Figured to start with my newest WIP - Necron Warriors for my son's Necron army (& 4 Swarms)



Base coated, bases done (magnetised & put a washer on the bottom, so they can all fit in a cookie tin I happen to have available).

Cool. What spot colour are you going to use?

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Cool. What spot colour are you going to use?

EDC

he has requested blue =D

If I can figure out how to fit it in, likely I'll do the little bits blue. I'll post a couple versions I think, get opinions before I do the whole lot. I have a couple blue paints I want to try out as well, one is an actual metallic blue from Reaper I really liked the look of, have to see how it looks in use though.

These are three of the colour schemes I've come up with (the blue is a metallic blue paint)

the first is just basic blue washes - not sure the colours come out in the pic :(
the second is (blurry!) blue on the gun and the chest piece only, no wash
the third is quite a lot more blue, the chest piece, the shoulders, helmet, and bits between major limb areas

Which one do you like? Or what combo would you like better? I'm thinking of going with the last one, except I don't quite like the helmet as it's so dark

The blue washes are a nightmare to photograph and I'm sorry to say that I can't really make out the blue in the two other pics.

That said, I'd definitely vote blue gun pipe because the it makes some sense that the energy is flowing through three from the blue crystal. Blue eyes are a must. Blue shoulders and silver head would make a good scheme. I worry the joins between body parts may not come off. Have you thought about making up some templates or masking off sections of limb parts to colour in blue? Could work as an identification means between warriors? Other than that you could try painting the ribs blue, but it would make a lot of blue on the torso.

I've just realised that I've probably thrown up more confusion, sorry! :(

hah no, it's np - it's really really hard to show the colours in a pic, I'm not sure why >< Too subtle I guess. I did throw it in a lightbox with three lights but meh.

Anyway, some variation on #3 might be good, the more I look at it the more I dislike the all blue head as well >< Anyway, back to work Worse case, I can repaint them and if my #3 son is really into them, like I'm hoping, I'll undoubtedly be doing more soon! These are for his birthday at the end of the week so I really need to get moving lol

Painting a Doomscythe up for my son's army. Again going with blue theme (at least on trim).

Nice flyer. I like the 3rd option of the infantry models.

EDC

Awesome Doomscythe!!! The blue looks so good contrasted against the black. That's one of the reasons I went for blue too. Also I was fed up of being conformist!!!

Thanks guys!

Should have close to final pics up later today - like *right* before I give it to my son lmao. I'm supposed to be done now >< almost, just waiting on some washes to dry to do final highlights on metals. Thinking about the edge highlighting on the black panels. Not sure if I should just go for the lighter blue or put an undercoat of the darker and then the lighter. Might have to test first.

I got the last black layer on the panels, which muted the blue glowy a bit down, but I think it still looks good. Since I couldn't get my airbrush to cooperate anymore I did them by hand <ouch> thankfully it's not that large of a vehicle. It looks ok I think, but needs must and all that. Sigh.

Almost done with the guns, and I'm going to wait on the final gun or portal to see which he really wants. Knowing him tho, it'll be the BIG GUN lol


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Waiting for base to dry so I can paint it


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Finished pics:

What a birthday present! Awesome stuff.

Finished some more of my Malifaux gremlins tonight (well except for the guy in the red hat >< I only realized I forgot to finish his highlights after taking this picture sigh) Putting the arms/guns together was quite hard, I couldn't get them lined up quite right. Finally just got them on as best I can sigh. Hoping they stay on!

The group shot of the Necrons is looking wicked!

Nice Goblins too.

EDC

Thanks =)

got some more WIP shots of gremlins

This is Somer, slophaulers and start on my skeeters (all for Malifaux)

Oh wow. This creepy bug things are really something.

EDC

lol yeah... the scale in Malifaux is weird - it's more variable. These guys are larger than most of my other models!

Anyway more WIP:









Really need to buy another light for my light box sigh

Top two/three boxes are empty. Then we have Manufactorum, Balewind Throne thingy, and Garden of Morr. IoB set behind all those.




Reaper stuff for some figures I'm attempting to make for my RP group in a couple campaigns we're doing. I expect to hopefully have these ready for Christmas presents this coming December.




bunch of my reaper minis - bones on the right, mostly giant, orc, goblins and familiars.




most of my old school and other metal minis for my Skaven army, censor bearers, named characters on left; bits and a ton of giant rats in the rubbermaid containers on left.




bunch of stuff for my son's VC army, more Skaven stuff (Thanquol is up there somewhere, the new Stormvermin), Skitarii and a few more terrain pieces, like the promethian pipes and the GW trees. Couple of random boxes I got in trades and some empties as well, mostly full tho. Malifaux Gremlins and Arcanists are tucked into the left corner.




just another view of the corner




80 plague monks - give or take, a pack of Stormvermin primed, another Hellpit, Hexwraiths on hold atm (working on OSL), and my box o shame, random miniatures I haven't yet done much with, that aren't GW or for one of my RPG things (yet). Plus a box of warmachine bits (Bell, WLC, etc) under the plague monks.

Now to see what we can get done this year!! ^_^

I like the colouring on the Doomscythe. I have an Eldar Falcon done in a similar way, except with yellow, orange, red instead of shades of blue.

That is an epic amount of models you have. Are they all to be painted????

@Fifty - thanks! I almost was going to do a red but my son requested the blue heh

@TC^DC - umm <looks shifty-eyed> that is the plan <cough> we'll see how it goes! On a plus side as I always say, I have plenty incase of the Zombie Apocalypse - no fear of running out anytime soon!

I've been working on putting my BaC box together (our LGS is having a contest but dunno if I'll make it by the end of the month!) - I'm trying to come up with a colour scheme for Luna Wolves that I like. I am *not* doing a white, I hate white. So I'm going to go like really light grey with maybe white highlights, that's probably the best I'll be able to manage honestly.

Couple WIP shots from this w/e:



Some of the black bits are going to be metals, not stay black, like the weapons. I just don't like to use leadbelcher over white (which was what I primed with) maybe because I've done Skaven and primed black so long, I really prefer darker primers usually.

I also had a bit of a flow aid accident with my paint so yeah, even messier basecoating than I usually do lol

Looking good so far. Like how many contrast points you have there. The black/Leadbelcher areas compliment the grey well

Cool. The 'not white' Luna Wolves scheme is looking great.

A very ambitious amount if models to paint this year...good luck!

EDC

I feel you on white primers, unless my model is going to be white or ethereal I prefer black primer as the white can show too easy if you miss even the tiniest spot. Also great job on the Luna Wolves so far! The not white is looking very smooth.

Thanks all! it's going really slowly atm sigh

Anyway, here is my prototype, if you will, for my paint scheme. (In a bad phone pic, sorry)

I'm liking it so far in its not whiteness hah Still need to do weapons, some edge highlighting and I think it'll be pretty much done. I haven't decided on weathering as of yet.

What are the bugs from?

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
What are the bugs from?

Malifaux they're in with the bayou boss box - afaik they don't come separately

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Also, wanted to post my next WIP for soon to be terrain bit (roughly, a power station of some sort)

Heavy weapon dude with base coat and wash:


Other three terminator dudes (right one's head is somewhere on my frekin desk ><


Beginning of Dreadnought:


and waiting in the wings, some of the legionaries:

Clearly ork plane engines

Loving those icy-cool necrons, nice work!

Not sure I'm really as done with the Dread as I'd like, but I'm leaving it for the time being. Need to get moving o n the rest of the troops!

Yeah I'd rather paint than do my house work >< really supposed to be cleaning right now but anyway, I decided Mr Dread need more work. I just love this model!







So of course I decided that's not enough - I want to do white edge highlighting in a few places, grey on the black. I plan to weather the exhaust pipes on his back with "soot" later. Also looking for ideas about his ribbon? (I mean the thing that looks like a ribbon on his chest, I dunno what to call it) I've been considering doing it with silver, or gold. Gold to match the brass, silver to match my theme though... and what to 'write' on it? I was thinking legion mottos, like Lupercal but I'm not really sure. I don't have a lot of (any) reference material for space marines so help is appreciated!

next to finish the luna wolf symbols, some edge highlighting and finishing touches. Then on to next 5

Looking great there. You're doing such a cool job, very jealous!

@TP^DC, Thanks! I wish my free hand was better =/ but hopefully practice will help

this is my probably mostly finished WIP of my Wyrd Iron painter entry:







At this point I'm trying to wait a bit to see what all I missed or need to fix, but I think I'm prolly done. I had in mind a kind of diorama originally but after doing the ork, I just liked him too much as he was to change it.

Lovely work, I really like the skin work on that Ork. Splendid stuff

 Wolf wrote:
Lovely work, I really like the skin work on that Ork. Splendid stuff

Thanks =D

I did change it up a bit (added warpaint, mainly)

latest terrain: "Power"

Awesome looking Luna Wolves.

Nice terrain too, you could totally use that as an Ork Void Shield Generator.

EDC

my Wyrd Iron Painter entry for Round Two (Better off (Un)dead!)

Ayup, son's ghostark

he's wanting a kind of brushed gold look to it, so I started with a balthasar gold base, black with blue trim and I'm going to probably drybrush a layer of Vallejo Old Gold over it (my fave gold colour tbh). Started a test piece in the above pic.

It's meant to look a lot more like an Amarran ship - for any who've played Eve Online - and for those who haven't here's a ref pic of my little punisher frigate:

Got most of the brown (rhinox hide) undercoat done, then on to the black bits and put bronze over top of the brown.

Another dryfitting:




Got some more work done on the 'Ark - mostly the bronze layer and start of the black.

Gotta tell you that bronze has grown on me. My only concern is that I'm not convinced it will fit in with the rest of the army colour-wise

mine as well actually :( I'm hoping the black bits with blue will help pull it off... I guess we'll see. Playboy really likes it so that's good (it's his army).

I'm thinking about the death immortals he wants done as well, having more bronze plates (to set them apart more plus match), with the same bases as the other necron warriors (from earlier). Not sure if that'll work or just look strange. I may have to just go for it with one and see how it turns out.

Just for fun, he came by my desk while I was painting and started commenting how the necron warriors I was drybrushing to go inside the ghostark, needed to have different coloured wires leading to their chest piece, which should be glowing... I gave him the mommy stare and was like, "Do you want to paint these?!" he quickly departed

Lol. Hilarious. My children are just a bit too little for that to be in any way effective, I can't wait til the "daddy stare" has full effect

Your idea with the Inmortals will be very effective. Shame the ship is already black otherwise you could have done that bronze too to signify that "big" (size and status) has those colours. As you say, carefully introduce it elsewhere and it will all fit together in the end I expect.

Guess we'll see eh? hehe

Here's something I was working on for the Reaper FB May contest - feel free to go vote for your favorites if you use FB

not very good pic, took on my phone but just an update of the WIP Ghostark for my son

it was really hard to line up the driver, his hips, the three cables and the chair itself on this model... he's a bit crooked unfortunately. I'm working on his arms and the ribs now. And the guns, which I actually forgot to cut off the sprue lol

Got eliminated last round but I'm in it for the long haul And this is my entry for Round 3. Hope you enjoy him! He is a Reaper Chronoscope model called Prof. Froschmeister.

Nice work on the mad scientist, it looks really good.

I really like the scheme for the Ghost Ark.

EDC

Some great stuff going on here Guldenstern. Love that ork btw and the mad scientist is well nice!!

Loving that mad scientist

thank you both

Finally got pics of my Ghostark - silly guns keep falling off grrr hopefully they'll stay on this time sigh. I can see that'll be a fun transport issue.










Hmm direct link to slightly more in focus pictures (better resolution?) not sure... gallery does weird things. This time I know it's not my photography lol

http://www.forgottenplanet.com/guildenstern/GhostarkDone1.jpg
http://www.forgottenplanet.com/guildenstern/GhostarkDone2.jpg
http://www.forgottenplanet.com/guildenstern/GhostarkDone3.jpg
http://www.forgottenplanet.com/guildenstern/GhostarkDone4.jpg

That's a superb job Guildenstern!!!

Thank you! am quite pleased it's finished that's for sure! Hopefully my son will get to use it this sunday in his first game - we're still not 100% on the rules so we're just bringing everything completed plus a couple HQ proxies til his birthday order comes in (Necron Get started box)

Also we have a unique (sort of) solution to the whole issue with his nightscythe/flyer being black and blue... I'm buying more lol well I will. Eventually (probably Christmas). His younger brother (my #3) is quite enamored of ships, as well, and I'm half-way hoping I can talk him into actually playing (he also likes Necrons, in case it's not obvious... so he's keeping the black one for now.)

Need to work on a colour scheme for #2's Deathmarks, which I just finished putting together. I'm thinking mostly black with the copper/bronze highlights - he wants them stealthy, but at the same time they need something to help tie them together with the main army theme. [I'm horribly tempted to paint them with Cylon eyes though...]

Other current projects: a Luna Wolves Rhino, which I'm doing a little converting on; 5 more Luna Wolves; 10 Giant Rats (out of my Skaven Stash of 69); finishing my Portal Terrain of course, erm... yeah so lots going on. I'm a take pics in the morning when the lights better.

Man, I really like that colour scheme. Excellent work.

EDC

Cylon eyes!!!!!


Whoops. Tourette's moment there. If you do it I will too

Ghost Arks are the reason why I chose Night Scythes as my transports. Looks like a pain to build/paint!

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Ghost Arks are the reason why I chose Night Scythes as my transports. Looks like a pain to build/paint!

yeah it looks nice when finished and all but putting all those warriors in it... ugh

Gotta WIP pic of my rhino - although it's possibly getting more armed than it should I don't care, it's more for fluff probably never going to play with it (well you know, like, against other people... in a game.... not on my table running around making shooty noises - cuz I never do that!)

Pew Pew!

You know you built that with the Razorback hatch, right? Somehow it works and looks pretty cool

 Dez wrote:
Pew Pew!

You know you built that with the Razorback hatch, right? Somehow it works and looks pretty cool

Yup, it's my only Rhino atm and I couldn't stand putting the regular hatch on what may be my only baby

Don't look at me like that!

Lol

or I'll just call it a Razorback so all the purists can be happy

Personally I think you should take an exacto blade to it, glue on some bits and more dakka to make it a PROPPA trukk!

Bravo! Another SM tank converter! I love tinkering with them. The one I haven't finished yet needs some TLC, the poor marine gunner has huge holes in his chest but no blood.

Tanks are way more fun when there are stories with them.

Pew pew! Enemy toddler incoming, drive, drive! Otherwise he'll ...... ~SLOBBER~SNAP~THUD~.... Man down......

......

...... ahem. Yeah. Parenthood is only tolerable if you daydream, browse Dakka and pretend your children need to be fought off with tanks. (Please note, for all those people without children, the majority of people reading that last sentence probably just smiled and thought/said "pretend! They DO need to be fought off with tanks")

Sometimes I feel like I need an Infinity Gauntlet for my 5 year old, tanks won't do it

Guildy you thinking of any other modifications to this tank? Battle damage, weathering, scenic basing?

yall be grateful! toddlers are CUTE... I have teenagers now... ugh lol Pros: they can play with me Cons: they tend to not understand the value of money and not in a cute way like toddlers!

Still there's always grandkids, but hopefully not too soon lol

I'm very tempted to make this a trukk - got orks on the brain now! Was going by one of our major streets and yet another military truck for sale by the wafflehouse (they all park them there...) Anyway, I could see welding some plates on that bad boy... Funny because my kids got home after being out with dad and were like, "mom! we saw your truck!" lol cuz they all know I love big trucks

Anyway, overall plan for the rhino at this stage is as a kinda prop for my luna wolves diorama/base. I'll probably magnetise it so it'll come off easily, or just set it on the base, but I want it to look eventually like it's come in, landed some troops, and is fixing to take off. Idea eventually is to get all my guys weathered up and put on a diorama base like they just landed on Isstvan III. Smaller than a normal game board of course, something I'll be able to hopefully store and if I do end up getting time to take up 30k, use.

I'm going to do a bit of damage on the rhino, since I already marred it a bit, I'm not as worried now. But most of the weathering will be done after I think. I want to do the whole army at the same time so it's more consistent.

 Guildenstern wrote:
I'm horribly tempted to paint them with Cylon eyes though...

