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Liking the assault skull. Yeah, just give him some danglies below the waist and he'll be good.

what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, even if its a digital Vegas.

ROFL....


and maybe you try the rocket launcher from the HW team of the IG?

i dunno if a grenade launcher would look the part... because amo boxes or magazines on shoulder mounted weaponsystems look akward for me...

also you could add a melta bomb nonchalantly in one of his tendrils...?

Great idea for the melta bomb vik , no missile launcher though as assault marines cannot have them.

Here is the second draft of the same model. With grenade launcher arm, and waist tendrils.

Off to make the rest of the squad.

needs longer and more pointy tendrils....

and what bit is that grenade launcher from?

Grenade launcher is half of the chaos vehicle smoke launcher bit.

I might go longer on the next few tendrils on future buddies, but this guy I will call stumpy.

lol... stumpy...

how many tendrils do you inted to add anyway? there is a style rule i think with flowers in a vase... always take an uneven number... i would follow that rule with tendrils dangling from servowarriors chests too

ah... that launcher...thx!

Vik talking about flower arrangement and the ties to mechanicus mechandrites , two things I never would have put together.
I don't want too many, why would he need them anyways, he's got no legs to attach them to .

You might not be able to see from the pic, but he has a central column (spine), and an access tube, to protect the cabling.

i thought of the borg queen...but now after seeking pics of her i realize she hasn´t had so many tendrils...damn^^

You might not be able to see from the pic, but he has a central column (spine), and an access tube, to protect the cabling.

saw that...

i just had another mental image^^

Here is assault skull2. Wanted him to be more of a bad , possibly a rogue khorne servo skull

Side view

Rear view

And other side

Three more to go for this squad.

Printer part arm in the last pic?

 dsteingass wrote:
Printer part arm in the last pic?

Nope, everything is stock GW, plastic rods, guitar wire, ca glue and skin stuck to it from glue.... tiny pieces and fat fingers
Rest of squad progress from this morning.

Checking with local plastic dealer today, might have found alternative stock supplier, it would be nice not to have to pay $30.00 in shipping on each order for flat stock plastic.

Meh, things are shipped by weight, good luck!

The shop is down the street, ten minutes away, so local pick up , no shipping=fat man happy dance.

Ahh! nice!

and skin stuck to it from glue.... tiny pieces and fat fingers

LOL... didn´t knew that qould qualify for good modeling materials...

no shipping=fat man happy dance.

yup... absolutly the right decision then!

and the rougue khorne servo skull looks ace... tho the rod as such could be a bit thicker in my view...or will there be some special treatment? some further skin adding?

by the way... the not-chainsaw end of the pole looks wicked... where is it from?

The not chainsaw end is the sensor tip from the ravenwing land speeder bit. I have dozens of them, and it looked like it could be a good zap bit. Kind of like a cattle prod. It also could fit around a gangers wrist and then the electric circuit could be used as a restraint. We are the police after all.

cool bit and a very fitting one for that use as well...and great reasoning behind it as well

I am trying to exhaust my bits supply, which may never happen, but at least use up lots of really common bits. When I was building the theophony I came up with lots of extra bits in the process. I needed certain bits of he ravenwing sprue, so I just bought the whole sprue and sold off stuff I didn't need. It actually funded the expansion of my army as the bits I wanted were ones others didn't care for. I even made a deal to get 30 ravenwing sprue at $3.00 each, cut off the bits I wanted, then resold them for $7.00 each. Which allowed me to get more of the sprue and continue the cycle. I eventually made about $300.00 in a month and got all my shoulder pads for the theophony.
Now I still have tons of the other parts to work with.

whoa... you make it sound as if you are a stock broker for bitz... and a succesful one at that!... clever and lucky!

and i am at a point i would rather not talk about my bitz box

It was. Good time for those bits, everyone was building bike armies, the overpacked each box with that sprue, basically they could have cut the sprue differently and saved tons, and like I said I was looking for bits others didn't want. I was also building up my marines hardcore at the time. I was able to get mass numbers and get cash back by selling off the studded shoulder pads, beakie helmets, and other items. I also traded stuff into thewarstore.com when they were doing bits. It really surprised me how much further I was able to get with my dollar by doing so.

Edit: so the company down the street sells and stocks the plastic, but minimum order is $1500.00, I'm not even a third of the way through my last order six months ago and it was less than $100.00. They gave me another local company, but they only deal with businesses, could use my wife's, but don't want to get into that mess. I guess I can hold off for a while before ordering anything, just wanted to check options.

well 150 in plastic is quite a big amount...holy moly...

 Dr H wrote:

 dsteingass wrote:
Dr. H..You are a role model for Internet Morality!

Why thank you good sir.
Do as I say... Not as I do...

That's too good an opportunity to not use that in my sig'.

Keep at it Theo. Attack bike off to a good start.

Dr Hinternet! That is what the H is. I just know it!

I really enjoy this servo skull army... I demand paint however.

Dr Hinternet

if i say i laughed my bum off in german it would rhyme

is all I have to say to that...

Good luck with your plastic sourcing Theo. $1500 is quite some minimum order
Assault skulls looking good as a group...
Ooo, another brainwave, if these are still with the whole janitor thing... maybe give one of them a lawnmower (a la Braindead) or something similar?

Supply drops

No picture of first one, it was only the servitor bits from the storm raven. I wanted to make another servitor like the ones I made a while back.

Here's the other drop

Plastic rod, tube and flat stock for more servo skull army bits. Also a couple sheets of 0.080 thick plasticard. They were $2.56 each instead of $6.89 each. They were really old, but nothing wrong with them. They will be great for the dust tactics building floors. He plastic cup thing is actually rescued from our recycling bin. It's one of the wife's razor blade containers, but looks like a condenser or vent to me.

neat little supply drop you got there theo

Evergreen is always cheaper, and you get a lot for your money too. They just don't have all the specialty shapes like Plastruct does.

 dsteingass wrote:
Evergreen is always cheaper, and you get a lot for your money too. They just don't have all the specialty shapes like Plastruct does.

The shop has a small plastruct rack with the specialty stuff, and a small evergreen rack. I need to find some other local shop which carries more variety.

When I hit the lottery I think I'll place an order with that local plastic company. They make the sheets in rolls up to 60" wide, they usually stock the sheets 4'x8'. They Also form plastic parts, so I'll have all my own designed bulkheads mass produced .

Dr. Hinternet Dr. Hinternet to your p&m blog stat!

So, troops get to hang like a park ride under the flyer, and the dread/buggy reminds me of a Zaku-tank.

@shaso, the dread on wheels was just for a joke. The guys filling in for dreads are these guys

The ones on either side of the truck.

Still working on the bikes, attack bike and thunder hammer storm shield termites.

Third member of assault squad is complete. He brings a flamer to the mix.