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Well Saturday I had a tournament and I needed to get 10 psycannons finished. While I was at it I touched up the techmarine (he got some damage in playtest games)


Next up is finishing off the last batch of psycannons


I also built a callidus out of Lilith. I carved off the hooks and barbs, filed down her elfin features, and gave her a 2nd ed eldar powerfist, and a power sword/power axe combo.

Nice conversion Foda.

Nice! I like it

Indeed, very original

Gitsplitta - Thanks!
DiDDe - Thanks!
Vitruvian XVII - Thanks!


Time for some more ultra work!
I have finished the washing and begun the drybrushing

The batch I did last night!


The chaplain got some more colors as I waited for GKs to dry

The chaplain will not have his black armor wash applied till he is nearly finished.

Drybrushing is done! I've also applied the basecoat for reds.

Last night I got some GK backpacks and my assault marine backpacks primed.

This is not fair I don't have the money to buy a pack of Cadia shock troops to paint. And here you are.. Painting 2 armys at the same time!! I hate u!!

looking good btw

DiDDe - Thanks! The GKs are mainly 2nd hand, the marines are ALL 2nd hand.

Well the backpacks got basecoated!

Well I've actually managed to get some more work done on the Ultras! The ribbing is painted, the ribbons are painted, the purity seals are painted, the pouches are painted, the grey basecoat for the white, and finished the metal basecoats!

OMG!!! the moldline on the flamer! get rid of it NOW! :O

Other then that it looks fine

DiDDe - Don't worry drilling gun barrels is coming!

Well last night while getting my models ready to take to work I dropped the entire 3rd company.
72 Tactical marines, 20 assault marines, 2 characters all fell about 8 feet onto a hard concrete floor. Many of the softer lead models are distorted, and about 80% of the models exploded or broke.
After 2 hours of repair I have the following



So I'll probably be spending the weekend repairing and finding new bits to replace the missing bits.

Well I repaired the 3rd Company. I lost 1 bolter marine and 3 arms, while I was painting them I decided to replace the 2nd ed flamer marine with a new one and built and painted him. They got lenses, metal wash, purity seal highlights, rubber, and are now getting white highlights.
I've decided to put them on hold for just a bit to try and finish my storm blade for a contest this Saturday.



I've tried the zenitial highlighting with adeptus battle grey base, 3 to 1 with astro grey on the sides, and 2 to 1 on the tops.
I then hit it with lines of Rotting Flesh. I'm actually going to redo all my tanks this way. IT may take longer (and a while to repaint the currently painted ones) but it works better and is easier to control than the armory grey.

I'm going to do the plasma cannon like GW did the dreadknight sword, with the white being on the end of the barrel, blue to black going back towards the tank.

In a flurry of painting last night I was able to get most of the details done on the Stormblade


I tried airbrushing the plasma coils like the many youtube videos show on the dreadknight sword but I couldn't pull it off, so I went for progressive drybrushing


I used some stowage to hide the HORRIBLE missing pieces in the forgeworld kit



I decided to keep the large single fuel tanks for my Fortress of Arrogance and simply put the normal fuel tanks on the Stormblade

Nice work so far The plasma coils look great. keep it up

Qualude wrote:clone psycher army of michael douglas w/ gary busse edition mugshot hair ftw


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Just so you know that's Nick Nolte not Gary Busse

Grate stuff,
those ultra's look good, I would probally do the same thing as you by dropping them!Lol!
Baneblade looks grate love to see more!GK look grate too!

DiDDe - Thanks!
HAZZER - Its a stormblade. The baneblade is next.

I was able to get all of the white highlights on the Ultramarinesdown today




Next up on the Ultras is to touch up their blue.

And some terrible pictures of my stormblade
















The best tank I've done with some great weathering... and not a bit of it shows in those photos.

With that tank out of the way I've started the next one. I've tried a little more dramatic zenithial highlighting on this one.

I like what you've done inside the barrels. Not just the regular black look really nice!

