A-Bomb is painted. Of course, it looks (from images on Google) that he should have black claws too. Anyway, he's done except black claws apparently. I'll follow up with an edit to this post including all three models together. Because...yeah. "Team Smash" represent!
... 3rd gen, 2nd gen, 1st gen and his dog (woof), went to mow a meadow.
Rather like the big gribbly but I am entirely sick of trying to carve mold lines out of all the crevices so the remaining plague might get a bit rough and ready.
Lookin good! The various phases are distinct and it fits each of them fairly well. This shot makes me realize those dogs may be a bit bigger than I had thought.
My sorak is cooling down before I can mat seal and base him, maybe later tonight... I did finish my first batch of sedition wars minis so you can peruse them if you want to know how I plan to paint my plague and enforcers from this point forward:
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Works for these guys, should work on enforcers, the black flexible armor will be replaced by the lower off-color enforcer plates, yellow may or may not change.
I think this will work for the plague as well. Anything that's mutated bone is going to be the dark grey/black that you can see on the quasimodo and stalker in the back, should do interesting things to the 1st and 2nd gens... but I think I'm ok with that.
Icky. I've yet to decide what I'm going to do with my strain (beyond berating myself for buying yet more minis just because they were cheap and look cool).
The awesome part is, aside from just a little edge highlighting and the blood for the blood god, everything is just a basecoat into dip. I love dipping!
GrimDork wrote: The awesome part is, aside from just a little edge highlighting and the blood for the blood god, everything is just a basecoat into dip. I love dipping!
What color dip do you use? I have a can of Army Painter dark tone, and while it works well on most things, it looks weird over grey.
I need to hot water bend the next batch into new poses for sure. These paint up so fast that I'm thinking of doing plague first so I can get my done pile filled up quicker
This weekend I finally got around to painting my first Deadzone things. Usually I try to paint the least spectacular models first so I can reward myself with the centrepieces, but this time the S1 was irresistible. Really my favourite model in the entire game (in a "We REALLY like those Locust Berserkers, don't you too?" way).
(note: varnish hasn't dried completely yet)
As for the rest of the Plague. I was somewhat unhappy with the S3's. I thought - "Well, it's Mantic - grotesquely malformed humanoids should be their bread and butter!" but really, those elongated torsos and the faces didn't do much for me. So I picked up my trusty saw and got rid of 2-3 mms of upper body. For the heads I used WHF Ghouls. Scale fits pretty well, and they give off a vibe somewhat like those vampires in 'Blade II' or 'I Am Legend'.
I'll probably be using the bluish-purple hands and feet as a connective element on all Plague models. With the smaller ones (and the dogs) it's supposed to look like frostbite (or rather plaguebite) - We'll see how that works out... hope I'll be able to finish 5 of those and the dogs over the weekend.
General impressions: Restic is far from my favourite hobby materials, but at least it takes the paint pretty well and doesn't cost much. Getting rid of flash is pretty much of a chore (especially compared to 'normal' resin or hard plastic - in both of those cases my trusty GW flash scraper works fine). I found drilling and pinning to be trickier, too. The integrated bases are a really, really questionable design decision, but, quite frankly, I don't think many of the humanoid-sized DZ models are playing pieces, rather than 'display quality' anyway. So - most of those will get some filler/sand/plastic bits treatment.
That is a really nice and inventive paint scheme, Bomster. Interested to see how the gen 2's will turn out with that scheme on as they have a lot less inherent detail on the armour plates.
How do you find the plague dog sculpts? I thought they were the weakest in the range (but at least quick to do if you're a lazy painter like I am and you clearly are not).
@larva_uk: weeell, the dogs are not really spectacular, but on the other hand it's nice to get to paint some regular animals for a change. The facial detail is a bit shallow - I fear I'll have to actually paint in some details (on my models there's practically no distinction between snout and teeth) ...
As for the S2 - i'm a bit annoyed that the design across the various stages is a bit inconsistent: the bone plates on their lower arms and legs don't seem to grow organically out of their limbs like they do on the S1; so I'm considering carving off the lower edges for a smoother transition from their hands and feet. But before that I'll focus on the S3's...
Tuesday I hope to finish at least half of my S3s. All 6 of my S2s are finished, as are my 2 S1s. Maybe do Dr. Simmonds with a Red Shulkie paint scheme (Betty Ross was a doctor, got hulkified...it works). My Recon is going to have purple and magenta armor/clothing and his gun is being replaced with a bow. Guess who HIS inspiration is. Hopefully by Tuesday evening I'll have a decent Iron Man vs. Hulk setup done.
timetowaste85 wrote: My Recon is going to have purple and magenta armor/clothing and his gun is being replaced with a bow. Guess who HIS inspiration is.
And there I was thinking that Recon N32-19 was impossible to make cooler. Oh, how wrong I was... Can't wait to see this (and may have to try something similar myself at some point.)
I'm not going to GS a mask (thought about it), but I only want them influenced by certain heroes. I want the models to stay as they are. The bow is an exception due to Rule of FETHING HAWKEYE!!
timetowaste85 wrote: Tuesday I hope to finish at least half of my S3s. All 6 of my S2s are finished, as are my 2 S1s. Maybe do Dr. Simmonds with a Red Shulkie paint scheme (Betty Ross was a doctor, got hulkified...it works). My Recon is going to have purple and magenta armor/clothing and his gun is being replaced with a bow. Guess who HIS inspiration is. Hopefully by Tuesday evening I'll have a decent Iron Man vs. Hulk setup done.
That sounds....AWESOME!!! I like the idea of more bows in sci-fi settings cant wait to see the model
I think one of the special characters in mars attacks has a bow of some kind. Not the kid with the sporting goods store crossbow, one of the special/secret agents they did towards the end. Kind of a weird looking thing.
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Not sure if that's exactly a bow or not, it's kind of scifi tech bow...ish?
Click it and zoom in, if you like, they look a little better for me if I do. Could just be my downgraded smaller monitor.
Finally got the phone to take something barely on the better side of hideous. Gotta get a better camera, and some lights :p
The Stormrage Vets are too dark. They're supposed to be dark and smudgy and almost orange yellow.. but too dark. Need to reevaluate the process.
The enforcer is very temporary, I should have 4 defenders or better from my order, so I just did this quickly to have one. Also let me come up with a different (I think better) scheme. Thoughts? Yindij you've seen, sorak is still a touch glossy, but proves the point for me to convert my rebs scheme into something dip friendly.
Recon/Hawkeye is turning out well so far, and the conversion was excessively easy, with one small detail. The arm holding the dagger is now holding the arrow. I wanted it to appear as if it was being drawn from the quiver, but the only way to do that would require extensive shoulder surgery since he has plating on his shoulder. So he's instead leaping as if he's gonna drive an arrow into a guy's chest. Seen him do it before, so it works, it's just not quite as iconic an image. Pics will be up in a couple hrs.
Here's my Hawkeye styled Recon mercenary. I'm mostly pleased with how he came out, but there were a couple minor things that bugged me. Red She Hulk was also the idea for Dr. Simmons, as Betty Ross was a scientist hit by a gamma bomb as well, so the similarities were good enough to make the paint scheme. Unfortunately, a glossy black to be shiny leather doesn't show up well on camera, so she doesn't look as good on here.
