Looks amazing however I personaly would change some of the wires to be twisted together to look like power cables for the ship that got torn when the wing "fell" (you chopped it QQ) amazing project though
@@SquidmarMiniatures I'm sorry, I should have put a "😉." I was being the "Internet troll that has to be that basic." Spread the love of the hobby wide and far!
Loooks so cool. Depending on how long ago the Manta crashed there may be some plant life growing inside that wing that fell down the hill on the other side. Might be a fun way to communicate how long the fire warrior has been on his own. I love this project.
I believe they had something like that intended in the original design, i remember them at least talking about a creek flowing down the mountain now travels through the manta, im excited to see if they still do that part
The fire warrior is in a camp, looking for help. I feel like this would be pretty fresh. Also, it's an alpine region. I doubt much would grow aside from some lichens.
@@thewastedwanderer5787 Idk, i feel like they've talked about this being his "new home." He could have crashed a year ago and is still just camping by his old Manta. And all sorts of saplings and plants can still grow in Alpine regions, though I guess I missed that specifc
That was hard to watch! But it’s going to look pretty awesome when it’s done. It occurs to me that we’re almost making two parts of the same story. The beginning of a mantas life and the end. Perhaps it’s the same ship….
@@mikejurisic Not sure about the paid sponsorship but the ad revenue is a fucking joke now. Trust me. I get 50K views in a month and make less than 20$.
That is one hell of an impressive kit-bash or scratch-building job on the broken wing. It looks so smooth and so detailed. If I didn't know any better I would believe it was a kit that came like that. Hats of to Squidmar miniatures. PS. Thanks for the awesome brush set.
Geeking out for the final product! Have you guys considered what caused the crash in the first place? Ideas: - Alien ship Invader, trying to force a crash landing? (Unexpected Visitor) - A space battle? (Damages to other parts of Manta) - Prisoners overtaking the ship?
You need tree and rock damage to the leading edge that surfed across the terrain. You also need a crumble zone from the neck of the ship where it would have been jammed into the opposite cliff. Finally, especially, as you have now opened the skin there needs to have water damage that has collected on the bits and some form of vegetation that has started to grow back post crash. The water damage needs to have a grow line to where the water is collecting. When you pour the lake, pour some water collecting in the broken wing. Look into EL-wire in the future. Super fun product. Great build, really enjoying the series.
I've seen guitar strings used a lot for sci-fi conversions and scratch-building, but I think that's the first time I've seen someone actually cut them off of their guitar!
I was expecting an evil laugh montage as you cut the manta or a moment of silence 😂 Thank you for letting us follow along. Love the progress and can't wait for the next update.
wow its insane how every time i see something from this project im absolutely amazed, you guys are so skilled at this and the amount of detail and love for each centimeter is inspiring. i will definatly try to do a diorama myself but ofc not on this massive scale
It's a bit painfull seeing such a majestic "miniature" treated like that but then again, it did have some "warp"-issues before even getting assembled so a crash landing is a fitting end.
Absolutely love this project. I hope it ends up in a large store or even warhammer world rather than a private collection so that many people can enjoy it in person. Great work guys and I hope you beat GW in subs.
I'd like to have it in Warhammer World, given there is a large sign saying they had to make the best of it after it was delivered completely broken and had severe quality issues.
My soul was about to start aching when I saw the guitar strings being cut.... but then I remembered I dont have a soul anymore... it completely expired when I saw him cut the manta previously.
I'm really enjoying this series and it's really starting to come together now! The guitar strings were a stroke of genius, that texture would be great for the large wires. Can't wait to see the next stage!
Ridiculously cool as usual. I feel like you should cut some of the ground away underneath the broken wing so its not hanging off the side of the diarama so much
Should add some cobbled together drones too, to accompany the Fire Warrior. Also, the left front area needs damage where it's touching the mountainous area...
The Fire Warrior fishing in the Rhino sounds really cool, can't wait to see it. It seems like you've got a fair bit of space to work with down below the ship. You've already come this far, why not have a little camp with a handful of survivors? Could have one fishing, one on guard duty, one sleeping, maybe one tending to a wounded guy? Would look super cool!
