Just a couple of things then

OK. where have I been ...

Working feverishly on getting back to some of the leftover projects I haven't quite and never seem to finish. Unfortunitly I move from figure to figure, unlike git whom seems to work thu ( most of the time) a peice to completion. I also am working on my new list for Adepticon.

Old stuff..
I have finished all the weathering of my Scout bikers ( I still need one more to make 5

Played my first game of second ed. and help run another. Really just going thru the exercise of learning the rules.
Got to see how fun it was that YB was running a White Scar list motivated me to finish up some Marine bikers that I have been working on for years ( seek insperation where you can)

Almost done with 4 of them and 2 Attack bikes. I went with the advice of Git, Meph and others that yellow needs to be "dirty'd up" so they look much more worn than my older stuff.

I also managed to partically complete two Rhino's/ RB's with some updates. I've finished the Las/Plas turrents on both. Magnitized the mounts ( More variations forthcoming ).
I magnitize the HKM and the SB options for both as well. Still need to do the same with searchlight options)

I have on order several Assault cannon mounts ( using the same base) that should arrive any day. I plan on getting a couple of Flamer mounts and TL LC as well to complete my full list of choices. I plan to use the original RB weapons platform in some new gun turrent terrain peices.

Last night I built 2 Dev squads ( 4 ML each) and a Baal Pred; all now waiting for Primer. ( I will only get this much done if I have a weekend and enough stuff to get a chunk done all at once. Otherwise is an hour a day; most prep for a day of painting)

Once I've gotten these complete I'll be finishing off my Assault squads w/ magnitized JP/backpacks. After that I will be determined to get more of the half finished stuff done (Contemptors and Apoth )

I will have pics as they are completly finished

SL

Good to see you back in the saddle Solar. Looking forward to the pics as you finish things up!

YAY! Getting things done is great isnt it? I cant to see the apothecary!

It's alive! The thread lives!

 IceAngel wrote:
YAY! Getting things done is great isnt it? I cant to see the apothecary!

Definitly causing me some stress... I shouldn't have started him at the sametime I did my contemptor. Everything I do makes them look like twins. I can never seem to get the checkered pattern down where I'm satisified. So I have to put him away and do a bit at a time.

Don't worry he will get done!

SL

I have been painting - a lot actually . Thou most of my stuff will never amount to more than table top ( I no longer have the hand/ eye nor eyesight to do details) I have tried to do unique themes

Here is a shot of some of the things I've been working on. Its a camera phone shot ( wife has good camera at work) I'll post some better shots when I get more fully completed ( Not much weathering is done on these figures yet!)
Overall

Baal Pred with magnitized AC.I'm starting some paint damage as well.

Some Dev's ML I'm working on.. They all have green lenses but the light just fades them out..


The bikes are just waiting for a wash along with 2 Magnitized Attack bikes. This brings my Bike total to 8 and my Scout bike to 5. More ( and hopefully better) pics to come.
I also have finished 2 Las Plas RB turrent and you can see the 2 AC turrents waiting to be washed.

I have some open time this week to get all the oil washing/weathering done!

SL

Love that Baal... Devs are looking great too! At least you'll get to use those this year!

Looking great Amigo! And I love how your "tabletop" is better than most best-ever-finished (it's always worth browsing ebay's 'pro-painted' minis for a giggle...)

Ok almost done on the bikes.. This brings my scouts to 5 ( 3 GL) and 8 bikes ( I plan to run them in a group of 5 - so I have a Melta/ plasma/ Flamer all available)

Both 5 man Dev squads ( 4 ML ) are all together now. They are waiting to be based.

All the above need weathering. Then on to other unfinished projects. I took more pic's last night ( yes from my phone ) but haven't look to see if they turned out good enough to post. More to come...


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 inmygravenimage wrote:
Looking great Amigo! And I love how your "tabletop" is better than most best-ever-finished (it's always worth browsing ebay's 'pro-painted' minis for a giggle...)

Of course.. My standard of table top. . I honestly think they are acceptable considering that the game store I go to usually is a sea of grey or at most 2 colors. I doing ok then~!

^Plus of course I'm lucky enough to have a S-L original to check that paintwork against

The New stuff is more gritty and dirty .. Everyone kept telling me to put a little ( or a lot ) of weathering. SO i've been using Meph's oil technique. The new stuff hasn't been done yet.. but there is always tonight! BUhahahahahhha

Those are stunning! I love the checks. Really very pretty, I hope one day my Lamenters could look as good as yours.

Oh, and have you tried any of the new yellow paints yet? I've heard they were quite good.

Thanks Proto - Keep paining and soon I'll be saying the same about yours...

Some of the washes mostly. Unfortunitly I have to match my other figures or they'll look "off" if I change now!

So I've. weathered the lot and will need to do a few more details and I'll be ready to take some real pictures.

Some Pics as promised. There is still some little things to do such as basing and cleaning up shoulder pads ( checks are hard to do) but at least I’m moving ahead. All just table top ready.
All are done in my attempt to “ dirty “ my yellow up base on the feedback you all have been providing.
Here is my two 5 man Dev’s all ML.

Baal Predator with AC

Same Predator with Flame cannon ( intresting that the flash turned thes bright yellow - the actual color is more like the one above)

I have pieces to swap out all my Rhino variants into RB ( all interchangeable to Predators as well ) Here is the AC version

Las/Plas version

Finished Off the last scout biker ( need to base him) I chopped up the bikes guarding to look more dirt bike'ish. Just thought is would be cool to have Scouts bouncing off terrain.

Close up

And after playing a cool game with Yellowbeard playing a bike list, I thought I get to my Bikers (Years in the making) One is out of the picture as I'm missing a base.


Close up Left..

Close up right..

Attack Bikes ( 2 ) w/ interchangeable Melta/ Hvy Bolter


Close up of one..


Next Up finish the apoth, Contemptors and a 5 man Sternguard squad with hvy Plasmas.

In general I also painted my Aegis Defence Line.. nothing fancy... just did't like being called out for fielding grey stuff..Here is the Quad gun.




SL

Lovely as always, but that Aegis has to be far and away the best I've seen. The barrels really sell it to me, as do the little flashes of red. Great job, man.

what was the AC's made from?

That stuff looks fantastic SL! You've become the Master of Yellow... (but you gotta get that one biker off his rectangular base). I agree with graven, the touches of red are just right to make the figures really jump off the screen. I also like the bits of bronzy color here and there... really adds a bit of interest, but it's subtle. Very well done my friend.

 Miss Dee wrote:
what was the AC's made from?

There all stock from the box. I didn't kitbash any of it. Actually I think I glued the gun backwards; but not changing it. It's glued good!


Thanks Graven and Gits

Yeah I need to get some more biker bases The square ones came with the old old sets I might just order some resin ones and do the whole group.

SL

Looks great Solar. I don't think your pictures truly show off how cool those guys are though. When do we get to see a whole army shot?

Still got some stuff to finish first. Left overs .. Then I'll get a shot of everything. I still have a lot of Variant stuff to complete.. Rhino/ RB/ Pred combo's.. Dreads as well.

the Ac's for the Razorback

 Miss Dee wrote:
the Ac's for the Razorback

Sorry Dee. I misunderstood! It must be a guy thing!

http://bitspudlo.com/

I kept getting fustrated with having to pay alot for the extra RB bits . So I went all this route.. Very inexpensive and quick turn around ( thou coming from Poland)

Some more WIP from this weekend

I've been putting together a 5 Man Sternguard w/ PC. I used the actual box set and had to really hack apart several guys to get the PC to even remotely fit. Right now the Power cables are GS and curing before final clean up and sanding. Some late night pics - still trying to get the feel for the new camera. Just don't have the right settings yet.
Redone photos...






Here is the start of 2 Tac Squads.. Yes I paint body then add the arms; this way I get the details behind the arms painted. They still need to have the detail done- such as some grenades and pouches. All the Figures haven't been " dirtied up " yet that will darken the recess's and define the edges a bit. I might try the yellow wash on a few to see what effect it has.


Trying my luck with the new Libby fro DV



Also just for fun some Raptors I'm helping to do the base coating on for a friend of mine. There is one Raptor in center that is complete ( test color model). These seem like they would really look good with some severe weatheing and battle damage.



Another week and I'll have the sternguard all finished and hopefully some of the Tac guys.

Sl

What's with the face plates on the sternguard? Are they supposed to be white?

I love that libby... what's DV?

dv is dark vengeance, the starter kit

Ah, thanks Calas.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
What's with the face plates on the sternguard? Are they supposed to be white?

