Imperial Guard costume part II "Flak armour & helmet"

Making this armour wasn't the easiest thing to do. I made some major mistakes. For example I had to redo the whole back piece because first one was too small. Also I'm not 100% happy with the way the pieces connect. But I learned from the mistakes and I'm sure the next one will be easier to do :) I used EVA-foam for the armour.

The helmet was very easy to make. It's an old army helmet so I just had to put a cardboard skull and wings on it. I painted both the armour and the helmet with dark green. Then I highlighted the edges with green. Next I'll do lasgun and few grenades.

Geri came to help me with the highlighting :)

I think it's too big for you Geri :D

Imperial Guard costume part I "Canteen & bag"

I decided to make a Imperial Guard costume. I heard from a friend about a store that sells old army stuff. There I found these canteen and ammo bag. All they needed was skull, wings and Imperial Aquila. I cut them from cardboard. First I coated them with black paint and then drybrushed with two different metal colors. I added few layers of varnish and then hot glued them in place.
Next I'm going to do flak armour and helmet.

Some of my metal works

I had some scrap pieces of brass so I decided to use them for something. After little bit of hammering and filing the scrap pieces turned into simple earrings.

I forged these blades from springs and few of them out of 1075 high carbon steel.
Engravings on few of the blades I made using a dremel.
Knife in the first picture is the one I use the most. Handle is made from antler.

Rose I cold forged from aluminium. It used to be a baking tray :D

This was very nice project though it took a loooooong time to do.
First I coiled about 160m (525 feet) of 1.5 and 1.6mm wire. Then I cut the coils to rings.
Hardest part was the skullcap. It took me almost 10 hours to do. After that things started to go faster.
Coif weighs 2,184kg (about 4.8lb).

Some of my woodworks

Here are some of my woodworks!

This piece of wood was going to trash so I took it cause it looked nice. I'm not sure what it's called in English but it's Salix caprea. In finnish it's called raita and it means stripe. So I'll call it 'striped willow' :D

After carefully peeling the bark I found nice looking surface. All I had to do was drill some holes and cover the thing with linseed oil. Metal pieces holding the candle are made from 1.5mm wire. 

This necklace is made from 'visakoivu'. I don't know what it's called in English.
It's mutated silver birch. Very nice looking wood.

The spoons and fork I shaped mostly with an axe and a few different types of knives. On the cup I had to use sanding machine to finish it. I made some designs on the spoons with pencil and then used wood burner pen. 

Birch

Birch

Birch

Visakoivu

Fir

Fir

Birch

 Reindeer I made for my sister. I have no idea what kind of wood it is. I removed bark and created fur with an axe. Then I nailed the pieces together and added branches that looked something like antlers :)

Some of my miniatures and few terrain pieces

Hello! Welcome to my blog :)

These are some "old" photos from my finnish blog http://riimumoukari.blogspot.fi/

All models and terrain are painted using brushes and acrylic paints.

Blood Angels

These were fun to paint. I used parts from Sanguinary Guard, Death Company and Tactical Squad. 

I made the terrain piece from foam and cardboard. I glued sand on cardboard to give texture and I think it came out nice. Guns and the light on the bunker are leftovers from Imperial Guard packs.

Hammer of the Righteous (Imperial Fists)
I had to rename this chapter cause (even after hours of practicing) I couldn't freehand the Imperial Fists logo well enough and I don't like using transfers. So my friend Ken designed a new logo. A hammer with laurel. It's on every models shoulder pad. In these pictures it can be seen fully only on the flag.
Dreadnought is from Assault on Black Reach and I painted it many years ago in Iron Warriors theme.. It wasn't very well painted :D So I removed the old paint with acetone. Not the best stuff for plastic models but luckily only skulls and wires lost some detail.

High Elves
Lothren Sea Guard and Swordmasters of Hoeth models are from Island of Blood starter. I have to say that this might be the best starter so far. The detail and quality on these models is amazing. I really liked painting these (gems gems gems! :D)
Eltharion the Blind is one of my all time favorites. It's very simple model but it has epic and almost majestic presence.

Vampire Counts
My Vampire Counts "army" currently has only one GW miniature (Vampire Lord, not in these pictures). It will be mainly a zombie army. My goal is about 300 zombies, few lords/necromancers, Hexwraiths and maybe Blood Knighs. I'm at 50+ zombies and two lords and a necromancer.
For zombies I decided to use Mantic Games miniatures. I think they look better than GW ones.
Also they are much cheaper :D Vampire Lord and necromancer are Reaper Bones series minis.
The sword on the vampire was badly bent but by heating it in hot water I managed to straighten it almost completely.

Random minis
The dragon was from Michaels. Ice Dragon (maybe). At first the paint didn't stay on it but after dishwashing soap bath it started to stay on it. Base is made from cardboard and foam.
The dwarf and kneeling paladin are Reaper minis and I'm going to use them in Pathfinder.
Games-Workshop paladins I bought cause they looked cool :D but I don't think I'm going to build Stormcast Eternals army.

Waystone terrain piece
I made this from foam and cardboard. I painted the water and covered it with multiple layers of varnish. I shaped rocks by ripping pieces from foam with scissors. I used the same technique to make the damage on the waystone.