Watching you saw through the wing hurt me in ways I can't describe, though I'm blown away by how amazing you made it look. Can't wait to see the end of this journey.
This is why it annoys me when people shut down this hobby, or tut and sigh thinking it doesn't count as 'real art' or it's nerdy, therefore lame. The sheer amount of time, creativity and practical skill this build has taken is incredible. How the f*ck you guys manage to visualize something then using literal pieces of string and card manage to create it is unbelievable. I am willing to bet the average painting out there hasn't got sh*t on any of this when you compare the amount of thinking and skill required
I think real art historically has had a contemporary meaning, making it stick out from the current craft at that time. Warhammer reincarnating its popularity during the pandemic, has turned it into a contemporary art that reflects a change in society, thus creating a mirror of our culture that means something deeper. They take away the world from us, we build a small miniature world and mankind is saved. Some believe we should organize an army and protest that the world has been taken away based on centralized elite decisions, from that perspective, the table top war is a way of confirming to totalitarialism.
@@c3ramics I do too! I hope I didn't come off as trying to diss anyone. I'm referring to in the past when people have seen either my stuff or someone else's and said 'this isn't really art though is it' or rolls their eyes because they make the association to the 80s nerds with glasses in their basements playing dnd with lisps cliché
Looking back you probably could've gotten a medium sized resin printer, a bunch of resin, found a file for the manta or something pretty similar, and printed it off. It would've taken time but instead of sawing a $1750 model it probably would've been around $50-$60 and a couple weeks of printing. Good to know forge world models are solid resin all the way through though!
@@SquidmarMiniatures oh dang. So that's about a little under 13 bottles of resin. Let's say fourteen bottles for any miss prints. So ya, about a $360-420 print material, I would wait for the elegoo Jupiter to release so that's another $1300, a cure and wash station for ~$200, misc materials ~$50, so around $1600-1650 total. I'd say the hard part would be finding the files though as that would go against copyright laws and that's not ok. Also learning a new printer is a process. But if you did! It would be around $1950, and it would've been pretty cool. It just made me sad to see such and expensive model being sawed apart. I appreciate the dedication to this project.
I mean, you can still play the manta in a game like that if you want. Just add a fire warrior hanging out of a hatch waving a giant banner saying, ‘tis but a scratch!’
So what I really think would be a cool little funny detail is to let the fire warrior have a single (broken?) drone to keep him company and pait the wilson face from castaway on
That crash damage is so well done. I think it needs more damage to all parts that have come into contact with the mountain. I think it should look like it actually colided into the mountains, not that it came to just rest against the other areas.
The final part looks nice but I feel there should be more parts/debris on the ground in area where wing has been torn. Also the wing is at such a steep angle it looks like it should slide off. Maybe you can connect it to the main body so that it looks like it is still being hold by some streached cables?
Probably too late now, but the front cockpit and the other wing should also have some damage from the landing. Maybe you could also add the reason why the manta crashed in the first place in form of impact craters from the fire of some anti air gun as well as general battle damage on the Manta (although that last thing could be done while painting/weathering it)
I have always found rattle cans (especially vallejo ones) work way better on FW resin compared to airbrush or paint on primers. Something about the chemical etching into the surface to bond better.
Not sure how work intensive this would be, but a neat idea would be to carve out various sections along the top side of the ship, and then fill them with exposed wiring etc, as if they took heavy weapons fire all over the ship's carapace. When painting you could give them a dull glow as if the ship is still burning from the inside. I don't know if any of that makes sense over text, but I thought that would be a cool idea!
To further add, maybe make one of the engines appear shot, or another large hit somewhere on the model, cause if the wing ripped off it and caused it to crash it wouldn't be lying right next to the manta proper.
Few peaple in the world have a manta, of these only a small part used it tomake a diorama, but you could be the only one with a broken manta diorama ❤️
It can still be repaired! Outstanding job. Learning a lot from this that I can apply to my own miniatures. Could we see some possessed marines or guard customs in the future?
Depending on how long that's ship has ment to be sat there I'd consider painting the tow and the bottom as sepret areas because the top would be sun bleached where as the bottom would be protected to an extent from the elements
I would suggest you to look at plane crash pictures as reference to model the crashed part realistically! I'm sure there would be some broken manta pieces scattered ahead of the impact site and between the wing and main body!
Instead of destroying it why didn’t you just hide it under some foliage and make it look imbedded in the ground? Like the crash pushed up all this dirt to cover the front of it and it’s been there for a little bit so the plant life had grown over it. Then you’d still have an almost 2k model intact at the end of the day
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Looks amazing however I personaly would change some of the wires to be twisted together to look like power cables for the ship that got torn when the wing "fell" (you chopped it QQ) amazing project though
Click bait, not a Titan. 😉
@@intellectualiconoclasm3264 the titan is only 2/3 the area and weight of the manta. Just saying. Not tallest - biggest :)
@@SquidmarMiniatures I'm sorry, I should have put a "😉." I was being the "Internet troll that has to be that basic." Spread the love of the hobby wide and far!
lol i was confused why it was all gray, hadn't been painted yet xD
Loooks so cool. Depending on how long ago the Manta crashed there may be some plant life growing inside that wing that fell down the hill on the other side. Might be a fun way to communicate how long the fire warrior has been on his own. I love this project.
I believe they had something like that intended in the original design, i remember them at least talking about a creek flowing down the mountain now travels through the manta, im excited to see if they still do that part
Yes
The fire warrior is in a camp, looking for help. I feel like this would be pretty fresh. Also, it's an alpine region. I doubt much would grow aside from some lichens.
@@thewastedwanderer5787 Idk, i feel like they've talked about this being his "new home." He could have crashed a year ago and is still just camping by his old Manta. And all sorts of saplings and plants can still grow in Alpine regions, though I guess I missed that specifc
I totally agree, there should certainly be plant life inside it.
That was hard to watch! But it’s going to look pretty awesome when it’s done. It occurs to me that we’re almost making two parts of the same story. The beginning of a mantas life and the end. Perhaps it’s the same ship….
tau nick probably fainted when he saw the tumbnail...
Damn thats poetic - would be Amazing if you guys actually painted that one fire warrior that survived the same way :D
That must have been some kind of explosion when it crashed aye Nick? ;p
This is what I'll believe in my head cannon.
Hi Tau Nick! 👋🏼
The brass balls on this man willing to break a 1700$ model for art. Dude, you have my salute for that.
Art is pain ....... in more ways than one
360-380k subscribers worth of revenue plus video sponsorship spread out over multiple videos = crocodile tears over $1700
@@mikejurisic Not sure about the paid sponsorship but the ad revenue is a fucking joke now. Trust me. I get 50K views in a month and make less than 20$.
It's crazy how the diorama looks really big until you add the Manta, then it looks tiny, just shows off how big the Manta really is
You should add some blast damage to the rest of the Manta, give it a reason for falling out of the sky!
Should have holed the cowling on one of the engines, and had it blown out like they did the wing
Sawing the wing off the Manta didn't upset me nearly as much as watching you clip the guitar strings. Ouch.
It looks awesome. It just needs a lot more debris on the ground and I feel like the neck of the manta should break from impact as well
I second that, the front and the neck needs damage from the impact.
As it is the most fragile part of the ship and it probably impacted head on, I agree.
This!
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That is one hell of an impressive kit-bash or scratch-building job on the broken wing. It looks so smooth and so detailed. If I didn't know any better I would believe it was a kit that came like that. Hats of to Squidmar miniatures. PS. Thanks for the awesome brush set.
You could have a small grouping of parts from the manta wing split site where the Fire warrior has started to forage for useful parts.
Geeking out for the final product! Have you guys considered what caused the crash in the first place?
Ideas:
- Alien ship Invader, trying to force a crash landing? (Unexpected Visitor)
- A space battle? (Damages to other parts of Manta)
- Prisoners overtaking the ship?
