tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35581449448356283642024-03-19T03:59:43.885+00:00Torva TenebrisTod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.comBlogger168125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-80828730114778002772024-02-12T17:52:00.003+00:002024-02-12T17:55:42.818+00:00'Ard Boy Ork Breachers, part two<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6uz06GDP5_hgix9IIWiy_-1Fd3o1l-ZDdoX0uhsj0D2BM2eAJq7xXvmKGFrmRGBQBjJQHPGT_LAlGLab-xfRLZ0Fz_U9epXct2ysCBAGLFSEMCpn_P8ZQF8Lui8-iNVtaxNPY4xVghNkgIWIeTFcQxdsUfE6OCrePXa_lYmJ8uv0crKDQMJzmoqsE5sv/s1200/OrkArdBoyz.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga6uz06GDP5_hgix9IIWiy_-1Fd3o1l-ZDdoX0uhsj0D2BM2eAJq7xXvmKGFrmRGBQBjJQHPGT_LAlGLab-xfRLZ0Fz_U9epXct2ysCBAGLFSEMCpn_P8ZQF8Lui8-iNVtaxNPY4xVghNkgIWIeTFcQxdsUfE6OCrePXa_lYmJ8uv0crKDQMJzmoqsE5sv/w640-h480/OrkArdBoyz.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div>KNOCK KNOCK! My heavily armoured <i>Ork 'Ard Boyz</i> are back. And this time they've got paint on. </div><div><br /></div><div>We last saw them a few weeks ago, at the beginning of this year, <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2024/01/ard-boy-ork-breachers-part-one.html" target="_blank">here</a>, without paint, where I had dug them out of their decade long stasis to remount them on slightly larger bases. Since then I have added an extra member to the squad – the character carrying the battering ram from the excellent <a href="https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/kill-team-kommandos-2022" target="_blank">Ork Kommandos Kill Team</a>. I tweaked him a bit to sport one of the older, larger faces, with headgear matching the rest of the team, and then removed some of the redundant spikes from the front of his ram.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQrKLMsyGaIa6lgdTiVL14oPkC0HHmL1Z8SDCOuD4td5XslzQVaTbiAvLfnuJUzF6AxZxDF4-EwBF5QNXmiJRryTTZ1PnYtphyphenhypheniMohPBxOFrRLcxcs1WOe6IlJFaOnNeTCJOMLFwwfd8eZKhJzAZZTK94XDmDt-Q1UWOqlen4Ez1J01GwB0itBbzt8biq/s1200/OrkArdBoyzA_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigQrKLMsyGaIa6lgdTiVL14oPkC0HHmL1Z8SDCOuD4td5XslzQVaTbiAvLfnuJUzF6AxZxDF4-EwBF5QNXmiJRryTTZ1PnYtphyphenhypheniMohPBxOFrRLcxcs1WOe6IlJFaOnNeTCJOMLFwwfd8eZKhJzAZZTK94XDmDt-Q1UWOqlen4Ez1J01GwB0itBbzt8biq/w640-h640/OrkArdBoyzA_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiloU3amTjJSEmqubPr7U83RH7pwEMiKDJjk48F6w-gZPftlisl435IJYB3c21pdhseEPHTBsRSNW5dorxE77Y0EdNLW8E5qy7edyCXLvKNRqJ3A9W0cMQsEZhQwYPXYphVOnIxnS90hgm9q-4tUd59QLxG1Y2LpZCrPAkR3dOLfzUKlPV7LjWBIZR_sey/s1200/OrkArdBoyzB_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiloU3amTjJSEmqubPr7U83RH7pwEMiKDJjk48F6w-gZPftlisl435IJYB3c21pdhseEPHTBsRSNW5dorxE77Y0EdNLW8E5qy7edyCXLvKNRqJ3A9W0cMQsEZhQwYPXYphVOnIxnS90hgm9q-4tUd59QLxG1Y2LpZCrPAkR3dOLfzUKlPV7LjWBIZR_sey/w640-h640/OrkArdBoyzB_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgamR6QaoPE-kOWQN6dTc1HRv91nBxnA9mic_EupZZl8XuhJgsqhVz4mJXSQkUC8PWJba5eDesDaD-46iyqPV4DS7Bhq2FVpujK9hNuNEyowikCn23_ehyphenhyphenIGsLe16lttupeeILU8D5jTa5d1Vbd0DMU6cE4acbg7RLlGl9gm12ELifm6Jx_nZaIg3gZL1Q-/s1200/OrkArdBoyzC_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgamR6QaoPE-kOWQN6dTc1HRv91nBxnA9mic_EupZZl8XuhJgsqhVz4mJXSQkUC8PWJba5eDesDaD-46iyqPV4DS7Bhq2FVpujK9hNuNEyowikCn23_ehyphenhyphenIGsLe16lttupeeILU8D5jTa5d1Vbd0DMU6cE4acbg7RLlGl9gm12ELifm6Jx_nZaIg3gZL1Q-/w640-h640/OrkArdBoyzC_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In the spirit of last month's post (where I compared some miniatures I had painted with their original promotional images from <i>Forge World),</i> I've isolated all the finished, painted shields here, in the same manner that I presented their original design sketches in part one of this post that I linked above. They're not exactly the same, but the sketches definitely played their part in getting me to the final product.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPeMbuQqD6r_IX5a2qYqrdLSD18dvkNtLLU1zBYR6DtZO3UjqaG6h4zEGXlIo5u8C3heTqCr0EQNCeeNBLa_6GcgrBQtCFHdBeNRYyD35FRRQ7z8Jp1BXK8X1Zab78VikwK4xSNFOEK4KEwmqXKlnZqbFLCND7mlSqSQwgxfKncdbCqkU3Ce1ZfFWVRsqF/s1313/OrkRiotShields_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPeMbuQqD6r_IX5a2qYqrdLSD18dvkNtLLU1zBYR6DtZO3UjqaG6h4zEGXlIo5u8C3heTqCr0EQNCeeNBLa_6GcgrBQtCFHdBeNRYyD35FRRQ7z8Jp1BXK8X1Zab78VikwK4xSNFOEK4KEwmqXKlnZqbFLCND7mlSqSQwgxfKncdbCqkU3Ce1ZfFWVRsqF/w438-h640/OrkRiotShields_2.jpg" width="438" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-21603820490301743052024-01-24T14:31:00.010+00:002024-01-24T14:54:45.928+00:00Agents of the Imperium, shoulder to shoulder, side by side<p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm doing something a little different today. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I wanted to try out an idea, so for this</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> single exercise I've briefly changed my approach to the hobby. But before I get into that, a bit of backstory.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In late 1998, <i>Forge World </i></span><span style="font-family: arial;">was unleashed on the world as a</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: arial;">specialist offsho</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ot of </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Games Workshop </i><span style="font-family: arial;">aimed at older, more experienced hobbyists</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Although it was meant to concentrate on large scale busts and terrain, by the early 2000s it had dramatically expanded its scope to include an incredible selection of 28mm resin models.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_U3PX5ZS1YfrQY1BbZ1m2SNUwQ1ikDGjcyX_QvAMdqBrNGUb58c0g4PT4oIYTHuz0wE_eJaXhLvGG_aAvx_rHYEFdgm4DiAnSRrzPq6e4DV98JIOlz-Htp8u3W99qyUrHU4LGtHaZ7DW40QX3u_MlYKe0AolTnnsMXY1j1icjQUnyqRcq4blaeE9abmf6/s1200/ForgeWorldLogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_U3PX5ZS1YfrQY1BbZ1m2SNUwQ1ikDGjcyX_QvAMdqBrNGUb58c0g4PT4oIYTHuz0wE_eJaXhLvGG_aAvx_rHYEFdgm4DiAnSRrzPq6e4DV98JIOlz-Htp8u3W99qyUrHU4LGtHaZ7DW40QX3u_MlYKe0AolTnnsMXY1j1icjQUnyqRcq4blaeE9abmf6/w640-h346/ForgeWorldLogo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There were so many amazing sets available, from just about every variation of </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Imperial Guard</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> tank you could imagine, to mobile </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Ork</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> fortresses on caterpillar tracks, huge </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Chaos</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> War Mammoths, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Death Korps of Krieg</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> troops mounted on gas-mask-wearing horses, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">servitors</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Inquisitors</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, dragons, aircraft and a hundred other models that I really wish I'd bought.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCL-JtXtyOcvUn9NCVtuVKrAPRMwnNlMkxK63Q_79FG1Ad3L0zXlQ8-G-5-B8EqDpiRjkwTX82tXFODuJPrrPvwEtUMIgSlZRL6_gwUKhI1g9MeE-seM0uxBhCDhgZ3YSvAn9XkpelKXhLvgxacJH9dA_R3cc-1vIlHjVl91IhRC-8ih_6FeLqcXR4rUe/s1200/ForgeWorld_OOPProducts_01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfCL-JtXtyOcvUn9NCVtuVKrAPRMwnNlMkxK63Q_79FG1Ad3L0zXlQ8-G-5-B8EqDpiRjkwTX82tXFODuJPrrPvwEtUMIgSlZRL6_gwUKhI1g9MeE-seM0uxBhCDhgZ3YSvAn9XkpelKXhLvgxacJH9dA_R3cc-1vIlHjVl91IhRC-8ih_6FeLqcXR4rUe/w640-h346/ForgeWorld_OOPProducts_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Forge World's Krieg Death Riders and Ork Battle Fortress. The latter is sadly out of print these days.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQbrLRgw94VRWdbSfik8mSHcGOWQrhQN3YfYFOQwuZ115tXr6JUmxAZN89MQgUFEOHsFBlCBfh2uykKiWmrZBRcvCO-ECaK9WcuQJ6H4hah2YvGzmFnkk7g4T-r4ie3YZR5U2w1hAd-utzwiKBrMu-6PEwDS_qRsEaUtIXeqnNJoUbydAirj8KyFCzs04/s1200/ForgeWorld_OOPProducts_02.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQbrLRgw94VRWdbSfik8mSHcGOWQrhQN3YfYFOQwuZ115tXr6JUmxAZN89MQgUFEOHsFBlCBfh2uykKiWmrZBRcvCO-ECaK9WcuQJ6H4hah2YvGzmFnkk7g4T-r4ie3YZR5U2w1hAd-utzwiKBrMu-6PEwDS_qRsEaUtIXeqnNJoUbydAirj8KyFCzs04/w640-h346/ForgeWorld_OOPProducts_02.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">And the Chaos War Mammoth and Marauder Bomber. The elephant might be one of the rarest kits in existence.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In that last category <i>'</i></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>models I wish I'd bought'</i> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">were the </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Titan Crew On Foot</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, consisting of a </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Princeps</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> and two </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Moderati</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, sculpted by Simon Egan. When they were first released they cost something like £12. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">My younger, naive self didn't know what was to come with the prices of models, and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I think I found them too expensive. Yet they </span><span style="font-family: arial;">stayed in the range for about another decade, slowly creeping up in price to around £17, before eventually being consigned to the big-glass-display-cabinet-in-the-sky in the mid-to-late 2010s.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As soon as they disappeared from the <i>Forge World</i> website, I realised how much I wanted them in my collection. More so than any of the other fantastic models that were still available. A feeling I'm sure many other hobbyists out there are frustratingly familiar with. So I then spent several years scouring eBay trying to find them, in the hope of not having to pay the £70 to £100 they were routinely going for.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Finally, about a year ago, I found them for not much more than their original store price. Result! The downside was that as well as having been painted in colours not to my taste, they had also been converted slightly. But these were minor gripes, and it was still an opportunity too good to miss. So I bought them, dipped them in <i>Dettol</i> until the paint came off, then stripped away all the extra parts that had been added. To my relief the base models were almost 100% intact.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Last week I thought it would be an interesting project to get some paint back on them. I realised that the original <i>Forge World</i> paint job was pretty much exactly what I was after, so that got me thinking about the aforementioned experiment. I decided to break out my smallest brush and do my absolute very best to emulate the display colour scheme of the finished <i>Forge World</i> models as closely as I could. Obviously having the small brush wasn't enough in its own right, and unfortunately my lack of any real painting talent soon came into play.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Nonetheless I've posted the results here for all to see. Below are the original models, expertly painted by Stuart Witter for the catalogue, and then after that, my somewhat less expert attempt to copy the colour scheme and photograph them from the same angle.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSWlMOh2XwirEFP-HPDT9P1V0yyoJpENEB45KqGvuTfUtKbZoi1P0adPODUuGR6OtUjjtrpPXBB1f8kPxeGuX03h_qSJ78YzAXOg5KBIq1AqkTovD6cgxnYG3gDyYQ3R3MVNkdrBs4aMjWxE_EZFl8qj_qsvY2z5DAU6DU5aReJK_48oreds7jFs18_rk/s1200/TitanCrewOnFoot_ForgeWorld_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSWlMOh2XwirEFP-HPDT9P1V0yyoJpENEB45KqGvuTfUtKbZoi1P0adPODUuGR6OtUjjtrpPXBB1f8kPxeGuX03h_qSJ78YzAXOg5KBIq1AqkTovD6cgxnYG3gDyYQ3R3MVNkdrBs4aMjWxE_EZFl8qj_qsvY2z5DAU6DU5aReJK_48oreds7jFs18_rk/w640-h346/TitanCrewOnFoot_ForgeWorld_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJ_cbovaiOhHC3qfng3IJXGOuojX1iTPMEo9WiUpxhg3nw6yKX-zopfwyH2OJbrI1nWIYvL-I8sMlhLBXwtmmB5xVotIgJi9OgZzFP9J_EjWuE-uciDBhG8e6oi6EypeXAW_26qcFKgnQ7NBS8GOHjmMorDXUo52tsQYsLmrXIfURpNPod91URZYJSiYP/s1200/TitanCrewOnFoot_TorvaTenebris_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAJ_cbovaiOhHC3qfng3IJXGOuojX1iTPMEo9WiUpxhg3nw6yKX-zopfwyH2OJbrI1nWIYvL-I8sMlhLBXwtmmB5xVotIgJi9OgZzFP9J_EjWuE-uciDBhG8e6oi6EypeXAW_26qcFKgnQ7NBS8GOHjmMorDXUo52tsQYsLmrXIfURpNPod91URZYJSiYP/w640-h346/TitanCrewOnFoot_TorvaTenebris_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Once I got started I soon realised that these characters sported some serious detail. So much so that I actually couldn't see it, even wearing my strongest reading glasses. For the first time in my hobby career I tried using a magnifying glass, but that made it extraordinarily difficult to coordinate the brush, so instead I came up with a rather foolish looking solution. I wore two pairs of glasses at the same time – and it revealed a whole wealth of detail that I had no idea was even there. Below are some more shots of Stuart Witter's beautiful smooth paintjob, followed immediately by my not-so-smooth effort.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhgup_7-Am9P1oHTpx9KeJHAdriQh2PthN2tUpKpsHIWHu3FW7QQYv13FBk0Toiyu1_CTLTv_x9MEv_iXXVdKBjhqbONx9yr4RKJhJS5lHfrPVP0xyrwCl9SYAbg5DAEvG8KIzDfnmnzqLIYdENTSNvODOXoC5k-udfEQ___ptMxDfg_X6E4rF0Bv0ZDv/s1200/TitanCrewOnFoot_ForgeWorld_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhgup_7-Am9P1oHTpx9KeJHAdriQh2PthN2tUpKpsHIWHu3FW7QQYv13FBk0Toiyu1_CTLTv_x9MEv_iXXVdKBjhqbONx9yr4RKJhJS5lHfrPVP0xyrwCl9SYAbg5DAEvG8KIzDfnmnzqLIYdENTSNvODOXoC5k-udfEQ___ptMxDfg_X6E4rF0Bv0ZDv/w640-h346/TitanCrewOnFoot_ForgeWorld_02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_Qg6ocd-Esd9_TVcJE3jwxpQGYZpwQCAStbkayLHQLf28FfGbDdTVaZZ1Nu1nNLodj5QNKx7Z8UMcg7Tjo72Oe969JNDP4xnbbMJbphyXwowjG5ZabeZ7okXTdEWZCbbU46vXPyvtGFqpZMNH2iBqa2wxxGOW8cevwf5yp97X1l8gQRpZgcol0MyyTO9/s1200/TitanCrewOnFoot_TorvaTenebris_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_Qg6ocd-Esd9_TVcJE3jwxpQGYZpwQCAStbkayLHQLf28FfGbDdTVaZZ1Nu1nNLodj5QNKx7Z8UMcg7Tjo72Oe969JNDP4xnbbMJbphyXwowjG5ZabeZ7okXTdEWZCbbU46vXPyvtGFqpZMNH2iBqa2wxxGOW8cevwf5yp97X1l8gQRpZgcol0MyyTO9/w640-h346/TitanCrewOnFoot_TorvaTenebris_02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Although this has confirmed my suspicions that I'll never be a superstar painter, I have actually surpassed my meagre expectations and am secretly quite pleased with the results. These guys will be a proud addition to my collection, going in among the various denizens of my hive city, <i>Kruenta Karoliina Arx Rotunda</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So now I just need a <i>Titan</i> to go with them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">RIP <i>Forge World</i> of old, you will be sorely missed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-30050932215740654352024-01-11T16:31:00.001+00:002024-01-11T17:25:58.463+00:00'Ard Boy Ork Breachers, part one<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Later this year we are due to see the release of the video game, <i>Space Marine 2</i>. It will be the long awaited sequel to the original third-person-shooter-slash-hack-n-slay, that was released in 2011.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Where the new game looks set to feature <i>Tyranids</i> as the main foe, the original game had <i>Orks</i>. Lots and lots of <i>Orks</i>. And it's one of the <i>Orks</i> from that game that has inspired my next set of models.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGh5GfZ_3X0pEUdy6eKK0P2B0HCPhGlhXy-ODbJI7Jb1X_P9AovWK3br-IKAZ8Dg37L3iNNM-aC5W2rD8TZTrVnYiTvGxwAW7REceglq31XrmEDQcxPm3RNIO1z39mEGb5fS_eMpj13LaGORUGejCrrACn4WwUZwetFnsyg3eVTJ05jsYGgwpsPfoFOSrl/s1200/SpaceMarineVideoGames.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGh5GfZ_3X0pEUdy6eKK0P2B0HCPhGlhXy-ODbJI7Jb1X_P9AovWK3br-IKAZ8Dg37L3iNNM-aC5W2rD8TZTrVnYiTvGxwAW7REceglq31XrmEDQcxPm3RNIO1z39mEGb5fS_eMpj13LaGORUGejCrrACn4WwUZwetFnsyg3eVTJ05jsYGgwpsPfoFOSrl/w640-h346/SpaceMarineVideoGames.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In <i>WH40K</i> the <i>Ork 'Ard Boy</i> unit takes <i>'Eavy Armour (</i>and a correspondingly adjusted <i>Save</i> profile) to distinguish it from the regular lads, but in the <i>Space Marine</i> console game the <i>'Ard Boyz</i> were given breacher shields as well. A simple adjustment that to my mind was a major visual upgrade. Especially as in the tabletop game, even a die-hard stickler-for-the-rules can see it's not much of a stretch to say the shield just counts as that aforementioned extra armour.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are some images (from a <a href="https://spacemarine.fandom.com/wiki/%27Ard_Boy" target="_blank">Space Marine Fandom Wiki </a>article) that show just how tough theses rock-solid brutes looked in action in the original game.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3RS85ZDU9RXX9GDM2JiinVWyOSbIvYHrh2PGWJF-o8-kF-IdDJo_RETH4Nz8nXjziS1Z2pf9FTnvLu8j969E2uSooSDqO-YHsqulV0Qn4xJTIfhe1rRRz8i-wt9BRXasOJaV4mqI2SJGD-Rxz4DvZjmeSiWt7nN_T_Omj1HF6XLyK0PQ4Y2CsMgdzQ7zO/s1200/SpaceMarineVideoGame_OrkArdBoy_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3RS85ZDU9RXX9GDM2JiinVWyOSbIvYHrh2PGWJF-o8-kF-IdDJo_RETH4Nz8nXjziS1Z2pf9FTnvLu8j969E2uSooSDqO-YHsqulV0Qn4xJTIfhe1rRRz8i-wt9BRXasOJaV4mqI2SJGD-Rxz4DvZjmeSiWt7nN_T_Omj1HF6XLyK0PQ4Y2CsMgdzQ7zO/w640-h346/SpaceMarineVideoGame_OrkArdBoy_01.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp82quLlxbzK8LmQhmpPj1FF6aNIfku72Kd3ZrJKZCQ581XJmSh6Sy2SnHjnsuHQ0LNS8ke7R6uJZR4tO0FeoaDzKHK7EqbhqK7l1T43_WAcjnshdOpFDs_1tPdbhPEtGGya97ZsTsStk70fV-iqZ_pZVY7x2UMSfHHgXyjRTv_kCU-fw0004vCQ3vhhPy/s1200/SpaceMarineVideoGame_OrkArdBoy_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp82quLlxbzK8LmQhmpPj1FF6aNIfku72Kd3ZrJKZCQ581XJmSh6Sy2SnHjnsuHQ0LNS8ke7R6uJZR4tO0FeoaDzKHK7EqbhqK7l1T43_WAcjnshdOpFDs_1tPdbhPEtGGya97ZsTsStk70fV-iqZ_pZVY7x2UMSfHHgXyjRTv_kCU-fw0004vCQ3vhhPy/w640-h346/SpaceMarineVideoGame_OrkArdBoy_02.