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That's really awesome looking, have your previous work pictures disappeared or is it just me?

Check my previous post, I've been restructuring my Photobucket. Luckily enough you can check the pics out here.

Here are the specific albums:
-Robotic creatures
-Weapon designs
-Underground facility

Been working on the drones again...

It's kind cool to see how this has become this:




And yes, it's going to be a multi-part kit...


The creature is almost finished. It just needs a little bit of detailing here and there, especially the head/neck need a bit of work. The shoulders are also a bit tricky since I need to tweak them so they can easily connect to the torso.

And then there's this fellow who is slowly growing up to become:





This one needs a bit more work than the previous drone though, lots of detailing and gear still needs to be added. The head also needs some serious tweaking.

For both drones the human model next to them represent a 30mm model (from the bottom of its feet to the top of its head). This makes both drones about 33mm tall (also from the bottom of their feet to top of their heads). Also, the parts of the two drones are interchangeable.

Something was bothering me about the legs of these creatures. And then it hit me: get rid of the 'human legs'! And yes, it makes the machines stand a bit taller (34mm from bottom of the feet to the top of the head). However, it does make them look scarier. But that might also be the additional details...

Many months ago I started working on this fellow. Kinda cool to see what it has become. It's almost done, it's mainly the legs that need to be finished. But don't be surprised if I'll end up adding/changing a lot of details.





Remember this one? Still very much a work in progress, but it's getting there slowly. The legs still need a whole lot of work and the arms (especially the shoulders and elbows) need some fixing up.




In the meantime I've also ordered one of the robots' torsos, a head, arm, and leg to see how they'll fit to one another. Hopefully I'll be able to share some pics soon...

Finally got some test prints in! One thing I can say is that I'm kinda digging Shapeways' FXD material, it really handles the detail rather well. The only downside is that there are still printlines and the material would need extensive cleaning. Subtle Discord wrote some interesting stuff on that.

Another 'downside' of the material is that it's see-through, making it rather tricky to photograph.

But yeah, enough talk!

Weapons:






Scrapbot components:





Test printed some BFG scaled ordnance:

Your stuff is really inspirational! You use sketchup? I never thought that was capable of so much WIN!

Wow, those turned out great!

@LeCacty: Everything is still being done using SketchUp, but I should really start learning Blender (I've been promising to start doing that for years now!)

@Gitsplitta: Thanks mate!

In the meantime...

Started working on "version 2.0" of the hounds. The previous versions felt a bit too large for my tastes, I wanted something more wolf or dog sized rather than giant hellhound. So I started tweaking some bits and I've got the torso and head ready:



The human model represents a 28mm miniature.

For what you're doing, geometric shapes and all, sketchup is perfectly fine.

Yeah, for weapons, vehicles, robots, and architecture it's great. As soon as you try to do infantry and such it becomes more complicated.

You could do a mix of sketchup and sculpteo (zbursh lite). make your mechanical stuff and your armatures in sketchup and add the organics in sculpteo

Been a while since I've last posted, but been working a lot on the robots. First up, some progress on the hounds.



I still need to figure out how to get the legs to work nicely, but I feel I'm slowly getting on the right path...

And here two variant bodies:



The humanoid robots have also had a major overhaul, one big change is that I've removed the spikes. I imagined these robots to be scrapped together from industrial components and felt the spikes make them a bit too 'punk' which didn't feel right here. I might have to look at the hounds' spikes soon as well...










And here an assortment of drones that still need more work:

EPIC!

Thanks a lot! I don't really have an update at the moment, but I can offer you a look into my mind, or at least my influences.

Check it out!

Cool robots! I love that they seem to be customizable.

Not to rain on your parade, but by using Lego technics you could get the same look

Totally awesome. I really like those robots.

EDC

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Cool robots! I love that they seem to be customizable.

That's the whole idea. The legs will be a bit tricky since the different 'couples' have different lengths, but I could try to tweak that a bit to make it more workable! At the moment I've got 5 bodies, would need to have at least the same amount of heads and pairs of limbs, but I'd like to do a few extra special heads and arms as a bonus.

After that I'd like to delve into some 'bigger fellows', basically something akin to 'bloated Obliterators' with various weapon systems (including ranged weapons) growing out of their limbs and bodies. Basically imagine Blightkings (for bloatedness, not the organic parts and rot) meets old school Obliterators but the size of a current upright Obliterator. Probably be a kit of three different bodies + various heads and weapon options.

Been working on some Epic scale tanks:


More pics and such over here.

I like that design Malika2.

I really like the design! One thing though, the main turrets seem smaller than the bolters on the front of the tanks.

Don't have access to my pics at the moment so I'll have to do this through link:

Working on a new hull

Tank next to a 6mm human

Flame weaponry

As good as ready

New turret variants

Oh yeah, and the tank (with 4 different turrets and two dozer blades) has been shipped off to Vanguard Miniatures.

Continued working on the siege tanks. The kit will basically include the hull, two types of dozer blades, and two weapons: an tank-hunting heavy laser cannon, and a shell firing bunker buster.

First up: the tank hunter:




Whilst the bunker buster cannon still needs to be designed, I got distracted. I like the idea that the hull could also be used as a basis for other tanks. Thus the missile launcher was born. Keep in mind that the current missile launcher will be totally redesigned. I just used this one to give you an idea what a back mounted weapon will look like. I've also added a heavy machine gun like weapon to the front, it can (optionally) be replaced for a heavy flamethrower.

I like them. The bunker buster is great!

I haven't even started on the bunker buster yet. The bunker buster will be akin to a demolition cannon. The first three pictures are the tank hunter. The fourth picture is a missile launcher system, which will be something completely different.

Just shipped off a bunch of 6mm scaled upgrade bits for the tank I've designed for Vanguard Miniatures:


From left to right: Front hull iconography plate, twin linked HMG, twin linked flamethrowers, twin linked subatomic heat weapons. Basically your three different types of Immolation tanks for the religious sisterhood. But could probably also be used for more inquisitorial themed armies.


From left to right: left missile pod, right missile pod, missile launcher turret, heavy laser cannon, light battle cannon, quad autocannons, medical transport front hull icon. I decided to ditch the roof part of the medical transport for multiple reasons: (a) it was too thin to cast at this time (b) doing it true justice would mean re-designing a hull a bit (c) economic reasons. Note that the medical transport is most likely an objective, so going all crazy on it regarding design work and printing/casting simply isn't worth the money.


Extra armour for the IVR tank, either plating or reactive armour.

Just wanted to quickly share my current vehicle pool with you. At the moment it consists of 17 different tanks (with the possibility of it becoming 21 if you're counting the turrets from the gun emplacements)



So yeah, from front to back and from left to right:
-"Hunter Hull": Bunker buster cannon, anti-armour heavy laser cannon
-"Siege Hull" with "spray weapons pack": Heavy flame weapon, subatomic heat weapon, chemical spray weapon
-"Standard Pack" (standard hull): multiple laser cannon, twin linked heavy machine guns, flame weapon, automatic cannon
-"Oddities Sprue" (standard hull): quad automatic cannons, light battle cannon, multiple laser cannon with multiple missile launchers, heavy laser cannon, medical transport
-"Weapons of Faith" (standard hull): Twin linked flame throwers, twin linked heavy machine guns, twin linked subatomic heat weapons.

Those are very slick Malika. When do we get to see physical models? Not that the virtuals aren't fun... but you know... we're hobbyists after all!

The standard IVR hull and various turrets have already been sent off to Vanguard Miniatures, which means they'll become available in the coming weeks/months.

Look what arrived at Vanguard Miniatures' doorstep: