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By the Emperor! That Stormraven is amazing. It literally looks like a mini Thunderhawk. Awesome job.

Ballsy move trying an unknown for the basecoat, but looks good! I'm excited to see it get it's paint on.

Wow

This is like a dream become true........respect....May the Machine spirit bless you....

Zebr@88

Aye! The Omnissiah took possession of my soul!
thanks for the kind words guys, it helps me keep my tempo up, even though glaciers move faster...


I realized that I'll need to paint the cockpit first, colour the canopy, glue it on, and then mask it up so the canopy can withstand the staggering amount of paints and washes that thing is going to receive...

For cockpit, I was thinking about something like this.

Great work so far on the storm raven. Looking forward to seeing the cockpit interior then

grrr

Bang tidy.

Thanks guys!

Yesterday's work. I'm quite chuffed I managed to paint the pilot in one afternoon. It's been a while since I painted just one infantry mini at a time

Whaddayathaink?

wonderfull

Looks sweet Meph... clean, crisp. Nice job on the eyes too.

Cheers fellas!

For the cockpit, I wanted to incorporate some black around the canopy, like the anti-glare section most military planes have. But then I thought of to apply a larger scheme to the craft. It will be mostly red of course, but maybe some black section like these would look nice. including a 40k'ified version of the tail art.





And since I'm waiting for an order of painting materials to arrive by post, I though it was about time to push the Land Raider further to completion. I did the lenzes of the lamps, sensors and Tech Marine's eyes. And I did some work on the large engine grills. All that's left now is some odd and ends like the impact marks, engine detailing etc.

Fantastic. Truely fantastic. This is amazing!
LDP

Very nice job on those lenses... really sharp.

The lenses look beautiful. I like the fact some are green and others are yellow

Cheers guys! Yeah, the lenzes took quite some concentration and zoom-o-vision. :S
I decided to go with two colours to imply different sensors, like nigh-vision etc. And it also gives a nice variation.

In the mean time...
Suitable appalling colour, no? In real life the tint is slightly more green, but not much. I think this is a good base for some drybrushing and inking.

And i also did a dipping test on the canopy of the turret, which I'm not going to use. At first I thought the effect was quite good, but up close you can see these little imperfections everywhere.
I'm unsure about the exact cause, it could be some bit of dust that got on during drying, even though i covered it up with a glass.
Or it could be the mix. I mixed some Tamiya clear into Johnson's Klear and dipped it in a small clean metal cup. Maybe the mix curdled ever so slightly or the Tamiya clear simply doesn't mix that well. My gut feeling might be to add a tiny bit of dishwashing detergent to try and break the surface tension of the two fluids. I'd like to hear any other suggestions or tips...

AAArgh! landraider lenses! 18 fiddly little circles of hell! you've done a great job on them though! I am loving watching all your work grow over time, especially the storm raven, that model just looks amazing! no other word for it! :-) and the landraider is pretty damn sweet too! i'll be very interested to see where they all finish up!

nerdfest09

Believe-it-or-not... my studio has one wall that's that color... the rest is a lighter shade. I like it... makes me happy.

Hmmm yeah I can see what you mean about the dip mix. From what I've heard, tamiya paints are not water soluable, they have some special acrylic thinner so mixing their paints with other liquids is always sketchy. I plan on doing mine with gloss varnish and turquoise ink.

That is an amazing storm raven, very impressive, although im amazed that the base holds it up, it looks much longer and heavier than the normal one

If you are doing OSL, You should make the glow on the marine
also, maybe you dont want to dip, and use an airbrush instead?

nerdfest09 wrote:AAArgh! landraider lenses! 18 fiddly little circles of hell! you've done a great job on them though! I am loving watching all your work grow over time, especially the storm raven, that model just looks amazing! no other word for it! :-) and the landraider is pretty damn sweet too! i'll be very interested to see where they all finish up!

Cheers mate! Yeah, it was a fiddly job fo' so'! I'm actually quite eager to see all the mdoels finished as well, because the longer it takes, the more cool models come out... I've already got a idea taken root in my head to paint up a Contemptor Dreadnought that's just stormed into a melee. ^^

Gitsplitta wrote:Believe-it-or-not... my studio has one wall that's that color... the rest is a lighter shade. I like it... makes me happy.

A bit like an ocean bubble, zennn.

