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april 5 2019 Epirian Foundation Master Bot Handler, Contractor Drones, SecDef Tactical Team, Broken Chieftains, Hakoyu Grand Master and Pa'ku Artillery
november 20 2018 Broken Rabble, Assault, Fire Support, Gnolti, Hypnotist, Jammer
november 18 2018 Band of Broken
november 3 2018 Broken Gnolti & Rabble Fire Support
july 17 2018 Karist Angel Keeper and Hellblasters
june 10 2018 Karist Heavy Weapon Troopers
december 19 2017 Epirian Suppression team & Underground outpost
november 24 2017 Karist Praetorian squad and Karist temple
october 1 2017 Broken Rabble squad
january 21 2017 Karist Shadow Walker #2
december 18 2016 Epirian Hunter warmech #2
[december 11 2016] Mature Angel #2
[november 10 2016] VIP Objective markers
[august 16 2016] Obstacles & Cybel Refinery objective markers
[august 4 2016] Faction objectives, hills and trees
[july 25 2016] Epirian Hunter & Scarecrow with Crumbly wall & Rocky outcrops
[july 21 2016] Karist Tempest Elites and wall, Karist force complete!
[june 2 2016] Epirian Contractors with crew cabin
[april 27 2016] Karist Troopers with casemate
[april 10 2016] Epirian Firefly and Spider Drones with storage tank
[april 3 2016] Karist Angels and silos
[march 26 2016] Vehicle workshop and Epirian Bot Handlers
[march 10 2016] Karist Kaddar Nova, Shadow Walker and ruined factory
[feb 12 2016] Epirian Scarecrow crater barbecue
[feb 9 2016] Karist Troopers and cybel power station
[jan 31 2016] Epirian Contractors and a crumbly wall
[jan 23 2016] Karist Tempests and a crew cabin (scroll down in this post)
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Finally finished my first MEdge stuff! It seems most people start painting their Karist models, and so have I, for no other reason than that I find it harder to decide on a color scheme for my Contractors...
I decided I'd paint up a piece of terrain for each unit I finish, so I won't be stuck with a finished army and no suitable terrain. I hope I can keep it up...
The rock with the pink marking is a magnetic 'squad leader' indicator...
There's a couple more in my gallery. I think the top view is the most accurate color wise. Need to improve my photo workflow...
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Nice work!
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Man, those look great!
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Thanks guys, much appreciated!
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Looking great, love the frontier styling of the building
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Awesome
Karists look great, and the vaguely Western styling to the building is perfect.
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Looking good!
Also, in that lost shot, are those 12 sided D6s???
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I really like that colour scheme on the Contractors.
Nice work!
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Yup! They're called Doublesix Dice. It's a kickstarter product, but a permanent store is online, though not yet quite finished I think. I think they're really neat
Thanks! It's inspired by the orange and blue Scarecrow bot from the workshop diorama, so thanks to whoever did that
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Looking awesome!
Can I ask what colours you used for the Karists? Or even better - how you painted them to look so good?
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Thanks!
The Tempest recipe is as follows. All paints are from the Warcolours range that a forum member here produces, except for the washes and the Stirland Mud which are Citadel. First time I used Warcolours. They're generally very nice, just don't use them if you need a paint that covers very well, as most just don't (which can be an advantage too).
Undercoat: I sprayed these black and then 'blue grey 5' up to... maybe 3. That was when I thought I could do the armour with the airbrush. I now know I can't . In the future I'll just undercoat blue grey 5. The whole model was then washed with Nuln Oil.
Armor: blue grey 4 all over except in recesses, blue grey 3 highlight, blue grey 2 highlight, blue grey 1 edge higlight. The highlights are done with 'two brush blending', which is basically sticking a damp brush between your teeth and using that to fade the edges you paint with the other brush (not while still between your teeth!). First time I tried this technique. It's not very difficult once you get a little experience with it. The damp brush between the teeth is also great for quickly erasing small errors.
Suit: just the nuln oil over the undercoat that's already there, if I wrote this down correctly. I'll find out soon enough once I do the Troopers, they have lots more suit to paint.
Cybel energy: layer pink 5, pink 3, pink 1, then pink 5 + lahmian medium wash, re-highlight with I think pink 1, might have been 2, and a few final dots with I think pink 1 + white.
