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CANDY FOR THE CANDY GOD

This would be an absolutely amazing style of conversion for something like demons or nids. You should really try your hand at making something from one of those armies. It looks really cool and organic. It even has veins.

lalabox wrote:This would be an absolutely amazing style of conversion for something like demons or nids. You should really try your hand at making something from one of those armies. It looks really cool and organic. It even has veins.

Thanks .

I am most likely going to highlight the veins in a few shades of green and then add some real moss and GS leaves, then base it with murky water, rocks, and some cotton swamp gas. Nurglings will be piloting OF COURSE.

Here is a bit more paint, don't worry it dried and I will gloss it at the end.

So here is where I am going to add some bone and rotten flesh effects.

Any tips on this?

Maybe I missed this in an earlier post, but what are you using to build the things with? Acrylic caulk? Cause I reall like the nurgle esque feel. I don't think it fits with your army (although we haven't seen pics of the rest) but I like it a lot. Lemme know what you're using, I have some ideas for my wifes Chaos Daemon army now...

So how many coats of paint are you planing on putting on that thing?!

It was looking pretty good before the bone and rotting flesh effects. Very Alien. Know when to stop!

Lord Manimal wrote:Maybe I missed this in an earlier post, but what are you using to build the things with? Acrylic caulk? Cause I reall like the nurgle esque feel. I don't think it fits with your army (although we haven't seen pics of the rest) but I like it a lot. Lemme know what you're using, I have some ideas for my wifes Chaos Daemon army now...

The surface is mainly formed using hot-glue I bought for a dollar a pack at my local dollar store. It went astray from my eldar army and was corrupted by the warp, a very unfortunate incident, but it went out with a bang!

Thanks btw


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Flashman wrote:It was looking pretty good before the bone and rotting flesh effects. Very Alien. Know when to stop!

I can take it right back there in no time. It will also take care of some of the more messy detail. If you have some tips on how to paint this thing, consider it a test model and totally up for "repair", although I will be making the final decisions of course .

Tips are appreciated.


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KingCracker wrote:So how many coats of paint are you planing on putting on that thing?!

5 million. Exactly 5 million.

Uhm...

This is meant to be some nurgle abomination of a D-Cannon, right?
Because if it is it's pretty okay I guess. If it is not, it's T.E.R.R.U.B.U.L.L.

Sorry in that case for my honest opinion.

I agree that it looks totally Chaos. It has a very bumpy lumpy surface like it is bubbling. This is what makes it look quite different from the regular D-Cannon.

Maybe a D-Cannon with Battle Damage?

Vargtass wrote:Uhm...

This is meant to be some nurgle abomination of a D-Cannon, right?
Because if it is it's pretty okay I guess. If it is not, it's T.E.R.R.U.B.U.L.L.

Sorry in that case for my honest opinion.

I am not offended. Elaborate on why you don't like it, and I will be grateful. (No, I am simply not inviting trolls in) Constructive criticism is how I make make appealing designs. If I ask 100 people and 51 like it I am in a democracy, and that will have to do. If I ask 100 people and 99 like it there is probably something I am missing in my design. 99/100 is just a bit too comfortable for my tastes, you have to urk someone sometimes.

First of all - congratz on being able to field that thing in a tourney and congrats on getting it built in time.

Look, there are master sculptors and painters and there are guys like us. I think it looks like a D-cannon. It's not like you cut out a piece of cardboard and painted a big "D" on it. It's not like you glued a piece of wood to a base and added a GI Joe M-16 to it and called it a heavy weapon. You made your own model with what you had and maintained size proportions and the general look of the GW model. I say success!

Is it a masterpiece? Certainly not. Would I personnally allow it? Abso-friggin-lutley! Am I crazy about the paint scheme? Who cares!

As I said earlier, there's nothing wrong with being a moderate model-maker. It's difficult work and if you can save a few bucks here or there by scratchbuilding, then so be it. The important thing is to ensure that the model is distinct and looks enough like the real thing, which yours certainly does. On a personal note: if I DID make that D-cannon and someone I was going to play with declared I couldn't use it....I wouldn't want to play with that person anyway. (Not including tournament play as I have an exclusive group I game with.)

Good luck to you, man!

FlightMek wrote:First of all - congratz on being able to field that thing in a tourney and congrats on getting it built in time.

Look, there are master sculptors and painters and there are guys like us. I think it looks like a D-cannon. It's not like you cut out a piece of cardboard and painted a big "D" on it. It's not like you glued a piece of wood to a base and added a GI Joe M-16 to it and called it a heavy weapon. You made your own model with what you had and maintained size proportions and the general look of the GW model. I say success!

Is it a masterpiece? Certainly not. Would I personnally allow it? Abso-friggin-lutley! Am I crazy about the paint scheme? Who cares!

As I said earlier, there's nothing wrong with being a moderate model-maker. It's difficult work and if you can save a few bucks here or there by scratchbuilding, then so be it. The important thing is to ensure that the model is distinct and looks enough like the real thing, which yours certainly does. On a personal note: if I DID make that D-cannon and someone I was going to play with declared I couldn't use it....I wouldn't want to play with that person anyway. (Not including tournament play as I have an exclusive group I game with.)

