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Nice colours

Looks really nice GiraffeX... looking forward to seeing the full-light shots!

Thanks both.

I finished the pearlescent Vindicator this weekend, here's a few pictures from the garden, sadly it wasn't sunny.



The other half of the eye symbol will be on my second Vindicator when I get one as they will be a pair. The Hieroglyphs on the left which represent the name of the Vindicator, as they are in a cartouche translate roughly to Hell. The other Vindicator will be called Fire.

I really like the look of that vindicator.

Thanks Stonelessword, I'm really looking forward to doing the second one.

PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU GOT THAT POWDER!!!! I MUST HAVE SOME TO TRY!

THAT IS THE SEXIEST VINDICATOR I'VE EVER SEEN, AND IT'S NOT EVEN FINISHED!!!! I LOVE IT! AND YES I AM SHOUTING IN MY HEAD, THAT'S HOW AWESOME A JOB YOU DID!!!

Thanks for the comment Markillius08 glad you like my Vindicator.

I got my powder from ebay you need to search for "pearl paint powder"

This is the shop I bought mine from they ship to the US and do a range of different colours. They do lots of other interesting things as well which I haven't tried out yet, just need to find the right models lol.

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A note of warning though you only need a very small amount of powder. I do one small pile of powder for every six drops of matt varnish (the pile of powder is the same size as a drop of varnish), that's how you paint it on you mix it into the varnish.

This vindicator has four coats.

lovely!

GiraffeX wrote:Thanks for the comment Markillius08 glad you like my Vindicator.

I got my powder from ebay you need to search for "pearl paint powder"

This is the shop I bought mine from they ship to the US and do a range of different colours. They do lots of other interesting things as well which I haven't tried out yet, just need to find the right models lol.

specialist_paints_0114-3277848

A note of warning though you only need a very small amount of powder. I do one small pile of powder for every six drops of matt varnish (the pile of powder is the same size as a drop of varnish), that's how you paint it on you mix it into the varnish.

This vindicator has four coats.

THANK YOU!!! Did the size of the flake matter? I'm looking at his stuff and I'm not sure if the flakes are the same size or if it's just the amount you buy them in that changes.

Wow fantastic. Like the eye of Ra.

Markillius08 wrote:

THANK YOU!!! Did the size of the flake matter? I'm looking at his stuff and I'm not sure if the flakes are the same size or if it's just the amount you buy them in that changes.

It's not the flakes you want, I used this one as an example.

The flake ones will actually have flakes in the powder which is different to what I used, I went with pure powder.

Miss Dee wrote:Wow fantastic. Like the eye of Ra.

Thanks Miss Dee, I hope the other half looks ok/lines up when I get round to doing it.

so when paired up they willl be "hellfire"

prototype_X wrote:so when paired up they willl be "hellfire"

Yep, thats what I'm going for.

Man I love that blue... that tank is tops! Expertly done.

Gitsplitta wrote:Man I love that blue... that tank is tops! Expertly done.

Thanks I was never very good at painting tanks back in the day so I'm so glad this one turned out ok, I have memories of my poor pink landraider (slannesh, I'd like to add) every time I think about painting tanks.

LOL! Now I'll have that mental image stuck in my head...

Wow there is some very nice free hand going on with your vindicator. Is that an actual egyptian symbol or did you just make it up ?

yes they are 100% spot on

Yeah the Hieroglyphs are correct, I read a book on how to read and write them. The symbol on the right is the mark of Horus.

Oooh good idea. Are these thousand sons in the black legion ? Are you going to use a heirogliph for knowledge on your other vehicles ?

moonshine wrote:Oooh good idea. Are these thousand sons in the black legion ? Are you going to use a heirogliph for knowledge on your other vehicles ?

No I'm actually doing a Thousand Sons army, no black legion for me. I will be doing other warbands but not the black legion as it makes things to easy from a painting perspective to tie in the units together.

I'm not sure what's going to happen with my other Vehicles at the moment, the other vindicator is planned so it makes a pair with this one. I would like to get some Rhinos at some point but find the price in £'s is a lot more than their points worth in the army list.

I may do some Landraiders at some point in the distant future but they will be for my Iron Warriors, I'm also getting ideas for a Predator but that will most likely be part of my Red Corsairs warband.

When I get round to play I will be using legal warbands fighting along side each other, so each warband I paint will have a minimum of two troops and an HQ unit. It makes it more fun from a modelling perspective no idea if it will work in a gaming perspective but as long as I have fun that's all that matters.

Lots of warbands are great. I agree having the freedom to have lots of warbands is much more fun for modeling and painting.

I can't wait to see your other warbands.

Wonderful looking paint jobs sir. Subscribed.

Awesome effort.

I like it, it looks pretty good.

I like these! Nice use of parts, and nice to see authentic pre-heresy weapons! I'm feeling more inspired to start that pre-heresy TS army I've been promising myself...

Sweet tanks, man!

I love the freehand hieroglyphics and the cartouches. I've got a long way to go with my PH guys... but definitely not looking forward to the freehand... looks like you've got yours under control though!

What's next?

-Remi (HF Iz)

The Hyeroglyphs are a really nice touch. Good job!

Want an IW CC squad of khorn zerkers?

Wow thanks for all the comments I never expected to have this many since my last post yesterday, glad you all like my Thousand Sons so far.

lindsay40k wrote:I like these! Nice use of parts, and nice to see authentic pre-heresy weapons! I'm feeling more inspired to start that pre-heresy TS army I've been promising myself...

Yeah I do like those missile launchers much more than the modern ones, the melta guns are quite cool as well.

HF Izanagi wrote:Sweet tanks, man!

I love the freehand hieroglyphics and the cartouches. I've got a long way to go with my PH guys... but definitely not looking forward to the freehand... looks like you've got yours under control though!

What's next?

-Remi (HF Iz)

Thanks Remi I don't like doing freehand either I'm really bad at it. For the tanks I drew the lines in pencil first and then painted over them, it made it much easier.

In regards to what's next this is what's on the table at the moment.

Currently painting an objective marker which hopefully I will have finished tonight.

One Thousand Son Squad which I may start painting the base coat of the first few guys tonight.

Necrodefiler which has been built and converted just waiting for the dreadknight base from the US to mount it on before I can undercoat it.

One lone Chosen Marine waiting for the next batch of undercoating.

Skyrar of the Dark Wolves who is in the modelling stage.

I'm also doing some modelling work on my Nurgle daemon Prince as I want to enter it into the dakka painting competition this month, this month its best unpainted conversion.

Miss Dee wrote:Want an IW CC squad of khorn zerkers?

Thanks for the other Miss Dee but I already have plans for my zerkers, I don't like the current models so will be converting some other models to take their place.