Tell me you aren't tempted by this

lol, no not so much... Slightly disappointed they have 3 eyes, but they're in a triad pattern if I'm looking at them correctly, so even though it'd look awesome I'm probably not going to paint them with cylon eyes sadly lol

Ordered my son a unit of Flayed Ones for his birthday as well, as he asked for them. That and the necron start collecting box should be here soon

I can't bring myself to pay the money for Flayed Ones, but they are cool. I'm trying to work out if I can mod some Warriors with some GS work. A bit of GS skin and BFTBG and it could be a far more cost-effective way of doing it. The GW sculpts are beautiful though and I am very jealous.

I really really really suck at GS :( but you'd think it'd be fairly easy to do what your describing, or maybe swap out some bits for zombie bits? hmm it's a thought

I got some work done on my Luna Wolves Rhino, trying to go a bit slow so I can do some weathering as I go:





also got a very little work done on my rats

That Rhino looks great. I would not be able to pull off such a rich pale grey. Keep it up.

Rhino is looking great. It's always cool to see some Luna Wolves stuff.

EDC

thanks guys!

That grey is 7 layers ugh. I'm never doing a light colour again lol well probably. Anyway I still like it better than white or even an off white scheme.

Got some more progress done today on my first non sick day this week:







So good bit of clean up yet to do, tidy up some of the highlighting, like on the wolf icon. And other areas where it was hard to see. Also found a few spots I'd plain missed. And the gunner/driver dude are still pretty much sitting in just their primer coat yet. Otherwise he's coming along well I think! I added a few of brass etching bits, still working out how to paint some of them.

Getting there! The brass etch looks great.

EDC

thanks! Did a bit more work on the rhino today, got most of the crew done, just need to do touchups, edge highlight etc and I think he'll be good!

took a bit of a break and finished off a model I really want to throw in my Gremlin crew, Burt Jensen. Plus, he's a really cool, fun model anyway:

Awesome. I love his ridiculous gun, perfectly orky.

EDC

Don't you mean....BURT JEBSEN!!!!!!

MVP of the year in Malifaux! I annoy the other gamers in my LGS by yelling BURT JEBSEN!!!! every time he does work, because he does work! Burt Jebsen is my 'Never leave at home' Gremlin.

lol yeah I'm prolly getting Wong's box and Merris next. Still need to paint my pigapult and piglets!

I think Gremlins' 'motto' is Leeroy Jeeeeeeeenkins! Burt fits very well lmao

I have been thinking, I'm going to improve his base, since I put him on a very basic one only atm - I'm going to add all the discarded shells I can, and maybe some 'live' ammo - wish I could sculpt! I'd love to give him a bandolier of shells (especially since that gun apparently doesn't really have a way of loading!)


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This is what I came up with, to try to make a Loken for my Luna Wolves. He's made out of the named character dude from the BaC box, and spare parts from it as well. Most of the conversion was removing the head, making room for the replacement, giving him a sword instead of his whatever it was, and a bolter in his opposite hand, also instead of the previous weapon.






I'm not currently thrilled with the neck, but not sure what to do about it. I took off this big grill/cover part that would have covered up the facial features, but also hid where the neck joined into the model. So, yeah, dunno.

Paint the bolter *ducks*

Looking great Guildy!

 Dez wrote:
Paint the bolter *ducks*

Looking great Guildy!

LOL little late now!!

built these tonight, trying to get my orks together to play vs my son on Sunday, would like to get some paint on them at least

More stuffs done:




after taking picture, I realized I forgot to put the pauldron on their left shoulder sigh, will have to fix after sleepz

more stuffs primed and almost ready for paint! woot:

some better shots of my rats:







Also, finished another batch of my Luna Wolves:

Love those rats Guildenstern. Each one realy seems to have its own character. nice job

Thanks Jan =D

Started up my terrain month this month!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BGJwEBrHgAN/

In reference to hobby month - woah!!!!! Excited to see what you churn out there.

Thanks TP^DC! I'm fairly excited, hoping to start an actual board up - only had it planned over a year now <rolls eyes>

Got my kits built, tho I've not taken a picture of the skull tower thingy as it's buried on my desk atm (cuz I got bored waiting for the terrain pieces to dry and started building an ork trukk:


I really have model ADHD):






And I did a bit of work on my Loken conversion - added a collar to hide the neck join. It may not be fluffy at all, but it's about the extent of my GS skills, and hopefully will look good when painted.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-95040-51753_Greentide.html

updated the gallery with latest work on my Ork Trukk build - and now, off to clean the desk so I can actually work on what I'm *supposed* to be working on, my terrain lol

Did some more work on my Magewrath Throne (aka now to be known as "Skullz")



^^ the base ala pink insulation foam, great stuff



^^ how it looks initially with the skullz on it; also painted the base brown after using gesso to prime it, not very exciting shot tho lol

And here's the start of my son's Frostgrave terrain/diorama/display base for his warband:



^^ it's going to be a ruined Library, I've yet to make the books, bookcases etc.

And here's my first attempt at making flock, quite pleased with how it came out, there's a bit of uncoloured sawdust still in it, but not too bad:

Some fantastic looking Necrons and Luna Wolves! I love that pattern of dread as well it looks sharp with the rest of the SM you got there!

I will be following this show!

Cheers!

Thanks

I am working on making vegetation (vines) for my terrain atm, but I realized I'd also forgotten to post the pics of the minis I think I'm doing for the Wyrd IP (to go with the Frostgrave Terrain above, and my son's warband).

So 'ere they are ^_^



arms are actually on now, figures are primed... just really need to get paint on 'em.

They are Darksword miniatures, by the by, from their anthropomorphic collection. Great service from them, very quick! Also excellent sculpts and not very much flash/mold lines.

Nice work on the Luna Wolves and terrain. Needs more paint though

EDC

More WIP on my skull tower (Magewrath throne piece): painting is really done, but I'm working on adding vegetation atm (because apparently I can't just keep anything simple lol)




First time I've tried to do trees ... not totally happy with them, but they are starting to look better (will get pic up, of current state, when flocking is dry)

Also did a test fit so to speak of stuff for my son's Frostgrave terrain/display board and his warband, it's based on a ruined library:

Cracking work so far Guildenstern. That skull tower is gonna look the business she do. Lovely stuff

Thanks Januine =D

Finally finished it tonight, and got pics! tho tbh some glue is still drying heh. I'm anxious to get on to other projects tho.









Quite a few more in my gallery but these are some of my favorites.

Awesome . All the vegetation looks great, the trees look really realistic and the vines and moss look cool too.

EDC

Thanks edc! first time I've done a jungle-y type theme glad it came out well

Finally had a chance to upload the original pics of my Loken conversion to the gallery here & some more terrain I made for my son's Frostgrave band.

damn that is some mighty fine looking terrain!

Thanks Ustrello =D

working on the base for my Manufactorum now! The kit itself is complete but I want to add a modular sort of base. The main piece will have a crater, inside the back building, the edge of the whole pink foam will be beveled down to make the Manufactorum stand on a hill of sorts. The front piece of the manufactorum, which isn't attached, will be able to be removed from the base, either for access or to give us more terrain options.

some of my WIP stuffs:



My son's Triarch ^^ (and it's driving me nuts it has the improper number of legs but oh well)



Started hubby's Perdita crew last night ^^ omg such little parts, so glad my tiny tiny drills came in, already lost an arm off perdita just taking this shot!



^^ Not really looking forward to putting Nino together lol Still, I'm consoling myself that it's not more gremlins!!



Did this up really quickly, don't like the blue. I'm going to repaint it in green I think, which will go better with the gold I think. First time I used rub n buff on the top bit, was interesting.



Aaaaaand per usual I may have gone a bit overboard...

spent last night constructing 11 more boyz from ebay bits and spare parts, plus a few gretchin and some nobz from leftover bits of a box of the new ironjawz. Got some pretty good mileage from that box tbh even tho it was expensive. Also, I have a couple of weirdly shaped legs I got from some bitz exchange, they look like they'd make good riders, so I may try to make a couple more bikes to add to my 3 ebay purchases.

Scraped more paint off my ork trukk bitz and chucked them back into the simple green to try to get the rest off. Someone took "red paint" a little too seriously and had an ungodly amount of red paint and super glue on these. Tooth brush be damned I'm about to get a wire brush ><

Great stuff there Guildenstern - you got a hell of a lot of stuff on the go!!

Guildenstern wrote:some of my WIP stuffs:

Good work.

First time I used rub n buff on the top bit, was interesting.

I've found those kind of things to be hit and miss. I have a few; one is rubbish (may be a duff pot as it doesn't seem to dry properly and makes no difference when buffed), one is ok, and one is brilliant. All Humbrol. *shrugs*

Best results come from a really smooth basecoat, smooth application of the paint, being patient to leave it long enough that you don't rub it off, and then a good buffing.

@Jan ty I have problems concentrating on one thing at a time... obviously lol This way I don't get bored!

 Dr H wrote:

Guildenstern wrote:some of my WIP stuffs:

Good work.

First time I used rub n buff on the top bit, was interesting.

I've found those kind of things to be hit and miss. I have a few; one is rubbish (may be a duff pot as it doesn't seem to dry properly and makes no difference when buffed), one is ok, and one is brilliant. All Humbrol. *shrugs*

Best results come from a really smooth basecoat, smooth application of the paint, being patient to leave it long enough that you don't rub it off, and then a good buffing.

Yeah... patience... haha oh dear, that was a fun time indeed, although at least it does come off your hands eventually, I really should have worn gloves, I'm notoriously bad about getting paint/glue/stuff all over me.

Any advice on sealing btw? I usually use a liquitex matte varnish but I'm wondering if it'll take any of the rub n buff off, if I get it wet?

Also, I forgot to post these:



^^ It's painted anyway, but I can't help looking at it and wanting to add stuff to it, so I think I'll be putting moss on the rocks and a few other things likely.







Also, painted. But I'm adding a base to it, to make a crater, and allow me to keep one of the pieces of the building on the base, while still removing the other, in case we want to set it up differently. Plus, rubble. It needs rubble.

Otherwise, I'm just working on basecoating my orks, hubby's Guild stuff for Malifaux and probably a half dozen other projects so I don't get bored lol

Awesome work on the frost grave terrain, it's looking really great.

Looks like you've got lots of side projects to keep you busy.

EDC

Those trees are superb! How did you make them?

 Guildenstern wrote:
Yeah... patience... haha oh dear, that was a fun time indeed, although at least it does come off your hands eventually, I really should have worn gloves, I'm notoriously bad about getting paint/glue/stuff all over me.

As is often said; "Don't wear anything while painting, that you don't mind getting paint on"

Any advice on sealing btw? I usually use a liquitex matte varnish but I'm wondering if it'll take any of the rub n buff off, if I get it wet?

It will depend on the type of paint you are using. I've found with my Humbrol Metalcote paints (the rub'n'buff type) can be removed easily if I try and brush a varnish over them. The solvent in my paints/varnish will dissolve the Metalcote, even once as dry as they will ever get.

However, you shouldn't have a problem if either your rub'n'buff or varnish is water-based:
Acrylics tend to cure to a point that they can't be re-solvated and/or a water-based varnish is not going to dissolve a solvent-based rub'n'buff.

However, the varnish will affect the finish (as they do to any paint), and not just as a matt vs. gloss, they will darken them slightly.

Spraying on the varnish is probably the best bet anyway.
Although, it can also be argued that leaving the rub'n'buff paint unsealed is best. So long as it's thick enough and tough enough to not be worn off completely, it's only going to get shiner the more "wear" it gets. thereby looking even more realistic.

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Those trees are superb! How did you make them?

Sorry lost this thread a bit! I get quite sidetracked easily, as is probably readily apparent.

Those trees are the Citadel Wood kit - which I believe they've now called something slightly different due to the new tree stuff in AoS Sylvanth? I can't spell it sorry!

I really wanted to do each leaf invidually but realized that wasn't feasible, for one thing, and for another, autumn leaves don't tend to be a single colour anyway! So I decided to base a dark green or brown and then use yellow, a more rusty red (it's a vallejo colour red leather I think) and try to keep them random. I just kind of held the end of the paint brush and bopped the top of the foliage with it, to help it stay random lol Although I did do a few places deliberately as well to break up accidental patterns. Because humans love their patterns, even unconsciously. And I overlapped the colours a bit as well, as like I said most autumn leaves have more than one colour. Obviously not all of them, which is why I left a lot the green/brown as well.

From a distance it looks really good, which is pretty much the range of the picture I think. Up close it starts to break down, but that's par for the course really.

also @Dr H - I kind of like that idea of leaving the rub n buff to become more shiny as it's handled. I actually think I will do that! At least so long and until it's looking too shiny or whatever, but that could take a good long time. It isn't in an area you really handle a lot I think.

Couple more shots of projects in motion:



And, "Bob" my new HPA - really really love this model, it's just so grotesque and horrific it's cute!! He's going to be an (AoS) friend for Pretty Boy, my other HPA.




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Forgot my hubby's Perdita crew (Malifaux, Guild faction) - they're basecoated, eyes aren't done or any fine details, colours are going to be purple and green, with some black and highlighting up to a good bit lighter lilac and light green eventually. Which may take a really long time as we're actually using the models for a game currently lol

Doubtful my exchange partner on the Reaper forums also reads these forums, but just in case, since a lot of people prefer the suprise, I spoilered this. So if you are my exchange partner and you see this, don't look!

Cool stuff. Looking forward to seeing how "bob" turns out.

EDC

Thanks EDC! really hankering to work on him some more but need to try to finish up some of my Ork boyz first - help keeps me motivated then to get through them.

Here they are in their current basecoated state, seems a bit slow atm, but I'm plugging away - soon I'll be cleaning up and highlighting. And probably triple checking for mold lines >< already found a couple I missed. Again. Grrr Death to Moldlines!!!



<grumbles> silly hat mold line

Ah man, don't even get me started on mold lines, the once on my models are always invisible until I've painted the model. :/

EDC

Trying to finish these guys up, then hopefully can take some better pics as well. Working on bases, weathering etc.

And still finding moldlines. Sigh.

'Simon says Go Boom' ..........bwhaahaaaaa - genius!!!!!

Guildenstern you have been productive.

Thanks I'm trying! Got a child heading off to college after this year, likely, and since I hate playing with unpainted plastic trying to get both our forces done so we can enjoy what time we have before Life happens.

Got the first boys done, including bases - going for a seashore theme, to fit with the pirate idea. It came out ok, I think. A couple things I wish had gone better. I only had one base leak its watereffects so that was good at least. I wish GW didn't use beveled bases, it would make the whole taping it up thing a lot easier. Going to try to add a few extra bits for stuff like the Nobz (driftwood maybe etc).





have a group picture as well but it hasn't uploaded yet

*edit* ah forgot to note the gallery, anyway here it is:

Guildenstern, I like the paint scheme you have going here, very bright and fun. The water effect on the bases is cool too. Good luck with your backlog.

Awesome job with the boyz, I really love the checker pattern on their weapons!

Bob is almost done, need to do details etc, the final touches on metals and such. Skin is finished, although I may go through and touch up a bit. Base is almost done, just needs a bit more work then done.

Little teaser, so to speak, working on what is ending up a Warlord Litter:

Sorry to double post, but superb job in Bob and I like the Warlord litter too

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
Sorry to double post, but superb job in Bob and I like the Warlord litter too

Thanks! I absolutely love painting the HPA models. So much fun!

I'm trying to decide for the litter - if I should add 4 or 6 stormvermin? I mean to carry it. I probably won't get them painted up etc this month. I haven't been able to find a 'convention' most seem to use 4.

And here's Bob all done!





more pics on my gallery if you're interested, as well.

Stuff I've gotten assembled over the weekend:





And a little more WIP on my Warlitter:



This week I'm hoping to get more orkboyz done, the Nobz on my desk finished, maybe some work on my son's Triarch Stalker, the Warlitter at least primed, and hopefully the Stormfiends as well.

I don't know what he is, but Bob is looking good. I like the multicoloured approach you have taken.

Loving the sprue use also.

Love the chair you got there!

Thanks guys hoping to get the warlitter painted up soon (TM)

Finished my Painboy in the meantime:

I like where that litter is going Guild . The dok is coming along nicely as well!

update on my warlitter - got most of the basecoat done, some details yet to do, I'm trying to add a couple banners to it etc.

This picture is taken a bit backwards, the chair on top is wrong way round- or so I decided anyway. I think it looks better sitting the other way. The chair's not glued down yet so I can paint it.

here's my finished Warlord Warlitter - well except the Stormvermin to carry it ^_^ Those are still being painted. I may need to paint a new warlord too just because!

not great pictures, sadly, I will take better when I finish him up. He's almost done, just a few clean ups etc. This is a test of a colour scheme for a chess set I'm working on for a friend. This figure will be one of the pawns. Idea being of course the other side will have an inverted pattern of colours.





I decided to finish him off, and my Reaper FB mini contest entry (which I can't post pics of atm due to anonymity of the contest). Got my workdesk cleaned up so I could try to really get back into my languishing terrain entry for the latest Terrain Comp! I got my watereffects from Vallejo in this weekend, so I'm pretty excited to start playing with those. Hoping to have more progress on that piece this week, and maybe some work on my deffkoptas for my Ork army as well.

Or thus goes the plan lol

Nice work on the War Alter, looks very cool.

Excellent work on the painboy too, it's great.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Nice work on the War Alter, looks very cool.

Excellent work on the painboy too, it's great.

EDC

Thanks very much! the Painboy was a really fun model to paint.

Ahh best laid plans o' mice and (wo)men gang oft agley....

Got really sick this last weekend, spent four days getting over it pretty much, finally got something done, pretty much only last night.

As mentioned in the Death from the skies painting thread - I totally stole this metal idea from Januine Doing my deffkoptas now, at least I got that done on them.

 Guildenstern wrote:

 evildrcheese wrote:
Nice work on the War Alter, looks very cool.

Excellent work on the painboy too, it's great.

EDC

Thanks very much! the Painboy was a really fun model to paint.

Ahh best laid plans o' mice and (wo)men gang oft agley....

Got really sick this last weekend, spent four days getting over it pretty much, finally got something done, pretty much only last night.

As mentioned in the Death from the skies painting thread - I totally stole this metal idea from Januine Doing my deffkoptas now, at least I got that done on them.

Is that a warboy ork I see?

Metal is looking good.

I really like the DeffKopters from AoBR, how many are you painting up?

EDC

That DeffKopter is brilliant. Superb job

@EDC - Dis Meny ^^

Well, I'm trying for a minimum of 3 but maybe as many as 5 total atm.

And now I'm trying to decide how to do the colours as well. I want some of the panels to have random colours, as orks wont to do. I'm thinking as of this moment of putting some chipping fluid on top of those, paint them up, and then chip/weather them that way. I quite like how Jan's metal idea came out with these guys tbh.

@thanks for the encouragement guys! makes me feel almost brave trying some of this new stuff (to me) out lol

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meh gallery pics are always quite blurry for some reason I have found slightly better pic here:
http://www.forgottenplanet.com/guildenstern/KoptazBasecoat.jpg

WIP update on my koptaz

Still working on the pilot, but I'm getting a lot of the details on the koptaz done

Very cool. The orange and purple looks great.

EDC

Great looking koptas there

Thanks guys! I like how bright the orange came out. I'm kind of surprised it's not a colour I use a lot, like at all heh

Anyway I did some decals on them, first time. Thanks to forumites here for helping me get the instructions straightened out. They came out ok I think. Couple spots got messed up but not too bad, overall.

I still need to finish the pilots off and a couple details. I don't actually have bases for these guys. not sure if it's really necessary. I kind of like them sitting on the ground like this tbh.

Anyway, linked cuz pics a bit large: Clicky meh

current WIP - almost done

I'm just trying to finish weathering etc. I did go ahead and paint the rockets different colours/patterns. They came out ok I think. It was a fun experiment that's for sure!

So trying to work on a couple large metal beasties - one's going well, the other not so well.

Jabberwock is going ok:





Imrik's dragon is not :( While I was trying to get the wing that's now off reinforced, its neck fell off >< arrrgh. I'm going to trim the wing join I think so it's more flush with the body, then redrill another hole for a pin, and then GS the hell out of the whole thing. And hopefully that'll work. Sigh.





And while I had the GS out I started messing about with hats for my Orks, trying to do some piratey style hats. I did one with a eyepatch, one with a skullcap and two with tricorne hats (although one turned out rattier than the other).

Metal minis with wings ......

*shudder*

I'm having flashbacks to the Balrog. That was a pain to build and to tidy the joins. I wish the best of success

I just wouldn't!!! TP took one for the team taking on that balrog! Turned out bloody lovely mind

great stuff all round, nice coversion on the BAC captain too

 jhe90 wrote:
great stuff all round, nice coversion on the BAC captain too

Thank you very much!

Putting up a couple finished pics, which I'd forgotten:

Sir ForScale (Garrick the Bold, Reaper bones, finished picture)



And my finished Deffkoptaz:



Little minor piece, really, that I'm worked on terrain wise this weekend:

Took a bit of a break after the deffkoptas while waiting for glue to fully cure on my metal monstrosities.

I did some work on my Trukk conversion -- which has really become a battlewagon now lol

Added a turret for the gun, on top of the trukk on a rack, added some sides to hang the armour onto, I'm working on the cab and the tailgate as well. Slowly adding many rivets and other doodads.

Deff Kopters are looking ace, I really like what you've done with the rockets.

Nice work on the free stuff hats, suitably pirate-y.

Nice work on the battle wagon, I like the idea that it started as a Trukk then you just channelled Gork (or Mork) and it became a battlewagon.

EDC

Thanks EDC!

It's slow progress I know but it's becoming a lot like my terrain projects - where they tend to literally grow well beyond the simple little thing I was starting with lol "Oh what if I just added *one* more thing?!" hah

Anyway! back from vacation - went ok. Only ok, had some family issues, not to bore anyone, but anyways I'm back and yay! finally starting some painting again omg. I've been away from my painting desk so long! Almost 4 weeks.

Spending too much time catching up on the interwebs and seeing all the juicy new stuff GWs etc come out with - argh. They're killing me! I just started reading "A Thousand Sons", slowly getting all the Horus Heresy novels I can - and boom, Burning of Prospero 30k board game! Swwwwwweeeeeet!

So hobby progress:

1. broke an airbrush
2. got spare working
3. primed a ton of stuffs!

Win

Got this stuff in while I was gone from a trade on Wyrd FB group (a wyrd place, great bunch of peeps):



Got a bunch of stuff built and ready for priming, including a dakkajet:



Also snagged a couple Deathrunners from GW's Silver Tower box set to use as Gutter Runners! I'm liking the idea of using them in AoS vs. my 8th Ed army because I already have a ton of metal gutter runners, and this way they look quite different as well as already having the round base thing.



Also a little actual paint slapped on my Jabberwock model from Reaper:






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Took a pic of my horde, unpainted, and in WIP stage but still feels awesome to see it all together hopefully it'll motivate me to finish more

Thought I'd already posted this but guess I'd forgotten, anyways, this is a swamp or marsh board I've been planning for over 2 years I think now. I finally got the gumption to actually start making it.


I used some pink insulation 2x2 sheets to start:


There's going to be a small mountain or hill over there on the right, between the boards. I'm considering leaving it off so I can also play with it in a different area, but havent' decided yet.



This is a view of the left side, where I'm having the terrain be higher, but still flat enough to put armies (or other terrain pieces) on. It's going to have some forest, but likely not very "thick" really, compared to what you'd expect.



This is after all the sanding etc I did to help give it some more character and blend it in a bit. Those extra pieces in the center are going to be modular islands, that I can move around in the swamp.



I just got some paint on this today, as it wasn't very humid in GA for once. It's mostly on the land areas. A lot of washes are going to go over top as well, so it's just a basecoat really.


And my current state: waiting for glue to dry. Well, watered down PVA. I've added a lot of the rocks/sand etc. I didn't want to add too much, because I'd like to focus on it being a more water environment but I felt like not having any was just very boring and not as realistic. Plants will be coming up shortly as well. I still have quite a lot I want to make for it as well.

Welcome back! Sorry to hear that your vacation was only okay.

Also suck that you broke an airbrush, but some you clawed it back by getting a spare working and a load of priming by the sound of it.

The army shot of the orks looks rad, many dudes to paint!

EDC

Thanks

I'm getting excited about the horde, I promised myself the forgeworld biker boss if I get the rest of the boyz done lol

Also, did the wash for my board (can't wait to see my armies on it!)



Just a basic black/burnt umber craft paint, but it already is giving it a lot of depth etc.

It's probably going to take quite a bit more time on the next couple of stages as it's mostly making the plants and getting ready to add the water effects.

