Dystopian Wars:- Daedalus Part 5
Hi everyone, The Daedalus project is nearly finished now.
Good news! On Tuesday I made major strides with the scratchbuilt titan. I was having trouble cutting the pvc since I don’t have a mitre. I bought one, but the saw I was using wasn’t good enough. I was getting discouraged and decided to wait till I could get a jigsaw from my parents (yeah, I know I should own one already, but I haven’t really filled out a propper tool box yet), when I had a thought. I needed to get my dremel out for another project (more on that later, I’ve been converting a Plano gun case into a mini carrying case!), why not use it to cut and sand the pvc sections so they are the right size. As you can see, this was successful! I have assembled the entire body. I even added the pistons I was missing, although there are 8 more that are supposed to be connecting the waist to the leggs I haven’t done yet. I also want to add some design to the caps on the pvc, so it looks a little less scratchbuilt. I also need to get a fine grit sandpaper to start working on cleaning up my liquid greenstuff work.
Oops completely forgot the 2nd Dunn Deadline for 'The Tale of X Gamers' or the Horus Heresy 30k project being run by New Zealand gamers.
I like working with my hands, its one of my favourite things about 40k. I get to be nerdy while also having something “unplugged” I can work on. As a hobby veteran (I think I can call myself that at this point, I have enough armies under my belt). There is only one aspect of 40k I haven’t ever really experienced, and that is Apocalypse. But, I live near a decent game store and want to be able to throw down with their next apoc game. My Malestrom Warders (Astral Claws, Tyrant’s Legion, Lamenters) are going to be a combined force, but they lack a certain punch right now that I think could be made up for with a simple, singular centerpiece, a model that brings the army together. Of course, the only thing better than one centerpiece is two. I am planning to buy a Baneblade in the near future, which will serve as part of my Tyrant’s Legion, but I wanted something…beefier. Ah, that’s more like it The thing is…I don’t have the $500 it takes to buy one of these bad boys, so I’ve always just sighed and went about my business.
A guest post from Kenny Boucher of Next Level Paintng who will be producing a series of articles on painting.
Made by my fellow russians, the project only has 3 star systems now. But the creator is going to include more and more. The site has english and russian variants. http://galaxy40k.com/
Firstly, as you may have noticed, the blog has a slightly different look to before. Most obvious is the new banner which I’ve been meaning to change for a while. It’s certainly still a bit amateurish but I’m fairly happy with it and it least it points out that this blog isn’t purely about Space Wolves anymore. The blog is also a bit wider to incorporate a second side bar. Anyway, despite literally just saying that this isn’t a purely SW blog anymore I want to talk about them today. In the comments section for my battle against Jamie, Sentinel asked for my thoughts on the state of the Space Wolves army in 6th edition so that’s what I’ll talk about here. Before I do though I’d like to mention that Sentinel has his own blog here (it’s also in the Recommend Reading on the right) and also give a bit of a shout to Dominic and his Dark Angels blog (which will be my New Year New Army project – more to come). State of Play at the End of 5th Edition After a period of being one of the strongest books out there the Space Wolves started to see a bit of a decline in popularity towards the end of 5th edition.
Hey guys! So a final blogpost before I take off for the holidays! Plan is to spend the holiday catching up on some napping and seeing friends back home, so it should be a good way to getting the hobby mojo flowing again! I’ve been working on my Australian client’s Imperial Strongpoint lately! Really having fun with the project, though there’s a couple parts that always drive me crazy (I’m looking at you Heavy Bolters!). I’ve got a couple more guns to prime and paint, along with another Bastion. Aiming for some decals too, but we’ll see. Should have it done by the 1st!
Hey guys! Quick, late night update tonight. We’re coming up on Finals week, so I’m looking at a 3 day period of insanity, followed by 3 weeks of nothing. I can’t wait for finals to be finished, but as a result, the hobby front will be a little slow. Ill try and get a post up on Wednesday of this weekend’s Blood Bowl tournament, but we’ll see how that goes! Anyways, two sets of photos today. First up is a Khador Warjack I worked on while at work. I have to be in a particular mindset to work on commissions at work, so occasionally I’ll grab a model lying around and paint it. As some of you know, these aren’t my first Warmachine models, but this is the first time I’ve painted Khador in its standard Red scheme. Didn’t have my full range of paints or brushes at my disposal, but for what I had, I’m fairly happy with it so far. I didn’t get a chance to get more resent pictures, but the cannon has been painted, and the white space has a nice Soviet-esque star in the center of it
