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Hong Kong

Ever since I read a bat rep in White Dwarf, featuring George Dellapina's orc fighter-bomber, I've been hooked on air power in the 40K universe. With one thunderbolt under my belt, it was time for a lightning.



Lightning's come in two varients, strike and and fighter, and these bits are all supplies by Forge world (the strike variant replaces the autocanon with two more hellstrike missiles) and i decided I would use rare earth magnets to enable me to switch between these two varients, as well as take the pilot out, in case I ever wanted to use this plane as a piece of scenery in a battle.

First of all it's time for a good wash:



And then the bits are laid out for a day to dry before undercoating.



I found a drill bit of the same diameter of the rare earth magnets I was using, and the citadel drill fits these larger bits easily. (You can vary the depth of the hole, and stack magnets up to get a stronger hold.)



I put a blob of superglue into the hole, and then used a tooth pick to slide the magnet in. WARNING: rare earth magnets are very magnetic. This means they tend to fly around the work area, sticking to each other as well as anything else metal you have lying around the place. It's worth clearing your work-space of metal objects, keeping the bag of magnets well away, and then get back to work.

You can use pieces of metal to stick the various pieces of the plane together, but a better hold will come from using magets on both pieces. To make sure you have your + lined up with + and negative with negative I do this:



Once the glue is dry, I stick another magnet on top of the one in the hole. I then mark the 'up' side, and then take this magnet off, and when I come to stick the magent into the autocanon, I make sure the 'up' side is hidden.






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Hong Kong

I used magets to stick the pilot into place, the cockpit cover down, as well as the engine cover, just behind the pilot. The missiles I wanted to make removable as well, and drilled a couple of holes into these. I found that the magnets made them just heavy enough that they fell off the holders, so ended up putting a line of three magnets along thier lenght, and glued a straight piece of paper-clip onto the missile holder to get a good grip.

I talked earlier about putting more than one magnet into a hole: here's an example of the magnets used to keep the cockpit in place, in a hole drilled three-deep.



When all was ready it was time to spray the plane up. I sprayed the plane black first, and then oversprayed it white all over, trying to give it as light a covering as possible, while still getting a good colour. BY spraying from an angle, the black stays in a lot of the recesses, giving you natural black-lining.

I then turned the pieces bottom-down, and sprayed the top of the plane ultramarine blue. I got a fairly nice transition from blue to white along the lenght of the fusilage, and carefully sprayed along to reimpose white along the belly. I then held the wings up and sprayed at an angle, just touching the tips of the wings and the tips of the tail-fins. Spraying at an angle is important, so that the spray doesn't 'splash' back on bits you dont want it to reach.



When everything was dry I started sticking it all together. The wings are held in place by the engines, and so I stuck these first, and only when these were in place did I stick the wings on top.





Next steps will be to put in shading and highlight, and I have bought some weathering powders, and will get to grips with using these as well.

I'm thinking of adding jaws to the front of the fusilage, to add some fancy detail this baby, which is a flash fighter.

The rockets I sprayed black and then white, and then sprayed the end of the noses red.

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Impressive spray-can work. Mis-spent youth eh?

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Franconia

Very good looking.

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Paso Robles, CA, USA

Very cool. Liking the magnet work and can't wait to see the finished product.

Are you the same Justin Hill who used to run the Ultimate Games Workshop website?

Ozymandias, King of Kings

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This conversation has even begun to boggle my internet-hardened mind.

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Hong Kong

Are you the same Justin Hill who used to run the Ultimate Games Workshop website


don't know..... don't think so: but I am the Justin Hill with the Araby Army

http://www.fragilearmytransportbag.justinhillauthor.com/sultan%20marhaba's%20araby%20army.htm

and I write books.......

http://www.justinhillauthor.com


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Paso Robles, CA, USA

I've seen the araby army, very nice.

Was just curious. Though now that I think of it, it may have been Jason Hill...

Ozymandias, King of Kings

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.
Look on My works, Ye Mighty, and despair.

