Drop Pod Finished

Ok, here is my Master on a bike with the base coats finished and the bleached bone on him. When the bleach bone is on all the bikes I will start on the highlights. I'll post when his highlights are finished.




Ok, here is my finished drop pod, all put together. Nod bad if I do say so myself for my first scratch built. I've started work on a Macharius pattern tank, but haven't gotten that far yet. I'm going to finish painting all of my bikes and landspeeders before I focus in on it again.

Drop Pod

Ok, the Drop Pod is done. I'll take some finished photo's of it later. I had a entire set of photo's of it's completeion, but they got deleted. Here it is right before I started the last 25% or so. I'm trying to hunt down a CD to make a base out of it and model it so it looks like a hard crater landing, but unfortunately, we are about 1/4 packed to move, and the CD's all are in a box.

And my wife HATES it when I start unpacking packed things. No surprise really.

Some remarks on the design process. I started off using some thick card, but in the end, I enjoyed working with the plasticard a lot more, and found it a lot easier. Also I sued some balsa wood to give the fints some depth, but wood glue does NOT work well with plastic. Stick with standard white glue. Sadly, I probably used about a hundred bucks in supplies at this point. Let's hope this pays off in the future. I've already started on my next scratch build project, pictures of it next time.






This is what I'm working on at the moment. My bikes for my Angels of wrath. They just have their base coats on at the moment. Six bikes, vet with Power Fist, attack bike, and commander (popping the willy). The Landspeeders are the original metal dark angel models, all lead I believe. They were held to go with glue and a prayer when I put them together around fifteen years ago... Fuck has it been that long? I've been playing 40K since around 1992-1993, right at the end of Rogue Trader before 2nd edition came out. Anyway, all of the weapons are magnatized. I'll take some photo's of these guys through the process.



This is probably going to end up being Mollach, Master of the Arsenal. It's hard to tell that he is painted any different then DA's as his armor is so concealed by his cloth. To bad he isn't a good pick using the Space Marine 5th ed codex. But Still, not bad, he is my second master painted so far.

This is also going to be a master. I build his Thunder hammer from scratch, and am really looking forward to having him painted. I'll post his ongoing pain job here for you. I still have NO idea what army list I plan on settling onto when it's all said and done, so I'm just sort of painting everything.

Tau Concept Work

Since the release of planetstrike I have been annoyed that there was (as expected) no Tau terrain. For this reason I'm considering scratch building about ten pieces of modular style terrain, then casting them to build tables for the group in Jackson, Mississippi where I will be back to playing again in a month (Yea!). Anyway here is some of the concept work so far. I don't plan on working on this for a bit, but sometime in early 2010. In addition, the last image is a piece I want to make to convert Hammerheads over to Swordfish (twin linked heavy railguns). I think I will have to build a new railgun for it as well actually. It's the worst one. I have the mathmatics of the piece down, but not the look.

Drop Pod Post 1

Ok, so this is really the first post, i.e. the BEGINNING of the blog. The first assessment of what I need to build my drop pod.

Yesterday I went out and purchased my supplies that I THINK I may need. We will see what I do and don't. This is what I picked up:

Plasticard .5 mm, Evergreen stuff, a lot of it.

Plasticard long circular pieces (to cut for rivets) two sizes,

Plasticard long square sections... this was for my thunderhammers that I want to self build. I did one last night that came out pretty well. I'll post a picture of the model later.

Aluminum rods for guns and weapons etc...

A paper ctter for straigt lines. I'm not sure I got the best one, but I have to deal with space alotments for the moment.

Some 2.0 mm balsa wood

1.0 mm card. The directions say thick card. I'm not sure quite what that is, I think these plans were drafted by someone in England, so you get these inconsistancies from time to time.

Here is a picture of them on my work table.

Now, I printed the plans that I picked up off of the yahoo groups. Great bunch of guys there. Here they are for all to see:

Now, I think that they meant for this to be printed on card stock of some type, then fold. I'm not going to do mine that way. The plan is for this thing to be almost identical to the GW one, so I am going to do a lot of these pieces the best way I can. It seems fitting that the 40K Radio Marathon is tomorrow, as I will be listening to them while the wife is out, and trying to wrap my mind around this.