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dsteingass wrote:It is the size of a TAPE MEASURE!

I'd assumed that, but firstly all pictures of it have made the thing look huge and detailed (besides you get varying sizes of tape measure like everything thing else!) and GW might have decided to make an off-scale "heroic" scale measure!

Servo Skull Tape Measure:


EDIT: Nice job though Gits, looks much better than the original.

Ovion wrote:

HAZZER wrote:There £10 (GB) here same with the dice that I'm wanting to get both of... But 10 quid is steep even if a normal GW tape mesure costs £10 too. So its no difference really, but you can get a decent one for about £1.00 form B&Q? Or £10.00 for a smaller not as good one???? (This is the normal one not the skull, but people will be wantig £25 for the skull on ebay tho)... I bet you...

The normal red GW Tape Measure is £3.10 (I actually have on laying around somewhere that I got given 2-3 months ago) and it's actually pretty good, with a decent case etc.
I don't tend to use it much, mostly because the ones I bought from B&Q for £1 each, are perfectly fine, but half the size - so takes up less room in my bag. The main bonus the GW red one has is the rubber case.

Wow? Really a freind who blamed me for blaiming his (when I dident lol) said it cost £10!!!! Rage!!!!!! LOL! Then started to say about when I haddednt bought fomr GW once or twice before? £3.10 is pretty reasonable for a tape mesure baring in mind that lumps of plastic can cost up to 100+...

Flinty wrote:My Stanley tape measure just bit the dust. Serve me right for using it for work as well as play :( It was probably a bit overspecced for 40k anyway, though, in that it had a 5m length...

The servoskull is amusing, but then I even bought the laser pointer they sold for the last edition

I got one of those laying around too... But needs new bateries tho...

Is it wrong the I really want to cast that and convert it into into the squid machines from the matrix?

No, It would be wrong if you didn't!

^^THAT^^ Would be badass!
I bet if you bisected one it would look good on a Shrine of the Aquila wall section too, between the wings? Or even quartered to make a huge Admech logo on a building!

actually now all that talk... i think they could be used for a cool looking terrain piece... really... isn´t no one else feeling that way?

I think it is overpriced stuff I will avoid as I can buy effective tape measures far cheaper at the local Lowe's. Effective marketing if they sell enough of them.

Curse you dave!! Now im going to have to buy one for terrain pseces

Grrr.

MUUHAHAHA!
-My Pleaseure

Or a water feature?

My chipping tutorial is up in the Tutorials part of the P&M forum. Chipping Tutorial

As is my rust tutorial: Sponge Rust & Soot Tutorial

nice tutorials gits, thanks for em

Cool skull gits. I had the same idea when I first saw that tape measure though I never did buy one. Was thinking about painting it bleached bone like a real skull. Yours looks sweet too though you should think about sanding that mold line running down the center

Have checked both of em out!

@Rogue: My pleasure.

@Egg: It's a fething tape measure!! I don't care about mold lines or screw holes! *grin*

@Haz: Well, there's nothing new about either of them really, but folks were asking so I wrote them up. The are very focused though & I tried to make them as step-by-step as I could... so perhaps there's something helpful there. I did check out the existing dakka tutorials before I wrote them and it doesn't look like they're a direct duplicate of something else.

Hi Gits! Just popping in again after some lurking, I too bought the skull tape measure and it was in action yesterday for a tournament, worked fine no issues. I also think I will be customising it a bit. Yes i think it was a bit pricey but on the other hand a tenner only buys you three pints down the pub nowadays with a bit of small change. Don't really see what all the fuss is about if you don't want it don't buy it then, no one is forcing you, I took it as a bit of fun.

Thanks for stopping in Reaper. Sorry, not much Mantis Warrior action. Though I think I'm about ready to start fiddling with the LoTD again after a nice ork-break. Check back next week and maybe theyr'll be something interesting to show. In the mean time, the "great tape measure debate" has proven to be a most amusing distraction from the fact that I'm not getting any marines painted.

I'll hold you to that...

Gitsplitta wrote:
@Egg: It's a fething tape measure!! I don't care about mold lines or screw holes! *grin*

Heh, well once you start down the road of customizing something, you might as well do it all Unscrew that thing into the two halves, sand down that mold line in the middle and primer that bad boy up for a nice new coat of paint! Then varnish the whole thing to make all the others jealous of your one of a kind limited edition servo skull measuring tape!

Yes, but by then the tape measure will have broken!

Ah well, I guess I'd planned on turning into a turn marker or piece of terrain ultimately anyway... *sigh*

Lol!

Graven and leadlegion are sponsoring a Paint-a-Deathwatch Marine Competition!

Graven's Paint-a-Deathwatch Marine Competition!

Very cool stuff. Check it out!

(and yes Yellowbeard, I did steal the above directly from you!)


Be there, or be square!
(nannu, nannu)

Hmmmm....Intrested...

Thankyou kindly sir!

My pleasure!

Just to prove that I am still painting... did a quick job on the command token from the last Adepticon. I needed something for a basing class I'm teaching tomorrow, and this was a good candidate (easy to paint).



I'll post an "after pic"... probably Sunday.



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Those of you who are DCMs can check out my main project here. I'll post it on a public forum when the time comes.

Psssst...PM me it!

Well, had my basing class yesterday. Unfortunately no one actually showed up, which is a bit disappointing as there are a lot of new players at this store and there's a tournament coming up in a couple weeks... thought their'd be more interest. Anyway, the owner jumped in as well as a young bloke he recruited who was just hanging out. We had a really nice class, went over all the basics & they both turned out some very nice looking bases. Nice thing for me of course is that with only two people there was plenty of time for me to work on my own things... partly by way of giving them an example. So here's what I cooked up...

The objective I posted the other day, made from the command counter from last year's Adepticon.



And a 60mm base that I made up just for the heck of it (mainly to talk about making cork rocks). No idea what I'm going to do with it.



Also nearly done basing up 7 old-school burnas. Have two more of those to paint. Suppose I should start poking around and see if I can't chase up a few more.

Briancj wrote:Well, they'd be less a Servo Skull, and more of a GIANT FLOATING SKULL OF DEATH.

Sadly, I don't have a local gaming group, but I will wait for them to show up on eBay...

Pretty sure they would be the skulls of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!


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I like the skull and honestly will end up buying and painting it just for the fun as I know no one around here would have the same thing!