as you can see in my rc-tank-thread i started with a new army, including new color scheme.
with the new valkyres released i also wanted to have those geing part of it right from the beginning.
my plan for this army was to apply the same scheme to all vehicles, no matter which type they are. with tanks it already turned out pretty well.
now here's my attempt with flyers ... - what do you think?! ... of course it is still wip, but the camo-scheme itself is almost finished.
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Hello BobPanda,

Looking great so far. Really clean mask for the grey dusting. I'd love to see the tanks or a link where I can see how they turned out.

As this is WIP still I'll throw some things out that I see, you probably already know or thinking of. First, is the pattern on the nose points to the front and the rest point back. It kinda breaks the flow of the pattern imo. Second is something you'll do while finishing the model I'm sure, but before you put the airbrush away don't forget exhaust burns (burnt oil marks) on the horizontal stabilizer and just below the lip of the deflectors. I see you did something with brown but oil will always be black at this scale.

LBursley wrote:Hello BobPanda,

Looking great so far. Really clean mask for the grey dusting. I'd love to see the tanks or a link where I can see how they turned out.

As this is WIP still I'll throw some things out that I see, you probably already know or thinking of. First, is the pattern on the nose points to the front and the rest point back. It kinda breaks the flow of the pattern imo. Second is something you'll do while finishing the model I'm sure, but before you put the airbrush away don't forget exhaust burns (burnt oil marks) on the horizontal stabilizer and just below the lip of the deflectors. I see you did something with brown but oil will always be black at this scale.

hi lbursley and thanks for all your feedback. i'll attach 2 pacs of the baneblade to this post.
regarding the pattern you are totally right, when you say that it is not fluent, because the direction changes. the reason for this is, that in the beginning i wanted to have much smaller triangles to make it more look like a kind of zickzack, if you know what i mean. than this scheme would not have had any direction at all, just some zickzacklines crossing the model. but when i started fixing the tape on the model i found it hard to realize and got some doubts if i should not better stay with bigger edges ....
hmmm --- let's see waht i can do with the 2nd and 3rd one ...
the exhaustburns are a great idea. i think i could make the brown areas a little bit brighter to apply some black within the brighter area afterwards. this should provide a good contrastline between the grey armor and the black exhaust burns. .. - i think i'll try that.
further you mentioned the "airbrush" in your comment. - to be honest, i might have to say, that up to here the complete paintjob was done using a single size 8 brush only, because i don't own a airbrush on the one hand and also have no experience how to use it. so i had to apply this scheme using a ordinary brush, only.
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No airbrush!? LOL I'm impressed. I can see the brushing on the tank now. But at first glance I was fooled!

Yeah the pattern was just a little thing I noticed that probably wouldn't bother anyone else but it was feedback

Can't wait to see all the valk's side by side.

Thanks again for sharing BobPanda, and keep the updates rolling in!

Did you put LED lights on that bane blade? or are my eyes playing tricks on me!
i can't give much better C&C then LBursley, but other than that - love it!

Looks cool man love the paint scheme.

Gutteridge wrote:Did you put LED lights on that bane blade? or are my eyes playing tricks on me!
i can't give much better C&C then LBursley, but other than that - love it!

yes i did ... here's a better pic ... :

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Excellent work there, BobPanda. I was wondering though, as I am putting my own Vendetta together I find that if everything is constructed then there is serious access limitations for paint brushes around the engine assamblies. Did you fully construct, then paint or did you stage the painting to allow access to the engines?

Flinty wrote:Excellent work there, BobPanda. I was wondering though, as I am putting my own Vendetta together I find that if everything is constructed then there is serious access limitations for paint brushes around the engine assamblies. Did you fully construct, then paint or did you stage the painting to allow access to the engines?

yes you are right.
i also foudn myself challenged by the fact that i wanted to use a relatively rough painttechnique based on hard drybrushing but still wanted to be able to reach all the details afterwards without problems. additional to that also my valkyres will be equipped with some leds.
so i did not glue the roof, the engines on top, the cockpit to the mainbody. if you'll work precisely those parts should stay in place even without glue.
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- it will get red leds in the transportsection and maybe blue ones in the cockpit. further i'll install a relatively birght one in the searchlight.

I just LOVE the RC Baneblade!! Ha HA, You're a chuffing genius!!!

how idid you do that

@BobPanda: Thanks for the tip. I'm lazy and therefore will not be painting the interior, so I've glued the main fuselage together. the engines are on there already but I haven't yet attached the tail or the central air intake (or even started constructing the cockpit )... I think I will leave them off until after painting.

Your work is most excellent.

Hollismason wrote:how idid you do that

what exactly?

If only my tanks could do that. Could just imagine it at a game. 'The hvy Bolters on your Basilisk are out of range.' (point behind other guy) 'Whats that over there?' (Drive Baneblade forward. 'I'll think you'll find I'm in range!' 'Your just bad at measuring!' LOL

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Hollismason wrote:how idid you do that

what exactly?

He means motorize the Baneblade.

Man, if you ever need inspired, go watch the first 30 mins of predator and if you tell me you dont want a whole flying squad of storm troppers, then i have failed

haha, that baneblade is awesome! spectacular paint job too.

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BobPanda wrote:

Hollismason wrote:how idid you do that

what exactly?

He means motorize the Baneblade.

would it be ok, if i'll put up a tut, when i build the other two? ...
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Your LED work is awesome. Great idea.

Absolutely awesome. Great paintjobs, super LED work, and brilliant RC job. Just have to install a funtion to move forward in 6 inch increments

I am so thankful glorious overachievers like you exist.

Life sitting here on the internet thinking about actually painting and building my own models would be so much more boring without folks like you.

Either in a seperate topic, or here later on, please post how you do the LED lights on Tanks and these Valks, and how you motorized the baneblade.

I am especially interested in the LED lights, since it looks fething awesome!

Great work, will keep an eye on you

Awesome work..simply awesome...especially the RC Baneblade!

ShadowRocket wrote:Either in a seperate topic, or here later on, please post how you do the LED lights on Tanks and these Valks, and how you motorized the baneblade.

I am especially interested in the LED lights, since it looks fething awesome!

Great work, will keep an eye on you

i'm planing to post a kind of tut, when i start to build the other two rc-superheavies. mybe next week or something ...
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today i finished my kitbashed warhound up to the state where the undercoat had to be applied. at the moment i'm still in the testphase for the colorscheme. for the first BB and the valkyre it already turned out to work pretty well. this weekend we'll see how it will look like on a titan. next i'll apply it to a small tank and some infantrymodels. if group looks good than, i'll define the colors for the details before i'll start with building and painting the rest of the army ...
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today i treid to find a scheme for the infantry paitnign soem testminis. in the end imho this oe was fitting best.:
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what do you think?.

Its so awesome!!!

That thing is beyond belief!!! Is it part Forge World or all GW plastic parts?

wow that RC baneblade is amazing!!!
but that warhound....(guys i think the emperor came back to life)

Wow mate that is amazaing work you are a true artist red led in the valkrie looks bad ass for sure

first of all: thanks for the great feedback !!!! ... ... this is exactly the kind of motivation i need when looking at those ~80 unpainted little metal men on my todo-list.

warpcrafter wrote:That thing is beyond belief!!! Is it part Forge World or all GW plastic parts?

only parts from GW. no FW. but here and there i integrated some parts which had nothing to do with 40k at all.
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today i installed 2 neodyn-magnets in the valkyre to keep the cockpit in place. because of the leds in it and the risk that i'll maybe had to exchange one of the leds one day, i didn't want to glue it. tomorrow i'll hopefully get the switches for the valkyres. than i'll be able to finish the first and if everything works fine continue with the reamining 2, soon.
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hows the army going?

wow! the titan and RC beneblade are amazingly well made. Good job!

I agree they look terrific.

