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: Cheers. In fact I do sport a fancy moustache. As well as a bell around my neck. And a tiny black leather vest. And that's about it.

Really? how strange, sounds like what I look like on a saturday night!


*ahem* but seriously forks, that cock-atrice is amazing! I used to have an old and rather large book of fairy tales from around the world and I was always fascinated by the mythical ones especially dragons/griffons/cockatrice, and your model is exactly the same colours and shading as the pics i used to pore over! such a lovely model and paint job Sigur!

so, what's next on your bench? you know you can trust me! ......


Nerdfest09

@nerdfest09: Oh yes, you sound totally trustworthy, strange leather-clad internetperson. (after the rest of the Space Wolves it's going to be more Space Marines of the red, green and white kinds probably) Thanks for your thoughts on the Cockatrice. I also used to love those kinds of books. There used to be that series of books on all kinds of mythological creatures in our school's library with many great illustrations.


Alright, that took some time but here's tons of pictures of finished Orky stuff!

Here's a few previews:










There are many more army shots and close-ups of each individual unit to be found in the Space Orks folder at Battle Brush Studios.


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...and to top the whole "hopping between projects" off, here's a picture of the second Runepriest.

Let's jump back to the other thing, shall we?

Sigur wrote:
Alright, that took some time but here's tons of pictures of finished Orky stuff!

Here's a few previews:


very nive indeed

i would be very happy to have that force within my orky ranks

The cockatrice looks really great painted in natural and subdued colors. The head especially pops up.

How was the fig cast? I have looked at it as something that tempts me, but after seeing the problems in fine casts I have been keeping away from getting one for myself.

@bigfish: Thanks. In fact, I wouldn't mind if that was my own Orks army to be honest and I actually don't even like the Ork models that were released from 1997 on.

@Metsuri: Glad you asked. When I got the model about a month ago, I wrote upthis little article about unpacking, assembly and observations about this finecast kit: http://sigur.tabletopgeeks.com/citadel-finecast-cockatrice-unpacking-observations-assembly/.

Thanks for the link, it seems that I won't be getting one for myself

@Metsuri: Fair enough, I'm glad I could help.


Well, there's at least a few new pictures:









(Little did this poor raven know of the fact that MSTB translates as "pinch my butt".)

Orks, brilliant...

What is next on your billet?? After SW?

The Cockatrice looks brilliant Sig, so do the speeders, i really like the ice bases.

Cockatrice is coming along nicely, Sig - and I feel sorry for the raven on that objective marker...

LOL... looks like that marine is gonna do more than pinch it's butt-equivalent.

I like the colors for your cockatrice, the sculpt fails you as the crease where the wing meets the body on the left side is visible... the paint job is great. Just a failure in FC sculpt QCing.

So Sigur, these are all commission pieces? Do you have any of your own, personal collection to show off? Or do you have a separate thread for that?

-Remi

@MajorTom11: Thanks.

@Vitruvian XVII: Thanks muchly.

@Dysartes: To put your mind at ease - it was just a silly little picture the raven and the Wolf Guard dude posed for. They're best of friends.

@HF Izanagi: :S *image of a space Marine wearing a raven like a glove crops up* Anyhow....hmm...now that you mention it...yeah, there's this crease visible...and bugging me. Maybe I'll fix it before the fella flies off to his master. The stuff you see in here is 99% commission pieces. I tend to throw in a little of my own stuff here and there but it's very, very rare these days.



For those who have been wondering, here's a list of things that are coming up in the future: Probably Plague Marines ( :p ), an interesting Empire General on Griffon/Warhorse conversion, Aeronautica Imperialis, Epic 40k Khorne (with custom-made figures and all that jazz), hopefully some Tau, Blood Angels of two different kinds, Pre-Heresy World Eaters, Salamanders... oh, and in between I'll try to squeeze in my own little Infinity thing.



And now, please allow me to throw lots of pictures at you:

Venerable Dreadnought finished:











Some tiny marines sneaking in:



Wolf Guard finished:





..and now get ready for some wacky and hilarious hi-jinx when the whole Wolf Guard is getting drunk off their bums and re-enact classic 3-Stooges routines!





