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. Disciplinary Officer Viktoria Skivlana PIP Working on a Star Wars Sundered Heart/Farstar. Flagship of my BFG fleet. The Glory, Shimano Class battleship Catalyst class battleship, currently unnamed. WIP of my Ammobunker June/July vehicle competition. For more pictures/updates please visit Ammobunker.org. I call it: Death of a Titan. :) The current state of my BFG fleet. And endless WIP. Washed out pictures, I'll get real ones sometime. Have a nice year.
Yours,
-Shortsonfire79

Finally

Have I ever told you how much I hate metal minis? I converted the MKII Veterans to be part of my Sternguard Squad....that took forfrickenever. I spent at least an hour and a half cutting off the first guy's left arm. The second one was done within minutes, and the third, I used a drill on, and moved much quicker!
Its times like this where I wish I could borrow someone's Dremel... =-(
I tried to keep the cut clean, but I just got fed up with my xacto, and started using my Leatherman and clippers...what a pain!


I finally found use for those Devastators I bought a while back as well!
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I'm finally happy I'm done with these...now...paint...ugh.

And heres the intro video I just made for Plastic Shavings.


Thanks Ben: I too like the casings =-D I have had TONS of luck and perfect casts.

Conglomeration

I've done some more on the next 5 Terminators. I'm using Novogord from Ammobunker's technique/idea of painting a couple marines at a time, and I indeed do get better results, faster =-D I started with the two from the right, and I'm slowly moving left, still semi-assembly line. Things like eyes and bone-colored parts I did as one, as I had excess paint, and I wanted them uniform. But the extreme highlights and leg-piston-things I did individually.
The two on the right are almost done. Just need metallics, purity seal-reds and scrollwork, stone parts, lights and pretty-ifying bases!

I've been working on the standard, and I've put maybe 8 coats of bone on it, and its still not a solid color...this is a pain =-P
I'm molding some of the more 'hard to get' pieces from the Devastator sprues, which I still haven't clipped yet.

And I'm still highly distressed with the size of this true scaling...


My normal commenters:Squirrel_Fish and Horatio are ...gone.. =-( Party foul

Dreads

I just finished one with dreads...
They're not too Space Wolfy, and when I paint him, he won't look like a Space Wolf at all. When the Green Stuff dries, I'll sand it a bit, so its not smooth. Each hair thing is an individual strand...I probably wont' do this ever again. =-P

Finally.

So I finally decided to glue the top plate onto my LRE!! yaayyy...The way I had to do it though, that was a pain. I loaded as much plastic glue onto the lattice work super structure that I could. Then I put the plate on, and put lots of pressure on it. The sides were still able to be pulled up, so I lined it up as best I could and glued it in small segments. I think it worked up pretty well. Its attached very well, and VERY sturdy!
Problem number two...LOTS of gaps around the entire thing. Oh boy! Green stuffing for me! So I rolled a large glob of green stuff, and worked in small sections around the chassis. I pre-smoothed it by taking my knife-like tool, and dragging it across the clumped green stuff, a new technique I discovered just now, which is FANTASTIC! I'll sand it all down after it all dries.




Then I get to do MORE detailing tonight! Its pretty early, 11, so expect another update. Or an edit or something.

Heres the update.
I added the track cover on the outer tracks, and I think it came out quite nicely. I didn't want to do the arches like the Maximus has, because thats not very Dark Angely at all. So I went with some sort of sword design, which I thought was quite genius. The hilt will be detail.

Unfortunately, the wings wouldn't fit on the track guard, so I just had to do one wing, which is okay I guess.



None of the icons have been glued on yet.

Head Progress

I did some greenstuffing last night (Until 4 AM =-P) and did some more this morning.

The Story of Nothing

Took my SAT today. It went by really quickly, and the vocabulary killed me. =-P

I must say..I haven't made too much modeling headway...at all. The Fex head, which I've dubbed "UberVirtuosticCarnifexium" has received tusks, and one of them has been slightly greenstuffed on. The side two have not yet.




I watched Terminator 2 the other day, after a few hours of downloading it...it was a spectacular movie. =-D My Governator used a lot of heavy weapons.



So I made a Terminator Marine. Sorta. The M-79 didn't turn out as well as I wanted it too, but it still looks like a pretty heavy...stick. =-D I'll try to add the minigun on his left arm, using Terminator Assault Cannons as a base.

Carnifex Head

Ever since I got that 100 grams of Greenstuff...last monthish...I've wanted to do some greenstuffing...
So last night...I couldn't fall asleep, so I decided to do some =-D I decided that I wanted to see if I could get all of the head choices onto one...so right now, I have Regenerate and Implant Attack, I started the Toxin Sacs while I was at it.



I'm also getting commissioned by Dirty Water Painting to assemble 3 Leman Russ', 2 Chimeras, 2 Rhinos, 28 Space Marines, and a Forgeworld Dreadnought =-D