Here's my Hawkeye styled Recon mercenary. I'm mostly pleased with how he came out, but there were a couple minor things that bugged me. Red She Hulk was also the idea for Dr. Simmons, as Betty Ross was a scientist hit by a gamma bomb as well, so the similarities were good enough to make the paint scheme. Unfortunately, a glossy black to be shiny leather doesn't show up well on camera, so she doesn't look as good on here.
thanks TTW, its taken me forever to get him finished, not happy with a few things but on the whole I think he turned out quite well. I like the Hawkeye conversion, I would personally add a bit of string between the ends of the bow for a little extra detail, what are you unhappy with?
I like the she hulk idea too, as an actual plague colour scheme it looks pretty aggressive and straight from a horror movie so pretty fitting
@TTW: Nice Hawk-Con, certainly fulfilled expectations. The pose looks fine.
@Jaydee: That Terraton is not only the best DZ models I've seen, it's one of the best full stop I've seen in a long, long time. Seriously good work, man.
I'm going to add a small weapon to his right forearm, but I'm waiting to see my deadzone bits for some inspiration. Either a flamer or a grenade launcher maybe.
Land speeder assault cannon. I got two from a master of the ravenwing land speeder kit on eBay ages ago. Seemed appropriately sized and intimidating. May do more weapons later for fun, or a second mech.
Actually... having seen peoples give dozer an ogre sword... I'll file that away for next time
I'm thinking the DB mech will need some kind of custom/proxy rules, the striders are going to end up being significantly larger. I figure this guy would be pretty comfortable as a Rainmaker, or something fairly similar. Once the vehicle rules are more deployed and we have all of the rules for the walkers, I may take a stab at getting some stats figured out. For now he'll just sit around and look pretty
Oooh yeah, some of those smaller mech sized cannons would probably look pretty excellent. Maybe even a longer barreled variety for a sniper big mech?
hey all, thought I would post a little update on the uber-board, all four sections are textured and painted and I'm adding extra details as I go. One extra thing I'm working on is a bulkhead, with any luck I'll be able to make a cast of the original and start making plastic/resin copies to clad the walls.
Some great work going on here, a stormy dark day in the UK for taking pictures but here are a few alternative model uses. for Grim here is my mech with burst laser and rifle:
Alpha Simian, who I think makes a nice alternative Terraton:
I just like the idea of the Rebs as a rag-tag bunch of races, and it also means that you can run 2 different looking Terratons without the need to convert.
@ Grim, your mech is brilliant, the assault cannon conversion fits it perfectly.
Thanks I may do some more weapon options as I get time and figure out how I want to use it in the game. I may have to steal the leg configuration you did for yours, I wasn't sure what it would look like so I left things alone. Seeing your work, I think my second DB mech will be standing similarly. I may have to steal your rifle idea too, I had considered it, but what you've done looks better than I thought it might. Thanks for the inspiration
Restic is not that bad to convert with, and the legs were easy to sort, just a case of snipping off the peg and adjusting to your needs. Great to see over in News and Rumours that you should have your first shipment in a matter of days.
80% looking forward to it, 20% dreading the massive undertaking it will be to get it all sorted out and checked for completeness. At least I don't have to do my big fancy unboxing like I was going to, pretty much been done to death so I'm just gonna open baggies when I want to take something out of them to paint
The scavengers really aren't very good models. They would probably have cast up better in metal. The missle team and medic work fine, in my opinion. Now that I see them photographed, though, I realize that I need to go back and do their eyes so they can be seen...
Nice work, JoshInJapan, It's cool to see some of the wave-2 minis painted up before I pre-order them, and you've done a great job. Was it just lack of detail on the Zees, or are there other problems like awkward mould lines ect
GrimDork wrote: 80% looking forward to it, 20% dreading the massive undertaking it will be to get it all sorted out and checked for completeness. At least I don't have to do my big fancy unboxing like I was going to, pretty much been done to death so I'm just gonna open baggies when I want to take something out of them to paint
The one update they did showing bag contents proved very helpful to me when I was trying to figure out what I had.
Paradigm wrote: Nice work, JoshInJapan, It's cool to see some of the wave-2 minis painted up before I pre-order them, and you've done a great job. Was it just lack of detail on the Zees, or are there other problems like awkward mould lines ect
Mold lines were a hassle, of course, that goes without saying. I think they just had too much going on for their size. If they had been metal, then the lines would have been sharper and easier to paint, I think.
I just painted my first infinity mini, and the lines *were* really sharp and easier to use. I like to do a lot of washes and drybrushing, letting the underlying sculpt and model do a lot of the work for me (cause I suck at the tricky stuff, there I said it). Metal models are a bit better at letting that happen, just on the couple of DZ minis I've already done there have been details that were a little harder to just "let happen". I'm sure I'll get used to working with the nuances before it's over.
@CptJake, yeah.. I'll probably be bookmarking that one. Interestingly enough the package this time says 39.7 lbs... it said 32.8 before. Maybe they made good with extra loots? Maybe the first tag was just wrong too
Hard at work painting my minis, I read on the fourms somewhere to put watered down white paint on the counters.
I think they turned out well, a lot easier to see.
Gadge wrote: Hard at work painting my minis, I read on the fourms somewhere to put watered down white paint on the counters.
I think they turned out well, a lot easier to see.
Ok these aren't bad but I guess I'm just disappointed with the counters themselves, to me they seem like a good idea but poorly executed but I do have an idea on how to get the best of both worlds.
1. Make an indent.larger than the counter itself in some clay.
2. Set the cardboard counter in the indent.
3. Use clear plastic resin and fill the hole
4. Once dry it should leave a cardboard counter in a clear plastic coin sized shell.
Nice idea, but I think it's be a lot of work for all the counters you get. Maybe it'd be worth it just for the essentials, so a dozen or so overwatch/injured/activated/surpressed, and the objectives.
The base counters are fine, to be honest, this just seems a way to make them a bit more durable and tactile (it can be fiddly moving the smaller ones around once you've got 2-3 on a model).
Oh, yeah now that I look a little closer... I see what Jaydee meant. I actually had similar idea of hot-gluing the counters either into the mantic base hole or putting hot glue in the hole and gluing the counters on top (for the full/larger sized tokens). I misread and thought he was trying to hand cast his own But nah, he was just looking to enhance them.
Not the best pictures ever, but I'm almost done with my Plague (1A still a WIP). Went with the Green look. Vallejo WWII uniform colors primarily, along with Army Painter Army Green. Also, I've come to terms with Restic and don't remove mould lines anymore unless they are in an extremely easy area to remove. Found I spent so much time removing them, it was causing me to dread painting.
Thanks. I was a little afraid of the Incredible Hulk effect with the color choice, but very happy with how they ended up. I think I may start using Vallejo paint more frequently with Restic. It seems to apply much easier than Reaper or Army Painter.
Reaper paint is described as a layering paint I think, designed to be thinner and require/allow more layers. I was painting a drop pod with their envy green and I had to go overt at least halfa dozen times.
I think they look nice' do you have any intentions for the bases? Could put them over the top with a solid base scheme.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Speaking of drop pods... my enforcers may have to confiscate my marines' drop pods. Nice los blocking terrain for players to deploy before game starts.
