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Mate! All been said above...but looks superb, out of this world and well worth the build time in my opinion!

R

I just love the poem in the style of Lewis Carroll more 40k battle reports should be done in nonsense verse!


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Oh by the way for Railway modelling inspiration type in Pendon. The museums in the West Country and well worth a visit.


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Oh by the way for Railway modelling inspiration type in Pendon. The museums in the West Country and well worth a visit.

Glad you got to meet your idol. The board looks fantastique!

Dunno how I missed this, but it's phenomenal! Your scenery is totally awesome and inspiring. Hyped-detailed and convincing...it must make for some sweet gaming!

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 Commander Cain wrote:
Come on dude, I am almost finished painting my own terrain and then you post this?!

Time for me to start over...

Dude, think how I feel.

I can't think of anything that hasn't already been said, so imagine a lot of glowing praise and a lot of different words to describe inspiration and admiration.

Yeah. I ran out of words of amazement about 20 pages back!

Superlative is a good word but a bit technical. 'Awesome' is overused on dakka, 'nice' or 'great' are too small for this. 'wicked' is a bit 1990s. How about mind-boggling?

Hey folks.. Took a bit of rest after the Ygg event .. working on a few bits for another INQ28 session .

@IronBars Thanks for the support mate. it was quite a push from all involved to get the game off to a good start .. hopefully its just the start though. ;-)

@Pete yep more of that next time please mate.

@whalemusic360 Good point mate.. although the last time I tried to make cash from models didn't go so well , don't think I have the head for business.

@Ghost Flame Cheers buddy.. shame i didnt take better pics really , made next time .. its supposed to getting an airing at Molotovs Next INQ28 bash this Saturday ..so will try and take some nice pics .. not going to be as flustered this time.

@Llamahead , Love the jabberwocky , grim dark cookie for you If i am ever in the west country .. I will keep my eyes peeled mate , cheers.

@:Weety,, Thanks Weets , its kinda weird meeting your idols .. I know we shouldn't really create them, after all were only human .. and as a rule I don't but ideas leftover from child hood have a way of sticking around.

@Cave dweller thanks, i have only played four games in fifteen years .. hoping to change that though.

@Skalk oh i have a great imagination .. let me just soak that in for a minute or two cheers matey.

@CC.. why what happened twenty pages back
@language is so ...mmm...er...tsk......limited

Hey folks , I have been taking it easy modelling wise .. nothing too taxing.. Vendrake will be getting an outing on Saturday for Mols INQ28 event the Requiem. I did a bit of fluff for that over at Opus ,
But i thought i would share the sarcophagus and reliquary machine i made for the day.. also worked on a few NPC characters ..I finally get the chance to make Naval types.. yeah!

no paint on the minis yet.. though.. Looking forward to just working on a few personal bits and taking my time over the next few months .. my head is back in Praxus mode for the moment..

I want to see a painted Faust.

@ PDH me too.

Hey folks, the Narrative of Inquisitor Vendrake was continued on Saturday during a second round of INQ28





as usual I find blogger easier to use for mass linear photo editing so more stuff regarding this at http://opusmaius.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/requiem-act.html

was another great day for 40k narrative hobbying with quite a few folks from around the globe sending minis to molotov http://inq28.blogspot.co.uk/ to participate.
although I took the opportunity to chill out and take photos more than anything else.

have to pick up halo for Bj today .. quite looking forward to seeing it actually .
regards
Neil

My god, that looks so cool! Stop posting, don't make me move to the UK, please!

Go on Baiyuan ...join us...join us.... or at least make a model and post it to Pete or Mol for round three ;-) would be fantastic to see what you come up with. and it might give you a reason actually finish something

have to say JRN's Velk as played by Fulgrim is just the best Character.. such a dastardly cad and yet no one can pin anything on him. Although my fave Inquistor model is Benadice .. what a personality fearsome to behold. Guidonis as to be expected looked unbelievable ..check out the vains and wrinkles on his head..simply stunning

EXCELLENT work.

Really cool stuff, love all the photos even if I am not entirely sure what is going on - looks a bit like a Cadian version of Pac-Man, or perhaps the world's most grimdark hedge maze.

I'm going to have to put together an Inquisitor, I've been pondering and plotting for long enough.

One question - is all this stuff that you do strictly limited to GW components?

