So this is Nancy.
Her main gun is coming along well too, just thickening it and creating an interesting shape out of plasticard first.
But I still think it could work if it was bigger than that.
The rib structure is actually cat-5 cables that I've found lying around and decided would make a good base for big easy ribs when I start to add details.
I'll be working on a base for the head next... I'll need all the patience I can get.
So this is what I've got done in the few hours I've had today...
Nancy1
Nancy2
Nancy3
I've put a little bit of putty between the "ribs" I can reach and will probably have to buy some square plasticard beams that can hold the legs in without them rolling around to give me less trouble when trying to set up a final position.
I will do more work on the front arms and hopefully have the start of the head tonight.
I've decided that the new middle panel I built wasn't up to my liking either, so I've gone with something a little simpler for now.
Another view
From the top...
Top view
I quite like this view, I should of put models in there "duking it out".
Cinematic view
Also started on building up some rubble and sand base for the older pieces...
Amazing how much difference a little bit of sand can make to the piece.
Last edited by omgitsduane; 22-01-2011 at 09:25.
really good pieces of terrain you've been making here, and i shall be keeping a weather eye on how your Heirophant? shapes up
GS
This log is a random mass of awesome creativity! I love it! The terrain in particular is really imaginative and will make for nice battles. Would be nice to see some painted stuff though
Cheers,
BTB
I'm eager to get some painting done too but I want to make it all perfect before I think of putting a brush near any of it... some of the guardsmen I think are looking ready to go under soonOriginally Posted by BeatTheBeat
This log is a random mass of awesome creativity! I love it! The terrain in particular is really imaginative and will make for nice battles. Would be nice to see some painted stuff though
Cheers,
BTB
I can't wait to see the end of it either!really good pieces of terrain you've been making here
GS
I really wish I could say I've been busy but that would just be a blatant lie... The truth is I've lost a lot of momentum lately and been quite sick.
I've begun a small ruined building-turned fortification.
LINKIES
And begun plastering up a few of the smaller pieces here and there...
Unfortunately my camera ran out of batteries straight after I uploaded these so I'll have to go down tomorrow and get a hold of some more for the time being.
I am going to (within the next week) rip the whole chapel off its bases and put it down again onto a single bit board and also increase the height with some 25mm blue foam.
I got up to a stage where I've realised the whole thing needs a big base to sit on like more traditional chapels and also inspiration from some recent terrain I've looked at so here it what I've done.
It is sitting on a 25mm thick slab of blue foam that I've cut down roughly at first as I intend to add a lot of damage so the accuracy isn't SUCH a big deal I feel.
The circle sections with lines coming out I want to have as implosions and the circle areas will be collapsed wall that will have rubble falling down to the MDF board.
Kind of very eager to get started on this again properly but I've gotta really plan it out a bit better.
And because of what I've done, I have THESE(link) leftover and I guess I'll just make them into either make shift cover sections of wall or... maybe some small themed scenery pieces... Oh the possibilities.
I really like how these two have come out, not finished yet but they did come out fairly well considering what it looked like before I chopped it up and stuck it to the board.
Better get to sleep, got a big day tomorrow!
I've been working at trying to add some details to some of the disasters of sculpting I have laying around... at least until my large nerdhammer order arrived in a few days (hopefully).
I've put flayed skin on him in areas but they arn't really showing up all that well, and the adding of fingers and toes has done a lot to show him off.
The little man from the test tube.
I don't think I want to do much more to him, just fill in the spots and cracks from the putty and maybe add some tiny little viens or something like that.
Then the fun part of trying to get him to go into the tube properly...
And this is the other test tube guy. He's going to look a lot more deformed than the other one as it clearly shows here...
So that's all I have for now, back to work!
I've gotta find some guitar strings that I can use for the guardsmen and also for these little abominations as I feel regular wires don't cut the mustard quite the same.
