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hi neil,

my deepest condolence, seeing money part ways with you is always troublesome...like losing some distant friends...

landlords... always pancin´around as if the own the place...öhm...

so man is there something to look forward to or is it going to be a bring eavening as no uptade will cross our ways? hope not man, need some new stuff from ye, gets to be addicting...

have a nice day with the family, cheers mate, vik

@ vik thanks for your monatary sympathies

I have good news peoples I have finished the introduction to Praxus. I have decided to post the story in paragraphes ,instead of chapters , this should mean i get work out quicker than if i posted in chapters first 2 paragraphs will be on the drawing board asap , but for now thanks for your patience and here is the official cover and introduction to my Sequential art Novella ( fancy title for a web comic i know
so without further ado......

Edit had a problem with the upload page 3 is there now

Hi neil,
first big congatulations for your first pages. second, ähm your still working on page three?
can´t see it right now...

as for what i CAN see, truly breath taking.
the scenery is quite, heavy ladden and you just can hear heavy footsteps punctuated with the clatter of that staff of that person. whoever that might be.
although i´m not that fluent when it comes to fluff and this leads to lack of a understanding, i can still enjoy your beautiful and detailed work.
will we get to see the full text of the proclamation?
and if we see in these few pages the first glimpses of the manufactorum, then we all are in for a true treat^^.

by the way, in case of details, did you do a special job of the soles of this guy? the inprint looks like it was made with little inquisitorial emblems...

great work, now i´m again caught, line, hook and sinker...
damn...waiting...arrrrgh

cheers mate, vik

nice story boards, i really like them. were they all done on a tablet or is it drawn, scanned and then added to? either case, fantastic

Looks like it will be the start of a great comic! That writing is very neat how did you do it?

can someone please translate or better summerize the content of page 3. my english and latin is at it´s last frontier and i would like to understand what´s been written there...
i got some foggy ideas, and i´m startled by them...

thanks in advance, vik

pm me, so this wont dull the blog^^

thanks Calibite lion , I like drawing but never complete anything to any standard , this is my first attempt to complete a story with illustrations. the art work is HB pencil drawn on A 4 printing paper and scanned into photoshop cs3 to add text and what nots, the borders are made in an old illustrator 10 program.

@ (page 3 is fixed cheers )Vik lol as usual your enthusiasm lifts my waning pencil in the darkest hours lol . dont worry about the fluff , it will all become clear in the end ;-)

as for the soles of the feet, sharp spikey nails to remind Ignacious Aleron of his unworthyness to his most beneficent Emperor.

now your caught i will reel you in and fillet your emotions like a fish out of water. jk
feels good to post something finally , i know my work isnt the best around by a longshot , but hopefully it will be enough to carry the story, to its climax!

Now that looks sweet so far neil I would probably have preferred not to see the full reveal on page 3, and maybe seen a few more shots of the proclamation in later panels that might fill in the gaps from page 2, but that's purely a personal thing, I enjoy being teased like that

Oh, and 'onimisiah'? Should that have been omnimessiah, or was it deliberate?

don´t go fishing for complements, thats not up your ally.

you do great and it´s better to be proud about it!

nails...reminds me of the monk from da vinci code. self inflicted wounds to show how faithful he is...

your deeply twisted man, like that^^ ,filet me...as long as i´m not thrown away for beeing unworthy^^...


bows humbly, vik

@ Commander cain , Big thanks man , although i cant take credit for the Italics my hand is not that neat. they are fonts!

@MonkeyTroll I Thank you sir... I did consider not having the full reveal as it happens , just a few snippets here and there , but alas i had to think of the BIG picture, this is really just another bigger teaser than my previous teaser. is that enough teasing for you you naughty boy! lol no more teasing the real deal next time i promise.
and arh bugger my spelling is atrocious ( did i spell that right?) thanks for the notice you are now my official spell checker lol , shouldnt be to hard to change ;-)

@ Vik qoute "don´t go fishing for complements, thats not up your ally " you caught me , what can i say , i like compliments especially when they come from someone as venerable as yourself. ( see i can do sychophantic ass kisser as well...lol jk
my social graces know no bounds.
the da vinci code , yeah watched that receantly ..mmm, maybe it stuck in my deep grim dark twisted mind.

flagelation is the only way... if theres no blood its no good!!

