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Day 9- (finally)

After a very gorgeous day today, I am extremely motivated to work on my models. I have a new magnifying lamp to help me see the finer detailed areas of my models so that I can paint. I am ready to roll.

Today I started to add a watered black wash to all of my models armored areas. This technique is to highlight all of the cracks and nooks in the armor and chains so that I can tell where on part ends and another begins. I only use this on white primed models. Now I can see these new areas, I then paint my middle grey color where there is supposed to be leather. I will paint those leather areas as a white-grey mix to resemble a shined black, which you can use as any non-metallic black. The then uses a lighter white-grey for the fabric of the masks and other clothes on the model.



WARNING, PLEASE DO NOT PANIC!!!
I must explain to people that I am changing all of the cloths from pink to an off-white linen look. I am not diverting from my theme, I am changing where the pink will be located on the model. I am stinking to the original theme where if you look on my Saint Celestian, the pink areas were located on the armor. I am doing the same concept with the Sister’s Repentia Squad as well with all of the sisters in the army. The armored areas are to be dark greys and pink. The clothes are going to be linens and silks.









Now seeing the grand scheme of things, I believe that I will be completed that Repentia sometime next week if I am lucky. I am not going to rush them but I really want to see them in completion. I will have a day 10 tomorrow; however, I will not have one on Wednesday. This is due to my finally on Wednesday night Public Speaking course.

I know the sisters do not look like much today but I am not here to disappoint anyone who has subscribed. I give my same ending as always. Please show your support. Do not forget I am here to answer any questions one may have about the army, painting, modeling, etc. Comment if you like. Bring party favors. Thank you all for sticking with me so far. I while work on this project until its completion. It will be a long road, so please join me on it. I’ll bring the beer .

Hello Ladies!

I feel your pain on Mold Lines. I think GW models regenerate mold lines just to spite us sometimes.

The pink theme looks nice and clean too. Can't wait to see more.

I like the new Idea of pink armour throughout, it gives all the units the same feal. Looking forwad to seeing more..

Day 10-

I must apologize to all of the subscribers about how late this post is. Tuesday night was the set date for the Day 10 post; however, with much embarrassment I left my IPhone at work and was unable to photograph the steps of the model that day.

Now if you remember the last post, I painted all of the cloth into a grey base. I used the grey base color instead of white or black because I wanted to make my next layering a warming color. I start with a mixture of light brown and bleach bone for the first highlight. On top of the grey base coat, the mixture becomes a warm tan; this completed the effect that I desired. (I do promise that I will have the steps pictured on the next model since Tuesday was not taken.) Once I was finished my base coat I then layer the models cloth areas with pure bleach bone. The painted highlight was only painted where the light physical touches the model. Next for a finer feathering highlight, I use bleach bone and linen white, this is for a brighter shade of off white.

I decided to try something a little different from using a brown or blue-grey for the shadowing of white. I tried out a green tan that to my surprise pulled off a realistic look, can you tell? This green color makes of a perfect dingy look to the model. A sister of Repentia are beaten, tortured, and sent into battle with clothing that a pulpier would wear, and mine are not as different. Even with the themely pink, The models need to look like that had suffered in some way to receive that Emperors forgiveness.









For tomorrow, I am planning to finish this model completely to show everyone what the final produce on the unit may look like. I am having a problem trying to figure out what bases I would use for the model, something that may transfer easy to the battle board when all of the models are finished. If anyone has any suggestion about this, questions, or comments, please do be shy. This is a forum after all



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I just notice the blog page is over a thousand views. The Emperor Wills it! Thank you all so far

Day 11-

I have started out the night by trying to remember my painting steps. I do not realize that I did not write down my color scheme steps and now I am regretting that decision or lack thereof. I did a couple test mixings with different paints that gave me the desired effect.

I started out with the pink on the knee, ankles, and hilt. I started with watered down of the main pink from them bottle. This was followed up by a 2:1 of pink and bleach bone for the layering highlight. Remember to feather it in smoothly. Next, I used a 1:2 pink and bleach bone to give the lighted areas a fine highlight. For the shadowed areas, I used a 2:2 pink and warlock purple. The light directly does not touch these shadowed areas so it is hard to see, which kind of the point, its shadows. Now to blend the shadows I used a touch of purple wash, this in on the very tip of a finely pointed brush.

