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Thanks Para, means a lot

So WIP:
Gauze glued to cloak on Dorn:

Very pleased with the effect in the end.

And the 5 cloaks are all moulded:

The middle one is not what I'd hoped, but the GS stretched and deformed the planned shape. Grrrr

LOL.... happy new year matey...

that punch scene is really cool! i like it a lot and the reposing of the elf now sells the "punch line" way better!

will you really make ghillie scouts here? reading the title i was expecting the GS pull methode rather or a fully basil coated ...er...coat^^...

the balrog by the way looks very good too

Hey Vik! Happy New Year to you too.

Yeah, they're not really Ghillie, I just like the name. I hate camo painting and wanted something not smooth, so the texture of the gauze will allow me to get away with calling these camo cloaks and have them painted black and shades of grey (?50) to fit in with my urban setting for the DAs.

Loved painting that Balrog, hated GSing it!!! Gutted that I never made the bridge for the LoER, but RL was too much


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So only a quick WIP for now, feeling pretty run down and in need of time off. I'm lucky I have next week away from work. Phew!

Anyway, here are the 5 cloaks with gauze applied:

Once the glue has dried, I will trim any gauze bigger than the GS base of the cape. Next is removing mould lines from the one shotgun scout. Then finally it's on to priming.

Have finished my Dark Eldar victim and am slowly going through the base coats for the scouts. Not sure I will get done by the end of January, but I'll do my best

Nice work! Hope you can get it finished in time for the challenge!

Thanks Para. Did get them done. Not the standard I hoped for, but pleased to have finished them. Here's a dodgy "finished 2 minutes ago and not varnished" shot. Better photos for competition soon

Looks good to me! Love the Eldar getting smacked in the gut!

As promised, here are my proper final photos of the first half of Dark Angels Squad Dom (10th Company, 1st Squad):




Led by Veteran Sergeant Dom, a Scout born to lead. He fights in the name of the Emperor and for the glory of his beloved Chapter. His squad lead him knowing that through him victory will be born. They are renowned for their successful skirmishes that have paved the way for the battle companies to swoop in and deliver the Emperor's message. They take no prisoners and are ready to take their place with their Tactical Marine brothers.

Or something like that...

Learned a lot about painting faces, not perfect yet, but better. Glad I took the plunge with the capes and that I didn't go with the god-awful beige jumpsuit. This is what my urban scouts should have always looked like, my first effort years ago was horrific. Hope you like them. C&C Welcome.


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So, because I got my January pledge for the tale of gamers thread done, thought I'd check through my list:
A Deathwing Terminator squad
Ravenwing Jetfighter
Anrakyr the Traveller
Finish my squad of Necron Warriors
Finish my squad of canoptek wraiths
A Tau crisis suit and I don't care which
Finish my stealth suit team
A squad of tau/kroot troops
MEdge Epirians contractors or a Hunter
MEdge karist tempests

Completed:
A squad of DA scouts (only ever planned to do a minimum squad of 5, I have planned the rest and will do at some point)

Next up:
MEdge Angel (Or maybe 2, or maybe even some minnows so I can carry the paint scheme through)

I vote for Deathwing!

Soon, soon, first off the Angels

Probably do them next month

So the Deathwing are coming very soon. For Paradigm's challenge next month we return to Space Marine as a theme so I am going to take on that accursed light armour!! I have been trepidatious for a long time about this because my skills weren't up to it. I need to take that plunge sometime though so off we go.

I've got 20 Terminators here and 5 DW Knights (25 termie armour clad marines?!):
5 DW from eBay (DV ones - I had no idea!!)
5 metal DW bodies from back in the day
5 standard SM termies from the first army box GE released
5 DW Knights from the DV DA expansion
5 bits and bobs left over from the Knights which I can cobble together to make another 5 DW as long as I buy some pads and maybe a few torso backs.

I'm chucking one metal and one standard in to each squad to disperse them out and bring in some variety.

I've decided to make the second squad that would be needed for the DA SH expansion Bringer of Sorrows. The first would be a Command squad and I am not up to painting the Standard and champion etc, so want to do a standard squad to develop the technique.

I've trawled the Internet and found the names of the DW from the original Deathwing computer game and have named all of the DW like the BAs are in SH.

