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Anung Un Rama wrote:how did you get them to stay in chape? can I just bend them? I want to know before I buy them.

Just keep in mind the string is very springy, so you need to bend them past the shape you want so they'll stay there. To get the curves I bent them carefully around a curved object, because if you try to do it without a guide, you get kinks in the cable which looks silly. But once you get the string to the spot you want it, it stays there pretty nicely. You'll need a really good wire cutter for the job too.

thanks, now I'm on step closer to model Doc Ork

More done today .

Father is finished. So is Father's Spawn. Actually, Spawn needs his spiky bits touched up coz they keep breaking off. I need to drill some indents and put the spikes in there before filling the holes back in with green stuff.

Pics:







The biggest problem is, the chainmail loincloth on Father makes it look like he's packing more than an organic package down below...oh well, bring back the Eighties Rocker Codpieces!

It's pneumatic!
Ah, what brave new world is populated by men like these...

Lemmingspawn wrote:Father is finished. So is Father's Spawn.

So ... that's his kid, then? Literally and/or figuratively?

Wehrkind wrote:It's pneumatic!
Ah, what brave new world is populated by men like these...

- Salvage

Yeah, Chaos spawn of raping and pillaging the universe. One day this muscular young lad knocks on his door at home and says "Oi, remember raping half of Incordia Minor 15 years ago? Well here I am, where's my backpay maintenance payments you mecha-tentacled freak! WOAH! Look at that CODPIECE! I can see why mother speaks of you ALL the time!"

And thus begins the Father - Spawn relationship unique to the Iron Giants faction of the Legions of Chaos. Most other factions just eat their children...or if their children do get old enough (let alone the mother survives the impregnation) they eat their father. I really think Spawn is hanging around to learn the mecha-tech required to build his own pneumatic-powered cod-piece filler one day before offing his progenator.

Great projects! I had an idea in mind of a corrupt techmarine, and I was looking for ideas. This one is awe inspring. All your works make me want to leave my job and get to modelling!

woah, the huge model in the begining is cool as hell.

Rightio guys, here's the finished defiler number 3! YAY! Defilers are now complete!! This one has turned out pretty good, I'm quite happy with it, even the little pinhead.

Here are pics and less talk!

VERY nice update! I simply love the base.
I gotta say, i like the pinhead painted even more. It gives the whole thing an air of arrogance.


Kick ass work, as usual

This is another great addition to the force. Thoroughly enjoying these disturbingly regular updates, even if I now have the image of a Chaotic codpiece lodged in my head.

My love for the iron giants continues to overflow ...

Verdigris is once again a tad funky in my mind, but growing on me. All that dingy yellow / metal + glowy lava is most excellent.

- Salvage, who needs to watch big robots destroy things right now (I guess that means Transformers?)

I don't think there enoguh smiley in this forum to tell you how unbelivable AWESOME that thing is.

Wow. That defiler is mind-blowing. That's the type of conversion that inspires me to build armies. And that base is absolutely incredible!

I like to think of Lemmingspawns creations as more a thermo-nuclear device going off in the depths of the creative mind.

Seems to fit.

you sir, have just been sigged.

grey_death wrote:I like to think of Lemmingspawns creations as more a thermo-nuclear device going off in the depths of the creative mind.

Seems to fit.

Woah. Thankyou sir!

Ah yeah, "Wargamer Poetry" so rare to see, so pretty to look.

Well, ok, I will admit it. I like the tiny head now. I don't LOVE it, but it looks good enough, far better than I had expected.

A pity the cafe at work doesn't serve crow.

Too damn nice.

Ok, small update. I've been looking at the defiler and knew that I had to update it somehow and get a little more colour in. Problem is, I knew I couldn't do too much otherwise it'd spoil the effect. So what I thought I'd do it add some glow to the eyes of the mask. I think it turned out pretty good, here's some pics to show it finished.





I think it improves the artistic aspect by drawing the eye upwards and over the model, while the lava draws the eye down. Interesting dynamic and I like how it works. But it's an evil destructive robot so I have to speak of aesthetics and artistic appeal in hushed tones so it does not attempt to destroy me...

And on another note, I've started painting Father and Spawn. They are in the final undercoat stages (ultra metal weatherings) before I start on the extra fills. I have also started modifying my two rhinos for use in the army. It was a bit of a chore to start with but now I'm really starting to see the fruit with them. Tomorrow you will see pics of the Rhinos. And tomorrow I shall reveal their dark secret....muahahahaha!

Some of you may want to kill me. But it's ok, I can live with that.

I have girded my loins and await tomorrow's revelations

Glowy robot eyes are acceptible. Now his tiny head will not be totally lost amidst his weapons of terrible power

- Salvage

This is fantastic - inspirational stuff! Keep it up! Can't wait to see this army completed.

That Defiler is just pure awesomeness. If you shot it, it would bleed win all over the place. Very inspiring (as I look at my 2 unassembled defilers....) Some of the ideas will have to be stolen of course

Ok here's the Valentines day gift to all you nerdy gamers (like me!) :p

First of all, just a WIP of the Father and Spawn Lord combo:



And second, the rhinos I promised. There's 2. They look cool. Lotsa spiky bits and gubbins. But wait, something is wrong....



What could it be??

The answer to that question is:

They are scratchbuilt out of cardboard. No original rhino parts used to make these suckers...(except for the chaos spiky bits)

Well, you were right now I hate you. But nothing personal you are just too good and I have to keep the balance.

I would have never known they weren't actual rhinos. Awesome. You made them out of the same thick card you've been using?

What do you use to bond the card together? Something I've been wondering for a while.

I might be trying my hand at scratch building here in the near future.

It's just thick cardboard, same stuff I'lve been using. It's all bonded with superglue, and I use the superglue to strengthen the card where it needs it too. Works well. Although the more I do it and paint the stuff, the more I wish plasticard was more readily available to me. There are a few problems with the surfaces when you paint it, even after undercoating. I might have to try some panelbeaters spray bog to see how that helps.

This whole blog is mind numbing! The imagination used to build this army is inspiring to us all. Keep it up!

I long for day we see this army as a whole. Salute!

Your secrets, reviled!

The amount of time it must take to make a scratch rhino that looks exactly like the real thing makes me think just buying the real thing is more efficient, at least for the twisted, scabarous meat hooks I possess. Looking at your work, I want to hide them under my desk, lest someone see my secret shame!

I don't remember what I am talking about...

Man your stuff is amazing. This type of thing is the entire reason I chose chaos when I started playing. The conversion possibilities with chaos are endless. I am in envy of your walkers.