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Haha, not the UNSC or they'd be using drones and smart AIs everywhere! Thanks all for the kind words.

Would you believe it, but I'm actually looking at being on top of my uni work? Devilry! This means I can even paint a bit today, so I thought I'd outline my plan for the fatigues.

On each of Stanforths epaulets I'm going to paint three silver stars, which in the Halo universe denotes the rank of Vice Admiral (maybe in the real world too, no idea really!)


On his right shoulder pad, I am going to paint his blood type (going to make it up, maybe O neg? Really doesn't matter) exactly as seen here:


Stanforth's fatigues will be a greeny-grey similar to Captain Cutter's from Halo Wars:

He will also have the original UNSC logo partially painted on his left breast in black like Cutter has in this photo. Cutter actually has his name in capitals above this, I am thinking of putting his name on the right side of his chest and either painting or greenstuffing on some small rectangles that will be made to look like medals. As the name on the bust is etched in slightly, I am thinking of using some oyumaru to make a superficial cast of the lettering for Stanforth and Vice Admiral, then using it once it dries as a stamp (after a few practice runs of course!) onto his right chest.

The thicker padding on the top of his uniform will be either black or like Lasky's uniform seen here:


Lastly, on his left shoulder pad, I am going to paint the Office of Naval Intelligence's symbol onto it, perhaps with S-3 (Signifying Section 3, the section that made the Spartans and that he was in charge of) painted slightly lower and to the right.


For his hair, I am thinking of making it look salt and pepper style, in particular at the temples, and painting some blemishes onto his skin. For some reason there are some small marks on the right side of his nose and just lateral of the nose on his left side, these will be painted to look like moles or freckles after I do a bit more research on how to do this. Not long left before the 31st now!

The sun is setting, so I'm losing too much light to keep going. The green for some reason isn't as strong in the pictures as it is in real life, might be because of the phone camera not being that good + the yellow light compensation. I'll post more tomorrow or the next day, but I've blocked out the areas I want in different colours. Still not sure what I want the colours of that padded area below the epaulets but above the fatigues to be. I'm thinking a different brighter grey to break things up a little. Less green, more white, but overall still muted. Maybe even a brown tone? Who knows!


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Again, the pictures are on their side, but upright on my computer before I upload them and even when clicked and opened in a new window they're fine. Brilliant.

Superb! You can tell a ton of thought has gone into it!

Commenting so I can come back after.
Looks like a great project.

I'm so sorry for the dormancy, here are some pretty pictures to hopefully smooth the transition back! Should be finishing BOTH Fleets today, pretty exciting stuff

I still need to do all the thrusters, some more highlighting on the Paris Frigates, the energy shields on top of the Corvettes and the thrusters on the Covenant as well, but it's going great so far

Okay, so I have finished priming the Covenant. They have also all had a basecoat of a dark metal, followed by a highlight of a silver, next up is giving them a little bit to dry, then using a heavily watered down paint as a glaze/wash and getting the panels outlined before I go over them in a transparent purple, followed by violet (check out the first pic to see one that has started to be painted with colours).

First pic of the ORS is with it having just the metal, the second time around it has been it by the silver highlights. Will give them a bit to dry, then will finish reoutlining them and post more pics.


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Here is some pumice that I have painted to look like asteroids. I am drilling holes into the bottom of it and using the excess bases and pegs from Fleet battles as stands for it. The plan is to put it on top of the 2D asteroid template. Actually did this a while ago, but only putting up pics now


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As an update, I'm up to my last 5 Covenant Corvettes needing shading/panels before I get the purple and violet going on them.


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All the Corvettes are done, now onto the actual colours!

So all of the Covenant are washed/glazed now, and also have had their pink applied. I've done about half the Corvettes in purple fully, but still a bit to go. I've done most of the ORS, but am not quite happy with it (plus I smudged some of the paint when I was putting the two halves together), so I'll be revisiting it shortly. Overall, however, I'm really pleased with how things are going. I'd love some input from people as to whether you think I should add a blue in the recesses to further add to the colour transitions, etc. Let me know what you think!




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All Covenant pink and purple done. My hand looks like a giant bruise with all the excess purple mottling that has hit it. Pics to come in half an hour when I have managed to let them dry and put them onto their bases. Still need energy shielding and thrusters mind you

And here we are. It's dodgy light, so I'll take them out soon and get some better shots lined up.

They're still in progress but here, have a look!

Awesome work, they really look the part!

Thanks Paradigm, it's much appreciated. I've been flicking through your galleries on your commissions page and they are superb. You've always been good, but damn mate, you've gotten even better, there is so much life to them!

Nice.

So, decided to mix things up a little and work on the Covenant bust. Overall happy with the gold, just not sure if I like the hex effect I've achieved on his right shoulder, feel it's a little too overt and could be more natural like in the chest area - which I do like. Still, I have 2 of him, and on top of that, will likely be getting a 3rd when I pick up the UNSC and Covenant bust sets. Thank you all for the views and comments


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Just noticing that the final 2 shots are a little dark - I'll take some more tomorrow and upload them to better show what I've done

Okay, so I have just been doing the basecoat colours for the cloak and the skin. I figured I'd 'block' the colours and see how I like the arrangement. I'm less against the shoulder in the light of day, I actually don't think he will look too bad for a relatively quick job! Everything is hand brushed from here on in, I did the skin by hand and all the edges of the cloak, just don't trust my airbrushing skills enough otherwise

That is a lovely gold there, and the purple compliments it wonderfully! Fantastic stuff!

Thanks heaps, Paradigm, your comments are always welcome!

Thought I'd post this here, it's an Easterling I mocked up a bit ago next to one I painted when I first started - I'll leave it to you to figure out which is which!

Energy shielding in progress, messed up both CCS and going to have to fix it up, the white paint smattered onto the model, Ughhhhhhh

More work on Rho, not much special yet, still on basecoating and starting rudimentary detailing

So I thought I would have a go at doing an Honour Guard themed CCS. I was happy with the burgundy I achieved, but unhappy with A) the flecking I got in the middle of my CCS (so I will be stripping and redoing that OSL) and B) How much overspray hit the top part at the fore of the ship (so I will be reapplying the red coat in the centre middle to tone it down)

Looking good to me! Should be epic once you've cleaned up those odd bits.

I painted up a ship entirely by hand to show some people how to achieve a decent paintjob without fancy dongles like an airbrush. Not my best work but I did do it in under 2 hours (honestly a record for me!)

Trying again, this time with RCSs, not sure how I feel about the red on the last one, feel like it was a bit of a miss. Thinking of adding 'windows' but I'm not sure what colour to do the dots in.
I did a rough outline of what I am thinking in paint, any thoughts?

Looking good, the UNSC ship especially. The Covenant ones are nice, but would definitely be livened up with some lighting, so I say give it a go!

Thanks Paradigm, I'll give it a go. Here's the basecoating I've done so far

Have tidied up the panels a little (still in the basic stages) and added the block colour to the 'gems' which will be made more realistic later today/tomorrow

It's not done by any means, but we're really getting there! I'm just about to get stuck in and cleaning up all the panels and so on

Coming along nicely, it should definitely stand out!

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Coming along nicely, it should definitely stand out!

I'm hoping so, thinking of entering it into the painting contest at the end of the month, fingers crossed for that one Really appreciate your comments as ever. Trying to be on Dakka more, but uni is a tough mistress at the moment

The tidy up has begun

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