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I gave that heat discolouration thing a try on the flamer emplacement after, tried to soot it up a little too. I admit it's probably a little overkill but what the hell.


... more progress on the militia et al:


Still a lot to do on these. I think my painting standards have slipped badly.

I've been thinking of picking up one of the battle of calith boxes, I might not be able to get one, cost and it probably being sold out by the time I can get around to getting one. But in the event that I do I made some Boarding shields with the idea of converting some of them up to make mark 4 breacher marines, to mix with a pack of FW's mark 3s. I figure I could make quite a cool sized HH ZM army from the Calith box + the few models I have right now. Imperial Fists OFC, speaking of which the new FW decal sheet for the fists is a thing of beauty much better than the old sheet that I have lying around here somewhere.

You can check out a 3D view of the shields here: http://shpws.me/KFhV .

I know I don't usually show my 3d stuff here but I'm actually quite proud of these.
Only thing missing is the hand & arm holding the shield as I'm not sure on the dimensions yet.

Cheers Para.


OMN.

This is dakkadakka. There is no such thing as overkill

Insane tankmenship sir! Now, if I can only do half aswell as you...

Oh that heat discoloration if good! I tend to also use the tinbitz, then black, most of the black out front for the sooting effect on flamer and meltas, but flamers get plenty more soot than meltas

Nice job mate and I see a little blue there as well what did you use in the end paint powders ?

Looks good and has pulled the scheme together nicely, I also like the lenses and the use of 2 colours gives the impression of different systems in place, I find the same colour lenses on a model can look a little repetitive at times.

I am not sure why you think your painting standards have slipped looks pretty good to me and matches in with your previous exploits.
What is it your having issues with ?

The only thing I am not sure about is the the guy in the middle top picture, but not the painting he just seems a little top heavy.

Although in the the next picture from the back it looks ok , so I think it is just the a mix of the camera angle and those damn elf legs.

Hey any progress on the casting mate

Dancing zombies look good.

Heat discolouration is spot on, not overdone, or rather OTT is necessary for this kind of thing at this scale.

Good progress on the militia.

Managed to get my mitts on a pre-order of Battle of Calth from Firestorm games along with paints and a new brush all for less than retail ... and free delivery .

And I should have a box arriving with two sets of Maelstrom's Edge Scenery sprue at some point soon as it looks like I'm top of the reward list , better find something to use them for soon.

I'll bet it's going to live in it's box for a while though, there are a few things I'd like to get finished first, not least finishing those Genswick which I'm aiming to do by the end of the year.
Next year the aim is to finish the small renegade army I have half made and maybe the two small Bolt action platoons (Soviets and Germans) and possibly a small Kings of War army made from Perry miniatures. The Warlord and Perry miniatures are still NoS for now so It might be that I opt not to make them and instead clear them out (most likely the Bolt action minis since I'm getting fed up of little dudes with guns).

Whilst I was working on those shields I made some small shield shaped pieces of extra armour, to personalise my fists (as and when I get around to making them), included in that is extra pairs of thigh armour ... however useful that might be.

@ graven: Too true .

@ stonned_astartes: Thanks, give it a shot, once you've got the tools you'll surprise yourself, and if you need help or tips, just ask; on Dakka, whatever you get stuck with, there is someone to offer useful advice.

@ Shas: Thanks mate, my tin bitz dried up years ago, for this I just used various layers of GW washes sepia -> a mix with a bit of red mixed in to make purple ->blue then watered down black paint on parts closest to the nozzle, adding more layers or diluting edges down as needed. Flamers should get more soot, they also don't get as hot as meltas apparently so your discolouration is probably more realistic than mine .

@LDD: See above reply to shas as to how I painted the heat discolouration.

I'm sure my shading is becoming a bit too subtle, especially considering how bad my photos are.

Probably the positioning of the arms and the snake arms, the elf legs don't help I agree.

There is a little way to go yet until I can cast those bits, moulds are nearly done.

@ DrH: Cheers, they were a real ... thriller to paint.

next time I might try a more subtle effect ... maybe.

I'll try and get those militia finished soon, really want to move on to other things now.


OMN.

Emplacements AND militia finished.







Also I've got my rewards for backing the Maelstorm's Edge kickstarter.



I went for two of these. These are some seriously thick sprues, with very thick pieces. I can see it's going to be a bit of a challenge to fit these in to some things as the pieces are a good 5mm + thick so it's not easy to just stick things on and go. Not bad however, 've got more than a few failed projects that these might provide the kick I need to get going on them.


OMN.

I really like your army. The emplacements look great and so too the militia.

Nice paintwork! Looking forward to seeing what you do with these sprues!

My entry for the current painting contest is coming along, nearly finished.
I need to add a top down picture, try and ad a bit more colour variation to the base since it doesn't look to great here.


an earlier PIP picture can be found in the spoiler below.


I'm planning to start painting up one each of the other weapons for the turrets on the weekend once Thorster is done and varnished, be nice to see things painted up for a change.

Cheers,
OMN.

OK that is epic.

Brilliant. Love it.

Smashy-toaster to make the toastery-dream of conquest come true!

Yes do I Iron Man and Capt America with other appliances now no looks great and some nice shading good luck

Where do you get the toasters?

@home_brew: I cast them myself from resin.

@LDD: LOL yea I have enough toasters lying around to do the avengers in toasters ... that may be going too far.

@Shas & Cam: Thanks

Thorster is done now, just needs a bit of white on the wings and a coat of matt varnish, the wings are white metal and the paint is chipping off just from handling... Finished pics tomorrow.

Thorster is now done and dusted.


Not too happy about the verdigris on the skull thing but meh.

I've got a few things lined up that I'd like to get finished by the end of the year. So far I've hit most of my targets, the militia and turrets were amongst them.

Next on the block are the two search lights and the Two ladies in red for my little =][= warband.




The search light on the left was airbrushed, on the right a bristly brushed, some how I'm going to have to make the one on the left look more like the one on the right.

As to the two girls, the bases are sorted but I'm stuck on what colour to paint the claw arms on the girl to the left, right now I'm thinking metallic steel to match the rest of the armour, althrough something like bone white is a possiblity.
The colour scheme is black, white, bone and red, with green as an optional spot colour that I might leave for purity seals and lenses, if I don't just opt for a straight bright red.

Lastly the next round of the Dakka painting competition is an open category, I may paint a tank ... but which?


Let me know which you'd rather see me paint next month:

A) Genswick Ragnarok (yes it's finally ready to paint).

or

B) Imperial fists Vindicator.

Cheers all,
OMN.

Excellent work! Upcoming projects look great too, especially those searchlights.

As far as tanks go, I vote Ragnarok... Follows nicely from Thor too!

I second the Ragnarok. BIG boom!!

Good job on Thorster. Lots of win there.

As you said "yes it's finally ready to paint", I think that should be what you work on.

The Rag has it I guess.

Time to start working out on what I'm going to paint it ... besides green. There is a lot of surface area to work with.


I've still not worked out what colour to do the claws on the top one.



What's left to do: finish the metallics, reflection / illumination on the black parts, browns, few other small details that are not painted yet. Might re-paint the skull head and maybe one or 2 other things.



Cheers for your input all.

{Don't forget to vote on the painting competition. http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/671973.page }


OMN?

I like the Ragnarok , but I reckon you should paint that great looking Vindicator next , change of palette is as good as a rest etc etc

Those two assassin types look smart too , good use of parts and posing !

Thanks, Big H. I'll try and get some paint on the demolisher early in the new year, maybe I will be able to enter it in the next round of the painting competition, at least then I'll get it done.

Still plodding along on these pair, I thought the black highlighting looked good last night, not so great after a nights sleep... gold on the claw gauntlet things?


Under coat down on the Rag, I'll try and get the chipping done tonight and fingers crossed I'll get most if not all of the green done tomorrow.


OMN

That Rag looks BLOODY MARVELLOUS I want it damn you I want it ........

THAT is one AWESOME tank bud!

Smooth build!

Is that a toaster with the power of Thor?

That is one sweet looking ride!

That tank is mahoosive! I love it!

 Warboss_Waaazag wrote:
Is that a toaster with the power of Thor?

Yup.

Thanks everyone for your kind words, much appreciated.

I'm taking images as I go, so expect plenty of paint-in-progress shots.

Here it is with the chipping going on.
Once this is on you have to finish all the overlaying layers within something like 36 hours or really the sooner the better as it is basically just natural rubber and once it solidifies it'snearly impossible to peal off.


Yellow patches on the side are masking tape for where I'm going to apply the unit markings. white-blue-white, instead of the white-red-white that I have used previously.

Then I start getting the main layer going starting with a darker colour in recesses.


This didn't last long however as I managed to create an air leak inside the compressor from the pump running too hot, I'm using an Iwata neo air (it's cheap-ish and so far it does what I want). Inside is a little plastic joiner male-male connector, basically two bits of different sized plastic tube (1/8 BSP and something else) melted together with a kink between them.
Now after running the compressor for about an hour (something it says you should not do), the air emerging from the compressor was understandably quite hot, causing the plastic to soften at that kink. Added that the air was being pumped out at 20-30 psi caused that softened plastic to stretch outwards, like a balloon until ... pop.
Once the motor had cooled some what and I'd found the problem, 5 minutes with a low temperature soldering iron fixed it.
Yea ... instructions.

I've finished spraying the green on now, and cleaned off the chipping, but after the issues with the compressor slowed me down and I had to rush through the main colour coat and getting the chipping done, combined with taking a small break from it to work on some other things so I've not got any more pics, I'll take some tomorrow.

Cheers
OMN.