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It's been a long time since I've been here, but I'd like to get back to getting some good constructive criticism from you guys So here's a start with an almost done Deathwatch Drop Pod.







If you want to see the rest of the deathwatch go check here! Any C&C are greatly appreciated

At first I was thinking, ''mehh, that's a cool =I= symbol, then I scrolled down and WOAH! That is impressive. It adds to the effect when it lands. Good job sir.

Personally I think it looks amazing.

Thanks a bunch, I've got my third tac squad in process right now. I'll try to get some pics up once the red is done.

Here they are Red all done!

Nice. I <3 Deathwatch marines.

Although, I thought DW was supposed to be all black.

Still looks cool.

Thanks man

GW's Deathwatch have small accents of red, I've added quite a bit more because I think it looks good Just personal preference lol.

cool

OMG an update! Bout time!



Not the best pic :(

Are you just doing the 1 Squad/Kill Team or are you going to do a army worth of them?

Nice work, I like the map on the globey bit.
One thing I'm not so sure about is the silver parts. Think they could maybe do with darkening (at least that's what I'd do if it were mine!).

Whole Army!! If you take a look at my website you can see more of them. This is the last of three tactical squads. They are being played as vanilla marines right now.

For the silver, I've fiddled with the color a lot before I decided to go with a pretty simple version that is used here.

Ok, an all but final update. Need to finish the hair, and clear coat, and they should be done.

They look nice but the red and black may be a wee bit too close to the Red Corsairs scheme...

I see one of my marines in there O.o or is it a Dark Angel?

Can we get a better shot of the bolter on that PF SGT dude. That looks awsome. I like the work to do different pattern bolters, but I find the one with the BP on the front a little OTT.

They look good, i like the scheme you have given them. The drop pod is cool aswell. The squad goes together nicley any dreads coming?

Asherian Command wrote:I see one of my marines in there O.o or is it a Dark Angel?

The Inquisition has conscripted him as cannon fodder

wolfshadow wrote:Can we get a better shot of the bolter on that PF SGT dude. That looks awesome. I like the work to do different pattern bolters, but I find the one with the BP on the front a little OTT.

The bolter on the sergeant is one of my custom combi-bolters. Made with the deathwatch bolter and a flamer. Here's the construction pics for the combi-flamer and the combi-melta:





For your second comment are you talking about the dude with the REALLY long bolter? That's intended to be a stalker pattern bolter - like Telion's. Its fluffy for deathwatch, but nothing more - counts as a standard bolter.

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Coming along very nicely. Great looking drop pod there.

Love the paintjob on the armour. :-)

Thanks guys

<Skitter skitter!> Here's a fully interchangeable plague furnace and screaming bell!





First up are are the holes in the back platform. There is a piece of sheet metal underneath, and the plague monks and rat ogre both have a "peg magnet" on them to secure them to this platform.



The archway has a magnet in each side, where the circles are.



And the front platform has a single magnet embedded in the plastic. The brazier for the bell, and the plague priest both have a magnet in them to be attached here.



Here you can see the locations of all the magnets on the individual pieces.



And as an example I have partially assembled the bell. Note that the pulley mechanism just snaps onto the bell itself, and the greyseer's handle slides over them. The rat ogre is not attached in this picture.



Finally you can see the assembly. The magnets in the pulley mechanism attract to the magnets in the archways and hold the bell there. However, it is free to swing back and forth as the magnets have very little friction. There are two pegs on the ends of the pulley mechanism pieces, and these fit around the hole at the end of the rat ogre's chain. So the rat ogre - magnetized to the entire base assembly - is what holds the bell at the angle.



Cheers :grin:

Time for a Dip test for yall!









Left one was based with Bestial Brown, Snot Green, Tallarn Flesh, Bleached Bone, Snakebite Leather, and Boltgun Metal.

The one on the right is Bestial Brown, Dwarf Flesh, Bleached Bone, Snakebite Leather, and Mithril silver.

Results: I like Dwarf Flesh and Boltgun Metal better. But over all I'm incredibly impressed with dipping!

Sorry I've been out for so long! Been very busy Look for more updates coming

Magnetizing that screaming bell/plague furnace what quite clever. Seems like it probably took a while. I dunno how to magnetize and I know I won't have the patience, so I'm just gonna have to buy two and make one of each.

Your Skavens look great. Excuse the possibly stupid question, but what's dipping?

Dipping is when you dunk your minis in varnish (I'm using Minwax Antique Walnut) after having blocked out the colors. It's the equivalent of a full devlin mud wash, but its thicker and darker.

It makes the painting very fast. Took me maybe 5 minutes to block out the colors, then dunk the mini. Should make painting 200+ minis much easier!

Time for some fun!

Pre Dipping:


Post Dipping:


After Matte and Basing:


And some shots of the squads ranked up

Squad 1:








Squad 2:








So for 40 minis, it took me 3 days. Much faster than if I had painted them normally, and the quality is very sufficient for rank and file minis!

Cool. I never knew about that before. They look pretty good to me.

Glad you like them

And... Here's a guard squad I did as a commission. Pics aren't too good because they are from my phone :(

Alright, here's another commission completed! Well almost... I need to put something on the banner, but I haven't a clue as to what.











On a side note, these are dipped. And yes, I noticed the bit of ballast that ended up in the varnish :( It's something I have to work on. Probably have to rinse my brush between every mini.

More fun stuff!!!!









Rats are a bit washed out :( But otherwise I'm happy with them. The darker ones are old, the lighter ones are the ones I just dipped.

And finally some progress on the..... Scorpion!