Kierdale Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Whilst my soul belongs to Chaos for the current ETL (and there's about a 33% chance next year too, but that's another matter...) I have entered Warhammer Harajuku's painting contest with my Kierdale's World Leman Russ Punisher.Now, Warhammer Harajuku (formerly GW Nakano) has a seasonal painting comp with three or four categories. Always Single, Large and Squad...and for this summer's competition the 4th category is 'Summer'...I searched my bitz box and have quickly (as it's just for fun) put together a little diorama:Two Catachan jungle fighters on R&R leave on a beach.One is running into the sea with a surfboard over his shoulder, the other doing 'suika-wari' (in Japan they like to have beach parties, put a water melon on the ground, blindfold a member, give them a bat and they have to find and break the melon)...with a chainsword.Also: sandcastle and entrenching tool, crates of beer and ammo.WIP images later this week. EDIT: the deadline is the 30th of August so I've got a bit of time Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter h Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Shades of CHina beach. Sounds great. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4057684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted May 25, 2015 Share Posted May 25, 2015 Smashing watermelons seems as much fun as a horrible waste of food! This sounds like it'll be really cool so I'm looking forward to it :tu: Good luck for the Punisher, though I'm sure it won't be necessary :) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4057760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 Shades of CHina beach. Sounds great. Exactly. :) And, WarriorFish, they do wash the sand off and then eat the watermelon :) It's been a busy week so I have little to show, but here is how things are so far: The chainsword-wielder had the grenade in his hand smoothed and the top flattened and drilled so it can be painted up like a can of beer. I'll make some more from rounded sprue to scatter about. A blindfold will be GS'd onto him. I may have him accidentally about to swing the chainsword down onto a pile of grenades just next to the watermelon. There'll be ammo and crates here and there too. Damn that Catachan grenade-arm is an ugly thing! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4064159 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 That's good to know, nobody likes wasted food :P I knew this was going to be good, but it's looking great already! Do you have the Catachan CCS box? It has a lot of cool bits and more important much better scaled/sculpted ones. You might be able to use one of those arms in place of the grenade one? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4064999 Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter h Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 How large will the board be? I'm liking the concept. Great work. You need some ogre bits, bbq on the beach. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4065270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted June 1, 2015 Author Share Posted June 1, 2015 I do have the Catachan command squad but as this is just a 'for fun' project (not that I don't want to win :D) I don't want to use up good bitz. Hence that horrible arm is 'alright'. I bought the base today: 15cm x 15cm...but since the edge is beveled it's more like 13x13. Not too big as I don't want to tempt myself and add more and more (e.g. a BBQ!). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4066432 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 What's a beach party without a BBQ though? You could put little burgers on it and everything... :P Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4066479 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted July 1, 2015 Author Share Posted July 1, 2015 Progress! I went with choc-chip camo rather than jungle (as I can do the former better than the latter). Next up: boots, belts, etc. The beach has been sculpted. I may photograph it once its had sand added. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4109860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nismogrendel Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Awesome, I'm really looking forward to seeing this finished! Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4109871 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Nice, I like the camo what colours did you use? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4109919 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lukash_ Posted July 1, 2015 Share Posted July 1, 2015 Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4110114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted July 2, 2015 Author Share Posted July 2, 2015 Indeed he does not. The camo was: Ushtabi Bone drybrushed with white, then shaded with Gryphon Sepia. The brown areas are Gorthor Brown highlighted and edged with a mix of Gorthor and white. The dots were a mix of Ushtabi Bone and white, with black added to some sides with a micro fine pen. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4110496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmo Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Nice... Now i can't wait for the complete diorama Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4110639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
