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Post by Dr Carnivean on Jun 27, 2013 18:48:48 GMT -5
Battle for Salvation; 16 weeks and counting[/u] Now that I have my flight booked and am registered for this year's Battle for Salvation GT October in Nyack, NY, and also now that I've taken all of my licensure tests and am now kind of sitting back and waiting for results and callbacks for jobs I've applied to, I've decided to start working on the army I'm planning on using. I've mentioned the Kabal of the Snake Headed Mountain in a few other posts previously, as I've been working on my Masters of the Universe themed dark eldar for almost the past two years now. I've done some work this week and here is where I stand with 16 weeks to go. I figure I'll do a new post at the end of each week to show how I'm progresssing. HellionsI've started working on all of the hellions this week and while I'm probably only a third of the way in on them so far I'm really liking how they're coming out. They're totally owning the Masters of the Universe theme with those colors and really do look like toys from the 80s. Everything Else:Basically the last time we saw them all, with Merman and Faker standing proudly among the rest of the half painted and half sculpted wracks, trueborn, and kabalite warriors. The pieces of the Roton (which will serve as venom transports) are still being worked on, although I've made the first mold so far with the pieces that were finished. And them below are the other vehicles I have so far, two OOP raiders which will transport the wracks, and the two newer ones to carry the warrior units. I still have to eventually pick up another raider and a trio of ravagers, The Symbol:Finally sat down and drew the symbol for the KotSHM, which is basically the silhuette of Snake Mountain from the old 80's cartoon. I may take a little off the bottom so that it's more evenly distributed making it fit better on things. I plan to have it on all the sails on the skimmers, on the wings of the Hellions and I may even do another Chessex order and have some dice with the symbol. Snake Mountain:Right now all I've got is a kind of a sort of a sketch. I'll be doing some more detailed sketches in the next couple of weeks. I already figured out the maximum size I can make it to get it up north. I'm going to have to make it in three stackable pieces which can be packed in a suitcase. Right now I'm shooting to have the hellions, warriors raiders, and half of the wracks done by the end of July and have the roton molds made, and then spend the next three months focusing on Snake Mountain, the Ravagers, rotons, and the rest of the wracks and trueborn.
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Jul 6, 2013 16:55:16 GMT -5
Battle for Salvation; 15 weeks and counting[/u] Even taking the holiday off from hobby stuff, I still managed to get enough work done this week to feel a sense of accomplishment and that things are progresssing. I was hoping to have the hellions closer to being done but am still happy with how they're looking. I'm probably going to start on the 15 warriors I have to paint this week as I'm finishing up the hellions. <EDIT> Should have gotten a better picture of the hellions with more light. Except for the blades they actually look less detailed than last week's pic and I did add a lot of layers this week. As for the wracks, Webstor, Octavia, Leech, and Spikor have joined Faker and Mer Man in the ranks of the completed, with their bases being the only thing that needs to be done. I may end up waiting till the end and doing the bases all at once. Leech was a complete sculpt from scratch. The only part on Spikor that was a previous model was the arm holding the mace, which I think was rom a Skaven kit. Webstor I remember had some Kroot DNA in him, and ghoul arms. I think the head was also based on a ghoul and his weapons I got from the bitz box. Octavia started life as a daemonette.
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Post by captainecho on Jul 6, 2013 20:36:20 GMT -5
This is such a neat original idea. this will be a fun thread to keep watch on. How do you do all these sculpts?
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Jul 7, 2013 9:18:34 GMT -5
Thanks Tom! I had done a thread a while back with some WIP pics of the sculpting but it looks like the pics are no longer available.from where I had originally uploaded them to - must have changed teh privacy settings or something. In the next couple days I'll upload all the pics to my blog site and do a WIP thread so you can see the pogression of the sculpting. With the ones I didn't start with a GW mini as a base I made a wire frame first, then used oven bake sculpey to flesh out the basic form and then started in with the green stuff.
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Post by sionnach19 on Jul 7, 2013 19:27:56 GMT -5
Looking good Jason!
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Jul 13, 2013 15:17:10 GMT -5
Battle for Salvation; 14 weeks and counting[/u][/size] This week I added another wrack to the completed list. This this time Dragstor, who had some GW parts to him, though I can't remember exactly what. I also took the time today to do all of the bases for everything that had been completed so far, as well as the ones for the next five wracks on my paint list. Also this week I started working on wire supports, using coat hanger wire, that will hold a couple of the 'flying' characters aloft and also the two old school raiders and the three rotons when I have them done. (the other three raiders, hellions, and ravagers I'm going to keep on the clear peg stands). My plan is to have plumes of hot gasses coming up from fissures in the surface of Snake Mountain, and make them out of some kind of cotton material airbrushed with with yellows and whites, and then use them to hide the supports. I didn't do any work on the hellions this week but I knocked out all of my 18 kabalite warriors, who looked at one another in confusion as to why they were being painted up like toys from the 1980's. Dr Carnivean knows how to commit to a themeThey all detach from their bases, and will be able to actually ride in the raider models, which I'm going to forgo the crew models for to make room. All in all I'm really psyched with the way these guys came out. They're so exactly the 80's toy line look I was going for that I almost want to run around the house with them going "pyew pyew pyew". Hmm .. .. .. .. .. The reenactment of my childhood is now complete
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Aug 13, 2013 6:49:13 GMT -5
Battle for Salvation; 9 1/2 Weeks and Counting
Getting up to speed in the new job has been taking up a lot of my time lately, but I've still been getting work done for my Battle for Salvation army, just not as quickly as before.