You need tree and rock damage to the leading edge that surfed across the terrain. You also need a crumble zone from the neck of the ship where it would have been jammed into the opposite cliff. Finally, especially, as you have now opened the skin there needs to have water damage that has collected on the bits and some form of vegetation that has started to grow back post crash. The water damage needs to have a grow line to where the water is collecting. When you pour the lake, pour some water collecting in the broken wing.
Look into EL-wire in the future. Super fun product.
Great build, really enjoying the series.
Could you please hide a little secret (like a skull or old weapons or something else) in the lake? Would be really cool
I've seen guitar strings used a lot for sci-fi conversions and scratch-building, but I think that's the first time I've seen someone actually cut them off of their guitar!
May as well use the old ones for art and put a nice new set on the instrument, eh?
This has been one of the neatest things to see slowly unfold, really enjoying this.
It would be neat if after this project you create an extended piece that parts from the lake under the manta and outwards and make it a playable map.
I was expecting an evil laugh montage as you cut the manta or a moment of silence 😂
Thank you for letting us follow along. Love the progress and can't wait for the next update.
wow its insane how every time i see something from this project im absolutely amazed, you guys are so skilled at this and the amount of detail and love for each centimeter is inspiring. i will definatly try to do a diorama myself but ofc not on this massive scale
This project is my favourite thing to watch on UA-cam hands down!
Please longer videos, looks amazing 👏
Absolutely love the level of detail you went into with the broken wing.
THIS is how you use old guitare strings !
I admire your ability to just take scrap and use it to do amazing things, it really turned out well !
It's a bit painfull seeing such a majestic "miniature" treated like that but then again, it did have some "warp"-issues before even getting assembled so a crash landing is a fitting end.
Honestly considering how warped the model already was cutting the wing is just an improvement
NGL kind of true
Does anybody know the song at 6:34? Besides that, fantastic job on the diorama. I love when something tells a story without a word being spoken!
Absolutely love this project. I hope it ends up in a large store or even warhammer world rather than a private collection so that many people can enjoy it in person. Great work guys and I hope you beat GW in subs.
I'd like to have it in Warhammer World, given there is a large sign saying they had to make the best of it after it was delivered completely broken and had severe quality issues.
My soul was about to start aching when I saw the guitar strings being cut.... but then I remembered I dont have a soul anymore... it completely expired when I saw him cut the manta previously.
*proceed to cut a piece of the Manta*... Here goes 400 bucks, I guess 😂
Love your job as always!
Then again ... you can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs ;)
I'm really enjoying this series and it's really starting to come together now! The guitar strings were a stroke of genius, that texture would be great for the large wires. Can't wait to see the next stage!
Ridiculously cool as usual. I feel like you should cut some of the ground away underneath the broken wing so its not hanging off the side of the diarama so much
And the nose should be digging in to the ground. But I'm sure you have a lot up your sleeve
i came here ready to rage but after seeing the end result i was absolutely blown away! i cant wait to see how this look in the end!
This saw teared right through my soul as well.
Some BX(armoured cable) stuffed with some old ethernet cable makes for amazing torn conduits. Love that nice Canadian made guitar as well
Old eldar statues at the bottom of the lake could be a nice touch - loving the progress
Dude I love dioramas like this! It looks amazing, can't wait to see the finished piece! Physical pain watching the manta get cut up though ngl 💸😱💀
Should add some cobbled together drones too, to accompany the Fire Warrior. Also, the left front area needs damage where it's touching the mountainous area...
The Fire Warrior fishing in the Rhino sounds really cool, can't wait to see it. It seems like you've got a fair bit of space to work with down below the ship. You've already come this far, why not have a little camp with a handful of survivors? Could have one fishing, one on guard duty, one sleeping, maybe one tending to a wounded guy? Would look super cool!
@8:45 I fet like you were reading my mind! This thing is becoming my favourite mini-series of all time.
Some 3D printing supports would also fit in the wing construction
Watching you saw through the wing hurt me in ways I can't describe, though I'm blown away by how amazing you made it look. Can't wait to see the end of this journey.
