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day look really good.

Hey everyone sorry for the long time away. I been some what busy building my Land Raider and not much painting.
So I basically am done building my LR and I also ordered some Vallejo Air paints ready for my Ravenwing project as soon as I am done with my DW. So here is a small update on my build. I hope you like it.

wow these are really good i dident know that that was the AOBR sargent it dient look like him untill you said!and nice use of spary painting

quietus86 wrote:day look really good.

Thanks quietus86 and thanks for tuning in

HAZZER wrote:wow these are really good tat AOBR sargent dient look like him untill you said!and nice use of spary painting

HAZZER thanks it was my first attempt at the colors and airbrushing my DW. That squad was my experiment which was the base of my new squad you currently see. Now its got a slighter brighter look due to highlighting methods I picked up from Massive Vodoo. I will try to post more soon so stay tune.

Ok another small update. I magnatized my comm unit on my LR and drilled out the gun barrels. I also started painted 2 more Termies. I will try to finish these two by the end of the week . Lets pray I do !

GreyDeathOne wrote:Ok another small update. I magnatized my comm unit on my LR and drilled out the gun barrels. I also started painted 2 more Termies. I will try to finish these two by the end of the week . Lets pray I do !

wow these guys are coming along nicely!!!Really really good use of spray painting mins it can be really effective but you may need to touch up arears?Have you been uising army painter spray paint?one again ive just got to say how good these people are!

HAZZER wrote:

GreyDeathOne wrote:Ok another small update. I magnatized my comm unit on my LR and drilled out the gun barrels. I also started painted 2 more Termies. I will try to finish these two by the end of the week . Lets pray I do !

wow these guys are coming along nicely!!!Really really good use of spray painting mins it can be really effective but you may need to touch up arears?Have you been uising army painter spray paint?one again ive just got to say how good these people are!

Thanks HAZZER! No they where airbrushed with Vallejo Model Iraqi Sand and washed with GW Sephia. No they are not completely done I am trying to do a assembly line painting and need to still detail most of it. If you look back at the Lightning Claw and Cyclone Missle Launcher marine thats how they will look when they are done.
So stay tune for more.

Awesome Job man, You sure got the DW colors down. Can't wait to see the LR done, let me know if you need some of my armor model mags for some ideas.

great work mate,i love the way the colours turned out on the termies.

Awesome DW terminators! I imagine it must be pretty quick to spray down the minis then the color layers on top to simulate the highlights. I'm picking up an Iwata Eclipse Double Action this month... I see that you use both GW and Vallejo Air paints. Can Vallejo Air go straight into the airbrush as-is? I've read that most other paints (ie. GW) require some sort of windex/water combo to cut it down before shooting through the airbrush? Any tips to share with an airbrush newb?

Thanks, and sorry about going a bit off-topic, but the results look really great on your figures!

Yowzaah got a whole bunch of emails for this thread this weekend and holy angels batman that land raider is going to be a beast! Great work Greydeathone wish I had some talent like that. Cant download the fluff at work but will do it when I get home.

fasteddiexx1 wrote:Awesome Job man, You sure got the DW colors down. Can't wait to see the LR done, let me know if you need some of my armor model mags for some ideas.

Yup you know I will if I need to. But already got a idea and this is not no princess Landraider this beast been through some fields of battle and some tech marine is crying back at the Rock cause its overdue for some blessing from the machine god. Well we all know that god is on the bottom of the list!

shingouki wrote:great work mate,i love the way the colours turned out on the termies.

Shingouki thanks and thanks for tuning in. I got to get cracking on this squad its well over due.

HF Izanagi wrote:Awesome DW terminators! I imagine it must be pretty quick to spray down the minis then the color layers on top to simulate the highlights. I'm picking up an Iwata Eclipse Double Action this month... I see that you use both GW and Vallejo Air paints. Can Vallejo Air go straight into the airbrush as-is? I've read that most other paints (ie. GW) require some sort of windex/water combo to cut it down before shooting through the airbrush? Any tips to share with an airbrush newb?

Thanks, and sorry about going a bit off-topic, but the results look really great on your figures!

NP mate! Also thanks for tunining in. Well for GW yes I use Windex to thin down the p
aint and as for VA its straight from the bottle. Also congrats on the Iwata ypu will love using your airbrush. You will love the fact that you can prime and base and highlight with it and reduce your time by more then half the time traditional brush would. But you will still need to detail and some highlights with a brush but thays not a problem knowing you did most of the base by airbrush.
Tips for a new guy well go to Les Bursley and Rom of Massive Voodoo. These two helped me alot and if you need more tips PM me and more then happy to assist.

Daemon Eater wrote:Yowzaah got a whole bunch of emails for this thread this weekend and holy angels batman that land raider is going to be a beast! Great work Greydeathone wish I had some talent like that. Cant download the fluff at work but will do it when I get home.

DE your a loyal follower and thank you again. As for talent trust me it took awhile for me to get at this level and if we had youtube back in the 80's I would be like Yellow eye now lol!!
So like the old saying goes keep a open mind and practice practice and more practice.
PM me anytime if you have any questions.

Ok folks lets see if I can get some painting in when I get home. Thank you all for following or just lurking and at 7k hits I am suprised. See you all soon.

Nice lookin Deathwing so far, cant wait to see them finished ^_^

Thanks for the tips GDOne! I'm excited to get the airbrush too... I watch AwesomePaintJob on youtube as well. I'll be sticking around to see what you do, and get some inspiration from here! I like both your standard DA green and DWs, but the smooth coats on the DWs are pretty awesome. Keep it up!

HF Izanagi wrote:Thanks for the tips GDOne! I'm excited to get the airbrush too... I watch AwesomePaintJob on youtube as well. I'll be sticking around to see what you do, and get some inspiration from here! I like both your standard DA green and DWs, but the smooth coats on the DWs are pretty awesome. Keep it up!

No problem man. If you want a good tutorial on highlighting go to Massive Voodoo and search under tutorial. He does a great tutorial on it. Well it's been a busy week at work and had no brain power to paint . I actually sat at my desk and stared at my models for 20min and did nothing.
Well lets hope I get some motivation and do some painting tonight.

GreyDeathOne wrote:

HAZZER wrote:

GreyDeathOne wrote:Ok another small update. I magnatized my comm unit on my LR and drilled out the gun barrels. I also started painted 2 more Termies. I will try to finish these two by the end of the week . Lets pray I do !

wow these guys are coming along nicely!!!Really really good use of spray painting mins it can be really effective but you may need to touch up arears?Have you been uising army painter spray paint?one again ive just got to say how good these people are!

Thanks HAZZER! No they where airbrushed with Vallejo Model Iraqi Sand and washed with GW Sephia. No they are not completely done I am trying to do a assembly line painting and need to still detail most of it. If you look back at the Lightning Claw and Cyclone Missle Launcher marine thats how they will look when they are done.
So stay tune for more.

thanks are you going to do a toutoral for painting them?

HAZZER I woiuld love to but I don't have that kind of time to do a Vid tutorial. Maybe a picture one in the future. Till then I can assist anybody where I can.

I was just thinking of a pic toutral (I find those the best eslicaly on Dakka! beacuse if you have any quireys you can normaly just ask or pm them!)thanks anyway no worries

HAZZER well I will see if I can make some time to do one. I will see if I can pick up a AOBR terminator set online and do a tutorial.

Ok small update. fasteddiexx1 came over and we did a paint session in my garage. He brought over his really cool Stormraven conversion and wanted to me to see his progress on his scratch built twin auto cannon for me.
Well I realized I did not post my cyclone missle termie so take a look and tell me what you think. I still have a few touch up and place the DA icon on the shoulder. I also started to finish up my first SS/TH termie and 2nd LC termie. So here it goes.

Dude! Those pics of your CML and your Lighting Claw termies are the sheet!

Nice looking Deathwing ^_^ i really like the bone color of Vallejo to bad I havent been able to get any paints yet to try it out myself

Cool but stormravens are for blood angels thier sucsessors and the inqusion only!!!I like how you make such a cool ship fit in with such a cool army!Fiinlly somone except me is bending the rules for stupid gw and thier"leagal and eleagal" rules.(im only saying they are stupid beacause of when i go into the stores and had a really bad time at warhammere world)

fasteddiexx1 wrote:Dude! Those pics of your CML and your Lighting Claw termies are the sheet!

Thanks brother!!

WarPetrie wrote:Nice looking Deathwing ^_^ i really like the bone color of Vallejo to bad I havent been able to get any paints yet to try it out myself

Is it cause there is no local stores that sell it?

HAZZER wrote:Cool but stormravens are for blood angels thier sucsessors and the inqusion only!!!I like how you make such a cool ship fit in with such a cool army!Fiinlly somone except me is bending the rules for stupid gw and thier"leagal and eleagal" rules.(im only saying they are stupid beacause of when i go into the stores and had a really bad time at warhammere world)

Well house rules are ok don't let the rule book thumpers/lawers stop you from building one. You gotta look at it from a LR Crusader POV. It use to be only legal for Black Templars but look now. Also it will be a bad marketing for them if they keep it that way. So no worries, go out and build it, I know I will ( well fasteddiexx1 will ) Look at all the galleries there are alot of dakka folks building it for thier chapters.

GreyDeathOne wrote:

WarPetrie wrote:Nice looking Deathwing ^_^ i really like the bone color of Vallejo to bad I havent been able to get any paints yet to try it out myself

Is it cause there is no local stores that sell it?

No there is, I just havent been able to go down and buy some XD I guess I could order it online from them...but since I havent boughten any Vallejo paints before I'd like to see what the actuall color looks like and see how much it compares to the GW ones.

