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Hey all!

This update is a "pre-unification" army from the area of Middenheim. The customer wanted something from before the time of the Empire, and we brainstormed ideas on how to visually make them appear a bit primitive and before the time of the White Wolves and Middenheim. The colors were slightly tweaked to suggest an eventual, maybe gradual maybe not, change of color from what you see here to the offical, current colors of Middenheim and the White Wolves.

The additional figures (Ludwig, Kurt, etc.) from the current time period were done now to be able to link this and a future, current time period army portion later.



Until next time!

Wow, these guys are amazing. I especially like the squad of the guys holding hammers.

I'm a big fan of your work!

Krump rulez evertin' aroun' me.

K.R.E.A.M. Get da humie!

Dakka dakka DAKKA!!!!

As requested - a little ICP, a little Wu Tang, a whole lot of Sweet Tooth.




















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Dakka:

Hey everyone! Lots of updates!

Here is my finished Adepticon army. Thanks to all of those that followed and/or commented on my blog. I hope you like it!

It is inspired by Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem has always been a favorite and has inspired a lot of my other work and tastes in art. I love all things nautical (even though I rarely see the ocean funnily enough ). Empire, cephalopods, old time imagery, movies, the trunk itself (a 100 year old family heirloom), and all things in, on, and around sailing ships have always been interesting to me, so they all come together to make an army that is very sentimental to me.

If anyone is interested in the process of building the display over the past month or so, please check out my blog thread:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/515905.page

Anyway, on to the pictures!







The display is built out of a 100 year old trunk, which belonged to a relative and was given to me a year or so ago. The lower section is 2x4s and hinged. It lowers for transport and locks into place. The box is a lot bigger than it looks in the images. It is almost an arms span across and as it sits there is 3 feet tall to the lip.















The boat itself is made of pink insulation foam for a form and then covered in hand cut plastic (not balsa!) strips. It took about 3 full days to cut and cover the boat in planking. The rivets are cut from stock rivet plastic, and all ralings and accessories are legitimate ship modelling accessories.

The wood grain is all freehand. The backside is done as well, 5 inches below water and what you see above.







The sail is made from duck cloth soaked in PVA for sturdiness. The rivets were punched in and strung to the dowels. The dowels were lightly stained and pinned and epoxied together.

The sail is removable as the black rigging is all elastic cord. The mast goes down into the ship where the Kraken leg wraps around.





This is over two gallons of clear resin. The boat goes about 5 inches down into a second box with an enclosed bottom. The waves are honestly not as rough as they would be realistically, but sacrifices were made to be able to see all that hard work down below.

I was honestly incredibly lucky with the resin. There was NO shrinkage at any point, and I got hasty with .5-1" layers when I was advised (thanks penturners!!) to do much thinner layers. However as I found out this stuff is horrible smelling and it requires sunshine or above 70 degrees to cure, both of which were in short supply in the past couple weeks.

It still smells too... :(

Speaking of resin, other than the bodies of the artillery and the Birdmen wings, the entire army is resin as well!























The baby octopus is real, preserved in alcohol. I felt a bit bad but they were already dead and bought for eating...

The others were used to make similar "lures" and given out to friends and family.













My hack and slash, rewritten version of the Rime. Im pretty happy with how it came out, as I am not really a writer.

The short version is, some random old man gave Kraal the Kraken lure. He, being Kraal himself, thought nothing of it, and did not tell his men and sailed out. They encountered and killed the Kraken after several days when the Batton Boys threw their favorite rum overboard and blew up the Kraken.



Van Der Kraal!



Wizard Lord



My version of the Sea Bride standard. The Manaans Blade's standard is a tall banner with the image of a mermaid, that screams and frightens its foes, especially when wet with sea water.

The mermaid is a Vampire Counts model and sculpted tail. The bearer is Marius Lietdorf and a Manaan lower body.







