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This is a work in progress. Experimenting with different colors from the Vallejo Air line of paints. The main color is "bright brass" with hints of "gunmetal metal". The thunder hammer is not done yet, I'm torn between using my airbrush to do the typical "buypainted" or "awesomepaintjob" technique or to just simply blend it with a brush. All paints were thinned using a water/windex solution. The base was created using the Warhammer 40,000 basing kit. Also I will be using the Iron Snakes decals rather than green stuffing the snake or painting them on.

I will keep this updated as I get close to completion of the entire squad. Please forgive the shoddy quality of the pictures, I used my cell phone.



Update 11-23-11: Don't mind certain areas (the skull on his back, thunder hammer shaft, power cord etc. are not done)
I just wanted to show off the bases and the blending on the hammer. I think it turned out okay but could use some more intermediate steps.

Looks cool man. Really stoked to see the rest of the squad as you complete it!

looks really cool, particularly loving the colour on the helmet

Thank you, chaplain. I'll have better pictures using my canon camera + figure booth soon. Also going to clean up some of the messy areas (didi's magic ink is great, but can leave a heavy mess in recessed areas if not careful).

Also my gold details (like the helmet - thanks for the compliment) are a 75/25 mix of "polished gold" and "silver" from the Vallejo line in case anyone was wondering. I find that straight up gold is too strong and blingy.


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I should also mention that the torso, arms, and head are all magnetized thanks to the great product from K&J Magnetics. I plan on selling this squad once completed and so I will be supplying additional arms to switch all 5 termies to lightning claws/thunder hammers/regular terminators (powerfists / storm bolters). The reason for magnetizing the head was so that someone can pop the helmet-less head in should they want.

I really like this model! Keep up the good work.

That is amazing!

Metal parts look gorgeous.

Looks good - need more and bigger pictures, though!

Looks great.

Those look good

I have to ask when you mean the window cleaner right? And if so why? Just asking cause I'm sick of my painting being rough and laced with brush marks.

-Lygris

That is an incredible use of those colors. Looking forward to more.

Thank you all for the kind words. I'll have an update soon.

Lygris Axon wrote:I have to ask when you mean the window cleaner right? And if so why? Just asking cause I'm sick of my painting being rough and laced with brush marks.

-Lygris

A water/windex solution for watering down my paints works well for me. Something about the windex holds the paint well and seems to make it dry faster and make the paint 'lay down'. Give it a try sometime. I use a 75/25 mix. More water than windex. I place the mix in an empty dropper bottle in order to control the flow. Just a small drop per every 2 or 3 vallejo drops works well.

For the vallejo air paint I don't need to water them down. The picture doesn't do it justice. I will post an update soon.

Thanks I may just try that.

-Lygris

IronSnake wrote:Thank you all for the kind words. I'll have an update soon.

Lygris Axon wrote:I have to ask when you mean the window cleaner right? And if so why? Just asking cause I'm sick of my painting being rough and laced with brush marks.

-Lygris

A water/windex solution for watering down my paints works well for me. Something about the windex holds the paint well and seems to make it dry faster and make the paint 'lay down'. Give it a try sometime. I use a 75/25 mix. More water than windex. I place the mix in an empty dropper bottle in order to control the flow. Just a small drop per every 2 or 3 vallejo drops works well.

For the vallejo air paint I don't need to water them down. The picture doesn't do it justice. I will post an update soon.

I do something broadly similar. I put a drop of paint on my palette (I use a flat palette) and a drop of windex (from a Vallejo-style dropper bottle) about a half-inch away from it. I then draw the windex to the paint and thin it down. I have sometimes used saliva the same way, as it's viscosity is greater than water which makes it easier to control as a painting medium (but I mostly use windex now).

I haven't used flow aid or matte medium, etc. I have used drying retarder in a similar way when doing wet blending, though.

I do the exact same thing by drawing them together. Great minds think alike. Saliva keeps bristles together really well too.

I had to do my wet blending fast like a mad man on the thunderhammer. Kept trying to dry real fast.

edit: Oh and update: see the first post.

I like the bases they look top notch... will there be weathering on their shins?

Thanks. I will not be adding any weathering to the shins. I belive in space marines being clean since their MO is "strike hard strike fast, get out".

But if I were theming them for a large scale war I would consider weathering them down a lot. I think he's a little too weathered as it is. Not as clean as I had originally envisioned. This might sound crazy but I'm contemplating stripping him down with simple green and starting over.

You are totally crazy. It looks very clean imho

IronSnake wrote:Thanks. I will not be adding any weathering to the shins. I belive in space marines being clean since their MO is "strike hard strike fast, get out".

But if I were theming them for a large scale war I would consider weathering them down a lot. I think he's a little too weathered as it is. Not as clean as I had originally envisioned. This might sound crazy but I'm contemplating stripping him down with simple green and starting over.

Totally not worth it, IMO. The figure is far too good for that. The cost of another Plastic Terminator is less than the effort you've put into painting that one.

they are hard to paint

Thanks for the words of encouragement guys, I appreciate that. I made small progress over the 4 day weekend, not as much as I would have liked. Will post an update soon.

Those bases are gorgeous, how did you do them? It looks like you used green in there somewhere?

Thank you. I spent an insanely long time on the bases. lol I used the warhammer 40,000 basing kit in conjunction with GW sand/gravel. I used a combination of the large "bases" and slate. I cut them up appropriately so that they would fit with minimal over-hang.

Primed them black and then dry-brushed with vellejo grey/black mix moving down to dry-brushing with straight grey- grey/white- and then finally white. Added didi's magic ink. Let dry. Then added brown ink. Finally dry-brushed with catachan green (one of the few GW colors I still have).