I found the Reaper paint needed to be thinned to the point of being difficult to control, otherwise it was clumping on me. Not sure if it makes sense, but Reaper seemed to act like a wash at a much thicker consistency than it should have, drawing across the surface. The Vallejo even when thinned still controlled well. I think it is a measure of the material being painted as I haven't had issues with Reaper on a primed surface. Of course, if I had primed the minis, I wouldn't have had the issue.
Haven't decided on the base scheme yet, but thinking something simple like greyish rubble and the odd bit of concrete/rebar.
Triple9 wrote: 1A is complete. I still refuse to clean the mould lines around the hands and feet. The color separation come across much better in person.
So, I've finally gotten down to finishing my first team - or at least I have a playable bunch of models worth 70+ points with some options: 1 S1, 2 S2, 5 S3 (incl. 1 heavy gun) and 2 dogs. I'll finish the remaining S2 over the weekend and will hopefully get a bag of 3 more S3s, whose feet broke off at the ankle during delivery.
So off we go -
Again my S1, this time a slightly better picture and joined by his dogs:
The S2s. Their original heads were pretty muddy as far as details and expression are concerned, so I used a couple of WHFB Ghoul heads which fit pretty nicely. Sorry for the quality but I was utterly unable to get both of them in decent focus...
The S3s - again, I didn't care much about the heads, so more Ghouls. Helps to bring the models together across stages, too. In addition I pretty much dislike their proportions, so I sawed 2-3 mms of restic from their torsos. Looks better, I'd say.
The close combat dudes from another angle.
And the remaining two S3s. I repositioned the right one's arms.
There was a point at which I gave up on cleaning the flash off the models. Maybe "If Mantic can half-arse it, so can I!" is not the most mature of reactions, but I was kinda tired about the casting quality... Still, I'm pretty satisfied with how they turned out and won't have to proxy the Plague with Tyranids anymore. That's a definite plus!
Next stop: Some Inifinity scatter terrain, a handful of Shasvastii and then it'll be the Rebs. Hopefully my mate will have his Marauders finished by then...
So, finally decided to give the plague a break and start working on my Reb faction, so here's the first of hopefully many, I based the colour scheme on Olivier Mira Armstrong from the FMA anime series.
The coat was missing a little something so I added a bit of extra detail by gluing a line of cotton around the edge.
Ooh your taste in colors and anime is second only to your execution! Awesome mini! I'm too sick to sit here telling you why I think she's great, but I love that mini
Jaydee is a hard act to follow but here's my latest Enforcer engaging some hostiles. Gotta shake this cold so I can get the buildings painted (mask and sniffles good bedfellows are not).
Note (and mock) my weak Paintbrush-Fu at the cobbled together shots, but my phone doesn't like to get many things in focus at any given time. I changed the shoulder pads to all yellow, and the detail on the head too.
Cheers for the nice comments, she was incedibly fiddly to paint, lots of small details and objects that seemed to make no sense but I think she came out quite nicely, im working on the two Grogen next and I have a little concept for those two =D I really do hope the Rebs get some kind of bike or monocycle like the enforcers as well.
Grimdork, I like the action shot and the enforcers look good with the grey and yellow paintjob and I like the blended colour and light reflection/glare off the mech's canopy screen, you'll have to let me know how you did that.
I was thinking of painting the enforcers shoulder pads in different colours depending if they are infantry, specialist, commander or rare just so they are easier to spot during play.
Thanks- got the glowing eyes idea from Dead Space Necromorphs. They always frighten the **** outta me when they burst out of nowhere (even when I can feel it coming lol). Plus pink doesn't really say alien virus to me..
That is an excellent color scheme I'm a tad jealous, I decided to go with a flesh tone to match some other necro/zombie/techy baddies I've got laying around for an eventual massive combined force. Otherwise I'd so steal your nice flesh color
Hmm difficult choice with the hair colour, are you doing the same colour for every mini? I personally wouldnt go for anything too alien or obscure, I think black hair might be lost with the green and black already on the mini, maybe something like white and grey? Or if you want something really eye catching maybe bright firey orange with black?
Yeah, the hair was one of the reasons why I changed heads on my S3s... I still don't really know what I'll do with that Dr. Simmonds from the Merc set.
For your choice of colours (love the glowing eyes, btw) I'd go with whitish-grey, too. It's a nice contrast to the green tones, whereas most other colours would be either too drab (when using a naturalistic palette) oder too garish (when using primary colours). Black would be to Hulk-y for my tastes - but maybe that's the vibe you're going for.
Oh, and in case anybody's interested - the skin on my Plague was based on a 60/40 mix of Vallejo Dwarf Skin and Vallejo Sombre Grey; highlighted with some more flesh and white added to the base mix (regularly adjusting the grey content - it should never look too fleshy). Shading was done with Ogryn Flesh, Hormagaunt Purple and Asurmen Blue inks - the latter two heavily washed on the extremities. Some Baal Red was used around the sores and near the areas where the bone plates and skin connected. The bone segments are Vallejo Leather Brown (or whatever that Snakebite Leather equivalent is called), highlighted with Citadel Ushabti Bone mixed in.
Right now I'm desperately looking for a decent colour scheme for my rebs. I don't want to browncoat them, but otherwise I'm a bit stumped. I'm tempted to use JaydeeOT's nice blue look for his Reb leader, but after going for blue with the stage 3s' clothes I think it might be overkill. Might be best to occupy myself with some Infinity models or the DZ terrain in the hope of getting a sudden inspiration...
Bomster wrote: So, I've finally gotten down to finishing my first team - or at least I have a playable bunch of models worth 70+ points with some options: 1 S1, 2 S2, 5 S3 (incl. 1 heavy gun) and 2 dogs. I'll finish the remaining S2 over the weekend and will hopefully get a bag of 3 more S3s, whose feet broke off at the ankle during delivery.
So off we go -
Again my S1, this time a slightly better picture and joined by his dogs:
The S2s. Their original heads were pretty muddy as far as details and expression are concerned, so I used a couple of WHFB Ghoul heads which fit pretty nicely. Sorry for the quality but I was utterly unable to get both of them in decent focus...
The S3s - again, I didn't care much about the heads, so more Ghouls. Helps to bring the models together across stages, too. In addition I pretty much dislike their proportions, so I sawed 2-3 mms of restic from their torsos. Looks better, I'd say.
The close combat dudes from another angle.
And the remaining two S3s. I repositioned the right one's arms.
There was a point at which I gave up on cleaning the flash off the models. Maybe "If Mantic can half-arse it, so can I!" is not the most mature of reactions, but I was kinda tired about the casting quality... Still, I'm pretty satisfied with how they turned out and won't have to proxy the Plague with Tyranids anymore. That's a definite plus!
Next stop: Some Inifinity scatter terrain, a handful of Shasvastii and then it'll be the Rebs. Hopefully my mate will have his Marauders finished by then...
Looks pretty good there matey- airbrush job??
**Edit: Maybe something like this? Obviously it'll be mainly the humanoids using this but it might look alright?
right then, I've almost finished the first quarter of my deadzone board, still needs a few more details like weeds, moss and a bit of touching up with the paintbrush but its pretty much finished, I figured I would add a group shot of my painted plague force just so you can get an idea of the size.
I started my rebs with shiny black armor and what would become grey fatigues (yndij and speak so far so no pants or shirts that aren't armor). You could pick an armor color to be consistent and then vary the clothes per model, maybe keeping a common thread between them like all drab or dark, only a range of the same color, etc.
