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^ He heh :-) Oh Theo! you are a bad man!

It is roughly the size of a dreadknight from that pic.

SM Dreads are 3.5 high or so.


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 nerdfest09 wrote:
^ He heh :-) Oh Theo! you are a bad man!

Well to call your gray knights that way would be tantamount to a bitchslap
Better refrain from doing that
It seems you are working at a highly efficient planning institution

Thanks for that reference pic...my only issue with the tall and small leviathan is the tummy section...that looks awkward to me...the head section tho has grey knight written all over straight from the beginning...

Here's my beginnings to the junk competition that Skalk is running.


It is a broken oil/promethium derrick. The pipe is made from the unused end of a wooden skewer we used to make s'mores the other night, the two liter bottle cap is the main pipe down, the little grey thing on the front is a step up to look down the shaft. The black piece is a bracket to hold the two pipes used to release built up pressure from down below, and one to pump down a heavier replacement fluid into the chasm. Both those parts came from my worn out electric razor that I replaced last week, as well as the motor itself which is hanging above as the drilling motor. The tower is a part of one of my sones old hot wheels cars race tracks that got broken when we moved, I knew that part would come in handy at some time. It all barely fits on a 60mm round base which won't be used, but is in the picture for reference. I will cut a piece of plastic card the same size, but with it being flat it will be closer to the ground and the step will look more in line with what I had invisioned.

Super zombie for scale purposes only as the well broke ages ago and he wasn't around to save the poor workers , much less all the bodies dumped down the open shaft.

Edit: Wooooot!!! 100 pages, I didn't think I'd last three

Lets see some other work in progress boys.

congratz you old geezer! 100pages of pure mindlessness ...modeling inlcusive of course ...

i am in such selfdoubt like never before... my own attemots fill me with doubt and even terror if skalk is actually wanting this... so...in my opinion that derrick looks fantastic...but i have no idea if that´s the true ticket... i too want to do something more than just mere strewn rubble...

Congrats on the big 100 dude.

I can't believe they let you get to 100 pages without locking you up!!


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Oh and the derrick looks brilliant.

the big hulking gorrillas in the white suits are about to come around the next corner anyway

Derrick looks good.
You're going for the tallest junk entry then...

The painting will really have to sell the "junk" nature of it though.

Congratulations on the century.

@Dr. H, painting.....and a hammer
@vik, good thing I have some bananas around about to sucker them
@cam, I've been locked up before in a third world country no less. Nicaragua

Don't try to smuggle rocks out of the country , just plain rocks, not anything rare or valuable.
@vik again, yeah, I'm not sure if this hits the mark or not, but I plan on adding road debris also

Well, tomorrows orientation is off, I have to be at there for the start of it they say, and that's not possible since my littlest one just came home sick from school and won't be ale to go back in the morning due to having a high fever. The Flu is going around church, hopefully it's not that , so I will be cuddling my daughter all day tomorrow

There's two "why"s to that last post of yours...
1. Why is Nicaragua so keen on keeping their rocks?
and
2. Why were you trying to "smuggle" rocks out of Nicaragua?

Get well soon, little one.

The 15mm scaled Leviathan makes a cooler looking dreadknight than GW's does!

I've been locked up before in a third world country no less. Nicaragua

not really??? really real?...this pic looks younger... but still i bet if they had cought you there... i think i´ve heard no one gets out alive there...?...

(that one actually got me shivers down my spine....grrrr....)

i hope your lil one gets better soon... i was at home with my youngest one due to a big meating of all employees of the kindergarten of my sons company...(my wife had to go there as luck wanted it to be the same company...)...but he was up and running thankfully...

a bit debris surley should easy any upcoming questions of skalk^^...

@shaso, yes, but if I go down that road there will be pink paint involved
@Dr.H, 1. Hey x-ray'd my bag and saw a really large dark void, and I was headed back to the U.S.
2. Everyone else was getting souviners, but like my marine army I don't do anything small. On rock was the size of a softball, I had that in my carry on with the small rocks. The big one was larger than my size 13 boot, it didn't fit my carrying bag

That's really not a prison door, but the security door at the church we were building in Managua, Nicaragua. It just looked like a prison door so I got the photo. I did get x-ray'd at the airport, my bags searched, and me walked from one end to the other with guards holding AK47s. I thought "this is awesome, I'm about to get martyred out on the Tarmac." Until they took me on the Tarmac, then it wasn't so awesome. Walked to the baggage area where they had me open my bags at gunpoint. Mind you I took 5 years of German, 2 years of French and I went to a country that speaks spanish . When they found the rock, and the bottle of chili sauce that was a gift, and 20 bags of premium coffee they knew they were dealing with a true criminal mastermind . They took me back to the loading area, still with the two security guards who didn't speak English and their guns. Sat me down next to the ticket taker and stood by me until I was on the plane. I tried to get up once . My pastors and the 30 other people in my group were not allowed over by me, or even to talk to me . I was the first person loaded on the plane.

