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Dust off, Hawaiian shirts from orbit, got it!

Chibi lol, it's not the size it's how you use it, so all that time and work better pay off with the SR I have been trying to achieve!

Thanks boys -

Awesome Hobby (why not man cave???) Cave. Expecting great things in the future from this one.

Man cave requires a bit more in the way of leather furniture, bar, bigger bigscreen and xbox in my book . This spot is more a studio than a hangout area I guess... for now!

Reassured that size doesn't matter
now just have to convince the ladies

Lol y'know and I was trying to avoid the whole thing... size doesn't matter is what guys with small hobby-caves say

*Stares jealously at workspace* Looks great! And the hawaiian short won't cut it, it should be a Justin Bieber t-shirt

Great idea using the "door sweeps" as shelves.

Hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread Tom! Have you made any more progress?

Anyway,I present to you, Dakkanauts, my realisation of the MajorTom/Dakka pattern Storm Raven. Its all painted now (oops, bar the cockpit canopy) but still WIP as i need to do lights, weathering and chapter markings (its an RG vehicle)

Its my first attempt at gradients with an airbrush, i tried to do a subtle highlight as opposed to zenithal.









(Btw, the pics are a bit washed out, the grey highlights arent actually that stark)

What do we think?

Cheers,

Vitruvian

Nice!
I might be inclined to paint my stormraven in that scheme...maybe a tad more white...

Looking pretty ace dude! And don't worry about hijacking the thread, I am getting nowhere fast with mine lol, plasticard is an unforgiving master in my case :(

Would love some better lit shots though, especially from the back and bottom -

Sure, i'll do some proper pics () once ive finished it, should be soon

I passed some major hurtles tonight, the back end is getting pretty far along except for (alot) cosmetic additions and cleanup. Even set up the beginnings of the piston deployment system for the dread!

Thanks to Vitruvian, AlexNeufeld and Eggroll for the kick in the butt -









beginnings of Dread deployment piston system -



and, upgraded boomsticks, because normal one's are too dinky for a gunship





As stated, things got so delayed

A - Waiting over a month for certain needed parts to arrive

B - Getting the hybrids sorted out for shipping

C - Ordering many, many parts getting all THIS sorted out and starting set-up







And of course, need magnetic dreads, would look pretty goofy flying around the back of the Stormraven riding a big disk of dirty lol -



updates should ramp up now, I'm looking to git er done!

Looks interesting, keep it up! I got a SR as welll and I'm wondering how to convert it, so any inspiration is welcome!

Looking good!

Have you thoguht about making the top "bar" line up with the existing hull detail? (if you will be doing this then sorry )

Ive done the detailing now, all thats left is to bust out the powders so i should have detailed pics for you tomorrow

Also, thats quite a haul youve got there, dread to think how daunting that must be to look at But, you can do it Tom!!

These storm raven conversions inspire me! And look far far better than the dinky little modle GW put out!

I'll be subscibing to this fellow Canadian's thread!

Great blog man, can't believe I've only just found it. Having deep thoughts about SRs now...

Vitruvian XVII wrote:

Have you thoguht about making the top "bar" line up with the existing hull detail? (if you will be doing this then sorry )

Yup, that's all part of the cosmetic stuff to come! It should all transition pretty smoothly when I get done! lol don't apologize

Nice gun there, is it one of the bitspudlo ones? I'm really interested to see how those turn out.

Yessir, same company. Much larger and meaner looking that gw ones -

SR looks like it's coming along nicely. Keep up the momentum!

Some good shots of your army...you got a TON of painting work ahead of you. You ever get discouraged looking at all that primered plastic? I usually stick to one to two squads at a time and even then, sometimes it's a huge turn off everytime I see them and am reminded of how much work I still need to do.

Yeaaaaahhhh...

It is rough... Though, you and I have an advantage in that we don't actually play, so if we get bored and want to do something else, there is no real impact other than the money spent on the minis, and of course our ocd to finish what we started...

I am not sure I will finish all this, but I saw a ton of good deals on ebay and figured hey, why not! I am def going to do the vehicles and at least 1 squad, airbrush techniques and oil weathering experiments are exciting me!

I am assuming with the airbrush the vehicles must be even easier to get going on the infantry am I right?