I'm not sure what that leaves for marauders though, probably going for a range of leather-dark brown - brown red skin tones to be different. Black would still look good but I don't want the rebs and marauders to match. I'll be back with pictures sometime after its sorted
Automatically Appended Next Post: Oh, and the board looks awesome jaydee! If I didn't have 4 rubber mats I'd probably want to steal it
you could say that yes, deathwish coffee is my friend, sleep is the enemy and the night is long, next 3 board pieces may take a while to finish though, im waiting for my next batch of casting resin to be delivered so I might be able to get a few more models painted before it arrives.
First post here. I've been watching the Beasts of war videos and got excited about Deadzone. Bought the rebs faction starter to see if I like working with the miniatures. I have to say the restic is a pain, but I do enjoy painting the miniatures.
This is my first mini, when I saw this hand-walking lizard I knew I wanted to get started with this one right away. He looks like an angry lizard so I painted him red. I took off the horns; I liked them in the concept art, but on the actual mini I found them distracting. The armor is white, to me the rebels are the heroes of this game, so I wanted the color scheme to reflect that. With light grey buildings I actually think it works as camouflage as well. All in all red, white and blue are colors outside of my painting comfort zone. I have more affinity with painting browns, yellows and greens, so I'm very pleased with the endresult.
I can't wait to get started with the next miniature.
Nope, just brushwork. And in fact mostly with a Pegasus Size 2. The pictures must be a bit flattering...
angelofvengeance wrote: **Edit: Maybe something like this? Obviously it'll be mainly the humanoids using this but it might look alright?
Yeah, that's an option - the light blue one in the middle might be the way to go. (The costume pictures are a bit too purplish for my taste, but that's probably a matter of lighting).
@Wrinkledstiltskin: Oooh, that one's nice. Leaving your comfort zone has obviously paid off nicely for you. Can't wait to see the next model.
Expect more piccies tomorrow/sunday as I shall be having a Deadzone binge this weekend. Along with the very long paint queue of 40k Dark Angels,Dark Eldar and Necrons (*whew!*). A hobbyist's work is never finished..
ok, these guys aren't 100% finished but i figured they were close enough to post a picture, I had an idea with the two Grogan heavy weapon specialist for the Rebs, when I saw the models I instantly thought that a greyish white skin would be better suited to them than the official brownish ochre shade (it would seem me and Polonius were thinking along the same lines )
Then I was thinking about the distant rumble of cannon fire, the flash of the explosions and the heavy rain of bullets.... So I decided to paint them up using similar colours to Raijin and Fujin the storm gods.
so here are my twin albino Grogan, Raijin and Fujin AKA the Stormbringers.
Huh, I'll have to go check my assault cannons. I thought mine were straight, no issue, but if multiple people had problems, it's worth checking out. Those look awesome, by the way!
Started on my enforcers. Sorry, looks like a lot of jpg artifacts on the enforcer. Wanted to go with a cold color scheme, so black wash over the restic and then block painted from Army Painter Uniform Grey back to Army Painter Ash Grey. Paint up nice and fast.
Anyhow, yeah, I got the same vibe. Usually would have washed the base grey with a grey/black mix to darken it up a bit, but figured to just go with it and see how it came out.
I'd say he looks good as is. You could always look into dipping, once you get the hang of it... pretty useful. Minwax polyshades tudor is what I use on almost everything, it's like a nice dirty black wash.. but I dunno there's something else to it, kind of like it highlights for you a bit too.
Of course, as I said, he looks fine now That was the only thing I could suggest if you were looking for something else, but I don't think it's necessary by any means. My scheme is pretty similar, just several shades darker, but mostly in the same arrangement as yours.
Hey Triple9 I like the white/grey enforcer scheme, it makes the red really stand out and look a bit more hi-tech and menacing, It kind of reminds me of robo-cop and its a paint job I'll seriously consider for mine when I get round to painting them.
Alternatively I was thinking, enforcers.... law enforcers how about a judge dredd inspired paint scheme from the old 2000Ad comics, blue, black, red, green belts and gold trim?
@jaydeeOT, nice work on those grogan, I was wondering how to set apart two of the same miniatures. Yours indeed look like identical twins without looking like the same miniature.
@triple9, I love the light grey and white scheme on that enforcer.
Triple9 wrote: Started on my enforcers. Sorry, looks like a lot of jpg artifacts on the enforcer. Wanted to go with a cold color scheme, so black wash over the restic and then block painted from Army Painter Uniform Grey back to Army Painter Ash Grey. Paint up nice and fast.
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JaydeeOT wrote: Hey Triple9 I like the white/grey enforcer scheme, it makes the red really stand out and look a bit more hi-tech and menacing, It kind of reminds me of robo-cop and its a paint job I'll seriously consider for mine when I get round to painting them.
Alternatively I was thinking, enforcers.... law enforcers how about a judge dredd inspired paint scheme from the old 2000Ad comics, blue, black, red, green belts and gold trim?
I'm still one sniper short of a strike team, but here's what my first five enforcers look like:
I'm happy enough with the color scheme and quality for now, once the sniper is done I'll be able to move on from this team and start another, coming back to expand each at whim once I've got a 70pt strike team for each faction. I do want to tinker with the eyes, I painted them all yellow before the thought occurred to me that it's the same color as their shoulders... I think I'll look into changing it to green, or possibly even blue in the future. The defender still has the blue from the initial shoulder pad test, will fix it in time, for now it denotes some kind of something
Soon I'll bust out the airbrush and get some of my buildings painted, promise, then we'll have some nicer pictures from the better backdrop.
I really should get some better lighting. That remote flash was rather aggressive on the white highlights. The bone shading leading up to them is completely bleached out.
Found some old Void skull swarms at the bottom of my mini's pile I've had for years. Think I may press them into service as plague swarms.
larva_uk wrote: I really should get some better lighting. That remote flash was rather aggressive on the white highlights. The bone shading leading up to them is completely bleached out.
Found some old Void skull swarms at the bottom of my mini's pile I've had for years. Think I may press them into service as plague swarms.
Excellent stuff there mate- really nice paint scheme for the Plague team there.
Yes I agree, awesome looking group shot, I must admit im not a big fan of the plague swarm model, think you could post a few pics of the void skull swarm? I really want to see if I can find a supplier who still stocks the necromunda wyrd beastmaster figures, there were some awesome looking creatures that would look good in a plague force.
JaydeeOT wrote: Yes I agree, awesome looking group shot, I must admit im not a big fan of the plague swarm model, think you could post a few pics of the void skull swarm? I really want to see if I can find a supplier who still stocks the necromunda wyrd beastmaster figures, there were some awesome looking creatures that would look good in a plague force.
I dunno, I rather like the 'orrible gribbly rat/worm swarms.
JaydeeOT wrote: Yes I agree, awesome looking group shot, I must admit im not a big fan of the plague swarm model, think you could post a few pics of the void skull swarm? I really want to see if I can find a supplier who still stocks the necromunda wyrd beastmaster figures, there were some awesome looking creatures that would look good in a plague force.
They were from the Urban War range, not Void and they look like this if you paint them badly.
But hey, they were free (I vaguely remember getting given the blister when I bought something else as they were trying to clear out stock of stuff for games nobody was playing).
JaydeeOT wrote: Yes I agree, awesome looking group shot, I must admit im not a big fan of the plague swarm model, think you could post a few pics of the void skull swarm? I really want to see if I can find a supplier who still stocks the necromunda wyrd beastmaster figures, there were some awesome looking creatures that would look good in a plague force.
They were from the Urban War range, not Void and they look like this if you paint them badly.
But hey, they were free (I vaguely remember getting given the blister when I bought something else as they were trying to clear out stock of stuff for games nobody was playing).
Those don't look too bad tbh. Interesting idea for plague swarm those lil beasties.
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JaydeeOT wrote: The plague swarm is ok but which would you prefer the single swarm of different creatures or these....
The 5 Warpath enforcers are done. I really like how they came together as group. Just some touchups and probably pop the heavy gunners head off and raise it up a bit. Not sure I'm digging the Stanley Kubrick head down, eyes up stare from him. Hopefully have everyone else finished up by the end of the weekend. The lines on the new sculpts are much cleaner, so block painting should go faster. Haven't played DZ yet, but will try a 50 point game tonight or tomorrow.
Washed sandbox sand from home depot. It's mostly fine sand with some tiny pebbles thrown in for good measure. Just lifted some from my daughters sandbox.
Black Washed , wetbrush with Army Painter Uniform Grey, Drybrush with Army Painter Gunmetal
I like the ones looking upwards. Makes it look like they are on patrol through a ruined city and watching all the surrounding buildings. Very apt for deadzone.
Just noticed your boomstick conversion, very nice. That's an economical solution for anyone with guardsmen, or access to eBay... its probably littered with GLs. Looks good.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The swarms are creepishly thematic too... kinda look like the virus got to the head but couldn't turn the whole body so it mutated some legs and walked off or something... pretty cool.
larva_uk wrote:Those swarms fit in better than I'd expected.
I really should start doing some of my dreadball team backlog soon though.
GrimDork wrote:Just noticed your boomstick conversion, very nice. That's an economical solution for anyone with guardsmen, or access to eBay... its probably littered with GLs. Looks good.
Automatically Appended Next Post: The swarms are creepishly thematic too... kinda look like the virus got to the head but couldn't turn the whole body so it mutated some legs and walked off or something... pretty cool.
Great idea larva consider it stolen? If grim dork hadn't pointed it out I would have missed it completely.
scarletsquig wrote: For reference, in Urban War, the skull swarms are birthed by this lovely lady, the Hybrid Breeder:
I used to have a huge Urban War Koralon army, excellent models. Kinda wish I hadn't sold it.
Still have over a hundred Urban War Viridians though (with two Leopard 2A6 and three Marder 1A3 for armor and IFV support )
they'll be fighting Corporation or Veer-Myn in Warpath soon enough...
Those rebs are very nice, I like the skin tone for the grogans and sorak. Trying to wrap my head around the blue Yndij, as soon as my mind is done being blown, I think I'll really like them
The enforcers look like they've been in the deadzone for awhile, they look like hell (in a good way).
I need a little inspiration, I'm currently painting up my Yndij characters, I'm going for the Red XIII look with red skin and orange and black hair but I could do with a few suggestions for armour and clothing colour, any suggestions?
I used a ceramic-style white for the armour on all my Rebs, including a red-skinned Yndij, and it certainly works to tie them together, unifying the force without overpowering any of the colours.
hmm, greyish white could work, nice neutral colour which would show off the details, I think brighter colours might clash a bit too much with the red and orange, so i could go for white armour plates but what about the clothing underneath, maybe a really pale blue?
GrimDork wrote: Those rebs are very nice, I like the skin tone for the grogans and sorak. Trying to wrap my head around the blue Yndij, as soon as my mind is done being blown, I think I'll really like them
Thanks! I saw them, and just immediately thought "Space skinks." I also love painting things in turquoise.
GrimDork wrote: Those rebs are very nice, I like the skin tone for the grogans and sorak. Trying to wrap my head around the blue Yndij, as soon as my mind is done being blown, I think I'll really like them
Thanks! I saw them, and just immediately thought "Space skinks." I also love painting things in turquoise.
with the blue skin they kind of look like Nightcrawler from the X-men, and with the redish orange hair the also have links to Mystique which is pretty cool, good colour selection
Those Yndij are indeed fantastic. I went for a red face, white goatee, the rest in blue, but I wasn't quite happy with it. The blue skin/orange fur combination actually works out great.
Those look great I think the white really helps showcase the red, and I like the natural look for the pouches. My dudes are all 'hurr look at us we're scifi' black with edge highlights, I really like your white approach. I'd consider swiping it but painting white is a sometimes thing for me.
I like the RedXIII coloring on the tails too, I started to do it but didn't have it turn out. May try again on the next one.
cheers, It doesn't show up too well on the camera but the white is actually a really really pale grey and the clothing underneath is a P3 formula paint called jack bone, its a strange pale greenish brown which i think worked quite well with the browns and reds.
The tails did take a bit of effort but I think they turned out quite well although next time I'm going to have to use brighter shades of yellow and orange to make them stand out a bit more.
Doing a bunch of shading only to have someone tell you, looks good bro give it a wash, you have obviously not heard of them and they are good, is annoying
looking forward to seeing these plague pics, I'm interested in seeing what colour combinations you've used to compliment the green skin tones.
To be honest it won't really be matching colours for the clothes. I want to give the impression that the Plague infected are pretty indiscriminate when it comes to "recruiting" new guys. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on those Plague Zombies for Part II of the DZ pledge.
GrimDork, I'm stealing your Scout Shotgun idea for the defenders so I can start my own. I also need ONE open helmet head from the DZ commander. I know most people used the closed helmet, so this should be an easy request guys.
I haven't been through my stuff that thoroughly yet but I probably don't need it, even when I finally get around to assembling both I'll probably use the closed helmets.
I kind of want to take a picture of that guy and meme it up, Robocop has a face too, you wanna fight about it?
So the moment you've all been waiting for... (okay, maybe not). My Deadzone Defender has arrived. Thanks to JudgeDoug for the suggestion to use an Elohi head and GrimDork for the Scout Shotgun idea. I give you...First Sergeant Defender Steven Rogers! Body is an Enforcer MVP, Shield is GreenStuff, head is Elohi and the shotgun is from a SM scout.
Cheers man, I was in games workshop and I saw a drybrush paint called skink blue and I instantly thought "I need to use that on this model" the rest of it came from Wrinklestitskin's version, the colour scheme just seemed to work so well, although I was also thinking of chopping the horns off as well.
I'm late to the party (Kickstarter box sat on my shelf for a bit before I got to it), but I hope to get my first game in on Friday. I've been working on the Rebs:
JaydeeOT wrote: Oooh, I like the distressed chipped paint effect on the buildings, did you use the hairspray lacquer method?
It's all sponge painting on the base white. I won't lie. I got drunk and knocked out a bunch of terrain in an evening. It was kinda fun.
So, looking through this thread I see a much better look at the 4 launch factions than I've seen before. The Marauder and Reb Captains both have their foot on a box or chest. "Got A Little Capt'n In Ya?" You can't tell me that's an accident.
Heh, Nice quick and easy way of knocking out scenery in bulk, cant complain if it works if you get a chance I would say use a tiny bit of metallic paint around some of the edges to give a really bare metal chipped paint look to them.
I have to admit the foot on the box does seem to be a reoccurring thing in commander miniatures, especially if they are the dodgy law flaunting type...
