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Tom, I think at some point you should do a sculpting tutorial on here. I think you could really show us alot we could benefit from.

I might but that depends. You see I would need a mod in here to ok a tutorial since:
1: They take a lot of time for me to make, take pics of and compile and
2: The BnC refused to host a big tutorial of mine and that was even before the advertising lies.

But that was an an old one not related to my current sculpting so if you guys want custom tutorials I need an ok word so that I dont spend a weekend in vain.
Sorry but the BnC tought me a lot of things, amongst those that it pays to be cynical.

This site has an open tutorial section where you can post with limited moderation. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/forums/show/68.page

2nd'ed for wanting a tutorial....

And please chapterhouse make some different space wolf shoulders, if you do I'm all over them.

Love the Chapterhouse stuff though

My god Tom ... your still going on and on ... even when a mod advises you to stop doing it? ... huge vehement posts, about conspiracy theories with the B&C and GW, calling people all kinds of things, it has to stop sometime.

Sadly it was like this on the B&C for years, I kept cutting you slack and you kept ignoring the mods. Your warning record shows Trolling and flaming for YEARS since you joined in '02. The warning log shows discussions with admins and mods going back to 2003, all asking you to stop your rants and tirades. Most you were rude to or just plain ignored, those you listened too managed to calm you down but only for a few months at best.

Only reason you weren't chucked much earlier is you had a passion for the Salamanders similar to my own. Eventually you ran out of rope, most people get 5 warnings on the B&C max before banning, you ran to over 7 before enough was enough (and that includes the regular yearly removal of a single warning for last 7 years).

It was a mistake on my part really letting you stay beyond the five warnings. You harassed my moderators constantly, even to the point where they wanted to leave the board. The warning topic about you in the Moderators section ran to over 90 posts, only two other members in our entire history generated more hassle than you did.

For those that wanted to know, those are the reasons why Tom was Banned, normally we would not discuss such a thing publicly, but he seemed desperate to know. Obviously ongoing warnings and battles with moderators for 7 years weren't a sufficient clue.

Anyway I am kind of done here .. sorry Kilkrazy but they wanted to know why, I for one will respect what you said and won't carry on the discussion anymore!

So Nick, show us some more sculpting!

gee whiz, let it die already. or take it to PMs or something. Why does every chapterhouse post end up like this?

I think its GW legal mention that does it

I dig the tiered shoulderpad CH.


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My god Argos, you stopped lying? Yes I wanted to know David, I wanted to end it with piece on my mind and not lies. Does that surprise you?
Finally Argos, it took you a lot of time start being straight with me and in the end tell me why I was banned. See, not that hard instead of lying about advertising posts and using GW IP to make a buck (pot calling kettle).
Now you dont have to face explaining how companies like: http://privateerpress.com and http://www.maxmini.eu
are allowed to "advertise" on your site while I get kicked after one innocent picture.
I bet that was worth it rather then keep making claims that are counter proven when hiding from it didnt help due to my "ranting".
Although you still havent answered why all chapterhouse linking threads made my people on your site "vanish" in a second while tons of other so called "advertising" frequent your site. Cmon Argos, now when you´re starting to get "honest" with me dont stop! Use the PM if it is embarrassing. Heck I´ll even help you out and do it for you so we dont pollute this thread any more since you are so careful not to bother the admins here but that calls for you actually deigning to answer my PM for a change.

I find it hard to believe past bad behavior is so unwanted on BnC, after all one of your mods was banned from FoN TWICE and had a pile of warnings from SB the size of texas for bad behavior and for making members want to quit the boards but on BnC those kind of people are taken in as mods. Heck, I would fit at head admin level on your board with my "trouble making" credentials!

You try to act above criticism and vilify me by asking why I keep on ranting while excusing yourself by posting ot one-liners, you accused me of doing things you do yourself and of advertising while others are allowed to do so blatantly and now you are "shocked" that I over react? Is it part of your "warnings" about me to the dakka admins? It takes two to tango David and you sure lead well!

