Mordeus Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Man that is a ridiculously cool army!! Love the propeller endrinriggers! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Misfire Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 Absolutely no words for how great the new stuff is @Brad Gamma! Have a thumbs up dwarf Spoiler Have five more thumbs up dwarfs Where did you end up sourcing the Gyrocopter bits from in the end? 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Gamma Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 (edited) @Double Misfire Thanks dude! Thumbs up dwarfs are my new favourite form of approval. 9 hours ago, Double Misfire said: Where did you end up sourcing the Gyrocopter bits from in the end? With great difficulty! I scoured every part of the internet to find them, and also have a second painted gyrocopter but without the top rotor. One of the employees at my local GW is helping me source 2 more rotors and some heads, and I’m gonna buy one more gyro to make a squadron of three, which should allow me to have a squad of 6 endrinriggers. Then I’m giving up on the worlds most expensive conversion. @Mordeus thanks mate I love them ? Edited October 20, 2018 by Brad Gamma 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Gamma Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 As promised, here are some pictures of my armies on parade board as I made it. First up the board itself. Styrofoam in a wooden frame. I'll make 5 more of these eventually so I can play some games with my tree! Here is me figuring out how it would work conceptually with some spare normal foam Starting to print the entrance building, designing the door frame. Balcony window frame doodad The entrance building taking shape. A mix of plasticard, textured and plain. Cut out the main shape of the tree and recessed my entrance building into the ground. Carved the tree into shape and then added an apoxie sculpt layer that I moulded into bark using icing moulds and silicon sculpting tools. Was much more difficult than I thought! I then sculpted little hills for the cannon placements with remaining foam and polyfiillad them in place. I used rocks from the garden to line the tree. I then cut little tiles out of plasticard and laid them in a patio pattern I googled, to make the road. This picture is it then primed. As part of the build I made my own washes. The one in the middle is agrax earthsahde and the one on the right is my own, except I now have 2 litres of it! Google Luke's APS wash tutorial for a guide. After painting and dry brushing the tree and ground I started to build the platforms and began placing leaves and moss everywhere. Painting dioramas is so much harder than minis because you can't reach things! 10 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Gamma Posted October 20, 2018 Author Share Posted October 20, 2018 And finally here are some pics on the day! Don't have a proper set up yet for taking nice photos of something so big. Really pleased with this as my first piece of terrain. 24 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackStreicher Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Did you create the lines on the shields using splines? (Heard rhino was good due to the easy handling of the Programm, so I might consider switching to it for simple hard surface objects) =} 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexHavoc Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Fantastic stuff! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Gamma Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 19 hours ago, JackStreicher said: Did you create the lines on the shields using splines? (Heard rhino was good due to the easy handling of the Programm, so I might consider switching to it for simple hard surface objects) =} I did use splines. The tree was just fiddling about with poly curves until it looked a bit like a tree and then mirroring it. The knotted pattern round the edge was done by setting up some control points for a portion, doing a polar array of those points and drawing a spline between them for one wavey curve, then duplicating and rotating it slightly to get the second wavey curve. I remember it being a really tricky once I wanted to make them 3d and patch them onto the surface of a curved shield. I really like Rhino 3D. I wouldn't say I'm the most experienced with other packages, but mostly because I give up and go back to rhino. Whether that's because it's easy to use, or it was just the thing I learnt first is hard to say. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninelives Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 This is truly amazing. Keep up the good work! Did you have gaming in mind as well when building your army on parade board ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordeus Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Mamma mia! Good job on the win! Are you going to do the propeller treatment to some of the bigger ships ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Gamma Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 20 hours ago, Ninelives said: Did you have gaming in mind as well when building your army on parade board ? Thanks! I made some decisions so I could play with the board in the future, but I didn't focus on it too much. For example, the road ends before the board edge so that if I make other board pieces I don't have any issue lining up. It would be fun to do a defence scenario where the outpost is attacked, but castling up can get boring quickly. If I do ever make the other 5 pieces, i'll post them up here. 16 hours ago, Mordeus said: Mamma mia! Good job on the win! Are you going to do the propeller treatment to some of the bigger ships ? Cheers I maaay give it a go. I have some ideas but I need to make sure I can get the design right and source the bits. If I did do it, it would probably be only once and most likely I would go straight for the Ironclad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Gamma Posted October 22, 2018 Author Share Posted October 22, 2018 20 hours ago, Ninelives said: Did you have gaming in mind as well when building your army on parade board ? Thanks! I made some decisions so I could play with the board in the future, but I didn't focus on it too much. For example, the road ends before the board edge so that if I make other board pieces I don't have any issue lining up. It would be fun to do a defence scenario where the outpost is attacked, but castling up can get boring quickly. If I do ever make the other 5 pieces, i'll post them up here. 16 hours ago, Mordeus said: Mamma mia! Good job on the win! Are you going to do the propeller treatment to some of the bigger ships ? Cheers I maaay give it a go. I have some ideas but I need to make sure I can get the design right and source the bits. If I did do it, it would probably be only once and most likely I would go straight for the Ironclad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahriman Posted October 25, 2018 Share Posted October 25, 2018 Incredible army, you've got it all! Great concept, conversions and paint job. Well deserved gold indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Panther Posted November 1, 2018 Share Posted November 1, 2018 So bloody fantastic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnied3 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 Truly awesome work! the conversions, the paint job, the lore, the board! Well done! Was a joy to read! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Misfire Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 @Brad Gamma has been kind enough to provide me with a fantastic interview about the Gharuki Duardin for my new Cities of Sigmar blog. If you want to find out more about the army then hit the link below: https://doublemisfire.blogspot.com/2019/09/city-spotlight-chris-burwoods-gharuki.html 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remus Prime Posted September 4, 2019 Share Posted September 4, 2019 The display looks absolutely amazing. It’s truly something to be proud of, and inspires me to do something with all the dwarves I have sitting about! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AthelLoren Posted September 28, 2019 Share Posted September 28, 2019 I just have to reply here. This army is utterly spectacular - The board in particular is amazing! This is probably the best army i've seen to date, with such a rare concept - Tree Dwarves! I hope you won't mind if I incorporate a few aspects of your army into my Free City. Keep up the good work! Note: I encountered your army on Double Misfire's Blog: https://doublemisfire.blogspot.com/2019/09/city-spotlight-chris-burwoods-gharuki.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_Shift Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 Really inspiring army and theme. Well done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefblo Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Hey Brad, Your Gharuki Forest Duardins are truly impressive! I am currently working on my own personalised CoS dwarf army. I have one question. Is it possible for You to share an stl file of a shield with us? I don't need Your custom made tree emblem on it as I am going to make my own, but if I had a sprue with shields assigned and in proper proportions it would be a lot easier for me. Thanks, Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cambot1231 Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 Fantastic work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefblo Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 @Brad Gamma I couldn't edit last post and I think You haven't seen my question so I attach Your name here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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