Hi all,

thank you guys

I hope you had a great weekend with lots of family- and hobby-time.

Some of you have asked me for a scale-/comparison-shot of the Eisenkerns and TGG compared to the 40K Guards.

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Here's a 40K trooper between an Eisenkern and a Tough Girl.

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Here I mounted two standard IG arms on an Eisenkern Panzerjäger female.

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And this Panzerjäger has two Forgeworld Krieg arms, with a standard IG trooper on the right.

All-in-all I think they fit together well and since the Empire of mankind spans many different worlds with very different gravities, the differences in physique can be explained easy.

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Well, in the meantime I built another, greater turbine fan.

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And I mounted it in the forward section of the HERMES.

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With this last major piece of the built in place I started to add armor plates and a front grill.

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With the help of the great tool by Camkierhi it was quite quick. These PVC Cutters make the cutting/snapping of thicker (1.5 or 2mm) plasticard really easy.

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Thank you Camkierhi!

Before I could add more plates and panels I wanted to try and add light effects again

Those LED strips are really easy and once you know how it's done you can lights quite quickly.

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I decided to add light effects for the thrusters first.

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Powered by a 9V block battery.

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I mounted the cables, so they would add to the Imperial look and feel of the HERMES shuttle.

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While digging through some of my old build stashes I found this old seat section I had build for some obscure project

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With these it was quite easy to build the interior of the VIP pod.

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And of course the Pod needs lights too, right?

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I also tinted the thruster LED's blue and the interior lights red, using Airbrush transparent ink.

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The VIP pod also needed a throne like seat for the governess.

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Then the pod doors.

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Which are mounted in the open state for the scene.

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Together with the ramps.

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Light test

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After the successful lighting of the model I completed the additional panels and plates.

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The final HERMES.

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So I started to finalize the reception scene. For this I decided I'll need a piper

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After some GreenStuff sessions I got this.

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The two female Eisenkerns received assistant's accessories.

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And I decided I needed a saluting officer on the deck.

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Two guards for this side.

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The complete reception scene.

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A welder working on the bomb shaft completes the crew.

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The 23(!) crew memebers assembled for priming.

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The VIP pod received the first lick of paint.

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Since the HERMES with the black primer looked quite menacing to me, I decided not to go for any of the Dencara campuflage patterns, but to keep it (almost) black instead.

So I painted it in a very dark violett.

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And I will try to add dark red highlights and maybe skull ornaments, similar to what I did with the ZEUS.

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So, what do you think?

Cheers

klaus