Friday, April 26, 2013

Some Assembly Required

I attempted to make a brick design by hand, but that was just far too difficult. I bit the bullet and got two of these sheets yesterday for $10 and I set about replicating them immediately. The results are fantastic...well, more or less. I still haven't found the proper amount of resin to get a complete sheet, but I have smaller parts that can use the incomplete ones.
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And so begins the construction of the buildings. This was an initial test of one of the brick laying techniques I planned on using. You can see that it didn't work all too well. Photobucket
Here are the second and third tries. These were done after I had practiced a couple times on making perfect flat sheets. This time, I practiced on parts that I was going to be using in the final castle. This will be a tower thats located near the ravine and has a smaller bridge extending from it. The top segment will also be rolled in resin. The lower segment will be as well, but the piece is not shown. You can see this tower in the 4th picture, its the cardboard cylinder with the white paper cup in it.
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Also, this is where the Great Hall currently sits (held together with scotch tape). Theres a long ways to go... Uploaded from the Photobucket iPhone App
Well, dear readers, I thought that this post went live early in December 2012, and I guess it hasn't. A major mistake on my part. So I'm just appending my April 26th post to it. I have since then acquired this airbrush from my cousin. He said that he didn't need it, and gave it to me! After some quick noodling with my father's industrial air compressor, I now have a working airbrush. I just needed to get a quick release male fitting for the airbrush hose. (pictured is the old attachment)  photo IMG_3142.jpg
I've also been having trouble with this. After the first few complete molded pieces, the resin started sticking to the silicone mold. After some troubleshooting with my modeling friends over at the Ammobunker.org, I made my way back to Tapplastics and got some Rocket quick release spray. Since then, I have had some great results!  photo IMG_1478.jpg  photo IMG_1371-1.jpg  photo IMG_1733-1.jpg These are some of the parts that I need to cast up to use as details. All we have so far are some windows. I'll cook up some moulding and such later on.  photo IMG_1735-1.jpg This is where we're sitting as of April 26th, 2013. Still a long ways to go.  photo C57F0878-B591-4968-9D65-61D1FAC607EA-7196-000005C62B73557C.jpg

Hope you enjoyed the update. Still a long journey ahead of me.
-Shortsonfire79

Sunday, December 2, 2012

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, hoggy warty Hogwarts


Hello again. Its time to update this with my meager progress. I was hired by my sister to make Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry for her for her wedding in October 2013. Take note that I have never really made any sort of terrain before. So I started this at the end of September, and I've finally achieved some mark of progress which I'd like to share with you all.
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I was watching a fella on Youtube who puts out fantastic scenery and he showed some cliffs using the rock molds that Woodland Scenics makes. I had to have them. $20 later and I have two molds and 25lbs of wall plaster. They'll be pressed into the board with toothpicks to stabilize a bit. The first bit I made I had run out of plaster so it crumbled and fell apart, but the second stuck nicely! I've gone about and finished making the cliffs, or at least have them mostly completed. There are a couple gaps that need filling but those will be done in time, I needed to move on past the powder and move on with the resin. The cliffs are nice, but they don't look anything like the studio scale models like seen on therpf.com but I think thats what sets my project apart from the masters over there.
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Hah, well enjoy that update, I have a long slog ahead of me.

Happy Holidays,
-Shortsonfire79

Monday, June 18, 2012

Lets play catch-up.


It has been almost a year since my last post, so I'm going to keep this short and dump as many pictures as I can into this single post. Many of the projects posted last July are still in the same state they were back then, which saddens me. I've had to put the 40k away due to time constraints and money as well. I probably won't buy much more from Games Workshop with all of the recent price hikes. I will however be buying more Battlefleet Gothic since the prices seem to not have hit them yet. I'd post pictures of the 30 or so FW marines that I have, but all I have are the IMG codes and not the HTML ones... Sorry... Without further ado:
Progress on André Cortola, Chapter Master of the Black Fist Space Marines-PIP. Photobucket Disciplinary Officer Viktoria Skivlana PIP Photobucket Working on a Star Wars Sundered Heart/Farstar. Uploaded from the Photobucket iPhone App Flagship of my BFG fleet. The Glory, Shimano Class battleship Photobucket Catalyst class battleship, currently unnamed. Photobucket Uploaded from the Photobucket iPhone App WIP of my Ammobunker June/July vehicle competition. For more pictures/updates please visit Ammobunker.org. I call it: Death of a Titan. :) Photobucket The current state of my BFG fleet. And endless WIP. Washed out pictures, I'll get real ones sometime. Photobucket Photobucket Have a nice year.
Yours,
-Shortsonfire79