That SO much "ranting" was needed to make you stop throwing stones in glass houses about GW IP and making money, lying about me advertising and instead start telling me straight things to my face rather then hiding speaks volumes about who you are David.
I think it was worth it since now I know where I have you rather then having to face someone lying to my face I dont have to constantly second guess your words any more. Now stop bothering me with this, this is a CH sculpt thread!

Fianlly! "Rant" and of topic over *phew*, and finally I can get some piece.
Sorry dakka, needed to defend the public advertising lies and no, I couldnt take it in PM since I already tried that on BnC and Argos never bothered replying...but now its over
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So Nick, show us some more sculpting!

Nick doesnt do the sculpting nor the taking of pictures so he cant comply with the request, but I´ll do my best to meet it.

2nd'ed for wanting a tutorial....

Of what kind of tutorial, on what?
Easiest would be if I took things already existing on my table and photoed them as I go along.

Things I recently finished that are going to Chapterhouse (and examples of what kind of tutorials can be made are):
Fire and coal containing braziers that can be added to any vehicle (but are part of the Land Raider extra armour kit)
This is the "ugly" one (there are two different versions).



Heavy bolter cover for the LR or any razorback etc.


Some Land Raider track guards and side extra armour for any armies using dragons or simply salamanders:


Those buggers were a pain to sculpt but now all hangs on Nick and his ability not to wreck the sculpts in the moulding and casting process.

Some previous sculpts were ruined in the copying processes and that is a bummer since it eats away my time for nothing so lets see if these things go through well enough.

I should also have updated pics of that new wolf/celtic storm shield tonight, I should really benefit from a gigantic basement standing casting pressure pot now to speed up the work, stupid me for selling the one I had of, talk about making a past blunder:(

I have a question that i always wanted to ask ...
but not sure how to word it without sounding like im trying to cause problems ><

Shoot. I mean it cant get any worse then the previous little storm in here

Well, unless it is a legal question "again".

Tom- wrote:Shoot. I mean it cant get any worse then the previous little storm in here

Well, unless it is a legal question "again".

Kk , this is 100% real question ,

Awhile back when the Leman Russ are rumored to be remade , there have been alot of talk on how people
dislike the decades old design. And i found some resin conversion kits for Ssur Namel ( lol forgot the product name ) .

What it is , is resin Russ parts to be attached onto current LR , and they look really really really good.

However , they have been quickly shut down despite they are located all the way in Russia.

So i guess my question is , what did they do wrong , or how are you guys approaching this differently then
they did? to be able to stand against GW's rabid lawyers ?

Kk , this is 100% real question ,

Awhile back when the Leman Russ are rumored to be remade , there have been alot of talk on how people
dislike the decades old design. And i found some resin conversion kits for Ssur Namel ( lol forgot the product name ) .

What it is , is resin Russ parts to be attached onto current LR , and they look really really really good.

However , they have been quickly shut down despite they are located all the way in Russia.

So i guess my question is , what did they do wrong , or how are you guys approaching this differently then
they did? to be able to stand against GW's rabid lawyers ?

Ssur Namel?
Sorry but I would need to see what parts you are talking about, can you link to a picture?
How did do it wrong I cant even start to tell you without having seen the pics or know something about how they made them, how they advertised them or what they called them.

Being russia based doesnt matter in this instance, there are a few countries however that do offer vastly better protection from things like hostile shut downs of web sites etc and no, I´m not speaking of under developed african ones.

Tom- wrote:
Ssur Namel?
Sorry but I would need to see what parts you are talking about, can you link to a picture?
How did do it wrong I cant even start to tell you without having seen the pics or know something about how they made them, how they advertised them or what they called them.

Being russia based doesnt matter in this instance, there are a few countries however that do offer vastly better protection from things like hostile shut downs of web sites etc and no, I´m not speaking of under developed african ones.

Basically its an add on , very similar to chapter house .

Pm´ed you, lets keep this thread clean from legal stuff. Its "supposed" to be about sculpts and maybe tutorial ideas.

I'm glad to see that everybody here ends up looking like a tool.

I love the internet.

That Salamander stuff is VERY nice, but I sold my soul to the Alpha Legion (and the Raven Guard, ironically enough) long ago.

And that variant Leman Russ? Very nice as well!

