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Gitsplitta wrote:One shot... one kill.

Tru dat.

Viktor von Domm wrote:wow...I love such diorama projects... and that one truly tells a story...

saw it already all on the comp thread the other sec... but it is truly amazing seeing it all finished... so there is pleasing some peeps

Thanks man. Really appreciate it. I think as well it's the fact that it's part of the broader display:

So that's 2 done!

I have the shrine contest to do next, which is what the khorne shrine is for. I'm seriously considering disassembling it before spraying, and keeping at as a generic, modifiable piece of terrain. Of course, that limits my ability to khornify it. The lure of fully modular 40k scenery may be too much for me...

"Of course we were going to lose....the good guys were wearing capes, come on, how do you compete with that." Spirit of he fallen telling slaanesh why they were defeated just before his soul is devoured.

Excellent work and I'd hire that gobbo anytime, who needs an mperial assassin?

I think graven that you could do well with magnetising all khorny stuff... that would give you a load of options for your shrine then...dunno who suggested that to me... but someone told me flattened and hammered tincans as a means for such tings for my old arena project... if you remember that?

Theophony wrote:"Of course we were going to lose....the good guys were wearing capes, come on, how do you compete with that." Spirit of he fallen telling slaanesh why they were defeated just before his soul is devoured.

Excellent work and I'd hire that gobbo anytime, who needs an mperial assassin?

and thanks bro!

Viktor von Domm wrote:I think graven that you could do well with magnetising all khorny stuff... that would give you a load of options for your shrine then...dunno who suggested that to me... but someone told me flattened and hammered tincans as a means for such tings for my old arena project... if you remember that?

Dunno what you mean... Where's a whistling orkmoticon when you need one eh?

A productive afternoon of stripping:


Hanging out with boys tonight, wife out on the town, Lego and Shrek so far, pizza and I'm thinking Highlander on bluray....

Whoo....miss a few weeks and you've finished a display....

Good job, very cool work there amigo

And loving the idea of grot snipers......

hope you took a shower after stripping down so many sisters...

monkeytroll wrote:Whoo....miss a few weeks and you've finished a display....

Good job, very cool work there amigo

And loving the idea of grot snipers......

Hey mt, you're alive! Great to have you back. I'm sure you've done a grot sniper in a nest or some such some time?

Viktor von Domm wrote:hope you took a shower after stripping down so many sisters...

You a filthy monkey.

Productive evening:

Just laying down colours and some shading. Also watched most of new season of Futurama - telly box getting very full, really needed to clear stuff off it. Highlander can wait. Gradually, we are getting through the ranks of =][=...

er...from someone with a short memory span...where did these come all of a sudden???...tho quite good looking they are^^

To clarify - heretics epistolaries & counts-as Kyrinov, malleus arco-flagellants, and Xenos warriors /mystic/gribbly.


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Ecclesiarchy, rather. I primed these guys ages ago but haven't got round to doing them. Keep getting distracted...

wasn´t there a khorny object you wanted to start with...ah... I get it... distractions again^^

Brotherhood look good.
Like the sniper.

Was that 3D blood spurting on one of those chaos dudes or was it just a very good optical illusion? How did you do it?

New painted people also looking good.

Well, yes, but I wasn't in a bits mood, more of a paint mood. You know how it is.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Well, yes, but I wasn't in a bits mood, more of a paint mood. You know how it is.

understood

Nope...not knowing how it is...


What's a paint mood?


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Also....turquoise

@ DrH - hey man, missed you there! 3D spray was achieved by very carefully unwinding the pin vice having drilled the entry hole leaving the waste plastic intact and attached. Then coated with superglue to harden and painted. There's actually some coming out the neck of the corpus brethren too, but it is less obvious/successful!


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Vallejo Turquoise is just lovely, especially when hit with nightshade. Highlights well with flesh, surprisingly.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
@ DrH - hey man, missed you there! 3D spray was achieved by very carefully unwinding the pin vice having drilled the entry hole leaving the waste plastic intact and attached. Then coated with superglue to harden and painted. There's actually some coming out the neck of the corpus brethren too, but it is less obvious/successful!
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Ahh. That's a good use of something that would normally get thrown away (or at least go into my pot of possible basing rubble).
I shall have to remember that. Cool.

Beautiful work, Graven.

Those are looking fantastic graven. Great color combinations!

My god you've been busy Graven! The diorama is really impressive and I cant wait to see what you do with this new batch

I nearly missed you stripping the Sisters, they look lovely with their bare metal showing

Yellowbeard wrote:Beautiful work, Graven.

Thank you kind sir!

Gitsplitta wrote:Those are looking fantastic graven. Great color combinations!

Ta! I love these muted tones too, and the vague plan is to do the kasrkin in the brown version (of course, then I'll have to strip all my guard...)

Knightley wrote:My god you've been busy Graven! The diorama is really impressive and I cant wait to see what you do with this new batch

Thanks matey! Procrastination is awesome. I actually need to be sure to pace myself with this lot - I don't want to burn out or get sloppy when batch painting.

