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Well, #1 is purely optional, DoW II and Empire don't take huge system requirements...
le Mediko
13-02-2009, 09:07
Excellent work as usual, I especially like your desert shade turrets!
Klaus, not Santa
13-02-2009, 09:45
For those tracks you really may have to look into scratchbuilding some yourself. It is a heck of a lot of work, but in the end it is very well worth it.
I did these for my ZEUS:
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm48/KuK_11899/c4a99e58.jpg
and they worked out nicely
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm48/KuK_11899/IMG_2847.jpg
Cheers
klaus
@ Klaus: SEHR SCHÖN !!!
How did you cast the Tracks ? I mean, in what material ?
I allways wanted to try casting my own Tracks, but never had anyone to ask about it .
..........bitte.......
/ SDKFZ
Chris_Lancaster
13-02-2009, 20:12
Looks like resin - check out Ikim's scrathbuilt Thunderhawk Transporter for how he cast his parts, looks pretty simple in theory.
Thanks alot, Mate !! Will do !!
/ SDKFZ
these tracks are not resin... they are hand made, I believe is that correct?
these tracks are not resin... they are hand made, I believe is that correct?
Handmade and handcast in resin I believe.
He probably modelled them in plasticard and greenstuff (and various bits) and made a mold to create as many resin replicas as he might need.
Klaus, not Santa
17-02-2009, 11:34
I don't want to hijack this post, so I contacted SDKFZ via PM.
But yes, plasticard for the original, then silicone mold and resin cast.
Cheers
Klaus
Aye, I think you're right, Klaus; I will end up making my own - despite my notorious dislike of learning new things - like resin! :D
I have been doing a spot of work these last few days on vehicles for once. I prepared literally hundreds and hundreds of rivets, and managed to get the riveting done on a number of those Russmeras I've had sitting about for yonks. I've got the tracks enclosed on three - and not enough tracks to do another three!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/2.jpg
Need to knock up a nice simple system for that front shock-absorber doodah Imp tanks have, then Bob's your uncle.
Basic camo scheme applied to two.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/3.jpg
I see a few areas of white in the middle of coloured areas that need a touch-up, mate ;)
Like around the lascannon mounting on the left one.
It's the effect of the flash, old boy. I just had a peer at 'em both, and there's nowt missing. I need to take better pictures next time! Dunno how that effect happened, though. Weird.
gonzosbignose
19-02-2009, 15:23
MrP
You got your mail yet?
Also... tank camo is grand!!! More tanks!!! woohoo
regards
My name is Daniel and i am a wargamer
Thankee! Not in the post today, old boy. Just a charity and the Vegetarian Society's periodical today. But I'm looking forward to it! Fingers crossed tomorrow!
Vegetarian Societys periodical?
I lose more respect for you!
It gets worse! I'm not just a vegetarian.
*ominous music rises to horrifying crescendo*
I'm a vegan!
*Psycho shower scene music plays*
:D
I haven't got any further at all with those two tanks, but I have undercoated another thirty or so infantry with the yellow, and hacked apart one of my earliest Chimaera conversions for parts. I'll rebuild the vehicle, stick the stowage on other stuff, and I'm using the six tank wheels that blocked off the Chimaera lasgun firing ports to let me wheel up another AFV.
I'm stuck as regards those buggies from ages ago. I was sure I had a load of spare multilaser barrels somewhere, but I've been steadily going through boxes and boxes of stuff, and there's not a sign of 'em. Bit annoying, that. The problem with having so many bits of things available for converting is that one can never find the bally bits one wants! Or maybe I'm just really crap at organising myself . . .
Anyway, yeah, lots of talking, not enough photographing. I shall attempt to remedy that asap. I just keep not feeling in the mood. But I'll force myself to do something!
gonzosbignose
20-02-2009, 08:14
Save a Cow!!!! Eat a Vegetarian!!!!
Mr P... checked with the post girls at work, and that package only went in last nights mail, so should be with you soon.
Regards
My name is Daniel and i am a wargamer
What is wrong with the latest iteration of Firefox? In the old days one could hit Ctrl + F and type in what one wanted to find. Now it just pretends it isn't there. Bah.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/SecondPlatoon.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Missiles.jpg
And having uploaded two things, I am forbidden to upload #3? Thus began the File War. Aha! It yields on my declaration of war!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/FirstPlatoon.jpg
Right, so, yeah. These two platoons are incomplete. The imminent codex may well reorder things dramatically, so I've done five or six grunts and a sarge for each squad, but HW and SW chaps are a bit confuzzled. The missile launcher teams are the result of years of leftover blokes finally being deployed in teams. I'm sure they'll come in handy for Apocalypse.
gonzosbignose
13-03-2009, 09:40
MrP
how are you keeping old man...
All these infantry... look fab...definite deserty feel. (not Desserty - imperial guards men in a trifle)
I cant wait for the new imp guard codex either... should be good...
Regards
My name is Daniel and i am a wargamer
Right, started a fresh project . . . with fifty left undone. Smart move, idiot.
Anyway, no prizes for guessing the ID of this superheavy, given I've replicated the side armour slabs as well as eyeballing pictures allows. Right, I did a bit of work -
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M2.jpg
- then did the whatsits that link the wheels to the armour. Do the Imperial tank corps suffer more casualties from backs broken by driving over rough terrain than from enemy action?
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M4.jpg
I'm going to add the HB sponsons in the next few days. There's a problem with the wheels, though. I need GW tank wheels, and I've run out. I estimate I will need 2 small, 7 medium and 17 large for sure, then another 12 of a size I've yet to determine (plastic tubing might be an acceptable substitute. Needless to say, that'll take a while to acquire, so I'll have plenty of time to detail the rest of it, and do that hull!
For those interested, the tracks are the Tiger tracks recommended upthread. I find 'em a bit small for Baneblades, but just right for Macharii.
Last, apologies for the hiatus. It's been a bit hectic here . . . at this unemployed guy's house. Er, yeah, it really has, dumb though that sounds. Suffice to say, like Jake in The Blues Brothers - It wasn't my fault! For once, anyway.
I finally found those multilasers I lost aeons ago, so I've done some work on those Sentinel buggies.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Buggies.jpg
As you can see, I've managed to lose a pair of wheels in the intervening period. Oy-vey!
And I haven't abandoned those trees, Daniel! I sprayed them car primer grey, then gave them a thick wash of a dark brown, then black. I think they've come out jolly nicely, so I'll be making an order for them shortly!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Trees.jpg
Er, yes, I do need to add foliage.
Oh, on that super, I haven't started work on the turret yet. I'm tempted by the Vulcan Megabolter, but I can be swayed in other directions.
gonzosbignose
01-04-2009, 09:28
Hello Trees!
The Vulcan mega bolter is amazing!
Ive invested in a pair of stormlords to 'orkyfy' so i can have a transport 40... vulcan mega bolter wielding tank for my orks in aporkalypse!
That said... i think which ever big gun you fancy will look cool!
Regards
My name is Daniel and i am a wargamer
Klaus, not Santa
01-04-2009, 09:53
Hey hey, that's a nice start for the Macharius.
I really look forward to see more.
And you know, there's currently hardly a weapon that is more sexy than a VMB!
On the other hand, they'll most like be as common as Kriegs - so sexy that everyone wants them, and then they're no longer special *sad*
Cheers
klaus
Gents, I'm going with the VMB. Although I might make a second turret (not a tank, since I haven't enough road wheels for even this one!) at some future point to increase my options. I'm pretty happy with the VMB barrels. I've begun work on the turret, but there's pretty much just the base of it done atm. I'm going to knock up a plug in section at the front so I can slot the guns in place. Saying that, I am now slightly tempted to make switchable VMB or double Battlecannon. Hm...
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M5.jpg
I would have done some more, but there's this terrible couple who keep hanging around outside my house. They've got a mate with them, and they're forever talking, arguing, eating food and drinking - right outside my window. It's frightfully rude of them!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Garden/GoodMorning.jpg
:D
I love living on the very edge of town. Where else does one gets ducks coming to the bird-table? They rock! They aren't to blame for the stalled progress. Friend came round last night and we had a long depressing talk about his life. I'm feeling a bit more with it today, so I might manage the whole turret, but I'll certainly try to!
We used to get ducks and geese wandering around during their winter migration south on the lawns back at my old flat complex in Oregon.
Often times they're far more interesting than any given project!
Slobomeister
02-04-2009, 08:05
Those cars are rely cool, clever use of Lego wheels! Are they in any progress of painting yet, as I'm very curious to see them finished. You seriously got some talent there with this amount of scratch building. Love to see such commitment to a hobby, man.
Keep the train rolling!
Slobo
Aye, they are that, Faolan! I've been spending far too much time pottering about the garden of late, not spending all my free time indoors modelling as I ought! There's an old mill pond down the road, so we've got ducks a-plenty, and we seem to have some place nearby where rich people shoot animals, since there's a trio of pheasants who consider the garden and surrounding fields their territory. The males have an endearing habit of pecking Dad's car - seeing their reflection, we think! :D
Cheers, Slobomeister! There's no painting of the buggies yet. But I'll try to get them undercoated by day's end.
