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Cheers guys I've been feeling burnt out with Berfa these last couple of weeks, but I got a desperatly needed kick up the rear end today to get back to work on her...

I'm in agreement Cam, on the gun. She's got to be in good working order. To give you all some background fluff, the gun was looted from an Imperial warship/ battle cruiser / landship (haven't 100% worked out from where yet...) and the Big Mek in charge has Orkified it (glyph plates and a repaint)

Lookin good ruglud , now my Orky side says it needs an imperial flag on the base where the boys come in with a spray painted logo next to it saying "whyp yuz fhet"

Rug, that is looking great! keep it going!

Coming along great, keep going! (And yes, mistreat and abuse the base, walls and walkways all you want, but please, keep the gun herself in working order!)

Will be waiting for more updates.

Well, I didn't make it in the end and now the hobby fatigue plus RL have taken hold..

The RL issues are somewhat more pressing and not to put too much of a downer on proceedings thought I'd quickly explain. My step-sister had a serious heart attack a couple of weeks ago and she's still now in hospital on life support. Whilst I'm not hugely close to her (she's about 18 years my senior and didn't really see much ofher when I was a kid) my Dad has been in pieces - he's in his late 70's and also has a dodgy ticker so I've been what I can to support him through all of this. Hence my hobby juju is on a low of late...

So that aside what am I doing now?

Well Berfa is getting shelved until I can get the inspiration and desire to restart

Berfa shelved


I also have the Thunderhawk, but again I have no desire to progress that at present...

Glimpse of the Thunderhawk and other projects...


So instead I think some figure painting may be the order of the day starting with this group...

Hellboy


Buzz


Dredd


Kick-Ass


Also, I have a desire to do some worrk on my IG diorama - 'Once more unto the breach'


Well, that's the plan anyway...

Really sorry to hear your woes dude. Never good, my thoughts are with you. Here's hoping everything comes good for you and yours.

Models look sweet. You will find your mojo soon enough. Good to see you around here dude.

Ruglud, best of wishes and our prayers are with you. I've been having serious lack of mojo too recently, so I know a little of how you feel, but no idea of how you handle the sister part. Just remember to take time for yourself, otherwise you'll wind up twice as bad. Like they say on the airplane, take care of yourself first then the kids/elderly next, you won't be able to help them if your messed up.

Sorry to hear dude, thoughts are with you. Don't worry about the mojo, RL comes first, I'm well aware of that at the moment myself.

On the model side that Dredd conversion is excellent, nicely done.

Take care.

Thanks folks, really appreciate the sentiment here...

I'm afraid no updates on the health or hobby side at the moment. The wife and I took our kids into London today (we live approx 30 miles out of London on the Kent side of the River Thames). Highlights of the day: Visited a crazily busy Harrods (food court is awesome), a bracing stroll around Hyde Park (avoiding the over-packed and over-expensive 'Winter Wonderland'), checked out the Albert Monument and Royal Albert Halls.

Made a nice break and got the Christmas cheer back for us

Belated Happy New Year to one and all.

I finally got back online today after a brief hiatus, I managed to knock my laptop over and the HDD got damaged to the point of no return.. Considered getting a replacement but then saw some great deals in the January sales and treated myself to a nice new Acer Aspire, although unfortunately it comes with Windows 8 *yuk*.

Just going through the set-up process but now need to get a cable so that I can try and transfer some of the data (like iTunes) from the defunct HDD. Hopefully I'll also be able to restore my weblinks and some of the data that I hadn't got round to backing up yet, as some of you may recall I had a similar HDD issue with the Dell early last year, followed by a graphics card failure.

Asides from that, no hobby update... RL still kicking that to pieces unfortunately...

I tried Win 8 once, decided I didn't want to try it again... Hope you have a touch-screen, good luck.

Hope the coming year is good to you.

A belated Happy new year to you too .

Unfortunately I've been offline as well, my internet decided to simply stop working on new years eve,
only offline for 4 days, but it felt like longer.
Good luck with the new computer, I've not tried Windows 8, but I'm yet to hear anything good about it, think I'll stick with my Vista Ultimate for now.

Windows 8 is pretty damned awful in my book, it's okay on a touch-screen but terrible on a standard laptop and I really don't see the point in a touch screen laptop... Apparently 8.1 addresses the lack of a start menu, so I may give that a whirl, but I'm missing Vista at the moment, wonder if I can downgrade to 7??

I'm going to move back over to my scratchbuild thread now as I suddenly had a burst of energy this afternoon and started work on a new Thunderbolt fighter

good to see you again in better spirits!
happy new year ruglud...and seeing your recent works on the thunderbirds....I congratulate you to the regaining of your hobby mojo!