Our heros the Batten Boys! I needed a 4th cannon for symmetry so I stuck it in a unit



















Some salty mercenary Greatswords. The crates were a HUGE pain to saw apart and line up. Some sort of really hard resin.

A note on the posing over the army - it was all done with hot water. I love resin!

















Kraal's Salts. Kraal's personal guard and the only ones who knew what the crew was in for.

In the 20 kits of Manaan's Blades I purchased I somehow had enough of those heads for the whole unit. Thanks Forge World! The heads are all single sculpts, so I did a lot of resculpting and beard-adding.




















They're on a boat! On a boat! In a box! In a box! One of my favorite models, sculpt and fluff wise it was an auto-include.











The cannons are part stock plastic, part steam tank cannon, part regular artillery bits. They are designed to be hydraulic. One lever pushes the cannon forward and returns it for reloading. The other fires it.














These are Birdmen of Catrazza wings on Manaan bodies. They really lock together...

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Phew! I think thats it! Enjoy

That's a lot of awesome contained in one post there...

Thats a mega update so many lovely painted minis.

I really like the way you did the marble affect on the Dark Angels flyer.

That is probably the coolest looking thousand sons army I've ever seen! And great job over all, I'm so glad I found this P&M-blog!!!

The Rime is most definitely the best work i have ever seen in Warhammer. The attention to detail is astounding and it feels like you put so much work and love into it.

I am simply amazed.

Thanks guys!

My eyes,

To much awesome to behold...

Those marienburger are something from a dream, So beatiful. What did you use as water on your bases?

A great selection of models and all beautifully painted, plus I love the dioramas, some of the best I've seen.

 Q0rbin wrote:
Those marienburger are something from a dream, So beatiful. What did you use as water on your bases?

For the Nurgle, it is just clear resin

after seeing this, I think I will just pack up all my painting stuff. How can one ever hope to even barely reach these painting skills.

The pure awesomeness of that last update was overly awesome.

You continue to produce top notch work, GMM.

Awesome and Inspiring.

Great work really top stuff! And inspiring!

Holy cow - been a while since I last checked this thread - some awesome armies and displays. Love "what lurks below" - fantastic

W.T.F, O_O .
O
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Some might remember I did a smallish Kill Team army themed around Wu Tang and ICP:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/513855.page

This is the rest of the army. Lot of stuff including:
21 Grot Tanks
Grot Mega Tank
Deff Dread
4 Battle Wagons
Looted Wagon
Squiggoth
5 Trukks (3 Ice Cream)
3 Flamer Buggies
3 Koptas
60 Boys
12 MANs
12 artillery pieces
A lot of other goodies

On to the pics!

Hey all,

This is an army I did for a buddy to play at ATC on Saturday! Just something fun and thematic, with a comic too.

The nose of the plane is a drop pod, the Termies are Arjac, Logan, and Wolf Guard. The Inquisitor with Runefang is a Rune Priest. The rest is fairly straightforward.

I hope you enjoy, and until next time.

Thanks for looking!

Well, you have done it again. Absolutely beautiful and original. Did you have trouble fitting the Cadian rifle arms to the empire models?

Dusk Raiders!

A post since apparently I forgot this existed for a hot minute!

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I survived!

Very cool! Never seen Dusk raiders. Pre-pre heresy.

...incredible

Lots of new stuff lately!






Check the blog or Facebook for more images.

Hey all!

I just wanted to post this army I painted last month from the third moon of N'dras! This is a temperate climate themed army, and an official Games Workshop color scheme.

The customer gave me free reign on this army, and out of two schemes I have always wanted to do, I went with this one knowing his taste in colors. It was a lot of fun to paint and a good excuse to make some new backdrop terrain.

I hope you enjoy and until next time!























































































































































































































































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I usually like more contrast in color schemes, but the subtle differences in that Tau scheme are absolutely amazing! Beautiful rich colors. The use of metallics to pick out the Commander was well-done too.

As always, your stuff is extremely impressive. Thanks for sharing!