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If one it wasn't Epic Armageddon scale

 whalemusic360 wrote:
If one it wasn't Epic Armageddon scale

I told them it was tru-scale...

 Alfndrate wrote:

 Miss Dee wrote:
No its ""I felt a disturbance in the titan."

That's what I say whenever I see a good looking lady...

It would not work on me but i would be flattered

Damn kids. i leave you alone for a few days and it turns into Nerdfest's blog!








Anywho, Things have been all over the place here. I keep oversleeping, getting hard to get into the swing of doing anything.... bleh. I'll not cloud the blog with my personal problems. You came here for models, after all!!


I did get a number of models finished, though I am running a few days behind according to my plan. The final parts of this group of EFT guys should be finished tomorrow, and the titan is primarily waiting on a good day outside to prime. Lately its been all cold, drizzly, windy garbage weather, and I dont have my indoor spraying rig prepared yet. (Gotta get on that, actually..... Winter is coming...)


First up, three more EFT guys:
A familiar face: The Chemist


Cleric: It was requested that I add more blue, so this is the result. Normally she has a red and white dress, with a muted rose colored cloak. I decided on Blue and white for the dress, and a sort of grayish blue-green for the cloak.


And finally the pugilist. The color pallette is swapped a bit, as a "blue top and dark pants" were requested. I think it worked out surprisingly well. The teal hair was chosen because in the art she is depicted with teal as a spot color (where I happened to use red on this figure). Definitely one of the more bizarre colors Ive painted hair!



I also painted up two Zombicide survivors that have been on my desk for a while now. Trying to mix up my projects so I dont get burned out.
Here we have the Bruce Willis character, and "Dave" , who is a clear Big Bang Theory tribute


Bruce's right eye had a weird bit of mold line going through it, and I've done a bit to try and fix it. Still looks a little funny to me.



Finally, a bit on the Titan:
Unable to prime the larger sections, I made some headway on color choices for the metallic components (ie, most of the lower section)

I want to utilize my airbrush for as much of the base coat as I can, as there's a TON of area to cover with a regular brush. So I experimented with some Testors Model master Acrylic, specifically "Steel"

Here we have the interior engine component, which will sadly be obscured under a steel mesh screen!


And washed with SW Soft Body Black we get this:


I will be hitting this with "Armor Wash", another secret weapons wash that looks a bit more green tinted than GW Devlan Mud, and that should give me a nice grimy dark metal. Then its some highlights with various other silvers and we should see where we stand!
Im hoping weather gets nicer (a small bit of rain started up just tonight as I was flat coating these minis *grumble*), and hopefully the Titan will get some metallics on it soon!



Now I had a bit of a question about the format of this blog. Do you guys like it better when i make more substantive posts like this? Or do you prefer seeing smaller, more frequent updates? So this, versus the past week or two.

I like the smaller posts. Leads to more discussion, and it gets more reading on interesting projects.

Ditto.

X-3 smaller posts are nicer, it's like we're chatting together! :-)

More is better.. I like following the steps

Alrighty. Ill try to do smaller chunks, then

The Earth Troll and Gunsmith from Endless are about done- should have them flat coated tonight.
In the mean time, the weather continues to be crap. Im going to see If I cant get some primer on the titan's legs. At least that way it'll be a step forward!

In lieu of Marines on the base (Im still trying to figure out a model to use- my bitz are disappointingly slim in this regard), I rigged up this little scene with two guardsmen, one of which has been sitting around for ages. I think I made it for one of the ork flyers I never finished building.

In any case, here we go. I dont think his buddy's gonna make it...





And on the base.




Lemme know what you think (especially you, WM!) I can always put marines on the base instead, I just dont have any suitable parts
The wounded guardsman just seemed to fit so perfectly in that spot. If you dont like him ill just pop him on one of my flyers for next Adepticon.

I like the look of the guardsman, but I think the marines would make it more Badab War titan then generic titan, ya know? I have literally hundreds of space marines in bits, just lmk what you are looking for.

Why not both?

Maybe a Marine treating the Guardsman? "You served well."

Nice posing Ramos.
and nice painting on the EFT(?) figs. I like the teal hair.

Keep both guard there and a marine medic who is about to fix him up

I have bits for that.

 Miss Dee wrote:
Keep both guard there and a marine medic who is about to fix him up

Marine Medics heal guardsmen with bolt rounds and/or meltabombs...

The Emperor Protects

Melta bomb wasted on a guardsman? More like combat knife! Though RS are know for their Apothicaries...

Perhaps the guardsman was a member of the Tyrant Guard and the marine is about to execute him!

I'd go with the marines if that's what Whaley wants dude :-) if he's happy to send you the bits and you can make another little conversion that is along the same lines as the Guardsman then you're onto a winner! I love how the two guardsman look on the base, it really does add that special feel to it but two marines in Badab era! well now, that's just gonna be even better !!

I definitely hear ya on that, WM.
Cyp's Idea could very well work, though i guess since you want this to drip with Badab flavor, we should get marines all around (I'll just save the mixed group for one of my flyers )
Have an RS Apoth tending to the wounded guy, then another loyalist marine lining up a shot or something. I put a minefield running between the Titan's legs, so he'll probably be next to that rock in back.




