cowie165

Jim is cool. Where the heck did you find him?

Sonic, your poster is amazing.

Pilots arrived yesterday. UN Spacy + Rebels.

For anyone reading, they are very well packed (quite cleverly actually). Some have a *tiny* amount of flash, and the detail is so crisp! These guys are going to come up really well, I'm sure. A big thanks goes out to you Petar, I'm grateful for your effort and really impressed by your fine-scale sculpting. Great work.

Mark

Got the weathering on the Konigs Krote finished. Still trying to decide on a suitable display base. Want to do something with some figures on it jus no idea what.

Wow. That is the best armour weathering I have ever seen. Wow. Any chance of a couple of quick pointers to share your method please? Opposite colour for paint chips, drybrushing and pastels to tone the colours down? It looks amazing and is my new favourite completed kit. Well done.

OK, so everyone's like "look at the cool model of a WWII German Tiger (pick your variant) or look at this cool model of this..." I think the models ARE COOL, however (yes there's a however), what a about collecting pieces of the real thing? This is what I cleaned up last week for my collection (which is getting bigger). Once again, I'm not dogging anyone's models!

My grandfather (WW2 veteran) surrendered a few interesting collectables a few years ago. Australia declared a firearm buy-back/amnesty period following the banning of semi-automatic rifles. My granddad walked into the local police station and turned in a couple of hand grenades he'd had in the basement since the war. Yes, we're talking 50 year old, LIVE pineapple grenades. He wasn't impressed by the desk officer's response when it became clear they were live. My ol' pop just didn't get it!

Placed an order alreday yesterday, two thumbs up for the great work!

The pilots will help me complete a Club-M VE-1 kit I have! I will need to do some modifications but should be very straight forward.

Me too. And a set of SW pilots

I'm very excited.

disregard. sorted.

As a minimum:

1/100

VF-1A Fighter

VF-1D Fighter

VF-1J Gerwalk

Tomahawk

Regult Scout

F-14A Mac Zero

A 40cm x 30cm space will be plenty to display them if you'd like me to bring them along.

Mark

Where do we RSVP again? And check final dates/price info please?

Cheers Matt,

Mark

Well due to the tragedy engulfing the eastern seaboard of Australia, my weekend has not gone as planned, and I wont be ready for orders quite yet. Apologies for the delay, but I hope your thoughts are with the families in Victoria. As for me, my thoughts are with central coast of NSW. My family is okay, but we have people who have lost their homes.

Anyway, enough with the doom and gloom, even though I can't take orders yet, I can give you some new pics. Should be ready to take orders next week - apologies for the delay, but its unavoidable.

Glad to hear your family is ok Petar. We used to holiday in Marysville. I think the figures are around 65 fatalities now - those pictures on the news were horrible. If there are any believers out there in MW land, there are a lot of people that could use your prayers.

Maiden Japan, if Prime were real, he'd be real proud!

But MT, Prime is real. All the Autobots are. I see cars with their logo all the time. A few months back I saw a Decepticon disguised as a Toyota. I would have rammed it but I was uninsured

And to the OP, cheers for the flickr link, they are some really cool images to make some fast dioramas. You have done such a great job!

It's a gift.

You can have all the good intentions in the world but if everybody think your dickhead what good does it do?

lmao

My man from Lawrence, that VF-22 looks amazing, very well done!!

Nice cockpit tinting! Do you have any more pics?

I like it when LTSO fires up over toys

pew pew pew! dakka dakka dakka!

Amazing weathering. Congratulations on a fine achievement! Great work.

Same way i always do my chipping. By hand with a very fine liner brush. The finer the tip on the brush the better. Just stipple it on or lightly drag it across for long scratches.

Nice HWR, your paint chipping looks spot on. Do you use modern armour pics for reference or is it just freehand and practice?

She looks very cool with the orange helmet and flightsuit! Actually this is the first time I've seen her with paint on. Thanks Sean.

I cannot wait to see this one finished, the Macross world needs more trainers, in my opinion!

+1 for great paintwork on Minmay. Well done.

Dude, wow.

How did you do the grey on the front of the PzIV? Is it hand painted or salt weathering or something else? I wish I was still at Newcastle so I could take a look in person! Great work.

On the SD (dumb question time): that is thin styrene you're adding all over the deck, right? It looks very nice and I'm surprised the original kit didn't have something similar already?!

Looking good mate.

Yeah, it's pretty rude to go recasting kits that are still commercially available.

I'd go visit NeoGrade.

In Neograde, this kit it's Sold out Far ago... I had no option, and I purchase a recast over a year ago. Too many bubbles and some fit issues, but it will look great when I'll finish it (at least, that's what I think!)

Cheers for the correction. Looks like HK is the way to go.

And your kits ALWAYS look great

Back to the bench we go.

Kenny

I feel your pain Kenny! Getting back on the horse takes a whole lot of drive! I remember I botched the colours on a MiG 1.44 and had to strip it back... then mask it for four different colours again...

Take 5, then reattack!

Well i hate to burst your bubble but something that big in reality would have mold lines on its track they would be cast metal. Real tanks today have them. Im not dome weathering it yet either. I work in layers too remember. Theres yet another layer of mud and dirt to go .

Mate we're all friends here. Go easy with people. If you just wanted a doggie treat and a pat on the head for your hard work, please just say so.

Nice work on the figs Cowie. Just for you I'll bring some minis along if I manage to get to the Con in May.

Cheers Berttt. Let me know if you need a place to crash.

HWR great Baneblade mate. The weathering is coming along well.

Thanks gents! The bases are resin purchased from http://www.back2base-ix.com/

He's an Australian guy, so hurrah for decent postage. He makes LOTS of different styles and sizes. I think the ones in the pics are "rubble" or "ruins". I've also bought some matching ones for my dreads and terminators.

It should still be worth checking out for the US/UK guys out there, because the Aussie dollar is terrible right now. The bases in the pic should work out around US$0.40 each or so.

Very nice Flanker dashboard there. Very nice.

Ben,

Here's a couple of quick 'n' nasty shots I took a few minutes ago of my very first 40K minis. These are the AoBR guys with some very minor bits and pieces changed. It's all good learning for me (whaddaya mean BRUSH paint!?). I need to sort out how to paint eyes correctly if I'm ever going to buy some cadians!

Mark

White balance and shadows are a bit off, but you get the idea.

edit: forgot to add, C&C very welcome. And yep, I need more flat coat after the Future. Them some shineh space marines!

cowie, post some pics when you get something done, I'd love to see it!

wilco.

I'll see about taking some pics of my most recent tac squad tonight.