Scarecr0w14 wrote:Man, if you ever need inspired, go watch the first 30 mins of predator and if you tell me you dont want a whole flying squad of storm troppers, then i have failed

Flying squad of stormtroopers? In Predator? Uhm... Ive seen the movie about 6 million times..... and unless Im missing your point, that doesnt make any bit of sence at all. Predator, Arnold Swarzen....Swazhid...... you know who Im talking about, with 6 other largely humongous dudes, killing an invisible alien hunter with a cool ass plasma gun on its shoulders.


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Thats a really sweet Baneblade, and your valks are bad ass too. Nice all around

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It looks really cool , good stuff .

Wow Great work, keep it up....

dude id love to see some kick ass infantry to go with these epic heavy's

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D00d you roxorz the hard3st!

I saw the warthog and thought 'no way'. Such a cool idea. Consider it stolen... I mean borrowed.

I really do wish the Imperial had a jeep variant or something along the lines as a modern Humvee.

Genius work on the tank and the titan and the paint job you're using may well be stolen for my Blood Axes.

The general's car is a good idea, but I do feel the actual vehicle needs more Dark/Gothic rugged look to it as atm the armour plate shell is too curved and smooth, almost like tau aesthetic, too streamlined and lacking in rivets and WW1 ruggedness.

Awesome awesome awesome

love the models as usual bob
i think you may want to drop the warthog though and grab a gauss hog instead

Until the Valk is seen flying I won't be impressed.

Only joking!!!
Awesome portfolio of work.
Can't wait to see what you manage to mechanise next!
Painting is pretty hot too.

wow!

today i started to paint the buggy ...
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My god that Titan is incredible! Love the Warthog too!

Wow....amazing stuff! I love all you LED work, you should really post a tutorial. I'm nervous about ground-lighting my chaos bikers and rhinos

You are a true master at kitbashing sir. I am awed and humbled at your artistry. Great stuff and I hunger for more!

EDIT: Wait a minute, this suspiciously looks like a necro post... I am ashamed.

Really awesome army

Dude............................................ d.............. dude!

This IS rather old...

...but it is rather awesome.

I'll allow it!

(For now!)

I was like.... holy crap does this thing ing move?! IT ING MOVES! even the storm bolter I lost my mind. awesome stuff, and I hate scratch built warhounds and I have yet to see one that doesn't look cheap and terrible to me... That is until now: it's wicked I'd love to see how you came up with it

Did it FIRE an AIR-SOFT PELLET? Thats crazy!!!!

My gods your work is imense!!!

after quite a while of inactivity, today i found some time to almost finish my reaver sized titan.
some smaller parts are still missing before i can start painting it. - i'm even thinking about adding some leds here and there ... - let's see ....
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DAYum........

This thread makes me drool.. Awesome work all over the place..

here comes the color ... :
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Nice work. The missile launcher looks a little... underpowered but otherwise everythign is awesome. Can you double up on launcher tubes?

Or put the new manticore kit on its back instead? That would give it some heft.

What is the big imperium logo on the back from?

WOW!!! your camo schemes are subtle snd sublime... and your conversions are atounding.

This is Amazing Work. I wouldn't want to see that beast in APOC game.

now with some more color ...
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this is the best 40k one off I've seen in 10 years of hobby. You sir, win the internet.

today i startede with some of the details ...
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This is some of the most amazing stuff I've ever seen.

I can't even describe how cool this is.

You sir are a master of everything that is awesome.

to quote almost everyone else in the thread:

"thats Friggin' AWSOME"

i have been inspired to make my own rc stormblade/shadowsword if you dont mind me copying you Bob. Do you in your heavenly wisdom think this tank would be ok as an organ donor:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-30-Radio-Control-RC-Heng-Long-US-M4A3-Sherman-Tank-/390167556001?pt=UK_ToysGames_RadioControlled_JN&hash=item5ad7cc6fa1


Cheers JP

"If this doesn't get me girlfriend, nothing will." LOL looks awesome! Incredibly clever use of bits

Dude, seriously...

Your work, makes everything else I've ever seen look like crap...


