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I wasn`t totally sold on the green as I like the squigs to have a different skintone than the orks just for variation but it`s really coming along now

R

Yep, I think red should work well for the glyphs

@rs: cool, glad you approve.

Well colour test proved interesting. Washes looked ok but too subtle, really. After a bit of juggling, I settled on 50:50 mechrite : bloodthirster which I quite like:

Yes, it has a go fasta stripe
Bloody wing keeps dropping off...

Is it just the picture?? The head looks more vibrant than the rest of the skin...

Yah, camera phone rubbish...

Very cool beastie! looking forward to seeing this getting more paint!

Thanks man. The Wing platforms just weren't working for me, so I came up with this:

Nowhere for the mariachi band though...

Better...

Skin looks good although not feeling 'Stompy'?........ he looks more like....... more like a...... Rachel

Nah, Rachel was my manic/depressive nymphomaniac ex (sounds a lot more fun than it was). I don't want to think of that big fella getting jiggy, frankly.


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@ gits: yeah I think so. I'm going to cut up some aobr deffkoptas for mounting.

Improvement I think....

Mariachi band can spread their love around a bit....wing, shoulder joint etc etc

Yeah, I'm liking it. I'm going to add a piston from the surface by the Aquila to the gap next to the side exhaust, I think. I've also decided that I'm no going to attach the other whirlwind box, which was going to stay ultrasmurf, as I like the asymmetry. I might make a bandstand instead for there, but I think I'll see once the boyz are in situ. They got the rest of their priming this morning (no ponchos, btw, it just wasn't doing it for me), so painting on them may commence this weekend.


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... Pistons not look right :( but I'll live. If only the right wing would stay on now. Bah.


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Hooray! It stays on! So, some colour, leathers, etc. all ready for inking, and then some sponge weathering methinks. Photos ate a bit off but they are at least not phone pics:



Note the Corona Crown
I found some kind of metal grot buggy, gorkmorka maybe, with tasty boarding ramps that I might use along the sides of the front howdah balcony.

Getting ready for OSL!
Amusingly, mrs graven this evening said "Where the feth did that come from?!" Cos apparently Barry is a ninja squiggoth who has mastered the art of hiding in plain sight.
Hey ho,
Graven, maker of ninjas.

Hmm. Any way of reverting from autoadjusted pics? May just have to re-upload otherwise - bit too bright. Bought some new drybrushes today, army painter ones, looking forward to trying them. Also bumped into a mate, who happened to have a spare unbuilt sob immolator turret on him. As you do. So the quest for the modular sob tank continues!

At least someone has an update!!!!

So. The Scots have a word: Scunnered.
It means totally fed up, can't be bothered, totally demotivated.

In my case, it would be the fact that one side of the howdah had started to come loose...


Or to put it another way.


I am really hacked off, mostly with myself.



I think it's going to need put in a box for a while and I'll work on something else.

I hate when that happens...feel for you mate!

I agree on taking a break from it. Only thing that works however long it takes

R

Ouch.....

Yeah..put it to one side for now mate, no good trying to fix it in a demotivated state...

This calls for something new and shiny....perhaps a dig through some of your santa goodies?

I prescribe something unrelated to any of your current projects...a one-off type affair. That's generally good for getting the mojo back....

I set things aside frequently... sometimes for days, sometimes for much longer than that. You'll clearly have to start pinning things together when you start up again with it, so let it go for now. Go find a fun, simple project to lift your spirits.

Bad luck mate, no shame in moving onto something else for a while.

Ouch, nothing worse than having put so much time into a model and have it not go the way you hoped.

Red Skullz wrote:I hate when that happens...feel for you mate!

I agree on taking a break from it. Only thing that works however long it takes

R

Too true

monkeytroll wrote:Ouch.....

Yeah..put it to one side for now mate, no good trying to fix it in a demotivated state...

This calls for something new and shiny....perhaps a dig through some of your santa goodies?

I prescribe something unrelated to any of your current projects...a one-off type affair. That's generally good for getting the mojo back....

Yeah, good call - incoming Santa.

Gitsplitta wrote:I set things aside frequently... sometimes for days, sometimes for much longer than that. You'll clearly have to start pinning things together when you start up again with it, so let it go for now. Go find a fun, simple project to lift your spirits.

Yeah, too true, too true. Fun? Check. Simple? Hi, I'm graven, have we met?

BLACKHAND wrote:Bad luck mate, no shame in moving onto something else for a while.

Yeah, or rather back the way

Knightley wrote:Ouch, nothing worse than having put so much time into a model and have it not go the way you hoped.

