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Sadly I can't find that riddick anymore on sales, click on and they are sold out, Studio McVey needs to remake some more fo are sales

@comrade, thanks , just went with the standard scheme but did dark grey instead of black.
@cam, thought about doing riddick in black, but he's badass enough to look cool in just the standard issue gear
@dr. H, thanks, there's so many people upset with this kickstarters goods that you can get the stuff relatively cheap if you look for it. With a little work they come out great though.
@shaso, riddick was a kickstarter only item, so you need to arch eBay, or pay hefty for him unless someone is trying to unload their kickstarter pledge cheap like I found.

Not much to report. The part time gig at church and trying to get ready for my school and my kids schools starting up has taken alot of my time. I just got back from dropping he kids off for church summer camp. It's a sleep away camp so they are gone till Saturday afternoon . 200 kids all with a weeks worth of luggage and I got the pleasure of loading it not a 26' long uhaul, but at least its perfect weather outside right now and looking like low-mid 80 degree weather for them all week.

I did place an order for a couple figures, its a close out deal from one of the big kickstarters, they had some extras laying about and bundled 8 regular sized and 2 huge figures together for $30 including shipping. You get two of each model, and I will get practice on them for some techniques I need work on. Keeping the secret for now .

Okay, it's been a while. Kids are home from church camp, and taking naps as they are worn out . Weather has been perfect all week, low 80s, and only a short spot shower on Friday.

Did some painting recently, various things.


Bone crabs from sedition wars, kickstarter exclusive.

The rest is scary stuff seriously.......NSFW....Not safe for wives to see either . Enter at your own risk. Not typical theo stuff.

You'll go blind painting that many boobs you know!

Shame the human minis for KD are soo big or I'd have gone in on the kickstarter some of their stuff looks truly special. (and a lot is disturbing)

Good work on the bone crabs

Bone crabs look brilliant, as to the other.....interesting.

How you can paint the big one, without making it look "explicit" will be fun.

I just pre-ordered infinity operation:icestorm have mercy on me . Grimdork and his delve into infinity.

@cam, ...........not sure how it wouldn't be explicit no matter how I paint it up. Unless I use house paint and many many layers.
@joerugby, welcome and thanks

That melta marine will have a hard time job killing it with HOLY FIRE....and lots of that!!!!

I am surprised your wife is allowing this stuff in her house...(concerning such stuff, it is always her house...funny innit? When drains or holes in the roof are on the schedule it is most likely your house that's rotting around...)

You seem to be seeing too much worrying stuff at the hospital these days...your stuff you work with gets creepier every day......but also disturbingly good looking...

And I'm glad you can squeeze in us here at dakka and painting minis despite your tightly packed schedule between work, family and church...sheeesh don't you ever sleep?

Nice job on the bone crabs...may have to trawl ebay for some of those at some point......

And wow...two wet nurses and 8 other KD figs for $30.....good deal there Theo.

@monkeytroll, the deal was a limited clear out of the plastic run. No cards, boxes or stuff for the game, but too good of a deal to pass on.
@vik, that's why these are NSFW (not safe for wife to find ). A great deal I couldn't pass on, an she has never taken interest in my game things. Just complains about the time wasted on them right before he goes shoe shopping .

Well the wet nurse is primed as is the other model. In the mean time I started painting other things from my treasure trove.

Two lovely Escher gangers from time long gone. I have most of the models from the Escher range, and even go Mad Donna last year from I think Graven

As for wired stuff I've seen at work.....yeah lots of freaky things an people.