The first chunk of my nerdhammer order arrived today which is exciting news except all the guardsmen stuff is in the next batch
I plan to use the panels down the left side of the door to make a sort of dark-angels-cloaked-guy-holding-a-sword style statue and the rest I'll make up.
One of my armies Priests, I would of liked a more aggresive pose but I don't think I have it in me to pose him.
ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNND this is what the chapel looks like right now. I'm going to start detailing the floor and the walls a bit and see where I end up. after that then maybe work on some simple fortifications.
hey its cool!
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Thank you sir!
This has been a busy week to say the least. I've been stressing about quite a bit of stuff and haven't made time to get anything done but I've had a little re-lighting of the fire tonight and want to hopefully have something finished (and painted) by the end of the week.
It's 3 am and although I'm not completely packed up for bed here is where I got up to tonight.
I'm slowly getting around to adding the mounds of rubble that will clearly cover some of the more intensely fail walls and hope to use the hundreds of reference pictures I have to give me a really clear idea of how it all comes crashing down.
I still need to make some plans and sketches for some of the inside detail I think as it's a little flat right now, but all in good time.
I know the photo isn't the best but my packages of nerdhammer arrived in the mail the other day and I couldn't wait to put this thing together.
It had more gaps in it than I would of liked but what can ya do? I filled em up with putty and gave most of the statue a sanding with a low grade sand paper to make it look worn...
Same treatment for this.
This comes in two pieces so its a bit less effort, I just cleaned up the lines, roughed it up a tiny bit and stuck it to a board. I probably would of liked to stick it on a larger board but there's enough huge pieces already planned, I like a back story too much to resist sometimes.
That's all for now but expect more in a few days!
I kinda think that I rushed ahead with the painting a little. Some skulls or casings on the other pieces might have been a good idea now that I think about it... Oh well.
I've lost my Leman Russ somehow... I don't even know where it could of gone to but I wanted pictures of that. Anyway I did get around to assembling my Manticore.
I will be doing a red/grey camo scheme I think for the vehicles or may just end up with a flat blood red. Depending on the type of vehicle maybe. Also a little concerned with the light being down there, feel its a little too crowded but I wanted it to represent itself WYSIWYG-wise.
Slopped down some paint on these too, the camera didn't like taking a photo of them as much as I wanted though so... Sorry I guess.
Been stuck with what to paint these... Was thinking originally to go with the bronze/copper feel and the idea of a bleached marble sort of color also popped into my head for a bit but until I can decide on something else they will be staying this color. Hope to get them done soon as there isn't a whole lot of detail.
I am however stuck on the colors to use for the columns on the statue piece so if anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear it or else it might just stay grey.
So I found the Leman Russ tank, sitting on a dresser in the hallway I think he was drying off after the last paint spraying.
Clearly I felt he wasn't ruined enough and felt too recycle-able so the big shell blast in the side that tore off the sponson ought to have given off that impression. I would of liked some of the sponson hanging on by a thread to the chassis but it wasn't exactly fitting so flush after such an attack by the clippers.
After some reading of some chaos fluff I found some artwork that inspired to me to give my prince building another shot and this is where I wound up - concept wise.
He's gunna be nurgle aligned with 2 BIG banners on his back flowing with delicious nurgle goodness. I was thinking of some jetpack system instead of wings to lift him around, I've not really thought that far ahead. Any input would be appreciated for sure.
And along a similar line...
I've been cleaning up and adding detail to my old prince. I'm making him new 3 toed feet as opposed to the marine boots he had as well as giving him a new helmet and adding the regular chaos bits and pieces. Also highly considering making some sort of jetpack as the wings are ugly... but I may just remake the wings properly.
What a learning experience so far.
Any comments or recommendations let me have it!
Great work!
Some really inspiring and great looking stuff here! The putty work is just outstanding and the terrain looks really cool
Keep updating this thread i will be watching it
Thanks man! Milliput is a god-send. So much easier to use than greenstuff.
