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Where did the additional chest plate come from?

1-i wrote:Where did the additional chest plate come from?

The one on the last Stern guard?
That's from a normal SM torso with a Terminator COD piece glued right in the middle.
The other Stern Guard torsos are from FW Severin Loth's honour guard and one has a BA torso.

Update Time.

Here's a Rhino I slogged away painting for 4 hours today. I'm quite Happy with it but I still need to make it look more Spartan like.

I put a lot of effort into weathering this. Who said Ultramarines always wash their Rhinos.

There is a lot of Zoom on the pics if you click on them!

Sorry no detailed interior. The hatches are glued shut.







I'm thinking of using any of these to pimp out my Rhino!






Any other Ideas?

Thanks for looking!


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Small Update
I have since freehanded the Ultramarines symbol on my Rhino.
I used LDP's guide, thanks man!

I'm not 100% happy but it's ok.

Here it is!



Thanks for looking!

Update

Here is a small tutorial.

I have stumbled upon a new technique.
I was idly drawing a Spartan helmet and I thought i could use it on my Ultramarines. So I made my own Spartan "Decal".

-I drew my decal. I copied it from a picture on the Internet so alternately you could just print a design out.
-I used a glue stick to glue it to a thin cardboard backing. (I used the cardboard from the box my command squad came in).
-I trimmed the cardboard to fit the "decal".
-Then I used some cheap home brand super glue and spread it evenly on the back my "decal" and let the glue seap evenly into the cardboard. I wasn't too liberal with the glue so that I would wreck the other side.
-I painted the top of the "decal" with a few thin layers of PVA. It was set hard now so that it couldn't warp.
-Then I painted it.
-After that I gave it a couple sealing coats of PVA.

Here it is.



Here it is blue-tacked on a Rhino.


I think I've found a way to customise my vehicles!

Thanks for looking!

UPDATE

Here are some pics of one my entries for the ++40k, Fantasy and Other Painting & Modelling Competition++
I had my birthday During this week! YAY! It was on the 15th. I can drive now .
I have my L's (I got 100% on the test)! That's right everyone I'm on the roads now, watch out .

... Anyway here is my almost finished mini.

The pics are quite bad, (looks nothing like IRL), but they will give you all a rough idea of what he looks like.
A few touch ups here and there and It's finished. I'll update with better pics then.







C & C would be great!

Thanks for Looking!

Flying Pooo wrote: I had my birthday During this week! YAY! It was on the 15th. I can drive now .
I have my L's (I got 100% on the test)! That's right everyone I'm on the roads now, watch out .

Well, Happy Birthday to Pooo! Happy Birthday to Pooo! Happy Birthday, Dear... well, you get the point

Flying Pooo wrote:... Anyway here is my almost finished mini.

The pics are quite bad, (looks nothing like IRL), but they will give you all a rough idea of what he looks like.
A few touch ups here and there and It's finished. I'll update with better pics then.







C & C would be great!

Thanks for Looking!

Coming along nicely, Pooo! I think the conversions that you have done here are really good! The body you picked goes well with your spartan theme. Any chance we could see a pic of the spearhead? It looks like you have a nice energy effect there!

And the CC you requested, sir:
I'd like to see that gold broken up a bit. It's kind of overwhelming the model to have the Helm, shield, pauldron, and eagle all gold. Maybe pick out some of the detailing in silver, and maybe do the inner two rings of the shield in blue and white.
Hit the red of the crest and cloak with another highlight. Then it will really pop!
I don't know how your GS-fu is, but I'd like to see that shield with an on it, instead of that Scibor symbol.

Great work so far! If you're anything like me, it's the last 5% of a model that gets me. Finish strong, my friend!

Cheers,
Rawson

Great work, Poo, your concept is very cool. I wish I could paint that well.

Rawson wrote:Well, Happy Birthday to Pooo! Happy Birthday to Pooo! Happy Birthday, Dear... well, you get the point Rawson

Thank You very much. I got lots of hobby stuff as presents! I have so many new hobby toys to play with. Mad conversions are upcoming.

Rawson wrote:
Coming along nicely, Pooo! I think the conversions that you have done here are really good! The body you picked goes well with your spartan theme. Any chance we could see a pic of the spearhead? It looks like you have a nice energy effect there!

And the CC you requested, sir:
I'd like to see that gold broken up a bit. It's kind of overwhelming the model to have the Helm, shield, pauldron, and eagle all gold. Maybe pick out some of the detailing in silver, and maybe do the inner two rings of the shield in blue and white.
Hit the red of the crest and cloak with another highlight. Then it will really pop!

I don't know how your GS-fu is, but I'd like to see that shield with an on it, instead of that Scibor symbol.

Great work so far! If you're anything like me, it's the last 5% of a model that gets me. Finish strong, my friend!