My niece is having her sweet sixteen party tonight. She is old enough to drive a car now . Never thought she would make it this far. She was born with he umbilical cord wrapped around her hand so badly that it fused the bones of her fingers together. She's had a bunch of surgeries to separate the fingers and do some cosmetic work on them as well. She has full use of each finger, but they are not pretty. Also hen she was four she had a fever that topped 106 and caused some brain damage which later caused her to have frequent seizures. She's since has had brain surgery to remove part of the brain damaged by the fever which was causing the seizures. She went two years without any, but then puberty brought them back. The doctors have since cleared her to be able to drive, before they said she would never be allowed because of the seizures. She is now a legal driver, which you still need to watch out for on the sidewalks . I'm just proud of her and all she has overcome. Oh and she competes in the junior women's golf players association and has won most of the tournaments she competes in. She tied for first place last year in the national level, but took second after a shoot out.

man.... your family is big.... and full of wonders.... nuns and kiddies that have so many packages to carry around...
yesterday I saw a man getting into his car with his left arm all wrapped up in plaster....????WTF.... and when I tried to get my drivers license my teach told me he saw a man driving a car with plastered up leg up to the hips....???...well...I guess your niece then only comes way back in the line for to look out for drivers

these eschers are my kind of female minis...grapefruit sized bewbs....and muscles and hard tools to kill men ....that's way better that any wet nurses^^....(mind you I saw the wet nurse when it was first announced way back and it disturbed me all the way.... thought it was just a japaneese joke mini....but no such luck.......all these tentacles and boobs....youck***)

eschers in fact are very mad max style in my view...and we all know that this is the pinnacle of style of post apocalyptic styles around...eh?...right


tried to get my hands on Mad donna a view times here at ebay... that missus is hard to come by for a cheap euro....sheesh...quite a big present from graven then....I got from him a nice presie recently too that I am actually working on....needs some more coats of paint to be shared with the lot of you tho...


cheers, vik

Its going to be interesting watching how the wet nurses come along, lots of throbing muscle tones.....

I saw a thread on here with a bunch of people that were disturbed by that model a while ago.
It's certainly an interesting model. It's a bit too Urotsukidōji and not enough H. R. Giger for my tastes though. Look forward to what you do with it.

Dear with the sword looks nice.

Bone-crab things are looking good.

I always expect to see stairs going all over the place when people mention Escher.

Yes to Giger-- may he rest in peace. Awesome stuff.

Glad you spoilered the KD stuff. That Wet Nurse thing is... not the nastiest KD mini by a long stretch. I think the one in mid-vomit is a bit worse, whatever it is called.

A warning about the Infinity figs. They are detailed, and they have some very small bits. Do NOT throw away anything until you have fully assembled them, even if you are positive it is just flash.

Oh...KD still has some of those cheap packs available, snagged one for myself, glad I popped over to check now. Still need to pick up a copy of Sedition Wars, possibly next week as I should have some incoming funds.

@monkeytroll, glad you got a pack, last I looked they were sold out.

Sedition wars figs are nice, but lots of mold line scraping to do and some hot water baths to get the grendlr joined correctly. But for the price miniaturemarket has it at you can't go wrong.

Well I'm have a quandary. I preordered operation: icestorm from miniaturemarket, but now I'm thinking of canceling it. It's the jumping on point for infinity, but since I don't game anymore except quick pick ups with my brother in law, I think I'm just going to get a refund on it. The models are cool and I hear the system is great, but it still doesn't mean I'll get any games in anytime soon. Especially with school starting up and having taken on the job at church to boot. I'm thinking of returning the preorder and picking up some new Star Wars x-wing stuff and filling out the fleet some more. At least it's a game I can just pull out and play, maybe even get the kids involved with it.

I think I ordered icestorm for the wrong reason. I was looking for something to replace GW, but as I'm not playing GW why am I throwing money at another thing to sit on the shelf? Love the look of the models, but still not sold completely on the style. Oh well I can always jump in later, but my brother in law just isnt into anime or robots (he must be slow )


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Sorry, missed a few comments yesterday , I'll blame it on being on my cellphone while at work on break .
@Vik, yep I was one of those original group complaining about the wet nurse.....things change. And graven gave me a great price on the mad Donna figure. I still have it in the blister awaiting attention.
@giraffeX, it will be hard to get it to look right.....well as intended
@Dr. H, yes legend of the overfiend is probably the closest comparison.
@red harvest, the fiddlieness of the parts is another reason why I'm taking a third look at infinity.


