Daniel36's Log - Vindar 136th and other stuff

[Mr Zephy]

Hmm. There it looks a little tacked on, to be honest. Is it possible to trim the sides, and sculpt it to seem as if it is all oosing out of that vent?

[Harry]

Hello mate. Fancy seeing you here.
You have a log.

With some very nice painting.
However, favorite for me is the wonderful terrain/boards.
Realy well done. Well made, well painted, Very atmospheric. Very nice indeed.

I also love these green stuff experiments. The one with the faces is particularly succesful

I don't bother with the 40K side of things much (but I saw your name and couldn't resist having a look).
Now I have found you I will check in agian to see how these greenstuffing turns out painted.

Carry on.

[Jon Young]

I'm liking the greenstuff with faces more than the Nurgle emblem at the moment, but I'm guessing that a layer or two of paint on the latter will blend the edges into the model a lot more and then it should look truly disgusting

Did you use wet effect on the pustules, there?

[Daniel36]

With some very nice painting.
However, favorite for me is the wonderful terrain/boards.
Realy well done. Well made, well painted, Very atmospheric. Very nice indeed.

@Harry: Ahhh, it is an honor that you decided to check out my little project log. Thanks for the kind words!!
We are very proud of our scenery! I can't take all credit, as some pieces (unfortunatly the better looking ones) have been built by someone else...

I'm liking the greenstuff with faces more than the Nurgle emblem at the moment, but I'm guessing that a layer or two of paint on the latter will blend the edges into the model a lot more and then it should look truly disgusting

Did you use wet effect on the pustules, there?

@Jon: Actually, that's just PVA glue drying up in a sticky looking fashion!
I also like the faces better...
And about those Nurgly faces Harry and Jon... Expect more! I am thinking of going totally over the top with them! I want an Ogre face too!

Hmm. There it looks a little tacked on, to be honest. Is it possible to trim the sides, and sculpt it to seem as if it is all oosing out of that vent?

@Zephy: I agree with you. I wasn't totally happy with the Nurgle emblem either... This was actually my third try. It looks better in real life though, the picture is zoomed in quite a bit!

Anyways, I had a busy day today, so I didn't do anything... But that's okay! Expect some more pictures soon!

[Daniel36]

Though this thread started out as a brave attempt to show my Imperial Guard stuff, Greenstuffing has captivated me so much! Once you get started it's SO much fun! And since I chose to go for Nurgle, ANYTHING I do looks good! There's no skill here.... Just me, some greenstuff, some bits and a screwdriver.... As my sculpting tool! Just pressing it into the greenstuff makes it look Nurgly! AWESOOOOME!

I promised more Zombie faces (though I think I lost most of my Zombiebits, and I still want to keep enough for a couple of Mordheim zombies)....

Didn't keep me from building this:
BEWARE! WORK IN PROGRESS



Cheers! Daemonengine a go go... It's far from finished though!

[Jon Young]

Actually, that's just PVA glue drying up in a sticky looking fashion!
I also like the faces better...
And about those Nurgly faces Harry and Jon... Expect more! I am thinking of going totally over the top with them! I want an Ogre face too!

PVA, hmmm? That's a good tip! Might work well for oil spills etc (as I have no Nurgle troops and won't be modelling ooziness that way...)

The great thing about those faces is that you can use any spare arms you've got lying around too Vehicles that scream AND claw at you. Chaos-tastic.

(Edit) well that was a shock. Typed this, then when I posted it - Zombies faces coming at me! Eek!

[Daniel36]

Hey everyone,

Let's get Nurglesiastic!!!

Mayhaps I should've opened a separate log for this project, as I seem to be making a lot of progress and none on my Imperial Guard... Oh well, I don't care!

I love my little Warhammer Club!! Gets me so motivated!!



I tried to turn my Lascannons into something disgusting... They're not done yet. I'm not sure how I want to finish them yet.



And here is my Daemonic Engine!!! WHOOOHAAAA!!! I threw some of those weird pebbles on the other side too, but that's still drying and not that interesting!

Interesting fact : My girlfriend saw this bit and actually felt sick in the stomach, thát's how disgusting this looks!! Job'z a good 'un!! A jorb well done!!

Let me know what you guys think.

[Mr Zephy]

That's really freaking great! I like the way the oose now ooses out of the vents.

[freebooter]

Very nice.

I really like your guard. It is really refreshing to see a good looking urban force that isn't grey and black... I love the red and really look forward to that Baneblade :P

As for the landraider... Wow.

[Daniel36]

Alright guys!

I have here with me a Warhammer Fantasy Giant head, and I want to stick it onto my Land Raider....

Help me out, where should I STICK IT!

