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coll stuff... this will take ages no milleniums to paint...and a ton on paints... how will you paint that all, also considering your many movable or turning pieces... RESPECT!!!

one question: do your sons give their lego pieces freely or do you salvage in their rooms when they are in school?

i made it a rule that i buy lego or any toys on fleamarkets or via ebay...if i was hunting in the cildrens room then i wouldnßt stop... so i´m constantly reminding me of my rule^^...

your skullwith optics is awesome, did you sloughter an old cam for the optics?either your good at salvaging stuff from your hood or your family and you are constantly trashing things LOL^^

one other thing: in your movie you show the guardsmen facing orks... again respect, for not making little "pew pew" sound in the vid. i know i would have done so, my orcs i´m painting are constantly sreaming, the guardsman whimpering, the nids roaring and the marines shoozing... boombooombooooom^^^

i saw your inqusitional tower admidst your new project. will it be part or is it youst a stand in?

and where the heck do you have so much space for storing so much material, and then placing id together??? big envy there.....seems everybody anywhere has much more living room than we here in germany... doesn´t anybody live in lofts anymore?


well i will cross every available finger for your project!

good luck and keep on beeing as motivated!

Hey Mathias, let me answer your questions one at a time mate. First i hadn't even thought about paint yet , but will have to bu a bucket load. I hope i can spray the moveable parts so they will still move , we'll see. I do ask the boys for parts , though i try not to use too many , they are getting older now so play with it a bit less. But your right about not being able to stop. they usaully want to help though. The skull with optics was my only broken camera , i took it apart to fix it but there was a cog broken so unfortunately the zoom does not work , it would of being cool to have a working optical zoom feature , or better stil a skull that takes pictures of you game :-0 . there are lots of skulls about at the moment for halloween , cool for moddeling 40k. i am constantly breaking things , i dont know why , but i never really chuck anything out either , so its not all reacent.
I was so tempted to make pew pew sounds lol. the tower is just a stand in for size references. I only have the dining room to play in and we normall use that for eating in so we are all eating off our knees whilst this project runs.. i dont really have much space with 5 people in the house , i could do with a shed so iam out of the house and the boys are getting bigger and bigger!
You cross fingers i will press thumbs?

be sure of my best wishes!

i loled reaaaalllyy hard as i read that you surpressed the urge to pew pew^^

eating on your knees? well your family is truly forgiving.

as for your sons willingness to help, what more could a father wish for? well big sacks full of money will never get out of fashion but its like back in the old days were a father has a buisiness running and the sons grew up to run the shop after he retired^^. well no one wants you to retire from your project not one minute (dont take that too serious^^).

this mecharius(?) skull with your cam optics i probably like the most. i haven´t thought that way about halloween.... i will stretch my tendrils outward for some skulls... in germany they aren´t so big in the season as in gb or the americas... but its sure getting us out everyyear to collects sweets with our bunch. and although we are not that straight farvard we do get our share for sure^^.

it would be a true fun thing to have a working cam for your project, but i think since it would be a rather too straight angle for a shot you often wouldn´t get a good one at that.

as for you spraying movable parts: does that then work? i ´m in prospect of painting a predator tank for my sm chapter and the sponsons should stay movable...hope i can pull that of...well i have often said it but tomorrow i will for sure pull myself together and present my own blog of sm and thingys... its a thing that has to be done.

by the way my endeavor on ebay only did cost me 0.80€. pheeewwou.... saved by the bell... learned a thing or two in that situation...


as usual i close with all the best wishes for you and your loved ones, and all the creativity you can harness^^

yours truly mathias

Look forward to seeing your blog mate .

mini update , to manufactorum. found some fantastic fruit boxes in tesco's , that will save me a few pennies on meterials , and is lighter than the mdf i had planned, quick and dirty mock up of the base structure, comments and critiscisms welcome

whenever i see your "so callled quick shots" i see your talent for drama^^. nice scene you developed.
i am really a fan of your chimneys... the are for now in this pre-phase the very heart and soul of your piece, cause the show the spirit of things to come!

also i like the idea of going from mdf to fruitbaskets, since the are made of veryy sturdy cardboard they will take punishment during painting but also will be farm lighter to carry around.

i´m glad that it seems your family doesn´t have to eat dinner from their knees any more^^ your manufactorum has shrucken considerable so its eaysier to pack away^^

also the pipes on the ground and the big one leading to the chimneys look very good, your very observant to actual architecture.

if i wasn´t subscribed already now would be definatly the time to do so again^^

since i´m not anymore a person with much patience dont be long for more updates^^

Nice to see you again mate, you know i have the bolter templates in production ( i havent forgotten about them) will post them when they are finished , it also inspired me to do some touching up of the beast. Think i want to redo the paintjob and add some colour to it . maybe add a close assualt blade. , like your blog btw its here at last! you are also a very skilled painter,to paint them up to that standard. might even make your guys a bunker for fun, if i get time. tyranids scratching at the door ;-). anyway yeah the fruitcardboard is excellent can't recommend it enough , the best find i have made. free , strong and light, what more could a terrain builder ask for? have you used it before? as for the pipes , and chimney , i need to go wider with the chimney to make it look more like my design, the pipes going into the floor is a happy accident , only really given it a cursory thought but your right it does make sense. I had to make the door wider to fit the dvd drive , but i think it suits it , oh and i have a finally sorted out the inside layout of the machines, and conveyor belt , that was a nightmare. trying to fit everything in and leave space and tell a story also . thinking of doing a short story / comic to introduce the concept.

definatly make a comic, would be instantly subscribed. have you had a look at:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/264043.page

its not grim dark but utterly funny...^^

well sometimes the best creations happen by accidents...
maybe i need a bit of advice from you, since you have an eye for scratchbuilding:
i want to do this as a stand in for droppods:

http://www.epicast.com/lostbanned/EpicastTermite.jpg

my mariens will not be droped to the ground instead they will pop up the ground^^

how should i do that...

and yeah i´ve used fruitcardbord before. since it is curogated cardboard you should mask it with tape wherever you cut it, otherwise it will show up and i think it might get weaken when sprayed...
what have you in mind when you say wider with the chimneys? looks good to me and tells the story of ?birmingham? massive production and pollution and so on...

have top admit that i havent seen in the pics so far something that reminded me of doors...?


well had a big disapointment today. followed your hint as to search for skulls in a decoration shop... germany is so lazy and uninteressted when it comes to halloween. the only thing i found were smiling skulls... imagine making a mecharious style built and having missing teeth and a stuuuupid grin in your face... a definte nogo^^

well the search will go on

yeasterday i scurred the webs on ebay and guess what i´ve found:
someone sells repainted waterguns for steampunk parties and rpg gamers... and they have to bloody pay through their noses for it. guess he will be making tons of money with it...
just a hint, maybe we could do a light endeavor into market with nice bolters....

had just a flash: maybe you could do a comic with just more or less painted models...and speach bubbles... that would be a new take^^

gosh i never wrote so much like today back in school^^

read you^^

Nice work, keep it up!

wrong thread^^

Woo, lots of intersting stuff Looking forward to seeing the manufactorum come together, and love the Nostromo crew

DAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNN THATS BIG

thanks everyone , for taking time to stop by . i will keep trying to make it interesting, I dont have great mini painting skills as you see from the pics lol , hoping too improve, but i dont seem to have the patience , i want everything done yesterday . but hopefully i can stay focused to build and convert things. i find it more instant , . will keep trying to update as regularly as possible.



@ DR DOOOOM! that boring/ tunneling machine is such a great idea, infact i was looking at the forge world wall breacher yesterday, thinking how i could make one myself and was checking out toys in Tesco's they had something similar but it was £8 so i left it. maybe you could use a pringles tube cut in half at an angle with something like this at the end http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Drill_bits-italy.JPG could ,maybe cut in half 2 pig pong balls or similar stick 3 to the end and add chopped up bits of wire for the teeth or maybe broken push pins, the plastic type? or better still chopped bits of sprue! the rubble will be tricky as you will have to base it. , i have never found an easy way to do rubble.

think i will give the comic/short story a go ,just post it in here though , the person who does the tau comic is talented indeed. mine wont be as blue as his though.
btw way have you ever been to koln, was looking at the cathedral there and its the most gothic thing i have ever seen especially in ww2 , straight out of 40k.
http://larocheusa.org/Vanguard/Koln-PostWar.jpg

@commander cain , thanks mate
@monkeytroll yeah me too , now i have sorted out the factory layout, will still be a little cramped though.
@cccchristoph Thats what she said....!

your suggestions for the drill pod i will try to make something up in the morning.. we´ll see...

and yeah i know the dome in köln, i´ve made from another building pictures from our last holiday on the isle of rügen east coast of germany. also many gothic or early industrial buildings. redstones and piqued windos and such...tried myself with a gothic ruin i ´ve found in the interwebs... still to be built...

eatattau is absolutly hillariuos, yours could be well more into drama and more grim and dark. would love to see it.

and here comes the great revelation concerning rubble:
either you use plaster mixed with pva glue... or you can use cork. just tear it apart any how you like---> instant rubble, so much texture and totaly not streamlined. if you are using plaster you also only brack the plates of plaster and have nice edges...

