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I swear by Vallejo paints. They're thinner and don't need to be watered down, and my experience with GW paints is that they turn into unusable goop fairly quickly.
This is what I would have also said, had I posted first. The only exceptions I make are GW's washes, foundation paints, and boltgun metal, because Vallejo's metallics are pretty weak.
Cool. But, man, it's a good thing you said that, I was about to choose Denmark!
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that may be the nerdiest tattoo of all time.
So that jurassic park thing in your sig got my hopes up. I thought perhaps a mod was released that allowed co-op or battle mode! I love that game, still.
It's not great. The most recently painted is the BFSP cannon crew at the top. Most of it is experimental, as I'm still learning shading and highlighting. Any critiques.
Edit: oh, and Alazull; those dwrves are awesome, me like!
Edit: Apparently for scouts some of the symbols on their shoulders that have been used in the past are circles with their squad number in it or daggers.
Body shot.
Da krew.
Anybody have a spare Doom Siren? I'm going to use one as the grille on my next Trukk.
Da rusty deck. The kids love this one.
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Went faster than expected, still. Only... 27 more, and five dreads, and three drop pods, and a master of the forge...
3ds friend code: 2981-6032-4118
If he's plastic, he will just melt.
Plastics have to go in Simple Green, though.
Da dok will see yoo now.
Just a li'l prik...
And we're ready to begin da operashun!
Git me da scissors, ya weedy grot!
I 'ope e's not tryin' to hide mah toolz...
...Else I'll show 'im what's for!
Now to continue with my Black Reach Nobz so he's got a krew to run with.
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I'm just going for basic colors, not a whole lot of stuff. Also I have to put bases on the dudes. The drop pod is such an awesome model but holy hell was it hard to put together. Also I'm missing the melta for my crusader... probably in a box. All my Warhammer FB and 40k stuff was put in a box when I went to college and my parents moved, so I'm lucky I found this stuff.
Anyways I need help, how on earth did they make these explosion thingies for the warmachine display table?
I ask because I have a serious business sculpture for one of my classes coming up, and I really want to make some of these things for it, but I've got no clue on where to even begin.
And for the rest of my WM pictures from pax:
Tried my best with the pictures, their display case was really scratched and greased up from people. Plus awful lighting conditions, managed to negate as much of the reflection as I could though.
In other news, I've been making good progress on my Necron Pylon
I'm giving it three crystals, just to spiff things up. The third crystal will have a mount on the end of the arm, where all that extra wire is dangling. The mount will also conceal the ultra-bright LED that'll illumanate the last crystal. Each of the gauss flayers also has an LED inside of it, but I haven't wired them up yet.
Shot from the back, reminding me that I still need to put the lower central rods in.
Here's what the two crystals that run off of LED flashlights look like lit up:
It's not overly apparent in the photos, but as much as I was craning around the case, it looked like each one of those was a couple smaller pieces then glued together. You can kind of see what I mean in the first photo, between where the large explosion meets that small stem from the trail.
Edit: Nvm, I can. Damn these are a bit expensive though. Wonder if I can kill 2 birds with one stone and cut metal with it.
Most people don't use REAL dremels, they use off-brand rotary tools. Lowes probably has a decent enough storebrand one, and they almost all use the official Dremel sizes for bits.
EDIT: At least in general. I don't know if it's different in the miniature hobby.
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Just a thought, the perforations would probably look pretty good on a mushroom cloud or explosion, but just thought i'd throw it out there anyway.
Just as a cheap and easy alternative too, we tend to make our explosions using Cotton Wool and PVA glue. Just pulling the wool into spikes and bubbles then coating it in PVA and left to go hard overnight. Once that happens, prime it black then drybrush the bollocks off of it. Looks quite nice and takes (not including overnight drying) about 10 minutes.
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I apologise if any of that was painfully obvious or condescending/patronising, i just like typing. Gives me somethign to do in the office and makes me look busy for a few minutes.
"EVEN IN DEATH I STILL COOK MOTHERFUCKERS".
You should be able to cut pretty much anything with it, so long as you have the correct bits. Most places that sell the tools should also sell a variety of spinny bits for the end to cut, polish, grind etc... for whatever you need.
Hell, I've seen gearboxes you can attach to turn the thing into a tiny jigsaw. And of course drill bits. Tiny, tiny drill bits. Your options are a crapload.
I''ve gotta agree about those 'splosions - as soon as I saw them, all I could think of was Great Stuff. I had to cut a ton of that stuff out of my garage (long story - had to fix a big mistake made by a previous homeowner...), and that's just how the stuff looks. I'd imagine that the sanded surface mentioned earlier shouldn't be a big deal to work around though - that's the part that gets glued down!
And also, I'm waffling on painting up my Black Reach Orks, so in the meantime I've done a little bit of terrain work. I'm working on some city ruins - 3 more 12" bases (already planned out) and I'll be all set for an alpha level cities of death match (s'pose I could do one now, just with 6" of nothing to two sides of my currently 4'x3' worth of ruins...
To be completely fair: two of the ruins (the GW cities of death kits) were done a year or two back. The other two ruins bases were assembled a couple months ago, then sat unpainted in my workshop for a while. All the road sections were done in the past couple weeks. I'm now just trying to decide whether my remaining three 12" bases should all be buildings of some sort (2 will definitely be intact military depot bases, intended to be used side-by-side to form a larger one, or on different corners of the table for separate depots) or if one will be a park/square/some other form of open area... I'm thinking that on a 4x4 table, 5-6 buildings/ruins should be pretty sufficient, right? I'll need some room to maneuver minis!
Acouple more, and larger pics:
"EVEN IN DEATH I STILL COOK MOTHERFUCKERS".
You shouldn't have much trouble with metal, although you might need some replacement bits for your new dremel. The dremel is really one of the greatest inventions of all time.
They say you can build a house with a Dremel and a Hammer.
And LOADS of time... :P
Does anyone know of a clear type foam? The reason I ask is because, in those pictures, shadows would land on the explosion and make it dark. Much less explosiony in my opinion. So I was think if you could do the same thing with a clear/semi-clear foam or whatever, you could add in a light to give it a glow.
you could hollow it out then stick loads of holes in it.
"EVEN IN DEATH I STILL COOK MOTHERFUCKERS".
Came from home depot, I believe.
Games Workshop should do the Halo 3 treatment for an IG army fighting Tyranids or Tau or Chaos... With the huge diorama and the model's eye view and everything :P That would be sweet.