Absolutely wicked lightning claws! The hammer guy is looking good too- I noticed the wear on his armor, are you planning on going a bit further with it- metal underneath/grey highlights? Keep it up- I'll be getting myself some masking tape type stuff and probably plasticard to make stencils.

I just got my airbrush and compressor in today! It's pretty awesome looking, but I'll be trying it out this weekend when I get test models from storage (read- tonight, on a perfectly good mini that I'll regret)

I've got a question about "cutting the paint" with Windex. For layering and feathering, or just any painting, really, I usually get the paint to the consistency of "skim milk". I haven't seen or had that in more than a decade, but I think I got the idea. How about for airbrushes? Is is the same? Even thinner? Thicker? Any ideas as to ratios for GW acrylics/water/windex?

Thanks in advance, and keep churning out the DWs. It's a live tutorial/benchmarker for me!

HF Izanagi wrote:Absolutely wicked lightning claws! The hammer guy is looking good too- I noticed the wear on his armor, are you planning on going a bit further with it- metal underneath/grey highlights? Keep it up- I'll be getting myself some masking tape type stuff and probably plasticard to make stencils.

I just got my airbrush and compressor in today! It's pretty awesome looking, but I'll be trying it out this weekend when I get test models from storage (read- tonight, on a perfectly good mini that I'll regret)

I've got a question about "cutting the paint" with Windex. For layering and feathering, or just any painting, really, I usually get the paint to the consistency of "skim milk". I haven't seen or had that in more than a decade, but I think I got the idea. How about for airbrushes? Is is the same? Even thinner? Thicker? Any ideas as to ratios for GW acrylics/water/windex?

Thanks in advance, and keep churning out the DWs. It's a live tutorial/benchmarker for me!

Thanks man. Yup going to do more detail on the weathering but trying to get most of the basic parts down and doing a assembly type painting.
As for thining paints I use windex to thin the paints. Its got a "flash" property that helps in the drying of the paint. As for formula in thining it depends in temp and humidity. Not to sound technical but you gotta experiment. I usealy use 1:1 ratio with GW or Vallejo. Some colors you will notice is thicker so you will use more windex. So remember test spray on a paper towel or something smooth so you can see if you got the right consistancy.
So experiment with some paint you dont care to waste and do some practice with your new airbrush to get use to it.
Good luck and have fun.

Hey Dakka folks! Well my stressfull job is no more, the company did a nationwide elimination of the role I was in. Now I have more time to paint and look for a new job.
Well nuff of the downer I manage to squeeze some painting last weekend and today. I got to prime my assault guys and detail and complete 90% of 1 termie and 70% of one.
I am planing to prime my Landraider this week and start on it when my Vallejo 60mil primer gets in.
I hope to be posting more now that I have been laid off and see if I can squeeze in a photo tutorial on my DW. So here is my small update.

Eep... sorry to hear about your company downsizing... but we get to see more of the DWs... so I shouldn't complain all too much...

And yes, a photo tut would be excellent, as I'm playing around with the airbrush but I've decided to stop til I build a proper spray booth. I'm not sure if you posted it anywhere else on the thread, but do you know how many pts your DW army is going to be?

Good luck on your job search, and looking forward to more!

**Edit**

Oh yea... I forgot to ask- I notice a lot of painters do that- sticking figures on top of bottles for ease of painting/adjustments. What do you use to stick them on there? Blu-tac? I'm definitely going to try that out as I hate the paint scratch-off from gripping the bases themselves.

HF Izanagi wrote:Eep... sorry to hear about your company downsizing... but we get to see more of the DWs... so I shouldn't complain all too much...

And yes, a photo tut would be excellent, as I'm playing around with the airbrush but I've decided to stop til I build a proper spray booth. I'm not sure if you posted it anywhere else on the thread, but do you know how many pts your DW army is going to be?

Good luck on your job search, and looking forward to more!

**Edit**

Oh yea... I forgot to ask- I notice a lot of painters do that- sticking figures on top of bottles for ease of painting/adjustments. What do you use to stick them on there? Blu-tac? I'm definitely going to try that out as I hate the paint scratch-off from gripping the bases themselves.

Thanks brother yea got to dust off my resume and start spaming the job sites.
As for a spray booth a simple cardboard box and a lazy suzan I got from Ikea for 20 bucks and what I use to hold my figures on my bottles is poster tac/blue tac.
As for point wise for my DW I am looking over 1700. Just to have a variety of options since I did not magnitize my guys.
Do a youtube search on Tamiya Tanks and you will get a idea on just a cardboard box or check my youtube under Greydeath and its on my favorites.

Sweet and thanks for the quick response! I'll stop by my local Home Depot or Lowes for that stuff this weekend after classes.

Good luck with the job-hunt, and I'll be looking forward to more!