My condolences on your third company, Hazzer. Those kind of things are the worst. I know how you feel, though. One of my Grey Hunters broke in half during a game last week, and that's about the same as an entire company. Right, guys?

Excellent work on the Stormblade, btw! Good attention to detail and great weathering! Have you thought about doing any OSL from the plasma cannon? (I feel like I'm suggesting OSL a lot these days...)

Keep it up!

Cheers,
Rawson

Rawson wrote:Have you thought about doing any OSL from the plasma cannon? (I feel like I'm suggesting OSL a lot these days...)

That's becouse it's a beautiful thing when you can master it!

DiDDe - Thanks!

Rawson - Thanks! But 1 grey hunter does not equal a company I'm trying 1 thing at a time. Weathering on this one maybe OSL on the next. Although if I have glowing plasma coils it'll look weird when I swap the weapon.

I got the rotting flesh applied to the baneblade this weekend, and I dropped the Stormblade off last night at Hobby Town Dallas' Super Heavy contest
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v314/Foda_Bett/Travels/2011%20Hobby%20Town%20Dallas%20Super%20Heavy%20Contest/
I've got some stiff competition.

Foda_Bett wrote:Thanks! But 1 grey hunter does not equal a company

I do hope the sarcasm and comic relief of that comment was accurately conveyed by the astropaths...

Foda_Bett wrote:I'm trying 1 thing at a time. Weathering on this one maybe OSL on the next. Although if I have glowing plasma coils it'll look weird when I swap the weapon.

Yes, I can see what you mean. That would look quite out of place...

Keep it up!

Cheers,
Rawson

Rawson - hopefully my em-ork-icon showed my sarcasm.
The only "hunter" that's equal is a "Ultra Hunter" which will be in my Pre-Heresy Ultras/Space Wolves.

I got the metals down on the baneblade.

I'll have some touch ups with the grey and flesh but can't get over that airbrushed metals.

Well 2 rounds of good news!
1)I was able to get the flesh and greys cleaned up on the baneblade, and get it decaled and detailed


Next up is stowage then weathering, then Imperial Wrath will join Imperius Dominatus in my super heavy tray.

2) I won the painting contest!!
1st: FodaBett, Imperial Guard Stormblade. $65 towards any GW Kit
2nd: Tyranid Heirodule $40 towards any GW Kit
3rd: SpellBound, Emperor's Children Reaver Titan $25 towards any GW Kit

GRATZ!! now give me that money!! :O

The baneblade is looking great btw!

Foda_Bett wrote:Rawson - hopefully my em-ork-icon showed my sarcasm.
The only "hunter" that's equal is a "Ultra Hunter" which will be in my Pre-Heresy Ultras/Space Wolves.

Well hopefully.... nope, I'm out of hopefullys.

Foda_Bett wrote:I got the metals down on the baneblade.

I'll have some touch ups with the grey and flesh but can't get over that airbrushed metals.

I do love how realistic the models look when they're airbrushed. Your camo patterns are spot on! Maybe that $65 can go towards another superheavy

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Rawson

DiDDe - Thanks!

Rawson - Thanks! I'll be putting the $ towards razorbacks. I own 15k of painted ultramarines but no transports other than land raiders.

Imperial Wrath got a heck of a lot of damage, and a good bit of stowage. I wasn't able to get it as clean and needed a way to "write off" the weird misaligned parts.



I still need to drybrush the tracks and add the sand.

Announcing the latest (oldest) Baneblade to roll off my painting table! Imperial Wrath



With that finished I grabbed 3 sentinels and gave them a quick painting.



Red Sentinel Squad nearly finished.
I'm going to add a bit of stowage, weathering, some basing, and they'll be good to go.

Last night I turned red squad into red company


I think I'm going to store them now and move onto blue company. I usually like to base things all at once, so I will probably base and finishing weathering the sentinels all together.

I also gave the motley pile of marines

red shoulder rims!


Next up is blue touch ups!