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Viktor von Domm wrote: i am normally not in a position to be in a lack of words....you sir done that now...and that was before you installed the lights... then i was only sitting at my desk with wide open eyes....same size as if in terror...but i am (still and will be...) amazed!!! and to even top all that you showed us your workspace...are you stockpiling for the zombycalypse and still being able to scratchbuilt and collect like hell? i can´t surpress my envy! only leaves me asking why someone would want to own so many exemplars of one single model...your shelf is totally off the scale for even a shop^^

Lol. I DO have a lot of models. They ARE all for sale though. If i have anything anyone wants, i am always open to partring with it.
Thanks for your kind words. I try my hardest. And when that doesn't work, i try harder...

Viktor von Domm wrote:did i tell you how much i am amazed by your work?
well i am a bit dazzled even now but i remember doing so^^

Thanks again. I am not doing anything you couldn't do given enough time.
I once read somewhere that the difference between an apprentice and a master, is a very large pile of very small tricks.
My pile of small tricks grows ever larger.

Viktor von Domm wrote:cheers...for whatever reason that you needed my karma^^ you must have plenty of that by yourself^^

oh and i liked (loled more^^) to your photomontage of your car park^^

one thing so... what on earth are you working as to uphold such a hobbystyle?

i know i am nosy^^

cheers again, vik

Lol. No worries. I am a taxi driver ffor the family business. The place i have my workshop and my stash shelves is the company offices. I work there most days, making models if work is slow.
And i have a small update on the Arvus. The gear is pretty much set now. I added a couple of hydraulic rams to the legs just to make it look like there is more going on there than there actually is.
I will add cabling on as well. I am still waiting for the nav lights, so i am just tidyin up other little things in the meantime. I also took some pics in the daylight outside the office.
Enjoy the pics.

Those workers are hopeless.
Typical work scene that I thought was purely British* but appears to be universal.

One guy does the work while three or four others stand around and watch.

Get the others to pull their weight Bar, it'll get build quicker!

* Do I see Glenrothes on that bus?
My bro used to live near in Pitcoudie, now in Burntisland
Just seen the Saltaire though your Dakkaflag is the stars and bars

It is just a British phenomena after all!

Geography and working practices aside, looking grand

Well, that was fantastic!, awesome work.

You sir have skills I am envious of.

Bloody brilliant work. I love it. And the figurines making mini dioramas for the pictures are awesome especially the chicks.

Wow, this is remarkable. I usually skip the scratch builds because they are normally meh, but if you can paint like you model, GD stuff for sure. Looking forward to more.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote: Those workers are hopeless.
Typical work scene that I thought was purely British* but appears to be universal.

The women do all the gabbing, while the lone man gets the thing ready to fly, lol/

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:* Do I see Glenrothes on that bus?
My bro used to live near in Pitcoudie, now in Burntisland
Just seen the Saltaire though your Dakkaflag is the stars and bars

I don't know how that happened. I am very much in Glenrothes... How do you go about changing the flag???
Your Brother used to stay in Pitcoudie? It's a small world. I am half a mile away from there...

Tortured-Robot wrote:Well, that was fantastic!, awesome work.

Thanks a lot.
This is a very fun build.

VikingScott wrote: You sir have skills I am envious of.

Thanks. It's actually a very simple shape when you deconstruct it. This build has been quite easy.

VikingScott wrote:Bloody brilliant work. I love it. And the figurines making mini dioramas for the pictures are awesome especially the chicks.

Yeah. Those really help to sell the images. Well worth the investment of the initial purchase.

whalemusic360 wrote:Wow, this is remarkable. I usually skip the scratch builds because they are normally meh, but if you can paint like you model, GD stuff for sure. Looking forward to more.

Lol. I really struggle with painting. I CAN do it if i have to. But usually i leave the painting to others(I will post a few images below of things i have painted, but it's amateurish at best). I always say, play to your strengths. I am good at building. But i suck at painting.
When i see the magic that you guys do with a paintbrush on 28mm figures... It takes my breath away. That's a skill i don't understand, and could never attain.
But this build is big enough. I might give the painting a go...
Here are "examples" of my paintwork...(Don't laugh... You'll make me cry... )

i think you don´t have to be so humble about your painting ...looks very good to me and you use certain techniques that i think i will try out one day myself too... that grey stuff you "put" on as a masking for the tigerstriped "thingy" looks like i should investigate for...

about the:

I once read somewhere that the difference between an apprentice and a master, is a very large pile of very small tricks.
My pile of small tricks grows ever larger.

thats a very sound thought pattern...butb the road to that pile is sweaty and holds many brusies and cuts... i´ve read somewhere that in martial art before there wasn´t the concept of coloured belts...masters used their belts for such a long timje that a balck belt happend due long wearing...so newcommers would have cleaner and brighter belts...and when they mature then these get darkend by use...

the new hydraulics i haven´t seen done in that way before but look very working nonetheless!
oh and one more thing... those repainted Star Wars models...why didn´t you too change the figures too?

besides the destroyer turned flyer is a very cool idea^^

cheers, vik

Amazing.

