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What is it they say “The best laid plans…”. It has transpired that we have some kind of blockage in the waste pipe at home, which resulted in a pretty substantial flood from our downstairs loo – the water from my sisters shower. This has meant that we’ve currently got the plumber in, dismantling our […]
Continue ReadingDeep breath moment… I’ve been concentrating on getting some websites finished off for customers as they’ve been outstanding for quite a while now. I’m writing my own PHP back office to provide content management and such like, so it’s been a major undertaking. Sadly this has absorbed most of my potential modelling time over the […]
Continue ReadingThe weekend’s work wasn’t quite as productive as I’d hoped – bearing in mind that I really should be starting to apply paint this week. The torso is largely done. I need to fix the head in, rivet the whole assembly and add wolf pelts over it. I’ve begun work again on the arm shoulders, […]
Continue ReadingSo I had a fantastic weekend away, still feel quite chilled despite the fact I’m still flagging from lack of sleep 🙂 Looking quickly at the mock up of my dreadnought, I’m still very happy with the overall appearance. My new rivet maker arrived yesterday, so I can put some rivets onto it soon as […]
Continue ReadingI 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. […]
Continue ReadingI 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 […]
Continue ReadingA 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 […]
Continue ReadingBy 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.
Continue ReadingI 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 […]
Continue ReadingHere 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.
Continue ReadingYesterday 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 […]
Continue ReadingSo 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 […]
Continue ReadingIt 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 😀 This is fantastic as […]
Continue ReadingJust 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. […]
Continue ReadingI have very nearly finished the leg assembly. The picture in the last post was taken just after I added in a piece of brass guitar wire (which seemed to take ages to bend to the right shape). The 60mm bases I ordered from GW arrived so I was able to cut the cork to […]
Continue ReadingSo I managed to get the right knee join pinned, glued and filled last night. I used pure Green Stuff for the fill, as it’s more suited for the kind of gap that was created. Also the trick of using a Milliput and Green Stuff mixture is that you sand it to get a perfect […]
Continue ReadingManaged to get the left leg cut off the pelvis and all of the rods that form the new hip cut and drilled. These provide a lot more flexibility for the whole model’s pose in comparison to the solid joints that it comes with. I’ve not glued the leg on yet as there is a […]
Continue ReadingDue to it being a weekend, I’ve actually made quite a bit of progress. I’m still not 100% sure about getting it all ready for this weekend yet, as there is still a bucket load of stuff left to do. The photo to the left I’ve just taken and shows the knee joint pretty much […]
Continue ReadingJust discovered a small dilema when starting to clad the various bits of the Dreadnought. Due to the angles on the shoulder on the arm, using the textured plasti-card isn’t going to work. Basically the front slope is a greater angle (thus longer) than around the side, resulting in the texture not wrapping correctly. Going […]
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