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I'm going to cap the DE collection at 2500pts. Plus I've got approx 2500 pts of HE to get on with! Plenty to do! Looking forward to playing some WFB this year.

I've also got the DC squad I've been working on to do and I'm planning on painting an IG Vendetta in winter camo with weathering etc. These two side projects are purely for experimentation for now. I may build a DC list at some point but it'll be capped at a max of 2000pts. Big maybe on that one though.

Got some other more conventional modelling plans on the go too.

Zeek all I can say is I admire your energy!

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:Thats me now finished a DE Ravager, Raider, 10 man Warrior squad with splinter cannon & shredder and 2 5 man squads with blasters.

They could be taken a bit further but i've got more stuff to paint yet and they're at a decent gaming standard for my tastes.

Archon, Incubi & another raider up next. Also planning on finishing the minor details on my Hornets in time for saturday (I'll be using them in a game).

The DC squad is ticking along when it takes my fancy and is looking good. They're now 90% done with details i missed needing sorted. Pics of them up soon...


Apologies for the iffy pics. I've been struggling with a new camera! EDIT : new/better ones added

Man, the new DE are really amazing! i'll gonna do something......soon i hope!

I've been working on an IG vendetta this weekend just for a change. I'm chopping back and forth between it and an Archon/Incubi squad.

For more info on how i did the vendetta see my blog link in my sig.

What branch of Ig you going for? Like ice warriors or somethin?

It's just a one off piece without any transfers. Easy enough to add them last and weather them to match the vehicle.

I just wanted to try winter camo with weathering on something fairly simple. I'll probably sell it when it's finished.

Getting there with the vendetta. A couple more sessions and she's done.....

Wow, thats impressive at the tail end of the 1st glance as my eyes 'neck' snapped.

I think, 'Plain and Complex' is the description!

Thats the idea really. I kept it plain to concentrate on the weathering. A lot of trial and error but I've learned loads.

Apart from the FW conversion kit (still not arrived yet) my Vendetta is finished. It'll only take an evening to sort the lascannons etc when they arrive and i'll post a final pic up then. In the meantime here's some pics:

Holy crap!..total awesome'ness! Keep up the fantastic work!

Bit of a curve ball this one but i wanted to learn how to do chipping with highlights on the bottom edge of the chips. I overdid the weathering on purpose as practise.

Easily the most I've learned from painting a single mini ever. Very interesting and I'll be doing another Imperial fist with much less weathering to refine what I've learned.

Excellent, as ever.

Looks ace to me!

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:Bit of a curve ball this one but i wanted to learn how to do chipping with highlights on the bottom edge of the chips. I overdid the weathering on purpose as practise.

Easily the most I've learned from painting a single mini ever. Very interesting and I'll be doing another Imperial fist with much less weathering to refine what I've learned.

any chance of a tutorial on how you do the damage/weathering.it looks great to me.

shingouki wrote:

Vet Sgt Ezekiel wrote:Bit of a curve ball this one but i wanted to learn how to do chipping with highlights on the bottom edge of the chips. I overdid the weathering on purpose as practise.

Easily the most I've learned from painting a single mini ever. Very interesting and I'll be doing another Imperial fist with much less weathering to refine what I've learned.

any chance of a tutorial on how you do the damage/weathering.it looks great to me.

Its very simple:

1: Apply chips using a very thin brush using a dark brown paint.
2: Paint the bottom inside edge of the chip (where light would hit) with a highlight of the colour you've painted the chip over. The thinner the better and you want to divide the brown and the base completely i.e you don't want the same two colours both sides of the highlight line. You can see where this has happened on the mini above and its not very convincing on these chips.
3: If you want you can highlight the centre of the chip with a slightly lighter brown to add depth (I didn't do this but will in the future).

Remember, less is more. I will be doing about 1/3rd to 1/2 the amount of chips as a general rule in the future. The chips I've done above sadly hid much of my airbrush blending on the armour

Some Space Wolves.....

Usually Im not a fan of the space wolf blue gray, but I love what you have done with these models! Once again top notch work!

Vendetta looks awesome! If I may may a suggestion, some markings in a nice deep crimson or another color would really look awesome. Perhaps striped on the wings, airbrushed with tape to make the line perfect?

Still, really nice, I think you really achieved great weathering without overdoing it either.

Very cool!

Thanks guys.

MajorTom11: Yeah, red marking would've been spot on. I ended up selling it 90% complete with no markings or weapons and an untouched base. Good old eBay. It basically meant I got to practise on a Valkyrie/Vendetta for free, which as I'm sure you'll agree, is full of win.

I seem to be going through a very experimental phase with an emphasis on the mental. I have however re-booted my 40k brain in favour of collecting a Space Wolves army.

