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2014/03/04 22:34:37
Subject: "To Infinity and 40k!" - Are the DI Death Guard ‘Truescale”??
While there will be items on here from a variety of sci-fi manufactures, all are tied into the same head cannon that ill go into more detail in the showcase thread.
But i like to have all my ski fi collection cross over into my 40k head cannon
e.g the Mantic warpath verse is a number of sectors south of the Segmentum Tempestus and west of the ultima segmentum founded by rouge traders.
There are Remnant fleets of Xenos (and sometimes human races) that were evicted from their planets by the Imperium during the great crusade.
Predators are still hunting anything they can, they love Catachan and hunting space marines.
Every now and again a strange man in a blue box shows up goes “nope” and leaves again.
Here will have Work in progress images and some discussion on any rules I’m working on to incorporate the various minis into other game systems so they can cross over. (I should have a Deadzone - Xenomorph ruleset done at some point).
I find i’m more productive/focused when i do a thread like this.
July 2016 Update
Hobby Budget Hobby budget of max £100 per month but ideally less than £50, As an incentive to spend as little as possible I'm going to put anything under £50 I spend into a piggy bank and save up for a Warhound Titan. (Wanted one for ages)
I'm also going to try and fund a bit of my hobby through EBay and here (selling terrain if people will buy it and things I'm not going to use), if eBay income makes up any of the £50 target spend I'll count it as half towards the budget total. (Another incentive to selling stuff) e.g. if i spend 50 but all came from money i made from selling stuff on eBay i’ll only count as £25 towards the £50 target.
But thats a lot of Reading heres some pics of things I am working on…
Albion Rifles imperial guard
UK (mostly WW2) inspired imperial Guard.
Got quite a few tanks to finish but I'm waiting on an airbrush purchase (got the cash saved just need to get one) before i do it.
Deadzone Enforcers
I-pad armour on the standard enforcers with the special characters in colourful armour.
Deadzone rebs
Tried to get them looking as individual as possible, so their a rag tag group. (think serenity and start wars rebels)
Xenomorphs
This is all the Xenos i have, despite the poor effort by Prodos with the treatment of me as a backer the minis are fantastic.
Infinity PanO
Ultramarines
lots to do and add, for a start i need to finish my hellion conversion nd get another sniper scout made.
Their true scale btw (or close enough to make me happy anyway)
Vs primaris
Thanks again for checking my thread out.
Please drop a comment if you like what you see or have any feedback, I really appreciate it and it helps keep be motivated.
Previous OPs
Spoiler:
Update: check page 3 for the start of my the Infinity adventure.
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Original start
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I'm struggling at the moment to finish projects that I start, so hopefully doing this will help drive me to actually finish something.
Last unit I finished were ultramarines terminators last year and now I've broken one of the minis down to do something else with it.
And hopefully I can get some pointers from you lot and run some ideas past you.
The list
These are the projects I have ongoing at the moment, as much as possible I want to finish something off this list before adding something new.
Deadzone - Enforcers - done
Deadzone - Rebs - currently painting -starter done booster undercoated only
Deadzone - Plague - done
Deadzone - Scenery want to get my tiles painted and make a com centre building from scratch.
Ultramarines tactical squad - need assembling 4 down, 1 half done and 5 to go.
Ultramarines scouts - waiting on heads going for filed down marine heads as I don't like the scout heads. I need to learn a better way of painting faces as well.
Dire Avengers - currently painting up a test model,
Imperial Guard - this one will always be on the list as a slow burner.
Gunship kit bash - mostly going to be used as a piece of scenery if I'm honest but my Rebs need a ride. - almost done just some weathering and decals to go
Without further ado
Gunship
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Picked up a Revell Star Wars republic gunship easy kit off of evilbay for a song
(Please excuse the poor pics)
Here's the beast part assembled
And a scale picture I'll do a proper one on the weekend
Spoiler:
It is a little thin but after seeing what other people have done it will look good on the table.
I plan to add a slim chain/rotary gun and targeter to the nose rather than the hair guns that are there at the moment.
I do need to find and purchase this first any suggestions?
While waiting for the gun I'll start priming and painting
I'm thinking of painting it a mid/pale grey with some nose detail I'm thinks of a playing card ace. I'm undecided on if ill leave the cockpit unpainted or not
Never ending/non priority Albion Rifles imperial guard
True scale Ultramarines ( fill out the tactical squad, finish the scouts, some bikes and an achillies from trot pose sicarius conversion)
True scale Deathwatch
True Scale Chaos Marines
Deadzone Rebs booster set
Inquisimunda
Near Future AVP painted
Deadzone Enforcers Pathfinders, jet bikes and peacekeepers
Distant future/Dream Projects
Spoiler:
Buy an Airbrush
Paint imperial guard tanks (UK woodland pattern camo)
Assemble Baneblade
Assemble Leviathan Crusader (after buying fancy capacitor things)
Heresy Dragon
Buy a imperial knight
Buy a Warhound Titan
AvP the miniatures game
More scenery
Gaunts ghosts
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JoeRugby's Random but slow blog - March 8th update
Not much done this week gym and work taking over hobby time.
