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Some_Call_Me_Tim? wrote:Love the custom banner on the Nurgle lord!

Also: how many projects do you have going right now? I was scrolling through the first page and there was so much stuff there that I started to feel overwhelmed by your determination.

_Tim?

I actually just had a look at the first page, and yeah, its quite busy. But most of it is either done or destroyed I think.
Demon prince mock up is hiding somewhere, probably never finish. He's just too tall.
The big trygon I sold to a mate.
Every single cardboard building I've made, the dog has eaten in a rather uncool move.
Some of the odd and end small pieces I kept, others I gave away to mates.
The tervigon I was in the process of making is probably kinda close to done, I should really finish it considering it's been a project for over a year.
Ork battlewagon I sold off, and has made a round trip and ended up in the hands of one of my close mates for his ork army (400 boys strong!).
Dark eldar raiders were painted and finally given back to the owner.
The "spawn" like creature I made I threw out, also with the terrain I made at that time.
The tyranid titan I was constructing fell off the desk and its legs all shattered, I have pretty much given up on it now.
Every other piece of terrain (including enough jungle stuff to cover a 4x4)I made except the Chapel was damaged because of incorrect storage or thrown out without my knowledge.

That covers the first page at least. And to be honest, I think the only thing left on that page that I still own is the Chapel (which I might start work back on soon actually) and the tervigon sculpt I made. Been quite a journey and currently the only thing I'm working on is my other demon prince, but he's pretty smooth sailing at the moment. I am trying to spend more of my time doing canvas painting instead of hobby, at least until I get my hands on a ton of sentinels and leman russ squadrons in the future

I guess I'm thankful for having so much stuff to do as it means I wont get bored when something is drying off, or I have time to think. I have sketchbooks that are page to page of sketches for ideas for army, terrain or even simple objectives for 40k. I love this hobby and couldn't be happier I'm still here after only a few short years.

/Speech

another view
last view
Magnet drilled into his hand, grabs the chain so I can remove the hounds when I feel like it.


Some zerg inspired zoanthrope bases (still waiting for ideas on how to successfully keep the top halfs stuck on the bases)


A plague fly prototype, messy but with some spray might come up good.


And some space marines scouts I painted up quickly for a mate, simply because I was tired of facing grey/black models all the time.

I did however have a game with my guard last weekend against the necron that has been turning my chaos marines into pulp by turn 4 and he found things weren't so fun looking down the barrels of 3 leman russ tanks. I will be making an order for 3 of these behemoths, as well as chimera chassis (for hydras) and some more marine stuff maybe.

Also getting a hold of imperial armor masterclass volume 2 for some inspiration and tips on how to push my tank modelling a little bit further.

I really like that plague fly!

Made pretty nice job of those scouts too. I especially like what you've done with the PF.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
I really like that plague fly!

Made pretty nice job of those scouts too. I especially like what you've done with the PF.

D

Thanks, I spent more on that fist than I did the entire model I'm sure. not a great standard but it's done which is the important part.

A lot has been going on, hobby and otherwise so I'll keep it simple.

End results of the zoans I made up for a friend. METAL MODELS ARE THE DEVIL!


My dark vengeance kits put together (except a second squad of chaos chosen)

The chapel makes a comeback
Hoping to slowly work on this over the coming weeks to a point of completion

SQUAD BROKEN!
Tyranid beastie gets some work done


Heavy weapon teams, each squad of 3 with their own basing theme! I have 6 more to make up also after this


First helbrute off the ranks, done extensive work to cut him up and repose him


2nd one with lascannon instead we will see how these pan out on the table


And lastly my new company command squad

I have been finding it a little awkward when enemies shoot at my guard ranks and don't actually know who is command and who is just a lowly soldier so I've taken the chance for a fresh start and to also help with making up squads to fit my new army lists so I don't have to swap and change around the squads too much to find the extra weapons anymore.

I have 3 russes, 3 sents, 3 vindicators and a squad of terminators on the way hopefully shall arrive this week or next but with everything on my plate they'll go on the back burner for a while first me thinks. On top of all that glory for chaos, I am planning to add a huge chunk to my plague marines in the form of more death guard, but using loyalist kits as they fit the theme more in my head at least. Look for more updates soon!
P.S. Sorry about the photo quality, my mate took his camera back so now I'm stuck with the iphone for a while. It seems to suffice so far.

Trying to sculpt the plasma cannon muzzle into a deamon head is a slow process.



A painting project I'm doing for a mate on the house as I've always liked this model and I'll never probably own one myself so I offered, and besides, he will never get around to painting it. I have a lot of work to do and am going to try some different techniques on it.

