Salamanders Shoulder Pads are done!

The first printable shoulder pads are done! I am totally pleased with the result (with the look on the computer, at least). Unfortunately it'll take a while till you can take a look at the final print, since I mean to do some more awesome stuff with these 3D-modelling tools and Shapeways charges 9.50 $ for shipping. So we just have to be patient...
I suppose its not that interesting for you to know how I actually created the shoulder pads. Anyway, if I'm wrong, let me know and eventually I might put up a short tutorial some day. So I skip the technical part and let the pictures speak!

Trooper - left shoulder pad

What am I doing here?

So, here I am! I have no intend to lose many words on why I finally got myself into blogging or who the hell I am (most of you know me anyway, I guess). I thought it would be much more interesting to focus an what I'm actually going to do here. So far I got myself into Warhammer 40k, Battlefleet Gothic and Dystopian Wars. The biggest project of all are my beloved Salamander Space Marines. I started them during 3rd edition at very young age (around 14). According to this age my miniatures looked ... hm hard to tell ... really crappy. Ha! So I sold them to start from the beginning.

I am going to show you mostly Salamanders stuff here. First of all will be the creation of the 3rd Battle Company. Right from the beginning, step by step.
I am starting with something extraordinary. As GW has decided to fill the Salamanders not up with their love, decals really really suck and I'm not that good at freehands, I decided to create my very own shoulder pads! At the moment I am working with some 3D-modelling software to accomplish that aim. When the models are done, they'll be printed by Shapeways (yes, it actually is called "printing"). Using Google SketchUp 8 and 3ds Max 2012 I designed a plain shoulder pad that matches pretty much the original. Next step is to model the chapter symbol.