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Hmm, thanks for the references! I'm not having trouble with the coat, and in fact it's going rather well except for the fact that I am completely out of Green Stuff to work with. Which is why it must languish at this hideous half stage. I wasn't worried with doing much with it besides laying the foundation so that the actual finishing work would have something to stick to. I will, however, use the coat reference you provided as I sculpt the rest of the coat, weeks from now when my mats actually arrive. Til then, I shall paint!


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Also yeah, I suppose I'm a Thorian at heart. I haven't read the...I'm assuming that stands for Realm of Chaos? I haven't read it. Eye of Terror is another I haven't read. Maybe you can help me with something. I remember reading a few pages in a 40k novel, maybe you can help me out? It was a long time ago and I had just grabbed the book off the shelf and flipped through a couple pages at the very end. Something about a space marine, maybe a Dark Angel, trapped on a daemon world or in the warp somewhere, and he was talking to some kind of Tzeench demon. And the Tzeench demon was the narrative voice of the chapter and it went on an internal monologue about how the Emperor could never be allowed to die, because it would free him and he would be strong enough to force all the chaos gods to work in harmony. Ringing any bells?


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Another wip as I blunder along tonight, spurred on by a healthy dose of Kennedy's bath tub booze:


I wish I had some Sprite to cut this stuff with, because it tastes kind of horrible on its own.

It might just be me but I'm pretty sure this stompa has a TV screen...

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It looks like there's a bar of buttons at the top of the screen. Maybe that's actually a tablet that he stuck in there, or a smart phone? Actually, a smart phone would be kind of a cool mod on a super heavy of some kind, since you can make them do just about anything.

But yeah, looks like I've been beaten to that particular modification. I might argue that there is more technical challenge in pulling off a mod on a smaller scale, but I don't really want to downplay how impressive that is. The only thing I don't see are speakers, so if that is a phone or tablet, you're not looking at a lot of sound coming out of it. Which is a shame, since there's a rock and roll stage set up in the belly and you should really be able to blast tunes from it.

Thought you might like it

 bossfearless wrote:
Ringing any bells?

That would be Eye of Terror. Yeah, RoC is Realm of Chaos. The whole Star Child background is largely irrelevant now I suppose but the Thorian background is really just an update of it so it's well worth the read if you can hold of a copy.

Thank you! Every time I've ever described that bit people have been like LOLOLOL Dark Angel would kill the demon!

 bossfearless wrote:
The only thing I don't see are speakers, so if that is a phone or tablet, you're not looking at a lot of sound coming out of it. Which is a shame, since there's a rock and roll stage set up in the belly and you should really be able to blast tunes from it.

If thats a phone in that stompa,then there plenty of sound; have you not seen the kids walking around listening to their music on their phones without headphones? just clutching them in their hands usually. (personally its a right pet peeve of mine; the music would actually sound better through headphones AND not piss off everyone and anyone within 15foot

But point stands that most smart phones have plenty loud enough speakers - logic says it has to ring loud enough for you to hear it and answer lol so the speakers are atleast that powerful. (just dont expect any bass, or mid range in the sound hehe)

I'm one of those people who lets music play out loud on my phone speaker, lol. However, there is a significant loss of clarity and audibility when you're trying to play music from your phone speaker in a crowded, noisy room with lots of cross talk. You'd need something slightly bigger like the mini speakers I'm using to get any kind of appreciable sound in a 40k tournament, especially the larger events.


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Still, I won't deny there's some appeal to the idea of playing angry birds on a stompa's belly.

I am impressed with your conversion work. And I am totally using your Metal Gear Rex idea for my tau army. =D

I wonder if you could use a Lumin Disc as part of a display board and set it to sound activated. Perhaps even find a small one and mount it on a model. Or a plasma ball.

Hmmm...that's a pretty cool idea. I haven't given much thought to the display board idea yet, but I do intend to build some kind of a thing for that.

Have you checked local hardware stores for green stuff? IIRC it was used by plumbers and the like to fix leaky pipes before modelers adopted it for sculpting. There are legitimate, non-sinfull uses of the stuff. You don’t need to tell the guys at the store you are going to sculpt tiny little breasts with it…

I honestly have no idea what the shopping is like where you are, but a lot of hobby supplies can be found in mundane places.

Well, the concept of a "hardware store" is utterly foreign out here. The closest thing is something like SACO or Carrefour, which are both along the lines of a Walmart in that they carry a bit of everything. But of course, they aren't going to have anything all that specialized. Stores like the Home Depot exist in America because of the DIY trend, but Saudis are the exact opposite. Nobody wants to do anything themselves, because that's seen as the kind of thing that only lower class people do. And if you're a Saudi, you can always afford to pay a Bengali to do it for you, which means you never need to know how to do anything.

Now, you do have a point that there is a lot of epoxy used in plumbing, and I've made heavy use of that material on the bases of all my models. It's a great alternative to green stuff in that it is cheap and fast to cure, but you certainly can't do much sculpting with it.

I'd actually suggest, instead of getting "Green Stuff", get Pro-Create (gray stuff) or Kneadatite (Green Stuff) in their original brands, in the massive yet cheap gallon buckets that only cost, like, 10 or 20 dollars apiece. Or maybe less. I've yet to use them, but... There's people on here that use it a lot.

Anywhoo- if you don't buy from GW or the other branded places, it's a ton cheaper, and comes in much larger amounts.

