Today in the hobby I....

[Evil Eye]

I recently discovered the existence of Resione Tough 74 resin, which is a purpose-made resin for making action figures from; not only is it extremely hardwearing, but it also doesn't "powder" with friction. I've got some coming in the post and to that end am trying to design a fully printable* 1/18 Firstborn Space Marine to go with JoyToy's figures. This is what I have so far, currently just blocking in details; note that the head and shoulder pad are placeholders as they are not my files, and are just there for scale/reference. I'm planning on doing the actual head to resemble the 2E "angry" helmets, as it's not massively different designwise from modern Mk. 7 but just different enough to be interesting.

 

 

 

*Aside from 1mm wire to reinforce joints.

[lhg033]

My little bits of hobbying for the last few days
Friday - priming!!!  

 

I know not htat exciting for many but for me this is actual progress/getting over the hump of building stuff to actually being able to paint things!

That should keep me going for a good little while. Random Necron added side project / tester

(I also found a half finishd box of grots I've added to the painting pile)

Saturday
Finished the last details from the second termagants squad.

 

Sunday

Started basing the termagants - base colour and  initial technical paint layer.

tonight will hopefully see these finished and varnished 

[The Yncarne]

Every little bit helps @lhg033  keep it going. 

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Some great hobbying here everyone!

[Focslain]

So this weekend I finished off my parasite and tyrannofex and started work on my cat cops. 

 

 

What I found funny is that my colour scheme for my guard, but with the scheme for my wolves' weapons equals the colour palette of the MegaKat City Enforcers from SwatKats. Which i was going to paint them as anyway, but tickled me that it ended that way. 

[SvenIronhand]

Organized my bits box.

[Moonstalker]

Scored a bunch of terminator bits someone at the local GW was just gonna throw away.  Assault Cannon, Heavy Flamer, captain combiweapons, pfists and chainfists for days.  Been planning to grab a starter set, possibly split it with a friend that's interested in starting 'nids or build an opposition force for quick pickup games of Boarding Action.  There'll be weapons for converting the captain, adding a chainfist to the squad (I know it's not good, but I liked to have one in there for flavor), and magnetizing the assault cannon guy with a heavy flamer option.

[Magos Takatus]

I am still chipping away at my Artel W pyromaniaks/burnas. I'm almost ready to show them off. They are close enough to being finished that I will photograph them finished together rather than spamming the place with wip shots like I often do.

[Indy Techwisp]

Today I finally realised that the Repulsor and the Repulsor Executioner are the "Primaris Hover Land Raider" I've been joking about on the forum for a while.

[Moonstalker]

TITH I converted an Intercessor into a Devastator using a Lascannon from the Heresy Heavy Weapons Kit.  I'd been intending to do it for a while but I finally found/made an excuse today.  I'm taking a technical writing class at the local community college and had to write an instruction manual for something, so I decided to write instructions on how to do that conversion - which involved going through it myself to make sure my ideas actually worked.

 

I think I said in here that the arms ended up being a little too short and I was going to have to lengthen them.  I ended up cutting them under the pauldron to insert a 1mm plasticard spacer, so the conversion is essentially hidden and didn't need any sculpting over.  I'll post pics and the final draft of the instructions here later, sometime next week I suppose.

[lhg033]

Not a lot from me - only managed about 15 minutes each day the last few days. chipping away at the little jobs. Basing done on the gaunts but till need to varnish them then add a bit static grass etc
 

I have also 'provisioned' a 4l really useful box (stolen from my garage where it was being used for a load of random knick knacks). Cleaned it out a bit ready to make a magnetic storage box for the models I am currently working on.

The next bit after that will be figuring out where I can then store that easily for access without it cluttering up the living room

[Pulse]

I looked at my growing pile of Death Korp of Krieg resin models and decided that would put off any work on them, again. Maybe tomorrow will be different...

Edited September 26 by Pulse

[The Yncarne]

Today in the hobby I:

 

• wrapped up storage for about half of my Aeldari infantry
• Primed a squad that I bought and assembled yesterday (heads sold separately). I'm saving these and some other squads for painting when it is too cold to prime.

 

 

Thanks for looking.

[lhg033]

Sticking with my little an often attempts at hobbying....

in the last few days I have:
varnished the gaunts and added a few tufts of static grass to them - These are now done (....except I was in the Warhammer store last week and decided I actually really like the red tips on their claws and weapons so may need to revisit these later)
 

Ordered more magnets (8mm x 3mm)  to use for storage - these seem to work ok as a single magnet for standard marines/barbgaunts. but I might add a second for extra hold when I come back to give a decent 'shake' test now the glue is all dry. 

 

I also had a bit of a tidy up of my 'active' pile of shame to liberate a bit of space (I chucked a load of stuff in the loft for now - mainly SoB but also some heresy stuff and some random Imperium issues). Hopefully enough space to store the boxes I am making/getting for storage 

 

I now need to order a few more boxes. A couple of 4ls will for infantry but also some that will fit bigger gribblies/imperial knights in - any recommendations on size welcome. not sure if the 9l is tall enough or not.

 

[The Yncarne]

The 9 Liter is about the height of a wraith lord if that helps. 

[lhg033]

 

The 9 Liter is about the height of a wraith lord if that helps. 

Thank you - I saw your boxes and was immediately trying to scale against them.

I've just seen they do a 9l XL version too so I may pick one of these up when I actually get to building my knights.