To this day I'm not sure if I'm welcome back to Nicaragua, or I I'm red flagged anywhere. But I have my rocks, and friends got their coffee straight from the plantation at less than a dollar a bag .

Moral of th story is if you want to be first one loaded on a passenger flight out of a Foreign country, just fill your bags with big rocks nd bags of coffee .

Funny last night at church they were talking about sending some people to Ecuador on a mission trip. First thing I though about was my rock collection.

On to modeling.....this on is vik inspired

The Good Day Blimp. Figured I needed to start something large for 100 pages.

Theo making an airship! LOL!

Daughter has strep yeah , cause then its not the flu.

ouch... that is not nice... i hope you can ease her pain...

and that story was pantywetting material... ...
do you wake up screaming some nights???...gosh...if there ever was a story told to be able to make you a believer...this one is...*shudders*---

the airship looks WOW....very cool indeed!... i like the prow guns currently the most!... the jets are a very good choice too... i expect this will be a more modern airship then?... the gondola...what is that? looks allmost like a tank part? chassis? i totally wanna see that done!!!.... if you start this i think i need to byte the bullet anew and work some more on mine too....

just apropos of nothing

How curious. Reminds me of when I came back from Poland and when they x-rayed my bag the very-military looking bloke there said in a strong polish accent (unsurprisingly) "show me something electrical". For a couple of seconds I forgot that I had put my camera in that bag...

Airship shows promise.

It looks like the exact same sculpt, just scaled down a bit.

Like the look of the derrick so far.

Nice start to the airship, get cracking on that and it might re-awaken the urge in vik

And grats for hitting 100

I am not sure what I am looking at, I am busy trying and failing might I add to figure out this Java assignment from programming.

100 pages! WOOT! congrats Theo

@shaso, thanks
@nafarious, yes, better pics will come.
@monkeytroll, thanks, but the Derrick is sidelined as it is not junky enough
@dsteingass, yes the mini crusader is the shrunk down version, but the arms are still hot swappable, and the possibility is the same too
@Dr. H, that seems to be where the polish jokes come from if he expects that there is a bomb and he asks to see something electronic......like the remote detonator
@vik, the gondola is indeed an apc from the dollar store. It will get plastic card treatment. It will be more modern and the rear engines probably will not be there, just tacked on currently.

I took the blimp out and gave it a quick white spray primer. It's too cold here so not sure how it will turn out, but I had made it so airtight that the bottle began to collapse in on itself because of the temperature change, now that's neat science in action .

18 miles artwork yesterday, man am I beat. I would have slept like a log today but my daughter is home sick so we have been cuddling. She got a full nights sleep so she is wired. Also the new memory foam bed arrived and I set it up. Tried to get my daughter to take a nap on mommies side of the bed while I took a nap I slept last night daddy , can we watch more sparkle faerie princesses? Yes Dear

I have been picking up loose bits off the floor last night at work , and I need a new idea for my junk terrain as the Derrick doesn't seem to fit the profile of the competition.

did skalk say the derrick doesn´t fit or is it your assumption based on my own doubts? if the latter... don´t... as it is a cool model! if the former...dang....

i will soon reveal what i did for the junk comp... my entry is a makeshift wall...maybe that can serve as a new inspiration

your daughter seems pretty much on the mend... it is always a sign of progress if the kids are not interested in sleeping anymore... if my sons get to snuggle on the couch or heavens preserve in their own beds... there is something seriously wrong with them...

for the blimp... to save you from possible harm... have you thought about using expandable foam inside the bottles? to strengthen the build on that part?... probably not needed as the finished model won´t be able to take any real punishment... i like the idea that you take an apc for a gondola...this will look brutal!^^

Welcome to the Century-High club mate. Now build more stuff!

100 pages of WooHoo! if you need to start something big I suggest perhaps an all you can eat Chinese Buffet? that will get large fast! :-)............and congrats!

@skalk didn't say anything bout the Derrick, but just reiterated "junk" for junks sake.
@graven, is that like the mile high club
@nerdfest, well that's something I hadn't thought about making....an all you can eat buffet diorama, might work with the zombies

Okay so Thanks to shaso for getting me itching for more dreamforge goodness, I went and adopted some more family members.

That's a big Mortis (little mortis is wave three), and a mini crusader

Giant skull for mortis

Scythe which will not be mounted traditionally. Both have zombies for size comparison

And the bag of screws just for the mortis.

ohoh...*rubs hands*...i hope your wife doesn´t give you the evil eye for this

will the small one wileding his scythe like a traditional scyth?...(here is hopeing for just that )

and how is your flat foot feeling today? anything better than yesterday?

Nice supply drop. This could be brilliant. With your colour scheme and that model are we going to get Bumblebee!??

@cam, you mean like their brother

@vik, that was one plan, the other was when mark had released the resin version someone had put the blade on the back of a fist like a giant power can opener

Started little leviathan, darn those bits are tiny and fiddley.

You must have to use very fine brushes to paint that small a detail.!

Needs more yellow for Buzzbee!!