Here is squad Malloc:

nice!!! done well, the deathwing look fantastic. Have a wee cheeky checky of this - best Deathwing colours and tutorial I've come across yet - really helped me when I was doign the boys from the DV set

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.kr/2011/09/how-i-paint-deathwing-bone-armour.html

 Januine wrote:
nice!!! done well, the deathwing look fantastic. Have a wee cheeky checky of this - best Deathwing colours and tutorial I've come across yet - really helped me when I was doign the boys from the DV set

http://fromthewarp.blogspot.kr/2011/09/how-i-paint-deathwing-bone-armour.html

That looks like too much of a grey-white instead of bone-white to me. It looks fantastic, it just doesn't look like Deathwing to me.

That's why I liked it so much - had that sunbleached desert bone look to it which I way prefered to the usual creamy bone colour you see being done. Gives a gritty more real look imho. Just down to whichever 'look' folk prefer

Cheers for the interest both. I have seen that painting guide before Jan, but thanks for the link. I am still unsure how I am going to go with it. Mine will be a creamier tone than the ones you did because the bones I've seen have tended to be that colour. It's down to personal choice as you say though.

Cool. With the DV Termies you can add a bit of verity by reposition arms, helps them blend into a squad if they're not identical.


EDC

Was thinking the same evildrcheese. I'll be swapping standard arms in to modern bodies and DA specific weapons in to metals and standard bodies to spread the theme around a little to help the blending. Planned to leave these DV termies alone though. If I ever wanted to buy more I may reposition arms then for the variety as you say

So I've submitted my proof to Paradigm's challenge:

That's Barachiel's termie squad from Dark Vengeance which happened to board The Bringer of Sorrow to fight the Genestealer menace on that Space Hulk (see GW Space Hulk DA supplement if you are completely lost ). And along with them is the Space Hulk Broodlord. I'll enter up to 5 of them. I had planned to make my own squad, but decided to go with this pre-moulded squad to help me get used to the paint scheme this month and I can convert a second DV squad and the old termies in the future when I know how I am painting the Deathwing.

And spurred on by everyone's supportive comments here is my progress on the Broodlord today (which I have been terrified to paint especially after Januine's and Paradigm's excellent jobs):

For those interested these are the phases for the skin:
1 - Prime black
2 - Glaze of Xereus Purple (Top image)
3 - Wash of Druchii Violet
4 - Layer Glaze highlight with a mix of 3:1 Genestealer Purple:Xereus Purple
5 - Drybrush with mix of 1:3 Lucius Lilac:Xereus Purple (2nd image)
6 - 2 wash layers of Nuln Oil (3rd image is after first wash layer)

The skulls were:
1 - Drybrush Terminatus Stone
2 - Wash with Seraphim Sepia
3 - Drybrush White
4 - Wash with Nuln Oil (Bottom image which also has 2nd layer of Nuln Oil on the skin)

Not sure if that's of use, but there you go

Coming along very nicely! Lots of steps but they're definitely worth it. Any thoughts on carapace colour yet?

Thanks Para, first time glazing - Love it!

For the carapace I'm going old school with a blue, but it will be grimdark, I've bought the recommended colours for skin and armour and am darkening them all down. I'm determined to prove classic stealers can be scarey. I've modded the scheme to follow what you and Jan did with yours so the ribbed sections on the limbs will be blue too. I've even got Blood For The Blood God on the way in the post! Trepidatious about using it for the first time, but gotta give it a go sometime

BFTBG is easy, just thin it a bit and slap it on for fresh gore, thin it a bit more to an almost glaze-like consistency if you want a 'wet' smear rather than a thick blob.

Thanks for the tip, thinking of a drip coming from the bottom of the tongue and the. Smear over the end of the tongue and around teeth/mouth and then on some of the claws. Couple of drops on the floor below the drip. And I've seen you guys splatter a little, so might try that on his chest suggesting mauling in his "kill zone" (within the four arms). Read the WD article that was published recently too. So ready to give it a shot

Looking great so far TP. Cant wait to see the finsihed fig. That broodlord is one of my favourite sculpts. so much fun to paint

Aye Jan he is. So much so I went on a 5 hour painting mission and ended up with this:


That was great fun

He's 90% done, there's a new base to come, BFTBG spray Matt varnish and then brush gloss varnish for the claws, but that's it. So best get back to the Deathwing seeing as how that is the theme of this month!!!

