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that update sure looks quite good to me

I love seeing conversions like this, well any conversion really, but I like the attention to detail you've lavished on this.
Great work .

Viktor von Domm wrote:that update sure looks quite good to me

Thanks Vik.

hk1x1 wrote:I love seeing conversions like this, well any conversion really, but I like the attention to detail you've lavished on this.
Great work .

Thanks HK. It's the little details that do it for me and make it look "right". The models you can buy have all these details, so you have to match them at the very least.

Speaking of little details, that's all that is left on the commission squad. So I'm hoping to finish them today, expect pictures later today...


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and Woo Hoo, page 40!

Congrats on 40 pages, never thought i would get there either. The eldar are looking fantastic. You've done more than justice to them with our conversions. Most people want their conversions to look like they were part of the model, yours looks like he models the original sculptor presented to GW, but were ha led up because they couldn't produce them with he current technology.

I had to check where I was (69) and then snickered and wondered where Damo was when I needed him.

 Theophony wrote:
Congrats on 40 pages, never thought i would get there either. The eldar are looking fantastic. You've done more than justice to them with our conversions. Most people want their conversions to look like they were part of the model, yours looks like he models the original sculptor presented to GW, but were ha led up because they couldn't produce them with he current technology.

I had to check where I was (69) and then snickered and wondered where Damo was when I needed him.

Thanks Theo. It means a lot that my models are looking good/realistic/"real" to others, as a lot of thought and effort goes into them just to reach my own standards. So it's nice to know others are enjoying them.

On that note, nothing new here, but I have finished the first commission models and have started up my commission blog.
Check it out and let me know what you think.

checking it out

I went to bed, bath and beyond the other day...they didn't even sell black kettles, they were all colored

That expression is curious

I vote for paint.

Excellent carving - you really finished that one off professionally. Henceforth you shall be known as the Sprue-Master...

He's The League Spruemeister General (It sounds like Brewmeister) for a reason!

Ta Viktor.

lol Dave. I think it has to do with the inside, I dunno, I don't drink tea or coffee...

Paint will appear soon LBM. If you're desperate to see paint, have a look at my new commission blog...

weetyskemian44 wrote:Excellent carving - you really finished that one off professionally. Henceforth you shall be known as the Sprue-Master...

Thanks weety. If only I was professional standard... I do try.

dsteingass wrote:He's The League Spruemeister General (It sounds like Brewmeister) for a reason!

Merci *bows*

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The Scientist looked at the Auspex. It didn't look back, obviously, but he liked to think that it did.
He knew that the piece of equipment didn't have a heart or any biological functions and he felt pity for the little thing.
"Tell you what" he said "I'll give you a life, allow you to think and taste that beautiful nectar that is living"
The scientist looked about his workshop and spied a tank filled with fluid in one corner "ah ha" he said.

Having already probed the "minds" of the many symbiotic lifeforms present in the tank, he selected the perfect specimen for the required job.
It had a simple mind, but with a little reprogramming could easily perform the computations required for the device and the complex proteins that it produced could easily (for The Scientist) be used to fuel a small power generator.

After performing the required tasks and connecting wires to the required nodes The Scientist, sat in a dark corner of the laboratory, bathed in the glow produced by the screen of the first (and perhaps only) Toxin sac-Auspex.

The Scientist looked at the Auspex and knew that it looked back.
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May I present to you the one and only Toxin sac powered and controlled Auspex.
The answer to what Guardian #9 is looking at in his hand.


How does that grab you?
(badly, it's got no arms/hands/tentacles/appendages )

Brilliantly scary. I love it, got a Gieger vib about it.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Brilliantly scary. I love it, got a Gieger vib about it.

Thanks Cam. That is exactly the look I was going for, I'd even been looking at some Giger work as inspiration. The ribbing of the back is supposed to be like that seen on his Aliens.

The nice thing about this one professor, he seems very good at recycling!

 shasolenzabi wrote:
The nice thing about this one professor, he seems very good at recycling!

Well you have to work with what you've got, now and in the grim-darkness of the future...

Time to start planning the hood and cape for number 9...

Yeah, definitely a hood and cloak, for someone that comes up with such ideas, the right look is a must. I think this idea is genius, because it makes totally sense for me . Such little devices often feel already as if they have a mind of their own...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
Yeah, definitely a hood and cloak, for someone that comes up with such ideas, the right look is a must. I think this idea is genius, because it makes totally sense for me . Such little devices often feel already as if they have a mind of their own...

Thanks Vik. Glad you like the idea. I hope I can deliver on the cloak. My last attempt at a cloak/tabard didn't work brilliantly.

Going to read many tutorials on cloak making and see what I can achieve, so prepare yourselves for another long (but hopefully not boring) journey into experimentation into something new...

*preparing*

Well the first attempt at a hood didn't work.

Trying just pure milliput isn't going to make a hood, at least not over a guardians pointy head.
Green-stuff would probably work as it's more elastic (I'm going to have to get some one day).