Metal bits: layer metallic black, metallic pewter, metallic silver, metallic white, (nuln oil wash on gun barrel)
Eye dash: layer ochre 4, ochre 2
Base: stirland mud, warm grey 4 drybrush, cool grey 1 drybrush, heki wildgrass (the tall grass), static grass (a pot with a mix of various Woodland Scenics flavours, mixed too long ago to remember which), black trim
Leader rock: warm grey 5, warm grey 4 drybrush, cool grey 1 drybrush, agrax earthshade, cool grey 1 drybrush, pink 4 marking, pink 2 marking
It's a longer process then I'd originally planned, but not too bad. I hope this was somewhat understandable, if not I'll try again!
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That was fantastic.
It kind of read like a txt file I keep on my computer with all the paint schemes I've used. Something I ensure I have because I get halfway through projects, move onto something different then a few months later have forgotten what colours I used when I return to the original project.
I was going to try and learn to use my airbrush on the tempest elites (for something other than basecoating). Maybe I'll need to buy a few more from SAS to practice on.
:-)
Thanks again.
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No problem, it actually ís a copy from a .txt file I keep . Forgot one thing though: pink drybrush around the pink bits to give a tiny bit of glow.
I'd be really interested in seeing what you can manage with the airbrush. I"ve not had the patience to learn to use it for detailed stuff. The fact I ran out of cleaner didn't help
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Nice work! I really like both your paint schemes but the fact that you are committing to producing a terrain piece with every squad is great!
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Really nice stuff, I love the way you've put the corner caps on a lip and then laid the edge pieces under the corner caps to make it all nice and flush. Thanks for sharing
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Hehe, yeah, I wish that were a piece of cleverly thought out engineering on my side. Instead it went "d'oh, of course these won't fit over that corner where I just put that other bit of plastic. Damn. Where's my cardboard strips???" In fact, pretty much all of my building and painting follows this formula
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Looking good! It's remarkable how good a simple building can look with a few details...
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Nicely done. The grey looks great on the Karists.
For the building base - paint PVA on the underside (a nice thick coat, so it softens the cardboard) and glue it down to a piece of masonite or thin ply.
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Really nice work, especially love the smooth paintjob on the kaddar nova.
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insaniak wrote:
For the building base - paint PVA on the underside (a nice thick coat, so it softens the cardboard) and glue it down to a piece of masonite or thin ply.
I'm afraid my cardboard (or posterboard, rather) isn't soft at all any more, there's already a coat of glue on the underside... Clamping it to some wood might be a good idea though... or vinyl floor tiles... The Pringles tower in one corner, mound of sand in the middle and foamboard 'bracket' in front really did some odd things warp-wize... oh well, lesson learned.
Yeah, I'm covering a lot of ground with some cardboard strips and 2 terrain sprues, amazing things.
Anyway, thanks all I'm thinking some bot handlers and another big ass building are next.
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This is an epic thread, I love how you're building your world with terrain alongside the units.
I've been travelling the last few weeks but this makes me want to get back to my Medge stuff...
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Thanks! That's really nice to hear (read).
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I have no idea why I never subbed to your thread, sorry Oddball. I can't believe that you had used Orange too!!!!! Loving the scheme you came up with. I'll be sticking with the black and silver to contrast on mine, but your's have come out tops. Wish I had the space to make the terrain too, they also look great.
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Thanks! I'm much happier with my scheme on the Contractors than on the robots, but I promised myself a quick colour scheme for everything MEdge and so far the bots are the only models where I accomplished this .
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Looking good! The bot handlers look like they mean business and the vehicle workshop is immense!!!!
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ME really needs vehicles, so a workshop is a good start! I spilled some Nihilakh too - that stuff is pernicious.
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Nice Can I pester for a group shot of all scenery - would be cool to see
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Awesome! The scenery looks fantastic as well as the Bot handlers. I like the way you've kept all the tones muted, and particularly the way their armour seems to simply go over their chaps. Keep up the good work!
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Much appreciated guys Lego, I'll put all my finished terrain on the table for next update.
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This is brilliant. Love the idea and the way you executed it. Will be thinking about stealing this
Terrain looks great too
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Table is looking great!
And yeah, that Angel conversion is quite effective.
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I see I didn't really put a pic in of the Angel's tail (probably because it's not a very good pic):
Inspired by some of my Tomb King models. You know, an army GW used to support.
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Sgt. Oddball wrote:
Yup! They're called Doublesix Dice. It's a kickstarter product, but a permanent store is online, though not yet quite finished I think. I think they're really neat
Thanks! It's inspired by the orange and blue Scarecrow bot from the workshop diorama, so thanks to whoever did that
I can confirm, I have a bunch of those dice! Love em!!
And nice work on the paintjob, OP! They look great!
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Very nice job on the conversion and paint there -
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That large angel conversion is killer!!
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I'm quite impressed by that Angel! Esp. the incorporation of the tendrils from the legs. Great job!
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Thanks guys! I didn't use the legs at all though, it's just greenstuff sausages which is as far as my conversion skills go.
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Isn't the end of the tail the tendrils which fit in next to the legs?
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Yeah it is! Didn't understand you first time
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Excellent scenery, excellent miniatures, excellent all round
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All looking very awesome
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Looking good! The orange faceplate is great.
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Great to see the force filling out and looking good
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Looks really great, mate! And it's giving me some inspiration to get painting on my MEdge stuff.
Doing the terrain at the same time is an awesome idea, and it all looks great!
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Yup, troopers look the business, and the bunker is excellent.
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Nice! That was a good idea with the stripe, and it doesn't look out of place at all!
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Excellent stuff, Oddball. I've been really enjoying you MEdge stuff.
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Thanks guys, much appreciated!
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Great job. Is it just me but every time I look at the Karist, all I can thing of is the Necros from Chronicles of Riddick. Great paint job, and I like that you are doing both forces.
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Looking forward to a group shot soon Really like that vibrant colour scheme!
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Gracias chaps!
thesilverback wrote:Great job. Is it just me but every time I look at the Karist, all I can thing of is the Necros from Chronicles of Riddick. Great paint job, and I like that you are doing both forces.
I'm unfamiliar with Riddick, but I googled it and yeah, I see the pointy kneecaps and shoulder guard resemblance!
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High time for an update! I have:
* Finished two more Tempest elites and a wall, and thereby...
* ... finished my 120pt Karist force! Oh joy.
If you would like to see _every_ painting flaw in one of those Tempests, please enjoy this 360 degree view:
Group shots of Karist force and all finished terrain so far:
And, to round up, here's my 120pt list:
Kaddar Nova 120pt detachment
1x Kaddar Nova
6 Angel Minnows
4 Karist Troopers: 1x Quintarch, 1x Radwave Emitter, 2x Dudes
5 Karist Assault Troopers: 1x Quintarch, 2x Ripper Grenade Launcher, 2x Dudes
3 Tempest Elites: Hellstorm Energy Mortars
1x Shadow Walker
1x Mature Angel
The keen observer will have noted that I've actually painted more than these guys: 3x Tempest Elites with Ravager Pulse Cannons are in reserve. Also, because I made a mistake in my force list I had to paint over my clever yellow stripe on the Pulse Carbine mk2 on one of my Quintarchs... will probably have one in my 150pt list though .
Next in line are the remains of the Epirian force, including a Hunter . Terrain-wise I'm transitioning to non-man-made items.
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Excellent job there and I see no flaws in that 360 degrees view! (How did you do that by the way????)
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That's extremely high-tech. I printed a 25mm circle with 18ish 2mm bars across, with 10 degrees rotation between them. I put the model on that and took 35 pictures from a tripod, turning the model one bar between each picture. I managed to mess up the first image so had to redo that (not ideal). Then load stuff into a stack in photoshop and have it work its timeline magic, export as animated gif, presto!
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Huh! Clever. No other words for it. Good effort.
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Finishing one motivates to finish the other, apparently! So, in more update-y goodness I've finished the Epirian Hunter and a Scarecrow with Chemtek sprayer. This completes 120 pts of Epirians, all shown below. Terrain-wise I painted four sections of crumbled wall and, venturing outside the compound, three sections of rocky outcrops.
And the whole force:
Note that the Epirians have a small reserve too: I've painted one more Scarecrow.
