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Byronic wrote:

I wish Id know how you do that osl!!
seriously, superb work!!!

Funny Flachzange should bring up the crons. I was just going to ask what you used for the rust. Was it that pigment powder stuff? I got some from Secret Weapon but I haven't used it yet.

Also, those tusks are looking fantastic

I knew it was you! I just commented on your ogres on the stronghold a few days ago

Anyway I am loving the coven throne

Lt. Coldfire wrote:Funny Flachzange should bring up the crons. I was just going to ask what you used for the rust. Was it that pigment powder stuff? I got some from Secret Weapon but I haven't used it yet.

Also, those tusks are looking fantastic

Cheers Lt, it's Vallejo Burnt Sienna

Johnny-Crass wrote:I knew it was you! I just commented on your ogres on the stronghold a few days ago

Anyway I am loving the coven throne

Tah Johnny, I still owe you a tattoo tutorial I believe!

Anyways here's a tutorial on how to paint builds for y'all.


Painting Buildings (nearly) Start to Finish/Skullvane Manse

So this is a big one (in more ways than one)! Firstly my camera ran out of battery about 2/3 of the way and given that I was trying to assemble and paint this gargantuan piece in one day I didn't have time to wait for it to charge, I'll do my very best to fill in the gaps though.

Here's a picture of the box to let you know what we're dealing with in terms of size: kitten included for scale...



And Inside:




Required tools (didn't use the liquid GS in the end):


Specialist tools: My favourite drybrush (yes it's a makeup brush, seriously it's the best I've ever used, lasts longer than most normal drybrushes as well, this has had hard use for 1 year)


Primed Halfords Grey, Undercoated Chaos Black.


Basecoat (not on roofing if possible): Just a dot of chaos black in there, prob not needed in retrospect.




Roof
1-2 I prehighlight the roofing tiles with fortress grey, then skull white, heavy drybrushing will do if you don't have a spray can/airbrush or just can't be bothered to mask off the brickwork).


3-6 My favourite colour comes into play, I went blue+turquoise, Turquoise alone, Turquoise +Skull white, thinned with a bit of medium.





Observatory
1 Undercoated: Scorched Brown



2 Basecoated: Shining Gold+Dwarf Bronze


3 Highlighted Shining Gold (drybrush)


4 Mix up dark angels green + hawk turquoise +water, really thin! This will make our verdigris.


5 Splodge it all over, leave it aside to dry:


Brickwork
1 Heavy Drybrush of codex grey, all over, be patient, on a model of this size this is literally an hours work or so, a good first layer is irreplaceable.


2 (camera started dying here)
Slightly lighter drybrushing of Codex+ Fortress Grey, still don't be stingy, we're going to be finishing up fairly bright, this isn't a 'light' coating of paint, just not a 'heavy' drybrush.

3 Plain fortress grey, slightly less on the brush for drybrushing now.


4 Finally we're onto what I'd consider to be 'light' drybrushing, still ensure you don't miss any spots, Fortress Grey + Skull White

5 Final Drybrush Highlight: Pure skull white, barely any on the brush, if yours is as thick as mine you'll need to add a *tiny* amount of water, then wipe off all but the dregs elsewhere, my tester is to brush it on the back of my nail, if it's only picking out the very slight ridges you're on track!

I also used this to highlight the roofing tiles, picking out their edges and ridges.:


Camera is Dead at this point, again my apologies

Wood
1 Calthan Brown + scorched brown, all over

2 Sepia + Devlan mud wash all over

3 Bestial + Scorched drybrush

4 Pure Bestial Drybrush

5 Very Light Bestial + Snakebite Drybrush

Golden bits

1 Undercoat with calthan brown+Scorched brown

2 Vallejo Model Colour gold, this thing works wonders, thin it with thinners or alcohol though, do not involve water at any stage, one or two coats should do it, I don't shake the paint but 'swill' it genty around in the pot, this avoids bubbles.

3 Same Verdigris mix as used on observatory

Silver Bits
1 Undercoat Black

2 Base boltgun

3 Wash Devlan

4 Drybrush Boltgun + Chainmail

Skulls! (oh the skulls...)

1 Base Dheneb Stone (2 coats)

2 Wash Devlan Mud

3 Highlight heavy drybrushing of dheneb +bleached (be careful not to get brickwork)

Finally I weathered the parts of the model where I thought dirt/grime would settle with a light drybrush of knarlock green + graveyard earth + scorched brown

Done, Pics:


Link to one million pictures of the finished Manse


Please let me know if you like the tutorals/have any crits (asides from the obvious picture issues) guys, I'll do some more in the future if people find the useful/enjoy reading them.

That's a brilliant tutorial! Really nice result, like it more than the 'eavy metal version

Well, time to scour the internet for that max concealer brush. I never thought I'd be buying makeup supplies for myself.

Cheers chaps! It'll be a good 20years if not more until I could claim anything to be approaching the level of those guys though, I've got their mini painting book, although it's had more drooling over than attepts to practice their techniques: it's half inspiring half intimidating! A couple of Ogre updates coming tomorrow guys, and as for commission stuff there's some Empire Knights I'm working on (still on the horsies), and 4 Necron barges just arrived ^_^

It's going to be a busy week.....

Byronic wrote:Cheers chaps! It'll be a good 20years if not more until I could claim anything to be approaching the level of those guys though

Are you referring to yourself in the third person here?

A tutorial on a necron barge would be awesome! I got a bunch of necron vehicles to build and paint still.

Oh man, that looks great. And the stonetusk a while back? Looks almost real.

Are you going to do the barges like you did the first one? That'd be a LOT of edge highlighting for four barges :p

Robbietobbie wrote:Are you going to do the barges like you did the first one? That'd be a LOT of edge highlighting for four barges :p

Haha, thankfully not (although if I was it'd pay me for a couple of weeks!), they'll be done in a similar fashion to the ark, just with the alternate paint scheme.

Swordwind wrote:Oh man, that looks great. And the stonetusk a while back? Looks almost real.

Cheers Swordwind, I'll hopefully get to spend some more time on him and finish of the actual stonehorn this weekend, no promises though!

Lt. Coldfire wrote:

Byronic wrote:Cheers chaps! It'll be a good 20years if not more until I could claim anything to be approaching the level of those guys though

Are you referring to yourself in the third person here?

A tutorial on a necron barge would be awesome! I got a bunch of necron vehicles to build and paint still.

Haha, nope Lt., I was talking about the 'Eavy Metal' guys, they're out of this world!

I am working on my most detailed (and hopefully high quality - pictures etc) tutorial to date, I'm aiming to do a start to finish one on a necron barge, including a fairly in-depth look at undercoating mechanics and a bit of preshading, we'll see how it goes.

For now I'll see if I can get a picture edited in this afternoon, the barges are started at least

Also I'm working on these, they'll be finished by Wed:

More oldschool updates :0




I've made a gif to show the Slaughtermaster from all angles, it's pretty rough but gives a bit of a better idea of what he's like:



And one from a higher angle:

Cool idea those gifs he's awesome!
not a big fan of the knight models though

Good work on the Empire knights. Those models show their age and take a good paint job to look good on the table.

Requiem wrote:Cool idea those gifs he's awesome!
not a big fan of the knight models though

I actually really like their 'classic' look, they're very hard to paint though! Cheers mate.

Metsuri wrote:Good work on the Empire knights. Those models show their age and take a good paint job to look good on the table.

Thanks Metsuri, that means a lot; painting them has definitely given me a newfound respect for anyone with an army containing any number of these looking decent, they're extremely hard to get a convincing looking job on them, I ended up spending far to long on them to get them to an acceptable level.. here's the results anyway:



I'll snag some proper photos tomorrow when there's some sunlight around to help.

Byron

Wow. Wish I could paint as neatly as you.

Swordwind wrote:Wow. Wish I could paint as neatly as you.

just lots of holding my breath and patience on these guys!

A few slightly better shots:

I gotta say they look a lot better in the new pics. The old pics really made the blues look flat. The white on that banner turned out exceptionally well. Solid job all around, Byron.

Moltar wrote:I gotta say they look a lot better in the new pics. The old pics really made the blues look flat. The white on that banner turned out exceptionally well. Solid job all around, Byron.

Thanks very much Moltar, the banner was a learning experience for sure I started the shading with the airbrush, but it just wasn't precise enough, so I went back in with some glazes of paint, and then a *very* thin light one of gyphonne sepia, really watered down, barely any on the brush, I think it's a recipe I'll be using again, it's quite time consuming though.

A little bit of progress, a mildly better shot of the standard bearer as well.

Wow. Nice job on those reds in the last pic. That really pops and the shades are just right. I also like the stripes on the thundertusks (or whatever they're called), but worry that they may be too close to black. When I think a dark brown may have come off more natural, but that's solely my personal opinion. Great stuff all around, Byron.

Moltar wrote:Wow. Nice job on those reds in the last pic. That really pops and the shades are just right. I also like the stripes on the thundertusks (or whatever they're called), but worry that they may be too close to black. When I think a dark brown may have come off more natural, but that's solely my personal opinion. Great stuff all around, Byron.

Cheers bud, I think you're spot on actually, there was no going back a few stripes in though: that's why I spent so long glazing the 'fade' into their mane's to try and integrate the colour throughout the model a bit more, it worked a little but it's still quite a harsh transition with the stripes, at least they're fairly striking on the tabletop

Hi guys, I'd really appreciate your thoughts on which of the new releases I should paint up to put on eBay, as I've mentioned before my 40k knowledge game-wise is at the very best severely limited!

I am aware that thunderwolf cav are very good in the game but that's about it, the new tyranids look very cool, but do you think they would sell well, do people already have old versions of the models etc?

Basically;
Which of the new space wolves/tyranids releases do you think are the most popular in the game?
If there's one of these is there a particular equipent set-up that is more powerful and will sell better (both for the units/characters)
Is there a specific unit size that's very good?


Your knowledge would be really really helpful!

Cheers,

Byron

I do know that tervigons are a very major unit in many nid strategies. They seem good too. Psychic troop spawner MCs.

Opinions differ on thunderwolf cavalry but consensus seems to be that they are very good and in any case loads of fun to field. Not an expert on tyranids so can't really help you there.
If you do make twc the load-out is pretty important, some people field them with storm shields and some just send them in 'naked'

Great stuff on this thread, and nice to see this quality terrain too.

The Space Wolves TWC unit is just awesome at games. Thou if you take these guys, your army's performance is usually based on how well this unit does.

Personally field unit of four with following setup:
1 with Thunder hammer
1 with Storm shield
1 with Meltabomb
1 "naked"

I also have tooled out Wolf Lord with that usually joins these guys, and on a rare occasion goes solo. If they make it to HtH, without losing more than one guy(or so), they can really pack a punch that few can withstand. Sometimes they get withered down by random shooting so that they can't deliver on that critical game deciding HtH. But still I enjoy using the unit.

Unfortunately can't say much about the new Tyranids as I don't play them.

Thanks very much guys

Is there an 'optimal' set-up on the lord on wolf by the way?

A couple of WiP updates:



And four at this stage

Ah you're painting them the nihilakh way? looking good so far, the paint scheme has really grown on me

It turns out the TWC are very nice to paint (wolves at least, working on the riders), here's some step by step pics or how I went about them; I'll edit in the text when I've got a bit of time tonight or tomorrow.

Loving the wolves Byron! Would we awesome if you could add some text to the tutorial though, not every picture is as clear in what you did hehe

Great wolves!