Mega Project

And Website Updates!

SO over at my website there are a few shiney new additions to the galleries, and some extra special additions to the Downloads Section.

First my "Ultimate Metals Technique" Guide is available at last!!

Also there is another decal sheet, and a couple of sheets that will allow you to turn a perfectly good Plastic Baneblade into a Shadowsword.... Yes I know but I started the project before the plastic Shadowsword kit was available so I share my madness!

With a little work and some magnets you could probably set things up so you can field both whenever you wanted. but I didn't go down this path myself.

Finally I have a new project on the deck.

Can you guess what it is from the picture below?

I will keep you up to date on this but it will mean several things.

I will not be taking painting commissions for a while, probably 3-4 months at least. This is so I can get the bulk of the work done. I will still be contactable for commentary and whatnot, and I will keep the work log of the project running. I will however try to give you tricks and tips whenever I can.

I may have my main website down for updates in the next couple of months as I change over to a new hosting package so that I can implement the webstore. It is a necessary evil and probably will only be for a day or two.

To get to the website use the link in the sidebar.

until next time

Cheers

Subby

Secret Men's Business

Generally during you holidays you would say take a bit of time off, me not so much. I have been a little lax in my posting since the holidays started. Still there are a few good things going on at the DSM homebase.

Firstly I got a new glass display cabinet for the sculpting room (although it often gets reffered to as "the Man Cave"!). I haven't finished filling it but this pic was snapped in mid December so there are a few more finished minis in there now.

Another important event that recently occurred was the rebuilding of the front hubs in the ol' Cruiser (affectionately referred to as the Battle Bus). We did the wheel bearings, king pin bearings, seals in the ends of the axles and the felts in the swivel housings. It was hot sweaty word but it was worth it cause now you can't smell swivel housing grease after a drive to the FLGS. The only advice I can offer about this is make sure you have two people doing the job, one of whom has done it before. I got the Old Man to give us a hand, and it took us about six hours to do both sides.

I started another project, it is super secret and you can see a WIP shot below. I will have this done in the next day or so (up to the painting part atm). Can you guess what it is?

The "Dude a Day Challenge" I set myself was successful, I manage to paint 42 points worth of minis in December around all the other stuff that went on. I even got my Ironclad Dread conversion painted for his birthday (Boxing Day).

I also have got in some time working on a pst for Ron over at FTW, I have a few chems to wet test and a bit of typing and it should be read to wing its way to him.

Lastly as a quick tip, when buying timber to make anything make sure you plan ahead! Don't get half into a job and discover you are short because you didn't CAD up the job beforehand (Like I usually would).

Cheers All

and a Happy belated New Year

Subby

Hazzah! Email back online.

Well from my last post you all would know that my email account got hacked. Well Microsoft managed to pry it open like an Ork with a power-claw peels open a tank. So it is all fixed again, however for those who want to commission work from me be aware that I am not taking commissions until after I do three things.

1) Update Sub's Underground. It has been far too long and I have to add the links to the shop which is being built.

2) Organise the Shop. I.e. finish the first run of products and do some casting. Plus finish registering and building the secure shop.

3) Organise another secure email account For commissions. I will still take single miniature commissions when I get the shop up and running, but it will not be a constant thing.

I realise that most of those reading this will think, commissions, wtf?

Brisbane locals who I have done work for will already know the low-down.

You may wonder to yourself, "what will this store sell?" Well not resin bases. Firstly there are too many people out there who are both members of FTW and better base designers than me making resin bases. If you are looking for good bases I can recommend you check out the List of stores on FTW. My personal picks of the bunch (in no particular order), are Dragon Forge, Secret Weapon Miniatures and for Aussies who want to pay a little less shipping, Back2Bas-ix.

As to what I will have, mostly 28mm scale generic conversion stuff. Things that enable you, the

modeller, to build cooler conversions by giving you a wider range of bits.

I will also do limited runs of 28mm scale miniatures in resin, yeah I know you are thinking "how limited?"

If they sell well enough I will likely do white metal versions with slight changes to the sculpts/more options on the sprue. Some of these miniatures may come with resin bases, as needs suit, but generally they will come with generic plastic bases (if I can find a good source of plastics).

So basically that is all the news. without further ado I give you two pics of some minis I did a while ago (found these while cleaning my hard-drive to determine if it was a virus or trojan that lead to

email fail)

A Kroot/Chaos Hound Conversion (can you pick the reference?)

And the Masque of Slaanesh I painted for the Chaos Daemons Dex Launch Painting Comp

although for some reason the masque pic is resized by the blogger software sigh!

Cheers

Subby

Travails of Emails!

So my Hotmail account got hacked. sigh...

so for anyone who wants to send me email they might notice that my email in the contacts section has changed, it now directs you to an email account on my website.

If you do happen to get emails from my hotmail account (for those of you I previously contacted) do not open them or reply to them!

just to let you all know.