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 Nozeminer wrote:
The goggles tie the little fella in with the rest of the troops, like he's their little buddy. Too bad after he completes his mission, you won't even be able to find pieces of the goggles.

Oh no, got that covered...

Florin sump-rats

Like their necromundan cousins, the sump rats of Florin are indeed rodents of unusual size.
however, their domesticated nature means that thier genetic stock is much more stable than other wild sump-rats, not being exposed to hazardous waste or radioactive reactors.
On Florin they are mostly bred as pets for the wealthy and are considered status symbols amongst the arisocracy, easily trained to perform tricks...
However, never ones to pass up an advantage on the battlefield, the regiments of the Eoforwich system have trained these rodents to be extremely capable and accurate mine and other IED dectectors. thier small, light bodies allowing them to enter minefields and unstable structures without fear of detonating pressure sensitve devices.
On Filey, many have been kitted out with explosive vests and trained to find the weak spots in enemy vehicles and fortifications, whereupon they schluff off the vests and return to their handler, the explosives then detonated at a safe distance.
sneaky and underhanded, yes, but absolutely effective, nonetheless...

I'm not a monster

This is awesome great work on everything!

Thanks Ghostmmaker!

new project today.
some artillery for the Flexberg troops...

Yeah, you heard me right; Flexberg!
No, you're not in the wrong project thread.
Ragsta's got me drafted to help in the war effort and it seems the Flexbergers are soon to be the proud owners of some heavy artillery!

I've been commissioned to build and paint three artillery pieces for him, all from "the honerable lead" these minis are; 8" howitzer, 60lb gun and big-bertha, Krupp 42cm...


So, in 40k terms; thats a bombast field gun, a heavy mortar and a medusa!
Here they are after initial build. Literally just got them in at the time...

Ill say now.
The resin is a godawful mess. miscast, bubbley, slipped and oily as buggery... sigh.
The white-metal components are even worse. Disheartening at first, but in truth, nothing for an old soak like me to get sorted...
I can see why Ragsta didnt fancy tackling it...

I have been requested by Ragsta to essentially "osjclatchford-ize" them, to get them up-to-speed with 40k's aesthetic so to speak, adding bits, removing others all the time checking in to make sure its to his artillerymen's liking...

first up the bombast proxy:

I've added rivets all over and a skull icon to the barrel.

Fixed an ugly-assed section on the rear

and added a laurelwreath icon just under the barrel.

looks much more 40k already, no?


I've since added this towhook


I also toyed with using these wheels I had instead, I thought it was rather fetching. However, Ragsta firmly decided he wants them all to match, so I'll stick to what it came with, on this occasion.

Next, I turned my attention to the heavy mortar proxy;

Again, more rivets

A skull icon to the top of the breach and an aquilla on the deckplate

An imperial tank sprue bit as a support and the addition of a lined barrel, courtesy of some ali tube I had.

Finally the medusa;

Another lined barrel (an old biro end) and a robotic servo-arm to load the medusa rounds. (this was an anvil component I meant to use on the goliath I did but then didnt... waste not want not)

The rear of the breach comes from an old chimera hatch and the platform is the inside of a window that spellcrow sent me as a freebie when I ordered the barrels from them.
Also on here is a grab-climing rail made from heavy grade solder, bent and fixed in place on plastic tubing.

I added this rhino aquilla under the barrel because it fit a treat and looks bangin' doing so!
We decided, no gunshield. Meaning Ragsta has that for another potential build int he future...


This mess is an experiment in a base topper for the guns.
The concept is thus; once cured, they can be removed from the backing acetate, then ragsta can glue them onto his base of choice, add his own materials around the tracks and paint accordingly, to match his army, then simply glue each gun in place! lets hope it works, too because thats half a pack of miniput sitting there!

more soon...

The men and women of Flexberg will welcome this much sought after support. I really like the modifications you’ve made throughout- even the rivets fill me with joy! What are the ‘Ali tubes’ you refer to on those muzzles?