Chris Gohlinghorst wrote:Holy Space Marine on a Stick.

This conversation has even begun to boggle my internet-hardened mind.

A More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy 
   
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Hong Kong

Quick sneak peak of a commander I'm converting up from one of forge-world's tank commanders. Forge world figures are really nice to paint, full of life and character, with good faces, and nice bases for unique models. I've done a couple of these before, and now I thought i'd try a new one for my mech IG







His body was a little too long, and his hips too narrow, but I played around with the legs for a while till i thought he looked normal. Then a bit of green stuff to fill in the gaps.

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Yah, the torso looks alittle big. You could say that he really like to work his upper body!
   
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Deadshot Weapon Moderati





UK

Definately looks weird, that's the first thing I noticed, then the comments. I have seen it done better, but I have a suspicion that it might have been on kneeling legs, I'll try and get the pics if you want.
   
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Hong Kong

would love to see it!

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Hong Kong

Put the lightening on hold for the moment, until I get a decent compressor for my new air brush. So onto Ogryns....
What else does a blitzkrieg genadier mech army need than a tank full of ogryns: since I saw these figures last year, I knew I needed some of them and have managed to squeeze a unit of 4 into my prospective GT list this year.

First base: bases..... wanted to use something that gave a nice impressive look, and the army is going to be based on a green slime/concrete slab world. A couple of smashed aquillas make up a couple of these bases.










There's not too much remodelling that the new ogryn figures need: they're really well sculpted and look much better than the last lost of gumbies.

some of the ogryns on thier bases:









The only guy who looked a bit crap was the bonehead, so I cut off his arm and wired him upto a rejigged sentinel power lifter arm:








His arm seemed a little too long and stiff in this pose, so I cut through the piston arrowed here, and turned this into a moving joint, and repositioned the arm turning in a little, to snap off someone's head.





I gave him some more wires, and a another shoulder plate,




And a battery back pack on the back. Leaving this to dry before I come back and add some more details to his power pack

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Hyderabad, India

Looks fantastic

 
   
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Omnipotent Lord of Change





Albany, NY

Any advice for an airbrush newb? I'm looking for a cheap, entry level airbrush + compressor to get started with. Been looking at Testors low-end right now. Not looking to do much more than basecoat work really, though intrigued by the possibilties.

- Salvage

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Hong Kong

Thanks Alex

Salvage: I'm not the best person to ask, as I've only used airbrushes fairly unsucessfully in the past. I used gw yellow paints (not known for their good coverage) and cans of compressor before, which tend to get cold very quickly, and then their pressure drops. It helps to have a few on the go, and have them in buckets of warmish water, but still not very practical.

That's partly why I'm going for a compressor: which should make the whole process much more straight forward. Also the foundation paints look like they'll give a much better finish.

The GW airbrush looked ok for tank work, but I hear it's been withdrawn due to manufactoring problems. Badger is a pretty good make. I'm not familiar with testors, I'm afraid, but I imagine it'll be pretty good.

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Hong Kong

ok - so I finally stumped up and bought myself an airbrush and a compressor, thinking that as I'm spending all this dumb cash on vehicles I should give them a decent paint job. I bought a dvd tutorial from http://www.steeldog.biz which left me with the impression that even I could do that, and put the kids to bed and got started.

I was so impressed with my AI colour scheme, (http://warmongerboard.yuku.com/topic/5375) I decided to go with the same one with my full size miniatures. The airbrush worked great for the first two minuites, then I spent a good hour cleaning, watering down, and generally covering me and the table with paint. When I finally cleaned the needle and put the thing back together, I had a great time. Did a charadon granite base, with some highlighting with white, then swithced to adeptus battlegrey and finally a pale grey and some very fine tamiya white. I found the GW white speckled alot, looking like lots of hits from snowballs, so stuck to non gw white.

The underside was sprayed grey then white, and with the exception of one small fingerprint, I'm delighted with the look so far.





I should have painted on my wing and tail stripes first, but I'll go back and do those. But for a complete airbrush virgin very happy so far.