Turret progress:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M6.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M7.jpg
Chap for scale. VMBs partly undercoated, but will have those annoying white bits you can see thoroughly taken care of.
Some progress on the turret.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/M8.jpg
Bit of a hiatus on the tank front. I've been blocking in some tracks, and I doubt you're terribly interested in seeing yellow tanks with brown tracks drybrushed Chainmail. I'll get some pics up when they're more advanced. For now some more chaps for my Steel Legion.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Chaps.jpg
If anyone's interested, I've also been doing a spot of work on my BEF in my historical log.
That officer on the back left always makes me laugh. Trying his Highlander shizz on the Armageddon battlefields.
That officer on the back left always makes me laugh. Trying his Highlander shizz on the Armageddon battlefields.
Always makes me thinks of cats and small children, "Hey! Look what I found! Isn't it cool?" And the subsequent disgust of owners/parents. :D
sainthale1988
07-04-2009, 13:03
all brilliant! do you have plans for the griffons? i would consider myself a tread head but my punny squadrons pale in comparison to your armoured might! anychance for an updated group shot?
Cheers, old man. An updated group shot? Ouch. But I agree it has been a while. Stand by.
group shot, group shot, group shot, group shot, group shot, really I want a group shot.
Love your work Mr.P.
Here you go, chaps. I set out a 12' by 4' board, and it was only just enough for what I've got done. If I'd put on everything that's sitting in pieces awaiting assembly, I'd have had to add more board! There's so much that I shan't label things individually; however, if anyone can't tell what a particular model/part of one is, do ask, and I'll answer. :)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group3.jpg
And some more angles.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group6.jpg
SWEET, now you made me want to do a similar thing.
Lovely to just put all of your Tanks on a Table like that !!
Ill be back !
/ SDKFZ
Tommygun
07-04-2009, 20:44
Good God Man!.......I have seen Epic games with less tanks!
The wildlife is always fun to watch. We get deer, but yesterday they caught two young mountain lions in the area.
Good man, SDKFZ. Glad to be an inspiration! :D
Ah, Tommygun, if you lived here you could experience the benefits of a country in which the humans exterminated every potentially dangerous animal centuries ago. ;) I think we lost our last wolf back in the 18th C. Er, the country, not us. I don't think we've ever had a pet wolf.
That's not true, MrP.
There's still welshmen in that country.
Nonsense. The Welsh are a myth, like the Loch Ness Monster and Idaho. All those middle America states, in fact. They're just a justification for higher airline fees.
Missing one chap, this section. He'll be done tonight; he hasn't gone missing.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/1stSection2ndPlatoon.jpg
And some other fellows:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Assorted.jpg
sainthale1988
08-04-2009, 14:48
[QUOTE=MrP;3449682]Nonsense. The Welsh are a myth, like the Loch Ness Monster and Idaho. All those middle America states, in fact. They're just a justification for higher airline fees.
QUOTE]
ha! siging that!
I must confess that line isn't mine. It's a running joke on another forum I'm a member of. But I agree it's good. :D
baphomael
08-04-2009, 23:43
Christ man, are you planning in rolling over Poland with all those tanks?
Wow. Now that is a crap load of tanks.
sj
Poland, eh? Hmmm . . .
Actually, I recall a few years back in WD that Polish chap who had a whole Marine Chapter, and several other huge forces - in both 40k and Fantasy and other gaming systems! - so that could be a good target. ;)
AD.ASTRA
09-04-2009, 14:49
Sweet!! There are so many tanks on that table... I have not enought finguers to count them :D
Thankee, old man!
The Last of the Legion! For now.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/1st2nd.jpg
You saw those chaps yesterday, but missing one man.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/2nd2nd.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/3rd2nd.jpg
Remember Culloden? ;)
As you can see 3rd Section, 2nd Platoon is under-strength. And has an imaginary Lascannon. It's in a box somewhere. In fact, I hope two are in a box somewhere, as unpictured is another Lascannon team and a missile loader without his missile backpack. In time I'll acquire the other three sections I need to bring this formation up to full Apocalypse strength (the requisite 10 Chimaerae have been pictured before, and just need a repainting of their markings), but for now they can sit on the backburner while I work on other projects. Tanks, say!
Looks good. Also looks like they need more Commissars!
Looking closely, I see you cheated and used what looks like a Cadian powerfist arm on a figure along with his chainsword. For both looks and game reasons, I'd drop one or the other (most likely the powerfist that just doesn't fit with the rest of the model) and add in a bolt or las pistol.
Cheers, old boy. Aye, there's just that one Commissar (last page, I think), although I've got Gaunt pottering about in the same yellow. Yeah, apologies about that powerfist. The chap's arm has gone walkies. I received all these fellows from a chap who was leaving the IG, so they were practically free. Unfortunately, one or two pieces are missing. I agree the arm looks out of place, so at some future date I'll change it. I'm basing BEF cavalry and artillery atm, though, so probably Sunday. I've somehow ended up hosting a barbecue tomorrow and attending one on Saturday. Er.
Oh, the seemingly Cadian powerfist arm is an old Space Marine arm from those cream-coloured and rather-smaller ones they used to have.
Chaps, opinions on a postcard, please. Building a Valdor - yes, that silly overcosted thing with the Neutron Laser; I found a 1/35 Revell Sturmtiger going for a tenner the other day, and am converting it. So I'm wondering about the obligatory single sponson. Options are a) Heavy Bolter, b) Heavy Flamer, c) Autocannon, d) Lascannon and e) why are you making one of them? I'm just looking at the sponson shape atm, so if a few of you could throw me some ideas about the sponson, I'd be much obliged.
TADA !! Told you id do the same !! :Dhttp://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff61/finvovve/grip025-2.jpghttp://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff61/finvovve/grip026-2.jpghttp://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff61/finvovve/grip026-2.jpg
Now you see, there are more "happy" Guardtreadheads out there !
Enjoy !
/ SDKFZ
Good work, that man! That's a plethora of Supers! :D
Here's the kitbashed Valdor - early days yet, mind.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Kitbash.jpg
And I found one of those Lascannon.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Lascannon.jpg
Right, I've sealed that in. Just got to make the gun now. Well, there's much more to do, of course, but as regards the sponson, I mean.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Kitbash2.jpg
Right, done the HB. First shot also shows a spot of detail I've added to the reverse of the fighting compartment.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Kitbash3.jpg
Second shot shows the other side.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Kitbash4.jpg
Needs a new, larger barrel.
I'd go with a lascannon, since it's a tank hunter. I'd probably also build the Valdor without side sponsons, and just the hull mount.
Aye, a new barrel it will get. The parts for that are somewhere or other. I know what I'll use and that it's in the house. I'm just not sure where! Afraid I've already gone for the HB sponson. I would have gone for the LC for the same reason you gave, but I finally decided that a single LC shot just wasn't worth it.
Well, as it's a tank hunter, it'll be firing mostly at tanks, and since it doesn't have a split-fire rule...
Hang on. It doesn't have a split fire rule? Oh, bother. I just blithely assumed as a super it did. That's frustrating!
Hrm, I remember a time when Machs were in-between and classed "Heavy", not Super Heavy.
It probably can split fire, but, both have such a narrow field of fire, you might not have much option.
Actually, yes. I think the Valdor's rules specify her as a Heavy with 2 SPs, not a Super. Hm, I'm not keen on tearing out the HB, as you can imagine. But if need be, I do have a Lascannon standing by. It's an odd design, no matter what. Why on earth one would put a sponson on just one side of a vehicle, I really can't imagine.
Pop the bolter, magnetize the swivel. And she IS classed as Super Heavy. Must be an old set of test rules I was remembering - I used to see early drafts of them back when I.. stuff.
She is? Oh, thank Heavens! I'm going to dodge out of removing the HB, since I think removing I have a good chance of tearing up both the swivel and the body of the sponson, too.I'll stick an LC on any future version, I promise! Any suggestions on making her look more 40k? I still feel she looks too 1/35 tank with stuff glued on atm - and will even after the main gun is renovated.
Heavy Stubber, sand off the Zimmerit (its lousy looking anyway), add some whip antennae, and raise up part of the engine deck - I'd cut a section out with the dremel and mount it up higher on a plasticard box.
Cheers, old boy. I'll get started on that at once!
I was able to skip that on my Panzer II to Hydra because part of the engine deck was already raised.
Once you cut off the main gun and put on the new, fixed one, it might look better.
Right, have elected to cover the obviously RL wheels with skirts. I'm also toying with a dozer blade - not the standard IG one you can see dimly in the bottom left, but a scratch, though I will probably mount it on the standard fitting. No work on the engine block yet. Lacking a dremel, I'm pondering whether we have a variable setting electric drill about the house.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Kitbash5.jpg
Skirts are mostly done. I've left a gap for an Aquila on either side.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Skirts.jpg
Not sure about engine placement. I'm a bit constrained by the rear hatch I've already stuck on. Anyway, here are the three options.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Engine1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Engine2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Engine3.jpg
Left, right or central? Central is obviously preferred, but it will be a bit of a tight squeeze. Have removed the old main gun, but it isn't clear in these pics.
proditor
14-04-2009, 02:56
I sort of like it offset left.
