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Little Flying Thingy (abbr. LFT) looks really cool, those little bony wings are really fun. And the ogryn went really fast from amazing built to amazingly painted!

neil - Cheers dude, good to see you!


youwashock - Be wary, wild things inhabit the area...
And yes, that is indeed one of the old hunters from confrontation with a new arm courtesy of MEdge, and some new avionics courtesy of some robotic thing somewhere


Cam - You flatterer you. Many thanks!


graven - Mmmm, sticky! Lovely.


Viterbi - Cheers. Those wings have been earmarked for a Nurgley old jump pack for many moons, but I decided they should be actually used on something now.
As for the ogryn, I suspect the wait for the next stage - fully painted - may take strange aeons...


Little touches on the various paint in progress, but not enough to warrant a showing yet, so we have a few bits from the flesh-vats to pass the time...


Although, actually, this one managed to get a splash of colour somehow...



Possibly an excommunicated Inquisitor, and slated to lead the little roving band of ne'er-do-wells currently in progress.


Who can resist a bloated, pustulent figure on a floating disc? Not me...




Was going to be brandishing a pistol in the right hand, but I'm reconsidering that, not completely sure on who this dude actually is yet.


And a little pet for them...





And not one of Paula's blessed...





A humble store owner from the wastelands, very old, probably quite grumpy.
Not sure whether his finished form is the first version, floating just above the ground, no more than a couple of feet, or closer to the second version, able to hover a little higher.



Really need to figure where my compact camera is, these phone shots are terrible.

Thanks for stopping by, help yourself to tea, those tentacles don't really affect the taste...

Switched the merchant around a bit:






Need to tidy up the cables, maybe add some wiring from the hat, maybe add some greebles to the body. Decide whether those are repulsors or exhausts.



A little guy:




A Jimp, or maybe a Klimp...
Was originally thinking it would have a single manipulator, but no, it's just getting legs.
Need to finish up the feet.


Wormy thingies:



Still working out the riders, and configuration of the third worm.


Adeptus Slobbus:






A variety of cables, mechandrites, wires, manipulators and tubes to be added.



And trying my hand at the painting challenge with this guy:




Hopefully simple enough that I might actually complete it?



The computer thanks you for stopping by, friend troubleshooter.
This is a Blue level sentence, please check your security clearance ... ...
Please report for termination.
Perhaps your next clone will do better.

The computer is your friend. There's no need to be Paranoid.

Damn ain’t been around here for a while and glad to see the crazy creativity hasn’t gone.

Still mixing and matching the oddest of things and somehow making it work along with that cool factor.

Love the hover merchant!

That's is a good switcheroo for the merchant, he looks like a flying mushroom robot now!

Which I think is cool btw

disturbingly good

Great new gribbly things you're showing off, the painting comp mini is definitely the odd one out from that bunch

And I vote for repulsors with the merchant.

Some really fantastic kitbashing in here!

Your work is just so inspiring MT, I just want to kitbash an army straight away every time I come here. Long may it continue.

graven - Friend troubleshooter, what is your security clearance?

Bare metal friend computer.

Please report to your nearest disintegration station. Perhaps your next clone will do better.


ldd - It's been a while since there was much to look at Ever time I visit I try to make sure crazy comes along too


K_K - Many thanks! Hopefully there's a few more civvy types in the future.


Guardling - Cheers! That combination of part and head have been earmarked for a while now, although for a Inquisitor type rather than a merchant type, so I perhaps should have tried that combo earlier.


neil - High praise sir! Always a pleasure to know you've stopped in


Viterbi - He's not the odd one out, he matches perfectly - all unpainted

Vote noted, but I'm tending towards exhausts - for a given value of exhaust - myself. Pretty sure this choice will come up again though.


insaniak - Thank you very much!


Cam - Oh, right back atcha bud!



Well, the troubleshooter was an abject failure - he stills stands and points accusingly in his bare metal finish....

So, I'll try the painting challenge again in March, with the theme being space marines.
Now, I didn't have a marine laying around that was calling to me for painting, so I went off-piste.



So I need to switch a SUBmarine for a SPACEmarine (I'm sorry...really I am)




Take two subs into the shower? Not me. No, I stick them together, add a dash of cable-tie, a soupcon of bits and It could almost be a starship....




