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Bridge and pylon are pretty Epic man!

Great looking stuff man!

As to casting, I recommend skipping the vacuum chamber and instead using a pressure system. It is a lot easier to set up I found; vacuum pumps are silly expensive, and the cheaper ones you can get for car maintenance don't get the pressure down low enough. Pressure only requires a half decent compressor and a paint sprayer pot that fits paint cans. Around here Harbor Freight sells them for like 80$.

Great to see you back hyena. That door in clear resin looks awesome.

Yup, your "break" has been too long, Hyenajoe !!

Good to see you back !!

And that cityfight table just looks more & more impressive !! The amount of work involved is starting to become staggering !

Great to see you back!

The table is just amazing, the columns under the passageways look ace

Forward with the paint! (Colour scheme sounds great too, I'd just wouldn't go too dark with the Basilica's grey base colour).

Cheers!

Thank you guys for your cheering comments!

Yesterday, Vim_the_good and I had a game on this table (a great game). The table was perfect for this 1000 pts game and the multi-level worked very well (the table being 1m² it could have been crowded and the game could have been resumed to a huge assault phase). I'm thinking about working on an extension to this table to build an insane cityfight table!

Here are some pics of the game (sorry some are blurry)
First, sisters and 'crons running toward the building whare the relic was supposed to be:


Finally they both reached the building and the game tund in a very unpleasant way for my sisters (I do not like these Mindshackle scarabs stuf)


On the other side of the table, my first seraphim squad was nearly exterminated under the shots of the necron warriors, leaving only the superior sister on the table with a revengeful mind (and melta bombs )


A surviving necron wraith made its way to my deployment zone, charging a squad of sisters and killing more than them in three turns.


I've painted the administratum building with baneblade brown and washed it with agrax earthshade. the next step will be to try a zenithal airbrushing on the walls with some bleached bone like paint before painting patches of rust on it.

@ wehrkind: thanks for the tip! I'll try to convert an old steam cooker to a pressure pot (I can't find an affordable one, only professionnal expensive material).

@ Littletower: thanks for the advice.

I hope to be able to work on the buildings this week-end and to start working on my junk pile for Skalk's contest.

Table looks great! The little bitz of detail are what really sell it for me. You reminded me I need to add street lamps to my buildings.

I am sorry you lost but not sorry the Sisters got their habits handed to them. Mindshackles are awesome.

Howdy guys!

Four month and a half since I last posted something... I guess it's some kind of personal record.

My PC was out of use for months and I could not upload anything for a while. I've never been far away, since I regularly checked Dakka when possible, and I spent a lot of time working on different projects and improving my gaming room (electicity, thermic isolation, home cinema... necessary stuff only ).

First, I've been training at airbrushing on terrain and eldar stuff for days. No highly detailed work, but I needed some practice before starting to work on some more interesting techniques like OSL or even working on regular models.

Here are some of the terrains I've ben practicing on (some are still WIP, but most of the paintjob is done)
First: GW trenches. Not the new walls of martyrs stuff, the plastic and hardfoam ones:


I have to admit this one still needs a lot of work to cover the grey

(Yes I know, the chimera needs some more paint and weathering, but should have seen it when I got it from ebay )

The first one was interesting for me because the sculpt is very close to the trench part of my GW gaming table and I think I will try to do something similar on it.

I've also painted a couple of micro art studio firing positions



A temple of skulls (which was very hard to find now it's discontinued)



and a new shrine of the aquila I had in mind for a while (gold is the next stage)



I've also started to paint all the buildings and passageways I've made for my cityfight table, and three forests but I've no pictures yet.

I've also made some significant progresses in resin casting, mainly because I have found a good resin retailer (at last)
Here is what I 've ended with:

and I've made enough doors to finish the bastion.



And finally, I've decided to use all the marines I have gathered along the last years to start a new a new space marines army (because I wouldn't use them in my Dark Angels army anyway) and since I had some Iron hands bits, then Iron hands it will be!


(for your information, the marines on the left are metal beakies and those on the right are classic devastator -which should be perfect for some veteran squad)

(Ten scouts on the left including five snipers and a classic assault squad on the right)


(That's probably too many techmarines, but most of them might end up as sternguards -what do you think?)



And finally a techmarine on a bike.

I've always been frustrated to be unable to include one in my DA army, and I really want to make it look as great as possible.

Any comment is welcome.

Cheers guys!

Good to see you again Joe!

It'll be interesting to see your progress with the airbrush.

Nice job on those cast doors.

Look forward to seeing what you do with the Iron Hands....welcome back

Mobile techs with c beams win! Also, great to have you back buddy.

@ Monkeytroll: Thanks! I've done most of my progress when I was working on my Eldar army. The shape of the vehicles are perfect for a good practice:




I've also worked on walkers which allowed me to try tome zenithal airbrushing:





@ Graven: thank you M'sieur!
After reading your post this morning, I've checked in the SM codex about this conversion beam you were talking about (DA don't have access to fancy things as master of the forge ), and after looking on the FW site for pictures of the model, I've decided it was the way to go

So, it starts with an old techmarine backpack with a missing claw

and an old space crusade weapon which had been sleeping in my bitz box for at least a decade:


A few magnets are welcome (just in case I'd realize it doesn't fit my gaming style )


and here's the reult so far:



What do you think guys?