That's what I painted them. It's a take off of the Ultramarines Sternguard; except they all had white helmets. I tried this to start with with it looked so Odd with the yellow armor. ( candy corn anyone!)

Hopefully the GS will have cured by tonight and I;ll finish painting the PC's. I'll be doing more experimenting with the new camera trying to get better shots.

The Libby is really cool.

Looking good bro, and always nice to see your take on greens.

Wow, SL...

Yours are really the best Lamenters I've seen ever...

Just felt like saying it, as it's what I always think when I have the chance to see them

Keep up posting some more !!

Thanks Ygg,

I've played with my camera and posted/ replaced some hopefully better pictures in the pervious post. Better?

Here is a pic of my hacked apart Sternguard PC's hopefully they don't look to out of place..


one of the better shot , or so I think...


All that is left is basing. I'm hoping to get all the Tac marines done this week. Then on to an apoth I been delaying!

Awesomesauce! Pic's are much better SL. Man those guys look good.

Did you see the builds for my heavies? They're up on my blog now (unfortunately as an append so it didn't bump the blog).

Nice job solar lion. My only critique would be that they are missing your awesome checkers. Other then that they look great.

 IceAngel wrote:
Nice job solar lion. My only critique would be that they are missing your awesome checkers. Other then that they look great.

The sternguard box set all has detailed shoulders. Not sure where I'd put them.

PS. Looks like an Ice Angel made the front page .. Most excellent brother!

Did you mean to only paint three backpacks with white side vent things?

Thanks for the front page comment!

I wasn't quit sure. At first I thought I would then I thought PC's are not atypical Sternguard weapons and they would be standard issue so no..

What's your opinion? Easy enough to do.

I think you should do all the vents in white... just looks good to have that contrast.

you could do checkers on the shoulder pads, so that it looks like the decorations, cruxes etc have gone on top of a regular checkered shoulder pad. would look great i reckon, if somewhat difficult to do

I agree with Calas, especially the two with the plasma cannons, and I reckon the studded pad would be pretty cool with checks.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I think you should do all the vents in white... just looks good to have that contrast.

Yeah it is a nice touch.. At least no one recomended checkering the vents! I have to go back and do some of the older figures but it would break up the yellow.

CalasTyphon216 wrote:
you could do checkers on the shoulder pads, so that it looks like the decorations, cruxes etc have gone on top of a regular checkered shoulder pad. would look great i reckon, if somewhat difficult to do

Great suggestion but are you "trying to kill me?" You might be right. I might try it on a shoulder pad from my bits box; Thou after I get my Adepticon Lists, GMS's and Display done.

Sternguard are looking top, love the pose with the book! Where does that hand come from? I had a couple in my bits box but would be good to be able to source more!

Or maybe try checkering some "original" parts of the armour, such as thighs, shins, or arms ? Even the "knuckle-guard" could look good (if hard & tiny too) !!

Love PCs on Sternguards !

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Sternguard are looking top, love the pose with the book! Where does that hand come from? I had a couple in my bits box but would be good to be able to source more!

It a regular tac marine arm severed and repositioned upside down, no wait it's MAGIC.. yeah that's it.

The Book lists the Names of 4 fellow Dakkites that are on the Lamenters Kill or capture List!

Briancj, WM, Mr. M and Yellowbeard!

Buahhhhhhhaaaa!

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Or maybe try checkering some "original" parts of the armour, such as thighs, shins, or arms ? Even the "knuckle-guard" could look good (if hard & tiny too) !!

Love PCs on Sternguards !

Thanks Ygg! Thats the problem with the Sternguard box set mini. the are detailed everywhere!

they look great man. love the book and the plasma's.

 San76 wrote:
they look great man. love the book and the plasma's.

Thanks San's.. your stuff is amazing! You really have the yellow down. Ironicly my sternguard have the same color scheme as yours. who knew!. I 'll have to tap you for suggestions!

haha anytime mate. the lamenters have always looked more like a Fists successor to me...

Some old Scouts I re-did the paint jobs on




Almost done with 5 of the 20 Tactical Marines

So... are they golden or are they yellow?? (note diff in pics)

Nice work on the scouts, did you have plans for the cloaks?

There more golden yellow. The lighting is a bit different on the POV shot. they are more like the first Pic.

The Cloaks are a bit Mottled .. The theme was urban rubble as I suspect they are always in cover . That why they are dusted and match the base, ( gun and silencer for example - like a modern sniper)

Got it... didn't get the urban rubble thing so they looked kind of unfinished. Have you considered ringing the bases in some other color (like black)? It would make them look a bit more finished.

humm .. I did make the inside brown as a mutti purpose cloak.

You should checker the cloak's. Then no one would see em. They could sneak into the Imperial Chess Tourney totally undetected and mess with people's turn clocks. MWUhahahahahahahha!!!

Actually a checkers cloak might be a cool idea thou grey and light grey.

Actually, a single line of checkers along the border lf the cloak would be awesome.

I think I'm going to steal that idea for an ork nob one day... is it possible to steal my own idea??

Some more pic from the Almost completed Tac squad. Missing the Hvy weapon ( I think I went overboard on the contrast in this shot! )







On a side note here is a picture of one of the extra's that will be on our Adepticon display
Lets call him Meril.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
You should checker the cloak's. Then no one would see em. They could sneak into the Imperial Chess Tourney totally undetected and mess with people's turn clocks. MWUhahahahahahahha!!!

Or speaking of chess boards... Traitor Alice mocks the Sister superior of the Red Queens and proceeds up the stairs to do battle with the Imperial Ordinance called the “ Jabberwocky” and suddenly three red dots appear on her breastplate.. " I thought you had 4 snipers in your list.." A slight smile appears on the sisters face..." You didn't think we'd let the mad Hatman live did you?"

Now back to our regular scheduled program...

Those look fantastic SL... very well done!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
You should checker the cloak's. Then no one would see em. They could sneak into the Imperial Chess Tourney totally undetected and mess with people's turn clocks. MWUhahahahahahahha!!!

+1 for that, and kudos for the Tac squad ! Sergeant looks inspiring !!

Thanks Guys. I'm into the next tac squad of 10. What remains is arms, backpacks and basing. Then on to find a suitable Terminator Libby and MY adeptiocon build is ready to be playtested.

Some clean up then on to a Apoth and some Raptors!

SL U seen my space sharks yet?

More progress on the tactical squads . Painted the shoulder trimand chapter badges, started the basing. Next steps .. finish the basing with tuffs and grass. go back thru the checkers and clean a bit more up.







The armless guys will be the ML's ( waiting on parts)

Also our Adepticon reserve player took the Raptors chapter. Here is some WIP shots of the 2 tac squads.

Those Lamenters are looking fine SL. Nice to see those raptors too.

Very nice, SL.

Something that just strikes me : are Lamenters supposed to be an "all - Mk.VI" chapter ??

Looking great, as usual !

AS friend of mine is doing raptors

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Something that just strikes me : are Lamenters supposed to be an "all - Mk.VI" chapter ??

Looking great, as usual !

Thanks.

"all - Mk.VI" chapter ??"

All subjective I suppose. I grew up with the " beekie" back in the RT days. thou not as odd as some of the earlier artwork from the RT era ( horns and spikes on the helmet - thou do you remember " Kill, Kill, Kill"?) My guys are a combination of multiple kits. I use a lot of the chaos breastplates cleaned up as well as the ones without the eagle. BA legs and arms for the extra heraldic details. It represents my interpretation of the pre Badab war Lamenter army; where as they are being refitted and supplied by the industrial generosity of the Astral Claws.

Mostly the “beekie” remains the helmet of 40K to this RT era guy. If I was to do a Modern Lamenter army I’d like to do one in all MK 8’s with more tailoring with the BA Kits. But as we all know we don't need another streight BA Army just in a different color. However my next Big Marine Project is to do a Truescale of my Original Chapter. Not more than 1500 or so points. Just enough to use in some games.

 Miss Dee wrote:
AS friend of mine is doing raptors

Very Cool.. these guy are just as basic as you get. No Highlighting ect. They are mass painted using as many of the Generic BR and DV guys as a cheap way to produce an army quickly. I may go back and highlight them with another lighter green with a top down spray later. Right now they are good enough to field. ( Still need to do the bases )

Nice colour on the Raptors. Love the lurid orange on your (I presume) penal legionnaire?

Yeah! Penal troops will be apart of our display for Adepticon.

Latest update.. AS promiced my current army shot.. I don't have a giant Light box so I had to take it on my work table.. .



I have been spending some time getting all the extras done for the exsisting model All the basing ect... I have all the part painted for all the different configurations for the SR and the RB's I still need to finish the normal dread and paint the remaining vents on some of the troopers..

So far My Army consist of
2 Libby's
1 Chaplain
1 Apoth
2 10 Man Tac Squads
2 6 Man Assualt Squads
2 5 Man Dev Squads
5 Man Sternguard
6 Man Scout squads
5 Scout Bikers
7 Marine bikers w 2 Attack bikes
5 Man Death company
1 DC Dread
1 Dread
1 Vindi
2 RB with multiple load outs
2 Predators with multiple load outs
1 Baal Preditor with multiple load outs
1 Drop Pod
2 StormRavens with all possible load outs

Next to finish my GMS trade with Ice, Finish my 2 other DP's, 2 contemptors and the unfinished normal dread!

Next: Ice wanted more checkers on my old Vindi so I started adding some to the DB. I will destress it and add back in the wear and tear when complete..



Termi Raptor WIP

Army looks fantastic SL! How many points is it?

Awesome stuff solar. Thanks for adding those checkers. I love the dozer blade on the vindi. I look forward to the apothecary.

That dozer blade is killer! And great to see the whole package. Not entirely sold on the raptor Libby - head looks a little off maybe?

Not a libby .. and these are all permolded DV Dark Angels marines. So nothing I can change

Yes ya can as i did a slight conversion on the Sergent

Not I .. I cleaned up the DA Icons, but changing the head position is out of my skill set

the pooch chewed up the commander ............

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Army looks fantastic SL! How many points is it?

A quick number look up put the current list about just over 3500 with wysiwyg.

 Miss Dee wrote:
the pooch chewed up the commander ............

All I managed to do was remove the feathers from the shoulder, leaving the star and skull. I grinded down the right shoulder pad to accomidate the FW raptor termi pad! scrapped off the other DA iconography except for the SB. Since I don't highlight it ; It really doesn't distract. 3 more to finish and a CML to add.

Next up for the Raptors will be a Storm Talon. For this I'll put more detail into as It'll be good practice for the Lamenters ones I'm doing. ( yess I know it violates the BA codex. but sometimes I run my Lamenters as vanilla )

 Solar_lion wrote:
Not I .. I cleaned up the DA Icons, but changing the head position is out of my skill set

With some trimming, a standard termi chest plate and head work peachy.

Your Lamenters looks amazing. They have one of my favorite color / theme schemes.

Thanks. everyone .. Welcome aboard DX3.
It's been a intresting journey from my all homebrew chapter all pristine and clean to the Warderns and roughing up look with the Lamenters.

There is still units I will need to add. Some landraiders, Landspeeders, another vindi, a few more Assault troops. Fill out my Death company. Some Honor guard and a IA character representation on My Chaptermaster.

I worked on my Apoth GMS trade last night and in between drying I worked on a Storm talon for the Raptors. Pics soon.

Still working on the Raptors while I await on other bits to arrive.

Here is a Raptor Storm Talon I did for his Adepticon army.







In between I worked on getting other old project done..such as My GMS and all the bits and peices of my vechicles.

Very nice SL... so clean and crisp. You're letting your "inner Knightley" come out!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Very nice SL... so clean and crisp. You're letting your "inner Knightley" come out!

Thanks..Such and Honor! I'm an original crisp guy, crisp has never been my issue, realism is... but I can't do sqiggles like he can!

Some updates to older models.. My pred variants..
Pred w TLLC

Added DB

Add SM on SB


Switch to AC

Add HKM

Add SB to top

Switch to Rhino with Basic doors

Rhino with Elite Doors ( yes I cleaned up the hatch side after I saw this pic! )


Only 4 more vechicles to get caught up to standard!

Beautiful work! Nice touch on the weathering... I always overdo it. I like the work on the glass too.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Still working on the Raptors while I await on other bits to arrive.

Here is a Raptor Storm Talon I did for his Adepticon army.


In between I worked on getting other old project done..such as My GMS and all the bits and peices of my vechicles.

I'm going to pick nits, I'm sorry. Are you going to paint the support beams/structure on the cockpit glass?

Briancj, aeronaut, hath spoken! I love the scheme, I've been avoiding painting mine, but I might steal your design for my mentors. Nice job chief. Also, the pred is very impressive

 Briancj wrote:
I'm going to pick nits, I'm sorry. Are you going to paint the support beams/structure on the cockpit glass?

Not sure.. I didn’t add those bits to my SR's. I like to assume that the technology exists to create canopy of re-enforced structural non- sight limiting framework in the year 40,000.. I still may do so but it wasn’t and isn’t a priority. Thou it much more obvious on the ST.

As for the realism look of the canopy is the least of this models airodynamic designs flaws. Does anyone think this could fly, much less dogfight? I did find it to be way smaller than I anticipated. I was thinking it would be inbetween the current model and the SR. Still it was easy to put together and paint.

Why do you think I completely rebuilt mine?

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Briancj, aeronaut, hath spoken! I love the scheme, I've been avoiding painting mine, but I might steal your design for my mentors. Nice job chief. Also, the pred is very impressive

Thanks sir. It is all most black underneath with only a light dusting of green grading up to then green on the top other peices were painted base alagound to get a contrast. All in all it was a fun project.

Look forward to seeing a mentor and brighter shade of green on yours.

 Briancj wrote:
Why do you think I completely rebuilt mine?

I could see alot of things one could do differently to this model. I still thought it was a good practice for when I get my 2 for my Lamenters.
Some things that might look decent is sweeping the engine wings backwards. I also don't like the size of the front guns. They are too out of proportion to the rest of the model. I like the HB/ML set up.

Very nice, SL. I love the checks on the Dozer blade.

Thats sweet I may get one for my Sharks ........... Got to start on my scouts first ....... Marine heads in Guard bodies ,,,,,,,,,,

Thanks, I thought it was a realitive easy build and paint. I couldn't be that bold and kitbash them like Briancj. I wouldn't be able to have the forsight to see what the final outcome is and it would end up as a terrain peice.

SL Can I get a under shot of the Tallon please?

 Miss Dee wrote:
SL Can I get a under shot of the Tallon please?

Certainly.. when I next get into the shop. thou not much to see since the bottom is pretty much a single piece.

Here is a shot of my 2013 Adepticon army ( the Libby and 2 red marines are Proxies - waiting on bits )
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Ok cool as im getting one for my sharks, I have a wip on a scout squad leader if you have a look see and tell me what you think please

Very cool Solar. I look forward to seeing it in action.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Thanks, I thought it was a realitive easy build and paint. I couldn't be that bold and kitbash them like Briancj. I wouldn't be able to have the forsight to see what the final outcome is and it would end up as a terrain peice.

That's okay, SL. You also have way, way more sanity left, than I do.

 Briancj wrote:

 Solar_lion wrote:
Thanks, I thought it was a realitive easy build and paint. I couldn't be that bold and kitbash them like Briancj. I wouldn't be able to have the forsight to see what the final outcome is and it would end up as a terrain peice.

That's okay, SL. You also have way, way more sanity left, than I do.

" Only a madman tries to convince you he isn't mad"

 IceAngel wrote:
Very cool Solar. I look forward to seeing it in action.

I look forward to avenging my poor game with you last time!

Underbelly shot.. Not much to see as the bottom is a solid section.


Raptors to Date..


Close up of Raptors Termies _ Bases left to finish and One get a CML when it arrives.

@ SL thanks i see no place to put any markings

You know SL... for a very quick "tabletop" job... that's a mighty fine looking army.

Damn good looking paintjobs, man. I dont know if Ive said it before in another thread, but I LOVE the checks on the shoulders. Absolutely amazing work!
And like Gits said- for a fast tabletop job, the raptors look awesome!

Ill be hanging around for sure- have a lot of reading to do now

 Miss Dee wrote:
@ SL thanks i see no place to put any markings

Not really .. it's a tiny thing. you can see it's over all size profile next to the normal guys. Maybe some of the smaller decals used for troopers.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
You know SL... for a very quick "tabletop" job... that's a mighty fine looking army.

Thanks ,.. it'll do for a Alt slot for the teams.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Damn good looking paintjobs, man. I dont know if Ive said it before in another thread, but I LOVE the checks on the shoulders. Absolutely amazing work!
And like Gits said- for a fast tabletop job, the raptors look awesome!

Ill be hanging around for sure- have a lot of reading to do now

Thanks, the checkers can drive you insane, you can spend literally hours trying to get them even. I don't have the hands or eyes anymore to do that, so tabletop is the best they are going to get.
The Raptors are for our Alt Adepticon team member, Thou technically my Army, but trying to help him out. ( new job and new baby ect..) I'll probably not do much more that what is in his list.

