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Termies and spear dudes are looking wicked. Really exciting to see how the Pred turns out.

EDC

goregous stuff once again Bash!

Thanks very much Gents. The Canaanites were a lot of fun to put together. I may make another unit in the distant future.

As for the Dino-predator, I'm really looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

Merry Christmas/Festive season/Winter Holidays!

Just got an awesome supply drop from Anvil Industries. Some great looking torsos and legs, and some very nice jump packs. This will be for my next set of Vanguard Veterans. Not sure what helmets too use, but I'm thinking of some domed helmets, similar to the HALO Spartan type. I felt that though my army has progressed in the direction I'd like it to go, I fancied some uber-high tech looking guys as per the Mentor fluff.



That's pretty much it for the next few days. I hope you all have a fantastic winter holiday, and a cracking new year!

Happy new year, you handsome Devils!

Finished the Librarian today.









I'm still a bit rusty on the whole OSL, so I may revisit the staff later on, but for now, he'll pass for table top use.

Very cheery and colorful, I like him!

Nice job Bash. Love the richness of his robe. Happy new year fella

Lovely, very festive! He looks grand, hope you've had a good season.

Hope you're all enjoying the new year! I've been very slow in picking up the momentum with the Mentors, with Fallout 4 contending for my attention, but I'm slowly doing bits here and there. I finished my Mentor Terminator Captain aka Tyberos:





He was great fun to paint, especially the blades on the Lightning-chain-power fists.

I will say I have a huge amount base coated. It's just the getting round to tying off loose ends that I'm struggling with.

Nice work Bash. I just love that figure...

What are those claws from? They look suitably brutal.

Thanks guys,

The claws on Tyberos are part of the model. He's from ForgeWorld. Retails around the £20 mark, or $35 for you guys down under.

Nicely done Bash. I just love that model

Thanks War Kitten!

Not much to report today. Just finishing off odds and ends, though I'm at a loss as to how I'm going to fit anymore figures, let alone squads, on the army shelf! I may have to relocate them temporarily.

So onwards with the finished articles. First up, a First ed Rhino:





This was an eBay rescue, but in great condition and thankfully, not caked in paint.

Next up are the 30k Recon Squad. Great fun to paint and the cloaks were a challenge to tie in. I took a slightly different approach and painted the faceplates of the helmets white, as with the amount of weathering I wanted to apply, the Star Scorpion badge would be heavily obscured. So it's just an easy way to make them stand out slightly better:













The photos are quite dark, so I'll have to fix my spotlight and get some more light on these guys. But I'll do that at the end in a big group shot.

Next up, finished Ironclad and Venerable Dreadnoughts:





So the 'Old Gods' are all done. Like I said, once I've gotten together a few more units, I'll setup a full army shot.

Nice work all around Bash.

Love it! Especially the first dread's freehand.

Lovely to see such impressive resuce work and a bit of classic mentor love

And so, after a bit of a break, I'm back with some new goodies. I've decided to have a rest from GW based models, though I will be returning to my Mentor army in the future. For now, I've picked up some 1/35 scale battle tanks, namely Israeli tanks. Two M51 'Super' Shermans ( from Dragon and Tamiya respectively) and a Merkava Mk IV from Academy.





The Dragon M51 has some really nice extras in there, such as a machined barrel and working suspension. I've also got metal linked tracks coming, which will give a really nice 'heavy' look as the tracks sit on the top rollers.





This is the Tamiya M51. I created the foliage from GS. Looks similar to the Sherman Firefly from 1944. It's not true to life, but I'm not trying to create exact replicas of the real thing. I'm just enjoying modelling something different for a change. The kit is nowhere as good as the Dragon version, but it's simplicity makes it an easy kit to put together quickly, and also, I'm much less wary of trying new weathering ideas on this.





This I'm really looking forward to getting to grips with. I got it for a steal from eBay, as it comes with the resin upgrade kit and ball skirt for the base of the turret. And it's big. Massive for a 1/35, as are most modern battle tanks. A lower profile compared to a Sherman, but much wider and longer.

And not to forget, I did knock together some Mentor assault marines. Haven't decided what role they'll play, but they look mean:



That's all. Now, where's that glue...