Cheers,
Rawson

Thank you so much for this. This helped me a lot. I followed your advice and it was just what I needed to make that mini pop.
Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much! I'm really happy with him now.

mxwllmdr wrote:Great work, Poo, your concept is very cool. I wish I could paint that well.

Thank you. I wish I could build titans as well as you can.

Ok now, time for an Update quite a big one too.

Thank you very much Rawson!
Here is the Captain now.

Close up on the face. His eyes are meant to look unpainted, gives him a mysterious look. (their not unpainted just a really dark red).






close up on the shield.


Back


Close up on the cloak.


Not a very good pic of the spear tip,


Weathering on his back pack mount thing that I'm quite proud of.


I was going to sculpt the Ultramarine icon on the shield. Lucky I tried it on a few scrap pieces first as I wasn't happy with the result. Even with a great tutorial; http://www.thepainteddragon.co.uk/?page_id=347 I still only managed this.

Oh and here is another chaplain I threw together today.


Chaplain's Crozius Arcanum


I also made this tutorial for this base.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/412037.page


That's all for now folks,
Thanks for looking!

Awesome job!

It's been a while since my last update. Here is a small one.

UPDATE

MY Deathstar unit is starting to take form. These are two of my TH SS Temrinators made using the GK Terminator kit. I used all scibor stuff for them ; Spartan Heads, Big Spartan Shields and the Big Spartan Shoulder pads.







That's all for now!

Thanks for looking!

Those are quite possibly the coolest termies ever right there!

They look kick ass!!!!!!!!!! i think the spears suit them perfectly as do the shields and faces. cant wait to see more

Time for an update I think

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:Those are quite possibly the coolest termies ever right there!

Thank you kind sir!

bigfish wrote:They look kick ass!!!!!!!!!! i think the spears suit them perfectly as do the shields and faces. cant wait to see more

Thabks bigfish, I was going to use a normal CC terminator squad and use the Thunder Hammers but I'm so Happy I got the GK Terminator squad. It's so detailed and the spears fit my theme more.

PROGRESS

WIP of my Chaplain. VERY WIP at the moment.


AND ALSO

I've finally finished my Segway Rough Rider for the ++40k, Fantasy and Other Painting & Modelling Competition++ .

The Deadline is tommorow (for me anyway).

It's a miracle that I finished him today as this morning I had only just done the blue and boltgun metal basecoats. I only painted him in two hours (the base took longer than the mini). He is not painted to my best standard but I think he will do. I had to forgo some highlighting. About a quarter of that time was spent painting my first NMM. I decided I would try it out. The Imperial Eagle is NMM, and I'm quite happy with my first shot. Now I just have to write Up some Fluff, for both my entries.

I've Updated with Better pics.


















That's all for now. Comments are always appreciated.

Thanks for looking!

well FP now i had to take a look at your work... never did i realize that you did the amazing tut for the eggshell basing methode...that is so inventive... will be trying that shortly too...

your models look very dark and cool...in the best sense of the way... and i really like the spartan take on the ultras. that suits them pretty well! atitude and look making a perfect match. the use of FW (?) like on chour first chaplian is so cool looking... i started with SM but since then went on to IG... but i see now how SM can still be fascinating... i will now follow your stuff very closley... [das war dann die letze warnung^^]

cheers, vik

@Viktor von Domm
Danke! Ich jetzt werde auch eng folgen deine Threads.
I'm also starting an IG army. Still Deciding on a scheme though. I have bought some minis for it. Now I just have to put in some time.

will they be winterbased as your segway sarge? that would be interresting....like an eskimo army...


mind if i from time to time make a few suggestions for german corrections? the order of the sentece is slightly wrong... or you will sound like yoda^^

so:
ich werde jetzt auch deinen threads eng folgen...

slightly better but still not there^^

@Viktor

My IG will have winter bases but not the full Eskimo suits that the rough rider had. Although that might be an idea for an army as it was not too hard to do. However it did take a while waiting for 1 layer of GS to dry before applying another.
Although YES this army will have segway Rough Riders.

I knew I had something wrong with sentance order there.

The sentence order as I was thought is; Subject, verb, time, object, manner then place.

Or as my German Teacher says

SvTOMP Basically it is the word stomp with a v in between the S and the T. Or was it between the T and the O?

Now that I look at it I probably do sound yodaish. Sometimes it is hard to determine what the parts of sentences are. Thanks for the correction

I am Painting up a test model for my IG now actually.

I think I have decided on this scheme I made on DOW Soulstorm.



