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Thanks Nerd! And absolutely, moonpie- Im always happy to talk shop!


Today I got a majority of the Dragon's base done. It looks slightly different, but what can you expect after switching from old paints to some new ones... Close enough for government work though!




I also started on the Trolls for OTL. These guys are based off of Deathwatch Beetles.


The larger chitinous plates are lightly sponged with a lighter brown, like most of the reference pics I found. I think i got sort of the gist of it.

And of course I needed to rig up some bases for these guys. Painted to match the Legion I did earlier.


Tomorrow I think i will finally be biting the final bullet and painting more terrain. Gotta push through the remaining parts of the fortress!

 Ramos Asura wrote:
... I decided to knock out the shields for my Nurgle marines.


Would have loved to do some freehand on them, but at this stage its mostly a case of simply getting em to playable levels!

I happen to be doing the exact same thing for my Alpha Legion plague bearer!

The drakes are coming along nicely, though until you mentioned Nurgle marines it hadn't clicked that the drakes were non chaosy... All makes sense now!

Hah! Great minds think alike, eh Payne?


Alright, so today I finished a few minor models, namely the Trolls from OTL and the Guardsmen for the second Dragon's base. No pics just yet as I still gotta spray varnish them.

in other news, the Aquila Strongpoint is very nearly complete!




Major colors are complete save for the floors. Im gonna use a good deal of rust powders on it to give it a well used and worn look. I've also about half of the black to tidy up yet, but that is thankfully rather easy work. The silver metals took most of my time today, but now that they are finished I think Im only a day, maybe two, from finishing this piece completely!!

Then its back to my beloved single infantry models xD

And in a surprising turn of events, I am actually finished with the display terrain earlier than expected! Today was remarkably productive.

Copious amounts of rust powder and matte varnish later, and the Strongpoint is finished! Really glad to see this gone, to be honest xD





Then i finished the flying base for the second Dragon:



Finally, I finished up some bugs for OTL to debut at Adepticon: Trolls!

I have a question can i cut my flyer stands down ?

Don't worry, you can put off terrain after Adepticon for a while. Other then the missile part of the Aquila. And the Skyshield I'm giving you. Other then those 2 things, no terrain.

 Miss Dee wrote:
I have a question can i cut my flyer stands down ?

You 'can' do whatever you want.. However there could be some issues with Line of sight or modeling for advantage in some eyes. Depending on your opponents view point and adherence to the rules. I’ve see some strange figures/ conversions ( even at Adepticon ) that the judges have let slide that even as forgiving as I am wouldn’t let on the table. Profiles reduced ( wings clipped so the flyers can overlap closer together. Flyers height increased so they get better LoS. Ect.

I'm guessing Ramos's look ( and probably are ) very close to the original height.


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Terrain look great.. good job finishing early. What color did you use on the walkways?

As far as the flying stands go, mine are the basic height. The cork raises it about an eighth of an inch, but it doesnt factor in all that much once the plane is on the stand (it sinks in that much anyways!)

I think the general rule of thumb is no matter what you do, try and keep as close to the vanilla measurements as you can. That way there can be no disputes over modeling for advantage.



SL: Walkways on the Strongpoint are a base of dark flesh and boltgun with a patchy drybrush/stippling of pure boltgun over top. It was then heavily dusted with rust powders.



So I would have a picture for today, but it seems that with the server migration a number of glitches have arisen, namely that the upload is buggy. So that'll have to wait till after its all fixed!

Today was rather unproductive anyways, as 99% of my time was spent attempting to fix my dads computer.
Its incredible what one can do to a computer when one doesn't fully grasp the concept of malware and READING before installing downloaded games. I had to have deleted 30 or so programs that were just extraneous BS. Then a good scrub with avast!

Unfortunately the time was wasted, it seems, as the initial issue, him being unable to connect to the internet, is still there. Something about the ethernet adapter not being configured properly? Ive no clue anymore. Gal at best buy thought it might be a firewall setting, I thought it was a virus... Whatever it is, NOTHING connects to the internet. Not the built in wireless card, not a cable, not even a new adapter. It senses the wireless network, but cant resolve itself.
Ive told him to turn it over to a friend of his who's better at computers than I. Hopefully he can fix it.



Anyways, the two guardsmen are complete, save for the medic's right arm (gotta figure out a build for it) and a cable or two I just now saw on the medic backpack.

Juggerlord is basecoated white and blue and has its first wash. Everything is technically playable at this point, being over 3 colors, but hopefully Ill get a little further on most of it!



EDIT:

So hey! images work again!



They fit together a bit oddly, but thats because theyre removable. The magnets just want to go wherever they want to. Good enough for what I need, though!

Great lookinng base~ Great job on gettting the massive amount of work completed. Some year you might actually finish early and have a few days to relax..

Yeah, start on your 2026 army now, totally have a few days to spare.

I dunno, man. Might have to shoot for early 2030 for my completed army
One day... One day...


But yeah. Really at this point Im in the home stretch. One week + a few hours and I'll be rolling out to meet the crew in Chicago. Majority of my army is technically playable, but now its a case of me getting them to a nice point where I can be happy playing with them!


Today I burned out a Micron pen while neatening up the Dragons. They now all have nice defined panels, with the exception of a few panels on the bottom of one.


The Lord also got blacklined and neatened up. His metal areas were also blacked out.


