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I've been working on an Elysian force for a little while. These are the first of the vehicles (many more Valkyries, Vendettas, Vultures to come), and they accompany the Elysian Droop Troops infantry I've previously worked on.

Because I'm doing about 9 of them total, I had to make sure I found a repeatable and also customizable method of working, and make sure all the details and intricacies were up to the owner's standards. I bought some blank inkjet transfer sheet paper and I needed to get a believable and cool (and free) font to use for lettering, names provided. The decals worked well for certain tasks, but with the tools I had I could not produce white lettered decals. Printers don't print white usually ! So I ended up printing out a color that matches the Thunderhawk Blue coat that surrounds the white (blank) lettering. After I applied the decals, I would paint around the letters to blend the decal blue with the Valkyrie's blue. To my misfortune, my printer ran out of cyan ink so I had to match Thunderhawk Blue with greyscale around the letters -- suffice it to say, I really did paint around each letter with blue! It was kind of fun though. The letters were very blocky, so it wasn't a lot of curved delicate lines, just straight and diagonal ones.

Anyway here are some photos, starting with a little digital conjuration:



Animated:


And stills of course:

Awesome. Love your take on the Elysians.
Please post more pics, would like to see the army assembled on the battlefield just after a drop.

Very nice! The windows are great! How did you made the animated pic?a very cool idea

Fantastic colour scheme, reminds me of ww2 naval aircraft. What are the fuel pods made from?

@ Boba Fett: I placed the model on a lazy susan and then rotated it, taking a picture each time I rotated it slightly. I have my camera on a tripod so that I don't have my hands full. Then I stitch the 50 or so photos into an animated .gif in VirtualDub and Photoshop.

@McGibs: The fuel pods are actually something you can buy off Forgeworld: link

Thanks mate! A very cool idea

i bloody love Gifs.

Edit: Also those planes are amazing!

Love the blue, its the same one I use for my space marines . Awesome idea to use the a GIF image for rotating the model. Well done.

Wow, I'd love to see some more Elysians as I have a bit of a mancrush on them...
Fantastic blue, love the shading going down to the bottom.

Cool keep it up !

Yes very cool. Keep it up and thanks for sharing.

One heck of a great job you did .