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Been a long time KernelTerror, and in catching up all I can say is Wow! Your army is huge in total at this point! The warp is a truely mysterious place and that hellblade you call a tie, is it? Lol, really fun!

Thanks a lot genom.cor, glad you approve of my experiments. And you saw the weaponry of the TIE correctly, if it ever get fielded, it will be as an hellblade.

Today, I worked on the knight titan's weapons, building the beginning of some kind of plasma carbine and a sword :

Oooooh exciting!

Exciting indeed! I love how you manage to use such random household items in your models! Is that a bicycle handlebar plug I spy?

Cheers my friends !

@CorpusChain : The black plastic part on top of the gun ? No, it is a plastic furniture foot, the kind you insert into an hollow metal tube to not damage the floor.

But yeah, finding funny looking plastic parts is a part of modeling I may enjoy a bit too much ^^. On these last two weapons, you'll find two different kinds of superglue caps, a yogurt lid, different wall plugs, a broken metal chain, a wine cork, a beer wax top, a citadel paint pot, and some plastic that held my printer together during delivery.

Finished detailing the TIE's cockpit and its arm. Just need to finish the wings now...

Today I started doing some detailing on the TIE's wings :


But most importantly, I also finished the knight and started assembling it to see how it look and decide on a final pose. Clay in the joint between the legs and the torso is still being pressed into shape right now, hence the improvised scaffolding.

Finished assembling the knight today. I'll remove its limbs for painting, but it will stay mounted for a few days, see if it holds.


Took this opportunity to take a picture with the other one, and some mechanicus crew inspecting it :

Nice work on the tie wings.

If it weren't for the tentacles on the knight I'd be tempted to call it a looted ork version (That's a good thing by the way ) Good use of parts.

Thanks MonkeyTroll ! That might be because of the way I scratchbuild these things. While some people methodically measure and cut plasticard, I just loot any weird looking piece of plastic or metal I can find and cover them in glue and clay until they stop falling off. I guess that would make me the ork of the story... I'm fine with that ^^.

The warp is strong with you my friend! Also, those titans are scary. Call in the heavies!

Thank you very much genom.cor !
It is a good week for big vehicles, today, I finished the TIE Hellblade :


Don't worry if the wings are not aligned well, I am waiting till after paint before gluing them.

Started working on some topless berzerkers on reiver legs today :

Finished building the berzerkers today :


And also started working on a backdrop for my models, something that would belong in a dark mech lab, or on a chaos ship :

Finished this Rotten Factory demon today :

Like the look of the background piece - second shot shows it to be much bigger than I was thinking from the first

Rotten Factory hey? I'll have to look into tbem.....

Thanks MonkeyTroll ! Yeah, this way I can use it for pictures of chaos knights !


Today's progress consisted in adding more texture to the background :

Those topless berzerkers are freaking amazing! Love the poses. I also really like the size of the background drop, I do think 40k is the ideal place for this kind of gigantic buildingscapes but GW is kinda passing up on that potential (understandable, a plastic kit of that size would be expensive...).

Thanks Big Boss Grimbad, hopefully I'll have some of them painted before the end of the week.

And indeed, absurdly oversized structures are indeed part of the appeal of this universe.

The backdrop is now ready for paint :


Added heads, more texture, and a magnetized catwalk so that model can walk like cats. And probably fall to an horrible death :


Can't wait to see how all this will look once basecoated.

Finished painting two of the berzerks today :

And here comes a third Berzerk :


Also started building a bunker :

All looking good. I thought you might be going for a split level bunker from the first shot...wondered if you had built it up so you could have an entrance/firing-slit/tunnel at the bottom. But looks like it's going to be a Big Bunker instead

Thanks MonkeyTroll ! Yeah, just a big bunker, with a single opening long enough to let an entire platoon shoot ^^.

Finished the last Berzerks today :






And the entire squad :

very cool, I kinda like them more than the traditional bunny ear berzerkers

Thank you very much AlabamaHeretic, I am pretty happy with these helms too, gives them kind of a post apocalyptic barbarian look.

Finished painting the inner side of one of the wings of the Hellblade today

Made some progress on my bunker.

Since the main plastic parts are hollow, filled the top part with packing foam :



Then covered it with plaster


Also started making the back platform of the bunker, about the appropriate level to place some cultists behind it :

Made some progress on the bunker, now that both elements are dry :


In order to have the roof stand on its own, I screwed wooden structure at each extremity. Now the main window can be seen unobstructed :



Also started building the ramp at the back of the bunker, to let a rhino sized tank access it :

Evening Dakka ! The backdrop is finally finished :


The very limited palette helps highlighting models :



The magnetized catwalk lets models fall to their death


And it is big enough to accomodate a knight titan :


The floor can also be raised in order to use an upper part as a background :

Those berzerker conversions are really interesting, maybe I'll think of a reason to steal them.