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Cheers .

There are more on the way:



This is Dillon on the left and Mac on the right.

Dillon will be supporting his las gun with his left hand while firing his pistol off to the right.

Mac will be shooting his lasgun from the hip.

Just arms, weapons and heads to go !

Like the bodies on these guys knives on belts are good.

 Colonel Jacka wrote:
Like the bodies on these guys knives on belts are good.

Cheers . I'm a little sad that I didn't do the knives on belts for all the troops but hind-sight is 20/20... however, with this being a separate little project with the prospect of different equipment... and the fact that these are representing "Catachan Jungle Fighters", I really needed to make sure that they all had knives so that's what happened.

Once these two are finished, I only have one more to go (Billy / Sly Marbo) and I haven't worked out how I'm going to pose him yet...

The group is up to six now... with just Sly Marbo/Billy to go:





All together:

Amazing, nuff said !!!

If I could sculpt like that, I wouldn't need GW.

SDKFZ wrote:Amazing, nuff said !!!

Indeed!

Tommygun1918 wrote:If I could sculpt like that, I wouldn't need GW.

At least we have Inso. Great work mate the latest two are fantastic.

Cheers .

I've nearly finished the final jungle fighter; Billy.

Just hair, moustache, eyebrows, arms (with "envenomed blade"), scabbard and basing tab to go.

THEN... I STILL need to sort out some Servitors for the army project... THEN... finish painting the army .

Okay, so only a few million tasks left then? You got this! I've seen your work, insurmountable is just a walk in the park for you. I look forward to seeing your progress.

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Okay, so only a few million tasks left then? You got this! I've seen your work, insurmountable is just a walk in the park for you. I look forward to seeing your progress.

It may seem a lot but it isn't too bad ... I need to sculpt 2 servitors. One will just have the servo arm and the other will have three heavy weapon options... but both bodies could be the same one (just different arms/weapons)... it just depends how I feel when I get there. They will be robots, not cyborgs... I want robot buddies rather than cyborg slaves .

The army painting bit isn't too bad either. I've painted nearly everything except for one infantry squad, one command squad and one heavy weapon squad... plus the miniatures I haven't got casts of yet... then I'll need to paint two astropaths and the four servitors... and that's it! OBVIOUSLY "that's it" just means "unless I decide to add extras" ...

Billy just needs his arms to be finished and a basing tab. I've chopped up an existing arm and the axe it was carrying to start the left arm... so that won't be too much to sort out. The right arm is just a bare arm with a glove on so that won't be too hard either.

So it may SOUND a lot... but it's not too much really .

On the Billy front, I hope to have him finished by the end of the weekend ... so pix soon!

This is Billy. He's the last of the jungle fighting team:



This is his team with the enemy that they are hunting:



That is the end of this little project so I can now get back to my Space Dwarf Army again .

All of them are excellent Inso, but that last one is truly brilliant. Really love the pose and the expression, great mini.

Lovely squad, sculpting on point as usual!

Inso,

Billy rocks mate, you really nailed him.

Cheers .

I think that Billy is my favourite... mostly because he is a bit different but also down to the pose.

I'm now trying to work out a design for my servitors... I want heavily built robots rather than cyborgs. I'm planning on a couple of bodies and then swappable equipment; servo-arm, heavy bolter, plasma cannon and multi-melta. The body will have two small arms and the equipment will be ounted in the centre, on the robots back. The back will be split into three units; left hand side - robot power-pack, centre - heavy weapon/servo arm and right hand side - ammunition/power-pack for the weapon/servo-arm.

I just need to come up with a suitable design now !

The eight of the sculpts have been sent off for casting so now it's just a case of waiting to see if they come out alright .

The servitors are being stubborn because I haven't been able to set a design for them... even though I know what I want to achieve.

I'm sure I'll sort something out .

Yes, kickstarter soon!

 Colonel Jacka wrote:
Yes, kickstarter soon!

There is likely to be a slight delay on a Kickstarter due to Chris having to take some time off for a broken arm and wrist (his dominant arm)... but he has the miniatures and has sent them / will send them off for casting in resin.

Inso,

Will they also be done in metal?

 Colonel Jacka wrote:
Inso,

Will they also be done in metal?

The resin is for masters and sending to me. All the miniatures Chris casts, are in metal... so these should be metal too .

 Inso wrote:

 Colonel Jacka wrote:
Inso,

Will they also be done in metal?

The resin is for masters and sending to me. All the miniatures Chris casts, are in metal... so these should be metal too .

