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Holy crap these are cool. I got some of the new FW terminators, but seeing your conversions I doubt I'll do them justice... I do like how you've made that chaplain though... Hmmm ideas worth stealing? I think so...

subbed, crnt wait for a group shot

Thanks guys It'll be a few weeks at least before there'll be a group shot, but it's on my to do list, meanwhile there's an update instead ;D


Land Speeder has got a base:


Updates on the cataphract termies, the axe is from the tartaros ccw set, and the mace in the back will be replaced with the mace from that set as well both of which I've bought through my favorite ebay bits store. The straps from the shoulders have also been added to 3 of them, 2 still awaiting theirs and there'll be a tutorial soon on how I made them and how I cast up the shoulderpads for these from my original design.


The updated command squad, I ran out of grey primer so that's why the commander is only partially basecoated.


Painting has commenced on the tartaros termies as well.


And the chaplain has got a nice basic base paint job and a basecoat. More details will be added to the bases like leaves, skulls, shells etc later on.


A closeup of the updated chaplain, his crozius arcaneum still needs a bit of green stuff work.


New sergeant for the veterans so they can be split up in two 5 man groups when Sigismund is in the command squad.


And some small progress on Dorn, not much but the base gives him a bit extra.


Lastly a coupl of half random pics from my painting table.

Fantastic work here man! I love seeing lots of FW. Fantastic! The Power Armour Chaplain and the Sternguard Sergeant both look really awesome, suberb mate. Definately subscribed, and I can't wait for more!

LDP

Your Dorn is the best kit bashed, sculpted and posed model I have seen on here. That includes all the Primarchs by RAFF and others he looks just as Imagine in my minds eye. The embodiment of the Emperors determination and Pride.

Thanks for the praise guys It realy helps motivate me to go on with this project!

This is quite posibly my favourite P&M Blog on the entire Dakkaverse! Everything is just fantastic!

Awesomesauce!

mat

megabambam wrote:This is quite posibly my favourite P&M Blog on the entire Dakkaverse! Everything is just fantastic!

Thanks And if you happen to be going to Randers Figur Festival some of these will be on display there as I've been offered a spot a co-judge in the painting comp

combat engineer wrote:Awesomesauce!

mat

Thanks

This is a review of the silicone products for replicating personal parts sold by Lamenter over at http://masteroftheforge.com/store/
The products Blu-Stuff and Liquid Blu-Stuff is silicone based, fast setting putty and regular rubber with a 1:1 mix ratio.
They are ideal for a vast amount of casting techniques and are compatible with most epoxy putties, plaster and resin (with exception of Smooth-Cast 300 Series products as there seems to be a negative chemical reaction between the two products).

The following will be a small tutorial to how I've used the products in practical on a modelling project that benefits from both the products strengths.
Then I'll summarize my experiences with the products and give them a rating in classic review style.

Enjoy!


The project is to duplicate my shoulder pad design for my cataphract armoured terminators for my pre-heresy army.

First step is to make a mould of the shoulder pad, I used the original and a replica cast with a previous mould to enable me to make new moulds containing a pair which can be cast up in one casting session.
The shoulder pads are attached to a piece of plasticard to give an even surface for the top of the mould.

Then a frame/form is constructed out of LEGO blocks and lined with plasticine to reduce excess waste of silicone. as this was my first mould with Liquid Blu-Stuff I took a few precautions and strengthened and sealed the frame/form to make sure it was liquid proof. This turned out to be a waste of time as the curing time of the silicone prevents it from running much before it sets.
The next phase is to measure up equal parts of the silicone and miw them. The silicone is supplied with 2 mixing cups, but for this particular project I opted for some smaller ones I had myself as they were a bit more handy.
The silicone is stirred carefully to avoid too many bubbles being trapped and when the colour is even it is poured into the frame/form in the corner to avoid air from being trapped as much as possible. After working on other forms with this I have concluded that due to the fast curing time of the silicone, more detailed parts can benefit hugely from having the silicone applied with an old brush first before filling the frame/form up as this helps catch the urface detail better and prevent bubbles.

After 20 minutes curing time the silicone is completely set and ready to be removed, trimmed and used. I used Sika G26 Polyurethane Casting Resin from Sylmasta http://www.sylmasta.com/acatalog/copy_of_S...ing_Resins.html to cast the shoulder pads, and the only preperation I did to the moulds before casting was to dust them off with talcum powder which helps the resin flow and also to prevent too many bubbles.

I made two moulds, and they worked out brilliantly.












