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.

 

(Don't worry GW, I'm just using them myself, no one will be able to buy them ;) )