Cool idea to flip the cabling over Kepora, not something i'd thought of, l'll give that a shot.
Originally I was planning on doing something similar to below, which I made last year.
I'm actually tempted to place the gun further down the arm at the next joint. The one issue I have with using the infurno pistol is that its a big bulky weapon
Assembled, GSC icon replaced, head isn't attached:
For the back there is a choice, the standard bit minus the snake arms, or a big book. In an ideal world I'd like to put both, but it might make him look too weighed down with stuff (that's what acolytes are for!).
Also more rocky scatter terrain.
For a while now I've had the idea to make a big factory like building (bigger than 300 x 600 mm footprint), I have no idea what it'll actually do, I've got a few things that I can put inside it. But as a way of actually starting it I thought I'd try making a damaged reception / admin section, besides the shape, making some steps to raise it off the ground and adding two counters to the inside its a blank slate atm. Kinda looking forward to this as I've had a pile of these terrain kits for a while and they've done nothing except collect dust.
The long battle to paint space marines continues, with the conscription of dropper bottles and blue tack to hold fiddly bits, I will prevail!
Ahem.
I've also made a base and roof for the factory entrance. The base was made from two layers of foam board laminated together then glued into an open sided box made from 0.5mm plasticard, to protect it and to stick safely stuff to.
On the outer edging I'm planing on going around it with some brick textured plasticard and covering the join at the top with a piece of rod for a lipped edge, I'm not decided if to leave the top part that is visible to the outside as plain or to etch a flagstone look to the top, like the steps.
The roof wants some strips of plasticard making to fill the gaps in, if not for aesthetic reasons then to hold the roof together as the joins are quite flimsy atm.
Its coming together quite ok for now, and when I'm done with the above I can get started on the interior.
Gun arm on the inquisitor is done, some gaps on it to fill in, probably the last you'll see of him until I start painting him.
Had a few random parts and threw them on a cairn wraith that I've been avoiding for ages, I'm thinking of using it as a mechanicus tech adept who is part of the inquisitor's posse, as you can see he is fulfilling the vital role of holding the lamp, I've got a pile of mechanical tentacle arms lying spare now so I'll use them all up on him, subject to change / being scrapped if I think of anything better.
So while not sleeping the other night I got started on the 3rd arco-flagellant.
First try sculpting a ruff, adding the musculature to fit with the arm was fun. The lump on the back bugs me a bit so I might remove it, there was originally going to be one of the little gothic shoulder lights from a scion torso (spare from the inquisitor) but the floor ate it. The model will be positioned further back on its actual base, when I'm done
The hunter.
Once the above are done I still have an acolyte with a meltagun to add.
Thanks graven, I've painted 8 or 9 like that, nearly fed up.
Thanks Doc, probably how i'll feel about space marines when I get this done.
Jump packs done.
Also made these to protect my sanity:
Evergreen 292 carfully cut into 50mm long sections, with shelves made from 1mm plasticard cut into 40 x 12 mm strips glued in with 10mm left between each level.
A pack of 292 is enough to make 7 like the ones pictured.
But with different colours as I have none of those paints. This isn't something i've tried before so I expect I'll be messing up a lot.
Fun fact: If you paint using Vallejo model or game color you can use vallejo airbrush cleaner as a brush on paint stripper
I also picked up some primaris bits recently and so I'm having a go at turning reiver bodies into truescale-ish space marines, just for the hell of it.
The space marine is flanked by two more additions to the inquisitorial warband. The lady is based on a necromunda Escher ganger and will be armed with a needle pistol and a power maul (when I replace the hand).
Axe is done, took longer than planned, messed up the highlight abit. Might have helped if I actually knew where the light reflections should go. NVM just glad that bit is done. Only thing left on the assault squad is the bodies
Forgot to post these, they are finished and ready to paint.
The background on their photos is perhaps a little too busy even if it's properly themed. Makes it difficult to focus on the models, they are almost camouflaged there.
Cheers all and Merry Christmas, Bah humbug etc. If I don't get the chance to say so.
I'll try and get a better background, they may look camouflaged but the colour balance and lighting is more accurate to how they look irl. I do want to get a decent army shot of these (nearly) finished marine armies once I'm done.
Yea so I managed to get the Word Bearers force completed...
... and close ups in the spoiler.
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Also, the infantry for the Red Scorps ....
... again more pics in the spoiler.
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I've only just got started on the vehicles, first up is the dreadnought and razorback.
These are the colours that I'm using for the grey.
For some reason my model air German Grey is a few shades lighter than my model color one... I think my vehicles are going to end up a shade or two lighter than planned because of it.
I was getting started on the yellow and was planning to do that tonight but I've had a bit of an accident with the airbrush, I like to spray with the rear guard off, so I can quickly loosen the needle when cleaning. This is a stupid thing to do, don't do it, keep it there. I'd placed my airbrush down on the desk to move some masking tape, the weight of the hose to the compressor pulled the airbrush off my desk, time slowed, the airbrush turned mid air so it impacted with the ground on the back of the needle stopping the needle, but not the rest of the brush. This forced the point of the needle through the 0.35mm nozzle tearing it wide open ... Thankfully I'll be able to get a replacement tomorrow or thursday, ugh.
I did have some more to show, like how I was planning to paint the yellow, then a test of it on a primed offcut off plasticard stuck to some sprue but that'll have to wait until my next update.
Oh and here is a little WIP of a Christmas present that I've not quite finished.
It's an "Anglo Dane Hovel" by a UK laser-cut terrain manufacturer called 4Ground. Went together pretty well, I'm not impressed with the window part of it was cut much too thin.
The thatched roofing is made with pieces of furry fabric that the instructions say to use an old toothbrush with some watered down PVA to shape ... ... I may have overdone it with the PVA...
I like the image of the marine next to the old style building. The juxtaposition of high tech vs iron age is something they barely do in the novels but I really like.
@Skalk I'll tell the peasants to look out for an S shaped man dragon with one muscular arm, especially at night.
The word bearers were pretty challenging cutting up the decals was really fiddly, but worth it.
Here is the yellow test:
Which was, stating fro a black primer, painted using the following from left to right as pictured:
And this is how I (badly) used them, hopefully it'll be a bit of use to some one:
- Dirt: dark brown-yellow. Apply as a basecoat, build up fairly evenly with a thin covering in areas of absolute shade.
- Dark Yellow: light yellow-brown. Build this up in thin layers over lighter areas, apply it more heavily where light would fall and to provide a base coat for lighter shades as it is relativity opaque.
- Ochre: Main "Yellowing" shade apply thinly over the Dirt - Dark Yellow boundry, build up over areas that are going to be lighter.
- Sun Yellow: first highlight, build up over the Ochre, very transparant apply lightly as per the words of St. Duncun "in many thin layers". This should be the lightest shade on vertically facing surfaces
- Moon Yellow: Zenithal highlight, it's more opaque than the Sun yellow due to having some white mixed in, easy to over do, so be very careful and apply only to the top of upward facing surfaces
If you apply the moon yellow a bit strongly in places just pass over it with Sun yellow over the boundary.
On the models I'll add some edge hightling, using a bit of sun yellow, moon yellow and/or white mixed into sun yellow or moon yellow
So this is the scheme that I'm going for on the razorback:
Masking tape is off the Razorback and Dreadnought.
The Yellow, i'm happy with, the grey ... not so much.
There's one or two little bits of overspray where the masking tape must have lifted in the few days it took to replace the nozzle on the airbrush. Apart from that I've got the edge highlighting to finish off before working on the detailing.
Whilst I had the airbrush set up I thought I'd get some colour on the small rocky outcrops that I made a few months back, they are nothing fancy and will be getting some vegetation on them at some point.
And lastly here is the externally finished thached roof hovel:
I'd like to add a fireplace, rushes on the floor and general interior clutter that someone might own who lived there some thousand years ago.
