BCK's Thread of Stuff: Symphony of Destruction

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I spent almost $50 on Vallejo Metal Color paints and due to circumstances at the house, can't use my airbrush. They don't brush on nearly as well.

[Dantay VI]

No worries. I do not have much issue with coverage from mine.

 

Hope your circumstances change soon

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Finalized the neo-terminator leader and built up a more knightly gorget for his suit.

 

 

The upper part of his tabard, and a few more details on the squad as a whole, and these guys will be ready for paint.

[space wolf]

These are looking truly excellent. Are you goin with a particular crusade color scheme?

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I know that I want the color I tested on the previous page for the armor and then orange cloth with white accents, but I haven't completely nailed down how I'm going to apply it all. Maybe some armor bits in orange? A stripe on the helmet? Dunno.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Got a new printer - a Mars 3 4k - and had to test it out, of course. After some calibration prints, I did some prints of stuff I already printed on the 2k Photon SE for comparison.

 

 

 

Much crisper detail, less noticeable layer lines, and a the finish on the resin seems smoother.

 

This morning, I started a print before my work shift and processed these guys after it was over.

 

 

 

 

Look how crisp that is! God-Emperor, the detail is so sharp!

 

 

Rough estimate was $2-3 worth of a resin for three eradicators.

 

[Grotsmasha]

Nice :tu:

 

I wish I could afford the upgrade to a 4K machine

[YoungWolf7]

Welcome to the 4K club. :)

[Bryan Blaire]

Hot DAMN that stuff looks nice!  I’d really like to know if those minor ridge/print lines will disappear under a layer of primer or not.  :)

 

Those doofy hoods still gots ta go…

[space wolf]

Yup, I'll be needing to get me one of those. So sharp!

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I have to stop printing stuff or I'm going to blow the deadline for finishing my neo-terminators. >_<

 

Found some conversion bits for a land raider I just had to snag (some of the smaller bits omitted from the pic)

 

 

And some for a whirlwind, which I was able to easily plop onto an old rhino.

 

 

 

[War of the Eagle]

Great stuff. One day ill leave the plasticard peasantry and join the 3d print master class. Whirlwind turret looks nice.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I've getting tutored on how to 3d model and printed something from one of the lessons - box dread feet!

 

 

They need a bit of adjusting, but are pretty close to what I was wanting.

[Custom Hero]

Nice!

[Pearson73]

Really liking that Whirlwind turret.

[Dr_Ruminahui]

Yeah, that whirlwind turret is great - really brings back the feel of the old metal turret while also loosing some of its goofiness.

 

How are the printed feet different from those that you already had for the dread?

Edited April 20, 2022 by Dr_Ruminahui

[Surreal Cruelty]

Those look great, and very sharp detailed & I like the subtle difference:

 

Yeah, that whirlwind turret is great - really brings back the feel of the old metal turret while also loosing some of its goofiness.

 

How are the printed feet different from those that you already had for the dread?

 

The side toes are angled a little more forward compared to basic dread feet.  Gives it the impression of a slightly more aggressive vs. standing stock still stance.

Edited April 22, 2022 by Surreal Cruelty

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

Yeah, there was supposed to be a second picture in the post, but it didn't show up for some reason.

 

 

The four evenly spaced toes all the same size has never looked right to me and I was inspired the FW box dreads to do something a little different with one rear toe the normal size and three smaller ones angled forward a little more.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

So disappointed they went with the trike for the new squats. What might have been...

 

[malika666]

I actually like that a lot better than the official model!

[Majkhel]

I disagree :)
What has long-legged long-striding thingie to do with squat little people? Smells a lot like compensating in my book :P

I'm personally waiting for a compact dreadnought-like exo-suit/walker for the Votan folk.

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

I don't know who forgot to use the proper incense, unguents, and binaric chanting, but the machine spirit of the plastic land raider STC is not happy. I forgot what a nightmare these things are to put together, and realizing halfway in that I didn't have the assault ramp doors and had to print some that didn't line up quite right certainly didn't help things. This was over 3 hours of frustrating work.

 

 

From the weakness of the poor engineering, Omnissiah save us.

From the lies of the studio picts, circuit preserve us.

From the rage of the Mold Slip, cyanoacrylate protect us.

From the temptations of the resin, heat gun cleanse us.

From the ravages of the misaligned parts, trigger clamps shield us.

From this rotting cage of 25 year old molds, new plastic kits set us free.

 

 

Perhaps the machine spirit of the plastic Spartan STC will not be so irascible and choleric as this old beast.

 

 

[Pearson73]

Well worth the pain, looks great.

[Grotsmasha]

I have high hopes for that plastic Spartan...

[Brother-Chaplain Kage]

It was a brutal fight with the beast, but I survived. With a bloody knuckle. For real, scraped a knuckle really good and it bled like crazy during assembly.