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Loving those tanks. Always love seeing a good bit of plasticard work :-)

 lone dirty dog wrote:
I don't see do more 3D sculpting in 2016 on that list ? What the hell is going on

list might become too long if I went into that.

Now, I'm wondering how the hell I can convert the BaC Terminator captain into a terminator sergeant with a helmet and swapping the arm to a power sword:


Anyone know if the FW cataphractii arms fit with the plastic ones?


Also I threw together a BaC marine quickly with blue tack to see how some bits that I made to personalise and add some much needed character to them.

The shoulder shield I've made quite a few different styles and sizes but I'm having issues making a "sprue" of them safely. I really like these.



and the boarding shield isn't quite so huge, but I've still made updated the model to make it a fair bit smaller. I'll be making some more shields similar to this.



All these marines are going to need a ride of course, so..


It's a "Heresy Marine Cruiser" made by Dakka member CalgarsPimpHand
and can be bought from his shapeways store "GrimDarkBits" https://www.shapeways.com/shops/grimdarkbits

It's an awesome model with a great amount of detail, I'm looking forward to getting this painted up when I get the scheme nailed down.

Thanks everyone for your comments on the tank. 5th in the painting contest in this round.

OMN.

Started painting the Cruiser.



I'm tempted to strip it down and start again, my old yellows have lost their binding medium or whatever it's called so they look a bit chalky, bad coverage and. The black hasn't covered well either, but that's because I watered it down a bit too much.

The more vived colours [Prow and Bridge] are where I've brush painted over with Vallejo Game Air gold or sun yellow.

I'm making a real pigs ear of it atm.

OMN.

Still would be decent enough for tabletop

Oh nice ship!　may have to get it myself!

Good work on getting the tank finished. Looks nice.

As an alternative to just making the shield smaller (which I assume you are just reducing the scale), maybe make a shield that is just as long but narrower; that will reduce it's apparent bulk (making it look smaller) but keep it useful for those that want to shield their legs (the purpose of a shield that long; see kite shields).

Also, don't be afraid of making the shield too small. They are always a trade off between coverage and cumbersomeness; a big shield may protect most/all of you, but it gets in the way. A smaller shield may not cover all of you, but you can move about and attack easier, and you can always move the shield to protect from an attack (see buckler for that extreme).

Ship is a nice design. Good luck sorting out the yellow.

Afternoon all,

Feels like a long time since I've posted anything...

I finished painting the Genswick stormtroopers as well as the Cyclops Teams (I love these little things).




I have had a SM librarian knocking around a while, I'd started painting him ages ago, getting the base colours down, but I didn't like what I had done and lost interest burying the model until last month when I dug him out and thought I'd get him painted up. He isn't really for my little heresy force (It's not fluffy to have librarians or mk7 power armour for the Fists in heresy times, until the battle of Terra, since Dorn kept all of the legion's librarians "safe" in his basement and the Fists ram-raided Mars and looted a pile of MK7 armour and spent the rest of the heresy until the endgame fortifying Terra IIRC).

Anyway I've been enjoying painting him thus far, I've been using an online colour wheel to decide on the colour scheme, to see the palette I'm looking at go here. The blue being the main armour colour and the red-orange the tabbard, purity seals and other small details. All the metallics will be NMM; considering I'd like to have some shiny black surfaces it is going to be a challenge to differentiate between the two in places.
I'm not sure what colour to make the staff.


The base is horrible, there's bits of sand stuck to the tabbard and all sorts, so I'll have to make it look like soft dirt or something. Even so I'll probably have him finished by the end of tomorrow, nice to paint vibrant colours for a change.


I hear what you are saying with the shields Doc and I've taken your words on board for some other pieces that I've been making... It isn't quite so simple as just scaling, I have to re-arrange details in order to preserve details at a certain size, but this isn't an issue since I make backups as I progress through making something as all I've had to do is backtrack, rescale as appropriate ... I should really write a version control plug in to do this for me...

These shields are intended to be used more like modern armed response ballistic shields ( at least that's what the description says) so they are intended to be bulky.
I've made two new, smaller, versions; the left is the smaller of the two new shields and as a matter of fact might would be guardsman size if I adapt the hand hold.


Still no yellow paint ... in the post apparently.

Thanks for stopping by,
OMN.

Cracking work, the Genswicks look great but that Libby is shaping up to be somethin' else!

Thanks Para.

Red on the Libby done.


I started painting cover of the big book that he's holding red as well but changed my mind and might opt for a brown.
I missed the scrolls dangling from his left waist, ho hum.

OMN.

