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PART 8: CHIP, CHIPPING AWAY

Woah, so busy yesterday I didn't even have time to upload an intermission! To punish myself I spent two and a half hours repeating the chipped metal effect all over:



Which is more work than it looks, as each chip has three stages to it - a blue/black basecoat, followed by the metal colour, and then edge highlighted.

Now all I need to do is decide what colour to make the dust, which I'll have to have research because the base will be mainly grey concrete ruins, so brown dust may look weird.

Werdes wrote:There's always interest in shotgun conversions

I'm not promising that it'll be soon (I have a recalcitrant Vendetta to finish before that!), but since there's interest I'll blog the results

Llamahead wrote:I really like the Off Searchlights

I'm pleased with how they turned out as well, give it a try in your own models - it's not as hard as it looks

PART 9: DISASTER!

OK, it's not as bad as all that, but I did manage to drop him in such a way that his drill-arm popped off :(

So I reattached his misbehaving appendage with araldite this time so it should be super-strong. Hence the sling you can see him wearing in the pics - it's holding the arm in place until the glue sets.

I had time to start the dirtying process and also had a chance to paint some markings and scripture - normally I would have done this stage before doing the chipping but I was still debating whether or not it needed it, and I'm glad I did it.





I did the dirt by stippling on layers of thinned Devlan Mud, and letting the coats dry in between - repeat three to four times on the lower parts of the model and that will provide a base for any dust I might want to apply later, which was initially going to just be drybrushed on but this thread has inspired me, so I might get some pastels and try it out.

The scripture I painted in Astronomicon Grey, as were the markings, though the markings were later highlighted with white. The roman numeral II indicates his current attachment to the 2nd company.

Looks very cool - I like it a lot.

Yea you're very good at painting/converting/sculpting/etc.

Holy moly!

Thats amazing!

Keep up the good work

PART 10: GETTIN' DIRTY!

Thanks for all the comments guys, I'm glad you like how it's turning out

Also this is my first thread to garner more than 1000 views! Woot!

So, as I mentioned at the end of my last entry, I decided to stop at my nearest art supply shop and pick up some supplies for weathering, Fortunatley for me they had their pastel sticks on sale for only $1 each, so I picked up a few more for other projects:



I also got some cheap brushes, fine sandpaper and a little box (originally meant to hold tablets for a week's worth of medication) to hold the excess powder.



I also grabbed a can of fixative to hold the pastels powder in place.

The process is not too difficult, I ground the light grey pastel on the sandpaper to make a fine powder, which I applied with a brush and sealed with fixative:



The effect is subtle. I'll see how I feel about it tomorrow and maybe do some more, or with a lighter colour.

Things I learned:

With a colour this light, you need to do a lot of coats of the powder, as the fixative makes the pastels slightly transparent.

It's hard to mess up with the powder because until you use the fixative you can just wipe it off and start again.

It's a lot more effort than just drybrushing, but I think it's worth it - nothing replicates dust better than, well, dust!

I like how it turned out for a first effort, and many thanks to Dakkites LBursley and Mistress of minis for the information and inspiration

Apart from deciding on the weathering, I think it's almost done. There are a few vents and things I need to finish, then the base, so we're nearly there!

Those pastels are truly amazing maybe i'll have to pick some up

Ironclad looks awesome! How did you make the loincloth thing?

Werdes wrote:Those pastels are truly amazing maybe i'll have to pick some up

Definatley give it a go
Check out the thread I linked to in part 9, and there are also some helpful vids on youtube (mostly in regards to model trains but the same techniques apply).
EDIT: Here's a link to the relevant Youtube Playlist


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Cheif Librarian Vaako wrote:Ironclad looks awesome! How did you make the loincloth thing?

Very thin plasticard - I made a template for the segments out of card for consistency. Then I glued them to a gently curved strip of plasticard, overlapping each one starting from the bottom and working up. You need to file down the top edge of each segment so they lie flat enough. The rivets are thin slices of plastic rod carefully glued in place.

Here's a quick diagram to give you an idea:



The thickness of your plasticard will determine how much work you have to do to get it to lie flatter.

PART 11: THE ENDER-ING

The observant amongst you might have noticed I didn't post anything yesterday, because if I did, it would have spoiled the surprise:









That's right, it's done! ...well as done as I'm going to give a gaming model anyway.

The base was heavily drybrushed Adeptus Battlegrey, followed by a lighter drybrush of Astronomicon Grey. Then I daubed Devlan Mud on the recesses and kind of randomly around to make the rubble look dirty, followed by a final very light drybrush of Astronomicon Grey + White. The fallen pole I treated in the same way as the girders.

All that's left to do is to give it a hit of dullcote when the weather becomes more conducive to spraying.

So, if you have any questions about any part of the process that I haven't covered in previous posts, or anything that you'd like more detail on, post away!



COMING SOON: P&M BLOG 2

Nice! Good Job!

I guess this is the end

Nice done!

Nicely done there Unistoo, a great blog.

That amigo is one sharp looking dread So Nice my orks might have to loot it!

Very nice!!!!!!

looks fantastic, congratulations.

Great looking model!