@Brianc credit goes to all involved as per usual Mol bringing the threads together under his coherent vision of Dalthus.
I was particularly impressed with Oldguards terrain as usual.. his attention to detail mind bogglin.. everyone involved made a huge effort to be there and it's that sort of commitment that forces you to not let other folk down .. although i couldnt do it every week ..the travelling takes its toll as does the blogging tbh
but the oppertunity to participate in such events really ignites my creative passion .. working out how to display images and tell visual stories is a big draw for me ..and of course having real history to the events that surround Praxus does make it easier to write stories about such things.

http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Ammobunker/topic/7559924/1/


@Bruticus Yep thats how we all felt .. controlled chaos of a boarding action.. putting the images together took so long i didnt really have time to exoplain what happend ...not that i could there was so much going on on the board.. but i have an idea to draw it all together better in the next few blogs .

Would be great to see an Inquisitor Bruticus .. rubs hands.. and good question ...as far as i know technically you cant game with non GW minis in Warhammer world .as this is where the InqVitational has taken place i think its best assumed that GW minis only.. although i have seen a few conversions that included bits form other ranges ..

I personally just thinks it rude to go the GWHQ and game on their terrain using other brands of minis .. but that's just me kinda old school in that respect .. and i think it goes without saying if actual GW staff were to be involved even in a private hobby role I doubt this would reflect well on those folks. Of course there are other games linked to the Dalthan Sub that take place out of Warhammer World .. Kerravin is organising such event within Loidis , these will take place at a comic shop in Leeds .. and I would love to have small campaign with the Famorian techpriest at some point ..i imagine this would take place on my dining room table or Petes so i could use what i want Potatoes for spaceships it is.The challenge that using using GW only bits for the Inq28 retinue for me is quite refreshing . I enjoy seeing the design links from Jes Goodwins sketches made real ..like the wrist bands on the dark eldar wrack that look just like the wristbands on his drawing of his naval officers.. from 1989 ! its these small almost imperceptible details that draw me into 40k ..and with fine cast i can easily make my grim dark realities possible . On the other hand i do enjoy the vast amounts of plastic you get for your money with Perry minis and love the look of the zombies and ghouls from mantic ..so much plastic for so little cash.. then again no one does grimdark 40k better than forge world.

I guess in the end its a personal choice and the final decision would be Molotov's as the INQ28vitational event is organised by him.. although I honestly don't see him agreeing to anything that might jeopardise his work either . I wouldn't want to get anyone in to trouble or be asked to leave or put away models i have slaved over .. after travelling for two hours so i choose to use official GW products when gaming in WW so its a no brainer for me.
On a personal note though i do think the GW product range is enjoying a bit of a boom at the moment ..and for me there is plenty on offer for my inspiration so its not an issue for me ..although i do like some warseer legs for my Rogue trader.. will have to try and find a 40k version.

I've been planning an Inquisitor for a while (i even made a couple that didn't pass muster). All this stuff has just inspired me to bump him up the construction line order. I'll post something soon.

As for being old school about using other brands of minis - I see it the opposite way, back in the day GW encouraged using other company's products, like Marauder for example. It's a bit of a shame as there are some great 3rd party bits and other well sculpted ranges and I've certainly used them extensively in my gangs - I don't even have many minis made from 100% GW parts. I'm quite into variety and hunting out unusual parts personally, although no-one else makes plastic kits to GWs standard.

But yeah I see your point about gaming in Warhammer World, especially now that a lot of these companies make their money by treading a thin line of copyright infringement. I'll make my Inq out of 100% GW bits, but I'll keep with 3rd party bits elsewhere.