The tanks look amazing. Love some more realistic work mixed into the sci-fi stuff.

excellent work on the tank Bash, and those assault marines are looking might fine up in the air like that!

Good to cya back, bro.

Those assault marines are looking pretty sweet, as is the tank. Good to see you back at it.

It's been a while. Nearly a year if not a touch longer. But I've not been idle. Well that's a complete lie. I've done sod all when it comes to P+M'ing. Buuut, I've caught the bug again, so I decided on some Drop pods. I wanted ten. Now, GW want nigh on a small mortgage for said vehicle. I don't want to pay that amount for solidified dinosaur souls, so I've gone about it in a different way. A far cheaper, more enjoyable mess of a way.

Enter, the humble plant pot...






Rinse and repeat ten times...



And starting the base coating process



So with all of the items as you'll see, the cost was 1/10th of what I would have paid for proper Drop pods. I'm not looking for any Golden Demon, so these are rough and ready, but they serve their purpose well.

Things I have learnt whilst making these:
1) Glues guns melt skin as well as glue, plastic, clothes, table cloths and varying incandescent materials.
2) A Dremel melts plastic as well, which if it wasn't for my beard and glasses, would have been mightily uncomfortable.
3) The mess is incredible
4) When glue dries on my clothes, I look like I've shamed myself



By the way, hi everyone! Again

Bash

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!

You're back, and in style!

Thanks graven!

It's been a hell of a shift in terms of real life, but I'm now in a position where I can actually dip the proverbial into the obvious with a new project!

Ayup lad ! Tha lives just darn t'rurd fom me! Nice work matey !
I like your pods, i made a whole load in a similar way but from used takeaway coffee cups !

Haha! I didn't think I'd be living too far away from someone on here! I'm still getting used to the dialect (I'm from dan sarf innit) but I'm really enjoying up North. If you're about in town, I'll be frequenting Barnsley Models and Games, and obviously GW as and when, so give us a shout.

I hadn't consider coffee cups. I did look at various plumbing type bits, but the plant pots were the cheapest idea I found in B&Q. Though I may have an idea that could use said drinking vessel.

 Bash the Bosh wrote:
Haha! I didn't think I'd be living too far away from someone on here! I'm still getting used to the dialect (I'm from dan sarf innit) but I'm really enjoying up North. If you're about in town, I'll be frequenting Barnsley Models and Games, and obviously GW as and when, so give us a shout.

I hadn't consider coffee cups. I did look at various plumbing type bits, but the plant pots were the cheapest idea I found in B&Q. Though I may have an idea that could use said drinking vessel.

Haha, the ex wife is southern *shudder*
I don't get to Barnsley much, but Doncaster or Rotherham GW is a possibility, to be honest I do the majority of the gluing and painting and my boy does the gaming, we go mainly to the GW outlet at Dinnington, but with the good weather coming have been know to have games days, bbq's and beer at my house. Either way, you're welcome if at a loose end!

https://youtu.be/mfrl1QwHCS4

That's where I got my idea from , but I'd like to see what you come up with !

It's been a few productive days. I've been steadily finishing off the last few units that have been sat in their base-coat underwear for the best part of 18 months.

First on the tick list, the Star Scorpions Terminator Captain:



Followed closely by the Terminator Chaplin, who's waiting for his base to cure before it can be painted:



Then the Anvil industry figures, who've been christened 'Sky Crew' for their blue armour. Again, waiting for bases to dry before paint application:



And the Mk IV Star Scorpion Tactical squad:



As for future projects, I'm finishing the last of 2015's units, which is a five man Terminator squad with TH/SS, another 10 man Tac squad, and five RT Marines that just happened to glue themselves to 32mm bases. Most are in base-coat stage, with the exception of the Company Commander, who is still very much naked.

In terms of whats next after all that, another 3 Tac squads, a Triceratops (counts as Predator), and three of these little beauties...



Yes they're big, but wolves just wouldn't look right for Star Scorpion Thunder Cavalry. So I've picked up three Velociraptors, and I'll be hacking at limbs and building prosthetic ones and adding various armour plates to tie them in with the LR T-Rex. I'm going to have so much fun with these!

That Tactical squad is looking gorgeous.