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Good to hear you've found your inspiration

trollmeat wrote:That is brilliant, Dr H! The little plants on top of the walls with the wire aerial roots coming down remind me of figs and really bring it together. If you are as fast painting as you are building, 4 weeks will be plenty.

Fast, I am not.
Have lots of free time, I do.


Thanks.

GrimDork wrote:That scene is great Dr. H, I may have to blatantly rip off the crashed plane thing.... as that would certainly be something that could happen in a jungle. I've got a 40k valkyrie that's never gonna see use in 40k... it would fit pretty well onto a 1x1' square, even with a bit of a furrow behind it. Should be a really neat piece to play around too since the doors and ramp open and it's kind of a wrecked transport jungle gym

Time permitting I would do up another 1x1' section intended to line up behind the crash with a watchtower that was clipped and has fallen over backwards...

I realize sinking a Valkyrie into some scenery and sticking some jungle plants on it after it's painted isn't exactly hitting all of the points of the contest.... but it may be something I can get done which is a bonus.

Sounds good. I don't hold a monopoly on flying vehicle crashes, so no problems from me there.

MT: I've commented over in your thread, but I say cut it to match the floors.

Painting has started, but isn't very exciting yet.
Just some shading and dry-brushing.

More to come on that...

Gonna go for a more muted theme, with the whole thing essentially the same color, or gonna have different bits different colors?

Currently planning on all being the same colour. It will be getting a brown (or blue) wash so will be shades of brown (maybe blue) not grey in the end.

It will hopefully be in sharp contrast to the base, that will have many and varied colours, therefore making it all the more alien.

Hokay

I am thinking of offering a bit of an extension to you all, those entries that are being worked on look fantastic, but I can see they will want a bit more time to finish, how much time do you think you will need?


@ DrH: I can't believe I forgot to thank you for your little tutorial on the concrete barriers, well Thank you! Is that Papier-mâché on the base?

@ Trollmeat: That's a cool and twisted use of an old toy

@ Camkierhi: How is your blimp progressing? Last I saw I was hugely impressed.

@ ChrisWhite: Nice work, yours is the second piece that I've seen finished

@ Anvildude: That's an interesting idea, cookie volcano, sounds delicous I'm looking forward to seeing this.

@ monkeytroll: made a decision yet on the roof? Also I love what you've done with the robots so far.

As I've said If you feel you need time, please say how much within reason!

Yep, still looks fantastic Doc

And, yep, decision on the roof went in favour of the cut-away....

Well everything is looking great guys some truly amazing looking projects here and I am totally impressed I do have some favourites but will keep that under my hat for now

However I will be bowing out gracefully ( yes I know no surprise there ) but I have made 3 attempts at ideas and none of come off plus I now have to clear the house ready for the new sofas turning up this weekend and my other halfs dads 80th the following one so no free time.

So sorry for the failure but good luck to you guys and can't wait to see the final incarnations

Well I am still trying. Struggling a bit but trying......



Keep it up people it is all looking brilliant.

OneManNoodles wrote:@ DrH: I can't believe I forgot to thank you for your little tutorial on the concrete barriers, well Thank you! Is that Papier-mâché on the base?

Not a prob'.
Yeah, it is kind of... Tissue paper (bog-roll) and PVA/water over polystyrene foam, with a couple of thin layers of dental plaster and then my usual basing on top.

Good progress MT and Cam'.
Sad to see you drop out LDD.

Progress has been a little slow recently, but here's where the UFO is at the moment:

There's still more to do. This is after a black pin-wash into all the recesses, which will be followed up with some brown that will (somehow) blend into blue that will go up to white at the highlights... but progress, none-the-less.

Cam - the blimp is looking great!

Dr. H - love the fine detail wire work...getting my ass whipped, this contest.

i have decided to bench the scratch built tank for now, as i had some inspiration strike and drive me in a different direction...hoping to finish the new entry next weekend. if it doesn't work out, i should still have some time to finish the tank...

keep it up, everyone! plenty of time still left!

Oh my! I'll say it again. Oh my!

Excellent stuff guys.

Just got myself some Carving Plaster, some foamcore, and a block of Florist's foam. I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do with them.

@ Anvildude. So are we!

@ Dr.H, Sir that is looking seriously good. Distinct lack of rivets, but good all the same.

ldd - You could just drop some bits on a base, paint it up, and hey presto....instant 'accident'


Cam - Paint on the blimp looks great!


Dr H - Suitably Gigeresque, good job!


Gawdam - New and unexpected directions are always fun


Anvildude - You could do a fair bit I'd imagine Looking forward to seeing what emerges....



