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Trying to get this page back on track!
Right now I'm working on two (three, five, ten...) different projects for a competition. This one is a Battlescene featuring some old (!) Necromunda minis.
This was the original idea. But after some work on it, it just felt too big. So I did some cutting and got it down to this:
The two circular holes are where the two "heroes" of this build is going to be mounted. Since I didn't want to glue them directly to the scene I opted on mounting them on some nice 20mm bases and then fixing the base to the scene.
Here we can see "The Zombie Master" and the Escher Ganger. In front of her I'm going to mount another Zombie who's taking a nice big hit from the Shotgun straight in the face... And another Zimbie is going to be mounted on the tilted pillar - just peaking over, ready to jump down and attack.
As you can see the ground still need some work - which only can be seen when you put the scene under a strong light.
So far this week has been an interresting one. Since I'm low on cash and useable bitz I've been trying my hand att some GS casting.
After following some advice found at some different forums and blogs I sat my sights at trying to cast some small pices in GS.
As you can see from the picture above the result is quite good, even with pieces that got small details, like the grenade-packs.
And here you can see one of the seals placed on a mini. And to the right is the mould I made from filling up a round 20mm base with GS. Then I applied ordinary vegetable-based oil on to the pieces that I wanted to cast. Next step was to press them down into the GS, and leaving them in there until the GS hardened.
I also tried my hand at making quick, simple and nice bases. The base on the right is the "negative" one. I made it by covering an ordiary 20mm round base with GS and then applying some oil to the surface. Then I pressed it on to the base I wanted to copy. So now I got a nice mould that I can use to create some quick metalplated bases!
Since my first moulds, with the seals worked so well, I also casted a skull. The size of it makes for a good ornament on the powered-armor! As you also can see, this mini is mounted on one of the bases that I made with the "negative" one that I talked about earlier.
Final thoughts: - I love this! My next project is to cast a modified head. Which means that I will have to make a double mould. Right now all my casted bits only got details on one side. So casting a head will be a bit more tricky, i think...
One thing to remember: - When using vegetable-based oil on GS (which keeps the GS from sticking to the mould) the curing time for the GS increases a bit.
Well, by accident I wandered onto Black Library website. It seems like Sandy Mitchell has written a second book set in the Dark Heresy framework.
Right now there are no previews to download but if this book is half as good as the first one, it's going to be glorious!
Sadly enough it won't be out until late this fall...
But since I'm reading C.S Gotos Deathwatch books right now and I'm thinking about digging in to Ravenor later on - I got some reading to do, to pass the time until "Innocence proves nothing".
Well, I finaly got to take a look on the new IG Codex. And after some quick reading my opinion is that it's a solid book for a solid army. The IG has been upgraded from being the army with a lot of minis to being a army that can dish out some real nasty stuff. The only thing that is sad to see is that Last Chancers have been substituted with Penal Legion squads. Downgraded and without the leadership of Colonel Schaeffer. On the other hand there are a lot of new additions when it comes to characters, including Straken "Ironhand" and Sly "The one-man army" Marbo. But the most important thing is the additions of vehicles to the army. Now you don't have to turn to Imperial Armour books to add some heavy stuff to your army - like the Deathstrike Missile Launcher (something that I've previously only seen in Epic).
I could go on and on all day about this, but I got better things to do, like slapping some paint on my Hellblades and on my Lesser Daemons.
A small addition but none the less. Right now he's in the "painting-in-progress-bin" on my desk
Imperial Guard Vet armed with a shotgun.
By some reason he goes under the name of "Zombie hunter", can't really remember why. Maybe I was watching some oldschool horror flick when I built him, I think it was around Halloween that I started.
Two weeks back I started scratchbuilding some airsupport for my Chaos army. Right now I'm working on two Hellblade fighters. The primary material on this one is some cardboard, a bottlecap (to hold the engine in place), some filler for all the gaps and greenstuff for the raised details (that aren't cardboard). When everything is finished the pilot and a dashboard will be fitted inside the cockpit. This build is a cross between a display-piece and some Heavy support for my Chaos army. The base will also reflect that - still need to get going on that one...
Here are some pics of the first of the two Hellblades, "The Red Baron":
Some disturbing rune-details on the (hmm) "wings":
Another Hellblade is on the way, this time in a more greenish colour and with some more gs-work on the hull. (Thinking about naming it The green Devil)
Still missing on this one: the "Baron" himself, the pilot. Well and not to forget the two twinlinked autocannons... And, well, the whole engine-package. It's a sub-assembly that's about ready for mounting, just need a coat of paint on it before I start on the details.
One of my Dreads got some paint on his new "home"(!) Since I got two Dreads for my army I'm entertaining the idea of building another drop pod. But right now I'm deep in my Chaos Hellblade project.
Last week I started some scratchbuilding projects. First of is this Dreadnought drop pod. Right now it's in the painting stages so there will be more pics later on.
The other project is a Chaos Hellblade fighter. A project that is taking more time to finish than I first planned for...
This is the latest update on my Raptor army. The HQ squad is comming along nicely. I still have the banner design to consider.
Recently I ran in to a streak of boredom. So one night I built these two Space marine Veterans and gave them a sort of "midnight ice-world" kind of look.
They are still in the painting process and far from finished.
The primary inspiration for these two are my ongoing building of my Raptors Chapter army and the fact that the Raptors use different camouflage-patterns for their armour depending on the enviroment they fight in. These two may possibly be joined by others in the future to make up a Hq squad or something.
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