walter h Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 I think you need 2 more troopers running away from the watermelons. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4110801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted July 2, 2015 Author Share Posted July 2, 2015 Thanks for the suggestion, Walter but while I'd like to add more, and I probably have time, this diorama's pretty much just for fun and I don't want to use up too many bitz, so I'm sticking with just the two guardsmen. Likely I'll entitle it "R&R" (with Jpnz translation beneath) as "China Beach" or "Charlie don't surf" would take too much explaining (though adding some staked severed heads with signs saying "Charlie" underneath them is tempting). Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4110870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviar Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 I'm liking this, what a great idea How about an Ork with an apple in the mouth over the barbeque Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4111230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 Stop trying to make me add things to it! :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4111716 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carraigf Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 This looks awesome Kierdale looking forward to seeing it. What are you using for water? Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4121428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 To go full on American themed (as the Catachan so very much are), you need an oil drum with a stand, chimney, and handle, and cut in half. That should be your improvised smoker for all the grilling out goodness. Then you can imagine a good ol' North Carolina pig pickin. Nothing beats putting a half hog on the pit, dressed up in a dry rub, and cooking it low and slow for 6 hours; except maybe doing so with your best buds, a cooler full of brews, and the beach. Maybe you could make up something to look like a boil pot, that could be full of seafood. Boiled redskin potatoes, crab, shrimp, corn, and enduille, maybe some boudin, crawfish, and steamed oysters, all boiled in cajun spices. Man I'm hungry. There are some additions you could make if you have some spare bits for them laying around, or something you could make pretty easily. I'm looking forward to seeing this completed. You could maybe have some guys splitting up the watermelon that the one guy is trying to smash. It's a popular scene from many anime, but I don't get it. Watermelons are fer eatin, and when they get overripe, they make great targets fer shootin, cuz they 'splode real good. Just my 2 cents. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4121861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 Alrightalright! I added a BBQ. Half a tank, I-beam plasticard, charcoal chips (how's that for authenticity?) and a mesh top. Still to do: Green stuff: one full watermelon, one already cut, meat for the BBQ, sandcastle (to then be covered in sand). Paint bitz (crates, grenades, canteens, entrenching tool). Paint the beach. Perhaps add leaves at the top end. Add water effects. Perhaps stipple on some white as foam. Title card. Win comp. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4124480 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Sounds good to me, as for the last thing to do you've already found your winning ways so I'm sure that will be no problem. Plus you have recently added to your collection of prizes, surely the best of all? ;) Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4124664 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierdale Posted July 29, 2015 Author Share Posted July 29, 2015 Sounds good to me, as for the last thing to do you've already found your winning ways so I'm sure that will be no problem. Plus you have recently added to your collection of prizes, surely the best of all? Thank you! A most unexpected honour! Some progress to show: How the beach currently looks Sand castle Bastion and a bit of wall. The sea will be coming up this far, hence the wall is falling apart. Surfer. Working on his board now. BBQ With top removed I'll be adding some fuel leaking from that tank on the sand, and tall grass along the back of the beach (to the left in the above pic). Also need to add beer cans and other scattered gear. Drunk fool about to cut water melon. Currently painting one full watermelon to put in front of him (I've gone off the idea of him being about to accidentally cleave into some grenades), and one already cut water melon off to one side. Oh...and still have to add the sea :D Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4131471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorFish Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 The detail is amazing! The sand castle, the BBQ... fantastic! Is that clever use of a tank trap too? If you don't win with this I'll personally come and BBQ the judges! I do a mean BBQ too, last one we had down the beach I happened to pass a stall selling watermelons and I was sorely tempted thanks to this... Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4131483 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulrik_Ironfist Posted July 29, 2015 Share Posted July 29, 2015 Looking good Kier! Regional variations are great. Here in the Southeast US, we call it a cook out, as BBQ refers to a specific style of cooking (Slow cooked seasoned meats, usually in a smoker or over a pit). Where I grew up it specifically refers to pork, mostly of the pulled variety. Man, I really want barbecue now... Anyway, I like the work you've done on this. I'd be curious to see the other submissions. I know what Americans tend to do at the beach, I have no idea what other cultures do (for some reason I tend only to think of the Mediterranean as having proper beaches, I tend to think of the seaside in northern Europe being like the coast in Maine, cold and rocky, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). I know Okinawa has some nice beaches, but I've never been there (not for lack of trying). When the contest happens, would you mind taking pictures (if you can) of the other entries? I think we'd all love to see what's competing against you. Link to comment https://bolterandchainsword.com/topic/308159-surfs-up-diorama-completedcomp-won/#findComment-4131497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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