Then it was time to make my leather straps to cover the joints between the shoulder and the pads. I made a simple plasticard design and mounted it permanently on a piece of plasticard for an even surface for the final mould, I should have made it bigger so I could avoid getting an edge on the moulds which makes it harder to flatten the cast but I didn't want to redo it.
Then I lined up equal measures of each part of the Blu-Stuff silicone putty and mixed them thoroughly til the colour was even, before pressing it onto the design. The putty cures very fast, and I found it hard to prevent bubbles from being trapped even though I rolled the putty up in a ball and pressed it out from the middle of the part, but it isn't a big problem on a cast like this and I'm sure practice makes perfect, I've definitely gotten better results with other press moulds with the putty afterwards.

Since I need to make a lot of these I made 4 more moulds and used some green stuff to cast them as this allowed me to get them flexible enough to pose them and give them a natural heavy leather strap look with the right curves. It takes some practice to smooth the green stuff out in the mould as there is absolutely no traction from the form, it won't hold the putty in place and releases very easily even when the putty is still soft. My solution was to use a bit of saliva to prevent my sculpting tool from sticking to the green stuff (petrolium jelly might work as well but it will take some cleaning to get the greasy film off after the green stuff have cured) and tearing it out of the mould, and I am sure a rubber clay shaper would have been a better choice than my metal one.




Then the casts, both resin and green stuff, were trimmed and cleaned and ready to use on the terminators.




Summary:

The products are extremely easy to use, they don't make a lot off mess as you can peal off any spills of silicone on your table and they speed up small mould making projects like rocket fuel All in all I am very pleased with the results I've gotten.

Liquid Blu-Stuff:
Compared to the type of silicone I usually use which have a de-mould time of 24 hours according to the label (only 8 according to the specs on the website? but my personal experience is between 18-24 hours) this is super fast to use with a de-mould time of only 20 minutes!! This however makes it harder to get rid of bubbles and I'd personally recommend it for small/medium sized casting projects as I think it would be hard to cover parts properly without too much trapped air on larger parts as you really don't have a ot of time to work with it as the pot life is only around 2-3 minutes before it starts getting really thick.
Price wise it is more expensive than the regular rubber I use which comes at £29.40 for 1kg as opposed to the £16.99 for 200 grams of liquid Blu-Stuff but the fact that it has a ridiculously short de-mould time ( again, only 20 minutes! ) makes it well worth the money as it saves you a lot of precious modeling time, a thing most of us already have too little off.

Based on the few disadvantages which is mainly the lack of time to prevent air bubbles and the slightly high pricetag I give it a 9/10 as the advantages of this rubber still far outweigh the disadvantages, and it really is a splendid tool for anyone who ventures in the realm of casting. Also check out the tutorial by Lamenter himself on using different epoxy putties with the product and others at http://masteroftheforge.com/category/4conv...ds-and-casting/


Blu-Stuff:
I have played around with making press moulds for several years now, and have tried a few things like other putties for forms and latest the easymold re-usable sticks and based on my experience this product is in the top two of what I would recommend for making press moulds or resin casts without undercuts. The other one is instant mold.
They each have their strengths and weaknesses. instant mold's strongest asset is the ability to re-use the material again and again and its flexibility, but the fact that you need to submerge it in hot water to soften it makes it hard to catch deep detail without trapping either air, water or both and that it hardens to a milky translucent colour makes it very hard to see if you actually captured the intended degree of detail.
The Blu-Stuff silicone putty's biggest strengths are the weaknesses of instant mold, as it cures in a nice light blue colour where it is very easy to see if you got the desired degree of detail depth, and it doesn't need interference with water as it's a two component putty means that you only have to worry about trapping air and also the putty in uncured form is much softer than the instant mold gets even after being in boiling water. The downside is that it can't be reused and that makes it more suitable for press-moulds that is intended for use several times. it also lacks the flexibility of instant mold which means it restricts you to replicating things with very little or no undercuts. I personally thinks Blu-Stuff gives sharper and more defined edges than you get with instant mold which for some components like non organic objects is a big plus, and it renders softer curves just as well. It is neither better or worse than instant mold, as I would rate them the same and they are both invaluable tools for press-moulding and certainly the best on the market. The price is fair imo, you get a 100g for £9.99 and 200g for £15.99 which is okay.

My rating is a solid 8/10 based on the fact that it is one of two equally good products available today, neither of which can be rated as perfect due to their separate weaknesses but they are still the best available and it'll be hard to top them.

I hope you'll have enjoyed reading this review, I certainly had a fun time with these great products and will inevitably continue to


Products kindly supplied by Lamenter, thank you mate.

awesomesauce

Nice tutorial! Great help.
Your Marines are looking fantastic too.

freaken awesome dude!