For the chains and metal areas, I decided to use metallic colors instead of non-metallic so that the gray painted areas are not mistaken for other parts of the model. This was done first by using black wash to pull out all of the areas nooks and crannies. Then I use the basic metallic paint scheme of boltgun, chainmail, and mithil, followed by a watered down black wash to not only blend the colors but to give an oiled look.


















I had started the base with a basic brown; however, I am hesitant to go any further with the base without a game plan. I am not sure about what I should do because the result will have to be replicated on to the battle board. I do not know which direction I am going with that yet. I do not think I am going with a snow theme; I have done that in two of my other armies before. For any suggestion, comments, support, please show the support. I hope that I will have a day 12 on Sunday. If I do not hear from anyone, then have a good weekend all.

these girls are turning out sweet, cant waite to see them when the armies all done!

Seams like you've mae good progress! So far so good! For the bases me thinks, a desert theme, to bring out the pink or a snow theme?

Looks good to me - have you thought about a tundra type look? That way it will fit in with your previous snow based armies, but will also fit in to desert and urban bases as well.

Small bits of snow on the odd base, some brown/grey dust and the odd rock/concrete/metal spar should allow your bases fit in on a wide range of boards.

I am interested to know how you have got on with the magnifying light - I have a magnifying glass but find it really disconnects the whole painting thing and I find it really hard to use

SilverMK2 wrote:I am interested to know how you have got on with the magnifying light - I have a magnifying glass but find it really disconnects the whole painting thing and I find it really hard to use

With all honesty, I am not all impressed by the Mag Lamp. It is great as a lamp, good light and adjustable. The magnifying glass is good for when you are cleaning models and catching little details that I may have missed. The problem is that one it is not worth the money that I had paid for it and second it is very hard to paint while using both. I personally cannot adjust myself to figure out how far my brush is to the model until it is too late. I will need to set myself up and then look are the Magnifying glass, which is an extra step that I do not like.

Now for the bases I think I will go for the desert theme. This will tie a little into a guard list that I was writing, Achillian 83rd Artillery and Recon Division, Last and Final (god bless Gaunt’s Ghost First and Only)Do not worry the Last and Final is just a run on joke between me and a few of my friends.


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Does anyone have any good ideas on how to do a desert base? It seems that GW took down almost every one of there step-by step pages that I have used for ideas.... Jerks

Day 12-

Being that it is a rainy Monday, it seems that I am motivated to paint instead of working on my finals. This is good for all of you yet I think I am coming to suffer on it… oh well.

Now today I made sure that I just worked on something simple, base coats. Focus on the models main colors to be the first step to the final product that you see in the middle. I first start with all of the linen areas on each model. Like the previous post on day 11 I wanted a duller color so that is why I bases the linen grey with off-white as the second coating. The grey brings the bright color down to a milder shade.

Next, I bases all of the weapons and leather with Adeptus Battlegrey. This color I base for all the darker areas, it is a great foundation paint, just remember to water it down or you will have pigment clumps. The same for the off-white color. I usual do three coats just to me safe in getting the effect that I need.







I placed the finished painted model in the middle of the set so that you the viewer are able to see what I am trying to accomplish with the model. I believe that I am going to re-sand the bases with finer sand for the desert theme. I believe I have a paint scheme set for the painting of the sand. I know that I will have to purchase a spray gun in the near future to paint the battle board. I have some idea on that but I want to hear what you people have to say. So please do not forget to comment, support, of give your opinions, I am all ears

Before I forget, I do have finals this week so I do not know when day 13 will be up but there will be one I am sure of that.

Looks great

Day (well none)

Good evening all,

I did not pick up a paintbrush or model because my mind is on overload from my finals. Those who are in college know exactly what I am talking about, final are stressful. Tonight I decided to gather my thoughts and throw-out some of my ideas for to the forums. I will talk a little about the battle board, some painting, and maybe some random thoughts.

