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Is it very soon yet?

Your scratch build skills continue to impress, and while I don't always post I do stop by every time I see this thread bumped to the top of my subb'd threads.

 Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:
Is it very soon yet?

It is!

Here are some new noise marines:



I've also made progress on my entry for the -=]_,=- contest.


I've even started another shrine. One of them will be for my sisters of battle, the other one will be a corrupted shrine dedicated to Grandpa Nurgle (I think you'll love this one Skalk, I have a LOT of ideas for this one).

I will try to work on some handrails for the walkways of the bastion tomorrow.

Cheers!

Both those sets of heads look really good for noise marines.

The shrine is great as well are you going to do broken stain glass windows?

er.... we need to get an invitation scheme working for great threads...


well... subbed to this one... better late than never

now off to wading though the past posts^^

iplasticsupply.com sells PVC foam, which seems very familiar to that stuff. It's superior really.

Passing this along for some inspiration- there's a guy I've been sharing Cultists stuff with for quite a while and he's recently stated making terrain. His temple is very well done. Check it out at the bottom of this page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/330/386133.page and follow from there. The stained glass really pulls the piece together.

The rest of his stuff is really cool as well, but specifically check out the temple.

@GiraffeX: Yes I think that broken stain glass would be the kind of details that make the difference

@Vik: welcome on board (again )

@Dave: Yes! that's it, PVC foam sheet! I wasn't sure of the name of the material, but that's it. As I already mentioned it, it's wonderfull to work with, it's so easy to cut.

@Skalk: nice temple indeed! I like his stain glass work. While I think intact windows are not to be seen on a ruin, I'll take a closer look at his technique to see what I can do.

No pics today, since the only thing I've done is another shrine and that it's the exact replica of the first one.
This second shrine will be my temple of Nurgle. I already have some braseros an a couple of nurgle icons from the warshrine. I could probably use half a load of the vampire counts corpse cart too.
What do you think?

For the SoB Shrine, I'll use instant mold to make a GS statue for the saint's tomb, and I still have some Icons and even a Fleur de Lys panel from the immolator.

It's easy, until you get to 1/4" thickness and up!, then it can wear your arm out

 Hyenajoe wrote:
@Skalk: .... While I think intact windows are not to be seen on a ruin ...

That is something I've been struggling with since I started my terrain project (with ruins in particular) especially since I have started my Necromunda terrain, where centuries of construction and reconstruction have occurred generation after generation.

Neglect is a slow rot that takes things down bit by bit. Fire guts and leaves hollow shells. Explosions rip apart in every direction. All of these things can happen in the same neighborhood over time. A freshly abandoned building may have only some visible wear. A centuries-old building may still stand majestic and strong. The damage of recent fire will be sharp and contrasted.

Different things break in different ways at different times. A house that explodes and burns down will have a more dramatic effect than a house that is abandoned and slowly caves in on itself, but they can be side by side during each process. On and on and on. You can see where this is going.

well... rule one comes to my mind...if it looks cool...who would argue?

Rule of cool always wins! Remember.the rivets on a Leman Russ don't make sense, but they look great!

Very cool indeedy! Go with the cool.

I have thought about the stain glass question, and I will go for partially intact glass in the upper parts and the corners of the windows, and a special one for the nurgle shrine.

I've carved a stonewall patern on the walls of the shrine:


Doing this is quite easy, the PVC foam is soft enough to keep the motives I've applied with a nail-like tool.

However, I managed to do a complete mess on the second attempt on the first piece of wall:


I'll have to draw more irregular lines to hide the I've done in the upper part, and I'll have to do the same irregular job on the whole second shrine.

About the bastion, I thought I could use the pieces of PVC foam I've made by cutting out the windows of the shrines on the proto-bulkheads, like this:

With rivets, plasticard stripes, and some GS and bits, I might end up with something not too bad, what do you guys think?

i think you have a winning streak here^^

i had those craving misshaps happening to me too... tae pics from another angle... or hide it with smaller bricks... lots of ways around it

but the basic thing is... it is still so coooool

They're not irregular lines, they're battle damage.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
They're not irregular lines, they're battle damage.

^^ This !

looking pretty awesome so far, If your going to be having stone work what will you be using to cover foam on the joints and windows?

