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Sweet! "Added to cart"

Thanks
Desubot

First 2 part cast. Not "so" bad

Truly amazing and inspiring so far. The scale of this project is so massive. I hope you manage to finish it and paint it without burning out. I think it's incredible so far.

THE LINKS ARE BROKEN AGAIN!! NOOOOOOooooooooooo!

Not so much "burnt out" as overwhelmed withhout as much time as I would like. My project partner has been busy for the Last few months with an art project and my wife just had our second so I'm on constant dad duty. No more zone defense like we had with just 1 kiddo. I think if I start focusing on big stuff and move on from the things that are holding me up (working elevator im talking about you) I'll get through the funk. That and getting my back up back in November.

Also, What links are broken??

I put a couple of the Aquila torsos on the guard legs with the pistolero heads. I like it.



They work better than the tempestus ones IMO



What do you think of capes on all the soldiers or should i save them for sniper squads only?

Ultra flamboyant capes for everyone . If they are playing in this huge city and get fancy chest armor I don’t think the population would skimp on capes. Great work with the mold by the way.

Yeah. I like the capes too. I think it makes them kind of Roman soldierish



I have a few options:


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Good thing a found another complicated way to do a project. Maybe they all don't get capes


But at least they're good to look cool and unique

Very nice PDF soldiers. How many are you planning to make? A whole regiment?

Probably around 1,000 points worth. Got some cool ideas for veterans, sentinel conversions and I'm trying to decide if I want use these as count as "rough riders " or not. They're a little big

Those riders are cool and very unique. And they seem more legitimate than riding giant wolves...

Keep up the good work! Take the time to be a good dad and raise some future warlords so you'll have gaming/painting buddies in a few years.

Sick meck mounts.

Ok. I'm totally aware I've let the PDF high jack the city thread and promise to get back to city stuff soon. I'm still casting and hope to work on all the bridges this weekend. I've started doing the taller arches in ressin because the plaster ones kept breaking. I'll use them for the last few tunnels and as the supports for the last walk bridge I put in over the canal.



Back to the PDF though, considering I want them to be "count as" vostroyan I think they probably need a different las gun variant that would fall into the heirloom fluff.



This is what the vostroyan las guns look like VS the basic ones that come in the plastic cadian kits.





What should I do to represent these? A) use sections on ad mec riffles and maybe some Copper tube for my mold



Or B) get some vostroyan minis and cut off the end of their riffle for a mold?

You could use the skitarii rifles, those are pretty ornate

 btoliver311 wrote:
Probably around 1,000 points worth. Got some cool ideas for veterans, sentinel conversions and I'm trying to decide if I want use these as count as "rough riders " or not. They're a little big

Those are fantastic .

I always wanted robot horses (Think Galaxy Rangers cartoon).

Not the straightest road in the world but good enough for government work.

Man it almost seems like your entire garage is becoming one big diorama.

You need a team of airbrushers just to get those basecoats done

 Ustrello wrote:
You need a team of airbrushers just to get those basecoats done

Or get lazy and go the spray paint rout. though exposed foam :X

 Desubot wrote:

 Ustrello wrote:
You need a team of airbrushers just to get those basecoats done

Or get lazy and go the spray paint rout. though exposed foam :X

Yeah that is my main worry, cause this thing is beautiful and I don't want it to get hurt in any way

There is always the option of getting a power sprayer.

Is there any reason I couldn’t use flat latex paint and a Big spray gun for some of the bigger sections and base coats?

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Is there any reason I couldn’t use flat latex paint and a Big spray gun for some of the bigger sections and base coats?

Those big spray guns tend to lay it on thick. at least the electric kind.

i think

rent one and try it out

Great work! Can you make have a wrecked goliath that's fallen off the road?
Also, I came across this in another blog I follow.

Might be worth trying. AA guns, maybe?

Yes. The thickness is a concern but it shouldn’t hurt the styrofoam if I get a good layer of watered down wood glue on top of everything. Maybe I’ll lookninto watering down the construction paint too. It will only be a base coat and possible the first layer of grey


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The wrecked Goliath is a good idea. I have an extra Elysian tauros I was going to use.

In regards to AA guns I’m probably just going to have mobile hydras

And my defense cannon is already covered. I’ll probably have the attacking army’s use those larger seige cannons
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I could add some of those smaller as platforms to this walkway possibly?





What city blog?

I just started reading rob hawkins. He’s amazing
https://robhawkinshobby.blogspot.com/search/label/Terrain%20Tutorials?updated-max=2013-05-07T13:42:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=20&by-date=false&m=0

The only ad mech skitari riffles I had were the ones that came with the walkers but I think they’ll work.

I’m going to try to make small casts of these 3 options to add to different troops. Hopefully there will be a sniper option, a long barrel and a standard. I think this will add just enough detail and subtle change to help with the heirloom look. Should I do anything else? Banana clip, no clip,etc? I only want to change the existing riffles so I can use the arms that come with the troop sets

You can probably do the top one as the sniper, the middle one as a hellblaster and the bottom one as the normal lasgun imo.

Wow. Those are some cool weapons.

I'd remove the clip and attach a cable leading to the backpack, but that might be too tricky to cast.

Right now everything is too tricky to cast.

I spent my entire weekend trying to use my new molds and some of my old ones to no avail. For some reason they won’t completely set. At first I thought it had to do with the resin mixes not being mixed well or being too old. And that explained the first 2 attempts. But now they are still a mess and I’m thinking that has to do with all the chemicals (paint thinner, water soap, nail polish remover) I used to clean them But they were all rinsed after pretty well. I really have no idea.





So I’m down a lot of time, tons of material and my hands are more resin than skin now. Needless to say, I’m not going to be casting for awhile. Lucky I have enough other stuff to work on

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Just received some of the skitarri riffle bits I ordered. Not really liking the conversions. Way too much disproportion and probably not worth the work. Tried a few lengths:







I think I have good news too. I went to my local Reynolds materials, a casting products sales company, and they gave me some theories about what’s going wrong with my casts. I guess water is really bad for cleaning as it can be absorbed into the rubber mold and release during casting. Hense all my bubbles.

We also talked about my small casts and they suggested before I get into pressure casting (which I’m pretty sure I can’t afford) that I try using disposable plastic injectors



Hope this works because I want to start making more chest armor. Wish me luck

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Lucky fish,


Lucky cow,


lucky cloud,


and a photo of the God Emperor. If these don't bring you luck, nothing will.