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I don't think there is anything I don't like in this log, I love the pallet and the imagination that has spawned these crazy creations. The female plasma gunner is particularly successful. Can't wait to see how the gunship turns out

Fantastic looking creations with extremely well done detail and that's what gives these models such a professional finish. They almost look like GW kits strait out of the box, except for, you know, actually looking good!!!

Thanks so much everyone. The praise is much appreciated! I can't believe how many hours I spent on these vehicles. And how difficult it is to paint them!

Things are not going great so far I'm afraid. I really wish I had had enough time to get an airbrush and elarn how to use it, or at least get into oil weathering. I've got my techniques down for normal size miniatures but the surface tension and evaporation dynamics and everything are just so different on these bigatures that I've got to relearn how my paints and inks work. And I keep changing my mind on color schemes, which isn't a bit deal with a small model, but very time consuming at this scale!

I'll just take solace in the fact that I generally hate the way my paintjobs look until I'm almost done with them and tell myself that layers of failed washes and messy filters and color changes will only add to the painterly, weather look I'm going for

Lonedirtydog: the curved head-dome is built from the curved shoulder armor of the original Dreadknight kit, connected with a series of semicircular plastic card ribs that I covered in a very thin bent plastic card sheet. Lots of gap filling with squeeze-tube modelling putty and tons of sanding did the rest:

http://s1370.photobucket.com/user/weirdingway1/media/knightearly3b_zpsooxfbjvs.jpg.html

http://s1370.photobucket.com/user/weirdingway1/media/knightearly4_zpsh2ehczty.jpg.html


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... and here is the Kirin in a more-or-less finished state, barring detail work. Sorry about the bad photos! In real life the color is somewhere between the two shots (and is brighter than I intended, but will certainly pop on the table):




I've spent the most time on it and it's worked out the best although I may have gone too far with the grime. I may unify and desaturate everything a bit with a glaze or two of grey.

The first picture it looks pretty damn good the second makes it seem really grimy so hard what to say, maybe a wash or two might work to clean it up a little.

Either way the conversion work is amazing and the paint work ties it all together perfectly, thanks for the how to as well as I wondered how you achieved that angle on it.

The second photo does make it look awfully grimy but... that seems to flow pretty well with the whole grim dark aesthetic and everything else. Just looks like nasty rain and rust spots so I think it works pretty well

The Kirin looks good, I think on the tank section where most of the grime is, you could try to get more of a streaked look to it?

The colours are amazing on the Kirin, it looks really awesome, only point I'd make is to work on your washes and streaks get a wash medium or try using a small amount of washing up liquid, anything to break the surface tension.

Your dropship is a thing of beauty, well done sir!

love the color on the kirin it looks like a really industrial no nonsense, hard working kind of vehicle

Thanks guys!

I've been adding some soap and lahmian medium to the washes and using distilled water which seems to help some, but I still get the occasional ring. My washes are pretty old and I don't remember them doing this before so that may be part of the problem. In any case I think I'll just go back and paint/dab in some turqoise to turn the blotchiest ares into streaks as suggested.

I stayed up way too late last night painting the dropship and I'm finally happy with it. I ended up going in a a colorful Chris Foss direction. Tonight I get to do the fun stuff and add sponge chipping, rust buildup, oil streaking, engine soot, and orbital reentry burning, which should really bring everything together.

Damn that looks several types of awesome I actually wish that was a kit, it actually looks like what I think or hope a dropship should look like.

The paint work so far is looking great I like the almost military tone but some how screams bounty hunter to me, and all the angles just keeps your interest, also I especially like the hazard stripes on the door.

Truly awesome work

That ship is a brute. A beautiful, beautiful brute. Excellent work, as always.

I get a strong H.R. Giger feel from your minis. I actually prefer the look of your Navigator suits to the usual GW Terminator.

This stuff is absolutely incredible. Keep up the talented work!

Thanks guys!

I got a lot more done last night and managed to take a few quick shots this morning on the kitchen table. The dropship is more or less finished except for a final pass of rusty staining that will go mostly on the underside.





And I'm finally happy with the Voidknight! The base color has changed a lot and has a really nice richness and lustre to it in person. It started as a pale turquoise and I've tinted it down with brown washes and red and orange glazes. Next up will be some dark orange stripes and accents (I'm thinking of making the hip plates orange), shading the white, and lost of small details.

