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look at the size of that thing...

it had to be said

well... that gun sure asks for respect...

I like how very, very rivetty it is

Coming along nicely there littletower

I think I'll give this a shot, i have some nid gun emplacements to use

Hello Everybody, my name is xXWeaponPrimeXx and I've got an update on my project..

I took what I had from last week and, listening to advice, coated the whole thing in hot glue.







I criss-crossed the glue on the base to form a complex organic root structure in appearance.





Then I took a bit of this foam and cut the shapes into it for the chitinous plates.





Which were both super glued and hot glued on.





Next week, the painting will begin.

BYE BYE!!!!!

Nice work xXWeaponPrimeXx. Liking the look, very organic.

@Viktor: Indeed! Thanks.
@inmygravenimage: More rivets added today!
@Ruglud: Thank you.

Some more work on my entry today:





Primed earlier, pics to come later on.

More on it also posted in my – newly started – blog here, http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/547112.page , for your C&C.

Cheers.



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And primed:

Fantastic work from everyone so far, and it's great to see the level of diversity that's on display from each individual entry.

If there's anyone who feels like their falling behind, or anyone else who thinks they'd like to enter this competition,
then don't panic, there's still plenty of time left, as were still in august, and this comp wont finish until the end of October .

@xXWeaponPrimeXx: I like the way this is starting to look, Its definitely very tyraind already .

@Littletower: Very nice work on the tower, and I love how if goes seamlessly with the gun dome, Excellent work so far .

@hk1x1: Thanks, really appreciated. I actually ran three try outs of different shapes/sizes for the tower before finally going for this one, I'm glad it turned out well enough.

Started sculpting my nid emplacements. Next up will be the chitin plates on the back.

Wooo big guns ! I'm down for this and I like all the progress I've seen so far! I'm definitely going for a nid themed big gun. Now, to brain storm a thousand ideas and see which ones stick...this is going to be fun

I'm wondering, is the competition limited to 40k, or can we build something for any game?

@ Tonio: I know most entrants are doing things for 40k, or something that they can use for their own army,
so I see no reason why you cant do a gun emplacement for another game.

What other game did you have in mind?

 hk1x1 wrote:
What other game did you have in mind?

Mainly WM/H, as that's what I play the most. I'm looking at starting a theme board for my Trollbloods, so I could do a big defensive weapon for them. I'm still juggling with ideas, as some other games I play (Relics, Dystopian Legions) could also have cool, crazy concepts going with the contest theme.

Ok I want to try my hand at this. Maybe make a terrain piece for my 40k skirmish game.

Majority of my updates are on my Random blog, but here's a quick pic to show I'm still working on my entry, 'Big Berfa'

hmmm.... how about a big barfer...er... on second thought that wouldn´t be such a nice thing

Ok so I want to do something other than an ork piece, so what's not been covered yet?

@ Ruglud: I've been following your progress, And it is looking like an amazing piece, love the work you've done so far,
will deffinitly be keeping an eye on this one

@ Camkierhi: Well as you've noticed there's a lot of people building Ork projects, there are a few doing Imperial Guns, and 4 or 5 said they'd go for a Tyranid theme.
There might also be the odd Tau, Dark Eldar and Chaos entry as well, so that leaves Necrons, and Eldar.

But there's still plenty of oppotunity for some out of the box ideas, for instance I already mentioned The Tau, but what about the Kroot, or maybe even the Vespid.
And you have Imperial gun Emplacements, but who's are they, they could be Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Sisters of Battle, an experimental weapon from the Inquisition,
or some long lost technology held by the Adeptus Mechanicus.

Either way you've still got plenty of choice

Looking good everyone! I've no idea what I'm going to do for this but I better hurry up and decide!

Haven't even put pencil to paper yet on my idea...still floating nebulously around in my head. Still, coming up on about a month left and my dad duties have just ramped up with the start of soccer and cub-scouting season...Need to get it into gear.

Slowly inching forward...

Looking awesome Littletower!

I'm not going to officially pull out but I'm thinking this is going to be too big a project for me to fit in. Fingers crossed but I'm not that hopeful.

Prizes sent out for the last comp:

Servo skull for inmygravenimage:



And for hk1x1:

Whoa hey wait, what? I won something? O_o

oops... typo! It's for inmygravenimage sending the stuff out at onces gets my wires crossed

Dang, got my hopes up

@Casey: Thanks. This is how it is looking thus far:



As mentioned elsewhere, presently thinking about colours for the missing parts, rounding up the cannon and trying to make up my mind on lighting.

@Meade: Those look great, amazing trophies indeed.

There are now only three weeks left till the end of September, That gives everyone about Eight more weeks before the end of this competition.
If everyone could try to get their entry's in by the 31st October that would be great, then I can start the Judging process.

If you haven't added any WIP pics here yet, please add one or two when you submit your finally piece,
as I want to see the work that went into it, and it will help me judge the entry.


I want to thank Meade once again for his brilliant scratch built Tech Priest, that is my prize for winning the last competition,
If you haven't seen it yet check out the posts above.

I'm still working on the prize for this competition, It will be a piece of Terrain, but very different for anything else you may have seen in the past,
My original plan was to make a gun emplacement, but I decide against that, and built something else instead.
As soon as it's finished I will reveal it here, hopefully before the end of the comp.

@ Littletower: That's looking great so far, nice work on the rust and weathered paint, Looks like it's been around for a while .

Oh hell, end of September?? I thought the deadline was end of October... I'm touch and go on whether I'll hit the later date, but little to no chance for end of September - mainly because I was too ambitious and decided to build BIG !!