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great read as usual mate , wonder what they will find

Some of the best fluff I've ever read. I was on the edge of my seat, quite literally!

Keep up the great work!

Rawson

Love your stuff keep it up. Good job giving a character my last name lol.

Very nice Scarp, your writing's certainly improving, each bit of fluff getting better and better. Keep it up

scarp as you know i come here alot for inspiration on my own armies munda,40k, and =][=munda alike but as ive been working on fluff for my 40k army i think i might use some of your techniques i love the journal entries and stuff along with accounts or transmittions lookin forward to seeing more... and while im here why dont i take a look at the place from page 1..again


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you know youve got a great blog when after looking at it many times it still inspires new stuff... i have a drawing to do now

Wow, cheers guys, that's one hell of a response! I'll have to get working on the rest of it

@Ragsta - Thanks a ton, man! I've read very little lovecraft to be honest, nothing like as much as I would like to. Just a few stories like the one with the clothing display mannequins. It's definitely going to get a little spooky down there, and I'm currently running with the narrator as a realist - it's been really fun to write, actually!
You should give writing for some characters a go, it's way more enjoyable to write than background! I tend to have a few personality types in mind and then spin some histories and character traits off there. Then you can shove em all in a group and see how they interact
And are you serious about the guard? That would be awesome! PM inbound, thank you!

@neil - Thanks a bunch, Neil! Really value your opinion on this writing malarkey, so I'm glad you're enjoying it. More to come soon!

@Rawson - Wow, thank you, man, that's some real high praise there! Hope you like the rest just as much, but still a little bit of a wait I'm afraid

@Ghostmaker - How do you know about him?! Ricky Ghostmaker doesn't turn up until part 3! Thanks a bunch for the kind words though.

@monkeytroll - Aww, thanks, Monkeytroll! Really appreciate all your help in getting me there

@Rogue Wolves - Go for it, man! I'm far from the first to use journal entries to tell a story - just strikes me as an easy way to cover the passage of time I'm really flattered you're still finding stuff you like - any chance you could post up that drawing when you get done? I'd love to see it!


Today's update is more a "I'm still alive and doing things" than anything else

First off is Raston, with his base primed and ready to go. Told you not much had changed!


Next are a few VERY (very very) early wip parts and a teaser for Lodge, the first QA heavy. Any guesses on what he's going to be posed doing? I don't think you'll get it


And finally - the bloody 'water effect' disaster. It's a lot more transparent than it was before and I think I can get rid of the rounding by repouring with some better edges, but the surface has some rough texture to it that I'm not happy about at all. Looks more like he got trapped in amber Jurrasic Park-style than fell in a sump.

I'd love any suggestions anyone might have for a fix - spent quite a lot of time on the paint, so I'm gutted if it's wrecked.

Still, bit more time this week, I hope. Thanks so much to everyone who's reading - I really do appreciate everyone who takes the time. You're all awesome!

Not sure I have any advice other than a thin repour over the top, but damn, those lenses look great through the water

4 things firstly loving what your doing with that catachan, secondly while looking through your thread i saw my favorite model (the warden) and was wondering if your adding any people to his crew, thirdly as im not the greatest writer only mad notes to myself i express fluff through visuals better currently im working on drawing the command of the multiple planets in my system, and then some studies on each individual planetary army, i'll be sure to throw the first one up when im finished and finally im curious what you plan on using the water effects for?

I started reading this a few pages back. Really like the "beard effect", nice sculpt!

The fluff was very interesting to read and I was disappointed when it ended. I'm interested in finding out what's down there.

Sorry about the water effect. I wish I had some advice but my experience is limited, and after reading online for possible fixes I didn't see anything that would offer a solution.

Subbed and will be back.

I don't think the surface texture is that bad. But from reading a "how to article" the person had to spend, something ridiculous, like 20 hours polishing the water effect to get nice edges and surface.

Raston is shaping up nicely. Roll on the painting

Raston is looking great very interested to see what direction you take the paint job for him and the corpse.
I think the new heavy will be laying prone providing cover fire?
The sump came out well , and like monkey said the lenses look very ominous , i have to tell you that you are really inspiring me to do some proper writing again mate, either that or illustrate your stories ;-) . Have you seen stalker by andrei tarkovsky ? if not i think you would find some inspirational stuff in that movie. I know i did.

Has been a while since seeing Stalker
Very haunting movie and would be inspirational indeed.

you tube has deleted the entire movie unfortunately but i did find this clip


rehosted the pic

It was Captain Peacock, in the sump, with the heavy bolter

are you guessing or making a statement ? because if your wrong your out ;-)

beside it was sgt harker in the jungle with the tiny riot shield

The new heavy will be doing some spot welding to his heavy bolter - that looks like a welding mask to me... Er, if I've fallen for something totally bleedin' obvious then I apologise in advance.