Looking good, the dropship reminds me of the crazy stuff you used to see in 70's or 80's movies, awesome.

Both of those are superb. Wow.

Very nice, and seeing that knight thing next to the drop ship really gives a better sense of the ship's scale. What is the forward mounted gun, a multi-multimelta?

You know, I was skeptical about that hovertank when I saw the bare plastic, but painted it looks amazing.

Your work has a sense of controlled anarchy to it. Like everything is a chaotic riot of details and gubbins, and yet it all flows well, and the hyperdetail looks very deliberate, if I'm making sense. Your more destaurated colours compliment that nicely too.

All around a stunning army.

Thanks! The kitbashed scale models used in scifi movies of the 70s and 80s were my inspiration for the ship so I'm glad it shows.

Stormwall: yes, it counts as a twin linked multi-melta, so a multi-multimelta indeed! It's actually the exhaust and engine pieces from the Dreadknight kit.

I ended up adding a lot of finishing touches to the walker (and some more rust to the flyer) late the night before Adepticon. The tournament was a lot of fun! My first opponent was a very nice guy with a beautiful Badmoon Ork army who happens to live in a neighboring town and also happened to recognize my name from the WH40K mailing list I posted to back in the mid to late 90s! I think the household may be launching an incursion into Orkish territory at some point.

I'm afraid I was too over-whelmed trying to remember weapon profiles to take any good game photos. I have to say the scale of contemporary 40k is insane; such tiny tables crammed with way too many models moving way too quickly.

I'll try to do a proper photo shoot later this week and share the completed household army (I don't think this will be the entire household; I still have too many ideas to explore ... first off perhaps a giant vertical transport rocket tower and then a nurgle lord Beacon Priests with mirrored a helm and maybe something inspired by the classic Rogue Trader landspeeder / flying couch), but for now, here's some quick shots of Viscountess Mori Fosscobb Merz-Itano. I used some of the great tips on shooting with an iphone from Iron Sleet.





I realized I never posted finished shots of the second exo suit, the Maid of Orleans type crusader (Maid of Aurelius I suppose), and the servo-spheres:

Crazy+awesome stuff

The crusader looks good, good use of the tomb shield. How is the crawler coming on?

Great stuff! The pattern on the shield came out really well. The big robots are impressive, and the space ship is cool.

Thanks! I'm afraid I haven't touched the crawler, although I'd like to. I'm starting to wonder if I should give it hover pontoons like on the Kirin ...

No new modeling but I have a few more photos to share.

While building and painting the dropship I made sure to give the underside equal care because I thought it could double as terrain, either representing a crashed ship or just a big hunk of underhive machinery.




And while I had the camera out I had some fun with magnets. Turns out I can manage a crude version of Thistle's glorious walking shrine:



Or a simple gun robot:



And Greg of Feedyournerd posted a bunch of photos of one of my Adepticon games! He was very nice and helped us out with rules help because we were both a bit rusty (me especially), and also took tons of great photos (scroll down for the battle shots):

http://www.feedyournerd.com/greggles-tabletop/a-dreadpticon-2015-da-shiny-bitz-4-da-boss-moar-orky-photos

Oooh battle shots.

Man, this stuff reminds me of Steampunk England. It screams Baroque period/lovecraft and reminds me of Blanche paintings. (Probably not the best comparisons as most of those don't entirely match up to this quality work.) I'm going to try to make a Navigator suit now for my Inquisitor's retinue. I wonder how hard it is?

Please keep posting this eye porn.

Very nice to see models of this quality actually being used!

So are you planning on finishing the crawler next?

Alko how are you painting your bases, I can work hot how you made them but just curious to see if I'm right.

So much good stuff. The dropship in particular very much makes me think of Alien and Aliens: the old pre-CGI kitbashed special effects models, as you said. I just get nervous someone is going to pick it up by one of the wings and break it -- please reassure me there's some kind of reinforcing rod in there.

Well done! I would agree with it having a bit of an Aliens vibe. I pine for the pre CGI movie days myself.

Once again, simply stunning stuff. Great work.

Another walking shrine haha brilliant.. the dropship void knight and the grav vehicle are beautiful builds with matching paintwork..

Fantastic to see the walker painted .