Colonel Jacka
14-04-2009, 13:18
I a fan of skirts Mr P. Nice work!
Offset left, but, cut out part of the back deck and raise it up a bit is more what I was going for.
And by the way, you need to cook up a Leman Russ Punisher. One took out 2 Eldar war walkers earlier, and would have had the third had the Demolisher not punked it the shot before.
Like it offset left
I love your scracth
Thankee, Proditor, hur@n! Cheers, Colonel! Hm, I can still do that - after a fashion, Faolan. I've got the engine deck of another variant of that chassis sat about. It'd need trimming down a bit, mind. I was going to box that engine up and whack a mesh covering over it. Here's the other engine deck.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Kitbash6.jpg
I'd cut off everything forward of the two large circular vents, and build up the current rear of the tank so it fits in.
And when I found that, I also came across the original owner of that engine! Apologies for blur, but despite taking three pics to get a clear shot, none came out well.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/BetaKitbash1.jpg
Not quite sure what to do with this one. I promise this time not to fiddle until I've had a suggestion or two!
Unless I don't get any suggestions! :p
Anyway, been doing some scenery tonight. Picked up a bag of trees with the cheap Sturmtiger. And have based most of them.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Trees1.jpg
Oh, for scale, I'm a size 10 (UK)! :D
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Trees2.jpg
I've retained a couple for other uses. Good height, these trees, and foliage cover to pretty near the ground, allowing some semblance of cover actually being cover under 5th Ed!
Some work on the Mach.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Pip.jpg
Tumty-tum. Been working on the sponsons and front today. With luck and encouragement, they may be done by tonight.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Cox.jpg
Work harder and faster, or I'll tell you about the massive amounts of meat I consume on a daily basis!
I'll give you a hint, I'm a walking animule massacre.
Looking good so far... have the wheels you ordered from AU arrived yet?
Tommygun
04-05-2009, 07:52
I like it. I'm thinking about doing another Macharius, if I can find the time.
Will you be able to change weapons?
Cheers, chaps!
I've not ordered them yet, I fear, Faolan. Disorganisation on my part, you nefarious carnivore! ;)
Tommygun, I toyed with replaceable sponson weapons, and elected against it. However, I am not certain that I won't make the turret a "plug and play" thingy. Replace the VMBs with Battlecannon or Mach Vanquisher barrels. Dunno. It depends whether I make a massive mounting for the VMBs, I think.
I'm quite happy with the sponson, though it has come a little loose after these pics, so for the port HB I shall probably drill through the top of mounting and secure the gun more firmly. I'm going to have a go at that on this starboard one in a mo.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Sponson.jpg
It needs some work to hide the innards more effectively, but I'm pretty happy with it. :)
Elected to make those gun barrels. Not wholly happy with 'em, but there we go.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/PlugVanq.jpg
The Twin Vanq would look better if you add in another size tubing, slightly larger still, down towards the base for 2-3cm of run.
Aye, I think I'll do that in a mo. I don't have any larger tube, but I'll cut some of the largest I have and sleeve it over the top.
Intresting, ill keep an eye.
/ SDKFZ
Ah, that's much better! I need to get some GS or similar to fill in the gaps, but the initial look is better.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/VT.jpg
On an unrelated note, I have never had hayfever this bad. I'm going to burn every plant in a hundred miles if it continues. I feel cursed by Nurgle!
gonzosbignose
05-05-2009, 14:45
The goddamn hayfever causing you grief too huh...
Its really hard to paint or do modelling when you want to claw your eyeballs out!
The turrets looking good and the gun barrels definitely look better with the thicker sheath on the base of the barrel...
looking forward to seeing how you connect them into the turret itself
Regards
My name is Daniel and i am a wargamer
Hay mr. P how did you make your Heavy Stubbers
Daniel, I say we team up and obliterate all plant life in the UK. We just need a spot of Agent Orange, I understand.
rcal, they're pretty much plasticard tube, occasionally added to existing weaponry. See this thread for details: http://www.warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=120600&highlight=heavy+stubber
Right, last night I found that while I'd exhausted all my small dimensions of tubing, I had large amounts of wide tubing. So I decided to make some scratch Russ barrels. I was a wee bit tipsy, and not watching what I was doing - watching some old X-Files and such! - so, er, before I knew where I was I'd got thirty-one barrels.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Barrels.jpg
Hm. 16 stood are affixed to mantlets, and the other 15 need a bit of sleeving at the base and gluing on. Then I need to order a hell of a lot more stuff! Btw, is anyone else reminded of Hattifatteners when they look at those barrels? :D
EDIT: Not going to be in Nottingham tomorrow, but Monday. Car's failed some stuff on its MOT, and won't be ready before 10am tomorrow. Cue vexed clicking of teeth and sucking of cheeks!
Working on the Russ turrets today. Half a dozen Vanq barrels sat about, too. But they may well end up as base defences. Saw the Imp base defences in the flesh at WW, and was most impressed!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Plah.jpg
Tommygun
13-05-2009, 07:19
Working on the Russ turrets today. Half a dozen Vanq barrels sat about, too. But they may well end up as base defences. Saw the Imp base defences in the flesh at WW, and was most impressed!
So will you be building the whole Atlantic Wall or just part of it?
Whatever it takes to keep the French in France, I reckon.
Well, as it happens, I do have a good bit of polystyrene to use for a defensive gate.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Big.jpg
I was originally going to use it for a factory, but then decided the footprint was too big (even though it's so big I could fill the top of it with infantry), so it's been waiting on a shelf for attention. Though looking at it now, maybe the footprint isn't too bad. I can whack a landing platform in the middle, then ring the edges with too many turrets! Hm, I shall have to think about this some more.
On an unrelated note, having had a look at a Macharius and some Baneblades in the flesh the other day, I am quite convinced I over-estimated their size when knocking mine up; my mach seems to be about as big as a Baneblade! Whoops!
Right, and now back to those turrets.
I can report very little progress. I have spent the last fourteen hours or so so riddled with hayfever that I now suspect I am more mucus than man. I need to move to the South Pole or somewhere else bereft of pollen-producing stuff. Grr. Still, one must be thankful for what one has. The mother of a mate is jolly poorly in hospital atm, and so I'm going to be driving said mate around on Friday. While driving is annoying, it is at least air-conditioned. And it's in a good cause!
Vanquisher barrels:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/1-5.jpg
A Vanq barrel that I mucked up, leaving it longer (and better-looking) than the others. Plus four twin-linked long-barrelled autocannons. See, I've shrunk 'em down this time!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/2-5.jpg
Various turrets:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/3-5.jpg
Turrety close-up:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/4-3.jpg
Work on the turrets trailed off - I'll come back to them in time. Today, however, I was reinspired to do something thanks to a mysterious parcel. :D
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/DSCF2257.jpg
Move to smoggy Los Angeles. You'll never see plants in that concrete jungle, amigo.
You've got both Catachans and Cadians there.. which are you sending me? :P
Move to smoggy Los Angeles. You'll never see plants in that concrete jungle, amigo.
You've got both Catachans and Cadians there.. which are you sending me? :P
Is that my punishment for not working faster? :D
I mislaid my new Sentinel earlier, so here's the proof he exists.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/DSCF2261.jpg
My memory is rotten: I'd forgotten the Sentinel was in the box, I falsely remembered ordering the new Codex with the other stuff. Oy vey!
Anyway, I've got all the sub-assemblies bar the HBs assembled and undercoated. I've begun work on the interior of the troop compartment . . . and because I undercoated it outside there are bits of spider web on the engines. Our birds aren't doing their job!
whitewookiee
21-05-2009, 08:05
you are relentless arnt you good sir damn me to lucifers palace thats a lot of tanks.
No more work on the Valkyrie, C Squads or Sent, I fear (although I have decided on Rocket Pods for that last. I've been working on scenery all day. Well, I've got 4 Sikhs, 5 Highlanders (a sixth is awaiting a tuppenny bit for a base), 4 Officers, 4 NCOs and 10 riflemen to paint for the BEF as well, and so I am naturally prevaricating by doing lots of work in another direction. Um. :confused: Plus I was tidying up the other day and found some fortification stuff I mislaid ages ago and the fighting compartment of a 1/35 German artillery piece which has now become the kerjigger you can see below.
So, yeah, here's one of the Earthwork bits.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Earthworks1.jpg
I ordered some stuff from 4D Modelshop, and among that was a bag of 10,000 matchsticks. Seriously. So I've been working on said long-forgotten trench bits.
