apocalypstia:
excellent come back, those bolt thrower sheilds are too cool… nice adaptation on the earthshaker, gotta be one mad critter. Interesting Lamasu, creative use of bits even it twas inspired by another.
TLTG:
So no new progress to report on the chaos dwarf front, at least nothing I can show before golden hat. But I do have some stuff I’ve been working on recently that may eventually become chaos dwarfy.
It began with a piece of pink insulation foam. It became something different when I hit it with paint, glue, sand, and a heated sculpting tool (don’t try this at home…)
And would develop…
Now I’ve finished the flocking, and some random debris is sitting on my front porch drying. I just need to green stuff up some bottles and crushed cans of Bloodweiser, hit some grass with red ink, and figure out a good image to stencil on to centerfield, and this old girl is ready for play.
TLTG:
Completed. I’m diggin’ this thing.
Every blood bowl field needs a severed arm.
Bloodweiser, Duke of Ales.
I hate those lame standard dwarves.
Overhead view.
I need to paint my chaos dwarf team…
turquois dwarf:
WOW! how did you make something so good in 2 days! i would only be able to paint a peice of cardboard in that time!
TLTG:
Actually it’s really simple, and I bet I could do it a lot faster and better the second time around (which I plan to do next week…)
First I bought some pink foam from home depot. It is super cheap, and fits in the car easily (because you can break it in to 4x4 sheets with your hands in the parking lot…)
I measured it out, keeping it mind I’d need 3cm squares and about a centimeter of extra space on the edges. One of the long edges got about three centimeters to give me some space for CABALvision crews and cheerleaders/assistant coaches.
Then I took a very long straight-edge (in my case, a big piece of masonite, but yardstick or whatever would be fine) and marked the lines with a ballpoint pen. The next step was stupid, and should only be done by those of us without brain cells to kill. I wrapped a tee-shirt around my face to avoid breathing in most of the fumes, opened all the windows, turned on a fan, and lit up the gas stove. I took a metal sculpting tool with a wooden handle, and heated it up, then quickly used it to melt indents along all the lines. In hindsight not only is this dangerous, but my lines weren’t very straight and lacked uniform depth. What I should have done, still ignoring the safety, is to sandwich a piece of metal at an angle with two pieces of wood, such that I could lay the wood flush and the metal would be just a millimeter or two lower than the wood parts. This way I could drag the wood and get straighter lines, and as the metal wouldn’t be moving up or down I’d have uniform depth on my lines (more important than you’d think…)
Then when this was over, I painted the entire top of the board black. Originally I bought Tamiya water based stuff to avoid damaging the foam, but a whole bottle of it barely got me anywhere so instead I just used some crappy black acrylic for the flat parts and GW chaos black for the recesses. Once it was well and thoroughly dry, I took skull white to the crevices along the outside boundries, end zone, hash marks, and half field. I cleaned up the white that splattered out to the flat parts with more chaos black, and began the insanity of try to flock this horrible thing.
The parts I figured would get trampled the most (the two outside defenders, where people usually put the receiver or thrower, the center field line of scrimmage) got some sand painted liberally with watered down scorched brown. I drybrushed codex gray followed by fortress gray. The flock I used was some sort of huge jug by a company I think called Woodland Scenics. I picked it up at a model train shop nearby and it was only about ten bucks after tax. I flocked the entire board and barely touched the amount inside of this bucket, but it’s also super high quality stuff. Very thin, very soft. Not wirey and scratchy like the GW stuff, and the colors are consistant and make sense. If you look at GW flock real close, there are some red fibers and other colors that are less than normal to see in a field of grass. Plus it’s twice the price for less than one tenth of the product.
The random garbage on the field was fun. The severed arm and severed head come straight off the zombie sprue. The random little skulls came off a weapon sprue for the plastic black orcs. The dwarf helmet got clipped off a dwarf when I was building my chaos dwarfs in March. The two cans of Bloodweiser are just green stuff rolled in to a fat little tube and indented along one side with a very wet sculpting tool. I tried to poke some detail in to one side of each to show the top where the hole is and such. Lastly, some parts of the field got hit with red wash (which dries brown like real blood, yes!) and in front of the better of the two cans of Bloodweiser got hit with yellow ink.
To complete the board, all I did was stick some random taller grasses outside of the actual pitch (just woodland scenics tall grass and holes made in the foam with a sculpting tool to anchor them) and seal the outside of the board with a very watered down scorched brown (it keeps the foam slightly safer, makes the color much more pleasing to the eye, and makes the field look like there’s actual dirt under it…)
kerbak:
Oh man, your work is really great!, but i must say that your Lamassu is one of the greatest I ever seen, congratulations and keep with the good job
Kera foehunter:
that is so cool you did a hell of a great job on the board !!!
Da Crusha:
wow I really like the lammasu but you have to post some more and some clearer pics, it looks great!
Da Crusha:
what kind of pink foam is that? the reason I ask is, the only pink foam I know of at home depot is fiber glass insulation and that stuff is horribly itchy when its handled. :yar
Loki:
Great Army TLTG you have created such a huge well painted and converted force is such a short time i really like the lammasu conversion that you have done as well as the bolt throwers, love the big CD heads on the front of them 