This week I've finishing assembling and priming my enforcers and plague (minus stage 2s, need to find non baby heads for them) and my ultramarines sergeant.(minus his right hand because I couldn't decide what to kit him out with).
The current todo pile
Gunship
I've managed to lose one of the doors for the gunship so that's not helped my mood , I have primed the undercarriage to see how it took the primer and to give it a test paint this weekend.
Better Scale picture of the Star Wars gunship with guardsman bob showing that he could fit into the transport compartment.
In addition to looking for to lost door I'm still looking for a suitable mini gun for the nose cone. I've seen some nice brass 1/35 chain guns on eBay but haven't been able to find measurements for it yet. I'm going to have a rummage through my bits box to see if I have any tau burst guns but I think it might be to chunky.
Deadzone - Rebs
My main goal this weekend is to get these finished. I'm going for a very mixed style for them( think rag tag band of outlaws). which gives me a chance to try some freehand.
Deadzone - Enforcers
As mentioned their all primed now, I've converted a sergeant with a catachan powerfist. (It looks like he's got one of those toy hulk hands if I'm honest)
And I've started to convert a defender but I need to come up with a stand in/salvaged shield.
More paint added! all have been dry brushed codex grey to bring out the black and rest of the painting started the ones at the front are closer to being finished than the ones at the back.
shotgun arm for my not-defender completed still trying to come up with an idea for a makeshift shield. Any ideas?
Ultramarines
I've added a little paint to the ultramarines but nothing photo worthy, I need to look into how to magnetise different hands for my sergeant.
Gunship I did do a test paint of the underside of the model and the primer and paint went on really well. The red painted areas on the original actually show through as detail when undercoated so I'll look to incorporate some of this in the final paint.
Ill look to get the rest primed and base coated this week.
I think I'll end up going for this brass etched kit as the mini gun for my gunships nose cone.
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but I can't find measurement for it, anyone able to help?
I still need to settle on a mini gun for the nose I might cut up a tau burst cannon as a stand in till I can find one I want.
I'm hopping to have the base coat finished this week.
painting up some Deadzone scenery
Most of the tiles are going to be the light grey, with some coloured tiles being backgrounds for company logos as per real shipping containers.
I need to get some stencils done so I can get some logos on the blue ones.
Have any of you made stencils for this kind of thing before? If so any pointers would be appreciated.
At the moment I'm just going to get some logos printed out onto paper and cut them out (and hope I don't make a mess of the cutting)
I was thinking getting some laser cut but I think this might be too expensive.
Nice work, I just saw the Gunship in your DZ batrep and it really does fit the DZ clean-sci-fi look. I can easily see Enforcers or Rangers using one for close insertion drops. The terrain is looking good too.
2014/06/03 21:22:28
Subject: Gunship, Deadzone & Smurfs oh my - gunship assembled
Paradigm wrote: Nice work, I just saw the Gunship in your DZ batrep and it really does fit the DZ clean-sci-fi look. I can easily see Enforcers or Rangers using one for close insertion drops. The terrain is looking good too.
Cheers dude
I love the shape of the republic gunship kit, it's a shame it's now OOP or I might have been tempted to get more to do a black hawk down type scenery piece.
Checklist for completing the bird;
Add decals and details: name on the side of the cockpit some warning decals, some rungs/ladder leading to the cockpit.
Find a mini/chain gun I like and get the nose code finished.
Learn how to weather models
And weather it just a little bit
Weathering is easy and fast if you stick to the simple methods. I don't know what you've looked into, but here's a few good methods that are fast and simple:
Sponge weathering: tear up some sponge/scouring pad and dip it in a little metallic paint. Dab it on the leading edges of wings ect to give nice and small chipping effects. To add depth, go over the edges of some chips with a slightly lighter shade of the base colour.
Chalks: Get some cheap artist chalks in various colours, grind them up, and brush them on. Black for heat damage, brown/red for mud, red for blood.
Washes: Cover the desired area in black/brown wash. Self-explanatory.
All of these take a little practice to get the balance right, but can add some really nice looking 'special effects' to models and scenery.
2014/06/03 23:36:13
Subject: Gunship, Deadzone & Smurfs oh my - gunship assembled
I'm off work tomorrow and I've got the flat free till Sunday so I'm going to take the opportunity to have a play making some scenery.
I love making scenery but space, time and mess are a big issue.
After I hit the gym tomorrow I'm going to go shopping in Cardiff for sheet materials. ( I think I'm going to struggle to get some MDF for bases in town) And a couple of tools and pieces.
The plan for tomorrow is to try to make
4 X 3" long wire fence sections
Comm Centre (6x6 L shape on 3" struts) I have an IDea about having a glass (clear plasticard)partition wall.
Not a lot but I think the comm centre will take a lot of time.
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I didn't manage to get anything from my shopping list in town most crucially I couldn't get any hardboard to base any scenery on and I was too stingy to spend or foam board that cost five times as much as ebay.
A trip to B&Q and an ebay shop later and I have this.