Very cool stuff here, it's kinda funny though how out of all the chapters of Marines on the Imperial Fists are usually modeled with chipped and damaged armor.

I'm impressed by everything in this thread!

l33tninj4 wrote:Very cool stuff here, it's kinda funny though how out of all the chapters of Marines on the Imperial Fists are usually modeled with chipped and damaged armor.

Yeah, the pale colours help with any weathering plus the IF are plausible as you can imagine them being involved in a protracted engagement like a siege.

The other ideal one is pre heresy Death Guard.


Thanks for the kind words guys!

I basecoated, shaded and highlighted more SW Grey Hunters this afternoon using 5 different shades. I'll probably make another highlight stage on the uppermost areas now the back packs are on (I did them separately to shade in between the body and back pack).

The second mini in from the left shows the effect best due to my very mediocre picture. You get the idea though. Bear in mind the light source for the pic is right in front of the minis not above. Therefore all the shading you see is paint rather than a shadow from an above light source, Its very subtle but in normal lighting its more pronounced and looks better too.

So this evening I'll do a final highlight and start basecoating the details.

Found this through google. This has been a big help reading how you did this for Alaitoc Eldar. My brother decided to do an Eldar army. He was trying to create his own color scheme but it wasn't turning out well. Fortunately the base color is Regal Blue so I decide that we would go with the Alaitoc color scheme instead of stripping it all down and starting over. I hadn't thought of using an airbrush. That looks like it takes a lot less paint and definitely a whole lot less time, especially on the larger pieces.

Hey VSE -

Amazing stuff, I knew you had to be a military modeller, glad your blog confirmed it for me!

Question, unless I missed it, you do not specifically mentioned masking in your method, how did you approach the engines and other metals? Were they painted earlier and liquid masked, were they not glued in and removed for painting after the white was done?

When you refer to 'pin filters', I assume you mean an oil wash around rivets and such? Also, why do you not use oils for the entire wash, and not just for the 'pin(?)' method?

Thanks, your advice would be greatly appreciated as I am about to tackle my first vehicle with using an airbrush and military style techniques, I am pretty confident as I have studied up quite a bit on how to do it, but when I see great results like yours I still like to ask questions!

MajorTom11 wrote:Hey VSE -

Amazing stuff, I knew you had to be a military modeller, glad your blog confirmed it for me!

Question, unless I missed it, you do not specifically mentioned masking in your method, how did you approach the engines and other metals? Were they painted earlier and liquid masked, were they not glued in and removed for painting after the white was done?

When you refer to 'pin filters', I assume you mean an oil wash around rivets and such? Also, why do you not use oils for the entire wash, and not just for the 'pin(?)' method?

Thanks, your advice would be greatly appreciated as I am about to tackle my first vehicle with using an airbrush and military style techniques, I am pretty confident as I have studied up quite a bit on how to do it, but when I see great results like yours I still like to ask questions!

As far as masking goes I just use Tamiya masking tape. I only really masked off the squarish sections on the outer edges of the front part of the 'wings' on the grav tanks. Everything else was done freehand. I wanted to have a contrasting dark\light line to help those panels pop a bit. The valkyrie was freehand.

I did a pin wash on the panel lines in a brown oil paint wash. This provided another contrast to help divide the panels up further. I simply diluted the oil paint so it was very thin and let the capillary action drive the oil into the recesses from a loaded medium sized brush. There was a fair bit of excess needing removed afterwards so once it had dried a bit I dampened a cloth in turps and wiped off the entire model. THis left the oil in the recesses.

OIl dot filters are the multi coloured dots in oils over the vehicle followed by dampening them and dragging the paint down the model to provide weathering in the form of fading and streaks. I've yet to do this technique on a model as I prefer to use AK Interactives streaking enamels and MIG productions filters.


I did the metals and other details last. They were covered in overspray etc so i simply painted them black then the chosen metallic colour. I used black ink mixed 50/50 with Klear floor polish as a wash on the metallics. I prefer this method to the Citadel washes as they leave a matt finish whereas ink leaves a satin/gloss finish.

The metalics on the engines for the valkyrie were done using 3 types of Alclad 2 laquer metallics and masked accordingly.



Hope this helps. Fell free to ask anything else

Awesome!

Can you give a definition for a pin wash btw? I can google it I know, but I thought others might like to hear the answer. For me, I have not come across the term before -

Thanks a lot btw!

It's best showing some techniques and this is one of them. I didn't understand it until I saw it in a tutorial. Here's one I found on YouTube just now which shows it well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ws5pXCWpdE&feature=youtube_gdata_player



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Here's an excellent pictorial tutorial:

http://www.hobbyfanatics.com/index.php?/topic/11312-wash-tutorial-for-panel-lines/

Quick update on my WIP Space Wolves: