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OMG a second page! I never thought I would stick with this or get comments to.get Pg 2!

It only gets sad once you have about 2-3 pages of only you.

Just some minor work. The guy who is getting.me a new canopy in return for my broken one, says he can't use.mine as it has superglue on it but he's still making a new one, so in the.meantime I decided to paint the frame.

I also touched up stray paint and did a secret touch, which I do on all my vehicles Aquilas. Who knows what I did?

So, uh yeah. Back with no pics. Just info. Another painting competition. All flyers. Have untill Saturday 23rd June. Same day 6th comes out.

So I got to work on the pilot. Mold lines cleaned and head, torso and legs built. Spray priming those, arms, shoulders and control panel tomorrow and beginning painting the pilot. That will take all Wednesday and Thursday, and Friday for control box, and apply transfers.


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Just sprayed my pilot and control panel

Sort of worked out well then seeing the progress on this.

I'm assuming the red thing in the middle of the Aquilla has something to do with your avatar? Or is that going too far and it's to make them look like the Blood Raven's symbol?

Blood Raven's symbol. Its sort of a trademark. I couldn't do freehand so where I saw an Aquila I painted it like the Blood Ravens.

Wow, that's looking great! I wish I'd come to this thread sooner

Hey all! I am in an especially good mood today for 2 reasons!

1- Passed a big french oral exam today after epically failing a Spanish one yesterday (needed 6 minutes worth and got 44 words, 40 of which I was allowed on a sort of cheat sheet )
2-I got a banner for this blog, including my Avatar, thanks to Castiel. I owe you one . You can see it in my sig.
3- I finished the Stormtalon! Yep, transfers and pilot all finished and can be found in my Gallery under "Finished Showcases."
Here.
The pics arn't good quality but I shall take better pics when the sun finally decides to show its moon (backside).



I painted the Techmarine Pilot's armour using a mix of Mechrite Red and a pinch of black for basecoating, then an allover wash of Devlan Mud. As Techmarine's normally have red armour no matter the Chapter, and my marines were red, I decided to leave it the dark red so to differentiate. The Chapter Badge shoulder was kept on the left, and the Mechnicus Symbol Pauldron, his squad marking, on the left and the colours kept the same. The silver bits were just Chainmail and then Badab Black. The eyes were simply Goblin Green and Badab to shade. I didn't bother with much fine detail as I was ion a rush and most people won't see the pilot anyway due to the large crack (still waiting on replacement)


I am going to my aunt's tonight but I am entering a painting competition with it tomorrow, and hopefully get seeing the 6th Ed book, if there is an open copy given to stores to showcase. In the meantime I plan to get my Razorsaw back from my friend so i can start July's project...Tyberos, the Red Wake, from IA 10, Badab War pt 2. He is named "Leonidas Hedromus" and is captain of the 1st company.

So anyway, that's it. Please check out that gallery, vote on my images, both the Stormtalon and Vulkan and stay tuned. I am workingon a Mawloc on the side. I may or may not post WIP pics, but if you all want I can. I only have the body.


@p-gray

Thanks!

Glad you like the banner, pal!

The paint job on the Stormtalon is looking awesome. I don't like the model though, it seems too squashed to me. Also, stop being better than I am!

Keep up the good work!

Thanks Cas.

Ok, so I mentioned I had a painting comp for the Talon? I won!!! Or should have done. It was cancelled. I was the only one who entered -.-

Anyway, nothing new will be going up till next sunday where I start my next project. I am planning to do Tyberos the red wake from Forgeworld. It will be.my first time with FW resin so wish me luck and hope I don't feth it up!

Still won by default then. The better way to win seeing as it means the competition was clearly too intimidated to even show.

Lightning chain fist claw time as well?

Yes it is. I love the model and his rules. I.just wish he had.more than a 5++. And he allowed Hammernators as troops, rather than a single squad of Asssault Termies. With all LCs.

Hey DS, nice blog man.

That's one cool conversion on the first page.

Consider me exalted and subscribed.

Thanks Dark!

I love the Vulkan conversion and even better... Blood Ravens!
they are definitely one of my all time favourite Chapters.

I'm glad to see you also won your mini-GD competition.
I've always wondered what a kit-bash for Vulkan with those bits would look like, and you've not failed to impress.

As for the Stormtalon, it looks as if it's coming along nicely and it'll deffo fit the theme of the Blood Ravens, as they've always been a very much IN YO FACE Chapter imho. ^^

Thanks Axel!

