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Well, I have 10 sentinels for my IG, which I am keeping as sentinels. I got my 3 defilers really cheap so didn't mind cutting them up for bits (since I don't like the defiler model very much anyway).

Plus, they are way bigger


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alarmingrick wrote:Wow! i really like the IG and terrain! great stuff!
for the Earthshaker platform, you could add some GW Bits from the Manufactorum, Basilica etc... to give it some more Goth/less high tech look. Personally, i like what you did with it.

Thanks

I don't actually have any of those kits, and I have another 3 Earthshaker platforms to build (at the moment, I will probably get some more guns at some point in the future - I love things that go BOOM! ), so I may just do what I was originally going to do and scratch build and cast some supports similar to the FW platform.

SilverMK2 wrote:Well, I have 10 sentinels for my IG, which I am keeping as sentinels. I got my 3 defilers really cheap so didn't mind cutting them up for bits (since I don't like the defiler model very much anyway).

Plus, they are way bigger


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alarmingrick wrote:Wow! i really like the IG and terrain! great stuff!
for the Earthshaker platform, you could add some GW Bits from the Manufactorum, Basilica etc... to give it some more Goth/less high tech look. Personally, i like what you did with it.

Thanks

I don't actually have any of those kits, and I have another 3 Earthshaker platforms to build (at the moment, I will probably get some more guns at some point in the future - I love things that go BOOM! ), so I may just do what I was originally going to do and scratch build and cast some supports similar to the FW platform.

Ah, I see. Come to think of it, sentinels are on the small side

Btw, is that Prince on page one a wraithlord?

Samus_aran115 wrote:Ah, I see. Come to think of it, sentinels are on the small side

Btw, is that Prince on page one a wraithlord?

Nope - not sure what it is, but it is definitely not a wraithlord

Got it in a bag of bits I think. I was actually really annoyed as some kid managed to grab a slightly bigger and bulkier version of the figure that I had been eying for a while from across the store, so I had to settle with his little brother (the model's, not the kid's ).

Well, whatever it is, it looks awesome! Love those chosen squads too. They look really chaos-y. I want to buy a chaos dreadnought now. That's the first time I've really looked at the back of it

Just so you know, that is not the usual back on my dread - I took off the original power plant and made my own. Also added a section to the waist to make it taller and transition the otherwise quite stupid disparity between the waist and torso and also allow some movement.

Just got myself a nice and cheap airbrush - finding it a real pain to repaint my IG using a regular brush (plus there are millions of them). I will wait for it to arrive before I get some propellant for it, as I am not sure what kind of connection it has. Also going to see if it comes with an adapter for a compressor. If I find it is good and easy to use I may well see if I can get a cheap one

Will let you know how I get on when it arrives.

I like it, are you planning on making pestilence and death to go along with war and famine?

Thanks

And yes, I am planning on having the full set and a counts as Typhus to form the 4 fingers and the thumb of the Black Hand.

I just have so many projects going on at the moment

Also running out of bits. Though I have started on "Death" it is still in the very rough trial stage.

Fan of your work I look forward to seeing more.

Aretak wrote:Fan of your work I look forward to seeing more.

Glad you like it

Sorry, this page had slipped off the first page of my subscribed threads so I did not see anyone had replied

Thought I would fold in my Eldar into this thread so that I keep all my armies together.

So, here is my second Avatar:





Need to finish off the base and do a little touching up here and there. As with the previous Avatar, I went for a kind of hot metal rather than magma look. C&C welcome.

And here is my first WIP trial squad of Guardians. They are a bit darker than I was intending, but I think they look pretty good still.



Like all of my pictures the colours are totally messed up - which is a bit annoying

Super cool avatar. I like all the back flags on the guardians too.

I really like how the colour on that russ has come out.

@ TGG - Thanks, I have a more standard pose Avatar and wanted something a bit more dynaic - a pair of pliers wrapped in cloth and some bending later and there you go (also some cutting with a saw and pinning :()

Re the flags: I didn't feel like painting loads of the craftworld symbols on the millions of Eldar I have to paint up (after having already done the same with the rather fiddly black hand icon on my CSM), so thought I'd do something relatively colourful and decoratively instead. Thought the samurai flags would look good on the table.

Only problem is that I've had to paint over some of the print work where the glue has smudged the printer ink (I found that superglue made the paper go all horrible and translucent). Just using PVA at the moment. Looks good when I touch it back up. Luckily the print out was pretty close to some of the paint I had on hand

Different squads will have more or less stripes on the base of the flag. This is the first squad, as they have 1 stripe.


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Truffle wrote:I really like how the colour on that russ has come out.

Haha, unfortunately that is painted by someone else. I got it in a trade. Though surprisingly enough, it is more or less the same colour scheme as my original IG

They will be repainted in a kind of tan/mud colour once I have finished modifying them all (and once I have all my new airbrush bottles - have the paint all waiting!).

Been off ill today so spent most of my more able time painting up some Eldar. Was not going to take any pictures but the sun just came out of a few minutes, so thought I would try and get some better pictures of the stuff I have painted recently.

First up, Avatar^2






My Guardians, hopefully looking much better colour-wise and with basic basing started:



And finally, what I have been doing today:



I would have done some more spraying on my troops and vehicles, but the adapter supplied with my airbrush which is supposed to be 1/4" to 1/8", is actually more like 5/8" to 1/8" and therefore does not fit on my brand new compressor that arrived today :(

I would have done some more spraying on my troops and vehicles, but the adapter supplied with my airbrush which is supposed to be 1/4" to 1/8", is actually more like 5/8" to 1/8" and therefore does not fit on my brand new compressor that arrived today :(

Let me know how you like your airbrush. I have one and I just have a terrible time with the paint mix. I always get either to much paint and clog the gun or too much water thus runny paint If you have any luck I would love to hear about it. OFF TOPIC sorry!

ON TOPIC: Your Eldar are lookin good What a hard road I would have to go up against two avatars I wonder how long you will resist the call of the new Dark Eldar? Seems like a given for you me thinks

Great job as always,
Mike

Haha, it is a really cheap one (was about £8-9 with postage), so it is not great. I hope the compressor will help with this though, providing a more steady flow of air to give a smoother spray.

I'm also experimenting a bit with paint mixtures as well - my orange is a bit too watery I think, but that will improve with time.

I actually ordered 2 new adaptors and got one of them through the post yesterday. Too bad they sent the WRONG SIZE! *unimpressed*

Ah well.

As to the Eldar: Thank you Just wish the light was a bit better so I could get some good pictures of them.

And I have vowed not to get any more armies until I have finished the ones I already have (as you may know I am trying to sell/trade my Orks as well ). I have about 50-70% of a CSM army left to finish, and most of my Eldar army left to finish, and the whole of my IG army will be getting pimped out with lots of custom sculpted work and re-painted (when I eventually get round to it ).

So yeah, although some of the units look fantastic, (the wytches, Incubi and warriors), it will be a while before I get round to getting any, if I decide I can get past the looks of the jetbikes and the transports (which I hate ).

Possibly about the same time they next get updated again

AH that's right. Well good luck getting some good trades. It seems that people don't like to read. I saw that the MOD stepped in and put a UK only tag on your thread and people still asked to trade! Funny , anyway do you want to trade? J/K

Mike

Yeah, I know. I'm pretty sure that I've made it clear several times that I only want to trade or sell, not buy, but there are still lots of people who PM/post asking me if I want to buy their stuff.

I would not mind, but I have said several times quite explicitly that I only want to trade, not buy

Anyway, this morning I have almost finished painting my Banshees - just need to touch up the helmets and paint the eyes and finish the bases (static grass, some stones and a bit of barbed wire on 3 of them).

Finished my Striking Scorpions other than painting the eyes and finishing the bases (grass and stones, and the whole base on the head chap).

My Fire Dragons (all 5 of them ) are looking pretty cool - did a kind of fade from yellow feet or orange heads which looks pretty cool (if I do say so myself).

My Swooping Hawks now have white wings but have a fair way to go until finished.

Also organised my Guardians for painting/spraying (when I eventually get the right adaptor for my compressor!) into squads of 10, or squads of 8 and a HW platform + gunners, so I can fully paint up a squad at a time.

No pictures as the light is really terrible so I don't want to offend with my usual (poor) quality pictures. May add some in later if the sun ever comes out though...

That avatar is really cool, the way you painted the pink is sick.

Pennywise wrote:That avatar is really cool, the way you painted the pink is sick.

Thanks Pennywise. I can't remember if I said how I did it but this is the method:

1) Undercoat white
2) Wash very weak black
3) While the black wash is still wet (ie straight away) wash with water to clear the raised areas better
4) May or may not need to drybrush some raised areas white again

5) Repeat steps 2-4 using slightly less watered down dark red wash, and slightly less water

6) See step 5 but with almost straight light red wash and a bit less water

7) See step 6 but with sepia wash and a bit less water

8) Specifically target certain areas (for example the crests on the helmets) with more sepia wash and white drybrushing.

Been a while

Just been painting/retouching/building some elements of my army that I will be taking to Platinum Devil in a few weeks. I have to appologise in advance for these photos - the light is really crappy and I only have a couple of really yellow lamps and the camera flash - it all looks much better in person

First up, an overall shot of my whole force (minus Famine, who is in for some mutation therapy to grow some wings):


My main armoured element (2 rhinos + squads and predator) and some Raptors and Havocs:


... and the other half, some more havocs, another squad of raptors (might have to go out and buy some more as I don't really have anything that looks like jump packs to give them) and War:




And a few close ups of the almost finished predator. I have tried out some crackle glaze on this tank, but apparently it didn't work at all, which I am quite annoyed about. Currently testing it on some other stuff to see if I can get it to work properly.









So, you can kind of see a little bit of cracking, but it is not very much :(

Hello there, a few pictures of my army at Platinum Devil Dakka meet from the weekend. Unfrotunately due to super heavy snow I had to leave at lunch on the first day (took me 3 and a half hours to drive back where it took me about 40-50 minutes to get there) and could not attend the second day :(

However, I did have fun winning my first game against Panic (by tabling his grots ), and loosing to Ketera's IG (I had way more kill points than him as I had 2 HQ's at 3 points each, and 2 heavy supports at 2 points each). Could have forced a draw (perhaps) if the game had carried on for another couple of turns as I had just reached his lines and was hoping to cut through his remaining squads in hand to hand

Anyway, on with the pictures:

Panic's pictures:

My Army parked up ready for deployment.


My DP chops up Panic's kans having just turned his dread to scrap.



My Raptors move around to take on the grots and my CSM take out the buggies.

Greetings once again. I have been inspired by the current contest that has been announced by GW - Armies on Parade.

Since I can only ever (apparently) work to a deadline, I thought this would be a great opportunity to make a (re)start on my WWI trench themed gaming board and also, possibly, get a crack on with my IG who have been languishing a bit.

Anyway, I started by cutting up a 2ft by 2ft bit of board to which I had stuck an inch of insulation foam and then drawing on my design:



Then I chopped out the marked trench areas and I then took some of the wooden boards that I had created before Christmas and spent a long while (and vast quantities of PVA) sticking, chopping and swearing them into position:

Awesome start!

The terrain looks great.

I thought about the army on parade thing, realised almost instantly that i didn't have time and wouldn't get it done and returned to slowly painting the multitude of figures that I have lying around It looks good. Be nice to have someone from dakka win that!

Cheers guys

I had to build up the walls a lot higher than I originally intended as when I put the duckboards in the bottom of the trench, it meant that models were only hidden up to their waist rather than their shoulders.

Just means I have to ramp dirt/earth up higher to reinforce the boards

The rear edge of the board (where the PVA bottle is) will have a shelled wood where (if I get them done in time) a column of IG will be marching to reinforce the trenches from the crater in the corner.

The front edge of the board will have a couple of tank traps and plenty of barbed wire, as well as a few shelled trees.

Any thoughts or comments?

Yeh, have that destroyed Rhino (plastic scenery kit thing) in and amongst the trees...that would look good!

Imperial Monkey wrote:Yeh, have that destroyed Rhino (plastic scenery kit thing) in and amongst the trees...that would look good!

I have the kit, but it is a bit too large to fit into the space (plus I am trying to make a point of not using any GW products on the board, other than a bit of paint ).