Very nice rebs there, small little details making each one unique and more of a rag-tag band of un-experienced fighters from the general populace who have just picked up a gun and got a bit of rebellion in their lives.
I like the idea for the two drones, I may have to do something similar with mine when I get round to it.
JaydeeOT wrote: Depends on what skin tone your going to be doing, are you going for the traditional green skinned orcs or are you going to try something new?
Personally I think a wet blend effect from black to bright red on the armour plates would look pretty cool
Hmm. Having not really tried wet blending it could go badly lol. Was thinking Goff Clan paint scheme tbh
JaydeeOT wrote: Depends on what skin tone your going to be doing, are you going for the traditional green skinned orcs or are you going to try something new?
Personally I think a wet blend effect from black to bright red on the armour plates would look pretty cool
Hmm. Having not really tried wet blending it could go badly lol. Was thinking Goff Clan paint scheme tbh
From the fluff on the warpath orx I'd be tempted to go with blood axes scheme, given their supposed to be efficient copying human soldiers.
I'm thinking of converting some Warpath Orx from some plastic Ork bits I've got hanging around With purple camo as the paint scheme.
So, for the last two or so weeks I was occupied painting a bunch of GW Orks to use as proxy Marauders (I gave the team from my Strike set away), but now I finally started building Deadzone terrain.
As I already have decent amount of outdoor scenery I'm planning to use the DZ scenery for a set of interchangeable interior terrain boards. Im calling it... (drum roll): Deadzone Mortalis!
This is the first of my four planned boards; 12"x12" 3mm mdf embellished with some floor detailing cut from thin card.
I've primed it with a rust base and plan to give it the hairspray treatment - sadly, my FLGS was out of Army Painter Uniform Grey Spray, so the boards'll have to wait until he has restocked.
This is the layout it'll have when finished - I'll paint walls and floors seperately and fix the walls on the boards afterwards (probably use superglue and pinning)
Good thing is that I need less of the floor plates - so I have more solid elements to use for corridors. I'm planning to order some of the new sprues from the 2nd pledge managers so I can add some diagonal walls. If I've got some stuff left after finishing four boards I'll try and build some 'modular' upper storeys. We'll see.
As I can't really go ahead with the boards, I built some 'scatter' terrain from some bits I had laying around:
I'll probably skip markings or numerals on them - that way I can easily use the horizontally or vertically. Simple drain pipe corners given the hairspray/salt AND sponge/Charadon Granite AND Gryphonne Sepia treatment on a 'corner base' cunningly designed to fit the 3" deadzone squares.
The salt and hairspray technique is pretty well known these days. For terrain I simply basecoat them in Army Painter Fur Brown (sometimes I use black spray underneath that). After the undercoat has dried I spray some hairspray on the object and drizzle some salt on it (if I'm feeling decadent I use Fleur de Sel which is a bit rougher and gives bigger areas of chipped paint). After that has dried I simply spraypainted it with white primer - I like the industral look of that and it contrasts well with the stuff underneath. Let that dry and then use some running water and a big brush to get rid of the salt. (I'll be using that technique on the terrain boards as well - as soon as I get my grey primer).
Afterwards I went ahead with the sponge technique - basically the same method used by blooddave on his nice scenery a couple of posts above. I think both examples show that it usually works best on bright backgrounds. You simply use a bit of sponge or foam, dip it in a colour that represents either the primer undercoat or even the dull metal. I always found Charadon Granite from the old Citadel foundation range to be quite nice for both purposes. (I don't know what is the modern equivalent of that - luckily I bought a couple of pots before they changed their paints.) Any old dark grey or brown (or mix thereof) will do nicely.
The you lightly dab the foam on your object (maybe try it on a sheet of paper before to see if the sponge is too drenched), focussing on the edges where paint has chipped off and flat areas where you might want to break up the monotony a bit. To finish it off I painted some bare metal spots on the edges and at the center of some of the larger areas - you can see that on the second pipe image.
Finally I used some Sepia ink (Gryphonne? Seraphim? whatever) to deepen the corrosion in the deepest recesses, around the edges and the contact points between pipe and base - to create a sort of 'bleed' around the rusted areas, so to speak. You could go ahead with a little Agrax Earthshade in certain spots (or to create oil puddles and smears).
Excluding drying time between steps each of the pipe thingies took about 10-15 minutes to finish. At about 99 cents per pipe corner a pretty cost and time effective piece of terrain. I'm already planning my next raid at the DIY store.
Cheers Bomster, I've studied the hair lacquer method before but never with sea salt, that is something I'm going to need to experiment with when I get round to doing my terrain pieces for my deadzone board which could be some time considering how long its taking me to paint the huge pile of miniatures I have left.
Hey JoshinJapan, nice to see some more miniatures from you, keep up the good work
Automatically Appended Next Post: oh, forgot to mention as well, nice work Privateer4hire, some interesting decayed colours you have there for your plague, and it seems you've also gone for the official purple/pink flesh tone that mantic have done theirs in, it seems to be a bit of a rarity.
timetowaste85 wrote: The next one will have a different pose and a mask. He's outside priming. Thanks all!
Hey timetowaste85, I was thinking about colour schemes today and I had this thought which might fit with your marvel style deadzone miniatures, how about taking this reb:
Well gents, I believe two of you requested this particular paint job. The goggles were shaved down to look like his mask instead, no other conversions needed. I considered sticking a couple cards out of his cloak, and may still do it at some point. Next will be the Rebel Sniper-she bears a striking resemblance to a certain red haired girl that Cable raised in the far future...
Following the Ragin Cajun, we have a little lady who was raised in the future, faced attempted assassination by Bishop (at the behest of a future Gambit, ironically). She's all grown up now and ready to do her part in the Deadzone. Everyone welcome Hope Summers.
JaydeeOT wrote: those hounds look awesome, very suitable for the plague
Another figure finished, this time I took a shot at the sorak.
Great detailing on the face there mate .
Thanks, although paint washes did pretty much all of the work, the major problem was the eyes I was holding my breath and trying not to shake when It came to the pupils
angelofvengeance wrote: Here's one of my HMG muties- needs the protruding bone bits doing but for the most part he's done.
That things looks much scarier with that paint job. Sheesh.
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JaydeeOT wrote: ohhh I like the deranged look, amazing how different a model can look with a different head.
Painted up a Reb trooper the other day, not to pleased with some of the details but he's done now.
As always, nice looking stuff.
Speaking of narrative: "Hey, Yndy. I think there's a 1A coming down this alley over my shoulder. Why don't you peek out and see. I'll stay here and cover you."
As always, nice looking stuff.
Speaking of narrative: "Hey, Yndy. I think there's a 1A coming down this alley over my shoulder. Why don't you peek out and see. I'll stay here and cover you."
alternatively I think the narrative would be along the lines of:
Reb: I don't want to sound cynical... but I think we're dead...
Yndij: Think its seen us?
Plague: ROAAAAR!!
(Reb and Yndij) ohcrapohcrapohcrap....
Oh I'm sitting here looking at my next Reb, "El-Beardo" and I'm looking for a little inspiration with the colour, so far the combinations I'm thinking are.
Red armour, black clothes.
white armour, blue clothes
Green armour, brown clothes
Beige armour, orange clothes
Any other possible selections people want me to try or any preference to the above combinations?
squall018 wrote: Painted up some of the drones. Nothing too crazy, but I figured drones should be discrete looking.