Aye, relentless is the word, old boy. Albeit I really need to concentrate on actually getting some of the existing stuff finished instead of moving on to other things instead! :D
Here's the AFV compartment unpainted - and just before I added a few last bits and bobs for it.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy4.jpg
And here with an undercoat - yes, some bits have been missed. I'll catch them shortly. :)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy6.jpg
Amazingly, here's something I've actually finished: a fuel dump with some camo netting strewn over it.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Barrels.jpg
But better than anything I could ever make is who is outside my window right now - Mrs Duck and her seven ducklings!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Garden/Ducklings1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Garden/Ducklings2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Garden/Ducklings3.jpg
And some possible fathers, failing to provide for their young. Ducks are dogs!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Garden/AbsenteeFathers.jpg
Mmmm, looks like you have wandering Orange Duck, Peking Duck, Fricassed Duck, Sesame Duck, and enough left over to procreate more lovely meals later.
Could be the flash on the finished fuel depot, but, may need a wash to darken it up a bit.
I had a mate round the other week, and she kept asking permission for her boyfriend to come and shoot 'em all. You non-vegetarians are just evil. :D
Yeah, it's a problem with flash. I shall start properly fiddling with the light balance in PhotoWhatchamacallit before posting stuff. Here's the fuel dump with and without flash:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Drums.jpg
And here's the Thingy with a spot of editing to make the colours more as IRL.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy7.jpg
I must decide what it's going to be. Something Apocalyptic, I think - maybe that Forward HQ thingy.
Looks much better. Groundwork on the bunker still needs, work.
And we're not all evil- we just know our place on the food chain ;) Some of us (like me) can't actually eat much in the way of veggies without having severe medical problems (like some vegos CANNOT eat meat). Besides, I advocate eating some, and leaving others to reproduce. That whole balance thing, it's part of my wagon-burner heritage :D
If you're playing with the GW washes over there, streak the Badab black through parts of the groundwork, and the brown over other parts, and then blend 'em together in other parts. Around the base of the bunker, and on the dirt up the side, try the Gryph Sepia, it gives that lovely rust run-off look that's on my sniper bases.
That Bunkerthing looks very nice ! Like the idea of using it as a forward HQ !
/ SDKFZ
Excellent work good sir. I have been inspired to begin work on some new fortifications for my burgeoning IG army.
Looks much better. Groundwork on the bunker still needs, work.
And we're not all evil- we just know our place on the food chain ;) Some of us (like me) can't actually eat much in the way of veggies without having severe medical problems (like some vegos CANNOT eat meat). Besides, I advocate eating some, and leaving others to reproduce. That whole balance thing, it's part of my wagon-burner heritage :D
If you're playing with the GW washes over there, streak the Badab black through parts of the groundwork, and the brown over other parts, and then blend 'em together in other parts. Around the base of the bunker, and on the dirt up the side, try the Gryph Sepia, it gives that lovely rust run-off look that's on my sniper bases.
Cheers, old boy - I've got most of the work done on the HQ thingy. Although I blundered a bit by sticking some Quickshade over everything when it looked grand . . . and now it just looks ok. Maybe it'll get better when I matte varnish it. I'll remember next time not just to whack that stuff on blithely!
Seriously on the food thing, I know what y'mean. I've a mate who can't even stand in the doorway of Holland & Barrett without the scent of dried fruits and nuts giving him an atrocious headache for the rest of the day. So while I don't understand it, I accept it exists.
That Bunkerthing looks very nice ! Like the idea of using it as a forward HQ !
/ SDKFZ
Cheers, old boy!
Excellent work good sir. I have been inspired to begin work on some new fortifications for my burgeoning IG army.
Excellent! I should have the trench stuff done by tomorrow.
I finished my Apocalypse HQ thingy. I should be sleeping, but I can't. So here I am instead.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy8.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Thingy9.jpg
Now that looks pretty decent, Mr P.
I'm a bit dubious over a control panel being outside the bunker, but who said that the Imperial Guard made much sense?
I would say though, it wouldn't hurt to drop some sandbags at one corner, or near the hatches (to block line of sight for anyone ingressing or egressing it).
All it needs really, just bits and bobs on the dirt, maybe an old canteen cup or the like, couple carelessly dropped food wrappers, you know the routine.
And I can sympathize with your mate, I run low blood sugar quite often and being around that much dried fruit makes me feel like I'm having a diabetic incident, hehe.
Cheers, old boy. I'll see if I can knock up some extra bits and bobs. I've got a rationalisation (if not a reason ;) ) for the external computer set-up - it's so that I can bung a Company Command Squad or the Army Command directly outside the thing and claim they're chatting away on Messenger to the blokes within. :D
Tommygun
24-05-2009, 05:49
That's a good piece of terrain.
Just add some sand bags around the outside computer and some dead grass.
I'm off vegetables this week.
I was happily eating a big piece of broccoli for dinner the other day.
Just before I took another big bite, I notice a big green caterpillar in between the broccoli sprigs.
At least I didn't eat him, but I wonder if he had mates?
I think they effectively exterminate most things hereabouts. That said, a mate in Wales was once rung up by his mum, who'd just cut open a mango to find a deadly spider rearing up on its hind legs and hissing at her! She was a bit shocked, so she sealed it in the rubbish bin . . . but none of the dustbinmen died, so it seems not to have got out!
Anyway, been doing a bit more scenery stuff today. This piece will be quite general - some sort of generator, pumphouse or expedition area. it'll be in showy terrain once it's finished. Necromunda bulkheads, half a shower gel container, some backpack from an G. I. Joe figure, plasticard and some other bits and bobs in this. Note the handy chokepoint between the buildings - large enough for infantry to pass through (just about enough room for Termies who breathe in), but too small for walkers and such, while the buildings themselves are tall enough to block LOS from tanks on one side to infantry on t'other.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Gen1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Gen2.jpg
Slow, slow work on the Valk. However, weathering is going quite well. The blue areas need toning down, but the dirty cream areas are pretty perfect, if I say so m'self!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Valkyrie/V1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Valkyrie/V2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Valkyrie/V3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Valkyrie/V4.jpg
Oh, the eagles are from the IG vehicle transfer sheet, while the T6 designation is from some 1/72 German fighter transfer sheet. Fits just about perfectly.
Tommygun
30-05-2009, 07:28
Are you using the salt technique for the weathering?
Are you using the salt technique for the weathering?
Nope, just multiple passes with that packing foam technique in several colours. I really must give that salt masking one a go soon. Aha! And I have a candidate following my ill-advised venture into a GW this morning -
I know it's taken me an age to get round to buying one of these . . . but what's really striking me is just how small the Baneblade is. It's become very apparent I massively over-estimated the sort of sizes I needed when knocking up my own . . . my Macharius scratch is actually a little longer and much wider than the plastic Baneblade, and my BB scratch is gargantuan in comparison to the plastic BB. Ho hum. At least I know now!
Anyway, have got the turret done, the wee twin HB turret, replaced the annoying sloped rivets and assembled a side. And I slept through most of today, so not bad going. ;)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/BWIP2.jpg
Main body done. Next: sponsons.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/BWIP3.jpg
Ah, there's still time to save your scratchbuild projects, MrP. Knock up 2-3 more sets of "Macharius" sponsons, and then turn it into an Ordinatus.
Ah, there's still time to save your scratchbuild projects, MrP. Knock up 2-3 more sets of "Macharius" sponsons, and then turn it into an Ordinatus.
Hm, that's megalomaniacal . . . will do! :)
Size comparison of some turrets (Battlecannon armed) I've been scratching for a defensive position against the Baneblade turret. I've used some bits I've not yet employed on those turrets and the Hellhammer Cannon from the BB kit to start work on a Leman Russ Eradicator turret.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Turrets-1.jpg
If you're doing a Leman Russ Eradicator, cut off some of the barrel length from the Hellhammer Turret, else it just ends up looking a bit wonky. From the ring on the middle, either cut it off at the back of that, or halfway from there to the turret.
It looks ok at the minute. :confused: Rest assured I'll saw it off if it start looking drunk to me. Er, unless I'm drunk at that time! I wonder if it's to do with turret sizes - these scratch ones I'm using are a lot bulkier than the kit Russ ones are. Speaking of which, when I leafed through the codex to check my recollection of the appearance of the Eradicator, I thought to myself that the side-on views promise an interesting new turret.
Anyway, the BB's main turret, twin-HB turret, and sponson HBs are drying after their undercoating atm. I saw something very cool while I was out there. A wren's built her nest into an old wasps' nest out there - as I may have said - and when I looked up from filling the environment with carcinogenic paint fumes, I saw her when she'd just fed the chicks and before she flew off. :)
Tommygun
31-05-2009, 11:51
I just looked up Ordinatus......your going to need more Baneblades.
I just looked up Ordinatus......your going to need more Baneblades.
Aye, even with my oversize one, I may. But maybe only a second oversize one. My old BB is two inches long and an inch wider (main hull only, sponsons of both excluded) and half or a full inch taller. Maybe I should just call her a command BB.
I am quite annoyed. I took a few pics to show the state of the weathering. But when I looked on the computer they were all a bit blurry. Bugger. So I tried again. Blurry. So . . . about forty photographs later, you have this.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Grrr.jpg
Yeah, I had to shrink it to 25% size so the blur didn't make it appear a piece of surrealist art. I'd get the tripod, but if I can't manage even one useful full-size pic after two score attempts without, I could probably manage to get blur from a camera set into a brick wall. :rolleyes:
calcipher
31-05-2009, 14:47
Good work, may I recommend the Tamiya Weathering kits if you are not using them already?
Good work, may I recommend the Tamiya Weathering kits if you are not using them already?
I've got a couple of weathering powders, but I've not yet progressed to a full kit. I have this bad habit of spending a whack of cash in a shop then being able to restrain myself online . . . usually . . . sometimes. Well, I've not got a Tamiya kit yet, anyway! ;)
It's atrociously warm here. I've spent the past hour or so cutting bits off an apple tree in the back garden infected with canker. It's 77F in my room. Bloody 'ell! Oh, before you roguish foreign types chime in, :p I was designed for about 15C and not a degree higher - and preferably lower. Time for me to relocate to the Antarctic Research Station? ;)
Right, I went to bed rather than waste any more time taking awful pics! Woke up about an hour ago and have now managed to get some good ones! Excuse the exclamation marks, it's just that not being able to get any pics yesterday was deuced annoying.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/4.jpg
Still PIP of course - notably the interior of the muzzle.
It was blurry due to all the yellow - yellow is an evil colour, ergo, it's blurred with the powers of the warp.
Yes, you'll need 2-3 sets of your oversized Mach/Baneblade hull sponsons. But it'll be worth it.
I accidentally slagged off a car belonging to a mate's mum when I was a kid - because it was yellow - and here I am painting tanks with yellow car primer. It's true what they say - you always become what you take the **** out of as a teenager. ;)
Just stuck on some transfers. I must get some proper gloss varnish. I've been using the Quickshade Army Painter stuff, but it makes the area darker than its surroundings - but not to the extent the photos suggest. The flash is exacerbating the effect.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Transfer1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Transfer2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Transfer3.jpg
As you can see, I got a bit enthusiastic and had already weathered the turret - so I'll weather the bits with transfers again!
And also stuck some stuff on the Valk's cockpit section. 135 for, er, 135th Air Transport Group . . . I guess. ;)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Valkyrie/VT1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Valkyrie/VT2.jpg
And P346380 is, er, the airframe number. Unless someone who knows stuff about flying things can suggest summat more apposite! :D
Right, I need to solicit some opinions. I'm fiddling with the engine section atm. I've boxed off the shrine since I dislike it. Just personal taste, no problems with the quality of the sculpting. I'm probably going to stick a small door or summat there. The main thing's the engine. I am no fan of the tiny exhausts. So I'm sleeving larger tubes over them. There will be two exhausts side by side, but for now there's just the one. I'm not sure of the way to top 'em off.
Option A:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/A.jpg
Option B:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/B.jpg
They'll be wrapped in car body repair mesh once I've decided, and I'll add a few rivets to 'em.
Right, the turret is pretty much finished. I need to find where I've hidden my violin wire to give it aerials, and that's it!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/TD1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/TD2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/TD3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/TD4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/TD5.jpg
Too sunny outside not to make use of the only thing sunlight's good for. ;)
The "Blade" looks very used :D Keep it coming !
The "Valk" also looks nice !
/ SDKFZ
Tommygun
01-06-2009, 22:25
I like the color, it looks like it is a close match to German "African mustard".
Cheers, lads! Aye, I think the yellow's a lot more military in feel once one's done a lot of weathering to it. I'll probably put the Valk on hold and try to get the BB done in the next two days. Ah, the benefits of being a gent of leisure. ;)
Not much to report this early in the morning. Went to a grand little restaurant in Manc with some friends last night, and although we five were the only people, he was on his own, so we were there from 7.15 till about 11 since he had to make three courses for each of five people. As a result of the gaps between courses, we got through a fair whack of strawberry beer. Mm, strawberry beer. :)
Anyway, collapsed into bed when I got back. First order of business this morning is the three minor turrets for the super. So far I've given them the basic yellow undercoat, then covered that with masking tape and done the barrels in some metallic paint I bought yonks ago from some DIY place. It's supposed to be for painting fences, apparently. So they need tidying up and then mucking up. ;)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/DSCF2530.jpg
Update in a couple of hours.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Paired.jpg
Need to sort out the tracks and engines, then give the pair of them a varnish, and all will be well. On an unrelated note, a Russ Annihilator turret and a Medusa gun and shielf arrived this morning from FW. I'm sure you know what they look like, so no pics yet. Anyway, I'm off to bed now. More tomorrow. :)
I'm rather narked at my lack of camera skills. I can deal with the fact that I seem to have the jitteriest hands in Christendom, but the fact that I simply cannot get an accurate representation of the colour is massively annoying. I've finally got a vehicle that I'm happy with the look of, but you'd never know it was more than passable from these pics. Harrumph.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Current.jpg
gonzosbignose
05-06-2009, 22:26
Your weathering on this looks super old man!
If you compare some of the stuff you did at the start of this blog and view your latest things, your skills have come on head and shoulders!
I hope you are well!
Regards
My name is Daniel and i am a wargamer
Cheers, old boy. I agree I've improved a lot. Of course, this now makes me want to strip the early stuff and do it again! :D
I managed to get one pic that's pretty close to the actual colour.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Psi1.jpg
Behold how that compares with the flash version.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Psi3.jpg
Finally got round to adding the fuel paraphernalia at the rear.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Psi2.jpg
And I pronounce myself very happy with the rust on the exhausts. It actually is gritty to the eye!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Rusty.jpg
I'm now going to varnish the monster, then see about constructing one of those light box thingies while it dries.
Tommygun
06-06-2009, 06:12
Cheers, old boy. I agree I've improved a lot. Of course, this now makes me want to strip the early stuff and do it again! :D
Do what I do. I just hide the old stuff in the tool shed.
Eventually they end their days out at the firing range.
Do what I do. I just hide the old stuff in the tool shed.
Eventually they end their days out at the firing range.
A firing range in Britain? Why, the police would shoot me if they saw me holding a snooker cue! ;)
Actually, I used to know a lawyer who was an ACW reenactor: whenever the legal books were replaced, he'd take the old ones out and test the penetration of minie balls. :D
I'll get round to the aerials in a few weeks, probably. There's simply too many boxes the violin wire could be hiding in! But otherwise, she's done.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Omega1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Omega2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Omega3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Omega4.jpg
I had a package from the antipodean regions today, so now have enough wheels to finish work on my Macharius.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Machback.jpg
As any of you who own a proper version of this will know, I got the dimensions wrong. So she'll be the squadron command vehicle when she's finished.
Good luck with the Marc.!
Keeping an eye !
/ SDKFZ
looks great dude, as always...:D
like the colors on the baneblade, maybe the pics are not so good in showing the true colors, but i got a rough idea how it looks in real life.:)
keep it up;)
Cheers, chaps! No more work on the Mach today, but I instead knocked up a trio of Punisher cannon for Russes. Very much based on Tommygun's version, but a bit lazier! http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=126270&page=31
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Punishers.jpg
I think that a Macharius Punisher would look rather groovy.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/MachPun.jpg
Wunderbar !!! What a Tank ( the Punisher ) !! Go P, GO !!!
/ SDKFZ
after the battlecannon,vanquisher and vulcan
now the macharius punisher.
dude that is a great idea.:D
looks a bit like the vulcan, but the punisher has longer range i guess??
Wunderbar !!! What a Tank ( the Punisher ) !! Go P, GO !!!
/ SDKFZ
The weaponry can be slotted in, so I just need to knock up a datasheet for it. :D
after the battlecannon,vanquisher and vulcan
now the macharius punisher.
dude that is a great idea.:D
looks a bit like the vulcan, but the punisher has longer range i guess??
Worse, sadly. Vulcan Megabolters are about 5' IIRC, and Punishers only 2'. I could claim it's a long-barrelled version (cough) and give it 3'. But 40 shots will still be fun to roll in the one turn of firing it gets before being overrun. ;)
Tommygun
08-06-2009, 06:06
1=Lazy
3=Not Lazy
Wow mate, your painting and conversion skills have come along way from the start of this log, the BB is fantastic and the Mach is looking brilliant.
Cheers
Sheep
1=Lazy
3=Not Lazy
Thankee, kind sir! :D
Wow mate, your painting and conversion skills have come along way from the start of this log, the BB is fantastic and the Mach is looking brilliant.
