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Post by Walrus on Jun 9, 2011 6:35:17 GMT -5
*slaps Beav*
You really don't want to know...
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Post by Gabriel Lupus on Jun 9, 2011 7:30:23 GMT -5
Car crash, Anteromedial pain, limping gait...  |
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Post by syphon on Jun 10, 2011 3:47:28 GMT -5
I think an Ogryn smashed the trooper's leg when that trooper suckered it into entering hte Chimera.
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Post by Beav on Jun 10, 2011 6:31:39 GMT -5
For those who didn't realise (CAPTAIN OBVIOUS  ) I meant the old term for bugger, which I won't mention, and what I meant was how to you bugger somethign which doesn't have an arse? And getting back ontopic, Scarper I think that becuase you have not given us anything new we are growing unruly |
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Post by Walrus on Jun 10, 2011 7:03:20 GMT -5
I knew exactly what you meant...
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Post by Beav on Jun 11, 2011 1:29:20 GMT -5
*squirms under walrus gaze*
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Post by The Hawk! on Jun 11, 2011 4:44:13 GMT -5
wow.... i've just finished looking theough all 29 pages......may i start by asking; Were did you get the Harker Female standin from? i love it i think i'm going to invest in some of the bikes for rough riders too  great work dude Dave |
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Post by Gabriel Lupus on Jun 12, 2011 5:05:00 GMT -5
Beav, even my ageing, medication addled, Childerbeast fuzzled brain managed to work that out... but for the sake of "PG13" (  ), and confirmation of my woes, I thought I'd actually explain in medical terms the real issue... Now squirm under Walrus' gaze Scarper - MORE! |
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Post by RejectionHurts on Jun 12, 2011 5:18:01 GMT -5
gotta say, that cripple dude is awesome. the injured guys make a nice addition to any army to say "hey, i was in a fight, and i'm still here to give you more hell". anyone seen my injured guardsman? he's on page 1 near the bottom of my thread. they make such a good visual piece in an army =] can't wait to see him finished off.
lol at syphon =D
and i REALLY like the crafted truck you have there, though i had a thought that maybe a mounted gun on the top of the cab would make a great addition to something already impressive? just my thinking out loud.
love all the ingenious work you have done sir, keep it up!
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Post by Scarper on Jun 17, 2011 12:57:12 GMT -5
Wow, thank you so much for all the responses, there's so many more than I was expecting! I don't really have time to reply to everyone right now, but I promise I will over the next few days. Thank you so much for all the interest! Remember my rejigged Murdock? I decided I need to put some time into painting again last night (Exams, post-exam celebrations, hang-over recoveries and finally research project write-ups tend to take their toll on hobby time  /excuses), and here's the results after another hour of two today. I've tried REALLY hard with highlights and shading on this guy, so hopefully it shows through.   As always, comments and criticism are greatly appreciated (and I WILL get back to you all!), so please let me know what you think Thanks so much for all the support! |
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Post by Colonel-Commissar, (M.I.A) on Jun 18, 2011 10:23:25 GMT -5
Wow this last guy, Murdock, looks amazing! Im jealous.
Great job, Scarp!
,CC
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Post by Trooper One-Nine-Seven-Four on Jun 18, 2011 12:44:03 GMT -5
He's looking really good! That's a really nice and effective, yet subtle, highlighting and shading job on his trench coat. |
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Post by 3ff3ct on Jun 20, 2011 13:43:27 GMT -5
gotta say, that cripple dude is awesome. Very politically correct. I bet you refer to Slaan as 'fat blokes in chairs' dont you ;D |
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Post by Scarper on Jun 26, 2011 12:12:42 GMT -5
Ok, so 'the next few days' turned out to be a little longer than I expected. Sorry about that! @vesuvius - The gun is a heavy machine gun from maxmini, and I suspect you love it because it's awesome! Originally I was planning on using them as a man-portable heavy bolter for my guard, but they turned out a little big Perfect for a weapon mount though! Walrus - Thanks, man! I know what you mean about the frilly dress shirt, but hopefully it'll be a little clearer when I've painted her up. @trooper 1974- Thanks for the kind words on both models! I've actually gone for a very small pack, held over on the side of her good leg. I'll try to get some pics up when I've finished I'm really glad you like the coat, thank you! Shostak(AWOL) - Thanks a ton! @beav - Thanks for the kind words. And I figure she's a mechanic: even if her leg is totally paralysed, she'd make the neccessary accommodation measures if it meant she got to keep driving, right? @gabe - Bandolier you say? That's probably the best idea actually... Thanks for the advice! syphon - Not quite, but I can certainly imagine it! Didn't the old codex used to have a little bit of fluff to that effect? @manager Dave - Wow, thank you so much, that's really flattering! The Harker stand in is Lt. Kara Black, from Studio McVey's limited edition resin range. Unfortunately that particular model is now sold out, but they're probably my favourite miniature producer - check out their sedition wars range for some awesome IG scale stuff! RejectionHurts - Thanks so much for the kind words, and the suggestions! I'll have to get my arse in gear to produce something new for you to check out @colonel-Commissar - Thanks so much, man, really appreciate that! 3ff3ct - I'm sure it wasn't meant that way, right?! So despite my assertions, I've got very little done. I'm trying to get all my background for Caitiff down in one place, but I feel like this might be one of those posts that's more interesting to me than anyone else in particular. Still, the story of Caitiff itself: Caitiff is a medium-small temperate world on the outer southern fringe of Imperial-controlled space. Its population once stood at around 15bn, with several small hive cities containing the vast majority of the population. Its income and value to the Imperium came from a rich supply of rusinate below its surface, a material essential in the production of, among other things, bolter cartridges, temperature regulation cells and in the refinement of various mineral ores. For several hundred years after its reintegration, Caitiff prospered – a bolstered economy, protection and trade with newly contacted Imperial fleets produced a new upper class of self-made industrialists and traders.
As stocks of rusinate dwindled, however, so too did Caitiff’s value to the Imperium. With a small population and little other minerals of value, the off-world contact and trade that had been the life blood of the new Caitiff slowly ebbed away. The economy suffered, and rising food prices and increasingly squalid living conditions kicked off a process of grumbling unrest among the working classes of Caitiff’s larger cities. The planetary governor at the time, Dyran Lavenne, was a corrupt bureaucrat widely recognised to be in the pocket of various industry moguls, and little to no relief effort occurred. Food riots in Rookpoint Spire and The Point were met with live fire from PDF forces, and an increasingly brutal arbite force enforced draconian ‘austerity laws’, leading to the disappearance of many dissenters. Civil war seemed a certainty. A number of popular resistance groups arose, and a pattern of ‘liberated’ population centres being mercilessly retaken by government forces began to emerge. Civilian casualties numbered in the hundreds of thousands, but it was only when several companies of the PDF defected to the rebel cause that the rebellion became a real and credible threat. Reports of executions and massacres on both sides could not be verified.
The downfall of the government of Caitiff didn’t come through military action, however, but through accident, poor construction and bad luck. The last hive city to spring up on Caitiff was different from the others. Over hundreds of years as the previous cities had grown, councils had been elected to ensure adequate ventilation, constant power and water supply, and structural integrity of the spire itself. Most of these councils were hereditary positions, chosen from the educated and wealthy elite. Some were benevolent, some self-interested, but all ensured the safe growth of their cities, both in height and spread. Easthollow, however, was in essence a vertical shantytown, a swaying and ever-expanding structure that sprang up over less than fifty years. It was composed entirely of the dwellings, both official and makeshift, of workers employed at the hundreds of vast rusinate refineries that made up the hive city’s base, and whilst an Easthollow council did exist, its members were hand-picked by the plant owners. At every turn, the council made concessions in the name of ‘austerity’, pocketing the funds that went unspent. A looming tower of plasteel, corrugated metal and scavenged building materials, housing a workforce of labourers widely considered disposable, run and maintained by a panel of corrupt and uninterested industrialists. It was a miracle that the hive stood as long as it did.
It’s unclear exactly what happened on the day that Easthollow collapsed, and survivor’s accounts are few and far between. It’s known that the ventilation system for one area of the hive was damaged in a wilful act of sabotage by a small rebel cell, though it’s unlikely that they were fully aware of what kind of chain reaction they were setting into motion. As their bomb, fashioned from stolen mining and factory equipment, exploded, Sector 12, location of one of the largest reactors powering the spire, lost both atmosphere and temperature regulation. The fires that started in the sector should have been stopped by auto-regulated flooding systems put in place to protect the lives of the inhabitants in such an emergency, but these never engaged, even as the fires spread into the power plant itself. Immense explosions ripped through the facility, containment domes failing and contingency measures overcome. It is likely that the colossal supporting beams housed in the area collapsed or melted in the intense heat, bringing entire layers of the hive down with them. The sudden and immense pressure on a single quadrant of a structure already weakened by cheap materials and years of poor maintenance proved too much to bear, and in less than an hour, the hive tore itself apart.
Refinement of rusinate is not a clean process. Several of the by-products produced are toxic to both plant and animal life even in miniscule amounts, and many of the radioactive elements have a half-life of thousands of years. Official policy required all waste from the process to be shipped off-world as soon as it was produced, and conveyed to planets designated ‘dead’ for long-term storage. This course of action was, of course, highly expensive, and many unscrupulous plant owners had taken to storing waste on site until such a quantity had been produced for a more efficient round trip. This efficiency measure proved disastrous with the collapse of Easthollow hive, and millions of tons of untreated industrial waste escaped into the atmosphere.
In the weeks following the incident at Easthollow, it became quickly apparent as the death toll rose that there was no containing the environmental pollutants, even if the various warring factions could put aside their differences long enough to enact a plan. Evacuation of ‘loyal citizens’ of the planet was organised by the planetary government, but woefully few evacuation centres were arranged, and rebel blockades, rioting, and bandit roadblocks made travel all but impossible. It is estimated that of the entire population, less than 1 million people were on board when the evacuation ships left for good.
The current story on Caitiff takes place fifteen years after the ‘evacuation’, and the planet is a very different place. The air on the surface itself is poisonous, though microclimate and uneven spread of the toxins from Easthollow results in wide variation - small pockets of more hospitable land exist, whereas the radiation in some areas would kill a man within hours. The atmosphere has thinned, and water vapour is scarce, resulting in sweltering days and freezing nights. Plant life, too, has been all but extinguished on the surface, and sprawling cities stand empty and abandoned – almost all surviving humans live in the vast hives, where filtration systems ensure relatively clean air to breathe. Humanity still thrives, adapting as it always has, and small, self-governing settlements exist throughout the world. Supply leads to wealth, and the settlements near clean water or functioning manufactorums quickly grew in power. With no central government, though, war and conflict are constant. Manufacture still takes place, though with no off-world interest raw materials are scarce. Scavengers pick through the corpses of the old world for technology that can no longer be reproduced, or simply materials or product that would be useful to surviving communities. This work is lucrative, but dangerous – many a team of fully equipped soldiers has failed to return from relatively simple pick-ups. Hardier creatures still stalk the surface – wiry, venomous nightmares that occasionally find their way into the deeper depths of the towering cities. Outside of the rudimentary justice system of the settlements, anarchy rains, and gangs of murderous outlaws and bandits control vast swathes of the surface. Dark rumours persist of cannibalistic or mutated sects sweeping the land (always one continent over, or in an uncontactable hive); or of hive cities on the other side of the planet unaffected by the toxins, where crops still grow, the air is clear and clean water flows. The sensible take these stories for what they are. Life is hard on Caitiff, but, for better or worse, humanity prevails. Hopefully I'll be doing a summary of the major factions in Rookpoint Spire (including the QA and a scavvy group) over the next few days. Hopefully that's vaguely interesting, and feel free to TL;DR away if it's not really your thing Final thing for today (mainly just so it's not ENTIRELY a massive wall of text), mini update on Scratch. I attacked her with a file set to get a little bit of a more feminine shape. She's actually progressed a little further, but no photos yet. Hope you like!  |
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Post by Gabriel Lupus on Jun 26, 2011 15:35:06 GMT -5
I actually found the "wall of text" to be quite interesting (but then,as you know, it's the background and fluff that really make an army/project for me...).
Looking forward to seeing Scratch finished off!
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Post by 3ff3ct on Jun 26, 2011 16:25:12 GMT -5
O 3ff3ct - I'm sure it wasn't meant that way, right?! No of course not, I'm just very anti-PC, not because Im a racist but because I value the freedom of speech greatly, and being told I 'can't' express opinions (not that Id want to...) annoys me greatly. Hence I stoke the fires wherever possible Loved the fluff by the way, and Im waiting to see some of these mysterious beasties... |
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Post by Walrus on Jun 26, 2011 18:07:54 GMT -5
That wasn't a wall. If you spent some time reading the today thread, you would see some walls Anyway, I found it intriguing ;D |
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Post by egon on Jul 6, 2011 6:34:53 GMT -5
Just have to ask, what is that model? Greenstuff or necromunda or what? Looks awesome. Remember my rejigged Murdock? I decided I need to put some time into painting again last night (Exams, post-exam celebrations, hang-over recoveries and finally research project write-ups tend to take their toll on hobby time /excuses), and here's the results after another hour of two today. I've tried REALLY hard with highlights and shading on this guy, so hopefully it shows through. As always, comments and criticism are greatly appreciated (and I WILL get back to you all!), so please let me know what you think Thanks so much for all the support! |
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Post by Beav on Jul 6, 2011 8:47:46 GMT -5
Don't know where the figure is from but it uses a dkok grenade launcher XD
And greenstuff here and there. But it is 85% pewter I think
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Post by Batou on Aug 30, 2011 14:16:07 GMT -5
Hello, Scarper!
Long time not posting here (no, I didn't came back from the other side, I was a "little" busy ;p).
Anyway, I came, I saw and I... I'm really amazed, both with your painting and converting. Your army looks really god! I'm ashamed, time to paint something... Hope you'll be posting your another minis soon.
Now excuse me, I'm going to find and revive my old tread...
Cheers, BCI Batou.
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Post by Happyorange on Sept 2, 2011 18:27:28 GMT -5
I'd just like to say that think that your models are creative, well made, painted well, and generally just awesome. Also I'm incredibly jealous of your green stuff skills! |
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Post by Beav on Sept 3, 2011 2:38:44 GMT -5
I know this has been revived..
BUT I WILL NOT LET THIS DIE! >:C
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Post by Machine Gun Kelly on Sept 3, 2011 6:07:36 GMT -5
Today I looked through the whole thread and it is great fun to see your improvement in GS-fu and painting. All your models are really creative and well done, I can only hope that someday I will be as good as you are.
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Post by ElegaicRequiem on Sept 4, 2011 0:53:57 GMT -5
Update, or I release the tigers!
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Post by Beav on Sept 4, 2011 5:06:27 GMT -5
Stick(y) it to him!
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) I meant the old term for bugger, which I won't mention, and what I meant was how to you bugger somethign which doesn't have an arse?
great work dude 
/excuses), and here's the results after another hour of two today. I've tried REALLY hard with highlights and shading on this guy, so hopefully it shows through.