Lots of other stuff got black too. The torso/arms for the Lord, the Dread im using as a Daemon Prince... Lots of progress, but none that makes for an interesting read!
A ways to go yet!!

My Grandma Judy once told me "Always buy Micron pens in large packs. Now get out of here, you don't work here, and my name isn't Judy! Security!!"

Lord looks good. You missed black on the stormbolters btdubs. Hows the autocannon guys coming along? The shield guys are "done" right?

hehehe! Well a new pack is on the docket before my next ME project anywho... Gotta figure out how to lengthen the tip some, so it can more easily get into the recesses... A project for another day, i suppose.

And yeah, I saw that, and theyve since been knocked out xD

Shield guys are done, yes (just gotta glue the Plasma guns to em). Autocannon dudes are just base colors on the guns atm. The marines themselves are painted near to full.

Hey. Great job on the titan. Come to Adepticon with your medic kit. You'll need glue and black and gold. You can do it, tiger!


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Oh, and a funny thing happened when I was at Ice's checking it out. I was looking at the rusted out Chimera on the base and said, "Man, this is my favorite thing." And Ice goes, "Um, that's your FAVORITE part?" Ok, maybe not, but that was a great bit. The rust and rusted out look is perfect and really puts the rest of the model in a neat frame. It makes it look powerful and heedless. Rad.

He can work on the Titan during the MoaB, between turns. It's not Active anyway ( at least till top of turn 3 ).

Dude! (Moonpie) . Who uses the word ' Heedless' today? 'Rad' ? OMG! Dude?

Oh.. and good job Ramos.. blah blah blah...

We are showing up a whole day before the MoaB, I think we should be good. At least on repairs, maybe not the paint.

[/b]@moonpie: heh! Thank you kindly!
I'll be bringing along a small repair kit, including glue and black paints. Cant bring the Gold as its a much harder paint to work with, it being alcohol based (not to mention the container is rather large xD)

Really glad ya like the rusted tank. It was one thing that I knew I wanted to do right from the get go. Sure it may not be perfectly realistic, but it really let me experiment with the powders! Now if I could only find a use for the blue, green, and yellow ones that came with the kit!



Repairs will probably be done Thursday sometime. Might need to see if I cant find some accelerator at Target or something. Will make reassembling some of the parts that much quicker. Debating whether or not to bring the epoxy. Really should, as that'll get me a stronger and more durable bond.



Currently Im waiting for a wash to dry on the metals from pretty much the entirety of what Im currently painting.




The Lord's axe in particular I'm gonna need to do something special with. I dont want to paint it like a power weapon, and no way will it look nice with a metal paintjob. im thinking something close to what I did to the Techpriest's axe. More of an obsidian crystal. Especially if I highlight with a purplish color, it should give a good contrast to the rest of the mini.


The Dread is coming along as well.


Really not a fan of how the colors turned out. i was too cautious with the airbrushing- shoulda gone with a much more intense gradient. Nothing that can be fixed now, but something to note on the next dread (or a repaint of this one, depending how I feel about it)

Carrying along, carrying along....



6 DAYS REMAIN

5 Days left!

Silvers are done, and the golds are nearly there, too!

The jetbike is starting to really come along:


The Contemptor's head was painted a while ago (actually knocked it out when I did WMs dreads), and I jumped right in on it by painting it gold. I figured a revered war machine would get all the bells and whistles.

I neglected to consider the surrounding mass of gold on the EC dread body, however.... And so I dry fit the parts together:


I think its definitely serviceable. Painting the cavity black gives it a bit of definition... What do you guys think, though? Should I pick it out in a different color or leave it gold?

Lets see the arms

Love it gold!

I like the gold a lot. On of the things I like about quartered or halved patterns is when you have the head faced in a not straightforward way, so that there is some offset where the head is facing. That being said, I like the gold.

I would leave the front mask part gold...but maybe play with the top part of the helmet and do the white and turquoise in a opposite per the rest of the body?


Like this...

Oooooo.... neat idea!

Jetbike coming along nicely there.

I'm with Denua on the head...you want a touch of the white/turquoise in there, but there'd definitely be some gold befitting the status of the dread.

Looking good. I too like the gold

Spent a good bit of time messing around with the Dread head today. I really like Denua's idea of striping the head, but no matter what I tried, both split scheme and inverted, it just didnt work for me. The head is shaped in just such a way that it looked off when I had it painted in a split scheme.
And so I defaulted back to gold. :/



Glued on the arms, and the white one is actually magnetized so I can swap it out in the future.
Im gonna be running black lining after I gloss coat, so dont worry about it seeming a little undershaded

Seeing as the new stuff has dark gray base rims, I went back and painted the older minis to match. Pity I ran out od Adeptus Battlegray... Really one of the best paints for stone and highlighting black!


Plasma guns also got popped on to the two shield marines.

Ah well, the gold works fine anyway, at least you tried so you know the split scheme doesn't look better on the head.

Plasmas look nice

Thanks monkey!

Today saw lots of line highlights on the edges of armor plates. Doesnt show up particularly well in wip photos, though... Hopefully tomorrow will see some finished pics!


Progress pics for the day are Autocannon Havoks before painting in the metals At this stage the white and teal are complete.

I LOVE those marines! just so damn good looking! honestly one of my favorite armies I enjoy looking at! :-)

On Wednesday we'll see a completed Army shot?