Everyone who has been reading my blog prior to this post knows the basis theme of the army and the idea of what paint schemes it I am using to accomplishing my goal. Pink is the key. People, you can snicker all that you want but know that I believe that this is the most underrated color. This color should not only be used for Tzeeches horror or Slaaneshes Daemonette. The Sisters of battle are here for the Emperors will.

With all joking aside, I am using the color pink, yes, because it is an underrated color, but represents the premise of my goal, breast cancer awareness. As said before I have never known anyone who has this decease, nor even help this movement before. The only reason that I am doing this project for this movement is… well why not? I do not need a reason. It is a good cause, who needs a reason to do a good thing. This project is the going to be the first of many different charity projects that I will complete within the next few years.

Now the battleboard was something that was stressing me out for a while because I do not have a bases scheme. I wanted to avoid snow and winter themes at all cost, I completed and sold a Warriors of Chaos, Dark Elves, and Black Templars( I still own)all winter themes. This time with the help of the good people of the forums, I decided to do a desert theme.

The desert theme is good because now I have ideas flying left and right. My friends within the hobby get kind of scare when this happens, for me getting crazy ideas. You see, my friend have given me the nickname Hannibal as in the A-team. There are two quotes that I uses all of the time when thinking about ideas.

“Capt. Charisa Sosa: [about Face's team] I would never tell him this, but they are the best at what they do, and they specialize in the ridiculous. “

“Col. John 'Hannibal' Smith: Give me a minute, I'm good. Give me an hour, I'm great. Give me six months, I'm unbeatable.”

Now I need to explain this more into detail. When I get Ideas in my head, I more or less have to act on them ASAP. This is most of the in conversion ideas. With my ideas, I will make a badass conversion that will most likely cost more them my army did. The last time this happened to my friends and me were at the 2010 Baltimore Gamesday. We decided to try out the Conversion Contest just for fun. After seeing all of the bitz, my famous look on my face appear, and then I was off doing what I do best… I have no idea what that is, but I was doing it. Once I was done I gave the completed model is and thought nothing more of it until the end of Gamesday were I wanted to take it home. It seems like my little case of madness won me first place in the Conversion Contest. Now I have my eye set on armies on Parade and my ideas are targeted on the Desert them battleboard.

I have start drawing up plans for the battleboard (thank god for the single semester in Architecture class) and giving it a life of its own. I plan to make a ruined sandstone cathedral with broken half-sand cover statues. I have material ideas and scenery list that I will share on a later day. I think that you all will like what I have to offer.

Before anyone is assumes too much this project is not for armies on parade of 2012. It is intended for 2013. I do not want to rush myself in finishing something and it being half-assed. I think everyone can agree with me on that. As you can see, I am not a good candidate for Iron Painter Competition lol.

I hope you all enjoyed my thoughts, tell me yours, commends, questions, support, etc.

I'm looking forward to future updates, seems we've both got something similar on the go.

IdentifyZero wrote:I'm looking forward to future updates, seems we've both got something similar on the go.

I would be lying if l told people that this is the first of its kind. I know that the pink armor concept has been done before as you have shown in your blog, which a looking great by the way . I have just subscribe to your blog to watch the progress of these sisters. Very nice

The pink for Breast Cancer Awareness has been done all over the place as well. I have seen Empire, Warriors of Chaos, Nercons, and of course, Sisters. The only differences between those armies and mine are that this is my vision of them.

For my sister’s army, I change the idea of pink to certain pieces of armor to be more visually pleasing to the eyes, not overwhelming. I use color theory with my painting. I have pink as the main focus with which is a bright color by nature. I had to, using color theory, grey to tune the brightness down to find balance. I hope that you all agree.

So far so good! I would suggest no buying a spray gun and buy a propper airbrush instead.

HAZZER wrote:So far so good! I would suggest no buying a spray gun and buy a propper airbrush instead.

Can you explain to me the difference? I was just going to buy the GW spray gun but if the airbrush is better and is inexpensive then I may not mind trying it out. I have not used either of them so no matter what I am starting from scratch.