Well if you want really good thatch I'd say finish painting whatever it is you want to put thatch on, leaving a flat plain roof of whatever angle it is you want.
Then go raid as many model shots as you can for woodland scenics "Field Grass: Harvest Gold". Cut each strand in half and bundle them up, lay that over the top with a bit of watered down brushed pva at the base in the same manner that you would thatch a roof with reeds.
You should be able to sculpt it, roll out some air dry clay to about 5mm on to a flat surface that it will come unstuck from, cut to shape and go over it with a wire brush or some such. Then stick it onto whatever building you are making.
However GW printed a book in 2003 called "How to make wargames terrain", In it they recommend using fake fur soaked in pva and brushed..
Tips:
Don't use too much glue, or make it too watery; Deluxe Materials make a glue called "Rocket Card Glue" that's about the right consistency.
It's huge, I've dry fitted the lower section and now i'm wondering where i'm going to put it. There are some other things on NSatm which are 1/2 price or better, click "bargins" on the top.
Thanks Skalk, they are going to need some good layers of varnish on them
Cheers Big H, high praise coming from you, its good practice to try something new.
re: http://northstarfigures.com/prod.php?prod=8781 That model has to be at least 24" tall. I've been looking for something like this, a huge industrial sci-fi thing. When you have a chance please post a picture of WIP, I'd really like seeing how it scales out.
The image on the box is pretty much spot on as a size comparison.
I quickly assembled some of it last night, 4ground's kits are pretty easy to up together for the most part.
It's about 20" tall give or take 1/2 ". the base is quite large, here's some other models to give a comparison.
Most of 4 ground's kits come pre-painted this is both a blessing and a curse. It's great not having to worry about doing it myself, especially getting paint into fiddly corners, but the pieces are laser cut from pre-painted sheets so you get marks left by the smoke made by the laser, however on this kit it isn't something I'm worrying about as it actually makes it look like its a bit rusty. Also the edges of the cut peices are not painted, so that is left showing, the obvious thing is to just paint over them, 4ground do say what paint they used to colour the surface but it would still mean matching it up with something I've got, or trying to see if they have a lookup table (not something I've tried). This kit comes with pieces to cover the major joints so its not bad here, and in fairness many of the kits they produce have joint locations or colour schemes that the edges don't detract too much from the over all appearance.
Also for £12 (1/2 RRP) I'm very happy with this kit, since i'm only thinking of making a 4' x 4' table, one is all I can see myself needing otherwise I would have bought another.
I forgot to post this, I had a bash at painting North Star's Oathmark Dwarf heroes, these may be the first dwarves I've painted. Good fun, nice models. The one with the hammer had to have a big red beard.
I've got an idea to use these pieces that I've had for a while to make a small barrier that a few figures could hide behind, the idea is that they are big slabs of metal or prefab sections, just dumped and propped up rather than a deliberate piece of protection, but my imagination is failing me, any ideas?
Give them a small corrugated roof piece and it Isa lean-to home looks more natural.
Excellent work on the dwarves. Been looking through the site and they have lots of very interesting pieces, particularly like the cultists and they do a conversion kit, looking seriously at it for some fun, either Necromunda gang, or for chaos.
Pillion is definitely different. I like it, but just not sure.
That is MASSIVE. Wow. I'd love that on my table but it would be for aesthetics only. I'm going to pass on it but I really appreciate you taking the time to post those pics. I'm also certain you can upgrade the paint job significantly.
The dwarf with the hammer is excellent! It took me back to mt D&D days instantly. The muted colors are perfect. I really like that model, well done.
Regarding the plates, go with your vision of abandoned / unused. Maybe a brace that would have held them upright until used? Maybe laying nearly upright against a pile of other discarded junk? Maybe build 10 more and pile them flat with this one leaning against the pile ( ) ? Maybe these are an addition to another terrain model you already have, lean it against that. Whatever you go with I know it's going to be a great model when finished.
@Skalk: Thanks. The pylon took less than 2.5 hours to build, unfortunately I won't be re-painting it, I hate painting large models so it'll do as it is.
What do you mean by braces?
I should have more as I cast a bunch of them, I must have misplaced them.
@Doc: I'd forgotten about those. I'm not much of a hoarder lol, but good point, I must remind myself to keep my eyes peeled for things that could be useful for things like this
Right now I've narrowed my choice down to two ideas:
Making some sort of holder, like a pallet that would have contained a number of them, that they sit in, leaning against each other. On the plus for this is it wouldn't need a base so could fit in any board style.
Or
Something like Cam suggests and a make a small shelter that some one used as a place to catch some sleep, just how to prop them up is a question atm. I do have some styrofoam that could be used to make some small concrete pillars like for a ruin or something under construction or whatever.
finished blocking in the main colours on the drop pod. Took me a while to decide on how to paint this.
I've also nearly finished painting the inquisitor, I wanted to try painting the power weapon with an airbrush, what you a re seeing is my third attempt after my airbrush started stuttering at the last stage on the previous two times, and i must have diluted my blue down too much and it seeped under the masking tape. Just noticed I've missed the wrist consoles otherwise I'd say he was finished now.
One thing that I've been wanting to add to my inquisitor's force is a rhino, well it's more felt I had to have to stop the arco-flagellants and death cultists dying to a stiff breeze. So I had one of my tanks spare and needed a way to stick a pair of stormbolters on it, so ordered a set of land raider hurricane bolters, I thought they were smaller than they turned out to be. Here's what I came up with.
The tracks want finishing, there's loads of gaps to fill and I need to find somewhere to glue the smoke launchers but I'm happy with how it's turned out so far. Originally I'd planned on making a pop up cylindrical turret, that the guns arranged in 2 x 2 would start up pointing vertically before turning to horizontal, however when the bolters arrived I found they were bigger than planned so had to come up with something new, after a month, the above is what I thought up the other day.
It's the only model that I've not finished making, and one of two left to paint, to finish the army off so i'm looking forward to drawing a line under it, and the scorpions, so I can move on to the next two armies.
VMC Black
Citadel Foundation Tallarn Flesh,
VMC White
I just mix a bit of black with the flesh to make a base layer and leave that as shadows, then adding more flesh to the mix I add more layers over the top to build up parts that would be more illuminated, mixing in a bit of white for the really light parts.
It's the same method I use for all my flesh tones. If I want to paint darker flesh I'll mix in a dark or light brown into the base and work my way up, maybe leaving out the white, maybe adding more. Just picture what is going to be in light and what in shadow.
Since GW nolonger make Tallarn flesh any more you can use any middling flesh tone, like VMC Flat Flesh or Cidadel Layer Kislev Flesh.
I had a go at making a pallet to put the slabs on, I'll add some straps going over the top made of paper and/or greenstuff. I also ordered some packs of strip plasticard to make some more pallets simular to this.
While I was at it, I messed about with some chunks of styrofoam I found lying around and made two concrete pillars ...
... and two standing stones. The styrofoam has been painted over with some textured paint to protect it when I spray them. Also I found some old barrels lying around so gave them a base. On the right is a water tank that I made using some bits and pieces I found lying around, I found the base while looking for soemthing else (it's plasticard, I think I made it around the LoER Shrine competition), and inspiration struck.
Should be fun to paint once I work out the colours.
I'm still putting off doing any real meaningful painting to finish the scorpions off, but I did pick up some more strips so I can make a couple more pallets just to add scatted around, piled up, leaning on things etc.
What do you think?
The 'black' is supposed to be black highlighted with a blue-grey, unfortunately I've messed it up and sprayed over the darker shades, whilst the lighters parts are too dark, so I'll have to go over it again.
Also the top hatch, headlights and smoke launchers are supposed to be painted black when I get around to it. The red looked much better irl.
Pillars prepped for painting
Straps made, just a matter of cutting 3mm wide strips of 0.25mm plasticard and folding them.
Lastly I was reading up on something and it reminded me that during the Devonian period there were a group of fungi that grew rather large called Prototaxites, thought it'd be fun to try sculpting a few of the artist's impressions that pop'ed up on google, so i'm taking a bit of creative licence.
I like your choice of the placement of the boundary between the red and black on the back of the tank. It's the obvious place to put it, but it pleases me for some reason.
Not much modelling this week, besides making a few pallets and finding things to put on them, along with some bits to put on the shelves that I made a few weeks back.
I know I'll be having to make some of my own boxes etc so I know I'll be going back through Cam & Doc H's blogs for "inspiration".
Whilst I was making them I decided to snap a few pic's to make a tutorial for anyone who is interested in making their own.
I wrote this in the voice of the North Korean TV announcer Ri Chun-hee.
I knew there was something odd about the tut narrative, My "go to" is usually Werner Herzog but it just wasn't happening for me this time. Now I know why.
Excellent tut! Inexpensive and easily obtained materials, very clear instructions, and even a novice would have decent results. Well done sir!
Thanks Doc, your pallets are probably better, and more accurate to most real world designs, I didn't want ones made from wood so...
@ Skalk: Cheers.
@Cam: Thanks.
Found some boxes and barrels to go on the pallets:
While digging around for something to put onto the pallets I found some land raider and vindicator parts and made this, engine, machine, pump ... thing.
I'm thinking of adding some pipes out of the sides that will attach to something else or go into the ground, not certain yet.
Also I came across a prototype for a rapier design that I'd made, tracked forklift maybe?
I managed to get a spot of airbrushing done so the razorback and dreadnought are ready to oil up, I'll be gloss varnishing them after, and I'll be trying to get some more work done on the drop pod this week, I am planning to paint the interior of the doors to be metallic gunmetal. It's going to be fun adding the re-entry scorching.
OneManNoodles wrote: ...Thanks Doc, your pallets are probably better, and more accurate to most real world designs, I didn't want ones made from wood so...
Not the ones I've done recently; very rough jobs with strips of cardboard and cubes of foamboard. Give a good enough impression of a pallet once painted.
Nice pallet-loads.
Good pump thing.
Nice start to the little tread thingies. That's how the Taurox ones should have looked (not to mention a possible change to the method of attachment that is also needed and not addressed here).
Love the genny- I may have to find a way to add one into my next build- too cool the way you have it rigged! And thanks for the tutorial on making pallets- definitely going to use that!
While digging around for something to put onto the pallets I found some land raider and vindicator parts and made this, engine, machine, pump ... thing.
Thanks all. Good to know the pallet idea is useful to some.
@ Desubot: steal away.
More colouring in.
Both the Razorback and Dreadnought are done (but not dusted).
Also managed to get the edging and lenses done on the Inquisitorial Rhino.
I realised I'd forgotten to attach purity seals and things like that on it, so looks like I've still got those to do, apart from that there's only the tracks left to paint before chipping, dirt, soot etc.
Whine reviewing the rest of the force, I realised I've not finished the vendetta, I'd gloss varnished it ready to oil it but must have been distracted by a squirrel or maybe a change in the wind direction... lol.
So as of yesterday morning it looks like this:
I've since sprayed a bit of dirt around the struts and rear door as well as added some heat effect around the nozzles of the lascannons in the same manner as the Red Scorp.'s dreadnought in a previous post.
In case anyone is wondering about the cockpit canopy, I accidentally got some gloss varnish on it when spraying (overspray) which ruined the transparency, so I primed it and badly airbrushed it. And that after the effort of painting the interior and crew.
I started on the oils yesterday but ran out of time, I will probably only have time to try and fix my screw ups before they dry in place too much today, so it'll have to wait until next weekend to finish.
Finally finished both armies, bit of a slog at the end. Big update.
Firstly Apologies for the rubbish army shots, I don't have anything or anywhere suitable to take images of such large subjects. Both these armies are 41 power level (PL). All my armies from now on will be of that PL, its an odd number I know but 41st millennium (shrugs), points it's something like 600 - 750, which is a fine size IMO for small games, means I can build small armies that try and get the "flavour" of the faction without powergaming etc, also I'm not as likely to get bored building them.
Red Scorpions:
Some close ups of the 'pod
Loads of overspray, especially over the yellow ... nvm.
I think I could have done more on the heat scorching since I'm painting on a dark grey/ black surface it's not as easy as spraying black over whatever, I tried to copy the same method I used on the razorback's lascannons, which is to first spray a bit of VMA Dirt, followed by VMA Hull Red before VMA Black grey and finally Black, I went over the black in places with another layer of black grey, partly to highlight but also it gives a more natural look.
I could have made the heat scaring a bit more obvious but maybe in the 41st millennium they have really good paint that doesn't just burn off on atmospheric entry.
Inquisition:
More pics of the Vendetta:
I even added the door guns.
Some close ups:
The inquisitor with the arco-flagellants, death cult assassins and two acolytes.
Two more squads of Acolytes:
And a stormtrooper squad:
The plan for the army is that the two squads of acolytes with plasma & meltaguns rides in the Valk, where as the inq & co. that he's pictured with sit in the rhino, the troops in this army are basically glass cannons so that was the key reason to adding the melta boxes to hide them in. The storm trooper squad, I like as it can pump out a fair number of shots and is quite flexible in it's deployment.
If anyone remembers I had an Idea to make some nearly true-scale space marines from some of the new primaris parts, whilst I was applying decals, oils etc I finished him off, the base wants painting so I'll add it to the pile the next time I paint some up.
I do have a second marine, armed with a power sword and bolt pistol to paint as well some time but he hasn't had his legs etc sculpted over.
Whilst rummaging around I found some Bretonnian archers from back in the day, with a bit of paint on them I now see what really nice model they are, one of them seems to be a misscast as he is missing a thumb... you can fire a bow without a thumb but, I may have to sculpt one on. I've been painting these for a while now, just one colour at a time over a few weeks, they are nearly finished, the main thing to do is add some static grass on the bases.
They were also a chance to try a different painting technique, the red started as a dark blue, built up a red-pink.
What else is there ...
Oh yea, next army projects These are on the construction pile:
There are also 5 Imperial Fist breaches to paint up to make up a 1k ZM force, soon..
Thanks Cam. Given how long they took to build I'd hope so.
Indeed it is a 'cron, there will be more...
Thanks Doc.
Not done much i the way of physical modelling, been working on designs for buildings instead. Even so I've managed to get a few more Necrons walking and managed to get the black base coat on the fists breachers.
The breachers were all primed white and the yellow was airbrushed so I have to take my time painting the black into everywhere, before I can paint over it.
Necrons are surprisingly fiddly, especially when you are trying to re-arrange their legs. The lower legs don't look quite correct, they look a little bow legged so on the next one I make I'll try switching the lower left leg onto the right leg etc.
I quite liked re-posing the basic necron limbs. Easy to find where to cut and they can be glued back on pretty much at any angle. Very little need for any putty sculpting to fill in gaps such as you get when re-posing marines, for example.
Close ups of the rest of the army in the spoiler below:
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Deligatus
Vigilator
Tactical Squad
Flamer Support squad
Cataphractii
Close ups of the breachers
my shields are a pain to where the sun shineth not. I will not be making more of them.
I've got a bunch more Fists put away waiting to be assembled for another day.
Thanks to some wise words from Dr H I've got the tarpaulins on the pallets, so they are ready to paint now, its just tissue paper cut up dipped in watered down pva with a bit of black paint mixed in.
They are loaded up with a variety of junk including bits from the IG vehicle accessory sprue (since it used to come with every IG tank you bought) and some 1:35 german grenade & panzerfaust boxes.
This brings me up to 7 loaded pallets to add detail.
Also been getting to work on some not quite forgotten additions to the Genswick.
I need to touch up the green as I mixed a bit too much white into the top most airbrush highlight, so I'll have to go over it with a shade or two lower.
The plague bearers for the nurgle army, that I've had for way too long, have also found their way onto my desk a few nights back, they were just primed grey and given a zenithal spray of white, so rather than airbrushing them (as planned) instead I'm ttying to build up layers with glazes starting from the lightest colours and working my way darker.
So far I've applied a heavy glaze of VMC dark blue grey, Citadel rotting flesh and VMC off white. next came a wash made from the Citadel Wash Gryphonne Sepia. All of this was mixed with Vallejo Glaze medium which also acts as a drying retarder as well as water.
Yes one of them does have a balloon, its the unit's icon and will be painted candy red.
Next on them will be to either airbrush or use more glazing to add a purple-ish blending to red-ish patches around the swollen limbs and around the burst interiors/ wounds. Follwed by more washes to add depth etc. I'm hoping that doing them in a batch like this will mean I get them finished quickly.
The 10 necrons are nearly built as well, i'm leaving one in the classic 'cron spreading position. With the arrival of a copy of Forgebane I've got all I want for the army.
True Doc, very true.
@Desubot: I've had some "interesting" moments with a heatgun before, might just pass on that.
Great stuff. Nice Fists,vibrant and awesome looking. Crons are awesome, and can appreciate the hard work you put in on that. The pallets are spot on, like me some scatter. Plague bearers are looking fab, but as always it's your armour that steals the show bud, beautiful big guns.
Good job on the tarps. When you come to paint them, try to keep track of what's the inside and outside and paint them different colours, it helps to sell any folds you have made (if you have made any).
Other than that, just a dry-brush is good enough to pick out the detail even in tissue.
I've done a bit more on the plaguebearers, turns out the glaze malarkey is pretty quick, especially with a hairdryer to hand.
Firstly laying down two shadow washes of diluted Sepia, followed by a glaze of dark fleshtone, purple and off white.
I then went sort of nuts and ploughed through them rather quickly.
These do have a way to go still, but I'm really not happy with the swords, so might try stripping them and either imitating what graven has done on his deathguard and try using powders, or just try building up from an orange wash, with successively darker shades in patches.
Also finished building the warriors:
For the Necron colourscheme I've been thinking of immitating this scheme used on images in MajorTom11's gallery:
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Suggestions on the colours?
Thanks all.
@Cam: The armour is a bit of a slow burning project, I'm hoping to get some more done on them tomorrow.
@Dr H: Thanks for the tips, dry-brushing sounds like a good idea, there are a few folds, not given thought to painting them until you mentioned it .
@whalemusic360: Cheers, chopping up and re-posing the arms so the shields and guns would fit together was frustrating, especially the mk3 arms. Some of them have weird poses because of it.
The fists are great , nurgle stuff is also coming along nicely, is that plaguebearer holding a balloon? Please say it will have “get UNwell soon” written on it with the unwell written in a different script than the rest .
Theo, I will work on my calligraphy, just for you.
Yea Graven that's the idea, I really don't want to use metallic paints on this so I've been looking for examples and if I don't go towards beige maybe more of a grey white? Like the helms of the Red scorpion sergeants.
I've been thinking about going for black joints, with a bit of rust to contrast the bright green that I plan to use.
I may have started building more tanks, completely by accident you understand.
I had the plans already drawn up and decided to run out a few designs on the cutter (which all it really does is score the plasticard, still, measuring and marking takes the longest time) while I was airbrushing.
Left to right: Malcador, Chimera, 2 hellhounds / devildogs.
I like how the Malcador has come together so far, the only issue I'm having is with wheels,
To anyone reading this, I'm looking for 3 baneblade hull demolisher cannons, if you have any spare and you can part with them, then I'm interested, PM me.
Plaguebearers may well be finished now. This brings the model count for the nurgle army up to 40, 12 remain. The army list is:
Spoiler:
Plaguecaster
Blightbringer
(both from the Dark Imperium box)
5 plague marines: 2 plasmaguns, plasmapistol, plague sword
5 plague marines: 2 blightlaunchers, plasmapistol, plague sword
(these both need to be finished converting from plastic HH MKIII marines)
30 poxwalkers (plaguezombies that I've shown over the years)
Nurgle herald
10 plaguebearers: plagueridden and icon
this uses up models and bits that I already have and total 41 PL
For the plaguebearers swords I tried sponging multiple shades of orange on them, but wasn't too happy with them, so covered them in MiG powders, I may have overdone it however.
Before:
After:
I can always remove some with an old dry-brush, I also went over the eyes with Tamiya clear yellow and added some to some of the open wounds.
For the deathguard marines, I'm thinking:
- black prime.
- paint the armour with rust shades,
- use chipping medium ( I would also be tempted to use crackle medium as well but I don't know what I've done with it)
- paint over that with a sort of dirty white - offwhite layering up, remove chips.
- add rusting with washes, with streaks, and building up layers over all of the armour, roughly following dsteingass's tutorial.
- paint armour edging dark brown - light brown then add verdigris in as realistic manner as possible
- mutated fleshy bits will be painted in the same way as the plaguebearer's flesh.
@graven: Hmm not sure I like the sounds of the blue, I know it'll work with the orange from the rust, but I'll only be using rust in small amounts and it'll probably be a deeper red (representing much older rust) and mostly applied to the light greys near joints.
The green that I'm looking at using is VGA / GC scorpion green, and its going to be quite dominant on an otherwise fairly grey scale model, with weapons, eyes and the chest symbols using it.
Also I was trying to save blue for another army which will be shades of green -> blue through turquoise.
Anyway, I've got the Overlord primed and ready to use as a template, when I get my paints through. I don't know, I'll probably change my mind.
The Breacher squad is outstanding mate, for me its not the great yellow, but the way you did the black and the shading in the metals, all very special. And the basing is top notch !
I don't think the tank is shaded too light at all, once weathered it will look awesome. I generally go a lot lighter than that and blend it back with the oils. I meant to mention that on the grey on your Inquisitor transport.
I paint my plaguebearers much the same way, I think they look great !
The bright orange is a nice contrast to the pale skin. So long as it's not uniform (as rust is rarely all one tone across a surface) it's not a problem.
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OneManNoodles wrote: I may have started building more tanks, completely by accident you understand.
I had the plans already drawn up and decided to run out a few designs on the cutter (which all it really does is score the plasticard, still, measuring and marking takes the longest time) while I was airbrushing.
Left to right: Malcador, Chimera, 2 hellhounds / devildogs.
I like how the Malcador has come together so far, the only issue I'm having is with wheels,
To anyone reading this, I'm looking for 3 baneblade hull demolisher cannons, if you have any spare and you can part with them, then I'm interested, PM me.
Plaguebearers may well be finished now. This brings the model count for the nurgle army up to 40, 12 remain. The army list is:
Spoiler:
Plaguecaster
Blightbringer
(both from the Dark Imperium box)
5 plague marines: 2 plasmaguns, plasmapistol, plague sword
5 plague marines: 2 blightlaunchers, plasmapistol, plague sword
(these both need to be finished converting from plastic HH MKIII marines)
30 poxwalkers (plaguezombies that I've shown over the years)
Nurgle herald
10 plaguebearers: plagueridden and icon
this uses up models and bits that I already have and total 41 PL
For the plaguebearers swords I tried sponging multiple shades of orange on them, but wasn't too happy with them, so covered them in MiG powders, I may have overdone it however.
Before:
After:
I can always remove some with an old dry-brush, I also went over the eyes with Tamiya clear yellow and added some to some of the open wounds.
For the deathguard marines, I'm thinking:
- black prime.
- paint the armour with rust shades,
- use chipping medium ( I would also be tempted to use crackle medium as well but I don't know what I've done with it)
- paint over that with a sort of dirty white - offwhite layering up, remove chips.
- add rusting with washes, with streaks, and building up layers over all of the armour, roughly following dsteingass's tutorial.
- paint armour edging dark brown - light brown then add verdigris in as realistic manner as possible
- mutated fleshy bits will be painted in the same way as the plaguebearer's flesh.
@graven: Hmm not sure I like the sounds of the blue, I know it'll work with the orange from the rust, but I'll only be using rust in small amounts and it'll probably be a deeper red (representing much older rust) and mostly applied to the light greys near joints.
The green that I'm looking at using is VGA / GC scorpion green, and its going to be quite dominant on an otherwise fairly grey scale model, with weapons, eyes and the chest symbols using it.
Also I was trying to save blue for another army which will be shades of green -> blue through turquoise.
Anyway, I've got the Overlord primed and ready to use as a template, when I get my paints through. I don't know, I'll probably change my mind.
Thanks Doc. Unfortunatly I might have gone a bit overboard, I just tried to rub some of it off, but I think that because I've applied it over a matt varnish the pigment particles are permanent. I'll try cleaning some off with some white spirits.
I could try mixing some oil paint with the white spirit and lightly brush it on like I do with an oil wash which will discolour the pigment at the least.
@monkeytroll: Good to see you paying me a visit after so long .
@BigH: I wondered where I'd got that Idea for the plague bearers from.
Thanks, I've taken to painting all my black like that now ... as if I wasn't a slow enough painter already!
I have noticed that since I started airbrushing my painting has got a lot lighter than it used to be. But I just thought the lightest shade on the tops of the earthshakers looked a bit blotchy, I've fixed it now and am currently putting of doing the edge highlighting and chipping, now I've got the decals on them.
They'll get a good oil wash mark my words on that.
All I've done is the chipping so far, I'm not sold on them so far. Managed to break the spiky bell off while scrubbing the paint off.
I got my Vallejo rust washes through! Quite happy with them. I tried them out on a test piece yesterday. This is the neatest side btw, rest is more rushed and generally looks bad. As I say I was learning as I go.
Maybe they'll be able to salvage the plague marines.
Whilst doing so, I some how managed to flick my brush on the gun barrel of one of the earthshaker carriages ... Only noticed earlier while I was spraying that part with gloss varnish ...
... this isn't going to be easy to fix.
But at least I can work on putting some oils on them now hopefully in time to get some matt varnish on them when the weather is a bit better. Then they will finally be done.
Working on the turrets, not sure which vehicles to give the extra gun sights to.
Also I was thinking of using this bit from the old russ turret on the hellhount types, since my original devildog had one on.
Spoiler:
If anyone is wondering what the tracks would look like:
(hellhound top; chimera bottom)
And for the malcador:
Id made the hellhound ones ages ago and they have been sat in a box waiting.
I really shouldn't have built these tanks, why do guard armies have to take up so much space damn it.
Great improvisation. Don't fret about the orange fleck, hit it up with some smoke from the lip of the barrel back. Also, yay, more nurgle! Watch out for flaking
They might be a bit bright and in need of a tone down also the colour change is too subtle. At least weathering will show on them.
I've run out of the old GW road wheels so no more tanks like that. I am working on making some using plasticard for the malcador, which is ...fun. I should have enough tracks at least.
@graven: Good idea! I'ts a better idea than what I usually do to cover up screw ups which is to patch over it as "battle damage". Somehow don't think that would quite work on the gun barrel of a long range artillery piece.
At least the necron's will show weathering if thats the way you're going, it could actually work quite well. The way I paint I always find its easier to go darker than it is to go lighter for some reason.
Shame about the tank wheels, perhaps cast up some 1/35th scale tank wheels and save yourself the plasticard nightmare of circles....
I've nearly got these finished now but I dont have any new pics yet. I had some trouble with the rust washes flowing everywhere, the only place I really pulled off the effect I wanted was the back packs, nvm. I bought some VGC verdigris but it's way too white for most of what I was looking for, so I still had to mix a wash of my own....
The Earthshakers and the tank destroyer are finished, didn't take any pictures of the destroyer, but here's the arty.
Tank wheel problem solved, only made it for one side, a few alignment issues but otherwise a solid construction. On to the sponsons next! Thanks to Big H I have some weapons to put on them.
As the arty and destroyer are finished, I thought I'd move on to some other vehicles that have been sat, base coated on a shelf for far too long.
All I've done recently is fill in the black areas and start on the metallics. I might paint the non armoured sections of the body metallic for a change, it'd be much quicker than highlighting all that black. I'm planning on painting all the weapon arms & shoulders black (so no legion specific colours) so they can be used interchangeably since all the arms are magnetised between the elbow and shoulder two two on each end can have their load outs switched between 2 multi meltas, 2 assault cannons and 2 fists.
The FW one in the middle is magnetised but will be armed with a plasma cannon & fist.
I'm looking forward to getting these painted.
A while ago Cam asked if I could post a pic of all my genswick, so here you are:
There are a few additions, and loses since I last posted the army up, I sold off the demi-company of leman russes, really I didn't need them, so I was happy to see them go.
Some of that foamed pvc landed on my desk the other day, fun stuff, I finally have something to use to base and advance with some shelved terrain projects.
'Crons ... still light grey, they have been sat for a while now whilst I try to pick a colour to go with them. Nothing if off the table atm. Purple might be interesting. Not sure how I can pull off green.
Thanks all.
@Big H: The problem is usually getting the right size, but 1:35 are good.
Death guard characters are done, I should really touch up the bases as they look boring and i'm not really happy with how they turned out but anyway, onward to the plague marines!
I'm fairly certain there is a weak point in the tabard bit on the fight side, you can see it's discoloured from me breaking and re-attaching a number of times.
Here's what my idea for the malcador sponsons looks like, and yes it does rotate, but not up and down unfortunately:
To make a defender I'm thinking of basically this but a second gun facing backwards so like the female WW1 tank types (all heavy bolters naturally), to go with the above malcador "male".
@graven: That just so happens to be one of the paints I was using.
Your plasticard fu is pretty damn awesome dude. I like you chappies, may I suggest an easy solution to the bases is grimy washing - even just paint water? Or, for a bit of extra zing, a couple of blobs of Nurgle's Rot, a couple of Typhus corrosion, and then again, liberal wash of dirty paint water that's allowed to dribble and gather and run the tech paints together.
@Graven: I usually just apply a mix of some mix of brown and grey thinned down with water and glaze medium, usually with a light drybrush of stone grey.
True it is too small, which is deliberate. It's to imitate the large interwar tanks which were generally designed to have smaller turrets, with lascannons in the turret it'd only need space for a gunner and the commander.
That and it matches to general profile of forgeworld's malcadors.
One thing that is missing is more crew hatches for escaping etc. Ah well adds to the grimdark.
I've had a go at a test for the Necron scheme on a warrior, all that's really missing is to paint the axe blade on the weapon, which might be a warm but muted brass / gold.
Fantastic looking tanks. Really nailing the look of these. I wish I could be motivated to be my own little forgeworld. Ah well, I’ll just keep coming back here and looking at how a professional does it.
Yeah, keep it a dark brass for the axe as you don't want it drawing attention away from the rest of him by being too eye-catching.
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OneManNoodles wrote: True it is too small, which is deliberate. It's to imitate the large interwar tanks which were generally designed to have smaller turrets, with lascannons in the turret it'd only need space for a gunner and the commander.
That and it matches to general profile of forgeworld's malcadors.
One thing that is missing is more crew hatches for escaping etc. Ah well adds to the grimdark.
I've had a go at a test for the Necron scheme on a warrior, all that's really missing is to paint the axe blade on the weapon, which might be a warm but muted brass / gold.
Agreed Skalk white is a pain, the trick is not to paint white
Small Terrain shaped update.
Been slowly working on a big building for a while. Drew up the floor plan and put some walls together. Naturally I would start making a ruin using the CoD kits just as they pull them from production.... Still I bought some years ago and have had them lying around since collecting dust so I thought I'd better put them to some use. Alas it's a ruin because I have no other choice with these kits.
Anyway.
Floor plan for the building
It's split into two sections for ease of building, can be put together to go on the edge of a board or split in two to full corners. I've made the corridor on the right wider since takign these images this. I have also left space for pavement around the edge of the building, which will be made to match my bases. The base is made from 3mm foamed PVC. Ridged, cuts like a dream and doesn't warp (hallelujah).
The general lack of interior walls in buildings bugs me, so lets make some:
This is made from a core of 2mm foamed PVC with two 1mm sheets laminated either side with the pattern cut in. Its almost a shame that i'll be destroying most of it.
Many moons ago I started on a tank wreck, time to do some more on that.
The sand bags are made with a mix of greenstuff and miliput, rolled into a long sausage then cut into segments before flattening and putting them into place really simple and a great way of using up old putty that is starting to go past it's best.
It's been a month now since I did anything on the tanks, so I should probably make that other side ...
The material I am using is PALight, that you recommended to me a while back, Flinty.
I "may" be cheating, I sketch everything out in CAD and while I could draw it all out and cut it myself, I'm far to lazy so I use a silhouette portrait cutter (it's the cheapest one and has a quite small cutting area which does pose a challenge at times). It doesn't cut through anything thicker than about 0.3 - 0.4mm, just plots out where I have to go along with the knife.
I only use it for more complicated pieces like all these arches.
OneManNoodles wrote: The material I am using is PALight, that you recommended to me a while back, Flinty.
I "may" be cheating, I sketch everything out in CAD and while I could draw it all out and cut it myself, I'm far to lazy so I use a silhouette portrait cutter (it's the cheapest one and has a quite small cutting area which does pose a challenge at times). It doesn't cut through anything thicker than about 0.3 - 0.4mm, just plots out where I have to go along with the knife.
I only use it for more complicated pieces like all these arches.
Wait ! What ???
What kind of electrickery is that ???
I want to move in next door to you and become BFFs
Your skills/ideas are dope and your medieval guard theme is very much inline with what I want to pull off with the army that I want to build to siege my city some day
First Death guard squad is done now, I'm not exactly sure if I'll go back and touch anything up, but I don't particularly want to do any more on them for now.
I tried to go a little easier on the corrosion on these, went a little OTT on the previous models, I blame that on them being so busy with lots of broken armour pieces, where as this method seems to be more effective on pieces that are less cluttered.
Some WIP's of the shoulder pads for the second squad, they are all in bits atm these are the only pieces I've done any conversion work on. The spikes on the previous squads armour are just made from carving some milliput & greenstuff blend rolled into long thin sausages and left to set, before cutting pices off, sharpening one end and making a hole in the armour where it'll go. then glue into position and shape some greenstuff around it to make look like it's burst through the armour.
Hilariously I actually did all this sculpting before the dark imperium box was announced ...
As we should all know by now there next round of the LoER terrain competition is now on, so I've decided to jump in, with a bunker...
Pretty simple boxy design, detailing etc to add next. It's build from 2mm (vertical sections) and 3mm (horizontal pieces) foamed PVC. If it works out I might make two more, one chaosified and another ruined, we'll see if I have enough material after I finish some other projects that I've got slated though.
@Doc: Thanks, I'm glad I had the time and inclination to actually sit down and get some paint on it.
@btoliver311: Yea that, nuts there mate. If you don't mind me saying so. Thanks for the compliment anyway.
The siegetower reminds me of some of Blanche's artworks from back in the mid 90's.
_Really_ like how the bunker is shaping up. I'm decent a cutting foam core, but I admire the guys like you that have the patience and the steady hand to get such clean cuts!
A little while a go Warlord had a 3 for 2 sale on plastic sprues + free p&p for orders over £10. So I picked up 3 sprues of winter soviet infantry (24 models) So I've been searching for some weapons and other bits to customise them. Here's what I've come up with using heads, shouder pads and weapons/ arms from anvil, plus a DKoK lasgun and a bren gun from Victoria Miniatures.
With my order from Anvil I picked up some torso's and legs for a skitarii conversion I saw a while ago, using some spare heads and arms. Really love the look of these.
Just thought these were cool little conversions that I'd like to share.
I am working on the second squad of plague bearers, honest.
Hot weather seems to be putting me off modelling, or at least painting. I'll try and paint a test scheme on one of the skitarii and troopers after.
There is only so much black you can highlight before you get fed up. The paint job is really rough in places here.
An earlier WIP is spoiler'ed below:
Spoiler:
The Warriors are finished here is my favourite
Scarabs are finished too.
I'll get a group shot of them together at some point, Just the lightning effects on the warrior's would get lost in any more zoomed out photos that I'd take.
All the glowy bits on these are painted with VGC Jade Green and VMC Off White.
The immortals are being worked on, despite starting them first I've left them until now, just need to work out how much of the black that I can highlight using an airbrush without ruining them. At the same time I'm working on the Triarch stalker, here is a little WIP of that monsterous pain in the backside:
Bits that are brown will be painted in the same badly executed warm brass seen on the other models, I'm using it to denote 'elite-ness' in the army
Plague marines are coming along as well, I've got some paint on them now but here is a WIP of some. All I've really done is carve away parts of the armour then made round censor like parts using a milliput / greenstuff mix rolled into balls and left to set, then cut in half spheres, before gluing into place and (not so) carefully drilling holes into them using a fine drill bit. Before applying some fresh greenstuff around the pieces and sculpting it to roughly look like they have forced their way out of the armour.
I have too much junk around here:
If any one has any tips on rusting up this pile of junk in the quickest, dirty-est and effective way possible i'd love to hear from you.
Hopefully this update will make up for me having gone so long without posting, I'll try and get some more regular updates up from now on.
Nice Necrons, OMN! I'm catching a 'Warhammer 40k meets Star Wars' vibe off the color scheme- very well done whites and blacks.
Not sure about 'fast' weathering/rusting- the phrase in business is 'you can have your (fill in the blank) fast, cheap and good- pick any two". Monkeytroll and Cam do excellent rust, as does Doc H and others. I tried a 'study in rust' that wasn't terribly time consuming, but there are things I'd do differently.
Essentially, I hit the whole pile of scrap with a nice, dirty brown/earthy base color, then used a heavy handed 'drybrush' of Vallejo Rust Wash and then picked out individual strategic pieces in other colors- brass, bronze, copper- things that don't oxidize the same as steel/iron. I tried to grind some chalks for contrasting color, but it didn't work so well. I like the overall piece, nice little bit of cover and a decent paint job, but you'd have to check the picks in my gallery and see if that's anything like what you're trying for.
I did this with a grey base then hit different bits with nuln oil and the Brown wash who's name I forget. Then heavy drybrush with a couple.of shades of grey and Brown before picking specific bits out in rust (vermin fur, washed with nuln oil and slightly highlighted with a bright orange) and mettalics. I think to get a good mixed up jumble 8f stuff eff3ct you need to use lots of different layers of different mucky colours. You end up with a grey/Brown, but an interesting ever changing grey Brown melange.
Too long since I did any real painting to recall any recipes to be honest.
A base of browns and blacks and maybe some dirty reds, drybrushed in metallics then sponged with oranges and light browns.
Powders would be good for this too, use your favourite method for quick metals, then play with a couple of rust powders - but only quick of you actually have powders already.......
Thanks for the tips all, I'm taking them all on board.
@Meer_Cat: Thank you, lol yea I'm starting to think that's a fundamental law.
@ Flinty: Thanks! That's cool, I really want to pinch that idea for .. whatever that is you posted (bin? bunker?).
@Johnny: Cheers mate.
@MT: No, no that useful to me. I'm hunting for new methods to try so it's all good I do have powders and yea, they are quite effective but it doesn't seem worth using them on a piece of terrain like this.
Sponge, washes, airbrush some base colours. I can see something coming together.
OFC the LoER provides a great source of inspiration in a time of need as Meade's Entry to the 3rd League terrain competition.
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If I can achieve just a fraction of that, I will be very happy.
Just started getting some colour on it the other day, a quick spray of hull red followed by "rust" over black primer.
Right, so I promised more terrain.
First up the bunker is ready to paint at long last.
GW's latest 40k terrain is very nicely designed unlike the old CoD sets which are a pain to assemble, these seem quite nice, although its going to require a lot of walls to make a building big enough to fit a staircase in... Just made the statues for now and some of the walls. I'll have to clear all the WIP things off my desk before I do some more on them however.
An update on the large-ish building that I'm working on. The Interior walls are finished, pavement and curb is done so the exterior walls are now in place.
Pavement:
At least I know how it'll be painted:
Plenty of ventilation:
I have a couple of the damaged wall sections left over that I will be breaking up to make rubble to which I will be adding sections of the 1st floor when I make the floor and interior walls for that.
It's pretty roomy inside, should allow for some interesting fights.
I feel that, as I've been called out on my rust, I should point out that I don't do "quick" methods.
But my rust is not difficult to achieve.
Rather than attempt a short version from memory here, I'll direct you to my sprue hut tutorial that has a full section on how I paint rust, complete with GW translations from my paints and variations in rust tones for different ages and variety.
Link is in my sig', it's my only full tutorial in DDakka's tutorial section, and is the only tutorial on DDakka's most exalted threads list.
Noodles, are those... rivets on the curb? That's some dedication right there. Bigger buildings are better buildings.
Yep Thank you kindly good sir.
@ Waaagh_ Baraon: Look for any ultra fine permanent pen with a nib in the region of 0.1 - 0.5mm. Staedtler make the ones that I use.
@Dr H: Thanks for reminding me of that tutorial, I forgot just how great that is, really useful!
@Big H: Cheers. Really wish I could get through the rest of the army a bit quicker though.
Some colour on the bunker, it's about half finished:
Test schemes done on the kitbash models:
These are a bit rough, I'm losing patience shading black all the time.
I had a bit of a practice at painting rust on the weapons for the Death guard.
Now this squad is finished that's the army done, I'll get an army pic up at some point.
Junk piles is painted up now. Went for the lazy option, a bit of sponge weathering and, with some thanks to DrH for inspiration, a heavy washes of Vallejo light rust with a second of regular wash in patches.
Applying the wash stained the "pink" looking "rust", that I airbrushed over the top, to look more orange / red. Also it pooled quite nicely around the rivets and recesses.
The force is quite infantry heavy and lacking flexibility but it was made using models that I already owned with only a few parts that I had to buy in.
Next up i'll be continuing to work on the Necrons, need to change the way I paint black, it's too time consuming for the results that I'm getting.
After that for 40k I have the parts to build two chaos armies and an Ad Mech one, continuing my 41PL list building.
But I'd quite like to work on some non-40k models for a while so I'll be working on some of the small random collections of models that I have around, generally clearing the WIP's off my desk and building an 800pts Bolt Action German force that I've had on sprue for too long.
I'm really really itching to make a Dwarf warband for frostgrave, a few months ago I picked up a box of oathmark dwarves as they are nice sculpts but they really lack the leather armour, the winter clothing, baggage etc that frostgrave really calls for, so I'd like to try converting them a bit, that said I might just get rid some of them (I don't need 30) and see if I can find anywhere in the EU that sells the awesome dwarves that Tre Manor sells on RedBox games. Otherwise Scibor Makes some really amazing looking dwarves.
Anyway, back to models.
The fortified tank wreak is now finished, the barrel was fun to paint, should have painted the crates before the sandbags because of overspray and the sandbags are painted the same colours as the dusty ground, but nvm.
Finally have some objective markers to show, these have been worked on since 8th edition dropped ... yet there is only 6 of the 8 the set makes... I'll get there eventually.
Turquoise rims should stand out pretty well on most TT surfaces.
The bunker is finished now as well, with a happy little plabue bearer to scale
If anyone is wondering about this new background it's the play mat from Warlord games' Terminator boxed game that I was lucky enough to pick one up in their sale for £5, it's a 30" x 22" mouse-mat so I thought I'd see how it fairs as a background, might be better than my grotty spray booth.
@Meer_Cat: Thank you, that OSL was absolutely deliberate, it's not bad overspray from someone who jammed their airbrush somewhere it didn't want to go because they were being too lazy to brush paint it, no-no.
@Cam: Thanks, means a lot. I'll try and keep posting.
So much good stuff!!! Where did you pick up the foamed PVC from and how pricey is it? I emailed a supplier asking about offcuts but they couldn’t be arsed to reply a second time.
The ruined/fortified tank is a wonderful callback and beautifully painted. Well done dude.
Foamed PVC's trade name is PAlight, there are a few model shops that sell the stuff otherwise it's used for cladding, like building cladding or architectural modelling.
The price isn't too much for a sheet of it, the real kicker is the price to have it delivered, due to the size.
or some of the places that do plastic sheet cut to size.
Few tips if you do get some:
It cuts easily, much cleaner than plasticard, but doesn't dull the blade or tear like foamboard.
1mm is quite flimsy, but great for detail pieces as it's easy to cut
2mm is good for most things
3mm is very strong
not bought anything thicker so can't comment on them but use your imagination.
It's also really, really nice to carve.
plastic glue won't work on it. So use super glue. An article I read on using PAlight recommended using a thin superglue but I've found it just makes a bloody mess, use one of the thickr types preferable that sets in a long time, the pours in the material will soak up glue and it will set near instantly in the wrong place if you are not too careful
I'm still working on the Necrons, stuck on assembling the tomb stalker and painting the Triarch Stalker, which are the last things left that i'm aiming to paint for this army for the time being.
Finally finished clipping off & cleaning all the limbs etc for the tomb stalker, but ofc this is forgeworld, so ofc every single one is bent out of shape, not looking forward to pinning it all together.
Not convinced by the reflections on the war scythes, nice to try pushing myself though. The effect was done using a series of glazes building up using lighter layers, it's very rough especially in places where I pushed myself to finish them.
Some WIP shots of the Lychguard in the spoiler. I found it easier to paint them part assembled, if it wasn't for the comparative weakness of the torso-leg joint i'd recommend doing this for all Necrons, if you are trying a more complex scheme like me. Wish I'd done the same on the immortals.
Spoiler:
So like quite a few people it seems I hopped on the Warhammer Conquest bandwagon (if only for a time) not quite sure what to do with the primaris marines just yet, some I will be painting up to increase the size of a small group of Red Hunters space marines (they are a chapter that often fights alongside members of the Inquisition acting as bodyguards and shock troops. I have 5 of these converted & painted up currently, but have an eye for adding another 8, to make a small force consisting of a captain, two lieutenants a squad of intercessors and a squad of reivers. Painted models so far:
Captain WIP:
planning on swapping out the right arm for a bolt-rifle of some type, probably the sniper one.
With the other primaris that I have I might paint them up as either Blood Ravens or Crimson Fists, both chapters I quite like.
Other stuff: Alexis Polux, I finally got to work on this guy, after having him lying around for at least a year and a half.
Still Very WIP; his eyes are wrong for a start as well as in need of a good bit of, damage, weathering and the lights on the base etc. But I'm pretty happy with how he is turning out, even though I really need to learn how to paint metallic metals.
Also finished painting some conversions using Anvil industries parts. I just quickly slapped some paint on these just so I can mentally label them as 'finished'.
Here's a squad of infantry using a mix of Anvil, Victoria Lamb and Warlord games parts, I wish Anvil would make some heads with helmets to match the ushanka gasmak heads.
And lastly a small squad of skitarii, the arms don't quite fit the torsos so if anyone is thinking of trying this, use a bit of greenstuff to fill the gap.
Can't wait to see what I post up next time... whenever that is
Assembled the legs on the Triarch stalker, still wants more work on the golden bits and the glowy parts are quite rough, think I'll work on the weapon next as I'm not looking forward to painting the pilot part.
I seem to have aquired a number of Dwarves of various origins, It's amazing just how much variety there is in size when you go looking for 28mm scale dwarf miniatures. Left to right: Red box games (US), Conqueror Models (UK), Oathmark (UK).
A short review...
Red box games:
These are really tiny, true scale and exceptionally detailed, Tre Manor is an exceptionally talented sculptor ... I only wish all the other Dwarves around and bits that I could use for converting were similarly scaled.
Conqueror Models:
I had not heard of these before not and it's no surprise since they primarily make things that I would not have gone looking for before now, such as 15-18 mm scifi, 28mm napoleonic and other, mostly metal, historical ranges. Their Dwarves are in a more Saxon 11th century style.
Oathmark:
These are heroic in scale, probably better suited to 30 - 32mm; plastic, multipart and with a good selection of options for equipment (bows, hand weapons and spears, plus shields), they clean up nicely, and are easy to assemble, but they look a bit plain and frankly boring. Still they are the best plastic dwarves without a GWS label on them.
I'm putting together a small warband, mostly for frostgrave but also for any other skirmish game I happen to pick up, I'm thinking of a band of miner / ranger /adventurers. So torches, pickaxes and plenty of travelling gear scattered around.
ATM I'm split three ways between using Scibor, Red Box Games or converting my own models, probably not RBG because of the relativity huge cost of importing the very small models from the US, wish I'd got them from the kickstarter however.
I may have accidentally contracted a slight obsession all of a sudden.
Been quietly working on these three in between working on other things. They are still very WIP just taking them slow, working on one colour at a time and seeing just how far I can push myself.
@MT: Thanks. Yea, good point about the Skitarii, guess I forgot about it.
@ Dr H: Cheers.
I had a go at painting the weapon a bit differently.
It's supposed to be like this by MajorTom11
but I don't think I really pulled it off so I've stripped it down to try again at some point.
The Tomb Stalker is currenty being painted, here it is built.
Have to find some places to pin the model to the base after.
Finally got finished building some Bolt action infantry build as well
Germans:
and Russians:
I have had a go at painting the German officer (armed with an MG34 ... might call him "Arnold"), but I'm not too happy with the field grey so I'll try again.
Having painted guard for years I figured they'd be easy enough to batch paint, getting the colours right is a bit of a pain, most of the tutorials or guides that I've seen are either too simple or seem to use different colours. Since I know sweet FA about military uniforms I have a lot to learn.
Had an Idea for some fantasy bases, thought I'd try it out.
@MT: Not heard of Eden until you asked, no, the models are from Forgeworld.
@ Shas: Thank you very much, the white is really just a pale grey the camera has done the rest making it look whiter than it actually is.
Good work. I assume you're painting the gun with washes? From the 2 photos it seems as if you're missing the greenness to the inner glow. Maybe try a white before the green to make it really stand out. and then a yellow/green to yellow to "highlight" that.
It's almost weird seeing your toaster and postbox bits after looking at them in my bits collection so long. I forgot you made them for a second.
I've tried to avoid looking around FW since I got back into modelling, except for a quick poke to grab a weapon pack. Enough temptation elsewhere without looking at their goodies - although finding they discontinued some of the stuff makes me want to peek. I'd only end up grabbing something like those Tomb Stalkers to see what else could be done with them though
It was probably the great colour scheme you used in them that made me think Eden - blues and yellows seem to be popular in some of their scavenger types.
I liked the gun, even if it is different to MT's version, would have been nice to see it in place to get a feel for how it looks with the rest of the scheme. But if you're not happy with it, then that's the main thing.....
Chunky horde of infantry there. Plenty of research material available on uniforms, perhaps too much as it can lead down many rabbit holes.
Based look good on the skaven - getting a dirty flagstone treatment I presume?
@DrH: Actually the gun was painted with many thin layers with a lot of blending. I'll be re-painting it with the same colours that I've used in the other glowy bits in the army. Cheers!
@Fifty: I painted them yellow then added to black stripes after, I usually find it easier to do that way, since any mistakes can be more easily disguised as scratches etc.
@MT: Avoiding FW is a very wise choice to avoid temptation indeed! Too many nice things, actually they seem to be removing a lot of things that I would be tempted to buy however.
You've hit the nail on the head there with the historic uniforms, there are a lot of differing opinions on uniform colours and the lack of colour standardisation in the factories that made the uniforms doesn't help. E,g. one factory's "field grey" is different to another, add to that poor colour stabilisation in the dying process, weathering and that officers had to buy their own uniforms, means you would have a number of variations on the theme of "field grey" even in a unit as small as a platoon.
As a self confessed tread-head I'm much happier with tank camo schemes.
Yes I wlll be painting them as firt flagstones of some colour I've yet to decide... I'm going with the theme of an abandoned dwarven hall for the bases and I'm making a few small bits of terrain to match the theme.
Onwards...
I've been painted the tomb stalker, just forgot to take pictures, I'll try to get some next weekend (hopefully I'll have done more of it by then). Otherwise no progress on the Necron front. This is mostly down to me having knocked a bottle of very thin superglue over and sticking my mousemat and cutting mat to my desk also damaging my current main painting brush in the process. In case anyone is wondering I use a Rosemary & Co Series 44 Size 2 for most things.
Scum are nearly finished, just the grease / rust and verdigris used on the original models (that I've been putting off as I'm not too sure how I feel about it).
WIP of some Dwarven Tombs and a statue plinth (1/6)
For a while I've fancied having ago at making some trees using wire, so I bought some wire and am having ago, they are made of a mix of 1mm Aluminium and 0.4mm soft brass. If you are reading this and want to try it don't but half-hard brass (as I accidentally its too inflexible for this, aluminium or copper are fine or use soft brass as it holds its shape well.
@Ember: Right now I'm thinking of using a bit of a mix of techniques and materials, since I'm aiming to make trees of various species no one thing will work. Though I will be using milliput to sculpt broken branches or dead / decaying wood along with healed cuts etc.Whatever I use it'll need to have a bit of flex to it in addition to some texture.
There are a lot of tutorials around for making trees in this way.
Some work done on the trees, I've started adding rocks using styrofoam and foamed PVC.
and bushes
Some Dwarf Statues for the Plinths, These were going to be aged bronze (non weathered, kept indoors), however they look more like copper atm.
Here's the re-painted necron weapon thing I havn't used OSL in any of the other units in this army so haven't done so here.
WIPs of the Tomb stalker, spotted a pile of bits that I missed painting black.
Have you considered tissue/PVA/water for the trees? Good for giving trees that random bark texture with minimal effort (rather than sculpting it all in putty). See my Princess Mononoke display base for examples.
chappies, may I suggest an easy solution to the bases is grimy washing - even just paint water? Or, for a bit of extra zing, a couple of blobs of Nurgle's Rot, a couple of Typhus corrosion, and then again, liberal wash of dirty paint water that's allowed to dribble and gather and run the tech paints together.
nuts there mate. If you don't mind me saying so. Thanks for the compliment anyway.