The battle board is coming along nicely. And it's refreshing to see.

Table is looking great dude.

EDC

Nice work on the table. Looking the part.

Thanks guys Having a lot of fun with this

Here's last few progress pics.



^^ Getting the swamp water painted on. I am going to use water effects, and tint the water which will mute the brightness of the yellows in this.



^^ Just a quick pic of it with the modular hills I'm making to use in it



Finally got flocking on!! I used a couple of greens of fine turf.



Got some static grass on the modular hills - haven't decided if I like it yet. It's not as dark as I'd hoped (it's still drying in this pic tho so it'll take a bit longer to see true colour). I also washed the 'dirt road' and haven't yet DB'd it. I got the plants on and started adding little tufts here and there. I want to keep it realistic but at the same time make it easy to play on (without crushing grass tufts during play etc).

Lovely table Guildenstern

When you're incapable of making a table that has any depth whatsoever, you become very jealous of painting logs like this! Great stuff, loving the board

@angel & Cat - thanks very much!

Now, to not mess it up (too badly) lol well, it's not likely going to be an issue, but it's a little nerve wracking working on a board this size. It's time to start sealing edges and pouring the water effects!

Looks great!

Looking amazing so far, cant wait to see the water effects on the table.

Guildenstern! That's awesome. I'm so glad you are using water effects, it will really enhance it. I may take tips

Ha! First thing: seal it well! LOL I ended up using hotglue + boards + tons of duct tape to keep the dams in place. I'll be posting pictures as soon as I get the second layer down and dried - so be a bit yet. Takes a good 24 - 48 hrs to dry here.

In the mean time, Happy Halloween all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJCR6rHpTiE

^^ my video overview of the board has pix at end as well



^^ One of the finished pictures. More can be found in my Terrain Gallery:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-95040-49768_Guildy%27s%20Terrain%20Pieces.html

Stunning

Loving this board. I like all the skeletons and detritus on there. The light green parts in the water- are they moss/weeds? That's a nice touch also

Great job on the man-bat thing too .

Amazing work on the board. Really impressive.

EDC

Great job, Guild'. Looks excellent. Water came out very well.

That looks really good could be a tilt-shift photo of a real swamp

Really great. Makes me jealous. I've built my own too, but it is nowhere near as good.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Loving this board. I like all the skeletons and detritus on there. The light green parts in the water- are they moss/weeds? That's a nice touch also

Great job on the man-bat thing too .

Sorry I missed your question!

Yup it is meant to be. It's really paint though I did a few layers of dark green going up to lighter green, dabbing it on so it came out mixed a bit. It helps give it some depth when the water is applied I find, as well as show as if it's moss on the top a bit. A little primitive but the other method is throwing some flock in on the top, which works I've seen it, I've just not tried it. I'm going to try and give it a go on a smaller project here soon I hope though

We get areas out here in GA that look like this:

http://www.forgottenplanet.com/guildenstern/SwampTreesGA.jpg

which I think would be really cool to try to model. And yes, that's water ^_^ I've another pic somewhere of the gators in that swamp too lol

Anyway, thank you all for the kind words!

I've been busy the last bit, playing on the new board lol so I've not gotten as much done as I usually do, or been around on the boards quite as much.

I did finish these guys up tho, for my #3 son, so maybe he'll deign to give us a game later this week (he's unfortunately discovered girls so not as much into Warhammer as he was )

Did some more work on my Jabberwock model, mainly on the wings, and a little on the eyes:





Took better pictures of my son's/hubby's HE Spearmen (playing with different backgrounds a bit to see how the pics turn out as well):

He's a very colourful chap indeed. Good work.

Nice rank&file.
Is the banner getting some freehand in the future?

I prefer the brown background for them in particular.
It's always worth trying out every possible background for each miniature though. I've had some surprises in the past as to what has worked best.

Thanks Dr H. Yup! I'm gonna do some freehand on the banner when I can get it together. At this point I just wanted to get them to where my son could use them lol. My other son is into different scripts and is working on some Elvish for me (too bad I can't get him to paint it on the banner )

I need to pick up some more foam for backgrounds! I think you're right it's surprising how they change the pic. I used a black on on this next bit because I couldn't find the others at the time lol Go figure.

Anyway finished Mr. Skittles finally! This is officially the biggest model I've every painted - in metal, of course. I've done a few Hellpits.

That's a great looking terrain board! Mr. Skittles looks really good too. Thanks for sharing!

Mr Skittles. Okay, I smiled at that. Thanks.

For eyes that are that large-- like Mr S's -- I've found that a thin application of glazing compound gives them a nice sheen without being glossy. Makes them look a bit more realistic.

The board looks too good for gaming. Very nice work.

@Cleatus - thanks
@Red Harvest - Nice! thanks for the advice, I'm probably doing a couple more large models ones, later so I'll definitely give it a go.

Trying to finish up my son's HE's atm and get my desk cleared up - I got my Goliath kit in and I'm itching to orkify it lol

Some WIP shots on the HE calvary:





just basecoated with some washes atm, some details are done need to do clean up, highlights etc. but they're like 75% done now at least.

That army just has two chariots, a dragon lord, a regular lord, and a bolt thrower (which I need to fix) to be done. I'm probably stopping for a bit after the calvary tho so I can finish more ork stuff.

Also have my Skaven bloodbowl team coming in soon!

Still waiting on the plasticard (only just ordered it so it'll be a bit) then I can do the bases.

Starting a new project:

Got the Goliath built late last night, did some of the conversion this morning, primed it and started the rust under coat

Wow.

One question though: whats that supposed to be? Will it be run as a rock grinder?

Ah sorry I was tired when I posted lol

It's being orkified was started as a trukk project.

I'm not sure now what I'll run it as - maybe a trukk, but it's looking like if I can put a crew together it might make a grot tank

Can always do a looted wagon too.


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running a bit behind on pictures, but this is the WIP of the rust undercoat.

Currently painting its top coat atm.

uploaded from my phone so I think some may be in the wrong order - basically this is, basecoat, weathering, chipping

Nice weathering, Guilden'.

Thanks Dr H!

Doing stage two of weathering: adding earth (weathering powder) Thinking I will need to go and apply more directly to a few areas, as whilst the ram came out very well, it doesn't quite match the rest of the vehicle.




First time trying a bit of an oil wash, so I'm waiting for it to dry (impatiently). Then I'm going to go back through and do details etc. Also need to finish the guns and such.

Nice job with the weathering powder!

Awesome job ob the looted Goliath. Looks really cool.

EDC

Trukk/Looted Wagon/Battlewagon whatever it ends up being officially lol

Good job, very orky.

lol at the message underneath.

couple small pieces I'm working on while finishing off my house for the LoER contest:

Good lookin rust buckets there, Guildenstern .

lil pic of my fountain's water sources

They're a bit further along now (I started the left one over again, which is why it's missing it's water atm) so I should have some more complete pictures up in the morning. Waiting now for the PVA "snow" mix to dry!

Nice work on the Goliath, love the message on the underside.

Fountains are looking great too.

EDC

Thanks edc!





Fountains are almost done - just need to add statue to the round one, and a bit more snow effects overall to both. Still waiting for water effects to dry, since I'm layering them.

Then off to something non-terrain related I think for a while!

I put my son's mortis engine mostly together, going to try to paint next.

Excellent work on the fountains, they look awesome.

EDC

 Guildenstern wrote:

Pure genius.

Also, these Goliaths cry out to be orkified, and you've done a great job. Awesome.

@Fifty - thanks! I bet many are being orkified as we speak hehe

@edc thanks again! hopefully these are some better pics here below

Time to move on and finish my LoER entry!

Nice job on the fountains. Liking the round one in particular.

Fountain looks great, but that Goliath is outstanding.

Thx Cam btw Really tempted to order another one tbh lol but I really need to pay more attention to what my army actually needs now (Lootaz).

Doing some work on my Battlewaaaaghon and my son's Mortis Engine.








primed and white basecoat done on cloud/fog/ethereal part. 4 coats.







Battlewaaaaghon accumlated WIP pics as of now:



I've just gotten it primed, so hoping to get to some 'real' work on it soon. I have this nagging feeling I need more gubbins in the engine compartment but am lacking inspiration atm.

The Battlewaaaaghon is looking great!

You truly are a herald of Gork (or Mork)!

