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Bloo!

Blue.

Love those lamps. They yours or something bought in?

Hannibal guy looks interesting!! I totally see it too.

Load speaker looks great.

You constantly give me ideas, new projects I want to do and problems! How the heck am I going to have time to do it all??

Keep it coming.

Thank you everyone.

 Viktor von Domm wrote:
less updates in the nearer future?... RL been bugging you?.. best wishes mate!

as for the wicked one... *shudders* but in a good sense...^^...and now as LDD mentioned it... Hannibal the tv show... with that fether that spiked his victims...

the lamps look very good... very good !

as for the plasma effect... well the scheme says orange... but the thought of LDD I second too... blue plasma is more IG...

and the resin loudspeaker... well bulletholes^^... seems someone doesn't like propaganda^^

Interesting, I've not seen the show, the character I have in mind should be suitably disturbing have no fear.

The bubbles actually suit my purpose for the speakers, I want to have them rusty and beaten up so I'm not complaining

Nothing worth complaining about, just my sense of humour at play and thank you.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Blue.

Love those lamps. They yours or something bought in?

Hannibal guy looks interesting!! I totally see it too.

Load speaker looks great.

You constantly give me ideas, new projects I want to do and problems! How the heck am I going to have time to do it all??

Keep it coming.

First time I read that I saw sarcasm. Thanks btw

Lamps are from the GW Cities of death kits (I bought 5 of the boxes over the years for some daft reason or another).

 Big H wrote:
Blue is for winners and makes dice roll better !

Au contrair mon ami http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7040/abs/435293a.html

 Dr H wrote:
Nice work on the lamps.

Loudspeaker looks nice (excepting bubbles).

Interesting start to the wickedness.

And blue is more typical for plasma weapons. So orange would be a nice change.
However, I think the blue matches the tank's scheme better.
Also, from a science standpoint, blue light is actually higher in energy than orange and blue stars (made of plasma) are hotter than yellow/orange stars...

Just some thoughts. Depends on what you want. Go with what you like.

I was going rule of cool (for a change). Also those coils should they not be toroidal super-conductive magnets? probably not so good if they were glowing around 9k+ K right? and if they are radiators a little inefficient wouldn't you say

anyway.
Blue it is! ... Just as well, saves me having to work out how to paint OSL orange lol ... Now to remember how to paint OSL...

I didn't know whether I should have painted all the brass on the lampposts verdigris, I may go back and add a bit more tarnish, but I'm happy with them for now.

Thought I'd share something I found writing this, found someone making clowns out of a plague bearers http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?372987-carnival-of-chaos/page2

 OneManNoodles wrote:

 Big H wrote:
Blue is for winners and makes dice roll better !

Au contrair mon ami http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7040/abs/435293a.html


HaHa , still went with blue tho !!!!




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Those clowns in your link are great ! Check out the one with the balloons !! Are you going to build some ?
:-)

Love scanning through these pages...... really inspirational and just great pieces! Loving it all!

Traitor Psyker finished. Really quite happy with this chap, didn't actually take long. Except for going back because of forgetting things.


I also threw some bits together for 2 more acolytes.

The one on the left, who I'm thinking of as a kind of captain of the guard, I'd like to have matching arms so I may just swap those out (keeping the weapons) for two of the armoured arms from the scions kit if / when I buy one, since I can find a use for all of the bits I think.

In my last delivery from shapeways I added something inspired by RedHarvest, it's a seat for bases to sit on steps, the steps themselves are 10 x 5 mm which is about the same thickness as the foamboard I have around here and coincidenteally looks a lot more human friendly to the steps you usually see. I've got about 10 of these painted up now (black with textured grey on the smooth bit (where I poured the resin). The grainy texturing from the printing works to the advantage here.


Still on the 3D front, I've been doing a lot of 3d modelling. I finally made some Trench rails! I want to round off some of the sharper corners else wise they are done.


And lastly I put those speaker to some use:

They still need some cabling going from the back of each speaker into some where on the back of the turret. pretty happy with them overall, I cast more up they all seemed to be ok, some internal bubbles that I'm hoping I can solve by making a new mould. I'll be hollowing out the core of the digital model and uploading them up on shapeways anyway.