[Magos Takatus]

Yesterday in The Hobby I finally finished my mob of Artel W Pyromaniaks and got some photos taken. I forgot to post them here.

 

 

There's more pictures in the blog in the Ork forum if you are interested.

[Moonstalker]

The paintjob on those greenskins is great.  I'm really picky about OSL and think it's way overused and often poorly done, but that model with the lit flamer is just right.

 

I finished up my instructions project for my Technical Writing class, and now have a 6 page PDF explaining how to convert your own Devastators using Horus Heresy heavy weapons and Intercessors (though you could really use any tacticus marines for it).  Specifically Lascannons, though it'd work for any of the over-the-shoulder weapons.  I went a route that is low effort and takes no sculpting or anything to hide the conversion, but it has some issues.  The placement of the support hand is not entirely correct, it ends up a bit far forward on the weapon, and the lengthened arm makes the weapon unable to sit on the shoulder quite as intended.  The conversion I did for the "volkite culverins"/grav cannons was more straightforward, just using the intercessor arms and cutting the hands off to use the hands on the volkites instead.  Being a school project it's probably more detailed and step-by-step than any hobbyist really needs.

instructions-project-final.pdf

[Evil Eye]

@Magos Takatus Those burna boyz are amazing! "MMPH!"

 

No hobbying today, so far, though yesterday I printed off some more scans of some lovely RT metal Imperial Guard. HOWEVER, I got my fancy Resione Tough 74 resin in the post today and intend to test it out! Going to try printing some basic ball-and-socket joints to test durability (it's made for such things) and also a miniature to see how well it holds detail. Then I'll get back to work on designing that poseable Marine...

[Magos Takatus]

 

The paintjob on those greenskins is great.  I'm really picky about OSL and think it's way overused and often poorly done, but that model with the lit flamer is just right.

Thank you kindly.

 

I've tried OSL before in places before (My Krieg plasma gunner is floating around in B&C somewhere, probably in an ancient Krieg/Kill Team thread), but this guy needed to be treated with some respect. I still generally paint a whole model and then try  to push the lighting more near the end rather than starting off with lighting in mind but I did take it into account with my zenithal priming. I still do OSL via glazing over existing layers but using a gradient of tones and trying to extend it to all parts of the model in line-of-sight of the flame helped. It's very easy to just airbrush white, then a bright colour and call it a day, but this was more trying to teach myself how lighting works. It's rudimentary compared to competition painters I bet, but I'm very proud of how much it's improved my personal skill level.

 

One of my favourite parts about the model is the molotov cocktail. I tried to paint it with a similar method to a gemstone (small spot highlight facing the light source, more diffused highlight on the other side).  I guess you can just about make it out on the group shot rear view, but I'd have to be cheeky and say the best shot is in my Ork project log. 

 

I have a newfound respect for people that paint OSL well. Trying to figure out how far away from the light source something is, how reflective the material should be, whether the light source actually hits that part of the model or not... It's a lot to think about and it overloaded my poor brain thinking about it, and I wasn't even thinking about the light reflecting off other materials to light stuff... 

[The Praetorian of Inwit]

Awesome looking Burna Boyz!

 

No hobbying for me the past couple of weeks as real life interferes. 

[Evil Eye]

Today in the hobby I post-processed and assembled something very different- joints! As mentioned earlier I got some of that fancy Resione Tough 74 stuff with the intention of making printable poseable figures. So to that end I printed off some clones of Figma hip joints (basically ball joints) at a variety of scales.

The middle is "stock" size (3mm pegs), the one on the left is 200% size and the right is 66% size. All of them work pretty well, a tiny bit of friction grinding but nothing compared to most resins, and longer curing times might improve that. Joints feel nice and firm, small one is less so but easy to fit together, large one is very tough to click together but feels very secure.

The resin feels ridiculously strong, borderline plastic-like. I think we might be onto something!

[Karhedron]

After a very busy summer dealing with real life, I decided it was high time to banish the autumn blues by getting back down to some modelling. At the start of 9th edition, I converted a 5-man squad of Bladeguard for my Space Wolves. Now that 10th has arrived, I still enjoy running them but I can only take them in squads of 3 or 6 so I needed an extra Bladeguard. I had my eye on the Primaris Champion but he goes for silly money so I picked up a cheap Champion from the Company Heroes box and a handful of wofly bits to decorate him with.

 

Here he is WIP

 

 

and here are the brothers he will be joining.

 

[Heraclite]

YITH I started painting again after almost a year...

 

I started work on some bladeguard veterans, a bladeguard lieutenant and a bladeguard captain. I shall post them in the 12 month of hobby challenge this evening.

 

TITH I ordered myself a nifty little christmas present as the occasion was too good to pass : A full set of Schaeffer's Last Chancers fo 86.90€ (postage included) compared to the almost 200€ I regularly see on ebay. They come without bases, but that's an  easy fix !

 

I had those models when I was a kid but never got to paint them, and they were lost in my parent's house fire 10 years ago. I reckon they'll make a fine Imperial Guard Kill Team !

[lhg033]

Last night I pulled out some magnets from some half built sector mechanicus terrain so my daughter could repurpose them for a craft project... which in the end were not needed as I then remembered where I had more suitable magnets 

In digging out the various bits I rediscovered the blue stuff I bought ages ago so decided to try making a few molds of DA terminator icons pulled form the old DW knights and the current DA upgrade sprue to see if I can use them with the Leviathan terminators.