Gotta be happy with that.

Marvellous sculpting and converting, Inso. Great army vision and wonderful character captured in all of your models. Your sculpts keep getting better, and among the many great details and designs the diskjockey Squat stands out the most for me. Eventually, when personal finances allow, I'll have to collect him and others of your great range of Space Dwarfs.

I've long kept an occasional eye on the inspired and inspiring work that you do, both for Squats and Demiurg. Do you have a separate Demiurg project log here on DakkaDakka?

It is fantastic to see you keep on trucking with Rogue Trader style Squats. I hope that you will eventually return and further develop your Demiurg conceps.

If the new Leagues of Votann releases did dampen your enthusiasm for the Demiurg, then might I share my view as a Chaos Dwarf fantast? Chaos Dwarfs in Warhammer Fantasy has been reimagined in a new style every decade since the 1980s. This wild plethora of different styles have only served to strengthen the appeal and community creativity of Chaos Dwarfs. I would like to propose that a similar view is suited for Squats of all kinds:

The more styles, the merrier. Just as 1980s Chaos Dwarf styles keep on trucking in independent company ranges alongside Assyrian big hat derivatives and ranges inspired by the Hellcannon crew and Legion of Azgorh (plus a few wholly inventive new styles among third party producers), so can surely Space Dwarfs flourish with Rogue Trader quilted gambeson Squats side by side with NASA-punk Kin, exotic Demiurg, Necromunda Squats, Kharadron Overlord conversions and many more possible styles beside these.

And as has been the case with Chaos Dwarfs Online, enthusiasts getting creative and expanding the different styles with new concepts might cross-fertilize each other with new ideas for the better, even while approaching similar new concepts in purely different styles.

Besides, would you be interested in posting your glorious Chaos Squats over on CDO? People will love them over there, that is for sure.

Keep up the stellar work, maestro. You're both a king of RT-style Squats and a visionary for Demiurg.

Cheers

@Karak Norn Clansman - Thanks for the enthusiastic post . I try to keep things fresh so you never know what's coming next.

Here's a link to my Demiurg thread on here:

https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/744875.page

I am DEFINITELY planning to get back to the project at some point and have a LOT of miniatures ready to be assembled/converted/painted for it. But My current project is pretty much the only personal project that I am working on at the moment (my self-sculpted Squats).

My Chaos Squats are sort of a kill team so aren't likely to get much more added... but you never know... HOWEVER, the Chaos side of things doesn't really ignite my enthusiasm so I tend to stick with the good guys. If you want to link my images to CDO, feel free but it's another forum on top of a dozen that I follow so it's unlikely I'll be getting involved in that direction.

All that said, I have packed away my sculpting stuff this evening and have dug out my paints so that I can get more of my army painted and have a bit of a break from the putty... so there should be some painted miniatures turning up here soon .

An update. The jungle fighters and Chaos Squat are at the casters.

Chris is still "broken" so things are moving slower but I will be sending the Astropaths, adventurer and the little diorama to him very soon.

In the meantime, I am painting troops again... with the second infantry squad of third platoon getting painted at the moment .

Once they're finished, I have nine troops to paint and I've finished all the troops for the army that I have. I just need a pair of astropaths and four servitors to be finished/cast up and painted and that will be the army finished ...

As mentioned earlier, I've started painting the second infantry squad for the third platoon :



That's the whole unit but only eight need painting because two are already painted. I've finished the base-coat and wash stages now (wash still wet in the following pic) and will start the final highlights later today :



It's nice to be back painting again .

Great progress! Your sculpting is, as usual, on point.

 blockade23 wrote:
Great progress! Your sculpting is, as usual, on point.

Thank you .

The squad is now finished:



On to the heavy weapon squad now ...

Nicely painted Inso.
What do you use for the crackle on the bases?

 Tommygun1918 wrote:
Nicely painted Inso.
What do you use for the crackle on the bases?

Cheers .

For the crackle effect, I base-coat with GW Tuskgor fur, then blob on some GW "Technical" Martian Ironearth. Once it dries crackled, I then wash with GW nuln oil and drybrush with the tuskgor fur. I like the cracks to really stand out, hence the dark wash... but if you want a more realistic effect, a lighter shade of wash and building up to lighter highlight colours would provide a more "deserty" look.

In today's news, the Astropaths, Adventurer and "mourning" diorama have been sent off for casting .

I've also finished the penultimate unit:



Just the command squad and a few "characters" to go now .

(EDIT - The guy, front left, now has the black parts of his ID disks painted ).