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Is the knitted mustache also removable? lol
What about mustaches? Why do guys in their 50s still wear their enormous 1970s mustaches and still think they look cool? Mustache enthusiast psychology intrigues me lol

@Scarper, Oh. My. God. I must own one. Please send me a link if you know where that sweet piece of facewear can be purchased.

@dsteingass, with all due respect, mustaches are ALWAYS cool. And the ladies love them!*


*This statement is false.


Ok, enough about facial hair. Peter shouldn't have gotten me started. He's a bad influence.


On topic, the newest beardy guy is looking really cool!

LMAO! Haha.

DOnt wory Cadaver Morgen Freeman has a mustache nad to dsteingass to your point Clint Eastwood dosent rock a stache but old time bare nuckle boxers do so close your eyes and picture one of them with a big waxed mustache and then say to yourself.. i understand now

Guys guys guys. When I said the next random topic is beards I meant on models obviously...we're on a modelling forum after all! Sheesh! Now my personal favourite is on the marauder horseman with eye patch.

Scarper - Where in the heck does one find a hat like that....it is terrible and I'm looking for redeeming features but I can't. Shame Farnham is so much bigger than Viggo, it is a nice model.

Sounds like you're going to have to do a little photoshoot for Legend of Plastic Looking forward to seeing it

Cadaver - I always freak out a bit when I see an American with a gun! After seeing that I'm just going to pretend that your Avatar is you!

Chibi - If it wasn't so early on Saturday morning I'd be tempted to get paint out and edit your avatar. Your flying kitty seriously needs a goatee!

*Evil grin, laughs like a bond villain, "Ha ha my work here is done"... vanishes in a poof of smoke

@PDH - If that little .22 pistol freaks you out, wait til you see this.

Scarper i love that model from the road , its spot on , and that movie made me cry .. i expect a suitably poignant story about this guy when you get time

@Scarper-Very awesome figs, I like alot how you name each soldier and give them their own personal touch. Looking forward to see more progress! oh and i was wondering where you got that autogun the bearded soldier was holding, i wanted to arm my whole army with autoguns but couldnt find any.

@cadaver- Nice gun man. thats an expensive piece!!
*but i guess everything is bigger in texas

Not actually my gun, it's a friend's, but yeah he spent alot on it from what he told me. I don't actually own any guns myself.

OMG!!!! that hat just makes me laugh and laugh! I would love to give that to someone on X-Mass! I really like the new model your working on,it tells a real story in a small space.

oh and the first guy to the left in the "last heros" figures, i beleive thats the "postman" from the book with the same name by David Brin. Its a must read for any post-apocalyptic fan and i believe their is also a movie starring kevin costner out as well.

@Monkeytroll - You did this to yourself, my friend


@dsteingass - I'm not sure actually - can I please clarify that I don't actually own one of those things? Though I am pretty tempted now!

@Cadaver - Thanks! And I don't think I've ever seen a moustache which didn't make the moustachee (?) look creepy - unless you're a silent movie villain, I don't think it's a good look.

@Rogue Wolves - That cracked me up a little bit. Maybe it's just people from the early 20th century who can pull it off then?

@PDH - I was going to shop a moustache onto your avatar, then mock you, but you totally foiled me with the gas mask. You have all your bases covered, it seems!

@Neil - I haven't actually seen the movie! The book made me cry too (shhh), and I'm kind of worried the book will ruin my vision of it. Was it good? I've got the DVD sitting on my shelf from when it was on offer in Tesco, but I can't bring myself to watch it!

@lonedrow02 - Welcome, man! Thank you for the kind words, and feel free to pick up your free beard and fisherman jumper on the way in The arm is one of the FW renegade ones - they're really (really!) cool, but also really pricy. Great for necro, maybe not so great for equipping a whole guard army :( Cheers for the info on the mysterious post-apoccer too - I got a PM from Lord Maleval saying he thought it might be the main character from I Am Legend, so now I'm even more torn! I do need to watch The Postman at some point though...