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Los Angeles

Question for you Justin...I've been thinking about picking up an airbrush as well to basecoat the multitude of vehicles that I have (Rhinos, etc)...do you think it saved you a lot of time and headache using the airbrush? I know part of it was a learning process, but once you got things moving, was it quick, with an even coat all around?



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Hong Kong

hi Lormax: i've never handled or watched anyone use an airbrush before, and I found it a little tricky to get the hang of at first, but my problems were mainly about paint texture, and once I had this right then I was amazed how quickly I got this result. I found I had to put my finger over the end of the brush and blast air back up the brush to unblock it a couple of times, and I took the needle out to clean it. It might be worth doing this before you start, as it's fairly simple.

But to answer your question: once I was up and running the whole thing probably no more than one hour's work, and I was delighted with how quickly I got a good result. I learnt a few tips from the steelbiz dvd, which was only $20 - mainly about how to shade a panel with an airbrush, and also just how light you can highlight a panel. Subtle shading doesn't seem to be very effective. He's pretty good with other tips with tanks.

I've used spray cans before, but i'd definately recommend an airbrush as it gives you far more control and far better results. I got a tamiya trigger dual action, and a fairly cheap compressor ($100?) with water trap. I read a tutorial here first : http://www.swchq.co.uk/articles/buying_an_airbrush_guide.html

And I watched quite a lot of videos on youtube. Promodeller was the most useful. Here's a link to one of his. I think you can find his other ones through that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RafLYV65j0Q&feature=related


Best of luck!

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Hong Kong



Finished up a squad of these guys and pretty happy with the flamer. Next stop ogryns.

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Albany, NY

NICE kasrkin, good scheme and highlighting. Bases are quite cool (nice contrast green too) and the flamer does look nifty.

- Salvage

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Illustrator






North Carolina

If I end up buying Kasrkin I'm going to blame you.

I love these models, and I love what you've done with em. Extreme edging really works great for these guys and give them a nice look in less time.

Great job.

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Call For Fire

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Perth

Love the flamer. And the deep red on the Kasrkin is excellent!

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Arlington, VA

Pretty amazing! I checked out your Araby army too, I really liked the heavy calvary. Keep up the great work.
   
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Hong Kong

thanks for all the comments guys: the kasrkin figures are kind of odd to paint, as they look great, but are really dull to paint. By that I mean there's very little in the way of texture or movement in the cloth to help bring them to life.

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Hong Kong

Got most of the tanks mostly finished, and will post them up soon: but in the meanwhile, here's a pair of running sentinels that I've been working on - to fit in with the green-slime concrete grenadiers above.








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Nice work. I really need an airbrush too.

Do you have your models up somwehere permanently? A group shot would be nice too



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Hong Kong

...weddings in the Uk, wife, children, novel, editors, agents, forgeworld delays: it's tough trying to get an army painted these days. But with six day to go I'm back in the saddle.

Now my forgeworld heads have arrived, I've painted and put the drivers into the sentinels, which are finished with bits of vegetation in the ruins.






I've painted up some crew to go into the tanks:





And ebayers have come through with the last plasma guns I need. The heads of the grenadiers are surpisingly easy to clip off, and i've altered these guys a little with alternate head directions.






I've done a little more with the sergeants. My commander is the guy with the hat, and the other guy is leading my drop troop platoon.




And i've based all the figures i need, and have the four ogryns and about 20-odd guys to paint. Should be easy.



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n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

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Adrift within the vortex of my imagination.

Lovely models, especially the Kasrkin.

I know how hard it is to pull off flame an smoke effects.

However I have problems with your Sentinels. As base models you take LOS from the base, as vehicles you take LOS from the model. Your models look to be nearly completely off their bases (the scenery looks to be just counterweight.

I can see problems emerging in games, you will nee to discuss opponent exactly what is what. I might be advisable to ignore the base completely for gaming, LOS an basing purposes.

n'oublie jamais - It appears I now have to highlight this again.

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