I thought marauder was part of GW ? or citadel ? or at least under the same umbrella ? Do you remember the shampoo bottle hover car ? but i guess back then like you say things were a lot simpler with regards to IP in fact i never heard heard the word ip until the naughties ,, copyright infringement yes but not Intellectual property .. i guess thats what you get for being successful bit of fallacy really anyhow the whole idea .. every idea in history is inspired by something else ..i find it slightly bizarre you can copyright an idea at all buts that's folks for ya..it that's an aspect of the hobby i have no desire to get into.. its about money and i am only here for the art models and stories. When i fist got back into the hobby i felt GW had let go of, or were not bothered about the stuff i was interested in .. in fact that was the draw tbh i had free range .. necromunda confrontation inquisitor.. i guess these aspects will always be ripe for creativity because they dont really appeal to mass audience .. i could be cynical and say it felt like gw was only interested in selling huge armies because that's what makes money .. but tbh i dont really care about that.. I have no money and yet i still spend a fortune on the products over other model ranges.. that's because i love the mythology and respect the folks that contributed to create that . the ones that have left and some of them that still work for that company that owns the mythology that was created by artists writers model makers .. I have no interest in any other aspect of the company really i like the mythology
In every other respect games workshop is like every other businesses out there ..its about making money .. i am not daft enough to realise that the hobby i love is part of a wider businesses that acts like a business.. and if it didn't it wouldn't be here now.. not that i am defending them either.. the company has made many mistakes in my eyes over the years that have made me as a consumer sad. I like art not business.. I like the truth amongst the haze. But i had faith that it wasn't going to all go to pot .. and at the moment i feel that my faith in a company i loved as child is paying dividends somewhat.. Ize colt of the spiky rat pack posted a blog about the golden age of gaming and I agree in many many ways the past years has surpassed my expectations .. the product line is phenomenal at the moment.. I still cant afford most of it but , its very inspiring to see such transformation.. it makes me smile like a kid .. i don't believe anyone owes anyone else anything.. in this way i am cynic .. gw doesn't owe me anything and likewise I do my hobby because i enjoy it when i don't enjoy i will stop.. Gw runs its business to make money when it stops making money it will stop .. but whilst its here i am glad and i am proud to partake in such a wonderful hobby and such a vibrant community .. i have neglected this blog for some time ..partly because i don't feel like its mine ..but rather dakka's partly because my life was rather stressful this time last year as my father died.. and i just couldn't blog like i used to any more and partly because it stopped inspiring me .. and felt more like a chat room than a bloging space ..( not that dont like to chat form time to time ) I wanted to move on and do real art for myself .. spend more time working and not blogging and not having to feel guilty about it. that's why i created the opus maius blog.. to try and do greater work for my self.. and not only 40k or wfb stuff other stuff.. as it happens i have done very little other stuff .. but i still feel the work i have done has been great.. not in egoist way just in a i don't think i could have done any better sort of way

I agree there are some amazing model makers out their .. some who tap right into the grimdark ..and i have many of their models .. but its the same principle as any restaurant or pub or bar that doesn't allow you take in your own food drink etc.. we all do it fro time to time but they still have the right to ask you to leave


kinda turned into a bit of rant that . sorry about that ..i guess i feel a guilty about not blogging here as regular after i have had so much support over the years .. just felt like i needed to explain to folks ..

think i need to get out more

Potatoes for spaceships!!

Ah it looks like you are right about Marauder, although they started as a separate company they eventually merged. I didn't realise they were so intertwined. I remember the shampoo bottle hover car but the thing that I remember more is how in the past scenery makers would use random junk as well as 3rd party/model train stuff even in White Dwarf. And I guess because the distinction didn't exist in scenery I never thought about it too much in the models. I always felt like Necromunda was only partially about the GW models and largely about all the random crap you could find for them to live in.

Yep those were the days .. Plastic container houses .. and embracing creativity over product.. you only have to look back to the start of this blog to see how much i agree with you ;-)

I still see that creativity in the hobby in fact its what keeps me in it. there was plenty of junk on the ygg board ;-) I missed the release of necromunda tbh , i was working too much at that point .. but it sounds like you have that spot on confrontation is more my bag ,, and they didn't release any terrain for that.. so its all up for grabs .. upsire walkways of marble ..industrial stuff like you make and sunken sumps like the ygg .the ralph mohr sketch that shows the train tubes is something i have wanted to create for along time , sat in the middle of an ash waste. . never happen now though .. no more stupidly big projects for the foreseeable future.

where do you keep all your stuff ?a garage or workshop ? mine is under the dining room table lol

although monkey is the king of packing away terrain .. he lives on a boat ;-0

@Monkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4VSiT6qUJ0

Oh you nasty man you

Luckily your evil plans were thwarted by the clip name coming up on the browser header

Everything I build gets taken straight round to my friend's house so I don't need to worry about storage. It takes up a couple of shelving units in the corner of his living room, not as much space as you'd expect I think - the benefit of lots and lots of small bits. The drawback is that it takes ages to set up/put away.

@ Bruticus .. Must be nice to not worry about storage

Hey folks the second act of the Requiem is up for anyone interested.. http://opusmaius.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/opus-maius-historia.html

 neil101 wrote:
Go on Baiyuan ...join us...join us.... or at least make a model and post it to Pete or Mol for round three ;-) would be fantastic to see what you come up with. and it might give you a reason actually finish something

I'd love to join you and I'd love to finish something =I= related, but for several reasons I don't see it happening too soon. Before I get back to =I= stuff I'll have to take care of some more relevant and practical projects. I've got just too much stuff going on to focus on those crazy character projects. First off I'm atm deeply in love with Infinity and I'm working hard to get my Aleph ready for gaming. Secondly, when I find the time to get back to my munda stuff (which I definitely will sooner or later) I'll probably focus on the game-related stuff first and paint some of the finished conversions before working on one of the open conversion projects. Above all I want to make progress on my gaming table, once I'm done with my Aleph and the table I'll make sure to fit in some more inspiring work here and there, but until then I'll have to stay focussed.
Never the less the stuff you guys got going on is enviable and it really make me want to whip out something grimdark...