Over due an update in this thread...

So, here we go. My entry in the LoeR 'Got wood' competition - a tree made from wire and walls made from MDF

Tree is made for from 3 separate pieces, each one made up from 17 strands of thin garden wire, bent in half and twisted together, the smaller strands pulled off to make individual branches. Then all joined together to make one tree...






And the walls are from 6mm mdf. They are going to be plastered stone with the roots having caused the plaster to crack in several places.




Starting to create the bark texture - PVA mixed with ready mixed filler, to create a paste and brushed onto the tree



Quite a bit more to do... but have a month to do it

As an aside, my Xmas present turned up this week. Looking forward to Christmas day now

Whatever you get, you'll be upgraded to Windows 10; apparently, whether you like it or not :] I left the MS prison years ago. Currently using Linux Mint 17.2. But if you really need the itunes software , Linux is not for you.

Another Star Wars X-wing convert... yeah, that game is really popular these days. I imagine with the new movie coming, it will get even more popular. Enjoy playing.

The tree progresses well. What sort of ready mix filler? Around here people recommend Apoxie-Sculpt or Modge Podge. Never tried either.

Great to see you bud.

Star wars is definitely the in thing.

Tree is looking fantastic. Good luck in the comp.

Camkierhi wrote:Great to see you bud.

Star wars is definitely the in thing.

Tree is looking fantastic. Good luck in the comp.

Cheers mate

Red Harvest wrote:Whatever you get, you'll be upgraded to Windows 10; apparently, whether you like it or not :] I left the MS prison years ago. Currently using Linux Mint 17.2. But if you really need the itunes software , Linux is not for you.

Another Star Wars X-wing convert... yeah, that game is really popular these days. I imagine with the new movie coming, it will get even more popular. Enjoy playing.

The tree progresses well. What sort of ready mix filler? Around here people recommend Apoxie-Sculpt or Modge Podge. Never tried either.

Oh, the laptop issues were a while ago now and all sorted... (I need to post here more regularly again though...)

The filler is just the basic, cheap store own brand called Diall, I think, from B&Q. Another option would have been to use some air dry modelling clay, but I didn't have any of that...

UPDATE...

Green stuff in the cracked areas to create the brick under the plaster...





until next time...

Some PIP on the tree and wall...







Still need to do some sort of stone capping for the wall, then move on to the base

Got any styrene tube, cut it length ways for terracotta copings. Or if it will fit use drinking straws?

Looks brilliant btw.

Interesting ideas, although likely going for a flat tiled effect using cut up some wooden coffee stirrers, continuing the theme of wood representing stone and wire for wood...

Moved on to the basing (as I forgot to do the stone capping...)







Annoyingly, I've noticed some areas of the tree where the twisted wire strands are quite visible and I should have revisited them with the filler/glue mix. but am going to leave as is for now...

Looking good, and nice to see you back in the swing!

Looking good. Keep at it.

You're using wire for wood,
Wood for brick,
Sawdust for grass (I think),

So for the stone top of the wall you should use... Blancmange...
No? How about card then. It's another form of wood, and does work well as stone/concrete if you find some rough card.

Thanks LT, feeling the hobby vibe presently so trying to make hay while the sun shines, so to speak...

 Dr H wrote:
Looking good. Keep at it.

You're using wire for wood,
Wood for brick,
Sawdust for grass (I think),

So for the stone top of the wall you should use... Blancmange...
No? How about card then. It's another form of wood, and does work well as stone/concrete if you find some rough card.

Card it is, not sure I can right the right consistency with blancmange... A future project though maybe

Oh and it's now sawdust but fine sand, however I will use some flock for ground cover which is sawdust (right?). The only part I'm missing though is rivets... Not sure if I can include any on this scene - maybe I should have had a gate of some sort and could have had some rivets on that, but alas I don't...

So, update as posed on the comp thread...

UPDATE: Capping for the wall and some more base paint laid on the err... base...




The capping is thin card strips (5mm x 9mm) and will be painted up to resemble slate or terracotta tiles(not sure which yet). But, card is made from wood, so continues the theme

what have we got, one week to go? I'm on the home stretch now I think so shouldn't be any issues completing in time.

Very cool trees.

How long does it take to make each one?

EDC

I really like your tree tutorial. And the terrain overall looks great. I'm going to have to try this myself.

Thanks chaps

Only one tree EDC and took a few hours total, not including drying time for the filler

Finished pics as submitted for the LoER competition..







Would have liked to get some better pics, but there's almost no daylight this weekend in my neck of the woods...

Looks great Ruglud!

So realistic, beautiful work, good luck, not that you will need it, but its a tough one this time round some amazing work out there.