Good luck to you, man!

Thank you for your kind words

I like it the best before you put on the green. IMHO it looked the most like the way your warrior was painted right before you put on the FIRST coat of green.

Epaminondas wrote:I like it the best before you put on the green. IMHO it looked the most like the way your warrior was painted right before you put on the FIRST coat of green.

Thanks for the tip

Know when to stop!

Looks like someone ate cheap hard candy and pooped it out whole. I was not a fan of the construction but it just seems to be getting worse heh. Sorry for the honesty but you seem to want to know. Eldar vehicles are smooth not lumpy and poo like.

When I get a chance, I'm trying the hot glue gun thing for Chaos Daemon bases for my wife's army. I really like the way it looks all veiny and striated. Incidentally, I tried the same thing with drywall compound which I use on most of my bases, but it never looked quite right, like what he stumbled upon did. I'll post supporting pictures as soon as I dig out my hot glue gun.

I liked it when it was at this stage.



But, it's probably not done yet and should be interesting to see how it looks when it is finished.

I have heard a few responses like that.

I am thinking I should take it back to that stage, with a bit less stripeyness beneath. A space plant cannon thing should be cartoony, and I think I have been taking it down realism lane. (D'oH)


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Fishboy wrote:

Know when to stop!

Looks like someone ate cheap hard candy and pooped it out whole. I was not a fan of the construction but it just seems to be getting worse heh. Sorry for the honesty but you seem to want to know. Eldar vehicles are smooth not lumpy and poo like.

No problem, you seem to have missed more than a few of my posts though. It has become a Demon cannon


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Lord Manimal wrote:When I get a chance, I'm trying the hot glue gun thing for Chaos Daemon bases for my wife's army. I really like the way it looks all veiny and striated. Incidentally, I tried the same thing with drywall compound which I use on most of my bases, but it never looked quite right, like what he stumbled upon did. I'll post supporting pictures as soon as I dig out my hot glue gun.

Look forward to seeing what you come up with .

I have actually been using the tip of the glue gun to sculpt the glue as it dried, that is mainly how I got the textured look. It is actually a lot of fun to mess around with, just try to clean the tip after using it, and work in the garage. It basically smells like weird wax when it starts to burn on the gun-tip. I was thining of rigging some sort of electric sculpting tool, so I could actually sculpt after it dried. There are a lot of possibilities with this method, and I picked the tip up from Tallmantim during my other project.

Here is a link to his project. The hot glue was used as a core for the model on this one.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/229684.page

Here is where I stop. I like the texture of the paint now. It really looks very ugly in such a tasty way . Like a thing... of some kind... that is made of all the gristly bits of meat you throw out. IT RETURNS!!!

Ok, now that it is officially a Demon Cannon I have to say good job. It is all nurgely and gak so fine. Like how you did the paint scheme, although I would have taken a different route (detail painting, shading and all that good stuff). As it looks now it reminds me of some sort of alien blob machinery, some sort of fifties monstrosity, B-movie style (I love 50's B-movies so it's not an insult coming from me).

However it has lost much of its eldary aspects, the only thing telling me that there is something eldary underneath all that blob is the floating surfingboard under it.

I think it looks good, don't those cannons fire a hole into the warp or something like that. I know it would be hard for one to mis-fire, but this one looks like it did and has been warped because of it.

Wrexasaur wrote:Here is where I stop. I like the texture of the paint now. It really looks very ugly in such a tasty way . Like a thing... of some kind... that is made of all the gristly bits of meat you throw out. IT RETURNS!!!

I've got a question that may lend to the "fluff" of this thing. Don't Eldar have "soul gems" or something? Never having read the codex and having learned very little from my Eldar opponent, I am wondering if you could describe this thing as containing the soul of an Eldar. Maybe it was fired by some uber Eldar gunner who was melded with the warp and became "one" with his weapon? This could certainly explain the fleshy/daemonic appearance of it. Anyway...I still think it's cool and the more fluff you add the better.

I have a statement to close with. As so many have outward disdain for this thing, I wonder if your opponents who's units you massacered felt the same way. I can only hope that they grumbled every time they removed a casualty. If that were the case and I were you, I would use it each and every time I played. Gives that sucker more personality!

FlightMek wrote:I have a statement to close with. As so many have outward disdain for this thing, I wonder if your opponents who's units you massacered felt the same way. I can only hope that they grumbled every time they removed a casualty. If that were the case and I were you, I would use it each and every time I played. Gives that sucker more personality!

EIGHT SISTERS OF BATTLE... AH!...AH!..AH!... EIGHT SISTERS OF BATTLE

"Note"
In terms of the fluff I will take some time to figure something out that fits in with the fluff. It is just the cannon that wont stop shooting . Perhaps a Demon got ahold of it and it misfired (The d-cannon took over the Demon ). MMUUUWHAAAAGHHAAAAHHAAAAhAAAhaaahaaa!!! and all that good stuff.

Hmmm - I would suit Chaos/Nid terrain - defensive guns for planetstrike perhaps?

nurgle!