I was thinking on one of the hatches on the side of the Raider... On the other hand I could well stick it on the front of the bugger.... I myself think the side would be best, but I am open to suggestions!

Any other suggestions? I was going to throw away some money on a Spawn box to throw on this things, but they were sold out, and in the meantime I got back my sanity so now I am not so sure... What to do?

[roadrippers]

I reckon if you stick the giant head on the top one of the front hatches that would make it almost the centre piece of the model and would look great!

Great work so far! Keep it up!

[Daniel36]

Well, you got what you asked for Roadrippers.... ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?!?!?

The head definitly did look cooler on the front hatch...

Here's a little work in progress.


It's far from finished, it needs a lot more Nurgly Nastiness, so worry not. He is definitly going to stick his tongue out!! That's for sure!!

[AbyssRaven]

looking awsome on the land raider!

[aenimosity]

Gday matey. Your nurgle stuff is looking good so far. I like the look of the nurgle icon myself. Do you have any pictures of the giant's face from the front? And what are those little orange balls? They make it look like you've already painted the sculpted parts.

I reckon you should do one thing though. When it comes time to paint them - the daemonic engine - you should totally paint that top left orange ball as an eye staring off into the distance.

You're doing a great job. Everything looks festy as.

[Daniel36]

Hey there aenimosity!!

Those little orange balls are small pebbles that have been formed this way due to nature! I think they are found in flowing streams, that steadily turn pieces of rock into these loverly small pebbles. I got them from a mate, I think they are used for fishtanks so you can probably buy them at pet stores...

Anyways, slight update. I already put this picture up in the Imperial Guard Treadhead Thread, but people there are too busy gawking at all the awesomely converted tanks they don't really notice me... Can't blame them though, awesome tanks in there!!

So I will ask it here, in my own little corner of the Warseer galaxy.

I am in the process of building up a Chimera chassis to be converted into a Griffon. Now I am running into a problem/dilemma.
On the one hand I think it would be cool to build it up pretty much similar to the original Griffon, but on the other hand a close-topped version would not only look cool and be kind of original, it would probably make my life a lot easier, since I dont have to scratchbuild that whole contraption the mortar is resting on.


This here is a quick close-topped mock-up for my upcoming Griffon tank...

What do you guys think? Go for the original look? Or bé original and go for the close-topped version? Your thoughts will be greatly appreciated!

[aenimosity]

Took me a while to find out what the hell a griffon actually looked like. There is this from CMON:

http://www.coolminiornot.com/171592

And on another site there was this picture of a basilisk without the shield:

http://www.tabletop-terrain.com/stu/.../basilisk2.JPG

I reckon go open-topped if you feel up to making something similar to that cog-like arrangement the basilisk has. If you're really lazy and well off for cash, hang onto the chimera and buy a basilisk. Just chop the barrel and you're done.

Do the conversion though.

[CryoMax]

Forgeworld sells Griffon models that basically look like the original plastic Griffons from GW. They may have variant Griffons you could use for inspiration as well.

...Paul

[Daniel36]

Hey there aenimosity, thanks for the inspirational links! I really liked the CMON Griffon by Scibor.... And it so happens I actually have a spare Leman Russ cannonbarrel flying around.... All I need to do is catch it!

Seriously though, thanks! It helped me out a lot! I was going to chop up that Leman Russ anyhoo! (Cheap buy from a clubmember, but the model was all glued wrong and kind of sucked.... At least the FW Vanquisher cannon still looked good! )

And thanks Cryomax, I'll take a look into the FW site, I didn't know they had a Griffon kit there!

Well, expect some pictures soon enough I guess!!

[Daniel36]

I really don't know why I didn't just call this my "general" blog, because these next pictures are again totally unrelated to my Imperial Guard. Oh well... Here goes!

Our club wishes to start a Necromunda campaign, but you need a lot of scenery for that, so tonight I have been building some... Here a small sneak peek as my webcam really doesn't like to take good pictures from afar...







Enjoy!!

[aenimosity]

Hmmm. I think I've seen these somewhere else before. To be honest it looks a little weird to me. If those scenery pieces are supposed to be stone then you've got it nailed, but it looks to me like they are supposed to be metal because of the rust on them.

It's the grey that throws them off in my opinion. I could be steering you in the wrong direction completely, but how do you think they'd look if they were completely orange from rust? With extra rust marks around the gas cylinders.

I live on a farm, and there's a bunch of rusty equipment around the place. When it is completely covered in rust it looks sortof lumpy and flakey, so I think it would look good on your pieces. They are made out of packing cardboard yeah?

Anyway, it's good to see you really getting into this stuff mate (or at least posting what you've been working on). You're quite a good modeller and I'm looking forward to the next installment. How's the griffon going?