Mini update ,I managed to put together the perry minis, although most still need backpacks, i decided for now not to change the majority of the models muskets to lasguns. may do that in the future , if i can find a way to do that doesnt make them look oversized. for now though 40k weapons for characters , i will get the 40k theme through scenery , vehicles and characters for now. still havent painted them yet , but i am looking forward to doing it, although i am also worried i wont do them justice, i dont have much experience of painting minis succesfully. But i suppose thats one of the reasons i joined dakka , so i could learn and share
@ vik thanks for the air dry clay tip for the bases i had some in storage that i hadnt really used, it was very hard though, had to mix with some liquid nails ( no more nails ) type glue. going to base them in muddy dkok type ground with an accent of golden orangey red brown autumn leaves, an idea someone suggested to someone eles on another thread thanks for that. will paint em with dark angels green / and white. with red accents probably. oh and i custom made a autocannon copied the style from the dkok one. YOINK

Very very cool looking! Great job on the snow/mud terrain effect on the bases.

Also I found out how the guy made the water streams on the fountain... fishing wire covered in water effects!

Keep up the great work,

Mike

Thanks Mike , and fishing wire arh ... i see now!!!! have some of that somewhere! what a good idea , cheers gonna try that out!

man i like your kind of photography... looks as mentioned before almost like a graphic novel in itself...

your did what? what? an actual autocannon??? AAA...

looks super. MAMA can santa puuhhhhlleaseeee bring me also some?

the base looks (darn run out of adjectives).... made today the first steps into lava bases...but your muddy base wetted my apetite for an own trechsystem...gosh the to want list gets longer and longer...

those perry miniatures are one heck of a gracious army. did you say you get the lot of them white trousers? in this mud? well as your not the one to wash´em trousers you can make them as dirty as can be^^.

the scenes one could do with this lot of marching force...so cool...

and when i though i´ve seen it all and that i finally can rest my head, i behold the bayonettes... joy,joy,joy! love them. when i see them i sincerely ask myself when reentering the tabletop world why did i overlooked the possability of doing historical armies? cant find an answer for this but the consequences sure bite me in the behind (^^), now i sit here surounded by spheez mereenz...

i´ve had a good though about your muskets and how to add that 40k look to them instead of changing them out by lascanons. why not add some toothpikc cut up and also some wire? so it looks lie they are futuristic versions of an old archaic weaponsystem? also you can connect the wire then to teir backpacks... instant karskin then...


seems ebverytime my mind gets blown when i look in your thread...don´t know how much i can stand...*must hold through...*


cheers mate, we definitly must see more....up until then our last braincells burn out in overload^^.

vik

These are going to be very interesting, love the posed pics. Good job on that autocannon.

Thanks Vik you know how i like to tell a story , great idea about the wire and backpacks will deffinately try that out i think it could just work ,was even thinking of changing the helmets to a more modern style my youngest son the one who posed Antal , designed a cool helmet in one of his squiggles/ doodles / drawings and i really liked it so i decided it should be used for the indoor palace guards helmets. i then dumbed it down and made it more 40k for the normal praxian guard as well . i may use this design on a selction of the troops.
maybe engineers , or grenadiers i think the back pack idea with this will be very 40k.
i would like to see your lava designed bases. post em in your blog but muddy wet leave strewn fields all the way, i am learning alot about my tastes and styles with these projects
i think i am a humanist , there has to be a human element, in the sci fi i like, and imperial guard is billions of humans , i love the waste of life and pointlessness of it all. if you die it doesnt matter beacause there are billions more to take your place.
the perry minatures will allow me to capture that feeling better than anything else. they are small enough and cheap enough to field hundreds if you so wished . i always imagined that is what the imperial guard are like. Ants overunning the enemy. but with old Gnarly tanks as well as lasguns . gw doesnt really sell this aspect anymore , its all about powerfull characters
and small specialised armies. and too many tanks. i think the human elemant is lost in that somehow. the perry minis have charecter and i like that.
and bayonettes are cool . I even put one on the lasgun and it looked great.

@ Monkey troll , i commited the cardinal crime of photographing minis with the sun in front of me But it adds drama to my grayscale modles
until they are painted , that is

ooh i made a mortar and flame team tonight but its too late to post so will post in the morn!

thanks for the kind words of encouragement mate! my style is a bit lazy and messy compared with some of the really neat perfectionist styel work in here, but with comments like that iam learning there may be a place for a messy ( but creative) grimdark army in these wonderfull forums, I mean war is messy right?

when you mentioned ants i absolutly thought the same. in their fighting style IG mirrors very much nid fighting style.
in the WWII battles of russsian and german forces the russians often had a gunb for two soldiers. if the first one died the second one grabbed his gun and fought on. my granddad told my of ambushes where thousands of men stormed on armed with sticks and stones... really ant life is showed by the numerous colonies of the imperium...
senseless death all over. i also think that GWs strategie to make the IG army to mechanical is only set to bully players in buying numerous hefty priced units.
there is so much more soule and blood (so much blood indeed) in a fleshy army...