Librarian is looking spectacular so far.

Those Geswick troops are great. Libby is coming along nicely too.

EDC

Genswick stormies are looking very nice!


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Librarian also is amazing to see

Genswick gents are looking great, and I like the shields.

But that red on the Libby is awesome, really striking.

That red has come out great matey, how did you get it like that from an orange base? Deep red wash ?

@Cam: Thanks, for some reason I've always liked painting red, its such an easy colour.

@ Big H: Cheers. Nope, nothing so easy, just lots of layers from a mix based on Vallejo Game Colour (VGC) Bloody red mixed with black initially then built up with increasing amounts of the red adding and a little VGA sun yellow in increasing amounts to make more of an orange and VMC Stone grey mixed for the top most highlights.

I now have yellow finally I've done a bit more on the lib, like starting to paint the black and figuring out how to do NMM steel and silver. painting really small chains get tedious fast, and I'm really not sold on the ... whatever it is, on the staff. Still there is so much stuff on the model to paint I do not have a lack of tiny surfaces to practice on.

Dakka's Gallery is an invaluable resource to mine for reference pictures. Whilst not useful I'm finding this Terminator Librarian by Seemann quite useful



I've also put together the first 5 of a legion tactical squad:


I'd like to have the other 5 members in mk3 armour and maybe some mk2 at some distant point in the future, going to be fun figuring out just how I'm going to airbrush them yellow.

Since my aim ATM is to build a small 1000pts ZM force I thought I might try a Vigilator to lead them. WIP shot:



I want to expand his bolter magazine and see if I can made some sort of sight for it as well.

I really need to make some terrain.

OMN.

Ahhh, mate, thought it looked too good to be just wash, your patience is paying off tho dude, it's a superb looking paint job, liking the yellow too ! And the staff head, I do like we'll done NMM even if I don't have the patience for it !

Nice job on making the Calth set interesting !


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Ahhh, mate, thought it looked too good to be just wash, your patience is paying off tho dude, it's a superb looking paint job, liking the yellow too ! And the staff head, I do like we'll done NMM even if I don't have the patience for it !

Nice job on making the Calth set interesting !

Good to see you are putting more effort in to re-sizing the shields. Keep at it.

Looking nice and colourful. Good job.

Large update, I've spoilerized some of the images as they are 3dprinting related.

I'm cracking on with the BaC set and I've been making some more parts to personalise them, atm I'm trying to focus on making the HQs and Squad sergeants ... simply because they are more fun

The Tactical sgt has been scrapped and parts swapped around to make a breacher sergeant, using a pile of bits slowly purchased from ebay bits sellers, that I'm sure If I bought them in one go upon looking at the cost I may have a stroke. The shileds are the perfect size now IMO, I've made some with Fists insignia and iconography on for use on sergeants and a breacher consul that I'm planning to make from the BaC chaplain.



I've finally made a hand hold for those shields that will fit ... I could have put more detail on it but for now I'm just happy I made a hand.


The Terminator Praetor has given me a bit of a headache, it's been a pain to find an arm to swap the chain fist for but I've managed it however after carving up the Gorget(?) to fit a helmeted head on (all marines in this army will wear helmets as I'd like to build and base it as a boarding force ... at least initially) but as that helmet failed to fit I decided to use one of the ones that comes with the cataphractii terminators so now I'll have to sculpt a new one. Add to that fixing the gaps on the cloak and there's plenty of sculpting to do.


For the regular terminators I've started to magnetise them (well ... one, so I can see how many magnets it's going to take, in case you are wondering the answer is a lot...)

I have made some stormshields and some plasma parts for combi-plasmas, magnetising those however may be a little ott.


For MY Praetor, I've thrown this guy together from random bits purchases, plus a few parts (the iron halo and shields) I made myself.


The right arm with the gun and the legs are from the EC pheonix terminator kit, all I've done on those is carve out the III on the leg and carefully sculpt on a VII, and get rid of that silly wing motif on the arm and added a fist. The reason why he has a second right arm pictured is because I've made a storm shield for that arm. The rhight arm is goig to hold one of the relic blades that comes in the FW Red Scorpions librarian and honour guard kit. Same one as is this guy has:


With the general Idea that it's the same captain, just different armour and much smaller halo.

And finally...

... I've given up on the librarian, apart from the basing I'm not doing any more on him, I'm fed up of failing at NMM for now.


If you made it this far, thanks for reading, apologies about the glut of virtual 3D modeling I've recently finished a large number of items that I am unusually pleased with, and once I have them made they will be making an appearance on my fists.
Other than that it's a large update because I've made such slow progress on a number of things that there hasn't been much worth mentioning.

