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Soo, my weathering powders arrived and I decided to troll some guys... What do you think: could this pass as a finished terrain?



Apparently, they really thought I was being serious...So, having such a lovely 16 April...
...I got inspired and trolled them a bit more



Seriously though, I'll have to make a trip to my LGS, break in and steal some Ulthuan Grey to finish layering so I can then move on to other stages :(

Yeah, the weather is really "promising" right now. If it all freezes overnight... On the more gaming side, shadows on that facade look really pretty. A bit in a painted way, my eyes keep seeing things "illuminated" from below rather than from above, but still - a cool building it will be.

Dum, dum, dum, Sanctum Imperialis (as I call it) is now FINISHED



And here's how it looks next to Manufactorum



And, I also started working on the 3rd building. Primed it today, but BLOODY HELL, grey primer is a bitch to spray. Mostly because it's really hard to see where the primer already settled and, thus, easy to over spray :(

They are like opposite color schemes of each other. Neat.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
They are like opposite color schemes of each other. Neat.

I kinda thought that different colors will bring more variety to the table

I agree. Grey buildings are great, but kinda boring when that's all you have.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
I agree. Grey buildings are great, but kinda boring when that's all you have.

And they are so simple to paint... In fact, I got soo tired of all these fancy painting techniques, that I decided to paint my next building in simple black/gold/grey dry brush scheme and, maybe if at the time i'm not pissed enough, some osl lights too. I mean, spending 2-3 weeks on a terrain piece is just way too much. Especially, when I still have Bastion and Shadow War terrain waiting in line as well...And after that, there's like 5 Cerastus Knights, 1 Porphyrion, ~1,5k points of Custodians, 1 Warhound, 2 Thunderbolts, 2 Vultures, Avenger, Lightning, Malcador Infernus, Magma Dragon... Oh, and a whole set of Escape From Goblin Town...



And today I started thinking about actually playing Shadow War, instead of just doing everything so others could play it. After scouring through available kill teams (boo hoo, no Secutari Horplites, no Eldar Corsairs), I decided to settle on Sisters of Battle. So today ima buy: Canoness, SoB booster (5 sisters inside), Sister with icon, Sister with HB and Sister with MM (or maybe just two Sisters with HBs, since they look so damn cool). And a pack of 32mm bases, because the 25 ones are ugly.

So, this happened today...



And as I (we) are organizing a one day Shadow War campaign at the end of May, it will be a perfect opportunity to up my paintings and at least try to put some basecolors. So now I have roughly 2 weeks until they arrive. At this time I must, MUST finish all other WIPS... sigh.

Now to decide on the colors scheme...

-Argent Shroud. Silver with some reds and whites.
-Valorous Heart. Black with some whites.
-Ebon Chalice. Black with whites and reds.
-Martyred Lady. Black with dark reds.
-Bloody Rose. Red with blacks.
-Sacred Rose. White with blacks and reds.

Honestly, the most interesting schemes are those of Sacred/Bloody Rose and Martyred Lady... On one hand, white is a bitch to paint, but I already have some experience with it. On second hand, the red I could paint two ways: blend simple reds or use FW Angron Red clear paints... Decisions, decisions...

Terrific work- I'm getting lots of ideas I want to try both in terms of painting buildings, but trying out OSL for the first time. The blue lighting on the red building- super! I look forward to seeing more of your work.

Thanks. OSL is really nothing special if you have an airbrush: just spray brighter colors on top and that's pretty much it

So today, instead of sleeping longer, I did some work on more terrain. As slavs would say - Chaltura I'm actually pretty curious if it will be as ugly as i think it will be



I also derped around with water effects. Had some leaks and the instructions said the whole thing is mutagenic and causes skin burns (AND me being me - not using any safety gear), I was really not in a mood to touch it and fix it so it turned out how it turned out

Had a chance to look at these marvels with my own eyes on Thursday - despite low light an awesome sight! OSLs are neat, but in our underground conditions some LEDs would have been more proper.

Water effects for the win!!!

Leds, while an awesome idea, take quite some time...maybe a week drilling holes, fixing wires and building some chambers to hide batteries in. And I'm rushing to finish all these terrain pieces and finally move on to my ever increasing pile of resin/plastic crack

THOUGH, we had this crazy idea to take all the leftover lamp poles from these kits and make a fully led-lit road. Sometime in next life, probably...

As for the water effects, I've learned two things: they leak like crazy. I mean, even 0.5mm gap is enough for them to go anywhere you don't want them to be.
And if I will ever again decide to do something similar (water effects on the bases edge - I will reinforce the wall with white tac).

CragHack,

Nice terrain work and cannot wait to see your Sisters get painted.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks. I guess the sisters will be my first ever fully painted force for a game

Did more work on terrain. Dark Reaper is pure gold.

Terrific work on the terrain.

Remember you can always invent your own order. I've painted my SoB up in yellow armour with blue robes .

EDC

Looking forward to seeing your Sisters for SWA!

They will definitely take some time. I got lucky - a friend gave me one his Sisters to try different paint schemes on. So while washes on terrain piece were drying, I did a quick test scheme for Order of the Bloody Rose. This one kinda looks dark, maybe I shouldn't have layered the metallics and sprayed everything in Stormhost Silver for max brightness. Anyways, here's how it turned out:

Whoo, finally finished painting another terrain piece.



Dis how it looks next to other buildings:



And I already primed the ALMOST last piece I have to paint. And, yes, the barrels are drilled

Such an amazingly productive day, wow. I think I'll finish this in upcomimg few days

Bastion is now washed. Just need to add Nihilakh Oxide to the brass parts, some lenses, some lights, more rust on top and powders at the bottom (it's gonna be a great opportunity to learn some powder caking effects)



Also bought some hobby supplies. The big one is for them Knights, the small one - Zone Mortalis Custodians ant those odd 8 sisters. And some new and shiny tools, to make everything as close to perfect, as possible

Wow, i dont check this blog. and BAM! You've certainly been busy. great work

Thanks. It's nearing completion: just this and some more Shadow War terrain. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it by the end of the month and can move on to building a decent army to play with

Aand, it's done, Imperial Bastion is now finished. Got reasonably lazy at the end, shoudl've weathered more. Totally forgot to dust the foumdations as well. Meh, still looks passable. Next - Shadow War terrain.

I can see the finish line! And at the same time I'm like massively lazy and pissed of painting the same stuff over and over again, gah...

Some layerimg, some weathering...all that's left now is to pick all the hoses and pipes in different metallic colors and wash the crap out of everything. In the end decided to gi with bare metal, since It felt like there was too much red.

Looks good so far.

Awesome work on the Bastion. Nice progess on the Shadow war terrain too.

EDC

CraigHack,

The Imperial Bastion is wonderful.

Cheers,

CB

Thanks for the comments

The gantries are now finished. Did some work on the chimneys as well, should be finished in upcoming week.

A very lazy paintjob

IT'S FINALLY DONE! OMG, I'm soo happy, now I can do whatever I like... Like, play Diablo 2
Anyways, here are the final bits:







So now my plans are:

*Warhound Titan
*Bases for 3 Knights
*8ish or so Sisters for SW:A
*4 Custodian Dreads

For this I even tidied my modest work space