Of the Land Raider I took a ton of pictures on all kinds of weapon loadouts:









... you know what? I'll just start a seperate thread for the finished Space Wolves. Here is the link to the new thread: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/395263.page#3289522




In the meantime (because we've all seen well enough Space Wolves lately), here's something completely different (and something's that's completely for me and me alone):

My first Infinity miniature:



Lateron I added an old can of Baked Beans to the base because you can't base Infinity without a bent tincan somewhere:


After this fella was more or less done I realized that it surely would take 2 more weeks before the rest of my warband would arrive so I started making some terrain. It was planned to be quick, easy and not very pretty but at some point a few hours ago, I started toying around with a logo on one of the "crates". Then I realized that it looks rather fetching but it's impossible to have some kind of scribbly stuff on only one so I went on...



....and on...



...and now I have at least a little bit of stuff for my Tomcat to hide behind (at least until Gordon Freeman comes around, crowbar-swinging and looking for power-ups):



Hope you like it.

Love the scenery, time to play "name that logo"

Nice to see you painting something other than GW products! I love the terrain!

_Tim?

That infinity model is freaking awesome! Love the Heinz can as well. The terrain is also very cool.

Cant wait to see what else you come up with Infinity-wise.

The infinity mini is looking great, I love all the logos on the boxes makes the scenery look very special.

DO WANT the Ikea battle terrain.

@Asylum_Inmate: Thanks.

@Tim: Well, I can hardly choose in most cases.

@VitruvianXVII: Cheers, mate! Infinity-wise: I got my starter box and a Mobile Brigada with HMG today.

@GiraffeX: Thanks muchly!

@crazypsyko666: Hehehe. Kudos for identifying that logo by the way. You're the first to achieve that I think.



Look, something different again!



And he brought friends with him too! I'll upload pictures of those later.

In today's mail I got two more very neat things. First: The Avatars of War Dwarf Berserkers Regiment and the new Dwarf Berserkers Character Bör Dragonbane. I'm planning to do a little review of that Berserkers box tonight. At this point all I can tell you is that it really is nice.

Second thing I got in the mail: My Nomads starter box and a Mobile Brigada with heavy MG! Yay!


But first: The flyguys.

See you later!




edit: By the way, here's a list of the logos I used on the boxes:

Picture1, from left to right:
Box1: Nothing, just scribbly bits in the corner; too much covered up by the blanket thing.
Box2: IKEA /other side: IKEA as well.
Box3: Upside-down Pepsi logo. ( to be honest, I started with the UP being on the wrong side because these people just won't listen to where's UP supposed to be, then I made this red circle thing to see what multi.coloured boxes would look like, THEN I thought what it might be and found that Pepsi's logo fits rather well. :p ). / Other side: NERV from Neon Genesis Evangelion
Box4: Random, big-looking japanese letters I found on google image search. I hope that it's nothing offending. :-P
Box5: Weirdly warped Coca-Cola logo without the name because I'm not insane and try to freehand that.

Picture 2, from left to right again:
Box1: Couple of smaller boxes / Other side: something radioactive in a metal box.
Box2: Umbrella Corp. (and it's leaking on the lower front corner! ) /other side: Umbrella
Box3: Vandelay Industries, Importer/Exporter of fine latex goods / a big box of Atari stuff (because I really ran out of ideas) - maybe lots and lots of copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600?
Box4: A barrel / other side: ALP - completely made that one up.
Box5: A tri-force surrounded by weird signs. Probably alien.

Excellent Stooge-Wolves... (yowza... how bad would they hurt me if RL SMs heard me call them that) I first saw the minis and thought that they were laughing after beating the crap outta (fill in enemy type here).

The Infinity also catches my eye- the gallery pieces are painted extremely well, and I see that yours is very close. I'd like to try my hand at that later... when I get enough practice in.

Finally, the terrain pieces, lol, great stuff there! Umbrella, triforce, IKEA, as crazypsyko mentioned... also saw some kanji in there. 'Japan', I think?

Looking forward to more, especially your Empire General conversion. What's the base model for it? I have no use for them, but the Manann's Blades command group and Bruckner mounted figure are calling me...

