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@ LDD: Thanks mate, any bits you don't need or want just smash them up for rubble.

The insert is two sided only one side has the cog motif, the other is left plain for skulls, wires, etc.

@ Red: Thanks, I've found even the plain boxes come in useful just to break up large flat surfaces.




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Flat-pack shelving.


I thought I'd share a WIP of how I'm making them.
It is essentially as you see above a strip of plasticard with a square of plasticard with a circle cut out of the centre and the remainder of the square cut into quarters.

I could have done the supports and bookends as arches ... but maybe that's too much ... maybe next time.

After having a rummage in the bits box I found stacks of books from the Empire Flagellants sprues



Thanks all.,
N.

Good looking shelves mate nicking so many idea's here, no breaking up will find a use for everything.

Nice collection of little bits.

Like the way the shelf supports are made, will find a use for that idea.

Well the bits turned out OK. The only bits I'm not showing are the tracks and other tank related bits (which worked !!! 3rd time lucky I guess), and the large metal boxes ... which didn't, by that I mean they felt the full force of a 0.9 atm pressure difference, thanks to air escaping from them while degassing the molds, so 2 of them imploded spectacularly and a third was just a little squished, leaving 1 mold that works fine, I knew it would happen oh well.


top left of the above image has an odd looking rounded bit, here is what it is for, with a multi-melta, stick on the front of a tank and no more fixed hull weapons.


Also headlights! they still need cleaning up but they are really cool.


and lastly I've finally got the bits to finish the machine off:


I thought I could get away with having a few skulls

In addition I've finally gotten around to putting some of the round vents on ebay here.

Time to play with geenstuff.

Thanks you,
OMN.

Those bits are really cool mate, stop it !

The projects just won't go away …… !!

:-)

Can't believe I have not been here before!

Amazing stuff, now got to dedicate a couple days to go through this blog.

Sorry for not being here sooner.

Liking the machine building, and those bits and pieces are superb too!

Loved the shelves, I'll surely try something like that for interior furnishing some time.

@ Cam: Thank you, enjoy my blog of half finished things.

@ LT: Thanks, decorating the interior is strangely enjoyable.

More work on the interior as of yesterday morning:
I masked then re-sprayed it Grey (so I could actually see what I am doing), put up the shelving and had a rummage for stuff to fill it. Two WIP Psykers dueling for scale.



I've added a second table, a bin, safe, servo skull hutch, boxes, bags and some other things that I've forgotten the names for, since (I'll post up an image in an hour, once I'm done editing the images.

Close up of the WIP psykers:


The inquisitorial one needs a lot doing to it, details to the face plate, the head in general and I'm not happy with the front clothing. The chaos one needs work doing on the head mounted on its back,maybe some more things doing to the clothes as well as some other things to sink it further into the uncanny valley. I'll be doing some more work on these tonight, just to put off painting my cultists and working on the light tanks.

Thanks for reading.
N.

Nice detailing to the interior.

Good job on the eye in the palm.

Thanks, I had a lot of fun sculpting that model

More on the interior:

It's starting to look like my workspace! Love the safe, BTW.

And the models are coming along very nicely indeed.

Incredible, just amazing. Looking just

all that detail...... and all that pure win!!

Amazing how much life it brings to the building, love the psykers is the top right one distorted by the way ? EXORCIST STYLE !!!!!!!

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Amazing how much life it brings to the building, love the psykers is the top right one distorted by the way ? EXORCIST STYLE !!!!!!!

WOOW.... i just noticed that!! Awesome!!

Very cool. I like the idea of big buildings with lots of interior detail for play. And easily accessible with the roof off. Good stuff.

oh....I am so happy that you decided to work some more to that cool piece... the interior looks so amazingly lived in already...and these sculpts...very cool!

Beautiful detail work on the interior, can't wait to see what you add next .

Thanks a lot everyone for such a great response, whats next? ... one or two chairs, maybe a computer

None of the bits are stuck down thankfully so its not going to be so bad to paint. when I work out the colours.

@ LDD: you just wait till i do a daemonhost.

I have done more putty work, but with dakka being down I'll have to upload them tomorrow.

More on the psykers (with serendipitous cool effect):



I'm tempted to remove the detailing on the top part of his front clothing (the gem and wire things) and replace it with part of an imperial eagle but I'm getting concerned about the model being too "busy".



Re-sculpted the clothing and finished the head off, not too sure about it.

I'd say they are nearly done now, C&C anyone?

Also I thought I'd post up an image of my finished cultist squad from dark vengeance, so far for the second squad I've only started painting the bases, which are done identically. I don't like the colour scheme I've used, tbh there almost isn't one, all they need is yellow and purple adding and they could be rainbow warriors or whatever.
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Thanks all
OMN.