Nice looking drones there squall Quick question- if I was to do battle damage ie bullet wounds etc, what colours do you think would suit my plague scheme?
@AOV- You could either go with a bright red (so you can actually see it against the skin) or you could do a flourescent green, (almost like vulkan blood) to give some contrast to the rest of your model.
squall018 wrote: @AOV- You could either go with a bright red (so you can actually see it against the skin) or you could do a flourescent green, (almost like vulkan blood) to give some contrast to the rest of your model.
Or Predator blood lol. Do we think Nurgle's Rot paint might work for that?
squall018 wrote: @AOV- You could either go with a bright red (so you can actually see it against the skin) or you could do a flourescent green, (almost like vulkan blood) to give some contrast to the rest of your model.
Or Predator blood lol. Do we think Nurgle's Rot paint might work for that?
So I have most of the GW technical paints, but not that one. My only concernt with it from the pics I've seen is that it has a slight translucent property to it that may not make for good blood. Then again, these are alien virus infected beings so who knows what their blood would like like. I would probably try a more opaque color myself, though.
squall018 wrote: @AOV- You could either go with a bright red (so you can actually see it against the skin) or you could do a flourescent green, (almost like vulkan blood) to give some contrast to the rest of your model.
Or Predator blood lol. Do we think Nurgle's Rot paint might work for that?
So I have most of the GW technical paints, but not that one. My only concernt with it from the pics I've seen is that it has a slight translucent property to it that may not make for good blood. Then again, these are alien virus infected beings so who knows where there blood would like like. I would probably try a more opaque color myself, though.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I remember the guy on GW's videos saying the more you use the brighter the Nurgle's Rot looks?
Yeah, I think if you put it down with many layers it will be pretty solid. It lets you leave some parts more translucent, like the slime isn't fully opaque, just in concentration.
I may try a little on my guys since I have it, though I think the blood is what I'll be settling on.
Gah wha? Somehow I missed those! It's what I get for switching between phone, desktop, laptop, and kiddie tablet for updates The Gambit looks like Gambit, very cool My Xmen lore is failing me, but the scheme for your rebs commander screams older school xmen, which is awesome
Quick question- if I was to do battle damage ie bullet wounds etc, what colours do you think would suit my plague scheme?
I think the bright green Predator style would show up quite nicely plus the green blood would also be appropriate for the green skin, Nurgles rot technical paint would give a nice finish but I would probably go for a base colour before applying it like Moot green.
Switch it up, I don't want my rebs looking too uniform.
Nice looking paint job on the Reb there, a good selection of browns that look different but still make the figure feel unified I'm doing the same thing with mine by changing the colour scheme for each one to make them feel a bit more disorganized but I'm still having trouble deciding on the colours for the next one.
JaydeeOT said: "....Cheer man... don't be afraid man!!! [in response to my joking about being intimidated about putting my Sorak gunner together] push on and have fun with him, and don't forget to show him off "
I just inventoried the baggie the Sorak comes in and he's missing his gun and gun arms/legs/whatever. Crap.
Submitted a ticket just now to Mantic.
We're moving in a month so am I kidding myself that replacement bits will get here before then
So, more rebels are being worked on...my Grogans will resemble an X-man who defeated the Legacy Virus, and the Sorak, well, they're making one that wields blades, has a tail and looks demonic. His fate is sealed. Hopefully he doesn't also take a sentinel arm through the chest to save his sniper-commander.
Yes, yes it would be. Haha. Did you place the one who shares a similar genetic code to gambit, just forgive the beard? Remember, gambit is an "orphan".
hmmm difficult one, I guess there are rumours that a certain Nathaniel Essex mat be his real father in a genetic sense, but at the same time he may also share DNA with Scott Summers, either way both would make pretty good colour schemes.
Well done, JayDee. Actually, Clairemont addressed in his X-Men: The End story arc that Essex spliced his DNA with Cyclops' and used enhanced growth to age Gambit rapidly. So Essex and Scott Summers are both Gambit's biological fathers.
Not a commonly known thing, but when the creator of Gambit declares that to be his origin, well...I accept the creator's word as gospel.
Painted this guy last night. Was up late, because I plan to fight him tonight after work. Sprayed him with Dullcote this morning, brought him still wet in the car with me on the way to work, now he's sitting on my desk while he finishes curing. We'll see if any of my coworkers notice.
blooddave wrote: Painted this guy last night. Was up late, because I plan to fight him tonight after work. Sprayed him with Dullcote this morning, brought him still wet in the car with me on the way to work, now he's sitting on my desk while he finishes curing. We'll see if any of my coworkers notice.
Really nice looking Teraton there mate the flesh tone is great =)
squall018 wrote: Here's a picture of my Grogan I finished up tonight.
Pretty nice Grogan man, really rough and dirty, he looks like one of the early battle worn T-600 Terminators
El Beardo looks great I may have to dig back through this and take another look at your raised table set-up. After seeing how cool yours and mantic's latest offering look, I'm really getting the itch to make a raised board... they're pretty swell.
Yeah it turned out quite nicely and I think it works quite well with the fiery red hair, he's almost like a human version of the Yndij paint scheme but for my next model I'm going to have to try something a bit different, there are too many blues and reds in my Reb force so far.
GrimDork wrote: El Beardo looks great I may have to dig back through this and take another look at your raised table set-up. After seeing how cool yours and mantic's latest offering look, I'm really getting the itch to make a raised board... they're pretty swell.
Heh cheers man, yeah I saw the mega build for the mantic Deadzone tiles, that thing looks EPIC!!! I'm progressing really slowly with my board so far, just adding a few little details and cleaning up a few places but I should be getting a few more photos posted sooner or later.
Speaking of which, is anybody here interested in acquiring more Rebels? I'm not a big fan of the models in all honesty so I was looking to send them to a good home. Be quick as my brother is looking for more heavy stubber cultist substitutes (which the Grogans might fit very nicely)
Two more done, "El Beardo" is in mourning for his dead redheaded wife, so he forgot to shave for a few days (weeks). However, rocking his red shades, he decided to jump into the Deadzone and fight alongside his fellow misfits. The Sorak looks demonic, but he's a pretty friendly and religious guy. He smells of brimstone though, so don't get too close.
oh...dear...GOD!!! these get better, the Nightcrawler paint scheme is perfect, If I get another Sorak consider that colour combination stolen
Classic Cyclops looks pretty cool as well, I think he blinds them with colourful wardrobe before blasting them!!
And the continued use of the name "El Beardo" ... is this becoming an official term now? I've got images of Mantic doing a playthrough..."El Beardo is hit!!! Beardo is returning fire!!!"
interesting Teraton AoV the colours seem to work quite well so far, in all fairness I think most of the Teraton models I've seen are actually better than the official mantic one
JaydeeOT wrote: interesting Teraton AoV the colours seem to work quite well so far, in all fairness I think most of the Teraton models I've seen are actually better than the official mantic one
I think the primer may have made it a bit bluish. Might have to revisit it with another coat of Incubi Darkness...
Speaking of which, is anybody here interested in acquiring more Rebels? I'm not a big fan of the models in all honesty so I was looking to send them to a good home. Be quick as my brother is looking for more heavy stubber cultist substitutes (which the Grogans might fit very nicely)
I might for trade but not for cash. Anything you are after?