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs7Ah1u5AlFj6z2wU8vL1amoH6rmktRlkeLgMuFej5rkZajvZnXj3EpSlZ4K_rQTzVPi0mpVV2z-5k8KuS3vfZ0pRWkDkZkCq0_x_NgPONA6fByiCbQXfSZPzsXZPHin7NPdhx5hm1mQMK4Ani9f757-i6tNgq00r-QcZWedb70qjiUWJD8-y9uZ3fcND/s1200/SpaceMarineVideoGame_OrkArdBoy_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="1200" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRs7Ah1u5AlFj6z2wU8vL1amoH6rmktRlkeLgMuFej5rkZajvZnXj3EpSlZ4K_rQTzVPi0mpVV2z-5k8KuS3vfZ0pRWkDkZkCq0_x_NgPONA6fByiCbQXfSZPzsXZPHin7NPdhx5hm1mQMK4Ani9f757-i6tNgq00r-QcZWedb70qjiUWJD8-y9uZ3fcND/w640-h346/SpaceMarineVideoGame_OrkArdBoy_03.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span>Younger me was immediately taken by the vicious, hard-to-kill monstrosities, and I vowed to recreate a game legal version for the tabletop, armed with <i>Slugga</i> (pistol), <i>Choppa</i></span><span> (hand weapon),</span><span> and, of course, the shield. </span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>And so where to start? It seemed like the first thing I'd need, after picking up a box of <i>Ork Boyz</i>, would be a bunch of suitably derelict and neglected-looking</span> riot shields – enough to equip a small unit. It seemed only fair and <i>Orky</i> to try to ensure that they all look ever-so-slightly different, so, before I got out my plasticard and scalpel, I grabbed a pen and paper and started sketching.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8j0BEe2GLwHTy4amKhsbbX-dhg-Rrts6CXxqbL0f3bL2gZ9IWq8oamLKykJUXivenFCfb_cPwCdViWWcAxzkJjPUqCpPfndAdLQPWPzq-7TJVapfETdgIp_vA11HEGeKH4iLh2BMJyN39ErudMQusybbBp3ZJpv6qZnUUc7Cet5Ga8-jAZVnVFggfQ4q9/s1313/OrkRiotShields.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1313" data-original-width="900" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8j0BEe2GLwHTy4amKhsbbX-dhg-Rrts6CXxqbL0f3bL2gZ9IWq8oamLKykJUXivenFCfb_cPwCdViWWcAxzkJjPUqCpPfndAdLQPWPzq-7TJVapfETdgIp_vA11HEGeKH4iLh2BMJyN39ErudMQusybbBp3ZJpv6qZnUUc7Cet5Ga8-jAZVnVFggfQ4q9/w438-h640/OrkRiotShields.jpg" width="438" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Once I got to the above stage, it was time to look through my bits box and see what else I could throw together. I figured a few extra plates of armour, some additional pouches, spare magazines, helmets and iron gobs would do the trick. This was still over a decade ago, and back then spare parts were a bit thinner on the ground. You only got a couple of extra pouches on the <i>Ork Boyz</i> frames, so finding more gear for an entire unit of models could be quite tricky. There used to be a small metal <i>'Ard Boyz</i> upgrade sprue, that had a few extra helmeted heads, iron gobs, and shoulder pads, so I grabbed a pack of them and set about creating some of the other kit with more plasticard. You can see all the troops I managed to build below, plus the larger <i>Nob</i> that I added a bit later. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">They then, as is all too often the case with me, sat in boxes, or on a high-up shelf, looking unprimed and dusty, for what must have been something like 10 or 12 years, until a couple of months ago when I realised Games Workshop was re-basing its <i>Ork</i> models on larger, 32mm bases, so I did the same. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And when I got them out to do this, and looked at them again after all this time, I realised I quite liked them. So just the other day, while checking my re-basing job, I finally decided it was about the right time to get my paints out. More on that when and if I ever get them finished.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvj5_EIrkja5DWnAizu6F5gleDXrRl7rDdmPnykvsAEqeRZaD7EXgM2KMzVBOsi6MoTCQVSGBckbLckDOUme7tzyE2gRvJIQygdns4kJX9abVFP0_jUfbg59dj_iD2nI6GbErGlCLI0SBoI3GmVA4U4xFRI7f7dTwBCMgfojDE1AuPYUN9T7fMpBrVNqjO/s1200/OrkArdBoysA_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvj5_EIrkja5DWnAizu6F5gleDXrRl7rDdmPnykvsAEqeRZaD7EXgM2KMzVBOsi6MoTCQVSGBckbLckDOUme7tzyE2gRvJIQygdns4kJX9abVFP0_jUfbg59dj_iD2nI6GbErGlCLI0SBoI3GmVA4U4xFRI7f7dTwBCMgfojDE1AuPYUN9T7fMpBrVNqjO/w640-h640/OrkArdBoysA_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZW339NJZAdMg600UpPITb8VsxwRIE66NvsHVefAIKZtzrGcsrmXGRefhoHzLi6XsJ1E0qQ7rnetreHDbZVsmM5BO_HQsUo_73EWtq6jFD6bOwzsHvQ04B0W5faqTiVfLRrn2siSh13Bcj7giCuioB4YHpV86I98kFCZgUgcAK34mSkjWvyLioSoMeE-i0/s1200/OrkArdBoysB_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZW339NJZAdMg600UpPITb8VsxwRIE66NvsHVefAIKZtzrGcsrmXGRefhoHzLi6XsJ1E0qQ7rnetreHDbZVsmM5BO_HQsUo_73EWtq6jFD6bOwzsHvQ04B0W5faqTiVfLRrn2siSh13Bcj7giCuioB4YHpV86I98kFCZgUgcAK34mSkjWvyLioSoMeE-i0/w640-h640/OrkArdBoysB_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9V9phEocBjdpMr4C4IX8UbQ0lMJfXvSTgrQI0lMyZh2uviFNOVNKEkLTp1k5tRpbuMUTnKJjpMFZqtbFg3WK4_zbjEr0GwCpOUpJQfjMhN-XwzIi8fOm_SK-UDfcecMOsUGFleLS0WzE6GgbW7Q01EtlYBgsE7divO_N-2AG1YVt8u7meG5YPEf4zYHm/s1200/OrkArdBoysC_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9V9phEocBjdpMr4C4IX8UbQ0lMJfXvSTgrQI0lMyZh2uviFNOVNKEkLTp1k5tRpbuMUTnKJjpMFZqtbFg3WK4_zbjEr0GwCpOUpJQfjMhN-XwzIi8fOm_SK-UDfcecMOsUGFleLS0WzE6GgbW7Q01EtlYBgsE7divO_N-2AG1YVt8u7meG5YPEf4zYHm/w640-h640/OrkArdBoysC_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-14945874488921035402023-12-19T15:56:00.005+00:002023-12-19T16:06:28.395+00:00A break from the green<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>I've made a bit of progress with my <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/search/label/Orks" target="_blank"><i>Ork Armoured Brigade</i></a> recently, so a few weeks ago I decided to take a break from painting all that green. Unfortunately I figured it would be good to add a few more gribbly <a href="https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Nurgle" target="_blank"><i>Nurgle</i></a> types to my <i>Chaos Warrior Winter Warband</i>, and, what with these guys being dedicated to all things rotten, they, of course, tend to be painted in various </span>verdant, putrid or bilious shades of green.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Luckily, however, that's not at all what I had in mind.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXCHlBweakR0RUXHmMAueaaHhvGRVV9Il6DiISyVx5z9TMt3gUVvbM_vB-dwUMSUCi-b0EwA17ycP9-xUYqshoHa1ATDBCi9_FA4JHosq8hKEN9-wdzfOqoEmjzF27lLKPyl5708jkGgRye3e6NwngNwTmsjMOTzbycP0WA8aw30m5canVttOTz3X0f9q-/s1200/Chaos_BlightKings.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXCHlBweakR0RUXHmMAueaaHhvGRVV9Il6DiISyVx5z9TMt3gUVvbM_vB-dwUMSUCi-b0EwA17ycP9-xUYqshoHa1ATDBCi9_FA4JHosq8hKEN9-wdzfOqoEmjzF27lLKPyl5708jkGgRye3e6NwngNwTmsjMOTzbycP0WA8aw30m5canVttOTz3X0f9q-/w640-h480/Chaos_BlightKings.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I wanted them to fit in with my other <i>Slaves to Darkness</i> warriors – worshippers of my homegrown deity, <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/03/gshtaad-abomination.html" target="_blank"><i>Gshtaad</i></a>, (a kind of mash-up between <i>Khorne</i>, the Blood God and the aforementioned <i>Nurgle</i>, Lord of Decay). These guys tend to be clad in rough leather and dark, badly-maintained armour, with pallid skin, on crisp, snowy bases.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To achieve the look I was after, I made some minor adjustments to the Putrid Blightkings' suggested build. Instead of following the instructions in the box, I used as much armour and as many helmets as I could, opted to keep overtly Nurglish symbols to a minimum, and to only have a few mutations on show. As a result there was a little green stuff work involved to blend together disparate components, or remove the odd mutation*, but not enough deviation from the box versions to warrant me recording it. Therefore there is no "<i>Behold raw Chaos in all its glory!</i>" photo today.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">But here are some (admittedly slightly out-of-focus) close-ups of the finished characters.**</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmRz8IeyikJuyr2ih63w5ateR4XpqDI6CYMQ1IJ0IAKXKSw6VGMbSQczVkp2PxMkrERuAxZcenzHlB8EJCzLn2HSq6hegR0bUjcEU8arU5cz-QO3QVnIGgUgrEKjkRU9nrmUGSdbN0Zd8NzZwMEo-sza353LEOvMQI0ZVXX26cFp3qVi7GshID2h0PUJy/s1200/Chaos_BlightKings_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFmRz8IeyikJuyr2ih63w5ateR4XpqDI6CYMQ1IJ0IAKXKSw6VGMbSQczVkp2PxMkrERuAxZcenzHlB8EJCzLn2HSq6hegR0bUjcEU8arU5cz-QO3QVnIGgUgrEKjkRU9nrmUGSdbN0Zd8NzZwMEo-sza353LEOvMQI0ZVXX26cFp3qVi7GshID2h0PUJy/w640-h640/Chaos_BlightKings_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIWjH3k16YzKHXgQ2jdtWEpbMUP4iCR6KCpIxzaekv7t1hTXzTLUKU525xcIhIXSAl2FIxDgmBNg2kv0LvNjM19tNHVQL4PfsDtH6ayzKt3j-uqCj6I19GKDJzvGo9TSyfNs7E7oLs9YSPA8ARnPp9CKUv_oGzI6iZrbJT8InaRbXOWbcNsrsbfVAcT-W/s1200/Chaos_BlightKings_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYIWjH3k16YzKHXgQ2jdtWEpbMUP4iCR6KCpIxzaekv7t1hTXzTLUKU525xcIhIXSAl2FIxDgmBNg2kv0LvNjM19tNHVQL4PfsDtH6ayzKt3j-uqCj6I19GKDJzvGo9TSyfNs7E7oLs9YSPA8ARnPp9CKUv_oGzI6iZrbJT8InaRbXOWbcNsrsbfVAcT-W/w640-h640/Chaos_BlightKings_3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTiuXpGnRsgqGRvHg36tWEoZSuJ6d5UM1v8YqdXfDfBXi1C_yBl7MrxGjvVWZS0Dn-PNuMRFbyHOjmrnfJ2PgMpijjJma_mC2rMzsFfl-jbZq7TbB-3sWnABN6nRh_Q5H65PLmvmcww_hUF-_aKe0z5NEJxPejZy-bSdShz93h8gEeYJQW3W2SOqY6pW8r/s1200/Chaos_BlightKings_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTiuXpGnRsgqGRvHg36tWEoZSuJ6d5UM1v8YqdXfDfBXi1C_yBl7MrxGjvVWZS0Dn-PNuMRFbyHOjmrnfJ2PgMpijjJma_mC2rMzsFfl-jbZq7TbB-3sWnABN6nRh_Q5H65PLmvmcww_hUF-_aKe0z5NEJxPejZy-bSdShz93h8gEeYJQW3W2SOqY6pW8r/w640-h640/Chaos_BlightKings_4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*To be fair, most <i>Chaos</i> mutations look pretty odd.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**<i>The Lord of Plagues</i>, in the middle of the third image, was painted a while ago and has only been included here for completeness. This is actually the third time he has appeared on this blog. Only fitting for such a great sculpt.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-83778580337535789642023-10-05T11:17:00.002+01:002023-10-05T11:22:05.119+01:00Deff metal clanker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b>"Ere, where's dat runty Ork, Kikbag? It's time for his krumpin'. Stop him gettin' all uppity</b></i><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b>.</b></i><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b>"</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">"Boss, what's dat noise?"</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b>"He's not just snide and mean, dere's bad stuff too. He's like a humie, that one. Always whingeing and whining. Reckons he deserves more 'n his lot, don't he?"</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">Stomp... stomp...</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">"Er, boss."</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; font-style: normal; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b>"Shaddup. Fortunately I'm here wiv his daily dose of clobber, to keep him on da straight and narrow. I'm all heart, me. So where is da weedy little disgrace for a git?"</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><i>Stomp... stomp...</i></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><b>"Always 'anging around with dat crazy old doc and dat one-eyed mechboy. I oughtta put a stop to dem three."</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">"Boss!"</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">click... whirrr... WHIRRR... SLICE... SPLASH</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUqYGb1eUThgMKOnwrailFazpuEHBm5uxmF4EfyJVCyBJuDAjHafvBRPQ7XShHJ86NY6gGui-U_NTMrbb-d8g794taKXAsHkqDGc5kNYMwbNA_Aag6FMAkmQjnMT0MoHYGpD36YlHVM9rpw5jjM40BkK3GZpS43W2Y5IXF1BLWpFijdyPXci0lVHjIg/s1200/OrkDreadMobA_4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqUqYGb1eUThgMKOnwrailFazpuEHBm5uxmF4EfyJVCyBJuDAjHafvBRPQ7XShHJ86NY6gGui-U_NTMrbb-d8g794taKXAsHkqDGc5kNYMwbNA_Aag6FMAkmQjnMT0MoHYGpD36YlHVM9rpw5jjM40BkK3GZpS43W2Y5IXF1BLWpFijdyPXci0lVHjIg/w640-h480/OrkDreadMobA_4.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Everybody loves a ramshackle, post-apocalyptic, bipedal war mech, right? </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Everybody except that <i>Ork Warboss</i>. And maybe people who play <i>Eldar</i>. In fact perhaps not everyone loves this kind of thing at all. Maybe it's only me? But it's lucky for Kikbag that I do, as this little buzzsaw wielding can of whup-ass </span><span style="font-family: arial;">was a proper labour of love, taking me </span><span style="font-family: arial;">years to complete.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">It was originally inspired by (and the chassis based on) the <i>Werewolf Walker</i> model in the ill-fated <i>Airfix Robogear</i> starter set </span><span style="font-family: arial;">from decades ago</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. Although the <i>Werewolf </i>was pretty far from being a masterpiece, the introductory boxset was an absolute gift to sci-fi modellers. I talked a bit about it back </span><a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2017/12/a-weaving-of-threads.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, but basically the <i>Robogear</i> starter set was full of not-particularly-good models that were constructed from some really cool parts (like jet engines, robot legs, cockpits, tank tracks etc.) so it was fantastic fodder for people who liked <i>chopping fings up and putting 'em back together diff-rent</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirU5Qt8AJ6y43CIKneypKS2wIn555GPB8uSpeXvhYfWvLZumU_O8tUeD1NHYRmjpunP4tjSZDsBOzBpyyK0DwlT2x-VgtLI32tA4ig5FjWYUqRyt_Tb9EAXi7x0sSWohKQ-7yPKvndk2EwNNaWbT7cEo1GSbMFRBkyhMZC6oPXlRj1Hgf8bVHQiCLg6cax/s1200/RobogearStarterSet_BoxFront.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirU5Qt8AJ6y43CIKneypKS2wIn555GPB8uSpeXvhYfWvLZumU_O8tUeD1NHYRmjpunP4tjSZDsBOzBpyyK0DwlT2x-VgtLI32tA4ig5FjWYUqRyt_Tb9EAXi7x0sSWohKQ-7yPKvndk2EwNNaWbT7cEo1GSbMFRBkyhMZC6oPXlRj1Hgf8bVHQiCLg6cax/w640-h480/RobogearStarterSet_BoxFront.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The starter set contained a bunch of models, most of which were also available separately.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcI1zVY0LCiRgXQKY9cBItJiF3V1zsbRHZoPYgkVIbq7ZJU7asQh7WsLpIW_LzWFRT-1lDROHlx3xSWczqE5GbaiDL_Z8pFzG2VkaaSZOEP7alH6x9dargxreNOrk9RAVP8ItP6yQ8dgcbECkTBenOipwV5_9kbfdDn3Sx9P4QdWJ_YJbuJOXvVNkljQH9/s1200/RobogearWerewolf_BoxFront.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcI1zVY0LCiRgXQKY9cBItJiF3V1zsbRHZoPYgkVIbq7ZJU7asQh7WsLpIW_LzWFRT-1lDROHlx3xSWczqE5GbaiDL_Z8pFzG2VkaaSZOEP7alH6x9dargxreNOrk9RAVP8ItP6yQ8dgcbECkTBenOipwV5_9kbfdDn3Sx9P4QdWJ_YJbuJOXvVNkljQH9/w640-h480/RobogearWerewolf_BoxFront.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Some of the separate <i>Robogear</i> kits were actually quite good. This was not one of them.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">In the end I kept only a few aspects of the original model, changing most of its shape and details, then adding a load of spare parts from the official <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ork-Deff-Dread" target="_blank"><i>Deff Dread</i></a> and <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ork-Killa-Kans" target="_blank"><i>Killa Kan</i></a> models, and popping a visible <i>Ork</i> pilot inside.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQW-bbvyGk40tovjihQz7lxtJR-avJ7X8orgCW8unBjgbp2K6MIR9uWN530yAMoUw6lc1iutFIW65VdJRxYJacAVS0KcK3JGgL95qgbUUS2aB9vqgX8R-91Pa0PLLcSYPV9skDzEenUhLBKic0b-wT53gxhu2Xni1nxH1jcWHePuuo3r7m7vrO3H82A/s1200/OrkDreadMobA_3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfQW-bbvyGk40tovjihQz7lxtJR-avJ7X8orgCW8unBjgbp2K6MIR9uWN530yAMoUw6lc1iutFIW65VdJRxYJacAVS0KcK3JGgL95qgbUUS2aB9vqgX8R-91Pa0PLLcSYPV9skDzEenUhLBKic0b-wT53gxhu2Xni1nxH1jcWHePuuo3r7m7vrO3H82A/w640-h480/OrkDreadMobA_3.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>The <i>Ork</i> pilot idea actually came from a really old <i>Warhammer 40,000</i> comic book series. In Dan Abnett's <i>Titan God-Machine</i> there is a brief moment when an Imperial base gets attacked by a greenskin horde and we get a page (below right), drawn by Anthony Williams and inked by Andy Lanning, that shows us some unusual designs for <i>Ork</i> walkers. It inspired me to try to ensure that none of my <i>Ork</i> vehicles ever looked too similar to one another.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBm2CfWRHeEKIHCbdwGvu7ZkEZVEAjkaT9MsAQFuHmk1OTlggaMcf45DXITKtt6i2H0CNKWns6V6jRWIEv8q9XmmjNozlAWdbnTZSlYq3IR5yp9lJOL-hiZemQok7QpsiATQZ4y92ugC2oDf-dhi_gzyRxHgp8mVLHuCM0e4J1j21vBKWKtZsDv1jXStI/s1200/DanAbnett_TitanGodMachine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglBm2CfWRHeEKIHCbdwGvu7ZkEZVEAjkaT9MsAQFuHmk1OTlggaMcf45DXITKtt6i2H0CNKWns6V6jRWIEv8q9XmmjNozlAWdbnTZSlYq3IR5yp9lJOL-hiZemQok7QpsiATQZ4y92ugC2oDf-dhi_gzyRxHgp8mVLHuCM0e4J1j21vBKWKtZsDv1jXStI/w640-h480/DanAbnett_TitanGodMachine.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This one is the second completed member of what will be a larger<i> Dread Mob</i> (you can see the first one, the <i>Mega Dread,</i> <a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-great-big-can-of-greenskin-forge.html" target="_blank">here</a>), so I decided I could go all out with the spinning, whirring, choppy close-combat theme and give it the full complement of four rotary saw blade arms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYKH_waF8WA49PrKLi_TVAgHKTGVp16wIOfZiRjicduBYAWexYQIjnlbmY2Pm5JKffQm0g0xF_wdLOqYGxxsEh3C8etJPel5spRRrlVJnKqaSFbsxV4E7wtwEwiXO0qJTqdAtf-GZrJs3sq8voneuVkQUoe10TQrQ0FwTa1YmRCj503gqvL6Szm9y56A/s1800/OrkDreadMobA_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYKH_waF8WA49PrKLi_TVAgHKTGVp16wIOfZiRjicduBYAWexYQIjnlbmY2Pm5JKffQm0g0xF_wdLOqYGxxsEh3C8etJPel5spRRrlVJnKqaSFbsxV4E7wtwEwiXO0qJTqdAtf-GZrJs3sq8voneuVkQUoe10TQrQ0FwTa1YmRCj503gqvL6Szm9y56A/w426-h640/OrkDreadMobA_2.