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Give it a good cure

Intresting indeed. I need to see a test paint for the new color theme. Hint hint!

Wait this be a two part mold?

Did you do the plasticizen part line?

@Solar: Waiting on some whatever Greenshade by GW to arrive. My shop is always out of what I need. I got leadbelcher spray, just waiting on that shade like I said.

@Desu: Nope. One part. I added more while I still could because the mould had a weak spot. will check it when I get home from the VA.

Interesting colour scheme, like the idea.

Mould will be fine, done that myself a few times.

@ Cam. Thanks mate, eases the nerves to have support. Also, I do have a recipe for the next scheme. I can't wait to paint it. I will be trying it on a ship first though, considering the theme of Para's next comp.

Hey all. So I have a gut feeling and I know the executioner mech mould won't work, so I am making a new one. Meanwhile, the first mould is being filled with the Easy Cast clear resin. It takes 48 hours to hard cure, so results will have to wait.

In the meantime, here is something I forgot to post. I got distracted from the second Para competition earlier in the month and wrote this up, haha.Some day I will finish my entry! I originally posted this in the GW terrain thread when the drama first came out about this being LE. So... it's a little old but, enjoy. I will also add what I did tonight on it.

Below this was the original process of creation, in case you get on of these. They're either perfect fits or fething awful!



Here is where it stands now. I had excess clear resin from filling that mould, so I used it to create the bottom layer for my water drainage. Note the bunker that needs some GS on it, more dirt added, and the new comms array.


I also got a chance to make a lightbox. Tell me what you think of the results/what I have to do to fix it in paint/photoshop?


Results:


I think I need to fix the white balance for PC as it looks fine on my phone.

Moving on, a certain dakka user and my army buddy keep sending me distractions! Aside from having an entire battletech army (I'll post that up later once I get paint on it/have them all assembled,) random miniatures keep arriving.

From the amazing Heliodore, made by Aka_Mythos, I received a MK 1 terminator. I have begun to blu tac it to see how parts can fit. I am waiting on some FW terminator leggings from ebay. (I forgot what the name is, starts with a T.)




Thank you so much Heliodore, he will be my CM in my next army. You and Mythos rock. I'm going for a giant bolter look with him, ala Starcraft 2, to take advantage of the BS skill. Before I had this model, this model was to be my CM. However, coming in at the size of a 2nd edition Dreadnought, as much as I love him, I cannot use him I feel. Yes, some of you may know where he comes from as well.


I am thinking of just trading him for a predator and some tactical marines, because cost wise that is what I have in him. I don't want to offend anyone however by placing him in the swap shop.

Then there are these distractions! I ordered stuff a long time ago through my buddy, and it finally showed up. (Waiting on 100$ worth of Battletech Mechwarrior online sculpts though.) Along with some Epic 40k stuff (not all of it, just what I could play with. I have a plinth paperweight I am working on too. All those ships, a missile jetfoil that I will use as proxy for Battletech, and a bunker from M&M. (For Epic and BT.)


Ahem, all that aside. Mould report, then some pictures of my tank progress. Battle report next update, hopefully. I keep pushing it off as it will take some time to create.

Here is my first mould filled. The tape is where I had to remove the executioner mech, and realized I need a two piece. The tape is there is for stability, not that it needs it. I put my clear resin in, takes 48 hours to cure.


Onward to the tank! It needs greenstuff everywhere to fill gaps but, details, electronics, and the structure on the rear is done!

Some side shots.





Magnets, electronic works. The gears on the other side are in pristine condition, too bad you will never see them. I wish I could have kept these gears intact but, room had to be made!

Front overhead view. This thing is becoming more like a land raider but, it's tech-heresy so I'm okay with it. You guys can clearly see how big it is. (I'm running this as a predator infernus.)


Rear engine shots. The rails are not glued or attached, they sit there so the tank doesn't try to emulate the titanic pose as the front hasn't been made yet.




The view of the rear without the fuel tank.


Turret details.


I'm painting up my first son but, in the meantime here was the first failed scheme. It was for Solar but, I need to bring the plate back up with two thin coats and then highlights. The black is where I was using imperial primer over the FW brass. I swapped helmets as that was one I felt worthy of the piece. It is sloppy as my painting session was interrupted, and he's sat ever since. I really don't want to accept this quality though, and the only thing that has kept me from stripping him bare is my friends telling me I can salvage him yet.


