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The shiney on the Alpha boy looks pretty good actually. Or else your painting skills simply warp the fabric of space time to the point that silly things such as "light" and "reflection" are no longer relevant.

6/May/09 Game Plan

I have to think about the big picture a bit. I need to make some sort of game plan overall, like "finish one unit each month". I don't really want anything more coherent with this project, but then, if I don't have a monthly pacemaker, I won't see enough results to keep me going, I think.

SO, PLAN FOR MAY:

- finish building and converting a Vendetta, with a fully painted interior!

(just started building... and for Once, I will have to brake my "rule" of never painting anything before full assembly)

New Alpharius is top rate. With two of them showing in the unit shot, they certainly have a combined presence. Really impressed your new technique repeated so well, I have a list of paints and "application" notes on a pad myself to ensure that kind of uniformity.

Having a duo to look at, you get a better sense of various touches you apply to these models. Skin pallor, contrasting hues etc.

love it.

Edit : Good fun browsing through the army collections, it's been fun spotting models I never knew were yours originally! Though the tau, well.. knew of them well when they appeared

~ Tael.

Been following your stuff now for about 3 months Migsula...
Just recently got off my butt and joined Dakka.
Anywho nothing you haven't heard before.

Your pieces really made me quit "fast painting" and sit down and go " Wow! I suck!" Now I get less done, but I've started treating every model with a little more tender, love and care. I've been reading countless painting and modeling tutorials and noticing all sorts or weathering and random things as I walk around my work place. A friend and I are also starting a little =I=munda of our own. (So I can copy your true scale mostly... Only a dark angel.) Which I will have a log for as soon as I get some stuff off of my plate.

So thank you Migsula for being an inspiration with literally EVERYTHING you do and making me better by enterweb osmosis.

Littleboyblues

you can see Migs eisenhorne retinue here on CMON :
http://www.coolminiornot.com/135153
its awesome! and so is this plog!

littleboyblues wrote:So thank you Migsula for being an inspiration with literally EVERYTHING you do and making me better by enterweb osmosis.

Littleboyblues

Thank you sir. Looking forward to your blog and welcome to dakka!!

Has anyone got a clue when the Forge World Vendetta conversion kit is out??

I'm set for one, but if and when I intend to make all my Valkyrie's into Vendettas' I won't be able to repeat. As the first Ride will be Legion custom, it doesn't matter if it is a little different

An Alpha Legion coloured Vendetta? Hmm...intriguing!

Malika2 wrote:An Alpha Legion coloured Vendetta? Hmm...intriguing!

No, much more clandestine, but still, for those in the know, clearly a special bird

Holy crap...it isn't going to be what I think it's going to be right? That would simply me...well...you know...mindblowing!

Hmm, that probably isn't going to be it since you mentioned it was more clandestine.

Nah, that'll have to wait for the plastic Thunderhawk kit

Don't think any sort of release date has been mentioned yet but given the parts have been shown at GD's and FW are usually quite quick with their turnaround from there, I'd guess a couple of months?

Good to see you have a plan in place and that you haven't been too strict with yourself, I think that will help maintain the creativity which is so evident in all your work, while at the same time maintaining a point of focus on both the project at hand and the greater aim as a whole.

Really looking forward to the valk, can't wait to see your skills transfered to this "canvas".

Cheers,

Dante

10/May/09 Viper

First of all - some people have been saying the Valkyrie kit is a bitch to put together, and I totally disagree. Lovely piece of kit and awesome scale for once. You could really fit an infantry squad inside.

I built my first as a special Viper model, A Vendetta version used by the Legion, where the wing mounted Twin Lascannons are replaced with hunter-killer missile racks for both air to air and air to ground fire missions and fire and forget targeting and homing systems. In tournaments, this will count as a Vendetta, but for home games, it will count as 6 hunter killer missiles with the AA mount rule

I obviously had to include the Heavy Bolters, and convert one gunner into a sniper operative. You just don’t pass Black Hawk down as inspiration when building the first of these bad boys. Furthermore I built a radar system in to the nozzle of the craft, for the missiles and another custom targeting system above it.

Here be pics. Priming today, then rest of the month for painting it as well as I can. In the last one you see the connecting points masked for gluing the thing together after the interiors and hard to reach areas + crew are painted.

I'm loving the sniper in the doorway.

Pure special forces.

Nice subtle conversions on a really cool kit. The sniper is a cool touch too. Also, nice use of the Ork shells on the HB, really adds some drama.

Looking forward to painting!

Cheers,

Dante

really agree on the kit. it's great to put together and hugely detailed.
the new weapons loadout looks nice. you could also run it as a vendetta with incediary missiles.
two little things: the sniper might profit from goggles, if he's flying over a desert, both against glare and airborne sand. also, did you make him a harness? it looks like that in the third pic from the top.

well i have seen this log alot on my time on dakka, so i thought i would use my first post to say that this log is AWESOME!

im really inspired by your modelling techniques and im thinking of doing something like this

laters, Joe

Door gunner FTW.

"How do you shoot women and children?"

"Easy, you just don't lead em as much."

Good work. Looks like a sweet kit.

The gunners are good personal add too.

Migs, if I may call you Migs, always been a big fan of yours, as you may have noticed, My DOOM nids forum was dedicated to your inspiring TWAR army. Keep up the goodies!!

That spray of ammo casings is epic. I just about peed my pants when I saw that you're going to do a valk. Way cool, that.

Hmm consider that ammo casings idea stolen!

And now the whole thing (+ Alpharius + agent + captain) are primed!

Yes, I built the crew simple harnesses to stay on board when the ride is bumpy - goggles would have been a pragmatic addition, need to think about that next time. Also - I am using the flying stand, at the time of taking the pics, I was still working on the scenic base, but now that is also primed and ready for paint

Thanks for the comments!

Got to love the calm centred look on that sniper casually resting his rifle after taking a shot out of a moving gunship like that.

See this is just making me want to start another project. The Valk is so damn cool.

Perhaps I should get on and start that Gun-cutter I've been thinking about...


Hey Migsula, what do you use for priming? Seeing as you are a painting god and all, it'd be great to know what you use for best results.

Cheers
Earl

I use GW Skull White spray for priming.

Anyone who runs is a Viet-Cong. Anyone who stands still is a well disciplined Viet-Cong.

Great Valk, keep up the good work.

I like the snake on the side near the door nice touch and yes the ork ammo spray is wicked.

Shall we dance?

This is badass. Painted, now, please!

sA

This is great work Migsula makes me want to paint a Alpharius. In fact i might just do that although if you don't mind me asking what colours did you used i don't have a clue how to paint Alpha Legion.