Pretty brilliant GS work sir, brilliant.

Nice! Inq vs renegade psykers, cool cult gang. building is excellent.

Nice work on Mr. face. I don't think he needs the Eagle, but that's me.

What's the story behind the chap with two heads?

Cultists could do with a better picture, but there's nothing wrong with multicoloured. They are meant to be a rag-tag bunch of loonies (from what I gather), so random colours aid that angle. You could always add a pattern to the odd piece to add to the random cloth direction, but do so sparingly as they will quickly become fussy. Or just tone down the colours if they bother you; extend the mid-tone highlight over larger areas and bring up the final highlight, leaving the darker creases as they are. Just some thoughts.

There some creepy looking dudes you have there noodle and the GS work is spot on, love the inquisitor mask very sinister indeed.

As to the cultists the only thing I aint sold on is the blue the rest looks pretty good, I keep thinking the commissar is wearing jeans LOL would make a great Necroumunda gang

Lovely, lovely stuff!
Recently spotted a useful basing tool, can be found at http://zinge.co.uk/index.php?route=product/category&path=130 - you squish your base, plus GS, onto the mould and get a really funky texture that then themes your whole force, with variation in each. So tempted! and in the long run, cheaper than buying scenic bases.
I don't know if it appeals?


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Also the GSing is really smooth and good, the first guy I just love, the second I think I'll only have an opinion on when it's painted. I created a similar mini a long time ago (backwards head, stooped pose) and the painting was the make-or-break I think. Maybe GS the rear head to be more horrified? That would complete it, if the rear head is utterly terrified and unaccepting of its fate.

that gs work is off the world...amazing ...I would just start with the painting process as is...

Thank you all very much.

@Dr H: face ha! I'll be painting that on his base. I'll try and replace the image. I was going for that rag-tag look just wondered if I'd gone too far.
My main problem is that I painted them with too little contrast in shades, thanks you've given me a lot to think about there.

@LDD: In the grim darkness of the far future at least there is denim ... and leather.

@ Captain Rodrick: Interesting. I used to buy resin bases as ... well ... I'm lazy. now I just make my own, if only because I find I'm better at it. Whilst those look cool, I prefer the ones that I make myself, I have no shortage of materials!

@ Vik: Thank you sir. Once I work out the colours I'll be doing so. I'm quite tempted to do something in a John Blanch style so I might do the renegade like that.


The backwards head is not an outgrowth its meant to be like a token / talisman head strapped on like this: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/AlternativeFW/xlarge/Rpsyk1.jpg
In the 41st millenium it does not to to delve deeply in ruins of a destroyed city, left for 10 thousand years.

More creepy-ness: I made these guys before I started working on the psyker, just to play around with draping greenstuff, I know the image isn't great and I'll do a compilation image soon. The extras are made from the mantic zombies, I bought a box of 30 when they first came out and it turns out you can make 40 from the box .
All I've done is get rid of the lame nakedness of them with some greenstuff draped around them, cables wired into their flesh, and lastly sculpted some gas masks in mimicry of the Snorks from the STALKER game series.




I've thought of a token for this chaos-y warband .. I thought I'd pull the other one and put bells on them. I find that after going through several boxes of empire flagellates you get a surprising amount of cool stuff! (the kit that just keeps giving) Unfortunatly I think I throw alot of the bits away, but hopefully I've got enough to finish what I've started.

Painted the bases for the second DV cultist squad:


and lastly upgraded my stug that I built a while ago with a nice new shiny muzzlebreak


this has taken me 3 hours to type...


Thanks all,
OMN.

Looking at that Stug and wondering how cool would one of those barrels rests look on it? Like in either of these 2 images?
http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/east_europe/russia/artillery_vehicle/2s19/2s19_self-propelled_howitzer_tracked_armoured_Russia_Russian_640.jpg

http://www.armyrecognition.com/images/stories/north_america/united_states/artillery_vehicle/pim_m109_bae_systems/PIM_Paladin_Integrated_Management_M109_self-propelled_tracked_howitzer_BAE_Systems_United_States_US_army_640.jpg

Assuming it has not already been discussed.

Wow! I love this model. Cannot wait to see it painted.

Updated the previous images of the cultists and small mutant horde. (in spoiler below too.)



Sergent Crone:

When I get two more sets of Tau arms and Elsysian legs I'll make another two, one armed as above, the other with some other weapon.

I'm just throwing things together with stuff out of my bitsbox that I've collected over the years.


@Red: I'd not really thought about it. there is very little clearance between the bottom of the gun barrel and the hull so it'd have to be something like the paladin hmm i'll think about it.