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That temple/shrine was a nice find. Do you plan to do anything to the bamboo? I've stayed away from the plastic plants as I'm not sure what I'd do to paint them or otherwise tone down the plastic look.

Lovely work on those bases, looking fantastic.

Meer_Cat wrote:The bases are outstanding, and I'm stealing the tape cassette scrounge! (Some of us oldsters like the tape hiss- it's how Elvis passes his instructions on to us.)

Amen and Amen .

Red Harvest wrote:Elvis hated tapes. Vinyl, now that is Elvis's medium. You cannot put hidden messages on tapes that reveal when you play them backwards... without going to a lot of trouble, at any rate-- the playing the tapes backwards. And vinyl still sounds amazing...

Theo, You have not digitized those tapes yet? Uh-oh.

The bases look nice. A pain to pick up though, for me. the rounded edge is impossible to hold.

If you were a true Elvis worshipper you’d go through the trouble . Digitizing these tapes . No they are old church tapes from 40+ year old puppet shows and sermons. Plus many were duplicates of duplicates. These bases are actually really great as they are inserts that are appropriately sized for older 40k. So they are square edged that pop into the Round lips.

Wirecat wrote:HERESY!!! *stabs the screen with a pathephone (tm) needle*

Good catch with these cassettes, I've lost my chance to procure them for similar use, but snatched some other junk instead. Would Love to see what You come to with them!

Go to garage sales and thrift shops, I know I’ve seen plenty of vhs tapes and cassette tapes there. Or even cd music stores that buy and sell old CDs, most have rubbish bins with cassettes and I found your lucky 8 tracks

Dr H wrote:Good job on all the bases.

Thanks Dr. H

Briancj wrote:Your base-ic skills are magnificent!

Maniac_nmt wrote:That temple/shrine was a nice find. Do you plan to do anything to the bamboo? I've stayed away from the plastic plants as I'm not sure what I'd do to paint them or otherwise tone down the plastic look.

I’m not planning on doing anything with the bamboo. Though Mel the terrain tutor has done videos on palm trees and other aquarium plants and how to tone them down on his Big Burma Build table.

Da Boss wrote:Lovely work on those bases, looking fantastic.

Thanks Da Boss

Wow , I’ve been lazy....... Seriously, I haven’t been down to my desk in a while, but with Holy Week over and less projects at church maybe I’ll get some time this week.

I cleaned out the garage (Dumpster East) on Saturday. 4 hours of digging, tossing, cussing and kicking later it’s almost manageable in there. We have an old house (80+ years old) which has a single car garage which is really too tiny to be functional for car storage (really narrow) and it has no access into the house, so it holds the bikes, big power tools, lawn mower and other debris. We have been in the house for 8 years now and some boxes have not been gone through in that time. One of which was a 18gallon tote which had 40+ of these in it that I got for a penny each.

They are the color additives for ceramic tile grout. It’s part of an epoxy kit which this isn’t just the colorant and the two part epoxy was sold separately. When I worked at Lowe’s we cut out a whole bunch of colors and when they dropped down to nothing in price I bought them thinking eventually I might use them for some sort of weathering powder. Now I’m thinking of using them with some glue as just colored base texture. It’s really fine powder and I have 8 colors to try out.

More later, mad experimenting to do now .

Edit:

Top left-right
Autumn Green, Quarry Red, Sterling Silver, Saltillo
bottom left-right
Terra Cotta, Tawny, Sea Glass, Twilight Blue
32mm Bushido figures for scale. You can see the grain size on some of the 50mm bases. This is just using Elmer’s glue to adhere the colors to the base.

^That's incredibly nifty. Good find (belatedly!)

 inmygravenimage wrote:
^That's incredibly nifty. Good find (belatedly!)

Thanks Graven, it’s a benefit to being a hoarder .

I’ve been drawing a blank on Bushido stuff lately, and while checking Facebook (yeah, Gits got me hooked there with Bushido ) I joined a Gates of Antares group. Seeing some nice Antares stuff painted up and looking at terrain bits spurred on some building this morning.



Scavenged pipe makes a chunk of pipeline debris with Xenos plants growing from the shade.


Couple of Dr. Seuss inspired xenos trees providing shade for a Concord trooper while he checks the ammo reserve.

Small scatter pieces to get the juices flowing a little. Trying to use some of the colored powder in my previous post instead of the Reikland Fleshshade as the powder is cheaper by far. I think it looks....okay.....but more experimenting is required to achieve a similar goal.