EDC

haha @EDC I wish =D

Here's the painting started finally yaaaaaaaaaaaay!



I'm trying to fix the back wheels now :( I got spray primer on them, and they're a soft plastic, which I didn't think about before I sprayed >< now they're kinda... squishy/melty :( I tried some gloss varnish on them, but it hasn't helpd. Going to try to do a brush on primer and see if that'll work. Otherwise, I am afraid I will end up having to replace the wheels


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Got some more painting done tonight. Most of the basecoat is done. Still need to do the driver, the gun, the roller thingy and the grot mechanics. Then washing, highlighting, and lots of weathering. It's quite bright atm but won't be for long really. Also got an idea for one more add one but have to see if I can make it work.

I took a LOT of pics (OK 12,) of the final product of my Battlewaaaghon - they're all in my gallery so go check them out if you <3

https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-95040-51753_Greentide.html

Glorious, looks stunning, and "rite proper orky."

You have been very busy lately, great stuff all round. So what is up next?

 Camkierhi wrote:
Glorious, looks stunning, and "rite proper orky."

You have been very busy lately, great stuff all round. So what is up next?

Thanks! I think it needs a touch more weathering but we'll see. I tried a couple new things, which I kinda almost liked... the spattering of red paint for blood, that worked ok, once I figured out how much water to use to get it to actually splatter, instead of drip or stick to the brush. The other thing was scratches with paint to represent places where the metal wore... I didn't like that as much :(

Anyway! next... well I do have 6 bikers sitting on my desk calling to me but first I need to do more Boyz

More immediately I'm going to work on finishing my son's Mortis Engine.

I did some more work on my son's VC army - working on Mortis Engine for my "big project" but also trying to get these guys painted to table top and off my desk!






They're a bit further along now, but that's the base coat and wash. I wanted to do some thing a little different on them so I am messing with the green/purple combo and one is more an albino, or light flesh coloured one.

Also these guys got put together a bit ago:




I'm going to work on a few of them for the SM monthly paint!

 Guildenstern wrote:
Thanks Dr H!

Doing stage two of weathering: adding earth (weathering powder) Thinking I will need to go and apply more directly to a few areas, as whilst the ram came out very well, it doesn't quite match the rest of the vehicle.


First time trying a bit of an oil wash, so I'm waiting for it to dry (impatiently). Then I'm going to go back through and do details etc. Also need to finish the guns and such.

What weathering powder do you use for the dirt effect, and how do you apply it? Looks great.

Liking those ugly brutes, kinda liking the thought of sticking rat heads on them. Mmm. Any way, great stuff and Marines look awesome.

 Shrapnelsmile wrote:

 Guildenstern wrote:
Thanks Dr H!

Doing stage two of weathering: adding earth (weathering powder) Thinking I will need to go and apply more directly to a few areas, as whilst the ram came out very well, it doesn't quite match the rest of the vehicle.


First time trying a bit of an oil wash, so I'm waiting for it to dry (impatiently). Then I'm going to go back through and do details etc. Also need to finish the guns and such.

What weathering powder do you use for the dirt effect, and how do you apply it? Looks great.

Thanks!

I mainly use Forge world but I do have some from Secret weapon miniatures - both work really well!

I did two things in this case, to get it to look like that:

first thing, was add isopropyl (sp) to a small amount of weathering powder. It makes a wash that dries quickly (as the alcohol evaporates) but leaves behind a more powdery effect than say a technical paint.

You can do this successively till you get the effect you want.

The second thing I did to get the really really really dirty look, was just using a dry brush, dip it into the weathering powder and carefully 'paint' it on - you'll likely also be kind of tapping it on, it's more a stippling motion than a true painting motion. The brush is just to carry the powder.

Again you can do this again and again til you get the look you want.

I don't recommend doing it a LOT for a model that's for gaming - you have to carefully seal those and it can come off. It'd be more for display. Depending on how much you put on of course.

To seal all that in, as best I could, I used secret weapon miniatures pigment fixer. It's basically just mineral spirits, so you can buy it directly if you like, I got it in a set of theirs and quite like it.

I should note, some pigment loss is simply inevitable that stuff is *FINE*. Also, wear a mask, did I mention it was fine? Unless you want to experiment with interesting colours coming out your nose

Also, I've not used them but MIG makes some great weathering stuff from what I understand.

And thank you, Cam, as well

Just did another set of Munitorum crates


They're really a cool set! I've started some light weathering on them, but it doesn't show up very well in pics. I am tempted to get another set just to play with heavy weathering as well. Plus they're just great terrain!

Finished my son's Crypt Horrors - doing more work on his Mortis Engine. Hoping I 'll have it done before the weekend so we can play on Sunday.

Finished the painting just now, not varnished it yet. And apparently I've lost the silly base somewhere >< sigh. I'll have to clean up and find it again.

Nice job on the Mortis Engine, it's such a groovy model.

EDC

Stunningly beautiful work, love the model and your work is bringing the best out of it.

Thanks guys! hoping to get a game in this weekend as well, depending on boy's schedule

I found the base! And I'm working on my SMs for the monthly dakka contest, and a reaper fig for a partner exchange...

But now I'm trying to decide what ot do for myself:

More grots?
More boyz?

I need both, and I've been falling behind a bit tbh, getting distracted by other armies and my terrain lol


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WIP on my reaper exchange mini - it's a conversion of Alastriel, based on my partner's wishes. She had a sword in her left hand first, but it's supposed to be a wand/mace type thing. So I cut it off a good bit, turned the hand and made the wand with a snake on it (yes, that's supposed to be a snake)

Did some more work on Alastriel, mostly on her cloak

Did a set of these for our Terrain needs, we're pretty lacking in actual non-fantasy stuffs (though these will work for that as well). Lovely little kit, but the rivets are a bit tedious

Nice work on all the greeny purpley things.

Nice pipes too. Good inspiration for a certain terrain contest.

Rivets ! Tedious! I beg your pardon!

Very nice work they look beautiful. You could try scratching some extra bits together for the set, for the next round of the comp

Nice work on the pole dancer, she looks great, great colour work.

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Rivets ! Tedious! I beg your pardon!

Very nice work they look beautiful. You could try scratching some extra bits together for the set, for the next round of the comp

Nice work on the pole dancer, she looks great, great colour work.

Snickers! yeah, I like making rivets... painting, not so much.

And it was hilarious about the comp actually. Just in time!

I got my hubby and sons together for the first time ever, to help me in my hobbying: they ate three canisters of Pringles so I could have the tubes. It was a tough job but they did it well. lmao

And I'm working on a bit of Necron Terrain, to match my son's necrons:



The crystals are from Horizon 3D on ebay (fairly cheap 3d printed terrain bits); the cover stuffs is coffee grounds, sand and various rocks; the base is a piece from a sewing kit.



Here's the almost done stage, with the dark purple/blue wash applied to areas, a couple layers of blue paint and a lot of watered down PVA. Most of the time for this project is waiting for the glue to dry. I've done two rounds of it, to make sure the material lays down to paint well, and it's taken overnight each time, so it's best to do this sort of project whilst working on other things. Which is how I do most of my terrain, really.

Anyway, next stage is going to be a light blue/white drybrush to make it pop, and match my son's bases.

**edit** oh I meant to mention, I am using Student grade acrylic paints (the kind that come in sets for painting pictures). I do most of my terrain in it, or craft acrylics, including washes. So hopefully the colours will match up ok with how I did my son's bases. I'm kind of estimating here.

Just a quick update, just got back from a trip so no time for hobbying. Plus I picked up a stupid summer cold >< grr. Anyway, Iron Hands begins! I've not decided on a base theme yet, I've already done the whole broken urban thing for my Luna Wolves so I want something different. I may go more like a starship theme, I've not decided.

Took the guide from Sperian on MWG on how to convert a deffkopta to a bike and came up with this beast: (head and wheel are from Kromlech, head's just tacked on atm so it looks funny)









Need to let GS dry so I can sand it, fill more gaps prolly, remove moldlines I"ve missed etc etc. But it won't get any paint til after I finish my son's Terrorgheist.

That's an awesome Ork Biker!

EDC

thanks! I'm really liking the look of the conversion. And if you guys haven't ever checked it out, you really really should take a look at Sperians WIP thread on MWG, he has the most awesome stuffs!