Eggroll wrote:Hmmm yeah I can see what you mean about the dip mix. From what I've heard, tamiya paints are not water soluable, they have some special acrylic thinner so mixing their paints with other liquids is always sketchy. I plan on doing mine with gloss varnish and turquoise ink.

I think I'll try that as well, GW sepia ink & Klear, to stick with the products I know how they handle...

Young_Logan wrote:That is an amazing storm raven, very impressive, although im amazed that the base holds it up, it looks much longer and heavier than the normal one

Cheers mate! Well, the base holds it pretty good actually. On the Chapterhouse hull extension there is a deeper slot to put it so the center of balance stays good.

Capitansolstice wrote:If you are doing OSL, You should make the glow on the marine
also, maybe you dont want to dip, and use an airbrush instead?

lol, OSL, not with my painting tempo... regular paint jobs can already be measured on a geological timescale. ^^
Hmmm, I've thought about it, but seeing how nice and even the dipping coat was I'm not entirely sure it would be easier with an airbrush to build up a nice and even layer without the airflow pushing the paint around too much...

hmmmm I diddnt even think about that, can you tone down the pressure?

Oh wow, what a cool storm raven. Cool blog too.

LilLoser

Hmmm, well the pressure is manageable, you can dial the coimpressor up and down, as well as regulate the airflow somewhat with the dial-action airbbrush but I decided not to risk it. A dipping in klear and GW ink is drying now... ^^

Cheers LilLoser, glad you're liking it.


Cockpit almost done!

Just some quick drybrushing and some very quick detaling. Since almost nothing will be visible in that cockpit I didn't want to spend too much time fiddling with details.

After that I sealed both the pilot and cockpit using a spray can of GW satin varnish. And then I made was with black oil paint and turpentine. I just madly applied it over the lot of it and as you can see the oil paint neatly sucks itself into every bit of texture it can find without tinting the underlying colours too much. I took some before and right-after pics to show what it does. I'll let that dry out for now and see if it needs any correcting after but it looks like it's not going to need much.

Voila, cockpit sealed, taped up and seams closed with masking fluid. Fingers crossed, because that's not coming off until it's done...

And I also applied a first of many layers of weathering powders on and around the tracks. It's not bad but it needs a lot refining. Even though it was a mix of 5 different colours (some more than others), it came out predominantly reddish like clay. I feel I need some lighter, more sandy tones to contrast better with the red of the hull I feel.
What do you guys think?

Arch, and I keep overlooking those bullet impacts each and every time, like I'm selectively blind to them... :S

SR and LR are coming along nicely Meph. Did you already tint the cockpit window or are you planning on doing that last?

I gave the canopy one wash, it's lightly tinted yellow now. I didn't want risk making it too dark. I'm already eager to see it in combination with the paint job. ^^

Oil certainly is gaining in popularity and with good reason too judging by the result. May I ask what brand of oil paints you use?

The storm raven's interior looks amazing. Fantastic work. I like the reddish mud in the tracks; it looks natural.

LilLoser

Cheers mate!

Well, I use different brands really. I just bought the colours I needed off of Ebay from random webshops. My experience with oil paints is that most of them are quite to very good. A general rule of thumb to buy them would be is to buy a true arts brand or high quality modeling. It doesn't hurt to go for the medium-high priced stuff as it's not that expensive anyhow and it will last forever. And you want a paint that has a decent medium and high quality pigment, quality does show. mine cost somewhere between 3 - 6€ a piece.
In general, oil paints are just basically an oil based medium and pigment so there's not much that can go wrong with them. Also handy to know is that the colours names are universal as the paint has been around since hundreds and hundreds of years. The oil paint Burnt Umber for example was first used in 1650...

-Top one is from Bob Ross, the afro'd painting pixie. Actually this black is one of the easiest to thin oil paints I've had so far. Dissolves very smoothly with turpentine.
-Middle one is from a 'true' artsy brand. The colour shade is universal, Burnt Umber, absolutely perfect for grease stains and for rust when mixed with weathering powder.
-The bottom one is from MIG and is 'Shadow Brown', I used that over the whole of my vehicles for shading. Made a wash with it and brushed over the whole lot except the silver metallic detailing.
-The lighter is fine produce bought from a nocturnal Pakistani entrepreneur.

Meph I dont know how I missed your thread but I love your SR conversion is amazing!! Cant wait to see more.