RIP in peace John Blanche the absolute legend edition.Previous Thread:>>98043484Check out here for useful links and a catalogue of relevant miniatures retailers:https://pastebin.com/nnNqqFLnThe Rogue Trader magazine article compilation:https://mega.nz/file/C4oSnArA#sA2O_7V6OnhZCOLCf0Sba1KW_wao3pZvc6IUmlHvpsk
WD 183 lol,, blood and shekels
It's important to remember Blanche not just for his 2d work, but his massive contributions to miniature painting and conversion as an artform. He was very much at the forefront of pushing miniature painting as a serious thing, getting it away from basic flat colours toy style painting, and using everything to hand. "Blanchitsu" wasn't a style, it was an educational column in White Dwarf, where they also happily solicited tips from readers to try out and add to the collective knowledge base.And importantly in the oldhammer context, he is directly responsible for bringing together all of the definitive artists of the era, setting the visual direction of everything, which is pretty huge.
>>98151367Anything else Blanche I should add to the memorial gofile?https://gofile.io/d/oedbAG
>>98151512Hopefully Trump doesn't become King and I can someday afford to import the old Jes Goodwin Asgard minis without eating fake and gay tariffs.
>>98151477To say that Blanche shaped how tabletop games look and feel would be an understatement. He brought an artistic vision to a nascent industry that saw art as decoration rather than atmosphere. There will never be anyone else like him, yet he will live on through his work and those he has inspired.
Stinking up the thread
I know another anon already made a set of refined 2e scans, but I wanted to get some practice in myself. I'd like to post these with the weapons attached to the arms, to save from having to cut and glue them. Will need a fellow 2e enthusiast with a printer to presupport and troubleshoot them, though.
>>98152417If you share them, I could probably give them a test print in the coming days
>>98152417Ignore the bolt pistol - yet to be done. Here's a before and after.
>>98152417>I'd like to post these with the weapons attached to the arms, to save from having to cut and glue them.Some of the Second Edition arms were angled in such a way that it was difficult to get an era-appropriate gun in the hand *and* a pauldron on the shoulder. The Phobos-pattern bolt guns came with a stock you could just snip off, but one shouldn't have to shave away pat of the gun or pauldron to make everything fit.
>>98152543Yes, I noticed this with the pistols. The right arm is at a right angle, and there's no room for the pauldron and pistols to fit comfortably. My solution was to mirror the left arm to the right so you can have either arm carry a pistol or chainsword and have everything fit nicely. Another solution would be to fit it all together with the pauldron attached to the arm too, but I want the pauldrons to be separate, personally.
>>98152417Are you proper merging the two meshes together? (Booleans) Otherwise, clean work. >>98152543We need a return to nubs. The posability of nub shoulders destroys flat butted shoulders. We have the technology.
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>>98152723They will be a proper single mesh once done.>>98152735Gotta love the 1mm thick coat of gloss varnish. RIP, John.
Johnny resculpting anon can we get an update please?
>>98151132>Where do you guys buy your oldhammer minis?>eBay is expensiveLook for lots of random bits. You'll often find RT parts or even whole minis mixed in with the conversion fodder. Check other auction sites for mis-labeled "toy soldier" and "figure" auctions. Be prepared to strip a lot of dogshit paint jobs and salvage blown conversions or damaged models. >LocallyCheck antique stores, thrift shops, and garage/yard sales. Estate sales too, these days. There may be a local auction house. Check for wargaming clubs and trading meetups in your area, especially on facebook; people are often willing to let models go for a lot less if they're going to someone who's planning to play with them.>>98152656Normally you trim off material at the flat on the shoulder to get it to fit, and/or use a small amount of Green stuff or Miliput under the pauldron and potentially in the armpit to get the proper offset with the rest of the armor.
>>98152735I appreciate his dedication to THICK gloss varnish.Preserved the fuck out of everything.I'm gonna go paint a white haired woman with loads of bionics and a big gun in tribute. And some clothing or weapon on there is gonna be RED as fuck in contrast. With a tiny bit of black/white chequerboard if I can manage it.
>>98152915Still here. As I said before beginning, time isn't always very generous to me, so I can't exactly sculpt daily. I'll try and get some more work done today, but can't guarantee to finish this week, sorry!
>>98153074Sadly, Hasslefree is dead so Kev White's tribute Amazons went with it. This model was so much fun to paint
>>98153485Yeah, they had a bunch of cool stuff. I bought a bunch of minis from them and wish I could've bought some more. Really wish someone would pick their stuff for production. I've seen companies sell their ranges to other companies.
>>98153269Never apologize for working for free.
