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And now my first real update in 6 looong months!
i think i'm gonna post what i have been up to other than the marauder to later jump back to that project.

so like i said in that earlier post. iv'e painted up a sentinel and a squad of shock troopers.
so that is what i will dedicate this post too.

and the next one will be about the baneblade and it's new stuff.

so here goes. a bunch of pics of my sentinel






all the bases i'm doing is made with GS but i'm thinking of getting some stuff to make molds and make my bases in that way.

and the squad then.
first we have the sarge


and a vox operator


the whole squad together


and the squad with the sentinel AND my leman russ executioner



there! hope that's a good enough first update
more will come shortly!


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ehehe.. i forgot to post about the bases for the squad. they will ofc have just as nice looking bases as the sentinel has. but they are currently under production.

here's a wip pic of them

Nice basework, and really nice paintwork too! The greys and reds work nicely together!

Diddie, long time no see! impressed with the bases i am. Very nice sentinel! i will be following now.

Thanks guys!

comradepanda: indeed long time no see! but hopefully i'm back to stay

Very nice, subbed.

Will be watching closely for inspiration, I need to repaint my sons IG, Desert camo. Your work, especially the bases is cool.

Sentinel looks great especially raising the leg slightly gives more depth to the model, but hate to say it the base steals the show great job

Thank you guys!

haha LDD and here i am thinking if i should add something to the base becouse i think it looks to simple! ;D
but after your commetn i think i have the rethink about that.

It all looks great but the fact you made your own cool looking base made it even better

Looking Good DiDDe! I also like the Fallout vibe the plasma cannon gives on that Tank!

lone dirty dog wrote:It all looks great but the fact you made your own cool looking base made it even better

Yeah i figured i could just make an ordinary base and just slam on some dirt and and then drybrush.. But where's the fun in that?

shasolenzabi wrote:Looking Good DiDDe! I also like the Fallout vibe the plasma cannon gives on that Tank!

Thank you! i haven't played Fallout yet so i can't really have an opinion on that.. But i'm sure it's a good thing

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SO! did i hear update?

I said this update would be about the Baneblade. But i've changed my mind about that. This update will be about what i have done on the marauder!
And like i said earlier too, i haven't done that much on it becouse i want you too be there with your opinions about stuff. and i acctually have one thing i need your opinion about.

But first let's see what i've been up to.
Here's the canopy. it looked like gak literally the inside of it.. so after half a pot og LGS i made it look like this.


And when i was done filing and smoothing everuthing up it now looks like this.


I'm quite happy with the result. And it was stupid of me to not take a pic of it before i went berserk on it with the LGS.. But meh.. I think you'll survive with out that pic anyways.

What next..?
OH yeah! some paint! i think it was dave that told me to paint the cockpit before assemble the whole body. And well, that was a really good tip!

Here's the tailgunners monitors or workspace if you will.


And why on earth that pic has been turned to the side i don't know..
ANYWAYS! the whole cockpit with crew and stuff.




I have pinned the wings. But they are not glued down yet.





Filled the gaps between the parts





And finally i've done a prototype of the noseart!


To that i will add the text "swedish pagan" on the top of it.

And here's where i need your help and opinion guys!
There isn't really any good places to paint it. so i'm thinking about cover up the door on the left side and make it flat so that i get the space to paint the nosart.
I mean they still have a door on the right side
Here's a pic to show what i mean.


And that's it! that's how much i have done on the marauder. this may be the biggest update i've ever done .
Hope it's not to much in one go.

I also just noticed that this is page 4 on this thread. So "yaaay" to me

Man i am very impressed to your dedication to gap filling and smoothing, it is inspiring. And the helmet is a lovely touch.

Great clean up and the helmet nice, cant you make a cover for the door adding a slight indent edge around the side, so it looks more like a cover for the door that in emergencies ejects or can be removed.

those bases are looking very nice! i really should make my own cobblestone ones one day... and nicley detailed too!

the camo on that sentinel looks super sweet!


and... great to have you back here!!!

DiDDe I really love that viking helm I think it will look great on this guy!

Wow! Your Marauder needed that much filler?

Thank you alot guys!

LDD, i'm not following you there.. do you have a pic or something so i get something to work from?

Vik, it's really good to be back

Dave, no not really. but i wanted to make a smooth transition between the peices. becouse they were not exactly uniform, there was like a 2mm difference at the worst spots. but there was not gap or anything.

What I mean is like the picture above your large and small drawings of the helmets the hatch, why not just fill in the section with PC but leave a small section around the edge or scribe it in ( like the pic ) that way you can add the motif there.

Are you painting it on or making a transfer ?

 lone dirty dog wrote:
What I mean is like the picture above your large and small drawings of the helmets the hatch, why not just fill in the section with PC but leave a small section around the edge or scribe it in ( like the pic ) that way you can add the motif there.

Are you painting it on or making a transfer ?