Eternalhero1983 wrote:

HAZZER wrote:So far so good! I would suggest no buying a spray gun and buy a propper airbrush instead.

Can you explain to me the difference? I was just going to buy the GW spray gun but if the airbrush is better and is inexpensive then I may not mind trying it out. I have not used either of them so no matter what I am starting from scratch.

A real airbrush is gravity feed compressed air spraying thin coats of paint. with an airbrush, and a little practice you can get stunning work likeeggroll With a spray gun, you can only basecoat. It also clogs up and is very cheap. I would recommend spending a hundred bucks or so and buying a nice iwiata or similar airbrush, with a dual action, gravity feed, compressor with tank, and interchangeable tips. It can, and will further your painting

Capitansolstice wrote:

Eternalhero1983 wrote:

HAZZER wrote:So far so good! I would suggest no buying a spray gun and buy a propper airbrush instead.

Can you explain to me the difference? I was just going to buy the GW spray gun but if the airbrush is better and is inexpensive then I may not mind trying it out. I have not used either of them so no matter what I am starting from scratch.

A real airbrush is gravity feed compressed air spraying thin coats of paint. with an airbrush, and a little practice you can get stunning work likeeggroll With a spray gun, you can only basecoat. It also clogs up and is very cheap. I would recommend spending a hundred bucks or so and buying a nice iwiata or similar airbrush, with a dual action, gravity feed, compressor with tank, and interchangeable tips. It can, and will further your painting

This I believe is something that I can get into. Thank you Cap for the information on the comparison, I will look into a nice start set airbrush and check out YouTube for a few tutorials on how to optimize my use of it. I guess I will look on eBay while I am on lunch at work. Now I know were a part of next pay check is going.

Hehehehe, also if you want some real advice talk to destingass. He is an airbrush pro

Eternalhero1983 wrote:

Capitansolstice wrote:

Eternalhero1983 wrote:

HAZZER wrote:So far so good! I would suggest no buying a spray gun and buy a propper airbrush instead.

Can you explain to me the difference? I was just going to buy the GW spray gun but if the airbrush is better and is inexpensive then I may not mind trying it out. I have not used either of them so no matter what I am starting from scratch.

A real airbrush is gravity feed compressed air spraying thin coats of paint. with an airbrush, and a little practice you can get stunning work likeeggroll With a spray gun, you can only basecoat. It also clogs up and is very cheap. I would recommend spending a hundred bucks or so and buying a nice iwiata or similar airbrush, with a dual action, gravity feed, compressor with tank, and interchangeable tips. It can, and will further your painting

This I believe is something that I can get into. Thank you Cap for the information on the comparison, I will look into a nice start set airbrush and check out YouTube for a few tutorials on how to optimize my use of it. I guess I will look on eBay while I am on lunch at work. Now I know were a part of next pay check is going.

Tbh I got a very basic airbrush for £20 with perpellent and still can do basecaots and hilighting as well as painting large areas. If you pefre using a brush put about a £40 max. Oh and you will want some perpellent (To 'power the air brush') because its pointless spending £200 pound on a good airbrush and compresser if you've never tried one before.

Hazzer Has a good point, but In all experience I have had with using an airbrush (I don't own one) propellent gives less control, and zenthial and detail brushing is better suited for one that costs 200$ US


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True but what I'm putting across is the spray gun can't do that!

Evening all,

Sorry, about my quick break that I was on. I was completing the last of my finals for this semester. I am happy to say that I did well and will happily never have to look at those books again.

I have not been idol this last week during my finals. I took a trip to Lowes and purchased a large bag of playground sand. This sand is finer sand then the GW sand that I was using previously. Let me think, $8.95 for a cup of GW sand or $20.99 for the bag of Lowes sand that will never run out. You do the math.

I have also purchased an Airbrush that I am waiting for to arrive from Canada, Thank you eBay. This only cost around $50.00 with shipping brand new, so it was a win-win for me

I am still trying to finish up things here and will post later this week with week 13, Finally!