>>98153572Allegedly Kev's wife and (goddamnit) Artemis are spending two years dead for tax purposes and then reconstituting. According to them> Sally's mom died, she crashed out> She says Kev couldn't do shit because Forge World has him chained in the basement on a non-compete and he's refused to go online for years anyway> Artemis went in for surgery to help with the TG Neuralgia. He'll totally recover and not spend that time playing Blood Bowl on Twitch>all those new hires that Artemis was training to replace him have of course leftMy money's on them stringing it out for 2-3 years more, then selling out to Crooked Dice when they can't pay for the storage anymore. CD already have a substantial chunk of Kev/Hasslefree's old sculpts. The company bought up Apocalypse Isle models, Otherworlds Skirmish, and Golgo Island, as well as commissioning Kev several times for other lines. They actually have the infrastructure and dedication to pick up 500+ molds, including a bunch of multiparts, and a very large line of "parody" models that fly particularly close to the sun. So their lawyers are primed and their staff are functional.
>>98153638>CD already have a substantial chunk of Kev/Hasslefree's old sculpts
Things are coming along well
Got a little work done today. I think he may be done, but I'll need to sleep on it and see if I find any new mistakes later.There are some areas that I find really rough, but either I don't have enough of a reference to resculpt them or they are warped in a way that would require a lot of resculpting/polymodeling. Particularly the pistol is still a bit blobby and uneven, but the alternative would be remaking it from scratch and that would lose the organic unevenness of the original, I think my rough resculpt will be a little bit more faithful, even if only in spirit.Any c&c?
>>98154330Honestly it looks great anon! It's come a long way and the lines read much more clearly!
>>98154330The bottoms of the pouches on his belt are all flat/squared rather than angled. The center pouch is slightly higher than the bottom of his buttplate, which confused the scanner on the scanned model. Other than that it looks pretty good
>>98154486Thanks, do you have any image I can reference there?I'm literally working from blurry photos and whatever details I can parse from higher res—but harder to look at—unpainted metals.
>>98154518I'll see if I can get a better pic of my Johnny later, dealing with chores right now
>>98154715No rush anon, I probably won't be able to work on it again until Friday, so it's all chill.
>>98151367okay reading through John Blanche's Wikipedia page and it mentions he worked as an assistant to a taxidermist for a time in his youth, and in retrospect I can definitely see how that likely had some measure of influence on his art
Love this for the use of epic scale minis for the forced perspective.
>>98155439You can also use Inquisitor scale models with regular 40k scale models.
>>98155492lmao
Good morning, anons. Took a break from cleaning arms and pistols to de-damn (or un-lost, re-find?) a LoTD torso. Would be cool to produce a whole set of of these. Grenade and pouch added. I think they match the aesthetic, no? Really, posting to help keep the thread active. What is everyone working on hobby-wise?
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>>98156687Old school Beakies vs old school metal hormaguants
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>>98153485>Sadly, Hasslefree is deadThat's a shame. At least another site is still releasing the existing minis. Hasslefree did some cool stuff and I've got a dozen or so of their minis in my collection.
>>98156719Old Armorcast Exocrine from before Forgeworld was even a thing. GW let Armorcast float the idea of large resin models to see if there was a market and the hose Armorcast by revoking the licenses and starting Forge World.
>>98156772Armorcast Dactylis with an old 2nd Ed metal biovore.
>>98156772>>98156795Dang that's nice anon
>>98156772>>98156795I want to play wherever these games are happening!
>>98156673very sexy anon
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>>98156095That's humorous, as the 3rd edition LoTD were stock minis with extra bits carved/sculpted on.
>>98158070>>98151458if they'd said "sand dollars" it would have been a mixed metaphor; in any case shekels are a couple of thousand years older than the jews
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>>98160392>Apothecary! I am wounded!
>>98160900The Mk VI beekee medic with the angel flag who appears in the Second Edition rulebook used to be in a glass case at GW Hammersmith. That was more than 20 years ago. I wonder where it is now...
>>98161508The Hammersmith store also housed the entire Ultramarines chapter, an exercise that all the GW stores in Bongland worked together on for Games Day one year. The display was so big that I couldn't back up far enough (GW Hammersmith was just a gap between two buildings with a roof over it, really!) to capture the whole thing with one shot from my camera!
I'm like 70% through Ian Watson's Space Marine and Jesus H. Christ this book is hard gay. Nothing could have prepared me for the amount of bulging loincloths, hot brands on clenched buttocks, sacred excrement relics, titan weapon bay womb fisting, flushed baboon vagina warp portals being presented for penetration, Tyranid fleet ass ramming, and all around beyond lurid prose. Squats riding cyborg Ambulls is nothing compared to a quadriplegic Space Marine having his ass licked clean by a specialized servitor. Assuming Watson was just giggling the whole time as he wanked out this psycho sexual bolter porn. At least now I am mentally primed to read Inquisitor.
