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And now all three planes are airbrushed up to VMA "Medium Yellow"

I seem to have mostly fixed (or at least bypassed) the irritating water issue by moving the moisture trap closer to the airbrush. However, the compressor would not leave well enough alone and now has taken to heating the air in my little workshop to uncomfortable levels. I wouldnt be surprised if it was 10 degrees warmer in here than the rest of the house! (You know, Im surprised that I've never tripped the overheating auto shutdown on the pump)



This picture is closer to the actual color, though the camera still fails to capture the warmth and depth of the colors. Its really a quite nice brilliant yellow.
At this stage, theres only a bit of tweaking before gloss coating and brown oil wash- aka the first step of weathering!

and then paint turquoise?

just kidding... or am I?

Looks good .. as a yellow painter; share your steps. Always looking to perfect the inbetween steps!

Well hopefully you arent joking......

















Well the yellow couldn't be simpler, SL. Its simply based VMA Gold Yellow, then highlighted with VMA Medium Yellow. Panel lines are shaded with a 1:1 mix of Gold Yellow and VMA Gold Brown. If needed, pure Gold Brown can be used to deepen shadows.

For added depth of shadow, I take a further step, as shown below!


I gloss coated the model and began to run burnt sienna oil pant in the panel lines and crevasses, Here is a comparison shot. The top bit is washed, while the bottom is pre-wash.



And the whole thing oil-washed in.


This took a long time, surprisingly, but at this point im about half done. Only the two other plane bodies to go. all the extraneous bits have been washed too.
After I finish all of them, I'll let it set for a bit and dry before cleaning it up with mineral spirits!

Thats looking good now, less like a banana plane

Looks very nice Ramos!

Thanks for the formula!

They are starting to come together.

That turquoise blue scare the gak out of me for a second

Those eldar you did look awesome and im really liking where the daka jets are going at the moment paint wise as well

@GiraffeX: Good to hear! Banana/Lemon yellow is definitely NOT what I (or Gits, for that matter) want on these guys. Now you see some of the method to my considerable madness!

@Gits &SL: Thanks! And dont worry.... the best is yet to come

@Alf: Then its job is complete! Heh.... If I wasnt already painting 2 armies of a similar hue, I might actually consider painting a jet turquoise (my own, of course). All things considered, I rather like the color!

@bigfish: Thank you! Stay tuned, for there is much more to come!


So The family and I ended up popping over to my grandmother's house to celebrate her birthday today.Then we went to a county fair about an hour south of here (lots of delicious fair foods!). So in short- not much painting happened!

I spent a bit of what painting time I had today completing the oil wash on the remaining planes, and cleaned one of them p with gentle dabs of mineral spirits. This is where having a gloss coat really helps, as the paint lifts right off from where i dont want it with just a bit of thinner!

Here we have a close up of a few of the most distinctive areas of the cleaned plane.




im still not liking how the camera seems to squash my shading!
Definitely need to build a light box! (or a better camera)

The yellow and stuff on the jet is looking very nice. I can see the shading, faded but there. Next step weather and checkers right?

Looks very nice Ramos. Well done!

A great many magnets later, and the planes are FINALLY fully magnetized!


(not pictured are the other guns. Theyre magnetized too, though )


The little rockets in particular are proving difficult to magnetize, as theres no real area to place a magnet or even a piece of wire!
So I've taken to etching a small trench in the top and inserting a shaved down piece of music wire. This seems to do the trick!

Now its a bit of epoxy on the bomb magnets to make sure they stay put, and a little more waiting to make sure the oil wash is completely dry! in the mean time I have the pilots and gunners to paint.... lets see how far I can get on them!

How do you magnatize stuff?

And if you say with magnets ya gonna get slapped

Love the way that's coming along Ramos.

@Dee: Really its very simple to magnetize different parts. At its simplest, its a case of drilling a hole and sticking a magnet in both sides. alternatively, depending on how heavy the part is, you can substitute one magnet for a mass of ferrous metal (ie magnetic!). I use cut up bits of an old cookie tin for this purpose.
On particularly thin areas like the missiles and Rhino doors, I drill a hole perpendicular to the magnet's pole and insert a length of music wire.

And there you have it! Magnetizing in a nut shell!


Did some skin today on the pilots and gunners!


(These guys are actually more neutrally-toned. The camera seems to be adding more yellow than normal)







Heh.... so it struck me today that I've put nearly 30 pages on this blog since I started commission work.... Merely a little over a year!!
And so I want to thank all you guys who read and comment on my little fingerpaintings.... I wouldn't be anything without you awesome people!!

Thank you xxx

Nice to see some progress on the orkses.

Glad we can help out. Not all of it is commission, your ME are part of that too!

Well, why wouldn't we peruse your thread Ramos? it's full of brilliant and beautiful painting with a great mix of topics and styles! c'mon man you didn't think we stayed here because we liked you? :-) ...


...just kidding, of course we like you, we just like you better when you update lol!

Don't forget the turquoise! For the Turquoise! That why we come here!

I finished up the pilots and popped em in to see how they were looking



And I shall dub this jet "The Burninator"
The pilot likes the flames motif

(not finished with the black detailing by a long shot)

I may have gone a slight bit too thick one a few of the flames (making it look like tiger stripes, actually), but I think with a bit of shading it'll look great!

They will be on top and bottom of the wings, and im gonna put many more other little details on as well to break up the planes (get it) of yellow.

Nice work. They will look very cool in the end with those stripes.

Perfect job on those skin tones Ramos, you got them just right!

More tiger stripes!

 IceAngel wrote:
More tiger stripes!

Oh Lordy.

"Shhhhh..... we'z in-ful-traitin da stripey ladz..."







a few close ups of the nose and tail:





At this stage, the stripes and black details are blocked in and will get a bit of sharpening further down the line. Aggravatingly, the flatcoat I sprayed on it to get rid of the gloss from the wash step is spotty in some places (even though it LOOKS flat!). This results in the paint beading up at random places. For the most part, the issue is resolved, just needed to go over it a few times with a heavier paint. Seems to be holding nicely now.


Grots also got painted (except for the little bit on the last one's hat)



Metals next!

Great job on the planes. love all the details. Crew looks spot on.

Flames should be painted Turquoise.. just saying!

Well, its starting to happen.... Im getting burnt out on the jets ><
Though I guess I'm not too surprised, as its all Ive been staring at for a week and a half ><

The project is, admittedly, way bigger than I had initially planned. The sheer amount of paint it took to base these things was astounding!

I did manage to force my way through to getting everything blacked out and most of the metals painted on. I think Im going to work n something else tomorrow, though, just to take a break from the grind.


Metals:


Top is before first wash, bottom is after. I will be giving this a soft black wash to deepen recesses and further weather the metal. Certain parts will be picked out in bronze and given some verdigris, such as the afterburner pipes on the jet nozzles and vent areas on the exhausts.

I can empathize Ramos. No hurry my friend. Rest your brain a bit. The end result will be better if you can approach them with some enthusiasm.

They are looking great ..