Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inspiration. Show all posts
Thursday, 12 January 2017
Tuesday, 10 January 2017
282: J'migan bridge part 3
Wednesday, 4 January 2017
281: J'migan bridge part 2
(part one of the little narrative I'm building for an upcoming battle can be found here: part 1)
Every time he delved so deep within the infinity circuit, withdrawing became that little more difficult. Muscles took longer to respond, joints were stiffer, the feel of crystallisation within his limbs as bone became that little more attuned to the matrix was always a telling sign that each time may be the last, and he would finally join the others as a permanent fixture of the Garden of the Seers. Not this time though, the spirit of Kaela Mensha Khaine was stirring and the infinity circuit was awakening, hostility growing as the Craftworld readied for war.
Throughout the Craftworld, artesans set down their tools, artists their brushes, and the music halls and studios fell silent. Prompted by the prevailing mental currents, all of these otherwise peaceful members of the eldar community gravitated towards the warrior temples to begin the preparations for war.
It wasn’t only on a single craftworld that this occurred, for the warrior temples are linked throughout the galaxy via the webway, allowing those on the path of the Aspect to navigate to places where they are most needed. As the spirit of Kaela Mensha Khaine awakens in any one location, its effects ripple outwards through these webway links and so when a Craftworld goes to war, it is rarely alone.
The Bahzhakain of Biel-Tan was preparing for war. Their Seers have divined that the coming moments were ripe to reclaim the Maiden World of Yne’gen and cleanse the sacred sites of the cursed Mon-Keigh. They would not be alone, and their wrath would be terrifying...
Wednesday, 28 December 2016
278: J'migan bridge part 1
Ordo Xenos Inquisitorial intercept.
Ensure review of the following information and prepare for additional data inload.
Thursday, 29 October 2015
260: Mobile Suit Gundam - Assemble
A ways back in July, while in Japan, I bought a model of a Gundam, and finally I can show you the build. Kind of apt with the current re-launch of the Tau and all.
Firstly, despite everyone touting GW as the best model builders in the world etc. etc., they've definitely got a thing or two to learn from BanDai, the kit is staggering in its design and complexity.
Take a look at the sprue below. You may notice that the plastic has two tones of grey, that's because they are able to cast the sprue in at least two stages to produce pieces that are already articulated, with extremely complex joints and sliding parts, some actually cast within other parts to move like pistons.
The whole kit is press-fit, I didn't need a drop of glue, and the only time I used any tools was to remove the parts from the sprue, clean the odd mould line (far, far neater casting that GW), and to cut a few pieces of piping to length that were inserted into joints to represent hydraulics.
The kit was essentially two kits in one. The first was the fully articulated skeleton of the model that you can see below. Every joint was articulated with a very wide range of motion. In fact, as I continued to build the model I discovered more and more points of flexure and the number of poses that you could build is mind-blowing.
Once the skeleton is built, you add the armour panels to make up the final model. The different parts are cast in their appropriate colours so you don't even need to paint, and as before, every single piece is press-fit, highly secure, and there are individual pieces for every sub-part of the skeleton so none of the articulation is lost with the build.
The final result is absolutely brilliant, with multiple hands that can be swapped to allow different weapons to be gripped, all sorts of moving parts, and so much possibility.
Best of all, since returning, I've discovered that you can buy them on Amazon and other online retailers, so this guy might just be getting a friend sometime in the future.
Cheers
Andrew
Firstly, despite everyone touting GW as the best model builders in the world etc. etc., they've definitely got a thing or two to learn from BanDai, the kit is staggering in its design and complexity.
Take a look at the sprue below. You may notice that the plastic has two tones of grey, that's because they are able to cast the sprue in at least two stages to produce pieces that are already articulated, with extremely complex joints and sliding parts, some actually cast within other parts to move like pistons.
The whole kit is press-fit, I didn't need a drop of glue, and the only time I used any tools was to remove the parts from the sprue, clean the odd mould line (far, far neater casting that GW), and to cut a few pieces of piping to length that were inserted into joints to represent hydraulics.
The kit was essentially two kits in one. The first was the fully articulated skeleton of the model that you can see below. Every joint was articulated with a very wide range of motion. In fact, as I continued to build the model I discovered more and more points of flexure and the number of poses that you could build is mind-blowing.
Once the skeleton is built, you add the armour panels to make up the final model. The different parts are cast in their appropriate colours so you don't even need to paint, and as before, every single piece is press-fit, highly secure, and there are individual pieces for every sub-part of the skeleton so none of the articulation is lost with the build.
The final result is absolutely brilliant, with multiple hands that can be swapped to allow different weapons to be gripped, all sorts of moving parts, and so much possibility.
Best of all, since returning, I've discovered that you can buy them on Amazon and other online retailers, so this guy might just be getting a friend sometime in the future.
Cheers
Andrew
Monday, 20 April 2015
242: Facebook Finds - Henry Steele, The Overlords
Henry Steele is a contributor over on the Overlords group on Facebook and the weekend before last posted up this conversion which is simply amazing.
I absolutely love it and with full credit I think that once I get around to re-doing my Wolves will be borrowing heavily from it.
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