I love how this whole iconoclast spirit against Warhammer has taken over Squidmars channel
Lol 🤣
This is why it annoys me when people shut down this hobby, or tut and sigh thinking it doesn't count as 'real art' or it's nerdy, therefore lame. The sheer amount of time, creativity and practical skill this build has taken is incredible. How the f*ck you guys manage to visualize something then using literal pieces of string and card manage to create it is unbelievable. I am willing to bet the average painting out there hasn't got sh*t on any of this when you compare the amount of thinking and skill required
I think real art historically has had a contemporary meaning, making it stick out from the current craft at that time. Warhammer reincarnating its popularity during the pandemic, has turned it into a contemporary art that reflects a change in society, thus creating a mirror of our culture that means something deeper. They take away the world from us, we build a small miniature world and mankind is saved. Some believe we should organize an army and protest that the world has been taken away based on centralized elite decisions, from that perspective, the table top war is a way of confirming to totalitarialism.
@@turbobhagwan if I were a college professor I'd give this full marks
I’m an engineer, and I consider myself an artist haha.
@@c3ramics I do too! I hope I didn't come off as trying to diss anyone. I'm referring to in the past when people have seen either my stuff or someone else's and said 'this isn't really art though is it' or rolls their eyes because they make the association to the 80s nerds with glasses in their basements playing dnd with lisps cliché
Man i just love this entire series. Can't wait for you guys to finish so i can rewatch it entirely.
Looks amazing! Broken wing turned out waaay better than i expected
Looking back you probably could've gotten a medium sized resin printer, a bunch of resin, found a file for the manta or something pretty similar, and printed it off. It would've taken time but instead of sawing a $1750 model it probably would've been around $50-$60 and a couple weeks of printing. Good to know forge world models are solid resin all the way through though!
It's 12kg of resin... 😅
@@SquidmarMiniatures oh dang. So that's about a little under 13 bottles of resin. Let's say fourteen bottles for any miss prints. So ya, about a $360-420 print material, I would wait for the elegoo Jupiter to release so that's another $1300, a cure and wash station for ~$200, misc materials ~$50, so around $1600-1650 total. I'd say the hard part would be finding the files though as that would go against copyright laws and that's not ok. Also learning a new printer is a process. But if you did! It would be around $1950, and it would've been pretty cool. It just made me sad to see such and expensive model being sawed apart. I appreciate the dedication to this project.
This project is so next level! It's so amazing. You would have had a field day in the 60s-90s working on film sets!
That was awesome. Keep up the good work.
I mean, you can still play the manta in a game like that if you want. Just add a fire warrior hanging out of a hatch waving a giant banner saying, ‘tis but a scratch!’
The segway into the sponsor @5:20 was impeccable! 😅👌
That ad transition at 5:18 was buttery smooth.
This is why I use recasts in diorama.
Emil just cutting the strings right off a guitar instead of opening a new pack like some sort of psychopath
Because it's not like it's makes more sense putting the new strings on the guitar 😆
Watching them drill and dremel without respirators made me SO ANXIOUS.
You mad lads! Going to look awesome though, like a smashed up Star Destroyer :)
This diorama is becoming Epic with each episode! Awesome craftsmanship gents!
This looks DAMN FANTASTIC, nice work there! Looking forward for the end result. :)
You should add repair drones to that section of the diorama as if there is some hope that the ship is getting repaired.
So what I really think would be a cool little funny detail is to let the fire warrior have a single (broken?) drone to keep him company and pait the wilson face from castaway on
i would add a disembarkment ramp half sheared off it can be a way to add more detail and story but also can be used to add more support to the manta
That crash damage is so well done. I think it needs more damage to all parts that have come into contact with the mountain. I think it should look like it actually colided into the mountains, not that it came to just rest against the other areas.
Istg he edits and how you can make 2 of you and make it actually seem real is CRAZY
There's two of me😵
Looks so damn cool! Now to bust up the rest of the Manta up a bit as well and this might become one of if not the greatest Warhammer 40k diorama
Starting to look great! You guys should add some impact holes/glances so it looks like it was shot down during a dogfight
The Fire Warrior needs some kind of speherical sports accessory to paint a face on, so he has someone to talk to.