 Solar_lion wrote:
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Thanks, the checkers can drive you insane, you can spend literally hours trying to get them .

Aint that the truth! And I'm nowhere near your level of checks yet!

Your idea of a rush job is frankly terrifying in its level of brilliance, mate.

Thanks, Here is some better pics of the HQ Lias Issodon ( IA)

Lias withthe new CML added to one of the terminators.


Lias and the 1st company escort.


Only one thing to do and this army is ready to play!

Pretty amazing how you've whipped these out SL. You know... I don't think I've ever seen anyone do the eagles in a naturalistic form before (on the pack), they really look good that way!

Thanks.. I still need to washthe belt to break up the individual pieces and bronze on the CML.. ah.. never done

YB and I are going to 40K night tomorrow at the FLGS and see if we can get a test game in with our current lists.

That cyclone termie's come up a treat! And as the man says lovely work on the pack.

Thanks all... I'm hoping I get some time this weekend to clean some stuff up.

Here is the Lamenters Apothacary I working on for our GMS trade.

isnt lias and the raptors stealth/jungle special;sits? won't the massive wings etc get in the way?
other than that nice work

CalasTyphon216 wrote:
isnt lias and the raptors stealth/jungle special;sits? won't the massive wings etc get in the way?
other than that nice work

Thanks Calas

Yeah.. but a character should be special. Never mind how an 8 foot super human in hvy armor can do stealthy is a good question as well. In reality all real combat troops would use camo of some kind. There has been a lot of discussion on SM use of camo. GW of old used to have several Chapters clad in Camo for campaigns ( Mantis Warriors and Executioners ) FW has brought back some with the Badab books.

Won't be posting till after the Holidays. Merry Christmas to all my Dakka friends.

SL

You too Solar! May the Emperor bring you gifts of eternal joy and psychic fortitude.

Merry season of gluttony and gifts!

No Lamenters... yet.. I'm working on getting finishing touches on remaining projects and elements of the 2 displays I'm building for Adepticon.
Here is some bunkers and gun Emplacements. went with concrete and steel plating. More like the End of WW2 style.
The whole group.. Only the certer bunker is complete. The rest need washes and weathering.


The finished Bunker


Gun emplacements; The full set



LC close up

HB close up ( there are 2 of these)

Multi-laser

Couple of shots showing you a size comparison.



More to come...

Beautiful work SL. Those are going to look fantastic!

Looking good, looking forward to seeing the display board this year

Young Logan

Nice work, SL! Love the effects on the lights.

Very cool! I'm excited to see the Wardens in action again this year! The display board sounds like its going to be awesome.

Thanks.. The stuff your doing for WM is exciting.. can't wait to shoot them!

Are you capable and planning Adepticon next year 2014?

Huron will be pleased.

Those are great Solar. The anticipation is beginning to build. I can't wait to see the display this year.

 Solar_lion wrote:
Thanks.. The stuff your doing for WM is exciting.. can't wait to shoot them!

Are you capable and planning Adepticon next year 2014?

Thanks! You guys are definitely gonna need to send me a few pics after the event!

As to my participation next year... No idea! I'm not planning it (though I'd LOVE to go), but in theory could be capable (though I'm WAY under-practiced in playing 40k).
The biggest obstacle at this point is my job situation. I'm hoping to score a spot in the JET Program, where they send people to Japan for a year to teach English. If I get it, Ill be halfway across the world come Adepticon '14! Though I won't know till February if I even get an interview, and won't know if I have a job till April. All in all quite stressful waiting on it ><'

I'd love to go, but too much is in the air right now, but who knows! I guess for now Ill just paint models for the con

These are looking nails mate. I really like the sharp style contrast of the very weathered exterior and the really crisp lenswork. Cool beans!

 IceAngel wrote:
Huron will be pleased.
Those are great Solar. The anticipation is beginning to build. I can't wait to see the display this year.

Whew! What a relief.. I thought for sure the big man was going to turn me into a servitor! or worse stick me in with some lowly tyrants legion guys!

When do we get to see the our leader in Tiger claw ( I assume ) livery? Talk about anticipation!

 Ramos Asura wrote:

 Solar_lion wrote:
Thanks.. The stuff your doing for WM is exciting.. can't wait to shoot them!
Are you capable and planning Adepticon next year 2014?

Thanks! You guys are definitely gonna need to send me a few pics after the event!

As to my participation next year... No idea! I'm not planning it (though I'd LOVE to go), but in theory could be capable (though I'm WAY under-practiced in playing 40k).
The biggest obstacle at this point is my job situation. I'm hoping to score a spot in the JET Program, where they send people to Japan for a year to teach English. If I get it, Ill be halfway across the world come Adepticon '14! Though I won't know till February if I even get an interview, and won't know if I have a job till April. All in all quite stressful waiting on it ><'

I'd love to go, but too much is in the air right now, but who knows! I guess for now Ill just paint models for the con

Good luck either way.. Let us know!

 inmygravenimage wrote:
These are looking nails mate. I really like the sharp style contrast of the very weathered exterior and the really crisp lenswork. Cool beans!

Thanks.. Actually these are seconds.. thou I'm pleased for my first crack at it. I needed to cut some corners for time so I went basic. The original plans ( which I'll do over the summer ) will be stackable, Have detail interiors and bases. They will have removeable panels so I can switch out depending on which army I'm playing.. Chaos, IG or my various SM armies. Nice thing is the turrets are removeable and interchangeable.

The lenses did come out better than my others. Still I struggle doing properly even with the tutorial. My age is showing!

Wow man fantastic stuff

Thanks all,

I all Done with my Adepticon build ( for now ) and just 1 model for the Raptors. Here is the TFC. I painted it generic so I could use it with my Lamenters as well. I'm working on the Tech marine.





Techmarine WIP

I'll try to get a Army pic this week.

I really like the way you've added the bronze to that model... Looks great! Gives me some ideas for my own TFC.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I really like the way you've added the bronze to that model... Looks great! Gives me some ideas for my own TFC.

It's Tin Bitz with a Dry brushing of Dwarf Bronze with an black wash

Very nice, SL. The bronze is very nice. Great work on that Mecahnicus symbol, too.

Thanks'' still not as clean as it should be. But I will probably get a second one, so I'll be prepared!

Forward projects on the docket! Since everyone is 2013 goal setting!

Finish 2 Adepticon displays ; Bunkers and gun empacements finished. Need to do: Crane, AA turrets, 2 Chimeras, A whole mess of Penal troops, Concrete barriers and a Power generator + a lot of painting.

5 individual army trays ( chapter unique - for carrying or armies from game to game.

Techmarine for the Raptors (eventually the Lamenters)
Jumppack for Ice Apoth..
GMS for Git..
Then after April ..
Finish dread and Contemptors
Finish the 2 half done Drop Pods
2 Lamenter Storm Talons ( for when I play them as Vanilla marines)
Some other Hvy weapons ( other than ML - 10 is enough) MM and HB's

Then I like to design a board with all matching terrain ( instead of the hodgepodge stuff I currently have)
Win the lottery!

Def don't forget that last one

Yeah then .. pay for all my buds to travel once a month to game with me all expences paid!

Damn skippy

 Solar_lion wrote:
Yeah then .. pay for all my buds to travel once a month to game with me all expences paid!

HURRY. UP.

A couple of AC2013 army shots.. need to do some chapter badges, final touches on the bases, and a few cleanup spot, but essentially playable.

moved the lighting around.. not sure it helped.

That's really impressive SL. I need to work on some more assault marines, they just look really cool.

Wow that's a lot of assault marines... They look amazing!

So no flying schoolbus in the list this year?

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Wow that's a lot of assault marines... They look amazing!

So no flying schoolbus in the list this year?

Thanks,

No. Our leader is going with an mostly inf strategy. So far the pretesting games ( Wins 1 loses 4 ) has revealed some flaws but they are mostly my inexperience, rule learning’s and my continued torture by the dice gods! The first 2 I vow to correct. The last is only rectifiable by a mass sacrifice on a global scale.

Just be careful you don't make a martyr out of the dice. The rest will continue to roll ones in protest! That's the main reason I haven't sacrificed my bad dice to the hammer gods xD

The top shot in particular looks stunning. Rich, vibrant and very very fly-y!

Thanks guys, The over head floresent lighting wrecks havoc with getting the shot right. Git's booth is huge and I see why he needed it. If I go up to his place, ( for a tourney ) I'll have him shoot a few glamor shots!