and for that beetlejuce... well wjat can you expect in times of all hallows eve...spooookey^^

i´m off for now, see ya in a few hours...good night

Misc and other musings. found the tescos toy lego atlantis could be usefull for your drill if found cheap? it was from childrens playbox, cost £12 here is the link
http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=Lego%20Atlantis%20Seabed%20Scavenger&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GBfficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wf

your roughnecks look awsome... now you also do greenstuff...
they look really beefy, like they would not shy away of takling a marine thenmself...
if you want a story, do it with those two and maybe do it like
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Kane_and_Lynch_cover_art.jpg

that would rock^^

did you use some marinechests? looks cool, the one shot with the sergant in the middle looks like theother two would say: whats up shorty?

as for the toy do you mean that i should use the sawblade or rather the wheels? they would do the job...

yeah that would be pretty cool, kane and lynch as tough gung ho imperial guard soldiers , maybe stop motion animation, in a comedy style.
but i am thinking more the human civillian element for the story , a softer side to 40k that we dont normally see.

i did use space marine bodies , to give them there carapace , it was almost identical to the original design. those gears of war concept artists ripped quite a lot from 40k, genestealers as well.
as for the toy i meant the wheels both the front and back are good but a combination of their designs would be best i think. shame its so expensive this one was a pocket money present one of my boys baught themselves only a few weeks ago , so i cant steal it for any projects :-(

P.s Starship troopers = Roughnecks
Gears of war = cog + Gears

i used the term roughnecks especially for that reason... and because the look like the thing^^...

well yeah toys are really expensive these days... maybe ....but dont want to hijack your thread^^ join me in this discussion on my blog. heres your ballroom^^

so will you massproduce these fine imps for your moloch of a project? would be a good honor gard (well of course for such a delicate subject its a job for ordo astardes....but well...)


as for a softer side of 40k, well thats why the tau were invented lol^^
no seriously i thought in the sense of warhammer (either system) civillians are just used as casuallities or recrutment material...or food^^

but would be interessting to see somewhat everyday life in 40k. food regulations that will lead to enormous waitinglines in front of small shops... schools that preach instead of teach...or you might go so far as to show life in the underhive from a necromunda point of view with gangs and so on...

i will cross fingers for your first steps in this project and also for your current (many) things...

ps.: for my hive fleet consider your idea of face huggers so stealed partner^^ have just found it in the web.... might be fun idea to use as a poster ...
http://media.gamerevolution.com/images/misc/Image/facehugger_procedure.jpg

Hello again , wanted to share some stuff i have being upto.. havent been able to work on the manufactorum for a while so i started my Online story, graphic novell , it to introduce the concept of my manufactorum. The story is called called Praxus , a industrial civilised world , in impearial space , the story is a short one and will be illustrated in black and white , it will focus on the lives of two individuals and will explore ideas of civillian life , love , innocence lost , and sacrifice within the grimdark 40k universe. hope to have the story finished fully and illustrated before the manufactorum is finished , i will post the story and artwork in chapters , there will probably be 3 . this is just a teaser to see if there is any interest for this sort of thing , but critisims and comments are always welcome . if this is succesfull i will produce more stories based on the planet. Cheers neil101

welllll.....hmmmmm no, can´t be bothered....




urhgh *shakes head* ohhh just came to my senses again^^

great artwork... love the lines must have taken ages to draw that...
i like your style to tell a story with only some small pictures. you just can hear the sound of battle and the raging of the men and music...yeah right music. some big sounds...

you teased me with this strip right enough, well actually i can´t demand anything but if i could i would definatly... would love to see the whole story. as you mentioned that it is about two characters in the 40th millenium and shows their life and you also mentioned you want to show more civilian life then this battle drama won´t be the whole content. this sound s truly interessting.

one suggestion: i´ve read my fair share of comics in my time. and if i had to sum up what makes a story good and waht not i would recomend something you wouldn´t guess^^...
do the lettering from hand instead by typesetting. i think your sketches deserve handlettered typo. even the last word "war" i would set as some sort of drawing. there is so much life in your drawings that the stale letters from a writing program won´t do them pictures justice.

well, now that i have taken a glimpse of thinks to come, it leaves me wanting and guessing...
will these individuals be lovers, brothers or enemies...?
where will the story lead to...
hmmm, i just noticed that i´m not the patient one^^ but to have a good story with great pictures drawn in that style i woont have a chance but to wait...
darn...