Neil, I've been following the progress here closely for awhile(as well as on Opus Maius) and I haven't posted feedback as it really is somewhat hard to encapsulate just how amazing your projects are in their scope. Your article on terrain has really motivated me to get after my table that has sat untouched for many months. I find it amazing and yet very fitting even John Blanche himself has joined the fun with you guys! Seriously, it is guys like you and PDH and others that have filled a void that White Dwarf left vacant many years ago, and inspire creativity and wonder in what this hobby can be. My hat is off to you, sir.

When I get my Scavvy gang built and painted I'm naming plague zombies after you and Peter.

When I get my Scavvy gang built and painted I'm naming plague zombies after you and Peter.

Wow what an honour that would be... I think you should paint them with their names on their t-shirts.

(By the way, Starfarer - always loved that female pitslave with a buzzsaw, such a cool model. I have to resist ripping that idea off entirely).

@ Starfarer

Well what can you say to that I have always wanted a zombie named after me such an honour .. I wouldn't worry about Pete though , He doesn't like zombies I'll take both

Seriously though, I am glad you enjoy the blogs enough to comment , I often find myself wondering who the anonymous folk are who read them . its always nice to know who your talking to thanks mate. I don't recall the terrain article tbh , I was planning on writing up one on opus though so it could be that your referring to , if so. really glad it was of use .I love terrain , Dave Andrews and co are the undisputed masters , just looking back though some old pics and realising it was his dioramas as much as anything else back in then day that probably inspired me to get into the hobby , really glad to see terrain getting its rightful place amongst the new wd articles . Inspiring stuff indeed. Also seeing some of the WW tables up close is very inspiring


Although looking through your gallery pics , you don't seem like a person who is lacking in inspiration..

It goes without saying , Its an incredible personal honour to be able to have a few games with Peter and Mr Blanche.. although it will always mean my models are painted the worst

looking forwards toward my next project at the moment, must resist starting to build .....

@ Bruticus , yep nice 1970s American foot ball shirt

 neil101 wrote:
@ Starfarer

Well what can you say to that I have always wanted a zombie named after me such an honour .. I wouldn't worry about Pete though , He doesn't like zombies I'll take both

Seriously though, I am glad you enjoy the blogs enough to comment , I often find myself wondering who the anonymous folk are who read them . its always nice to know who your talking to thanks mate. I don't recall the terrain article tbh , I was planning on writing up one on opus though so it could be that your referring to , if so. really glad it was of use .I love terrain , Dave Andrews and co are the undisputed masters , just looking back though some old pics and realising it was his dioramas as much as anything else back in then day that probably inspired me to get into the hobby , really glad to see terrain getting its rightful place amongst the new wd articles . Inspiring stuff indeed. Also seeing some of the WW tables up close is very inspiring

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Although looking through your gallery pics , you don't seem like a person who is lacking in inspiration..

It goes without saying , Its an incredible personal honour to be able to have a few games with Peter and Mr Blanche.. although it will always mean my models are painted the worst

looking forwards toward my next project at the moment, must resist starting to build .....

@ Bruticus , yep nice 1970s American foot ball shirt

Heh, Pete gets a zombie only if to annoy him about not making zombies.

I may be confusing the terrain thing being it's own article, and thinking back it may have just been in the WD article(this could be wrong too, my memory is terrible these days!), but you were talking about terrain being just as essential as the models in creating an atmosphere. Anyway, that really rang true for me, and I've had a 4x4 folding table I need to actually add terrain to for my Necro gaming, and your stuff really makes me want to step up my efforts on it.

Also seeing some of the WW tables up close is very inspiring

That bit of scenery is just 4x Forgeworld Plasma Blastguns! That's £144 just for those bits... and they still just look like Plasma Blastguns sticking upright out of the ground. Not sure I am very impressed by that, besides the fact that it must be fun to so casually chop up that much expensive resin.

I hate zombies....well 40k zombies anyway because i cannot find any i like....other than those warhammer bad boys on the front of the corpse cart but they are proper warhammery.

Next years project is an undead mordheim warband just to mess with you mofo's :-p

ps i want my name on a t shirt!