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Right! This is getting frustrating now! My mind is wandering off tones projects before finishing the current ones, plus I am more inclined to finish my terrain piece for the LoER. As an underlining of this point, decided the fog on Tyranid bases (or any bases) just won't come off the way I hope. Therefore for the sake of finances and interest I'll go for a variation on this:
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2014/05/hobby-tyranid-bases-in-under-3-minutes.html
Doesn't make sense for Tyranids to crawl over their own eggs, but with creativity, they can be seen to be protecting them or advancing with them just in the background. I have ideas of how to do that and will sort it out as I go.

Project DA4: Dark Angels Vindicator
Finally a WIP. I've been so engrossed with my lava field entry for the League of Extraordinary Riveters (see signature), that I just haven't had time to get to my Vindicator.

It's finally primed though, although the spray can ran out midway through so I'll need to check tomorrow how successful it was:



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Ooh! Forgot to say, there's battle damage too. Weird experience to knife and stab your beautiful tank I've got claw marks on it, shell impacts and on each of the sides here are bullet marks (I even got a line of bullet marks on the one side at the level someone's torso would be at if standing in the side hatch).....

....I may have put too much thought in to this

Project DA4: Dark Angels Vindicator
Finally some more WIP:

Main photo - better primed photo of Vindicator
Top left - models 2-5 for the challenge
Top middle - plan for diorama base
Top right - GW building and vindicator on plan
Middle right - base board and mount board glued together to form pavements
Bottom right - GW building and Vindicator on base

Was meant to have sprayed the Vindicator with Green tonight, but rain stopped spray (), so took the opportunity to start building the diorama base and 3 of the 4 other models for the challenge (they will not be getting a thorough paint).

Think you can get it done in time? That little tank has a lot of character, I'm pumped to see it finish.

I really hope so. If I can get it sprayed tomorrow, I should be able to do enough each night to at least get it done if not the other bits

well looking forward to see her finihsed. cracking tank the Vindi - get to it lol

subbed....lots of cool modelling going on here....i really like how you reposed your gunner... i need to be more courageous too to make such grander conversions too!

cheers, vik

Project DA4: Dark Angels Vindicator
Got a bizarre gift of time without having to run around this morning, so managed to finish off the placement of elements on to the Vindicator diorama.
It's peeing it down outside so it was this or nothing because I couldn't spray. I'll get a base coat on these and the four Dark Eldar along with a coat of green on to the Vindi and gunner tonight (I hope).

what's this, what's this.....wee diorama in the works?!!! Liking it lots... really nice set up; gonna look the business. can't wait to see this all finished up TP.
I need to get down to the local river and nag me some nice stones and peebles for next month's comp/dio

Jan - you're a terrible influence on me I'm hoping I can pull it off in time

hahahahaaaa - blaming the Irishman eh?!!!!
'sure you'll get it done in time. I'm trying to think up a scene for the Chosen I'm gonna be starting soon

Project DA4: Dark Angels Vindicator
So, for all those of you bored with a lack of progress, another WIP:

Please note - I got my green on. That is one major step closer to getting this little beauty finished for Sunday night. It is nearly impossible for me to see where the Dark Eldar are, so for all those in the same boat I have indicated where my five figures are. Note, 2 and 3 will not be there in the end, but it's kind of hard to show where they actually will be ... tum-tee-tum!

Goal is to spend time with family today then paint Vindicator tonight, the rest tomorrow. Dio should be really quick so may even get done tonight between Vindi coats drying.

Project DA4: Dark Angels Vindicator
Well plan to spend time with family today started well, but my daughter broke her arm so it kind of became a subdued day. I have no motivation to finish my entry now, so can't see me finishing my entry for the challenge, but did a little painting last night, here's my latest WIP:

Painted the dio because it required less thinking.

oh crap...i hope your daughter will get better soon... i know this takes it time... but eventually she will cope with the situation...i hope it is not a complicated break? my own son got his ankle ruined in a totally avoidable bicycle accident... took way too long to heal and he was doomed to st around way too long for a four year old boy...
but afterwards it is a time full of tales... tales you and she will remember... sour truth, that gets a bit sweeter in the fullness of time...
so... best wishes for that to happen soon!

as for the dio... i think i see for the first time ever a dozer blade that has to actually work its way through some debris!!! that´s very cool!
and i already said that gunner is a hot conversion

cheers, vik

Thanks vik. Sorry to hear your son was so troubled by a similar problem. My daughter's break was apparently straight forward, but I'm still keeping my fingers crossed just in case.

