Well, I have a printer and the file was half price…
Problem is… I am going to be facing this across the table… must be mad!
Bringing out the Big Guns
Going a bit Sci Fi
I have started printing stuff for my son. I have sort of persuaded him to let me print him some stuff and he can buy stuff too. He likes the Necrons and Space Marines so the poster boys are getting printed…
There is a scout on the left and a flamer on the right. The flamer Dude is missing his backpack thingy and I also shoved scout Paldrons on him too ( I will probably regret this).T
He more dynamic pose on the right makes him look a bit shorter… he isn’t really.
Oh yeah, these are two of the bases I printed :).
Beetle MKII
For anyone coming to see a Volkswagen… sorry!
I did some cyber snipping and reduced the original beetle down to a leg which I duly printed, along with some bomb rats… exactly as it sounds. Another nomad and a pack saddle too. A bodge job with super glue and Greenstuff and voilà a six legged beetle.
Here is the nomad and the bomb rats… oooh good name for a rock band there!
Not sure what I am going to do with the bomb rats, but I mean bomb rats… I just had to!
I also managed some painting…my son and I sat at the kitchen table and we both painted stuff.
A female space dwarf and another of the nomadic Erroish. She ended up yellow. In Fallout 76 you get to build yellow mining armour as one of the side missions… very original aren’t I. I cannot remember what colour the faction were going to be, but it certainly wasn’t yellow!
To be honest the Print Minis stuff has really kick started me painting again. Not sure why but the Spyre Hunters and the Erroish have got me going again.
Painting Little Things….
Lots of little things:
For some reason I must have thought the beetle platform was about 6 inches square rather than the inch and a half that it probably is!
Still bucket loads to follow on this lot, but it is a start.
Slow Progress on the Beetle
Yes tonight I returned to my artistic endeavours. I was a good boy and picked up a paint brush instead of a controller. I basically painted the person at the front, snapped the seat back off as I found the person wouldn’t fit where the seat had been placed. I glued said person to the seat the glued the seat into the right position.
The platform is now glued in place. Everything on it is just shoved on. The unpainted dude is probably not going to be there permanently. The original has a central pole on the platform with a tin roof. It just looked wrong to me so I am either going to make a tent type idea, shove a tarpaulin over the goods or just leave it open. I haven’t decided yet.
Remember this rider on the stenobeast… I evidently hadn’t and basically put together another one. Somehow I gave managed to print ian identical mount, body, head, left and right arm. This is with multiples of each… weird or what…
Actually subconsciously I probably built what I had before without realising it as I liked the aesthetics or something like that… probably not as weird as I made out!
Working on the Beetle
Last night I got a dry brush of copper over the beetle. This evening I did a bit more work on the saddle and seat for the driver (?) Perhaps mahout?
It is slowly coming together… I might have to sort out that front leg a bit. I can’t remember it looking that shiny though. Could be camera flare?
I had a go at the GW plastic orks at Geek Club (not sure what they are called now.. probably GW-orks!)
I really do not like them. Not sure why, but definitely not for me. I only painted them as I had forgotten to take my stuff in!
Desert Haulage Firm
This evening I worked on the saddle for the pack beetle.
The decorations still need doing as well as a lot more goods. There is definitely a lot less white visible. Still a long way to go but I am getting there. I was thinking of going down a muted route for the saddle, but then I thought about camel saddles, so colourful it became.
The biggest issue I have is that the beetle has almost become invisible. Okay it wasn’t the best set up for the photo, but I am thinking of doing a gloss varnish on the living thing.
Hopefully I will get it finished soon…. Still got to come up with a base for it.
Not So Shiny Beetle
You know sometimes you have an idea, execute said idea and kaboom something amazing appears
There are other times when the kaboom is a pile of poop. Can you guess where this us going?
So yesterday I posted shiny beetle…
I decided to paint over the shinyness and went for a nice green… Sat looking at the green, then got out a pretty purple, sat looking at the purple then got out a red… did I choose any of those nice colours? Did I buggery! No, captain brain dead here went for this….
Okay it isn’t a total balls up, but it definitely isn’t what was in my head. It may grow on me, but sadly the nice shiny bits will be covered by the saddle! The one in the background is demonstrating what this one will eventually look like.
Shiny Beetle
Well after having a very brightly coloured gang of rich psychopaths I decided go go shiny on the pack beetle.
Okay to be honest thus is just an undercoat for Contrast over the top. I still have to decide on a colour but I do want an iridescent one… not sure why. Hey Picasso went all Surrealistic so I reckon I can go all colourful 😂.
Regarding the brightly coloured psychopaths. I just felt they had to be colourful. I didn’t know why, it just felt right. Azazel hit the nil on the head. He said the poses looked like superheroes. Then the penny dropped. Question answered! I mentioned thus on ghe company Discord and funnily enough the team actually gave them the name of the Avengers. It is good to know I wasn’t just being bonkers 😂.
Finished the Gang
This evening I did a high speed gold decoration session.
I will start on some more Erroish tomorrow.
Bogenwald 