Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

Man!

This guy is just RUINING these ForgeWorld models...
Oh...
Wait...

Nevermind.


I look forward to seeing them finished. Keep up the hard work.


Eric

Well, work tends to get in the way of painting, but painting is back on!

We have various Krieg in various stages of inks. Again the camera picks up on the light points and make them 'Sparkly' and is not to be believed. However it does (once again) show how many small areas I've missed. After I've made these figures with their arms folded over, I've come to regret it. I wish I had painted them with the arms off first. REALLY hard to reach some areas. I'll know better for the Storm Troopers.

Nice job on these models. Are you using the new GW washes for shading? I´ve used them and feel that theey´ve worked brilliantly.

About the grenadiers. I put the arms on them first, and was happy to have done so. Main reason for that being that the cables for their hellguns have given people a lot of trouble.

I found that their arms weren´t as much in the way as with the normal krieg infantry, since they don´t have the rebreather boxes on their chest.

Anyway, just my .02$.

Thank you for that bit of info.

Yes, I'm using the GW washes and I love them. I'm using the mud first on the tans, then I put on the sepia next. I find that warms up the area nicely.

The washes help define the areas of interest on the great coats. However most of the blending is done with paints. Working up and down, using the wash for staking out the areas.

Small updates! The job has kicked in and I'm going to be busy busy making Dark Void until the end of the year. Ung. But still...

The highlighting has begun!



Several Krieg have bits and pieces done on the brights. Too many areas are still too start- need more blending. We'll see.

Oh! And can anyone describe what this is?



If you answered, "An ogyrn about to be killed by a Kriegsman." then you would be right. However it's also my new objective locater! he's going to be fun painting up.

Aww. Nice Death korps.

Also, nice Ogryn. Those FW Chaos ones are pretty damn crazy.

~sA

Wow you had me scared for a moment !
i thought yo were completely ruining the models
but hey the final product is superb keep it up
and post pleanty of photos

Thank you! I fool a lot of people into thinking I'm ruining them. All part of my clever plan.

More pictures will be posted when there's more to see. Probably this weekend.

Love it.

Small update:

I am currently out of a job. Being in the video game industry has it's ups and downs, and this is a down. As much as I would like to capitalize on a lot of free mini painting time, I must spend it finding a new job. And that takes a lot of energy. Updates will continue, although I don't know how rapidly.

So, on with the show!



Several areas need more blending and maybe a little reinking here and there. I put a black border around the flag, but.... I'm not liking it, so I'm going to have to repaint.

Well, it's been a little while. I'm still looking for a job and it's taking a lot of my time. ALL this free time still isn't so "free" to work on my projects. Ah well.

I've finished the grays on a couple of characters (photos show me I missed a few spots) and begun to work on the tans/browns. Building up the lighter areas with glazes.
2 drops of Liquitex glaze medium
1 drop of Liquitex flow aid
1 drop of water
1-2 thick paint brush scoops of pigment.

When the color is about what I want I will go back over it with another ink wash to take the edge off of it and solidify the cracks that I might have painted over. Right now I'm not happy with the gas masks. : /

One again, my camera likes to pick up the highlight areas and make they look speckly. Not so.

Started the ogryn off with some prison orange colors



More pointing





And holding. Looks like I missed some spots on him.



Command squad special weapons





And someone to watch over them. I'm debating if I want to give him a plasma pistol arm from the Commander upgrade pack, since he's one of the few I actually WOULD give a plasma gun. Not sure yet.

Update! Still unemployed and things are starting to look grim. Haven't had much desire to paint, but still have gotten more done. So, updates for you! Very few mistakes to fix. I may take the brightness of the clothing down a notch with a wash, the light makes it a little brighter than it is. However, if you put them on the table they really stand out! So, then again, I may not! I made the choice to go more art than realistic with them since they are units in an army. I might not have done so if it was a diorama.

Command Vox





Command Melta





Command Plama





Krieg Gunner



Since I'm broke, I've started putting together models that I already have. Big guns have been sighted to reinforce!

Artillery sighted! Why have a wormy little basilisk when you can have a Medusa siege gun?

Jesus Christ! Your cat looks exactly like mine.

Nice,the GW washes are great,aren't they?Well anyway nice job!

Have you seen your cat lately? ;D

DDrE: Thank you! I really do like them, and they mix well.

Very, very nice.

Wow, like to many others I cringed at the sight of the first picture, but something beautiful came out of it in the end. Keep up the good work and I look forward to seeing your big tanks completed.

Thought this was going to be another one of those threads where you get some new person to 40k hurriedly painting and posting all his 'work' online - but the end results are marvelous. Keep it up!

can you make pictures of the models without flash?
because now i can barely see depth in the models, which is a shame because i think the models will look really good without flash

Develain

As per request, here are the figures in sunlight.

I hated you...for ruining the models...

Then I loved you...for doing them justice...

Now I hate you again...damn beautiful models...

Oh, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the tail fin on the Marauder is the wrong way around.

Thats so you can tell the difference between your Marauder and mine.

Oooh...I didn't notice that at first glance...It does look kinda funny, might wanna take it off and reposition before it gets painted

I'll try, but it's glued on pretty good. I didn't notice it was backward before it was too late and I might be stuck with it.

Tanks! The backbone of every guard army is the armor. First off A Hellhound with extra armor and track guards:



Next we have tanks. I have a Demolisher and a Vanquisher assembled. The Vanquisher is waiting for it's trench rails before being primed, and they have yet to arrive. Both tanks have rare earth magnets keeping the sponsons on, so if the vehicle is hit, I can just take it off. This includes the front guns as well (except for the Hellhound). Thankfully it worked out because I spent way too long gluing my fingers together in the process.





Next we have the turret and various other pieces. A Cyclops and a Heavy Mortar. Looks like I need to do another round of priming. I don't mind missing some of the areas (like in the hell hound, since ink and paint will take care of those, but there are too many large areas on the Heavy Mortar to go undone. The top hatch doors on the Turret are barely kept on by the clue and it's going to be really challenging to transport that one around.

Cool stuff - any chance we can get some pics with the sponsons on? I'm planning on magnetizing the sponsons on my Russes and I'm interested to see how other folks have done it and the end results.

I think I would break up the gold on the officer's chestplate by doing a little drybrush of mithril silver. Looking good so far!

As per request here is the Demolisher without it's sponsons/armorments. Originally I was using the magnets from radio shack had- they were larger and had a better hold. However, they were also a pain to drill in and I found I didn't need a massive magnet for what I wanted to do. Oh, please enjoy too much flash.



Next picture is with the guns attached. Originally I was going with two magnets on the far side, but as you can see, there is just A LITTLE bit of dipping in the front. So I changed that with one on the back and one on the top. Now there is none. For all intents and purposes this looks like a regular tank with lots of heavy bolters.



Here's the shot of the same Demolisher with a lascannon instead of heavy bolter. Because Forgeworld only ships certain weapons with certain kits, I HAD to be flexable if I wanted the options to swap weapons out. The trick is to make sure your magets are aligned the right way. Sadly, Forgeworld does NOT put out plasma cannon or multi-melta parts for their demolishers, so it's just heavy bolters at this point for the sponsons. : / Again, at first glance it doesn't look like any other tank, which is what I wanted. Forgeworld puts out beautiful kits, so all my conversion work is to be invisible; I don't want to compete with the aesthetics of the tank, just add flexibility to it.