Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

@LDD: After a bit of thought, you're right I'll have to go for some stowage to cover most of it up.

As for the toaster, I bought some small wings from hasslefree ... bit too small it turns out, still ... ride of the toasters anyone?

I'll have to make a hull for it or at least a conversion piece to match it with the chimera...

@Big H: Thanks, that's what I thought as well.

The emplacement is nearly finished now, just need to sort the base out and fill a few gaps.

@Magos: Cheers mate, I'd like to make a second slightly larger one after this, to accommodate a bit bigger guns.

Thanks everyone!
OMN.

How about some kind of cages to the shape of the armour plates might look quite cool

You need to add a cape and a small hammer to the toaster now yes if you make hull and just add GW tracks would work

The Chimera tracks look way better than the Leman Russ in my opinion , a conversion kit comprising a new upper chassis and a turret would be very sweet !

Right so I've finished (read: reached a point where I no longer want to see these models on my desk) my Veterans entry to the 2nd painting competition. Fingers crossed I'll come second again




If Fast and Furious is the theme for the next painting competion, then I'll be entereing one of these, maybe both if I have time to paint them, whislt also trying to get some more paint on some of the other models littering my desk.



I'll have to make a base for them first, so they'll fit with the members of my little warband, but I think I'll only have time to paint one.... choices, choices.

Lastly I've got some more detail on Rag turret number 2, and answered one of mankind's (probably the shop, rather than the race) oldest question: What would happen if Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, passed to a toaster?



@LDD: Consider Thor-toaster now a "thing". I'm thinking about it, its on awkward parts of the vehicle.

@ Big H, I'd also have to make a new rear section too, for trench rails, hatch, maybe new engine as well.


Thanks all.
OMN

Fantastic stuff!

"Whoever wields this hammer, if he be worthy, shall posess the power of Thor...oh, a toaster? Not entirely according to plan...": D

It's a Thorster!

Also: I really like how those veterans turned out.

AWESOME THOR TOASTER !!!!!!

Now Iron Pan

Great stuff mate and the turret is coming together nicely, new parts won't b that hard to do sure

The vets look great and should get you a good placing fingers crossed for you

I like the first model leaping from the stone looks very dramatic and the pose of movement works well, I would choose that one for sure

All looking amazing, love the toaster, the vets look absolutely brilliant.

On the tattoo's side, adding a little blue will help I have found. Can't remember who I got that off, but it works.

Keep at it bud awesome stuff, looking forward to your next Fast and Furious models.

So I set up my airbrush and actually got some paint on my vendetta / valkyrie (the weapons are all magnetised) ... I may have got a bit carried away with spraying ... :



I was having fun. I forgot how large that model is there is a hell of a lot to paint.

I've decided to do just the one model for the next painting round and I opted for the AF I'm quite looking forward to that, maybe I'll get some more done on the militia while I'm at it.

@ Para: Cheers mate

@Oestergaard: Thanks

@LDD: Thanks I'll definitely need that luck, the competition is tough for this one.

@ Cam: Thanks, yep all tattoos turn blue after a decade or 2 in the sun.

Thank you readers!
OMN

Ah, some airpower to come!

Nice work in general. Someday I'll understand those colors that end up on your plasticard originals..

Who am I kidding? I am just commenting for Thorster! For Ryegard! You butter make more of these.

Also, love the wing stripes on that Valk.

Nice job with the airbrush mate it actually looks very good and has airforce feel to it great choice on the colour scheme

@Stormwall: The red is a fine permanent pen, the sort that is used for overhead projectors, I don't waste time with pencils on plasticard like some people do, if I want to rub it off, I've got a jar of ethanol.
The green is Squadron green, it's a filler that doesn't shrink and can be filed, dries very quickly though and the fumes are pretty nasty.

@shas: yep this has been living in a box for too long, might as well finish it so it can continue ... living in a box.

@ LDD: Cheers mate, I got way too carried away with the airbrush.

Managed to give the AF some paint (bit blurry, nvm), also got started on the base, fancied doing something different for a change (yes that is a toaster underneath the walkway). I'd like to fill the bottom of the base with a sort of; rusty slime, maybe having it slightly pouring out of the base though the holes from the bubbles. Much Grimdark, no skulls though. Also note the snail, nothing is faster or more furious than snails (to some garden plants).



I've been toying with the idea of scrapping using this in the competition and instead entering the Thorster for & giggles

Also got some paint on militia members 14 - 16:


I've got one more of these ready to paint, but 3 more that are nowhere near finishing. So I may have to come up with 3 replacements from my bits box (easy enough).

and I bought some of the Skitarii parts from a bitzbox, combined with parts from my own bits box and ... :

The random unfinished mini pile grows...

I'll have to bust out the airbrush again tomorrow to get going on the decals for the Valk, probably would have been smarter to have done the decals and what not before "weathering" ... I'd like to get started on the base tonight. Unless I try to do any on the thousand other things on my desk.

Thanks again everyone.
OMN.

All looking good! Why not enter the Arco and the Thorster? And give the latter a top end paintjob with NMM and OSL for added hilarity?

 OneManNoodles wrote:


and I bought some of the Skitarii parts from a bitzbox, combined with parts from my own bits box and ... :

The random unfinished mini pile grows...

