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actually that harlequin conversion could work quite well mate!...especially the two right ones...as for the a- wing... for my own taste a tad too crisp looking...

I think there's certainly potential. When I get a bit of time over the next couple of days I'm going to dig through bits boxes and see what stuff I can generally Gotham-ize.

Anyway, last of my X-Wing ships for now:

Now that's a hunk of junk Initial colours and oil staining laid on.
Cheers,
graven

That's some grubby ship, right there...

needs a good scrubbin´^^

and for harlequin...dark eldar heads spring to my mind...definitely needs two pigtails^^

Falcon having a bit of an oil bath? I like that you are repainting your ships, really gives them individuality.

I've heard of vehicles leaking oil but that's ridiculous! It's oozing out of every seam on the ship!

Looks like Han should stop parking his ship in the guts of those huge massive asteroid dwelling worm things! hehe... got to admit I like it though! And the A-wing previous is really cool!

insaniak wrote:That's some grubby ship, right there...

That's the ship that did the kessel run in a unit of distance, that is

Viktor von Domm wrote:needs a good scrubbin´^^

and for harlequin...dark eldar heads spring to my mind...definitely needs two pigtails^^

Ah, good call! I might chop some or gs some on.

OneManNoodles wrote:Falcon having a bit of an oil bath? I like that you are repainting your ships, really gives them individuality.

Well, if nothing else in a game of prepaints it's good to stand out thanks man.

Gitsplitta wrote:I've heard of vehicles leaking oil but that's ridiculous! It's oozing out of every seam on the ship!

I find your lack of faith... disturbing

MagosBiff90 wrote:Looks like Han should stop parking his ship in the guts of those huge massive asteroid dwelling worm things! hehe... got to admit I like it though! And the A-wing previous is really cool!

Glad to hear that. It's VJ smoke, not coffee, though and glad the A-Wing has a fan

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I suppose I should leave this here:

Next, weathering powders.

And,

No flash, that's how it looks (well, the tiny spot of white at the top has been fixed). Needs OSL around the edges now.

Fun times

That's beautiful work...

Wow thats lovely Graven.

that engine blue looks amazing.. and i have to say...*puts foot in mouth* "mbmbmmmfmskk" er...falcon looks lovely...

Ooh, now that's the business, there.

Gitsplitta wrote:That's beautiful work...

Thanks mate

GiraffeX wrote:Wow thats lovely Graven.

High praise indeed

Viktor von Domm wrote: that engine blue looks amazing.. and i have to say...*puts foot in mouth* "mbmbmmmfmskk" er...falcon looks lovely...

Aw thanks buddy. It's a staged process


@ insaniak cheers mate

And so:


And


Plus :




Osl done, extra grime with pigments. Good stuff, chilling with the kids and A New Hope
Thanks for all your support gang - much fun had with these!

Cheers,
Graven

That looks great, Graven. Top job.

Enjoy the film.

The Falcon looks awesome man, loving the engine glow!

Dr H wrote:That looks great, Graven. Top job.

Enjoy the film.

Cheers mate. We all did (even Mrs G, who'd planned on an early night). Finally spotted the YT-2400 taking off at Mos Eisley, too.

Knightley wrote:The Falcon looks awesome man, loving the engine glow!

Thanks mate. Glow is good!

Onto next project.
As mentioned, I *think* I have some Batman minis coming my way; so, I want to have somewhere for them to play. I've started a little modular Gotham Graveyard, based on the contents of my bits box:


You have 4 kinds of objective token in the game: Loot, Riddle, Titan (Bane-fuel) and Ammo; I want mine to be in-keeping with this theme. The tombstones are the Riddle objectives (who's grave is this?!), the pack&shovel/shovel&treasure are loot, and the hastily-buried barrels of toxic waste are titan. Not quite sure how to do ammo, possibly grenades stashed under a rock or something. Obviously, I'm recycling bits, and much gs work still to come.

Oh, and lampposts and sewer hatches (need 3 of each of them - 1 test deadzone lamp built!).