Also, just starting in on this guy for my son - he wants it to be red (wings) with black, necrotic flesh. I have no idea how to pull that off. I swear my son loves giving me challenges!



Forgot:

finished the scatter terrain for my son's Necron themed table (still on the drawing board)

All great stuff, the ork bike is brilliant.

As a suggestion for the flesh, maybe try working the opposite way around to normal but a pale grey to a mostly black "highlight", could add a little green in the grey end. Just an idea.

Oooh that sounds interesting...

I dunno wtf I'm doing atm (evinced by messing with airbrush first pass, first time) \



Also re: bases for my Iron Hands - I'm thinking I may use window screen to make sections of "grating" and cover it by either plasticard strips or some sprue, or both, wth lots o rivets etc. Kinda to go with the starship flooring theme

So here's the original base I made from a spare rectangular one (so I could get different sides/orientations and make different bases). I used window screening for the grid, some sprue and greensstuff. As well as quite a few bits of cut up styrene rod (for the rivets)



This was one of the first attempts I did to make molds, but the milliput didn't give me quite the detail I wanted



So, I tried some Greenstuff instead, which worked better but was quite a lot of it, so probably not really economical for a huge bunch.

I'm going to be getting more Milliput (since I ran out) to make the actual bases from, using the above like stamps and see how it works out.

I also tried doing some resin casting with a mold, but that's quite tricky. I found I was getting a whole lot of bubbles in the end result so I need to set up a better vibration table (instead of just banging on a board with sponges like I do with plaster)

Excellent work those bases look really great.

On the casting you could try using talc as a flow agent/mould release, I use baby talc and get excellent results.

Also why not use plaster, its a base after all, does not need to be flexible and if you use dental plaster it will be plenty tough enough.

If you are looking at making moulds like this often (or even not that often), have a look for Oyumaru (also known as instant mold, but cheaper). I have declared my love for that stuff on numerous occasions.

It's reusable silicone mould material. All you need is hot water. GS / milliput won't stick to it with a little water. It captures really fine details (like fingerprints kind of fine detail). And it's reusable. It can be cut with a knife (for smaller moulds or to modify moulds). It can be stuck together (after cutting or to make larger moulds).

For this kind of thing, it's perfect.

Nice work though.
Gems and dragon-thing are good too.

thanks Dr H & Cam - some really good points, I'm trying a lot of things. Curiousity atm is mainly why, though I have used plaster before (lots of hirst arts stuffs). I've been reading up on about how many good impressions each material can do. I'll tell you too I have a lot more respect for people who work in resin etc!

Anyway, my latest projects on that front are waiting more materials (I ran out lol) so I'll keep you all updated =D

I did do some shots of my other projects WIP (not very good lighting atm tho)

First is my deffkopta warbike conversion - almost done painting, just need to finish base and fix it to it.





Then I chose some minis off my shelf o shame (they've been carrying my warlord's litter for forever, least I could do is paint them!):



And not a lot of work but a WIP on my son's Terrorgheist, mostly did the bone:

Fantastic work, really vibrant and smooth. Great work all around, the skaven look really nice, but the best is obviously the Ork.

^_^ Thanks Cam =D

Doing a little update of my many projects:

Some trukks I need to finish (purchased off Ebay so they're in process of refurbishing)


All assembled, minus a few bits that need fixing, and the right one is basecoated.


More WIP on my son's Terrorgheist, the wings are done. Working on all the bones and then just need to decide how to do the black and do some final touch ups on the face. After that I can probably finish the base and actually attach it to the base lol

The Terrorgheist is coming along really nicely.

Thanks GiraffeX! I had to take a break though lol I'm on the bone atm, just finishing the spine, and then the skin and... almost done!

Meanwhile I finished painting my deffkopta warbike conversion (forgot to put the boss pole in the pics sigh):

Cool bike conversion. Progress on the Terrorgheist looks great too.

EDC

Nice work, Guilden'. Like the water-work on the bike's base/splashes.

The only thing better would be pink rims on the back tire. Well done!

Warbike conversion looks awesome!

Love your stuff ma, really like the ork wagons.

Thanks guys! I finally finished the Terrorgheist - pretty tired of looking at this now tbh lol

Looks great, Guilden'. Well done.

Keep coming back here wanting to comment, the usual platitudes just don't cut it, I am lost for words. Beautiful work.

Daw thanks guys

I'm working on a couple of the trukks atm, then prolly more boys. I have lootas coming soon! I'm going to use the spare bits to convert some boyz to tankbustas.



I've added a few bits since this pic, mostly a radiator thing (which it was missing) and I'm trying to sort how to put the ram back on.

Top work on the Terrorgheist.

Trukk is shaping up nicely too.

EDC

Thanks EDC!

I'm about to start weathering this bad boy up now - my fave part.



I also went up to one of the FLGS semi-near my house Saturday with Playboy (my #2 son) and picked up a canoptek spyder for him and an Ork Mek for me (since GW is *always* out). I was very very tempted to pick up a new trukk, but decided to wait. I may get a Gorkanaut for my birthday anyway. Also got a display cabinet at the Ikea, so hopefully I'll have my minis under better storage and lighting soon.

Yeah, I love weathering too. Shame really that my KSons don't have any. I really like those little coloured spikes on the trukk. Hard to notice, but it gives it character.

Nice work on the checks, and the bike is boss!

Thanks guys!!



Going to do my best to get these guys finished this weekend!

Going from Left to right:

Trukk 3 - has chipping fluid on, waiting for colour then weathering
Trukk 2 - has been chipped, needs crew finished and a bit of weathering powder on wheels
Trukk 1 - needs weathering (I didn't use chipping fluid on it, going to use painted dents and powders as I'm curious as to differences in look from other style of weathering)

Love those trukks, they definitely look orky (something a group of trukks tends not to).

Those trukks are stunning as is, really great work.

Here are my done trukks =D took some pics outside (more in my gallery if you want diff angles)

I had a few bits fall off lol so I still need to glue those back on >< otherwise though they're done and off to work on my Tankbustas I go! (Considering how many tanks will likely be in 8th I may need to invest heavily in that unit!)

Very cool stuff here, can't wait to see what gets done next!

@EmberlordofFire8 - thanks =D Looking forward to doing my killa kanz I think, after I finish off these tankbustas.



This is my test scheme dude, going for a more pirate look, tho only a few have the hats (I'm trying to spread them out through the whole army).

tried to give him a power axe - didn't exactly turn out but still looks interesting at least I think



And the whole lot:

Great job on the trucks. Nice and grubby.

Something you can try on that axe is to add some fine white lines down the centre of those light blue lines and maybe some spreading out from those lines. May give it more intensity and electro-looking. Is a good start.

Welp, I'm back from vacation

my #2 son and I drove from GA to WA to visit my sister (and also to see a lot of the states, kinda a graduation present to him). He got to see a lot of his relatives on the west coast that we'd not seen since we moved to the east coast, so it was all cool.

I also got a lot of lovely reference pictures for my terrain etc (as well as the usual vacation ones).

And, more on point for these forums, this is what was waiting for me when I got back home (Except a LOT of Malifaux guild models I bought from Dez, which are still unpainted sadly as they arrived just about before I had to leave)

Sounds like a good vacation!

Rawr n stuffs

Here is my ork Mek WIP shot, he's a bit further along but I'm waiting for bases to dry before I take a pic of him and the Tankbustas

Yay my bases are dry! Finished the Ork Mek and Tankbustas (converted ones) and put them on ocean/sea bases, in keeping with my overall Orky pirate theme.

Did a good bit more work on the Ork Mek really than the Tankbustas (painting) as he's meant to be more of a character. I really really need to get a lot more of my boys painted up so that'll probably be my next project.





Anyway, great to be back into the swing of things again!

Welcome back and good work on the orkses.

ORRRKS

Nice job on the Orks. Cool bases too.

EDC

<3 TerrainWalker, DrH & EDC - I think the bases are getting better anyway. By the time the army's done I'll be an old hand at em

can't remember if I said - but I finally got my Gorkanaut coming!!! I'm very excited. I promised myself I'd get more boys done before I get to work on it... but still...




Well... almost

Anyway, here are some objective markers I just made for our group build over on MWG:

Nice objective markers. Good variety and details.

Those Obj. markers are great! I especially like the dynamic fluid on the sewage/slime one