Scarper, I had to stifle a laugh when I saw that entombed scavenger.

By the way, I haven't read that Lovecraft one about mannequins, where can it be found?

I'd hazard a guess that the rifle stock will become an artificial leg, with the bolter forming a jet engine, the bipod making wings and the mask helping to bulk out the neck connection between the organic head and the tekno-body.

I might be wrong though.

Everyone knows that it was Commissar Mustard in the Water Still with the plasma pistol!

buh buh buh i like commissar mustard...

The commissar is never the victim killed with a knife, cos you just can't cut the Mustard.




I think I had better grab my mackintosh.

Chibi - If you insist on leaving fair enough but before you do please take a bow.

That made me laugh quite a bit.

Yo scarp hows the work coming along?

He's busy polishing his water effect with 600 grit sandpaper. He'll be back in 3 weeks.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:He's busy polishing his water effect with 600 grit sandpaper. He'll be back in 3 weeks.

"Only 19 more hours of polishing. Only 18 more hours of polishing. Only..."

wether you know this scarp you have unleashed a beast i started drawing some ig command then some troops then i was reasearching which lead me to start painting a mini canvas of cypher and now im doing that and have starting some ig drawings ughh your thread has.. done this to me...

Apologies for the delay, as always. Afraid my day job takes precedence. I'm applying for posts for next year at the mo, and have an exam in 2 weeks, and am currently commuting back and forth to a hospital an hour and a half away, so slow going, I'm afraid Thank you so much for the continued interest though, it's really inspiring!

@monkeytroll - Thanks! Might just be a trick of the light though I've currently repoured and am leaving for at least a week - no bloody fingerprints on this one. I'm actually really annoyed about your guess for his pose - you nailed it completely, and now I've had to put him together entirely differently so that it doesnt look like i'm stealing your idea. So cheers for that

@Rogue wolves - 4 responses:
1) Thanks a ton!
2) The current guys I'm making are the Warden's crew! I'm accumulating a fair bit of fluff for them at the mo, which I'll be posting in the near future. Stay tuned!
3) You really should! I'd love to see them, anyway. And I just find writing fun - no need to actually be any good at it
4) It's going to be a scavenge marker for necromunda games - the water effect was just to make it a little different from the others. More effort than it's worth, tbh...
Also, thanks a bunch again for the continued support - sorry I'm taking so long!
p.s. post your canvases!

@Skalk - Thanks for the kind words! Fluff update hopefully during the next week or two, including the close of that story. I hope you'll like it! Thanks a ton for the sub - hope I can keep it interesting. (Love what you're doing with your chaotic mob stuff, btw - really inspirational stuff )

@PDH - It's worse than it looks, trust me. And I'll crack out the sandpaper tonight! Thanks a ton for looking into it for me

@neil101 - Thanks a ton Neil! I'm really (really!) glad you're getting back into the writing, and thank you so much for the secret invite too - will launch into that once my exams are done. Did I say that out loud?
Not quite right on Lodge, but I didn't really give you much to go on Stalker looks amazing actually - I'll have to see if I can dig out a (totally legal, obvs) copy online. (Also, your pic is still dead for me!)

@Chibi - I'll have to give it a look!

@Ragsta - Totally the closest guess! And really sorry bout the delay with the pics - really appreciate your offer, I just haven't had access to my bits box cause I'm stuck in a peripheral hospital atm :( Will get something to you as soon as I can!

I'm kind of gutted now that he's not controlling a miniscule riot with the world's smallest riot shield or murdering commisars in water stills now, but Lodge is coming along. The GS work is obviously sloppy and it's a very early WiP, but hopefully it's an idea of the direction he's taking. I was going for someone just interrupting him from his work, and a pose of frozen work / annoyance. Not sure it's coming across, but here goes:




And here's a (very early!) WiP of what he'll be tearing down:


Hope you like, and please, as always, let me know what you reckon, good or bad. Thanks so much for all the comments so far!

Certainly impressed with how its all coming along mate, certainly making me want to get a bit of fluff up for my own Morridanes!

That is so (researches Thesaurus...) heteroclite! Very well done and it does tell the story. You are stuck with facial expressions on the model, but the rest of the pose conveys an annoying interruption for sure, and once you have paint on it you'll be able to express that idea all the more.

Thanks for the comment about my Cultists, I really enjoy that project a lot and it's cool to know other people are into it as well.

Good luck on the madness of your current schedule. Hopefully things will wind down a bit for you once it's done.

Oh man, I was looking forward to those bipod wings.


Lodge is looking good so far, love the base. You managed to choose the right head, that frontal face shot under the mask looks suitably annoyed

Seems everybody's busy at the moment, good luck with your schedule.

thats lookin sweet so far scarp what did you use as the welding mask?