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I had today off, but went off to The Hawk Conservancy today and had a very nice relaxing day there, chinese takeaway for tea and have just chilled this evening.  However (and onto the subject of the post), I've decided that due to time constraints that neither arm will be clad with the ribbed plasti-card.  Current thinking is that I'll 'edge' the shoulder blocks with the plastic strip I have - perhaps thicker card on one side than the other.  I am still going to do the conversion for the heavy bolter arm though. I've also just won a rivet mold - basically you heat up a piece of… Read More

I ordered the bits to make up a Chaos marine last week and these arrived on Thursday.  Have just done minor tidying and blue tacked the pieces together to make a mock of the whole Dreadnought.  Still needs a lot of work, but personally I think that it's going to end up being very nice piece.  I'll put the photo of the mock at the bottom of this post.  There is a larger gap than I expected around the waist, so a few wolf pelts are going to have to be added to disguise it.  As I said on an earlier post, I'm aiming to have three basic assemblies - the Dreadnought, the giant fur and the base.  I'm going to get the Dreadnough torso finished… Read More

A few days without a post, which is somewhat remiss of me.  Basically I've been messing around painting the couple of tanks that I've airbrushed the other day.  A few reasons for this.  Firstly it means that I can go back to my Dreadnought nice and refreshed, secondly it has been a bit of R&D into how I can paint the Dreadnought.  Pretty much perfected the colouring and shading of the armour now.  Highlighting I know in principal, but I need more practice, although you have less large panels on a Dreadnought than a tank. Airbrushing is also a much smaller task than I originally was envisaging, so I'm not quite as hung up on having such… Read More

By some bizzare quirk of fate, this blog now appears at position number ten in google when you search for the phrase "golden demon 2009".  Quite bizzare to be honest and I have no idea why. Read More

I was late home last night, so rather than get into anything major, I experimented shading and highlighting a cupola that I had airbrushed on Monday.  I used heavily thinned Citadel Washes for the shading, two to three parts water to one part wash.  First off I applied Asurmen Blue to parts of the model that would naturally be in the shadow, it dries much smoother than I realised, so the effect was a bit too subtle to be honest.  Next up Gryphon Sepia went into any areas that would naturally collect water if it rained - so in crevaces, around rivets and such like.  This was finally followed by Devlan Mud, but concentrating on the deeper areas… Read More

Here are the pics of the tanks that I airbrushed the other day. As I said in a post yesterday, I'm fairly happy with the end effect, although it's not as subtle as I'd have hoped. As I still had the garage available, I took the opportunity to do some more airbrushing.  I didn't get on nearly as well as I did on Sunday, I managed to thin one paint down too much and at the end of the session realised… Read More

Yesterday I was able to gain access to the garage at home (there's normally a car in there), so rather than waste my time as the Dreadnought was ready yet, I experimented with my new Iwata HP-C Plus airbrush.  This bit of kit is worth it's weight in gold.  The control you have over laying paint onto a surface is fantastic, although I still have a lot left to learn - including how to hold the thing without getting cramp in your hand.  I experimented with a Vindicator and Rhino tank that I had and tried a technique called 'Salt Weathering'. The basic concept of salt weathering is that you paint your surface one colour, then apply… Read More

So yesterday was my self imposed deadline - which I managed to miss fairly significantly.  I spent pretty much all of Saturday trying to get everything up to a point where I could spray it yesterday, 15 hours of modelling, much of it with a headache.  The legs are now complete and have in-fact been primed PlastiKote grey spray.  In addition to acting as a primer the colour highlights any potential problems and imperfections in filling and similar.  The torso has come on leaps and bounds, but I was scuppered by trying times of milliput.  It appears that there is no way of speeding up the drying time of a milliput/green stuff mix :(  Leaving… Read More

It appears that I have two parcels waiting for me at home.  One I think must be my pillar drill as it was despatched yesterday via fedex.  My pin vices arrived yesterday (fantastic for only £2.30), so the only thing that I think it can be is my ForgeWorld order :D This is fantastic as it actually means that I should stand a chance of getting the cloak shape created this weekend.  Currently it appears that I potentially have all of tomorrow to do modelling, so I'm going to have to structure my time carefully.  Plastic cement dries fully in 4 hours give or take, green stuff can be artificially cured in an hour (actually less, but I like to… Read More

Just a short post as I've just caught my finger on the edge of my razor saw and it's chuffing painful. Update: So I now have a plaster on my finger and it's not inclined to split open and drip blood at the slightest pressure :)  As you can see the legs are almost complete.  I didn't manage to get the last bits of guitar wire cut as I decided to watch a bit of telly and then slice my finger open.  I think that the base looks pretty good as well :)… Read More