First Regiment of Volra: Stone Cold Ice Giants [PIC HEAVY]

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**cormadepanda**

Short back story:
Volra is a death ice world. Volrians have decided that due to the lack of care and support from the Imperium to delcare their world a free world and set out to conqure the entire system from the Imperium.
FLUFF BEING WRITTEN FOR THE ARMY http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/460013.page#4491093
This is a work in progress thread. I welcome all sorts of commits and ideas to expand on my army. Please note i have just started and hope to see this through. Perhaps even a few battle reports while the army is being painted will make it on here.

Anyways to get things started here are two headless models i have painted that i want your guys and ladies review on.

I did order some pig iron production heads. http://www.pig-iron-productions.com/hd19-system-trooper-alternative-heads-p-56.html

**Grass4hopper**

That is very detailed and quite nice looking camo pattern. I'm really impressed, how long did it take you to paint them?

Pig Iron make some great heads, I look forward to see what you models look with them.

EDIT: nevermind about the Forum code, my computer was acting whack again

**cormadepanda**

I can give a tut on the paint job if you would like.
It took me about 30 minutes to paint the one on the left and 15 minutes on the one on the right. Thanks for the compliment!

But which on do you like more?

**Grass4hopper**

A tutorial would be great.

They both look great, but the one on the left really stands out.

**cormadepanda**

Alright, i will post a tut on my camo and see what you foks think.

**cormadepanda**

So first thing is first.

Base coat the model. I do this in a fortress grey and i use a large brush, you can use a base coat of chaos black and then drybush this grey coat on, but i just do grey with a back ink wash. No matter what this is the first step.

**cormadepanda**

So the next step is to apply a chaos black ink wash to the model. For this step stick your brush in the ink and then in a cup of clean water. Apply this to the just base coated model. This will be very black and spread it around as much and as fast as you can. Also stick your brush in the water again and cover the ink again to thin it more so you just get a dark grey.
It should look like this and dark light the model. Ya irony!

**cormadepanda**

After we have covered the model in the chaos ink and make sure we really get those wrinkles in the clothes to pop we gunn highlight! yay

now i know i am not the best painter out there, but this hopefully gets the job done.
Dry Brush skull white over the model. Make sure to avoid the wrinkles and resses the model has, this really pulls out a nice shadow effect.

**cormadepanda**

Next up we need to deal with the armor and "gloves" and shin guards. To do this we simply paint them all chaos black. Neat right? NOW WE CAN GET STARTED ON THE CAMO what you been waiting for.. that or like to read... but thats just crazy.

**cormadepanda**

Next step is operation cow.
Your goal here using both skull white and chaos black is to spot the model so he looks like a cow! damn near want to eat him is what he should look like.

Now the white spots in my photo may look large for the model, but trust me it all works out when you finally mix your camo colors.

**cormadepanda**

Next up is what i call spot mating on the camo. You will use your secondary color to match other colors. So for the armor which is base black, and we used a skull white on it we will now use the fortress grey (this matches the clothes and is the entire purpose of this) use the grey to highlight, wrap around or spot in side or run next to the white. Do it however you like, use it to reduce spot sizes and give spots more notice. Also do this for the clothes as they were based grey, with chaos black spots so use your skull white to the same methods. What you should get is a primative camo that most people find acceptable.

**cormadepanda**

And here is the last step that makes this paint seem better. I call it snowing. What you do is take your brighest part of your camo in my case skull white and dot large empty spaces of the camo. Say you have a black and grey but there is a big cap between them or you have large patch of one color. You stick some very tiny dots of a different color in there. Now i only do 1 dot color because i have 100 models or so to paint, but for the more inclined and clinicaly insane you can do all your camos colors dotted to a okish custer ****.
Anyways here is a finish product and i hope you like the tutorial. Tomorrow! i plan on doing a Valkerie.

**cormadepanda**

I am going to use the full camo units as grunts and sargeants. I will use the non camoed clothes as officer and a command positions. What do you guys think of this?

**A Kvlt Ghost**

That's pretty neat camo. What happened to their gun barrels, are you going to convert them to autoguns?

**cormadepanda**

There gun barrels are removed. I am thinking of having my own fluffy ness where the army uses a short carbine auto las shell. Think laser and bullet mixed. The gun would be fluff wise designed to shoot through astartes armor. IE Hot shot las guns, but for all game play purposes they are normal las guns.

**cormadepanda**

small progress update. Did a commnder type. I like how his sword turned out!

Everyone please comments and critism. Or questions on how did you do that?

**Skinner4**

I like your cammo will be nice to see a finished model on a nice snow themed base. Keep up the good work

**cormadepanda**

My static snow is at the other house, and pig iron has yet to inform me if they have shipped my order or not. Finish work will be coming up. Thanks for all the support guys!

What do you want to see next? a Tank, A Valkurie, Or a Hq?

i trading off my extras for more infintry and valks. I plan on preforming a valk spam.

**Lone Cat**

lemme see the heads please?

which one do you use? cadian? catachan? Scout marines? else??

**cormadepanda**

I linked the heads at the start of my post they are pig iron

**Shado.Raith**

Awesome paintwork, you're inspired me to give the camo a go for my Gue'Vesa. But if the camo takes longer than the non-camo, surely the officers and sergeants would be the ones with it? to make them look more important? just a thought.

**cormadepanda**

Higher importance means you don't ware grunt clothes as of grunts ware camo. officers would ware nice fatigues that wouldn't have a pattern I consider sergeants of grunt value and consider officers to be command platoons and of the sort. Thus they will just ware a plain fatigue with perhaps a gold trim on the clothing jacket and cuffs of the sleeves.

I am glad you are inspired! Keep working!

**Shado.Raith**

Thats fair enough, i just thought the officers with the money would buy better armour than their grunt counterparts and camo is far better than plain fatigues. But then, your rrmy, its up to you

**cormadepanda**

The officers would have camoed armor indeed, but theire clothes underneath would be just simple and rich like clothing. i do agree with you completely that they would have nicer things.

**cormadepanda**

Small update my heads from pig iron have shipped and I will be headIng home soon and my guard are getting into a fight against a scarb farm wraith wing! My guard will be riding in on 7 Valkyries! Haha it looks to be a good fight between my buddy zid and I! He is gunna go a battle rep I will link the rep for you guys. I don't know about you but I am hoping to have a valk done and a squad of vets at least done till I get my heads and static snow! Bringing out the paint an getting busy! Did I use enough exclamation points?

**cormadepanda**

New update lads. i have a 3/4 finished Valkyire. it has the camo done to the body i need to paint the guns and the cockpit. I need advice which kind of glow should i do it? i was thinking of doing a bright blue gem effect, but i have the colors needed to do a red. Let me know what you think.

**Fire_for_effect**

Wow, at first I didn't like the camo, but now I think it turned out really well! The guards men practically blend into the Valkyrie. Well done!

**Commander Cain**

Excellent camo! I can see these guys looking great with orange tinted lenses as they woul really stand out. Keep it up!

Cain

**cormadepanda**

Thanks for looking in. I am going to learn how to paint a nice glow effect on cockpits and lenses.

**Quelles**

These look great. The disruptive pattern is incredible. I may borrow your technique in different colors when I do my Gue'vesa counts-as Kroot.