I only succeeded in making a mess.

So next attempt will be a similar approach to how I'm planning to do the cloak; use card/paper fixed in the basic shape with super-glue and then covered with putty.

That could work too...maybe toilet paper and pva? And I would trim the head slightly a bit...for better shaping...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
That could work too...maybe toilet paper and pva?

Yeah, that's also a possibility.

And I would trim the head slightly a bit...for better shaping...

Well he wouldn't be much of an Eldar if he didn't have a pointy head...

OK, so card didn't really work either. It's not flexible enough to bend in two directions at the same time and attaching multiple pieces together was very difficult and still didn't give the right shape.

Therefore, Hood Mark III. Tissue paper and PVA.
I'm using some of that tissue paper that you can get in craft shops or out of new shoes... Not bog roll.
This stuff is stronger when wet than your toilet stuff and so doesn't tear/fall apart.

I first made a cone and glued that together. Then placed that on his head and started gluing strips of tissue (soaked in PVA) to it and built up the shape.
See for yourselves.

Sorry little late to the party on this one.

Hood looking good. I have had quite good success in the past with kitchen roll, and it's slightly textured. Nice and strong, one sheet is plenty!!!!!

On other products, I have had great success with a mix of greenstuff and milliput, and also a similar product used for sealing leaky pipes by plumbers. Can't remember the name now. It's expensive but sets in 10 minutes solid like metal. I know you like to recycle, but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.

Also, a bit extreme, but have you tried plastic. I have had some successes with heating PC and bending. The trick is gentle heat, bend a bit and reheat as necessary.

Having spouted all that, a bit late really, because you have done an excellent job by the looks of it.

Gray stuff may work as it hardens slower, allowing more details to be added as opposed to the fast curing greenstuff

Hood shape looks promising, but additional milliput is still needed methinks... Also I just had an idea... There is these wet tissue paper, maybe this would be strong and soft enough to create the cloak with...

Camkierhi wrote:Sorry little late to the party on this one.

Hood looking good. I have had quite good success in the past with kitchen roll, and it's slightly textured. Nice and strong, one sheet is plenty!!!!!

Ha Thanks.

On other products, I have had great success with a mix of greenstuff and milliput, and also a similar product used for sealing leaky pipes by plumbers. Can't remember the name now. It's expensive but sets in 10 minutes solid like metal. I know you like to recycle, but sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.

Again, I would need to get some green-stuff or equivalent. Will keep it in mind.

Also, a bit extreme, but have you tried plastic. I have had some successes with heating PC and bending. The trick is gentle heat, bend a bit and reheat as necessary.

Having spouted all that, a bit late really, because you have done an excellent job by the looks of it.

Yeah, that was towards the end of the list of things to try. Thanks again.

shasolenzabi wrote:Gray stuff may work as it hardens slower, allowing more details to be added as opposed to the fast curing greenstuff

Does grey- behave in a similar way to green-stuff (apart from curing slower)?

Viktor von Domm wrote:Hood shape looks promising, but additional milliput is still needed methinks... Also I just had an idea... There is these wet tissue paper, maybe this would be strong and soft enough to create the cloak with...

Thanks. Yeah, I'm planning on building up the tissue until it's strong enough to take a layer of milliput to give it the final details.
Will have to see once I get to the cloak. Card should work fine as a base for that as it doesn't require such an extreme curvature as the hood.

I've added a second layer of tissue to the hood and I've played about with a possible shape for the cape.
What do we think? Bare in mind that it will get putty over it to give all the creases etc... So just the basic shape here.

In other news The Hut won the "Newbie prize" in Briancj's competition for recycled-material terrain.
Meaning that it's the ideal method for a new modeller to attempt a piece of terrain from the materials that they will likely have laying about.
My tutorial explains every step required and a little imagination on your part will allow you to build practically anything and will cost you practically nothing.
Get out there and make some terrain.

Love the biospex mate but I'm not feeling the hood yet. Maybe I'm just not seeing it right but I would suggest you'll get a better effect persevering with the putty.

As always, get a load of references together, there are some good examples in the Eldar range:
Eldar Harlequin Shadowseer 360
Eldar Rangers

Congratulations on the win in the comp. Well deserved, a truly inspirational piece.

Liking the basic shape for the cloak, watching with bated breath to see how this pans out.

Casey's Law wrote:Love the biospex mate but I'm not feeling the hood yet. Maybe I'm just not seeing it right but I would suggest you'll get a better effect persevering with the putty.

As always, get a load of references together, there are some good examples in the Eldar range:
Eldar Harlequin Shadowseer 360
Eldar Rangers

Thanks Casey.
Worry ye not, there will be putty on the hood. This is just building up a solid base to stick the putty to.
Ta for the reference pics.

Camkierhi wrote:Congratulations on the win in the comp. Well deserved, a truly inspirational piece.

Liking the basic shape for the cloak, watching with bated breath to see how this pans out.

Thanks Cam (O' great and mighty competition winner).
We shall see, when I start throwing putty at it...