Dragon Warrior Tactical Marines

Here are the first shots of my painted Dragon warriors.  This is the second Tactical squad (first painted).

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First Dragon Warrior Renegade

Hello folks,
I thought I would share some progress with you.  I have been trying to hammer out the green stuff work on my marines (More pictures will follow soon, I promise) and part of that plan was to do a raised Dragon Warrior icon on the shoulder pads.  That plan got scraped after a week of trying to make it work, so Onto painting.

Here is my first painted Dragon warrior, the power weapon is air brushed, as is the base coat.  I need more practice air brushing but that will come in time.

Let me know what you think, I'm looking for ways to improve.

How to Hinge a Land raider

Hello all,  I was looking through pictures I had taken as I do work on my Land Raider for my salamanders army and found all my documenting photos of hinging the doors.  So I thought I would share them with you.  When I first undertook this I thought it was going to be an insanely difficult task to hinge my doors so they can be painted, and magnetized.  As I plan to fully paint the inside, and outside of the Land raider, as well as add electronic lighting to the inside for effect.  Turns out it was not hard to hinge them at all.

Step One:
Drill out three 1/32nd diamater holes in the door frame where the door hinges sit.

Step Two:
Drill out holes for 1/18th inch magnets opposite the holes you previously drilled.

Step Three:
Using florist wire, which can be found in most hobby shops, dollar stores, and florist shops, Cut three lengths at about two inches long.

 Step Four:
Using your 1/32nd pin vice drill, very very carefully drill into the side of the LR door hinges, if you break one paint it as battle damage or apply Greenstuff skills to hide the fact.  Once these holes are drilled, thread the wire into them and fold it tight to the plastic.

Step Five:
With great patience thread the ends through the 1/32nd holes in your hull, this can be tricky and I found trimming the wire to three separate lengths helped get it all in there.

Step Six:
Gently cross the wires and glue into place in the inside of the hull, feel free to trim excess wire.

Step Seven:
Glue magnets into the remaining hole and onto the Door, allow it to dry before playing with it and Enjoy.

Its really that simple to hinge a door on a land raider, I hope this helps at least one other person out there.

Salamanders Weekly Update #2

Work got away from me this week, so I did not get nearly as much accomplished as I wanted.  So I leave you with a painting WIP of my Salamanders librarian, my bloodthirster conversion work and a cool paint brush stand I threw together.

converted balrog with its 10 inch wing span, added Daemon prince bits to start.

Made from plastic card I had in spare.

Still needs the force weapon and one shoulder done.

Salamanders Librarian WIP

Greetings friends and fiends,
Today's post is my Salamanders Librarian, I decided to try my hand at scratch building one and after a week of fiddling around with how I wanted to pose him I finally started to work.  This is my first major work with Greenstuff beyond filling cracks and gaps.  Not to mention my first attempt at reposing a model.  I know I have to learn a lot more on how to do this type of thing, and I welcome comments and critiques on my work.  His backpack and shoulders are left unattached so I can paint him up without them getting in the way.
So here are the pictures after the Jump (I'll post better shots after I fix my camera.)

Lets get this Started.

Greetings,

So this is my first post and I thought I would start it off with my first Salamander Model.  Currently I am using my cell camera for taking pictures, but I will be "Borrowing" my wifes camera to make use of the macro function.

Another thing I hope to do in the near future is build a cheap light box for better picture lighting.  I think I am going to use the one outlined in this post, How to Make An Inexpensive Light Tent – DIY.

So what do I plan on doing with this blog? I want to use it to document my progress in my hobby.  To post images of my models, and as a record of my progression.  I will also be posting experiments I am doing with basing and customizations.  And if your lucky I might even add some interesting code snippets for stuff I do for work that I could not find any reliable up to date examples of on the web.
Thats about all for today.