I should have the test model finished soon. I'll update this Blog or start a new one for my IG.

if you start a new one be sure to give me a nudge^^

that scheme doesn´t look too bad^^ reminds me a bit of the praetorian scheme... but this one is more urban and orangy^^

never heard of that SvTOMP rule...but then again i am a martyr to grammar... take any language you want... punctuation and spelling is too bad in my german too... did my diplas work with the big helping of my wife... otherwise i would have been not qualified for the dimploma because of such things as structure and the many typos i created^^

I'm not that great with grammar either. Hell I needed Google Crome's spell check to even spell the word correctly. Before I post anything on here. I literally check it for 5 minutes for any mistakes that I have made in grammar and spelling. I find many. For this post I found around 10 mistakes. Make that 13. Wait, 14 I didn't put a capital letter on the word make in that last sentence. Yeah, I also spelt sentence wrong thrice. In this sentence and the last two so. All up that's around 17 mistaks.

well....you are still young my friend so much will be learned and refined in the years to come...my techers always told me as a fresh schoolboy that i had a wrinting hand like a doc...they tend to scribble rather illegible...and for some reason i still write that way^^ in school i was the guy that never had to read his notes as even i had difficulties to do so^^

Well my writing is always illegible unless I take an age to write it. If I try to take notes quickly I cant read it later and if I try to write neatly I miss half of what I have to take notes for because I write too slowly. So basically I lose either way.

In essays, SACS and exams I lose most of my marks in the spelling and grammar sections as I am pushed for time. I also have lost some marks in the past because my writing is just plain illegible, although some teachers are better at reading my writing than others. I prefer taking my time, rather than working to a time constraint. That way my work is always better.

are you describing atm my school carrer or yours... fits as i recall^^ well digital writing sure helps... but only so much^^...now i am almost totally out of handwriting and when i have to...i really feel like to chisel the words into the paper^^

^Same. I take every opportunity to type something up instead of writing it, even when it can be an inconvenience. Writing too much hurts your wrists. Especially after a whole day of writing essays. After typing for twice as long as that I bet my wrists would not hurt as much. Hopefully with new technology we will never have to write again. Maybe we can attach wires and stuff to our brains so machines can write for us. It would be awesome before they start plotting revenge and take over.

lol...wetwire writing...is that waht www stands for? lol

Viktor von Domm wrote:lol...wetwire writing...is that waht www stands for? lol

I had to Google Wetwire LOL maybe it is one of the things that www stands for, it could stand for anything like even Wicked Walrus Waffles.

Ich bin ein bisschen seltsam. Richtig?

This is Kind of an Update


If your're thinking eeeww yucky blood you are not a wargamer but a wuss. If your're thinking what is that beautiful monstrosity in the background you can call yourself a wargamer. I was waiting for a layer of GS to dry on one of the bits for that Orky dread and I went outside for a break to throw a ball for my dog and punch my speed ball. As you do. With one of my punches I swung too hard and hit the metal casing on the top of the Speed Ball. I cut myself pretty deep. It's the second time I have done it this month actually, the other time was on my birthday. And what is the first thing you do when you cut yourself? You take a picture of it to show off your battle wounds.

Anyway this is the only WIP shot of my Dread for some reason. If you want to see the Whole thing go to my new thread titled: Scratch Built Speed Freaks- The Kult of Segway.
I am aiming to scratch build a whole speed freak force. And yes the bikers will have Segways.
Link below!
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/414696.page#3641110

Finished pics.


Aufwiedersehen!

Yeesh. I remember this one time I was cutting a penny (part of a demonstration I regularly do for work) with some shears and cut a chunk of flesh from the old index finger. After driving home with a bandaged finger in the air, I made very sure to get some pictures of it and post on Facebook. Well, with a bandage on, though. Now there is a little reddish dent on my finger from that. The Segway fella is rather interesting, besides that he looks like Spock's dad and Segways never quite had the whole "quick" look to me. Each to his own, though, and creating a whole squad of them should be cool.

Kaesar II

^Oh that sounds so painful.
I was originally trying to make Spock on a segway as a one off figure for a painting competition (just for LOLs), but I failed to GS his 'live long and prosper' hand sign and sculpted gloves instead. Then i passed him off as an IG segway Rough Rider. It was just for LOLS and there will be a segway rough rider squad in my new IG army. Again just for LOLs. Also I am starting a speed freaks force with segway bikers. So basically I love segways. They will make my opponents laugh at me and then when his army is decimated under the tread of my segways he/she/it will stop his/her/it's laughter. That's the idea anyway!

Long time no post!

Here is an update!

Ultramarine Chaplan.

Looks better IRL!









Playing around with my new camera that I am not too impressed with so far.


That's all for now!

C U L8er!

He looks fantasticly pissed off!

the chaplain is looking fine to me!

as for the cam... the filter you used i think works good... the other pic just lack from the proper lighting... the main issue with taking pics in my opinion...


hope you had a lovley christmas...^^

vik

Thanks LDP.

@ Vik- Thanks man!

The last picture was taken using a light tunnel effect. I am just getting used to playing around with all the settings. Now I know how to change lighting settings and shutter exposure time, stuff like that. It's actually taking some great pics now!

And thank you I had a Great Christmas! I hope you had a lovely Christmas too!