Toy's n' That....

[Lord Borak]

Ok, well, that didn't go as planned. The pouches for the spare Ammo clips turned out to be too small for the clips on her pistol. Rather than continue with something I know would annoy me I removed them and started again *sigh*.

In other news. This is a 'prototype' light cruiser/Merchantman for my Rogue Trader fleet. I might do two more, or they might look completely different........ I'm not sure yet. It's built out of Sentinel pelvis, Sentinel Multi Laser and the bridge is a Sentinel Knee cap. I have quite a lot of Sentinel legs left over from making a few guard buggies out of the cockpit........ so I might finally find a use for the parts! huzzah!

[radu lykan]

Very cool, a few of them would be nice to shoot at

[osjclatchford]

Holy shit! That's a beautiful kitbash that I'm sure will now be replicated by pretty much everyone that sees it! It's very tau looking... Like an Imperial version of a tau vessel. Great stuff and very suitable as a rogue trader escort...

[Malika]

That's one of the best kit bashes I've seen in a long long time, if not ever! Most of the time the usage of 40k parts really betrays, but you've managed to do it in such a way that you'd hardly recognise it (except for the multi-laser's barrel, but that's forgivable).

[Stormwind]

All beautiful work!

[Lord Borak]

Thanks guys


Bring out your Haywire grenades!! Skynet is here!!!!




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[Stormwind]

Fantastic - I do love those cyber-doggies!

[marell le fou]

I think the dogs would deserve some enlightments with a pale red or even very tiny white touch. But the group is great.

What will you do of them ? General use or a precise purpose ?

[Lord Borak]

Cheers chaps


Merell:
You're probably right about the red. It's highlighted up from Red Gore to Blood Red but for some reason I have always sucked at photography Red. Still, my photography skills aside, it could probably do with another layer. I'm also going to go back and add some markings and insignia to them.

General use really. Just some NPC pieces to annoy player characters, act as guards or what have you. Although the idea of a Witch/Bounty hunter who only uses Servo Skulls and Mastiffs does sound pretty awesome.

[Lord Borak]

Well, I received a BIG box of resin goodies. My High Conveyor is finally done!! The pics are pretty shocking but, like a kid with a new toy, I had to take some pics and show off!!




This is a picture of one of the miss moulds I 'rescued'.





I also got the first set of little transport ships. They came out really nice actually. My OCD had to put them in colour order :/



I'll try and get some of the transports and maybe one of the High Conveyors painted this weekend.

[osjclatchford]

wow! you must be pleased with those high conveyors. love the little transports too. its amazing how fast I went through my 'stock' of gw metal transports in the last year. they are a great side project as its fun to have something you can paint up in a different colourscheme to the rest of your fleet without feeling the need to create a whole new battlegroup sometimes.

totally get the ocd regarding the photo lineup... that would bug me too... looking forward to painted shots soon...

[Malika]

How are the rates for getting stuff cast in resin? I've been attempting to tempt Vanguard Miniatures to switch to resin, but they claim metal is still a whole lot cheaper (which is perfect for keeping prices in the store down).

[osjclatchford]

To be honest as a customer, I'd choose metal over resin any day. Just oldskool I guess. But big stuff like battleships size are easier to work with in resin it's true. If you get a good castor working the moulds there's not always a lot of difference in the detail quality and some resin I've had has just been appalling quality as far as mold lines and bubbles are concerned...

[Lord Borak]

Well, the mould and 12 casts were something like £175 so not cheap. I'm pretty sure the chap gives me a discount as well. I forget the break down but the mould was the most expensive (more than half). Individual casts vary depending on size of the model. The Transports were £1.50 for each cast I think but the mould will be about £20 (I haven't been invoiced for them yet!). The Cultist mould was £40ish and each set of 3 models was £7.

Metal Vs resin. Personally, I'm with OSJC. Metal is just nicer to use and can always be stripped and reused if needs be. It's also more robust. We've all dropped models but resin has the tenancy to shatter. On the flip side, dropping a metal Gothic ship is bad news as the stands break 99% of the time (even on escorts).

Well, no pics yet but I'm in the process of painting up 12 Havocs, 4 Escort Carriers, 6 recommissioned Escorts and 2 Conveyors

[osjclatchford]

On the flip side, dropping a metal Gothic ship is bad news as the stands break 99% of the time (even on escorts).

The fragility of flying stands are the reason I've switched to using copper roofing nails as bases these days. As you can see on my thread. Even though smaller than the smallest bfg stand, the copper is robust enough to hold up a battleship.  Cheap to get on eBay too. Also nice to know I'm not the only one who feels that way about resin. Nessacary evil these days... I miss white metal...