Like Cobra Commander exchanging his ceremonial hood for his battle mask in anticipation of the climactic fight (as seen in Marvel Comics' GI Joe #1 true believers) I have exhanged the chasm and waterfall terrainscape of my gaming table with the unadorned plywood worktable top before really getting down to business
The main reason for no recent updates is that I haven't painted anything else, having been primarilly concentrating on the sculpting and assembling. Since my last update:
•Finished sculpting five more Masters of the Universe villains for the wracks/trueborn •Started sculpting the final wave of characters •Assembled the last raider and the first of the three ravagers •Repaired the old school raider I had gotten on ebay •Ordered the final two ravagers from the local Hobbytown •Magnetized the two old school raiders being used for the wracks •Made new bases for the two old school raiders with sculpey and a coat hanger wire that will be eventually obscured by a plume of hot gasses from the volcano
•Finished sculpting the roton pieces and created the molds I'll need to create three of them to use as my venom transports for the trueborn units
•Begun planning out the Snake Mountain display base •Purchased on ebay the snake head piece (for 8 bucks - woot!) from the original Snake Mountain playset that I'm going to incorporate into the display base
Right now my plan is to have all of the sculpting and assembling (save for the display base) completed in the next two weeks so that the final 8 weeks before the tournament are just painting and making the display base. Without wishing to jinx myself I feel like I'm in pretty good shape compared to how I usually am with big army projects before tournaments.
More to come
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Post by Tim on Aug 13, 2013 22:25:55 GMT -5
Wow, lots of work going into this army, its really coming along.
I hear you on the display base. That is my current big project as well. But it's a it of a secret until its done. Only Brian knows, but he paints at my house from time to time.
I hope everyone else that's going is on track.
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Aug 14, 2013 6:06:34 GMT -5
You fool - now I know who I need to capture and interrogate to learn of your secret plans
You always do such impressive stuff with you're minis, I can only imagine what kind of awesomeness you'll bring to a display base. Can't wait to see it! Will you be bringing the zombiegore or the collumn kickers to the tournament?
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Post by Tim on Aug 14, 2013 18:41:19 GMT -5
Going to be the Deathwing Speartip of the Dark Angels chapter. The Emporer protects.
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Post by sionnach19 on Aug 16, 2013 18:02:52 GMT -5
Tim's display is insane. That's all you're getting from me.
Excited to see everyone's progress! I'm still stuck with total indecision about wha to play, but Khador is tempting for Butcher3 bragging rights.
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Post by RodTheCid on Aug 21, 2013 18:46:56 GMT -5
This is an amazing project Dr. C, very impressive
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Sept 8, 2013 18:21:53 GMT -5
34 Days to BFS: The Rotons are starting to flyIt's been a while since I've posted anything and I had some time today after sitting through a typical Bucs penalty-fest this afternoon. Been getting a lot of work done on the Rotons the past few weeks and have them all now up on their flying bases. What still needs to be done is to put the blade cylinders in two of them, fill in around the blades with green stuff, fill in the gaps between the molded pieces with green stuff and clean everything up, then add the magnets for the minions of Skeletor that are functioning as blaster wielding trueborn. I'm also happy to report that the ranks of the completed have been expanding while the to-do pile has been steadily getting smaller. The most recent additions to the painted club are, above from left to right, Stinkor, Squeeeze, Clawful, Rattlor, and Tung Lashor. They just need their bases painted, and I'm planning on doing all the remaining bases in one shot sometime in the next couple weeks. Below are pics of the final sculpts for Clawful and Stinkor The sculpting is wrapping up now. I'm putting the final touches on Skeletor, King Hsss, Scareglow and Mantenna today and tomorrow and I'm hoping by the end of next weekend to have Modulok, Mosquitor, Ninjor, and Evil Lynn all wrapped up. After that it's just the painting and Snake Mountain, which I've been planning out on graph paper and hope to 'break foam' on next weekend.
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Post by Tim on Sept 9, 2013 8:16:30 GMT -5
This really is an amazing project. The Rotons look really cool from what I can see in those pictures.
I'm feeling the pressure. My army at a glance looks so close to done, but its really just the base coat. I have washes and highlights to do on virtually every model plus finish the display board. It will be tight!
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Post by Dr Carnivean on Sept 9, 2013 18:46:12 GMT -5
Oh I know what you mean! I'm feeling it big time. Once the sculpting and assembling stuff is done and it's down to just the painting and the display base I'll be feeling much better but right now it's intimidating with just over a month to go
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