Now to think about what unit these arty will be a part of…

The man himself!

It's just some aluminium tubing I had from some such place too long ago to remember wence it came from now...

As for which unit, perhaps they're a detachment of the eoforwich artillery support regiment? perfect opportunity to extend both of our respective fluff into one extended osjclatchford/Ragsta multiverse..? Lol...

aaaand done...



bombast proxy




Heavy mortar proxy



Medusa proxy


This was great fun and I'm pretty pleased with how hte colourscheme has tied all three together a s a battery, dispite the size and form differences (as well as all the odds-and-sods and bitz-and-bobs I've added to each gun.)

Sure hope ragsta Like 'em...

Now the trickiest part of all is how to ship these badboys from the Eoforwich system to the Flexberger's current warzone in one piece... now, wheres that yellow shipping container..? time to give ol' Jago Kane a shout methinks

Well you could bail them up in bubble wrap, that is the traditional method, but I was really impressed by this guy who printed some little 1/48th scale BMWs for me, and he essentially tied them down to the bottom of the box by punching holes in it and tying them down. Not sure what you'd use as these guns look much hefter, but it is an idea.

Actually, I was referencing the fluff...

Still, not a bad idea at that...

XD
well in that case, may I suggest some following suggestions:
Consignment of weapons from the same Forge World or from Eofowich? Adminisratum mistake? Eofowich artillery regiment/battalion attached to Flexbergers for the duration of the current campaign or indefinitely?
Perhaps that happened in the past but Eofowich has stopped sending troops so they are all Flexbergers with inhereted consignments of Efowich guns?

Eoforwich sent them to assist...administratum orders.

Guard is guard and needs must. Jago shipped them over on the yellow snork.

As for the rest..? That's up to Ragsta

got those aforementioned kriegsrkin done, at last!

full squad


This pose was based on the old metal kasrkin aiming/advancing guy. With the gun-wires gone (god I hate those, bloody stupid), it took very little effort.

Here is the squad commander. I added the chest lamp to tie him in with the engineers.
His robot hand is done in the awful pink to visually reference the hideously coloured early prosthetic limbs of the 50's and 60's.
It also reminds me of Lister's robot arm he had in series 7 of red dwarf...



Another mask guy.
the HWT backpacks help with the engineer theme, due to all the wrenches and screwdrivers and that on them.
As the backpacks duplicate a bit across the squad I made some swaps for other bits here and there, like the krieg hatchet and waterbottle on this one...


...and the shovel (krieg), knife (old cadian) and scope (boltrifle) on this one!
Made sensible by the fact his scope is absent from his hellgun. which I added a nucadian lasgun sling too for some extra detail/bulk


The team's specialist has a melta, because that makes the most sense as far as damage output and the demolition/assault nature of the sapper's they are supporting.
I added a spare muzzle (got the idea from a deathguard mini) and did the colourisation of the heat bloom on the current muzzle. With this in mind, I chose the backpack with the pair of asbestos gloves/mits slung on the backpack. (can't really see it here. but its there!)
I figured he can use those to swap his muzzles out!
To further sell the sense on working away from his own lines and in/under enemy territory, he has a spare tank of melta fuel on his pack. Taken from and old landspeeder multimelta ammo. (a meltabomb would do if not).
he aslo has a holster (heavy intercessors) as his backup weapon.
To hide the fact that I'd used the backpack with the roll of tape on before (the guy with the hatchet, where I'd removed the gloves from his pack and put a gasmask box on instead) I shaved the tape off and added an old cadian waterbottle. melting is thirty work, I guess!


...and here is an example of one next to one of the engineers. They fit together well.
I mean it makes sense. If the engineers are made from cadians then the stormtroopers should then be made of kasrkin...
I elected to do all the 'soft' armour in the grey.
I figured there was not much trou on display as on the engineers and this way, with camo on the trousers too, the colourscheme was balanced. if I'd done all that stuff black they would have just been very dark dingy and kinda boring...