Edit: forgot to post the list:
Journeyman Bot Handler with Command Booster, Maglock Dominator Pistol & Aux Grenade Launcher
5 Contractor Engineers with 2x aux grenade launcher
Another 5 Contractors with 2x grenade launcher
4 Spider Drones with Cutter machine guns and Apprentice Bot Handler
1 Scarecrow with Maglock Railrifle and Clingfire Sprayer
1 Scarecrow with Maglock Railrifle and Chemtek Sprayer
5 Firefly Drones
Hunter with Maglock Chaingun & Flakk Cannon, 2x Strike Missiles
For your viewing pleasure, a 360 degree view of the Hunter (note: large file)
The Plan following the completion of both forces is to build and paint the various objective markers used in the various missions whilst finishing off the terrain. When that's all sorted, maybe a battle report
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TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
This is brilliant. Love the idea and the way you executed it. Will be thinking about stealing this
Terrain looks great too
I agree. Love the ghostly look the conversion gave the Mature Angel. I might steal that!
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That hunter 360 looks awesome Love how the whole Epirian force looks together.
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Thanks Lego
dicewar wrote:
Love the ghostly look the conversion gave the Mature Angel. I might steal that!
Be my guest! All it takes is some greenstuff sausages and a paper-clip. Though I guess someone with actual converting-skills can make it more awesome
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Table looks great!
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Thanks!
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Loving the terrain! Where are the oils drums, crates and blue canisters from?
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Cheers! I believe all those were at one time produced by GW? Ah, Googled a bit, and they're still for sale it seems, called the "Battlefield Accessories Set". Amazingly, there are no skulls.
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The skulls are obviously inside the drums.
Great looking table!
Please keep updating, your blog is very inspirational
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Thanks, I will! However, I have loads of 'life' happening the coming two months so might be quiet for a while here :(.
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Alrighty, I'm settling back into doing some MEdge stuff. My little dudes have hit the table and I have a battle report coming up. For now, though, I've painted up another objective: VIPs
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Post by: tyrannosaurus
Great painting but, damn, those sculpts are ugly. The Karists look like the bastard offspring of sex between a Dark Eldar and a Necron. Human ones are a little better and I like your scheme.
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Thanks! The Karists are actually also human .
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Posted a battle report here.
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Moar Beastie!
So there's three models left from my original Kickstarter box that I had not yet painted: a Hunter, a Shadow Walker, and a Mature Angel. I figured I'd do these three models next, and here's the first of them, a stock Mature Angel:
Slightly out of focus, sorry :(
With friend
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Really love your hunters - the spot colours are excellent and just make the muted main colours pop so nicely.
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So for the past months my stuff has been in boxes (and still is), pending construction on our new house. My newly arrived Broken sprues, however, are not in said boxes, and I couldn't resist digging out some paints...
Because the Broken are a horde type army, and 120 points could get you an insane 80 guys (not going there...), I resolved to paint my Broken in a really simple and, more importantly, really fast fashion. Slap on some mucky colours, douse liberally in wash, et voila: my first Broken Rabble squad. Armed with two slug rifles, an auto slugger, and a Boss with beam pistol and grenade harness. That's a 6 point unit right there .
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I have a functional hobby room again and, better yet, my stuff is no longer packed away. I've now finished some Karist Praetorians with cybel glaives and a Karist temple for them to guard against those pesky Broken outlaws...
Also, this is the first time I actually set my terrain on fire doing the photographs. It was an accident.
Broken patrol runs into Karist temple at night.
Kaddar Nova checking out what's going on.
If you can't hack it, shoot it.
That's my fish.
You shall not pass.
Darn these stairs.
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Awesome stuff, love it How long did the temple take to build and do you have build pics?
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If I were to do it again, probably not thát long, though the watery bits take time if only for drying. This particular effort I started in February before moving house, haven't been able to work on it for most of the past half year. There were also some catastrophic blunders on my end that resulted in me chiselling out the pool and redoing it. Twice. I do have enough build pics to work up a little 'how not to' article.
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Post by: insaniak
Cracking stuff! Love the temple.
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Thanks! Now to finally build that Suppression team...
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Gotta get me some of these... Good rendition Btw
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Nice scratch built scenery and great looking miniatures!
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Thanks guys!
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Angel force is looking very nice there
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Yup, looking good!
