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Are those mushroom stalks or something? They look awesome!

One trick you might want to use, if you want something eye-catching for alien scenery grab some multicolored craft feathers from the art store and bits on top, to look like fronds. It's a way to make it look glowing and bright without a fancy paintjob or engineering anyway.

But also, sometimes the cheap dollar stores sell the cheap little fiber-optic lamps and that is also a great base for some trippy scenery.


Oh and Steampunk Airship? Our hearts have been broken too many times Vik.

Looking good Vik!

most impressive vik! love the base and the guys are looking treat too the mw is coming along very niceley love the sublte blends on him.

I love the stalks vik. I had checked Avatar out from the library the day you posted your first pics of it and was waiting to see how it turned out. I like he shoulder pads as well

Good progress on the shrooms Vik. Good effort on the shoulder pads of the Mantis as well.

That green is proper lush. Love it.

I'm a big fan of the base and especially the plants on it.

The MW and his foe are still very WIP and look monotone at the moment. It's tough to pick out details yet.

Plants look awesome, and the MW tones are great.

thanks to everyone...

at JB... specially thanks to you mister...yes... I am fully with you the pics you see now are a bit monotone on the MW and the KW looks still heavy WIP...both have changed a bit since these pics where taken... but for the details I am still a bit unsure...

at meade...

I think most of your comment is a bit lost in translation to me...I think you are onto something very useful for me here...but do you really mean actual feathers?...and some light illuminated dio is already in the works...but for the shrine comp

as for the broken hearts... I will do my best to mend what has been broken in the past...


in other news...we´ve been to the movies...we watched epic...fitting term really... quite fast paced and with really nice aesthetics!...and we watched it with the whole family.. and my sons took the movie like champs... which is for me quite a big thing...as there had been quite some frightening moments...!


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by way... after a long research I have finally found the name of the ´shrooms...they are called musa stems... and I think are in fact banana related stems...?and I think I've paid too much for the one stem^^

http://decofleur.hosting1.troublefree.nl/musa-stem-gebleicht-25pack-p-7925.html?language=en&osCsid=c01367445d493f6e2d695806e55779d8

Ah, progress! liking the where this is going Vik

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

at meade...

I think most of your comment is a bit lost in translation to me...I think you are onto something very useful for me here...but do you really mean actual feathers?...and some light illuminated dio is already in the works...but for the shrine comp

I think they are actual feathers just cheap and dyed for craft purposes. Very useful for outlandish vegetation!

and these fibre optics are cheap, for $5 in my neck of the woods. You could make a tree out of that by twisting wire around the plastic threads and then twisting them, the result is a tree with glowing tips at the ends of the branches.

Where art thou updates vik?

thanks shaso!

and meade...seems I got you right at the beginning then... feathers...hmmm... this would look a bit then like artificial eyelashes then?...interesting idea!

and those fibre optics look interesting... I saw this setup in a gift shop recently... I imagine a bigger terrain piece would make some awesome effects on the table...

at jackal...and back to you

fiber optics would be cool, but i like vik's musha plants better. Vik, any work done on your fort or are you more like me where one project completely side-tracks another one?

Vik does get side tracked,,,,,,steamer air ship as we recall in the League, so much promise had that project.

I remember it fondly from ages ago when I would come to the painting and modeling blogs before i began to follow any real builds. I keep seeing the dystopian wars airship at the flgs and thinking of Viks build.

well... during the time of the rearanging my desktop here i got rid of the first one... now...my head is spinning like crazy to get started with one anew...BUT... first i really have to finish all my ther comp entries...for once... because i am in fact someone that gets permanently sidetracked... and the next big thing totally replaces my need/wish to complete the project at hand first... i always get the sad face from my wife when she sees me starting something new...^^

i think i should move my steampunk army more in the lairs of VSF and thus have a good excuse to make fancy looking gretchkins too

but first is the steampunk airship...i made today my son draw some sketches to have him more involved into the scene...
in two weeks summer holidays starts and then the building will start too...(this year holiday vacation got canceled due to money shortness...:( )

Bummer about that canceled vacation Vik.

Getting the lads in on the airship project, I bet the son felt like a ship wright doing the designs for his Dad

yup... he is very good at it i might add... i even made him do some top view shots and so on... he is very good at these perspective changes... for a seven year old chap this is quite good (of course i am biased as he is my son...so to speak one of my two topmost long time projects!^^ )

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
yup... he is very good at it i might add... i even made him do some top view shots and so on... he is very good at these perspective changes... for a seven year old chap this is quite good (of course i am biased as he is my son...so to speak one of my two topmost long time projects!^^ )

Well, those pretty much grow on their own once they get started Vik, LOL! good to hear he has the eye for such artworks.

Sorry to hear of the cancellation of the vacation Vik. We aren't doing one this year either for the same reason. But there's lots to do around our new house as opposed to our old one so we spent the funds on other things like: memberships to the botanical gardens, science center, and pool passes. The history's and art museums here are free except for special showcases, he Saint Louis Zoo is world recognized and free except for parking, but our grandparents gifted us with a Zoo friends membership which covers that, or free if you get there upper early. Also have the kids enrolled in vacation bible schools at four separate churches this summer. So four weeks where we get to drop them off for a few hours and have quiet time, and they get to have Funwith kids their own age and get more bible knowledge pumped into them

Hey, i just posted my updates on my P&M, and even a model in showcase!
Ok, it took me what, 3 months for the update? its there now though haha.

Vik... I want an army shot.. i want to see your... COLLECTION.

LOL! all those redcoats and soon to be red coats

Sorry to hear about your vacation, but at least it gives you more time to model

which i do...modeling that is ... i am working despite better knowledge on two secret projects that just have leaped from my mind... but i gotta soon return to the other projects of course^^...

and comrade... we´ll see about that...tho no guarantee^^

Ahh Vik and his secrecy!

I need to see a shrine mister. Quit with the distractions already.



Oh and an airship.

Oh and a fort.

Oh ok just get a move on will you.

 Camkierhi wrote:
I need to see a shrine mister. Quit with the distractions already.



Oh and an airship.

Oh and a fort.

Oh ok just get a move on will you.

AIRSHIP!

VIK FREAKING FINISH SOMETHING

Stop procrastinating young man and paint and model! I wanna see the finished models you've been plodding away at!