Had a bit of a sculpting binge last night, pics when I post an update tomorrow. Also there will be blue!

@Magos: Now you know how the rest of us feel doing the same to yours!


OMN out.

Nice bit of work there mate , the tank trench rails look very smart !
Perhaps I need to build some vehicles just for them ???

Nice work again mate those trench rails are top notch what are they designed to fit ?

I like the scratch built torso in use as well good edging.

Good work on the pale flesh. Really ill looking.

Nice and useful stair climbing thingies.

Good and solid looking trench crossing wossnames.

And that's going to be one LOUD turret.

Psyker looking fantastic, love the flesh tones.

Like the layout of the trenching bits.

Turret looks awesome, reminds me of Kelly's Heroes...

Kelly's Heroes is one of the greatest movies ever made, that was most of my source of inspiration for the idea. When I did play, my dice rolls were bad enough that tanks might as well have been firing paint rounds.

Blue:


I did say I'd been on a bit of a sculpting binge. My idea for 'hannibal guy' was to turn the head into something like a plague doctor.


Needs more ragged clothing especially around the head & shoulders (this chap does have dandruff issues) before I start to tackle the legs, the hands & arms I'll leave till last.

First attempt at sculpting hair (bottom) and the top guy, despite nearly sculpting all you see in one sitting, there are loads of issues with join marks where i've sculpted different bits at different times.

I'm drawing a lot of inspiration on works by Adrian Smith.

LDD: the trench rails are mostly for my own vehicles but they also fit the Leman russ

Thank you all
OMN

Never even considered the kelly's heroes connection seems so obvious now

Hannibal guy skin texturing is looking pretty cool, although not sure about the head at the moment maybe wait till you pull it together with the rest of the GSing

I like mallet guy the face mask looks great, also think the hairless wonder (I feel his pain) looks spot on don't be so hard on yourself mate

As for the trench rails if you have any spares and want to sell them please feel free to PM me they are impossible to get hold of FW anymore well without buying a complete kit

Once you sort the megaphone mould out would be interested in a few of those as well if you have some for sale

Amazing all around.

Painting, sculpting and 3D designing, all great and inspirational!

(And glad you went with blue, BTW)

Keep it coming

Thanks a lot LT, good to see you popping by!

@LDD: I've finished the design for the trench rails, just cobbling together some other things that I can have made at the same time, any requests?

The "Hannibal guy" is going to have a plague doctor look.

Also new mould for the megaphones, not so good news, I'm going to pull the "blame the weather" card and try something else.

Not much modelling mojo, bit too warm for my tastes, managed to get a few Genswick painted last week felt good to paint something easy for a change.
It's interesting to see how much my painting style has changed recently



The lieutenant at the top's horn is meant to be brass, looks really golden tho, (yea the opening needs cleaning up). I've 10 more on my desk waiting for my brush when I'm finished this post.

Also I found the time in the past few days to use those resin tracks of mine and put them to work on one of the ragnaroks that seems to be a permanent feature of my desk as well as getting some of the surface detailing done on them. unpainted genswicker for scale.



Because there can never be enough half started projects on my desk


After a raid in my bits box I thought I'd have a go at making a towed earthshaker artillery piece, design-wise i'll be copying the Soviet M1931 203mm howitzer, at least for the base and trailer. Damned if I know how long that is going to take to make.

Lastly I bought the Vraks trilogy from FW a little while ago turns out they are the 2nd edition too! updated in 2010 for 5th edition (they still missed out the points cost for the macharius tanks!!!). The army lists look pretty balanced and fun, my only gripes so far (bar the failing to put points costs in... again!) is there are too many apocalypse size battles for the re-enacting. Oh and the books weigh a ton!

Thank you all
OMN.

Your tracks look brilliant on that.

The guys look good, and the howitzer idea sounds interesting.

Thanks cam.

Those are the miscasts btw, there are massive bubbles on some of the corners

Troopers look great, and the Ragnarok is massive!

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Those are the miscasts btw, there are massive bubbles on some of the corners

It is not "miscast" it is "battle damage" and "weathering".