I am a big fan of the truffula trees and those pigments look like they have a lot of potential.

 youwashock wrote:
I am a big fan of the truffula trees and those pigments look like they have a lot of potential.

I’m thinking of using some colors on the trees, but I’m worried The Lorax might find them . Thanks

Had to do a Walmart run, couldn’t walk away from some Gaslands cars when I saw them.


Gru and Batman. The real question is do I put Gru on a prison team or the crazy gadget team? I could always paint him army green and go Rutherford .

The silliness of using the Grumobile in a wargame is highly tempting. I could buy one and put it on the "someday" pile next to the Hulk Ragnarok bus. I await your progress for further inspiration.

I have a TON of the old Mattel "Megaforce" vehicles (the movie, not the later battle toys). Maybe I should play Gaslands.

I love that you have Gru's car for gaslands. Nice work on the Demigorgan also. I'll have to check out earlier parts of your thread.

Theophony wrote:

Had to do a Walmart run, couldn’t walk away from some Gaslands cars when I saw them.


Gru and Batman. The real question is do I put Gru on a prison team or the crazy gadget team? I could always paint him army green and go Rutherford .

There are minion vehicles out there too. It would make perfect sense to do a Gru Mishkin team.

Briancj wrote:I have a TON of the old Mattel "Megaforce" vehicles (the movie, not the later battle toys). Maybe I should play Gaslands.

That's not even a question

youwashock wrote:The silliness of using the Grumobile in a wargame is highly tempting. I could buy one and put it on the "someday" pile next to the Hulk Ragnarok bus. I await your progress for further inspiration.

Well not much progress, just a basecoating for the GRU-01 “pillbug” Rutherford tank.

Briancj wrote:I have a TON of the old Mattel "Megaforce" vehicles (the movie, not the later battle toys). Maybe I should play Gaslands.

You should play , but you should sell those and make some $$$ to buy all the things.

Syro_ wrote:I love that you have Gru's car for gaslands. Nice work on the Demigorgan also. I'll have to check out earlier parts of your thread.

Please do , Grumobile just screams the sort of 50s nostalgia that is a thing the base for Gaslands. After all I think that is where the historical timeline began to splinter off, the moon race and mars colonies being the real prize in the Gaslands universe.

inmygravenimage wrote:

Theophony wrote:

Had to do a Walmart run, couldn’t walk away from some Gaslands cars when I saw them.


Gru and Batman. The real question is do I put Gru on a prison team or the crazy gadget team? I could always paint him army green and go Rutherford .

There are minion vehicles out there too. It would make perfect sense to do a Gru Mishkin team.

Briancj wrote:I have a TON of the old Mattel "Megaforce" vehicles (the movie, not the later battle toys). Maybe I should play Gaslands.

That's not even a question

I’ll have to look for the minion vehicles next time , but this was screaming Rutherford to me, hence the army green.

Just a quick green paint job. Details, weathering and maybe a big R to replace the G later. I added a small wooden dowel to be the 125mm cannon on the front and I’m currently thinking what to do for my other build slot. I’m counting it as a tank, so right now he is sitting at 46 cans cost. The 20 hull points should help him out while he whittles down the opponents with the main gun. He is not in the race to place 1st, just to make sure his team is the only ones moving . He will probably get escorted by a couple jeeps or a muscle car to take the flags.

Sell my Megaforce cars!? Next you'll want me to sell my poster of ACE HUNTER!

True heresy.

Other build slot should be nitro, just for that engine boost.

Sorry for the silence guys, just not getting to much done lately. Though there was some small progress. I’ve been doing a little scatter terrain, most of this has been done for a couple days.


A few scatter pieces, trying new basing with the tile grout coloring, not liking the outcome, but will try some more because it will be much cheaper than the way I was doing it. The little garden square is inspired by the episode of Star Trek next generation where Wesley crashes into a garden on a ‘civilized ‘ planet and they try to execute him.


Built and base coated an atmospheric condenser.

Parts that were used: IV tray, IV stops and some paper towel rollers from a dispenser. All reclaimed from my work, also note that I had permission and these were sterile, not used .

I like the scatter terrain, reminds me of Mel the Terrain Tutor's work (which is high praise in my opinion).

I like the condenser. Amazing what one can make from life's leavings.

