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So a while back I posted my kit bashed version of Valdor and I finally got around to finishing him. Up next is probably the 2 venerable land raiders for my 40k custodes (I found 2 cheap ones online) and thankfully I found out that Vallejo makes a auric gold air brush paint equivalent so my custodes vehicles just got a lot easier to paint!

Very nice!

Very smart gold armour. The glowing effect on the Power weapon is very well executed!

Paradigm wrote:Very nice!

Thanks para!

WarbossDakka wrote:Very smart gold armour. The glowing effect on the Power weapon is very well executed!

I can't take all the credit I followed duncans scheme closely bar some personal changes like the shoulder pads and face plates

Well both of my reclaimed land raiders came in over the past two days, one of which is kind of a disaster and needs to be stripped and fixed a tad, and the other thankfully was just a sprue so I was able to build that myself. I also built another guardian squad to even out my spear count to 10 for my 40k list (I won't be using swords and boards for that army). I also found out that vallejo makes a airbrush paint equivalent for auric armor gold so I ordered that up so my vehicles will hopefully be much easier to paint now.

So I don't quite remember if anyone guess it, but this post will be giving away what chapter I will be doing. And that chapter is the ultramarines, I wanted to paint something that wasn't black or red and I have a bottle of blue clear paint laying around and the box came with ultramarine transfers so it made a lot of sense. So while waiting on some airbrush paints I decided to get a head start and finish the banner, along with getting the gold down on the last 3 guardians and the venerable land raider. I also will be getting my second 8th edition game in tomorrow against my friends tough imperial guard list (who thought that would be a sentence a few months ago ), so expect some cool pictures from that.

Great work on the banner, very cool and I look forward to seeing your.take on Ultramarines.

I like your thinking on choosing Ultras, why waste money on new paints when you have perfectly good ones right?

Paradigm wrote:Great work on the banner, very cool and I look forward to seeing your.take on Ultramarines.

Thanks para I am pretty happy with it actually! Its my first time doing blue in a long while

WarbossDakka wrote:I like your thinking on choosing Ultras, why waste money on new paints when you have perfectly good ones right?

Exactly, then I can actually do a color besides black, red or gold for once haha

well today was a bit of a slow day, I got the basecoat down on all of the primaris marines and hopefully will be starting the zenithal highlighting soon. After that it is getting the blue clear paint down and doing the details. My plans for after that will be to start my armies on parade board so I can finish it before the semester starts, and hopefully finish the custodes (3 more guardians to go and 2 land raiders). After that I got to strip and paint the 40 DKoK models that will be standing in for my conscripts and the quartermaster/commissar.

So I took a look at my school schedule for next semester and I realized something. With my current class load I will not have a lot of time to do an AoP board, so I decided to put some things off for a few weeks to finish that board before the semester starts so all I have left to do is just the models which should be easy. I gathered all of my supplies over the past few days and got my 2x2 board and put plaster cloth on the base to start. Up next I will be making the mountain and getting it ready for the plaster etc.

So I made the mountain today and covered it in plaster. Sadly I had it the wrong way when I was plastering it so, the space I left open for glue is actually on top. But I will just cover that and figure out another way to get it to stay on the board. I also painted in what will be the frozen lake and ringed it with glue to create a barrier for the realistic water. Hopefully I will start put the carving plaster and rock molds on the mountain before the weekend is out so I can start to carve the strata lines.

So I am away from home for the weekend, so work on the board is stopped for now. But I was able to bring some more of my custodes with me, though I lacked my daylight lamps so my painting time was limited. When I am back tomorrow I should be putting down the plaster and the cast rocks on the board before the day is out.

I got back home yesterday and after doing a few chores around the house I got some more work in on my custodes and even started to cast the rocks for my AoP board. I hope to get some more work in on my ultramarines though tonight getting the zenthial highlights down and maybe the clear paint.

These guys are almost done, just gotta clean up some details, finish the bases and the blades of the spears. Sadly I was not able to do the ultramarines tonight, but I picked out my scheme for the krieg models and started prep work on the venerable land raider

Looking good Ustrello . I need a gold LR for my Custodes!!!

EDC

Good morning Ustrello. Can we get a size comparison of the Primaris and Custodes marines please?

Mat

evildrcheese wrote:Looking good Ustrello . I need a gold LR for my Custodes!!!

EDC

Thanks man! Honestly after playing 3 games with the venerable land raider the thing is a beast and super durable.

combat engineer wrote:Good morning Ustrello. Can we get a size comparison of the Primaris and Custodes marines please?

Mat

Yep!

 combat engineer wrote:
Good morning Ustrello. Can we get a size comparison of the Primaris and Custodes marines please?

