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Friday, October 28, 2011

Chapterhouse Product Review and Command Squad

I purchased the Conversion Beamer set from Chapterhouse Studios a while back and mounted it on my Ultramarines Techmarine (which I guess makes him the head guy). Note that I am not going to use this as a forum to rant about their legal issues with GW.

The set came on the sprue pictured below. There was some flash (sarcastic gasp) which anyone who has ever molded their own product will tell you is an inevitable byproduct of the process but their molds went together well and there were no bubbles.

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My only complaint is that on their website, at the time I assembled this model and at the time I am making this post, there is no picture of how it should go together. When you understand that what you see is your choice of two different backpacks, assembly is then fairly obvious but it took some head-scratching to finally figure it out and a picture is worth a thousand words as they say.

Here is my assembled product mounted on a recycled techmarine, you will not I used one of their shoulder pads as well:

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The kit is flexible enough that you can do a number of poses with it and the resin glued together nicely (as resin tends to do). I did clip off the edges of the servo arm; one of mine was bent (accidentally by me) and any attempt to fix it would have damaged it beyond easy repair. It is a great kit and rather than throw out some arbitrary system or rating I will merely say that I would recommend it to anyone who does not want to do up their own or use the one from Forge World.

Here is the finished product as well as the command squad I knocked out this last fortnight (as the speakers of the Queen's English would say):

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And the command squad, not happy with how the white turned out:

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Monday, October 24, 2011

Sic-Sic-Sicarius!

That makes more sense when you sing it o Duran Duran's "Notorious." It also dates me.

Anyway, Here is my glorious 2nd Company leader. I actually started him in Virginia and had to put him on hold until recently. Not dispelased with how he turned out but he also represents the current upper limit of my skill. I also demonstrates that this house has no ambient light and I need to remake my photography area becuase pictures keep coming out either way to light or way to dark.

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

For the Tots Completed!

I actually completed these last week and sent them off:


Las Cannon Teams:
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Missile Launcher Teams:
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Sabre Defense Platforms:
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Rejoyce tots.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

In The Mean Time

The TfT project is coming along nicely and I expect to finish them off in the next day or two.

However, one project I was able to knock out inbetween painting was these nifty Ultramarines objective markers:

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

For the Tots-2011!

This year's theme is Imperial Guard and so the Freebootaz are putting together three IG regiments. I will be contributing to the standard Cadian-style regiment the following; two Sabre Defense platforms (again, thanks Steve!) and two heavy weapon teams.

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I hope to give the teams a miniature diorama feel so I've tried to goo all out with detail. Or as least as much as you can fit on a 60mm basis with sandbags and teh like.

The regiments will be offered up on Ebay. I'll post the link when the time comes.