You always get the coolest stuff to play with. Great work though. Love the garden.

Syro_ wrote:I like the scatter terrain, reminds me of Mel the Terrain Tutor's work (which is high praise in my opinion).

It I should really high praise, and he is a source of inspiration for me. Thanks .

youwashock wrote:I like the condenser. Amazing what one can make from life's leavings.

Yep, it may have been designed for one purpose, but insanity and a large enough bits box (house) works wonders .

Camkierhi wrote:You always get the coolest stuff to play with. Great work though. Love the garden.

It truly is one mans trash is Theo’s treasure .

Well GW has been whispering in my ear for a long while and I broke down again. I wanted to buy Looncurse and build a Sylvaneth army, but they drastically under produced yet again, distributors only getting single digit copies . Anyway my local shop had a customer appreciation day today, they normally do no discount, but they did 15% storewide, so I finally bought into Warhammer Underworlds:Nightvault and got the Skaven expansion to bolster my skaven Bloodbowl team in the picture. 20+ years ago I started Warhammer fantasy with a skaven army. There was a wine and cheese shop next to the game and comic book store I frequented (and later worked at) and so I went over and got names of cheeses for each skaven, along with Monty Python cheese shop sketch names . Hopefully this doesn’t continue to grow.....who am I kidding .


Never mind them Zombicide Orc/ogre/troll things in the background.

I dug out my skaven bitsbox the other day, as their shields are amazing for gaslands. Want any other bits I find?

Naming your Skaven after cheeses was inspired Theo, did you have any particular favourites?

 Theophony wrote:
A few scatter pieces, trying new basing with the tile grout coloring, not liking the outcome, but will try some more because it will be much cheaper than the way I was doing it. The little garden square is inspired by the episode of Star Trek next generation where Wesley crashes into a garden on a ‘civilized ‘ planet and they try to execute him.


Built and base coated an atmospheric condenser.

Thanks for bringing up some childhood Trek terrors, Theo! I really think You are too harsh on Yourself - things look right and proper. Everything can be improved, sure, but this terrain looks on par with Your other efforts. And cheaper is a good bonus too.

Condenser is good, that tray had just enough ribs to make it realistic.

inmygravenimage wrote:I dug out my skaven bitsbox the other day, as their shields are amazing for gaslands. Want any other bits I find?

I’d love them, but international shipping is stupid, and I probably won’t be getting more skaven anytime soon.....maybe.

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:Naming your Skaven after cheeses was inspired Theo, did you have any particular favourites?

Crumbled blue was always killing his way through opponents (gutterrunner/assassin). The fromage was another name that comes to mind, but I think that was a unit of clan rats .

Wirecat wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
A few scatter pieces, trying new basing with the tile grout coloring, not liking the outcome, but will try some more because it will be much cheaper than the way I was doing it. The little garden square is inspired by the episode of Star Trek next generation where Wesley crashes into a garden on a ‘civilized ‘ planet and they try to execute him.


Built and base coated an atmospheric condenser.

Thanks for bringing up some childhood Trek terrors, Theo! I really think You are too harsh on Yourself - things look right and proper. Everything can be improved, sure, but this terrain looks on par with Your other efforts. And cheaper is a good bonus too.

Condenser is good, that tray had just enough ribs to make it realistic.

I know, I still cannot take him seriously, it wouldn’t have been bad if his career got better right afterwards, but he did that movie as a cadet at a military academy

So another local shop has the original shadespire set still, I’ll be picking it up monday .

Today is my (Holi)day, after getting my wife breakfast and her favorite coffee I can celebrate because I’m the biggest Mother- on the planet” that’s why .

So new direction n a whim, must be my thread .

I picked up Warhammer Underworlds: NightVault on Saturday at the FLGS customer appreciation day. The store had people playing it while I was there, so it really helped sell the deal, though I had been eyeing it for months and had every intent to buy it before I walked in. Today I picked up a copy of Warhammer Underworlds:ShadeSpire, which is the first season of the game and I still out of production, but the collector in me wanted it even though NightVault has more guts to it and season one is not “NEEDED”. Saturday I also grabbed the Spiteclaw’s Swarm team box (skaven) as they just look great and I have a skaven BloodBowl team assembled and awaiting paint.

