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I know i am in the middle of doing my lovely Flamer, but i got the bug to put together the marines for the paint scheme my neices designed. The first will be a Plasma Marine, i know its been done before but i think its funny

First inprogress shot.


Then with the gun attached and the back pack buletacked on.


I have done some GS work on the arm, but that is curing atm.

It will beusing this colour scheme


I have not decided on how i will position the 2nd of my Neices marines yet i will have to think about it. I have also decided to do a third marine and make it a Manits Warrior after reading Gitsplitta's awesome epic blog. I just hope i have enough chain swords lol.





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Pants, i just reliased i have not drilled the barrel, well that will ahve to wait for the GS to cure. *sigh*

NOOO please dont get hot!!!

Well the GS has cured on the arm, and i have also added a GS Purity Seal

mucked around at lunch on the B&C SM for my neices Marines.

Came up with


and


Surprisingly, i thought the Older ones image would be better, but actually the younger ones looks better as a space marine lol. Either way they will be fun to apint, as they are not all red I will ahve to get them to come up with chapternames so i can design a symbol for the Pad.


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Oh and Optimus Prime has had some work done on him as well, i have repositioned a leg to have one side kneeling, and adapted a ML to look like a LC. Now that the gs would of cured over night ill try to mock up what he will look like tonight and take some photos.


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Made good use of my afternoon and doodled a couple of chapter symbols for the 2 Marines. Nothing special just something to denote who designed the colour scemes





Nothing like winding down ready for Christmas

Well lets try writing this again, as my PC decided to have a Border Management error Blergh.

So here is the next marine for my objective, colour scheme designed by my Neice. I repositioned his leg to have him kneeling on some stone. This was the most major surgery i have done to a leg, but i am glad i bit the bolter shell, as i am glad how it came out. And i customised a ML to be a LC, using a straw from a kids drink carton . I found out after the fact, that super glue melts the foam that i use :( i will ahve to experiment and find a better glue for when using the foam.

So here is Optimus Prime






The flat off hand that normally holds up the ML was used in my other Objective Marine so this one is pointing instead.

C&C welcome

The third marine is my Mantis Warrior as a tribute to Gitsplitta. He is bluetacked together atm, and needs a little GS work. I also need to work out how i will base him.







C&C welcome

Outstanding job M0rdian! You did a better job with the chainsword transition than I usually do. I've never figured out a good joint treatment though I've tried a couple of different configurations. Yours looks fine.

Can't wait to see him painted up!

... and thank you, I'm very flattered and humbled.

Gits

Looking at him in the picture actually put together, i think that i need to do something to The legs (not sure what lol) And i need to do some form of wings. They will be no where near as good as yours, but it will be fun

You play paintball sir? Those canisters look like pistol ones?

Either way some cool looking stuff you have here

Excelent job on the modeling of those marines, they look excelent. As Gitsplitta said, excelent job on those chainswords, keep up the good work

Brother-Captain Scotti wrote:You play paintball sir? Those canisters look like pistol ones?

I have played Paintball, but they are not my canisters, i found them at the side of the road while out for a walk with the family and snaffeled them up for a conversion

RiChYc wrote:Excelent job on the modeling of those marines, they look excelent. As Gitsplitta said, excelent job on those chainswords, keep up the good work

Thank you He still needs some more work, so that he looks a bit more alive. But with Christmas comeing up my geeking time is restricted, what with work and family fun time

Had a bit of a fidle and have repositioned the Mantis Warrior. Decided to have him with his arms out stretched and his head tilted back, in a sort of roar of power bring it on

I like that... nice decision!

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light..."

Well Christmas is over and we are in the new year. I received my Can of Army painter Red Foundation Primer so all is good. It then came to my attention that i had not glued on the sand and stones on to the bases of my Tactical Squad Beta. So got on with that, as well as basing up a diorama / display stand / Objective base for my 3 latest Marines. (Ellie, Optimus Prime and Mantis Warrior (Yet to be names)) I also then realsied, due to my excitement of startign the Giant Flame Storm Cannon Objective and the 3 Marines, i had not put together my 2 rhinos and razor back. I had originally consindered painting the inside. But i decided not to, and to build them all. For the razor back i need to scratch build the weapon combinations, and magnitise them. So i need to decide if i will make each option with its own weapon housing or make a standard housing that any combination can be magnatised onto. I am heading towards the single standard housing with the weapons being swapable. I just hope i can get them to look and fit good/well in a standard housing. I have a collection of pens and bits that i will use for the diffent barrels as i dont ahve any spare actual weapons ... mm actaully i may have a lazcannon from some IG bits, so i will see how that looks. If its a singluar one i will use it for the lazplaz.

Painting wise i would like to do some free hand on them all, i have sketched out ideas at work during meetings. I just hope i can transpose them into paint.

I'll get some pictures up once there is somethign to show for my efforts

Well the first Rhino is finished and ready for its coat of primer. But it is down the end of the line for painting so in no rush yet. The Tactical Squad Beta had its First spray of my new red primer yesterday. I wanted to give them a second coat and turn over the smaller parts that were lying down (back packs arms etc) but I got caught up in real life. So hopefully I will manage to do that this evening before it gets too dark (or get up early tomorrow morning, but then it could be dark then … Dam you winter)

I still need to prep all the heads for the assault squad and tack them onto some paper clips and stick them into something (not sure what yet) for priming and then painting. I have a large block of foam which I may cut a chunk off and use that, but I am unsure how it will react to the paint. (don’t want it melting, but I’m guessing it should be ok) If not ill jut pin them onto a strip of MDF.