Lastly, riveters. What do you think? Don't be fooled by the thicker looking ones, it's static electricity holding them together.


Battle-report in a few days/next update. I will have some finished painting results up soon for once, yay. That's all for now, thanks for following me as always.

Oi ya sneaky Git. It ain't dat imprussuve. Ya one of dem blue fellars whos dakka famus too!

Also, uh... I hate to be a prude but, I'm still waiting on that supply drop/those shoulders for your GMS marines. I can't make them without propa bits ya gits!


(Please don't take that the wrong way lol. I'm scared it got lost in the mail or something.)

I also fixed the electronic wiring picture.

Yes... good idea. Shame me publicly.... that might actually get me off my a$$.

Sorry!

Nah. I was honestly really scared it got destroyed via my mail. I have had some serious mail theft and misplacement going on. I didn't mean to shame you, I meant it in jest. Plus your awesome Admech and Ramos' stellar work would distract me were I in your shoes. I'm not upset, afterall you're the one helping me.

I was surprised you liked the tank. I'm unhappy with it.

Please take these crappy cast results as an apology.

So some items were suited for a 1 piece mould and were really good. IE: The metal hook and cog. The rest needs a two piece. More results and batrep tonight hopefully.

Looks like you're making plumbing parts...

I deserve that haha.

I see the tank has benefitted from the Zinge Bitz. Always good stuff for vehicle projects

This all makes me want to get up and start my terrain so I can actually play on my table. But my death korp and dusk raiders keep getting in the way

@ Shas: Yes! It did. Plus Mach's lights and spotlights. I actually deem the tank a "happy failure." I went based on bits I could find and got this look. Honestly. I should have cut into the LRBT sides and made sherman style tracks. I would have had glorious cogs and gears to show along with tread leftover. However this tank has taught me so much which was its purpose. Ie: How to GS. Make rivets. Make due. Not to overly bling things up, and that a clean hull looks just as good as an armory. Something this tank suffers from. That being said. I can't wait to finish it.

@ Ustrello: Heh. I wish I had a place to work on it all. It sits on a bookshelf. All of it needs sanding down, then sand and rocks. Then a prime coat and then paint to be done. Terrain can be easy though. It is a labor of love. <---- Hypocrite as I need to finish. Still. I love Dkok and Dusk Raiders so keep at it.

Casting has been good with some of my OOP bits. Others require teeny tiny 2 pt moulds. Good news is Blackhand's research is correct. It doesn't require mould release. It would be nice though.

Stealth mecha! clear resin makes it so sneaky looking

Glad the tank was a learning experience, as that will have an impact on future projects!

Practice makes perfect! good start!

Hey so I am copying over some posts to save effort with image capturing but, I painted my first miniature. I hope you all like it and I hope it isn't too crappy. It's technically not done, since it needs the base to be finished and a freehand IF symbol.

I ordered a couple of Epic 40k LRs as a sort of surprise for this blog. After stripping them, all my LRs started in this color (below,) or in a god awful Crimson Fist undercoat that is nigh impenetrable. They all had to be undercoated black, including my entry for Para's comp. (Yes, I swapped entries.)





Pictures from all sides.


The base is next. I'm excited, it is a wonderful SWM plinth. I was going to go for a grey slate tile but, I think I might go for a green glass type tile as seen in Phutarf's cathedral (so I can practice this technique for my marines.)

Next thing I had on the agenda, which I wish was further along was a display board for my Battletech. It's supposed to be a backwater, neglected mining operation and refinery that has mainly been pigeonholed into becoming a storage facility. With the discovery of the mech I cast (when life gives you lemons eh? I had to do something with it,) the facility once more has purpose again. (The exterminator mech is really rare in battletech until the later years due to having a stealth field. Since my cast failed however, it will be primed and painted.)

Forgive the blutac on my sprue supports for my landing pad in advance.

I was going to save it for a surprise but, I chose the altoid building as it opens, so it will have people, furniture, storage etc. The mech and ammo tin are all that are meant for it atm. Rest is storage for this project so I don't lose little parts.

The water/chemical container has been cut slightly. (Clear tube W/black lid.) Just a shelf hanging thing for retailers but, it still counts as a cut. The tin is my intact piece. Like all my other terrain bits, I am following the craggy hill tutorial. This will be the first one that is finished though, hopefully. The cork will be painted up as if it is mars earth.

Here are some pictures. I am honestly super proud of the mining vehicle, though it still needs the hatch done on the back.

You've got some complex stuff going on here Stormwall!

I think your casting is coming along. Keep working on it!

Congrats on getting your tank painted!!!

Hey mate!

Not sure how I could have missed this blog so far but glad I found it..... some sweet work going on over there! That tank is really cool!! Love the little details on and around the turret!

and your LoER comp piece is shaping up nicely! Love the idea of an archaeological dig......

Looking forward to seeing more!

Nice to see the epic scale baby land raiders!

@ Magos: Welcome aboard! I follow your works I think, it's good stuff.

@ Shas: Epic needs love too.

I feel like I owe you guys so time for a mobile update. I'll put more effort in when I get home.

I finished my Epic 40k tank. I forgot yellow took so many coats. I forgot half my recipe. Got it to where it looked semi-great, added my decals. Went to spray clearcoat, managed to stop myself from spraying a can of leadbelcher instead.

Got the actual army painter varnish, sprayed and boom! Fog. I sprayed another coat to remove the fog but the first coat smeared a lot of paint.

Being my first mini I am still proud of it. I have also begun the base. I had made a wire tree and then base coated it black.

I'm not fully happy with it but, it wasn't a failure.

Moving on... it was dark and lightning arched across the skies... I awoke to hear a noise at the door. They came from the rains...

I screamed incoming!!! But, it was too late. They had arrived. reinforcements from Gitsplitta. There is so much here I cannot keep track of it all. Just look for yourself. When I get home again I will do a proper tally. He packed the box so well that even when it was dripping wet from the storm, the models were unharmed.

In return for all of this, Gits is getting something that is armored and scouty (totally not foreshadowing, and it is the least I can do) and three Marines. I will probably do three Star Hunters or maybe two with a Son of Orar to go with.

I am so flattered and honestly humbled. I came close to being forced to move out during my income break due to college break. He would have basically of saved the hobby for me and he has honestly outfitted my entire next 2k point army.

So thank you Gitsplitta! You saved the future of my hobby! Expect Star Marine reinforcements!

Hopefully when I get time, I will fix my blog name throughout the entire thing to shorten it, and add these images to the Dakka gallery.

Hmm. Now if only I could find a walkthrough or original instructions for all of this. Some of the metal pieces and smaller add-ons confuse me.

Ah, classic Whirlwind!

Very nice, good ole stabbin plow.

If I counted right, there should be bits for 5 different Mk-1 vehicles in there. Whirlwind, predators, razorbacks... plus the extra auto-cannon barrels you asked for. Unfortunately I didn't have a spare vindi or i'd have sent that too.

Delighted to share my bounty. Many of those were gifts from other dakkanaughts and I promised myself that I'd either paint them myself or give them to someone who needed them (rather than selling). You aren't the first recipient of such a care package, so don't worry.

Looking forward to the marines for my Inquisitional Support Squads. I'm starting to work on my "modern" MW so I'm sure they'll start seeing the table regularly.

You sent enough, believe me. I just have to figure out how to assemble this stuff. I was born in 94, I missed the best GW had to offer!

Mostly the metal razorback turrets confused me. And I assume I have to finangle rubber bands to attach the sides to rhinos.

I saw the barrels. I added them to my "whatever it is," stormraven (?) scratchbuild. It is looking more like a Fire Raptor each day with my planning.

I did the measurements. The Whirlwind turret ironically enough will work on a Knight Warden chassis. It'd be heavy and all but... my base will be probably heavier. I hope. Everyone thinks it won't work. It probably won't. But, if it does it will be awesome.

Yes. Expect at least three Marines, a surprise, and maybe a libby if you cannot replace the one you lost earlier this year. :(

I'd be delighted to get a libby. I do have plans for a really fancy, professionally converted & painted one for my main character... but the lists I've been running lately require two normal librarians so I could always use another.

The razorback turrets... I think you mean the side sponsons for the Predator? You can see how the old razorback turrets work of you look through the early parts of my Mantis Warrior gallery. The predator sponsons just get glued over the door holes in the sides of the outer hull. I've got one here that I was thinking of painting just for giggles. If you want I can take some more detailed pictures of it so you can see how it works.

I actually mean all of these turrets. Edit... I see it now from the picture, I'm so stupid.

Nah, you'll get the hang of it laddy!

Hey all, long time no update. So today/tomorrow is a big day for me but, I have to make this post so I have an excuse to bug you all about casting. Er... what.

So it twas' time for summer cleaning, and I updated the workshop to celebrate turning 21.


I got a painting chart and framed it, and I framed a piece of art my girlfriend drew as well. (The Sphess Mahreen. It's been my avatar for a while, apparently she saw the original and decided to paint her own version of it.


I got tired of paint pots hogging one of my storage bins, so I took my grandmother's easel she left for me, and made it a paint rack holder. The frame is circa 1950, it was broken and smashed but, I saved enough to wrap the project. I hate drilling and plugging dowels now, just by the way. It's a bit rough, it still needs to have some parts dry, including the wood filler on the parts that were old (my grandmother lived a long time after all,) and this must have been early plywood. It chipped, and chipped, and chipped some more... I think it looks okay though. It certainly works however. From the other side of the family, I restored and repaired and old metal tool box which now stores almost all my supplies and tools. It still needs a good stain as well but, I have some gunstock stain prepped just for this after a good sanding.

I then made this tank by accident. Apparently, the new rhino kits and lovely (as lovely as the old ones, if they are new and not secondhand.) This whirlwind Scorpius practically put itself together. I took parts (courtesy of Gitsplitta,) from the original Whirlwind and added them to this kit. I am most proud of the original whirlwind radar dish, and the wiring connecting those parts, along with Brother Thorald. I am sorta pleased with how my new heat gun bent the styrene tubing to hold in the old school crates as well. Also, if you are wondering about Brother Thorald, he used to be a first company veteran. He took a anti-tank mine placed by Chaos Cultists to his everywhere while on an escort to remove high value imperial personnel, blowing his arm and both his legs off. Thorald, though held in high regard was not selected for a Dreadnought, due to their scarcity in the Star Hunters chapter, and was doomed to die or be given the Emperor's peace. However, due to the extremely cold temperatures, his body survived his injuries due to the sheer cold and freezing point. (Think a world worse than Hoth.) Before you point it out by the by, no, he wouldn't have triggered his Sus-an membrane, as the Star Hunters come from the Imperial Fists line. Regardless, he is still viewed as a valuable marine for the chapter, and he was saved by the Apothecaries and the Techmarines of the chapter. He is apart of the chapter's reserve elements, usually mentoring younger marines and Neophytes, or teaching sparring techniques in the chapter fighting pits, back on Stenheim. However he is occasionally assigned to guarding the Techmarine crew of the Chapter Relic known and originally christened to be named Gjallarhorn. He sometimes goes outside of the vehicle to check on the "status," of the armor, as you can totally see now.











Moving on, I have begun that destroyer from earlier on. It will be a large ship for larger Battletech games. Probably House Davion colors. I need to cut the hull in half, the bottom going to my airship/gravship and the top going on an ocean base. Anyways, on top of it sits two Librarians...



Meet me new Librarian for the Star Hunters. My girlfriend purchased the Lord Executioner model for me during my NYC trip. I absolutely adore this model, however, I wanted it to be unique. I had no room for it in my army... or did I? I removed my old librarian, which will be going to Gitsplitta as an extra to be tacked on to his retinue that I am sending him. (I'm sad he lost his old one.) Since I couldn't fit a Captain into my lists, I did a lot of conversion work. Though I am saving his axe for another project altogether. I am happy with him. I made him out of the original Finecast model, some Forgeworld brass and a tank crew helmet, a Maxmini bionic arm, and a RT bolter (I think.) This is my favorite model to date, probably.





Moving on, the messy spare Librarian that originally started out from broken parts that I repaired over time. He still needs Greenstuff to finish his hood and gap filling. I sanded his larger shoulder, removing the stupid Crux icon. I can smooth it with GS or keep it worn down, depending on Git's preference.





Lastly, I made this sucker. I got bored one night and cranked it out quickly. I needed to create it so I could test fit it on top of a knight at my FLGS, which it does!


First thing is first, getting the mech done, and then my LOER Mars mining base entry done.