AB is a much more controllable tool. With the right needle and compressor ( controlling the air flow) you can achive very different affects. If nothing else it is a very good tool to apply smooth and consistant paint on the models.

Again check out destingass, eggroll and Major toms work.
IMO you will not start out acheiving these results right away , but with practice it will be a common tool in your figure painting.

Look forward to more progress.

SL

Sweet! Sound like a nice airbrush! Was that the airbrush by its-self then?

Day 13 (1/2)-

I must apologies about not updating people on my resent work on the models. I just know how exciting it is for people for me to describe how I re-base my models with fine coursed sand. It was a riveting talk of adventure, action, drama… Well, it was twenty minutes of boredom to be exact. I did not wish to waste anyone’s’ time with the step-by-step explanation of glue, dunk, and drying of sand. I will promise you that hopeful I will be done to the Sister of Repentia and it will be able start the Mistress of Repentance for the unit.

The only problem that I am having with my army is that the new spray brush has not come in yet. I am a little disappointed in this but I will live. I will give it another week and then I will contact the seller.

does anyone have a better way to paint desert sand for bases?

Second Half

Day 13-

I must apologies again for this post being as late as it was. I have been having some delays in my painting days. Once school was over, I thought that I was ok wit painting as much as I can but then some problems have arisen. As all of you know, I was purchasing an airbrush on eBay to help me in this project. The problem was that is never arrived from where I ordered it. This was annoying at most but I am able to deal with it. From May 17 through 22, I was as Disney World for my vacation period. Of course, I should have posted but I was on vacation. Then finally, as I have been sitting here the last day and a half, Diablo III has called to me. This is an Evil little game. I like it.


Nevertheless, enough about the problems here is the long lasted 13th day, which I am not too proud of.


I have been having trouble finding a good desert sand paint scheme. GW used to have a good page where they had many different basing paint schemes to try out. Now that they have the new paint set for sale, they removed the tutorial from their site. I had to come up with my own scheme, which I believe is ok. I used these paints for the sand.

















I had also worked on the black-grey on the models as well. The blend came out very good. Tonight I am going to start with the metallic on the chains. Once that is completed, I will paint the final pink on to the armor. The pink will be my five-step process to bring out the best effect.





Now, before comments about the sides of the bases arise, No, they are not done. I painted a little Graveyard on the rims of the bases but what you are looking at is not the final product. I am going to have to lighten up the bases because I believe they are too dark. The rims are just a quick base to cover some of the white.

Please do not be shy with comments, thoughts, questions, etc.

Thanks and hope to hear from everyone for Day 14

Day 14-

Today I only spend about an hour working on the Sisters Repentia. I was not happy with the color of the sand that I used. I decided to lighten up tan of the sand so that it did not match the linen cloth as much.





Once I completed the new coat on the sand, I start placing the base pink on the sister’s armor. I based the entire unit of sisters now; however, I will be working on them individually so that each sister will be up to my specific standard.





Right now, you will still be able to see white near and between some of the armor plates and cracks. I am going to fill them in when I do the final touches on each model. I am also going to take some time to bruise and scar the sisters’ skin up a little with some techniques that I found on some websites and WD’s. This effect will not be resent wounds that are in this battle. I am not doing battle damage on this armor. This Sister of battle army is, in theme, ready for battle before the first shot is fired. The Repentia are bruise and scar because they are constantly in repenting for the sins against the Emperor. This is done by whipping, beating, etc.

This Saturday I was able to purchase a Battalion of Imperial Guard. Their bodies will be combined with some VC skeletons and will litter the battle board as a battle long lost. I am in need of finding ether the Battle for Macrage downed flier or I will have to purchase a Valkyrie to use as terrain.

I did not receive my airbrush yet I did get my money back from eBay. I am still annoyed at this. Say lave .

Please tell me what you think, any ideas, or comment; please do not hesitate to post.

I like the idea of lots of dead guys on the board and a down ship of some description. I'd go for the valk. I belive FW sellsa a downed one for about £20? Tho its probally more.... Soz about your airbrush, just try again....