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Have found the quickshade on maelstrom but don't really want to wait for it to arrive in the mail, I may investigate a few sources closer to home,

In other news I just bought an Ikit Claw from an NZ auction site for a sweet $15...already have ideas percolating for a pose, will probably end up carving him to bits and starting with the arm I will build up a GS body...Yay another super involved project!

Just popped back on dakka for the first time in a while (damn university), and just before my eyes gave in to sleep, i remembered this thread.

I remember thinking the floating stones would remove the skaveen further from the 40k universe, but the addition of pipes and the like does away with any concerns over that.

In short, awesome.

Good luck casting!

Klaw

BLACKHAND wrote:@Lord of Change - I would love to see a 40k lizardman army! they have some great models just wating for high tech guns and armour

IIRC, A user on dakka (I think his name was Sirath or something like that) did some 40k lizardmen. He did them up in some tau armour and gave them tau weapons and they looked amazing.

Yeah it was Sirath and yeah they were amazing!

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Sirath's Lizardmen look pretty neat. I was thinking of using Eldar weaponary for the Lizards but the Tau gear suits them.

Those are turning out great! I can't wait to see them all put together!

Also, I am very interested to see how you solve the gaps and other issues that are a part of this kind of huge awesome conversion project.

Have you looked at Les' wash recipe? It'd cope well with the large amount you'd need.

I have never seen it, a quick search through the articles didn't find it, you wouldn't have a link do you?

Is this it: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/261541.page ?

Good shout CodGod, don't forget his weathering washes as well though. They'd really help you to get you army looking grimy in double quick time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OSyAT7-Ys&feature=channel

I think the patina wash would look especially good on 40K Skaven vehicles.

Looking at his recipes I think I would have to order a few of the ingredients anyway so I may as well take advantage of the special deal on maelstrom at the moment and pick up a tub'o wash

Dayum! I wasn't sure about the floating castles at the start, but wow - serious win!
Just tried sculpting flesh, looked like melted poo It was on a nurgle model so at least it looks somewhat okay
More Verminlord!

Apologies Readers! Sorry for being awol for so long, was taking a break from Skaven for a a couple of days that stretched into a couple of weeks thanks to Real Life, the Sabre Legion and the beginnings of my next project.

I wish I had some amazing pics of a finished Castle ruin for you guys but..I dont. Instead I have a couple of pics of my second chimera



Heres a close up of the broken open underground chamber I am building into the ruin



Don't worry people, I should have a delivery of army painter wash in a couple of weeks..and then I may be brave enough to spray on some grey paint and see whether my casting and carving is up to scratch....

One happy little incident that occurred during my hiatus was a delivery form the good ol' U.S of A. My good friend Gitsplitta had sent me a few new parts for the Mantis Warrior Resurrection and happened to throw in a few extras.....

...like a fricken Doomwheel!!!!!!!!

So once the shaking had stopped I had a good look through the sprues and immediately saw a few pieces I could use.

First off I knew I wouldn't need an engineer anytime soon, so he became a seer in my psyker squad



Next I am planning on building a Master copy of my vehicle gunners to make a mould from, using these parts





I basically want to get multiple copies of this so that I can slap on a head and some arms and voila! instant (kinda) gunners!

I have some plans for the doomwheel itself but I want to wait until I'm closer to assembling the Vendetta before I post them up.

Last but certainly not least I have the real fun bit, the last bits I needed for my bone'ead!

what do we all think?









Early days yet but I wanted to get some opinions before I began GSing the parts together. I figured since this guy is the boss Rat Ogryn he would get the best gear, including a bandsaw for a close combat weapon!

C&C Welcome as always!

Cheers

BLACKHAND

Holy hells! That thing looks EVIL! Naked molerat from hell!

I was just thinking that myself.

This stuff reminds me of 2 races in the old DOS Game Ascendancy.

The Balifids


and the Kambuchka


Great stuff, looking forward to see it all completed!

Wow! Your Chimera is really getting there! Going to be a happy day in a couple of weeks when we get to see some paint on it!

Glad the doom wheel is going to work for you! It'll be fun to see where the bits and pieces turn up in your masterful project.

You know... I wasn't sure what you were going to do with those axes... but what you did has exceeded my expectations by a mile. Man that looks good!

Inspiring my friend, as always.

I think that CC weapon on Mr. Ratty-nopants looks great! The saw is a grteat choice.

Thanks guys, I'm glad the axe/saw meets with approval I will be sculpting a GS base to add the elbow and forearm spikes to and that will form around the base of the saw..sorry probably not explaining very well but you will see.

My friend and yours, Mr Gitsplitta has raised a small problem with gun attached to the other arm...it looks too small now compared to the Saw/axe!!!
I think the pics do exaggerate it a bit as they are focused solely on the axe but I take the point and another he made about the lack of a firing mechanism in the gun design so I will do a bit of scrounging and see if I can find a few bitz that I can mount the barrel and GL clip onto to bulk out the gun.

Oh and don't worry Tony_nids, the bone'ead will get some form of covering for his bare genital area

How does he reload?

Woo Hoo for junk covers!

@WM360- It falls under the same logic as the magical knife/ akimbo combo in MW2. Mayhaps Mr. Ratty-gonna-get-pants has a magical third arm, or a prehensile tail!

He obviously excretes tiny pellets of warpstone through his arm and directly into the gun.

That is slightly disturbing...

Yeah but MW2 is stupid face and BH is awesome!

Looking sharp!

And I see you are also using osgilliath ruins, I'm using it for bases on my fantasy skaven, they are just perfect for the ratmen aren't they?

The rat ogre looks great, but there is something about it I can't put my finger on, maybe it's just a bit too skinny for my tastes, but still some amazing GS-fu going on there! btw where did you get the metal rat skull from?

looking forward to more!

Well I always thought of the trigger mechanism being attached directly to the tendons and muscles for the index finger, literally point and click for the big dummies, I also imagined a small horde of Warlock engineers who gathered around the Rat Ogryns before battle, sharpening their blades, whipping off their muzzles and hurriedly loading the ammo clip on before running like hell. A persistant image in my mind is the last Ogryn attendent squeeking in fear as he slots the ammo drum on then exploding in chunks of gore as the Bone'Ead snickers..and getting a huge laugh from the other Rat Ogryn

@leigen Zero - Yep the Osgiliath ruins are great ...looking at that new ruined tower that GW have put out though...so many sweet bitz to snap up! Oh and the meta rat skull is from the squeek headtaker's trophy rack with a lot of modifying

Crazy work as usual BH! The saw arm does kind of unbalance the other arm. Are you working up basic armour on bonehead? You could possible acquire some orky gubbins for the shooter hand. Plenty of their hand guns have large clips/pipes/wires/ err.. misc parts on them and it would theme well with the other hand.

Failing that maybe cut up some weapon surrounds/mounts from IG weapon teams to bulk it up.

Thanks Monkeh, I will see if I have enough Ork sluggas, they have a nice clunky firing mechanism and shell ejection port which should do nicely

Thank you so much for this log!! I love it!

You and Santobel have inspired me so much, i just went out and bought my own mess of Skaven...

Thanks, that's great to hear Josh! What you gonna do with em?