Cheers
Sheep
Cheers, old man. That means a lot. :)
Just doing something simple today - a wee Rhino with a few bits stuck on.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/R1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/R2.jpg
I bought some textured plasticard the other day to create a road, and had a little left over. So I've assembled this wall. Textured plasticard on either side, 2 layers of 2mm thick plasticard serving as the body of the wall, some more 2mm plasticard as the red tiling, and some bits of wood at either end. I've gone a bit overboard with the weathering, though, so I need to pull it back.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/Wall.jpg
Undercoated the barrels. Obviously PIP still.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Barrels.jpg
Got the Rhino in a basic Red Oxide. Let's see if I can make this one look as good as the BB!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Rhino.jpg
And I've had a go at knocking up a Medusa field piece. But looking at it now I'm getting more of an early steam train feel than artillery! Might need to rethink this.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Med1.jpg
Not quite finished with the Rhino yet. But it's almost done. Coming along pretty nicely, I think.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Chaos/Rho1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Chaos/Rho2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Chaos/Rho3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Chaos/Rho4.jpg
I finished my little wall. :)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Scenery/WallBit.jpg
Any thoughts on the Rhino? I'll take her outside tomorrow and varnish her as is, if there aren't. Off to beddy-byes now, as they say!
Tommygun
10-06-2009, 20:20
It might need some markings or writings.
Is it a Chaos rhino? Maybe a red Chaos star on top?
It might need some markings or writings.
Is it a Chaos rhino? Maybe a red Chaos star on top?
Aye, it be Chaos. My backstory for this one is that it was recently captured - or the squad turned traitor - and quickly resprayed from the original colours, but it was immediately pressed into operations, and has since been involved in operations without a break, leaving no time to add unit markings. It'd be a bit of a bugger adding markings now, anyway, since I've stuck the weathering powders on it already.
The rhino turned out great. The wall looks interseting too, got any more terrain for it to go with?
Cheers
Sheep
gonzosbignose
11-06-2009, 09:05
Mr P
The Rhino has really turned out fantastically.
Its more proof to the fact that your skills are becoming more and more fantastic.
Regards
My name is Daniel and i am a wargamer
Cheers, chaps! :)
No more of that style of wall to go with that one - I just had a few bits left over from a road I made. But I do have another sheet of differently textured plasticard I'll either make into walls or a small dwelling. Not sure yet. Going to be working on some WWI Germans most of today, so if anyone wants to chime in with a vote for either side - or a third option - it's this stuff:
Tommygun
11-06-2009, 10:16
I think that's the same stuff I made this building with.
For the Medusa, I'd take off the front set of wheels and move the gun shield back closer to the breech, then put in a split leg towbar, have a look at images of the 155mm Long Tom gun to see what I mean
Apologies for the long absence - various distractions. Mainly working on WWI and scenery atm, but I have undercoated a trio of turrets for that planned defensive position.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/DSCF2723.jpg
I've decided to repaint those ten Exterminators because they didn't look so great. Tanks are going well, but I'm feeling bad with this heat, so might finish them off tomorrow. This is how they looked nine or ten hours ago:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Repaint1.jpg
And here's four of the hulls now:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Repaint2.jpg
The other six are all at that stage. They need a few details, weathering powders and varnishing, and then they're done. The turrets have had parts painted white and Quickshaded so I can apply transfers. They're probably ready to have the transfers applied, and I want to apply the weathering powders to the hulls and turrets simultaneously. I'll get some proper pictures when I've finished.
le Mediko
02-07-2009, 13:33
A bit late maybe, but I really like your vorn out Basilik!
A bit late maybe, but I really like your vorn out Basilik!
Cheers, old boy. I can't recall the Bassie - my memory's getting worse daily, it seems! :o
Work on the Exterminators is almost done. In these two pics I've slathered them with pigments.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Anglia.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Anglia2.jpg
And I then took them outside to spray 'em with gloss varnish. I might matte varnish them when I go to bed, but I don't know what the weather's likely to be - we had some lovely rain earlier. Lovely for lumps such as I, but not so great for models. ;)
SharpSilver
03-07-2009, 19:17
Love the weathered markings on those tank turrets. Makes them look all rustic.
Glorious stuff.
Oo-aar! Out on the tank farm! :D
Tank in first post looks like a Centaur from Gears of War. Nice stuff here.
Man, that takes me back! I'm currently on a repainting kick, so it's possible that fella will turn up in a page or two.
I've matte varnished the Exterminators. Well, I've got part-way through, run out of varnish and ordered some more, anyway . . .
I've also re-undercoated the Thunderer company in yellow. So I shall get to work on them tomorrow. I always said I'd never give my force a properly unified scheme, and I meant it. So, er, I've been possessed by an alien? It's a sign of the Apocalypse? I'm quite drunk? Oh, yeah, the last one. ;)
Norsehawk
04-07-2009, 01:06
Too many tanks? Never! You are a painter after my own heart. One of these days I need to pull out all of my armor and do a photoshoot. I've lost count of how many small tanks I have, but I do know I have 7 superheavies.
Excellent! You're far ahead of me with those 7 Supers, old boy! :D
The Exterminators are mostly done. All they really need is heads and uniforms for the Command vehicles. Atm it looks as though Charles I, Louis XVI, Ishida Mitsunari and a horseman played by Christopher Walken are directing the company!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/611.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/612a.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/612b.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/613.jpg
And second:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/621.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/622.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/623.jpg
And third:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/631.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/632.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/633.jpg
And the command tank:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/6Command.jpg
And a few detail shots.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/6Detail.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/6Detail2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/6Detail3.jpg
The Thunderers have all been resprayed, but there'll be some delay as I have indeed run out of matte varnish now. I've ordered some more, so with luck the delay won't be too great!
Wow. I REALLY like these painted Exterminators. They look awesome!
My eyebrows shot up when I saw you had 10 of them (for I can only raise both, the single raised 'brow is a mocking phantasm to me) but if they all end up painted like this that is a massive multiplication of cool.
The Medusa piece.... Yeah, mate, I'd rethink what you have there, the barrel needs some kind of cradle to rest in and probably a slight angle upwards too- right now it looks like it could star in Cool Runnings as their fallback bobsled.
Wow. I REALLY like these painted Exterminators. They look awesome!
My eyebrows shot up when I saw you had 10 of them (for I can only raise both, the single raised 'brow is a mocking phantasm to me) but if they all end up painted like this that is a massive multiplication of cool.
The Medusa piece.... Yeah, mate, I'd rethink what you have there, the barrel needs some kind of cradle to rest in and probably a slight angle upwards too- right now it looks like it could star in Cool Runnings as their fallback bobsled.
Cheers, old man. Ten Thunderers on the table atm. These ones will be muckier than the Exterminators. Their sides, rears and the fronts of their dozer-blades have had a concoction of gunk applied to them. It's a mixture of sand, PVA glue, two weathering powders (one dark brown, the other orange), black, Burnt Umber and Burnt Sienna paints, and some Polyfilla. It looks aptly filthy. :)
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Thunderers.jpg
The Medusa is stalled atm, while I do all this repainting, but rest assured I'll take all this on board when I get back to her!
razormasticator
06-07-2009, 15:05
Those tanks are grimy! Love it!
The Thunderers will be even filthier, so you should love them more. :D
Right, been working on something else. Yes, I have again stalled mid-work on something (the Thunderers) as my butterfly mind was distracted by something someone said in Tinners' log. So I got some garden wire and a bit of wood I had lying about and did a little work last night.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/Bloodygardenwire.jpg
Today I've mainly been painting the WWI chaps, but I have done some more work on the big ol' gun. It's about up to the "pour buckets of rivets over it" stage, I fancy. So I shall have some dinner, then apply 'em. Oh, after filing those vents atop the muzzle so they're more similar in appearance, of course.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/GardenWire2.jpg
Wow, heavy weathering!
But very effective too. That last one looks actually as if it were made of metal under that remaining paint :)
Great job.
On a different note: How is this log a threestar log? What´s going on here?
I have noticed this before, some logs are gradually downrated, despite their rich content and very good work presented. I somehow have the feeling that the "rate-busters" from coolminiornot got themselvs warseer-accounts :wtf:
What do you say, MrP?
Cheers
Bart
Well, i say, dont worry about those Thunderers youll get back to them when you rediscover them in a Month or two :D
Nice Plasmacannon youve made there, makes me want to try to do one myself, for the Warhound and Reaver ! Do you mind if i have a go ?
/ SDKFZ
Wow, heavy weathering!
But very effective too. That last one looks actually as if it were made of metal under that remaining paint :)
Great job.
On a different note: How is this log a threestar log? What´s going on here?
I have noticed this before, some logs are gradually downrated, despite their rich content and very good work presented. I somehow have the feeling that the "rate-busters" from coolminiornot got themselvs warseer-accounts :wtf:
What do you say, MrP?
Cheers
Bart
Cheers, Bart! I'm pretty pleased with how they've come out, too. Can't say on the other half - but then I always look at and rate logs based on the latest work. If people are actually starting at the beginning with mine, I can understand it easily! ;)
Well, i say, dont worry about those Thunderers youll get back to them when you rediscover them in a Month or two :D
Nice Plasmacannon youve made there, makes me want to try to do one myself, for the Warhound and Reaver ! Do you mind if i have a go ?
