Blackadders Warlord WIP

[Dimitrios]

Blackadder... You make everything look so deceptively easy... no mean feat...

Until my next dose...

[Blackadder]

Thanks, I'm curious if anyone is working along on this project since most of the construction is there?

Moulded Skulls

Well the moulded skulls can out not too shoddy good enough for the relatively hidden area under the carapace at the rear of the cannons. I sanded the left one a bit much but once painted I think it will pass. The Skulpey clay did a good job and will work fine for the terrain that I plan for the Warhound. I just wanted to see how well it would work for casting.

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[Blackadder]

Main Weapon Detail

I keep adding detail to these guns and the more I add the more empty space I find to clutter up so after these photos I'm applying a coat of primer and see where I stand.

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BTW I have added much more detail than the original so the camouflage does do something; it increases the illusion of detail.

[Blackadder]

The Relativity of Bland

Well paint doesn't seem to help much everything looks so so bland. It seems there should be more patches and panels, definitely more skulls and aquila perhaps a few banners and those badges with ribbons dangling from them 'What are they called the name escapes me.

Ah! 'Purity Seals' never mind..............

Anyway the secondary weapons are masked for priming and I'm pretty satisfied with them.

[url]http://i.imgur.com/sZqUY2c.jpg[/url]

[Blackadder]

Yet another request of my source of styrene on another forum so I am going to be up front and reveal my larder.

Over the course of a few years I have accumulated quite an inventory of styrene strips and sheets mainly by investing about twenty bucks a month into increasing my reservoir of material.

I won't lie to you on the face of it it is a tremendous outlay of cash for an inventory of this size and Evergreen won't spring for a display carousel for a noncommercial site even though I regularly extol their product.

[url]http://www.evergreenscalemodels.com/[/url]

In addition I have researched wholesale distributors of styrene sheets which is by far the biggest single outlay of cash for material. I found a local one in an Industrial park that supplies my requirements.

Now that I have all the styrene I need I routinely spend about 20 bucks a month to keep my supply sufficiently abundant.

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[Minibem]

love the look of the weapons Blackadder!

I just about managed to get my work done!

Can't wait to see the finished product!

[Blackadder]

A Mélange of Decor, Dispair, Decadence and Decay

Unfortunately using a flash washes out a good bit of detail especially the 0.010 inch/ 0.25 MM layered armour which hopefully washes will bring to the fore.

The new bitz is what I am debuting with this post and I am hoping that I have achieved the right degree of decoration, decadence and decay which permeates the desperate 40K future world much as western culture seems hellbent on the road to in the early 21st century.

In this first image I show the new side detail of the carapace which is a melange of DS's bitz work and my interpretation thereof which is somewhat less busy and I hope makes more sense from an (totally bogus) engineering standpoint

Most prominent are the numerous vents and exhaust fans that I deem necessary to cool the vast heat producing engines necessary to animate this behemoth:
[url]http://i.imgur.com/yPDioBi.jpg[/url]


This image shows the top of the carapace showing the four adjunct shield relays and the two shoulder field regulator receivers one on either side of the carapace munitions exhaust fan:
[url]http://i.imgur.com/JpvrJ8r.jpg[/url]


Top rear view showing the four rear shield relays and the four make up air inlets for cooling the carapace and sweeping stray radiation from the ammo magazines:
[url]http://i.imgur.com/U3Fm1Ty.jpg[/url]


And an image sans flash to better show the new detail:
[url]http://i.imgur.com/2X9UJET.jpg[/url]


Demonstrating that the Blackadder clearly needs to get a life or at the very least a better grip on reality...............

[Blackadder]

What seat is this?

I found this in my son's bitz box and I was wondering if anyone can identify what kit it came from?





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[Rev. Tiberius Jackhammer]

Some of the Forgeworld Titans come with an empty princeps chair, to allow for customs princeps. Maybe it's one of those?

[Phil751]

That looks awesome I don't know how you have the patience and continued motivation for such a big project.