Slab Ship - still working on it

Apologies to anyone who's popping by to see any progress on this one, but i've been kinda distracted by the figures i've been doing.
You can see though that i am still working on it - putting dark washes over the pastels to stop the blandness of them.

Nurgle Flying Thing - flying

Stopping with this now. I've gone with what i'm used to with the weathering and rust effects - not at all confident at trying out the bright orange effect on the original, as i've never tried it before and don't want to cock it up.

Chaos Spawn

Was in Maidstone yesterday and strolled past Games Workshop so popped in to see if anything relatively cheaply floated me boat.
Came out with these two fellas as i've been after them for quite a while - and there's tons of spare parts that i can use on later projects.
As usual with them, you have to look beyond the usually rather garish colour schemes (bright green claws???) to see the sculpt.
Get it out the box and assembled and its a differeent matter entirely - two bodies with loads of nicely detailed limbs, heads and spiky bits.
Here's what i've done with mine. I've deliberatly not gone overboard on the tentacles and extra bits as when that's been done they do need a good prune. I've chosen two distincively different styles, with colour schemes to match.
Tne one with a mouth where the head should be i've given arms with reconisibly human aspects still to them. So he'll be having a human-like skin type (maybe).
The other i've given quite a few spikes and a distinctly non-human face so will be playing up the alieness of him in his colour scheme.

Andersonic Issue 9

Just a heads up that the latest edition of Richard's brilliant fanzine is on sale. As usual, a great blend of humour, info and a heavy slant towards the effects work. A lot of UFO this time so i'm a happy bunny.
Available from:

http://www.andersonic.co.uk/index.htm

Nurgle Greater Demon - progress

Right, so i've been building up undead, unhealthy skin tones. Made a bit difficult by not having any "Rotting Flesh" to hand, but there you go.
As you can see, i'm in the process of picking out the little rounded bumps that are everywhere and are now, in this incarnation, pustles.
Seem to think this fella fired those spikes that are in those tubes on his shoulders and i'm gonna carry that on - but have snapped a few off to show that he's fired some.

Nurgle Flying Thing - getting there

Quite a bit of progress whilewaiting to get new batteries.
I've just about finished the skin tones - a few more icky bits should do it - and its been a real challenge to go with this colour scheme. I'd usually go with regular skin tones but want a contrast between that and the rust of the armour, so flesh colour were right out and instead i've gone with white, greys and purple.
The armour got a coat of texturiser to try and emulate the pittiness of the original. Dunno if it'll work though. And its got its green basecoat on now, as has the metal bits.

Nurgle Flying Thing - assembled

Aplogies for the blurrines of the pics but the batteries in the camera are nearly dead, meaning not enough juice for Macro.
Anyway, here it is with all the meat put in. I've copied the original in that there's cabling inserted in a coupla places but you should also be able to see that i've added some cocktail sticks.
Figure these'll be metal spikes pointing down - a detterent for anyone thinking of jumping up to attack it as hovers by.
I've included a rear shot to show how i figure it moves - sucking in air through the vents of the motorbike thingies and expelling it through the 4 holes in its "arse".
Kinda fart power i guess.

Nurgle Greater Demon

Have spent all morning sorting my Den out, dusting, tidying and bunging stuff up in the attic that i don't care to see for quite a while.
In doing so, i came across this Big Boy - a vinyl kit of a baddie from the Guyver anime that i built and painted somewhere back in the late 80's i guess.
I've always loved the design, especially the pinhead face in such a huge body.
Anyway, that face and the rhino-like horn coming out of the head reminded me an awful lot of this Nurgle demon my friend Andy had sculpted and very kindly gave me a few years back.
Still not having any spare dosh, and still fired up on GW stuff, have decided to repaint him in a Nurgle colour scheme.
And here's where i am right now with it dusted down and a coat of primer on.

Tyranid Lictor - done

Here's both fellas all done.
Also included pics of the Lictor alongside the Malanthrope that inspired its colour scheme and it with some Genestealer Hybrids i bought and painted when they first came out in the 80's and didn't have the confidence to go my own way with colour schemes.

Nurgle Flying Thing

So its a go on this beastie then.
Top two pics are views of the basic hull shape glued together. The glue has taken well to the wheel assemblies to the egg as i've pinned them with cocktail sticks, less so with the egg to Harrier part.
But in the third pic you can see i've started with the fleshy bits.
First i put a layer of Green Stuff around the inside of the join between the two pices, bunged in the rough Bacofoil shape (which held fast thanks to the VERY stickiness of freshly blended Green Stuff), put in the armament (a Ker-Plunk straw, a bit of aluminium piping and the big barrel being a part from a pen) and some more Green Stuff to help attach the two parts and around the gun parts and clear acrylic rod that i'll be using to hold it aloft.

Maybe a Nurgle flying thing.

So, all fired up on Games Workshop 'cause of my little Tyranid project, i've been having a trawl through the GW Website.
Not too much to float me boat there.
But their Forge World offshot is a different matter...
And, as usual, the prices are WAY out of my range.
Was rather taken though by this flying thing though, especially by the combination of (rather old and rusty) technology with a living biomass, along with two out board hold-the-thing-aloft thingies.
No spare dosh right now - and i figure i will get one at some point - so, for now, thought it might be an idea to do a riff on the concept.
A quick trawl though me bits box got me the following:
A cowling from the engine of the Airfix 1/24th Harrier,
half a plastic egg that housed a toy,
and two wheel assemblies from a Macross kits.
Will glue them together and see what i come up with before deciding whether its worth it to continue.

Sov Judge - done

Slab Ship - pastelled

All pastelled and, as usual when i pastel white, looks crap. Far too, er, pastelly. Hopefully that'll change though once i start dirtying it down properly with washes.