-Remi

@HF Izanagi: Hey there. Glad you like the wolves. Infinity models are beautiful and if by "gallery pieces" you mean the stuff they got painted for their website and promo pictures and all that -yes, those are AMAZING paintjobs. Yup, the japanese letters simply mean "Japan" as someone pointed out earlier today. Glad it's just that and nothing super-offensive. The Empire general will be it's whole own kind of challange. It's based off the empire captain with the hammer and pistol I painted earlier for the very same army. Oh yes, the Forgeworld Empire stuff is great. I did the Ironsides command models recently and they are just beautiful.


Anyhoo, here's some airplanes!

The Thunderbolt squadron including ace pilot Fox Flasheart:




..and the bombers and valkyries:


Hope you like'em.

Now if only we can see you paint some MERCS mini's i'll be stoked! :-)

@Sigur- Yea, that's right. The website/promo models.. And a slight pang of jealousy as you're not too far off that mark... I also second Nerdfest09. I'm waiting until the Keizai Waza come out (cousin and partner in crime already took the CCC yellow jackets)... but yea.. seeing any of those, especially the S. American team (forget the name, guerillas w/ Predator active camo)... yea... that'd be pretty sweet. Hmm... I might just have to ask for a commission... Seriously!

I'm impressed with your job on Major Tom's 'stealer cult... let me consider this more... (and let the Keizai Waza models come out for production)

-Remi

EDIT- By the way, I like those planes- the scheme, the wear, and the tiny panes painted up. Very cool!

Oh thanks Sigur! I had already been tempted by Aeronautica, now i have little choice but to purchase a whole Navy.

They look great, i really love the more obscure stuff you're painting atm, its refreshing to look at.

No time for replying to replies, thanks anyways, will reply as soon as I'm back but for now let's focus on the important stuff - pictures:






In short - Avatars of War Dwarf Berserkers and batch one of my Nomads "army". You can guess what is what.



edit: Right, I'm back. Time for replies!


@nerdfest09: I actually never looked into MERCS much before. The minis look like fun though. // The Dwarves are the new Avatars of War plastic Berserkers (read: Slayers). They're basically made to be used in WHFB as GW has yet to release plastic slayers for their Dwarves. It's the next logical step in Avatars of War's business model really. This kit goes perfectly well with GW's Dwarves range and in terms of detailling and quality they are actually on par really. I will upload a little review of this kit within the next few days. Probably this weekend. Probably a but redundant as this was one of the most anticipated items to be released this year in terms of fantasy wargaming and there's tons of reviews around already but whatever. :p

@HF Izanagi: Cheers. Just feel free to contact me about any projects you got.

@Vitruvian XVII: Hehehe, cheers. Let me tell you this - Before I got the minis I basically always had the image of the old Epic fliers in mind - stocky, not so great detail, rather Volkswagen-esque. But these models actually look great and are much bigger than I thought. Just wait until I do the Ork Bomma. That's a fun little model.

Looking forward to seeing this lot! those dwarves are really very cool! are they used for fantasy or is it just a model company? :-) hurry up and get painting mr Sigur! just don't get your bell in the paint or spill any on your stylish leather vest!

Those AoW "Beserkers" are so far above GW slayers it isnt even funny!

REALLY looking to see your work on the Nomads!

@nerdfest09: Thanks. They're basically meant to be used for Dwarf armies in WHFB although Avatars of War can't say it in that way of course. But they are also very usable for anything Fantasy and 28mm really.

@Vitruvian XVII: Hahah, well... I'd say that they are on par with GW's sculpts and really are well done (especially considering that they are AoW's first plastics kit).

@Alpharius: Thanks, me too!


Speaking of which, here's a bit of an update on the Infinity models:




And I need your help on something. I'm not quite sure how to paint the Alguacil (that's the regular line infantry). I cooked up three different schemes:


It's basically either blue vest and black clothes with a white thing on the back OR Light Grey vest with blue clothes OR brown vest with blue clothes. Another option would have been blue vest and light grey clothes but i'm not really sure on that as maybe it would meld with the grey bases a bit too much. What do you think?

I really like the blue vest and black clothes one on the left, not sure if the legs would blend in too well with the base though.