like the helmet design of your son. he seems to have inhaled the grim dark style of gothic warfare very well. i guess your geneseed^^ is really creative^^ if your offspring has so much talent in so young years...(horrible sentece i know...but feelings are sometimes hard to translate...)

you do know that it is quite sarcastic to say your a humanist and field lots of simulated men in a sloughterhouse? but i feel that to in that same sense. there is little posabilities to make a personalized and individual tank or a mech. but every little difference counts a lot made by a human model. it will be hard time to make this really working when i want to do my nid army... individuality is not really doable then...

as for the later helmet design it looks a bit at first to me like


the hakman from dc comics but then also like the falconian(?) from Flash Gorndan a bit... very retro sf and a true gem at that!

i recomend to do it only on special troops as the shako is a very important part of the uniform of your perry models. also i really realized how much i lkie the classic crossed belts ofer the torso of the napoleonistic models. this gives so much potential to add contrast for the paintjob. much much better than the dadian model which has only a rather flat looking chest compared...

i will add the lava bases to my blog or maybe even start a new blog for the iron templars to sort it...

cheers mate and give my best congratulations to your artistic son

vik

Form line against infantry
Form square against cavalry

I love that idea of the massed ranks of humanity breaking like a wave against the rock of the foe, and eroding it away with blood... shear bloody poety. I blame john blanche for the great illustrations he did for the guard where they are like a great sea, bristling with lasguns, The odd tank showing up like monstrous whales.

Everyman in the army is terrified of death, but he thinks he is alone in fearing. His belief in the bravery of his comrades is his shield from cowardice. I'm sure I read that somewhere

pic - copyright john blanche but I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

Everyman in the army is terrified of death, but he thinks he is alone in fearing.

this is how all fashistoid goverments work and how they get men to commit cruelties to other men... rule by fear and make everyone think they are the only ones who fear, fear to be punished by their fellow man...

hi guys ,
@ weetyskemian44 qoute " the massed ranks of humanity breaking like a wave against the rock of the foe, and eroding it away with blood... shear bloody poety. I blame john blanche for the great illustrations he did for the guard where they are like a great sea, bristling with lasguns, The odd tank showing up like monstrous whales "
Man you tapped into my soul with that piece of rhetoric, you described exactly how i feel about the Massed ranks of IG and any war in general for that matter
The fact that your not fighting for your country or any greater good, or political reason. your fighting for your friends, because they have your back, and you theirs. I haven never being in the army unlike Vik but i read alot, and what you wrote is beautiful and poignant , and more to the point true! to be able to capture the humanity in war with minitures alone , is what i am trying to do with this piece without really understanding that until now. your Iambic pentameter ( if thats what it was ) should grace the purity seals of the imperium oh and i lLOVE that John Blanche painting dearly , i had the box set of 32 plastic ig guards when i was sixteen, and this graced the cover. oh how i miss them old troopers and orderlies, there legs so short and their guns so long

@ Manoknok "Form line against infantry
Form square against cavalry " so true!!
I wish i new a bit more about historical formations , but 40k allows my own interpretation of it, rather than follow the cannonical dogma that has already being written, having said that i will take bits and pieces from any established anything? if it saves time and adds truth or depth to my creations

@ Vik I see how claiming to be a humanist the wanting to eliminate billions of humans in the same sentance could be described as being Sarcastic i saw that the russians had one weapon per 2 men , in the movie enemy at the gates,
I will pass on the compliments to the Clan thanks , and your geneseed qoute did make me chuckle but its also true, I will set up their own blog or add to this with their minis soon , they also love converting, i put some of their chaos marines in the background on the pics , lots of extra bits and bobs in that box!
as for that helmet it is brilliant , like thor and the birdman from "GO FLASH GO" Gordan as you said , also reminds me of a guy in buckrogers but gw did sangiun guards and ultra marine vets very similar!
wow i will have to keep my verbatim smaller or i will fill my blog with words instead of pictures

so flame team and mortar squad as promised , well a bit late , but writing takes time.

oh and if you notice the large melon in the pics it was to add a bit of colour to the blog , until i get the paints out and be warned these are scruffy even by my pretty open standards will clean em up when painting.

"oh and just one more thing....." added a bendy straw to the auto cannon to make it look more like the dkok one, i think i works well.

Thanks! I was in a poetic mood.

good update - like the straw. It'll look great when its painted and you cant tell its a straw!

i love those converted guardsmen, it makes me wanna try it out! cant wait to see more. great work!