I figure I'll need a set of kneeling legs (from Devs, i think), the apoth backpack and right arm w/ the drill thingy, and three sets of legs, heads, and torsos. Weapon arms I think i've got, especially with assembling mostly heavy weapon devastators last year.
If I could get a couple additional apoth bits for my own future basing purposes, thatd be cool too. I can trade ya something for em.


Anywho, the first group of endless figs are complete!
Including the human Gunsmith:

(That eye isnt nearly as messy as it looks.... odd bit of glare from the camera there... :/ )


and the big ol' Earth Troll!


And finally, a group shot:


Thanks for reading!

Nifty bit 'o OSL on the bases Ramos.

Nice work.
That troll is just going to keep on walking isn't it...

That troll is straight up fraggle rock looking, which is sweet.

Yeah, I can bits ya up. I'll get it out on Saturday.

@Gits: Thanks! All credit for the idea goes to Tonio, who built an awesome crystal mines board for the game. Im just glad it turned out as well as it did ^^

@Dr. H: He'll keep going and going and going....
I wasn't a huge fan of the model at first, but seeing it painted up made me warm to it... looking at the stat card this guys got a ton of HP too, so.... Keeps going and going......

@WM: Top notch! No super rush on em- best part about em is that I can add them at any time!


Now on to the next update! (two in one day! Madness!)

I neglected to picture the Earth counters that go with the Troll, markers for one of his abilities, i believe. Since there are two other trolls in the next group, there are a total of six tokens. I just painted em all up at once, since it let me keep my brush going!




Then the Titan's legs saw primer! *celebrates*


Getting chilly outside, so its not going to be long before I'm forced to prime indoors.... time to get my rig set up again!


And then we come to the last part of this update:
I was recently approached by the designer of the Eldar Aegis Defence Line I worked on a while back for WM.

He liked my work, and so commissioned me to paint up a batch for him. One full set plus guns and comm relay, then two other single segments plus relay in two other schemes. Currently we are discussing colors, and Im liking where its going so far. Though the details are still being hammered out, it looks like the colors are going to be black and red (very Saim-Han), an icy blue and white, and a bone colored wall with dark green thorny vines.

So I spent a bit of this afternoon washing the bits:


Now as you may remember, this particular kit gave me a few problems, namely bubbles and annoying parts. For example, the hard to remove bit of sprue in the middle of the control panel.

The Old:


Now lets compare it to the new kit.

The New:


All I can say is "damn". The improvement in quality is astounding!
Every piece is crisp, and whatever minor defects present are a cinch to fix. Gone are nearly all of the bubbles, and the accursed sprue is nowhere to be found! In addition, the two part sandwich bases I complained about in my previous build have been cleanly consolidated into a single base piece.
I said last time that I could recommend the kit if the bubbles became a non-issue, and I stand by it. Definitely some gorgeous work!
He apparently has also built a Tau and Daemon ADL. Something to look forward to, for sure!

Those rock token things make me think that I should put more effort into rocks when I paint them. very convincing.

Look forward to some lovely smooth paint-jobs on the Eldar whatsits.

Now I'm slightly sad I got the MK1 Eldar wall. Good thing it's still cool!

@Dr. H: Thanks! Really these dont take much time. Its actually only a few shades of gray (starting with Adeptus Battlegray) progressively layered to a slightly gray-white. A rather quick method, but very effective!

@WM: No worries, dude. Yours still looks killer (if I do say so myself). I don't think you'll be able to tell the difference after its all said and done. I worked hard to make your wall look nice
Only thing that's gonna be different is that I spent a lot less time gap-filling on this model!


Wall is now clean and assembled. Just gotta let the GS cure, then its a bit of smoothing it out and its all ready for paint!

Should have da bits on monday.

I wonder what a Tau defense line would look like

 Miss Dee wrote:
I wonder what a Tau defense line would look like

Micro Art thinks they would look like this:

http://www.shop.microartstudio.com/tauceti-defence-line-p-986.html

@WM: Golden! Sounds great, man, thanks a ton!

@Dee: The same guy who made these walls recently released his take on the Tau theme:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/T-Type-Defence-Line-/221302314957?pt=UK_Toys_Wargames_RL&hash=item3386a557cd

@Moltar: Iiiinteresting. Not sure how I feel about that version- It's definitely nice (and gorgeously painted), nut it just doesnt "do it" for me. Not a fan of the overall aesthetic, particularly the "wall connector" pieces. The back of the walls looks rather nice, though- I like the energy conduit glow.
From a gaming standpoint it seems like more of a hassle to place, seeing as you not only have the 8 wall segments, but the 9 additional connector bits.


So I decided to try something new while painting the first layer of red. Back at Adepticon, one of the things in the swag bag were a pair of sample pots of Badger's Minitaire paints. Minitaire is a line of airbrush ready paints designed for the miniatures market, and from what I've seen the color range is pretty nice. I was given a pot of red and a pot of blue, which though a bit of deductive reasoning Im guessing are the colors Scorching Red and Lagoon Blue.

And so I sprayed....



Rather happy with the result. The paint went on smooth and the color is awesome. Its a little more red than GW Blood Red.
It seemed to be a bit thick, so my airbrush had a bit of a hard time with it, but that might just be a case of the paint being a bit old and drying a bit. Even then, it went on great. More of these paints are definitely in my future.

As it stands, I need to wait for my compressor to cool a bit, then its on to highlights and shades. Then the black stripes!


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Aaaand Shade!



Compressor cooling again... At least I've gotten rid of the issue of water in the line!