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...and there it was!
See you from the dock of the bay!
Monday, 9 January 2012
Sunday, 8 January 2012
The second Sunday post.
What a week I have had! I have been doing an awful lot of sorting out...both in the house and with the hobby. I must have shredded a sack full of old documents; some going back 17 years! Various uniform has been bagged up for storage (desert camouflage...no longer used due to new multi-cam being issued...but they don't want it back in stores so I have to drag it around with me everywhere), boxes sorted through and bin-bags filled up.
It feels good to sort things out once in a while...
...and the same thing goes with the hobby. Prior to Christmas, I had a big sort out, put a lot of stuff away, went through my paints and binned the dead ones, tidied tools away and generally sorted the hobby area out. Yesterday, I went through my growing collection of Necron plastics and de-sprued everything to sort into multi-celled storage boxes. I also put all the components needed for individual Beetle-bots into little kits in plastic bags so all I need to do is pick up a bag and I have everything I need to build a single Beetle-bot. It really is amazing to see the amount of waste plastic that is generated when you de-sprue all those spare components.
Once I had finished all that, I was able to list what I had for the Beetle-bot army and so far we have:
1x Lord on foot (finished)
3x Destroyers (finished)
12x Beetle-bots (finished)
5x Wraiths (converted and waiting for paint)
5x Immortals (conversions in progress)
5x Deathmarks (conversion in progress)
22x Beetle-bots (not started)
1x Heavy Destroyer (not started)
1x Destroyer Lord (not started)
1x Monolith (not started)
It all makes up quite a little force and the bonus is that I have everything I need to put together what is listed above (apart from a few bits and bobs for the Monolith...but that is still in the design phase).
So, in amongst all the tidying, sorting and general day-to-day stuff, I managed to put together a how to (see last post) and convert a few other bits and bobs. First, I have finished the last two Wraiths and here they all are together:
It feels good to sort things out once in a while...
...and the same thing goes with the hobby. Prior to Christmas, I had a big sort out, put a lot of stuff away, went through my paints and binned the dead ones, tidied tools away and generally sorted the hobby area out. Yesterday, I went through my growing collection of Necron plastics and de-sprued everything to sort into multi-celled storage boxes. I also put all the components needed for individual Beetle-bots into little kits in plastic bags so all I need to do is pick up a bag and I have everything I need to build a single Beetle-bot. It really is amazing to see the amount of waste plastic that is generated when you de-sprue all those spare components.
Once I had finished all that, I was able to list what I had for the Beetle-bot army and so far we have:
1x Lord on foot (finished)
3x Destroyers (finished)
12x Beetle-bots (finished)
5x Wraiths (converted and waiting for paint)
5x Immortals (conversions in progress)
5x Deathmarks (conversion in progress)
22x Beetle-bots (not started)
1x Heavy Destroyer (not started)
1x Destroyer Lord (not started)
1x Monolith (not started)
It all makes up quite a little force and the bonus is that I have everything I need to put together what is listed above (apart from a few bits and bobs for the Monolith...but that is still in the design phase).
So, in amongst all the tidying, sorting and general day-to-day stuff, I managed to put together a how to (see last post) and convert a few other bits and bobs. First, I have finished the last two Wraiths and here they all are together:
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The two newest ones are on the black bases. None of them have seen any paint yet because I want to finish the Immortals and Deathmarks (Sniper beetles) before I move on to the paint stage. Speaking of Immortals, I built a second one while putting together the How To:
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So, there are three more Immortals and four more Deathmarks to go before I start painting the bots.
On the subject of paint, I have started painting my Mantic Forgeguards. I decided to spray undercoat them and have been ticking along very slowly (I have been busy with other things) so there are no pics to show off but I am working on them.
Well, I think that about finishes things up for today!
Coming up soon will be more How To guides and more Beetle-bots... but not today!
See you from the spire!
The first of my Sunday post.
As a start to a bit of a busy Sunday of posting, I will show you all how I set about building my latest Beetle-bots...the Immortals:
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The pictures above are a comprehensive guide to converting a Necron into a Beetle-bot. As you can see, there is a lot of work that goes into each one so you can imagine the time that is required to put these together. That means that an army of them takes a huge amount of time to build up. Even the simpler Beetle-bots take a similar amount of effort so to build these takes grit, determination...and possibly a few voices at the back of your mind!
Later today, I will be posting a few pix of other bits and bobs that I have finished this week.
See you...a little bit later on!
Thursday, 5 January 2012
The invasion continues
I'd like to welcome my newest follower Makaison! Welcome to Inso's World and I hope you enjoy investigating the local area. You never know what you'll find.
If I am not mistaken (I may well be), I reckon Makaison is someone who I've just traded with to get more Necrons. If that is the case...cheers greatly! If it isn't the case...move along; nothing to see here :D .
So...I have been wheeling and dealing and have managed to source another 12 Necrons and 12 Scarabs with more scarabs being kindly donated by someone over at the Forum of Doom (I will wait with anticipation for them). Add to that a 10" long, stripped down, Thunderbird 2 model, my remaining Necrons and a host of 'bits and bobs' and it looks like I am in the grip of the latest project to resurrect itself.
So much for plans!
That said, I have an almost complete transport for the Tunnel Fighter army, sitting on the painting table...so it isn't all Beetle-bots (although it may as well be).
While all this conversion is going on, I have been gripped by my dropship demon. I can see myself digging out some of my Old Crow vehicles for measuring so that I can start working out the size of the beast. One thing I have been working on is how to break it up into modules and I have decided to build things in bits with dowels to join the modules together. The first module will be the cargo area...hence the need to measure the 'cargo'.
Thoughts have also turned to the Beetle-bot transport (a counts-as Monolith made from the Thunderbird 2 toy). I am not saying too much more about it at the moment but I am trying to find a way of making it 'cute' but still quite menacing. It will also need to look like it will do the job...so there is quite a lot to think about!
My brain is burning!
Well...that is it for now. I will have a few pix to show off on Sunday so it will be something to look forward to.
See you from the poop-deck!
If I am not mistaken (I may well be), I reckon Makaison is someone who I've just traded with to get more Necrons. If that is the case...cheers greatly! If it isn't the case...move along; nothing to see here :D .
So...I have been wheeling and dealing and have managed to source another 12 Necrons and 12 Scarabs with more scarabs being kindly donated by someone over at the Forum of Doom (I will wait with anticipation for them). Add to that a 10" long, stripped down, Thunderbird 2 model, my remaining Necrons and a host of 'bits and bobs' and it looks like I am in the grip of the latest project to resurrect itself.
So much for plans!
That said, I have an almost complete transport for the Tunnel Fighter army, sitting on the painting table...so it isn't all Beetle-bots (although it may as well be).
While all this conversion is going on, I have been gripped by my dropship demon. I can see myself digging out some of my Old Crow vehicles for measuring so that I can start working out the size of the beast. One thing I have been working on is how to break it up into modules and I have decided to build things in bits with dowels to join the modules together. The first module will be the cargo area...hence the need to measure the 'cargo'.
Thoughts have also turned to the Beetle-bot transport (a counts-as Monolith made from the Thunderbird 2 toy). I am not saying too much more about it at the moment but I am trying to find a way of making it 'cute' but still quite menacing. It will also need to look like it will do the job...so there is quite a lot to think about!
My brain is burning!
Well...that is it for now. I will have a few pix to show off on Sunday so it will be something to look forward to.
See you from the poop-deck!
Monday, 2 January 2012
Back to work tomorrow...
Well, all good things come to an end and the Christmas holiday is one of them. That means that there will be less posts but it doesn't mean that everything stops. I have a couple of bits and bobs on the way through the post and I have a lot to be getting on with while they find their way here.
So today, I have been enjoying the last day off by going into town for lunch with my family and chilling out at home afterwards.
However, I have also been putting together an Immortal for my Beetle-bots:
So today, I have been enjoying the last day off by going into town for lunch with my family and chilling out at home afterwards.
However, I have also been putting together an Immortal for my Beetle-bots:
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I am not sure whether to add a pipe from the gun to the rear carapace but apart from that, I think he looks about right. Only four more to build now.
While that is going on, I am ticking along with another two of the Wraiths so when all the dust settles, I should have 5 Wraiths and 5 Immortals.
Time ticks by...
See you through the maize!
Sunday, 1 January 2012
The voices have been at work...
...and they have been telling me how to use the other Thunderbird 2 that is on the way.
If you squint... and look at it in a specific way... and imagine things are slightly different...with more legs...
...well, it sort of looks like a beetle, doesn't it?
Get rid of the wings, add some legs (where from, I can't even begin to decide yet), a cockpit (two domes, like eyes?)... add a glowy door at the front, just under the nose...
Could it be a Monolith?
You could put the arc projectors on the legs and have the thing hover like a tomb spider...
It would be a pretty cheap Monolith when the base model (Thunderbird 2) only cost £7-99 including postage. I have some wooden dowel and a host of Necron bits and bobs to make the weaponry. I even have the domes needed for the cockpit (thanks to Hello Kitty phone tags from one of those dispensing machines :) ).
It is an idea...
See you in the cold light of a dead sun!
If you squint... and look at it in a specific way... and imagine things are slightly different...with more legs...
...well, it sort of looks like a beetle, doesn't it?
Get rid of the wings, add some legs (where from, I can't even begin to decide yet), a cockpit (two domes, like eyes?)... add a glowy door at the front, just under the nose...
Could it be a Monolith?
You could put the arc projectors on the legs and have the thing hover like a tomb spider...
It would be a pretty cheap Monolith when the base model (Thunderbird 2) only cost £7-99 including postage. I have some wooden dowel and a host of Necron bits and bobs to make the weaponry. I even have the domes needed for the cockpit (thanks to Hello Kitty phone tags from one of those dispensing machines :) ).
It is an idea...
See you in the cold light of a dead sun!
The first day...
Well, I guess it is welcome to 2012! The first day of the year started really well but unfortunately, this afternoon, things have been curtailed by a mighty headache...so I haven't started converting any Immortals yet. On the plus side, I have managed to finish the three Wraith conversions I was working on so here they are:
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Click the Resting Wraith Pic!
Click the Slowing Wraith Pic!
Click the Charging Wraith Pic!
I'm quite happy with them...even if they do look a little more aggressive than a lot of the Beetle-bots. When these get painted, I may go for the glowing ghost approach that was done in the Lord of the Rings film for the ghosts...sort of a minty green. It will help them look like they are slightly different to the rest of the troops (because they phase in and out of existence and can travel through things).
On to the Immortals and I will be taking a similar approach with them that I took with the standard bots, they will have a right arm that is physically connected to their heavy weapon and the left arm will either hold the gun or be free to use. I have clipped a few bits and bobs off sprues, ready to start work but my focus is shot at the moment...so that is as far as I can go tonight (unless I shift this headache).
So last night went well...a couple of glasses of port, a bit of telly and a bit of a Karaoke session on the Wii with my family. I saw in the new year watching an extraordinary display of fireworks in London...whether it was worth the cost at these times of Economic stagnation is anyone's guess. So a good night...and I went to bed sober(ish).
That is about it for now. I'll echo yesterday's sentiment and wish you all a Happy New Year again and see you for another post next time.
See you through my fingers!
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