8 x 3mm A4 foam board
Wire mesh
Filler
Balsa wood 2 x cylinders and 2x rectangular
Filler
Badly cut hardboard
At some point soon I hope I will have the time to make this
This is the floorplan my command/comm centre. As mentioned before it will be raised with a antenna with a sniper nest coming out the roof.
I also want to get a mini park/ memorial garden made to add a bit of colour to my Dead/grimdarkzone and AVP games.
My hands are shredded after cleaning all that with my Stanley knife.
I'm going to build a gatehouse/ keep similar to the front of the box but with the gate the 2 towers being separate pieces
Here's the concept for the towers ( very lightly put together)
Outside
Inside
I don't know about the corner buttress going all the way up yet.
Now to get the other tower and gate sorted out.
Use plasticard to fill in the outside peg holes and straight gaps (copying terrain tutor on this)
I'll then get them sprayed and painted individually before putting together properly and gluing.
I don't have enough pieces to make the door box that I wanted so I'll just get the towers done for now and try to pick up the bits to finish the door box
I also want to get 2 of the landing pad hatch openings for the top floor instead of the flat floor panel I currently have.
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It does add a lot to a table. Ideally I'd have a half cube width section added to the back and running the whole length of the table but I'd have to sacrifice a bunch of walk ways to do it.
So there's a wall going the entire length
Quick update
(Please ignore the fetching ironing board cover)
Enforcers are done
Well almost. I still need to find a shield for my defender conversion. I don't think I'll use the engineer or the missile launcher so they will go into the for a paint on a rainy day box.
I like to think their walking away from an explosion in this pic.
Ultramarine Scout now has a head
Still some green stuffing to do on the head but looks great to me. I'll not try to get the rest of the sniper team done.
Riddick
One of the few sedition wars minis I haven't sold. He'll get some use in grimdarkzone as Blaine but no shooting.
The depth in the black hasn't come out that well in the pics but I'll use a similar technique when I get my aliens from prodos if fox approve of course.
Gunship gets an eye and a gun
Started work on the camera and gun for the Rebs gunship. I did buy a 1/72 rottary cannon but it was too small
Paradigm wrote: Neat work, you've replicated the Mantic scheme almost perfectly on those Enforcers, and the clean white is very commendable!
The whites a cheat to be honest.
It's just coat d arm's light grey painted over black undercoat, the black drains the grey so it looks white but I didn't have to put on loads of layers.
Battlezone tiles base coated, I love painting with a kitchen sponge for base coating scenery.
And from that and that and my earlier pile of tiles came a Hab block
Only base coated so there's a lot of detailing to do but it will work on a table until I can get around to doing the fiddle bits. I think a couple of these on the board will look sweet
(2 partially painted plague are about to have bad days)
I think It looks like something that could have been put together from shipping containers.
I've not glued it together yet but I might glue the flat walls together so it's quick to put together but still easy to store.
I need to get the remaining tiles undercoated (stupid spray can running out), I want to get a landing pad done and I'll have a play with what's left.
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2014/07/22 21:55:09
Subject: Gunship, Deadzone & Smurfs oh my - Spray and Paint
Despite the heat and preseason I've managed to do some things this week
Fort update
Filling the plug gaps on the gate section was a pain but I'm happy with the result. I now need to get the plugs on the tower filled.
Lots of other work to do still but it's got enough colour to be used on the table, speaking of which here the table layout I'll be using today.
I'm not a fan of the landing paid, I think it might be awkward to play around but I'll find out later.
Plague stage 2 "Berserker"
Kept it similar to the "tyrant" from the earlier post. I also didn't want to have the one berserker doing parkour so I changed the arm to make him look like he leaping at someone.
Still can't decide if I want to cover them in blood
I also started work on my comm Centre
I need to decide if I'm going to put a "power sub station" (aka a box) on the base by the struts.
And have started to change my ultramarines from normal bases to lipped ones.
Plan for this week. Finish my gunship chain gun
Paint the rest of my plague
More work on the comm centre
Get some zombies painted.
And I want to get my 5 tactical marines finished
(Most of this wont happen but it's nice to dream )
I didn't do anything I'd hoped to do last week aside from re basing 2 of my ultramarines
And play testing some rules for marines in Deadzone based on the enforcer peacekeeper rules.
So today I decided to do build something and found a kitech 1/48 challenger 1 in my pile of unbuilt toys.
Here's the contents
Bit disappointed with the lack of detail and the amount of flash on the sprues, but then you get what you pay for.
I'm not going to put the motor in because it's going to be used for mars attacks and maybe as a tank for Ariadna if I go for them as my welsh faction. (I love making up rules what can I say and tag vs tank sounds cool)
Half an hour in
And a few more mins and we're done(well almost there's some gaps in the kit that I want to fill with green stuff)
Size comparison, with a chimera and guardsman bob
Was an ok kit to build very quick, but with very minimal instructions, not a lot of detail and a lot of bits that didn't finish together I'd rather pay more for a better quality kit if I could find one.
That said it was less than a tenner so....
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The tank looks very cool, I've always been partial to the Challenger. It doesn't look under-detailed to me, especially for the price. Scale model kits don't tend to have detail as deep or thick as 40k kits just because they are not built for gaming so much as display.