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what happened? is it ruined?

What I want to do with it, I cannot do simply by converting Vik... which means I scratch build it... or, scrap the idea entirely and try something else.

oh by all means... sctachbuild it! i am having the greatest faith in your skills... maybe not your patience but your sculpting skills will hold to that

care to explain what you are about to do? sounds interestingly complicated

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:You may be right Galorn... I may end up doing the entire tail in GS... I just don't even want to look at it right now its fracked me off that much... so I'm shoving it back in its box until I can be bothered with it again.

(words... and an image)


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btw... GS-Fu made me lol... it sounds like a disease

Or a mysterious martial art...

AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:What I want to do with it, I cannot do simply by converting Vik... which means I scratch build it... or, scrap the idea entirely and try something else.

KWahhhhh (kungfu noise)

Viktor von Domm wrote:oh by all means... sctachbuild it! i am having the greatest faith in your skills... maybe not your patience but your sculpting skills will hold to that

care to explain what you are about to do? sounds interestingly complicated

Just so.

Why does Cloud have a nail bat? I thought his weapon was a backache inducingly large sword!

What exactly is the nature of the smegup?

Childe, throw out the idea of what your aiming to do.
Surer there is a ton of help here or possibly an idea you may have missed

Basically,I want the tail whirling as the whole model flies through the air.

It's still doable... but I need to buy some rod and sculpt from scratch for it.




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kinda like this:

do you have made yourself a sketch for this? i have diffictulties imagine this... is the model in about to dive into the ground then?

yup, thats the plan, the maw is closed on it alread, one of the first things I did... was trying to get the tail right but it just wasnt working they way I had hoped. so as I say, need to buy some thick wire.


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Well I'm in two minds.. I either want it about to plough into the ground, or... just leaving the ground as if making a jumping strike on the enemy...


the way their fluff describes them are worms. but something so huge and powerful wouldnt move like a worm as the way a worm moves is slow and exceedingly sluggish. a snake fits its movement better. so either piling into the ground or launching from it is what I want... I know its possible. its just processing it properly before I make a move on it again.

I think the shrikes will get done before I go back to the Mawloc No.2.

ah ok... didn´t see the image last time i looked...

and the idea of a diving mawloc sounds great...

the way i would do it sounds like you imaginied it... wire for all the then sawed apart joints of the tail... drill them then wire inside and then rearange the tails as needed... sounds like a fair amount of work... but i bet making a unique model is something that you don´t get the cheapo way

inspiration is something of a devil, eh?

by the way... i would rather look for dragons then snakes and such like... i know there are no dragons... but still we have a mental image of their movements...


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some pics i´ve found:

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
ah ok... didn´t see the image last time i looked...

and the idea of a diving mawloc sounds great...

the way i would do it sounds like you imaginied it... wire for all the then sawed apart joints of the tail... drill them then wire inside and then rearange the tails as needed... sounds like a fair amount of work... but i bet making a unique model is something that you don´t get the cheapo way

inspiration is something of a devil, eh?

by the way... i would rather look for dragons then snakes and such like... i know there are no dragons... but still we have a mental image of their movements...

snakes suit the Mawloc more I feel, and besides... I used dragons as inspiration for the Flyrant

Well I tried segmenting the tail already, but it just doesnt work with how the original was sculpted unfortunately... so it's a complete sculpt... which is a challenge, but one I'm up for.

I think I'll just finish the Shrikes off for now I feel... as I love how they look and where they are going... plus I'd like to paint them so they can sit nicely besides the Flyrant

hehe... productivity is a great motvation... so getting stuff finished restores creative energies!!!

and i need to read the last codex methinks... i only have the earlier edition...and somehow i cant remember mawlocs from back then...

... so it's a complete sculpt...

good decision... and i think too you´re up to the task!

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
hehe... productivity is a great motvation... so getting stuff finished restores creative energies!!!

and i need to read the last codex methinks... i only have the earlier edition...and somehow i cant remember mawlocs from back then...

well Mawlocs were only a 5th ed codex entry. iirc they didnt exist anywhere before that.

Trygons only came into the codices in 5th ed but were around in epic 40k for years.

I love the worms

... so it's a complete sculpt...

good decision... and i think too you´re up to the task!

thanks dude!!! I hope so lols...

get reid of the stormy weather in your head... sunny sculpting is heading your way

childe, it is only modeling mate! it should be a sunny heart warming experience. Unless of course the GS isnt working right, and keeps drooping, ect. Then you take a big stick and beat the ever living crap out of your model. Then start from scratch all over again, until you get the look you want.

 AnUnearthlyChilde wrote:
but why wouldnt people be happy with my green stuffing the tails... I'm lost... if it was a joke... it wasnt funny lols

feth sake it was not intended as a joke I was saying looking at the necron parts they would obviously make a great starting section for tails, however a lot of people are frightened of by green stuff sculpting so therefore would not bother with it.

So no joke intended more an observation as to the parts you were using

Hope that clears that one up

lols ok thats clearer now lols... thanks

next time say what you mean ya eeejit

Those shrikes are inspired mate. Much more aestheticly pleasing then the stock models.

The paint on the HT is great! The tones are natural yet still alien enough to draw interest and the basing has a lot of elements harmonised by the paint scheme so they don't over power the model.

I could gush more, but I'll let you get back to arguing about Lols

lmfao, thanks Sheep!!!

I do what I can

... Oh and I should have the shrikes done by next week (fully modelled, and possibly painted)

Who you calling eeeejjit you fecker

Also it was clear enough you just cant make any sense out of mndyf imehfh mhmicwire iuemhr oimufirmuir ifjj rfjourfjf ramblings

Don't make me set RW on you again... you know what happened last time...

The scars are still healing ………. the emotional ones will never heal

big baby!

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big baby!

How you dress up in your free time is your own business ……...

But.... I needed to share

As a friend had owed me for some time, upon him asking how I want paying, I said, you know buy me some FW crack... so he did... I'll just give you a preview for now what he got me




(N.B. no jokes please about the above image, I take it very seriously as I had family serving as a member.)

he got you a thunderbolt fighter?

Just to clarify... that, is an RAF roundel... and he bought me two things for services rendered:

Dam can he be my friend to

But you don't play guard


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 cormadepanda wrote:
But.... I needed to share

Just don't in future

Lols, it's for my Protectorate of Calliope list LDD, for which I got rid of the SoB as a full list, and replaced them with an Air Force, but will have an allied contingent of SoB with them

the list is on the front page. I do like how I can do an air force with the guard list now




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P.s. no he can't be your friend too... I did some work for him and he's owed me for some time, so this is payment with interest. it was his suggestion so, I won't say no lols... tbh it'll only lead to me doing some other bits for him too