TOEMP Snippers finished

I've finally finished them this afternoon, so I missed the deadline for the first of my TOEMP challenge. Never mind, I've learned how to dremmel, how to make green stuff cloaks and improved my skin painting a little.

All in all, I've chuffed, anyway, on to the pics ....


First the kneeling ones ...



Now the standing ones ...



Any CC is very welcome as always. Tonight I'll start working on my regimental advisors as part of the third challenge (my second). We're supposed to do a FA choice or a special character but I figure I've just done a special character with Marbo and I think the three advisors kinda follow the special character theme.

WIP pics coming soon.

Marbo completed

I spend last night painted up my Marbo conversion. Overall, I'm really pleased with how he's turned out. Let me know what you think guys.




Now all I've got to do is 6 snipers for midnight, personally, I think I'm going to miss the deadline but hey, I've learnt how to make GS cloaks, so I'm chuffed.

Blogging Woes? Not getting listed?

Fed up of your stuff not showing up on the FTW blogroll or Bols? Then I have some news you have to hear.

I was chatting to a friend who works for google about how long it takes some blogs to show up on bloglists. One of the blogs on the Parade Ground bloglist hadn't updated in 6 days, so I asked him about it.

As blogger is owned by google, the bloglists widgets are updated by the googlebot. How often this happens depends on how often the googlebot visits your site to index it.

With me so far? Here's the interesting bit!

Now, it turns out that there's a way to force the googlebot to reindex your site. In google reader (it only works in google reader), if you subscribe to your own blogfeed you can click refresh. This forces the googlebot to reindex your site and all the bloglists you're on.

I've been trying it and I've been getting listed on FTW and Bols within 10 minutes using it.

I hope it helps all of you who keep falling of the end, so to speak.

My Marbo

After getting to grips with the cloaks on my snipers, I decided that I'd have a go at coming up with my own marbo model. The things that I wanted to get across on the model was :-

1. He's an old school veteran who's outside the norms for the regiment.
2. He carries a custom pistol
3. He carries a demo charge
4. He's stealthy.

Let me know if you think I've hit the mark, any constructive criticism is welcome.

Marbo's Ripper pistol

I've been working on my custom Marbo model. It's coming on well, but I thought I'd share how I made his ripper pistol. I wanted something that looked like a heavy pistol / submachine pistol.

First, I started off with a standard bolt pistol, I drilled the barrel slightly and then cut off the pistol grip and the barrel and small rod underneath it.


Next up, I glued a piece of sprue to the front of the pistol.


I then trimmed the sprue down and filled any gaps with green stuff.


I then added two plasticard strips to bulk it up a bit.


The finally, I glued the barrel back on, and hey presto, a custom Ripper pistol for my Marbo. It's the first time that I've done anything like this, so I'm chuffed with how it's turned out.

Sniper cloak

Just a quick post to show my progress tonight on sculpting a cloak for one of my snipers. It's taken a while, but I've been doing other bits and bobs. Anyway, here's my very first bit of proper sculpting, I know it's not the best cloak but I'm proud of my work.





I am a little concerned about how long he took as I've still got to do the cloaks on another sniper and my marbo model. We're already a third way through the time for this challenge and I'm getting a little worried that I might spoil the model by rushing it.

Better get back to mixing some green stuff, time's ticking.

PS - I've got my first tournament tomorrow, I'm packed and ready to issue some whoop-arsing!