A Titanic undertaking, continued. (And a gift)

More progress on the Warhound to report!

Well, the test with the heraldic plates didn't turn out as well as I'd hoped, so they won't be used.

I did however get on with the airbrushing stages:

As you can see in the pics, I've added gun-pennants and a small banner to the Titan. These were made from plastic and metal rod, some spare bits for the finials, and mainly tin sheet from old mayo tubes.

In the course of today, I've been painting the metal trim on the Warhound. Here's where he's at at the end of the day:

I've been using Vallejo Liquid Metal Old Gold for this, and aside from the smell (alcohol based) and the extra bother in cleaning the brush, I'm very impressed with these! Now I just have to paint all the other details and bits... I had hoped to finish it in my current week off, but now I'm having serious doubt if I can make it! Oh well, I'd rather do it well, than do it fast.

And finally the gift. A friend in Scotland, LongFang, does regular streams on Twitch and has significantly stepped up his schedule to keep people entertained during the present Viral Kerfuffle. As a sign of appreciation, and because he is a very keen player of Destiny 2, I decided to make him a custom Ghost (little personal A.I. assistants) prop:

 The core paintjob (airbrush), with a set of markings derived from the Flags of Scotland and a second set derived from his in-game heraldry.

Then it was time for weathering and final assembly:

And then it took a long, looong wait for the final component to arrive, a lighting unit:

Once everything came together, I could finally send it off to it's intended owner. He received it today, so I can now, at last, share this little labour of love with you.

See you all again next time!

A titanic undertaking

Remember, remember, the end of december, when I showed some 3d printed parts?

Well, the past two weeks, I restarted printing a Lucius Pattern Warhound for a friend, and that, in turn got me energized to work on my Mars pattern Warhound again.
I'm printing the last few weapons I need to have the complete set (only 2 Inferno cannons to go!) while assembling the Titan itself.

Which involves sanding, lots of sanding...

Currently I'm focussing on building the main structure of the Warhound. After that I will spend time personalizing and decorating it.

I have decided on the colour scheme and Legio for this Titan(and possible future ones?), it shall be Legio Astraman. I've been deciding on proper markings and heraldry, using the background of Legio Astraman as a guide.
Ofcourse I painted a quick tester:

The legs will be coloured slighly different, and I'm thinking of going either green or cream white for the head instead, but that is the basic layout I'm going for.

Having chosen a Legio, I also set about making a few heraldic plates:
From colour logo (found on the internet):

Through greyscale:

To a 3d relief created by mapping light-dark to low-high:

I still need to print this, and then I'll add it to the Warhound carapace. I've also added a receptacle for a banner pole on it's back, to fly a Legio Astraman pennant/banner. I'll also be adding moderati Kill-pennants to the guns (just one set, but magnetized, so I can switch them over when I swap weapons out). I'll be omitting the "loincloth" banner, as I feel it doesn't suit the Warhound's lines and background says they are precious relics, stored before battle anyway.

See you next time, and good hunting!

Catching up

With the social distancing in effect, I've done some more hobbying that usual in the past weeks...

The start of the medieval farmstead that I built ages ago has finally had it's date with the airbrush and paintbrush, just basing/flocking remains to be done:

I've also been assembling a core force of  Space Wolves, which required some greenstuffing:

In the meanwhile, in the background I was printing stuff. Unfortunately I suffered a major clog in the print head.This forced me to fully disassemble and clean the hot end, as well as replace the bowden tubing... After several days (over several weeks) of tweaking, I have it running reliably again.

But the major endeavour of this month has been two buildings for my Cyberpunk terrain project. They still have some small touches to do (matt varnish, windows and the till on the store interior still needs to be painted), but for the moment, they're finished enough. Both have accessible interiors and locations where signage can be magnetically attached.

The front door is reversible, with a regular door and a quarantine door. :)

 The 3-story building is 3D printed, with some scratch-built additions, the shop is from large scale train terrain. Graffiti and tags are decals (home printed), posters and signs are printed paper, while the magnetized signage is all 3d-printed.

As I was airbrushing a lot anyway, I decided to paint up this little thing as well:

I've also started up a new set of meads. The theme for this batch is "pear". 