Been painting little bricks.....

GawdamSumbish wrote:Dr. H - love the fine detail wire work...getting my ass whipped, this contest.

Thanks. It was quite time-consuming work, getting all the wires on (and once you've got the end to stick down you just work your way along it, tweezers and superglue).

i have decided to bench the scratch built tank for now, as i had some inspiration strike and drive me in a different direction...hoping to finish the new entry next weekend. if it doesn't work out, i should still have some time to finish the tank...

keep it up, everyone! plenty of time still left!

Yep, go with the inspiration. Good luck.

Anvildude wrote:Just got myself some Carving Plaster, some foamcore, and a block of Florist's foam. I'm looking forward to seeing what I can do with them.

Carving plaster? Sounds interesting.

Camkierhi wrote:@ Dr.H, Sir that is looking seriously good. Distinct lack of rivets, but good all the same.

Yes, I have noticed that mine is lacking in actual rivets. But I have a plan to rectify this.

monkeytroll wrote:Dr H - Suitably Gigeresque, good job!

Thanks MT. When it comes to aliens, who else?!

Progress:

Gravel, done.
Concrete, started...
Boxes, base-coated...
Rest, to do...

I've had some personal stuff come up that has slowed me down but I think I will be able to finish by the 29th. (That's the day, right? )

I got the goblin head baked tonight. Hope to be able to get some WIP shot up today.

So, here's a work in progress shot. I still have a LOT of painting left to do as well as add the snotlings.

That looks brilliant. Great sculpting.

Thanks Cam

The Goblin head looks really good EyeamRai The Glyphs look really cool. What material are you using btw? I'm a rubbish sculptor, (probably down to me having only ever made 2 things in school with 4 years between them).

There is a little grace period till midnight GMT on the 31st I know it's only 72 hours but I figure that's how long it'll take me to realise the competition is over .

Good work EyeamRai. You've matched your drawing well.
Why is it pink though? I have no problem with it being pink, I was just expecting rock coloured or green if painted by the greenskins...

With a bit of practice, OMN, I'm sure you'd be a fine sculptor. You have the eye in for shapes already with your scratch-building.

Now I've got the mud base-coated, the whole is coming together.


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We can do this... come on...

Thanks guys.

OMN I used Sculpey clay for all of it. I'm not much of a sculptor either. It took a ridiculous amount of time for me to get it where it is.

Dr H. My Orcs and Goblins all have red skin. I'm hoping to get the red more into the background and have all of them be more old stone colored.

The stones all have decorative rivets on them and the goblin will have some too. Probably around the nose and ears.

Nice work Rai, the icons on the stones look great.

Having the mud in place helps a lot Doc, showing some nice contrasts now

I hope you at least cored the sculpy with tinfoil. Otherwise, that's a LOT of money in those guys.

@ Eye - lookng good, man! the symbols on the stones came out well...

not that anyone gives a flying at a rolling donut on a gravel driveway, but i have been working on entry v.2 a bit this week, and hope to finish it this weekend, as i have about 18 free hours. i have WIP pics, but i haven't posted them because i am lazy and spending time with the provider of my nookie....but pics will be up sometime tomorrow.


by the way, unless my math is way off, the updated deadline is 11 days and change or thereabouts. OMN, not to tell you your business, but you might want to update the thread title...


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i knew where this was from, but it took ten minutes for it to click...

Anvildude, there are frames made from skewers inside the standing stones. They're pretty thin. The goblin head does have an armature made of foil.

Gawdam, thanks for those symbols, man!

Deadline extended by a few days (see thread title), I started this on a crappy Tuesday, I'll end it on what I hope is a not so crappy one! As I will be overjoyed by all your finished amazing pieces...

@Gawdam: yea no worries, title updated.

EyeamRai wrote:Dr H. My Orcs and Goblins all have red skin. I'm hoping to get the red more into the background and have all of them be more old stone colored.

That would make sense then. Don't mind me...

Good to see someone got it, Gawdam.

Progress on my part. Mud is mostly done, rocks are mostly done, boxes and packing material are mostly done, plants and toilets only just basecoated. Much more left to do...


Onwards...

All looking amazing.

Dr.H That is looking seriously amazing.

Well, no pics but I am working on it. Basically got 3 days to have a go at this and finish something. Crossing my fingers.

Final push folks, best of luck.

Not sure I'm gonna finish on time. I finally finally got an idea down that I'm sure I can complete... but I've also go the dakka painting comp to finish and since that's almost done...gotta prioritize it. I'm gonna finish this piece one way or the other, however, may just miss the deadline.

That crashed ship is turning out fantastic.