Cheers, and any input and advice gratefully received as always,
Grave(n)

Aren't you the creative one!

i demaaaaand harley´s hammer for "amo" standing/ leaning against something...

tho...i marvel why you choose a graveyard as a fighting ground for the villains and batman...what would justify a fight there???...

Thanks guys. And Vik, have faith. Remember the end of the Burton Batman? Also ruined Gothic walls and twisted trees can crop up all over, after all. This after could be a park, a ruined lot, or otherwise.

curiously, no...? have to rewatch that one it seems^^

Joker falls to his death escaping from the bat. In the old, old computer game you had to climb the tower whilst joker dropped bells on you. Ah, childhood memories I'm also thinking a shrine of the aquilla will make a good gotham architecture.

ah...you´re referring to the jack Nicholson film... where he drops after the false hand joke...classic joker move^^...that movie in my humble opinion was way more true to the comics...and indeed i played that game too... classic 2D game...ach....i think ii´ve played that on a C64 commodore...omg....how old was i again...?

Indeed, when we were young I do love that movie, first one I ever lied about my age to get into

I've been scratching my head about how to do some decent manhole covers for Gotham. Nothing's really been working for me, but then I came up with this little gs/tool experiment:

It's on a standard small base just now, was going to trim, remove carefully and mount on a small coin (10p, probably), then add brass etch letters reading GOTHAM along the top and DWS (Dept of Water and Sewage) along the bottom. Thoughts?

Also, the guy who bought my Asteroid base asked me to knock out some turbolaser turrets for him - crucially, in a way that was relatively easy to replicate. After a bit of headscratching, I decide to use some bits from the Mantic Deadzone accessory sprue:

Which turned into this...

Then this...

And finally these:


A quick, rough bit of commission building work. Suits me

C&C, as ever appreciated,
graven

these aren´t too shabby looking...

and i think the manhole cover just needs three or five (?) bigger holes for ventilation...

had a look around...and found this...:



well...make of this what you think...^^

Nice work on the lasers.

Good idea for the manhole texture, and on that note, that ^ is what I've been looking at for the manhole cover I may be making. How, I don't know yet, but that's the only "Gotham" one I've found so far.

Viktor von Domm wrote:these aren´t too shabby looking...

and i think the manhole cover just needs three or five (?) bigger holes for ventilation...

had a look around...and found this...:

Spoiler:

well...make of this what you think...^^

Cheers! Good point about holes. I'm tempted to leave it on the small base tbh, it works pretty will. Amazing pic, most useful.

Dr H wrote:Nice work on the lasers.

Good idea for the manhole texture, and on that note, that ^ is what I've been looking at for the manhole cover I may be making. How, I don't know yet, but that's the only "Gotham" one I've found so far.

Thanks buddy. Just coming up with a range of options. I wondered about the tank turret insert, possibly the chaos one. Has interesting shapes and textures. However, I was also just playing with ideas for versions of treadplate etc. I also wondered about something to press mold, but I'm not sure if it's not just worth making the 3.

On we go. Still no idea what faction to play in Gotham so going to continue building random terrain.
So now we have lampposts, with hopefully some interesting base details to catch the light.


And an ammo dump:

Much happier with this as a cache. I might do another that's similar to my loot sack, but don't want it to be too similar. Realistically, I need 2 of each objective for 2 players. Hmm. I did 3 gravestones so I could prop a pack up against one, with grenades etc tumbling forth. Yay / nay?

Also pondering something along these lines:

What?

I have been to ikea 5 times in the last 3 days. It's a special kind of hell, although the boys do now have a decent bedroom for growing lads. Also, there was thankyou beer and pizza from wife, so bonus there at least.

Hey ho,
Graven

Is that going to be a star destroyer?

Catching up late, but congrats on the sale and extra commission nonetheless!

Scatter looks good, and is that a trench run in the making?

Edit: Missed the tittle change

@TP - at 1/270, it would need to be 22ft long. Not doing that
@LT - good to see you again! Thanks bud. And it's a possibility yeah I have some great cardboard from the ikea Hell to use as death star surface - so maybe.