Glamour shots mean something very different in the uk

They mean the same thing here graven... SL's just clueless.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
They mean the same thing here graven... SL's just clueless.

No! just not in the gutter!

Ok, back to work. I started to build the 2 displays for Adepticon and this year I decided to make Items removable so that I could use them for actual games and have them available for future displays. Last Year display is not really useable for play nor easily disassembled for re-use. Thus the bunkers in my earlier post.

Part of our displays will be elements of PDF forces and objects used by the Mechanicus. Huron be prasied!
The IG/PDF will be part of the IG army I’m really slowly building call the Reaper Guard. I’ll use this as an opportunity to build and paint some units that will make it into our displays..

Reaper Guard Chimera – All the weapons variant are removable and I still have some decals to put on. Searhlight and HKM ( not shown ) are magnitized for wysiwyg.



Some Display tank traps

Concrete Barriers ( 10 in total)

And What Tech priest would do without Power…


I have another Chimera to do and about 20 Penal trooper and 20 regulars. I have a couple of wrecked vechicles to do ( have to decide on chapter color ) with lights and smoke effects... Then I’ll be covered in modeling paste and painting.

That's all fantastic SL! Wow, have you been busy! Two armies and the display for Adepticon. And not just the terrain... all these extra bits to go along with it!

Where on earth did that power generator come from?

Nice work, SL! The Chimera looks very nice, and I love the power station.

Great looking Lamenters, so cleanly painted! I love the scheme, probably due to me playing Bad Moonz Orks It was great to look through and see your progress.

Thanks... It also gave me achance to play with the manual settings on my camera. I feel like I understand some of the settings better.

The generator ( tank traps/ barriers as well) http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=52&products_id=378

Thanks Dez.. yellow seems to be a Ork favorite! I getting faster on "MY" yellow. Still always trying new things!

Very nice job Solar. I do have a question though. Are we allowed to have models on display that aren't part of our actual game armies? I don't think I saw a single display that had "extras" on the board. Then again, there aren't really any rules for displays are there. I guess I never thought about it. How many penal legion guys are you going to make?

You should put an LED in the power generator, so the rods glow....

That would be very cool... certainly would get us some style points!

Beautiful work mate. The lights on the chimera are really elegantly finished, love the generator and all the little touches on it especially. Impressive.

 IceAngel wrote:
Very nice job Solar. I do have a question though. Are we allowed to have models on display that aren't part of our actual game armies? I don't think I saw a single display that had "extras" on the board. Then again, there aren't really any rules for displays are there. I guess I never thought about it. How many penal legion guys are you going to make?

Yeah I saw several.. A GK fighting deamons display and if you remember the DE guys with the really nice painted Lamenters ( with spears and greek helms ). We should have enough other material ( such as the book ect ) to highlight the playable armies. Also remember the winner the previous year.. the seige of terra.. I sure the nobody was playing the Emperor!

I'm havent figured out how many to do. Roughly a box of inf of each Cadians and a Inf box of Penal guys ( jungle figher figures ) They will be used in the Wardens MOAB as the IG neutral forces on Friday night ( the night Huron leads us to victory !) The gun enplacments are for that battle as well!


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 Yellowbeard wrote:
You should put an LED in the power generator, so the rods glow....

That would be cool but it's already glued together and I don't have time to re-do stuff.. maybe the next one!


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 inmygravenimage wrote:
Beautiful work mate. The lights on the chimera are really elegantly finished, love the generator and all the little touches on it especially. Impressive.

Thanks.. tried somethhing new ( at least for me )

I'm loving the power generator nice touch

Young Logan

I gotta say. That power plant is a beautiful piece.

Thanks YL and MS..

Its a nice small terrain peice that could be used for lots of scenerios. Be cool if they made a large version of one as well.

So I put together some IG for the Display last night and how relieved to know that the IG arms don't line up any better than the SM ones do! What a mess !

Pictures of the PDF arm of the Reapers Guard tomorrow!

 Solar_lion wrote:
So I put together some IG for the Display last night and how relieved to know that the IG arms don't line up any better than the SM ones do! What a mess !

Pictures of the PDF arm of the Reapers Guard tomorrow!

Okay Solar, tomorrow was yesterday and I don't see any Reaper Guard pictures. I need my fix man!

Sorry.. took the day off to dig out from Snow storm. The picture I took was so grainey that I could not post. There is a thing called over photoshoping!

The 20 Reapers Guard PDF from the moon of Aksuna is complete ( except for the bases ) and I hope to have the Penal troopers finished this weekend!

These will be the IG units used in the MOAB.

Good progress my friend, stick with it!

Ok.. some more images of the items for the display .
Pictures aren't great but you can hopefully see where I was going. They look great in person. Still need to do the bases

The Reaper PDF.. I went for a Medieval/ police feel with shiny helms and armor. Regiment from the moon of Aksuna .


As they are based on a SM chapter planet thus they are strict beyond measure. Even minor Infractions can land you in one of the many Penal companies. Need to dry brush the boots and finish the bases.



In between the figure painting I started working on some more of the extras( in additon to the other stuff on the previous page) going into the display ( mostly on the loyalist side )
Primed black

Some Items Base colors…needs weathering.

For scale…

Wow mate - so crisp! You really make the bright colours pop - what green(s) did you use? Like the horde of penals too, and the tin hats are beautifully shiny.

Excellent work SL!

Wow! You're really going all out on the project!

I love the Penal troopers. A perfect counterpoint to the clean and crisp guardsmen.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Wow mate - so crisp! You really make the bright colours pop - what green(s) did you use? Like the horde of penals too, and the tin hats are beautifully shiny.

Thanks.. I think its normal GW colors but the photoshop adjustment is set too bright. Things will smooth out once I weather them (Oil washing does wonders for this)

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Excellent work SL!

Thanks bud!

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Wow! You're really going all out on the project!
I love the Penal troopers. A perfect counterpoint to the clean and crisp guardsmen.

Go big or go home!.. Really it's not wanting to let down your teammates. So If their happy, I 'm happy!

Here is some more in progress on the display. The rubble has been particularly difficult to coat ( so the foam doesn’t dissolve in to lethal gas ) The grey is painted ( will be the base color) to identify the areas I failed to coat )

A closer view..

View of the Breach…

Looking down from the outer wall

Views from the breach


The Destroyed vehicles - these are just basic placements - Actual LR tank is facing the wrong way!-- It is also partically painted to match the IG color scheme.

The rhino ( which has light within the flames). This is currently Painted as a destroyed Lamenters Rhino ( painted after pic taken )

Love the orange jumpsuits on the penal troops, great idea!

 Brokksamson wrote:
Love the orange jumpsuits on the penal troops, great idea!

Thanks Brokk! Yeah modern... when I got them painted .. someone mentioned doing black and white stripes... If Only!!!! however too late.. moving on!

Glad to see the rhino getting a second life. Or third, I suppose, as it was terrain for a bit.

Looks fantastic, SL!

Making progress SL... looking good too!

Amazing job SL!

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Glad to see the rhino getting a second life. Or third, I suppose, as it was terrain for a bit.

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Yeah thanks for the hoard... The Rhino was nicely destroyed! Will just have to add some card stock around it so it looks blasted apart. Did you want any of the stuff back or at least the stuff I didn't use?

Really cool mate - in particular, I normally really dislike cotton wool smoke but you may just have converted me...

 Solar_lion wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Glad to see the rhino getting a second life. Or third, I suppose, as it was terrain for a bit.

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Yeah thanks for the hoard... The Rhino was nicely destroyed! Will just have to add some card stock around it so it looks blasted apart. Did you want any of the stuff back or at least the stuff I didn't use?

If it is a removable piece, I can use it on my table and would be cool to have team terrain. If it's stuck to the board, all your's. Feel free to keep a few of the pieces you paint up too (dont know how much you used), as you put the work into them.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Really cool mate - in particular, I normally really dislike cotton wool smoke but you may just have converted me...

Don't be impressed it was a quick FoW smoke I bought at AC last year. I was trying to see if it would work with the flickering light inside the tanks. When I get them finished I'll spend some time getting the right mix of colors. Still looks appropriate to do for the display.

 whalemusic360 wrote:

 Solar_lion wrote:

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Glad to see the rhino getting a second life. Or third, I suppose, as it was terrain for a bit.

.

Yeah thanks for the hoard... The Rhino was nicely destroyed! Will just have to add some card stock around it so it looks blasted apart. Did you want any of the stuff back or at least the stuff I didn't use?

