Sunday, January 18, 2015

Laney manufactors a manufactorium

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My manufactorium kit has been languishing too long and has thusly been smited with my unmitigated mighty might surge.  Seriously, I have no idea why I am churning through shamefully unfinished projects, but day-aam, it's exciting!  One more languishing box of plastic crack assembled and ready for a serious festival of drybrushage.  Zoots!


I tried to treat my kit as your basic eighties action figure playset.  I managed to get a lot of potential gameplay features into it, like several low cover points, a couple of high areas and a choke point in the door.  I found the chimney actually worked better as a ground pipe, giving me an extra bit of cover to play with adds a nice arch.
  It makes me sad to see people turn a kit like this into basically a plinth for their spess mehreenz.  So much can be squeezed out of these kits!


My dark battle sister makes her entrance!  Note the gibbet from the giant kit. Tres inquisitor don't cha think?


The reverse side has a low cover area right next to the choke point door.


And of course you need a sodding great big fan.  I think it needs a skull in the middle.  The white stuff is texture medium which gives a lovely rust texture to things.  Gruyere approves of the obligatory computer fan for necromundian tomfoolery.  Pchoo!  Pchoo!

And in other news, it's my birthday tomorrow!  I shall be heading to Cancon to spend all my birthday money on second hand store goodness!  Weeeee!

11 comments:

  1. AsslessmanJanuary 18, 2015 at 4:29 AM

    This is wonderfully great. I'm really looking forward to hearing how you paint those as I've just built my kit (after 8 years of dust gathering in the garage) the other WE and I'm about to paint it.

    An "how to" would be much appreciated.... pleeeeeaase ^^

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    1. Delaney KingJanuary 18, 2015 at 7:09 PM

      Gosh, I was gonna go the simple route...
      Spray black, drybrush dark brown, stipple and drybrush chainmail then steel to give the whole thing a basic metal feel. Then varnish the whole thing, before going onto paint, dirt glazes and rust. I may break out the crackle medium, I may just get this one out the door for now... Who knows? I sure as hell don't. I don't know what day it is half the time!

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  2. stonecoldleadJanuary 18, 2015 at 7:16 AM

    Looking good. Hope to see it rusted and grimey soon!

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    1. Delaney KingJanuary 18, 2015 at 7:10 PM

      Me too! And luck with that brettonian?

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    2. stonecoldleadJanuary 18, 2015 at 11:56 PM

      Eehhh... I thought about doing it yesterday but by the time I'd finished other work (taking photo's, cropping & resizing them, updating my website, blog & FB, spamming the forums and getting an invoice sorted) I was spent. Even the coffee and thrash metal wasn't enough to keep me going by then. lol

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    3. Delaney KingJanuary 19, 2015 at 1:27 AM

      Try snorting sherbert fizz and listening to mna- mna through a distorion pedal.

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    4. stonecoldleadJanuary 19, 2015 at 2:23 AM

      I once got sherbert up my nose as a kid. That stuff stings! Fizzy snot though.

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    5. Delaney KingJanuary 19, 2015 at 5:08 AM

      Damn. I was hoping you would try it.

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  3. (Kym) + Warburton + (Classic40K) January 18, 2015 at 12:05 PM

    Nice work!

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    1. Delaney KingJanuary 19, 2015 at 1:28 AM

      Thanks. Also try snorting sherbet fizz and listening to mna-mna through a distortion pedal. Report back.

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  4. LasgunpackerJanuary 19, 2015 at 8:56 AM

    That is a great looking playset. I also like the previews of the other characters.

    Like many, I have a whole box of this stuff languishing in a dusty corner. Maybe your work will be sufficiently inspiring that I will finally drag it all out into the light of day...

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