2009294:27
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Buy, Sell, or Trade!
Okay! I've got some stuff I need, and some stuff I don't, so let's do this.
First off, the Things I Have:
Tyranid Bitz - Click for bigger pictures
Most of these are arms, heads, and other assorted limbs. I have very few bodies. All of them are plastic, but some have been sprayed with an old can of GW's Bonewhite spray. I am not a nid player, so I simply tried to sort the bitz into general piles based on size.
Figure someone might be interested in these, what with the new nids coming out and a lot of them being big gribblies that could benefit from extra limbs. I'm sure whatever doesn't go will end up on some looted tyranid monstrosity shortly (
), but it's just more than I could possibly need for an army I don't play.
Secondly, we have Salamander Bitz which I no longer need as I'm switching them over to Legion of the Damned.
I inherited some of the loose bitz from a friend of mine, and when I tried to strip paint off of them, I discovered that some of them were a white resin instead of Forgeworld's regular. I can only assume he did some of his own casting and made copies of things. For what it's worth, they're pretty good casts, though the rhino doors don't have much detail on the 'interior', i.e. the side of the door that faces inwards that nobody ever sees. If anyone finds these objectionable, feel free not to be interested in them.
There's a few custom-sculpted bitz in the piles, as you'll see above.
The Vulkan He'Stan conversion (pictured at the top of the series) does have a head that has been hollowed out and accepts LEDs. The head is currently removed; I can conceivably put the LED head back on without too much difficulty. I can also change the LED color to green, red, or yellow. I'm able to wire the whole thing up to a battery mounted in a base, but that'll require a bit more work.
The razorback is lit, as the pictures show, and the battery is easily changed in a hatch at the bottom of the vehicle. The side doors currently on the thing are white resin, but they are magnetized on and can be easily removed (I intended to set it up so it could receive sponsons). The front hatch is also white resin, and is securely mounted there.
Now, for Bitz I am Looking For:
I'd prefer to trade for these if possible, but if not I'm willing to buy as long as you're being reasonable about valuation.
Think that's all for now! Anyone who is interested in any of the above can feel free to contact me.
EDIT: An additional find for my Salamanders For Sale - A converted Chaplain Xavier.
This guy's been converted up to work under Chaplain Cassius's rules in the current Space Marine codex.
Edit again! Some Space Wolves that I'd like to trade or sell.
More if I find it!
20092912:29
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Berserk? Don’t mind if I do!
So for the past few days I've been tinkering with the Berserker a bit more, and I think I've reached the point where I'm happy introducing the model to The Warp (also known as a jar of stripping solvents). I learned a lot from experimenting with it, though!
It's currently a bit glossy because I was working on getting it prepped for some oil paints. I did try and give it a splash of color for comparison's sake, but I don't think it did a lot. I'm not entirely unhappy with the look, but I have come to realize that what I'm doing to this model is just a little too weird. At the outset, I wanted a white, ceramic looking armor, but I also wanted some rusty weathering. While the two can coexist on the same model, I think it's only possible if the weathering's done to a much lesser degree. As-is it's sitting in a weird niche between clean and weathered, and I think that's the problem with why I'm not too enthusiastic about it. I could certainly drive the white down by weathering the hell out of it, but then I'll have one warjack that looks like absolute hell, and I don't plan on doing all my warjacks up similarly since I like to think Khador has at least a bit more pride in their warmachines than an ork might.
So, with that said, off to the stripper it goes. I will give it another go once I get it cleaned up - I'm told that sponge-weathering is much more effective for limited amounts of chipped paint and the likes, so I'll experiment a bit with that method in the mean time!
20092912:10
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Ammo, uh, flamenco?
Not content with just a glyph on the top of the ammo canister, I set about applying a smaller one to cover up the visible 'USA' mark on the side.
With that taken care of, I felt like I had to do something to the opposite side to balance it out, so after thinking a little bit, I decided to go ahead and try something dumb. I sprayed a decent helping of the red paint I had onto a cardboard sheet and smeared my hand right in there and then smeared it down the other side of the canister to give it that authentic 'stole from da 'umiez' look.
I think this canister's done. I bought three more after finding out how awesomely they hold the sabol foam I have, so hopefully I'll be able to fit my entire ork army into these cans. When I get the others I will, undoubtedly, be making similar 'modifications'.
For now, this one's done, though.
Of course, you can't get your hands smeared in 'blood' without pausing to reflect on the awful reality of your situation:
Stuff is hard as hell to get off!
June 9th, 2010