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Good job! It's such a relief to finish something that has been sat in the 'to do' pile for aages.
What airbrush do you have? and would you reccomend it? i'm looking into them and i dont really know where to start.

It's a no name, with a name "BD 130", I bought for 20 euros. Does the basecoating and medium details pretty well, I'd say (pretty much all terrain I've painted so far was airbrushed).
Though I'm starting to look for high end brands like H&S, as I personally think that price is directly proportional to quality (at least in products I'm mostly interested in) though you would first have to have some experience with low quality product to actually feel the difference. And mostly, in my case, because they are sold locally, while Iwata's I'd have to buy from ebay, which I do not want to do.

So my advice would be, buy a cheap one, get to know how it works in general, get some practice at cleaning/disassembling/handling the needle and if you will feel like you need something better - buy a quality one. Just DON'T buy anything directly from China, ala Aliexpress, ebay sellers, etc - I once bought a similar airbrush from there and it appeared to be a knockoff of the already cheap BD130 I was talking about. Stopped spraying after first go...

So, after getting rekt by the skellie fetish in Durance of Hate, I decided to do a small break. Cobbled something together...wanted to resemble something to a heavy industrialized Mars surface. The cork is not yet glued, still needs some sand, maybe a touch of citadel base technicals...And not happy. Not by a slightest :(

Trying not to see the rest of the picture - but isn't Mars more light sand and layered rock than cork? Personally I'd at least try something that shrinks a good deal when curing, like acrylic water effects... or break cork in much smaller pieces and then press them into layers. In fact that's what I plan to do soon.

But I do applaud Your efforts, good Sir!

I actually looked for some Mars pictures...Found at least 3 different surface textures: one being sand with half sunken rocks, other being sorta beaten ground with loads of medium sized rocks, third looking like some dried up river

Did a few more tests and finally came up with these results:

You obviously need skulls for Warhammer. Let's say these are from some Martian wars...

Took me 'only' 4 days to finish second base..gah. Only one more left and then it's time to paint or at least prime them. I also tried using 15mm drill to mag Cerastus torso and it works just fine!

Scrappy, and in a good way! Thumbs up!

I would just add some finer grained sand to the base and you cover all the terrain of Mars. (I was going to say you covered all the bases, but that pun was just bad)

Cheers,

CB

Yeah.. I did a pic and saw I forgot to add some sand Here are the finished bases. Just to add some paint now



On that occasion, I brought out my Knights for a few games. What can I say...it would suck to play them against a dedicated "anti" list, but as for all comers, they perform just great


Finally, having finished Knight bases, I'm now on a dilemma what to assemble next: Warhound, Porphyrion, Lancer, Acheron or Castgator

Gotta do the Warhound. As nice as Knights are, you can't join the Titan club until you have a full blown Titan running around.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Gotta do the Warhound. As nice as Knights are, you can't join the Titan club until you have a full blown Titan running around.

I agree with this

Aight, Warhound it is. Which part would you recommend starting with? Interior seems like a whole lot of fun to paint, especially the cockpit.
I also heard that toes are actually the hardest and most annoying part and should be done first?

Interior is where most start because you can do that while still working on the posing of the beast. I don't think the toes are any harder to paint, just that they are important to get a good, flat base since the model is so top heavy. Becomes a bit moot if you are going to base it though.

Edit: Disclaimer, I had someone else do mine because I am a mediocre painter. But I got feedback the whole time.

I think I already decided on the pose Will do this, just with right leg in front and left in back. Will also save me some time with toes, since I'm not planning on making a scenic base for it.

Shouldn't be too hard. Just make sure they are flat and line up before super final cant get it apart glue goes on.

For largest parts I always use slow curing epoxy. It 's a bit of a pain, because it's slow, but at the same time gives time to make adjustmens if necessary. Unless there's some other toe line up magic I'm not aware of...but I think I'll understand what you are talking about once I start dry fitting it anyways, just started cleaning the parts and booooy, it's a mess.

Now when I think, it wasn't really a good time to start, since after a couple of days from when I cut the first gate, I went on a two week alko trekking camping journey So for the last few days I've been cleaning ALL THE MOLDLINES and cutting gates off.


So now all that's left is to wash everything, man up, start gluing and pray I won't mess anything badly

I had just assumed the Titan drove you to madness.

Oddly, everything's going smoother than expected (bless FW and their replacements as there were some quite awful parts). Heck, the middle toe joints were a nightmare even after I got replacements - they should seriously fix those molds.

Just finished cleaning most of the torso parts (CIF abrasive>Fairy any day now), will try priming and putting some paint onto them tomorrow. Going to google some pro painted ones for inspiration

Your perseverance never fails to amaze me, good sir!

To be fair, it is a pretty old kit at this point.

Gallery from the guy who painted up mine:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-15297-41510_Warhound%20Titan%20Commission.html

Wirecat wrote:Your perseverance never fails to amaze me, good sir!

Aw, you No, seriously, good words inspire for more work, so thank you!

whalemusic360 wrote:To be fair, it is a pretty old kit at this point.

Gallery from the guy who painted up mine:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-15297-41510_Warhound%20Titan%20Commission.html

Yeah, you are right. Seen someone assemble a Lucius pattern titan - the thing had a ~5mm gap. Or maybe they don't even have time for fixing and just pull out parts from other kits in warehouse.

Anyways, THAT MOMENT when you start assembling Cerastus chassis just for lulz, because it's SO MUCH EASIER Also did a comparison of red and yellow paints And oh snap, forgot to add Word Bearer red...gah, needs fixing.

 CragHack wrote:
Aw, you No, seriously, good words inspire for more work, so thank you!

You deserve them. Personally I've set up a special half-hour for daily hobby "things", but it just doesn't work - Your output is outstanding.

 CragHack wrote:

Anyways, THAT MOMENT when you start assembling Cerastus chassis just for lulz, because it's SO MUCH EASIER Also did a comparison of red and yellow paints And oh snap, forgot to add Word Bearer red...gah, needs fixing.

That is VERY informative, thank You! (And I may need to steal some drops of these reds from You one day...)

Why doesn't it work? The reason I've been active lately is simple: vacation, so I pretty much wake up and start doing something
About the paints - sure, just give me a shout and I'll leave them at Rikis

Got distracted from painting Titan - I just don't feel capable enough to paint tarnished metallics, yet :( So I glued legs for Knight Acheron...DEM LEGS!

Someone might say that I seriously suffer from inability to focus on one thing: I now started assembling Custodian jetbikes (facepalm). Some pretty ugly casts, even after bunch of replacements. Or maybe I'm being too much of a perfectionist. As usual

Anyway, the Fate of (John) Konor finally arrived. Some sexy things inside: two huge posters, dice bags, wrist bands, stickers, punch out tokens...can't wait for 27th

What is the Fate of Konor?

Global Campaign. Much like Blitzmania or the previous AoS one You buy the kit - your store gets to participate in the campaign. Kinda cool, gives more drive for players to be active and play more. Plus exclusive goodies

https://warhammer40000.com/fate-konor-galaxy-flames/

Well good luck on your participation in the Campaign.

Of course that will slow down your painting.

Cheers,

CB

Haha, not that I'm doing much painting anyway Sigh, I wish I could just take the bloody kit and simply glue it...but nooo... Ain't even going to glue the heads on, until I start painting them.

And still so many more to go, gah. I also ended up quite disappointed with the dread kit, since there's no point in magnetizing its waist, due to extremely limited movement :/

Oh dang, 15 days...Time to report

So, firstly, we've had some Konor battles. Mostly 2v2, 3v3, as we found them to be somewhat more fun.



Boi, Knights surely pack a good punch: one Knight just bbbbrrt Sanguinor and 5 man unit of golden boys in a single volley. But then again, they crumble so fast, once focused.



We also inherited some terrain from the very first FLG that opened here in Lithuania. As you can see, painting standards were pretty low back in the day, 10ish years ago.



But there's nothing good old isopropyl and other, more arcane fluids can't fix. Would've cleaned them more, but got soo bored in the process



Airbrush = instant painting skillz



Finally, did some work on Knights interior (once again ). Sadly, there's a slight scratch on a *mostly* not important place, but I'll still have to fix that :(



As for August, I will do my best to finish assembling Knight Acheron and maybe Porphyrion or Castigator. And finish painting that Aquila lander. And maybe do some work on Custodians.