GiraffeX wrote:I nearly missed you stripping the Sisters, they look lovely with their bare metal showing

You are bad man

On the subject of my general toing and froing, I started on a shrine:

Ye gods I hate the modular GW buildings. The shrine of the aquila was bad enough but these are ridiculous! My plan to have a 3 storey high wall seems increasingly idiotic. Here you can see the shrine (rectangle) within the section of broader Sanctum. I'd really like to have a removable roof for this - I like the idea that it's the one bit of the building that's unscathed. I had hoped not to have to mount it on a board straight away to get at all the angles but simply from a rigidity point of view I don't think that's going to be viable. Also, I got Fleur de lis punch! So I can stamp out inch high sob logos instantly from sheet styrene, very cool.

Hey ho,
graven

All coming together. Sorry if i missed something, but is this all a part of a larger Diorama?

Great work on the diorama! (Was away for the weekend, catching on on threads)

Solar_lion wrote:All coming together. Sorry if i missed something, but is this all a part of a larger Diorama?

Cheers. Yes and no - I'm trying to gradually build a ruined Cathedral as a piece of modular gaming terrain. The Sanctum Sororitas, in its original form, represents one end of it; the base for the gks is a collapsed roof section; and the Shrine of the Pieta I'm working on next is to be the middle. At some point I'll get another shrine to build at the other end!

Briancj wrote:Great work on the diorama! (Was away for the weekend, catching on on threads)

You are forgiven


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I think I'm going to take my time with this; I'm aware that I'm flitting. I think also the original idea - the shrine of khorne made from toy bits - is more in keeping with the League's... ideals I guess. I can live with the modular terrain being chaos specific, if not (posssssssibly not) exclusively khorne.

So, you'll have to excuse me while engage ramble mode.

Been a tough few days. Applied for a new job, found out yesterday didn't even get an interview. Won't lie - absolutely wrecked by this. The irony is that I spent the weekend convinced I had failed to get an interview so was a state then, and was initially kinda ok when my fears were confirmed.

Mrs G admitted she's finding me very hard to handle at the moment, and I'm generally being very brusque with her and hard on the kids - and i hate to admit how right she is. Oh, to see ourselves as others do, etc.

Still.

I started this blog 3 years ago, just as my newborn went in for open-heart surgery. He's fantastic, my 5 year old is fantastic, and my wife's pretty awesome. We have steady jobs and nice house, money's tight but that is the way of the world. So, basically, I need to just keep my chin up.

It's that or go back to some very dark places.

Apologies for the somewhat self-indulgent, self-pitying rambling but that's what the internet's for, right?

This has, bizarrely, brought me back round to the puzzle of what to do next. I need challenges - it's why I like contests etc - so I'm going to limit myself.

I am not allowed to spend any money on this project.

I have been ogling fw brass, bits sites, 3rd party skull piles - I could easily spend £50 on decorating for .

Instead, there's the £7 I spent on the kit. Nothing else.

I can beg, borrow and steal. That's it.

The stealing, btw, is the LEDs - the wife is making #2 a fire truck cake, and afterwards those lights are mine, baby!

Here's the catch - I have exactly 8 , 2 stars & 0 icons. That last one is a particular bugger.

I refer you to the aforementioned "beg". I'm not proud; you may have noticed.

I'm intending to add decoration to the model as it stands just now, and then disassemble it for priming (and filing the snapx logo off every piece). I'd planned on buying a metal primer spray with texture - that's gone too. I'm going old school!

Onwards - and maybe even upwards,
Graven

Sorry to hear of the troubles Graven, make sure to be nice to the wife and kids! Family will get you through every time bud, and their validation is the only kind you need

Wish I could offer up some Khorney symbols for you but I haven't travelled into that particular area of the Warp much, will have a scrounge around all the same and perhaps raid the bits boxes of a few friends

I have some chaosy bits you can have.

I've got stuff I gotta send out anyway so I 'll just add you to the list.

PS> Blackhands right! This too shall pass!

if I dive into my bitzbox I could find some khrony stuff... but I doubt it will arrive in time for the comps end...?

as for the (sorry for the pun) graven times...I have recently been at a similar spot in live... where almost every word spoken in family was a bark by me... after a few weeks I could pinpoint its origin... it had been a really crappy workplace... so... probably not really helpful for you... I quit... money is always tight... I think that is its main aspect... so not much to do about that... but family always needs to come first... in my book... I really appreciate that you now set your plans to minimize your payments... that needs to be supported... I wish I could follow that lead... I do ebay buys even tho I don´t earn zop atm...and I feel ashamed that I recently bought yet again stuff I already won´t paint soon...

so... I will look if I have something I can share... maybe even some skeleton stuff? or one or two zombies even?... we´ll see what is what and then you can PM me your address!...


cheers, vik...

Have you considered plastic card for the symbols? its a low cost way of adding some extra details?

@BLACKHAND: appreciated bro.
@Solar_Lion: thanks mate, most kind. All things must pass, and so on.
@Vik: corpses a go-go! Cheers man.
@Knightley: yeah, I've been thinking about options with styrene or, possibly, bits of sprue. Khorne being so angular as a sigil, I think that may be the way forward.
Btw, guys, in all seriousness, this is the "borrow" bit - I'm not really begging, so if you're kind enough to send me stuff, lmk if there's anything you need in return, and I'll see what I can do.
Thanks gang, again,
graven