10.000 Clicks & Sedition Wars Up date 8

Greetings Archivists!

WE DID IT!

CLICKs and more coming!
Thank you all to bear me so long!
I did not expect for this to be going so well!!!


It is about time, I give you a little update on my latest doings in the Sedition Wars Universe.

Disclaimer ahead: I got a new camera and I am still trying to find out which settings are the best for miniatures.
Some pictures have there fore an odd reddish tone, but I hope they still show you what I have done sofar.

First I would like to show you the reason for the rather "bright" color-pallet I use for my bases.
The Gaming table in my room has the same colors... so... a moody shot of my vanguard:

 Next one of my favourite Wave 2 carackters: Biohazard Vade

I tried to stick with the White for the suite. The shoulder guard is greyish to tie him to the rest of the gang.

The baby drones are just awesome in my book. Simple yet great looking. I added some minor stuff to support the techy design.

I try to give the different bright colors the vanguard sports an certain meaning. I decided that a whitish violet should be the "power source" for defensive stuff


My latest investion was the terrain set. And once it will be available in stores, I will get another one for sure. The stuff is just to awesome.
I started with the strain marker, since my gaming buddy has painted the doors.

Here you can see the mouldlines of death, appearing AFTER the primer... at somepoint you have to decide: remove all mouldllines... or paint the stuff.
I chose the later

As a side note... I resculpted the "mouth" part, since the cast nearly erased the definition the teeth had...



I tried to keep the flesh tone on the markes the same. But every marker type had it's own color. The green I used for these was swallowed by the camera...

Probably my favourite strain maker... just love this "mouth"

My recent starts on the Phase 3 Strain finaly got some paint aswell...



Some one on the Sedition Wars board had painted his Witch that awesome red face. I just had to steal that :D

Hope you like my doings!

Archive: Golden Demon Up date 4 "Terror from Below"!

Greetings Archivists!

As promised at another spot, I shall resume my review of niddy golden demon entries.

Today I want to retrospect with you my "Terror from Below" Diorama from 2009.

In all honesty,  it was never mentioned to become a Golden Demon entry. Our journey starts was way earlier.
Somewhere in 2007 or 08 Mr Moloch made a discovery: His love for the Bobbit Worm. A crazy creature only mother earth could create. On his diving tours Mr Moloch visited the creature in his natural habitat and with the joy of seeing him face to face, we decided that this little fellow should see the light of day in a miniature version. A niddy one of cause.

The Bobbit in all its glory

I will spare you the creative journey we undertook. It was what tyranids are best of, develop stuff and see what works best :D If you are interested in the failed attempts, check out the pictures in my WS-Gallery, they are pretty self explaining.

Anyway, here the modelling steps:

So much for the easy part.
I told you in my earlier post, that I prepared a bunch of entries for the Golden Demon in Canada (it was their last on btw... if we had known....).
This was a pretty special entry, because, when I flew to Toronto, I had just the stand done. The Soldier and everything was painted, but the worm was still missing. And I had only a couple of days left.

Why you ask.

Well, Moloch, who had commissioned me with the wyrms, had them cast. It was never the plan to make a wyrm for the GD but when we sat down and prepared ourselves for Toronto, it was more than obvious, that a wyrm should appear there as well.

But the guys casting the wyrms were taking their time. Actually they took so much time, that the parcel with the wyrms arrived at Molochs cave, the day before he took off. So, that was all pretty close.

I spend so much time painting in Canada, that I almost didn't get him finished. It was actually the night (a couple of hours is better)  before that Games Day that I got this Dio finished.

Moloch and Mr.Pink were asleep when I finally glued the Wyrm to its place. But I had made one big mistake. The hole in the ground was too big and Mr.Pink had no sand anywhere I could reach. especially not at 5 in the morning. So I snuck out and grabbed some earth from the front yard and used that. Actually it was no earth but that stuff you throw on icy roads, since Mr.Pink had no front yard with decent earth :D

So at half past 5 I settled for a short sleep (we had to get up at 7:30)...

But enough talk. Here some shots. Please forgive me the hue of yellow. When I find the time, I will try and make some new and better shots.

Something I still love to do: Mixing Demonett Claws with Nids... works great on genestealers aswell!

So, that's it. I hope you like the 40k bobbit worm :D

Stay tuned, since this is december and everybody is doing special stuff for december and in tyranuary we hope to have more tyranids we will get more niddy stuff this month :D

Comission: Demon Orince Broly

 Greetings, Archivists!

This shall be a "shorty".

A good while ago, I have been comissioned with something really strange...
A Dragon Ball Z character... as a Demon Prince.

I honestly have not much love left for Dragon Ball Z (the original Dragon BAll Comics where... entertaining, but after a while it turned into a quite boring neverending battle thingy...)

Nontheless, here are my effords to turn the folling picture into a live model.

 WIP:

The hair is a royal pain in the @§$, but the mixture of Greenstuff and Apoxy sculpt and some curing time before the sculpting gives everything the needed stability to be sculpted in "mid air".

Here is the finished guy:

The Cabinet of Doom WIP

Greetings!

I promised you fresh stuff from my on going sedition wars quest.

Instead I bring you something else.

You might remember, that I have moved this summer (announcment: Soon I will do a little article about mancaves). With this I have risen to a new dimension of selfawareness.
I found the Home-Improver in me, the Tim Taylor of Tool Time...

I feel like Tim, look probably more like Alan

All this was fueld, when I found a second-hand furniture store close by.
Long story short, being short on money, wanting a show-cabinet for my minitures and being inspired by the "Shabby-Chique"-Stuff my Nornqueen likes somuch I bought the following for an apple and an egg.

To give the cabinet a new paintjob, I removed the glass with my newly found skills...

I gave everything a coat of white laquer...

After that I used green acrylic paint. It was quite hard to get the paint covering up the laquer, but since I wanted to remove that paint layer, it wasn't to bad. I used a sponge and not a brush, avoiding the brush-strokes.

I mixed some brown pgments into the acryl paint to tone down the quite bright green.

After everything had dried, I took a variety of sanding papers to get the "used" look.

Since I have some nice metallic barock-application and the whole thing wasn't "Dark future" enough, I decided that I should hone my skills in barock design.
So I searched for some Input...

and started sculpting

As soon as I have painted the barock application, I will glue it onto the door and provide you with some more shots.

What do you think about customising furniture?