Thanks guys

And Gwaahr, those true scale IF of yours look awesome

@thedamnedartificer I think your my new best friend...... I'm looking for parts for my Morlock Iron Hand Termintors, are you considering selling small amounts of these if requested?

This is my 30k Project as is now, but I want to expand it to be my main tournament army.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/404063.page

Some of your parts would make making my Assault Termies much easier..

mwnciboo wrote:@thedamnedartificer I think your my new best friend...... I'm looking for parts for my Morlock Iron Hand Termintors, are you considering selling small amounts of these if requested?

This is my 30k Project as is now, but I want to expand it to be my main tournament army.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/404063.page

Some of your parts would make making my Assault Termies much easier..

I suppose you a referring to the cataphract terminator shoulder pads mainly? If so we can work something out, just send me a PM about it

Okay dokey......I always did like Denmark Lego is for winners!

mwnciboo wrote:Okay dokey......I always did like Denmark Lego is for winners!

Hehe yeah it is pretty awesome here, even though it's more fun in the age where LEGO is the best toy in the world, the 25% VAT and 41% tax isn't near as much fun as Playing with LEGO's all day XD Other than that it's pretty great here

Britain ain't too far behind our Nordic breathren in the Tax regard, our Fuel Duty on Petrol and Diesel is incredible.

Yeah I know, we have some pretty steep fuel prices too, around 12-13 DKK for a litre of petrol, Diesel is usually a little cheaper but not much I imagine it's the same in the UK. Luckily we have an excellent healthcare system and other public service perks :p
But I do love Britain, I've been there twice and might take a trip to London with my girlfriend later on in the summer

All hail the Damned Artificer....

Just a quick post to update that inspired by your "Fist" Models I am working on a Terminator Captain for my Iron hands.

His left hand will be Pedro Kantors DORN'S arrow, with a mini- GS sculpt to extend the Fist to look more like an Iron Hand. On top of this the rest of him will be made of various special parts and Bionics and a Nice big Ad Mech Power weapon.

Time for a small update, as I've been asked to showcase some mniatures tomorrow at a Danish tournament I thought it would be fitting to get some of the fists done, so here's a little WIP of how things were looking yesterday Closeups will follow after the weekend (and me finishing painting them tonight)

So here's what I hope to be done with by tonight, but realistically I'll probably not manage to finish the speeder and commander but I'll try.


Here's the progress on the commander so far.


And the speeder have also gotten some yellow (finally)


All the while the crew is pole dancing :p



That's all for now, gotta go paint some more

Awesome stuff, I'm thinking of you this weekend TDA, while i'm outside watching the Olympics in the Sun drinking beer .

It's all good man, looks amazing. I've got some bitz brewing for my Iron Hands, and also discovered MANTIC's version of the Thunderfire Cannon.



Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing your IF's done for your Tournament.

ALSO :- Almost forgot I came across a Google Image of a scratch built Titan? Wasn't yours Per-chance ? Also added one of your WIP pictures into my Pre Heresy Terminator Thread. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/465887.page

Oooh sexy as usual, and im not talking about the pole dancing

Cant wait to see some of the post-tourney shots!

mwnciboo wrote:Awesome stuff, I'm thinking of you this weekend TDA, while i'm outside watching the Olympics in the Sun drinking beer .

It's all good man, looks amazing. I've got some bitz brewing for my Iron Hands, and also discovered MANTIC's version of the Thunderfire Cannon.



Anyway, I am looking forward to seeing your IF's done for your Tournament.

ALSO :- Almost forgot I came across a Google Image of a scratch built Titan? Wasn't yours Per-chance ? Also added one of your WIP pictures into my Pre Heresy Terminator Thread. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/465887.page

Thanks mate And cool, I totally forgot to post pics so great that you did it for me :p

And there's a chance you fell over my reaver titan on google, it's big and red and very lucius pattern :p

Update time:

Here's a few pics of the first finished models, making it start to look like an army

Sadly there was terrible lighting conditions for good photography with windows on all sides of the room, so the quality isn't great but the feeling of the pictures still remain

Man, I wish that my gaming group's board looked as nice as the one in those photos! Your models look right at home

Such awesome terrain i agree! Those are some great shots tda!!

Subbed this is an amazing blog! keep it up

EPIC THREAD ALERT!

Love it all, makes me want to get going on all my PH BA stuff too!

That Silicone putty post, I humbly request that you create an article out of it and post it in our articles section, that deserves to be kept for posterity.

Great stuff -

Love the work, (as ever ) . I was giggling to myself as it looks like Daddy Contemptor is taking his little kids out for walk (those Tartaros do look like baby Contemptors!).

EDIT - CONVERSION BEAMER!!!! The Iron Hand in me, likes this alot!