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which sets did you get exactly?


and on the musket stuff, maybe just add a las-cell clip or some such to make them look more high tech thou they dont have to be entirely redone. this could even be done with scopes or something of that sort as well, maybe cords to their bags like stormtroopers?

that yelling soldier near the autocanon is "da bomb"^^
really humourus...
today i had a very painfull research session on ebay and certain websites. i have to admit it i fell in love with the victorian/ napoleonic uniforms and converting them.
for me it seems like a really pressing matter now. seems if i don´t attemptt something í would feel like not beeing able to join in all the fun...
but what to do. i´m tempted to sell all my IG stuff or at least my orcs and nids... gosh i do have to much gw models i probably wont paint any time near in the futur...
but your models speak volumes and create new needs...

DAMENED be thy creativity you hellspawn of Tzeentch lord of change as is the act of converting.
You sir have tainted my pure soul, now i´m nothing but a foul creature like yourself.
With my last free breaths i commed the fellow onlookers of this foul stench of a thread avert thy eyes...

AND NOW TO SOMETHING COLPLETLY DIFFERENT...



phew for chukling...there are some people who might find that remark of bad taste... wouldn´t want to insult someone. sometimes my humor is not so easy to understand...kind of offending...
and yeah the obvious relation of the helmet to the ones from the vet ultras hasen´t occured to me up until now. *slaps his forhead*
the mortar looks cool, what parts did you use? do i see some clockworkparts from actual clocks?
what did you use for amunition? looks really super. also i think you are going a slight steampunk way? aren´t you? the googles of your flamer team seems that way. are stanard IG heavy flamers also in teams of two ? even if not they look super cool. how did you do the imprint of the chest of the flamer? nice idea by the way. on that scale detail is all! your bases get messier by the second it seems^^. will look incredible.

hmmm run out of metaphorical gunpowder...
again you have astonished me beyond measure. my last hope is that you will make such a crapy paintjob, otherwise i would need to find a new hobby....(joke here)
cheers my friend, vik

Like where you're going with these Cool sighting console for the mortar team, and that looks like an interesting clocktower objective going on there.

And bonus points to Viktor for keeping the Monty Python quota up to scratch in this thread

this is one of my favorite of them, its so educational...

Hey guys , having too much fun with these, gotta put em away to get on with Praxus an Manufactorum though , paint em or draw , or build . Nice cunundrum to have though.
@ Weetyskemian44 your welcome . to be honest iam a half dreading half cant wait to paint em. I look forward to your next waxing of lyrics .

@Sageheart Thank you ,i do enjoy a good kitbash! I baught Perry minis , French infantry line , a and a couple of seperate sprues , 3 unmounted french dragoon , 1 English line infantry command. .. i think . If you check out the earlier pics you might gleen a bit more info, be warned they are small out of the box.
vik suggested the las gun things as well gonna try out some styles ,but i fear the 40k ammo clip is too big!

Join me on the dark side Sage , there are many things I could teach you.....

@ Vik Go ahead take the plunge might be an idea to pick up a few single sprues first though see what style you like , there cheap enough singley "is that a word!"
but dont be too rash with your other minis. you will only have to buy em all back eventually. I Did lol .Glad i opened your eyes.... WELCOME TO THE DARKSIDE , you shall be known as Darth Von Donm from now on!

I did go slightly steam punk , but i think the goggles dont work, will probbably change that a bit more cyberpunk.
as for the humour , Montypython is more than welcome in the blog , infact i would go as far as to suggest that no internet blog is , worth its salt without a resident ongoing montypython sketch , so in short more lampoonery is a must!
i did use clock work parts and
just bits and bobs from the bits box!
as for the paint job err why do you think i havent painted anything yet,lol,
@ monkeytroll , round and round we go, were it stops nobody knows. not even me!

thanks for kind words people.

At first I was doubtful about these Napoleonic guys, but WOW! They are looking amazing! Might I ask how you made the shells for the mortar crew?

neil101 wrote:@Sageheart Thank you ,i do enjoy a good kitbash! I baught Perry minis , French infantry line , a and a couple of seperate sprues , 3 unmounted french dragoon , 1 English line infantry command. .. i think . If you check out the earlier pics you might gleen a bit more info, be warned they are small out of the box.
vik suggested the las gun things as well gonna try out some styles ,but i fear the 40k ammo clip is too big!

Join me on the dark side Sage , there are many things I could teach you.....

i may have to! i was looking up models there, and was thinking of getting a bunch of the english line infantry models they look great, and are cheep if you get bulkkk. It may make my blob squad all infantry army an actually concept rather than a dream hahaha.

is it hard to switch weapons for things such as flamers, melta, etc? how are they glued. i'm really digging what you've done with them!