A little bit of an update tonight before bed.
Out of the bases from the old chapel I have these.
I think I may make them clearly piles of rubble and mess and use them as pieces to hide smaller vehicles behind as full LOS blockers.
I added larger rubble piles to this building too hoping to make it appear a little more broke up and destroyed.
These two however I have no idea what to do with them. I kind of like to have a small theme to each of the pieces but am totally blank as to what these buildings USED to be besides some walls so any ideas or suggestions would be heaps cool guys!
A close up of
what I have named the revhammer.
As will this, the terrible painting aside, its an idea of mine for a more insect-friendly color scheme for my friends tyranid army so excuse the rushed paint job.
Last edited by omgitsduane; 03-03-2011 at 21:39.
STORM FOR THE STORMBOLTER GOD!
Got some basing done and a little bit of work on at least one of these pieces.
Full picture.
The pretty rocks I'm using were only 2 dollars for a half kilo or so jar so I can be pretty happy with losing a few grains here and there and since I got 5 different sizes it adds up quite well when used right.
This I made a few weeks back due to boredom and an abundance of foam.
Basically its supposed to look like one of those coastline cannons that you saw during ww2.
Some orky trenches accompanying it would be pretty cool but I don't wanna get ahead of myself just yet.
LINKS!
Simple wall piece.
The Space Marine Shrine is also looking quite nice.
This is looking quite nice if a little bumpy, I'm not a fan of all the tiny craters in each of these but I'm hoping they wont put me off TOO much when it all comes to paint.
Still need some barbed wire and a few more tweaks - like mounted heavy bolters and ammo crates perhaps?
The chaos star is coming along well too with the addition of candles!
I added some bits and pieces to this but was lucky enough to have dropped it and they fell off but I'll be gluing it back on obviously a little later on.
I've decided that although the church crushed into total rubble is a nice look it needed something to make it stand out more from the usual terrain pieces you see everywhere.
And a giant wall with the roof partially intact was my thinking on this.
The little circles are going to be mortar hits and any patches of random texta will be an expansion of the current rubble.
I want to do some hugeeeeeeeeee arch windows in the wall piece and maybe even tile the roof depending how adventurous I get.
So that all being said. Big plans. I'm also drawing up some ideas to turn my Gold Toof table into a vietnam-war style jungle.
Everything modular though, I've learned from my mistakes!
Nothing big to report but I've added more rubble to the parts I felt weren't quite right.
I added a blue tint to the space marine statue and also painted the "dirt" areas of the aquilla but no pictures just yet.
I need to obviously go over the blue areas with some silver and bronze again to clear up all the blobs that got away from me. I was admitted a little carried away with the blue staining.
Been doing slow work on the Bio-titan too. I've had a little bit of a creative explosion lately.
The gun is the only thing that's changed however, the titan itself would not really have any majorly visible changes that's why I don't have any new photos.
Also not sure how visible the changes here will be but I've added a lot more rubble where I've deemed it necessary. Also on wall segments that I assume would of caved in after the bombardments, they have filled in a bit of some of the craters as well.
I did manage to cut the windows out nice and cleanly, but still need to do the arches, and work on a way to get a nice looking window in there.
So the chapel is coming along nicely. I am going to have to in the next few days work on the back of it and find a shape of roof that I'm happy with as well as start working on the defenses and things like making feet of barbed wire which is always fun and tank traps. Unfortunately I have the wrong kind of plasticard rod to make classic czech hedgehogs so I'll have to wait and see what I can get my hands on!
Quietly working on the prince too but nothing amazing done yet, I have to do some re-planning I think.
I've been a little lacking of time and effort lately but I managed to carve this bad-boy out in about half an hour from 50mm thick foam.
Its essentially a bunker carved into a cliff I guess, I might make another entrance down the bottom on the opposite side of the slope up.
Not much else going on, I'll be doing some stuff very shortly. Got a job interview tomorrow so hoping for good news!
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