I'll have to bust out the airbrush again tomorrow to get going on the decals for the Valk, probably would have been smarter to have done the decals and what not before "weathering" ... I'd like to get started on the base tonight. Unless I try to do any on the thousand other things on my desk.

Thanks again everyone.
OMN.

Tell me about about this 'revolver rifle'. who produces it?

 Lone Cat wrote:

 OneManNoodles wrote:

Spoiler:

and I bought some of the Skitarii parts from a bitzbox, combined with parts from my own bits box and ... :

The random unfinished mini pile grows...

I'll have to bust out the airbrush again tomorrow to get going on the decals for the Valk, probably would have been smarter to have done the decals and what not before "weathering" ... I'd like to get started on the base tonight. Unless I try to do any on the thousand other things on my desk.

Thanks again everyone.
OMN.

Tell me about about this 'revolver rifle'. who produces it?

GWS, since they released the Adeptus mechanicus skitarii vanguard things.

More squaddies!

Blizzard of activity from me, I have managed to paint .... A base.

Yes just one, for the AF, that's basically all I've done this month.



I decided to break the 4th wall on this one a little with corrosion slime osing out of the sides of the base where there were air bubbles, I used a number of different techniques and mediums combined on this like powders mixed into gloss varnish for the damp surfaces.

the AF himself is still unchanged, though I have managed to break both of his flails again, unfortunately I don't have replacements so glue everywhere.

Anyway, enjoy,
Thank you all.

OMN.

Nice base! It won't overpower the mini, but is still packed with details!

Nice rust you have going on, on that base.

That base does look nice, like it belongs in a water treatment plant, sewer system, or oceanside city

MMMMmmmmmm rusty goodness!!

Love the little details on that base! I will need to go through the past pages to see how you made the small crested details that circle the base.... really nice!

That base looks great, with the little Gothic arch's around the bottom, and of course the excellent rust effect .

And I think that base is more than I've got finished in the last 3 months, so your not doing too badly.

@Para: Thanks mate they are going to be radically differently painted so no worries there.

@Dr H: Cheers, rust seems to be in dakka-vogue right now, always worth trying something new.

@Shas: or maybe anywhere that sprung a leak .. a long time ago, the Imperium has a lot of forgotten corners.

@ Magos: Thanks, good luck finding that though, I don't think I mentioned it, it's a resin copy of a 3d print I made, plenty more where that came from too.

@hk1x1: If it wasn't for the painting competition, I probably wouldn't have done much more, so don't be too impressed . Thanks for stopping by mate, glad you like the base

I'll have to try selling those bases again....

Over the weekend I plan to have a bash at finishing painting my AF, depending on how many other half started projects ambush me on the way, like a Valkyrie, some more Genswick, a searchlight.....

Thanks for reading.
OMN.

Hey all,

I've finally got started casting the turret emplacements. They've cast up really well, take a look:



That is my first one so I missed a few bubbles, there is also a bit of resin bleed as well so some must not have mixed properly which is odd, meaning the primer came off in parts, it'll also make paint rub off so lucky I didn't fly on ahead and get it fully painted, I think the way to fix it is to wash in warm soapy water and re-prime, I'm going to have to find a better way of mixing resin.

I may have made the turret ring a bit tight, it will rub paint off, but yea .... no-one will see that and it won't fall off like the old FW turrets. Otherwise yea I'm really happy with it.

Also since my plan was to have two lascannon armed turrets and one with a battle cannon, I thought I'd get started on that, it is a little large for the emplacement, so I think a bigger one is in order. I may have made the turret look too Orky. let me know what you think.

I'll also have a larger update tomorrow probably as I've been playing with plasticard some more.

Thanks all,
OMN.

Nice job mate looks pretty damn good, the base is spot on has a good shape to it and some nice detail.

The turret looks a little orky I have to agree, I think it's due to the shape being so prominently square that does it.

Maybe if you make it more curved inwards would work better, or reverse it and follow the shape of the base ?

Maybe LDD, but I was going for a sort of naval destroyer turret look, besides I'm making a larger emplacement specifically for the battle cannon. I just made it too stumpy that's all, I could have put the gun in better too, and done something to fill that huge gap.

As for the emplacement, well I'm already casting them so its a bit late to go back and change things now. Cheers LDD

I missed your sales of the custom rhinos (lack of funding :( ), but these are looking sweet! If you happened to make a "gatling" version as well, then one might be able to use them as proper stand-ins for a certain company's emplaced gun set.

 OneManNoodles wrote:
Maybe LDD, but I was going for a sort of naval destroyer turret look, besides I'm making a larger emplacement specifically for the battle cannon. I just made it too stumpy that's all, I could have put the gun in better too, and done something to fill that huge gap.

As for the emplacement, well I'm already casting them so its a bit late to go back and change things now. Cheers LDD

I think you misunderstood me I meant change the turret not the emplacement as it is great piece but I see more where you are going as to the design now of that turret as to the Naval destroyer reference.

Maybe extending the barrel might work better as the Russ turret is what looks odd to me, can you not make your own as you did 3D print your own barrel ends after all

Nice emplacement! the KV-1 style turret is imposing, the 2nd one does indeed resemble an old destroyer design turret.
;thumbsup: