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[Lord_Mephistopheles]

Well, some of these detailing updates are a real pain - partly my own fault for taking shortcuts and doing things the quick and dirty way previously, leaving me with a load of "hidden presents to myself" when i come back to these things 2 or 3 years later!  Also doing some housekeeping, like creating blocks where necessary and tidying up drawing layers etc.

 

Having already updated the track section for the Sicaran as part of "Project: Elephant", i foolishly assumed this would be quick.

 

Turns out not, as the bulk of the time was spent on the Omega trying to sort out the horrific turret i'd previously bodged into place, which necessitated a rebuild of almost the entire plasma gun.  And then, to cap it all off, I decided that the Omega shouldn't have the hull heavy bolter and the sponson lascannons; instead should have a hull multimelta (it's a tank hunter variant after all) and sponson volkites...

 

All finished now, and onto the next updates:

 

Sicaran:

 

Omega:

 

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

Quick message to update people:

 

I've started a new job, and i have less time at work to play with my models than i used to - mainly because I've actually got interesting work problems to keep me entertained these days rather than being bored stiff.

 

The project, such as it is, hasn't dies however.  It will continue in the background.  I do have more updates - having redetailed the Land Raider - and i will be going back to the Mastodon / Spartan / Sicaran variants to add some more "standard detailing" that has developed from the Land Raider updates.  I'll then, when I've got a bit of time, be moving onto updates on the Thunderhawk, Transporter and the Stormbird...

For lore purposes, assume that the vehicular variations on the STCs for the Blood Angels vehicles make them all either Baal- or Unverrdt- pattern.  Those Techpriests on Unverrdt IX love a supercharger almost as much as the White Scars...

[Firedrake Cordova]

Congratulations on the new job - good that it's more interesting than the old one!  

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

5 hours ago, Firedrake Cordova said:

Congratulations on the new job - good that it's more interesting than the old one!  

Thank you! Very much appreciated!

 

I still intend to continue with this. I do want to pimp up some of the detailing a bit, particularly in the Titans that are my own inventions, as I maintain a vague desire for them to become 3d printable at some future time, albeit that is in a potential Blender-based future timeline!

 

I also have the vague outline of an idea brewing in my head for something Astartes flyer related... Lexicanum and the 40k Wiki have a lot to answer for after informing me there are other Stormbird patterns out there, and also the "custom" drop ship that Fulgrim used during the Great Crusade... Sanguinius deserves a pimped-out ride! I also want to look again at the Kratos tank to see if I can turn it into something a bit more visually appealling.

 

While sat watching a footy stream and listening to US Election coverage however, I realised that mostly what I'm generating here is not a 40k force, but is illustrating the kind of pain that the Imperium could bring 10k years earlier... But that means my Stormspeeders needs looking at again! And then I realised that the 30k speeders and jetbikes for Astartes don't really match the rest of the 30k vehicle aesthetic, and that they look more like Custodes than anything else. So I might have a try at making something a bit more 30k for the speeders... Or I might just remove them from the render as you can barely see them anyway!

 

Open to thoughts on this last part. Might need to delve back through the thread a bit to see what my interpretation of a jetbike looks like!

[Lord_Mephistopheles]

Just to prove I'm not dead:

 

 

I had been unhappy with the update to the Spartan, but wasn't really able to say why.  The nose wasn't right; the detailing was still underwhelming, the treads were wrong in some way...

Having spent some time tidying up the Land Raider, i think my eye is back into the aesthetic, so the Spartan has been tweaked, further details added, and now i'm much happier.

 

Sorting the treads on this also means an update to the Cerberus at some point, but that's more detailing than anything.  There remain a few little bits to resolve on this before i can fully put it to bed, but it's 95% there now.

 

Sadly, this means while i'm "in the zone" of Astartesian Tank Aesthetics, it means going back to the Mastodon and Mammoth and adding yet more greebles and details to the plates and panelling.