MajorTom11 wrote:Yeaaaaahhhh...

It is rough... Though, you and I have an advantage in that we don't actually play, so if we get bored and want to do something else, there is no real impact other than the money spent on the minis, and of course our ocd to finish what we started...

I am not sure I will finish all this, but I saw a ton of good deals on ebay and figured hey, why not! I am def going to do the vehicles and at least 1 squad, airbrush techniques and oil weathering experiments are exciting me!

I am assuming with the airbrush the vehicles must be even easier to get going on the infantry am I right?

Yeah, my OCD is killing me. Just last week I was thinking about buying all the SM veterans (mk1 and mk2) just so I can have a more complete collection. At least GW won't be releasing anymore BA models.

I find the easiest to do are vehicles > units > hq/elites though the newer kits like the death co and sang guard have so much details and bits they're almost just as bad as the hqs. Airbrush definitely saves a ton of time though. I just primed 3 dreads last night and am going to try and do them all at once.

OT but is that a Tungsten Carbide wedding ring? Looks identicle to the one I have Love the paint shelves, going to invest in that when we get a house for sure. Having to make stuff fit in an apartment atm is lame!

Eggroll wrote:

MajorTom11 wrote:Yeaaaaahhhh...

It is rough... Though, you and I have an advantage in that we don't actually play, so if we get bored and want to do something else, there is no real impact other than the money spent on the minis, and of course our ocd to finish what we started...

I am not sure I will finish all this, but I saw a ton of good deals on ebay and figured hey, why not! I am def going to do the vehicles and at least 1 squad, airbrush techniques and oil weathering experiments are exciting me!

I am assuming with the airbrush the vehicles must be even easier to get going on the infantry am I right?

Yeah, my OCD is killing me. Just last week I was thinking about buying all the SM veterans (mk1 and mk2) just so I can have a more complete collection. At least GW won't be releasing anymore BA models.

I find the easiest to do are vehicles > units > hq/elites though the newer kits like the death co and sang guard have so much details and bits they're almost just as bad as the hqs. Airbrush definitely saves a ton of time though. I just primed 3 dreads last night and am going to try and do them all at once.

That is killer trifecta - Collector/Hobbyist/OCD
We can go to those AA meetings together bud lol!
I def will be trying to do sweeping batches, all vehicles steps done to each one at the same time, all infantry red at the same time etc etc. At least for the base coat and zenithal/modulation stuff. Once it comes to brushwork, I may switch back to doing less at once, but honestly, even batching out brushwork can be good as it keeps your pallette and desk less cluttered.

We will see though! I will be going back to finish my NMM dante and the Hybrid Magus right after the SR is finished though. That will complete my SH:Complete project fully in conjunction with having the hybrids painted up by the talented Sigur.

Pyronick wrote:OT but is that a Tungsten Carbide wedding ring? Looks identicle to the one I have Love the paint shelves, going to invest in that when we get a house for sure. Having to make stuff fit in an apartment atm is lame!

Indeed it is, platinum in the middle and tugnsten on the outside... best move ever! I could play street hockey with this thing... it's really great not to have to worry at all about scratching or dinging it, and I also like the color of the metal itself as well!

Loving the work!

Your blogs are always full of inspiration! Keep it up!

Thanks man! Plenty of inspiration on this forum to be had, if it wasn't for all the other's nice enough to help in this blog I probably wouldn't have made the attempt -

That being said, made some more progress tonight... VERY happy with how things are going now, I predict the build will be finished by Sunday night!

Wow, you almost have as much unpainted stuff as me

lol, oh, it will all get hit hard with the airbrush as soon as I am done building/modding everything!

Long slog though, still have to rip everything off the bases, cork them, re-stick them on etc... also have to build another 20 or so infantry, magnetize the rhinos completely to be convertable to razors, baals or whirlwhinds... same thing with the LR to be able to switch from redeemer, crusader or phobos...

Ok so I have a lot of work ahead of me lol

keep up the good work.

Hey Tom, i finished my SR. Heres a lot of photos for you! You can zoom (it also appears i suck at taking pictures Sorry!)












Hope thats enough angles for you! If not, let me know which bits you want to see!

Now get cracking on yours, im really eager to see some progress now!

Vitrvuvian