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm happy with how the model turned out, and excited to see how it looks alongside the rest of the unit I've got planned. But I'm less happy with my current camera. I bought the wrong phone that didn't have the macro function, and my pics have been blurry and vague ever since. If I'm able to get a better upgrade, I'll post some new pictures in the future. In the meantime, for the sake of completeness, here are couple of the now-mandatory 'nude' shots.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMYtalhs8cJOwkLSzsrbXFQUNFFGU2eK3Rbr0Ax4MOLl0xZHbV8mdUsXqAyO3qkZZ-tFzaFVjEiKUF-L_cwXDudHCA4iKv7kThzzNgnmU2fm-REX8NPN5VzdCKw005hUfDcYOBrQ80lcS0zoh3V-6N4f5bw6FgSm70CdRcGxgCZsjx7_8xllvVK_Vu1Q/s1800/OrkDreadMobA_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMYtalhs8cJOwkLSzsrbXFQUNFFGU2eK3Rbr0Ax4MOLl0xZHbV8mdUsXqAyO3qkZZ-tFzaFVjEiKUF-L_cwXDudHCA4iKv7kThzzNgnmU2fm-REX8NPN5VzdCKw005hUfDcYOBrQ80lcS0zoh3V-6N4f5bw6FgSm70CdRcGxgCZsjx7_8xllvVK_Vu1Q/w426-h640/OrkDreadMobA_1.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-25653163400014490422023-08-17T19:13:00.001+01:002023-08-17T19:13:32.813+01:00Cooking with gas<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPjgSMD0a0eIxD2I0NuLiy04IfGbN95EB4BJysjzuLqIMxPudbPFwAe4CztGZnMOb7myfWMMVR-Ddcb9-8w53l77OxARYEa_9HGUOPf8th1ut2-ZOYN_ntldIDxhATH87mUw9fpMogvoANqnirWDVgUrg-YNwCP_g30gClcx7igGzbFH8KkcF8IFRKI1W/s1200/OrkBurnaBoys.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJPjgSMD0a0eIxD2I0NuLiy04IfGbN95EB4BJysjzuLqIMxPudbPFwAe4CztGZnMOb7myfWMMVR-Ddcb9-8w53l77OxARYEa_9HGUOPf8th1ut2-ZOYN_ntldIDxhATH87mUw9fpMogvoANqnirWDVgUrg-YNwCP_g30gClcx7igGzbFH8KkcF8IFRKI1W/w640-h480/OrkBurnaBoys.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's been a while since my previous post, but, for once, that's not for lack of effort. I've been furiously working away in the background, trying to get through some of the (many) remaining units for my Ork Armoured Brigade. </span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I finished these little walking Zippos this week, a unit of ten Burna Boys. They're made up of a cross section of models from some of the various releases since the revamp of the Ork range for 3rd edition WH40K, circa</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> 20 years ago.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihh-WEf6cCn-RhHhqxPTwg7BiL6lamKjINIliikXmexp6-3yO28bvIg6azWm4uGgmMhwCzbwcUqduD1aPGcYJ-LeeJv2u_Lh_TD_75J5NxdqxZ6xSovzuR_3BIAj34ja1uyOC7YArfc_rwp_jSTNPG2YaT5Vs4IveBhcykZGVUiUZVLqllYgUN6Y1ME_zf/s1200/OrkBurnaBoys_1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihh-WEf6cCn-RhHhqxPTwg7BiL6lamKjINIliikXmexp6-3yO28bvIg6azWm4uGgmMhwCzbwcUqduD1aPGcYJ-LeeJv2u_Lh_TD_75J5NxdqxZ6xSovzuR_3BIAj34ja1uyOC7YArfc_rwp_jSTNPG2YaT5Vs4IveBhcykZGVUiUZVLqllYgUN6Y1ME_zf/w640-h640/OrkBurnaBoys_1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XKcvzfX52WTzK9ofkfMgTU78z_ZVSIAY0VvAnZRGXRvuzRw9yqBBvm2gdEd0wstESGV7KytGhQfNBlEm0q1h2nzteJ9cR5qiFXk9iINDp_WwwDmG1piEsknTMCidhRnTqYSnZZcdzMEmIXi7zOU7R2EJCO0PHJN5oOpyC8SSPoabgPNhpe435yW-Hye3/s1200/OrkBurnaBoys_2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3XKcvzfX52WTzK9ofkfMgTU78z_ZVSIAY0VvAnZRGXRvuzRw9yqBBvm2gdEd0wstESGV7KytGhQfNBlEm0q1h2nzteJ9cR5qiFXk9iINDp_WwwDmG1piEsknTMCidhRnTqYSnZZcdzMEmIXi7zOU7R2EJCO0PHJN5oOpyC8SSPoabgPNhpe435yW-Hye3/w640-h640/OrkBurnaBoys_2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">There was a tiny amount of conversion work to get them to feel like a cohesive unit, and not a bunch of disparate re-designs – but that was mainly focussed on </span><span style="font-family: arial;">trimming down some of the excess bulk from the troops in the </span><a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ork-Burna-Boyz-2018" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Loota/Burna Boys boxse</a><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Ork-Burna-Boyz-2018" target="_blank">t</a>. Other than that it was only really a few</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> head swaps to narrow down their design to a mix of face masks, goggles and bandanas</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So now these guys are done and ready to join their rowdy green comrades in my ever-growing Ork horde, while I move on to the next handful of </span><span style="font-family: arial;">boisterous, muscular, humanoid fungi.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Turn up the heat!<br /></span><div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-43542172118512806482022-10-29T18:46:00.002+01:002022-10-30T08:25:28.147+00:00Muddy Trukkers<p><span style="font-family: arial;">So, you're an <i>Ork</i> warboss, and you've got to get a squad of <i>boys</i> from one side of the battlefield to the other, as fast as you possibly can. Unfortunately, as much as they all like running, charging, shouting, getting into close combat, and generally behaving in an aggressive and belligerent manner, those little legs of theirs just aren't going to get them there quick enough.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Enter the first of my trukks*.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizt0lgY5jsmEYJLsjwEwnpSD1Ok_SIrKhcM897rm9eMui3C2UviiTgBkQ-rV9nsYvCxWJf0KyfKOikbMQCZq-P-LRRjnt7bP65NIeNPiJdtnr8uI5RM9R7X997pN6NbBur9BaFXwzjtWrgWpoaHkQtv757vAXZGW6FOvatLaR_LptVvb-xYp1f8m9tUQ/s1200/OrkTrukkA_01%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizt0lgY5jsmEYJLsjwEwnpSD1Ok_SIrKhcM897rm9eMui3C2UviiTgBkQ-rV9nsYvCxWJf0KyfKOikbMQCZq-P-LRRjnt7bP65NIeNPiJdtnr8uI5RM9R7X997pN6NbBur9BaFXwzjtWrgWpoaHkQtv757vAXZGW6FOvatLaR_LptVvb-xYp1f8m9tUQ/w640-h480/OrkTrukkA_01%20.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">This was based on the <a href="https://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/home/215-half-ute.html" target="_blank"><i>Ramshackle Games Half-Ute</i></a>, but I decided to make it a bit chunkier by splitting the original model in various ways, inserting spacers, adding extra detail to hide the joins, jacking the whole thing up a bit higher on its suspension, swapping out the tracks** and replacing the wheels with much larger ones taken from some toys found in a Pound Shop.</span><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8joLjf9ZkFlVkpaBIhyOoHQy6BScOQqcfvToiwu_6K-mmrLNr44-gfu7ZFxI0i6VDHAvKb7EMVKzsJdSuJ79XvGN830TvHxn8yOXssZVGkVUAZ63IA1Ye2RrLrqHZonuknquN8H2O4XFbeZnupy4_1CaiRdwiaH07Gpm_tKR9SAs4n9DaCFS8q01pbg/s1800/OrkTrukkA_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8joLjf9ZkFlVkpaBIhyOoHQy6BScOQqcfvToiwu_6K-mmrLNr44-gfu7ZFxI0i6VDHAvKb7EMVKzsJdSuJ79XvGN830TvHxn8yOXssZVGkVUAZ63IA1Ye2RrLrqHZonuknquN8H2O4XFbeZnupy4_1CaiRdwiaH07Gpm_tKR9SAs4n9DaCFS8q01pbg/w427-h640/OrkTrukkA_02.jpg" width="427" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It's another one of th</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ose projects that, for a very brief moment right at the beginning, looked simple and straightforward, but in reality turned out to be way more work than I would ever have considered worth it.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Seems to happen to me a lot.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">*I've only just completed the trukk, but I did post a <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2019/06/whats-on-desk-then.html" target="_blank">work in progress image</a> of it about 3 and a half years ago.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">**To give an insight into the kind of ridiculous timeframes I work to</span><span style="font-family: arial;">, the tracks that I removed from the Half-Ute eventually got used on a model, that I posted <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/10/miniature-giants-part-three-stalker.html" target="_blank">here</a> about six years ago.</span></span></div></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-13521698842886964362022-09-05T20:10:00.006+01:002022-09-07T18:55:40.519+01:00The chain-gun gang, Ork meganob heavy hitters<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Ugly, brutal and mean, my <i>Ork me</i></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>ganob</i> squad is comprised of a handful of the old metal figures from circa 2000, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">alongside the then-<i>Ghazghkull-Thraka-</i>model. They were</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> most likely designed by Brian Nelson as part of his original revamp of the <i>Ork</i> range. At the time, I vaguely remember thinking these <i>juggernorks</i> were some of the chunkiest metal infantry miniatures I had ever handled. In fact, seeing as their slightly larger, contemporary replacements are now cast in plastic, they still might be.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwaaZ8rjXDMpB9RD63xl-KvoY_ttvO864a9D6f2mXDfIU26Kd01x3BWFfcemWCiYZm_ZbTRt3Fr2PsaUUGfQ-9jdoj-ucRHt-Tz57WTBzs3zAtiWehqb7VoT8hasSri4whEMqJ_iFP7FRstszDnTQoBD7Cp07jySdlnS7IUQpXUdThuGmmMtrtXjrmNg/s1200/OrkMeganobz_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwaaZ8rjXDMpB9RD63xl-KvoY_ttvO864a9D6f2mXDfIU26Kd01x3BWFfcemWCiYZm_ZbTRt3Fr2PsaUUGfQ-9jdoj-ucRHt-Tz57WTBzs3zAtiWehqb7VoT8hasSri4whEMqJ_iFP7FRstszDnTQoBD7Cp07jySdlnS7IUQpXUdThuGmmMtrtXjrmNg/w640-h480/OrkMeganobz_01.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">As per usual I did a bit of <i>choppin' and changin'</i> to make the models more my own. But </span><span style="font-family: arial;">because the base models were already so damn good</span><span style="font-family: arial;">, I kept my tinkering to a bare minimum, mainly just opening up a little extra diversity in the weapons or pose.</span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFGHAQL703f7D5azysURlDuwf3t7GVyV_czzXnMV6NMlBMdeOBKVTqEypj1gu5uhJ9IRikgSF73MkoYSoBqmlOGpqKxjyQZnuASjIv4l29wMQskMwExExbqtHDVxsPCxgbFJDqty0QXT64xHRTlPWAyJEQnLXh-JZPEyUBDaNsvhrRECA5B2kLePlDw/s1600/OrkMeganobz_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNFGHAQL703f7D5azysURlDuwf3t7GVyV_czzXnMV6NMlBMdeOBKVTqEypj1gu5uhJ9IRikgSF73MkoYSoBqmlOGpqKxjyQZnuASjIv4l29wMQskMwExExbqtHDVxsPCxgbFJDqty0QXT64xHRTlPWAyJEQnLXh-JZPEyUBDaNsvhrRECA5B2kLePlDw/w480-h640/OrkMeganobz_02.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjepHgPvcvRa8-qpGRaQ4bZvGXA6-b5jJNg1lqU0HdDhypVkWZz0jjWcOQqY0ZO5_jz29MpMeznogWK99oyUIGVWvzYYjZKPgEjRf2mvlQOmI8R58cxG9Y9UVWnhXV97hPxhuaJrb03SWvC-y-NjMIj5Kiuay93KHdBdCyejcgGCulCKKYoHCpMW1_Lew/s1600/OrkMeganobz_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjepHgPvcvRa8-qpGRaQ4bZvGXA6-b5jJNg1lqU0HdDhypVkWZz0jjWcOQqY0ZO5_jz29MpMeznogWK99oyUIGVWvzYYjZKPgEjRf2mvlQOmI8R58cxG9Y9UVWnhXV97hPxhuaJrb03SWvC-y-NjMIj5Kiuay93KHdBdCyejcgGCulCKKYoHCpMW1_Lew/w480-h640/OrkMeganobz_03.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkJADJn6kgFbjIl30b6WwTANkN-32TieGBVEzG47tijwAqyakOpaMFhgr6h9kXp3_VbKmwHpoSVdMKgjJnH7jagZaXGXh2luWVrgXSyRAf_SGmof7_azX4Ec73U-jwROi9gQGebQR4TAK3uXlS4aVj3938ZTeKCRZGK0RgBlDkibryo02cyBjKQieIQ/s1600/OrkMeganobz_04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRkJADJn6kgFbjIl30b6WwTANkN-32TieGBVEzG47tijwAqyakOpaMFhgr6h9kXp3_VbKmwHpoSVdMKgjJnH7jagZaXGXh2luWVrgXSyRAf_SGmof7_azX4Ec73U-jwROi9gQGebQR4TAK3uXlS4aVj3938ZTeKCRZGK0RgBlDkibryo02cyBjKQieIQ/w480-h640/OrkMeganobz_04.jpg" width="480" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Regular readers* will notice I switched my predominantly red colour scheme to yellow, as I thought the brighter colour might hint at the idea of <i>Ork</i> nobility, and perhaps give the wider army a bit more visual interest. I also decided that, what with the <i>Ghazghkull</i> miniature having that giant bovine skull on its back, I'd use a bull's head icon as their unit badge. Like by using a bullseye theme it references <i>Ork</i> sharpshooter* abilities and points to the fact that these guys are seriously<i> </i>elite (rather than signifying <i><a href="https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Goffs#:~:text=The%20Goffs%20are%20an%20Ork,thrill%20and%20thunder%20of%20battle." target="_blank">Goff klan</a></i> allegiance, as it usually does with <i>Orks</i>). It's tricky to see in these pictures, but each of the four regular <i>nobs</i> has a water-slide transfer of a horned, black, bull skull stuck on a random armour plate somewhere.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The idea of different units having their own personal markings is quite appealing. Something that sets them apart from the rest of the army, but ties them together with each other. Especially if it isn't immediately noticeable – like it's buried another layer down from all the most obvious stuff. Hidden, so that it requires more than a furtive glance to find it. A</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> puzzle that's its own reward.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Subtly recurring markings appear in a few other places within my <i>Ork</i> armoured brigade. I guess I find it interesting thinking up some strange internal logic as to how these mean green fighting machines might think. I've got a few other units nearing completion, so I'll probably share some more ramblings on the matter in future posts.<br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">*Hahaha, who am I kidding? There's no such thing</span></div></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-82793284139324643952022-08-02T11:31:00.005+01:002022-08-02T14:36:09.934+01:00Deffkopta jetbikes, part two<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9HhJEPjN4M4c3WNj7WrVxe0p_SwPox5lohQdWgzyNRMKdQLR-727dfaNbjgtEYXnWGNxDoS63OvtxIfF65e8on4EgDUojq1tnGSWp9_WH33K_rOytYFwVLgrdprebav8Q1S9zBWIv5A4Ylxyn8RHGz4wnChVlr-loAZ2iHclj-5Q9nX_DCRTwPp8_uA/s1200/OrkJetbikes_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9HhJEPjN4M4c3WNj7WrVxe0p_SwPox5lohQdWgzyNRMKdQLR-727dfaNbjgtEYXnWGNxDoS63OvtxIfF65e8on4EgDUojq1tnGSWp9_WH33K_rOytYFwVLgrdprebav8Q1S9zBWIv5A4Ylxyn8RHGz4wnChVlr-loAZ2iHclj-5Q9nX_DCRTwPp8_uA/w640-h480/OrkJetbikes_02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><p><i>"Why float around da sky on poxy rotors when we can tear it in half wiv jets and frusters and stuff?"</i></p></i></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This, or at least a question a bit like it, was what I imagine the <i>warboss</i> in my <i>Ork</i> armoured brigade asked his <i>meks</i> at some point after tasking them to come up <i>"wiv a way of 'urting fings from abbuv".</i> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I also imagine it preceded a point </span><span style="font-family: arial;">where several brave* </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Ork</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> test pilots were accidentally retired or sent to the </span><i style="font-family: arial;">doks</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> for snazzy, but much-needed </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Cybork</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> "upgrades".</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRUYp7IsUUdsMj2bFzv8p4JIYEVYvqQp6YRIKoXlvA0Br5nJfIUcKeSR13KcbFt4zsu0wwUrOT6lRs-cLhp-J-zRnt-oqvrBbwj3PlYPZbjV3C7umHRaHR87ME3ZbSe9Mh92pcdPy6Zr6Wbge0OojH0rcxxp4efOlOqMk13bL7VXHBqbbs_DezVxvcA/s1200/OrkJetbikeB__02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrRUYp7IsUUdsMj2bFzv8p4JIYEVYvqQp6YRIKoXlvA0Br5nJfIUcKeSR13KcbFt4zsu0wwUrOT6lRs-cLhp-J-zRnt-oqvrBbwj3PlYPZbjV3C7umHRaHR87ME3ZbSe9Mh92pcdPy6Zr6Wbge0OojH0rcxxp4efOlOqMk13bL7VXHBqbbs_DezVxvcA/w640-h480/OrkJetbikeB__02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcfwoMbquVrt_2advyrs9zCgxg7i4yu4a6h6O2Jrgs10DR5Nqs4MbEn0RNWUzvDebOJmpmEHJPp9S6OgxNx7GamDlwG3XLexmVtEeknxBbnB9hYGWs6Gy09nbnAG3yHBsbXPDNq7TMa15OsZua9e7gSxqv3siPCdGN5xFiJ0jyIzyWu5MyQVYTrESfw/s1200/OrkJetbikeC__02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcfwoMbquVrt_2advyrs9zCgxg7i4yu4a6h6O2Jrgs10DR5Nqs4MbEn0RNWUzvDebOJmpmEHJPp9S6OgxNx7GamDlwG3XLexmVtEeknxBbnB9hYGWs6Gy09nbnAG3yHBsbXPDNq7TMa15OsZua9e7gSxqv3siPCdGN5xFiJ0jyIzyWu5MyQVYTrESfw/w640-h480/OrkJetbikeC__02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">As with a lot of my <i>Ork</i> army, I finished the original, test model (on the right, in the picture of all three, above) a long time ago, possibly even before the birth of my eldest son, who recently celebrated his tenth birthday**. It then took the release of an assortment of jetbike parts from <i><a href="https://shop.ramshacklegames.co.uk/home/420-5-x-jet-bike-pick-and-mix.html" target="_blank">Ramshackle Games</a></i>, some years later, to help me <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2019/02/deffkopta-jetbikes.html" target="_blank">complete the next two</a> conversions.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiM6Nf49_mCzjPEmDAUa8loWFdFcWoG2Ag8gWPQRgb-ow6_blTYXuqumBCIvloIW8YbCverAI3pjgHKBoMCg2d5LzzlursVRb2JCbNULAZXu7o2i6BQiU7s76AmB-NUhvZ13JPTbsxjI0oIXttezWG9G8udRSCv6NBNsFqn6c6tAvPaJtjIvELU9KHXA/s1200/OrkJetbikes_Missiles.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiM6Nf49_mCzjPEmDAUa8loWFdFcWoG2Ag8gWPQRgb-ow6_blTYXuqumBCIvloIW8YbCverAI3pjgHKBoMCg2d5LzzlursVRb2JCbNULAZXu7o2i6BQiU7s76AmB-NUhvZ13JPTbsxjI0oIXttezWG9G8udRSCv6NBNsFqn6c6tAvPaJtjIvELU9KHXA/w640-h480/OrkJetbikes_Missiles.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: Times; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Plus the mek-bashing of a bunch of flying 'splodey things, before I could even start</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">And then another few years before I got the paint on them, touched up the original, rebased them all, and finally reached the stage shown here. It's quite a timeline, so it's a major relief to finally get a whole squad finished. There can't be that many units left now?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh1kLBEQpUZSpuxE3E_GH0gvPLW8nE7RJrkvbfiy1Jx-H9oBOsITO-fpEpqcJBBOCcnshkB6il9zzZziOdI7QuqIOiqIppiZ5PTAeY8POrCovrShWXzzpu2u0mx9YstDbxfqvyJ5vp6M_1mjRnZ_5R8r4uzeeM73gZIKLKhplt3QtFMgKuitwLOnD1A/s1800/OrkJetbikeB__03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlh1kLBEQpUZSpuxE3E_GH0gvPLW8nE7RJrkvbfiy1Jx-H9oBOsITO-fpEpqcJBBOCcnshkB6il9zzZziOdI7QuqIOiqIppiZ5PTAeY8POrCovrShWXzzpu2u0mx9YstDbxfqvyJ5vp6M_1mjRnZ_5R8r4uzeeM73gZIKLKhplt3QtFMgKuitwLOnD1A/w426-h640/OrkJetbikeB__03.