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Post by: Fango
I wish I had taken a peak at this thread earlier...I don't tend to wander out of the P&M Blog section very often, so I miss all the other cool stuff on Dakka.
Job very well done on those Karist heavy weapons troopers, and the Angels look fantastic as well!
What are you using to texture the rocky terrain pieces? I love the creative use of the terrain sprue bits on that one.
Can't wait to see more
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Thanks!
The rocks are just foam carved and tore at with knives and fingers, sometimes prodded and scored with hot things like a soldering iron, until it looks suitably rocky. I then paint it with textured wall paint.
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With the last few releases, there's now plenty of Broken stuff to assemble a proper force. I'd already painted a couple infantry dudes which will get assigned to some squad when I get the force worked out, and now I've added a full Rabble Fire Support squad and a Gnolti, because it's awesome. All done in the very quick and dirty paint scheme I chose for the Broken.
I've got over twenty more Broken guys assembled and undercoated, so I guess the next few instalments will be all about the Broken
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Broken force underway...
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I've now finished pretty much all the plastics I have planned for my 'Band of Broken', though I may yet change my mind a little. For 120 pts, I still need to build and paint some of the resins. I'm currently working towards:
Chieftain with beam pistol and customized weapons, grenade harness, trophy melee weapon, xeno spotter;
6-strong Rabble squad with chem launcher and glue rifle;
6-strong Rabble squad with auto slugger and longbeam rifle;
5-strong Rabble Assault squad with Marsayan Hypnotist and 3x massive torch;
6-strong Rabble Assault squad with Hakoyu Grand Master and 3x EMP harpoon;
2 Sig Jammers
Gnolti
5-strong Rabble Fire Support squad with 3x longbeam rifle
Another Chieftain, with customized weapons, extensive cybernetics, grenade harness, slug rifle;
6-strong Rabble squad with chem launcher and EMP harpoon;
4-strong Rabble Fire Support squad with 3x auto slugger.
For about 120 points. Bosses have some random weapons. I do want a Pa'ku as well though, so work in progress
Anyway, here's the pictures:
All the painted Broken so far.
The Gnolti, whom I got in the very same pose I already posted a pic of, sorry.
Fire Support squad 1
Fire Support squad 2
Assault squad 1
Assault squad 2
Rabble squad 1
Rabble squad 2
Rabble squad 3
Sig Jammer
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Nice Love the Jammer in particular. I like how you have managed to combine a consistent colour scheme with the randomness of the broken's aesthetic.
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Thanks! Painting in a big batch is particularly suitable for doing a 'random yet consistent' colour scheme as you just pick a color and put it on 20 guys, but on different parts. Using the same wash over most everything also helps. I tried to have browns and dark reds as the most prominent colours.
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Looking good!
The earthy tones on the Gnolti work really well, and yeah, the Jammer looks great!
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Had a great time playtesting with your Karist and Epirians this week, they look even better on the tabletop!
Hopefully next time we play I'll have more of my own force assembled/painted...
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Thanks, looking forward to that!
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I stopped by to see if you'd shown your plog any love recently...do you have another one going? I'm sure you are super busy with family stuff these days, but hope you still have a little time to spend with your hobby occasionally as well.
I've been super busy as well, and have been struggling to set aside time to paint and post too. I'm just making the rounds to all of my Dakka friends to say hey and check on what they've been up to.
I hope all is well with you and yours!
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Hi Dave, all is well on my end! Not much hobby time though. I did make some good progress on my forest table, but way behind on the mini's. A base coat on a Remnant suit is all I've done. There might be better times coming in a couple of months though
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Ooh, let's see the table!
Also, I realised I hadn't commented on the previous batch of pics, but I really like the earthy tones on the Pa'ku!
Also, the dark grey Contractor Drones look wonderfully menacing.
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Thanks Iain!
Here's the table as per today:
Still a fair bit of work to do, but the major elements are done.
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That's looking very nice! The compound is ace.
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I love your Karist table/backdrop - do you have something somewhere on how that was done? The figures all look great too. I really want one of those Artillery critters.
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Thanks kestral! If it's the forest table you mean, then yes, I do actually have a separate topic on that here: https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/747761.page
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Thanks! I'll check it out.
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