Re the dio - thanks for the comments. I used the debris as a marker so I know where to put it back if I use it in a game, but also, I thought it would look cool . You'll see it finished one day, hopefully soon

well... my son is now nine years old and only a manly scar is the last evidence...

how old is your lil one?...the younger the faster they heal but the wee ones are hindered the most with such accidents...hmm...

clever idea to use the debris as a marker... good forward planning there!^^

She's 4 next month, I'm sure she'll be fine overall. Being the parent is the worst part I think. Glad your son is ok - girls love scars I'm told.

lol... well, if he gets to a point to reveal his ankle... i guess he is way ahead of the game that a scar would benefit his efforts...

try to make the plastered up arm as entertaining t her as can be... i think this will help her get accustomed to the circumstances...maybe make it look a if she is wearing iron man´s armour^^...or flowers and unicorns^^

They are some very good tips. She does want to be a superhero .......

Remember, in iron man 3 pepper potts was iron lady for a coupla secs:-D

Project TY1: Zoanthrope and 4 Genestealer Dio
Tried to get some stuff done last night, but Hypoglycaemic again - just fed up of this ruining my chances of getting anything done.

Anyway, managed to get some stuff done. Here's some WIP for this month's painting challenge (see signature for link):


There's a PVA/super glue mix on the bases now to try and simulate gloopy alien stuff, not sure it's worked very well. I'll post when it's dry and primed.

i can assure you the super glue PVA mix works ace as weird ground!!!

and hypoglycaemic as in that movie with that fella of king of queens...(forgot the title...)
that is a bummer....

as for the base.... be sure to cover the rim of the base seal it with something so that the cardboard inner structure wont be seen!

looking good TP - really looking forward to seeing the end result

Dio base? Awesome!

I'm doing one as well, I think Januine's started something of a trend!

hahahaa - dio bases are a bit of fun to make. only did the first one as a bit of a one off.....kinda got sucked into doing them now. speaking of which, better get back to mine

Viktor von Domm wrote:i can assure you the super glue PVA mix works ace as weird ground!!!

and hypoglycaemic as in that movie with that fella of king of queens...(forgot the title...)
that is a bummer....

as for the base.... be sure to cover the rim of the base seal it with something so that the cardboard inner structure wont be seen!

Thanks Vik, I only noticed this morning I hadn't tidied it up, wasn't thinking straight because I was unwell

Don't know the film, but my life feels like a bad drama sometimes. After 28 years of diabetes it starts to wear away on your positivity......

Paradigm wrote:Dio base? Awesome!

I'm doing one as well, I think Januine's started something of a trend!

Just seen your minis - SNAP! (Sort of) - I'm blaming Januine for the dio Although technically bases were my thing of the month so made sense - I normally now buy resin, so wanted to try something new that I wasn't paying for.



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Project TY1: Zoanthrope and 4 Genestealer Dio
Some WIP:

I know they aren't great images. Hope you get the idea.

Going to switch to my LoER entry for a bit coz deadline's in a week - so badly want to finish this one project - getting frustrated that I'm not carrying ideas through

Hey man, I feel the same way. As long as you make progress, keep your chin up.

Your work has been a treat to watch so far.

mate... i heard in the news the soon want to bring a kind of plaster to market... that will intelligently solve the insulin application...

we have the illness in our family line too... and from the way i am celebrating my eating habits... i will eventually get it too...

the blue balls (ohoh...now that is a wrong sentence beginning...) looking mighty fine... very eery...if the colour scheme allows i would try to replicate that hue when you paint the piece...

I wait and see with the Diabetes. I've seen so many changes and so many pipe dreams go up in smoke. I just get on with it as best I can. After 28 years there's little else I can do.

The tyranids are going to have black armour with blue highlights and then white flesh with blue shadows. Therefore when planning the egg colour I was either going to go with pink for contrast or blue for consistency. Ground will be grey stone and brown wood. Happy for people to chip in with preferences

Project TY1: Zoanthrope and 4 Genestealer Dio
So, better day today. Built a kitchen and then managed to find time to paint my Zoanthrope. So happy with the final result! Here's the WIP:

The brain was so simple as a technique - White base coat, green ink, done. The feathering was a first for me and I know it's not perfect but I think it was a fair first effort. I chose yellow eyes to contrast against the blue and green and think it works well, I will use this on all Tyranids from here on. The base was my second new technique, I think the blue eggs work well and the log adds some dynamicism to a figure which is very static due to being made of metal and me not being in the mood to convert with GS.

Here's the nearly finished Zoanthrope:

Needs varnishing and better final photos for the challenge. The dio and genestealer are not finished so my entry will purely be the Zoanthrope in all likelihood unless I find more time to paint again, but this is why I only put up a proof for the Zoanthrope initially because I wanted to make sure I had a second stage target, but ultimately I only had to do the one thing. I am very keen to finish the dio base and genestealers to finish that overall scene, but I am so happy with the end result of the Zoanthrope.

As always C&C welcome
PS Sorry for long post