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All the latest stuff I've been getting up to.
I am the Law
Started on a new sculpt of Mega-City One's most famous lawman. This one is based on the fabulous art of Simon Bisley for a cover [...Read More]
Looks melted
"Somebody must have bagged one of Ripley's bad guys" Finally done, and I think the colors & mood is pretty much how I pictured it. [...Read More]
Values & contrasts
Checking my usage of values and contrasts on the Aliens diorama. Right now the warm / cool mix is where I want it, since everything [...Read More]
Color tests
I've decided to spend some time to finish up the Aliens diorama. With construction done, it needs a lot of work on the paint job. [...Read More]
Dog soldier, painted
Finished this guy up, increased the glow on the plasma cannon until I'm worried I'll mess it up :) [...Read More]
Freshly baked terrain
Dog soldier on a mission, deep in the industrial jungle. Having some fun painting rusty terrain with the kids. They love the dark wash, it's [...Read More]
Scratchbuilt since '18
All my scratchbuilt 40k models, haning out. I started in 2018, and have made a Land Raider , Sabre Strike , Fire Raptor , and [...Read More]
Basecoating the dog man
Started laying down the base coats on this guy. Going for a colder blue fur and a warmer brown fur, a cooler red / blue [...Read More]
Stormblade done!
Finishing up the project, it has been a great ride! Using the airbrush, I deepened the blue on the hull, and gave it a light [...Read More]
Lenses
Some progress on the Stormblade, starting to get to the details. I love painting lenses. [...Read More]
Happy painting
All in all I'm happy with where this is going. Started adding some verdigris, some oil stains, and just general griminess. [...Read More]
Freehand
Here are some more photos, with the division number & nameplate done, and a start on some oil pinwashing to add a bit of depth [...Read More]
Weathering
I tinted the whole thing a bit darker and more neutral with a bit of Payne's gray. Spent some time on sponge and brush chipping, [...Read More]
d.i.S.i.n.t.e.g.r.a.t
Digital rework of an older pencil sketch. Tried to improve my rendering of intertwined pipes and tubes. [...Read More]
Laying on the basecoat
Started laying on some base colors. Aiming for a blue/gray gradient, which should go well with a red rust and a light brown dust mix [...Read More]
Nude studies
NSFW / Mature Content
A couple of scanned pencil + ink studies, trying out different styles, some from photo reference. [...Read More]
Stormblade, all primed up
Here is the completed primed thing. Next up, painting time… [...Read More]
Tank commander, done!
Finished up the commander, I think I will stick with him, he's grown on me: And here he is on the now-primed tank: Now the [...Read More]
Tank commander
So I've been thinking about what color scheme / army my Stormblade belongs to, and initially I thought I'd go for a DKOK unit. I [...Read More]
Computer console
In between all this, and to relieve some of that rivet-zen, I built a little computer console destination marker thingy using some of my assortment [...Read More]
Mindlessly riveting
So, after spending a countless number of evenings in a state of absolute mindlessness, placing little dot after little dot all over the tank, the [...Read More]
Starting on detail work
I think I've finally figured out out how attach and position the wheels to the tank. At the moment the wheels (and tracks) are still [...Read More]
nurse
NSFW / Mature Content
Digital coloring of a pencil sketch, using a photo reference ( Shameless , by Arkadiy Kurta) [...Read More]
DIY Industrial pipe terrain
In other project news, I tried my own take on the hardware-store-industrial style pipes. This is decorated with some cast greeblies, some specifically made for [...Read More]
My daughter's P-51D
Last but not least, my daughter really wanted a model aircraft to build for her 9th birthday. So I swung by our local friendly hobby [...Read More]
Internal rework
So it is that part of the project again. You know, the part where I change my mind and tear things apart because I finally [...Read More]
augment
As an experiment, you can buy T-shirts and stickers of this image at Teepublic *wink* [...Read More]
Turret weapons
I added the bolters and lasguns to the side mounts. The masters are constructed from bits of plastic tubing (drinking straws, etc) and bits from [...Read More]
Underwater mine
On another note, I got some plastic chain delivered, and started laying out an underwater diorama featuring a hefty mine. I want to add two [...Read More]
Stormblade assemble!
Here is a mockup of the current state of the Stormblade. I have one length of track assembled, and the wheelbase is ready, but it [...Read More]
Main gun
Starting work on the main gun: Lots of ribbing for extra… plasma? I made the ribs from sculpey, which I rolled out with a large [...Read More]
Starting to look like something
I've made a fair bit of progress on the tank - it kinda works like that, slow going on the masters, then once the molds [...Read More]
Flexin'
So far so good: the tracks can link up and flex: _ The jig I built around my little homemade dremelclone, so that I can [...Read More]
Stormblade Greeblies
On the Storm Blade front, here are some of the finished greeblies I built: The finished headlights: Some hull plates: The top of the turret: [...Read More]
Turntable overkill
I took an evening and built myself a little display turn table, using a stepper motor ripped from an old printer, hooked up to an [...Read More]
More progress
I've finally figured out how to make the sides of the tank strong yet accessible, so I started painting the insides (especially the recesses, where [...Read More]
Wheels n' hubs
A small update on the wheels/tracks/chasis of the Stormblade: because I want movable tracks, I have created lots of small problems to solve :) The [...Read More]
Fantasy style building
My daughter got very inspired after seeing some of Dented Armor's ( https://www.instagram.com/dentedarmor/ ) work on instagram, where he builds these fantastic fantasy style buildings, [...Read More]
Starting on a new project
We've been away for a week, getting out of the city and clearing our heads, so I haven't been hobbying too much. However, I started [...Read More]
Display base
Surpriese, I always want more projects lol. So here is a dsplay base, put together using various bits of printers, casettes, some cheap elbow pipes, [...Read More]
Sci-fi base toppers
An update on the base toppers: I went into full yak-shaving mode, all the way down and decided to make my own bases. I'm going [...Read More]
Gun casts + kitbash
here is a first cast of the guns I made earlier: I chopped up two of them and stuck them together to make a new [...Read More]
Greeblie collection
Here is a collection of some of the greeblies I now have molds for: [...Read More]
Sci-fi base toppers
I've been out shaving the yak again, this time with bases: I took some of the greeblies that I made before and built a couple [...Read More]