You know, I had never thought about getting the generic version of the stuff. And if I got a gallon bucket of green stuff...it might tempt me to do some truly absurd sculpting. I'm thinking greater titty demon of Slaanesh's raunchy older sister, Steve the Pirate. Steve the Pirate asks that you respect her life choices.

Edit: I just want to up and say that there are way too many freaking Ultramarines blogs on here.

Hey, if you're looking for crazy sculpting ideas for Slaanesh, I got one for a Land Raider that'd probably be right up your alley.

Ugh. Please don't mention Slaanesh Land Raiders. My buddy out here won't shut the hell up about his two, and only two, ideas for chaos land raiders. It's infuriating, not because he really likes these ideas, but because he refuses to (a) ever build the damned things and (b) whenever he does embark upon the epic conversion, he does the same stupid thing over and over again and never, ever, not under any circumstances, learns from his mistakes or tries to fix anything.

It goes like this. "Yo dawg, what if you like, *grafted* all the land raider weapons onto the sponsons and made a lnad raider obliterator, and it had all the techno virus stuff all coming out of it everywhere." Does that sound cool? Sure it does. Because you haven't seen him ruin land raider after land raider doing the same stupid thing every time. When he says "graft all the weapons onto it," he doesn't mean what you think he means. He means "mix up an entire pack of green stuff into a big ball, stick it to the side of a land raider, and then shove one end of the gun into it, and then pour a whole bottle of Zap a Gap onto it because Zap is cruise control for cool." When I say he ruins the land raider, I mean that there is an inch thick layer of superglue across the entire surface, forever entombing his "technovirus" crap that looks suspiciously like more packages of green stuff with thumb prints mashed into it. And then? And THEN? You get the land raider handed to you, and he wants you to "fix it."

Because of this, I have a seriously low tolerance for chaos land raider conversion ideas.

 Brother Payne wrote:
It might just be me but I'm pretty sure this stompa has a TV screen...

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It does actually. In fact it had speakers inside as well that plays " da red button" and that screen plays the video..... Seen here.

@KingCracker
Is it yours? Coz that's pretty darn cool

I have realized now what, precisely I would do with a giant bucket of green stuff. I would have to build a fortification of some kind, and it would come in the form of a pillow fort.

 bossfearless wrote:
I have realized now what, precisely I would do with a giant bucket of green stuff. I would have to build a fortification of some kind, and it would come in the form of a pillow fort.

I figured you for a skyshield landing pad done up like an elevated dance floor.

 Nevelon wrote:

 bossfearless wrote:
I have realized now what, precisely I would do with a giant bucket of green stuff. I would have to build a fortification of some kind, and it would come in the form of a pillow fort.

I figured you for a skyshield landing pad done up like an elevated dance floor.

Why not both?

That's actually a really good idea with the dance floor. I had, at some point considered making a stage part of the display board (eventually), but I like the idea of having it actually count as something worth having. We can bring back that idea posted earlier about the lumin disk, and set that into the floor for a crazy sound operated spectacle. I'm gonna confer with my legal advisor on this issue. And in this case, it so happens that my legal advisor is a flying robot anti-paladin.




Oh, fun fact about this model. The red LED in the head showed through the resin, as well as the black primer. So on the head, I had to go over with several *very* thick coats of black paint in some places. I realized about five minutes after the paint dried that I could have used that red glow for a sweet effect. Unfortunately, I rather blew it.

One more thing, a very very early WIP of something I've got in the works for later on. A new kind of LED setup for my second double fusion suit. Glowing Fuel Rods:



The picture is a little bit deceiving, because the overall structure of the jetpack assembly is going to change a lot before it's done. I'm going to widen it and mount it so that the jets look adjustable.

Wait... There's a display board!

Why have I not been made aware of this?

You know you can still use the glow- scrape lines through the thick paint where you want it to shine through. You could get a cool 'Tron Lines' or 'power fragmenting from within' effect going, with a lot more control over the line weight than you can get even with really fine brushes. The full effect will be hard to see in light, but still...

 Brother Payne wrote:
Wait... There's a display board!

Why have I not been made aware of this?

It's purely hypothetical at the moment, so we're just bouncing ideas around for an eventual plan that may or may not come together.

 bossfearless wrote:
I have realized now what, precisely I would do with a giant bucket of green stuff. I would have to build a fortification of some kind, and it would come in the form of a pillow fort.

If you do, it'll need a cardboard sign out front that says "No Xenos" in childish handwriting and a severe-looking Space Marine staring out a nearby window.

 bossfearless wrote:

 Brother Payne wrote:
Wait... There's a display board!

Why have I not been made aware of this?

It's purely hypothetical at the moment, so we're just bouncing ideas around for an eventual plan that may or may not come together.

This. Has. To. Happen.

Hokely dokely, 'ere we go. I've been focused entirely on the two suits for the past couple of days, popping back to my villa every now and then to get another step or two done. First, here's the current state of Darkblade:





The sword is still off to one side waiting to be focused on separately. Biggest problem I'm having is the two Tau symbols on her shield and back. They seem to need some kind of extra oomph but I'm not sure how to give it to them. Up next is the Broadside, Shas'Vre Chump:





Yes, he is aware of what it means in your language. No, he is not amused.

Why not treat the symbols to some of that glow in the dark UV paint, and watch them shine?
Or an LED between the backbody and the wing section (big tau symbol, like a backlight?

Could get a nice red, orange or blue effect from either

Just a thought

Does he have a daughter named Zeetha?