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Here's some more stuff I've been up to. The Mawloc for the local shop owner is finished and in it's rightful place

Here is the finished line up.





Done in the same style as the rest of my army. The main difference is I did this base with pastels which is becoming one of my favourite basing techniques.

When I first starting assembling the Mawloc I started thinking "wait this isn't much difference in size to a carnifex."

How wrong was I. It's just the proportions which had me fooled.

That looks very nice, and I will compliment all your others pieces of work, I've been lurking here for a while.

I love the blending you've done between the black and yellow - looks very realistically bee/hornet/wasp-like in its transition. Very nice!

Getting there with this list of stuff to do! I just keep looking at my Baneblade after the success I had with the Lightning going "Oooh - I really want to do that baby up now!" and make it all dirty and stuff

I've magnetized the baneblade so it can also be the hell - thingy as well. In the process of originally building it I broke/lost/mangled the original coax autocannon so I had to rebuild the gun.











Anyways - that stuff is old news but I felt like posting something

I've been playing around some more with the thousand sons and I've done a bit of a flame motif on the bottom of their tabards. It's weird. With the motif I like it clean. Without the motif I like it dirty... lol

Anyways - have a look - see what you think. My thoughts are I may need to clean up the tabards a bit and brighten them again after the pastels so that I can then go back and do the flame motif. The pastels stick quite well so they are not very easy to just wipe off. So what I have learned so far is that I will weather them with pastels before approaching the bases, so the bases retain their brightness.

Anyhoo - pics:

why does the thousand sons dred have a slaanesh banner on top? is he.."confused" in that area?

Hey! No paying out my confused dread. He's not in touch with reality, what do you expect!

I just liked the bit so I did a slight mod and stuck in on. Obviously I didn't change it enough but I don't care I like it.

Beautiful painting keep it up

I've just caught up with this thread and there is some great work in here Lemmingspawn. The lightning really looks great. I may have missed it somewhere in here, but how did you make it's base?

Keep up the inspirational work!

Thanks for the heads up on this blog, you saved me the effort of looking for it. *subscribed*

I have to say that Sorcerers staff look's awesome and I like the way it and the spell effects colours match. I also really like the Lightning - it reminds me of regularly getting buzzed by fighters turning the afterburner on as they pass over the car at a nearby fighter base.......

The base of the lightning was done using a core of foam with a filler smeared over the core to give it the shape. I then roughly shaped it using a sculpting tool. And then once it was dry I used a wire brush to give the texture of the rocky areas a wind worn appearance. Then I basically painted it up.

Well the Thousand Sons are basically finished now. Here are the current pictures of the group:

Sweeeet... what else is there to say buddy?

Thanks for the comments guys helps me "keep up the good work" for your eye candiness!

The next project I'll get started on is either a Hive Tyrant for the local shop (again ) or an Ork Zeppelin commission job. Seems I'm doing a bit of work for others lately it's lots of fun doing what I love!

I need to start working on some concept pics for the Zep so that I have an idea of what to do there... any thoughts or ideas would be sweet - I'm looking at a concept somewhere in the middle of the two I did some time ago, a la:



and



or something...

Holy crap in a can. Those zeppelins... I must make ork zeppelins...

Oooooh another Zeppelin?! That'd eb awesome, I read the 1st Zeppelin Blog back to front, as just ideas how about:
- It towing something?
- Attempting to take off?
- Crashing?
- Mixing it up with, say, a forgeworld flyer?

Anyways, good luck Lemming, it's gonna be great!

Wow Lemming you never cease to amaze me. Can't wait to see the Zep.

Oh the huge manatee!

DAMN my fingers hurt. Metal models suck. I've been playing around with the hive tyrant to prepare it, I'll probably end up painting that soon. Here are some pictures:







I've converted the hell out of the tail and stuff and changed around a few things - reposed the left and right whip/sword arms and extended the whip out. I think it looks really good now.

I've also been playing around with some concept pictures for the zeppelin - here's a teaser of some ideas I've been playing around with.

Biplane style:


Random ideas:


Looted valkyrie thoughts:


I'm still playing around with thoughts on it.

I think of them all, the looted Valkyrie is my favourite, purely for the thought that Orks, when they can't fix something to work the way it was designed do have a tendancy to make things work anyway with ingenuity. If you did go that route, you'd perhaps want to put in some obvious signs that the Valkyrie was broken, like locked down landing gear, broken wings, a missing engine perhaps, it could be a lot of fun.

Alternatively, build a mini-fortress of scrap and scavenged parts attached to the lumpiest, least airworthy looking balloon you can.

I have to agree with elfboy on this, the idea of a Valkyrie broken beyond all repair strapped to a balloon on order to make it work is pure genius.

Hell yeah. The Tyrant looks badass too.

Ok - here is the Hive Tyrant completed. That was quick!!! Lol - it took longer to assemble than the Mawloc because of the metal misalignment issues, but once I got painting it didn't take long.

Well, after this I've yet to decide what I'll do - I think I'll be starting on the Dark Angels army for the moment until I work out what direction the Zeppelin is going in. Or maybe the flipping Ordo Hereticus partial display army I've had sitting on my shelf assembled and undercoated for...say... 3 years?

OR I could start on some of the new ork stuff but I haven't bought any of that yet...

So many things to do, so many ideas! Perhaps I should summarize...

Plans I want to get going on - Space Marine/Angelic army using necron rules (coz that seems to fit the idea for an army that is hard to kill because its' like, angels!); Custom Dark Eldar army for my bro - but I have to work out how I'm going to build my customised raiders as of yet... Dark Angels army, or a completely redone new Tyranid army...

Or Gorks Stompy Castle of Stompy Deffness...

And then there's the Squiggoth idea sitting on my bench...

Anyways enough dreaming - on to the pics of the Tyrant:

Great looking tyrant!

Your tyranid colour scheme is probably the best I've ever seen. I'm sure there's better painters out there, but the contrast, choice of colours and indeed your execution are all perfect IMO. Sweet army!

Got to agree with the comment above, great colour scheme.

Another stunning piece of work Lemming.

Awesome job !

After trawling through many posts, from zeplins to stompers to crazy defilers and much much more i have come to one conclusion:
You are seriously, seriously good.

But: What are those mini-zeplin-thing-a-ma-bobs? :S

Awesome, keep going!!

They are some of my deff koptas before the current deff koptas were made. Basically mini balloons of jet powered death

Excellent work, I really like anything you did!

The idea of a looted valkyrie is sweet and very orky...

By the way, elfboy

Alternatively, build a mini-fortress of scrap and scavenged parts attached to the lumpiest, least airworthy looking balloon you can.

is right, it made me think about the movie "Up" with an old Mek in it!