Making pallets, boxes and garbage bags

Major Shop Update 21 February 2017

Major shop update, if you followed it since last week, a lot of new items have been added and old items have been reworked in better quality.

*Terminus Bolter, a bullpup variation of the Space Marine's iconic weapon, based on the KelTec RFB 7.62Nato. With curved or straight magazines and with or without silencers. Size and proportions reworked as there were some issues with the 1st prototypes.

 curved magazine, silenced

curved magazine

straight magazine, silenced

straight magazine

*Terminus Hel-Sniper, a heavy Las Sniper for the Space Marine Scouts or Imperial Guard Snipers. Based on the Eberlestock M11 chassis.

*Various sets of iconography for drop pods.

Raven Guard

Salamanders

Templars, version 1 & 2 (you can use it for various Templar themed Chapters)

Carcharodons

Iron Hands

White Scars

Sisters of Battle

My own Chapter, Caballeros Vulpones. Feel free to get if you like it. The price you see on this particular item is only the 3D print cost, with no fee for me.

back side is like the ones coming from GW

Next items will be:

*more drop pod icons (Traitor Chapters/Legions, Loyalist, Mechanicus skull)
*iconography for Rhinos and Stormravens. Initial designs will be "clean", with the "dirty" variants coming later. I am expecting to make them in the coming month.
*Right now I am working in a couple of Lasgun variations based on the H&K G3 and AK74.
*Helghast helmets compatible with Imperial Guard (release maybe next week)
*modern weapon accessories
*modern weapons (AK, HK416, M700, MP5, etc) in 32mm, 1/32, 1/24, 1/16 (I am estimating that they should be released till end of May)

Update on Shapeways shop inventory 16 Feb 2017

The prototypes done and some detailing and size adjustments need to be made. Check the inventory of my Shapeways Shop. The new models will be up tonight or tomorrow night.

bonus pic of the upcoming grav bikes lineup

Upcoming from Games Workshop

Games Workshop has entered vigorously the market in an attempt to be profitable again. The new packages of "Stormcloud Attack" boast 2 aircrafr models to make 1-1 dogfights. The boxes are:

1. The Eldritch and the Beast (Eldar vs Ork)

2. Faith and Heresy (Space Marine vs Heldrake)

3. The Ancient and the Greater Good (Necron vs Tau)

The price will be probably at 90€ per box.

Terrain: Basalt Columns

One of the most strange rock formations are the Basalt Columns, which are rapidly cooled rock during a volcanic eruption and they get a characteristic hexagonal (usually) form. The most famous is the Giant's Causeway in Ireland and more information can be found HERE, as long with other PLACES where they exist. They can have many colours but I chose to do them in the classic rock grey and dark tones, as they fit better with my SM Chapter homeworld. Let's start, shall we?

We will need some common wooden pencils, nothing expensive. In this terrain piece I used 6 pencils. Ofcourse we will need our usual base, a CD/DVD (preferrably one that is not working anymore). We cut the pencils in different lengths, as we see fit. We do not throw away the wood chips.

Using our hot-glue gun we place the columns. Photos can be used as reference, but usually they follow a rough staircase-formation. We do not care much if they do not interlock properly or if there is excess glue on their base.

With PVA-Wood glue we cover the rest of the base and we pour our left-over trimmings. Hey, free basing material! Plus the smell of the pencils always had a homey feeling for me...

Time to prime the piece! I chose black, as I went for a dark tone but you can use also white, grey or other colours, depending on what you want to achieve.

After we paint the columns and dry-brush the rest. I chose Citadel Dawnstone for this part. If you want to give some texture, you can use a fast brush with Citadel Astrogranite, as I did too.

Remember that ugly glue on the base? Time to cover it up. Again, you can use whatever flock or basing you want, but I wanted a more desolate look and I used rocks. To glue them I used super-glue in gel type and I tapped them with a wooden stick to stick them better. It may need a 2nd round of glue and tapping, depending on the density and the acceptance of the rocks to stick in place.

Now, I did not had grey-hued rocks but I solved it with some Citadel Nuln Oil. Only 2 passes were enough, but again you can adjust to your liking. I also expaned the wash between the columns to give a more natural look. You can use other washes if you want another look or have a different pallette.


Well, there it is. A simple and cost-effective terrain piece. I hope you will enjoy it in your moon or desolate terrain mats. 

Some terrain

I am entering my uni exam period and the progress will be very slow, if not halted. For the time being here is some terrain I did the other day.

Ancient Greek Temple ruins. I used wooden rod (the motif is from the factory) and for their bases two 25mm bases from my bits box. Rock slabs are from 1mm cork.

The test base for my Space Marines army. These are real quartz crystals. They are cheap and heavy, so I can add the figures without much fuss over their weight centre. The obsidian rocks are made by melting styrofoam (blue) and painting them black and finishing them with gloss varnish. The soil is made by the Vallejo Lava texture paint.