>>98163415iirc it came out around a major reissue of Alan Dean Foster's Alien novels which had coincided with Alien3 and was likely hoping for a segment of the same audience; they almost certainly intended Watson's books to simply be a weird tour of 40k as it looked at the time, hence he has Jaq Draco and Lexandro D'Arquebus on endless journeys that never change anything or really mean anything; even when Draco meets the Emperor, the Emperor basically shrugs and does some Pratchett-like Death bit where he stops just shy of going NOTHING MATTERS - OH BUGGER, MY ARM'S FALLEN OFF as the culmination to what three, four novels at that stage?but it does its job of fitting in every faction and setting it can - even the Inquisitor cover art, if you ever see the wider pieces, is extremely weird with pre-1990s Chaos Space Marines fighting alongside Genestealer Cults against Draco, his entourage, guard and space marines - which is all it really existed for, as a showcase of the setting filled with gross descriptive detail to humanise these little metal mans
>>98163685Yeah, it's glorious. And I'm down with the unhinged, anything goes setting. Rogue Trader had a far more interesting universe than later 40K. It's the prurient prose where everything has a dick/vagina/asshole based metaphor describing it that gets me. The out of combat parts of the book are all pretty good, and the early Confrontation based life on Necromunda descriptions were excellent. Can't imagine how Watson is going to wrap this up.
>>98163685He meets the Emperor at the end of novel 1 after a very long warp jump after the daemonworld and then years long slog to get across Terra (mostly unaccounted for) where he assumes he's classed as having gone rogue due to the whole "accidental" exterminatus business, and honestly, it's kind of perfect. He's just an insane amalgamation of too many minds that don't know what's going on except they have some kind of plan because they must do because they're the Emperor.Like what else would the Emperor be in 40k at that point? This is the RT era one (post-invention of the Horus heresy/realms of chaos books to give a little detail), the one that's a mashed up bunch of druids and shit that were trying to enact some kind of long term plan to save humanity from falling to Chaos and well, got stuck being a lighthouse being fed psykers. The absolute monster creature that's seen thousands of years of the worst, of everything going to shit in his name, whilst all the bits of him are having to keep track of so much all at once with endlessly fighting chaos, answering prayers, influencing the tarot, empowering individuals, occasionally somehow giving out messages that dictate his will somehow, appearing on burnt toast...It could never happen again (in an official capacity, fanfiction of course hell yeah I wish more were so bold) but honestly I think his work is some of the most absolutely bang-on to original intention interpretation of 40k as a setting. Just revelling in the madness, the brutality, the grotesqueness... and a bit of dark and juvenile humour even for good measure. If it were a 2000AD comic strip (though it's a bit adult perhaps even for that... maybe if it were in Heavy Metal?) it'd make perfect sense alongside Nemesis the Warlock or the like. Unsurprisingly.
But a lot of the studio artists were also toeing the line, with Paul Bonner, Adrian Smith and Tony Hough all turning in works that would only be published heavily cropped or censored, if it all. Just edgy times all around.
"STLs, Johnny, they're all STLs!"
>>98164612Johnny anon here, I think he's pretty much done now.It's pretty late, so I'll head to bed and once I'm back awake I'll check in lychee for errors and export a supported version. If the weather's not too cold, I may even be able to get a test print going.
Table for tonights game. Dunno which armies will play, we got premade 500 pt lists for quick pick up games like this, we're just gonna roll a dice to see who plays what.
>>98166522> Da TableSerious Rogue Trader vibes detected...
>>98166974>Rogue Trader vibesI think that was the point.
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>>98167018Indeed. Just commenting on how well done it is.
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>>98167076Oh fug, they're attacking Forgeworld Tostitos, a vital source of rations for the Emperor's armies!
>>98167217And this is why the Imperium can't have anything nice.KEK! I knew someone was going to spot that in the background.
>>98167059>matching terrain for the armyI love it so much, such a great look>>98166974Thanks, I got some great pointers from these threads
>>98167076The tastefully painted 3rd edition foliage. Very nice.
>>98169854Anglo face.
>>98170020https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GurnGurning is a venerable British pastime.
>>98164063I love the magus waving a spoon around, and the patriarch next to him looking back like "seriously? a spoon" to the guys off camera
>>98173258It's a mic, and also probably a Dune (1984) reference.He's probably dropping sick rhymes dissing Vitali Googol.
Hello, fa/tg/uys. I was busy this weekend, but I did build a significant collection of 2e marines and guard. Finished refining the bolt pistol. Reconstructed the bottom of the mag. Want to get the power fist and power swords on some arms and then I'll try supporting everything.>>98167059Those are some beautiful foam package buildings. The nid' colors are perfect, too.
>>98173356>THE BENE GESSERIT WITCH MUST LEAVE
>>98164104Compare that to AoS. Even if you sand the edges off forever, 40k has that edginess at its roots.
>>98164063lmao
He prints well, methinks
>>98173840>Compare that to AoS.It's basically just an ilustration of that short story about the spider cult prisoners from few years back?
>>98174496Wonderful! We are now a part of the tribe!
Played my silver skulls versus my friends crimson fists. Had a lot of fun, did some night fighting and destructible buildings. Do y'all enjoy rogue trader? If so what's you're experience with it?
>>98174496I come bearing gifts.aHR0cHM6Ly9saW1ld2lyZS5jb20vZC9pQW1EciN4YTVaYlhYd2Jq
>>98179244Thank you very much anon! I have some friends who are amazing with 3D printers. I will have to get them to make some of these for me.Luckily, I also have a good supply of bases and backpacks.