So here she is.

I am having a bit of lighting issue for undercoating my models, its to dark before work and too dark after work :( So i can only do it at the weekend. And i only had time for one pass last weekend, over my tactical squad. But i did get an afternoon off this week so i was able to give them another blast, so they are in the death cupboard drying. So hopefully i can get some more done this weekend Hopefully the Rhinos.

Speaking of vehicles, i am in the midst of building the RB for my command squad, and i ahve been thinking about all the lovly goodness i can adorn it with as well as trying some free hand painting. While reading rsjakes blogs again, i was inspired to consider some sculping. Nothing major as my GS skill leaves a lot to be desired lol. So i thought i would have a practice with some blue tack at work and a random wooden paddle/skewer i have in my draw from some olives.

This is what appeared. i was actually quite surprised that it was not hideous lol, so i will have to give it a go.

That's with blue tac? That looks great! When you have a go with GS, I have two recomendations.

1. Push down very lightly right above the eyes, this will give a cranial ridge sort of look and it will squish the eyes a bit for more of an angry look. It's not neccesary, but it looks good.

2. With a needle or something VERY thin, draw a line across the top of the teeth very lightly. This just makes the teeth look a bit more realistic.

But as I am sure this is very tiny, it's a very good job! Can't wait to see what you end up with!

P.S. Thanks for the mention!

Thanks for the tips rsjake I will try it out.

Its about the size of my thmb nail atm, so quite large hehe. But the intention was to have it on my RB somewhere so big is fine

Still, with blue tac, it's really good! I can barely get that stuff where I want it just to hold an arm on!

I get nervous every time I sit down to sculpt anything! But I like that feeling. I guess it's similar, but on a smaller scale to those people who like to jump out of perfectly fine airplanes. Crazy!

Hey M0rdain,
I've come to visit your blog! so far so good, I’m likening the varied guys man they look really cool but what are they are? Is it a death watch team? Or a kill team? ect. You have also 'opened my mind' with the scratch built HW I may consider making some for my tac-squad guys too (Even though they are mostly painted)!. That lascannon is suburb so is the multi-meta! I love the varied weapons on them! The dual-bolt pistols which is basically a storm bolter is great. I really like the tac-squad guy with dual bolt pistols too. Looking forward to that one being painted. Hey how about you check out my blog to? (Link is in signature). Looking forward to updates;

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HAZZER wrote:, I’m likening the varied guys man they look really cool but what are they are?

Basically they will be used as an objective, they were something different for me to play around with, but they may end up being used inmy army if i need them. Not sure on the fluff for that yet lol. exchange student maybe? lol

Nice stuff You got here!

Well after working late Friday and Saturday, i managed to get a little bit of Hobby time on Sunday night after watching the last episoe of Sherlock with my Wife.

After my test with the blue tack i decided to try it with some green stuff. He's alright, i know i am no superb artist, but it is still a cool addition, and i am sure once painted up it will look awesome

Thats pretty sweet, although it seems like it is really big, depth wise

It is quite deep, but for a command transport i don't mind it being over the top. If i try it agina on a different vehicle, i will try to slim it down.

I really need to buy some more Super glue, its put me at a bit of a stand still on continuing with the build of my RB. So i sat at my desk watching CSi trying to work out what i could do. So i trimed up a few bits i could use for adornment. But while searching through my drawer as i had a feelin gthere was actually an old tube of super glue in there. I came accross this.




One of my old Plastic shot glasses, I decided that i could cut it in half vertically and then turn it on its side and use it as the turret housing. I plan on magnatising the different weapon load outs so this would work as well.



I had better dig out my hacksaw and go shopping for super glue at lunch

Neat idea M0rdian, be interesting to see how it turns out.

Second that! sounds good!

Looks pretty promising dude, looking forward to seeing the progress!

Yey i nipped into Tesco on the way home to grab a loaf of bread and some Super Glue, they only had the Gel but i am not complaining at £1 a tube. I also popped a new blade into my hack saw.



I had tried to cut through the shot glass the other night but it was so noisy i did not want to wake my son and wife so i put it off until the next evening when i could do it when they were awake.

So to begin with i trimmed up 3 pieces of sprue and lined them up and turned one of them upside down so they tessellated better. Then glued then onto the under side of the RB hatch.



This is to attach my magnet on to, so that the turret can rotate.



So the next evening came and i cut the shot glass in half, it was easier than i thought, BUT i had not cut it straight *urgh*



So i decided to add some sprue frame work around it to cover up the shoddy saw work (no i understand the reason for a jewellers saw) and also as a nice place to put some Rivets mmm Rivets *gurgle*. It seems like i have read too many blogs with rivets in that the bug is beginning to catch lol.



I also glued on a base. I would say plastic card, but its not. Its part of the insert from the box my mobile phone came in lol. That’s why there is a hole in the bottom of it. I don’t see this as a problem as i will attach something onto this which will then magnetise on to the hatch. I am considering using a normal base, as its just about the right size.



Now i just need to think about the weapons now. My plan for is to use the sticks off some of my sons lollys as they are tubes and would make a nice assault cannon. Now i just need to ask the nice lady at the chip shop for some more lollys next time i take my son with me to get chips lol.



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Just notice there are some gaps that are glaring at me, I intend to use some GS to fill them in. (Frame work)