Here we are! The secret project.

I've been working on scratchbuilding a rhino trying to keep it as cheap as possible.

Used foamboard for the structure (£10 for 5 sheets used one sheet so £2)

Used some filler i had lying around (free) and some sandpaper (free) and some spikey bitz from the chaos box set (also free) and viola...

A rhino for £2!

OK, so got my first commission signed up for and will begin painting next week. Its a unit of 9 chaos marines (I know I promised something else than chaos and tau but never mind) with a sorcerer to boot. I plan to paint them in black legion colours, and will post pics of each stage. I apologise in advance for the quality of the pictures as there was an unfortunate incident yesterday where the camera got washed, so until I can fork out for a new one, the pictures will have to be taken on my phone....

Let me tell you a story...

Once upon a time, far far away..

Well just up in Waddington actually! I got for my birthday the tau battle force. In this came.... the devilfish. Being as eager as I was I lept to thr challenge...

Aaaand cocked it up.
Badly.

And then to compound matters further, I then tried to use it as scenery. (crashed devilfish) and covered it with snow. Facepalm moment!

The results are shown below.

As I was creating my list for the upcoming tornament a realized I needed another tank. A devilfish to be precise...

Hmmmm. You start to see the idea...

After 3 hours...

So still a long way to go, but its a start.

btw this is not the secret project!

Shhhh....It's a secret!

Started a secret project. Another one of my "money saver" Ideas. Looking pretty good at the moment, will post a hint tommorow...

Huzzah! Found a way around the failing uploader! Images were uploaded, but were not imbedding in the post for some reason. Hmm... might have to do some more research.


Also, btw, I've started doing commisions for the local gaming club so with their permission you will soon be seeing something other than Chaos and Tau!

Pics I promised...

Still not working....
Sorry!

Lots of Gubbinz...

Bitz and Bobs tonight. Painted the powerfist on the champion (switched it remember? wasn't happy with it!) added a whole bunch of spikey bitz to the rhino, including importantly a little conversion to the havoc launcher, meaning it can be switched for a pole with a tau head on it! touched up the lord but no point posting that as picture quality is not good enough to show you what I've done...

hmmm sorry problem posting the pics, will try again tommorow...

Updates...

More paint on the tank....

Didnt like the converted powerfist i did so switched it for the one in the box set...

And at the end of the evening...

Still struggling to get a nice even finish with the red paint but never mind...

Lastest from the forgeworld Reeves...

OK long post tonight, to start with I have attempted to paint a muriel on the back of my new chaos rhino, in the form of a dragon. I think it worked out pretty well but judge for yourself.

Upon discovering that the my new battleforce did not contain a lord I set about created one for myself using the parts in the box. Using an ordinary marine legs and rear torso, I used the chest from the khorne aspring champion, the head from the tzeench aspiring sorcerer, the wings and sword (for the deamon weapon) from the posssed squad, and finnally the icon from the icon bearer. Had little converting to do from this as the only thing that needed doing was switching the sword from a left hand to a right hand...

Also finnaly settled on a name for my chapter; cuDRA-COsn, the bit in capitals refering to the dragon they bear as their symbol (I like dragons if you hadn't already guessed...) and the elements Cu (copper) and Sn (tin) being the two element in bronze, the colour of the armour thatr they wear. You can just see the name painted on the tank behind...