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Thanks LT. Yeah, I've found that now I've dabbled in scratch-building and even producing my own models (all with an eye for realism), I'm more critical of the model kit put in front of me, 3-4 years ago, I woudn't have questioned this kit. I've added another part not included in the kit, that you can see below.

Thanks Graven. Good to hear.

Thanks EDC.

Progress (still hampered by Fallout 4, but accelerating);

I wanted the tail attached so that I could complete the model with it in one piece.
Before I could do that I had to add some finishing touches to the tail because with it folded it makes access to it difficult.
This meant transfers/decals, just to the tail for now; there's painting to be done elsewhere before more transfers.

With those done (the stripes on the rotors are mainly transfers, touched up with paint) I attached the tail.
It's held on just by the frame at the back and one little point (into a hole in the side of the tail); this is why I haven't attached it before now - would have been broken off long ago.

There was a couple of small gaps between the frame and the details on the other side of the tail (top picture) that I filled with small pieces of plastic, before shaving them down to size/shape and painting.

Also, you will see two copper cables running from the tail into the folded end. This is single piece of copper wire that I added to represent the wires that I noticed in a photo of a real Lynx, and are not included in the kit (as thin pieces of plastic are not going to survive handling). A simple job, but adds so much to the realism.



Next job is to hunt down all the small details that need painting (that are not mentioned in the instructions) and to finish off blocking off and then shading the larger areas of non-grey colours (that are mentioned in the instructions).
Starting at the back and working forwards, as that's where I've appeared to have started...

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Wonderful progress! That copper wire was an excellent addition and really boots up the realism.

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Thanks Gits'.

And this time, using some 0.1mm thick copper wire, I've added the aerial wire that attaches at 3 points along the bottom of the tail.
Started at one end, glued and left to set. Then glue on the mid-point, let set. Then glue to the final point, left to set, and then cut the excess wire off.
Bit of black paint, and done.


I've also been splashing some paint about, you can see some in the photos.

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Not where I should be

Excellent work. It's touches like that cable that take it higher up there.




 
   
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Beyond the Beltway

 Dr H wrote:

Also, you will see two copper cables running from the tail into the folded end. This is single piece of copper wire that I added to represent the wires that I noticed in a photo of a real Lynx, and are not included in the kit (as thin pieces of plastic are not going to survive handling). A simple job, but adds so much to the realism.

Sadly, the people at Wyrd Miniatures think differently. Copper because it is easily bent? A nice touch too, and should make the model more durable. No comment about the use of a water slide instead of hand painting Royal Navy...

 
   
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Looking good. It's really taking shape now that's bits of colour.

EDC
   
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Thanks 'boss and Cam'.

Red Harvest wrote:
 Dr H wrote:
... (as thin pieces of plastic are not going to survive handling)...

Sadly, the people at Wyrd Miniatures think differently.
Not had the pleasure myself.
But then the choices are:
1. Don't include those parts. Means there is missing details. Cheaper.
2. include fragile parts. Can and will be broken. Looks pretty when not broken.
3. make and include the parts from another material. Makes the "basic" model more difficult for the modeller, and more expensive. Looks nice.

There's always pros and cons.

Copper because it is easily bent? A nice touch too, and should make the model more durable.
Copper because it's what I had of the right thickness, is easy to bend, and the real ones are copper coloured.
Spoiler:


No comment about the use of a water slide instead of hand painting Royal Navy...
Transfers were included and when faced with the choice of spending hours going back and forwards to get the coverage and straight lines, or 5 minutes to stick on a transfer...

With it now finished (see below), I can tell you that this model has 86 individual transfers on and in it. See how many you can actually see...

Thanks EDC.

Yes, it is finished, I am done, I can start planning the next model... but first:




and this shows the spare parts and transfers (considering that I used 86 and have that much of the sheet left) that are left over from the kit. All will be very useful.


Next up, I will be jumping back to my Money-making thread as it's been a while since I've sold something...

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Beautiful!

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Excellent work. So perfectly realistic.




 
   
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Excellent work indeed! I approve of all the leftovers also.

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Beyond the Beltway

Wow, many left-overs. Everything looks great. Are the green sections supposed to be shiny like that?

 
   
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Green Bay, Wisconson

Very clean and realistic. Good Show!

 
   
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Thanks chaps.

Red', yes the green bits are supposed to be a kind of plastic or waxed cloth, so I gave them a gloss coat as opposed to the satin finish of pretty much the rest of it.

I've given my work area a tidy up, sorted and stored all the junk and bits that have accumulated recently and thoughts are turning to what is next.

