Fish in space?

Ahoy thar!

While it can be arg'ued that the Colonists be not fish, as of course they 'ave hooves and fingers, I think that their appearance, combined with their vehicular affinity for certain marine animals, speaks otherwise! (And remember landlubber, I am the one with a crew o' blood-thirsty pirates at me back - so you'll find more often than not that I be right......)

So it 'as come tae pass that there are indeed, fish, in space! That's right, we 'ave fine'lly brought tae ye Space Fleet proxies for the Colonists! You'll find we 'ave also introduced a few new system ships intae the collection, so ye may want tae take a wander over to our 'Space Fleet' page and download the new lot!

Unfortunately our backups still be down, so proxies for the Red Seraphim, Space Elves and Star Knights still be lost to the void. This means ye be unlikely to get any new proxies for a few months, as we 'ave to first recover this data before workin' out what we've done - and what needs doin'.

Sorry for any inconvene'yence (well, as sorry as a pirate could be anyways), ye may just 'ave tae take tae the dark voids of space in the meantime!


Happy raidin', boardin' and planetary bombardments tae ye!

40k Pirate

Technical Difficulties

Ahoy!

As ye may well 'ave noticed some of the download links to our printable proxies have gone down. Unfortun'tly I be not in any position to re-upload anything at the moment, with me main drive dead, backups inaccessible and a woefully slow internet connection limited to less than a GB of download.

This be unlikely to change in the near future, so it be possible that these links remain out o' action for any amount of time, be it weeks or months.

Here be a list o' the download links that be broken:
-Red Seraphim
-Space Elves
-Star Knights


I be sorry 'bout any 'inconvenience' ye may be feeling (well, a little - I'm a pirate!), but there be nothing that can be done at the moment.



40k Pirate

An Update 'Afore We Set Sail......

As pirates naval warfare be close to our 'eart - the thrill o' the high seas, the smell o' gunpowder, the creaking o' the plank......
So 'tis with a piratey fondness that we present Space-Fleet! Select yer vessels from one o' eight races an' take to the void! Whether ye be launching a planetary invasion or terrorizing petty landlubbers with a good ol' fashioned raid, know there be no mercy in the dark o' space......
(Cap'n's Note: While most races be pres'nt in this here update, all ye Colonist gamaarrrrs be left out o' this one! Though be not disheartened, nay, we be likely to fix this in a future update!)

Also, 'tis confirmed that we be traveling abroad o'er the seven seas aftaar New Years, so ye be unlikely to hear from me or me crew over the next 3 - 6 months.

From the 40k Pirate Crew, may yer Chris'mas be merry, yer coffers full, yer decks swabbed, timbers shivered and yer sailing fair fer the New Yeaaaaar!

Scratch Built Triarch Stalker

As much as I would like to take the credit, this little killing machine was made by my brother. 

About now I'd like to go on with a tutorial or a series of WIP pics, but unfortunately by the time I thought of that it was too late and my brother had already gone and finished it! Luckily I did get in there before any paint was applied.

This Triarch Stalker was completely scratch built from cardboard, paper, chopsticks, toothpicks, marbles and spare screws. For the 'shoulder' joints he used part of a Leman Russ template, with a standard octagonal template for the base of the body. Some interesting circular piece from the inside of a dead computer was used just behind the front 'arms'.
(Note: For those interested - super glue does not stick on marbles! However two part epoxy glue works a treat!)

Some more pictures of the finished product (sorry about the lighting, didn't notice that window in the background!) 

In my opinion, an awesome result considering the resources we had to work with!

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Thar be life in 'er yet....

Ahoy thar!

Fear ye not landlubbber, 40k Pirates be not dead - nay, me 'n me crew be still sailin' the seven seas in search o' new plundaaar!  Our goal be tae give ye new proxies aplenty forrr ev'ry race, so the next update is lookin' tae be a biggun! Unfortun'tly, the terrors, chores and hardships o' the high seas - along with the size o' this planned update be meaning ye very well may not be hearing from me or me crew until aftaarr New Year.

'Tis 'ard tae predict what foul storms we may encounter o'er these next months, so should we run afoul o' the weather I bid ye a Merry Chris'mas and an 'Appy New Yeaaaarrr!

40k Pirate

Scratch Built Ruin

(First off, this isn't a tutorial, though I will explain how I made it there are no WIP pictures.)

I decided the other day that we desperately needed a building of some description to help fill our relatively open battlefields.

Making the building was relatively simple, really all we did was find a box, base it and then brutally attack it with a knife! The floor of the top story is also made of cardboard and was put in after we'd cut the top to shape.

All the debris you can see are just chunks of cardboard strewn about the place, while I stuck dirt to both the base and building to both texturize it and help make it look more 'ruined'. Pieces of foam act as additional debris on the top story.

I then cut out strips of cereal box to frame the doors, I made sure to fit it in with any 'battle damage' I applied during construction to give the impression that it's seen quite a bit of conflict.

Painting was simple enough, I basecoated the entire thing black and followed this tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN6SaDrbmhM
First I dry-brushed the whole thing grey, following with a lighter shade of grey on all the edges and a very light dry-brush of white on the edges again. I then dry-brushed all the sand brown, added a small amount of metallic paint to the beams on the top floor then went around doing light dry-brushes of black at random spots to represent blast damage.

This was the first time I'd used dry-brushing for anything other than a small highlight, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

Scratch Built Thunderfire Cannon

With a friend's birthday fast approaching, I've been doing some serious thinking about what to get our resident Space Marine player. After checking the GW site, official models are most certainly out, so it's down to scratch building.

This isn't going to be so much of a tutorial as a series of WIP pics, as there is no real template to follow and I haven't got an idea what I'm doing!


1- I started with what seemed logical, the barrel. While I don't mind the 'multi-barrel' look of the official Thunderfire, I wanted something that would scream cannon! Rummaging through the bits and pieces in my desk drawer I found an old super glue lid that looked like it could make a good barrel with a bit of modification...



-I then glued a piece of cereal box cardboard around the rim.



-I found a piece of plastic I ripped off a dead computer which looks awfully similar to a sight, combined with a hexagon from a failed Predator turret and we have the basic shape of the cannon and main body. (Hexagon can be found in Predator Mk II - Part 01 of 01.gif in PaperHammer 40k.rar. Click on the 'Scratch Build Templates' link in the right sidebar or in the resources page.)



2- For the tracks I took the rhino tracks in 'Rhino MK II.pdf' and scaled them down to about 33%, backing them on cardboard for thickness.


-I then folded these into a circular shape to form two wheels...


-...and added details



3- With the tracks completed, I moved on to the piece that would join the cannon and tracks. Once again salvaging a piece from an old predator (it can be found on the same page as the hexagon), I extended it by adding a sloped front.


-I will use the end of a chopstick to attach the cannon to the above piece.



4- At this point I ran into a problem. I had not anticipated the amount of weight at the front, so the cannon tended to lean forward, lifting the back tracks off the ground. (It doesn't show very well in this photo, but the cannon was very unstable!)


-To try and put more weight over the back, I made two 'stabilisers' with a toothpick and some carboard.



5- Next I made the armour plating using the template below:


(NOTE: The bottom left of the template was trimmed to give the armour more of an angle.)

-A couple of Imperial symbols for decoration:



6- Now there is one thing missing, a way for the Techmarine to control his Thunderfire Cannon. I made the control panel out of a toothpick and some cardboard.


-Attached to the Thunderfire using yet another toothpick:


-A few minor details here and there, and it is done!




The Thunderfire was then basecoated and given away, so it is unlikely we will see a picture of the finished model.






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