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And look whats on the slab?

Solar_lion wrote:Only Blog where you can get gruesome lab equipment and 40k PA SOB pole dancers.. how great is that!

Should be a new category on Dakka!

Or at least a shady subreddit...

monkeytroll wrote:Excellent work on the stripper sir

All the lab equipment looking good too, nice stone effect on the chiropractor's table.

Cheers. Really pleased with the stone, actually, so lovely that you commented on it!

Miss Dee wrote:And look whats on the slab?

I see you shiver with antici-

Anyway, some more gear, to finish off with. We have a dusty old bookshelf (with a gap on the bottom shelf...), a table that's been mysteriously abandoned mid dinner (the beer's even got its foamy head still), a carved table with mysterious scroll, dagger and tome, and a meat grinder from the Lab. Don't look to hard at your dinner after all...


Sorry I'm a bit off radar at present. RL. The critters are up next, I promise. I have a particularly crazy idea for a summoning gate (possibly for a hound of Tindalos, but not sure). Also, I might start working on Xmas stuff. I have a plan for a 6mm Fremen force for a mate (erithromycin), for no particular reason other than (a) I feel like it, (b) I have some good worms and (c) he's the kind of person who would then sit and write a rule-set!

Ta-ta,
graven

Your "furniture" is all looking excellent. Love it.

Thanks matey. Wasn't sure if the dusty one worked or not.

Nice work on the "furniture", if that's how you can describe a handy floor-mounted meat grinder.

Surely the Scientist has several in his abode? Hasn't everyone?

Well yeah, of course, but would you describe it as "furniture", as opposed to "tool" or "potential death trap"...

As long as it's turned off and has the paisley bean-bag on top, then yes

Dr H wrote:Nice work on the "furniture", if that's how you can describe a handy floor-mounted meat grinder.

Naturally

monkeytroll wrote:Surely the Scientist has several in his abode? Hasn't everyone?

Of course. And I'm not just talking about my kids...

Dr H wrote:Well yeah, of course, but would you describe it as "furniture", as opposed to "tool" or "potential death trap"...

That would be the discarded lego...

monkeytroll wrote:As long as it's turned off and has the paisley bean-bag on top, then yes

So work progresses, just adding some base details. I like the incongruity of the mundane with the otherworldly, hope you do too.

The really should be a little blue creature next to the one on the left called Berk (80s British kids tv reference)

I found the missing witch! Also, I've decided to mix things up a bit: some creatures will be wandering around the garden (vid, maniac and the maggoty heap)

Still unsure whether to attempt to paint the witches nude.

Cultists

My word, there's a lot of these. Running out of inspiration for the last few.

Zombies!

Boring sculpts, but hey. This was where the garden decision began, btw.


Really happy with the Hound appearing through the portal. The Crawling ones are absolutely this juxtaposition with everyday objects I was talking about.

Oh, and another bit of furniture (I know, shameless redecorating): an arcane altar of some kind, not at all what I used for my SoB tanks...

LAB really was a wonderful resource for dark madness. I do recommend it for bits of weirdness!

Cheers,
graven.

OOOOoow! Looking forward to this lot.

I had to google the witches to see the painted ones to see what they looked like

You could just paint their um chest area as sheer fabric with the rest so it all blends in but is still kind of see through .....

Aaaagh - double post of doom.

Obviously I'm speaking with the mouth of madness......





Ohh...how excellent....I forgot they have an auto-fix for that now.....make me appear as a rambling lunatic, thanks dakka

Ok, so what did I put originally....hmmm...ok...

[replay]
"Berk! Where's my dinner?"

Basing all looks good so far - it's that mix of the mundane and the mythical that's quintessential Lovecraft

And I do like those large gribblies and the crawling ones - must look into picking some of this stuff up at some point. Because I really don't have anywhere near enough piles of untouched stuff sitting around at the moment.

[/replay]

I turn my back for one minute (okay slightly longer, but two jobs and school do that to you), and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot. All excellently done of course, but what happened to the nuns with guns? Man I have a lot of reading to catch up on

Camkierhi wrote:OOOOoow! Looking forward to this lot.

Sorry, no werewolves here

GiraffeX wrote:I had to google the witches to see the painted ones to see what they looked like

You could just paint their um chest area as sheer fabric with the rest so it all blends in but is still kind of see through .....

Yeah, I was thinking of somethnig along those lines.

monkeytroll wrote:Aaaagh - double post of doom.

Obviously I'm speaking with the mouth of madness......





Ohh...how excellent....I forgot they have an auto-fix for that now.....make me appear as a rambling lunatic, thanks dakka

Ok, so what did I put originally....hmmm...ok...