Been working on making sure this vehicle is filthy up to the point I see ork vehicles in my head, so far its working wonders. I feel that I've not quite got the hang of sponge weathering as I'm probably rushing too much but I'll get there. Hopefully.

I noticed after lining up all three brutes that they are all leaned the same way and had to cut one up to change that...

Repositioned the body slightly so he's turned more extreme

Terminators are on cork now. Will be doing a mass sanding when I get EVERY model ready.

Chosen are looking rather intimidating on their cork bases. I still have not got a single idea of what scheme I'm going to do for them, I'm half considering using the nurgle scheme I've kept til now and running with that just so they'll get done. Maybe do the second lot as word bearers as they're one of my favourite legions.

Really like the conversions you've done with the brutes.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Really like the conversions you've done with the brutes.

D

Thanks heaps! I almost want to cut up the one I left alone just so he's as tall as the others. :(

Still got a bit of work on the hellbrutes magentised plasma cannon, but I'll get there. Need to work on an autocannon variant too.

Based an awful lot of marines last night.

Nurgleing up my 2nd set of chosen.

6 man chosen squad of nurgle with 2 powerfists


Been a little busy today, I am not 100% happy with what I've done and some will need a bit more build up but the idea is getting across.

Been having fun making some heavy weapon team bases lately.


Enjoy these quite a bit because they let you tell a small chunk of a much larger story.


So far the count stands at 9 autocannons, 6 missile launchers and 6 lascannons. I have 3 spare bases what should I take? I have a TON of heavy bolters left over, but I find them not a very attractive option at all. Should I max out with another 3 autocannons?

The lot of them at the moment, quite a sight isn't it? I won't ever use this many of them in a game, but perhaps for something bigger and more epic it wouldn't be bad to have extra teams.

The big news is when I got home this was waiting for me


opened it up after much spectacle and found my babies



of course, only this much was mine, the rest was for a mate


Got myself a chaplain and some paints from GW, as I love the fluff behind and the jet black armor they use. A great visage.

I still have one more big package of warhammer, then I could maybe get to work, I'm going to have to buy some cases to put this on though which will be a problem soon. Hobby overload.

Holy cow. That's a great supply drop!

What exactly did you get, and what are you planning with it?

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
Holy cow. That's a great supply drop!

What exactly did you get, and what are you planning with it?

D

3 leman russes, 3 sentinels, a squad of cadians, a squad of chaos terminators (wont probably use now) and 2 chaos vindicators.

I plan not to touch anything though until I get my imperial armour masterclass books back off a friend, and really study hard and plan ahead my moves. I want to do some detailed basing for the sentinels though.

The chaplain I busted out of his blister wrapping last night as I was bored of guardsmen and have wanted this model for quite a while so I got to work.
I wasn't happy with the cast though, the back and front section of the chaplains body and arm were about a full 2mm off the mark, but I didn't want to wait for any exchange so I got to work.

The green stuff is to try and add a texture to some of the areas, despite there being a huge mismatch in the halves of the body, I only managed to find 2 pot holes, and bending the crozius back was easier than I anticipated, but I won't be gambling with GW order for a while me thinks... or ever.


2 chaos vindicators, in a need of nurgling, but I'm really torn up about what style of nurgling and the amount of nurglfication I want to use. It's proving a challenge. So I may have to do some sketches and see what takes my fancy.

I'd complain about the 2mm gap..but I spent a couple hours, yesterday, cleaning up four metal ogryn. GW quality has just gone down across the board, as they ramped up production.

I really want to buy a Vindicator for my Minotaurs. Just so I can build the interior, and the GIANT CANNON BREACH.

 Briancj wrote:
I'd complain about the 2mm gap..but I spent a couple hours, yesterday, cleaning up four metal ogryn. GW quality has just gone down across the board, as they ramped up production.

I really want to buy a Vindicator for my Minotaurs. Just so I can build the interior, and the GIANT CANNON BREACH.

I would complain but the nearest GW is too far and I've already covered up all the problems the model had. :( GW is doing some good in terms of giving us models for the codex instead of forcing players to make their own ugly and sometimes abusive proxys.

Vindicators have proved pretty well for me, I've always been against them, but that's because I already had defilers, these things are beast though. The problem will be modelling them well.


Chaplain has taken some paint, rough stages so far, but a long road ahead with some new ideas.

I apologise in advance for the terrible quality of all these, but I have no other option lately.





The heavy weapon teams are finally finished and I can start work on painting them after I get some other stuff out of the way. Exciting stuff for me though.