All looking good there OMN.

Yes you can tell your painting style has changed by the shading technique you are now using and the battle damage marks, it has changed for the better IMHO.

I thought that you was going with the a plague doctor look but was wondering if it would work without some kind of robe wear, I will keep watch to see how it turns out.

I hope the new mould works out for you be glad to see those in production, cant wait to see how those trench rails come out you could have a winner with those

As to anything else I will have to have think and let you know, I am sure there is something else that will come to mind

 Dr H wrote:

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Those are the miscasts btw, there are massive bubbles on some of the corners

It is not "miscast" it is "battle damage" and "weathering".

Of course.

@LDD: thanks mate, pm me if & when you think of something.

WOW really cool and unique looking models, great scratch builds and great terrain! Can't believe I wasn't here before. But now I'm subbed.

Thanks Wolves

Meltaguns!!


I've got about 15 of them spare and will be selling them for £0.50 each, will be on my swapshop next time I update it. Along with some more pieces when I remember to photo them.

I've got 4 meltagun armed genswick on the go (3 can just be seen).


I was having a play with a few bits the other day and came up with these 3.

The priest chap on the left (very WIP) is going to have some sort of microphone set up with the centre servitor being the speaker (zoom in on his mouth), I'll give him some sleeves too at some point.
I'll be removing the speaker from the vox pack, putting the storm bolter on a servo arm mount just sticking out slightly from its current position with an ammo belt running from the gun to the pack.
The novice on the right is basically finished, carrying scrolls under one arm and a staff with an incense burner on top in the other.

Lastly because I've been doing a fair bit of casting over the past few weeks, I've assembled a few odds and ends from bits that were not quite up to scratch.


Top thing ... no idea, seemed like a cool idea to use my window blockers into wall pannels it's only 3 sided so it will be attached to a wall at some point (when I make aforesaid wall). bottom left is an attachment point for the pipeline that I made a little while ago, its the same two bits that you see in the bottom right with some tube stuck on, btw the tube bit was once the demolisher cannon for the ragnarock.


Time to finish those gens off ... or riveting ... or sculpting

Thanks,
OMN

Nice work all round love the meltaguns and so fitting with the look, nice conversions as well need a little more work but coming on nicely.
As for the wall attachment thingy it looks awesome nice bit of terrain is that plate all ready fixed to that fan or is it an added extra ?

@ LDD:
Added extra, the fan and the big plate are separate bits, I've got 12 of them cast up so far. They just so happen to be the perfect size for a number of things.

Man, you have really taken the Genswick theme all the way. Those acolytes and other scratch built infantry are masterful.

Good work OMN.

Meltagun looks the part.
Chaps look interesting, look forward to paint.
Good use of spare casts.

 OneManNoodles wrote:
@ LDD:
Added extra, the fan and the big plate are separate bits, I've got 12 of them cast up so far. They just so happen to be the perfect size for a number of things.

Works well has a lot of potential indeed I was thinking about what else you could create I had a thought you might like or not.

Looking at the megaphones I am thinking of a com system that could be added to the command tank, something he can speak into to which is projected through the mega phones that is added to the turret section.

That way you would know which is the command tank and look more detailed on the table, also maybe some kind of alternative exhausts and engine section that can be added to the Leeman Russ rear a bit like the old FW kits that they stopped selling with the the trench rails

Hmm I'm not sure what you mean with the sound system LDD, I could probably construct sometihng with the bits I already have..

I remember there was a conversion pack for the reqular russ, that added an expanded engine section, do you mean something like that? I could probably build something like that out of plasticard plus a few odds and ends that might be too painful do do by hand.

Wow! and you said modelling mojo was low...

The Genswick theme keeps coming along nicely.

Do the priest and acolyte have a certain Aztec look to them?

 Littletower wrote:
Wow! and you said modelling mojo was low...

The Genswick theme keeps coming along nicely.

Do the priest and acolyte have a certain Aztec look to them?

If they do it's not really consciously ... now you mention it (and I google a bit) they do don't they.

This is just the result of; an hour here, an hour there.


Thanks LT