>>98178866>Do y'all enjoy rogue trader? If so what's you're experience with it?I haven't played Rogue Trader in over 30 years, anon. There were a lot of neat expansive things in Rogue Trader, but it felt less like a balanced wargame, as if they were trying to write down wild roolz for all the wacky shit they could dream up without trying to make it playable.It's fun, but I think 2nd Edition can be *more* fun if you play with the right bunch of folks.
>>98174773I meant the general atmosphere, not that specific drawing.
I'm still tinkering with recreating old models with AI. I can get pretty good results with most figures but I've hit a wall with the old LE2. Multiple programs, lots of reference images, etc but it just doesn't seem to want to get it right. Did get a dead on recreation of the old Ventolin Pirate though.
>>98179244Fuckin legend!
>didn't have anything booked in for BOYL, and there was unusually barely any participation stuff on the calendar>BOYL cancelledHuh I guess I might actually play something at "Bootleg BOYL" if it happens
>>98179489we only play the core book, so if anything in the compendium or astronomicon changes the rules I wouldn't know. I've had the opposite experience with 2nd edition unfortunately. Even playing with my best friend, I didn't really have a good time.
>>98179489>as if they were trying to write down wild roolz for all the wacky shit they could dream up without trying to make it playable.And this is why: "Orks vs Marines - Winner: Bio-wire bombs." or "Mr. Vortex Grenade is no one's friend once Mr. Pin is pulled." or the ever classic "IG army arrives with defective ammo. No shooting allowed HTH only."
>>98181126>we only play the core book, so if anything in the compendium or astronomicon changes the rules I wouldn't know.To me, the biggest thing those books introduce is army lists.Chapter Approved: the Book of the Astronomican has a narrative campaign with Space Wolves vs Orks, plus army lists for the White Scars, space pirates, and a Rogue Trader's entourage.The Compendium has lists for Space Marines, Squats, and Imperial Guard, plus roolz for things like Chaplains, robots, dreadnoughts, bikes, Land Raiders, Predators, and so on. It collects and compiles articles from White Dwarf that GW published as they released models for things that would become standard fare in some later editions.It also has this famous illustration by Russ Nicholson that is not in the original White Dwarf article for the Space Marine army list.
>>98181225Biowire bombs are not that effective, void grenade is basically the editions virus bomb, and where is the last one coming from? I'm mainly curious because if you took bio wire bombs in a pointed game of rogue trader they're 250 points a bomb, and spawn a 2"x2" of bio wire and scatter d20 inches on a 2+. Not to mention bio wire can be destroyed by a bunch of weapons or instantly with anti-plant grenades. And there is a random subplot that any army can be given faulty ammo from the mechanicum but you don't have to play with those rules they're to make a little story it's not intended to be balanced.
>>98164104Can't show evil being too evil, or nature being too disgusting in the 'Nid case I guess.
>>98181225we used to have a rule through RT and 2E that you could only throw a vortex grenade if you the player were able to physically solve a rubiks cube in under five minutes, which worked because we were talentless kids with very little patience
>>98183150The neat thing about the Vortex Grenade(s) was that it was the great equalizer. You couldn't be sure which - if any - of the models in the opposing army had one, and if you sunk all your points into some massive Demon Lord Overfiend that could single-handedly wipe the entire board clean of the enemy army, he might be the one who found himself ripped out of reality by a portable black hole.In second edition, they outfoxed the fox by introducing a Vortex Detonator as a vehicle upgrade. It had the same points cost as the grenade itself.
>>98183210>pay 50pts. for a vortex grenade>or pay 50pts. to counter a vortex grenade the opponent might haveQuestion: Did 2e passenger count as being on the field? As in, if you put a character with a vortex grenade into a transport with a detonator, will he explode the moment the game starts or the moment he steps out of the vehicle?
>>98183604The Vortex Detonator works when the model with the grenade tries to use it as per the card's text. If you have both a Vortex Grenade *and* a Vortex Detonator, I should hope you remember to keep them far apart enough that the latter won't detonate the former.
>>98181991We're talking about Rogue Trader era 40K. Bio-wire bombs could easily continue to multiply and spread turn after turn effectively consuming the entire board or damn near all of it. As for Void Grenades, in the era when each individual IG trooper in a squad could lob a Krack or Frag grenade template, the Void grenade was truly a weapon that tested one's faith in RNGesus. Watching it land and consume 2/3rds of the enemies' command squad, only to have it travel randomly across the board next turn and it have it consume your own Land Raider full of Termies was a sight to behold. And "The IG have defective ammo" was simply one of the scenario conditions that could crop up at random in a scenario involving IG forces.
>>98179244Legend. Now I haveto make him into a World Eater :)
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>>98184950Bio wire spreads 1/2" every turn on a roll of a 6 it wouldn't be that bad even in a 12 turn game that's twice on average. The scenarios are that, scenarios, its there with no intention of fair play. And void grenades are surprisingly hard to use, you can't move and throw them and sometimes they kill 1.5" of something and fizzle out or just move around a little, only a 10% chance they start splitting, and there is nothing in the book that tells you you should equip a lot of people with void grenades it's an uncommon weapon even in the random charts in the book.