If it is a removable piece, I can use it on my table and would be cool to have team terrain. If it's stuck to the board, all your's. Feel free to keep a few of the pieces you paint up too (dont know how much you used), as you put the work into them.

I quess anything is removeable, for sure I'll get back to you the things I don't use. Not sure what I'll use on the loyalist board yet.. Waiting for supplies.

As Promised…
Here is some more pics after a round of painting some details. I thought it would be fun to see my AC army on it for effect and scale. This is the secessionist side only and you can imagine as heavy of an Infantry list we all are this will really look like an invasion ( the board will fill fast!)

Overview shots…



From the other side

Looking from the breaches…




Here comes the Marines…



Blurry … sorry. Burning Lamenter Rhino (now with lights!)

Advance to the first obstacle - Thought the metal tank barriers came out nice and wethered! ( at leas they photographed well! )


Next Objective – take the bunkers!!!


Hope you have enjoyed the show!

Sill lot of painting to do. Mostly High lighting and details, talos and flora, scaffolding, armor plating of the bunker walls, finish the outer wall! there is also a lot of other items missing ... sandbags and barrels ect... My plan is to be completely done by the end of month so I can get to the Loyalist side!

As always comments/ suggestions and critique are welcome and encouraged!


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I was sitting at work and kind of feeling bad about not getting farther on the display ( with only 57 days till AC or 6 weekends; actually 5 due to the Madison tourney ) I thought what did I do for AC this year?

4 sergeants
36 Tactical Marines
4 flamers
10 ML
4 LC
5 Sternguard ( 2 PC, 1 CM, 2 CP )
1 Stormtalon
5 Terminators
1 Techmarine w/TFC
10 Assault Marines
4 Bunkers
4 gun emplacements
1 Lias Issodon
10 concrete barriers
10 tank traps
2 metal tank traps
1 Power generator
1 Chimera
4-6 misc . terrain pieces
20 Penal troops
20 Imperial Guard
1 Destroyed Rhino
1 Destroyed Leman Russ

Slacker!.. I know!

Shocking mate, you are a disgrace.
No, wait.
You're awesome.
If you don't win the display I shall enact ultra-violence on kaiju scale.

Thanks Brother...Compared to you I am a slacker!

Left to do ..

2 Displays
1 Apoth on Bike
1 Libby on bike
2 Marines on bikes w Plama talons
2 Marines with MM

No worries if I was Graven! I'd have 56 days to start new projects!

Fantastic!

Top notch there

I love seeing stuff like this, it's really great for inspiration especially when it's done so well! :-) it all looks fantastic and the colour even sets off your Lamenters beautifully! I'm looking forward to seeing the next page in your book of awesome.

Thanks for checking in. As always comments, suggestions and critque help me get better!

Still alot of work to do and lots of details to add!

What will that be you ask.. ( ok you didn't ) but I'll tell you anyway!

Plans on the outerwall having some scaffolding and Platforms for some Quad gun like AA.
The roadways between the bunkers will have the start of some road works( which eventually is an entrance to the Loyalist display board) . The sides of those entrances will be lined with plates and beams ( to hold the material from spilling into the road) .
Sandbags lining the base of the bunkers. Sandbags and crates as barriers next to the bunkers. Imperial painting on the inner and outer walls!

Then on to the Loyalist section!

I'm trying to determine if the entrances need some sort of gate or door? Thoughts?
( edited so mzny tmz do to bad spellink !!) ~sigh~

Weekend Update.

Some more work on the Secessionist side of the display.
Quad guns for main outer wall - Will clean up the barrels!


AA Wall Gun Line…

Newly Painted crater markers..

Display Extras






Overall Display progress
Added gravel – will be painted/blended to match the base color.

Added the AA platforms and finished the Outer wall

The plating to the back wall ( leads to the loyalist display ) – for some reason the plating came out much more blue than reality.

Amazing stuff SL. Love the work on the K-barriers. Where'd you get them from?

Love a good scenery blog, and this delivers.

Wow.

You have been crazy busy. Most impressive mate.

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Amazing stuff SL. Love the work on the K-barriers. Where'd you get them from?

I think I got them from the same place I got the power station at! Secret Weapon Miniatures
Thanks SB, YB and Graven.

I've taken a display break and am looking at getting the 6 new figures in my list done before jumping on to the Loyalist display!

^ Well yeah, or we might accuse of slacking

Didn't have the attention span to paint last night.. so I roughed out the Loyalist display. Will take some pic's tonight. ( after I dig out from the latest snow storm - Every 4/5 days we get a snow dump)

Thou you are only going to see styrofoam, it should give you a general idea on what I'm going for.

Rough in…


Access tunnel ( this will be facing the judges – unlike last year’s stealer hole which I’m not sure got seen)


Now with lights..



For Fun I decided to see how well the layout worked by putting some of the extras on the board.. Not sure I’ll use them all ( the walkway for instance) but you can hopefully see where I’m going with this…




Main staging platform gets some detail



Starting to connect the 2 Displays together… To the right is the Loyalist board, the left the Secessionists. The Gaps in the left wall are the openings from the secessionist board.

For scale. Looking from the back of the board towards the front.

The joining test… Lot still need to be glued down. Stuff that will need to be further painted ect.



Combined display shots…


The back platform is for the Ord. ( which will sit an additonal 18 in. in height) the walled section to the left is for the FoR ( which will sit an additional 14 IN. in height. ( again not all the floors have been glued down - Many need work and a lot of washing/ weathering to do )

The second to the last arch At the back ) is reduced in height and will have a walkway ( spotter? sniper? )

DA tower.. very rough at this stage…

Side look w/tunnel

Overall look

“ That is the dirtiest bathroom ever, Hey where is the bus?”



As always comments welcome.

That looks awesome! I can't wait to see more.

Dont ferget vents to remove the fumes?

Thank Ice..

MD Fumes.. in my workshop or on the display?

The latter on the Display

Wow! This is... just... Wow!

It looks fantastic, SL. I like the addition of the lights in the tunnel, but the two boards together are going to look phenomenal.

Thanks YB…and thanks for posting more than " Good job" some actual feedback is appreciated. IT helps me to fix the flow / paint/ or design of this and future projects!

Landing pad as well ? and defense turrets??


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Not forgetting control tower, and Serviters

AA taken care of.


Landing pad? Might use that open section for that! Have to remember that there need to be space for the 4 armies worth of figures ( per side - we have close to 180 on the secessionist board alone) and the loyalist have all those extra's I've been painting .

The Secessionist board has all sorts of obstacles , tank traps, PDF finest and those turret's bunkers.

I need to see about my old Servitors!

Whats the plan for that tower? Are you going to have room for people on top? You said DA tower, is it going to be like the fortress of redemption?

Finally got to my home computer so that I can take a good look at it (my phone doesn't do it justice). That's an amazing piece of work SL. The fact that you're putting together the displays for BOTH teams and doing it with such flair is really impressive.

I love the way the tunnel looks. Lit or not... it looks terrific both ways. It's awfully dark in there though. I wonder if you couldn't put something like drainage grates along the edges on top that would act as skylights to brighten it up a bit. Either that or you'll have to choose what goes in it carefully so it's as visible as possible.

The painting on the concrete surfaces is fantastic! Did you make your own stencils??

Our armies are going to look SO GOOD on that... thanks for all your work SL. Wow.

P.S. That whole thing looks big enough to play a game on...

Certainly looks excellent indeed Can I make a suggestion? Add some brass rods of various thickness protruding from the vertical edges that don't quite line up, rather than, say smoothing them off; will give the impression of supports and shoring. Does that make sense? I'm thinking particularly of the gap to the left of the tunnel. Another idea might be a large bore plastruct tube with lots of small gauge tubing and wiring emerging, like a info/energy conduit.

Of course you could actually take a bunch of optical fibres and do that too

Me? Planting seeds in your brain? Never...

Thanks Brothers!

I couldn't find and grate material I liked. Initally that was the plan. I'll see wha tI can do. Good suggestions about usong that for some Penal troops thou.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Certainly looks excellent indeed Can I make a suggestion? Add some brass rods of various thickness protruding from the vertical edges that don't quite line up, rather than, say smoothing them off; will give the impression of supports and shoring. Does that make sense? I'm thinking particularly of the gap to the left of the tunnel

I havent finished any of the side edges. They will be smoothed out. the gaps are part of the construction to...
A. use less material ( creating a framework rather than a solid mass of foam).
B. Add less weight as possible
C. The Gaps build in some flexability to the structure ( nothing ruins your day than a cracked display during transport)

 inmygravenimage wrote:
Another idea might be a large bore plastruct tube with lots of small gauge tubing and wiring emerging, like a info/energy conduit.