That way being DOWN!

So, onto new(ish) things. Decided to go through my unbuilt pile (a stool with a lid ) and see what took my fancy. Lovely mrs g got me a furioso for Xmas, and I've been meaning to do my weeping angel death company for a while:

I shall call him... Flyswatter. Or should that be Fishswatter?

And put together Saint Mary, that came in my santa package from the lovely gymnogyps:

She'll be getting a nice chunky backpack, and will run as a basic cheapo Malleus =][= with the death cult of while doubling up as a Cannoness if the need arises.

Speaking of my nascent sisters, I imagine this is the next big build...

There's more to that box than meets the eye...

Thanks for all the support gang - much appreciated indeed!
Graven

See? Those are fun *and* simple! No problemo!

Ugh! Been there before. Nothing like spending hours on a model only to see it go ... elsewhere. I can see how Barry was not noticed by Mrs. He blends in very well with the table

Wow. Sorry about the Squiggoth, mate. That sucks. But I am really looking forward to the new projects, particularly the Razorback. I have a couple I need to do, too. Can't wait to see what you do with yours.

Oh yeah, Swatter looks like he'll be a lot of fun

Mary seems to be begging for a nice rotary cannon...


And interested to see what lurks within the shadows of the razor box...

Don't feel so bad. One of my scratch built battlewagons completely fell apart. As in, every single piece of plasticard had to be completely re-glued. (When the only non plasticard pieces are some tracks, thats a lot). It took me about 3 hours to reglue, but its much sturdier.

Use this as an opportunity to 're-engineer' it for strength.

The flyswatter looks coll and so does Saint Mary, do you know which line of minis shes from?

I'm intrigued whats in the Razorback box seeing as Sisters cant have them, Immo parts?

monkeytroll wrote:Oh yeah, Swatter looks like he'll be a lot of fun

Mary seems to be begging for a nice rotary cannon...

And interested to see what lurks within the shadows of the razor box...

Yeah, I'm pleased with pose. I really like tau - if I did Xenos, they'd be my go-to - and there's a bunch coming up on other bases. Violet and turquoise scheme ahoy! That gun is of Mary's is a Nail gun iirc, but a rotary cannon could work, or maybe, I was thinking, an incinerator - something that'll support death cult well. And as for the box, well...

Goresaw wrote:Don't feel so bad. One of my scratch built battlewagons completely fell apart. As in, every single piece of plasticard had to be completely re-glued. (When the only non plasticard pieces are some tracks, thats a lot). It took me about 3 hours to reglue, but its much sturdier.

Use this as an opportunity to 're-engineer' it for strength.

The billion-teef tank. We can rebuild it. We has da teknology

GiraffeX wrote:The flyswatter looks coll and so does Saint Mary, do you know which line of minis shes from?

I'm intrigued whats in the Razorback box seeing as Sisters cant have them, Immo parts?

Saint Mary is from Dark Age. Same as the non-GW death cult.

The razorback box contains the makings of a modular sob tank. Immolators can be run with hb, so it's as good a starting place as any.

As well as the sprues, then, there's this lot:


In the fluff every exorcist is a unique work of art. So, sounds like an excuse to mod to me! The cod bits will form the altar where I'll mount turret (an upside whirlwind turret from Santa with havoc tubes) or a shrine of some sort perhaps for the repressor/non-turret variants. Parchments etc down the sides, classic metal doors (plasticard for mounting on) and immolator turret.

Not decided on mm turret style yet, thinking maybe a kind of tiered stack of 4 vertically, if that makes sense. Alternatively a + shaped four barrel mm based off the metal? Votes?

I still need a dozer for it, so if anyone can chum me a chimera blade or better yet a vindicator then you may have my eternal gratitude.

The chick with the shotgun, incidentally, is an Escher gang that's counts-as Jacobus - I really object to the sob being led by a bloke! Having said that of course, I'll probably use the confrontation acolyte with the pointy hat as the Confessor.

I'll try to knock something out over the coming days, I've also got a gms to build...
graven

Exciting stuff I need to add some more to my Sisters army so will be watching closely.

The Escher ganger counts-as Jacobus is an excellent idea, I think I'm going to have to keep an eye on ebay for one.

Yeah, she's cool, but I'll need a banner planted in the ground at her feet. It's made, or at least the penant is, just no idea where it is.
Not sure for kyrinov. Something with a mace - I think there's a ikrpg cleric of Morrow that might work, alternatively. Not like I'm likely to ever play sisters. If I wanted a short-mid shooty army, I'd play gk.

Oh.


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Mock-up of exorcisr launcher: