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The Dread is amazing, but man I have to tell you the Terminators are stealing the show! Just... wow, you know? Hard to express it. The vision to even come up w/ that idea and not just go "stock", the execution, the sculpting... man I am wicked impressed and I stand by my word- you are the mighty Hyenajoe and people like your work.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:The Dread is amazing, but man I have to tell you the Terminators are stealing the show! Just... wow, you know? Hard to express it. The vision to even come up w/ that idea and not just go "stock", the execution, the sculpting... man I am wicked impressed and I stand by my word- you are the mighty Hyenajoe and people like your work.

Thanks but I can't take that much credit for the sculpting, I just have a dirty little secret method called press-molding, and it's a valuable friend!
However, thank you for giving a confirmation of your words (have I already mentioned the french guys being subject to ego-burst?)

...don't do that. It would likely hurt.

A lot.

Things are looking good on the TS front, sounds like you have your work cut out for you next year.

Actually lets face it it wouldnt hurt, if your head is exploding then the nervous receptors in your brain arnt going to regester the pain because... well they will have exploded. That would actually be a painless death

Except for that one second beforehand....

Hmmmm... it depends if it all explodes simoultaneously or not. For instanse the brain could go first and then the skull, or the other way around. or all at the same time. If the skull goes first then yes. You are going to black out from the pain a split second before your brain explodes.

Guys, believe me, the real pain comes with the regeneration phasis...Ask Tony Shalhoub...

(OMFG! Am I derailing my own thread?)

Yes, you are allowed to derail your own threads, or mine, or Vik's.

Loving your work! Termies are coming along great.

Indeed back on track!!

Are you using standar thousand sons colors for the tzeentch dread or your own scheme?

@dsteingass: understood!

@Commander Cain: Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I also like your work on the alternative Thousand Sons

Tyranic Marta wrote:
Are you using standar thousand sons colors for the tzeentch dread or your own scheme?

Standard Thousand Sons color scheme. I think it's perfectly fitting this army (and I had no blue army yet! )

I primed the second termie squad yesterday. Now I need bases for them (a bitz buyer reminder: when buying bits for a complete model, be sure that you've got a base for it )

Holidays are getting closer now, and contrary to some others, I looooove holidays (-sleeping, modelling and painting while watching movies, sleeping again, eating potatoes-bacon-and-cheese meals, sleeping more, painting again...-) and this means two things:

1) I will have a lot of time to paint, and might have a lot of things to show you soon (like, perhaps, my world eaters army, or my whole death guard, and of course TS);

2) the most important thing for me in the year is getting closer: the Christmas dinner! Cooking is my second hobby, I love to cook, and the Christmas dinner is the best time for it! You use the best recipes you know, using the best ingredients, serve the best wines to fit your meal. This year it'll be Crayfish with Cognac flamed sauce as a starter and Anglerfish in Armorican sauce with perfumed rice as a main. Wines are not chosen yet.

hmmm fish dishes, very interesting and tasty-sounding! I have been busy making vats of my famous Chex Mix, puppy chow, and other snacky-favorites. I plan on baking some more, but our Christmas Dinners this year will be slow-roasted prime rib and home-made chicken cordon bleu. No wines for us, beers and cocktails will be aplenty though. I prefer more earthy homeade fruit wines and lots of fresh hard apple cider, such is our midwestern traditions celebrating local farm harvests.

dsteingass wrote: I plan on baking some more, but our Christmas Dinners this year will be slow-roasted prime rib and home-made chicken cordon bleu.

Home made cordon bleu...where's the mouth foaming emoticon when you need it? What do you traditionaly serve with the rib? Apples? Potatoes?

dsteingass wrote: No wines for us, beers and cocktails will be aplenty though. I prefer more earthy homeade fruit wines and lots of fresh hard apple cider, such is our midwestern traditions celebrating local farm harvests.

My uncles who are still living in the north are great cider makers, and one of them had incredible fruit wines and mead recipes. As far as I love beer it's rarely served during a dinner in France (unless it's sauerkraut or mussels and fries) serving wine is more traditional
-white and slightly dry for the fish dishes - white (yellowish IMO) and sweet for foie gras - red for meat (the kind of red wine depends on the meat) and cheese (every red makes cheese taste great!)

Potatoes yes, i prefer mine baked, old fashioned-like, loaded with butter, bacon, sour cream, and chives! Usually paired with a simple green bean with butter and almonds, mmmm. I'm pretty good at pairing beers with dishes. English Bass amber or pale ale is the absolute perfect beer with fish IMHO. For Prime rib, I prefer a dark (but not stout) lager. This is making me very hungry!

Sounds lke a hearty feed

Hi Hyenajoe. I've found your blog now.
(my topic is now a P&M blog too )

I've only watched the last few pages for the moment, but I really like the thousand sons look that you gave to the Demon Prince and overall to the terminators !
Their helmets look great, it must be a pleasure to paint them.

I'm always admirative with this kind of work, because I'm quite happy with my painting... but I suck when it comes to conversions. >_<

Minus wrote:Hi Hyenajoe. I've found your blog now.
(my topic is now a P&M blog too )

I've only watched the last few pages for the moment, but I really like the thousand sons look that you gave to the Demon Prince and overall to the terminators !
Their helmets look great, it must be a pleasure to paint them.

I'm always admirative with this kind of work, because I'm quite happy with my painting... but I suck when it comes to conversions. >_<

I'm glad you like what you've seen. I'm more a converter than a painter myself (that's why you'll see so few finished models on the blog )
I've also created some threads about my latest projects on the Warfo (I guess you know this one, right )

Time to get back on tracks and to make an update!
I've finally found the left arm for my TS Prince! I glued it and made a test for the shoulder pads and legs armor. Here's the result:



I've reduce the length of his middle finger (this way he won't seem to give the finger all the time )
What do you guys think?

I've also re-started to make flames on the Khopesh (my first attempt was not very convincing):

It's one of my first attempts, so please guys, tell me if I'm doing this right.

Now, the following pics are for Skalk and all those who made a LatD army using the Eye of Terror codex.
I' don't really have a shelf of shame...but rather a drawer of shame!
Here are some models started two years ago and never touched by a paintbrush since those days:
My Beastmen:


My Chaos Hounds:


and more shameful than the others, my Scavvies (still waiting for base colors and dipping):


Cheers!

Joe

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AAAAGGHHHHH!!!

Dude if we were on the same continent I'd have to see you in person and give you a (verbal) thrashing! Those are classic miniatures!

...

Just... woah! Do something with those! At least set them on their bases and not piled up.

Nice work on the DP btw, I was just overwhelmed.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:....

Dude if we were on the same continent I'd have to see you in person and give you a (verbal) thrashing!

And it would be fully deserved It's even worse when you know how hard it had been to get them...and...you haven't seen the zombies...

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:.... Those are classic miniatures!

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Just... woah! Do something with those! At least set them on their bases and not piled up.

I wil, I promise, I will!

Scavvies are looking promising and the Daemon Prince definitely is. Althogh I'm deeply disturbed by the lack of appreciation for Ale. Pale with fish, Brown with red meat. Proper Ale is a thing of great beauty.

Llamahead wrote:Scavvies are looking promising and the Daemon Prince definitely is.

I guess I should really stop modelling for a while and start painting instead. Perhaps will I find some time next week to finish them...

Llamahead wrote: Proper Ale is a thing of great beauty.

Amen! I tend to prefer beer to wine, but the culinary tradition of wine is really stong here and most of my fellow countrymen don't really appreciate a good beer to its true value.

I agree that painting may be your next step for a while. It takes less time to get that :hey I finished something!" feeling. I've been working a lot on my Death Guard and have produced 21 new Marines for the cause. I'm feeling a bit of anxiousness because I am buried in the Defiler right now and I have the new Land Raider on the way, will likely be here before the weekend. I've been painting Plague Marines "in between" becasue I feel so very close to being "done" with them, I have very few left and knocking those out does give me an ongoing feeling of accomplishment that keeps my motivation high to keep working the more difficult projects.

I know what you mean, and you're right. I got driven into too much projects, and I hardly finished anything this year...
Now, appart from my TS army and to finish my Emp Kids, I will try to avoid building and converting as much as possible, this would probably help me to avoid loosing all motivation. (and no new project in 2012)

Hyenajoe wrote: (and no new project in 2012)

Uh huh. Yeah. Whatever.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:

Hyenajoe wrote: (and no new project in 2012)

Uh huh. Yeah. Whatever.

don't worry, no new projects for me doesn't mean I won't show new things in general! I'ts just not new stuff to me. I have many necromunda gangs to work on, eldars, SoB, genestaler cult, Dark Angels, Blood Bowl teams and so on.
No new projects is not a bad thing, believe me, it's an opportunity to empty my drawers of shame and fill my shelf of pride

I have Drawers of Shame too! Well, I did until my wife threw them out, she said they had too many holes!

But you are probably talking about something else. All of my finished projects fit in one of these:

That's around 20 models total.

HAHA, LMAO

Hey Skalk, here are some news of the scavvies:

I've decided to give them more attention and to try to finish them during my holidays. Stay tuned