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Well i got round to finishing my Apothacary off, i touched him up last night. I tried to do some blending on the shoulder pads, i am not sure how well this has come out ont the photos, i may have to take a picture froma higher angle.



Then this morning when i went to take a photo, i decided that i had time to stick him together, as all i had to do was finish off the base. So out came the super glue.









I am pleased with how he came out, i just have to decide who to paint next. I think it will be my standard bearer, where i will try some more blending. And if his armour ends up looking cleaner (because its because he spends more time waving the standard rather than getting into melee.

Looking very nice! I really like the colors on this guy. The red in the shoulder pads does appear a bit flat, but that could just be the lighting.. The other colors all look great. I need to get started on painting up my orks! I look forward to your next model.

I think its just the angle on the shoulder pads, as there is higlighting, but its at the top lol. And you cant see it at this angle. Ill try to take a better photo tomorrow morning

Well i spent my lunch looking for a template for a banner. I eventaully found one, and printed it off, I then drew on the design in pencil.



The plan is to photocopy it down to the right size, and then use some thicker card (or plasti card if i can find any). The guide sugests 'painting' the card in pva glue then sticking your design on to it, then giving it another coat of PVA before you paint it. So as not to have to worry about the card /paper getting FUBAR from washes etc. While scanning the picture i wondered how i was going to paint the thin frame around the main design. I am considering trying to use some Green stuff to Form a raised frame, ther efore making it easier for me to paint. I then thought that as i am doing this i may as well try and sculpt the skull part of the design as well. A bit more of a challenge but should make it fun.

Sweetness! I'm looking forward to seeing your progress.

Morning all. I took some more photos of my Apothacary, to try and better show the highlighting on his shoulders. What looked like a nice day outside, was obviously not as bright as the other day. So the photos have come out, but not quite as bright as the previous ones. I had better start work on my light box, i just need some lights and some tissue paper ... so .. so far i have a cardboard box







I gave the Standard Bearer a good wash of Babadab black, i may have been a bit over zealous lol, as he has come out a bit darker than usual. (i plan on going back over him in blood red any way, to define the shadows, before i start the highlighting process. But last night i realised i had missed a bit so had to touch him up. And as he was wet i could not do my intended next steps.



Which was actually a good thing as i was in two minds as to what to do last night and this decided it for me. I got to make my Banner My oriinal plan was to use green stuff to create the detail, but i decided that i was not good enough to get the shapes i wanted. but when i sat down at my desk i noticed an old blue folder after giving it a bit of a feel I decided that it would be good. So i started off cutting out my banner and drawing round it, i then cut out the basic shape and glued the paper image on top using a little bit of super glue. This stuck a little faster than i expected so it was not quite in line, so a little trimming was needed.

This is where i sshoul dprobably go back a bit and stop myself running ahead in excitement. Yesterday i used the photo copyier after i had drawn out my design, to shrink down the image. i shrunk it to 80%, 75% and 70% as i was not sure which one would fit. After holding them up to the model i decided 70% was best.

OK and back to the glueing. i then realised that i did not have a second copy of the banner at 70%. i looked at the images and decided that the design on the 75% would still fit nicely into the main banner at 70%. so i preceeded to cut out each item and stick them down to more card then cut them out with scisors and a craft knife. (this took the majority of the time.) Learning from my mistake, this time i used some pva glue to stick the items down so that i could reposition them on the banner. Once happy I gave it all a coat of PVA glue, using my finger as sugested int he guide i read yesterday so to not leave brushmarks.



This mornign it looked great, so i turned it over and gave the back a nice coat of PVA as well. I am very pleased so far. The only thing i for see is that the tabs may be a little stiff to bend round the Banner pole cross peice, so i may have to score them, but we will cross that bridge when i get to it.


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I have just remembered, that i remembered in the night that i had not cut out the nasal cavity in the skull. Well its too late now, i will just have to paint it. But thats not too much of a problem

That's going to be a great looking banner! Can't wait to see how it turns out!