I really hope that I have managed to convince at least one person that the original Genestealer scheme can be good if done right (and that I've managed that).

I want everyone who's been kind to know that I felt so motivated after your support and hat's why I pushed through to produce this to have fun and prove to myself that I can do a good job. I actually believe it a little now (that's the best I can do for now, so let's not be giving me grief about having a low opinion of my hobby skills - that's a lifelong issue! )

Big, huge, mega thanks go out to Januine who has been giving me tips for 12 months and it looks like some of it is paying off - cheers bud!!

*blush* glad to be of help whenever needed fella. Not sure I really did that much.

The broodlord is looking fethign awesome TP. That's all you man. Great great take on the classic 'stealer scheme

It would take me an eternity to do a tutorial on the Broodlord scheme, but for anyone who has the vaguest interest, thanks to the PaintMyMini app:

** Carapace and spikes **
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( 1 ) GLAZE -- [2 Abaddon Black] [1 Kantor Blue] [6 Lahmian Medium]
( 2 ) WASH -- [1 Drakenhof Nightshade]
( 3 ) LAYER HIGHLIGHT -- [4 Lahmian Medium] [2 Kantor Blue] [2 Abaddon Black]
( 4 ) DRYBRUSH -- [3 Kantor Blue] [1 Lothern Blue]
( 5 ) WASH -- [1 Nuln Oil]

** Armour **
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( 1 ) BASE -- [2 Purple Red] [3 Lahmian Medium] [1 Abaddon Black]
( 2 ) WASH -- [1 Carroburg Crimson]
( 3 ) LAYER HIGHLIGHT -- [1 Lahmian Medium] [1 Purple Red]
( 4 ) WASH -- [1 Nuln Oil]
( 5 ) EDGE HIGHLIGHT -- [1 Fiery Red]
( 6 ) WASH -- [1 Agrax Earthshade]

** Lenses **
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( 1 ) BASE -- [1 Emerald Green]
( 2 ) WASH -- [1 Nuln Oil]

** Metal structures **
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( 1 ) BASE -- [1 Lahmian Medium] [1 Leadbelcher]
( 2 ) WASH -- [1 Nuln Oil]
( 3 ) DRYBRUSH -- [1 Runefang Steel]
( 4 ) WASH -- [1 Agrax Earthshade]

** Pipes **
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( 1 ) BASE -- [1 Metallic Brown]
( 2 ) WASH -- [1 Nuln Oil]
( 3 ) DRYBRUSH -- [1 Hashut Copper]
( 4 ) WASH -- [1 Agrax Earthshade]

** Eyes **
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( 1 ) BASE -- [1 Flash Gitz Yellow]

** Prime Layer **
-----------------
( 1 ) PRIME -- [1 Chaos Black]

** Flesh **
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( 1 ) GLAZE -- [1 Xereus Purple] [3 Lahmian Medium]
( 2 ) WASH -- [1 Druchii Violet]
( 3 ) LAYER HIGHLIGHT -- [8 Lahmian Medium] [3 Genestealer Purple] [1 Xereus Purple]
( 4 ) DRYBRUSH -- [3 Xereus Purple] [1 Lucius Lilac]
( 5 ) WASH -- [1 Nuln Oil]
( 6 ) WASH -- [1 Nuln Oil]

** Tongue **
-----------------
( 1 ) GLAZE -- [3 Lahmian Medium] [1 Pink Horror]
( 2 ) WASH -- [1 Carroburg Crimson]
( 3 ) LAYER HIGHLIGHT -- [2 Pink Horror] [1 Emperors Children] [3 Lahmian Medium]
( 4 ) DRYBRUSH -- [1 Changeling Pink] [3 Emperors Children]
( 5 ) WASH -- [1 Carroburg Crimson]

** Claws **
-----------------
( 1 ) BASE -- [1 Abaddon Black] [1 Lahmian Medium]
( 2 ) BRUSH VARNISH -- [1 Gloss Cote]
After matt spray varnish

Very cool Brood Lord.

EDC

Excellent stuff!

Be sure to apply the BFTBG after the matt varnish, otherwise you'll lose the shiny goriness of it.

Phew! Thanks Para, nearly messed that up royally! That's a great tip