Necromunda Bacon's Underhive Builds - Conversions A-Go-Go

[Deleted member 10658]

@Xavier Bacon - what were you doing to it when it broke? Surely sculpting requires the kind of fine control that can only be achieved by holding the tool by the ferrule, yes?

@spafe - Duct tape will just leave it flopping around at the break - it needs a central core (preferably a steel nail) like @SirFrog says.

 

[Xavier Bacon]

I was pushing to create gribbly textures on the Devourers, and the putty was on the firm side. I often used that tool to push and reshape. I tend to hold just above the ferrule, though may have to change that haha. Not to worry!

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Friday. In which our hero discovers that the new Green Stuff he ordered is about a million times more pliable than the couple-of-years-old batch. This not only instantly improved my sculpting and avoided clumpy bits, but probably partly explains why Mr Pointy broke.

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Recent procrastination detours have included making a snake-style Hive Tyrant from bitz, magnetising it for all loadouts, and then making snake-style Tyrant Guard from bitz.

I have half made an Underhive Bat-signal, based on the amount of LED one-upmanship going on for YAK18. Gotta stay in the game! Painting of Le Bat will commence, well, likely tomorrow?

I painted up my Ratlings tonight. Not based yet, but once that's done they'll be my first completed, fully-painted unit in some years!!! Daylight pics on the morrow, but here's a horrible indoor lighting teaser...

The visor style is my homage to the White Dwarf pics of old. They always seemed to have these reflective effects. Had a go at it myself, what do you reckon? Fairly rough layering but I wanted them done. The red scope is a little 2nd edition throwback touch. Highly impractical for a sniper, but a nice spot colour opposite green on the colour wheel.

The flat cap chap has come out looking slightly like Che Guevara!

 

[Azzabat]

Nice work all round.

 

[Ned Noodle]

The rattlings look superb.
I'm really loving the slight 2nd ed vibe with these and the visors have come out great, I've alwasys hated doing visors and lenses. For me, the colour choices on these are spot on.

 

[ClockworkOrange]

Awesome.

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Cheers guys. I will stop 40K spamming soon but here's this morning's work... first one of a squad of custom Scions for my plastic kitbash Praetorian army.

 

[Xavier Bacon]

The Dork Knight Begins...

 

[Xavier Bacon]

And the Keeping Up With The Joneses addition

 

[Ned Noodle]

Kudos for getting some lights involved. This is another amazing entry I can't wait to see finished.

 

[Kommissar Shriken]

very nice idea!

 

[Deleted member 10658]

The Squats look great.

The flat cap chap has come out looking slightly like Che Guevara!

He looks much more like Fidel Castro to me.

What is going on with the Scion's face? Is it a mask with a beard sticking out of it?

Were you using old green stuff that came it a strip with the two colours side by side? I hear that leaching between the two halves can occur, resulting in the connected area setting (hence the clumpy bits.)

 

[Xavier Bacon]

@sump dweller - The GS is side-by-side style but I always cut the middle strip out. The rest still came out clumpy when mixed. Old GS was old. It's not as pliable as new stuff and surface feels different. Not much left, so I can just use it for bulking and terrain. Lesson to myself I guess.

The Scion's face is just heavily washed so I don't have to paint eyes!

 

[Xavier Bacon]

And yes, Castro! Whoops.

 

[Deleted member 10658]

Hmm, I have never had green stuff go bad like that - the ancient tubes I am using now, which were bought back in the mists of time, are absolutely fine (it is just my sculpting that is clumpy! )

 

[Xavier Bacon]

I wish I'd bought separate tubes! But the rate I'm using it these days the centre strip won't even cure. I think I've about 12-15" gone bad, so I'll use it for terrain. Doesn't matter if that's clumpy. Or maybe bulking sculpts before detail.

Praetorian painting has seen MUCH progress - pics at my plog on Dakka: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/60/513429.page

 

[Kon-rad]

The "Squat" ling needs a cigar to complete the Castro theme. I say go for it!

 

[Xavier Bacon]

Well it's been a while but I've made something Necro-relevant! My main Necromunda-playing friend moved away through lack of job, so I'd tried to get some of my 40K armies painted. Been playing against another friend now he's back from holiday, and even managed to win with Tyranids - woooop!

Anyway, here's a chem plant I knocked up and painted the bulk of yesterday:

Largely made from polystyrene my girlfriend brought home from work aeons ago, a few scraps and a bunch of bottle tops. I couldn't be bothered to texture the polystyrene or hardboard base it as I wanted to keep it fast and cheap - my GS Cult need a factory to defend one evening this week!

There are two small vats and one large chem plant that can be lifted off to vary the layout and/or storage. These aren't painted yet, hoping to complete them today.

Once again washi tape adds detail and life instantly! I found Yaktribe when looking for modelling ideas, and someone mentioned washi tape for detailing. Whoever it was, THANK YOU! I was originally going to add handrails and other stuff. Instead, the washi tape adds plenty of life to the terrain and I couldn't be bothered. Who needs safety rails when you've got hazard stripes? They'll only break off over time after all. Plus, I'd had an easy detailing idea...

I've made a couple of supports to hold a long Wargames Tournaments catwalk over two pools, and two mid-length ones fit across the other pools. These will add some light cover and increase the versatility and playability of the chem plant. I may add holders for WG barriers too, so I can borrow more detailing bits I already own and have painted, and that I can pop on and off at will.

(The guys in the photo are my custom converted Praetorian Scions. I've painted over half of that army now, go me!)

I figure I can go back in and do hyper detailing later if I have the time and inclination - pipes, cables, etc. If not, or if the polystyrene gets knackered quickly, it works perfectly fine as 'stuff to put minis on' without much effort invested. ''Twas a nice afternoon in the sun making terrain in the garden.

 

[spafe]

that looks really good dude, simple but incredibly effective!