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Ofaloaf posted:What's a good source for bits or proxy-bits, particularly as an Astra Militarum guy living in Europe? One unit missing from my army are Scions/Kasrkin, but I've been struggling to find either a good cheap source of hot-shot lasguns or something that looks like them including the power cables and packs. The packs and cables are what visually distinguishes them from standard lasguns, I feel. Cheap is subjective, but for Europe there's Bits of War and their Sunbeam Rifles, over-under barreled laser guns, and their various Infantry Backpacks, pretty much any chunky backpacks can work, and making it look like the gun is connected to the backpacks with a green stuff/milliput mix moulded with Greenstuff World's Roll Maker, which can be set at an angle to make a diamond-shape imprinted cable. A fancy looking gun, connected with a cable to a mass of luggage on the back of the figure is basically the outline of a Hot-Shot Lasgun.
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Turnip28 unit concept: The Bucket Brigade I have a little bucket from some sprue so I made a push mold to reproduce a bunch of them. I'm thinking a little rope handle hanging under the chin will help sell it, and maybe for variety I can try and make soup pots or something on some of them. Of course their commanding officer needs to have upgraded equipment  (Is it funnier if I don't give him eye holes?)
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Davedave24 posted:Turnip28 unit concept: The Bucket Brigade Single offset eyehole with a glowing red LED inside These look great!
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Davedave24 posted:Turnip28 unit concept: The Bucket Brigade I dig it. Serious Fobrush Man vibes. 
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Compromise: One eyehole, possibly with an oversized cork stuck in it.
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LashLightning posted:Cheap is subjective, but for Europe there's Bits of War and their Sunbeam Rifles, over-under barreled laser guns, and their various Infantry Backpacks, pretty much any chunky backpacks can work, and making it look like the gun is connected to the backpacks with a green stuff/milliput mix moulded with Greenstuff World's Roll Maker, which can be set at an angle to make a diamond-shape imprinted cable.
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Definitely get the XL version, I have the smaller one and its great I just regret not getting the bigger one for longer cables!
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I'm saving the rest of my minis for a finished post once they're painted, but this guy goes so loving hard, I couldn't not post it, ya know?  Here's how he was originally(Reaper Bloodhoof Minotaur), as well as the Grand Mace from one of the metal Reaper weapons sets   Re-posed him to fit a 1" base and change the weapon stance, used green stuff/milliput combined to shape the antlers (my first modelling epoxy project  ), cleaned up a lot of the warts in the molding, scarred him up pretty good, and converted the Mace to a Warhammer and added a spike to it. Added the "Emberbat" flying overhead because they were responsible for his village being burnt to the ground and they're what sparked his first rage as a barbarian, I'm not married to it though and might chop it off at some point. I'm really fuckin stoked to paint this thicc fella 
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Feb 3, 2024 07:33
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i hate needing to break out the half-millimeter drill to drill and pin things
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Got two imgur posts going up today, possibly three if the photo session with some Chaos Warriors goes good. I'll parcel em out so I'm not spamming the thread tho. Behold: Chaos Chosen of Khorne Squad 2  EDITED TO ADD: Two more galleries and a bonus guy Kill Team Blooded Kitbash Stragglers   Chaos Warriors of Nurgle (Squad 1)    PLUS THIS GUY who will get a better picture when I paint him (probably) 
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Feb 3, 2024 13:22
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Cease to Hope posted:i hate needing to break out the half-millimeter drill to drill and pin things I pin things to paint em and I'm happy with it, but I sweat hard when it comes time to drill barrels if I really like the gun
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Feb 3, 2024 15:55
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this guy looks so bonked I love him
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what do you guys think could be fun to use a 1:48 Stalin III for? it seems to small to be used for anything, even astra militarum stuff but I still feel like it has some potential with plasticard. that hull is really cool and I'd like to use it.
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Feb 4, 2024 04:18
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Grot tank
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change the blade in your xacto knife thank me later
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crosspost:Cease to Hope posted:
I wanted some flamer rubrics for my CSM but I hate the actual rubric models, so instead these guys are just made of fire
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I've been messing with Greenstuff more and more lately, usually with gloves on, sometimes bare handed though I hate leaving thumb prints. But I have a question, is there any way to stop it being so drat sticky? I keep pulling parts of it off the model when I let go.
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Dip your tools and fingers in water and it'll stick less
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I've also heard a small amount of unscented lotion on your fingers helps too
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Shoehead posted:I've been messing with Greenstuff more and more lately, usually with gloves on, sometimes bare handed though I hate leaving thumb prints. But I have a question, is there any way to stop it being so drat sticky? I keep pulling parts of it off the model when I let go. Lubricate your tools. You can use water (easy to clean, requires frequent reapplication), vaseline (wash off with isopropyl, needs to use a very small amount and lightly coat tools) or hand cream (similar to vaseline but smells better, gives you a moisturized back of your hand if you follow the tradition of sculptors keeping stuff on the back of their hands). Let it sit a bit (5-10 minutes) so it loses some stickiness. Mix in another putty, like Milliput or Apoxie Sculpt, to reduce stickiness. I don’t do much kitbashing thanks to sculpting most of my own stuff these days, but I do have a ton of experience in how to make greenstuff work.