OMN.

All looking good, the Librarian is fine to me and the various builds are all shaping up to be excellent!

I think the Librarian looks great, and I'm looking forward to seeing how that Praetor turns out .

Don't apologise for the length of post matey, at least you are getting something done

All good stuff mate, you are too hard on yourself about the Librarian, it's really sweet work you have there!
and the little tilt shields look excellent on the Cataphracti!

Yes, seriously. The shield hand looks amazing. Great work.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.



Clockwise from top-left:
Terminator Sergeant: Gorget done, looks a little un-even as it is, probably should have used a miliput-greenstuff blend but nvm, it'll look fine with some paint on it. His shoulder plates and straps don't match, whilst this is something I could have fixed I cba now, it can be put down to "replacement parts".

Vigilator: Made a box ammo clip and added a sort of weapon sight to him. Needs a cameleoline cloak making for him. I'm not sure if I should give him a sheathed power sword or not, wouldn't be hard to carve one out of plasticard.

New tactical sergeant.

Champion: Head and weapon swap so far, it's not a particularly pretty sword for one that is "master crafted" but with left handed swords being hard to come by it'll do. Going to be fun trying to magnetise that left arm so I can swap it for a boarding shield, I'd like to be able to dual purpose him as either a delegatus or a champion, with the boarding shield as an option for the stone gauntlet RoW.

I find myself liking the idea of making a master of signals and a moriat, what would that make? 6 Hq choices now? Anyway...

I'll order a pack of shields to finish them off tomorrow, just need to update the file as I noticed the plastic cataphracti hands are about 25% bigger than the FW hand size, so once I get them I can make a demo model for the storm and boarding shields.

OMN.

Man, it's been a while since I have checked out your thread. The whole thing is fantastic. I'm impressed you are still churning out the Genswick. Also, leave it to Noodles to make awesome BaC models into freakin awesome BaC models. Conversions are perfect.

Nice work on the modifications and the shield handhold.

Librarian looks nice.
Could do with some writing in the book though.

Like the head on the terminator.

Bloody hell you have been bussy mate all be it the steroid induced bully boys LOL

No seriously your painting is really quite amazing especially your shading, plus your NMM looks pretty damn impressive to me mate.
The Librarian really catches the eye, bright but not garish if you see whet I mean good job mate.

Loving the new sizing of the sheild almost makes we ant to make marines ....... almost

I actually thought the hand for the sheild was looking pretty amazing, especially when you won't even see much of it top marks mate.

Loving the breaching sergeant I like the slightly relaxed posing.

Now once you finish with these maybe we can get back to some sensible under dogs again

 Dr H wrote:

Could do with some writing in the book though.

I KNEW you'd say that, when I was posting that message I thought "DrH is going to make a comment about adding some text on the book..." Thanks mate.

@LDD: Cheers mate, yea I'll do some more guard at some point, I've got a fair few models to paint up and base. I'm determined to get that valkyrie done this month and to get started on a squad to ride within.

Glad to see you've talked Vic and Jake at Victoria lamb into making some motorbikes, a load off my mind, besides Jake had made a really awesome looking bike already that just needs a few finishing touches and with Vic's sculpting, the finished article is really going to be something.

@40kFSU: Cheers bud. For now I'm having too much fun with the marines, too much conversion potential! Genswick have a few tanks left to add and I might draw a line under them for the time being.

For now I'm trying to finish the libby off tonight, along with a bit of putty work. Also the ETA for my shield prints is monday.

I've decided to have a clear out of all the bits that I've cast up, so far I've got 12 75g-ish bags full of all sorts, mostly from my collection of miscasts, to get rid of.

OMN.

Great works in progress, like the look these guys have.


OH and people, call him, PM him get yourself some of his stuff it is BRILLIANT!!!

 OneManNoodles wrote:
I KNEW you'd say that, when I was posting that message I thought "DrH is going to make a comment about adding some text on the book..." Thanks mate.

Lol Happy not to disappoint.

I've decided to have a clear out of all the bits that I've cast up, so far I've got 12 75g-ish bags full of all sorts, mostly from my collection of miscasts, to get rid of.

Ooo... No, no I really don't need any more bits, I MUST find a use for all the bits I already have.

As Cam' says, even the miscasts are worth getting hold of.

I'll add my endorsement to this well worth the investment, even the miscast are well worth it and usually a little GS is all you need nothing major.

I think it is the bike Jake previewed ages ago it has only just gone to print, I think the pestering helped move it LOL.