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Love that DP mate... great concept.

That daemon prince is great. I've never seen anyone make one that looks merged with a blight drone. Very cool and original idea.

Wow. Let's see..

Ivy IS pretty, curses. Darkseid is a beast. Shazam and Dudley came out awesome. That Demon Prince is outrageous and inspiring. Great stuff, man.

Great looking demon prince!

If you wanted to give him bells, you could always hang them from his rotor bits, like a wind-chime.

Theophony wrote:I don’t know about needing the bell, he has the three fans which would make a loud almost string section sound. He would be bringing a whole new sound to the choir.

On second thought it might sound like a hum and lots of the old fluff of papa Nurgle has him humming or whistling a merry little tune .

He does have cheery uvula dancing around at the back of his throat. I can imagine he's belting out a tune.

Gitsplitta wrote:Love that DP mate... great concept.

Cheers mucker.

Syro_ wrote:That daemon prince is great. I've never seen anyone make one that looks merged with a blight drone. Very cool and original idea.

Thanks man. I have to thank my local gw for posting a pic of the kid who stuck two fans on a regular DP fig. I just took it to its deranged conclusion

youwashock wrote:Wow. Let's see..

Ivy IS pretty, curses. Darkseid is a beast. Shazam and Dudley came out awesome. That Demon Prince is outrageous and inspiring. Great stuff, man.

Thanks buddy. Kind words, much appreciated.

aku-chan wrote:Great looking demon prince!

If you wanted to give him bells, you could always hang them from his rotor bits, like a wind-chime.

Lol. That's pretty bonkers. Quite like it

As y'all have been so nice about him, here's a WIP, just starting to lay down colours with washes and ryza:


The next step is to wash the whole thing in Earthshade and apply weathering powders to the rust sections whilst wet. A messy job but one that's worked well so far.

Looks like you're off to a suitably disgusting start

He is looking great , and no matter how he sounds wherever he goes he has fans around .....I’ll get my hat.

You also have me looking at my Iron warriors again after seeing that Darkseid figure

CommissarKhaine wrote:Looks like you're off to a suitably disgusting start

Why thank you, I do like to be disgusting

Theophony wrote:He is looking great , and no matter how he sounds wherever he goes he has fans around .....I’ll get my hat.

You also have me looking at my Iron warriors again after seeing that Darkseid figure

Sighhhhhhhh he does have a very Iron Warriors vibe actually, doesn't he? You should check out the art in Justice League Odyssey, he's even more IW in that.

Busy, but better, week. Work less awful in the second half. Dug my heels in, got management involved, blahblahblah.

I think the DP is done, although the pics are not fantastic as (a) trying a new light set-up and (b) I got a bit over-excited. C&C welcome, I can easily tweak stuff.

Pierus, Daemon Prince of Nurgle


I wonder if the back is generally too samey.

And I wonder if he's sticky enough generally.

But as a DP with Talons x2 and Wings, I think I've hit the spot. He absolutely fits the look of my and fills out the baritones nicely

Also done are the last couple of Mirakuru-themed militia, still in their Iron Heights oranges.


Good god I'm glad to see the back of them

Got a massive amount of extra storage delivered from KR Multicase. I doubt I'll ever need to buy a case again. I've been a bit down on KR in the past but they've certainly upped their game. More on that to follow when I get the full thing written up.

I also got an A-CASE, a steel assemblage for transportation:

It's about £50/$70 plus shipping, so it's not cheap, but it's very solid (and does come with 40 neodymium magnets also) - here I've got the shelves set for marines. Remarkably lightweight, it's a good option if you want heavy duty but convenient transport. Trays slide in and out easily (held in by pins), and I like the adjustability especially. I'm forever fiddling with pick and pluck, trying to get it right for a given model, so this is a welcome alternative that's not time consuming (although it took about 20 mins of folding steel and feeling like Superman to build). This one will make a great Xmas present, for sure.

Got my boys some corvus helms for their Primaris stalkers:

A friend asked me if I could throw a quick piece of Joker terrain together for him. His instructions were, "I know you're busy, don't spend more than an hour on it."
I freaking love a challenge
So, remember that ridiculous MDF cherry crate? Bring on the LX tape!

Totally daft, but fun to do.

Oh, and picked up colour shift Martian Green (shifts between iridescent green and purple) for my Z'zor (space locusts) for Dreadball.

Any experience on using the stuff, anyone?

That's all from me for now. Not sure what I'll get done this weekend, but hey, sure it'll he interesting
All the best
Graven

Prince looks great, definitely fits in with your other guys. Think that the back does need a touch more variety, maybe just hit up the 'power pack' part below the fans with a bit more metal? Or maybe just add more rust tones in there.

Not tried that stuff, but have played with liquitex iridescents, they really needed a decent sized curved surface to work well on, so interested to see how you get on with this. I'm guessing this has been formulated more with models in mind. Definitely worth playing with different base colours/primers - with the liquidated stuff to get a good colour shift you used the red on top of a blue base for example to get red/blue shifting, got a slight shimmer on top of black, and a fairly standard metallic on top of white.

I have not tried color shifting paint, but over in N&R there’s a thread by Instar paints where they just released theirs, they had some tips on making it work better.

Great work here, love the prince, and like the look of that case. Don't think I could ever justify the money, but they are nice. Interested to see what the paint does.

Cracking work on the Prince, the shades of green and the rusty brown compliment each other very well! If you wanted to change the back of him up some more you could add another metallic colour in there? Obviously you could grime that up a bit and it'd look the part. I think he looks good as is though.
Interested as to what you think of the case once you've used it a bit. I've been looking at that case for a little bit but I'm worried that if it takes a tumble the models will go everywhere even though they're attached with magnets. Also curious as to how it'll work with a tanks and flyers.
Good luck with the paint! Wonder what it'll look like.

monkeytroll wrote:Prince looks great, definitely fits in with your other guys. Think that the back does need a touch more variety, maybe just hit up the 'power pack' part below the fans with a bit more metal? Or maybe just add more rust tones in there.

Not tried that stuff, but have played with liquitex iridescents, they really needed a decent sized curved surface to work well on, so interested to see how you get on with this. I'm guessing this has been formulated more with models in mind. Definitely worth playing with different base colours/primers - with the liquidated stuff to get a good colour shift you used the red on top of a blue base for example to get red/blue shifting, got a slight shimmer on top of black, and a fairly standard metallic on top of white.

Good advice on the DP. I wonder about a touch of blueing.
Also, much appreciated on the colour shift stuff. I can but try !

Theophony wrote:I have not tried color shifting paint, but over in N&R there’s a thread by Instar paints where they just released theirs, they had some tips on making it work better.

Ooooh, ta!

Camkierhi wrote:Great work here, love the prince, and like the look of that case. Don't think I could ever justify the money, but they are nice. Interested to see what the paint does.

Yeah. Steep shipping too. You're looking at around £75 ish all in.

Tyranid Horde wrote:Cracking work on the Prince, the shades of green and the rusty brown compliment each other very well! If you wanted to change the back of him up some more you could add another metallic colour in there? Obviously you could grime that up a bit and it'd look the part. I think he looks good as is though.
Interested as to what you think of the case once you've used it a bit. I've been looking at that case for a little bit but I'm worried that if it takes a tumble the models will go everywhere even though they're attached with magnets. Also curious as to how it'll work with a tanks and flyers.
Good luck with the paint! Wonder what it'll look like.

Much obliged mate. Yeah, I'm a bit worried but the internet seems positive on it.

My weekend was spent with different distractions, I built my Z'zor team for dreadball so I can try the colour shifts. So they're in for priming just now, along with other dreadball stuff, coaches and giants, plus the primaris stalkers. I did, however, start on basing the big boys:

Sawing that trolley in half was not fun
And urban ruination for king shark

So that was fun
Started building the plagueburst crawler. However, I discovered my superglue had dried up. So, forced to use plastic glue - ugh. Hate the stuff, makes me feel like crud and never gives me a good bond anyway. It's in a clamp right now. The plan is to replace the wheels and tracks with tentacles. True caterpillar tracks

Proof of concept
So that's me, till next time,
Graven

I like the caterpillar tentacle tracks , also the teddy bear on the base I saw perfect as a treasure for king shark .

