Mastodon WIP.

Latest photo's have been added to my G+ account with the ATST head and Leman Russ tracks that I've turned around, I'd actually bought the Russ hoping that the tracks would look like the Sicarus tracks thus hinting at a design link between the 2. I've cut the guns off the ATST & added the sponsons from the Russ to the plates on the side of the head. In the photo I've added a driver from the Ravenwing in the gap where the chin turret was on the ATST, this was in no way inspired by the Olliphont riders. Rhino has been bought for the rear tracks and a friend looking for plasticard for me at her Uni for the body. After talking to Lexicanium on Facebook yesterday about the Mastodon it has a capacity of 40 but in Fear To Tread, you read about Blood Angels hanging off a Mastodon, so I'm planning on having Rhino top hatch & enough space on top for 10 marines with 2 pairs of matched heavy weapons on the front and the rear of the roof. On the back I intend to mount the Hurricane bolters from the Nephilim Jet Fighter that I haven't used. There are a lot of panels from the Leman Russ & Rhino that I intend to use on the body when I get that made, will be looking for a tutorial or 2 to show me how to use plasticard. Hopefully by the time I get the body built I'll be able to get photos back on my blog so I can show it off.

Big Jobs Update

Real life caught up with me this week and very little was done, a Leman Russ has been bought to provide front tracks for Project Mastodon and have an old Rhino on watch on ebay for rear tracks need plasticard for the body... On the Titan front I spent some happy time with my angle grinder and files finesing a couple of brackets so thet would fit on the upper fixing point. Showed my progress to a mate last night and he told me he has a Warhound flame cannon that I've asked to borrow while I work out how to fit it to the brackets and add some housing. Not had the chance to go and look for a head yet. EDIT:- Won the Rhino on ebay last night and now just need plasticard to go ahead with this project, and the Titan as well.

Project Titan.

So problems still with adding photos to the blog but I wanted to post anyway about how I have started on my Scout Class Titan made from the Star Wars ATST and a Zoid Red Scavenger. Yesterday I started painting the last squad of Traitor Guard for the Fallern Angel Army, managed to get the brown coats, flesh and trousers painted. I ran out of sun light before I could get the Wazzdakka Red on the armour plates and helmets but I still wanted to get some hobby work in. I checked my to do pile and got the ATST and Red Scavenger Zoid out to rough it out. I started with blu tacking the shell to the chassis, this was a bit loose and I was thinking of getting some bowling rods and a bracket to hold the shell together, while I had this mocked up I looked at the motor that came with the zoid and saw that it was housed in a shell that has the mounting points built into it. So I disassembled that and put it back together without the motor or wheels and blu tacked that to the chassis, I then found that I needed to take the shell pieces apart to fit them onto the mounting points. After finishing this I again mounted with blu tac to the chassis. This was a bit loose and I didn't like the idea of gluing the shell unit to the chassis so I dug out the green stuff and the magnets & added magnets, 2 at the rear and 2 at the sides, in the morning when the green stuff had cured and I mated it up I looked it over and thought that I'm going to need more magnets on it to give it a more secure feel. On Sunday I'm going to have a look in my local hardware store for brackets to mount the weapons on and will once again look round the charity shops for something to use as a cockpit/head and work out how to mount it. EDIT- right linked my g+ to my blog as I can't add photos here for now, so if you really want to see the pics they're being added to my g+ page and if you follow the profile link you should be able to see them there.

Poor Showing From The Fat Man

Got into the Library this morning and tried to get on and post up the amazing Asteroth The Grimm I've painted up but the problem with page loading is still there, this time I talked to a member of staff, who, once she'd stopped looking like a rabbit in the headlights suggest I write down the problem I'm having and them they can email the IT Crowd. Could be 2 weeks could be a month before I can get pictures back in the blog.

Plans and Project M.