Looks incredible, the torn wings look great
The final part looks nice but I feel there should be more parts/debris on the ground in area where wing has been torn. Also the wing is at such a steep angle it looks like it should slide off. Maybe you can connect it to the main body so that it looks like it is still being hold by some streached cables?
Probably too late now, but the front cockpit and the other wing should also have some damage from the landing. Maybe you could also add the reason why the manta crashed in the first place in form of impact craters from the fire of some anti air gun as well as general battle damage on the Manta (although that last thing could be done while painting/weathering it)
And I don’t even want to cut a space marine in half for a scenic base!!
This video was a pain to watch, but a weird satisfaction in seeing the wing cut off.
Cant imagine how nerve racking that would cutting into it.
Milliputaktion "It´s looking really fency schmency" made my day :-D
Great job , it looks amazing, Be cool to see a blast point through the model like it had been shot down.
He probably needs a respirator to be around that resin dust
true. but also, too late now. lol
I have always found rattle cans (especially vallejo ones) work way better on FW resin compared to airbrush or paint on primers. Something about the chemical etching into the surface to bond better.
I remember when worked a job where I had to take a dremel to expensive composite parts, you get over it eventually I guess
If you add some water when sanding resin, it stops dust getting into the air.
Does make a messy paste though, I prefer that to dust though.
Lol, this is so clever. I almost lost my shit when you said "guitar strings". Such a cool idea and use.
Not sure how work intensive this would be, but a neat idea would be to carve out various sections along the top side of the ship, and then fill them with exposed wiring etc, as if they took heavy weapons fire all over the ship's carapace. When painting you could give them a dull glow as if the ship is still burning from the inside. I don't know if any of that makes sense over text, but I thought that would be a cool idea!
This looks awesome ! You should add more bits in between the two parts of the manta so it looks more like it was a whole thing before the crash.
Cool!!! But where's the landing trace? it feels like he just fell there vertically or teleported :))
Try to add some debris around the shattered wing, it might look better and more "realistic"
To further add, maybe make one of the engines appear shot, or another large hit somewhere on the model, cause if the wing ripped off it and caused it to crash it wouldn't be lying right next to the manta proper.
I could watch one hour videos of you making this. Love it! ❤️
A tear rolled down my cheek when you started sawing off the wing :'(
The guitar strings/conduit setup is super cool, I may have to use that on a base or on some terrain
Awesome job guys love how it's coming together. Squidmar Airbrush and brushes have arrived too
Few peaple in the world have a manta, of these only a small part used it tomake a diorama, but you could be the only one with a broken manta diorama ❤️
you could put some creepy sea monster in the lake where the fire warrior is fishing
It can still be repaired! Outstanding job. Learning a lot from this that I can apply to my own miniatures. Could we see some possessed marines or guard customs in the future?
That NordVPN segue was smooth. You should be proud.
Very cool idea. Curious to see the finished product
Depending on how long that's ship has ment to be sat there I'd consider painting the tow and the bottom as sepret areas because the top would be sun bleached where as the bottom would be protected to an extent from the elements
"No going back" he says, jb weld, some sand paper, and primer says otherwise lol
dude this such an awesome project! i love and cant wait for the end outcome :) keep up the awesome crafting
I would suggest you to look at plane crash pictures as reference to model the crashed part realistically! I'm sure there would be some broken manta pieces scattered ahead of the impact site and between the wing and main body!
Instead of destroying it why didn’t you just hide it under some foliage and make it look imbedded in the ground? Like the crash pushed up all this dirt to cover the front of it and it’s been there for a little bit so the plant life had grown over it. Then you’d still have an almost 2k model intact at the end of the day
This series got me back into Warhammer
Man's cutting up perfectly good guitar strings when CAT-5 Cables are literal pennies.
15 year old strings but sureeee 🙈😂
It looks so cool. Can you ad a door in the laboratory please, that would connect it to the surrounding area.
This is coming along real well. I hope they add more damage.
Add some metal part on the top of the mountain where the manta crashes