Finished Hammerstine

Hammerstine done and packed away till needed to clense Mars or the Termite empire lol.

As he had a bum eye on the cast i did it as a well bum eye with oil staines over his face to suggest hard combat. This last pic is my fave ;)

Just another quick link some may be intrested in that was posted today on SFM;UK

http://www.instructables.com/id/Warmachine-Gaming-Table-for-Penny-Arcade/?ALLSTEPS

It may well be on another blog but i've not seen a link posted to the instructables site and thought it may be of intrest to any budding uber terrain builders :0

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Brampton Model show 2011

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Here's some quick pics of the sfm table at the Brampton Model show i attended today.

The ma.k table mostly Aluns and Erics excellent work with a couple of my builds in there to pad it out lol.



Pete's latest build and most impresive in the flesh, pics dont do it justice.



Hammerstine finished and on display, just!

Ian's moon bus dio was a star attraction.

Mangamaxs cratch built space ship, i was most impressed by this.

Hope you like um and a bit different form all the GD pics we are going to be assulted with over the next few days lol.
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Hammerstine close ups

 Ok so first up is a warning when using these pop up photo tents. Do Not Open anywhere nere your models as it springs open sending your model flying and i do mean FLYING GRRRRRRRRRR. Only damage was his right arm fell of but will attempt some franken-surgery(TM) tommorow.

 Just the face to detail and some bits and bobs to touch up and i can call him finished BUT do you the blogosphere think his BFG needs to be grungier to match the rest of him?

 Bear in mind that i'm trying to emulate the artistic style of the Biz the 2000ad artist that in my opinion rendered the ABC's in there most raw and visceral incarnation. So it's gotta be grungy but not messy and i dont know if i've got that to come across in my attempt.

I'm happy over all with him as long as i get the face right and it pops when finished and on display at Brampton next Sunday. Fingers crossed :)

New photographic tent and inq28 conversions

Tent in all it's glory

Here's the new photo tent and some shots using the different backgrounds. Not overly impressed with my first attempts, i dont think the light was strong enough or maybe another one at the side.

Also need to play with the cameras settings and maybe get advise from the guys at sfm some are excellent photographers so will have to pick there brains but any suggestions in the comments would be more than welcome.

Its ment to fit in that black bag, not gonna happen.

  It packs down very small but thats a job for the wife i'm rubbish at that.


Below are the 4 different backgrounds that come supplied with the tent with a quicky convertion for my Inq28 warband more on her later.

red background supposedly :)





Black background



Blue background

White background

Just a quick note about followers, firstly welcome along to my 2 new followers and secondly it seems i've no way of knowing who my followers are anymore. It seems to have been disabeled on other peoples blogs also. Any ideas when /if they are coming back? i do like to visit the blogs of those who follow me and leave the odd comment from time to time so this is a bit annoying.

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Quik hobby update before tea

Well life has been unbelevable busy at the moment, Wedding season is eating up all my free time at the weekends but hopefully this will settle down soon (tho it dose supply me with more Champagne corks than i know what to do with lol.

On the hobby front the Inq28 project is plodding along nicely I've become a nomadic modeller again as i can't get at my desk at the moment. The piles of assorted crud littering my desk and around my desk has finally defeated me and a major autumn clean is requierd and i've no time to do this.

We also got a photo tent from evilbay for a tenner and very impressed we are too (that me and the wife, she intends to use it for her craft thingys also) it comes with no less than 4 different backgrounds and a side zip for getting pics of glass and other shiney things. I'll do a proper review some time soon-ish.

Also in the post an order from Let The Dice Decide an online bits shop. Ordererd late wednesday night and arrived Sat morning, well packerged in bubble wrap and everything accounted for yum, i do love the little bits that can turn a bleh model into something cool. Funny thing is i've probably been workinhg within 30 mins drive from where thay are based these last 6 months lol.

It's also 2 weeks till the Brampton model show and its full steam ahead finishing off variouse builds but after that i'm going to consentrate on inq28 and the post apoc comp build. Going with Baron Radhoffens post apocaliptic flying circus first. :)

And finally it's Talk like a Pirate day on 19th Sept so i exspect some arrrges and avasts and ye scurvy dogs from the blogworld.

The Day after the End comp

 My online local scifi modelling club are holding a comp and as the title suggests it's post apocaliptic in nature but can be anything not just nukes. Also open to dios or stand alone oob builds or scratch builds.

Here are my ideas so far

Idea 1:
Every one hooks onto the idea of  Madmax's car or the other cars and buggys from the
films, my idea is to do a riff on the flying machine from the second movie. maybe even a post apoc flying circus with a couple of planes cut together from other planes. If any of you follow consept starships blog you will have seen some of the fantastic mashup planes he sometimes posts.

I've saved alot of them for inspriation so i'm set on that front.

Second idea: A flat bed truck being pulled by a team o oxen and an old caravan/motorhome towed behind with the family group walking along side. Thinking of calling it the scrap prospectors family. The flatbed will be loaded with junk and a wooden block and tackel rig will be on it.

May have them hoisting up an old engine block with it.

Idea 3: Guy on a horse mad max stiley and the horse is all kitted out in bio hazard stuff (home made looking gas hood and stuff like that.


Will see what kits i can procure at the Brampton model show .
 
I'll attemp to add a pic with a link to SFM:UK in the side bar later on if anyones instrested in taking a look or even joining in, all are welcome.
 
There may be more ideas as time progresses but these 3 are my faves at the moment.

So what da ya all think?

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Inq28 ideas

Above are my embrionic ideas for some inquisitor warbands cept the top pics which are going to be my stand ins for arbatus or RT ships armsmen. They were a steal at £10.00.

Pic 2 is all GW models and may stay the same unless i add a swordswoman to the mix. Thinking hereticus for him and his crew and maybe will add some more troopers to his force will poss get some unusual figs for inq storm troopers, i've spotted some that wouldconvert nicely.

Pic 3 a randommix that i think will work but some may be added or swopped out. Guess which one i'm thinking to convert to the inquisitor.

Pic 4 is going to change the most i'm just not sure of this group, the Vostroyans are whats left of an honor guard given to the inq in gratitude for some assistance he gave to a Vos regiment in the past the girl is his pilot/investigator and the inq is a well traveled senior inquisitor, flamboyant and bombastic in his methods probably ordo Xenos with a large retinue and not known for subtlety.

As i said this is very early stages and it could change as new eye candy takes me in other directions but will try to stick to the plan.

Going to try getting some random gangers/bad guys to add to the mix maybe some necromunda guys or similer but the arbitus will have to do for now or this project will spiral out of control as usual defeating the object of trying out INQ28. Less models + less painting  time = more gaming hopefully if i can convince Matt this is fun but i'll have to do a Word Bearers crew to get him to try it out lol.

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