Mat

A quick Google found me this. Custodes and Primaris are basically the same size.

 WarbossDakka wrote:

 combat engineer wrote:
Good morning Ustrello. Can we get a size comparison of the Primaris and Custodes marines please?

Mat

Spoiler:

A quick Google found me this. Custodes and Primaris are basically the same size.

Yeah they are pretty much the same size which annoys me fluff wise but I still like the models a lot.

Well I finished the last 3 custodes tonight, and got some more work in on my board. I placed the rocks on the base of the board and on the mountain, I also put the realistic water in the lake and will be adding the ice water tomorrow. I also got to paint the rocks before I add the snow and get the carving plaster down on the mountain.

Thanks much! The Custodes are bigger than the Astartes in the fluff. I wasn't sure if we're going to be Primaris size.

Your Custodes look great. Just ordered a small starter force.

Mat

 combat engineer wrote:
Thanks much! The Custodes are bigger than the Astartes in the fluff. I wasn't sure if we're going to be Primaris size.

Your Custodes look great. Just ordered a small starter force.

Mat

Glad I could help! And nice the custodes are a joy to paint.


Well I finished the last three custodes today (I still have more models just this part of the list is done) and to celebrate I took a quick family shot. I also put the second layer of realistic water in and added the white pigment to represent ice and I think it worked out fairly well. This weekend will be busy for me with real life stuff so I do not expect to get much done model wise besides maybe stripping some krieg models. But I hope to be back on it by monday.

I am waiting on the right weather to airbrush as I have to do it in my garage and the weather here has been hot humid and rainy for the past week. So I decided to get some more work in on my armies on parade board. This time I painted the rocks on the base of the board and some random patches of rock to show through where there will be lighter amounts of snow. Though I may just go and do the whole board one I paint the mountain because I have limited pigments for this and I don't want to run out before I finish the mountain. I also got the carving plaster done on the mountain and will be carving it later tonight, I got lucky as it took around 10 cups of the plaster to do the mountain and the box only came with 12ish .

So as promised I cut the strata lines into the mountain and even was able to paint it. I went with a more grey neutral scheme, though I had to make my own homemade "cement" to seal it in (a mixture of wood glue and water). I should be gluing that down to the board soon and then getting the snow on the board as well along with the waterfall.

I also did a test figure for my DKoK counts as conscripts models, I decided to go with a green this time around. I am liking the green, black and metal so far. But I am struggling with the leather bits, I originally went with a doombull brown washed with nuln oil and highlighted with wazdakka red and squig orange but it may be too red for the green. Should I just do classic leather instead? What do you all think.

The weather here has not been cooperating recently so I have't gotten anything related to current 40k army done. But I recently found 5 more of my death riders so I decided to take one of them and use the new scheme on him. I am really liking the dark metal and the green and the brown/redish leather is starting to grow on me. I am also tinkering with a new basing idea since the plain Valhallan snow texture paint seems to be not as good as I though it would be. So I will base the models first with astrogranite and darken it up with nuln oil and cover it mostly with the Valhallan blizzard.

So most of the day was spent studying for the graduate school exam so I did not get a whole lot done. But I got the snow down on the board and glued the mountain down on the board as well. I will probably put a second coat down if there are any glaring areas. I also completed my new scheme on the death rider which I think I will include a unit or two in my lists if the conscripts ever get nerfed.

Looking good man.

 VictorVonTzeentch wrote:
Looking good man.

Thanks man!


Well it has been a slow few days, but I got the general layout of the AoP board done. All that is left is to put down the krieg casualties and the blown up land raider part amongst the primaris marines. My second land raider also came in so the custodes have their second ride finally in.

So I finally got around to using my airbrush and got the auric gold equivalent down on the land raider sadly it pooled in one or two spots when I wasn't paying attention so I hope to fix that tomorrow. I also got the first zenthial highlight done on the primaris marines, and I just need to do the 2nd one with the highest silver and then I can use the blue clear paint on them.

So a rather large update today, I was able to get the gold down on the second land raider, and airbrush most of the destroyed one that will go on my AoP board. But I was able to do the zenthial highlights and clear paint on the primaris marines today. All that is left is doing the other detail work and figuring out what good colors would be. I am thinking of following the color scheme for the bolters and various weapons from the codex, and for the trim I am thinking of doing gold to keep the metallic feel to the army. For some reason the pictures washed out the color on the marines so note that they are different in real life (hopefully I will get a better picture later).

Today I mostly finished the ancient with just the sealing of transfers left and I got about half of the work left on the 1st intercessor squad done as well.

Much progress!

Liking the intercessor squad. Very shiny!

EDC