Stay tuned.

I should also say: Feck, Arse, Drink, Nuns!!!
One of my favourite characters, and what are the chances of two actors from the same sit-com passing on the same day, years apart.

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The Father Ted sitcom? That one never made it to the States, AFAIK. However, we were blessed with the likes of 'Allo! 'Allo!, Are you Being Served? and The Vicar of Dibley We did send Starsky and Hutch to the French I suppose we've sent some *quality* programming to the UK too.

In the photos, it looks a bit like green stuff.


 
   
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I love the attention to detail, beautiful work .
   
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Red Harvest wrote:The Father Ted sitcom? That one never made it to the States, AFAIK. However, we were blessed with the likes of 'Allo! 'Allo!, Are you Being Served? and The Vicar of Dibley We did send Starsky and Hutch to the French I suppose we've sent some *quality* programming to the UK too.
Ja, Father Ted. Very much worth checking out if you haven't seen it.
Go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, GO ON... *

*That will make more sense if you have seen any.

In the photos, it looks a bit like green stuff.
I suppose it does. There is subtle painted shading on it, the gloss finish, and the slightly lumpy moulding (to look like uneven cloth) will all add to that appearance. Can't be helped.
Spoiler:


hk1x1 wrote:I love the attention to detail, beautiful work .
Thanks hk'.

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Father Ted made it to the states, when I was younger, Public TV had some of it, along with 4th Dr. Who, and Blakes' 7, Are you being served, Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Original runs of Tinker-Taylor-soldier-spy, and others

Helicopter looks hella good!

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Yeah PBS showed quite a bit of the BBC's programs. Heck the local PBS even has a UK program sub-channel WETA-UK. Never saw the Father Ted. There was some show about a priest in Ireland, ah, Ballykissangel. Not all PBS stations would have shown the same programming though.

Doc, maybe some stronger shading to indicate that it is stretched fabric, has wrinkles, as in the photo you referenced?

 
   
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Thanks Shas.

Red'; Yeah, Father Ted is nothing like Ballykissangel.
Let's see if we can find an example... ah yes:


That should tell you all you need to know about that.

As there was no harsh lines in the moulding as is seen in the photo I stuck with smooth gradients. Maybe I'll have a look at it next time I have a green paint out.

Now, back over to my making money thread...

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BRICK! BRICK! I love my brick.

Also Jack would be alarmed to see your transfers have Nuns on...

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Nuns! *runs away*

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Too funny.. Love the clip.

 
   
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That it is Solar'.

Now, I know I said I was cutting down on Fallout 4, and modelling is happening (I'm in the process of a Tau Ethereal over in my other blog, for those interested), I have finished the main questline and have explored most of the map... I have been building up my main base of operations and made a video to show a walkthrough of the settlement. So to make the 4 hour upload time worthwhile, I'll share the 12 minute video here as well.

Have a look and see my police station (complete with jail cell), meeting hall (with it's bell tower), workshop, shopping centre, bar/chem-den, tree-house, and car restoration garage...



and, as I said, pop over to my Money making thread to see what I'm up to now.

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And so, I've been very busy over in my commission thread and it's been too long since I've made something for myself...

Although I have busied myself building more settlements in Fallout 4. You can watch the walkthroughs of all 5 settlements (including that above) here:
YouTube playlist

I'm in the process of building another settlement, but this time it's in the creation kit (the program used to make the game).
This allows me greater freedom in the construction and the items I can use, but is much harder to use/learn and is taking a long time.
It does mean though, that it'll be much more detailed and could be available as a mod so that those of you with Fallout 4 (so long as it's not on the PS4, as you're not getting mods) could install it in your game and walk around it.

Anyway. We're here for models made of plastic... and metal, and resin, and epoxy putty, and anything else I can get my hands on.

The question is, what to build?
Something quick to scratch the itch.
Something larger and more exciting.
Something simple (relatively).
Something complex and heavily modified.

I have a word document on my computer, titled "Army of the Second Law; fluff, info and ideas".
As the title suggests it contains all the fluff for this army (a fraction of which you have seen),
any notes I've made on useful information from the 40K universe,
drafts of rules that I've written for this army,
and lastly a long list of ideas for future models (not covered in the previous sections).
The whole document is 105 pages.
That's a lot of potential ideas...

Due to not working on the army for a while I'm not invested in any particular idea.
So, I will post a list up here and see if anything grabs your fancy or spawns further ideas or expansions on these ideas (many of which are just a short sentence).

I may well do a re-paint too at this stage as I've been slacking on that front (having repainted a whole 2 models since stating it would be a weekly thing).