That actually is a good idea as it is the side we will be presenting to the judges, Add some additional little details. Maybe bore out that section and pipe it and add my trademark genestealer.. Hummm

 IceAngel wrote:
Whats the plan for that tower? Are you going to have room for people on top? You said DA tower, is it going to be like the fortress of redemption?

No that was Ork speak Da ( the ). Originally I planned to do a crane, but building one now seems out of scope due to time. Most likely I'll do an Observation tower. It should be at minimum the size of the bunkers on the secessionist board. Might be a good spot for a sniper? It will be plated to blend in with the rest of the aesthetic design elements ( functional but somewhat crude - think bunkers)

Man... I've cut a lot of rivits for this display!

SL, I've got an idea for mass-producing rivets... especially for something as large as the display. Give me a call on my cell if you want to talk.

 Solar_lion wrote:
I couldn't find and grate material I liked. Initally that was the plan. I'll see wha tI can do.

How about the stuff Gitsplitta used on the tread plates for his rhino:



Here's Gitsplitta's Tread Plate Mini-Tutorial

Hardware cloth is (I think), a fine wire mesh and would be a good stand-alone grating material. The stuff I found was actually a kind of soft plastic mesh and would need to be backed by something else (in this case, thin, clear plastic sheet).

I was thinking more metal grate . Heavy duty. I think that the would be better for say fencing.

I might be able to do something with plastic rods. Still hav many other maor things to do prior.

I must be delusional... I thought I gave you extensive feedback. Where'd it go?? I know I wrote it.

*sigh*

Git rule~ don't see it .. didn't happen.

This is wrong tool....

Here is a look at my current list.. The bikes are proxies ( WIP ) and the Tactical squad MM are only half done, Otherwise very close!

Here is the start of the Libby On a bike.

I feel like he's going to stab me in the eye... in a good way.

 inmygravenimage wrote:
I feel like he's going to stab me in the eye... in a good way.

Thanks dude, I was going for the lance look . GW melee weapons are so out of proportion anyway and didn't want to make another raised weapon figure pose.

I'm still trying to figure out what to add for the PSYhood,

Da termie shields, the shoulder ones, make good hoods.

Nice work on that Librarian, SL. I like the choice of breast plate and the position of the sword.

Worked on getting the command squad built. The Bikers are not attached which will allow me to paint the hard to reach areas on the bike itself.
I used the normal Marine bikes for the 2 normal guys and bits and peices from the ravenwing box set. I initially wanted to not use the wing coweling but it became to time consuming to modify for the Plasm talons.

I also cut the banner bearer arm from the banner and used it for one of the corvus hammer guys. It's a nice bionic arm and needed to be used. I'll never use the banner unless I but it on a chao's or ork display. Hopefully you can see it on the far right biker.

Camera phone shot with limited light...

Those are looking mighty fine SL, keep up the good work!

Nice work, SL. I like that you reversed the hammer on the one guy. That's a nice touch.

both ends are dangerous.. as a real WH would be. this one is just powered (+1 S is powered?) oh well.

Priming and base color tonight.

Weekend - Display!

New Bikers WIP



Secessionist display done ( ok still waiting on the new Barricades )


From the Loyalist side

From the Rebel side

The blue on those bikers really jumps out at you. Very striking.

You've done a phenominal job on the display board Pat. Simply amazing!

Sheesh, and here I thought I got some work done this weekend! You must not sleep.

It's all looking fantastic, SL. The board is amazing. I really like the color of the ground and the rubble. The inclusion of bunkers and gun emplaces really brings it to life. I can't wait to see it with figures on it. Speaking of... you should take a picture with some Lamenters on it.

The bikers are looking good. Nice job on the hammers in particular. I like the lightning effect. I also really like the black and white feathers on the Librarian. That's a really nice touch, to match the feathers with the check pattern. I'm not sure about the red and white on the Apoth, though. I get what you're going for, but it seems a little to stark next to the yellow. Maybe if you tone it down a little, make it more bone and blood? I'm not sure. The rest of the paint job is looking nice, though.

That display board is something else, well done.

The display boards look great next to each other and make sense now! Well done looking forward to seeing the copleted thing

Young Logan

Wow its looking amazing! Cant wait to see this thing in person!!!

I really like the blue robe on that one biker. Really stands out wonderfully.

 Yellowbeard wrote:
Sheesh, and here I thought I got some work done this weekend! You must not sleep.

It's all looking fantastic, SL. The board is amazing. I really like the color of the ground and the rubble. The inclusion of bunkers and gun emplaces really brings it to life. I can't wait to see it with figures on it. Speaking of... you should take a picture with some Lamenters on it.

The bikers are looking good. Nice job on the hammers in particular. I like the lightning effect. I also really like the black and white feathers on the Librarian. That's a really nice touch, to match the feathers with the check pattern. I'm not sure about the red and white on the Apoth, though. I get what you're going for, but it seems a little to stark next to the yellow. Maybe if you tone it down a little, make it more bone and blood? I'm not sure. The rest of the paint job is looking nice, though.

Thanks, I spend a lot of time this time of year on Adepticon. so as I have things built it should get easier as I have more units to select from.

I'm assuming the feather on the back as a easy to recogognize form .. Red and white + apoth


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 Solar_lion wrote:

 Yellowbeard wrote:
Sheesh, and here I thought I got some work done this weekend! You must not sleep.

It's all looking fantastic, SL. The board is amazing. I really like the color of the ground and the rubble. The inclusion of bunkers and gun emplaces really brings it to life. I can't wait to see it with figures on it. Speaking of... you should take a picture with some Lamenters on it.

The bikers are looking good. Nice job on the hammers in particular. I like the lightning effect. I also really like the black and white feathers on the Librarian. That's a really nice touch, to match the feathers with the check pattern. I'm not sure about the red and white on the Apoth, though. I get what you're going for, but it seems a little to stark next to the yellow. Maybe if you tone it down a little, make it more bone and blood? I'm not sure. The rest of the paint job is looking nice, though.

Thanks, I spend a lot of time this time of year on Adepticon. so as I have things built it should get easier as I have more units to select from.

I'm assuming the feather on the back as a easy to recogognize form .. Red and white = apoth

That blue is so very wow. And now I can't wait to see the board with everything on it! So terribly, terribly jealous that I live on the other side of the "pond".

If your ever inclinded to attend we'll take Ya!

Thanks for the comments.. Feed back is appriciated and more is required!

Hey ALL you brits.. other than GD events is there any independent tourneys like Adepticon? Not talking about local stuff, but convention sized events!

Final shots of the AC 2013 army.



Into the breach..

Beautiful work SL. Fantastic!

Good work, especially the checked shoulderpads.

Super cool, SL.... Really awesome work!

Thanks Git, always good to have the praise of a painting tounament winner!

grrrfranky. Thanks.. I still dread the shoulder pad portion of my painting

Ramos.., Thanks brother... I'm no Ramos for sure, but they'll do for an old guy!

They look fantastic SL, I would love to play against them.

Fantabulosa. In all that, probably my favourite is the scouts. So hard to do well. Lovely retro metals, too.

Very nice work, SL. The bikes make a great centerpiece. Love that last photo, too.

GiraffeX ... next time I come to the island You and Graven are on the list!

YB thanks..Ice for the last couple of years took really good perspective shots... I think they tell a cool story and if Ice does it I wanna do it just to hang with the popular kids!

^ I am honoured *bows*

 inmygravenimage wrote:
^ I am honoured *bows*

My pleasure.. but what you really need to say is " I accept" then throw down the gauntlet and muster your courage!

"Once more into the breach my friends"

Wow that looks incredible. love your army shots

Thanks Styro... and Praise Huron !

Really really awesome - the army and the board.

Thanks Fifty!.. After adepticon check out our anual Adepticon blog.

I'll probably get a full army shot in as well.

Finally got around to painting my tape Measure. I did this to make mine unique so it doesn’t get confused with all the others at Adepticon. Nothing fancy but should be distinguishable.



While I had time on my hands ( display done , Army done ect ) I bought a used Storm Talon and since I have several already ( this one was painted poorly and glue together even worse ) So I decided to make a Terrain piece out of it.
Downed Lamenter Storm talon ( will go on the Loyalist display) The interior is lit so it flickers.




As soon as the oil weathering dries I'll paint the bleeding heart on the tail.

Really like that SL, excellent work!