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tbKvOKsSL88Ivf02s8ZHxYW818CoshIR29NBQeIS60_Yt95AxjG58ZeYWlDGL0wkUUYeAiH8QUNv7r-Pq6xTXK_hGcSTincZFT09FnMxuHkG8KtVdBwxNPA-ZQjeAj0FuvfiLsHupeCbasnLTtRrHRDFPFvIMJUZzifuE0Ern0mX_f_Fh09YkBpl8Q/s1800/OrkJetbikeC__03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_tbKvOKsSL88Ivf02s8ZHxYW818CoshIR29NBQeIS60_Yt95AxjG58ZeYWlDGL0wkUUYeAiH8QUNv7r-Pq6xTXK_hGcSTincZFT09FnMxuHkG8KtVdBwxNPA-ZQjeAj0FuvfiLsHupeCbasnLTtRrHRDFPFvIMJUZzifuE0Ern0mX_f_Fh09YkBpl8Q/w426-h640/OrkJetbikeC__03.jpg" width="426" /></a></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: arial;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;">"Right lads, where are dem </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Cyborks</span><span style="font-family: arial;">? Let's get 'em to da front lines. And also dat </span><span style="font-family: arial;">D</span><span style="font-family: arial;">read Mob?</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Cost me a lot of teef, dat – lotta boyz eatin' nuffin but soup.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Which reminds me, where's all da grots round 'ere? And where are all my t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">rukks</span><span style="font-family: arial;">? And </span><span style="font-family: arial;">'ardboys</span><span style="font-family: arial;">? And M</span><span style="font-family: arial;">eganobz?</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> What is dis, an 'oliday camp? Let's get movin' before I try fitting a boot-shaped fing in a butt-shaped hole."</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">*Stupid</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">**Happy birthday big guy. You're the very opposite of an </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Ork</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, you're a bright, talented, caring individual, and it's a pleasure being your dad</span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-67371837597162508912022-07-11T17:55:00.003+01:002022-07-20T10:46:57.663+01:00Va va kaboom. The Ork buggy bandwagon, part three<p><span style="font-family: arial;">The noise is deafening. Engines revving way past their limits. Ignited fuel spitting sparks from armoured exhausts. Vehicles straining and shaking like caged animals. Twin-linked big shootas firing test volleys at anything not quick enough to take cover. Throaty guffaws and maniacal chittering every time a hapless critter is vaporised by a stream of high caliber slugs. Mud thrown up in great geysers, mixing with thick fumes from dirty oil, tinged with the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">smell of cordite and sweat. A</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> heavy musk, hanging in the air like a starting flag, ready to wave.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uzuL_MwApPOCZEV4h4BiDuUNzRQq0tSSREhsDDK4ErSM732CS3PJUzmGoKMXSQKtsGnxfAqZuBnbLz4k0Gvr19acpYPGK9rvM20EnkTIsi5c-KrNEbkA7ScYxdxCJ6TqpA_X36gKqHM7TCndeMJpCe-cMOpLca5MnZDI0lqkneg3BWC4ZFiQO-kI_Q/s1200/OrkBuggies_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7uzuL_MwApPOCZEV4h4BiDuUNzRQq0tSSREhsDDK4ErSM732CS3PJUzmGoKMXSQKtsGnxfAqZuBnbLz4k0Gvr19acpYPGK9rvM20EnkTIsi5c-KrNEbkA7ScYxdxCJ6TqpA_X36gKqHM7TCndeMJpCe-cMOpLca5MnZDI0lqkneg3BWC4ZFiQO-kI_Q/w640-h480/OrkBuggies_02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">My <i>Ork</i> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">armoured brigade</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> has always been a work in progress. I started it well over ten years ago, and still enjoy reacquainting myself with it whenever I feel a bit of inspiration. During the last few weeks, perhaps as a result of <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2022/03/necromunda-ash-wastes-inter-spire-light.html" target="_blank">thinking about</a> vehicles for <i>Necromunda Ash Wastes</i>, I've revisited some of the <i>greenskin</i> army's unfinished projects and tried to get them to a more presentable level. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">The first of which, that I'm sharing today, are these three light vehicles, which will be reinforcing my little unit of buggies, trikes, </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>trakks</i> and <i>skorchas</i>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMEw5CHb0arPG7U2KmNA5Weeyadxj8GbLs2ydKyKOZ7Z9ATrW-8cFRXb5g8pOEPHkjmjq23MD0sT9sU3mkHJInDb2W2bKuNQiw3O5t5E97Sb5rpcWQCeJV5W2tVb1z7ZJA1_Wk0j7Ted-wY7D5mRy6blTy4r83USuFa2xwQLo4zR6QlQ6oXMK513Hc2A/s1200/OrkBuggyD_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqlzRFJ98dD6uwsUiuzw5eh7fFHUSV-MJFmmVBiKJWZMNhwAnTdY9ZM74moT-DH3YTTxLvpmlipX9odpSwOpd0EbO56fQ3-xPeCBcDB-yrsQLXmtTlJNgsVk9jYgHtKRzmgWQs1qq66hDi0stcyVTio0EKpcsK6rq4D_0-od7eBuZpZiyGVr9xC3hyCQ/s1200/OrkBuggyF_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqlzRFJ98dD6uwsUiuzw5eh7fFHUSV-MJFmmVBiKJWZMNhwAnTdY9ZM74moT-DH3YTTxLvpmlipX9odpSwOpd0EbO56fQ3-xPeCBcDB-yrsQLXmtTlJNgsVk9jYgHtKRzmgWQs1qq66hDi0stcyVTio0EKpcsK6rq4D_0-od7eBuZpZiyGVr9xC3hyCQ/w640-h480/OrkBuggyF_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I've liberally covered them all in my usual combination of dirt, dust and weathering, not just because I think it's appropriately <i>Orky</i>, but also because I'm not the greatest or most patient painter, so adding all that damage is a great way to give models a quick, and often quite effective, extra layer of detail.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimAgXjyb0UCTmRseoBpwsffyNIWiaISzZZOz0o80FEPNu8p51TpbPC0bZafle0EJhyDj9za9-d0TbPSVqBpx71FpbGtaXpnLhEcuEp28xLh_AnPHUy7DmR65OQotON9WkXdYnvbXXQNaQRMeiHbzX4tKCCJkRq86pSlO6h6c2XrHf6sos5Zkangh-ZKw/w426-h640/OrkBuggyE_02.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbbO2k-xlkwTUgr_lL1RtJNQD1Els2gXbjv7Qe9qi7DUaTi2pib3XmycW0cM1ISqnWnBp_RFPIDkl5OAbd26CBIA_EhO4A9YCRi15oQllBPDT-q-HXgnenaH3AEvzPf4GhOLRjaf5IEmO6MppHVj8xlVlUUm-Mg5zGwjmq1oEJqgpqll97slQ0xzZ_w/s1800/OrkBuggyF_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbbO2k-xlkwTUgr_lL1RtJNQD1Els2gXbjv7Qe9qi7DUaTi2pib3XmycW0cM1ISqnWnBp_RFPIDkl5OAbd26CBIA_EhO4A9YCRi15oQllBPDT-q-HXgnenaH3AEvzPf4GhOLRjaf5IEmO6MppHVj8xlVlUUm-Mg5zGwjmq1oEJqgpqll97slQ0xzZ_w/w426-h640/OrkBuggyF_02.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: arial;">The trike was created years ago, and has been hanging around, waiting for its final layers of paint, for most of that time, but t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he two scratch-built, armoured buggies are relatively new, as I only really completed their construction in the last couple of months. You can see what they looked like, towards the end of that phase, below.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnLu-VKNRemIUhDroIhtDNnXk9VShFmxnzFoLBBCAVuG4e3erlTmo0j-vpj96HIcDougXbjLVm4Y7as7ctRmDBsOPBIIc6zTrqV02zENyswCW6CJNgN1nzEU5QWiBfJTrPJHg_GHteaUbwoFeaGuP_Q0cOKuUdiSA2aBGUVjBo7bDydyRykEFSIHx4Q/s1200/OrkBuggyD_03_Unpainted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPnLu-VKNRemIUhDroIhtDNnXk9VShFmxnzFoLBBCAVuG4e3erlTmo0j-vpj96HIcDougXbjLVm4Y7as7ctRmDBsOPBIIc6zTrqV02zENyswCW6CJNgN1nzEU5QWiBfJTrPJHg_GHteaUbwoFeaGuP_Q0cOKuUdiSA2aBGUVjBo7bDydyRykEFSIHx4Q/w640-h640/OrkBuggyD_03_Unpainted.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQfnJEVePwO9yLO7_IaEdKytDdF6mZmhC-_8zDxQ2z1ctxTezguUOXSS6GxxJS1oXSOtYE8Xty1oQJGgSH2xJ5GDuTz8F8gQ-T6SfV_el_7Z87V180zlsrY6Qb6snbNhILGS-K_wybUeeMoCbNaMbChkF1YDHWmidf8b61z9ssYjnlOZKhnlczoGMgng/s1200/OrkBuggyE_03_Unpainted.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQfnJEVePwO9yLO7_IaEdKytDdF6mZmhC-_8zDxQ2z1ctxTezguUOXSS6GxxJS1oXSOtYE8Xty1oQJGgSH2xJ5GDuTz8F8gQ-T6SfV_el_7Z87V180zlsrY6Qb6snbNhILGS-K_wybUeeMoCbNaMbChkF1YDHWmidf8b61z9ssYjnlOZKhnlczoGMgng/w640-h640/OrkBuggyE_03_Unpainted.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">These three vehicles have been mentioned on this blog before, when I <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-ork-buggy-bandwagon-part-two.html" target="_blank">last talked about</a> Ork buggies, a few years back. I've just taken a look at that article and seen exactly how much (or more accurately, how little) I've managed to achieve in all that time. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">And it's not even over yet. I've actually still got plans to add one or two final buggies to the squad, to round the whole thing out. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">But I'll put those ideas aside, as they're a task for another day. For now here's all the mucky glory of the buggy gang as it currently stands.</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5PQUEURfcltDt50cOeOBhV8MmQ2PeQnZ0L-tLcrnhLZWS-m9DECqyHjG_YEqzU32UOhJTPqcdnI13pzf6rhB3DPCso-QJmU-nkkkUJrsFfkd1YBav6s4c6ynLDI7Z7p3dirPYxAcdQ2cYz42BjMuYKkpMyj5Y4YGcx67DiDbX0xLnpCJvSnmntR0KjA/s1200/OrkBuggies_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5PQUEURfcltDt50cOeOBhV8MmQ2PeQnZ0L-tLcrnhLZWS-m9DECqyHjG_YEqzU32UOhJTPqcdnI13pzf6rhB3DPCso-QJmU-nkkkUJrsFfkd1YBav6s4c6ynLDI7Z7p3dirPYxAcdQ2cYz42BjMuYKkpMyj5Y4YGcx67DiDbX0xLnpCJvSnmntR0KjA/w640-h480/OrkBuggies_03.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-81821728077576744002022-03-03T14:54:00.000+00:002022-03-03T14:54:03.972+00:00Necromunda Ash Wastes inter-spire light haulage rig and escort runner<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJHPUpFhpCd3HkXd5kUScrDnrTYwQTQUjDuFkHrnd3Nl1-zjuAp2zHm68zoJLkQn7DaTflVfAmn8lvZA8K64I1J7ggPbcFHyTIpu9XW_yWmpuCKhoFmQ7-qERI0aC7tPybnMiTRHyseMBl2c5u_BK9zDVPDeUJ3xEDdLRPLQMQzyaVlAYijFE8y8v6Tg=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJHPUpFhpCd3HkXd5kUScrDnrTYwQTQUjDuFkHrnd3Nl1-zjuAp2zHm68zoJLkQn7DaTflVfAmn8lvZA8K64I1J7ggPbcFHyTIpu9XW_yWmpuCKhoFmQ7-qERI0aC7tPybnMiTRHyseMBl2c5u_BK9zDVPDeUJ3xEDdLRPLQMQzyaVlAYijFE8y8v6Tg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />In anticipation of the release of the new <i><a href="https://www.warhammer-community.com/2022/01/28/lvo-2022-vehicular-mayhem-awaits-in-necromunda-ash-wastes/" target="_blank">Necromunda Ash Wastes</a></i> vehicular combat game, I've dug out a handful of unfinished models and given them a coat of paint.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">At the time of writing there's some speculation about the forthcoming game, but not many hard facts. As far as I can tell it looks set to introduce something like the <i>Road Warrior</i> aesthetic of the <i>Mad Max</i> films into the Warhammer 40,000 universe. And not for the first time either. Games Workshop has gone down this route before. Previous instances of the company riffing on </span><span style="font-family: arial;">George Miller's post-apocalyptic Australian action film series</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> have produced the games </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Dark Future</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Gorkamorka</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> and </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Speed Freeks</i><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZLjd_nSJv0jd2cCLVJRH9-xlUYQturWTsFxIV3zR3H2d_du96naYRLbzuHeb-K-aVqRRpFW0upD2qWes__1foYRLV_QMwlOx_eJw7d-0l5vJBr0Hib1ecV5sbpbgdIshgZVVtQoHwYkR-B56aqQ_tP632I0yDmjn0N980i1Vbk_BJZc0rJUzqv5uZcQ=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1200" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZLjd_nSJv0jd2cCLVJRH9-xlUYQturWTsFxIV3zR3H2d_du96naYRLbzuHeb-K-aVqRRpFW0upD2qWes__1foYRLV_QMwlOx_eJw7d-0l5vJBr0Hib1ecV5sbpbgdIshgZVVtQoHwYkR-B56aqQ_tP632I0yDmjn0N980i1Vbk_BJZc0rJUzqv5uZcQ=w640-h288" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">These three games all have various crossover points with what I imagine the new <i>Necromunda</i> expansion to be, but <i>Dark Future</i>, released in the late 80s, was the only one that focussed on human gangs – even if the models were in a slightly different scale to everything else. C</span><span style="font-family: arial;">oming in at roughly 20mm tall, t</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he miniatures were way bigger than 6mm </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Epic scale</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, yet smaller than the 28-32mm of most of GW's other games.* But that didn't stop them being brilliant. Here are a few pages from </span><i style="font-family: arial;">White Dwarf</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> around the time.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXOEWezeCRT1ATgYMF4x_Kcv-rqaBBm1-erFc4xgcph9P-FUJnUE5p3yPiEyeP2LCnuOBb3w1fJ-NqdBo-Geyc24-Cjpxzl9vAUvQwwnYPGdk-cWx_wjFTh43fYMEfils-aMHBOxbD61RE_rrhcNQ7O3ryUWEWkGTrXxPRZMoE-rQXdDieDPIFRRfaKg=s1600" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhXOEWezeCRT1ATgYMF4x_Kcv-rqaBBm1-erFc4xgcph9P-FUJnUE5p3yPiEyeP2LCnuOBb3w1fJ-NqdBo-Geyc24-Cjpxzl9vAUvQwwnYPGdk-cWx_wjFTh43fYMEfils-aMHBOxbD61RE_rrhcNQ7O3ryUWEWkGTrXxPRZMoE-rQXdDieDPIFRRfaKg=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The game bonded a kind of sports car, go-faster aesthetic with the darker <i>Mad Max</i> look and feel, and the results ended up being occasionally grimdark, and occasionally colourful, and occasionally somehow both.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">This started me thinking about what I call the <i>Star Wars</i> paint-job. It's the colour schemes we find throughout the <i>Star Wars</i> franchise, where vehicles are painted in predominantly flat, neutral colour tones: greys, creams etc, with a single, brighter, accent colour injected for detailing. And then the whole thing is beaten up, battered, and generally made to look as if it's seen better days. Luke's <i>X-Wing</i> in the original movie is a classic example, and it felt like an interesting direction in which to take a couple of ground vehicles.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The car below is a </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Marrua Gaucho</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> from </span><i style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.antenocitisworkshop.com/" target="_blank">Antenociti's Workshop</a></i><span style="font-family: arial;">. It's a solid chunk of resin, and I've talked about the pre-paint clean-up <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/09/that-new-car-feeling.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I've decided this is going to be an e<i>scort runner</i>; a fast set of wheels used to accompany a slower moving vehicle, providing extra tactical options, and additional manpower.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2HOCfHRzlm0YWbjMyjNnPQ0YihBI5OmP42JoGNvkGszNBStHKetXo4B0wfRaLkR5-sOQCGFNzh6kkGP6A8EQhBc3U0XBt5xNMv0wmK7ak7X5Ar3-0jAqoSahUBnrPTwMMnpTdSGW5kkyn_neIwAziu5JBh03OEBexsAfhzMtox-VO_QcxMkvNjnZhBA=s2400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2HOCfHRzlm0YWbjMyjNnPQ0YihBI5OmP42JoGNvkGszNBStHKetXo4B0wfRaLkR5-sOQCGFNzh6kkGP6A8EQhBc3U0XBt5xNMv0wmK7ak7X5Ar3-0jAqoSahUBnrPTwMMnpTdSGW5kkyn_neIwAziu5JBh03OEBexsAfhzMtox-VO_QcxMkvNjnZhBA=w320-h640" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">Meanwhile, I've called the truck an <i>inter-spire light haulage rig</i> – mainly because I'm anticipating the <i>land train</i> in the forthcoming <i>Ash Wastes</i> boxset to do a similar job, but to be significantly heavier. The model is actually a </span><i><a href="https://puppetswar.eu/pegasus-tactical-vehicle.html" target="_blank">Pegasus Tactical Vehicle</a></i><span style="font-family: arial;"> from </span><i>Puppets War</i><span style="font-family: arial;">. You used to be able to buy the trailer (seen in the top image of the below set) that afforded a few different ways to construct the whole thing. I wanted to keep this modular capability as open as possible, so I talked about magnetising the various parts in an earlier post, <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/09/taming-pegasus.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Below are some of the various different possibilities from the kit, seen from a few different angles. It was important to me that the two alternate cabs had individual paint schemes, but that the rest of the parts would be completely compatible with both.</span></span><div><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQAjdkdkYi5CY6OGEJ5WYzZ_RGdiHHupqbvhU3pAkP6liN3PTwJH5GyQvyNrjPA9InveyOuu3x2nHZWHvujPKA_nu5YytPL6y-d3FVR03PogI8KYdTFTe_gWZDn7HgvQGkn6_30B1oUiCaySSk0Di-nupJ_rJ5qY2ZPDXNrh3viU6GBVVwpOWQypzU0g=s2400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjQAjdkdkYi5CY6OGEJ5WYzZ_RGdiHHupqbvhU3pAkP6liN3PTwJH5GyQvyNrjPA9InveyOuu3x2nHZWHvujPKA_nu5YytPL6y-d3FVR03PogI8KYdTFTe_gWZDn7HgvQGkn6_30B1oUiCaySSk0Di-nupJ_rJ5qY2ZPDXNrh3viU6GBVVwpOWQypzU0g=w320-h640" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil0RJev7rKz6XnMqmd3po2EaNtMpSyIUDaRrwTzO9O5D_qW87LfrCFU72DiJYeK9eknOZQKDqL2iVvCkqxTUjXYsBILPKvX9itRTY9BsN713p_7YTnaZDa3muVIJIWO3CkTMBixhTx0yifZiNk_D0GLY_htwf-kH-3zkB9aYYeZeJB0GjDp5hX2x_rmA=s2400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil0RJev7rKz6XnMqmd3po2EaNtMpSyIUDaRrwTzO9O5D_qW87LfrCFU72DiJYeK9eknOZQKDqL2iVvCkqxTUjXYsBILPKvX9itRTY9BsN713p_7YTnaZDa3muVIJIWO3CkTMBixhTx0yifZiNk_D0GLY_htwf-kH-3zkB9aYYeZeJB0GjDp5hX2x_rmA=w320-h640" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">And last, and probably least, I also quickly painted up the following little fella. It was kind of a test model for the other two, where I could brush up on the techniques and see what worked. The model itself was just a cheap toy car that I found in a pound shop a few years ago, and thought might be good for just this purpose. I don't love the paint job or the vehicle, but it's good enough to pass as a bit of background texture, tucked away in a dark corner, out of full sight.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHujaqpygojTWtWNVkpJwjeYVo3UgMMjuYRcei_L-yp1uSYl4P7P-2y98Pd0Az6HFxs2c9TDDZ2_MPock65PrneG1OEkhHLBCYLXqPMuAnAa4izx37x-3DrmsZnJr0_t9_F2nOADhtDRO0T3dbkbr1J3P07knSeZRBYQ-Efu9BNVBBG8VXwkH8jfHgeA=s2400" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHujaqpygojTWtWNVkpJwjeYVo3UgMMjuYRcei_L-yp1uSYl4P7P-2y98Pd0Az6HFxs2c9TDDZ2_MPock65PrneG1OEkhHLBCYLXqPMuAnAa4izx37x-3DrmsZnJr0_t9_F2nOADhtDRO0T3dbkbr1J3P07knSeZRBYQ-Efu9BNVBBG8VXwkH8jfHgeA=w320-h640" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So now all that remains is to await the new game and see if these models fit with its as yet unseen contents. That and paint the other 6 or 7 hundred other miniatures I've already got kicking around at home.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">*And, of course, a lot smaller than the 54mm of <i>Inquisitor</i>. </span></p></div></div></div></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-47764360635658156002022-01-18T12:15:00.002+00:002022-01-18T17:26:38.451+00:00Pack it up, pack it in<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Let me begin.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm currently facing an issue with the amount of stuff my family owns, versus the limited space in which we have to keep it all. There's a slowly rising tide of belongings that never quite fits anywhere and ends up leaving our home looking cluttered and untidy. I expect this might sound familiar to a fair few others out there.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I wonder if this problem still persists in the 41st millennium: <i>Space Marines</i> with more marks of armour than fit in their cupboard, <i>Aeldari Rangers</i> with helmets that are too tall for the shelf, <i>Catachan Jungle Fighters</i> with nowhere to keep their spare headbands.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">If only there was somewhere to tuck all this surplus gear away.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Fortunately, if there's one thing that almost always improves a good sci-fi setting, it's crates. Crates in all shapes and sizes. Crates in a variety of exciting paint schemes, left lying around in any empty space that's in need of some extra detail. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">You see them in all sorts of science fiction media: movies, shows, comics and especially video games. Sometimes they are there for good reason, and sometimes they are merely set dressing. And Warhammer 40,000 is no different. Adding crates, containers, boxes and cylinders to the game's terrain can look so good I often have to consciously stop myself from randomly gluing them down all over the place. Little clusters of storage material, firmly fixed to some narrow gantry, completely blocking any access for actual miniatures, rendering the piece fairly useless in game terms, but really making it look the part. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Really making it look the part, provided, of course, you can suspend disbelief for a moment and not question why something was neatly packed away, only to be left lying around in a completely inappropriate location.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Anyway, here are a couple of pieces I've just finished painting, ranging from big (completing the set I started back <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2018/01/munitorum-armoured-containers.html" target="_blank">here</a>) to small (using parts from a variety of sources, including <a href="https://www.manticgames.com/games/terrain-crate/sci-fi-terrain-crate/battlezones-sci-fi-terrain-crate/industrial-zone/" target="_blank">Mantic Games</a>, Citadel, and even some glued together bits from a broken one of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/KidsPark-Rubix-Puzzle-Twisty-Adults/dp/B07JKW6G55/ref=sr_1_6?crid=11JVWV1EMX57V&keywords=snake+puzzle&qid=1642283010&sprefix=snake+puzzle%2Caps%2C60&sr=8-6" target="_blank">these</a>.)</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqTpJuy5EqkrBMS1GJNXgNAltJKTox9-JYEZchQEkG5gPylxks0dkBt5t539K7db24SOzHcoTF7XnSTNOfgpyLSu0WCI8Adt6Fp-0_dCEHxvwBaq_qisT1HdnqKxl8QXrun_dvt244ZKmplI3R2YEgsc9304vaZl1JQQavTzl2JVIQx6hW4NdnbOh5Zw=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjqTpJuy5EqkrBMS1GJNXgNAltJKTox9-JYEZchQEkG5gPylxks0dkBt5t539K7db24SOzHcoTF7XnSTNOfgpyLSu0WCI8Adt6Fp-0_dCEHxvwBaq_qisT1HdnqKxl8QXrun_dvt244ZKmplI3R2YEgsc9304vaZl1JQQavTzl2JVIQx6hW4NdnbOh5Zw=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">They'll be joining the other pieces of scatter terrain, already in my collection, some of which can be seen below.</span><div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbQqMj_K7e12qb-smuI7z_6CeS3cynijFO-Sh2kgihDjUF7c1YfgEtlR3B3iwJdKYa1dgfuDZCnDJS_Uud4Lz9icv5TpnwxJnmUFl9bL81l5Yilx9ulfP5Z2z_BVaq-KxfZp_apz3ScJ3-lZvKxHCfxcVEFJY_SLywU4omoKvyNqqxDieCaPEzpJ88Nw=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbQqMj_K7e12qb-smuI7z_6CeS3cynijFO-Sh2kgihDjUF7c1YfgEtlR3B3iwJdKYa1dgfuDZCnDJS_Uud4Lz9icv5TpnwxJnmUFl9bL81l5Yilx9ulfP5Z2z_BVaq-KxfZp_apz3ScJ3-lZvKxHCfxcVEFJY_SLywU4omoKvyNqqxDieCaPEzpJ88Nw=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">So now that I've stopped and thought about this, next time I see something similar, pushed into a spare corner of whatever science fiction story I'm looking at, I'll be asking myself what I think is actually in these crates, and, if it was worth packing up, why isn't someone stealing it?</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT74RDCy0KXRvur4LCUCWBgFn3dO3EnUFbesqj6TljlxKNqHmL2Jos2qEecWYRejTFkeu36fJx4K0NeOjXwCF1XERo6EqH0H-cY5ebiOKhcGOtlD7W8vOGX78s6Ju4WR3xaHGv_Ek-mUfEeYDViMA3PHvg_4yYGbMsTF-aNaN3eh2XJBe5pG7-0SC9RQ=s2250" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2250" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjT74RDCy0KXRvur4LCUCWBgFn3dO3EnUFbesqj6TljlxKNqHmL2Jos2qEecWYRejTFkeu36fJx4K0NeOjXwCF1XERo6EqH0H-cY5ebiOKhcGOtlD7W8vOGX78s6Ju4WR3xaHGv_Ek-mUfEeYDViMA3PHvg_4yYGbMsTF-aNaN3eh2XJBe5pG7-0SC9RQ=w342-h640" width="342" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-10218161069026511392022-01-09T19:45:00.001+00:002022-01-10T09:44:11.036+00:00The cold, dark days of Winter<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIqd-zh0N5s5VTRPFaAmw4NDfNuUXtPy2I--SN3CeVCnQArgoXjuAaY8kFeiXY40tnvQREDTQROqp1BJZkzmZXv-6UbGzOFZ4OGc_rMMv1LkucHJuiR2zHIGvgEmPsyUGF-uk3GVOjC8KlynH-iGWs091EuOdS4q7wq4fQp0TGGo2W9zlhA-dobIGdMQ=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIqd-zh0N5s5VTRPFaAmw4NDfNuUXtPy2I--SN3CeVCnQArgoXjuAaY8kFeiXY40tnvQREDTQROqp1BJZkzmZXv-6UbGzOFZ4OGc_rMMv1LkucHJuiR2zHIGvgEmPsyUGF-uk3GVOjC8KlynH-iGWs091EuOdS4q7wq4fQp0TGGo2W9zlhA-dobIGdMQ=w640-h480" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">During the last few weeks, my </span><span style="font-family: arial;">warband of <i>Chaos Warriors</i> has received a handful of reinforcements. I've added the above twenty troops to their wintry ranks.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These guys are followers of <i><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/03/gshtaad-abomination.html" target="_blank">Gshtaad</a></i>, a <i>Chaos</i> god (or perhaps daemon) of my own devising, who is said to somehow be the offspring of <i>Khorne the Lord of Skulls</i> (god of blood, war and murder) and <i>Nurgle the Plague Lord </i>(god of disease, decay and despair). As such I like his worshippers to include a mix of models not just from Games Workshop's basic <i>Chaos Undivided</i> range, but also their <i>Khornate</i> and <i>Nurglish</i> lines.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">You may also notice that a few of the miniatures shown here are not from any of the current Games Workshop <i>Chaos</i> ranges. This is because, over the years, I've drawn on a number of diverse sources for this collection, including <a href="https://www.heresyminiatures.com/shop/" target="_blank">Heresy Miniatures,</a> <a href="https://avatars-of-war.com/sh/en/" target="_blank">Avatars of War,</a> <a href="https://cadwallon.com/" target="_blank">Rackham's Confrontation</a> and older, now out-of-print, Citadel lines. In fact some of the older Citadel models are from my earliest purchases back in the 1980s, converted, or at least repurposed, to find a home here.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I usually try to blend these disparate sources together a little, in an attempt to develop some level of unity within the army, swapping helmets and weapons, and sculpting fur out of green stuff.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Wood, bone, leather, flesh and rusty metal also feature heavily, as do various shades of the colours green and red.</div></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Some of the miniatures here, on the smaller bases, represent <i>Marauders</i>, rather than fully-fledged<i> Warriors.</i> In my mind <i>Marauders</i> are not just lighter-armed <i>Chaos</i> troops, but also less capable. So as well as big, brawny fighters, the likes of which are found in the <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Chaos-Marauders-2016" target="_blank">Citadel <i>Chaos Marauders</i> box</a>, their ranks might also include younger characters, or less enthusiastic conscripts, forced to fight: scrawny cannon-fodder who likely won't last through their first conflict.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDkm-gFIAkT6gHKLEjRcnwvTCUfpk_MikA9ewIjXM0XsivxXDz9zgGm_V_h4yEoJFEta9ui-qrFYMw5p0aALRz9Df2v4FRuhkBWyqf7q-knLpw7j7A75FtjMbaQqbMv83nlEDpz2gVLSFmDO8FJKh_KNjuEZF73zApyu-DvXQ9h5ltAjym34e7LPAS7w=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhDkm-gFIAkT6gHKLEjRcnwvTCUfpk_MikA9ewIjXM0XsivxXDz9zgGm_V_h4yEoJFEta9ui-qrFYMw5p0aALRz9Df2v4FRuhkBWyqf7q-knLpw7j7A75FtjMbaQqbMv83nlEDpz2gVLSFmDO8FJKh_KNjuEZF73zApyu-DvXQ9h5ltAjym34e7LPAS7w=w640-h640" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipZnzKfPVKrDwrmxrnFFiob3FW1oGdBojX1wfAJKux_pT5FbPf0dGesCnaGobnJ9qxjlULiKRHJaYMf02ouKFGFPG6aDvptG0doRszvnoezhf857cYoR9lBEmsaZWbI4r8LTq2D18wVKLwdVe-z2bPCyeBR-SYgb4DNb1-kiYqHaZYe-T9UBgVLW9SjQ=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipZnzKfPVKrDwrmxrnFFiob3FW1oGdBojX1wfAJKux_pT5FbPf0dGesCnaGobnJ9qxjlULiKRHJaYMf02ouKFGFPG6aDvptG0doRszvnoezhf857cYoR9lBEmsaZWbI4r8LTq2D18wVKLwdVe-z2bPCyeBR-SYgb4DNb1-kiYqHaZYe-T9UBgVLW9SjQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxCxypSuJhA8LtaiqH-XZA_joPwSG2rZzT1p-Cknc8ALn8ObotzhdoSFz7cNfplh_66yddDNR_h4RJUuct6-J65_kX3_N-vOzikZYOf0jhdlP9PZWsxgrFpdjsgVkaYXYAAQ5khbJgXODPqQLLktYKmaTfBLNfhcQiG8rvYDKq_0Vc0aIrQkL4asjjPQ=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxCxypSuJhA8LtaiqH-XZA_joPwSG2rZzT1p-Cknc8ALn8ObotzhdoSFz7cNfplh_66yddDNR_h4RJUuct6-J65_kX3_N-vOzikZYOf0jhdlP9PZWsxgrFpdjsgVkaYXYAAQ5khbJgXODPqQLLktYKmaTfBLNfhcQiG8rvYDKq_0Vc0aIrQkL4asjjPQ=w640-h640" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3XraahxGP2zo9vMc733qzNjRV1Lv98Ud1DSPknIHF-u1NC9vENl_CifdQ2qVg5wi10w4QFVi_vLVSrTsfNlhgBf8ACsbAgRItag2yaCY3il8LcVax8qpFVBwJXSgQif5mEHLRQI43h2EdK6UZlhpLMG33yCsLySxsm6M_pd1s-kYdIHcmnQUG_2xvkA=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3XraahxGP2zo9vMc733qzNjRV1Lv98Ud1DSPknIHF-u1NC9vENl_CifdQ2qVg5wi10w4QFVi_vLVSrTsfNlhgBf8ACsbAgRItag2yaCY3il8LcVax8qpFVBwJXSgQif5mEHLRQI43h2EdK6UZlhpLMG33yCsLySxsm6M_pd1s-kYdIHcmnQUG_2xvkA=w640-h640" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Once finished I popped these on the shelf with their kinsfolk and took a quick snap. It's not a great picture, so I'll try to do some better ones when I can, but at least for now it starts to hint at the growing extent of my little <i>Chaos</i> warband.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0Ds3GEWDcl46sD3yEbozJoS6YEHgls0fFAu3nbvE8AX7V6jjhqDZREezWZo9tK3RoJ2-M_6PGrQNDxop2pYu4amZiFknrcR45TxbALBgqnwdVNm4Pn4gr69RTkRjNKwpku5G7_tq2-TB6AeOyphFE8kkkmsDFuYFgTgjyfhnCztwVKU6SOPkH3lwuHw=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi0Ds3GEWDcl46sD3yEbozJoS6YEHgls0fFAu3nbvE8AX7V6jjhqDZREezWZo9tK3RoJ2-M_6PGrQNDxop2pYu4amZiFknrcR45TxbALBgqnwdVNm4Pn4gr69RTkRjNKwpku5G7_tq2-TB6AeOyphFE8kkkmsDFuYFgTgjyfhnCztwVKU6SOPkH3lwuHw=w640-h480" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><br /><p></p>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0United Kingdom55.378051 -3.43597324.691074737032825 -38.592223 86.065027262967178 31.720277tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-17780427905238480382021-12-17T17:56:00.000+00:002021-12-17T17:56:58.947+00:00Hammer time! (*hammer not included)<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewj0cdAHsY7GbTozN_XzRCrLRC7BYq6Y46163A3VciYCuJYjZOXjeWD1YJ39lJcV65FzkK3v-pbXBtTH-bc05jp7ZTexaFdO8NozMwvv04Tw8GvgjCS70kc9k5wCxFTcL4RYJAaneUKKg/s1200/HammersteinModel_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiewj0cdAHsY7GbTozN_XzRCrLRC7BYq6Y46163A3VciYCuJYjZOXjeWD1YJ39lJcV65FzkK3v-pbXBtTH-bc05jp7ZTexaFdO8NozMwvv04Tw8GvgjCS70kc9k5wCxFTcL4RYJAaneUKKg/w640-h640/HammersteinModel_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><i>ABC War Robots</i>. Atomic. Bacterial. Chemical. Mass-produced, automated troops, designed to withstand the most hostile warfare environments. I may have said this before, but it's definitely worth saying again: everyone needs one of these in their life. So here's mine, <i>Hammerstein,</i> leader of the <i>ABC Warriors,</i> and now my stand-in model for any dangerous, humanoid robot in any science fiction miniatures game you care to mention.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgLzxgUTK5Umcv7Va4h9PTZ17-sn-S5bGdPzL5vr95Fhah9NbjFPkleeN5AhdG7DEb94Ur2J9_YfPH54iNAQ50cnWV0Q0BGoorS21NbVQUbOlUgQz7ImQgYEPL1waTlUUGh3-ZqOlN4Yif/s1200/HammersteinModel_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgLzxgUTK5Umcv7Va4h9PTZ17-sn-S5bGdPzL5vr95Fhah9NbjFPkleeN5AhdG7DEb94Ur2J9_YfPH54iNAQ50cnWV0Q0BGoorS21NbVQUbOlUgQz7ImQgYEPL1waTlUUGh3-ZqOlN4Yif/w640-h640/HammersteinModel_02.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I decided I wanted a model of this implacable metal soldier after</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2020/10/end-of-line-creep.html" target="_blank">completing</a> my squad of <i>Adeptus Arbites Enforcers</i> inspired by the <i>Judges</i> from the 2012 </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Karl Urban <i>Dredd</i> movie</span><span style="font-family: arial;">. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-6CXPn3uOCe3v8Ki-UjUf3wtezNJaLVobdtnl4QZ6XA6_SzBssdcVYWMJ_T0HGuX4nqTxkaUMp0mg8WjpXW4x-mb6nMBNAZg-kZoZNqnt5nPJ945HpX_ppEyMO8E8lA5IIz1WKwhAHuqs/s1200/JudgeDreddArbitesEnforcers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-6CXPn3uOCe3v8Ki-UjUf3wtezNJaLVobdtnl4QZ6XA6_SzBssdcVYWMJ_T0HGuX4nqTxkaUMp0mg8WjpXW4x-mb6nMBNAZg-kZoZNqnt5nPJ945HpX_ppEyMO8E8lA5IIz1WKwhAHuqs/w640-h640/JudgeDreddArbitesEnforcers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As a continuing homage, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">I thought it would be cool to revisit the earlier 1995 </span><span style="font-family: arial;">Stallone movie, </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Judge Dredd</i><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>,</i> and </span><span style="font-family: arial;">try to build </span><span style="font-family: arial;">one of the <i>Judges'</i> main foes</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3e5GaUK45z6JwIbzk2uIRXRXbZ2V2griKf-O1RbP6cRuJmq0l-dBiikWFeK26w5twxNPaB00dY04RI_OVfM6_CLAlRB_iKppuw2SkdsLwQcQuMPF4ImTRWvdfplttQlkd9zwGHO5spGe/s1200/Hammerstein.gif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="1200" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB3e5GaUK45z6JwIbzk2uIRXRXbZ2V2griKf-O1RbP6cRuJmq0l-dBiikWFeK26w5twxNPaB00dY04RI_OVfM6_CLAlRB_iKppuw2SkdsLwQcQuMPF4ImTRWvdfplttQlkd9zwGHO5spGe/w640-h280/Hammerstein.gif" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">This guy</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw25Kbb89A8asTugy0fWFUVU-xzL5wZqeiplcINNf821d1y-96npYXfe6i_Lcy3aX7zGi-UZ8CnEff7ppOjVuKrpJg876Uj09quV4fHHoNbXNtjzSWPx19-TdoClUZIdjwvLlz7NHufXFp/s1200/Hammerstein_DreddMovie.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="1200" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw25Kbb89A8asTugy0fWFUVU-xzL5wZqeiplcINNf821d1y-96npYXfe6i_Lcy3aX7zGi-UZ8CnEff7ppOjVuKrpJg876Uj09quV4fHHoNbXNtjzSWPx19-TdoClUZIdjwvLlz7NHufXFp/w640-h134/Hammerstein_DreddMovie.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Seen here deploying signature 'red steel' 'looks to kill.'</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">However I soon stopped short when I realised I had no idea whatsoever how to go about doing this. N</span><span style="text-align: left;">o idea whatsoever until I saw something rather excellent on Twitter. Enter Martin Carcosa and his </span><i style="text-align: left;">ancient cybernetica combat unit</i><span style="text-align: left;">, based on the same high-cheekboned, killer robot.</span></div></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcDJQkqft9D8xKyWo4-ww6d68h78vWub1J3h7FwDUt_2CuNpHfGd6MMjJ0EWet_uiHuZ9viSir6xQ0pFbcs9VZ2yzExntbqehLDgcjqcDqOvRHruLXhhWqMmkiQ_PieOBdvoAv_p908XF/s1200/MartinCarcosa_Hammerstein.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="1200" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGcDJQkqft9D8xKyWo4-ww6d68h78vWub1J3h7FwDUt_2CuNpHfGd6MMjJ0EWet_uiHuZ9viSir6xQ0pFbcs9VZ2yzExntbqehLDgcjqcDqOvRHruLXhhWqMmkiQ_PieOBdvoAv_p908XF/w640-h214/MartinCarcosa_Hammerstein.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: left;">So thanks are due to Martin Carcosa, not just for this wonderful inspiration, and for working out which parts from other kits looked awesome, but also for being kind enough to let me copy it, and even actively encouraging me to do so.</span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;">However there was one downside. I liked what Martin had done so much, it became kind of pointless to simply try to make an exact copy. He had already created what I considered the definitive <i>WH40K</i> version of the <i>Judge Dredd</i> movie robot, so what was the point in me doing the same?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Instead I figured I'd do <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2020/09/dread-reckoning.html" target="_blank">what I did with my <i>Judges</i>' bikes</a> and go back to the original comics and take some additional inspiration from there. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">So a quick flick through several hundred pages of collected stories and I'd found the following images:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickX9w9XvbCvkldmSLhyphenhyphen9_DbcgXL_zerG5Tvz4xaLoIAORJ9t_hGyIN8SkD8oy8PHn9lEnIizWBMaAV3ZzYiitnaiGkrKy0NkyCTBeDqhQFxdKpcFxGIe1SXcfse-UvKraRRPw2l8bn1Me/s1250/Hammerstein_MikeMcMahon.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1250" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEickX9w9XvbCvkldmSLhyphenhyphen9_DbcgXL_zerG5Tvz4xaLoIAORJ9t_hGyIN8SkD8oy8PHn9lEnIizWBMaAV3ZzYiitnaiGkrKy0NkyCTBeDqhQFxdKpcFxGIe1SXcfse-UvKraRRPw2l8bn1Me/w640-h384/Hammerstein_MikeMcMahon.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">A panel from the original <i>ABC Warriors</i> strip in the late 1970s, with art by Mike McMahon</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The above image showed I could have <i>Hammerstein's</i> iconic ROVER badge on the back of his waist, instead of the front where it's usually found. In my design for the model I wanted V-shaped pistons below his stomach region, rather than a wide, flat space for text.</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fU0TbN0EKCZvWsYbM39VJtaEsyGhqeHU4E4paGCGvpIMzv8k86txxJSInJR82vDIwHr_WfBi0Gd_bvvqsPoZnXkqyEXaJhS9D3ERRhoImbCwrGk7s7Q1ApBA3KnmKkxkcghsTC74ydIA/s1200/Hammerstein_SimonBisley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fU0TbN0EKCZvWsYbM39VJtaEsyGhqeHU4E4paGCGvpIMzv8k86txxJSInJR82vDIwHr_WfBi0Gd_bvvqsPoZnXkqyEXaJhS9D3ERRhoImbCwrGk7s7Q1ApBA3KnmKkxkcghsTC74ydIA/w640-h400/Hammerstein_SimonBisley.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>Hammerstein</i> in classic 80s story <i>The Black Hole</i>, with art by Simon Bisley</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In the Bisley picture above we are seeing the character's rank markings on his arm, with a single arch-like sweeping shoulder pad to frame them. This felt like a good look for my version.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyBp9Krq1cRiY_8wYtlz-lChymAD_r1WyF20ViY_ewgNkkxPrtwMkVwT5hBKTd4BdCxU0FyYoIEdcjdWQTfvo-WNUc1JDpkqdyNlBM44LJ1-XdI9BvZEJsRviiMkmQuGQ9AEk1gUQJ0ww/s1200/Hammerstein_KevWalker.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFyBp9Krq1cRiY_8wYtlz-lChymAD_r1WyF20ViY_ewgNkkxPrtwMkVwT5hBKTd4BdCxU0FyYoIEdcjdWQTfvo-WNUc1JDpkqdyNlBM44LJ1-XdI9BvZEJsRviiMkmQuGQ9AEk1gUQJ0ww/w640-h400/Hammerstein_KevWalker.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>Hammerstein</i> in <i>Khronicles of Khaos</i>, with art by Kev Walker</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: arial;">As the comics went on, <i>Hammerstein</i> took more and more knocks, with his armour starting to look heavily pockmarked and battle-scarred. I suspect images like the one above (circa 1992) had quite an influence on the movie version, which hit the cinemas just a few years later.</span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZrG6DzVI1afVAi1dtWPmwoVmDH4vJgibEfuUiWPVYluOF8dMmmBUB1k2mkPeaMuxZQIg4XITvzB_vD-SX15PupF8eed4wCWzv0rMv__wDB335pBGhvIKD4n44U6o-mt7goFgPmje9T38L/s1635/Hammerstein_ClintLangley.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1635" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZrG6DzVI1afVAi1dtWPmwoVmDH4vJgibEfuUiWPVYluOF8dMmmBUB1k2mkPeaMuxZQIg4XITvzB_vD-SX15PupF8eed4wCWzv0rMv__wDB335pBGhvIKD4n44U6o-mt7goFgPmje9T38L/w470-h640/Hammerstein_ClintLangley.jpg" width="470" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">A page from <i>The Volgon War</i>, with art by Clint Langley</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Skip forward another decade or so, and the square-jawed war droid appears to have rebuilt and repaired himself and given his bodywork a new coat of paint. I figured using that blue-grey colour for my model would be a very obvious way to differentiate it from Martin's and would give an instant clue that mine wasn't wholly based on the robot from the film. Although I am still partial to a bit of rust and weathering, so my version isn't exactly what you'd call factory fresh.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So in the end it made sense to base my model around the same head and arms that Martin used, emphasizing <i>Hammerstein's</i> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">flat-top, crew-cut</span><span style="font-family: arial;">, and giving up the hammer in favour of those over-sized hands, whilst at the same time keeping all the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">exposed cabling and pistons</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> from the movie version. But then </span><span style="font-family: arial;">mix in</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> some of the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">comic book cues seen above. </span></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>For anyone interested in the construction side of kit-bashing and scratch-building, you can see the, er, 'nude' version of my model below.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGc5xJ-SOklSCFBgARj0WAllOqPOYEMXJnDsRiGS26OPhJkDGMlqN4ugOmOxHHlVHD0kcUS_VwDWCyOh2X3bzBUnUF4gkM6tWVcDKDkJcw5YPEk0OO92L-Ss1jJANqQKuOsNoPKDL-RMv/s1200/HammersteinModel_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxGc5xJ-SOklSCFBgARj0WAllOqPOYEMXJnDsRiGS26OPhJkDGMlqN4ugOmOxHHlVHD0kcUS_VwDWCyOh2X3bzBUnUF4gkM6tWVcDKDkJcw5YPEk0OO92L-Ss1jJANqQKuOsNoPKDL-RMv/w640-h640/HammersteinModel_03.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">And finally, if, like me, you find this monstrous metal infantryman strangely fascinating, and want to know more about the character's appearances in various media, you might be interested </span><a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/01/hammerstein-abc-warrior.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">in this earlier post</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> detailing some of his history.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-51328445642573789352021-12-13T15:49:00.002+00:002021-12-17T17:56:18.583+00:00Lost and found<p><span style="font-family: arial;">A very short post today. Just over a year ago, I <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2020/11/objective-complete.html" target="_blank">completed my Addiction Challenge</a> with five final models that took me over the line. But in my haste to publish the article, I forgot I'd taken a few work-in-progress shots of two of the more complicated models.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The other day, w</span><span style="font-family: arial;">hile starting to put together a longer post, I stumbled across the below...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpl_KE54tx1mGO06eka2XdL1Pu1wz_JygxtNQArT_ufxUUI7rWmT2HfnSEgz6WAP6u8LepbiobqitZwgspbdsq9AjmWU1rgGlDafjYzRpHwmxUlJ8Fi9xysXXi5d27tYpaHmjQnk6xM8S65hpNkROCawuMvVKZShDtOjzXyJMqR4dNTh03jXc73HVgjQ=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpl_KE54tx1mGO06eka2XdL1Pu1wz_JygxtNQArT_ufxUUI7rWmT2HfnSEgz6WAP6u8LepbiobqitZwgspbdsq9AjmWU1rgGlDafjYzRpHwmxUlJ8Fi9xysXXi5d27tYpaHmjQnk6xM8S65hpNkROCawuMvVKZShDtOjzXyJMqR4dNTh03jXc73HVgjQ=w640-h320" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFC7hWqOYYGDIumP1UxLK6erK1UCmnbJ0yIKPrIgEK96Cmkecfre7wPImscP4z3UooOV8MBSj5VjQtt0V3TReKB98dmtanWQ6zhhh3NZObehfedPoth9ir4PNOI6PlfFRtccbUWoXHO7ALjRpBFVO543FlSDcf6aBF3cXCq6Bxyv6zgNKXEWiWxa9Peg=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFC7hWqOYYGDIumP1UxLK6erK1UCmnbJ0yIKPrIgEK96Cmkecfre7wPImscP4z3UooOV8MBSj5VjQtt0V3TReKB98dmtanWQ6zhhh3NZObehfedPoth9ir4PNOI6PlfFRtccbUWoXHO7ALjRpBFVO543FlSDcf6aBF3cXCq6Bxyv6zgNKXEWiWxa9Peg=w640-h640" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>... three photos that show some of the cut-up and glued-together scraps of rubbish, that I seem to find so exciting.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Here are the completed models again:</span><div><p></p></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-Ys7aPhN8n_Wbqer1WiumTXjyyKA4iJMD3fmDhSv33hZ3NIpkkfEd1XuWngAYLlLeRw5kQ5ogKEd_neITdn6VbbopUXqiXS34XGkDw1JMNZaI0TkeMLCy_3O52VIfltGXGcL-01f-v-f7N4MJLpc5dSaOOfyJhFwZqx2XTASJkKKLpn_oCi8CA3oOkg=s1200" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj-Ys7aPhN8n_Wbqer1WiumTXjyyKA4iJMD3fmDhSv33hZ3NIpkkfEd1XuWngAYLlLeRw5kQ5ogKEd_neITdn6VbbopUXqiXS34XGkDw1JMNZaI0TkeMLCy_3O52VIfltGXGcL-01f-v-f7N4MJLpc5dSaOOfyJhFwZqx2XTASJkKKLpn_oCi8CA3oOkg=w640-h480" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586219.253155703944806 -35.2838362 83.761279896055186 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-4716248860729957772021-11-16T12:12:00.013+00:002021-12-10T14:48:52.081+00:00Fast forward 12 months<p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's been almost exactly a year since my last post. That's a huge gap, but the good news (at least for me) is that, although this blog has been dormant, my hobby activity has not, and I have plenty of bits and pieces to share over the next few posts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But firstly, let's start with why. Why have I been quiet for so long? Well, the main reason is that this time last year, my wife and I began to undertake some fairly extensive work on our family home. Work that saw us completely pack away all my models, tools and paint, that saw us remove most of the top section of our house, that saw at least one ceiling fall in, and two people fall through them (neither were injured), that had rain water pouring down internal walls, a bedroom completely open to the elements for several days, and that ended up taking more than twice as long as originally estimated. But after everything was over, and finally complete, work that gave us a whole new floor on our house. I'm talking, of course, about a loft conversion, but after the painful, drawn-out process that we went through, it feels like so much more than just those simple words.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">When we first started the work, I had no idea that I'd be putting this blog into such a long slumber, even though the building work had been planned many months in advance. I just never put two and two together and realised quite how disruptive it would be. I hadn't accounted for some of the intense mental anguish that would occur, while watching one's home being quite literally torn apart.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">But it's done now and the upshot of the process, as far as this blog is concerned, is that instead of a dingy space, in among the rafters of a dusty roof, I now have a properly appointed office for all my work and hobby pursuits.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5VG7k8EqG_VIqkg6qSWeLK2WDLEXFrg8HZcdqJL2auNBYOe-QzRzpqcEX7m2C_DWm7gG_4_zK24azCjF5oM_mHeT2L1QTUB7fjptycNIivFuQksU6rUySJtEuO-9zUaxIaUVRKvkWWWT/s1200/HobbyOffice_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-5VG7k8EqG_VIqkg6qSWeLK2WDLEXFrg8HZcdqJL2auNBYOe-QzRzpqcEX7m2C_DWm7gG_4_zK24azCjF5oM_mHeT2L1QTUB7fjptycNIivFuQksU6rUySJtEuO-9zUaxIaUVRKvkWWWT/w640-h480/HobbyOffice_01.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVW6PNPR-uar0p2PvhdT7gdjPnIdsnxAeNQfQpnaYUKIx4BoKtRKkirFl5Yt2YyrFQS4IYK7PQD6WjxrELPIG1zEDZMdhJldqEwSIZP7Zh0z1tSpZzt4XZQMb-BsenZFsng2C7dNWU_dxa/s1200/HobbyOffice_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVW6PNPR-uar0p2PvhdT7gdjPnIdsnxAeNQfQpnaYUKIx4BoKtRKkirFl5Yt2YyrFQS4IYK7PQD6WjxrELPIG1zEDZMdhJldqEwSIZP7Zh0z1tSpZzt4XZQMb-BsenZFsng2C7dNWU_dxa/w640-h480/HobbyOffice_02.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;">When fitting out the room we ensured there was plenty of shelf, desk and storage space. Me so that I could fit everything in and it would still be neat and functional, and my wife so that she could guarantee there wouldn't be any of my toys elsewhere in the house.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the biggest boons of this, and of being forced to organise everything from scratch, is that when placing finished models on shelves, I was able to set them up as little displays – almost like dioramas. <br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuj8z9z2OMqi4InsY5p1fjIBaEIJb1u8LYEm9UqyBWi4XTsMVUa9aZbdwX-aMANoKu_kVQpNg3sKByOuiLZnbcDCQBS62cYMD-LjzqPBcQMkx1un14oeC4kQrybmdR1nl0kxOZ6jbQsv4v/w640-h480/Shelf_01.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Chaos troops man the ramparts of a town they have taken...</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuj8z9z2OMqi4InsY5p1fjIBaEIJb1u8LYEm9UqyBWi4XTsMVUa9aZbdwX-aMANoKu_kVQpNg3sKByOuiLZnbcDCQBS62cYMD-LjzqPBcQMkx1un14oeC4kQrybmdR1nl0kxOZ6jbQsv4v/s1200/Shelf_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBGzLE9abvksaiZ-dLFnCCPHD3gUhhOELdZR_nPf9z1HfqFTL4qguuQdH6jGTcOhD30b1hJXheBgrHW83KRqghKzpWQYx2q4WjQyovbR5muUyqusn1vwDDe4f0NZtBjUe6GAQWUjyyy-V/w640-h480/Shelf_02.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">... in defence against the approaching Undead horde</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaBGzLE9abvksaiZ-dLFnCCPHD3gUhhOELdZR_nPf9z1HfqFTL4qguuQdH6jGTcOhD30b1hJXheBgrHW83KRqghKzpWQYx2q4WjQyovbR5muUyqusn1vwDDe4f0NZtBjUe6GAQWUjyyy-V/s1200/Shelf_02.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBh249sbcWkFyXVkhbyRPiuGFGEqcw5UnJHoYkoEhy3QpVJpt9f8N_Zh18tFllAP20axvqFUM97pM2fgOMsGgBUNldCbpWRLyB0jjPE5SjP5qN0YgMMKx19esbbfgpyaVTsbov761G0mE/w640-h480/Shelf_03.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Dredd style Arbites Enforcers bring riot suppression weaponry to bear</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBh249sbcWkFyXVkhbyRPiuGFGEqcw5UnJHoYkoEhy3QpVJpt9f8N_Zh18tFllAP20axvqFUM97pM2fgOMsGgBUNldCbpWRLyB0jjPE5SjP5qN0YgMMKx19esbbfgpyaVTsbov761G0mE/s1200/Shelf_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4MfSO5BN9oLhb5Z50JGSOO9VrOZB6hhAWsdjmV-LhGhTOO1HUjXzMGLYq5HufxnehxCmS84bqA6zs42C_yur10nfs_Mbd35Nd7QzZVYp8Y3ClLLa0_uuHjy4QHRMhOCYjttm8TcJOKxM/w640-h480/Shelf_04.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">An Ork armoured brigade starts to amass in preparation for their next Waaagh.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4MfSO5BN9oLhb5Z50JGSOO9VrOZB6hhAWsdjmV-LhGhTOO1HUjXzMGLYq5HufxnehxCmS84bqA6zs42C_yur10nfs_Mbd35Nd7QzZVYp8Y3ClLLa0_uuHjy4QHRMhOCYjttm8TcJOKxM/s1200/Shelf_04.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qykaLCG_iTaQZ7ryIDzKftGZLR_aMngKZN0rGjTLz_tBhxghekcsNk_57Iz3gcEPJOK5fRqiQww6n2_keZpF29ajTrHhfd4IjsfmKlt3ecSNwiMJAr-A0bE3M90TsxNK0RxAb8US6A5w/w640-h480/Shelf_05.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">The streets of Kruenta are alive with all manner of Imperial citizenry</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2qykaLCG_iTaQZ7ryIDzKftGZLR_aMngKZN0rGjTLz_tBhxghekcsNk_57Iz3gcEPJOK5fRqiQww6n2_keZpF29ajTrHhfd4IjsfmKlt3ecSNwiMJAr-A0bE3M90TsxNK0RxAb8US6A5w/s1200/Shelf_05.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"></span></a></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">There was a lot more to the last 12 months than just the moments I've touched on above, and there's a fair bit more to my office than just these images, but I think it's probably best to leave it here for now, to ward against the dreaded approach of boring and excruciating detail.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">What's that? Too late?</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0London, UK51.5072178 -0.127586223.196983963821154 -35.2838362 79.817451636178845 35.0286638tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-73006217015172345672020-11-23T18:49:00.002+00:002020-11-23T22:30:15.163+00:00Days of thunder<div><span style="font-family: arial;">The Earth was being torn apart. Continuous warfare was ravaging its surface </span><span style="font-family: arial;">into a desolate, apocalyptic wasteland. T</span><span style="font-family: arial;">he last scraps of its long depleted resources were being fought over by h</span><span style="font-family: arial;">ordes of brutal, <i>genhanced</i> warriors. Humanity, at one time unified in its conquest of the stars, was now, once again, in the midst of bitter infighting. Techno-barbarian warlords were attempting to seize and consolidate power, splitting </span><span style="font-family: arial;">the planet into powerful, feuding factions, while s</span><span style="font-family: arial;">wathes of mankind's collective knowledge were becoming lost forever. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">All while massive <i>Warp storms</i> swept the galaxy, cutting off Earth from its interstellar colonies, and ushering in an era of fear, anarchy and collapse.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">In <i>Warhammer 40,000</i> lore this was the <i>Age of Strife,</i> around the 27th or 28th Millennium, roughly 13 thousand years </span><span style="font-family: arial;">before the game's current timeline. It was against this backdrop that the mysterious individual, who would later become the Emperor, stepped from the shadows and declared his intent to reunite the planet</span><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">Into the turbulent affray he unleashed his <i>Legio Cataegis,</i> precursors to the <i>Space Marines;</i> larger, tougher and more savage than his later warriors, but prone to both physical and mental instability. These troops came to be known as <i>Thunder Warriors</i>, due to the <i>Emperor's</i> thunderbolt and lightning symbol often sported on the torso of their proto-power-armour.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">They wrestled back control of the planet, and b</span><span style="font-family: arial;">y the 30th Millennium the </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Emperor</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> was ready to continue his crusade off </span><span style="font-family: arial;">planet. He phased out his now defunct </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Thunder Warriors</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, replacing them instead with the first </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Astartes</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> (or </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Space Marines</i><span style="font-family: arial;">) – more rounded warriors, better suited to the wider theatre of battle, the decentralised leadership, and the potential need for diplomatic solutions.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">His earlier troops were thought all but extinct.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">But that was not quite the case. At least a handful of <i>Thunder Warriors</i> managed to deny their genetically imposed expiration, and survive right through to the end of the <i>Great Crusade</i> and the beginning of the <i>Horus Heresy.</i> Exactly what happened to these cunning champions is clouded by time, but by the 41st Millennium they must surely all have perished?</span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsugY3mwu-8XjwrBrwYKSsheMYflrPYfPTNHM7kCegQ3JuLKaezdGcFA_QPr3NIcrjnKixI_EO3waOijTvtRqRTHD7W3C1d7GxKA6Kpo7BLBFd9jcpyLlHAbZyK2n_qQtCJWKceQtcXPXG/s1200/ThunderWarrior_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsugY3mwu-8XjwrBrwYKSsheMYflrPYfPTNHM7kCegQ3JuLKaezdGcFA_QPr3NIcrjnKixI_EO3waOijTvtRqRTHD7W3C1d7GxKA6Kpo7BLBFd9jcpyLlHAbZyK2n_qQtCJWKceQtcXPXG/w640-h640/ThunderWarrior_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">A few years ago, hot on the heels of my little <i>Custodes</i> <a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2017/08/nothing-says-dread-like-gold.html" target="_blank">project</a>, I thought I'd have a crack at making a single <i>Thunder Warrior</i> – one of the <i>Emperor's</i> first attempts at creating genetically and surgically enhanced super soldiers, designed to fight in the <i>Unification Wars</i> on Earth. Bigger, but more basic than their <i>Astartes</i> successors, they were meant to be all but wiped out by the beginning of the <i>Great Crusade</i>, circa 30,000 AD. But this is <i>WH40K</i> and, let's face it, anything can happen. Strange relativity effects (a là <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/" target="_blank">Interstellar</a></i>), or weird <i>Warp</i>-based time dilations, or poorly understood arcane techno-magic, or even just because <i>Chaos</i> fancied it, somehow this lone warrior survived long enough to join my collection of 40th-Millennium-era toy soldiers.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">His construction involved quite a bit of jiggery pokery, and took a ridiculous amount of time for a single miniature. Here are some of the initial pieces I put together for him.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjazw5lXgdjKpl5G0SH5H_erQekd1YeqAywQPMv4zz2Q7nkI-NON2GTVVwTm4VqtNhbyUqSAWBAbWvG5xlZNRhPcaHw2LoFRblVn0Vsdyvu8HY6UAxoDwaCXjKxYx2UDW3q_cTQmDqmlQil/s1632/ThunderWarrior_Bits_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1632" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjazw5lXgdjKpl5G0SH5H_erQekd1YeqAywQPMv4zz2Q7nkI-NON2GTVVwTm4VqtNhbyUqSAWBAbWvG5xlZNRhPcaHw2LoFRblVn0Vsdyvu8HY6UAxoDwaCXjKxYx2UDW3q_cTQmDqmlQil/w640-h480/ThunderWarrior_Bits_01.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>The greaves on the front of the legs were recast (using <i><a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2015/10/shouldering-on.html" target="_blank">Instamold</a></i>) from one of the <i><a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Slaughterpriest-with-Hackblade-and-Wrath-hammer" target="_blank">Slaughterpriest</a></i> models. These were then combined with boots from a <i>Chaos Warrior</i>, armour plates from <i>Mark II</i> or <i>III Space Marine</i> legs, plasticard and a bunch of badly hand-sculpted chainmail of some description.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">A bit further down the line, the sifted, sculpted and combined pieces started to look like this:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZD3_Nr9DCPKm8yCbBvqWykJwnsBkSFr1hvMosnLnlWHoeOFVX1EjLei5j6WwNLz9tH_eDjhqFZVLF-tqDgsr3P1y7CItz54bpVnQzUIDI_x47iIQJxfvDjcYPzwpcrwSBWb8PuBG-o9Gg/s1632/ThunderWarriorr_Bits_03.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1224" data-original-width="1632" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZD3_Nr9DCPKm8yCbBvqWykJwnsBkSFr1hvMosnLnlWHoeOFVX1EjLei5j6WwNLz9tH_eDjhqFZVLF-tqDgsr3P1y7CItz54bpVnQzUIDI_x47iIQJxfvDjcYPzwpcrwSBWb8PuBG-o9Gg/w640-h480/ThunderWarriorr_Bits_03.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div>Which, with the inclusion of arms (from what was then the freshly released bona fide <i><a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Adeptus-Custodes-Custodian-Guard-2018" target="_blank">Custodes</a></i> models) plus a load of straps, packs, grenades and armament, ended up looking like this, when assembled:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgijlcsD5_kDWcgiz2-n5cH5rX8gNjbP_EoO2Zu2VllAaA38jVzbpCC4q93jPn11BMBOxnfFjaQP1VEbpJ_g-71XZrT3frintkaTEegT6f4-aK5cmUN1ZObskpj-dr4Wz1R6oegq7ppMJm/s907/ThunderWarrior_Animated_01.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="783" data-original-width="907" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgijlcsD5_kDWcgiz2-n5cH5rX8gNjbP_EoO2Zu2VllAaA38jVzbpCC4q93jPn11BMBOxnfFjaQP1VEbpJ_g-71XZrT3frintkaTEegT6f4-aK5cmUN1ZObskpj-dr4Wz1R6oegq7ppMJm/w640-h552/ThunderWarrior_Animated_01.gif" width="640" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And now, after a conversation with my five year old son, where he told me he wanted to see a 'tiny soldier man wearing green' my somewhat-slim-thighed <i>Thunder Warrior</i> is finally sporting a little pigment.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1CIYNMNeRZ7i6ky6QZyKTKjcb9JtoF_AfPiSKQVMbxNHSiUlUXn1MndykENoXfIlxmGuSPhp1ce68zCJmfAjKH9QkkXzR1bs3y7oWkRf2p9ErLpcavoy5AhpgoZs3Gj0ofPLHTn0MH3w/s1200/ThunderWarrior.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhq1CIYNMNeRZ7i6ky6QZyKTKjcb9JtoF_AfPiSKQVMbxNHSiUlUXn1MndykENoXfIlxmGuSPhp1ce68zCJmfAjKH9QkkXzR1bs3y7oWkRf2p9ErLpcavoy5AhpgoZs3Gj0ofPLHTn0MH3w/w640-h640/ThunderWarrior.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">As the last of his kind, this model has given me an inkling as to how he may become the first of my new challenge. But I'll talk more about that at some point in the future.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span><p></p></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-60451176208631463132020-11-11T22:28:00.002+00:002020-11-21T20:31:43.991+00:00Objective complete<div><span style="font-family: arial;">It's a major celebration. A few days ago I finished painting five more miniatures, which took me over the finish line on my <a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2017/06/addiction-despair-and-chaos-lord-of.html" target="_blank">Addiction Challenge</a> – and the whole country erupted in fireworks.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">For anyone not familiar with British customs, I should point out, however, that the two occurrences were not related. The former was conducted at home, alone, over a number of days, and the latter was Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night or Fireworks Night) celebrated in the UK on November 5th, come rain or shine or Covid 19.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq4rdYq102IwS8YXJv8jrhFwv0z0JHM0vvTw2aoXQghOMv9IMbW4L5aC6zIqi5FEQ4lbFMnPaiMZ2JjES2z_Aa77TJpxJRSmHjq3SR9n4hxA4ivJ0Dyyg60qhS5Ese2iRalHZoz6ZZSlL6/s1200/ChaosWinterWarriors_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq4rdYq102IwS8YXJv8jrhFwv0z0JHM0vvTw2aoXQghOMv9IMbW4L5aC6zIqi5FEQ4lbFMnPaiMZ2JjES2z_Aa77TJpxJRSmHjq3SR9n4hxA4ivJ0Dyyg60qhS5Ese2iRalHZoz6ZZSlL6/w640-h480/ChaosWinterWarriors_11.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>But even though the fireworks were not for me, it doesn't take anything away from the fact that I've finally completed my Addiction Challenge. This was a self-imposed ban on buying any new models until I'd completed 100 existing ones. It's taken nearly three and a half years to do, but it was definitely worth it. It upped my motivation to find hobby time, got me focussing on painting instead of just constructing and converting, and curbed my incessant desire to buy the next new shiny thing, before completing the last.<br /><br />These latest five models are a return to my fantasy (or <i>Age of Sigmar</i>) <i><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/search/label/Chaos" target="_blank">Chaos Warrior</a></i> army, with the first three below representing a suite of related objective markers for my warriors to fight over. They are </span><span style="font-family: arial;">made up entirely of spare scraps from my bag of</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Chaos</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">bits, that I couldn't find a home for elsewhere, so I'm pretty pleased I was able to do something constructive with them.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuf3y7-mJB6hDTkTyMc_Bw6gkZ_lZqKJtjfs-ePU0LMS9RtVT1o4I5TvPku0S0DRNVRfA_JM9qR0k4PNRQTqys-VyM_4rboWKwZXO8xjJTH7uKdqzQj_om4xYisqrGHtk-Lgk9Vxbsz7x/s1200/ChaosWinterWarriors_12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZuf3y7-mJB6hDTkTyMc_Bw6gkZ_lZqKJtjfs-ePU0LMS9RtVT1o4I5TvPku0S0DRNVRfA_JM9qR0k4PNRQTqys-VyM_4rboWKwZXO8xjJTH7uKdqzQj_om4xYisqrGHtk-Lgk9Vxbsz7x/w640-h640/ChaosWinterWarriors_12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial;">The other two models could be objective markers too, but could also be more like freelancers, similar to the models from <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2017/02/paint-your-wagon.html" target="_blank">this post</a>, that can be attached to any army or terrain piece to add a bit of character or firepower. Like the first three models, they too are made from unused bits that were lying around waiting for a purpose.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_uuPe2daOvwHqNdqgBMB5-X_W6EfmMYjQDYNxWc1Q2BcMovg6D1ONJc7VaHpQ4qUqRl-Z5Ze9JDFBa0wE6aJbqXq_ONKG64UhL0Xdx6kSlTcidtehsIvRPNWw-M8DA7S317RyuB3o1kC/s1200/ChaosWinterWarriors_13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ_uuPe2daOvwHqNdqgBMB5-X_W6EfmMYjQDYNxWc1Q2BcMovg6D1ONJc7VaHpQ4qUqRl-Z5Ze9JDFBa0wE6aJbqXq_ONKG64UhL0Xdx6kSlTcidtehsIvRPNWw-M8DA7S317RyuB3o1kC/w640-h640/ChaosWinterWarriors_13.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />So now that these are all finished, and I've completed my Addiction Challenge, I need to find another way to keep my motivation up for future projects. Another little challenge to undertake, or objective to head towards. But more importantly, before I do that, you'll have to excuse me while I nip out and buy a truck load of brand new miniatures.<br /><br /></span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">ADDICTION CHALLENGE:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;">COMPLETE</span></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></font></span></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-75662787502507176162020-10-16T09:34:00.001+01:002020-10-16T09:34:38.166+01:00End of the line, creep<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Engage smug mode. The project that prompted me to create this blog has been completed. The final four <i>Dredd</i> style <i>Arbites Enforcers</i> are below. I was meant to be working on my fantasy <i><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/search/label/Chaos" target="_blank">Chaos</a></i> dudes, but once I picked up one of these guys a few weeks ago I just couldn't stop. And it's always good to harness a bit of hobby energy. Never look a gift horse in the mouth, right?*</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXY3EzCHj2iREK37r6LXVl3OuAiHNnE40njoQmDHhJmnHBoGMUb3c8L3W7jYZZgKoaeAsxtBVyUDxrlWghFS4P2P2uR1adSSVbu780kapEhRCFaB777u9gPW_46eCbwjfYKgDN9mlAKdNC/s1200/ArbitesEnforcers_11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXY3EzCHj2iREK37r6LXVl3OuAiHNnE40njoQmDHhJmnHBoGMUb3c8L3W7jYZZgKoaeAsxtBVyUDxrlWghFS4P2P2uR1adSSVbu780kapEhRCFaB777u9gPW_46eCbwjfYKgDN9mlAKdNC/w640-h640/ArbitesEnforcers_11.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I added weathering powder to each of these characters in an attempt to emulate that dusty look the <i>Judges</i> have in the 2012 <i>Dredd</i> film (you can see the reference picture I was aiming for in <a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2019/05/whether-to-weather.html" target="_blank">this post</a>), but when I then gave them a light spray of Munitorum Varnish, all the powders subsequently disappeared. In the end, after varying my process three times, I got worried that the powders were subtly dampening all the rest of the painting and gave up. In fairness it's still visible in the odd location, and these guys don't exactly look pristine, so I'm happy to draw this project to a close...</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">... for now.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Here's a quick shot of the gang altogether.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYDSDKKSEyj3QNW-1sPCdOsKzs4LHPbbDTy65NP0zYFl2tfE0S_rvzYwdT_2wMBwtNU8-pyRsyVPAh2iJbS7PfdYxyYQBWVera83iLs2ZIjPe-sfFfOSzM6azCqmpE243tHcCrnkjaR5s/s1200/ArbitesEnforcers_12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitYDSDKKSEyj3QNW-1sPCdOsKzs4LHPbbDTy65NP0zYFl2tfE0S_rvzYwdT_2wMBwtNU8-pyRsyVPAh2iJbS7PfdYxyYQBWVera83iLs2ZIjPe-sfFfOSzM6azCqmpE243tHcCrnkjaR5s/w640-h480/ArbitesEnforcers_12.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />To celebrate the fact that I'm getting close to the end of my <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2017/06/addiction-despair-and-chaos-lord-of.html" target="_blank">Addiction Challenge</a>, in my next post I'm going to try something a little different. There will be words, and there will be photos, but quite unlike anything I've done on here before.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">ADDICTION CHALLENGE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;">REMAINING: 4</span></span></font></span></div><p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">*Unless you live in Troy</span></div></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-77114756081639876112020-10-08T12:28:00.002+01:002020-10-08T12:30:54.547+01:00Riot suppression<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfyJFoSmPJSohsNYDaS03e7e3joO7Ppuzoqz92wqf2xgkR1GKKsYbpnKghXS_pB9UM6wz96tpoq-jF9pBzNvoXPx15Zf9k9h3G1Pr2kKpr_SOEjrBsrM1Td1wY6eNA6PBoXCYzdti7jwE/s1559/ArbitesEnforcers_10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1559" data-original-width="907" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJfyJFoSmPJSohsNYDaS03e7e3joO7Ppuzoqz92wqf2xgkR1GKKsYbpnKghXS_pB9UM6wz96tpoq-jF9pBzNvoXPx15Zf9k9h3G1Pr2kKpr_SOEjrBsrM1Td1wY6eNA6PBoXCYzdti7jwE/w372-h640/ArbitesEnforcers_10.jpg" width="372" /></a></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnoab4AGV-nHMMXo3QbYDsoxKaAka_x4GN051WtE09FQF7ieMkgwQu7brDjMjGLKIjl0Q5WQgZbRECJKO3es2VPxyXTmMaAVMIdxAUw0XudxSQotnzGyHoeaSybTd2GBQKOr32-6d5BvRr/s1559/ArbitesSentinel_01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1559" data-original-width="907" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnoab4AGV-nHMMXo3QbYDsoxKaAka_x4GN051WtE09FQF7ieMkgwQu7brDjMjGLKIjl0Q5WQgZbRECJKO3es2VPxyXTmMaAVMIdxAUw0XudxSQotnzGyHoeaSybTd2GBQKOr32-6d5BvRr/w372-h640/ArbitesSentinel_01.jpg" width="372" /></span></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><br /></div><div>A few more <i>Dredd</i> style <i>Arbites Enforcers</i> today. These next three models include the areas that needed the most freehand work – namely the lettering on the riot shields and the illuminated number 3 on the side of the <i>Sentinel</i>. Freehand isn't my strong-point, so needless to say the results are passable at best.</div><div><br /></div><div>But any finished miniature is a win in my book, and I always knew I'd struggle with the lettering, so on balance I'm pretty pleased with how this project is turning out. Below are a couple more shots of the <i>Sentinel</i>.</div><div><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51v527hiKC91gyN6DvGR885XtV7Egpfd15q0p2m-sJ2lfkm31rLanSVzLi_SHo9NIfBMMfiYhNnNk-O0Z0cFY6UYACX4YNE_gtn8H-bMzX5r4pEJgJf7_K0srcblgs-8snAzz9kaTaSxS/s1559/ArbitesSentinel_02.jpg" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1559" data-original-width="907" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj51v527hiKC91gyN6DvGR885XtV7Egpfd15q0p2m-sJ2lfkm31rLanSVzLi_SHo9NIfBMMfiYhNnNk-O0Z0cFY6UYACX4YNE_gtn8H-bMzX5r4pEJgJf7_K0srcblgs-8snAzz9kaTaSxS/w372-h640/ArbitesSentinel_02.jpg" width="372" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5.7px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And the good news is that this takes me below the remaining 10 mark on my painting challenge, so not long now before my house is totally overrun by an influx of new, tiny, plastic toys.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5.7px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">ADDICTION CHALLENGE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;">REMAINING: 8</span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></font></div><div><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></font></div></span></div><p></p>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-76106827663560916182020-09-30T16:53:00.001+01:002020-09-30T16:56:51.248+01:00Dread reckoning<p><span style="font-family: arial;">These last few days I've been taking a short break from the <i>Chaos Wastes</i> to pop back to <i><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-ancora-binary-system-and-kruenta.html" target="_blank">Kru</a></i></span><span style="font-family: arial;">*,</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> my WH40K hive city, in order to visit </span><span style="font-family: arial;">my <i>Judge Dredd</i> inspired <i>Arbites Enforcers</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The </span><i style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/search/label/Arbites" target="_blank">Arbites</a></i><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/search/label/Arbites" target="_blank"> project</a> was the reason I </span><a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2015/06/start-as-you-mean-to-go-on.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">started</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> this blog, way back in 2015, and was my attempt to create a small unit of </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Enforcers</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> or </span><i style="font-family: arial;">Judges</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> for Necromunda/WH40K, based on the design aesthetic from the 2012 </span><i style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343727/" target="_blank">Dredd</a></i><span style="font-family: arial;"> film.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I was never a huge fan of the converted <i>Suzukis</i> ridden by the <i>Judges</i> in that movie, so I decided to <a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/05/motorcycle-justice.html" target="_blank">look to the comics</a> for inspiration. It's taken me a while to paint them, but here are the first two of my <i>Judicial Enforcer Squad – </i>the</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> LexDominum urban patrol bikes that I built back <a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2019/05/wheels-of-judgement.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuL7zozzoJ1Q3MbO8dVkfM2bU0YD7n8coVxhjKO-8RAtw4uXesGa5GwY7ZBteMQLUui3BEMRGLasD7XtrvhMdo6Y0asDdgvnY8ZtysQfHRLA8ZdOoluAcUAEiHfMqdUFs6PveKtHOFkrlW/s1200/ArbitesBikes_B.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuL7zozzoJ1Q3MbO8dVkfM2bU0YD7n8coVxhjKO-8RAtw4uXesGa5GwY7ZBteMQLUui3BEMRGLasD7XtrvhMdo6Y0asDdgvnY8ZtysQfHRLA8ZdOoluAcUAEiHfMqdUFs6PveKtHOFkrlW/w640-h640/ArbitesBikes_B.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><span style="font-family: arial;">Once these guys were finished I took the level of weathering on the riders, l</span><span style="font-family: arial;">et's call them Yosef Phargo and Dolman Rico, and finally went back and finished the <i>Enforcer</i> below. It's only really a bit of powder on his leathers, and some rust on the metal areas of his boots, but I think it adds the level of detail that was <a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2019/05/whether-to-weather.html" target="_blank">previously</a> stopping me from calling him finished.</span><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbw9P8eAmT41E2pTnfdGfUNuJdkSRlAWW2ws5PR5S4dX_wcgln3bGpeThbEN5aqgK-8oAVNh3ifKfKD064f3YJvaUEAc7OwFIFO2qRqeg3jgFMBIb_eYg52Cnd97skyM5lt5D18dl9r_l/s1559/ArbitesEnforcers_09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1559" data-original-width="907" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsbw9P8eAmT41E2pTnfdGfUNuJdkSRlAWW2ws5PR5S4dX_wcgln3bGpeThbEN5aqgK-8oAVNh3ifKfKD064f3YJvaUEAc7OwFIFO2qRqeg3jgFMBIb_eYg52Cnd97skyM5lt5D18dl9r_l/w372-h640/ArbitesEnforcers_09.jpg" width="372" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">So these three models are now complete, and my Addiction Challenge score inches ever closer to the end.</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">ADDICTION CHALLENGE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div style="font-family: Times;"><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;">REMAINING: 11</span></span></font></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">*</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><i>Kruenta Karoliina Arx Rotunda</i></span></div></span></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-79441886427809390202020-09-24T10:26:00.003+01:002020-09-24T10:38:24.414+01:00The axemen cometh<p></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;">My little band of winter warriors is growing slowly. I've just completed these next five troops, all of whom came from the <i><a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Chaos-Chosen-2016" target="_blank">Chaos Chosen</a></i> set. The only thing I did to them, prior to throwing on the pigment, was adjust their helmets a little – either with head swaps, or by cutting down the amount of extra stuff mounted on their existing lids.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">This is in keeping with the rest of my warband, where I'm trying to keep the level of ornamentation to a minimum (at least on most models), preferring instead to play up the simple textures like iron, wood, bone, fur, skin, leather and maybe a bit of brass.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">My feeling is that this will give my followers of </span><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/03/gshtaad-abomination.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank"><i>Gshtaad</i></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> a more earthy and rugged appearance, suitable for warriors who are in it for the fight, living off the land, preferring deeds over ostentation to mark them out. And besides, I think all those natural textures and colours look really nice set against the snow on their bases.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLSfDnjiQhdWq_WalmowliBzejLUUStG3I0RVeMElRL9S6w8opACqyBnElrsTlYJVd2qj2-h8yI4WnjyduY4BBgTxxS7bEntTnQrdz6CKTw9ByOiDmNFlWhOYQU03Dr98dBe-fF_iStf5/s1200/ChaosWinterWarriors_09.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsLSfDnjiQhdWq_WalmowliBzejLUUStG3I0RVeMElRL9S6w8opACqyBnElrsTlYJVd2qj2-h8yI4WnjyduY4BBgTxxS7bEntTnQrdz6CKTw9ByOiDmNFlWhOYQU03Dr98dBe-fF_iStf5/w640-h640/ChaosWinterWarriors_09.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">I've also finally got around to finishing my original, metal </span><i>Lord of the Rings Cave Troll.</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> At the time of his release, before the ubiquity of multi-part plastic sets, this guy was a hulking brute of a miniature, striding across the </span><i>Mines of Moria</i><span style="font-family: arial;">, swinging a mighty hammer*. He was one of my favourite miniatures from </span><i>The Fellowship of the Ring</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> range, released by </span><i>Citadel</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> shortly after </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/" target="_blank">Peter Jackson's movie</a><span style="font-family: arial;">. I switched the hammer for a scratch built cleaver, and added a bunch of scaly spikes growing out of his back to signify the corrupting influence of the dark gods. Of course these days he looks tiny next to some of the creatures out there, but I still prefer his look to that of the standard </span><i>Warhammer</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> trolls.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>And finally, next to him are two really old tiger models that I tried to adapt many years ago. They came from an old <i>Orc</i> chariot kit, that was produced by one of the other companies operating back in the 1980s. I forget who it was. I never really liked the model (no idea why it ended up in my possession), so I did everything I could to attempt to salvage it. I was going to ignore the tigers completely this time around, but eventually figured what the heck, it might not take too long to rebase them as part of this batch. The only image I've been able to find of their original appearance was <a href="https://www.magistermilitum.com/orc2a-orc-heavy-chariot-with-tiger-team.html" target="_blank">this one</a>, of a heavy version of the original chariot, that currently appears to be part of <i>Magister Militum's</i> range of miniatures.</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf26RjotsThJDw0eJ2NRReCRrdmED8SPod9xrym2Ewm0UbrUaCUv_Q_d0pkudBAobY5OuocfV7i7Rt2vqE40yVHlmxKh9LGEunrPeXmz552MFfxsB6mR6vIRs-4QoNhJf28AECek-DgYy6/s1200/ChaosWinterWarriors_10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf26RjotsThJDw0eJ2NRReCRrdmED8SPod9xrym2Ewm0UbrUaCUv_Q_d0pkudBAobY5OuocfV7i7Rt2vqE40yVHlmxKh9LGEunrPeXmz552MFfxsB6mR6vIRs-4QoNhJf28AECek-DgYy6/w640-h640/ChaosWinterWarriors_10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;">So six of the above miniatures are freshly completed, meaning I have a new </span><a href="http://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2017/06/addiction-despair-and-chaos-lord-of.html" style="font-family: arial;" target="_blank">Addiction Challenge </a><span style="font-family: arial;">score to share, which in turn means I'm at last approaching that final straight. Can I cross the finishing line before the end of the year**?</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">ADDICTION CHALLENGE</span></div><div><font face="arial"><span><span style="color: red;">REMAINING: 14</span></span></font></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /><br />*As far as I can tell, <i>Games Workshop's</i> official <i>Cave Troll</i> miniature has now been replaced by <a href="https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Cave-Troll" target="_blank">this one</a>.<br />**Let's face it, if you've ever read this blog before, you're probably as aware as I am, that this is pretty unlikely. As the saying goes, my chances are between Slim and None... and Slim's outta town.<br /></span><p></p></div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-86647325937922779132020-06-23T11:56:00.003+01:002020-06-23T16:27:23.606+01:00Old dogs, new tricks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span><font face="arial">The last few weeks have posed an interesting challenge for me: trying to update all my existing <i>Chaos Warriors</i> to fit in with the new look I'm after, without entirely repainting them.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="arial">My previous approach to <i>Chaos Warriors</i> was to work on them one at a time with their own colours and markings, and make them look as individual as possible. You can see a bunch of them in their previous conditions in <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2016/06/not-just-nutters-but-psychopaths-too.html" target="_blank">this post</a>.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="arial">However this time around, as the force is starting to grow, I want them to look more cohesive, more like some of the groups of warriors and knights shown in the films I mentioned <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/2020/03/we-come-from-land-of-ice-and-snow.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><font face="arial"><span>Therefore it was never going to be a case of simply re-basing them on the larger, round <i>Age of Sigmar</i> bases, and adding a bit of snow flock. </span><span>I was also going to need to darken them down, make their armour look metallic, perhaps even rusty, mute most of their colours, and even, in extreme cases, repose them and replace their heads or helmets.</span></font></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="arial"><br /></font></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><font face="arial">But obviously I didn't want to spend ages doing all this to old models when I could be doing it to new ones, so the further challenge was to do it quickly and simply, and without adding so much extra paint that more detail would be lost, or worse, taking the models to such a bad place that I'd be forced to strip the paint off them completely and start again.</font></span></div>
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</div>Tod Tenebrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16278319648574876510noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3558144944835628364.post-79893185655012130272020-04-19T19:53:00.003+01:002020-04-19T23:37:38.082+01:00Riders on the storm<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's another classic-rock-inspired blog title today, because I've been furiously at work digging out, chopping up and putting together all my <a href="https://torvatenebris.blogspot.com/search/label/Chaos"><i>Chaos</i></a> cavalry. And I'm pretty sure if <i>Chaos</i> dudes listened to any kind of music, it would, of course, be rock.<br /><br />When searching them out I was slightly surprised to find there was a grand total of 22 unpainted horsemen in this collection, representing quite the mass of spikey, fast-moving, armoured killers.*<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The first three are probably my favourite of this batch. Incredible metal models, that were an awful struggle to glue together – my fingers are pocked, pierced and sore, and possibly even suffering from some kind of lead poisoning – but their fearsomeness to construct is more than made up for by the fearsomeness of their appearance. Especially when you factor in that <i>Archaon</i>, the middle one, is roughly 18 years old now.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Then there are these guys (above). They're the contents of the plastic boxset released around 2008, where the knights all seemed a little too big, and which (some might say, inexplicably) replaced the not-long released metal boxset below (from around 2003).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Then these four miniatures above are all old, unpainted conversions of mine, that were based on classic metal <i>Chaos Knights</i>, released around the early to mid 90s. As such they're probably not as cool as some of the other models here, but I think it's still worth painting them.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />And then these guys have all been constructed using the contents of the <i>Chaos Marauder Horsemen</i> boxset. A fantastic kit that gives you a tonne of good-looking options. I borrowed one of their original horses for one of my metal knights, so that's been replaced by a repaired metal horse from an earlier release.<br /><br />So that's all the cavalry that I'll be adding to my collection. But there's actually a few more models that I'll be removing. These are some of the very first <i>Chaos Warrior</i> miniatures that I owned – probably released about the same time as the first instalment of <i>Kaleb Daark</i> that I showed in the the previous post. The miniatures originally included both foot and mounted versions of the characters, and had simple names like <i>Chaos Champion</i>, <i>Chaos Knight</i> and <i>Chaos General</i>. I think I've repainted them about 5 times since my original effort, and judging from the lack of visible sculpted detail on their present condition, it's clear I've never bothered to strip their previous paint jobs. And, its too late now anyway, as these fellas have been well and truly consigned to my hall of fame.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />There are no newly finished miniatures here, so my Addiction Challenge score remains the same. Coincidentally there are 22 miniatures left to paint in the challenge, and I just happen to have exactly the same number of unpainted miniatures here. If this weren't all about <i>Chaos </i>that would sound very much like the beginning of a plan.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">ADDICTION CHALLENGE<br />REMAINING: 22</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">*In fact you could say 'killers on the road', to further borrow from <i>The Doors</i> song referenced in the title.**<br />**According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riders_on_the_Storm">Wikipedia</a>, psychedelic rock song, <i>Riders on the Storm</i> (released in 1971) had portions of its lyrics allegedly inspired by real-life killer <i>Billy Cook</i>, who murdered six people during a 22 day rampage while hitchhiking to California in the early 1950s. It may also have been the last song <i>Jim Morrison</i> recorded before his death.***<br />***These probably aren't suitable subjects to discuss while talking about children's toy soldiers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Back in the mid eighties the first Games Workshop publication I ever picked up was <i><a href="http://solegends.com/citcat1985comp3/index.htm" target="_blank">The Third Citadel Compendium</a></i>. Not only was this magazine full of pictures of the most inspiring toys I had ever seen, but the final ten pages had something my young self was particularly blown away by.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a specially commissioned story, by some of the top creative talent from </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the galaxy's greatest comic: </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2000AD (home of Judge Dredd, ABC Warriors, Rogue Trooper and a tonne of other fantastic science-fiction stories, too numerous to mention).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Writers John Wagner and Alan Grant had taken Games Workshop's fantasy <i>Warhammer</i> setting and infused it with everything that made 2000AD so popular: action, comedy, anarchy, a spot of vulgarity and even a lone antihero (in the style of early Dredd strips). And the whole package was beautifully, masterfully, illustrated by </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Brett Ewins and Jim McCarthy, working as a team to create some of the very best pages of their already high-quality, signature art style. E</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ven </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Steve Potter's</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> lettering perfectly captured the tone of the piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sadly, due to a dispute over ownership rights, the story was never finished and has therefore never been reprinted or collected. So, partly as a reference for my <i>Chaos Warrior</i> project, and partly as the act of an adoring fan, I've decided to put all the pages together in one place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you were involved with this, and have a claim on the ownership, please don't sue me, it's a wonderful body of work and deserves not to be lost.</span></div>
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