Speaking of which, is anybody here interested in acquiring more Rebels? I'm not a big fan of the models in all honesty so I was looking to send them to a good home. Be quick as my brother is looking for more heavy stubber cultist substitutes (which the Grogans might fit very nicely)
I might for trade but not for cash. Anything you are after?
Not really- unless you have some Plague Enforcers lol. (I know they're not out yet *sigh*)
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GrimDork wrote: Incubi? I may have to dig out my old dark eldar minis and see how they like deadzone
As it happens Grim, I've been doing a bit on my DE this week- mainly Raiders/Ravagers/Reapers as mine have been lingering with only a black primer coat
I think Incubi might murder a fair number of folk if they were in Deadzone lol. Saying that though, they only really have Bloodstones in terms of ranged weaponry so they'd be soaking up A LOT of firepower before they got anywhere near the enemy.
On topic: Should be able to get some more DZ stuff done this evening
Hey GrimDork, just been doing a little more detailing work on the Deadzone board thought you might like to take a look, unfortunately im having to post this drkm my mobile on a sneeky break at work so I'll have to link you to the gallery pages, hopefully these work:
Wow all four pieces now, huh? Sweet, they look good. I notice they are 5x5 which makes your board 10x10 square when constructed, that's a bit larger than a normal DZ board, is there a method to this madness?
Can't wait to see it stacked high with deadzone terrain!
That terrain is looking really cool, and I love the grime and dirt look that gives it an almost 'rough part of town' feel, should contrast nicely with the cleaner DZ stuff on top.
If I were to suggest something, you might like to add some graffiti or signage on the lower levels, just to compound that feel. Depends on how confident your freehand is.
privateer4hire wrote: JaydeeOT, those are really cool terrain pics. They're unique but remind me of the quality of stuff in the DZ rulebook photos. Well done.
Paradigm wrote: That terrain is looking really cool, and I love the grime and dirt look that gives it an almost 'rough part of town' feel, should contrast nicely with the cleaner DZ stuff on top.
If I were to suggest something, you might like to add some graffiti or signage on the lower levels, just to compound that feel. Depends on how confident your freehand is.
Cheers guys, its coming along bit by bit but hopefully it should look good when its all done, I was going for a rough dirty run down look so I could probably manage a bit of graffiti at some point but the problem is deciding what kind of graffiti I should go for, I do have a bit of a background built around this set up but I wont ramble on about it just yet.
GrimDork wrote: Wow all four pieces now, huh? Sweet, they look good. I notice they are 5x5 which makes your board 10x10 square when constructed, that's a bit larger than a normal DZ board, is there a method to this madness?
Can't wait to see it stacked high with deadzone terrain!
Ah yes GrimDork there is a method to my madness, not always the case but this time it is an exception to the rule. When I originally planned this it was going to be all one piece arranged like in the picture, I decided that there had to be a minimum of 8x8 squares on the raised section to match the playing area of a standard Deadzone playmat which meant that there had to be at least an extra line of squares for a lowered section, the ramp sections are technically unusable so i figured i would also compensate with another line of squares and make each section 5x5 and smaller and the raised sections would have had enough room for about 1 or 2 buildings which in my mind is a bit pathetic.
I figured i would make the board modular to throw in a bit of variation to the setup and the beauty of the raised and lowered sections means there is more cover and open ground and fire-fights happen in a much more enclosed space so tactical advantages such as using the lower ground to sneak round the board become an option
Definitely awesome I'm currently stacking up my structures and additional pieces as high as I can get them. There's a lot of playable surface at 3H (ground counts as 0), with some at 4H and even a little at 6H. Once I sort out my landing pad and replace it with buildings, I should be able to increase the 3-4H areas and continue to build up, but I'll probably run out of tiles shortly thereafter. I'd post pics but this is the painted topic so y'know. Almost have some plague to show off, just being slow.
After painting another half dozen Plague S3s (which look pretty much exactly like all the others I've painted), I decided to work on the Rebs. Wanting to maintain the rag-tag band of rebels feel, I pulled out a couple of minis I got from the first Bones KS:
They suffer from the same soft detail that all of the smaller Bones minis do, to the point where I didn't even try to paint the eyes on the first one. They look fine, I think, at arm's length, and will add some needed variety to my Rebs force.
I'm not familiar with the Bone mini's but those do look suitable for adding extra personal to the Rebs force...that gun is friggin huge though!!!
Also, wondered if somebody could help me out here, I haven't done much forum posting in the past. how do you show direct images from gallery pages? I figured I would start uploading a few more pictures to my gallery and free some room up on my hard drive and just link directly.
JoshInJapan wrote:...They suffer from the same soft detail that all of the smaller Bones minis do, to the point where I didn't even try to paint the eyes on the first one. They look fine, I think, at arm's length, and will add some needed variety to my Rebs force.
Those look great! How do they scale with the other Rebs?
If they are a good fit, I'll consider picking up the original metal versions of some of their stuff.
You've done a great job but my limited painting skill needs the better defined metal details (since I'm mainly a drybrush and wash guy).
Well, I've played the Rebs 4 times now, and got my ass kicked all 4 times. I picked them because I liked the way they look, but they do not suit my play style. I like to be aggressive.
So, I'm painting up the Marauders. I have an Imgur album with comments. I will keep it updated as I finish more.
The blue is interesting, combined with the green you've chosen it makes your marauders kind of bright. This is an interesting choice for the gritty deadzone, but perhaps your marauders don't let the environment get to them. And they look good doing it too. Nice work!
hey Blooddave, nice Marauders there, fully painted ones seem to be a bit of a rarity at the moment everybody seems to be going straight for the plague and enforcers, somebody did the same colour scheme over on the mantic forum basing it on the TF2 blue team colours, are you the same guy?
Hey AoV I'm liking the Teraton man, looks gruesome like some kind of zombie sea monster basing might be a bit awkward though since the model takes up so much of the base, what theme are you going for the rest of your troops?
Cheers JaydeeOT. He looks really cool behind my other painted Plague beasties. I'm really pushing hard to get these guys all painted up before my AvP stuff from Prodos gets delivered! First try at doing bone horns which I think came out quite nicely. Had to hold my breath doing it lol.
That's going to be the theme for my horde. Nice and menacing!! Though there will be variations to represent the levels of mutation.
JaydeeOT wrote: hey Blooddave, nice Marauders there, fully painted ones seem to be a bit of a rarity at the moment everybody seems to be going straight for the plague and enforcers, somebody did the same colour scheme over on the mantic forum basing it on the TF2 blue team colours, are you the same guy?
Hey AoV I'm liking the Teraton man, looks gruesome like some kind of zombie sea monster basing might be a bit awkward though since the model takes up so much of the base, what theme are you going for the rest of your troops?
Nope, not me. I went red with my Dreadball Marauders, so I decided to go blue with these. Plus I had a can of Army Painter blue primer on hand.
not seen a lot of love for these guys, they were incredibly awkward to paint though, but here are my Reb Zee's codename's Bitz and Bobz:
Oh and AoV, if your looking for good material to use on bases I can recommend cat litter, the non clumping variety, as soon as its painted and highlighted it looks like rubble, I use it on most of my bases much to my cats disapproving looks as I steal it from the bag before it even get's to him... but sacrifices must be made in the name of war...game's
. Interesting crew.
my pants!!!
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