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I'd love if you gave us a painting guide on the Valkyrie (and whether or not you needed a paint gun/airbrush). If it's like any of your other stuff, I'd like to learn...

I have an unpainted one, and don't dare to "just try it". I'm too scared to try without an airbrush, because I often have trouble getting a smooth paintcoat on vehicles with paintbrushes.

 Talon of Anathrax wrote:
I'd love if you gave us a painting guide on the Valkyrie (and whether or not you needed a paint gun/airbrush). If it's like any of your other stuff, I'd like to learn...

I have an unpainted one, and don't dare to "just try it". I'm too scared to try without an airbrush, because I often have trouble getting a smooth paintcoat on vehicles with paintbrushes.

Normally I paint the green on with a brush, with lots of thin coats. But since the Valkyrie is so damn big I'm having a friend airbrush the Castellan Green on for me.

Few guys at the GW store I go to asked me to paint some of their models, here's the first one I completed:

It's also the fist Space Marine I've ever painted.











And here's what's next:

Astoroth the Grim is for a friend and Commissar Yarrick is for me.

Those look good man!! Nice Consolidated colors and crisp! Great models

Extremely crisp painting. Just went through from start to finish and I'm very impressed! I don't think that in the 8 years I've been painting I've managed to get anywhere close to this quality. One day maybe.... I'll definitely be following your progress!

That aside I was curious, about 3 or 4 pages back you mentioned you'd want a squad of the old Kasrkin models for your army. If I'm remembering correctly I have a chunk of them that are just sitting around collecting dust. I could let them go for a fair price on the condition I got to see them painted up finally! Let me know if you're interested.

 orkboy232 wrote:
Extremely crisp painting. Just went through from start to finish and I'm very impressed! I don't think that in the 8 years I've been painting I've managed to get anywhere close to this quality. One day maybe.... I'll definitely be following your progress!

That aside I was curious, about 3 or 4 pages back you mentioned you'd want a squad of the old Kasrkin models for your army. If I'm remembering correctly I have a chunk of them that are just sitting around collecting dust. I could let them go for a fair price on the condition I got to see them painted up finally! Let me know if you're interested.

I'd love to paint a squad of Kasrkin! Could you post a pic of them for me?

Not a problem! I'll dig them out when I get home after work.

Got some more toys today.

Colonel Straken, Ratlings, and some Wyrdvane Psykers.




Knight Commander Pask should be here next week.

WIP pics of an Ork Big Mek I'm painting for a friend:

Some WIP pics of Colonel Straken, some Psykers, and a few Leman Russ's:

Big Mek is coming along nicely, just will need some grime in spots.

Psykers look like they mean business

Col is just mean looking!

Leman Russ tanks look crisp

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Big Mek is coming along nicely, just will need some grime in spots.

Psykers look like they mean business

Col is just mean looking!

Leman Russ tanks look crisp

Thanks! I'll be posting lots of pics this weekend. Including Commissar Yarrick and my Valkyrie.

 ae1989 wrote:

 shasolenzabi wrote:
Big Mek is coming along nicely, just will need some grime in spots.

Psykers look like they mean business

Col is just mean looking!

Leman Russ tanks look crisp

Thanks! I'll be posting lots of pics this weekend. Including Commissar Yarrick and my Valkyrie.

Cool beans! Looking forwards to it!

Looking good man, good job on straken.

Yarrick is pretty much finished, still need to finish a few things:







Finished basecoats/washes on the Ratlings:

Painting a squad of Dark Eldar Wracks for a painting competition thing at my local GW store. Here's a WIP pic:



Didn't realize until now that I chose 4 identical legs, I have a some more Wracks I can choose from so I may swap a few out.

I've been really busy lately and am finally getting back into painting so expect a lot more frequent updates.

Good job on the skin man.

Got the new Citadel Crusade case early. Pretty happy with it so far.


50 Guardsmen, with room to spare:

Yeah I kinda want to get one of those for my krieg and space marines, but I am afraid the foam will rub the paint away.

 Ustrello wrote:
Yeah I kinda want to get one of those for my krieg and space marines, but I am afraid the foam will rub the paint away.

the foam is very soft

 Ustrello wrote:
Yeah I kinda want to get one of those for my krieg and space marines, but I am afraid the foam will rub the paint away.

That's why you gotta seal your models... Besides, the nice thing about this foam is that you push it open to get the models. There should be minimum friction between the model and the foam, whereas pluck-fill foam will leave room for the models to rattle around, or will be too tight and will cause friction.

You should do a little review on the case.