[replay]
"Berk! Where's my dinner?"

Basing all looks good so far - it's that mix of the mundane and the mythical that's quintessential Lovecraft

And I do like those large gribblies and the crawling ones - must look into picking some of this stuff up at some point. Because I really don't have anywhere near enough piles of untouched stuff sitting around at the moment.

[/replay]

I didn't know that there was an auto-fix in dakka now either. nice. Yeah, HPL himself described horror as "when you go into the garden and the flowers are singing" which always intrigued me - knowing that something is fundamentally wrong, yet knowing you're not mad (or are you?) Anyway You always need more stuff mate. Now: do I do a little blue nurgling (well, LAB nurgling, but still) to go with the Trapdoor (that should so be the next LOTR contest, btw...)

Theophony wrote:I turn my back for one minute (okay slightly longer, but two jobs and school do that to you), and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot. All excellently done of course, but what happened to the nuns with guns? Man I have a lot of reading to catch up on

I live to give mate

 Theophony wrote:
... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot.

Man this sums up your blog nicely.

 Solar_lion wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
... and there's strippers in terminator armor and lovecraftian shenanigans afoot.

Man this sums up your blog nicely.

Too true

So the mighty gitsplitta is running his Mantis Maker contest once more (http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/13500/289929.page#7271840). I really enjoyed entering this last time, and Gits is a good guy (I suppose).


So despite being largely out of 40k, I got thinking.

And thinking.

And after an hour of planning in my head, at 11pm at night, got up and started building.

The Head Hunter returns to enact his unending penance:

Yup, all makes sense to me....and it looks good too, so that's a bonus

Thanks for explaining your thought process. Adds a lot to the figure.

Good start Graven. Look forward to where you go with him.

Thanks one and all. Unfortunately, the more I look it, that right arm is just... Wrong. Maybe it's the tassle (still in stripper mode), maybe the flamer (what self-respecting marine wouldn't have a bolter), maybe the shoulder pad means it's all a bit too red scorpion.
Dunno, but it's the weak point of the build.
Wasn't sure where to go, then came across this veteran sergeant pic:

Now. This really got me thinking. The shoulder pad like a layered bug carapace, with subtle marks of honour - that sings to me. I love the colour palette too: it suggests camo without being camo, strictly speaking, and from above would blend in - good for a jet biker, whose adaptive camo wouldn't kick in till he sets foot on the ground. Give him a combi-flamer instead, and think he'll be set. Thoughts?

I saw this pic whilst researching too, and thought very similar to you, in that it looks carapace like. So great minds and all that. Like the sound of the "camo" as well. MMm, yup sounds good to me.

 Camkierhi wrote:
I saw this pic whilst researching too, and thought very similar to you, in that it looks carapace like. So great minds and all that. Like the sound of the "camo" as well. MMm, yup sounds good to me.

Or, you know. Fools.seldom differ

Playing around with combi flamer ideas:

Option 1


Or

Option 2

Obviously just rough.mock.ups. Or I could. You know. Use a real one?!

Colour palette and layered pad would look great, good call.

For option 1 on the combi would you have a sten style sideways mag for the bolter?

For option 2 I'd say a smaller flamer nozzle would look better if you have one.

I think I'd go for the conversion rather than a real one, but that's because I can't think of an actual model that uses an older mark of bolter in a combi-weapon - if you have one then all good there I suppose.

Option 1 has sideways mag, but clearly not clear. That nozzle is a necromunda one which is kinda why I want to use it. I'm leaning towards #1 overall too.

...

Giving us this:

Combi looks good, arm looks good....didn't really see the old one so can't comment on how much better this version is

It's a good look.

Isn't the magazine usually on the inside for this type of gun? Probably fine and would likely get in the way on a model.

monkeytroll wrote:Combi looks good, arm looks good....didn't really see the old one so can't comment on how much better this version is

Just say it's better It feels like a coherent weapon now. More gs'ing required, naturally. I wondered about a scope but I think that would look cumbersome.

Dr H wrote:It's a good look.

Isn't the magazine usually on the inside for this type of gun? Probably fine and would likely get in the way on a model.

Ta Well they're often that side mounted box type, but I like banana clips and it works (in my brain, at least) with the aesthetic - I can see how the name Flaming Claw came about (flamer, with strange curved side piece).
Now, one last possible modification: a tiny servo arm at the side of his head (by the earpiece). I just think it would look cool/mantid. Yay/nay?

Oh, definitely a yay for that. Would have to be tiny though...something from the dark eldar range possibly?

Oh, much smaller even:

Nice...me likey