Thoughts on any and all of the following:

1. Ork Nob. Straightened legs (as I've decided to do with all my orks).
Made especially tall, has a habit of biting people's heads (as they are generally shorter than him), name of Skul-Bita.
Any klan except Death Skulls (as I've already got one of those).

2. Flying Kroot. Made more bird-like. How to handle weapons when your arms are wings?
In fact, there are many varieties of Kroot I have ideas for, including Tyranid, spider, ork, other animals (Imagine a cat and bird in one being).
Would need quite a bit of planning and design before anything can happen though.

3. Flying Tyranid. Termagant-sized (something like this exists in the game doesn't it?), with mechanical wings, skin stretched/grown over the frame.

4. Scorpion Hormagaunt. Just because.

5. Ork with many robotic legs. Because GW gives you more bodies than legs.

6. Beastman. Have a metal beastman. Pretty much just a paintjob.

6.5. Mouseman. Have a metal mouse in plate armour. More conversion required to 40K him.
Possible friend of the beastman. Could be done together.

7. Tau stealth suit. Melting into/out of a piece of terrain to represent the camo'.

8. Dire Avenger. With a Tyranid warrior head as a shield. One of the oldest ideas on this list.
May need some more "flavour": Tyranid hunter.

9. Some kind of assassin. Depends what bits I can find...
Turns out, not many.
Infinity Alguaciles (sniper). I feel there is something I should do to this mini' to make it fit the army (more 40K, less infinity) but don't know what can be achieved with a metal model.

10. The Kenbishi Industries HAW206 prototype. It's been sat there for a while, looking cool.
If you don't know what it is, watch this:




You'll have to watch the full episode if you want to know the story: Ghost in the Shell: Stand alone complex. Episode 2.
But I would recomend the whole series and the "2nd Gig" following series. Not to mention the movies too.
It's a walking tank, do you need any more reasons?!

11. Tracked servitor. I have an epic landraider. Supplied (as many other things in this list are) and inspired by Gitsplitta.

12. Something to do with wolves. I have wolves.
I think they are for goblin riders. I have the riders as well, but no guarantee they'll be used together.
Many wolves. Few ideas.

13. Holly; The Scientist's chief analyst. I have a metal lady from Full Borer mini's, and quite a lump of related fluff for Holly.
I'll need to modify the model a bit.
And find a role for her in the army, on the table.
Fluff may get a few tweaks to make her more interesting (currently only a secondary character).

14. Imperial Guard female standard bearer. I have a Victoria mini's miniature for this purpose.
Lacking any actual Imperial guard bits, I'm not sure how I'll tie her into the 40K universe, but the model is pretty close as is.
May just be a paintjob.

15. Tau Crisis suit. Quite heavily converted; there are a number of things I want to change about the model.
Would likely be a commander (of at least 3, under The Scientist himself) for the army, so a bit more special than all the troops that I've done so far.
And I only have troops at the moment.

16. Necron immortal. Not built one yet, should rectify this.

So...yeah... That's a fraction of the ideas I have on the list.
Thoughts on what you like,
what you want to see,
ideas you have to flesh out something,

Let's see if anyone is still following this thread...

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Not where I should be

Of course we are still here, just waiting.

OK I like many if not all those ideas. I would say can I ask you to wave off a couple days, Next round of LoER is up soon, you may be pleasantly surprized at the theme, and though terrain is not really for your army, in a way this could be.

And of course I want to see orksess.

Oh and if you don't know what Ghost in a Shell is, I feel pity for you, your life has been wasted until now, go and watch it.....NOW!

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And it has been a long wait.

Yeah there's no rush to start. Plenty of time to collect thoughts and ideas.
And I've some tidying to do about my workspace, as is usual after a big project.
And there's a few little projects to finish off.
And I may do the re-paint first to give it more time.

By the time I've ticked all that off the contest will be up and running, and what that involves may partially inform what happens here; scale-wise at least.

One for Orksess.

Also, the Manga (that's the illustrated books or "comics" to the uninitiated) for GitS are very nice too (not suitable for work, the wife, or youngsters though).

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Mostly, on my phone.

I think a bit of Victoria Lamb would not go amiss

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 inmygravenimage wrote:
I think a bit of Victoria Lamb would not go amiss
Is Victoria Lamb the same as Victoria Miniatures? hmm, the internet seems to think so.
You can see the miniature (and a few of the others) in this picture:


One for female Guard banner bearer.

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Technically speaking that tank is roller-skating, not walking... but that is even cooler so it still gets my vote.


   
 
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