Centre is a pear melomel, made by adding chopped pears to the mead recipe, the rightmost is a pear-cyser, made by substituting the water in the mead recipe with pear juice. The leftmost is just whatever pear juice, pear bits and honey I had left over from the other two batches. ;)
(They're in buckets because I tend to have a fairly energetic fermentation the first few days, and I like to contain the spillage.)

See you next time!

Mean streets, mean people

Sooo, some time has passed. But I've been doing stuff, honest!
Though less as I had hoped to do, and with less focus, due to some long running problems and family issues taking a toll on my mental health. I haven't had much time to fully unwind and really deep-dive into hobby projects. But I'm forcing myself to keep scratching at the surface, as the hobby helps me deal with the stress of the recent parade of BS. As a result, I've also been putting off this post, and my prose may seem a bit more terse than usual.

I've painted two crews for Reality's Edge.

First up is the corporate-backed shadow ops crew (sorry for the fuzzyness of some pics... Wasn't paying 100% attention, due to the above reasons) :

And here they are with their Corporate Backer (A VR telepresence that aides and guides each crew in Reality's Edge, sort of the player avatar on the table).

The Shadowbacker is 3D printed, the crew is all from Hasslefree Miniatures.

Crew two, the classic Cyberpunk trope of the scappy street scum that fights to stick it to "the Man":

This crew is mostly Hasslefree Miniaturs, except for the leader, that miniature is "Raging Annie" from Bad Squiddo Games. This group is still without a Shadowbacker.~: My printer has been acting up, and seems to really dislike PETG, so I need to tune and tweak the machine all over again, and start looking for a transparent PLA.

The terrain backdrop is, as often lately, slightly modified terrain from Multiverse Gaming Terrain with extra bits added.

Currently on the painting desk is the medieval farm I showed ages ago, and on the airbrush station is are two cyberpunk buildings, but seeing how my focus is lately, I can't guarantee which, if either of those, will be the next to get finished...

See you next time!

Hello again, remember me?

Well, time to (try and) breathe some life back into this blog...
I've been doing some hobby stuff the past few weeks, but due to a concussion, wasn't able to sit at a PC long enough to post about it. I'm feeling better now, which makes it time to catch up a bit.
As this is going to be a longer, picture-filled post, you can see it all after the break.

End of year update

Hobby time has been scarce recently (busy time at work, but I won't deny the Witcher on Netflix is also partly to blame)... Luckily some things can progress without me actively working on them. Thanks to the glory that is my private little manufactorum, aka the 3D printer. :D

I've been printing a batch of parts for building and detailing Necromunda terrain, in preparation for the return of hobby hours once the busy period at work is past.
But more importantly, I've been printing this beast:

And with Brother Forscale on his head, to show the size of this beast:

I'm just waiting on the arrival of some materials I need to smooth out the print lines, and then I can move forward to assembling and painting this Warhound Titan.  I'm also awaiting some files for other weapons to be fine-tuned and then I'll print those as well.
If the smoothing of the print lines and subsequent painting goes well, this may not be the last one...
I'm currently deciding on  a colour scheme, at the moment I'm leaning towards doing an emerald green colourscheme, and painting my Knights to match. Another option would be Legio Astorum, as they have fought alongside the Howling Griffons, but it's a fairly common colour scheme (with reason though, it looks good).  "Luckily" I have plenty of time to decide, as I still have a lot of cleanup and assembly to do.

Finally, I bought the White Dwarf Mechanicus model, spurring me to spend this afternoon building him and a few of his Mechanicus buddies. Hopefully I can prime and start painting them tomorrow.

See you all next year!

Aaaand, done!

Hello again my dear readers,

Today I want to share the completion of the terrain and markers for the Necromunda: Underhive boxed set. Took me a bit, but I finally got there. (Just in time for GW to drop the next set, it turns out.... 😆) Here's the complete set:

(In the background you can see some Multiverse Gaming Terrain walls, as well as some 3D printed Zone Mortalis ones.)

And with a few extras finished in the same style:

(For those interested, the floor tiles are MDF from Multiverse Gaming Terrain, part of their Vault Builder Megaton set.)

Some close-ups of the walls and barricades (junky workdesk pic, viewer beware! ;)  )

Recently I've become enthusiastic about building Necromunda terrain again. Unfortunately, we're coming up on the busiest time of year at work, so I won't actually be able to do anything with the current mojo. Hopefully it will last until after the holiday season.

See you all next time!