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 CragHack wrote:

Did some more work...Eh, I just don't know what to do now...how to merge several weathering techniques, because I want to use everything!

Me too, but You do wonders already! Congratulations on progress!

Great thread, really enjoyed reading it from start to finish

Wirecat wrote:

 CragHack wrote:

Did some more work...Eh, I just don't know what to do now...how to merge several weathering techniques, because I want to use everything!

Me too, but You do wonders already! Congratulations on progress!

Thanks! I was about to ask, why is our forum so quite, but then I looked into your profile and saw what you've been up to!

 nwns wrote:
Great thread, really enjoyed reading it from start to finish

I'm amazed that you had the patience Thanks, though. It really adds up to the whole morale


About 60% done now. I kinda managed to add some more sponging to the most extreme areas and, imo, they kinda blend in well. I also "finished" all the tiles, but they will need some more fixing later, as when I got too tired and just wanted to finish painting them blasted small squares faster, many, yet tiny, accidents happen. Which I'm not pleased with

So now I still need to paint more metallic parts, wash it, tidy it up, add some more weathering and iit's done!

Nice checkers. I'm sure that wasn't tedious at all.

Really like the way that buildings coming, got a very mechanicus feel to it.

Thanks all!

Today I finally finished adding details. Tomorrow is washing time! ....NOPE, just saw some more details to add :(
I also did some work on Death Guard Contemptor...

Some more work. Now it looks like an actual Death Guard dread. I think, I'll add a white stripe on shoulders. So then he's going to be true "tri paloski patsanchik" Idk why, but the details would be better if you zoomed in via gallery.

Looking good.

Eh, still a lot of work to do. Can't wait for the water effects to arrive so I can at least finish the base.

In the meantime, I spent like 3 hours washing the whole thing yesterday. Bleh.
Oh, and I also bought some textured plasticard for the next terrain piece. Kinda thought that having a 3x4 tiles wall made just from windows is kinda boring. And expensive. So one A4 sheet gives me 6 double sided tiles. Which allows me to use the other tiles on a new building and break the monotonie on the existing one.

Never mind the wavy surface - I'll fix that

Interesting. And all of your work is looking great so far.

THANKS!

Just a feeeeew more details ant it's DONE. What kind of OSL would look better: green or blue? I think Ima gonna throw up from inhaling too much white spirit

Awesome work !

Nice work on the building, it's looking great.

Loving what you've done with the Death Guard Contemptor too, really eye-catching.

EDC

Thanks for the comments Manufactorum is now finished! I also started working on friends Blood Bowl team - he asked me to make them as."pride", as possible, so yeah... Painting metal is a major pain though. Definitely need some kind of stand so the miniature is not touched at all.

Ha. That BB team is hilarious. Very eye catching though.

EDC

Manufactorum looks great, just out of curiosity what were you using white spirit for?

 STG wrote:
Manufactorum looks great, just out of curiosity what were you using white spirit for?

Tried some pigments. Heard that white spirit is the way to go when working with them.

Blue lights make wonders. Should I start something resembling 40K just to get to play at this coolness?! Great stuff!

Regarding the textured plasticard - it makes even better impression when used as a slightly recessed into some broken tiles, as if plaster and finish were blown off from the building. But sitting that long with clippers, carving holes... Brrr!

I didn't understand what you meant when you said painted up in as "pride" until I scrolled down.

Building looks good. Should make a good backdrop for models too.

We actually talked with Danis about using it for Warmachine and yeah, the thing with plasticard would take extreme lot of time...I guess it's just not worth it. Especially, since I have 2-3, maybe 4 other buildings to assemble/paint. What I'm planning to do though, is that if we're ever going to make bases for the terrain kits, I'll use the leftovers as pieces of pavement, poking through sand/dirt.

Whalemusic, yeah, I laughed my ass off while painting them. Everyone who saw them also did. They are now +- finished. Got a custom play mat from Deepcutstudio :>

Roudy beer drinking nights with people who have unpainted miniatures -ain't such a great idea. Besides having to work on two more (3 story high) buildings (AND my army of Knights ) I took another BB team to paint...this time for some cash, though.

So here's some orcs, troll and a bunch of buildings I've been working on for the past...week, I guess? Funnily, the orcs are like 50% done - just some minor fixes, some washes, some highlights, some wear ant tear and voila! Then I can go back to buildings... and after that, possibly, Knights and some LOTR stuff

Wooh, some more work on BB orcs. I think, I nailed technique for painting checkers. Well, after painting 8 or 9 models

So now my to do list is (the one I should really, really do)
*Finish this Blood Bowl team.
*Finish Contemptor dread.
*Finish assembling two buildings.
*Paint those blasted buildings.

And the one I'd wish to do:
*Paint some LOTR.
*Assemble 1k Custodians for Mortalis games (just ordered two Custodian dreads, Boltodian upgrades, transfers and have 20 custodians in shelf)
*FINALLY finish assembling 2 regular GW Imperial Knights ( )
*Fix Atrapos (used too little epoxy)
*Assemble Lancer and Porphyrion
Aand, I think that's enough :(

Great looking bloodbowl team

Gologuzi wrote:
Great looking bloodbowl team

Thanks! In the end I got payed 50 euros for it

Anyways, having finished BB team, I'm moving on to further terrain pieces. Today I managed to finish sorting and washing all the bits for one more 3 story building (will prime it tomorrow), AND I started working on the Shadow War terrain as well. Which is, pretty much, the first kit I've started assembling w/o hesitating too much And, boi, it's gonna be awesome :>

very jealous you managed to get a box!

 STG wrote:
very jealous you managed to get a box!

Went from "awesome" to "hm, ok" today, because of the false 'modularity. While they DO include clippers, so no actual glue is needed in theory (for the gantries, you do have to glue the silos, obviously), everything just falls apart in practice :(

 CragHack wrote:

 STG wrote:
very jealous you managed to get a box!

Went from "awesome" to "hm, ok" today, because of the false 'modularity. While they DO include clippers, so no actual glue is needed in theory (for the gantries, you do have to glue the silos, obviously), everything just falls apart in practice :(

That's a shame; would rare earth magnets be an option in your opinion?

 CommissarKhaine wrote:

 CragHack wrote:

 STG wrote:
very jealous you managed to get a box!

Went from "awesome" to "hm, ok" today, because of the false 'modularity. While they DO include clippers, so no actual glue is needed in theory (for the gantries, you do have to glue the silos, obviously), everything just falls apart in practice :(

That's a shame; would rare earth magnets be an option in your opinion?

I'm planning to mag a few chimneys, so there's some variety in placement. If you were to take full advantage of the whole system, you'd have to use A LOT of magnets and there'd still be no guarantee it would work. I'll just go by the instruction manual: glue the platforms and use the clippers to tie separate glued parts together.

Soo, "few chimneys" turned into full blown magnetization - used a total of 11 magnets and could manage more if I'd really like to (but, honestly, I REALLY DON'T)

Nothing's really glued here, just the main gantries. And one Chimey, which I was just too lazy to magnetize

So now I'll leave this thing in FLG for guys to enjoy and move onto painting one more regular building, which I - FINALLY - primed today. Oh, and Army Painter sucks ass, GW master race primer roxxx. And smells better Unfortunately, we can't get it due to lousy shipping regulations :(

Bloodbowl team looks ace, as does the Manufactorum earlier on this page.

Cheers,

CB