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Mineral oil I find is better than Vaseline, it doesn't leave as much residue on the putty
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water-based hand lotion takes longer to dry and generally does not leave residue at all
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been whipping up some weirdos to fill out some CSM squads. pardon my  photography.  "Heavy Melee Weapon" means basically whatever you want it to. Plus I thought my Anointed for Kill Team was kinda unexciting so I wanted a somewhat more obtrusive mutant guy.  Plus I had this leg/claw piece laying around and I wanted to use it.   I was also unhappy with my icon bearer for Kill Team, and needed some more icon guys for squads anyway. It's weird that there's this plague icon on the plague marine sprue but no actual option to add an icon to plague marine squads (although I do know that icon bearers are a separate character on the DG list). The sorcerer is for the rubric squad I was working on with the flaming heads. I might try a flaming sword for him but I feel like it might just be too much detail. Plus I don't actually know how to do that yet. Speaking of the flaming rubrics:  Adding armatures for flames felt kinda like cutting wicks but now I have a bunch of tiny jerks all flipping me off.
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Forgot to follow up on what I did for my obliterators missing arm:   I luckily still had the shoulder pad, so I opted to keep it simple and used the claw arm from a Possessed unit I had floating around. Blob of green stuff to fill in gaps, and a green stuff cable. Very happy with how it turned out for such a simple conversion. I used a forgeworld Iron Hands upgrade head also.
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Cease to Hope posted:been whipping up some weirdos to fill out some CSM squads. pardon my these guys are sick. love the mantis arm I figured out what I'm gonna do with that IS-3. I just have to stop being sick and get to it.
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Not-Stealth Suits made from Terminator torsos, Scout legs, and a bunch of other bits. Paint job isn't winning any awards but looks nicer than they did as bare plastic:  
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Does anyone know of a source for 3D printed various chaos bits and gubbins? They used to sell the Chaos Vehicle upgrade sprue separately but not anymore. Looking for spikes, chaos symbols, various mutilated body parts, etc.
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They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes.  I think I've got the fire looking a bit better.
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Super Waffle posted:Does anyone know of a source for 3D printed various chaos bits and gubbins? They used to sell the Chaos Vehicle upgrade sprue separately but not anymore. Looking for spikes, chaos symbols, various mutilated body parts, etc. Wargame Exclusive has a very particular look and you'll love it or hate it. Kromlech and Spellcrow are nice. Pop Goes The Monkey is popular but expensive.
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Cease to Hope posted:They understood that there was something older than wisdom, and it was fire, and something truer than words, and it was ashes. Ayy I'm fiya ova hya
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Super Waffle posted:Does anyone know of a source for 3D printed various chaos bits and gubbins? They used to sell the Chaos Vehicle upgrade sprue separately but not anymore. Looking for spikes, chaos symbols, various mutilated body parts, etc. https://puppetswar.eu/ has some good stuff too. Not a lot of specifically chaos stuff, but they do have dead bodies.
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I've been working on this AoS warchanter to weirdboy conversion. Not sure if I'm going to put his spiky chest armor on or greenstuff something else. Still gotta make his staff longer and figure out how much wire I'm gonna leave sticking out of his head, but he's coming together nicely.
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really rough starting conversion of that IS-3 I bought. I'm gonna try and turn it into a one man space marine hover tankette, fast and mean. Main things I wanna fix is filling in the gaps between that ring and the turret with milliput, creating an actual chair with milliput from that leaning section, and also making it so a space marine can sit in it and not look like he's a baby in a full size car seat. dual autocannons came from the age of darkness boxset, figured since I was gonna use the assault cannon they're fun kitbash fodder. Probably gonna pick through the other bones of the dread weapons and make stuff out of them too.  I'm intending to stat it with 3E Vehicle Design Rules.
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Hey hey did you guys know that Votann parts pair well with Arkanauts? You probably do but check him out  Just in the Blutak and pinning stage atm. That's a lego crowbar as the jackhammer bit. I'm thinking of maybe doing a power hose but I'm pretty intimidated.
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Small project today: Just some headswapped Soulsworn Questors 
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Someone I follow on Instagram is having a little modelling competition quote:The time has come for the full #scumathon 2024 details! https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2MXZ-Hu8vx/?igsh=MWNrZGR3eTJqbGR3
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Started a project to make an Unforgiven Gravis captain with the boltstorm loadout from the rifle model, which I think is a bit nicer. Powerfist from an old accessory frame fitted to a gravis arm, to be modified with a plasma weapon fed from the backpack (leftover from the Eradicator kit) Removed the scabbard and going to remove the hilt too for an uncovered sword, and greenstuff the remaining tabard back. Might try to GS more detail the the shinguards too.
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Ofaloaf posted:What's a good source for bits or proxy-bits, particularly as an Astra Militarum guy living in Europe? One unit missing from my army are Scions/Kasrkin, but I've been struggling to find either a good cheap source of hot-shot lasguns or something that looks like them including the power cables and packs. The packs and cables are what visually distinguishes them from standard lasguns, I feel.  The guy on the left just has proper Scion arms and gun, but the guy on the right is holding an Improved Laser Gun from Spellcrow, and a little cable made with a roll maker set (ty lashlightning!). I've worked a little with green stuff and putty, but I'm not particularly good at it yet, so I didn't really know how to attach the thing other than sort of smooshing the end a little as I made it connect with a dot of super glue.
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Been cracking into the Fellgor Ravagers kit and it's a delight- just swapping heads within the kit changes the character of the models, and doing a couple weapon swaps makes the models feel wonderfully my own.    
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What a goodass kit
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