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Amazing amount for just two hours!

Your glue gun casts look like commercially mass-produced resin castings- outstanding work!

Thank you Cap'n Facebeard, Thank you Meer_Cat. Unfortunately, it seems fate is working against me. The morning after I started my personal challenge both my wife and toddler got sick. I haven't really had much time to do anything other then take care of them and do chores. And thanks, Meer, the casts are definately looking better than they used to, but once you can see them with more detail rather than translucent, their sins of being recasts will be evident
I do feel like I have gotten better at making molds than I used to be though, so there is improvement.

Am I understanding your whitescars project photo correctly? Are you casting your models in hotglue?

Yes, you are correct Warboss_Waaazag. I am casting them in hot glue.

I really like those Iron Hands, some of the best I've seen quite honestly from a Chapter that makes me fall asleep.

Awesome Ork trukks and fungus! And I was looking at Tyranid Spores just this morning... Uncanny that...

Thanks so much Ragsta and that is unexpected that you were looking at Tyranid spores the morning before seeing mine.

I'm almost done painting 5 of my White Scars space marines, they should be done by tomorrow.
I have given up trying to paint a scratch-built stompa for this month's painting contest, and have switched to two homemade Big Squiggoths.
This reddish-brown one has been nicknamed "the naked mole rat". The blue one is being painted by one of my students. He liked my squiggoths so much that I gave him one.

The final squiggoth will be green.


Here are the White Scars that I'm not currently painting. I dropped the terminator sergeant's head and can't find it. I'll have to make a new one. Two of the tactical marine's had pretty bad bubbles and needed gap filling since I already long ago failed my one weekend plan to finish these, I'm increasing the quality a little while still focusing on speed of quality.

I'm liking those home brewed Squiggoths. They add character to an army.

Looking very nice, especially as homemade projects go. You won't need GW at all anymore.

Thanks Tommygun and thanks Cap'n Facebeard. With GW's constant price hikes, I would like to rely on them as little as possible.

Here are the five finished White Scars

You would never guess they weren't official minis

Thanks so much Cap'n I'm showing them from their best angles, so sadly they don't look as good from other angles. Sorry for the slow response, real life has been kicking my butt lately.

Squiggoths are looking good. Are you planning to put guns and stuff on them?

I admire your bravery in attempting White Scars. I find predominantly white minis almost as difficult as yellow.

Been listening to the R.A Salvatore's Dark Elf trilogy as audiobooks lately and ever since have had the burning urge to run an Underdark adventure. Or at the very least, paint and build more Underdark dwellers. Those Violet Fungi really look the part and now I really have to have some. If the stars align, I might even try follow your guidance into sculpting some!

That being said:

Meer_Cat wrote:You really have the potential to quit your day job Syro, and go all in on a specialty gaming figure and terrain maker. The range and breadth of the pieces you're turning out is amazing and the quality is very high. Your gladiator pieces are top notch and the casual way you drop mention of making them is on par with Ezki's "I had nothing better to do one afternoon than make this sci-fi armoured car out of an old biscuit box".

I wholly agree with this statement. Like I've mentioned before, your knack for scratchbuilding and sculpting stuff out of nowhere is admirable and keeps baffling me still. It is truly inspiring.

And thanks for the lovely mention Meer_cat, even if I'm a bit late to the party

Great work on the white armour Syro! That's a daunting task. I'm cheating on my in progress white armoured sisters and using an aibrush.

Keep it up!