Alligator man looks like he just threw a 7, 10 split in bowling

Princ eis loking great, and so does he plague crawler. I'm curious though: while not a slug-like foot instead of tentacles?

The bases on Killer Croc and King Shark look class!
The plagueburst looks pretty neat with the tentacles, they might look really cool covered in some slime post-paint?

Great stuff mate

Loving the plagueburster tracks, that's going to look pretty cool.

Nice work on the bases, very suitable. I'm not overly keen on that head for croc though, always prefer him with a more humanoid head.

Just remember with the tentatracks- LOTS. If you think you have enough, double it. Then double it again. You basically won't want to see any of the old wheels or anything, just a carpet of tentacles.

Theophony wrote:I like the caterpillar tentacle tracks , also the teddy bear on the base I saw perfect as a treasure for king shark .

Alligator man looks like he just threw a 7, 10 split in bowling

very true, very true.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Princ eis loking great, and so does he plague crawler. I'm curious though: while not a slug-like foot instead of tentacles?

Thanks; I dunno, it just appealed to me to have this crawling, seething mass.

Tyranid Horde wrote:The bases on Killer Croc and King Shark look class!
The plagueburst looks pretty neat with the tentacles, they might look really cool covered in some slime post-paint?

Oh, absolutely!

JoeRugby wrote:Great stuff mate

Gracias!

monkeytroll wrote:Loving the plagueburster tracks, that's going to look pretty cool.

Nice work on the bases, very suitable. I'm not overly keen on that head for croc though, always prefer him with a more humanoid head.

I know what you mean about the head. I have a Killer Croc with the regular head though, so it's nice to have the variety.

Anvildude wrote:Just remember with the tentatracks- LOTS. If you think you have enough, double it. Then double it again. You basically won't want to see any of the old wheels or anything, just a carpet of tentacles.

That... is very good advice. Not entirely sure that I've followed it, but still

Started a quick and easy version Raven Guard for my boys:

Drybrushed VJ Neutral grey on all the edges. VJ red gore in the eyes, which will get a white dot for lenses. 2 layers of same for the pad trim. VJ violet on the purity seal. Bolter needs a metal drybrush, cloth needs... bone, probably, along with on the chest maybe? Don't want to overcomplicate it for them. We're going to go to our local GW on 20th for their 500th store shindig, pick up some bits maybe if their old dad is feeling generous any advice on what to expand on from some basic Primaris (12 - 3 converted with stalkers and 3 with autos) and Reivers (6)?

Also, started on my iridescent space bugs. Primed black, lightly drybrushed the same grey as used to highlight the raven guard. Two layers of colour shift on the Z'zor gave me this:


Very difficult to photograph but hopefully you can tell The eyes are done with vj red gore and a little of the colour shift blended in. Just gives them the faintest shimmer. I'm absolutely smitten with it, they look frighteningly alive.

As for the Plagueburst Crawler... Moar tentacles ya say?!


I actually think he's ok for tentacles now. However, I do feel the surface is a bit plain in places. I think some more pustules, fleshiness and iconography required. I didn't go with my original idea of adding a screaming bell at the back, and I think that's the right decision

The DP, however, I think is done:






Aside from violet washes into various recesses,I redid his eye red and did the fat flesh at the back in this sickly worm pink. Much happier.



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So with the 2 militia from the other day, that's 316.
I'm pretty happy, all in all.
Until next time
Graven

Good work all round. DP is great.

I absolutely love the Nurgle, but I think the Raven Guard is too grey.

No idea what the Primaris need as 40k keeps trying to pull me in, but no . Maybe the jump pack guys.

Could the blight hauler get some eye stalks to help it feel more like a snail?

Bugs are looking great .

Wow, that Demon Prince is really something! Excellent from concept through to execution!

Think the raven needs a touch of something on his chest to break it up, bone could work well if it's going on cloth as well, keeps it simple as you say.

Iridescent looks good from the pics, going to have to pick some of that up.

Burster looks great, think missing the bell was probably right, but maybe needs a smaller bell, just to bring it on with the choir?

And those little touches to the Prince improved it

The DP looks even better with the touch-ups to the back of him, adds to the whole fleshy effect!

The tentacles look good, any of the flat paneling you don't want to have flat could have a few wrapped around it going into nooks and crannies.

Your shiny bugs look the part, they remind me of those iridescent beetles.

For the Primaris you won't go wrong with that 500th store edition of the Lieutenant, its a pretty decent model outside of the fact he has a set of ear cups on his head as well as on his helmet. Other than that I can't help you, you could go for the jump pack dudes or their ground based equivalent.

Dr H wrote:Good work all round. DP is great.

Thanks chief, short and sweet!

Fifty wrote:I absolutely love the Nurgle, but I think the Raven Guard is too grey.

Cheers, and, yeah, I may have gone too far the other way.

Theophony wrote:No idea what the Primaris need as 40k keeps trying to pull me in, but no . Maybe the jump pack guys.

Could the blight hauler get some eye stalks to help it feel more like a snail?

Bugs are looking great .

Thanks buddy. Slippery slope these Primaris. They're satisfyingly chunky. Like the snail idea, comedy gold.

Paradigm wrote:Wow, that Demon Prince is really something! Excellent from concept through to execution!

Thank you kindly dear sir!

monkeytroll wrote:Think the raven needs a touch of something on his chest to break it up, bone could work well if it's going on cloth as well, keeps it simple as you say.

Iridescent looks good from the pics, going to have to pick some of that up.

Burster looks great, think missing the bell was probably right, but maybe needs a smaller bell, just to bring it on with the choir?

And those little touches to the Prince improved it

Bone on chest - agreed. I'm going to attach an icon of Nurgle to the back of the mortar I think. That's got clanky bells. Yeah much, much happier the dp. Brightening up the green on the tail helped too I think.

Tyranid Horde wrote:The DP looks even better with the touch-ups to the back of him, adds to the whole fleshy effect!

The tentacles look good, any of the flat paneling you don't want to have flat could have a few wrapped around it going into nooks and crannies.

Your shiny bugs look the part, they remind me of those iridescent beetles.

For the Primaris you won't go wrong with that 500th store edition of the Lieutenant, its a pretty decent model outside of the fact he has a set of ear cups on his head as well as on his helmet. Other than that I can't help you, you could go for the jump pack dudes or their ground based equivalent.

I baulk at the prospect of £20 though. £15 I can handle. £20? Unless it's something like king Shark, no chance yeah I suspect other dudes will be in the offing, if they go for the game as a whole. I just need to get Mortarion built



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Oh, model updates would help.

Reposed Big Mech for Dreadball. A fun fig to do.
And another random scenery piece being made from a sweetie box.

Why not eh?

Lovely mech, and a fun scenery piece - should add quite some colour to the table!

Primaris definitely need the white Raven Guard eagles. Don't get me wrongthe Daemon Prince is an excellent well crafted model it just looks far more like a Spawn than a Prince to me. I still feel a Daemon Prince should look regal.

CommissarKhaine wrote:Lovely mech, and a fun scenery piece - should add quite some colour to the table!

Thanks, a fun fig to do. Giants are only usable in Ultimate, the mad multiplayer version, but I really need one for each of the kids to play with
Well, anyway, gradually building some sweet fun for Mr J

Llamahead wrote:Primaris definitely need the white Raven Guard eagles. Don't get me wrongthe Daemon Prince is an excellent well crafted model it just looks far more like a Spawn than a Prince to me. I still feel a Daemon Prince should look regal.

Eagles and unit icons in for priming. Definitely required I get what you mean I just wanted more of a GUO vibe to him.



We're off on holiday down south next week. Much Dreadball is planned.
Meanwhile, we invaded by sister in law with tiny people yesterday. Cute, but distracting
Still, I finished the sweetie box building:



Some progress on the Plagueburst:


Note addition of bells. Clank.

And bloody gw making bloody foul blightspawn useful in kill team guess I'd better make one then...


I had primed up the conquest easy builds but then this happened.

What was on the paint pile for the rest of this weekend?
Dreadball Z'zor


Hopefully y'all can actually see the colour shift paint. They still need their edge trim.

Lots more DC is in priming, as is my cyborg team for DB (Which I really should have been prioritising for holiday, but never mind).

So DC will be next up, probably, finishing DG stuff, then... Maybe more DB? And why do all my hobby projects atm start with a D?
Draven