Dragon's Teeth

Pretty straight forward, just get an ice cube tray, get some wire and make an appropriate shape to lay down in each mold, then pour plaster inside and wait for it to dry. Whenever you think it's ready, it will be. If it's a little moist you can pop it in a toaster oven for a little while. Sorry for one of my pics being blurry, but I was trying to see how they compare to troop height, and these are pretty decent. I'll be burying them a little bit since I didn't make the bottoms smooth enough, so that will help, and it can help you if your molds are really big.

These aren't done though, I still need to add details like chipped off corners and edges in some parts (hence the wire), and bullet holes and small blasts, and that's where the wire comes in to simulate the rebar inside. Over all, these are pretty good if you want to make terrain impassable for vehicles but usable as cover for troops.

Resources

Pics pretty much speak for themselves, I got a cool clip tree thing that I can use to work with, battle brothers got reinforcements, I dug up some trees from scenery I had around, I got that funky green thing, and a couple of money shots of some other possessions :p

The trees, each leaf is huge, but I can easily replace them with flock if need be.

Statue Progress

Alright, so it was dry enough today to start detailing. I was using that white air dry compound, I think it's just white glue mixed with corn syrup, yeah next time I'd make my own if it wasn't so aggravating to work with. Could work ok as a filler though aluminum is cheaper and easier to use. Also lighter. Still, I used it because I still have some left, and also because I needed to give it a concrete-like finish, and this seems like it has a smooth texture. It will probably crack a bit on the surface as it shrinks, but that's cool. Also, it should absorb paint very well. A detail I forgot to mention is that I added a layer of thinned down white glue to the bare clay so that this would adhere properly.

The good thing is that experience and patience get you through this, so here are my results. I used styrofoam as a core, it protruded a bit in some places just under the surface, and any heat will basically melt it and leave a thin enough shell that you can break through and make a hole. The cracks appeared naturally on my unevenly humidified clay. Anyway, here it goes-

Overall it's a relatively heavy piece, but that styrofoam is going to serve as a base. Just need to dig into it a bit so it looks like it dug into the ground. Also have to make an adjacent fragment for the broken off cybernetic eye, with maybe a plan growing right next to it.

Fallen Statue terrain

    Alright, so I just finished sculpting it, I used a styrofoam core and this air dry clay that I really disliked, I wasn't satisfied so I used regular water based clay on top of that, though it was an old chunk so it was pretty stiff, had to humidify it and knead it a lot.

    Got a little far, kept adding and adding even though it was hollow-ish, got pissed at the results and just squashed it back into a ball, then started working from there. I'm satisfied with the results, it's starting to crack but that's good for my ends, also added some styrofoam as rubble from where it supposedly broke off at the shoulders. I think it keeps with the Imperium's style. Will detail after it dries and I add a base to it.

Cannon Fodder!

Alright, so if you're observant then you've noticed that my Space Marines and Orks have barrels with perforated muzzles, while none of my goblins did. This is because, as far as I know, all second edition models have solid tips on the guns, and I imagine that you would have painted a black dot to signify the muzzle.

However, this isn't an option for me, thanks to my trusty friend Mr. Tamiya Fine Pin Vise and his associates.

So today we're going to be using the 1.5mm bit on these unsuspecting goblins.

First you line it up and drill-

Pretty cool, huh?

Then you're left with a hole.

Even though you've now got a hole for the bullets to come out of, you've still got solid flash hider ports, but we have a solution for these too, thanks to some dentistry tools that I got for scribing work.

Just a nice piercing on each side and there we go! Just make sure your parents don't find out ;)

If you look closely through the barrel you can see sunlight coming in.

Finally here are some shots of my results with a SM Sergeant's bolter pistol, since the effect is easier to see.

Deep Strike!

Alright, so this is my blog detailing my progress in the WH40K hobby. Since I don't wanna start out cold, and because of peer pressure, let's get right to it! So I have a 2nd edition starter army box that I got around 12 years ago and it's just been sitting there gathering dust since I didn't have anyone to play with until recently.

So let's start with the contents I found inside in terms of miniatures, since all the cards are now obsolete anyway-

Space Marines, they're blood angels in the box art, and I read up on them and liked them, so that's what these will be. There's 2 sergeants, 2 rocket troops, 2 flamer troops, and 14 regulars, but 1 bolter is missing so I'm not gonna use the one guy that seemed to have cheaper plastic and molding.

A shit ton of goblins; 40 to be exact.

Orks, 2nd ed style reminds me of samurai armor, lol. 20 of them, though there's 2 shoota's missing, so if I ever find those bitz they'll definitely be back in action.

Also you can spot the lone Chaos guy. I had some early attempts at painting a long time ago, with testor's paints, but that doesn't seem to be too bad to clean up. Considering how long these have been stored away, I really can't complain in terms of what's missing. Might even be able to find that stuff lying around here somewhere.

Also obligatory are some images of the unit styles from back then.

So let's see, to keep some coherence we'll go in the same order.

Space Marines

    Regular Marine

     Sergeant

Greenskins

    Regular Ork

     Goblin

Alright, and now a brief mention of some terrain accessories that I've acquired throughout my odysseys in general scale modeling, and which will definitely come into play in this hobby. I really can't find a place to introduce them in the next post, so here we go.

Resin destroyed building with armor tracks

I'm thinking this could easily be 2 separate pieces of scenery, but it might be cool to be a bit original and be able to give our tanks some cover.

Some hilly terrain I got, styrofoam-

Unlikely as it is, this was sold as a christmas decoration.
Alright, that's it for my first entry. Luckily I've got everything ready for the next one.