Well, off to church to work. See you all later.

Well the new competition is up and running.... On a path anyway. I've decided to
Throw my hat into this round and am currently scouring the Dakkanet to find help in my project. Entering the Deathstar trench run. Hopefully I can pull this off. My plan is currently to make the tops of the board playable(flat) for x-wing and make the center trench piece a separate entity so I can remove it and slide the other two parts together to have just a space ship/station themed board when not running the trenches.

Current finances are , we bought we had budgeted correctly for summer but screwed up by two weeks . Everything will be fine in a few weeks, until then no nights out and spending is nonexistent. Also schools back in session as well, so time will be a factor.

I am moving more away from miniature gaming such as 40k, and more into the completed gaming systems like x-wing as the rules are tight and I don't have to paint anything, but could if I wanted to. As such I'll be shedding some of my gaming material so if anyone knows anything they want let me know.

I might even part with some of my 200+ necromunda bulkheads

be sure to drop dave a line if you ever really want to sell the bulkheads

funny fact... one of the few instant ideas concerning the comps theme was in fact the deathstar trench... I think that would be a cool and actually a fitting idea to make you play the game then!

also... did you know that thread :

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/605434.page

that might be a next project for you

as again for the death star trench... I think the way to a good looking product is the simplicity of the shapes... mostly from what I remember is the lot of variations of squares and cubes... I think this is very likely to be doable...really....do it... for the benefit of all of us! good luck mate... and since you will use an AB for painting I see no difficulties....

Everyone is selling up these days. So much I could buy, nothing to buy it with.

@cam, don't I know it , but I think I've just given up on GW. Even thinking of parting ways with everything except bloodbowl. I can get an occasional game of that in.
@vik, I've seen that thread, very neat. I've also considered building a table in the shape of a star destroyer and having the top pop off to be the playing surface. I'm just not THAT big of a Star Wars nut ......yet

I've got a message out for a trade of my space marines for someone's x-wing stuff. It will grow my fleet enormously if it happens. Also I'm sure I mentioned it but i cancelled my infinity order. I like the look of the models, but getting realistic with my game time/preferences.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Everyone is selling up these days. So much I could buy, nothing to buy it with.

I've thought the same. Damn my lack of job and disposable income...

I've also thought that I'm a bit late with getting into 40k, as everyone seems to be leaving.
Still, I'm in it for the modelling and not the gaming, so no major loss to me. They could make it the best game playable ever, and I'd still have no-one to play with in my area... *shrugs* I keep building...

Hopefully you keep turning out some modelling, Theo. Your creativity would be wasted on just pre-painted stuff.
On that note, looking forward to the trench build.

The KD stuff isn't really my bag (not that I'm offended or prudish about it, and I'll keep my specific objections to myself). I really like what you've done with the Bonecrabs, though - inspirational to the point that I need to make myself not dig my own out and start on them till I've finished a bunch of other half-done projects. The enforcers are also looking really good - nice work on the yellow striping on them. Any chance for a better-lit front view of Sir Vin of Diesel?

@dr.h, I'll still build things, but just getting tired of seeing the piles
@azazelx, the KD really isn't my thing either, but was just a good price and would help me practice flesh tones. I'll try and get a better pic of sir diesel tomorrow.

Well we have a full moon here yesterday today and I'm not sure of he rest of the week, but last night sucked big time at work. Lunar effects on the other employees, doctors releasing patients who then have heart attacks as they are getting into the wheelchair to be taken out to their car, and police bringing in crazy people and then leaving them only for the person to get belligerent and the county cops come to deal with him and find he has warrants out on him for violent crimes so the first set of cops have to come back . That combined with doctors releasing everyone to go home (well at least double the usual work load) and being stuck with the stupidest employee other than myself has killed my brain cells.

Friday I got to find new bits that will be part of my trench run. Got to clock in now.

sleep well matey!... full moon is even affecting quite often my own sleep... and I know my kids behave weird too...