With the new Iron Hands dataslate, you can NEVER have enough Techmarines.

Awesome! A real space crusade c-beamer! Cool execution too.

Welcome back hyena, glad to see your still kicking about . Awesome work on the eldar, and I too have a desire to build some iron hands

Works for me

Looks very suitable for Iron Hands

@brian : I think I won't resist for very long before getting one of these hardback clan Raukaan codex

@graven: a few years ago I was about to cut it in pieces to create a chaotic weapon for my death guard army, I guess I was right to listen to the small inner voice who told me "Man, you have only one of those and you don't even know if it's going to look cool. Leave it for later"

@theophony: I guess it's their potential in terms of conversion and modeling that make the Iron Hands so appealing

Good to see you back, and in full force!

I really like how that bastion is finally coming along , nice casting job on those doors.

Thank you Littletower. I still have to finish the details on the upper part of the bastion, and to build some weapons emplacements as you did on yours.

I have made a few progress on the techmarine today: he now has his axe:


And I have assembled a librarian with a jump pack (an old jump pack )


I'm also thinking of casting my own right shoulder pad with specific clan features, starting with this:


I'll remove the skull to replace it by the clan Raukaan symbol and put it on a blank shoulder pad.

If the result is not convincing, I may try something else.

Any idea or suggestion guys?

Glad to see you back, Joe! All this new stuff looks awesome, especially the biel-tan eldar stuff.

Looking good as always!

Thank you guys!

@moltar: I've decided to finish my biel tan army this year, using my airbrush to work as fast as possible. I hope it won't be too messy.

Here are my latest progress on the Iron hands. A first tactical squad is on it's way!


And some veterans:


I don't know if I should make them sergeants or veterans of some kind.

Any idea?

Hey guys, here are some progress on the Iron Hands.

First, the veteran sergeant of my beakie squad:


And some new tactical marines:

I've used the remaining heads from the Maxmini Steampunk Knight helmets I've used for the Lost Knights (the models you can see on the first page of this thread).

I'm making some significant progress on the clan raukaan shoulderpads, starting with a base of rhino crew shoulderpad, removing the skull and adding GS nuts. I should be able to show the prototype soon.

Cheers!

Joe.

Salut les gars!

I've finished my first attempt on the clan raukaan shoulderpad (converting making a mold and casting with resin).
Here's the original I've made:

It's the mechanicus plastic shoulder pad I was talkin about previously with GS nuts I've drilled.
It looked fine for me so I've decided to cast it followind Blackhand's awesome tutorial: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/307451.page ),
and here's the painted result on a marine:


Let's face the truth: it's a failure!
It's messy and it loos more like a nurgle icon than anything else!

So Ive decided to build another prototype:

I won't drill the nuts on this one to get sure they won't get deformed and loose their hexagonal shape, I'll just paint a white dot on each one later.

What do you think guys? Am I going to face antoher disapontment? Any advice is more than welcome!

Hey Hyena !

Latest shoulder pad looks great, but I think they'd look even better if the nuts were closer to the center (and to each other, for that matter)...

Great airbrush job on the Eldar, btw

Anytime someone builds iron hands I must go back to the best I've ever seen, I.e. brotherargos iron hands here's the link including his second post showing those same shoulder pads. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/331718.page

I've always wanted to do iron hands as well, but never could live up to that level. Hopefully he'll give you some inspiration.

@Yggs: thank you M'sieur. The distance between the nuts may be something to work on. One of my problems with the first attempt was that the nuts were too close to each other, making it difficult to paint them and between them. Perhaps I was a bit too focused on avoiding this problem.

@Theophony: thank you man! The thread you've linked is amazing indeed! I still own some DA mechanicus shoulder pads and if I manage to do something nice with the current attempt, I'll probably try to build another one to bring some variety to my army.

Hey guys!

I've lost my USB device, so no pics to show, unfortunately...
Yet, there are some news about the Iron Hands!

The army is complete (not finished, complete).
I've received 4 dreadnoughts, and bought a stormraven.
I've started to work on the stormraven to build something similar to the true scale kit from Chapterhouse studio.

I've re-worked the first shoulder pads, as Ygs suggested it, and it looks better indeed!.
A second shoulder pad made from the DA kit but it needs more work on it.

I expect to be able to upload some pics soon. Cheers!

Joe

Small update, I can finally upload some pics!



There is still a lot of work to finish the conversion, but it's mainly a decorative work now.

What do you think of the proportions?

Now it needs a big gun on the back and I think your golden.

Looks sound to me
..............

Can we get a side view to see what you've done at the rear?



(Although.......wouldn't truescale be slightly wider too - jokes )