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Just a "look what I'm working on" post CC welcome though!

Basing is done, let me know what you think. Also, if you know of any tutorials for plant life let me know.

What method and paints did you use for the white? I'm painting Biel-Tan and struggling to get a decent way of painting them white armour

Prime in white. Then basecoat in a light grey colour, then a black wash. Tidy it all up with the light grey colour obviously leaving your shadow areas black. Then white, leaving your grey and black shadows showing through. Try to do a few thin layers of white rather than one thick one. Water your paints down to the consistency of milk and try not to move the paint around too much when it's on there to get a nice smooth finish. I'd say the key is just be patient and lots of thin layers.

Not a tutorial but a pic of a jungle base test piece that I did a while back.
Sprue shavings make pretty cool fronds (the purple plant), toothbrush bristles make nice grasses, rolling tobacco makes great leaf litter (buy the cheapest stuff you can find as it's more likely to be inconsistent and have stalky bits in it) and mushrooms are obligatory imo.

That looks great, thanks very much! I love the sprue shavings, that's going to save a lot of time! I agree, fungus looks great. Thanks very much

But having scenic bases implies that you Saim Hann army might actually get mud on their boots! Or not be zooming around the battlefield at a zillion miles an hour.

They do look nice though!

Haha true! They are very upset about it! My idea behind it was that the Saim Han are supporting exodites on a jungle world. Mainly because I liked the idea of dinosaur weapon platforms!

Here's another one polished off with Alex's great suggestion about the sprue shavings.

I aprove of weaponinzing dinosaurs. What could possibly go wrong? Cool fluff bit. IIRC Saim Hann has always had close ties with the exodites.

Thanks the original plan was to go full converted exodite army but I do want to actually be able to play within the next 10 years so I'm just going for the jungle theme with an exodite element To the army.

The two models you have shown are great, the level of detail is spectacular. What size army do you plan to work to and are you going to be able to keep up this quality the whole way through?

Will be enjoying the ride, especially when dinosaurs with guns show up.....

thank you for your kind comments. My personal goal for the army is about 1500 points. At the moment with these guardians I'm testing basing methods and having a lot of fun with it. Being saim Han the majority of the army will be jetbikes and skimmers.

Bases look amazing. Can't wait for more progress. Good luck.

Just popped to the shop for a coke and stumbled across a load of cake decorating stuff. They had this tiny little holly leaf cutter for icing. Which should be fine for green stuff. Will have a go after work.

That's a cool little tool, let us know how you get on with it.
I'm glad that the sprue shavings work for you, it all looks great.

Keep up the good work.

Only 19 more of these guys and I will be satisfied not a lot of progress on this army lately as I have also been building a new board.

18 to go! I was really struggling with the large red areas but with some help from dakka members I have worked it out

Are you going to model the bases of the jet bikes I tge same jungle theme?

Yes, I'm hoping the larger jetbike bases will give a chance to do some really interesting basing. More plants, tree roots, ancient ruins and maybe even alien animals but not sure about that

Please oh please have a tree trunk like those in Return of the Jedi.....

I think it would be criminal not to reference that scene. I'll see what I can do mate, maybe even some ROTJ easter eggs

Now I’ve got an image of an ewok hanging on to an eldar jetbike. Don’t do that.

Use a snotling!

Just found this tutorial on making ferns, might be handy if you can find the tool.

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/638119.page


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I'm on my phone, didn't realize that it was your tutorial.

haha that's cool XD thanks for the recommendation though mate glad people are reading my threads

Made a start on the exodite weapon platform magnet installed for weapon choices. I basically got a cold one and glued bits to it! I think it shows but I think he'll look cool with a lick of paint!

Nice! I like the spare kit hanging off him.

Thanks man well I thought of how animals were used in warfare in real life and I guess the majority of their work was carrying kit, so yeah he's got a spare rifle and some ammunition draped over him. I think I'm going to add some sort of packs or panniers too as theres some space on his back that looks weird.

Nice use of bits! Looks custom made. Where's the head from?

The head is from the chaos spawn sprue. It's the zteentchy vulture head. I trimmed the beak down and took the spikes off the back. Then made a little helmet out of bits.

Can't wait to see some paint on it. Conversion looks cool, but really want to see the whole model resolved.