Now there's a tank! Shame about them getting shut down...

Unlike that Russian company, Chapterhouse doesn't use recast GW components. Chapterhouse goes to lengths to produce from scrath analogues to be sculpted on.



Everything circled is an instance where that Russian company recast the a gmaes worksshop part.

I want those tanks to look cool, but for some reason I just keep feeling like they're backwards...

Those tanks do look cool though... Wonder if there was any way to procure thier molds, modify them to legality, and sell the main body

I realllly like those tanks!

Nick

Polonius wrote:I'm glad to see that everybody here ends up looking like a tool.

+1

As far as the sculpting goes, much better than I can produce. My only quibble is that the bits are too specific and don't fit my needs/ wants.

I'd like to see:
1) Pre-heresy Land Raider kit that is cheaper and can be assembled with less headaches than the current FW piece.

2) Generic squad shoulderpads- Tactical, Dev, Assault with squad #

3) Turbofan jump packs

4) More stuff I can't think of...

I think its an over cluttered abomination, like someone said how many different small GW parts can we recast and glue on.

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3215187&highlight=resin#post3215187

http://www.warseer.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2135909&postcount=3773

I've seen scratch builds that looked nicer. Speaking of which... this is a resin kit this guy in Germany made:
http://gwfwmort.bplaced.net/web1/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=1&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=2&lang=en

Painted up:
http://pickadamnarmy.blogspot.com/2009/07/painted-blood-pact-tank-6.html

My point compared to what you could do, that russian thing is ugly.

Flagg07 wrote:

As far as the sculpting goes, much better than I can produce. My only quibble is that the bits are too specific and don't fit my needs/ wants.

I'd like to see:
1) Pre-heresy Land Raider kit that is cheaper and can be assembled with less headaches than the current FW piece.

That isnt on the table, but we have the Pre-Heresy Rhino kit that will turn a MKII chassis into a MKI image with doors and grills and front panels.

Flagg07 wrote:2) Generic squad shoulderpads- Tactical, Dev, Assault with squad #

These are being molded as we speak, we have I-VI Tactical Arrow Pads, VII-X are Devestator and Assault Pads, Im looking foward to removing all my decal Squad pads from my Salamanders

Flagg07 wrote:3) Turbofan jump packs

On the drawing board along with some Pre-Heresy Terminator pads and other early era style pads


Nick

Chapterhouse wrote:

Flagg07 wrote:3) Turbofan jump packs

On the drawing board along with some Pre-Heresy Terminator pads and other early era style pads


Nick

I'll be waiting for these!

Pre-Heresy is an absolute untapped gold mine, as far as I'm concerned.

I'm still shocked that GW and/or FW hasn't made more of an effort in this direction...

They're leaving money on the table and in wallets on this one!

Yeah, I think you will see a push from us on PH stuff once we finish the Wolf stuff on the table. Id love to move faster but we need more sculpting manpower (which Im trying to procure without costing me an arm and a leg).

Nick

Since you are redoing the Salamanders Rhino front, I really think you should take a look at the 'lizard skin' pieces meant to go onto the gaps on the front and rear sides.

When I received your product, I was extremely happy with the other parts, but basically threw out those pieces. The problem is that they come in two separate pieces for each 'L' shape, but all of the sides are flush. In addition, there is a good 1mm gap all around them and the rhino body. When installing them will take more GS work than just producing the effect from scratch, I am not that interested.

The Space Wolf equivalent parts look like they will come as a single piece, can this be done with the Salamanders.

All this being said, I will be one of your first orders for the Land Raider kit.

Done.... Tom has remade those panels, he wasnt too happy with them himself, so they are 1 piece parts now

I think they will be more delicate to ship (no more bubble envelopes, need boxes). They may break, btu the fit will be there.

Even if they break, that is an easy fix.

Now, how long of a forecast on the Land Raider kit? I want to get that stuff glued on so that I can start freehanding the thing.

Late next week i should be recieving the new kits.

Nick

Nick and Tom - loving the Land Raider Salamander custom bits. Any chance of a Redeemer flame sponson cover?

I think we can do that, Tom?