You know, I just tore apart two kinda screwed up Mk-1 Predators for parts (I'm going to build a fresh hull and magnetize the whole thing). That leaves me with two chewed on rhino chassis. Be fun to do something like this with them, though to be honest I don't see where I'll have the time. Maybe I can find someone else who wants them.

Amazing SL....love the action shot through the breach. The tape measure looks great too.

The Storm Talon looks great, I really like how its lit up.

Very Impressive

Edit: had the wrong Storm bird type

"Brace for impact!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Thanks San76 and graffex.. I appreciate the support.

 Miss Dee wrote:
"Brace for impact!!!!!!!!!!!!"

yeah.. thou not sure who he'd be telling that too. being a single person craft.. Maybe the Machine spirt?

More like " sh*tttttttttttttttttt"! or " you actually rolled a 6 with Snapfire? "

Time on your hands... Bloody show off! great job mate.

a wee bit.. nice to finish on time.. All ready for the pre Adepticon tourney up in Madison with Git.

We're expecting to get Helldraked or Necron air forced to death , but we'll make a good fight out of it.

Nice terrain piece! The smoke billowing out of it really adds some realism to it.

Wow! Very nice, SL. The Storm Talon is even better than you described. Love the addition of the flickering light in the cockpit. Very nice touch.

Thanks CC and YB.

I'm guessing this Geneseed is toast!
Counts as wrecked. I have a blast maker for destroyed!

As for the smoke. I'm never sure on what amount is good. Too much and it overwelms, too little and it looks like it shouldn't be there. Also I could have used a whiter and red mix. Might look more on fire rather than a Internal fire in the cockpit. I wanted it to look like it just fell and impacted rather than caught fire and was a blaze! Thoughts?

That looks awesome!! I love it.

Needs more battle damage. How did it crash? Engine blow out. Friendly fire...possibly a chapter that flopped sides again.. LOL

or maybe just pilot error

Machine Sprit had a Virus

Thanks Styro..

it was hit by 2 S8 Canadian geese but didn't pen, Lost both Hull points to glances. Pilot unable to resume control because he was busy responding to the text message " What's up" when the suicide avian’s attack occurred.

Kamikaze Canadian Geese!!!
Imperial Guard's newest weapon

I love the army, the photos of them on the display board is awesome too.

What kind of list are you running them as? I assume Dark Angels? (Sorry if you posted this already and I missed it.)

Thanks Dinamath.. It's part of a greater Badab group theme.

Yeah.. DA.. It about the only 6th edition Codex out there for loyal Marines.

Thou the list isn't exactly designed to be uber competitve.it will be fun to play And a long as we kck the butts of our sister team in the Friday night Warders battle I'll consider it a sucess!

Good luck!

Thanks Dinamarth, are you attending Adepticon. IF so stop by the Wardens against Wardens battle Friday night!

Huron has said that as long as the overall command lies with the Tiger claws commander and not the Mantis warriors the battle is all but decided!

I'll be posting all the Adepticon pics and comments as soon as I get back. Expect the Friday Wardens battle report to be first up!

Our Wardens Adepticon Blog..

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/522562.page

Ok .. yes its been a while.. but things are progressing along but in a totally different direction. I'm still working on my Lamenters but only to the point of finishing up on all the incomplete projects. Several Drop Pods, Dreads and all the pieces to make multiple vehicle out of the exsisting ones.

Though that being said, my teammates have decided on going Xenos for Adepticon and we are slowly working on what theme and Armies we wanted to field next Year. I have several Armies at my disposal; Necrons, Orks, some tau, IG and Chaos.

I decided to go Necrons as I had most of all the models and more that I need. They represented a easier challenge (so I thought) to the speed of which I could paint them. Getting a cool looking theme was going to be the hardest part. So many cool designs already.

On a side note I have a little more free time in the evenings for about a month so I was hoping to get the bulk of this finished sooner than later.

What I have.

4 Necron Lords ( 3 come from the barge box set )
24 Warriors
3 Wraiths
5 Deathmarks
5 Immortals
1 Stalker
3 Night scythes/Doom scythes
2 Spyders
10 bases of Scarabs
10Prateorians ( 5 will be each loadout )
3 Barges
3 Destroyers
1 cryptek
My plan is to do all the priming and basecoating at the same time. Develop my overall them on one of the scythes ( their large surface will serve as a good pallet to try things on) and translate into the other models ( Adepticon list being the priority )

Start assembling, priming and basecoating. Took me a week. Luckly I have a decent size shop and can (and do ) spread out on the work table. All these shots were from my phone so they are not as sharp as in real life . I'll use the good camera for final shots.



My overall base theme

lot of painting prior to assembly.

Some details added


Not on my list but I love this model!


As always your comments / suggestions and critique is encouraged and appreciated!

Everyone needs a side-track Looks great, really like the scheme. Zebracrons!

Nice scheme. Are you going to go with a clean, battle scarred or an ancient look to the final models?

Skullcrons would be better.

Clean for now! weathering would be nice but would take additional time I may not have in the near future.

So question.. do you think there needs to be some color ( on the NS) inbetween the wing panels or would that make it too busy?

Don't think needed. And I like factory fresh necrons, myself.

Ahh, that "time" issue. Fair enough, nothing wrong with clean. Look forward to seeing more.

I'm glad you bumped this blog. I read through it all a while back and absolutely loved it, Really awesome stuff all the way through. The crons are looking beautiful too, keep up the solid work!

Finished up the First NS.. 2 More to go . Luckly the theme is now set and I am almost 1/2 way thru the other 2.
Top

Front

Side


Now to translate this theme to the inf. Figures and the 3 barges.

Looking good Solar. The blend on the orange control....thing... Looks awesome and serves as a real nice focal point. Think you made good call on the spaces between the wing panels. Are you going for any highlights?

Thanks Graven, DrH, CL and San. Thanks for the comments!

No.. it's done at a decent table top quality. I don't want to do more highlighting or outlining for fear of making it look to busy. I don't have the hand control to do it well without risking making it worse.

There is a different color coming of the wing, out of the main fusulage. The wing goes from black to dk. grey; that is not translating well in the photo. I now believe when it come to thansition blending on vechicles you have to go further in color than you think to get the effect to look right.

Besides I have only 36 more days to finish! So moving on to the other 2.

Yeah, I found while practising the transition for my WS, that for a large area the extremes of the transition need to be really different to show up. Otherwise the effect is too subtle, especially for photos. It's not as much of a problem on smaller models because the gradient of the transition is larger over a short distance.

But it looks good.
and 36 days! Good luck, keep at it.

Hey Solar, nice to see you back !!

I like your new Necrons scheme, but for one thing : the golden circles just don't add up, to me... I think it would look better off it they were just black, like the rest....

Apart from that, good luck on the others !!

 Yggdrasil wrote:
Hey Solar, nice to see you back !!

I like your new Necrons scheme, but for one thing : the golden circles just don't add up, to me... I think it would look better off it they were just black, like the rest....

Thanks for the feed back. One of the hardest things for me is theme. I'm usually a go at it rather than Painting plan kinda guy. So much easier to paint Marines since most of the themes are already set, I cringe when I think about doing my Nid army...

I quite like it. Its simple, but very effective.
II like how you tied the gold circles on top to the weapons and metal details, and it does help to break up the flat surfaces of black.

Excellent job on the recessed green panel lines, too. They look really sharp!

Thanks brother...Actually it Val. bronze. I didn't expect it to come out so gold , but it does give it a more " royal" look.

I'm liking the balance. Originally all the white area were to be the bronze/gold. But after priming white it's look grew on me. I'm glad I didn't as it would look too metalic then.

The recesses were the easiest part, thou the most time consuming. I watered down the Scorpion green and let the paint flow into the cracks.; then wipe off the overflow. Since it was mostly water it barely left a mark on the upper surface.

I had to do this 5-6 times to get the color saturation I wanted to, but I just moved to the other planes while drying. Even when applying in the middle gravity pulled it into the recess.

Very cool nice fabby xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 Miss Dee wrote:
Very cool nice fabby xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks Darlin

From above they look fantastic the flyers

I think they're coming along very nicely SL. Interesting treatment and non-standard too. Looking forward to seeing more!

Thanks. Welcome back Gits.

Though I feel the design is good I didn't push it very far. Based on some comments I'm now considering re-painting.
Thinking going from a black wing tip fading to the white fuslage.
hummm.

Kinda held off making any progress this weekend in order to finish Briancj's terrain comp. Check out his blog to take a look at my entry. ( won't re-post here. Go and give your opinions on all the great entries)

More updates this week on the 2 remaining flyers.