Honestly... An RC baneblade.... Effing... Amazing.

today i had some time and some proper ideas.
so i continued building my kotbash titan No4.
this time it will become about warlord scale.
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let#s start with the head, first.:

well i wanted to make it look not that animal like as all my other titans are but little more than the default warlord does ...
so i came up with the idea of using the droppods base unit as kind of jaws and teeth and imho it tirned out pretty well ...
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Dear lord, sir. Just looking at that gives me the assembly-heebie-jeebies...

Great to have you back though

today i also made some progress on one of my tanks.
this time i included some green in the basic color scheme.
in a row with the other vehicles of this army it still looks like one of them ... but when you look closer you'll find the new tone and i think in the end this might add some character to this tank.
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this morning i painted some IG.

This stuff is off the charts! No airbrush either, right? Absolutely beautiful job with the builds and schemes. probably the coolest IG army i have seen on here.

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This stuff is off the charts! No airbrush either, right? Absolutely beautiful job with the builds and schemes. probably the coolest IG army i have seen on here.

thanks a lot.
no. just quite a lot of ordinary brushing. espacialy for the weathering effects on the bigger tanks.

haha ... thanks to feet from the titan manufactorum i finally made some progress with the warlords legs ... :-)
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I've just looked through your thread and I must say its AMAZING!

I was just wondering what tanks you used too automate your baneblades ?

Keep it up

You know I love your work and the warlord is off to a great start but I must say it looks a little skinny around the waist at the minute. I think once the weapons are added it won't be so noticeable, now I need to get back to building my Warhound.

today i spent some time on the head, the back, its belly armor and the shoulders.
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last weekend i continued a bit with the titan.
first of all i added some details and additional stuff to the region above the head.


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and the banner. to be honest i really like it.


and again the whole current titan.

The titan is nothing short of awesome! Looking forward to seeing it completed and painted!

I'd see about getting some longer arms on there so you can put the guns out to the side a bit and bulk up the torso a little. its looking kind of emaciated for a warlord titan. Very cool build though!

NickOnwezen wrote:
I'd see about getting some longer arms on there so you can put the guns out to the side a bit and bulk up the torso a little. its looking kind of emaciated for a warlord titan. Very cool build though!

hmm. i see. the main problem when trying to achieve this will be not to bulk up the torso too much, which would make the legs look to weak, again.
before i mounted the arms in that position i tried attaching them a bit further away from the torso. But the result was that suddenly the hips started to look somehow too small.

next i'll finish the weapons. i'm planning to add some additional strutting between the torso and the shoulder, too.
maybe this will resolve the issue, too. let's see.

I made a quick sketch to give you an idea of what i mean. I think it will look pretty good if you can achieve something like this. without making the legs seem to spindly. Hope this is usefull for you!

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I made a quick sketch to give you an idea of what i mean. I think it will look pretty good if you can achieve something like this. without making the legs seem to spindly. Hope this is usefull for you!

wow. i really like it. => i'll see what i can do.i think i'll try to add the additional structure to the torso, first and then if still necessary remount the weapons, too.

This thread is just inspirational. Your use of bits is so resourceful, especially the GW terrain kits (which I think are actually some of their best work). I agree with NickOnwezen about the carrying angle of the arms and the narrow torso, and think his sketch up looks great

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Finally correctly sized bullets!! The size of an ICBM .
Really nice construction so far. Can't wait to see it painted

last night i spent some time rebuilding the ammo meachism using some building sprue windows as ammo slits.
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I really dig that extra armour you put on. glad to see you took my advice. this is shaping up to be the biggest baddest kitbash i have seen on here in a long time. kudos.

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I really dig that extra armour you put on. glad to see you took my advice. this is shaping up to be the biggest baddest kitbash i have seen on here in a long time. kudos.

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Very impressive :-)

Wow fricking awesome dude! Love the simple but effective paint job and color scheme. And the lights! Super awesome! Thats gotta be an awesome sight to behold when someone has to face that army!

last night i build a transport speeder that now can be attached to the landing pad by a hidden magnet: