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 Glaiceana wrote:
Awesome work! Love to see how they turn out

Thanks, Glaiceana. And thanks for posting.....

Ahh the madness continues. Awesome job on the Caestus . Forge on...forge on.

Really good to see you, Brother.....


thanks for the kind words....

 mxwllmdr wrote:

Oh, and your avatar, Dave, you are no ones minion......

Yeah...And that's probably why I can't seem to get hired

damn... sour humor...

Actually, I may have a couple of good interviews lined up soon, fingers crossed. I just can't help but think that my "independent thinking" may be a black mark for me in Corporate America I need to start a Hobby company or something of my own...

we have been jabbing about that for years (at least that's how it feels...)...

independent thinking is usually something everyone brings forth in his own SWOT analysis...as a strength... tho if you sing a different chord than your boss... then independent thinking is your downfall......tho... we all know that these indi peeps are the ones that have made all the great progress that men have come to like ....our rulers are dumb...

Now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.

hmmm.... there is an endless discussion between two words...smartness and intelligence... you can´t have both...

 dsteingass wrote:
Actually, I may have a couple of good interviews lined up soon, fingers crossed. I just can't help but think that my "independent thinking" may be a black mark for me in Corporate America I need to start a Hobby company or something of my own...

I want to do the same thing. DaveCon? LeagueCon?

sounds good

Almost done riveting the front toes.....



in about 15-20 hours I will have five of these.......



MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

that these thin rods of styrene can hold that lower body at all is next to a miracle...

and what I always am marvelling over is these half spheres....

I still see chicken legs at this point, but they are bionic impressive chicken legs I feel hungry now

Vik, the plastic is very much lighter than the resin. Therefore less can be more, so to speak.

Thanks LDD, I hope you ate well.....

As for me, I have been too busy to post. Very sorry. I will rectify this now:

I finally finished all the toe rivets.





Next I had to redesign and build the rear toe. I decided to put the proper rear toe on these. In the past on Mars patterns I had cheated and just used a copy of the the smaller front toes as a rear toe. These are the squared ones with the rollers underneath.







With those details decided I needed only stand the five of them up.









Imagine if you will, putting this on the floor of your Friendly Local Gaming Shop:



And then if you will, imagine opening it to show your opponents this sight:





I wouldn't wanna see that opened on me.....


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Oops, multi posted one of them....


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Also of note each leg is precisely the same. The are all posed slightly differently, though, just by positioning them differently on the pelvis.

Yeesh that's dynamite!

Thanks, Llama.....

I heard of opening a can of whoop , your bringing the whole case

Explosive reactions all round dam you are churning these out fast looking really good

If you get a male and female one will they have chicks I have an old hen roost at the end of my granddads garden if you want to try

O yes I went to KFC yesterday now I remember why I fancied chicken it was a blast ......see I did it again

Kinda reminds me of 5 Gremlins (without arms) about to burst out and onto someone's unsuspecting miniature collection, wreaking havoc with them...

Hahaha, gremlins, whoopass....



LOL....


LDD, get a KFC Go Cup. Perfect for holding files and other assorted items on the workbench. I have two.....



The chicken was good, too.....

I always wanted to convert ammo crates into my IG army carrier

Yeah, I have a bunch of that stuff. Where you live, again? Wanna drive down and geta bunch of em?

cool chest...and cool legs...what a combination...!

Finished most of the engine pod construction for these five beauties before nearly cutting off the side of my left index finger.




Guess I gotta sleep more.....



But tomorrow VetGrunt is coming over again and we will be working on them more. I will be showing him weapons mounts and carapace forming as well as mybe starting actual weapons construction. Could be cool......


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BTW, thanks, Vik. The ammo crate was found fully intact in a dumpster here on base. It is illegal to dispose of them this way so I had to do my civic duty and reclaim it i to the army system......

As I said a few days ago VetGrunt was coming over to talk about a few things.....


We discussed weapons sponsons, carapaces, heads and head mounts and the engine pod placement and decoration.....

I have mentioned in the past several things I wish I had done with my previous warhound. One being the cables that go from the main hull to the underside of the head and the cable that goes from underneath the engine pod to the individual weapons. Insisting this time to include everything I have always wanted to include I began by whipping up some of these:



These are magnets in tubing. The magnets are neodymium but are black because I filed them down to be flush with the tubing and the filings are, of course, sticking around.....

Then these:















Adding a few more rivets and flash rings to make them look more like cannon plugs eill be a quick job but for now, the cables are ready.....

Then I decided to trim the engine pods...





And, of course, I am also going to include the weapons servitor hoising on the weapons sponson this time. Another of those things I never did before but always wanted to. Here is the first. I like it so nine more are in the works......




Now, today is the 23rd. Which means that I have one week to finish the caestus ram and the two Sisters of Battle Warhounds.they will be my focus moving forward leaving the first week of February to finish the other three warhounds.....

I am in sufficient position to accomplish this goal very easily. See you soon.


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I should also note that I am want this time to actually do a more accurate job on the trim and decoration. Meaning, as the FW looks, so shall I attempt mine to look.....

The trim is looking very nice! Are you sure that paint will stick to those elastic bands though?

In fact, I am positive it wont. But they are cloth covered and will look fiine when the tips are painted.

You might be able to soak/brush them in thin CA. I do that to stiffen model chains that hang.

Yeah, but why? If cables are usually black anyway and with them unpainted it allows for the weapons to turn in its mount with the cable attached. I suppose it is a matter of preference.