Ahhh, I see the shading now.

Great progress on your light box... err...

Sweet looking banner so far!

I was going over myproposed army list, and working out what else i need to obtain via swap or ebay, when i realised that the load out of my command squad was going to be too expensive. My Standard bearer already had a power fist that i could not ammened, and i was planing on giving him a plasma pistol. I decided, to change this to a storm bolter. But as i did not have one i asked on Dakka for advice on how to model one

I decided to go with cutting off the grip on 2 pistols and filing down the opsoing sides and then glueing them together. I then reatached the pistol grip and pinned it onto a spare arm. Sadly i only had my mobile to take photos on this morning, as my wife had hidden the camera lol. So the phots are not the best. But you get the idea. I think i am going to ahve to clean it up a bit, and maybe use a little green stuff to fill in the gaps.





As always C&C welcome

Yep, I've seen that method done several times. It will look good.
My suggestion is clean up the mold lines, and don't add too much GS, just a bit across the top like so:

Well last night i cleaned up the storm bolter a little more, but i did not add any green stuff as i only saw the post this morning. I may add some tongiht. But here are some photos with the arm held on with blue tack





I have arranged a game with a friend of mine, we have set the date a few weeks away to give us time to get our models painted. But i realised that i do not have enough models yet to field 1500 army. (this friend is doing me a swap for my AOBR orks for some Marines) And i realised that looking at my main list (Planned army) that i need a Termie with a heavy flamer, and the ones from AOBR dont have a flamer. Luckily i had a Termie from the metal models i stripped from another firend, that i had planned to have deul wielding flightning claws. But i realised that i dont ahve an assult termie squad so he would be better being my Heavy Flamer. So rooting through my bits box i found a flamer for a dreadnought, and a termie arm meant for a shield. I pinned these together and added some rudementory green stuff. I also found a canister whihc i think was from the IG, but it looks cool.



But i needed a power fist for his other hand, and i did not have one, so i had to *gulp* butcher a lighting claw. The knuckles need a bit of a clean up, but i like its look.





The reason he is on a small and large base is that he was already glued onto a small base, so i thought i would glue that onto a larger base, and then green stuff in a bit of a slope, and hopefully find some other stuff to add to the base.

I am going to have to proxy in some Necrons in this game anyway, so when i decided to use a thunder fire cannon to make use of what was an objective marker.



I decided this guy can be the Techmarine Gunner

Lol at your Techmarine. Good job on the converter termie thus far.

Well i have had a busy weekend IRL so not had a chance to do much painting. Although i have finised off modeling the last few models i need / have for my up coming game. Sadly i forgot to take a photo before priming, but one of my veterans had a power fist and i needed him to have a chainsword. I decided against cutting off his arm and replacing, and instead decided to have his power fist holding a chain sword. i only have to cut off the thumb and remodel in GS, and pin in a chain sword. I am pleased how it went. But you will have to wait for painted pictures. As i took some once primed and there was not enough definition.

BUT i have got some photos of my standard bearer as i finally got round to giving him his red and purple highlights I have tried somethign a bit different. Normally i just add blazing orange edge highlights after the babadab black wash. But i added a few more layers of transition this time. Similar to what i did for my Apothacary. I am not sure if i will do this for my rank and file, but i think its work it for the command squad. (pity i did not think of this before my champion)





I have since put a wash over the bone areas, and will hoepfully be highlighting them tonight, i need to start afresh on his arm, as its a new one with a storm bolter. I also gave the banner its first coat ofbleached bone (after having primed it.



But the other day i put a base coat of red gore on my Termies, and Chapter Master. (not sure if her will stay as my chapter master, but that is what he will be for my upcoming game.



As always C&C welcome

I like the extra attention with your highlighting. The purple fist on the standard bearer also looks pretty sweet.

