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    Stewalin is more ceramic as far as i understand it. However, i can recommend it. I used it for casting of architectual details after a dozen of failed attempts with plaster - and that really worked like a charm. MUCH harder and durable than plaster - and even in enclosed moulds, it hardens within hours.
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    So far I have only scanned the … compendium?… briefly, but 5th was also my favorite edition - and I have a vague memory of having the same trouble with the codex and missing the 3.5 codex at that time. In general, at first glance, it looks like a „best of“ based on 5th and adjacent editions, but I am not yet resolved regarding balancing. However, with recent retirement of many firstborn units which makes large parts of my vintage army (we are at this point in time talking about approximately 12k points…) obsolete, I am out of the official rules anyway. So this might just be what I am looking for now.
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    Now that's funny... with the two of us returning at almost the same time after quite some time of absense! So... that kind of disqualifies me for giving you a "welcome back". Good to see that you are still on it, though. I hope to gain some pace again as well (after real life consumed pretty much of all my time and a non-40k-but-still-tabletop-terrain-project soaked up the rest)
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    Now, seeing it through the cameras eye, the camo looks even worse. Yes, i do need to rework the dark areas and repair the damage i inflicted with drybrushing. But in general... the direction is ok.
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    all of a sudden, i realise that i did not take photos of the last stages of pelican-progress. Just as a teaser: Green is done, the camo-pattern is done - but just as subtle as it is on the tanks, but only a 2-color pattern. I think it needs more contrast before i proceed to weathering. I also have acquired material for the flying-stand. The side-project above - which will represent a Manticore - is in stasis. Just postponed until i catch up with all other stuff. Like this one: My little recon-buggy lacked a gun so far, now also completed, so i can also proceed to painting. The lack of progress comes to the largest part from a shift in attention to finally finishing my so far largest long-term project... which, i need to confess, is not related to 40k. However... who says that i can't use a (really large, 24'' x 24'' model of) Weathertop for 40k games?
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    Utgardian Armed Forces

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    Generic designed and scratch built vehicles. 3rd Party infantry.
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    Participation on guessing has room for improvement. So, the part design sketches combined with sketches from the design phase from the basic tank chassis: The pelican is now about 40% green. It will take a while until i get to more interesting steps...
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    After having constructed only a ridiculous few parts in another 3D CAD program, i feel a deep respect for what you have achieved there. Designing your own vehicles (and you did a really great job there - technical and aesthetical) qualifies you for (my) praise and awards anyway
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    Good that i did not take more closeups on the cockpit then. No, seriously - i am thankfull for your support (all of you!). On the new project: Actually, it is quite small. The screenshot is from one DIN A4 Sheet It is another turret-module for the basic tank chassis. The cylindical part is a little more than 1cm in diameter and about 7cm long. The sketch with the hard-to-see red lines is a top-down view on the turret (red, just for the dimensions) over the tanks rear section (black). In total, it is intended to illustrate how i design the parts. Isometric (sorted differently here just so it fits on one Screenshot) top, side and front view and then copying sketches of individual shapes from the sketch to construct the actual parts. Methods that i picked up from helping my wife when she was still at university and struggled with technical drawing.
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    Interlude: The Pelican is slowly getting greener and greener. In the meantime, i have started scribbling together something else. Who can guess, what it is going to be? This is a combination of design sketches and the already finished parts. The sketch on the lower half with the red lines helps with context. And in addition, i will also need 4 of those:
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    missile

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    missile

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    designMTC

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    Time to pay your thread a visit again - i have missed so much. And just too much to catch up with comments I simply love the turreted land raider! Actually, my memory stubbornly pretends i have even seen one with a predator turret in an imperial armour volume some 10-15 years ago. Do you by chance know Cpt Magpies work? http://www.captmagpie.co.uk/2018/08/pike-nose-land-raider.html Besides your impressive scratch building, also your painting style keeps reminding me of my own results - but your details are better. So you serve as a constant impulse that points out which extra mile i could still go from the point where i am. Even the hommage to the oldschool design strikes a chord in me - that all dates back to when i started (well, a few years later). Todays miniature quality may be higher - but that era had it's own charm and quality.
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    i knew that liquid CA "crawls" - soaks - through paper. That was intended. What was NOT intended that it does not stop there and continues to spread in a very thin layer over the canopy. Which left me with an intransparent, frosted canopy and a strong desire to shatter something. 2 treatments with what is available here instead of Future later at least some of the transparency has been restored: basecoat applied, basecolor on the wings - and now i think about camo. Either the pattern on german army helicopters (so just green and black), NATO-pattern (same, but with additional brown/khaki - this would be the same colors as on the tanks, but a different pattern)
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    Flyer1 17 2

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    Flyer1 17 1

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    Flyer1 17 1

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    Thanks all! Naryn: i think we are talking about different kinds of "eagle" I ASSUME you talk about the Romulan-(bird of prey) style decoration quite popular on valkyries and the like - right? I think of something significantly smaller - more in size and style of nationality markings, no larger than an inch in diameter. But since the wings already have a certain bird-wing-vibe, i now have something else to think about... Perhaps i can achieve a camo pattern that reminds of a bird? Hm, rather not. that would set it apart too much from the bullfrog. I am still undecided about how to paint it. Color palette as with the tanks - or more "space navy"? Something in-between, like taking the lightened charcoal from the tank-camo as primary color and the olive as secondary? Because camo on aircraft is quite common limited to just two colors. And because of the regiment faction-fluff, i want it to be somewhat distinguishable from the tanks. So at the very least a different camo-pattern (though, still the same color palette then)
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    building phase completed. Next comes the traditional CA-soaking and then painting.
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    *sigh* no help then. anyway, i call the building phase complete. Next comes the traditional CA-soaking and then painting.
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    Flyer1 16 4

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    Flyer1 16 4

    From the album: Utgardian Armed Forces

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    Flyer1 16 3

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    Flyer1 16 3

    From the album: Utgardian Armed Forces

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    Flyer1 16 2

    Nostromo posted a gallery image in Astra Militarum

    Flyer1 16 2

    From the album: Utgardian Armed Forces

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    Flyer1 16 1

    Nostromo posted a gallery image in Astra Militarum

    Flyer1 16 1

    From the album: Utgardian Armed Forces

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