First off the chaplain is coming together nicely, the lines where the two halves join has given me considerable annoyance though, and if I ever get a cast this bad again I'll be sending off a complaint within the minute. I have ordered some paints to help me with all the stuff on my desk at the moment and should arrive any day as well as the new large mini case that I'll be using for my guardsmen so I can have them more organised than they currently are.





Painting the first heavy weapon team is proving more time consuming than I anticipated, but longer hours at work isn't helping that improve either. I have lots of work to do still, and some stuff I can't fix til my new paints get here but I'm eager to start knocking these all out.

The chappy is coming along nicely, as are the heavy weapons teams.

D

 evildrcheese wrote:
The chappy is coming along nicely, as are the heavy weapons teams.

D

Thanks man. I am finding it hard to get the effort lately to do anything other than mope about not having battlefield 3 :(


As I play what I like to call traitor guard, but don't have any demonic or twisted freaks people may get confused. I think you can be against the imperium without having to degrade yourself into chaos. So the way I see it, these guys are fighting for the right to be their own men, and not fighting for chaos... or at least they think



I went back through my logs and realised I never uploaded more photos of my demon prince scratch build.




I really dislike a lot of things on him, and especially the length of the scythe upsets me a little, I didn't plan ahead too far but I still think I managed okay. There is still more to do but I'm trying to stick in the painting phase, just wanted to show people what I had added.

Nice work! I really love it when people use the team bases to make mini dioramas. But, of course, I'm a bit biased.

As for future GW problems, just call up their customer service, and you can do the swap by mail.

--B.

 Briancj wrote:
Nice work! I really love it when people use the team bases to make mini dioramas. But, of course, I'm a bit biased.

As for future GW problems, just call up their customer service, and you can do the swap by mail.

--B.

I'll be sure to complain a lot. Heavy weapon teams have so much you can do that it would feel heresy to just slap the models down and that be it.


The finished catachans. I really dislike the models and am glad I won't have to use them again.


Third heavy weapon team on the way. Love the busted barrels I bought online. Proved very useful. Hoping to have them finished in a day, that is my goal for painting speed.

Wow three weapon squads trying to finish in 1 day lol talk about painting speed! It takes me normally 3-4 days only to finish one guy..

Don't dislike the catachans

btw don't forget to drill the autocannon barrels.

 Fab wrote:
Wow three weapon squads trying to finish in 1 day lol talk about painting speed! It takes me normally 3-4 days only to finish one guy..

Don't dislike the catachans

btw don't forget to drill the autocannon barrels.

I got them done in time, I just haven't been posting as much... New starcraft beta and battlefield are tempting mistresses.

It seems too late almost to drill out the barrels :( but I know that I'll have to do it, perhaps I'll do em all at the same time.



Apologies for the bad pics, but without a quality camera it's going to have to do :(

First up is a commission I was given (unpaid, cos I'm not good, and I just want something different) a model from malifaux, or however its spelled.


Rough at the moment, he was pretty rough sticking together and I should have maybe tried to cover it up with some green stuffing or whatever, so that will take some time to work out the kinks of.

And back to guardsmen.


I figured out an easy way to tell the squads apart with a small splash of bright paint at the front of each team member, just so if they ever get into a kafuffle together, I can tell em all apart... And that might just happen with the amount of infantry spamming lists I've been writing.

The heavy weapon teams look really great. Love the rust effect!

D

Really like the HW teams! I usually don't like 'dynamic' bases because they seem silly to me (like a Space Marine Captain standing on a huge rock. Does he drag the rock with him across the battlefield?) but with these I can see them staying in one place as much as possible, or sprinting from cover to cover and setting up again. Good job!

evildrcheese wrote:The heavy weapon teams look really great. Love the rust effect!

D

Thanks! It's a little rushed but the army isn't amazingly painted overall so it fits in perfectly fine ha.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:Really like the HW teams! I usually don't like 'dynamic' bases because they seem silly to me (like a Space Marine Captain standing on a huge rock. Does he drag the rock with him across the battlefield?) but with these I can see them staying in one place as much as possible, or sprinting from cover to cover and setting up again. Good job!

Same here, I also don't like standard marines sitting on 2-3 layers of cork for LOS reasons too. Plus it does look silly, but these guys are not really trained to be jumping about so it works perfectly fine. At least I think so

1st lascannon team we're finished yesterday. Sorry about the camera, flash works better than without flash. Even if it drowns out a lot of things ha.


I really enjoyed this. I put so many washes into the recesses of the ribbed section but it's hardly noticeable. I tried and I'm still happy. Next up isa mixed squad.


Bases coming along fine, hope to have them done tonight and the last squad tomorrow.