>>98179244Spoonfeed me please, I thought it was a mega link but it doesn't seem to work
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Should I ask about 5th edition 40k here or in the 40k general?
>>98188456Neither, and you should feel bad for suggesting itbantz aside this is probably where you're going to get the most helpful answer
>>98179489The game that suggests you should have someone acting as a GamesMaster and even if you don't have one the presumed way to play is to talk to your opponent and come up with story scenarios isn't perfectly balanced for WAAC tournament play?Surely not.
>>98188836>SpoilerI thought that might be the case. Well here's my question and if anybody fancies answering then that would be appreciated. I've just won a mostly complete Kustom Meka-Dredd on eBay and I'm wondering how to build it, I also have the spare parts to convert it into a Mega Dredd. The really obvious "best" load out is to keep it as a Meka-Dredd and just take the KFF and use it as a close combat Tank Buster right? (5-6 S10 attacks with a +1 on the vehicle destruction table) None of the other options for the Meka-Dredd seem that good. In terms of potential Mega Dredd builds I guess the Supa-scorcha seems good for wiping Marines but otherwise it just seems like trying to lean into dodgy Ork shooting seems like a waste. What do people think?
>>98188957Who gives a shit about rules, isn't that a rare model? Just build it properly, give it a nice paint job and play with it if you get a chance.
ebay rescue zerkers
>>98191241absolutely sick anon, love the guy with the eviscerator conversion
Hey gang, scored a set of metal chaos terminator scans, I think there's a body missing and there are some soft details on some of the pieces, but it's a pretty decent set all round. Enjoy!aHR0cHM6Ly9nb2ZpbGUuaW8vZC95OVVlaFU=
>>98191311>I think there's a body missing.God, I hate chitubox.
>>98191241Love the overdone red anon, how'd you do it?
>>98191311>>98191782Barring the couple of MASSIVE bits, they seem to be a bit underscale. Going by how much they hang ten on 25mm bases in the catalog.
>>98192061Going by the 10mm grid here, they should be ~33mm-35mm tall depending on squat amount. Which matches measurements from my Deathwing metals. Only have the RT ones otherwise which are a bit smaller . A lot of non-manifold geo and flash/vents on the bits too. I would consider this set barely printable as is, needs some love and booleans. But a nearly complete set of 0311 Chaos Terminators, and 0319 Chaos Champion, only missing 1 champ head, champ power axe, and the heavy flamer. So thanks for the share >>98191311 I'll try and fix it up a bit.
>>98191271Thanks :) >>98191804The red is: black primer -> bone drybrush -> white drybrush -> contrast Baal Red
>>98193460Oh and the red is shaded with Agrax Earthshade!
>>98191311Thanks a lot anon! These will be getting printed and painted up for sure!
Sup Grogs? You're my last hope here. Do any of you happen to have a scan of Games Workshops Gladiator historical game? All I can find is the Barbarian Expansion.
>>98192416More than happy to share the goodies around, mate. I must say thank you for the breakdown on the technical details I just do not understand how to look for with this scans and files. I hope to see what your own refinements to these guys will turn up.As ever, I will do my best to bring to light whatever oldhammer scans I can uncover from the depths of telegram and the racist schizos I meet on discord.
The winners for that Oldhammer-focused painting competition for those who carehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eed638uXzDYwebsite to see all the entries>https://oldendemon.com/competition/olden-demon-2026/?category=Classic+-+Fantasy&level=Standard
>>98198056Level was pretty high this year, in all categories. I didn't expect to rank at all but was very surprised how many participated and how good everyone was.
>>98164070I am of the opinion that Ian Watson's interpretation of the Emperor is timelessly perfect and even today should be considered the canon version. I was on the fence about how I felt reading through Inquisitor although there were bits that I definitely liked here and there, but the end sequence with the infiltration of Terra sold it for me as a masterpiece even before he met the Emperor and that was just icing on the cake with how good it was.
Should I base my Epic bases with foam flock or sawdust flock? They're going to be painted in Goblin Green.
>>98164070>revelling in the madness, the brutality, the grotesqueness...Dark Coil gets away with this by setting everything off the beaten path.
>>98198459Foam flock doesn't seem like it would look right at Epic scale, even if you painted it. What about sand sealed with PVA glue and painted Goblin Green?
>>98179244This is amazing. Thank you for your work. Truly a testament to your chapter.
>>98198459Sand a wine cork on rough sandpaper, it's the perfect scale. Of course you have to paint it yourself with super diluted greens, so -1 for easy to use.
Holy fucking soul.
>>98202924This archived blog is a horror show of ridiculous shit approaching Bundo Kess levels of awesome.
Currently decimating and merging my set of refined arms, backpacks, and CCW's. I don't really know how to support them, but I'm going to take a shot at it anyways. Would you all prefer just the unsupported STL's?
>>98204493The autism compelled me to make them donut steel OC dudes
>>98204450Either is good, I'm really looking forward to this
>>98204334>This archived blogLink?
>>98204334God damn. I love people leaning into the weird irregular stuff. Leaving the lower part of the marine helmets to look like some kind of respirator setup is just so good.
>>98204578https://web.archive.org/web/20251119093607/https://area-23.blogspot.com/Amazingly well archived despite so many closed old blogspot blogs being broken messes. Loads of excellent toy conversions and love for older Copplestone ranges.
>>98151477Flat toy style shading was better.There I said it.
>>98205391You may only make that assertion while posting Bundo Kess or a jar of Humbrol gloss varnish.
>>98205588>gloss>flatPick one.
>>98205588Not gloss enough we need to go glossier
>>98174496>>98179244And he's done!It was a fun project to resculpt, print and paint this lad, and now I've finally got my own Johnny. Hopefully other anons can print and paint their own in due time.
>>98208526very nice
>>98208526Really nice chipping on that little guy
>>98208526Post another photo from a different angle.
>>98179244>>98208526Pretty damn good, anon. I got lots of scans myself. If you want something in return feel free to ask.
Sup Grognards, I just finished my first version of my own homebrew 4E Orks codex (that I'm happy with). I tried making a mix of the 3E and 4E ones, trying to apply the design of the 3.5 CSM dex.Would you guys mind giving me some feedback? How do you like the options? How balanced it is? For the record, I'm not trying to turn this into waaacfag competitive dex meant to crush tournaments or anything, but I'd like to avoid obvious auto-include and auto-exclude options, as well just the whole dex either being too underpowered (not fun to play with) or overpowered (not fun to play against).This is, of course, a WIP, and it doesn't include the following elements:>No named characters yet. They're low priority to me>No Snakebitez or Kult of Speed rules. I feel like I'd be able to tackle them better as a supplement to this custom dex, if it ends up being good enoughhttps://files.catbox.moe/9hxsow.pdf
>>98208526This is absolutely gorgeous! Fantastic work both re-designing and painting.Maybe someday we'll meet at the Citadel and could take a group picture!
>>98209295A lil booty shot
>>98209318>https://files.catbox.moe/9hxsow.pdfDo it have a foot-shaped template for Da Foot Of Gork (Or Possibly Mork)?
>>98210551No, but I really should add it
Arm anon here. I'm getting side tracked. I need a techmarine, so I'm knocking him out real quick, but the back vent looks so bad. I decided to swap it with a 3rd ed. backpack vent. I may do the same for the regular marine power packs...I will include both versions in the files.
Oh, I made axe arms too. The stuff you see here is optimized and merged as one mesh. Ready for supports.
>>98211123>>98211135Can you cook up a plasma blaster for terminator character? There isn't real model for it, at least to my knowledge
>>98211295I've got what I need to make those, but those scans are pretty rough. I'll consider them next for sure.
>>98211329That would be dope, really looking forward for this set to release
>>98211135My good man I have already done this and moreI made a whole pack with like, everything from the 2nd edition marines pretty much
>>98212844Where can we get access to this pack?
>>98212999gramI have made packs of like every faction so far handing them outBecause nobody else wouldBut I do it on the gram and just on the gram
>>98213046>But I do it on the gram and just on the gramwhy
>>98213385Because sitting for ten years uploading everything to a file hoster is a massive waste of time I already spent years working on these+sitting waiting for them to upload just to there
>>98213386how big?
>>98213393Sorted AND cleanedLike maybe 5-10 something gb of the folder unfinished retro homebrew projects You can get a single model down to like 10-20 mb and have it still look pretty good people don't realize it or care much I guess
>>98213400yes, single model to around 10 mb is doablethat amount should upload in an hour or two at most with normal connection
>>98213517>that amount should upload in an hour or two at most with normal connectionIf you're in like California with like 300 dollar a month internet then maybe........
>>98213531nah, it's like 40 USD a month in Eastern EU :^)
>>98213517>10 mb>that amount should upload in an hour or two at most with normal connectionAre you in fucking rural Africa?
>>98213612no, I was referring to the ~45 GB
>>98213046>gramAre you in the "yellow skull server" by any chance? Would like to check if I downloaded your stuff.
>>98213046He's doing this outside the circlejerk, let the man cook
>>98212844Thanks, anon. I saw this before, but I wanted to refine my own set according to my own sensibilities. Also, powerpack spacer for character models since GW never checked to see if they actually fucking fit.
>>98213787Yea I'm not in any server or group, literally besides my own file storage which I don't let anybody into it's just an easy way to forward stuff and yes it's been cooking for yearsThe paywall shit they do with old models actually disgust me and is insult to oldhammer in general>>98213779Not in any groups just give me your user if you want anything>>98213881These look greatRelated pic, the old style grot tank and grot mega tank (modeled off a tsar tank) next to some random modelsI made some vaguely oldhammer style vehicles in blender to go along with the factions too I plan to also make a homebrew codex for everything after it's all done, because I feel like it
>>98217445@JohnPliskinI'd love any RT or 2nd Ork stuff you've got. RT Eldar as well.Got stuff to share depending on what you're after.