I love painting power fists I may try and work some fluff out (at some point) that gives a reason why they prefer them. Its just a pity they are so expensive to field :(

While in an incredibally interesting and important meeting *cough* i made good use of my time and sketched out an idea for some free hand for the top of my Command Squads Rhino. I still need to get the rhino, lol. But this was just somethign to ocupy my time



It obviously needs tidying up, its just a general idea. What do you think?

It's a good sketch! Are hands meant to be from the "owner" of the skull? If so, the thumbs should be on the top, but if they are supposed to be from "someone else", they are fine.

They are meant to be striking the skull (not the owners I need to re do it and practice drawing the gauntlets a bit more, to make sure they are even.

I see. I would suggest just showing the side of the fists, it would get the point across better, but you wouldn't see the detail on the back of the gauntlets. Maybe just show a bit less of the fingers and thumbs, it would look more like a closed fist.

M0rdain wrote:

Creative flamer solution here. I think the pose would look better with either the PF or the flamer lowered. I don't think there are so many situations where he would be using them both simulatiously

M0rdain wrote:I decided this guy can be the Techmarine Gunner

I...uh....what IS this guy?

Cheers,
Rawson

He's the Pimp Daddy Necron!

Well, i decided to try my hand at repositioning the arms on one of my necrons, and then later on i had some spare GS so decided to give him a hat and a tail ... as you do

Ok Sorry for the delay in updating my Blog. I have a deadline to paint up my remaining marines before a battle with my friend on the weekend of the 22/10. So i decided to set up an asembly line with the last 9 models. Well It did not go quite as well as planned. Yes i got the paint on them and added extra colours but sadly my motivation wained as it took longer to get them looking good. That and my main painting time of friday and saturday nights has been eaten into due to working a 2nd Job on those evenings. and getting in at 1am i am rather tired and just zonk out with a cider and dont get much painting done. So i split the remaining models down and did more work on 4 of them. So they have progressed a little faster.

I have a new mobile so and it has a flash!! which means hopefully these photos will be a bit better. (My wife had hidden the real camera) And it does not help that the mornings are getting darker, so my prime photo taking time is getting shorter. I need to get my light box set up. I have one light and a box, but no tissue paper or a second light yet lol. I may rig it up and see how it goes with 1 light

All photos are PIP C&C welcome

So here we have my Stand in for chapter master for the up coming game, not sure what he will be after, he may even stay as that lol.



1st Veteran for the command squad.


2nd veteran for the command squad. I decided to give him the chainsword in his power fist. I think it looks cool, that way i can give him either weapons in a game (but will probably stay with chainsword, i just did not have the heart to cut off the arm of the metal mini)


And while i was in a tired mood, and did not feel like painting :( i made an objective for the up coming battle. Its not even base coated yet, but i dont want to detract from my new found enthusasm for finishing my marines.


I have definatly decided that i prefer painting 1 mini at a time rather than loads at once, i loose my motication too quickly.

Anyway C&C welcome

The deadline for my battle is drawing closer, this Saturday!! So I need to finish up my last few Marines, they have received their last highlights, I just need to do the details. Oo yeah and all their arms and back packs that are not attached lol. Here are a couple of photos from last night; I took them on my phone as more of an experiment to see how they came out. The one with the flash really distorts the colours, but the one with out the flash is a much better representation of the colours (and is a better painted model as I painted him individually rather than in a production line)





Looking at this picture with out the flash i am really pleased with how he came out. I hope that my so so banner does not detract from him :s

C&C welcome

Painting is looking great! clean and colorful. The flash didn't help, but it looks pretty good.

Love how this is going, pruple is such a rare color to find with marines it seems, done right anywayz..

I'm liking that Banner Bearer the most. Well done. Looking forward to seeing him with the actual banner! Good luck in the battle. What army is your friend playing?

Its a 1500 point battle and he will be playing Orks. Ill post some pictures of the armys and the battle after the event

Ooooo! I do love some orks! I hope they win... no hard feelings. Us orkz are just da best!

Sadly the event got delayed ;( , so we are doing it next weekend instead

Luckily it gives me more time to finish off the painting