (Vik ), just some graphics and poetry. i think we are all drawn to the unkown where hhere their be dragons...quite literrally in in gw worlds i havent naile d down the poulation just yet , somewhere in the region of 25 million i assume , the hive i have mentioned is another nearby world called Phalanx within the same hydra system, should of cleared that up ealier , time for a system map methinks thanks for the nice comment on the artwork , its actually the intro to praxus , but just in rough, i have much trouble tightening my work, as i really respect the lose style of blanche, really captures emotion and feleling rather than just form and design.

@Manoknok Cheers agin , you always say the nicest things matey Well i took yur advice , and have been working it up since my last update , poor old actaeon got boted behind him in the que Changed hime a bit mind , but the emphasis is still the same.

@Weety man your comments made me really laugh , the thought of fat kids with paintbrushes up scafolding. arh , you know thats where its headed. maybe i will be able to get paintbrushes for my farmers hands then i really wanted to show how huge these buggers would be , and working with the tiny perry minis really pushed me to see the opposite scale of 40k . i had an image of a civillian comming face to face to groin with one of these giants and just thinking WTF , thats why we worship the emperor , now i get it!

@Vik well sir your write me an epic compliments again, thank you sir , i did do a degree a few years back , but with it been contemporary art i am not sure if it counts ( counst as half a degree but i didnt do any illustration on it , i save that stuff for my true passion . stories! sorry i havent no more image to post just yet , but , you really make me feel that it is worth posting when i do so thanks for that. the charts were written as research for the comic as to better understand the world and its people . i love the fact that you create the place then it creates itself , if you get what i mean any how update time now.


so i have a few ideas floating around my nogging , a few dioramos ect.. but i started working on the csm they are chaos undivided btw , just thought i would do one for though. cant keep Actaeon waiting for long. forund some cute mini dinos from tk max just £4 bargain , and one will work for a grox at long last http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Grox not sure whic one though , i also found some really nice dinos from Papo the french toy company , these are seriously cool , huge and really well detailed posed and painted and all that for a paltry sum of £6 to £12 http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=papo+dinosaurs&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GBfficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf gonna pick me up some for sure.

HOLY gak BOB!

That marine is so cool Neil! Great job

Mike

That Chaos guy is awesome I might have to have a go at making one like that.

Wow! Speechless. Excellent work. Hmm judging from the rust is he an Iron Warrior? Well it seems you can add sculpting to your skills now. Out of interest where did you get the legs for the unfortunate guardsman? They dont look like cadian ones.. EDIT: I also spy an Iguanadon!

Yeah the marine is defo looking great - you are skillful with the GS! The little guy he is holding must be wetting himself

the first thing now i noticed was the falling helmet of the unfortunate guardsman...very cool idea...
that is one hell of a cool diorama... your TS CSM (cool abbreviation eh?) your GS is really good, and i never expected an outcome like that scenic cooldom^^ i dont think the IG has time to wet himself...case of instant broken neck....
and you give the ewathering treatment so artfully self induced with the teadpole tank now to a CSM...this is for sure some trophy hunting project...i think a comepetition is definatly something you should partake now...

the dinosaures looks like your now going way back in time and redo artfully your childrensdreams...with a vengance...nice show of the fight between the soon to be grox and the praxean soldier...^^

if i could make one suggestion or rather a hopeless plea:

getting a canvas like your

praxus top pic Praxus prime bottom pic

for my own collection...just in another ratio not a page upright but instead more like sideways..., that would sureley be a walldecoration for my hole in the ground that would transform it into a palace....


cheers, vik, shameless beggar

1) read Weety's comment and immediately thought of...




(Micheal Morcock did lyrics for BOC!)

'He picks up a guardsman and throws him back down,
As he wades through the bodies toward the center of town'


2) Love it how 1st pic is a serious WIP, 2nd is a nice little diorama, and 3rd is Dinosaurs!

3) Did you draw that pic of the dinorsaur?

4) Amazing paint job so far...very realistic!

Holy That is a so freaking cool!

That artscale Chaos marine is looking great.

Peter

God, that CSM is awesome. Great work, Neil.

Dinosaurs!

Love the two guys just chillin' under the palm trees. 'Ohh, I've got a touch of cramp in my thigh, could you give us a massage?' 'Bugger orf, I'm having a kip'

Very nice work with the CSM, looks mighty fine

Dinosaurs!

Fantastically random! The csm looks incredible!

Hey guys sorry for the long pause to reply got a bit drunk because its ma birthday tommorow 35 i think , and because i cant afford a long haul holiday , i thought i would make one anyone one want to join me on my seculded Island for rum and coconuts suprise

and special thanks to Baiyuan for his insperational necro thread , and especially for the chain on arm idea

@Madmartykmf cheers matey

@Killmaimburnkillmaimburn thankyou , i reserched migsula and hits the spot for ideas , so thanks to them too.

@Perkustin qoute "Wow! Speechless" thats a first kidding glad you like matey , iron warrior eh ? your giving up are you well arlight , you win , he is a bloody minded World bearer! good spot with the legs they are from the halo actionclix usmc soldiers , you can pick em up on ebay for about a pound , they are more realisticly proportioned than the cadians and much cheaper than the elysians qoute " EDIT: I also spy an Iguanadon " doyouthinkhesaurus

@Weety Thank you Weety , thats very kind of you to say , if not stricly true but i do enjoy the tactile aspect , sculpting is the new painting i didnt want a proper reconstruction of a csm , partly beacuse i am too lazy and partly because i wanted to create a mood rather than a design. maybe next time i shall try getting a more realistic look .

@Victor yeha helmet added some needed movement, cheers glad you like the tscsm and yes you are right , all the weathering used so far is what i learnt on the tank.
as for competitions , well ... thank you matey see i accepted a compliment without saying anything self effacing
Dinosaur ...rarh .. who dosent like dinosaurs . they are the stuff of dreams.

@manoknok cool song manny never heard that before , but yep it does suit the giant thanks. you now me random and slightly surreal and i cant take credit for the Grox picture , its from rogue trader .
and thank you , thats what i was trying to achieve.

@ PDH , Hey Peter thanks mate, this is how marines should look imo , all nasty and bad tempered , and thats just the loyal ones

@Scrazza Thank you Scrazza , he is a bit of a bad ass isnt he

@Monkeytroll Dinosaur Rarh ! and if you like the diroma i think its safe to say you may like this update matey , thanks i didnt think any Astartes would appear in hear but , their terrible lure , just screamed make me or i shall destroy you , fool! not sure where it will end up , but its safe to say it will probably be a diorama

@ Commander Cain Random is my new middel name , replacing surreal , and formely bizzare thanks commander

so update time , thanks all for the feedback and nice compliments , you can all come on holiday with me now so me and Bailey my 1st born 12 year old had some qaulity time together at the weekend , we thought at 11pm we should build a diroama , and went for something simple and classic , he really did a great job at building sculpting and apinting and i am very proud of him , we took a while trying to decide on the correct mini , the dark eldar catching a fish with his spear was a close second along with the terminator who rolled but alas we went with the classic Pretorian officer , we both hope you like it , and it was much fun to create . Thanks a bunch Peeps.

Happy birthday!

And a rather excellent island. The water looks nice from here. Too bad I don't have my snorkle at work...