/ SDKFZ
By all means, old boy! I decided to do it after a chap in Tinners' log was trying to persuade him! :)
Riveting work. Well, not really.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/GardenWire3.jpg
I can scarsly beliece your painting 10 thunderers ATM ... just WOW
Madness, thy name is Pete, eh, Thornz? ;)
I'd like to solicit opinions on the Stormblade. I am toying with giving it side AV 14 in place of sponsons. I think the benefits of removing Autocannons' ability to glance, and reducing Missile Launchers to glancing outweighs the loss of 2 LCs and 2 TL HBs. Plus, it'll look prettier. ;) However, I haven't yet started work on the sides, so dissenting presentations would be good now.
Warflag, you're a genius - this log's at 3.75 stars now. :D
Mr P go for AV14 looks cooler and I have one and it's missle luncher that I see take me and battle cannons
I shall certainly do so, rcal13! Some of you may remember that ages ago I decided to make a Deathstrike Missile Carrier. I felt the Chimaera too small, so knocked up a larger chassis. Then I got distracted, so it sat on a shelf for months. However, it's so large that when I came to think about the vehicle for my Plasma Blastgun this morning, my thoughts turned thither.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/SB1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/SB2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/SB3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/SB4.jpg
The benefit of the decision is a significant saving in time, since I have no hull to build now. The drawbacks are obvious! Symmetry was ruled out by the existing hull features, so I have now a lopsided creature. Still, I'm prepared to bear the cross of ugliness in exchange for the speed! More detailing and the engine block to complete still. Popping over to a friend's tonight for booze and films, so let's see what I can get done before then.
As you can surmise from the last update being two months ago, I've been in a bit of a funk. However, feeling a bit better now, so worked on some infantry yesterday. The bases on these haven't yet been done, mind.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey6.jpg
These are most of the remaining fellas from Red Platoon. I've got about another nine to do to bring that company up to strength: 4 squads of ten plus Platoon Command Squad. This set-up is just a book-keeping thing, mind, not something I plan to use on the table outside of Apoc.
I see the image allowance is up to 6 now, that's an improvement!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey7.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Bailey8.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Miss1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Miss2.jpg
I'm wondering about the chap with the power fist and some form of pistol - what is it and which set was it from? Or is that the pistol from the pilot in the McCragge box set?
The pistol's from some old plastic Necromunda fella, I think, old boy.
Ah, that really dates it then. Cheers.
Hello Mr P, liking these Guardsmen muchly indeedi-o! Yes.
Sorry to hear you've been in a funk, hope you're feeling better now. I too have been having a low patch for a reason I cannot fathom. It's effected my productivity on my own log too, oh well!
I have been looking at the materials you use for weathering and think I may well give this a try very soon, thanks for the inspiration. If you really wanted to you could cast your eye over my little log and rip it to shreads if it makes you feel better ;)
Cheers, old boy. I shall head over in just a moment! :)
First, here's today's offering. This takes Red Platoon almost to completion, and makes small inroads into some other platoons, too. A minor annoyance is that there was some misting when I matte varnished them. The perils of the weather! I've attempted to make it less obvious in these pics.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango6.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango7.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Tango8.jpg
And some close-up pics of the gun for Faolan.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/NecroGun.jpg
Tommygun
03-09-2009, 11:32
It reminds me of Hell Boy's gun a little bit.
Although the original GW sculptor placed the revolvers cylinder on backwards.
If you look on the cylinder's fluting, it's on the wrong side.
Unless it's designed to shoot backwards for self killing Guardsmen.
By the way, what did you use for a barrel on your scratch built melta?
It reminds me of Hell Boy's gun a little bit.
Although the original GW sculptor placed the revolvers cylinder on backwards.
If you look on the cylinder's fluting, it's on the wrong side.
Unless it's designed to shoot backwards for self killing Guardsmen.
By the way, what did you use for a barrel on your scratch built melta?
So it is! I hadn't seen that before! :D
The melta-barrel is not, I'm afraid, a product of skill on my part, nor easily duplicated now. It's from the Chaos doodah on the Apocalypse vehicle sprue. I had about four or five of them, so glued 'em to bolters, what with having no plans to field a Chaos Apoc force.
The barrel is basically the melta half of a combi-melta, MrP.
I see IG Lasrifle stock, SM Bolter, and then a melta can. I reckon any melta can would work, eh old chap?
The barrel is basically the melta half of a combi-melta, MrP.
I see IG Lasrifle stock, SM Bolter, and then a melta can. I reckon any melta can would work, eh old chap?
Aye, that's it. Come to think of it, I suspect one of my melta chaps is actually toting one liberated from a SM Captain's combi-melta.
Had a hankering for a winter camo thingy. So I decided I'd redo that Sally Command from ages ago. I never properly finished painting her, anyway! So I coated her in Army Painter Green, blobbed on some toothpaste, sprayed her white, then scrubbed the toothpaste off again.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Scout1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Scout2.jpg
Pretty successful proof of concept, but I will remember next time to apply the toothpaste with a Brillo pad. I only remembered that bit of advice as I was fiddling with these pictures!
I haven't given up on the mustard, as these show. Some post-varnishing clean-up needs to be done, as it's misted on certain areas again. And there's a number of niggling problems with the decals. Grr. Pretty happy in general, though.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/B1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/B2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/B3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/B4.jpg
Chaos project logs? I know it's quite a dirty SPG, but . . . ;)
Chaos project logs? I know it's quite a dirty SPG, but . . . ;)
Warseer works in mysterious ways.:D
Great work MrP.:chrome:
Warseer works in mysterious ways.:D
Great work MrP.:chrome:
Cheers, Seved!
Just PM Wintermute and tell him his aim's getting rusty.
Just PM Wintermute and tell him his aim's getting rusty.
Aw, very well. It'd've been fun just to leave it here and see perplexed people wandering in from time to time to remark on the general lack of Chaos. ;)
Cheers, Wintermute!
Been working on the two Sally Commands today. Finished the desert one (bar finding a gunner for the HB), and the winter camo one is next on my list. The varnish misted again, so I applied a bit more dust post varnishing. Mucky fingers whenever I game with this one, then!
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/SC1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/SC2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/SC3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/SC4.jpg
PIP on the winter camo SC. Popping over to see a friend in Sheffield tomorrow, and not back till Monday, when I'm off to the cinema with another mate. So odds are no updates until Tuesday. Quite happy with how this is going. Plenty still to do.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/SC21.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/SC22.jpg
Right, said AFV has ended up rather too filthy. She looks more as though she's an abandoned rusted piece of kit now than a working one. Pictures will follow in about half an hour or so.
Hm, maybe not so bad as I thought.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/DirtySally1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/DirtySally2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/DirtySally3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/DirtySally4.jpg
A pair of Grenadiers now. They bring Red Platoon up to full strength.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/GL1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/GL2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/GL3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/GL4.jpg
And the whole of Red Platoon, who are now going to sit on a shelf while I work on Blue Platoon.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/RedPlatoon.jpg
Next up should be the other two Bombards of the Heavy Artillery Battery.
Hm, seventh consecutive post without comments. Is the filthy look putting people off?
Enginseer: You know, Colonel, the problem with this regiment is that nobody takes any pride in his work! The whole motor pool is filthy!
Colonel: We have just driven through a squall in a desert, you know.
Enginseer: What a feeble excuse! I want to be able to eat my dinner off those treads or I shall bring this dereliction of duty to the regimental Commissar!
Colonel: Erk!
Anyway, I've finished work on my Bombard battery. First, the battery commander's vehicle.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard3.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard4.jpg
Next the third vehicle (remember I did the second vehicle first. Er. Yes.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard6.jpg
Another pair of vehicle #3:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard7.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard8.jpg
And finally all three of them together.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/RussChassis/Bombard9.jpg
Well I for one LOVE the grimy look, my friend! And that squadron of heavies looks ace.
Perhaps you should do some group shots of your finished stuff lined up in formation with some fluff, that will probably kick off some comments.
Also, a tutorial on how to effect such grime would be good. Oh yes, and a dance routine too.
Dragon Lord
09-09-2009, 20:59
I must admit that I'm not such a fan of the scheme on the vehicle at the top of this page, it just looks a little too patchy for me, you've got the rustiness and dirtyness down but it doesn't look enough like there's paint under the grime if you understand my meaning.
The Bombards on the other hand are fantastic, the rusty look really works well on them, I think the difference is that the colour is more uniform over the whole vehicle. The weathering on the vehicle markings is a real strong point too.
The grenadiers are nice, though their skin looks rather red, like they have a severe case of sun-burn, that could be the colour balance on the photos though.
i like that filthy look, but watch out not to make it too nurgle.:D
the bombards are filthy enough don,t make it TOO filthy/rusty.
that white/brown carrier is too much too ugly.
the vehicle is very nice but you made it far too rusty and far too patchy.
keep it unified i think. a few colors that are coming back in every vehicle.
if the bombard is a piece of the army and the leman russ is a piece of the army
then they should be the same color and also just as rusty as the other, same steel same paint same rust.:)
i always like what your doing, so keep it up.:D
and are there any more superheavy,s underway??
