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sounds like a cool/ hot idea mate^^

Can I ask why the London Red bus?

Looking good.

What's next? Double decker battle bus?

Perkustin wrote:Looking good.

What's next? Double decker battle bus?

Hmm an interesting idea for a transport for a cmnd and 2 rifle squads.

lol... i don´t plan on either making a phoenbox or a bus in the nearer or even further future^^ the bus and box are illustrated to show what the tank atm looks like in terms of color... i added a layer of not too much drybrushed blood red over the mecharite red and thus the tank ressembles a bit of a british bus in my opinion^^

if not something happens against it i will show you my latest progress tomorrow, which consist of yet some more changes that weren´t to be expected when i started the tank painting^^ but i guess change happens^^

Fair enough, London big red buses are pretty kool

shasolenzabi wrote:Space Marines are so very different from IG Shrike, but yeah, Both Viks treads and the big Tanks I have use treads wide enough to grind terminators under. "Yuri, did you feel a bump?"

who said anything about terminators? I was on about my vanguard veterans.

but in a 1500 point match, I'd take 5 TH/SS terminators with so-not-a-painted-black-lysander in a land raider redeemer, my 5 man scout squad, chapter master, 5 missile launcher devastators, tactical squad with meltagun and multi-melta, 5 TL LC vanguard veterans, and a vindicator. That's roughly 1500 points.
heh, we should play a three-way hypothetical match ^^

yeppers, and me would be the looser from the start as i am such a noob when it boils down on rules...

to be honest i have no clue what amount of points my IG collection could come up with.... one of these days i have to make a list for making a list^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:yeppers, and me would be the looser from the start as i am such a noob when it boils down on rules...

to be honest i have no clue what amount of points my IG collection could come up with.... one of these days i have to make a list for making a list^^

^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:yeppers, and me would be the looser from the start as i am such a noob when it boils down on rules...

to be honest i have no clue what amount of points my IG collection could come up with.... one of these days i have to make a list for making a list^^

Look Vik!
British Trench Soldier heads! Link
Maybe you need a squad of those as well....



You can use these bodies.....too bad the heads on these are too not-british mwahaha

I love to help...and give you more work.

j3r03n wrote:Look Vik!
You can use these bodies.... too bad the heads on these are too not-british mwahaha

I love to help...and give you more work.

aha, I was going to buy those and use them for death korps.

evening jeroen and shrike!

tho i have to say i will in the future for definite get my hands on some of the nice stuff maxmini produces i have for the time being 40 heads of those already in my paws^^:



which can look like this when painted:



and thus a new headswap is not what i intend to buy... also i still have plenty^^ of gasmasked scotsmen heads lying around^^

speaking of other things...
new pics and i got a creative discussion with the wife...she said the brass effect i used was not up to the task...so i took my gold paint out and worked around that problem...now i need your help here too:

one side in old version with froamed sponson in washed mithril silver with flesh wash as brass effect NR.1

detailshot of sponson...


other side done in golddrybrush but it looks rather brassy ...

and detail of other sponson done with golddrybrushed on...


the gold drybrush version is stil unwashed so i plan to add a layer of sepia or ogryn flesh wash or even devlan mud...to make it more brassy even... later on then a green wash might add a bit of weathering then...

andf here is a comaprrsion shot side by side:



so help me friends in this shiny times^^

cheers, vik

The brassier look suits it better. Darker and more in fitting with the red than the shiny side IMO

yeah, I prefer the brassier one.

i think we have a winner then... tomorrow will be then the rest done in that fashion! somehow that idea for that look lay totally dormant in my mind... needed my wife yet again to wash my head^^

You're making some more excellent progress on the tank Vik. Nice to seeit's nearing completion. Keep it up.

thanks mate but the more i make progress the longer the road ahead apears to me^^

Yeah, definitely the Golddrybrush, as you put it. And the little green detailing/washes will be great for it, too.

that will be the way... guess i will have to make a test with the green wash... i should but reaaaaallly dilute it as it is quite agressive^^

The new darker paint looks better matey.

thanks mate, goes to show that a man has to listen what his wife tells him : hope you make an update soon in your own blog too, miss that very much!!!

Yep, agree with the others, the darker tone looks better.

You are almost there Vik!

well^^ plan on making a picupdate...cant promise daylight pics as it is too rainy... but i hope i can show you a completly brassed up tank...

see you later^^

The brassier look you have now is more along the lines of what I meant before (Iwas going to suggest like my dreadnoughts plasma cannon but yours looks way good), The lighter gold looks like you painted gold over white and the white still peeks through.

I'd say Maybe ogryn flesh then another light drybrush with the gold should do it nicely.

Why the green wash?

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how about if i sculpt him with an eye patch instead as an homage to the true nick fury of S.H.I.E.L.D?
would´t that be even cooler than having him a pipe?

You know how iron rusts red, and silver tarnishes black? Brass oxidizes to green.

Nice stuff!

hey vik! great looking tank man! really Baroque! i love it...there are more than a few IG guardsmen being treated like dirt in that chassis! A few slaps, a stink eye, maybe a bullet through an insubordinants brain....ahhh the imagination flows

hello mates it is again picture update time!!!
but first i want to answer some of yer questions and nice comments!

as anvildude states, this effect the oxidating effect of brass and copper i would like to give a faint try...could give the model a bit of a coloraddition to make it not too monochrome^^

at dsteingass:
pic is currently not showing but i know that the reaper general is one of my future projects! he is currently on the to do list on my shelf...i just fell in love with that character^^ and i think you had a great idea to make him into a Nick Fury kind of version for 40k... the guy oozes grim dark from every pore^^ so i will try my best to make an eyepatch for him^^

at dantay... yep a warming blend will happen... already i did wash the brass on the boiler...pics will be lower down that post...i wanted to be the boiler a bit darker asthe rest of the brass so i used there devlan mud.... for the other parts an ogryn fleshwash seems a good thing to me!

and in fact it was mithril silver and then old fleshwash over this then...and i realized that it does work on small surfaces as helmets and breastplates or even parts of guns but it fails on wide surfaces such as are on a tank...so you are bank to rights that it looked in parts quite unfinished...to say the least^^

at bebopdrums2424

lol... that is a nice imagination you have there^^ thanks mate^^ but you aint seen nuffin yet^^

at hazzer...long time no read here! nice to see you back and big tanks...er thanks^^

so here are we getting to the main course now ...the picture updates...







hands up mates who thinks too that i somehow made a khronish tank for the empire??? well is it only me...?

as stated above here are the detail pics for the steamboiler...hope you like it...tried to give it as much a wooden barreled look as i am currently capable of...
also with the devlan mud wash to the brass parts i tried to achieve a oily and sooted look as well...kind of...






some days ago monkey troll mused about the panels... i guess he meant the parts shown here on the upper part of the tank right under the turret...
what do you think i should do with those spaces inbezween the brassen fretworks... there are all together nine of them on three sides ...any ideas and then how to achive the execution of said ideas? i haven´t yet looked into my decal stock so it miht doable to aply decals there... tho i have to state that i really don´t like decals to use on my tank...^^






feel free to leave a comment about your musings of the world^^

cheers, vik