ok mate up to you... get on the drawing desk *slashes whiplash*

^^

Thanks for the advice about the typeset its easy to miss stuff like that when your focused on story and artwork etc.. Just not sur if my lettering is up to the job. might look around for help with that. you any good with letters? , Somehow i thought you would have knowledge of the comic book world, and its a great compliment that you like my artwork, as you must of seen plenty lol . Iam taking the illustrating one step at a time , as i havent really drawn like this before , only quick sketches. and i would really like this to be good. hope i can keep the pace up and get a bit faster , as it took me three days to finish that page ! at that rate i will be finished next year. I wasnt confident enough to add blacks yet , but i would like to experiment a bit ( not like me lol! ) What do you think of the black and white scheme? do you think it needs more black , i added a darker pic and i think this works better online.
. as always thanks for the feedback .

hope i didn´t bump you with my begining prank...got sometimes a weird sense of humor...

as for your lettering... well the least you can do is get a more 40k related typo from a free typo site...can´t name you one at the moment....

your lining could use some more black, as i recall you used this brush technique some times...that looked awsome.
did you do the strip on one piece of paper? i don´t know if you knew that comic artists sketch upon a whole big paper for one panel. so that the art never gets to tiny...

and don´t be afraid that this won´t pull off any other that cool and yet beautiful. you´re a serious artist. the dynamics in your panels and your gift for "camerawork" cant find another word for, are remarkably. and about the amount of time invested for this piece of art, never rush, good things need time.
as for me helping with your lettering part...don´t know how we should do that beeing miles apart...and also, this is your artwork. your vision, this shouldn´t be spoiled by another hand. i know i wouldn´t want it in my case.it´s like having your baby from another man/woman...as art IS an act like creating life, yeah sound big but true art is big, it´s what set us apart from the beasts...it´s one of the two major things we can do to get immortal. the other is raising children...

good luck mate and move on^^

Looking good, especially the comic your brewing on, I'll definately be watching

thanks guys , @ vik yeah i know some artist draw bigger and reduce , might try it for the rest of the comic, as i forgot doh!
cheers for the tip

i´m all for help^^, glad your back.
busy life?

Never enough time in the day for me .yeah just story writing sketching and more weiting until i can get some work done on the manufactorum.

i´ll cross fingers for some creative freetime for you^^

Well , even though my blog has being quiet , i can assure you i have not being resting on my laurels, i fact i havent stopped bloody working, unfortunately , or fortunately , it has been primarirly on the Praxus Novella ( which really is just a fancy and time consuming way of writing an interseting fluff for my manufactorum, which i also havent being working on , drawing it seems is very labour intensive , but i have decide to split my creative adventures into a few catorgeries to stop the dreaded boredom from setting in. i will be working on all the projects at once now , that is the comic the manufactorum and the all new characters from the PRAXUS Novella , the end result will be the Sequential art Novella will take a bit longer , sorry for anyone hoping a quicky turn -a- round

but the upside is i get a few days a week to work on the manufactorum and main models of the peoples of praxus, of which i am proud to present (spoiler alert= Antal adalais (although a bit older than he appears in the Novella) Praxian future heir to Praxus planetary governorship , and his planetary deffence personelle body guard Copiae.
models are from perry minatures plastics range including a selection of unmounted dragoons british officers , french officers and french infantry, i highly recomend them! they are amazlingly detailed and highly customisable, the down side is even though they are 28 mm they are not very compatible with the 40k minatures, as they are realisticly proportioned, ie small and delicate, unlike them catachans , the models seem to be compatible with eldar high elf and tau, arms with a little conversion and some times cadian , although the shoulder pads are a bit oversized! The minis actually look tiny when not mounted on gw bases and bulked up with backpacks and so fourth, which i think makes space marines look realsized without any conversion .. BONUS will show a pic of this after the upload. these are a simple setup and a few hours converting to see if thety were usable, and my sons helped convert them , in fact my youngest twin , made ANTAL ADALAIS ( the general himself ) and he has the best conversion imo. bloody kids!!

linky to models http://www.perry-miniatures.com/index2.html

Nice work, though the scale differences can be off-putting. I think it still works, though.

Thanks Malfred , your right the scale is a bit off , when they arrived i just thought arh bugger! cant use those. but with a bit of labour i think the models can be used ,especially the french draggon bodies they seem a bit bigger than the rest( the ones with the knee high boots).
i iniatley only wanted to create civillians for my manufactorum with theis range of models ( actually the american civial war models and british longbowmen from the war of the roses) but these looked so good i couldnt resist.
i have uploaded a few more shots showing size comparrisons with various races , if anyone eles id interested in abuying them. wont have the shock i got when opening the box!