New Year & a new base line! Crystal Wastes

In the effort to keep current and post more often here is my second post of the new year!

 

This is officially our 3rd line for 40k, just like our other two lines these are crafted with a emphasis on the ability to use the base multiple times in a army and each miniature will look different due to the three dimensional aspect of the bases.

 

25mm

AdMech Factory Ruins: 120mm Ovals / Risen from the dead (OMG D3 ate my soul….)

I know I know it’s been over 2 months… Between a little bit of burn out lingering from The Colonial and a massive addiction to Diablo 3 (seriously it’s like heroin for me) I have had zero “time” for the hobby.

I admit I have a problem… First step right?

In an attempt to break the habit I spent a couple days working on the long overdue 120mm Admech Ovals. Speaking of thank you all(who provided it) for the feedback, I made several solid design changes in the this release.

First I made sure to leave enough clean and clear area to easily mount the Games Workshop Flyers. The Egyptian ovals can fit flying stands, but I will admit it takes a little work.

Second I cleaned up the lines, design and flow a little bit more vs the first release. This is both to allow for quicker painting and to help make sure they cast with less effort!

Now these are WIP, and I noticed some of the details didn’t show up (white plasticard on white plasticard? Shocking) but feedback please!

AdMech Factory Ruins: First batch in Part II, WIP Trooper

eBay Store found here

Overall pleased with how the second series of bases came out. I learned a lot about the mold making material we use (aka how much detail is can reproduce), most importantly every imperfection needs to be cleaned up before we cast.

Honestly I thought it would only take an hour or two to paint up all of the bases, between airbrushing the base coats on and a “simple” drybrush or two, but the more I worked with them the more fun I had! I spent 7 hours start to finish painting all of the bases yesterday while sitting at the bunker. I still need a better photo booth or post production program.

Basecoat:

Duplicolor Black auto primer
Vallejo Model Air Steel (1:1 mix with airbrush medium)
Games Workshop Badab Black wash (1:1 mix with airbrush medium)
Games Workshop Chainmail drybrush.
Details:
Greens: Games Workshop Dark Angels, Goblin, Snot
Blacks: Games Workshop Chaos Black, Codex Grey
Rust Effect: Game Workshop Scorched Brown, Vallejo Copper, water (4:1:3)
Oil Effect: Games Workshop Gryphon Sepia, Dublin Mud
Verdigris: Games Workshop Hawk Turquoise, Dark Angels Green, water (4:1:10)
Base Rim: Games Workshop Dark Flesh.

And my AdMech trooper

I would love feedback, both on this line and suggestions on what you would like to see next. Last how do you think my AdMech trooper looks on the base.

AdMech Factory Ruins (First Batch in!)

Quick Update while at SVDM,

First Batch of the Adeptus Mechanicus bases are in.. Time to paint them up and pre-sales should be up in the next couple days.

As always feedback welcome!



New Round of Bases.... AdMech Factory Ruins

Adeptus Mechanicus Bases!!

Sorry for the delay in posts, I won’t bore you with all the “fun” things I have keeping me busy at the moment but I am hoping to make a couple big announcements in the next several weeks..

Bases are WIP pre-cast. I did a nice sloppy wash to bring up some of the details due to the white on white plasticard work.

25mm's

40mm's

Bikes's

60mm's

I am really happy with the 60mm and the 40mm bases, “like” the bike’s and am as happy with the 25mm’s as I can be… The small size and making them generic enough to fit any type of standard foot on them is pretty restrictive.

The 120mm Ovals are coming in the next two weeks, I ran out both the base size and time for this production run.

As always feedback welcome!



Painted Egyptian Bases Part 2, 40mm Bases...AND Made it on FTW Main Page!!!!

Because I am SUPER GEEKED about it will start with FTW!



From The Warp

Now on to the bases!!!

-Woot!!- made it up on Mini War Gaming again...

Little bit more directly this time!

http://www.miniwargaming.com/content/matts-necrons-3000-points-painted

About half way through he does 2 minutes on my baseline..

Painting up the x11 40mm bases now for the website.. Then thinking of raffling or auctioning the painted ones off...

Painted Egyptian Bases...

A quick post, just finished some samples of the first wave of casts.

First our bases made it on MiniWarGaming on into Matt's Necrons!! Check the video around minute 2:30... Additionally you can see the "peach" colored disks in the background of his table.. Also mine!

60mm Bases

First wave of Egyptian Bases are in!!!

Guys and Gals,

The first wave of bases are in! They look amazing (I am slightly biased of course)! I actually pre-sold enough of the 40mm bases that I only had 3 of the 11 styles left for photos (Terrible problem ‘eh?) but another waves of them are already in the mail to me.

My partner Jeff sent out a set of the first run to Matt at MiniWar Gaming and there is a rumor floating about that they are going to be using them for the in-house Necron army and we might get featured on their website!

Objective Markers!

Following complaints about my old objective markers (read 8” tall obelisk), and their weight I figured it was time to make some objective markers.

Trying to add some more color to both the Game Table and my display boards I tried to tie them in as much as possible with the overall artist flow of the rest of my army.. 

Feedback welcome, a few of the photo’s ended up with some weird color balance..

Bases, new take an old idea part II

With allot of feedback, a couple sales, bunches of questions and several feelers for the other bases for use with Necrons I rushed to finish the rest of the bases.

Keep in mind these are the WIP pictures, pre-prime and pre-cast. They don’t look like much but I am sending them out tomorrow for production and cannot wait to get them back, paint a few and put up the finished product.!

Bike Bases First of Course (working on 5 more)

40mm Rounds (11 Total)

60mm Bases (4 Styles, I had a ton of fun!)

And Finally 120mm Oval.. Great for Monsters and Flyers

I have several requests for Industrial and Ruins, working on those lines next! Additionally if you like making bases, want to make a couple hundred quickly and want to be immortalized in “resin” drop me a line!

Mention WhiteScars and get 15% off!

Last but not least here are links to the Pre-Order auctions on my eBay store..

Base (Single) Listings

Bases (Multiple) Listings



Bases, new take an old idea crowding and in on already saturated market

I few months back I mentioned to some of the White Scar's guys I was looking to start a small side business (I have two currently plus my full time job... Not saying I have a a problem but...) and finally allot of the kinks are worked out!

We are using a different material that is cheaper, non-toxic, does not require mold release. It can be drilled and altered. Additionally is it much heavier then resin bases giving the figures a good amount of heft.

We have a first run of Egyptian 25mm rounds done. These were a bit of a rush job as I needed them cast and returned in multiples but I made up 20 different bases for the new Scouts (posts soon) the were featured for the first time at Blobs Park.

 40mm, 60mm and bike bases currently WIP.

They were painted using the same basic paint scheme as found here

The bases unpainted..

And with ONE K&J magnetics 1/8"x1/16" inch magnet in the base..

Feedback and suggested lines are VERY welcome..

If interest the first batch are for sale now..