I've recently discovered that even on ebay all x-wing stuff is ridiculously expensive... why???...licence? I think for so few minis in one starter package it is quite a big price tag... even used the stuff is still hard-core on the wallet...so if you get an enormous addition to your fleet I really hope it will be enormous...as you have so many sm its verging on the insane

No rest for me vik, I had to clock in at work and pretend to work . I don't know why you'd think the figs are that expensive. Most ships are $15.00 before discount stores, miniaturemarket has them for $9.99. You get the ship, a bunch of special cards for the ship (characters, upgrades and special rules), and usually three sheets of tokens for the model that it can use in game. In the beginning there were some shortages which people were gouging prices over, but now they have a good supply of ships out there.

I haven't heard back from the guy on the trade, but it's not ALL my marines for his fleet, he has about $600 retail worth of stuff, and I was offering to let him build the same amount retail of marines, maybe more.
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Pic for azazelx of Vin


And the plague guys from deadzone almost done.


And some pieces I got out of the junk at work.


The tubing is great, but what I like are the clamps that are holding them. It's a three tube clamp that will help enormously with the Death Star trentch build. I got a total of 6 of he clamp and two of the tubes. There's also the two tube clamp piece that's holding the purple part, I got two of those. The two tube clamp is for two different diameter tubes which will help things look a little different in the mix.

So it begins.....(cue techno music).......mortal Kom......wait wrong movie (cue symphonic music)......

A long long long time ago (I'm old) in a theatre not terribly far away (okay its gone and is now a parking lot ) a little boy watched a great movie about evil versus good (rebel scum are the bad guys trying to overthrow the rule of the imperium, we call them terrorist nerfherders ). Now with a re injection of modeling fun and the x-wing game out I want to bring back more of the fun, and what could be more fun than a trench run .

Anyway start of the build, the table will be done later. Why do all the really fun builds start with a trip to the hardware store? Because we needs a skeleton or he deathstar of course. 3/4" MDF(medium density fiberboard) had it cut while I was there, so the three pieces we will see right now are two at 5"x60" and one 8"x60". I'll be screwing these together shortly, but have to get my daughter from the bus stop ( first day of middle school )

Falcon and x-wing for scale. Cardboard box at end will be the target wall.

Vader eye perspective, I wanted a little maneuvering in the trench, but not much, also height of trench so most ships can be fully inside. I want to have rules for being down inside and being above. I hope to be able to make a clear plastic piece to transverse the trench so. Ship can fly over the top and its base be above, just for perspective.

Bits from work to be exhaust ports or possible target points. Any suggestions?

Just for clarity the ground will be flat, only the walls will get texture, this is to allow for smooth gameplay.

Looks like a very interesting project Theo, may the force be with you

my nerd heart is filled with pride that someone out there is making a death star... even if it is "just" the trench....this is sooooo cooool!

I would actually make it smaller if we were aiming for correctness...as only barley three TIE fighters and three x-wing/y-wing had enough space to manoeuvre inside...
and the falcon was if we are true hardcore nerds only outside above the trench

but I like it... very much... to begin this project with that wooden skeleton is a good decision... I would still try to have texture on the ground tho... just flat but still with texture... the panels would need to be rather close and only flush...

also... have you thought about metal sheets underneath the textures? you could then give the model bases a magnetic coating and have them fly vertical even... for storing I would even think about a wall mounted trench system...

see? this is how it feels when someone is suggesting all such cool things that you get cold sweat how to get these done even if they´re so cool^^

*rubs hands* if I loose against this project I can still feel slightly as a winner as I want that project to get finished

after having a google search of the exhaust opening I think these things might actually work... tho you need that classic hex shaped frame.... RED will love the hex frame

omg yes. DEATH STAR TRENCH! I can't wait to see what you come up with here!

Fantastic, inspired lunacy. Good on you.sunshine.

Dear god every time I finally forget the horror that is the wet nurse, I randomly see it again, it's like some kind of curse! I dunno how I missed this blog, guess I'm a lazy searcher. I'll have to catch up, looks to be neat stuff!