>>98218056John you already have me added
>>98218068Lol, I wasn't sure senpai. With anon boards I never know. Maybe your spirit of giving had spread!
>>98217445@sorcery_soupI'd also love any RT/2nd ed Marines, chaos and Eldar, if you've got any
>>98217445@Da_Great_Taktikal_BossI already have lots of scans, but I'm still looking for these FW models: An'ggrath the Unbound, a Mourngul and as a Mars Pattern Baneblade (and yes, I know two of these aren't Oldhammer).Like I said before, if you want anything in return just say it. I have no issues with sharing this stuff, scan or proxy.
>>98220784Sorry man I don't do forgeworld at allAny stuff past 2nd edition frankly besides the ork stuff
oaintin having fun just doing stuff when i can yep
>>98163415Does look pretty cool though
>>98221535Aw :(Hmmm... Well, maybe you can help me with these Blood Axes miniatures from RT:>Warboss>Nob>Mekaniak
>>98223074Nice banana head, dweeb
>>98225192blue banana?? baka…
>>98224317Yee
>>98226262>Anon's bananas aren't blue
>>98223074Is that a plastic Guardian with a reposed head? I like those Guardians, but they only had lasguns and by the time the metal shuricat kit was released, the shuricats had already been redesigned to look stupid.
>>98226989hes actually fully metal 1 piece. idk if hes rogue trader era or what. i think i was surprised by him being metal when i received him desu lol.top right pic
>>98226283Nice! Would you like something in return?
you should probably download all the Scrungaloids in case they get v& by GW againhttps://cults3d.com/en/users/open_sketch/3d-modelsthere's the "sample pack" with 100+ stls, and the three separate mini-samples
>>98209318Hope you're still about anon, I wanted to respond earlier but apparently one of the trannyjannies is a big Putler fan and thinks discussing war in a wargame thread is offtopic raiding.You've done a fantastic job. I've gone through it a couple of times and as yet nothing is leaping out at me and screaming "this will fuck up games". There's occasional bits where the language could use some "may/must" clarifications for the sake of avoiding doubt, but nothing where your intentions were unclear. I'm going to add it to my Groghammer trove for the local club and see if I can get a few games in against it.
i wanted to make a small fully-robed dark angel force with 2e arms and bolters, but the 3rd edition bodies are just too big i guess. this is after filing and everything and it dont look right to me.
>>98229647I've already printed out abut 30 of them, but a bunch are failed prints because I'm still dialing in the settings. They're very enjoyably goofy and characterful minis. I'm still hoping for some heavy weapon wielding scrungs.
>>98233083I'd reposition his right arm slightly to his left to angle his wrist better
>>98233543idk how to do that without filing his shoulder away, or bulging it out with greenstuff and it looking weird.
>>98231498Looks great. Scratchbuilt extra armour?
>>98236674>Looks great. Scratchbuilt extra armour?Thanks!Yes, the side panels are stiff posterboard, and the other parts are a mixture of old metal Hellhound armour, SOB Immolator front panels, and the spare track links from the old RT-era Land Raider.
What's the special sauce of 2e 40k that makes you come back to it over new editions and other games for this scale of battles?
>>98236638Speaking of dreads. If one would like too look for .stl of OG one(like the ones on the sides), under what name should he look?
>>98238255Dice, cards, templates, datafaxes, random tables, armylists, rules, in no particular order I guess. But most of all I like the visuals, especially all the art in codexes.
>>98238338Oi boyz "'Ere We Go!" fell off from Mega, could someone link me up with it ?
>>98233096What are you printing on? Any pointers with these prints specifically?>>98229647I'd like to have a scrungaloid army, but I want to resculpt the nurse aprons and acid spitter gloves.
>>98236638All my metal dreads are dented where the front panel connects to the back...
>>98151512Hello - it looks like most of these have gone to cold storage - is there an accessible version still for non-account holders? Tnx.And bravo to whoever is doing the 3D scans, like, holy shit those look great.
>>98239631Disposable gofiles only last 10 days.
>>98239598All my (2nd Edition) metal dreads look like they could be brothers or something.>>98238560>Oi boyz "'Ere We Go!" fell off from Mega, could someone link me up with it ?aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWdhLm56L2ZpbGUvMnZvUXdCRFIjZG9Lck5GbG5tTC1vNG8tZ3FhWlVudllHWHhaWWdQbF9GNWVEQVdaZG5sZw==
>>98240131Thanks, but which site is it ?
>>98210551Now it has the Foot of Gork (or Mork) psychic power. Should've added it before.No foot template though, since this isn't 2nd Edition. Just regular Large Blast template.>>98232752Hey man, glad to hear that. Was a bit disappointed by the lack of answers. I've made a further revision, adding the power mentioned above and fixing some wording and mistakes (such as leaving Big Shootas with the range of the standard Shoota).https://files.catbox.moe/snt4by.pdf
>>98240338>Thanks, but which site is it ?Time not important. Only life important.
>>98238952>What are you printing on? Any pointers with these prints specifically?I'm using a Sonic Mini 4k. None of the presupported files printed well for me, so I wound up doing my own supports, which have been printing fine. Make sure to be careful around the flanges for the backpack vents because they can be brittle.
>>98240894Thanks again. I thought it was a magnet link for torrents Wonder if this one will be as good as Freebooters. Probably nothing as visibly broken as Death Skullz rules.
>>98155439Amazing stuff here I need to comb through my old white dwarfs again and regain my passion for hobbying.
Whats Blitzcannon ? Orks can upgrade Battle Wagon to it but there is no prpfile in Vehicle Annex or really anywhere else.
>>98243844>I thought it was a magnet link for torrentsIt's the whole whole "Bonnie Situation" all over again.
>>98246623I really like homie on the left.
>>98246623It really bothers me how their feet go so much over the base edge
>>98248207This is why I use modern base sizes for everything. Marines go on 32mm, Terminators of all generations go on 40mm.
>>98248440ban this sick filth
>>98248526I'm right, call me a heretic all you want
>>98248440>not using Gorka Morkan oval basesbaka how do you even want to fit all of your dudes inside of a rhino ?
Always one of the more depressing threads to check in on. It's like you filled a room full of young, vibrant, constantly-farting people and then sealed the room for 18 years before reentering it to smell the dead farts while a chyron scrolled detailing all of their subsequent divorces and deaths
>>98248440>>98248533Literally based, looks good. I'm still too much of a purist to base all like that but ive done this to some characters and single squads. >>98248822I think you meant this whole website minus this thread
>>98217445@MondinatorIf you're still in this thread, I'm mostly looking for old marines and orks, but would take anything you have! Trying to flesh out my collection of retro models
>>98241070got any pics of those prints? I'm thinking about doing the same and getting going on a retro chapter.
Is the bolter on the terminator honours captain supposed to be bent like this?
>>98250785I can't say for certain, I don't have that model anymore, but that more looks like a slip of the mould to me than a bend.
>>98248822nah this thread is cozy, the truly depressing thread is /wip/ turning uncozy :(
>>98248822>Always one of the more depressing threads to check in on.Seems fine to me.
>>98251035>the truly depressing thread is /wip/ turning uncozy :(Do I even wanna know? it's the craftsperg again isn't it
>>98248822If you're that good at imagining shit you should probably just channel your mental problems into writing a novella rather than projecting onto the thread
>>98250785Maybe they just get that way from being in a blister, but mine's bent, too.
>>98252272>>98250785A lot of models with that kind of pose get bent in the mastering process. They basically heat up two big fuck-off hockey pucks of rubber until they're soft, throw talc on them, and smash the master in-between in a hydraulic press. The first round of casts usually become the masters. Each mold only lasts for a few thousand castings (more or less, depending on the amount of undercuts and how carefully they're managed), then they have to make another one with a master casting. So you can see quite a few models from really long-running companies where the master has clearly picked up some dings or bends along the way. In some cases the master wears out and they have to do a "good enough" second casting -- the classic Dragonscale Atlas and Mackie from Iron Wind have both had the distinctive double mold lines from double-mastering since at least the late 1990s, and I got one of those directly from the factory.
>>98249431I sent a message
Does anyone know if Advanced Space Crusade Tyranid Warrior deathspitters the bodies of the metal 2nd edition Tyranid Warriors?
>>98251983nah just seems like a few trolls moved in, that or just really angry fuckheads who love arguing and shitting up the thread
>>98220784>>98252636You didn't send me one :(
>>98253053If you're talking about the big tan ones with the stingers, the arms are roughly compatible. You're still gonna have to do some cutting, pinning, and GS work to blend them properly at the shoulder. Kind of expected with their metals of that era anyway. The metal weapon support arms are about twice as thick as the Space Crusade plastics, the metal legs are nearly identical, and the metal's claws are absolutely xbawx fuckhueg compared to the relatively compact power fists on the SC plastics....also Reaper has a sneekybreeky model that makes a decent Lictor/warrior base hidden in their back catalog and a few other interesting heads/bodieshttps://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/02517 - Genestealer/lictor/warrior hybridhttps://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/50289 - Funky alternate Screamer-killer head optionhttps://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/02976 - definitely not a Starship Troopers warrior Bughttps://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/03334 - Claws, including crabclaws, and tentacleshttps://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/02902 - horny Zoanthrope/Flying Warrior/small Hive Tyranthttps://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/03440 - more claws and tentacles along with Horny Zoanthrope's head if you don't want a Horny Zoanthrope for some reasonhttps://www.reapermini.com/miniatures/14076 - Definitely not an Enslaver
>>98240131My m8 made this art screen-print, I got it free since apparently it's a slightly mis-aligned print. Instantly reminded me of you Blood Angel anon :P
