Been working away on these pair for a while. After seeing how much it was going to cost to buy an original I decided to make my own. One is inspired by the classic kit, the other by the original scratch built model from the Rogue Trader rule book. Both were printed on my Ender 3 with no supports.
They are available on my Cults3D page if anyone is interested.
https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/retro-space-knight-heavy-apc
Now I just need to get better at taking pictures
Another update on the Avatar, been working on a base for him as well.
I tidied up and uploaded my chaos predator proxy to cults3d. Like my chaos rhino this is inspired by the old Epicast model.
My version is designed to be easily printed in FDM and is available for download here https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/game/retro-evil-knight-battle-tank
Thanks. I modelled it in blender and was trying to mash up the old epicast model and the original rhino kit
I wanted a rhino for my bezerkers so they could chop up everyone up a bit quicker so decided to design my own.
This is inspired by the old Epicast Dark Army APC
If anyone with a 3D printer is after the files I have uploaded them to Cults3D page
Before answering your questions I'd just like to say that you are off to a great start. The figure in the main picture has a good movement to it and feels like a natural pose.
If you don't already keep a bits box. This should be where you keep spare parts from sprues or that you have cut off any models you have been kit bashing. I also chuck in things that might be useful that would otherwise end up in the bin, wire, mesh, tubes, scraps of plastic packaging that can be repurposed, just whatever you think might be useful.
I use unscented Dettol. Leave plastic or metal in it overnight and use some fresh Dettol and a toothbrush to clean them up. Just be sure to put plenty of paper down underneath as the paint gunk dries and can pretty much only be cleaned up by scrubbing it with more Dettol.
Looking at your other comments I would also recommend the Howling Griffons, but if you have a colour scheme that you think would look cool just use that and make yourself a nice successor chapter. Personally one of the things I have always enjoyed about 40k is being able to make up your own lore.
One last piece of advice if you plan to do more sculpting with putty. Try getting your hands on some greenstuff, it is my modelling putty of choice and gives the best finished product in my opinion.
Been (slowly) working on an old Avatar of Khaine
๐ Interesting, how does this picture make your back feel?
For all us old folks with a misty look in our eyes ๐ฌ
I made this fella when I go some pipe rollers from green stuff world.
This fella was an ebay rescue that came with so much paint on it that I wasn't sure if he was actually this model. So I stripped him and did my best to give him a new lease of life as the first of my Emperors Children.
And now he is my entry for the fedipaint painting contest over on Mastodon.
They arrived yesterday morning, but life has been all over me recently so didn't get a chance to photograph them until today.
Thank you again
And boy are they bigger than I expected. Thanks @setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world, they are great but I have no idea where I will keep them.
Progress on my gargant, this thing has so much damn surface area!
This fella is my entry to the painting competition.
He has very much been a labour of love. A long time ago in the mists of time (2nd/3rd edition 40k) I made myself a Bloodaxe Warboss and being a teenager I gave him the most puerile name I could get away with actually using in a GW store. So after doing my research I decided on Bignob Grimshag. Bignob is obvious he is literally a big ork nob and Grimshag was found to be an ork name used in an old deck of GW's combat cards. He had a commissar's peaked cap, a huge set of epaulettes that I crudely sculpted from green stuff and a chest of medals (stolen from commissars he had krumped). Sadly, like almost all my miniatures from those days, he has been lost to the winds of time so I as I rejoined the hobby I thought it would be a good idea to resurrect him.
Being interested in 3D printing I started off by doing a 'digital conversion', taking parts from about 20 different sculpts that I found online and squishing, scaling and slicing them up to create a starting point that I then added a load of green stuff to. I even hand sculpted the epaulettes as I had on the original, although this time they aren't quite as crude.
He had been languishing for a while as I got distracted by the dozens of other hobby projects I start and put aside to move on to the next one. So when I saw the painting competition on here I decided that this would give me the motivation to finish him off.
All he needed now was a pet, so I jumped onto ebay to find him a squig. After a quick browse I found a Kev Adams sculpt from 4th ed. WHFB that used to be part of my old Orc and Goblin army and the nostalgia removed a few notes from my wallet. Meet 'Oi!'
'Oi!, GET 'IM'
I hope you like them both and good luck to everyone entering.
Here is my entry
In progress
My warboss is coming along, so I thought I would share my in progress shot with you
I've packed these guys away as I'll not be doing much with them for a while, but I'll post other FDM 3D printed minis and try to get some better pictures. I'm fairly new to miniature photography, but I'm learning so hopefully future photos will show details better.
Maybe I'll make an ork add-on kit at some point, I plan to use all my early test prints to make a looted one for my orks as I can just cover over all the bad bits with random armour plates.
I'll post again when it's up on cults.
Not a chance, the new one is over twice the height of this fella