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fantastic models jpaint. The wire conversion is a nice homage to your guard.

@Vik - Thanks! Very good advice, the wires will get a nice brown wash to dull them down slightly.

@Howie- Thanks Howie! It really is nice to hear that you're giving people ideas. Your right about the strong conviction thing, but It could just have easily been madness! I would really like to see anything you do If you do get round to doing something simalar so I can borrow ideas too, doesn't matter how good you think you are you will always have an original perspective and with that comes stealable ideas!

@Rogue wolves - Come now, that is not very PC, 'abhuman' or they get pissy.

@Comradepanda - Thank you! Not quite sure what that means but It sounds positive!

So I thought i'd include something that is a bit easier to leave C&C for, As you may have guessed I seem to have a compulsion to put furry hats on guardsmen, and today is no exception, EXCEPT the end result is actually a decrease in overall fluffy hat-ness.


...intrigued?

It started off when I got a vostroyan off ebay and was maessing around with some colours to see what would look good, when I had my usual yearning to cut his head off, which I just about staved off in exchange for his hat.

Well basically I spent about a year sawing it off and replacing it with a valhallan ushanka.

Firstly do you think the combo works? And secondly do you like the current rough outline of colours, with a green coat and the usual fawn trims? I'm open to suggestion here, still at a very early stage, (unlike most of my posts.)

i think the combo totally works! vostroyans are only one small more good looking step away from valhallans anyway... so for more ornate troops this is a good idea!

as for the paintscheme... cant really tell as the roughness is dirsturbing for me... but...stick to your basic scheme and you are good! my five cents

HERESY! Thou shalt not disfigure holy Vostroyans!

I think he looks great, though you'll have to try hard to tie him in since the style is so different. Looking forward to seeing progress!

Hot dayum! Those Minotaur thingies look uh-maze-ing!

He looks cool, I see him as an outsider who was payed to train some Valhallans and after the war he stayed with them, and is becoming a part of them

The combo is balanced and fair! along with the paint it is top notch, but do orange lenses. Trust me . i give it 10 pts to griffin-uhh Hersey!

@Vik - My thought exactly, thought he could count as a vet?

@ Rawson - Lol I apologise rawson! Truely! But I really love the vostroyan models but cant justify a whole new guard army.

@ Elnibbus - Why thank you!

@Rogue wolves - I really like that Idea, I'm thinking of using them as vets, maybe as the remnant of some crazy battle.

@ Comrade - Lol thanks! I would go with orange but unfortunately It doesn't fit with anything else, I do love your orange visors though!

So I've painted my Vet up, think he looks good! Tempted to do a whole unit?? He looks like a more ornate valhallan, even if his coat is a bit short

Man, that vet looks great, J-paint! I really like the way his power sword came out. I'm all for you putting forth the time and effort to make a squad of vets. I'll hold up my end and ogle them from afar.

Love it man

He looks like a more ornate valhallan, even if his coat is a bit short

he looks definatly superb!!! and as for the short skirt well... i think with great coats you get really slow and inflexible so vets... being the survivors of many battles should have a peak on their side.... if that peak comes in the form of a short skirt so be it

and by the way... cool looking energy effects!!!

Superb work on the Vet dude! I've got to confess that I've done nothing this weekend :(

Well the green looks good, and the dude looks very good, doing a squad to be a center piece would always be good.

Very cool JP... love the green and the work on the coat. Wow.

@Moltar - Thanks, the power sword was a nightmare to do, but I think it was worth it, You'll be pleases to hear I am doing a full squad...just slowly, Work is dragging me down and doesn't look liek abating before christmas. =s

@ Spicey Badger - Thanks!

@ Vik - Ooh, more maneuverability in shorter coats, I like that idea alot! Thansk Vik, full of good ideas.

@Elnibbus - As but now you have! Your tank is looking awesome!

@Comrade - Lol you do make me laugh comrade, I think I will be doing a whole squad. =o

@Gits - Cheers Gits, trying out a slightly darker green, think it looks more army-like.

So like I said to Moltar I havn't got much to show lately due to Uni work, but here are a few bits and bobs for you:






And as a little clue as to what I'll be doing next! (I'm very sorry Rawson!)


Plus I've been fiddling with some of my older valhallans that I wasn't very keen on, This first guy I think I might have to tweak even more as his hat looks wrong, (I fear I rushed it.) Also the cigar is annoying me as it gets wider as it goes in his mouth due to the superglue....I fear I'm becoming one of those obsessive hobbyists.

Before:


Second fiddle was just because I didn't like his face so I've just tried to make the eyes look less cartoony and make his flesh toens more realistic:
Second (very minor tweak):

The third fiddle I couldn't get the face looking right so I took drastic action and ripped his head off and replaced it with one of the masks I'm keen on at the moment:

God damn those are good minis J-Paint!

 J-paint wrote:

And as a little clue as to what I'll be doing next! (I'm very sorry Rawson!)

You monster!

Just to play with your feelings, Rawson: I've got a lot of vostrian fur hat chunks in my junk box too. And I had quite a lot of fun to sloooowly saw them off...

Ugggh i know the feeling of too much uni


The new additions are looking very cool!

 Baiyuan wrote:
Just to play with your feelings, Rawson: I've got a lot of vostrian fur hat chunks in my junk box too. And I had quite a lot of fun to sloooowly saw them off...

The Guantanamo Bits Box

Very nice work. I love those Valhallans.

So many chopped heads

dude I LOVE the look of the sanguinary guard mask, I mean LOOOOVE IT!

very very very cool stuff here! I'm loving all the models and the conversions, keep it up!

 Rawson wrote:

 Baiyuan wrote:
Just to play with your feelings, Rawson: I've got a lot of vostrian fur hat chunks in my junk box too. And I had quite a lot of fun to sloooowly saw them off...

The Guantanamo Bits Box

LOOOOOL

Dear J-paint (OP right?)

I've spent the last 2 hours oogling over your work... i'm currently trying to do an Ad-mech/Void Dragon force, but i am really new at this kind of thing... its a whole different playing field i've stepped on..

I was wondering if you could help me, give me a nudge in the right direction. I just wanted to make a small inquiry as to where you obtained/how you made the coils/cabling that are on your models... e.g. on the2nd page of this thread.... where you have the pic of ur skitarri... from the back:

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2012/1/29/322951_sm-.jpg

AND:

http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2012/1/29/322990_sm-.jpg

how do you manage to create the coils/cables that are present in those two pictures? As with all ad-mech forces, these cables are essential... So, can you kindly help me on the first stepping stone PLEASE?!
I'd be so so appeciative if you could help me out!

Many thanks in advance!

@Neonfunk - Of course I can help! thats exactly why I post stuff on here so other people can borrow ideas!

For the first example, it really is very simple, first of all I take a paperclip and cut off all the plastic coating and unbend it, then I trim it to roughly the right length (the problem here can be removing the kinks in the paperclip smoothly, but usually you'll find that you'll only need to 'undo' one bend to get the size you need.)

Then I drill a hole wherever the wire will be coming out of and glue the wire in place then bend till the shape looks good (sometimes it is easier to bend before you glue, it depends really!)

Once you have the first wire in place it can be a nightmare to keep using paperclips for the others because lets face it, they aren't the easiest stuff to use. This is why after the first paperclip wire I do the rest in greenstuff, the good thing about this is that the metal wire usually gives enough structural support for the other greenstuff wires to be draped off or wound round.

When it comes to green-stuffing cables it couldn't be simpler, mix up your greenstuff and on a surface (I use a wet surface, but I'm not sure if its the best way, experiment!) but yes...on a surface I roll out a long thin sausage of greenstuff, i then leave it for maybe 5-10 minutes to let it harden slightly so it doesn't instantly get fingerprints in it. I then take this sausage and drape it over the metal wire and using a tool or a knife or something sharp to chop off the ends where you want them, sometimes it sticks by itself, other times you may need a small bit of glue to keep it in place.

As for the second guy he is fairly simple and none of it is due to my skill at all, the long wire from the servo skull comes like that from the Imperial guard sprue, look on some bitz sites to see if you can't find one, and the wire in his mouth is the mouthtube from a DKOK! (Not a route I would go don't jsut to steal their wires!) If your looknig for that sort of wire I would go for the old favourite of guitar wire, even if it is a bit difficult to use.

Anyway I hope to see your Ad Mech stuff on here in the future! If any of that didn't make sense I can make you a quick picture tutorial?


As for the rest of you fine fellows thanks for your comments, I will reply properly when I next update which wont be long now! I Have a finished SW I need to photograph.

And here i was, expecting something worth while to read/oogle over, and no, Jpaint does a tut. How informational, such useful notes there. You failed me Jpaint, there was none of your beautiful work there, well done. *cracks whip* back to work!

@Elnibbus - Thank you!

@Rawson -

@Vit- thanks man, yeah uni is sucking up all my hobby time, very depressing.

@ Valhalla130 - thank you! I approve of your name!

@Rogue wolves - The masks are definately becoming one of my favourite ideas, going to see if I can add one to an old metal valhallan to give them some variety....will be difficult..

@Sageheart - Thank you and welcome!

@Comrade - LOL I do apologise comrade, here, Have this space wolf as an apology!

Those of you who have read prospero burns may see what I tried to do with his eyes....not sure if it worked really.... By the way does anyone else think he looks a bit like Nigel thornberry? (a slightly childish reference I realise.)

SMASHING RESULTS! i really like it. And all the Nigel thorn-berry it has.