This whole squad has been made of leftovers from my other endeavours. The heavy backpacks coming fom the crounching cadians I used in the filey 87th and the kasrkin being left over from my 3rd ed style stormtroopers. The heads were just sitting there in my bitzbox! never get rid of stuff you might use in the future!
All in quite the result I'd say!




also, as a diversion I've tacked this mini too this week:

Its a copplestone minis 'em4 Robot skeleton with MAR' mini I bought from Forlorn games on ebay.
But I know what your thinking...
"thats a second/third ed' necron, that is!"
Although similar at first glance, its actually quite different. except for the head. I mean damn, its bang on, no?
As you can see Ive gone full nostalgia-nerd and done it the 1997 army theme as shown here:

Well. I do remember those with much fondness but alas, never bought any when they came out originally.
I personally loved the fact the faction only had the five warriors, two immortals, a destroyer, scarabs and a lord to lead them all.
easy to collect and nice and uniform on the tabletop as reams of faceless, souless automata should be.
They had (and I suppose still do have) a certain egyptian theme to them that essentially made them 'tomb kings terminators' for 40k, which, tbh this one lacks but imho, its better for it.


The steel finish and red eyes were an absolute must.
As you can see Ive added some weathering and rusty patina across his frame, suggesting that this necron is a lttle older than the ones you see gracing the tables today (which is kinda silly as theyre all supposed to be ancient, but you get where I'm coming from)
I also added the gold and blue scheme to his chestplate (like the egyptian iconography parts on the originals) and decided to do the the gun in the simple black casing with the muzzle done in green to represent the classic gauss crsytal muzzles...
the original mini's gauss guns had large ribbed tubes that came out of the 'stock' end and were rendered as bronze.
as these were absent on these, I simply did the ribbed hosing on the thighs in weathered bronze to reference this.
the base wa the final touch for me.
simple corkdust and chunks in xv88, washed with agrax and then drybrushed in zandri then ushabti with a mournfang rim.
very oldskool and a very pleasent diversion from my usual stuff that was a real walk down memory lane and genuine fun to do.
You know, if you showed this model to me in 1997 and said I was the person who painted it I'd have never believed it...

now, if only I could get hold of an original '97 immortal to go with it...

Loving the Kriegrskin models! They look so good in fact, that I might have to bite your style at some point... As I have a small "Finnish Winter War" Krieg force in the design stages..

I was going to say I like the Stormtrooper's chrome red bionic fist XD
Horrible pink plastic did not exactly come to mind at all.

Those minis are looking sharp as usual, great job!

cheers!

"Incoming!"




Filey Drop-troop 'Fulmar' class assault-pod

Sometimes the skies above a drop-zone are simply too dangerous for a valkyrie deployment or even a low-orbit extra-orbit gravchute drop. In these specific circumstances the deployment of squadrons of 'Fulmar' class assault-pods allow the squads to be sent planetside well above the usual safe limits of orbital deployment, these single man drop-pods too small and too fast to track or fire upon, sending their deadly cargo well behind enemy lines, the sounds of rapidly decellarating pods causing terror and confuson as the Filey deploy amongst the enemy, quickly taking objecives and overruning defences before the enemy has time to prepare for assault...


After my dissapointment of the grey colourscheme of my filey equipment pod, I decided to give it another go, on one of these saviour pods from killteam.
This time I went for the green and black of the filey 87th trooper's armour with some steel finishes added in.
I figured it worked on the auto mortars so well, it was worth a go on this.
I think its much better.

I was mostly inspired by quake2's one man droppods...

While I was at it, I decided to do my other legions imperialis scale dread-droppod that was still awaiting a paintjob in this colour.


consider it a do-over of the filey supply pod.

Its better I suppose.
I think the peggy minge technique struggled a little with the small size of the mini (on the grey one I did before.)
This time, however, utilizing the same techniques as on the 'Fulmar' assault pod has definately yeilded better results.