Well I for one LOVE the grimy look, my friend! And that squadron of heavies looks ace.
Perhaps you should do some group shots of your finished stuff lined up in formation with some fluff, that will probably kick off some comments.
Also, a tutorial on how to effect such grime would be good. Oh yes, and a dance routine too.
Fluff? Ack, I shall give it a go. I'm not much of a fluffmeister, tbh. I shall have to work out which planet the artillery's from, for one thing! :D
I must admit that I'm not such a fan of the scheme on the vehicle at the top of this page, it just looks a little too patchy for me, you've got the rustiness and dirtyness down but it doesn't look enough like there's paint under the grime if you understand my meaning.
The Bombards on the other hand are fantastic, the rusty look really works well on them, I think the difference is that the colour is more uniform over the whole vehicle. The weathering on the vehicle markings is a real strong point too.
The grenadiers are nice, though their skin looks rather red, like they have a severe case of sun-burn, that could be the colour balance on the photos though.
i like that filthy look, but watch out not to make it too nurgle.:D
the bombards are filthy enough don,t make it TOO filthy/rusty.
that white/brown carrier is too much too ugly.
the vehicle is very nice but you made it far too rusty and far too patchy.
keep it unified i think. a few colors that are coming back in every vehicle.
if the bombard is a piece of the army and the leman russ is a piece of the army
then they should be the same color and also just as rusty as the other, same steel same paint same rust.:)
i always like what your doing, so keep it up.:D
and are there any more superheavy,s underway??
I think you're both definitely right about the winter camo vehicle. I forgot the old chef's adage that one can always add more to a recipe, but one cannot take things away once added. So I dirtied it up, then found it impossible to pull the effect back! The next winter camo fella will be less filthy, I promise. The infantrymen are easily explained - I'm experimenting with non-Caucasian skin tones, and haven't yet found quite the right combination of colours. I do have a scratch/kitbashed Stormblade sitting around - fluff for that is that they had a gun from a damaged Stormblade, and they had a working piece of heavy industrial equipment, so they banged the two together. I need to make the engine section and then do some work on the flanks, and he'll be ready for painting. He's had some more detailing since this pic from a few pages ago, but this gives the general impression.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Supers/SB3.jpg
Nice ! Like the fluff to, and it looks the part ;)
must say that German Gasmask-Tubes looks good on Guards :D
You may continue !
/ SDKFZ
everything's awesome, but put some Devlun Mud on the bases... give them some definition.
Cheers, chaps! Certainly will detail the bases at some point - I'm in Greece between this Sunday and the next Tuesday but one, though, so I'm just concentrating on getting a Trojan done to accompany the Bombards for the immediate future. Need to come up with a nice crane-a-m-jig. Knocked summat up last night, but it's a bit crap, so going to have another go in a minute.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Tro1.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Tro2.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/ChimaeraChassis/Tro3.jpg
Right, off to Greece tomorrow, so no updates before Wednesday 23 Sept. G'night, all!
razormasticator
18-09-2009, 16:23
The Bombards are ace, love them. They look like the real deal.
Cheers, old boy!
Lots of pics to put up. I've not finished painting owt while I've been absent, but I have been working on a new design of Russ turret. and undercoating some stuff. Turret first, undercoated stuff maybe later. I cut some 20 by 25mm pieces of 1mm thick plasticard as the base. Got a few lengths of plasticard tube for the Russ barrel, glued them together and cut them at 45 degrees. Ditto some pieces of oblong plasticard to do duty as a vision slit. I experimented to find a preferred look, so squadron and company turrets have a horizontal one, while regular Russes have a vertical viewslit.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler1.jpg
I cut out a 60mm by 45mm piece of 2mm thick plasticard. The front and back of the turret were to be 25mm, so I measured in 10mm from either end of the 45mm side. I measured 25mm in along the 60mm side, cut some diagonal lines. That's the turret base. I drew a line connecting the two furthest out bits of the side, drilled a guide hole with a pin-vice, then a larger hole with a 3mm drillbit.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler2.jpg
Then I put a screw through there, and built a containing wall and lid of plasticard around and over it, so that it couldn't break loose internally. I made a roof that's 45 by 45mm - I think you can deduce the other measurements. I cut some strips of 2mm thick plasticard to serve as roof supports and assembled the roof. I then waited until all that was dry, and carefully wrapped really thin plasticard around the frame.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler3.jpg
I'll be applying external armour plating, rivets, hatches &c later on. First priority is to get the rest of the turrets done to the standard of the above 2. Then I shall start thinking about what sort of chassis to stick 'em on. I think something rather low, possible even a little lower than a Chimaera's chassis. We'll see.
Great work there, Mate !
Like the look of these new Turrets. Itll be fun to see how youll do those Hulls.
Ill be watching over your shoulder !
Please give us more !!
/ SDKFZ
Cheers, old boy! Managed to get 8 of the turrets done yesterday - need to find two screws before I can finish the other two. The turrets are about the same size as the old Russ turret including its stowage bins, and about as tall. Some comparison shots.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler4.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler5.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler6.jpg
More this afternoon!
Looking good so far, Mate ! Are you planing on doing some "riveting" to those extra armourplates on the turrets ?
More questions......he,he,he ! Will the turrets have one or two hatches ?
How about defensive armament (Stubber) ?
As you see, im still here ! :D
/ SDKFZ
I might give you the title Fidei Defensor, SDKFZ, since you're my only follower today! ;)
Behold the rivets! Two hatches, but only one added thus far. I have toyed with a coaxial Heavy Stubber for defensive purposes, but I'm not yet sure. D'ye think it's the best choice?
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler7.jpg
Any blurring in the pic can be attributed to this pleasing Scotch. ;)
Tommygun
02-10-2009, 02:09
Well the Scotch certainly doesn't slow you down, as you are again back to Russain production levels.
Well the Scotch certainly doesn't slow you down, as you are again back to Russian production levels.
You could say I'm Russian 'em into service. :D
Where'd that tumbleweed come from?
Provided I can find a pair of screws, I'll probably finish up the ten turrets by tonight, and then set to work on a small chassis for 'em. I have no particular ideas for what the hull will look like yet, but it will have scratched tracks, since I've pretty much exhausted my GW stock.
Now hang on one DARN minute, you're churning out yet MORE tank turrets? Are these to replace the ones previously seen or are you getting even more tanks?
I DO like your latest scratchbuilds- the turrets look nice and your method of differentiation between grunts and leader tanks is simple yet effective.
I would like an army shot of all the stuff you've done :D
More tanks, of course! I've a company of Vanquisher turrets I might retire eventually, but these blokes are quite new! Thankee re their appearance - I'm happier with it myself. I feel the preceding type were a bit Tiger-esque, whereas these seem a bit more, er, Leopard II, I guess. I can't promise a current army shot, since it takes literally a couple of hours to sort everything out, but I shall find an old one in a mo.
For the time being, these are the two turrets which were lacking screws. Happily I found some that will do (not quite the same size, so I guess the others were Metric), so these -
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler8.jpg
- will soon resemble their brethren -
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler9.jpg
- and here are some close-ups of the near-complete ones.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler9a.jpg
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Angler9b.jpg
I might apply co-axial Heavy Stubbers to the Squadron leaders and Company Command tank before sticking on the dust sheet thingies. I'll give it a few minutes.
As promised, here's a group shot of most things. It's from a few months back (you can see that the Bomabrds are in their old khaki scheme), but it's pretty comprehensive.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group1.jpg
Vaktathi
02-10-2009, 21:10
:eek:
So many tanks. So much dakka. Such a beautiful sight. I don't even know what to say to that.
That I need to build more? ;)
Cheers, Vaktathi! Last two turrets are being riveted and receiving hatch handles now. Probably head off to bed after that and do the dust covers tomorrow. Yay or nay on coaxial Heavy Stubbers for the four Command vehicles, chaps? Or pintles for all - or any other suggestions? Going to sketch some hull designs tonight before I drift off to the land of Nod. Evening, all!
Vaktathi
02-10-2009, 22:49
Definitely more :D
Definitely yes on the Coaxials.
Tommygun
03-10-2009, 00:22
I thought I had a Dread problem.
It's comforting to see I'm not as bad off as you.:)
Nexus Trimean
03-10-2009, 03:40
*Jawdrop* Wow. Thats, You sir, Are an addict. Where can i get some?
*GACKKK* That's a LOT of tanks. Did you ever see that Space Marine versus Imperial Guard tank battle in White Dwarf? Loooong time ago now.
You should totally do a massive battle with all that stuff, mate. Probably have to find a local gaming group for that tho!
OOIIII!!! You've painted your Thunderers and you didn't tell us!!! Post a shot of them here. Now.
Great stuff mate.
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k98/MrP_01/Grand%20Army/Group1.jpg
:eyebrows:
some people have a lot more money than sense :p
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