So last time I was in the library I wasn't able to get the blogger screen to load,so I wasn't able to put any photos on my last post and I'm doing this from my phone as it doesn't need any pics. Plans for The Glorious 1000 after readg Codex: Space Marine, I feel that at first glance the Ultramarine Chapter Tactic is going to draw a lot of kids and power gamers but each Tactic being usable only once a game, unless you take Pappa Smurf who lets you use one again, I don't think it's worth it. Personally I think I'll be using Imperial Fist Chapter Tactic and when I pad them out or I'll be using The Ravenguard Chapter Tactic, although I do plan to try the others at some point, I think the White Scars CT will be better fielded with the Lions Blades 2nd Company. Now onto PROJECT M; M for murder? M for my god wheres your money gone? M for my god what are you doing? M for Masterdon? A while ago I picked up a new Star Wars ATST to make a Scout Titan, now the version I picked up had a detachable head, which had been sitting around doing nothing all that time. I have read almost all of the HH novels and one of the things talked about was the Space Marine Mastodon, when I first read about it I wanted to buy one/make one. So after a chat with my oldest daughter about the art supplies at the uni shop she works at she's picking up some plasti card for me to make the body, just need to find a company that makes tracked bogies so I can buy 4 and some old engine blocks from Land Raider/ Dreadnought and some more heavy weapons to load it up. The Scout Titan hasn't really progressed beyond the bits legs and shell, still looking for a cockpit, I did see something a couple of weeks ago, but didn't have any cash to pick it up.

6th Ed Plans, 12 Months On.

So 6th ed Codeices are coming thick and fast, so far the only one I've not picked up is Chaos Daemons, no my OCD is not showing honest, and I'm picking up the Space Marine Codex on Friday morning. The point of this podst is to talk about what I'm planning on next. The 'nid dex is not one I'm getting and if I do want to read it, and I will, I know my mate is a Nid player and I'll borrow the book off him if I want to. My next planned Codex buy is going to be Imperial Guard and possibly the rumored Ravenguard Suppliment for the Glorious 1000 so I can play them as a stealth unit, hence the camo on various squads. Beyond the Imperial Guard Codex I intend to The Blood Angels Codex and if the rumors are true a Flesh Tearers suppliment and run them as a Knights of Blood Strike Force with the spare marines I have mostly bring black already I only need to add the red bits. I need to massively repaint the command squad, Captain in power armour, Captain in Terminator Armour, Librarian in Terminator Armour and my Librarian Furioso Dreadnought. I also plan on getting the Necron Codex so I can build a Necron Force that I can also play as the Mechanicus Android Army, as it stands now I already have an HQ and 2 troops as well as linking this army to my Guard and The Poxy Proxy Banesword. The Ork, Dark Eldar and Grey Knights Codex only interest me in reading the background, but if Grey Knights is expandand to include the rest of The Inquisition I will be getting that one, if not I'll be picking up the Sister Of Battle book. Got to admit I'm struggling to think of what is left army wise. If the Fallen Suppliment does come out I will be picking that up, but thinking on it it's difficult to say which Codex A Fallen Supplimemt will be a suppliment to, as it could be Dark Angels, Chaos Space Marines or Imperial Guard.

LAW Team for The Glorious 1000

So over the week I started to paint up the missile team for The Glorious 1000 I had intended to paint them up in the chapter colours which was why I'd got out one of my heavy bolter team to remind me of the colours and which way round they are.

I was 3/4 of the way through painting one up in blazing orange after already painting them all in kharak stone when I thought about it for a second and thought wouldn't a heavy weapon team use camo? They stay put most of the time and fire from cover, I know I'd want to be camoed up in that situation.

So I had a look online thinking ambush predators, I orginally looked at tigers then thought of the Amur Leopard, an advert had just come on my TV about adopting one, I thought I'd give that look a go.

I know it's not brilliant but it is close to what I was aiming for, and on a table top it'll be fine.

And the full unit painted up in the same style, just need to dig their Sgt out to update his paint job and swop some of my heavy bolters round as I have 2 new ones in my First Founding Chapter and older style HB in the new chapter.