Project No. 3- Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth Mawloc

Hey all. I am back, with something basic and not very special but even so. In my OP and when I finished up last month I said I would be working on Tyberos the red Wake for the 1st half of July. I have him cleaned up and primed, but unbuilt as I can't build him without superglue I will be working on my Mawloc for a bit. This Mawloc was actually my prize for winning the mini-GD (see Pg 1). So here I go


Here is me getting started, way back at the start of June while I had no project to work on. Then the Stormtalon came out and the Mawloc took a backseat. My nids were my first army. My 1st 24 Nids actually came from the 4th ed Battle for Maccrage starter set back in 2006, but I had no clippers or tools so it was 2007 before I actually built anything and I didn't even play a game untill 2008 after 5th ed dropped. I have come so far. Obviously the BfM was Hive Fleet behemoth. Like my Blood Ravens, who's 1st Tac Squad came from the same place, I didn't have all the correct colours needed to follow the painting guide. I did have Blood Red, but I had only white for teeth and Enchanted Blue for the Carapace, so I have just stuck with it. I have never used a wash on any opf them before. I liked the bright, extravagent red, even if the quality was woeful. But this guy here is getting a heavy wash of Devlan Mud, and a fair few drybrushes of Browns. Reason? Her tunnels, and I hope to have him tunneling a lot.

Woah, OT there. here is getting started


And basic body built.


Adding spikes to the torso and abdomen


The face. You can now see that I have swapped to thin plastic glue. A tip for anyone who has not used it befóre. Don't sqeeze, just tip over.


And almost finished face


Adding the arms and he head


Roar


Sensory nodes to pick up sounds and vibrations.


Tail spikes for extra spikeyness. So many spikes its almost Chaos. Slowly but surely, it is begin to grow.




And primered alongside my Tyberos parts (not shown). The enchanted blue to the left is used to drybrush the carapace using a GW Large Drbursh. This pic was taken 10 minutes ago and i have just finished doing so.




I am going to take a break for a while, make lunch for me and my little brother, wash dishes, hoover up, peel potatoes. General housework. After that i am going to come back to this and maybe you'll get to see updates as they happen.

Looks good man.

Never understood why people take the Mawloc over the Trygon, but then again I'm hardly a Tyranid expert.

They actually don't. The trygon is far more competitive. I already have a trygon prime from the 1st wave, but was planning on getting another for a Mawloc when I was painting up Vulkan. Dispite my favouring of Khorne, Tzeentch likes me still!


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Here is the carapace drybrushed

Looking good!

Talon came out great... nice work!

Stormtalon looks brilliant finished, I would love to paint.
Throughout looking at this thread I noticed the newpaper and thought to myself... I recognise this, he must be local... Then I bothered to look to the left and saw your from Belfast! You should come down to Portadown someday

Maybe I will! Sounds good.

Thanks to all 3 of you for comments.


I have bareltly done anything this week. I have a very serious problen. Its called babysitting my 9 yr old brother and housework. Oh well, I get £10 per week for sitting and £10 a month for the housework.

Money is money. The figures will still be there when you're done.

Hey, just a question. Am I allowed to post stuff that isn't related to wargaming on this blog? I currently have a 1:700 scale Titanic model on a shelf. I want to take August to build it but don't want my blog left for a month. I want to have something to work.on every month.


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Gitsplitta wrote:Money is money. The figures will still be there when you're done.

True dat.

Well, it's your blog Deadshot. I've put things not related to wargaming on mine from time to time. You can't put those pics in the dakka gallery though, that's strictly limited to wargaming related stuff. You'll have to put them in photobucket or something & link them from there. If you put too much unrelated stuff on your blog, you might eventually run afoul of the mods, or at the least lose a segment of your readership.

Bugger. Got no photobucket or similar. Guess I could do it betweeen projects. At the rate my Mawloc is going I will have freetime soon.

Can always make one, they don't cost anything after all.

Deadshot wrote:Bugger. Got no photobucket or similar. Guess I could do it betweeen projects. At the rate my Mawloc is going I will have freetime soon.

If you don't feel like making one, email me the images and I'll stick 'em on the penthouse bucket.

Everyone here's interested in your modeling and painting, rather than being interested in what the wargaming minatures are like. If we need inspiration on things specifically wargaming-y, there's masses around. The reason people subscribe to this is because we want to know how you're modeling and painting stuff, rather than what you're modelling and painting.