When dealing with warp spiders....

Yo Spike for brains!
1. Never turn your back on a warp spider
2. Especially never turn your back on a Pheonix lord 
3. If your stupid enough to break rules #1 and #2, DON'T FLIP HER OFF!

It doesn't matter how tough their armor is, projecting a warp into an armor seam then diving into the warp with 4 scythes is a great way to crack that petulant egg!

Steam Punk Scorpion

As part of my Diesel/Steam punk force buildup (slow build up)
The scorpion giant walker is done enough... for now.
The model was some cheap resin thing found at a store that had a good start. I added some turrets to her tail to protect them from straffing runs,  a few turrets on her back for the same, and a main quad cannon on her back facing forward.  Her tail was also augmented with an autoloading autocannon with shells almost as big as a man, for the scale.  I also broke the legs free as well as the arms and repinned them and glued them in  slightly different positions.  The legs are not strong enough to support the massive block of resin so I took 3 brass tubes and stuck them into her belly to hold him up on a tripod.

For tabletop purposes the little turrets are flak cannons or point defense.  The main quad cannon is forward facing only and land targets only. The tail cannon is land or air but packs enough of a punch to keep enemy airships at high altitude.  Yet the armor is tough enough that most of what an airship can carry cant penetrate its carapace.

 Itll take some heavy high altitude firepower to lay this monstrosity onto her belly for good.

BFTP: Sci Fi cast and almost painted, plus bases

And then they were 3d printed, cast, and slowly started to get painted... That took a while but I did enjoy playing with simple and exotic vehicle paint jobs.   I wish there was more color on the road today.

I also wanted more sci fi bases so I designed a bunch.

and then the painting began.

BFTP: Sci-Fi Concept Cars!

as a blast from the past (digging up and sorting photos) Im posting some photos every now and again that predate this blog.  These were from an effort of mine a few years back when I was annoyed at how little diversity there was in sci-fi vehicles for 28mm scale models.  only a few existed and even after this it seems there is little imagination out there. People are generally too afriad to try to imagine an interesting future that doesnt reak of homogeneity. so with these vehicles, I started from a basic concept (SUV, reclining car,  highly fragile roadster,  etc) and let it evolve independent of style of the other vehicles in the series.   Kind of going back to when cadellac dared to be a little different... but now sadly nearly all sedans look very similar.   Homogeneaity stinks. 

ITS THE FUTURE, DARE TO IMAGINE.

Later Ill show painted versions and my cityscape tabletops with them on the board. It was colorful!

Arming Fairies for the Fair

EDIT: Pardon my dust.  I was using photobucket for legacy reasons  (read lazy) but they changed their subscriptions from a basic for 10 dollars to 400+.. thats silly, so I am deleteing my account and migrating.   It may be a few weeks before I replace all of the pictures.  However, I plan on having some blast from the past showing pictures that were before this blog.
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A few months ago I got a bug to make some wood swords for the rennaisance festival.  My kids had wood swords bought from the fair, one of which I painted pink-purple with lighthing... but I had to be different. So I made myself a few swords... First I made a stand-in for a kanatan.  But it was too boring, and when practicing with my kids I remembered the bane of every adult fighting kids... they arent very good at aiming and you really have to be on  your toes to keep your fingers from getting smashed by flailing kids, especially when they swarm you.
Therefore I designed a series of weapons from small daggers (with finger guards) to short swords for fast blade work (with finger guards) and one great sword (with two finger guards and the ability to use it as a sword, staff or reversed sword depending on how the munchkinds gang up on you).

But, of course I take my swords to the fair and get ready to fight my kids and the swarm of other munchkinds whose parents armed and released them into the grand mele of finger smashing goodness... and my kids want my swords.  I was reduced to the daggers on occasion or convinced one to use one of the short sowrds so I could have a sword and dagger at least to fight off the hoard and keep my kids safe.  And it was a lot of fun!  But I want MY swords... so, ever the enabling parent who is also just looking for an excuse, I had my kids design their own swords with a bit of revision from me for ability to actually make teh things and make them somewhat effective weapons. .

One went with a "heart shaped"  "batleth" style sword which we painted purple.  Its effective for defense but not as good for offense.  Then we painted it purple with flowers and wrapped the handle with athletic tape.

The second wanted a swirly hooky sword because she like how I kept using features on my swords to trap my opponents.  She wanted hers painted white, with metallic edging, styling pictographs, and a bit of blue ice... not to mention the black athletic tape grips.   And I rather like that design, as a single handed sword its well balanced for a little kid and is easily tranistioned to one or two handed.