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Wonderful blog, great work. Very ambitious, but with the skills to pull it off. Looking forward to following you in the future.

 Camkierhi wrote:
Wonderful blog, great work. Very ambitious, but with the skills to pull it off. Looking forward to following you in the future.

Thanks for kind words Firstly, I will be mostly glad when I AT LEAST finish assembling everything I've got... In the meantime, more slave work



And



Sigh.

Aaand, it's finally standing! still needs more pistons and a base - which is a chore to make by itself - and it's playable.



Now, what next: Lancer, Porphyrion or Castigator? I'm leaning towards Porphy or Castigator...those 14 s6 shots :>

CragHack,

God work on the terrain pieces. It can take a lot of motivation to move away from painting tanks and figures.

Cheers,

CB

It's just that nobody else wants to paint them. We have all the equipment in out FLGS: airbrush with compressor, selection of brushes and paints, yet everyone prefer using, not painting so it's more of a duty, I KINDA (until I get bored, mostly), enjoy

Speaking of out FLGS, we finally got a decent gaming area!


And I decided that I really want to read about Luther, so I bought these


And here's a small family photo

Having +- fethed up my Acheron (will have to buy new one in the end), I decided to try something different: Vallejo metallic black and Scale 75 golds. And that's what happens when you have too much free paint on palette



Also, got myself a box for Mechanicum dice. While these look cool, it's often hard to make the difference between 6 Cog Mechanicus and 1 skull. I still like the Tzeentch ones most..

What'd you do to the acheron that requires a whole new one?

I fethed up lower arm part. Wasn't quite happy with the pose, thought I could loosen it up, but the part broke. It pains me to even write it

On the bright side, I almost finished DG dread... which I'm gonna ebay asap

What are you going to do with it? Would make some epic basing for a Titan, even if super expensive.

Dread looks great. You've got the scheme down solid.

I will most likely paint it, maybe keep it for a while and sell it. Tried Acheron in a small game yesterday and it didn't perform well as well.

Did some work on a base. The plan is to add some more sand, maybe debris ant it's done. Doesn't look good now, but Iwant to think it will once primed, or painted

Aesthetic of these things does not connect with me, but the amount of work. Oh, my... And that "here's a small family photo" is borderline insane. Keep up and stay motivated!

Could you just reglue the break in the acheron? If its a small tube, you could cut it away and replace it, if its a bit bit, it should stick into the old place fairly easily.

Thanks, Wirecat

Daemon, I tried. Did some greenstuff work as well. Have to prime it and see if it's still passable. Missed an opportunity to grab some spare Acheron parts for 100 quid on ebay :/ Eh, gak happens...

Finished Crashed Aquila Lander today...a really quick and lazy paintjob

CragHack,

More than good enough for gameplay. Especially when you consider how often you want a crashed lander in your games...while great for a specific theme...it tends to no be a great objective marker as it is so large when spread out on the table.

Cheers,

CB

We mostly use it as a scatter terrain between buildings, when there happens to be a space too small to fit any other building, without overcrowding the table, yet too empty for it to look good since there's not much of the kind of stuff available. Honestly, the closest thing to that could be Promethium Pipes...

10 days of (not) slacking. Well, mostly
Assembled my Cerastus Lancer and since we're having a small tourney this Saturday (a Lancer in a 500 pts game shouldn't be that harsh, I think ) decided to do some paintwork. Gonna prime the whole thing tomorrow, but here's something I did with the base. It's p/m done, just need to add some highlights, light effects and matte varnish

A knight in a 500 point game? Yeah, they will love that.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
A knight in a 500 point game? Yeah, they will love that.

One guy is bringing Abaddon+Defiler Abaddon alone, while not so shooty, has almost the same survivabily as a Knight and can dish out even more cc damage. But I really don't care, I'm going for the lulz and to get drunk


Pinned the bastard in place. Primed some parts as well...gotta fix the blue lights - expand the osl, it looks too concentrated now :/

Looking amazing bud.

Thanks Any suggestions on armor plate? I can't decide between opaque red and Angron Red shenanigans.

OK, so after all I decided to go with Angron Red. But before that I wanted to play with IA:Masterclass vol 2 effects. Have to say that I really, REALLY don't know what I'm doing right now

Tried the oil staining effects on leg pistons. They sorta? look OK, might need to add at least one more marking line.

Tried to add black pistons (for contrast, lel). So far they seem to be more invisible than contrasting anything. This might change when I'll wash everything, but still think gold ones or original silver ones would've looked more fancy

Lastly, leg piston housing, aka, drybrushing gold over tin bitz. It's not washed too, buut... SIGH. Gotta stay optimistic.

There, added some Angron Red and it finally started taking shape. Gotta say I just looove Scale 75 Viking Gold - the coverage and tone are just AMAZING.

Thats looking pretty good. The reds especially are nice and rich.

Wow. That's gonna come out very nicely I think.

Thanks!

It's almost 1 am and I forced myself to call it a day. All that's left now is trimmings, washes, highlights, some extra small details I missed and transfers. Oh, and armor plate weatherings...damn, and here I though I was close to finishing

The golden leg piston housing also kinda looks out of place. i might have to repaint it with some brazen color and give it some nihilax oxide.

Ugh, so close, yet soo far:

Washes, layers, transfers and final touches. But getting there. Would've finished washing legs today, but realized that I haven't used nuln oil for ages.

One interesting thing though: if you want a really strong wash finish - add gloss varnish. Also, if you ever want to gloss varnish a white surface that has a strong dark color underneath - be sure to add several layers of white as, I there's some kind of funny chemical reaction going on.


The black/gold pistons started to contrast really nicely

And just couldn't hold myself from painting most of the wires on the outside...


Lastly, some surprise Arcane Ruins. A really fast and lazy paintjob. Gonna do it for tabletop. Maybe some terminatus stone as a final drybrush...

CragHack,

Cerastus Knight Lancer is looking great.

Cheers,

CB

To be honest, I started hating it, how much love I'm putting into it

Anyways, got out Shadespire demo copy today and decided to start painting. Before I dump the photo, I have to say this: PUSH FITS ARE PURE fething CANCER! Jeez, seriously, I ended up cutting one of the head and gluing it inside like I would with normal models.



Went for the edgy Angron Red metallic. And the Sigmarines...well, I have a plan for them, but I've no idea how will I be able to accomplish that Oh, and I have time until this Saturday... :(

And wow, how gakky the photo turned out to be I swear, they look better irl

 CragHack wrote:
One interesting thing though: if you want a really strong wash finish - add gloss varnish. Also, if you ever want to gloss varnish a white surface that has a strong dark color underneath - be sure to add several layers of white as, I there's some kind of funny chemical reaction going on.

Gold is good.

Regarding strange chemistry - its more physics than chemistry. Aircraft modelers say "before using wash on a smooth surface - make sure the surface is extra smooth". Like, quickly dipped into strong gloss lacquer (resin, vinyl etc) and then ledt to drip and dry. Do not try to mop off the excess, because thiss stuff may peel off acrylics quite easily. And when dry - do all Your wash. This works much better than any usual gloss warnish. Never helped me though...

Same goes for white - I've read some people advocating actually basecoating everything in dead-white primer like Tamya, then masking out all surfaces that are going to be white or just very bright to avoid any dark color on them.

That’s actually pretty logic: paint particles getting stuck on micro crevases

Did some more paintwork on Khorne team. I think I’m doing something wrong, but just can’t understand what. Maybe lack of contrast and airbrush? You can see, how a much more brighter color makes some difference and imo looks better than regular highlighting.



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