Add wings (flying forward swept for that funky futuristic feel) and we're getting somewhere...




Couple of extra towers, and somewhere to put some feersum enjunns.




Engines in place




A bit of greebling and I'm liking it for a quick kit-bash.

On to the painting.






Hmmm....

Bloody nightmare!

Startied with not being able to find the spray I wanted as a base, but I had a back-up grey. Which was fine for the first two passes. Then the paint started coming up from under the nozzle, splattering the ship and myself.

A quick clean-up and with evening drawing nearer I opt for white. Slightly vexed by the previous, and mildly distracted i go too close and too hard with the white. Not terrible on the topside, but the under decks are a right mess.

After a few (shoddy) panels I realise the white is too much for a base, and so for some reason attempt a shoddy, sloppy, ill-advised wash to bring it back. That and sloppy brushwork meant I really wasn't focused on...well, anything really. Hopefully a few touch-ups, a bit of detailing, and some magic fairy dust will get something that is finished at least, even if it's not going to be pretty...



Talking of pretty....









This guy got some manipulators for manipulating.

Another arm, or rather a stump, a few more cables and another mechandrite and he's just about done.



And another trader type tips up to town..





A rare zen trader he has become one with his cart....

Not sure of his actual wares yet, so not sure just how piled the cart will be, but I'm fairly certain it won't be sparse.



And I had to do something with this lovely torso...




well, floaters are popular this season, so...



That's definitely one of your classic anti-grav motors that is...




Let's smooth those nurgly bits a bit. And pop on a hoody in case his ears get cold.




Getting smoother, much less likely to offend the tourists as they wander the bazaar.
That hoody does seem to have eaten his face though....


Wait.
Wait.
Hold on a minute.
What if we were to make him all Nurgly though?




Yep, big rotting gut, long creepy arms, and whirring turbofans in place of legs. Seems legit.




Probably not so attractive as a prospective retailer for some - although that would depend on the market itself...


Well, thanks for stopping in, help yourself to gum on the way out. I believe it's double-mint. Although there's a chance it's bile and belladonna...

Love the Sub/Space Marine!

Too bad about the rattle can, but if one can save that ship, it's you. Good luck on getting it finished in time!

And don't get distracted by great new builds, even if it's more fun for us

Well, exciting builds, and don't think we didn't notice your... Cultured references

K_K - Thanks a bunch! Paint job turned out poor, but I do like the build.


Viterbi - Not sure I saved it, but I appreciate your faith


graven - Cheers bud!


Not pretty but any standard, but I guess it got finished....

The Outer Systems Marine Corps LRE 'Flying Without Feathers'
















I would say that I may go back and to-do the paint at some point, but that is unlikely to be honest


Nothing else worth showing at present, mistreating to keep the blog at least semi-active.

In some gaming related news though, did go down to London at the weekend and dropped in to Twincon, a small rpg and gaming convention. Small, friendly and a lot of fun.
D&D session in the morning, all survived, even the druid that turned into a pig to lure in a dragon...(me)
Over lunch played a game called Welcome To... A kind of town building game, where you mark out on a map with the aid of drawing cards. Interesting mechanic, and any number of players.
Alien rpg in the afternoon. Immense fun. Ended with us taking off from the over-run colony only to discover eggs on the ship. Two down with face-huggers attached, the marine stunned and trying to fight off another hugger, myself trying to fly whilst keeping a hugger off my face, another hugger loose. The synthetic opens comms with Weyland and informs them the package is en-route. I scream and kill the engines....

Quite the conversion monkeytroll.

Cheers,

CB

Neat looking ship Monkeytroll ! Very slick profile.

The London trip sounds fun, love the end of the alien RPG session

And of course I have faith, a sisters player is obligated to it

WOW!

I just read through the entire blog from the beginning and one word sums up the creativity I found on every page - Inspirational!

I now feel an almost uncontrollable urge to bash together some unbound daemons for my Inquisition.

Oh, and could you please share where you get the metal spider-like legs used in many of your conversions? They look super creepy and perfect for daemonic entities .

Keep up the amazing work!


Capt. Hodgeheg