@talons 58 - I know, right? Not sure I could actually bring myself to wear one though... Thanks for the kind words!



Beardy guarsman is completely done now, but no pic, as he looks basically identical to the green I put up. You'll have to wait for paint! In the mean time, here's a (super-mysterious) pic of today's WiP!


More to come soon, and as always, thanks so much for the interest. You guys are awesome!

That is mysterious....
My only guess is that its that aqua glaze stuff and you are making a some sort of debris laden pool. Very curious to see what that is!

hmmm looks like tyranid spine thing then an ogre hand and some other stuff probibly no where close but this intrigues me

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This is one of the most tasteful conversions I've ever seen. The original metal piece looks so awesome, does anyone know where it's from?

See the dead guy with a pipe and an exposed ribcage?

Sorry for spoling your game of guess what the murky image is :/

Haha, well decoded, ghosty! To be honest, it was never really supposed to be a big mystery. I explained what I was doing AND posted a picture all in the last 2 pages - I wasn't really expecting people to guess Really interesting to see the suggestions though - maybe a terrain piece in the future?!

@Almarine - Wow, you've been delving, that was from ages ago! The base model is an oop necromunda bounty hunter. He's usually holding a bolt pistol and standing on his own legs, but I got a mangled one on the cheap off eBay. Thanks a ton for the compliment, and I'm really glad you like him. Never thought anyone would consider that kind of dress sense 'tasteful' though

objective markers ehh..
Im thinking your army is going to do alot of fighting in the name of scavenging these bodies ha! hopfully one of them has a G.E.C.K on them... just wanted to share this store i just came across to you, lots of cool guns http://www.freewebstore.org/Zinge-Industries/Armoury/cat658642_584142.aspx

@Almarine - I found a couple here and here for relatively cheap if you're interested in getting one - hope that helps!

@lonedrow - Well, for necro they'll be scavenge scenario markers, which I reckon fits a lot better. And if the Jackals take out a couple of opposing gangers during the skirmish, well, that's just some more bodies to check for loot, right? Though a GECK would solve a lot of problems too...
Cheers for the link though - some of that stuff looks awesome! Have you ever played Brink? The custom magazines remind me of a fair few of their upgrades!

ahh i thought that was a large tub not a figure sized one ha

great work in this thread

nope never played brink but im glad you enjoyed the link. Im sure you have already heard of this company but it offers a lot of awesome conversion potential. Ive ordered a bunch from them and am very pleased http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/index.php Not too bad prices either.

Scarper wrote:@Almarine - Wow, you've been delving, that was from ages ago! The base model is an oop necromunda bounty hunter. He's usually holding a bolt pistol and standing on his own legs, but I got a mangled one on the cheap off eBay. Thanks a ton for the compliment, and I'm really glad you like him. Never thought anyone would consider that kind of dress sense 'tasteful' though

Yeah I check a thread out every once in a while. Maybe 'inspired' is a better word though.

Thanks for the ebay links, that's very nice of you. Maybe it's time I got an account, bid on some bounty hunters, beakies, old land raider...

The new stuff looks shiny. Good job

who's been toxic sump diving without proper protection? health & safety would have a field day, he should have been wearing his protective beard and his girlfriends fisherman's jumper then he would have been fine

Anyone lost an image? Anyone?

Possibly a photoshop involving a sweater and a false facial-hair-piece?

Quite possibly not though

how are you doing on those models scarp?

Those Stalker bodies look nice. I have to get me a few of those

Alright, so sorry for the delay in posts everyone! Has been a frigging awful week at work, culminating in a 48hr period with 2 hours of sleep. All my own fault though, so no complaining from me I also managed to completely balls up the loot marker I showed you, which really knocked off my motivation to do anything else. First, the ink I used in the lenses ran, despite sealing, leaving a red trail in the effect and white lenses. After some scraping and repainting, I filled it again, only this time none of the water effect seemed to seal. When some of it finally did, taking the plastic case away ripped the whole thing apart. I'm hoping it's fixable, but right now I would rather not look in its direction at all, if you dont mind

@Rogue wolves - Haha, I should have put a scale in. I liked your guess though! Thanks a bunch for the continued interest too - I'll try to get back into a bit of a regular pattern again.

@Orinoco - Thank you!

@Lonedrow - Now that is a quality company right there. Bought a big order of their gas masks a while back (militia, I think they were), and I've been seriously tempted to get some of their militia bodies too (the ones wrapped in the raggedy gear, but not the feral ones). Took some serious willpower to convince myself that I need to paint up what I have first though! Cheers for the heads up

@Scrazza - Thanks, man! Glad you like!

@Neil - Hahaha, you're not far off what I was going for actually! And the beard / jumper bit made me laugh out loud in the library, so now everyone's looking at me funny, so thanks for that The effect is called 'realistic water' and I do not recommend it to anyone and am seriously considering burning it. (It will probably burn - that's how 'realistic' it is as water...)
Your second pic didn't work, btw!

@Monkeytroll - I may now be kinda disappointed if it's anything else!

@Anung Un Rama - They're great, aren't they? I think the designer was probably playing some metro 2033. Some of them even have clips on them that look just like the pre-war rounds from ingame!



Bit of fluff i'm working on, just so it's not a completely pointless update. Part 1 of probably 2 or 3. May be a campaign intro story for a necro campaign I'll hopefully be running early next year!

Day 27
So we met some others out in South Crockfall today – traders out carting goods from Lakeside to Roth. Not the route I’d have taken. It all got a wee bit tense at first, warning shots fired, itchy trigger fingers. My boys are all fresh, no idea how to keep their calm yet. Had to pull Corin down, knock him behind some ruins, and Kaylan got to test whether that flak armour he’s so proud of still works. Could have gone bad, but no one dead on either side – don’t think things would have worked out so cleanly if their shots hadn’t swung so wide. Once things got calmed down, once we’d established that we weren’t trying to rob them, and they weren’t setting up an ambush themselves, things got a little friendlier. Kaylan held a grudge, went off and sat by himself, but that’s just his way. I got chatting to their train leader, this enormous Granger bloke, called himself Boln. Turned out they were with the Kinsmouth Company, taking sea salvaged gear by road – Pretty seasoned, by the sounds of it. We shared some food, traded information, went on our way. Nice to see some friendly faces occasionally. Or, sort of friendly, anyway.
Nothing much else going on. Found some pistons in an old wreck, pretty corroded, but no cracks. Might be worth a few credits once we’re out of the wilds. An old waster nest with an ex-family in it, too. They’d been picked pretty clean, but Jorn found an autoclip in the jacket of one of the little ones, a couple of filters that looked pretty clean, as well as a few baccsticks. I let her keep them - she’s a good kid, and I’ve got no doubt at all that Mule or Kaylan would have pocketed that gear without a word.

Day 28
Corin bust his mask. Kicked in a barred door and the hinge caught him in the face. It’s just a crack in the visor, might not even have broken the seal, but he’s hive-born, not used to the surface. He’s convinced he’s going to die. We’re on the lookout for a replacement, but I’m almost tempted to give him my own, just to calm him down. Air seems pretty clean today. Tempted, but I won’t. Bloody room was useless anyway – mouldy fashion clothes. Too fragile to wear before they rotted.
We’re in riot country now, near where the Crockfall evac left. One ship. The area immediately around the shuttleport housed six munitorums, four hundred thousand workers. The city they were supposed to be evacuating held nearly fifteen million people. One ship. There are bones lining the roads here – the PDF didn’t discriminate. I hate these places.
Still, Crockfall caught the rusinate rain when no one was prepared for it. Whatever people owned, it’s still here. And it might be worth finding. We’ll try munitorum B59-C tomorrow – I can’t imagine there’s anything left, but it’s never been picked over by the Jackal cells, so you never know, might be a ticket home for this lot.
Can hear shots tonight. A way off, to the East, but something to bear in mind. Never headed that way before.

Day 34
Leaving the munitorum tomorrow. I made it clear before we headed in that we were not there to fight, and if anyone else had a claim to it, we stayed quiet and backed the hell out. Lot of these places are pretty sheltered, out of the rain and out of sight. Nice bases for some of the bandit gangs that prey on the caravans out here. This lot are green as hell – we wouldn’t stand a chance against the cutthroats.
Place was open – couple of warning signs around, some of them pretty recent, bit of gang-style graffiti, but nothing too threatening. It was dark inside, not too dark to see, but dark enough that Jorn thought it was a good idea to put her headlamp on. A quick tap, and she had it off again pretty quickly. Good kid, but not the smartest. We stuck close together, weapons drawn. Had to show Mule how to unjam his pistol this morning – apparently he hasn’t cleaned it since we set out. Could have taken his hand off if he’d tried to fire it, especially with his homemade shells. Says he’s used to bigger weapons, but for an ex-arbite, he sure as hell doesn’t seem to know a whole lot about weapon maintenance. Worth remembering. Couple of hours sweeping, and we knew that the place was ours.
According to the map, B59-C was a production facility for promethium tanks for use in larger cargo trucks. No actual promethium, no actual trucks, just the tanks. And there were a lot of them. Lorek said he was hoping some of the production equipment might still have the ‘spirit units’ or some such intact – never really understood all the technobabble, here or with the mech units back in the day. Either way, they’re supposed to be good for driving other gear too, so would have been perfect for fixing some of the purifiers back home. ‘Technoheresy’, he called it. I kind of like the term. Nothing there that hadn’t already been picked over anyway. We found a few saleable things, though mostly scrap leftover now.
Someone had been here recently – couple of scorched firemarks and a few discarded food cans. We heard the gunfire again today too, still to the East. A little closer now though, it seems. Might be worth making tracks while we can. Mule and Kaylan are on watch tonight, and the rest of us are getting some sleep. We’ll head South in the morning.

Day 38
We found the shaft this evening, looks like an old elevator. It was in the basement of a wrecked house on a street called Dunover, covered over by rubble and a large metal grille. Pretty well hidden, really, nothing you would have seen from the surface before the bombs hit. Even now, we only found it because Corin almost collapsed the cover. The grille’s got a cog and a skull on it – only other place I’ve seen that is the hydroponics facility I used to guard with the Captain.
I’m pretty excited, to be honest. I’m trying to hide it so as not to get the boys too worked up, but – it goes deep, really deep, and it looks like it hasn’t been disturbed in decades. There are no research facilities documented in this area, so if we’ve found one, it’s new. Vox contact with home is pretty sketchy from where we are, and it’ll only get worse as we go down. We’ve let Crail know where we are and asked for an extraction if there’s no further contact in a week’s time. No knowing how big this place is, and I’m sure as hell not leaving it til we’ve found whatever’s down there. If it is more of that greenhouse gear, it’ll be the most important find any Jackal cell’s ever made. Might not be though. Got to keep myself grounded. I’ve set up a relay here for my logs too. That way, if we’re not back up by the time extraction comes, they’ll know where to find us.
If anyone’s listening to this, personnel include myself; Lorek, our engineer; Mule and Kaylan, ex-arbites; and Jorn and Corin, seeking citizenship in Pinepoint. We’ve been scavenging Crockfall and the craterside area for a few months now, so we’re all looking forward to you dragging out whatever the hell we’ve found down here and getting our asses home. Get some beers on ice for us!
It’s already dark and it seems like the power’s down, so we’re camping here tonight. I've sorted all the ropes, and we're looking to move out in the morning.

I love the fluff, Scarper, really do. I like fluff myself but for some reason I can never write stories as such - just background. This is good - it actually makes me think of some of H.P. Lovecraft's work! He tended to write in the first person too... So I'm pretty sure I would NOT go down that shaft ;P

By the way... I have 10 Guardsmen here that aren't doing much so if you want them they're yours.
PM if interested