Anyway, the last few weeks I’ve had a chance to look over some models and was considering getting back into AOS (never in AOS before, but Warhammer anyway), and the Stormcast were really catching my attention for some reason. No idea what spurred it on, but a lucky windfall hit me so the pieces fell into place, and now I’m gearing up with The Specialist games while building them towards an eventual AOS army (years away).

I assembled the NightVault teams this weekend and the Skaven swarm as well as a free Stormcast guy I got with a magazine purchase. I know GW has been putting out some great models lately, but these are absolutely fantastic kits. Even though they are pushfit, they are not like the 2nd edition Warhammer 40K space marine static pose guys. They are extremely detailed and have great action in their poses. The undead team that comes with NightVault, Thorns of the Briar Queen, are much better than I had anticipated and have a great flow to them. They all got primed this morning and I’m starting with the freebie guy as a test subject for my color scheme.

So far just the first layer of Leadbelcher on the armor panels, I have two color thoughts in my head for the chamber. The first idea is a Red and white color scheme which I thought would be different as I’m seeing lots of blues and greens around. Red and white are also the colors of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team which is my hometown and should be pretty striking with the silver armor. I’m a little nervous about painting white though as it can be tricky and tedious as hell. The second idea I had is to do the cloth in yellow and black, also striking and very reminiscent of my 40K love of the Iron Warriors. I think it would also look great with the silver armor, but I’ve painted so much yellow over the last few years I’m frankly bored of it.

Wish me luck, as I’m going to actually TRY and improve my painting skills with these models, and also try and get back into a gaming group with the Shadespire group at the FLGS.

Thanks for checking in .

Highly intriguing. I look forward to seeing where this road will lead you. I vote for red/white. Real world callouts are fun, and it will give them a cool classic templar look.

 youwashock wrote:
Highly intriguing. I look forward to seeing where this road will lead you. I vote for red/white. Real world callouts are fun, and it will give them a cool classic templar look.

Thanks Youashock , I decided to do the red/white, though I’m not really feeling it so far, but I was getting the knight hospitallier vibe from it.

Little progress as I’m getting ready for work.

Just base colors right now. As I said, I’m not totally feeling the Red and white scheme, but I’m going to press on as I’m still at a really early stage here.

So ideas for my “Army” are in development. One of the first ideas I had was reflecting back on the movie the Matrix. I can’t recall if it was that movie or another sci-fi flick where the director completely filmed while avoiding the color blue. Not sure if it was for a screen backdrop (green screening/ or bluescreening in This case)or just a personal choice, but I was going to intentionally skip a color on the army. I was originally going to skip blue as well, but now I’m thinking of skipping green as I’m thinking of using a glowing light powder blue for runes, magic and spell effects. The powder blue is also a throwback uniform color for the St. Louis Cardinals. Staying away from green might be hard as basing usually has plants on it, so maybe just removing the green from any part of the model and only on the basing would work. This could also make them look slightly less “Natural” which is a good thing in my opinion.

I’ll kill around some other ideas. Let me know your guys thoughts on the green ban, or other ideas you might have along whole army lines.

Very cool and, yes, it was completely deliberate in The Matrix.
Also, my favourite piece of trivia is that all the extras in the Women in Red sequence are twins, because Mouse is a lazy coder.

Ooow! shiny, nice, me like. Good job so far.

 Theophony wrote:
Naming your Skaven after cheeses was inspired Theo, did you have any particular favourites?

Crumbled blue was always killing his way through opponents (gutterrunner/assassin). The fromage was another name that comes to mind, but I think that was a unit of clan rats .

inmygravenimage wrote:Very cool and, yes, it was completely deliberate in The Matrix.
Also, my favourite piece of trivia is that all the extras in the Women in Red sequence are twins, because Mouse is a lazy coder.

That is a cool tidbit, I’ll have to cue it up to watch that scene again.

Camkierhi wrote:Ooow! shiny, nice, me like. Good job so far.

Thanks Cam, I really want super shiny on these guys. If I remember right they ride down on lightning so they should sparkle .

ListenToMeWarriors wrote:

 Theophony wrote:
Naming your Skaven after cheeses was inspired Theo, did you have any particular favourites?

Crumbled blue was always killing his way through opponents (gutterrunner/assassin). The fromage was another name that comes to mind, but I think that was a unit of clan rats .

Crumbled Blue! Brilliant!

I can see the attraction with Shadespire. Some of the smaller, 3-5 model warbands, are a great introduction into AOS. Like the Cardinals look for your Stormcast as well.