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Deceased Return


Hello all. Its been a while, as you can see from the past date. I have taken this post from a forum I posted on several months ago, and have yet to update any pictures I've yet to take. Enjoy the pictures, and the background and stories. The stories are located in the links below, which will take you to DeviantArt, where more 'finished' pictures are also located.
War for Atalcina Pt1
War for Atalcina Pt2
Black Fists War Organization Chart for the two chapters
The Black Fists are a chapter that descends directly from the honored Imperial Fists. Sister chapters with the Black Templars and the Crimson Fists, the Black Fists combine both paint schemes of the chapters. The chapter badge comes directly from the Imperial Fists, with crossing triangles in the background represent both the Black Templars and Crimson Fists intertwined in brotherhood.


Founded in the year M37 from a surplus of tactical units, the Black Fists spent five decades training members to be specialized with devastator weaponry and in the form of rapid assault. Although the newly formed chapter had little to no experience in battle, Chapter Master Andre Cortola was soon to remedy that by bringing the Black Fists to battle with the dark treachery of Chaos.

After several incidents, the brothers who performed at a greater level of weaponry skill and tactics, were soon seen as the chapter’s elite. Chapter Master Andre Cortola soon made a point of forming proper companies after seeing initial performance of the marines. Following the strict Codex Astartes, Cortola soon had ten companies at full strength under his command.
Although the chapter closely followed the Codex Astartes, Cortola had put in an extra squad in his elite First Company. By doing so, he had ten extra marines to bolster the attack of the core force. The First would always move as one, soon to be known throughout the chapter and the home systems as Cortola’s Hammer was swift to bring destruction to the enemies of the Holy Emperor.

The chapter itself is a master of siege tactics. No match for the Imperial Fists themselves, the Black Fists have been known to hold citadels under siege for years, eventually flushing out the enemy from within. The commanders of the Black Fists are well versed in tactical planning, rehearsing every movement before it happens.

The Black Fists embrace the Codex Astartes readily, and receive training of all aspects of combat as written by Roboute Guilleman.

Once recruits are selected, their criminal record is examined, and they undergo a battery of tests: musculature, psychological profile, psychic level, eye reflexes, intelligence, the ability to shoot, pain resistance, and dexterity. If they manage to pass that, they face extreme heat, cold, empty space, and any other condition they may face on any warzone. The severity of testing increases along the way. If the initiate passes, he becomes a cadet and the symbol of the Black Fists is marked on his left shoulder. Then begins the indoctrination, training and the actual surgery that will make them Marines. After the initiation ceremony, the cadet's family is informed that their child has become a Space Marine to ensue a matter of pride in the families.

The 1st company always marches together as one, with the Captain of the Company always being the Chapter Master as well. As with the Crimson Fists, it is considered a bad omen to march to battle with less than a full veteran company.

The Black Fists have always had close ties with the Imperium and the Inquisition. They have contributed many warriors to the kill-teams of the Ordo Xenos, being renowned Ork fighters. Many of these kill-team warriors have made their way back into the chapter, and even into the veteran company.

Chapter master Cortola is a veteran of over three hundred battles, most of which are against the foul Orks. He has battled against Orks so often that he knows how the greenskins think. He can predict their movements and where they’ll have emplacements. This wealth of knowledge has been well used during several large wars, such as the Waaagh Hargrutz and the Gragnutz uprising.

Taking one thousand fresh recruits, Cortola made way on the Battlebarge Knights Glory to find a new homeworld close to Terra. Eventually landing on Abregado, a lush planet with a large indigenous human population. They did not have the technology yet to venture into space, but they had been visited by many ambassadors of the Imperium, and they knew well of the Space Marines.

The chapter moved as a whole to the planet of Abregado to construct a fortress monastery, and by doing so, duly populated the planet. The first few years after constructing their monastery went to recruiting from the entire planet’s population, recruiting around three-hundred neophytes to become scouts, though only two-hundred and fifty survived the initial tests administered by the chapter.

The first company, or Cortola’s Hammer, travels around the universe as one force together, lead by Cortola himself. They travel in one of the chapter’s strike cruisers Victory’s Grasp which always seems to get them to the planets surface in one piece, not once being attacked in the Warp and always getting them through planetary defenses. The company always descends to the planets surface via drop pod or teleportation. After an initial drop point is secured, Thunderhawks will bring down Land Raiders, Rhinos and Razorbacks for the company to move to the next warzone in.

The company has scored several hundred victories, from small incursions in-system, to aiding in the Third War for Armageddon.


This post was started on August 12, 2009 on Ammobunker Forums. :)
So with my first chapter, The Royal Redeemers, and the most recent, The Sapphire Saints, both have almost failed miserably. In fact, the Sapphire Saints didn't really fail...yet, but I was having a very hard time coming up with a chapter icon. I was surfing the B&C boards, and saw several AMAZING Imperial Fists armies, like Shaw3029 and Inquisitor Engel's. I decided to make my new chapter, the Black Fists, be a successor of them. Obviously by the name, they're a mix between the Black Templars and the Crimson Fists.

The Chapter as of December 22nd, 2010 There is another Thunderbolt, but it was presently in a box to be shipped to Australia, but thanks to eBay, it didn't actually sell...
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Chapter Master Andre Cortola. WIP
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Squad Prometheus.
The members of Sternguard Veteran squad Prometheus have been hand selected by Sergeant Andromedus. Each member has been in the squad for over a century. They have all had extensive training with every weapon in the Space Marine arsenal, though they are highly specialized in all forms melta weaponry more so than any other. As Prometheus was a being of fire, they use the burning might of melta weaponry to take down their foes.
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Three Dreadnoughts, unfinished.
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Land Raider Exterminus. WIP
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Chapter Banner. WIP
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Thunderbolts
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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you've enjoyed the quick burst of pictures. Feel free to skim the thread for the other pictures, or just skip to the end, and drop a cent or two. ;)
Seeing as I stopped modeling and painting quite some months ago, you may or may not eventually see finished pictures.


Have a nice year.
Personally,
-Shortsonfire79

Friday, November 27, 2009

Lotsa Stuff!


So its been a while since I've posted anything, but thats because I didn't do much. I guess it doesn't really matter since no one reads my blog anyways! =-p

I finished the Stergnuard Squad.
Squad Prometheus.
The members of Sternguard Veteran squad Prometheus have been hand selected by Sergeant Andromedus. Each member has been in the squad for over a century. They have all had extensive training with every weapon in the Space Marine arsenal, though they are highly specialized in all forms melta weaponry more so than any other. As Prometheus was a being of fire, they use the burning might of melta weaponry to take down their foes.
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Ah...so I bought a full close combat terminator squad from Rictus last week, and they arrived. :D And the 5 sets of DA Shoulder pads as well. Though I must say..I kinda hate having a bit of OCD...
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I asked my sister for a resin molding kit for Christmas, so if I'm lucky ;-D ;) But I won't mind if I don't get it. Its just resin. But, what I really want the resin for is to mold my BFG ship pieces, so I can start making those 'superships' I talked about... :D :D
I thought the nids would be next on the plate, as I needed something other than Black Fists to paint...but...I need white spray, and I need to be 18 to get it, or I need someone to get it for me...what a pain.
Whats next up for now I gather is my Command/Honor Guard. I don't know which they'll be yet, I have to finish that terminator guy to determine if hes cool enough to be Captain or Chapter Master.
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I started constructing the three winged warriors I will have in my army as well. Two will be upright, firing their guns, and one will be leaning forwards to make it look like its traveling with its gun at ease.
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