 LordCreed wrote:
Personally I don't really like CSM's.. but these are just awesome

color scheme looks great too though maybe you should paint the robe in a lighter color..

You have a point. I think I like them because they're not so...over the top.

New ideas never go over without a hitch, that's why I'm on version 6.7 of my helping hand tool . Have you thought about using that round window opening on the nurgle temple to stack three skulls, or three marine helmets in? You can have blood oozing down from there then.

Yeah man, I've done that too, you can always blow out that section, or cover it with vines, or whatever the nurgly equivalent is.

Well, I think I could ultimately blow the miscarved part, but the vines equivalent or battle damages could do the trick.

@OneManNoodles: what do you mean by covering the joints and windows?

@theophony: I'll use the nurgle icons from the warshrine as ornaments on the nurgle shrine, I have a special stain glass idea for the round window. Marines heads, blood pools and rotten pieces of corpes would be nice details.

I've finished to carve the walls of the first shrine, I've also finished the ground and the platforms.








What do you think?

On the third pic you see the empty space of the tomb in which I'll put the statue of the saint.
The statue will be made of GS, using a instant mold of this model:


I'll try to make some similar progress on the shrine of Nurgle this evening, and to have some work done ont the bastion. I'm on holiday until friday, so I think I would have no excuse for not finishing at least one of these projects.

Nice work on the wall texture and floors. You have better control and patience than I.

Patience? I wouldn't say that, but since you're living on a distant continent, it justifies the fact that you didn't hear me swear (I'm pretty sure Vik has heard something )

I'm glad you like the textures, it was a completely new way of working for me, and I feared to screw it.

Here are the latest progress on the SoB shrine.

The statue (with one missing leg - the GS is still curing)


Now in place:


All the platforms are in place:


The outside steps are in place too:


Now I have to do add some columns to the arks before working on the base. Then it will be time for some paint.

You can also make a really nice pitted effect to the stone by just hammering an awl or other pointy or blunt metal object against it. I did that with this Fallout dio

This was before the final paintjob, the pitting takes shade really well.

Looks awesome mate, but... Ain't that waaaayyyyy too much work ???

cool statue there hyenajoe!... would love to get my hands on such things

and the ruin is coming along very cool looking! great looking progress monsieur!

In no way would I like a copy of that gs molded figure for my sob Shrine...

Excellent work n the temple and the stone . Are you going with more of a grey stone color, white, or tan for he building?

Yggdrasil wrote:Looks awesome mate, but... Ain't that waaaayyyyy too much work ???

You're right, I'm probably loosing my time on this. I should do something more constructive, like... no, I can't see what

Viktor von Domm wrote:cool statue there hyenajoe!... would love to get my hands on such things

and the ruin is coming along very cool looking! great looking progress monsieur!

Thank you Vik, perhaps, since I have some free time ahead and a decent quantity of GS, I might try to make a second statue for exportation (and why not a third, just in case )

inmygravenimage wrote:In no way would I like a copy of that gs molded figure for my sob Shrine...

In no way you would get one (except if you ask for it )

Theophony wrote:Excellent work n the temple and the stone . Are you going with more of a grey stone color, white, or tan for he building?

I'll try to reproduce the original colours of the shrine, a greenish grey for the outside, and a warmer colour for the inside (is it what you suggest by 'tan'?) and a classic marble on the floor.

dsteingass wrote:You can also make a really nice pitted effect to the stone by just hammering an awl or other pointy or blunt metal object against it. I did that with this Fallout dio

This was before the final paintjob, the pitting takes shade really well.

Awesome , I will try this on a test piece of pvc to see how it works and if I manage to do something correct, I'll try this on the stonewalls.

This afternoon I took a break from the shrine to have something done on the bastion.
I've added a handrail on the main rear walkway:


I'll try to finish the main tower of the bastion to see where else I could do the same thing.

I had a scratch awl that the sharp point broke off, and I never throw tools away.. so I just stabbed it into it for the pock marks, then scratched cracks and gouged out bits here and there. you could experiment with all sorts of metal tools for different sized pits.

btw..NICE railings!

you do know safety always comes first, right? so to keep your needful things at hand you gotta make some precautious steps

Thank you Vik, perhaps, since I have some free time ahead and a decent quantity of GS, I might try to make a second statue for exportation (and why not a third, just in case )

and the railing do look really good!