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joshoftheforest wrote:I would love to see a full army shot of everything you have done so far... any chance?


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Sorry to post again, I was just wondering where you got your paint from?

I'll do a full army shot the next time I've got them out for a game and post up on here.

I bought my Reaper paints direct from their site. I used other paints for the Avatar also though. For example I painted the highlights on the armour mixing black, characin granite GW foundation and some silver metallic pigment from MIG productions sci fi range. For most airbrushed colours I use Vallejo Model Air paint thinned a 3:1 paint to distilled water/isopropyl alcohol.

Thanks too for the kind words guys.

You almost make me want to branch out from GW paints.

Loving your Avatar, just like the rest of your work.

It was nice to finally see your army in the flesh the other week. It's even nicer than the photo's look.

I would like to see how our Eldar armies would fare against each other.

One day! :-)

That is a very good looking avatar! Great work on the glowing effect.

Brother Bartius wrote:You almost make me want to branch out from GW paints.

Loving your Avatar, just like the rest of your work.

It was nice to finally see your army in the flesh the other week. It's even nicer than the photo's look.

I would like to see how our Eldar armies would fare against each other.

One day! :-)

We should arrange something fairly soon as I'm planning on trying some Foot'dar army builds soon. It'll give me a good idea about tactics playing your Foot'dar.

Cool. I'm going to arrange a day through at mines shortly.

we can hopefully get a game then.

Just a quick pic of the early stages on my Howling Banshees.

The pic is after basecoat and 2 levels of highlights have been done. Once I airbrushed on the base I added some white straight into the grey paint already in the airbrush. I sprayed directly and at slight angles from above. I repeated the process once more adding more white and spraying at the same angles but focussed on the head and shoulders and didn't add quite as much. I then gave them a badab black wash mixed 50/50 with flow improver so it didn't sit on the flat raised areas.

From primed to the pic took 30mins. Highlights are done and the shading will be applied with a brush and will take about 20 mins to do the squad with one darker tone. I may add an even darker shade in the deepest recesses if required.

Basically the main highlights and shading using this technique will take an hour altogether using this method of speed painting. Not bad for a squad of 10 minis.

Looking absolutely solid so far!

What Flow Improver do you use? How much do you mix it with Badab Black?

Thanks! I'm tweaking my speed painting method used before on my 2nd guardian squad (a couple of pages back). It wasn't that successful before but I've sussed it now i think. Good thing about the airbrush coats being so light is i can go back to the guardians later and apply my new method without losing too much details on the mins from paint build up.


50% GW Badab Black and 50% Winsor & newton Flow Improver for acrylic colour.


I've got something special planned for the swords on the HB's too. Another experiment but based on a scale modelling technique. The swords will be chromed. Downside is I'll probably need to sideline the squad until I get the paints. Watch this space

Looking forward to seeing the results!

Just a quick update for now.

Howling Banshees are still a WIP. Ignore the metallics on the swords as this will be redone with Alclad 2 chrome effect airbrush laquer Bit of an experiment but one that should hopefully pay off.

More up soon (weekend probably).

Gorgeous army and models I'm painting my Guardians atm and came across your work. just to sweet for words lol keep up the great work and I'd love to see full roster shot when completed

Thanks

Here's a quick WIP pic of my Howling Banshee squad. Slow progress on them as I'm working on the 'Smurf Bus' and I've also started work on converting a Seer Council on Jetbikes. I've now chromed the HB swords with Alclad 2 chrome for plastic airbrush paint. I'm pretty pleased with the result.

More up soon.

Lovely stuff!

As usual, your painting is making me so envious of your skill.

Looks fantastic

So far, so good. Diggin the Avatar

Thanks guys, got the Banshees done last night so I'll post some pics up tonight. If I've got time I'll do the army pic as promised earlier.

I've got a super heavy coming my way for Xmas this year but I can't decide which one to get. I had a Titan and scorpion earlier in the year but had to sell them to get some funds together. This time I can only get one but can't decide on whether to buy a Revenant Titan or a Cobra grav tank.

What do you guys reckon gaming wise would be the most fun? I'm happy to paint either.

Personally given the choice I would go for a Void dragon (or Vampire if you had the cash) but between your choices I would have to put a tick against the R.Titan with sonic lances. No idea how any of them play but Cobras just don't do it for me.

Here's a pic of the completed Howling Banshees unit:

I've been picking away at these for a while as I've been busy doing other things in my free time (work related) so they are speed painted as far as overall time spent on them. I'm pleased how they turned out as they are a reasonable table top quality.

Next jobs on my list are:

Vehicle transfers.
Finish the Guardians I have (Some are on sprues, some are semi painted etc.).
Finish the Warlock squad I started.
Paint my objective markers.

I'm also considering doing a bit of chop chop on my vehicles so I can magnetise the weapons. I'll have a think about that one. Might just wait a year or so til the new codex comes out.

they look really good, i think that they are better than table top quality! the bases are nice aswell. you getting a revanant titan at all??

Thanks! The bases were an experiment (most of the minis were an experiment really!). I used weathering powders from MIG Productions for the rust effect.

I'm seriously considering a Revenant as i like the idea of a 36'' jump into a 'stomp' move then waste the infantry I've scattered with Sonic thingies! We'll see. I also like the idea of the Cobras 10'' pie plate, AP2, Destroyer and avoids shields cannon!!

Played a game with the 'Sarge yesterday, the banshees are beautiful in the flesh (they look like apparitions). Though the fire warriors were happy to admire from a distance (>18 inches!).

Your work really inspires me to stop being such a cheap-ass and start working with an airbrush! Great effects on the Falcons!

Thanks guys!

Just ordered 2 FW Eldar Hornets today and a slack handful of jetbikes. Ooh yeah!

I'll put some pics of my WIP Seer Council on jetbikes once I've got them sculpted up. I've got about halfway through the actual building so far. It's been ok so far as I have a large Eldar bits box!

The super heavy idea is on hold for now until I figure out what to get. Prob order something in the new year. Ordered the Dark Eldar codex and DE warriors, Archon, Ravager etc today instead! Decided to keep the fast pointy ear thing going after a lot of mind changing and faffing about trying to decide what to run for my second army. I went for DE as they look like fun!

I can think of no better use for my 3100th post to complement you on your unique but highly effective painting technique.

You sir, can paint

DE, so cool! I love the fact that you didn't go for marines!!

troy_tempest wrote:DE, so cool! I love the fact that you didn't go for marines!!

Yeah, I thought long and hard about that one. I've painted up 4 marine armies all told so I figured sticking with the pointy eared Xenos was a winner. Plus I've got some ideas for my own Kabal..........

Really excited. The new stuff is well overdue because of the crappy weather of late.

In the meantime I've done some work on the Jetseer Council. Very difficult sculpting these robes.......
I've also done some simple conversion work on an Autarch on foot and added more Warlocks on foot to my collection. I'm going to try running a Seer Council (Farseer & 8 Warlocks) on foot with an Autarch in a Wave Serpent. I rolled some dice to see how they would fair against a strong CC unit and they held their own nicely (enemy being Death Company) Learned some tactics online (thanks to listening to 11th coy podcast, thanks) for deploying troops out of WS's and keep them safe using other WS's as blockers (star engines help). I'll be running this uber-unit in big games only though!

Very keen on doing some Apocalypse sized games in 2011. Just need to keep getting the games in to tweak my tactics and get the rules sussed enough to be able to complete a large game relatively quickly

As some of you may have noticed I've added Dark Eldar to my blog as I've selected them as my 2nd army. Pointy ears for the win.

I'll be doing the colour scheme different from the GW norm. Pics and WIP's up soon.

Ohhh pointy ears and spikes. :-)

I've been having computer issues this last month so updates have been difficult. I've managed to get a replacement laptop organised so i should be back to my regular updating nonsense.

Since my last post I've went a bit pointy eared. I've began a DE army, bought some more Eldar stuff and High Elves for WFB!! I'll be building the HE stuff and undercoating the models and playing them like that for a while so I can get my DE up and running. I'm aiming to be running a fully painted 1500 pt DE army for april/may depending on the 2nd wave release and Venoms being available. Expect a surge of painting/updates from me around that release!

Here's some pics of what I've been up to:

Nice start on the DE.

What color scheme will you be using for your DE