I think your shorting yourself on painting as well. While probably not GD levels, you have strong, sharp colors, and great weathering. I particularly like the Viper in NASA paint. Maybe you could team up with someone like Sons of Orar, who has started painting larger scale tanks with amazing detail.

You're doing some awesome work here... no wait, sorry. You're doing a LOT, of awesome work here. I agree with whalemusic360 too, you sell yourself short on your paint work.

The NASA Viper got a chuckle out of me too (and the WIP shots of that I forgot to say were really informative!)

Any further plans for detailing the gear at this stage (I've a fascination with gribblies.. what can I say)? Really enjoying watching this project evolve!

whalemusic360 wrote:I think your shorting yourself on painting as well. While probably not GD levels, you have strong, sharp colors, and great weathering. I particularly like the Viper in NASA paint. Maybe you could team up with someone like Sons of Orar, who has started painting larger scale tanks with amazing detail.

Thanks. While i am not totally inept, as you say, it's not any kind of award winning skill i have with painting. I leave that to those who excel in painting. I have no need or desire to be great at everything. I accept that i have strengths and weaknesses. And a real weakness i have is for painting. But it's not a problem for me. I leave that to the experts.

shasolenzabi wrote:Amazing.

Thanks a lot.
I appreciate that.

Viktor von Domm wrote: i think you don´t have to be so humble about your painting ...looks very good to me and you use certain techniques that i think i will try out one day myself too... that grey stuff you "put" on as a masking for the tigerstriped "thingy" looks like i should investigate for...

To mask it from the yellow to the greay primer? That was a cheap, white, locally available version of blu tack. It's rubbish for it's intended purpose, so i use it as a masking agent... And then throw it in the bin when i am done with it!

Viktor von Domm wrote:about the:

I once read somewhere that the difference between an apprentice and a master, is a very large pile of very small tricks.
My pile of small tricks grows ever larger.

thats a very sound thought pattern...butb the road to that pile is sweaty and holds many brusies and cuts... i´ve read somewhere that in martial art before there wasn´t the concept of coloured belts...masters used their belts for such a long timje that a balck belt happend due long wearing...so newcommers would have cleaner and brighter belts...and when they mature then these get darkend by use...

That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for that little piece of info. I will remember that.

Viktor von Domm wrote:the new hydraulics i haven´t seen done in that way before but look very working nonetheless!
oh and one more thing... those repainted Star Wars models...why didn´t you too change the figures too?

Those were just quick builds. I didn't bother replacing Obi-Wan and Anakin. I suppose i should have.

Viktor von Domm wrote:besides the destroyer turned flyer is a very cool idea^^

Thanks. That was almost completely scratchbuilt except the cockpit. Just an idea to make an "Awacs" Jedi Starfighter that pointed towards the Star Destroyer.

Nephilem wrote: You're doing some awesome work here... no wait, sorry. You're doing a LOT, of awesome work here. I agree with whalemusic360 too, you sell yourself short on your paint work.

The NASA Viper got a chuckle out of me too (and the WIP shots of that I forgot to say were really informative!)

Thanks. That was built as a gift for my Brother's father in law. He is the head propulsion engineer for the shuttle at NASA. He has no clue about BSG, but will no doubt appreciate the paintjob...

Nephilem wrote: Any further plans for detailing the gear at this stage (I've a fascination with gribblies.. what can I say)? Really enjoying watching this project evolve!

Yes. There will be more details added. But i am trying to stick to the original Arvus recipe as much as possible.

I have recently begun scratch-building in the last year or so, but this stuff is light years past my newbie level skills.

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Very nice. The best part about scratchbuilding your own projects is that you can stick to the original designs if you like, or create totally new ones out of your own imagination.
It's almost addictive when you actually realise you are only limited by what you can imagine(Which is no limit at all...).

I picked up a Storm Raven today. I really like the shape. That might be the next project after the Arvus for the "1/20 treatment"...
Some small measure of movement today. The Nav lights arrived.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DUNqrMcdJ8

The soviet Falke is lush mate.

winterdyne wrote:The soviet Falke is lush mate.

Thanks a lot. I get stick all the time because i never weathered it...
I am afraid to...
If you scroll down just past the 2/3rds mark of this gallery, you can see the build images(When you see the dashboard being decalled, that's the start)
I appreciate your kind words. I looked on your coolminiornot profile. Your painting is awesome. A standard i can aspire to but will never reach. Kudos!

I have been working on the engine cone today.
I managed to find a kit which had the right profile, and chopped a bit off to be used as the piece.
I am moulding it right now and it will be ready on friday for me to make a couple of copies.
Here are the pics.

You gonna bore that out after or is that stuff in the middle gonna be part of the mould itself?

winterdyne wrote:You gonna bore that out after or is that stuff in the middle gonna be part of the mould itself?

Well, i probably will bore it out, but i have an idea to try and insert the torch INTO the mould with the resin, meaning the torch will be INSIDE the cast part. It it works, the torch will light up the entire piece, and only the button to activate it will be on the outside...
If it works, i will be laughing. If it doesn't, i will have lost a £1 torch...

Looks incredible. The wings look prefect. Nice job.

that f22 raptor is da bomb dude!

Bar wrote:Very nice. The best part about scratchbuilding your own projects is that you can stick to the original designs if you like, or create totally new ones out of your own imagination.
It's almost addictive when you actually realise you are only limited by what you can imagine(Which is no limit at all...).

I picked up a Storm Raven today. I really like the shape. That might be the next project after the Arvus for the "1/20 treatment"...
Some small measure of movement today. The Nav lights arrived.
Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DUNqrMcdJ8

Thanks, i have to say, at 1/20 scale, you can add so much more detail than the little scales.

shasolenzabi wrote:Thanks, i have to say, at 1/20 scale, you can add so much more detail than the little scales.

For sure.
It's a thin line of adding better details or adding totally new ones...

da big mek skarfang wrote:that f22 raptor is da bomb dude!

Thanks. It's a toy available from Toys R Us. About $20 from the US stores. And very well detailed. I have a few. Just for possible alterations. I already turned one into an F-35.

40k Ninja wrote:Looks incredible. The wings look prefect. Nice job.

Thanks a lot. It's not that hard. The ship is very angular.
Okay. I got the engine cone master made and cast, and got the torch seated in there. I only cast one today(The other was setting up in the mold while i took the pics of the first one all lit up), but it looks a million bucks.
Enjoy!

i have to really behave myself...that is so awsome looking my speach pattern might be injured for the connection of brain and mouth is severed...but since i am writing not all hope is lost^^

the engine litterally sent shivers done my spine....functionality and esign in one tight cool looking package!!!

Now this is dedication! I wish I could graduate from hobby knife and ruler to all the great engineering tools you've utilised. Truly fine scale modeling at its best, giving some class to 40k, can't wait to see it done and painted!

Viktor von Domm wrote:i have to really behave myself...that is so awsome looking my speach pattern might be injured for the connection of brain and mouth is severed...but since i am writing not all hope is lost^^

the engine litterally sent shivers done my spine....functionality and design in one tight cool looking package!!!

Thank you kindly.
I appreciate your kind words.
I am really trying to replicate the engine as faitfully as i can so that, even though it's not a perfect replica, it's perhaps close enough that you could imagine it came off the same assempby line as the Forgeworld version(Albeit in an earlier or later design iteration of the same shape).

Heliodore wrote:Now this is dedication! I wish I could graduate from hobby knife and ruler to all the great engineering tools you've utilised. Truly fine scale modeling at its best, giving some class to 40k, can't wait to see it done and painted!

Thanks a lot. This isn't much harder than cutting sheet. I just found something with close to the correct shape and detailed it appropriately.
By desing, i have subtly altered certain parts(I think mine is fatter than the forgeworld one, but that's because i wanted more room inside without drastically scaling the thing up too much), but as i said above, i want to capture the flavour of the original as much as possible.
Here is a comparison image(Not quite the same angle, but i will try and get a better one tomorrow at work) which will show that i am getting close to the original(I never realised till now i have the engine cone 90 degrees off where it should be. I will fix that tomorrow):

Your Arvus is a true work of craft! Also you're not allowed to complain about your painting... ever!

Flinty wrote:Your Arvus is a true work of craft! Also you're not allowed to complain about your painting... ever!

Okay. But i'll probably get someone else to paint the Arvus and figures, just to make sure the work didn't go to waste...

I just discovered this thread and I have to say that that's really top knotch stuff.

If I may make one observation. Nothing except for the cockpit truely ties it to the 1/20 scale. creating a second opaque or armored canopy cover could result in a ship that could also have game use as a 28mm drop ship, tank transporter or cargo hauler.

Also, your painting may not reach the hightest heights of what's seen on FSM, but it is excellent and far above what is commonly seen on gaming tables. Great work all around.

Eilif wrote:I just discovered this thread and I have to say that that's really top knotch stuff.

If I may make one observation. Nothing except for the cockpit truely ties it to the 1/20 scale. creating a second opaque or armored canopy cover could result in a ship that could also have game use as a 28mm drop ship, tank transporter or cargo hauler.

Also, your painting may not reach the hightest heights of what's seen on FSM, but it is excellent and far above what is commonly seen on gaming tables. Great work all around.

Thanks. I know my painting is not to the highest standard. It's not the end of the world. I leave the skilled painters to weave their magic, and i weave my own...
As for the scale issue, my Brother has said the same thing. That if i made a two-man 28mm scale cockpit, it would make the Arvus a gigantic cargo/troop carrier.
But i always work in 1/20, which is why i scaled it up in the first place.
And thanks for your first comment.
I appreciate that.

This work is amazing. I cannot even begin to think of how you come up with the little details. Just pure and simple talent.

Great work.