Ok, now i get what you are trying to say. well, i don't have to fill it with PC becouse there is a hatch going there. but i'm thinking of filing away the texture of it to make it more neutral. and leave it as it is on the other side. in that way i get the "emergency hatch" feeling on it. and also i get a much better surface to paint on. is that what you thouht of?


and about the nose art. i'm not making it as a decal. i'm gonna paint it on.


and sorry for the lack of updates. i've just been to a military exercise for 6 days. as i'm a part time soldier i have to do a couple of exercises a year. and this one was all about winter warfare!
one of the stuff we trained on was patrol and encounters on our awesome and trusted "white lightning"! or in other words, just skies... and that my freinds isn't the easiest to do.
we also had a test that everyone had to do. and it was built up in 3 different stations where you had like different scenarios in each one. and you had to pass all 3 to pass the test. and out of 65 persons taking part in the test only 18 passed!!
and ofcourse i was one of the 18!

hopefully i'll have a propper update up by tomorrow night. hang on guys!

Part time military? Sesh come join me private waghh you can be full time. Exercises? Yay wez got dem, just kinda chuck you in da field. As far as the detail filing goes... Take the skull off leave the rest and just paint over it. That is what i feel a real air man would do anyways. And if you ever seem planes the texture of the model doesn't get in the way of the over all effect. And in my opinion only adds to the realism.

I don't know about joining your WAAAAGH.. i don't think i would get along with a horde of orks.

and yeah you're probably right about only filing the skull. i think i'll stick to that. i will also fill it abit with GS to make the edges between the fuselage and the hatch more "narrower" or what you could call it..

we also had a test that everyone had to do. and it was built up in 3 different stations where you had like different scenarios in each one. and you had to pass all 3 to pass the test. and out of 65 persons taking part in the test only 18 passed!!
and ofcourse i was one of the 18!

Ah, that test, also conducted in the regular army, and I was also one of the ones who did awesome at it. That takes me waaaaaaaaay back to 1984

 DiDDe wrote:
I don't know about joining your WAAAAGH.. i don't think i would get along with a horde of orks.

and yeah you're probably right about only filing the skull. i think i'll stick to that. i will also fill it abit with GS to make the edges between the fuselage and the hatch more "narrower" or what you could call it..

Sounds good to me, you have just gone raving mad with this model.

Yes thats pretty much the nail on the head, filling down the skull should be fine and as you are painting it on there should be no real issue

shasolenzabi wrote:Ah, that test, also conducted in the regular army, and I was also one of the ones who did awesome at it. That takes me waaaaaaaaay back to 1984

it's funny how much things can change in 30 years or in this case, not change at all.

cormadepanda wrote:Sounds good to me, you have just gone raving mad with this model.

i only want to make my 285 dollar toy justice

lone dirty dog wrote:Yes thats pretty much the nail on the head, filling down the skull should be fine and as you are painting it on there should be no real issue

nah, the more i look at it the more i think it'll look better with the hatchframe still there.


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i haven't got much of an update. RL has been punching me in the face real hard these past couple of weeks. with ALOT of overtime at work, a breakup and stuff like that.. i just haven't had the time nor the will to build.
but i hope that will change soon.

anyways, back to the update then. iv'e been palying the game world of warplanes quite a bit lately. i am one of the lucky ones who got approved to test the closed beta.
and in that game there is one aircraft that has proved itself to me. so much that i had to get a little 1:72 scale model of it!

can anyone guess the aircraft?

Is it a plastic one

Messerschmidt Bf-110 variant, 1/48scale?

lone dirty dog wrote:Is it a plastic one

haha funny

shasolenzabi wrote:Messerschmidt Bf-110 variant, 1/48scale?

and here i thought that maybe it would be to hard too guess in that stage.
ofc it's a messerschmitt Bf 110E. how did you know? i also love that you guessed 1/48 scale when i wrote that it was 1/72 in scale!

anyways, good job there mister! now please have a cookie.

Man didde i am not jelly about the world of warplanes. i just got my teir x in wots. :F

Tier X in world of tanks? i got 2 tier X and about 3 or 4 tier IX ;D
love that game


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I got some goodies in the mail today! first a delivery from GW with some reinforcements for my guard in the form of a cadian battleforce and a sentinel.


next is a delivery with some stuff i bought from a guy on ebay.
first it's 2 carryingcases one big and one small.


and then there were these 2 babies.

a LRBT and a basilisk. the LRBT is all complete! don't need that much work on it. but the basilisk misses some things. but the thing about them and the major reason i bought them is that i got the LRBT for only 3,89 dollars!!! or £2,6.

and just becouse the basilisk had some pieces missing i got it for free! so the total sum for the cases and the tanks i paid 50,51 dollars or £33,74
not bad if you ask me.

I am still grinding thru tier 2/3 almost at tier 4 in some tech trees in WoTs. liking the progress of the cockpit