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No no, you've been in contact the whole time, fear not.

Thank god. also, got more work on your marine done, but if you read your blog you'll see why I have no pics...

WIP for a swap w/ inmygravenimage.

(I updated my blog with a ton of pics, feel free to check it out.)

A scout marine for  glomscient

Mostly made out of IG parts and GS. Has crackle glaze drying on the base to start off a jungle themed base. Will be painted in jungle colours.


Sorry for sideways picture - on phone and have no idea why it uploaded like that...

Cool! The scouts are practically catachan special forces, so a voxcaster sounds (get it?) like a good idea.
I did the first step on the plague marine, he should be done after I get over the trauma of trying to paint my 28mm scale braincrusha (more like 57mm scale) It's almost too big to hold in one hand! I don't just mean the palm; I mean the whole hand, fingers and all! It has a cannon three fingers in diameter!
anyway, enough of that painting nightmare- thankfully, I still have enough white paint for the plague marine, luckily

I was going to do the left shoulder in the regular chapter colours - what actual chapter do you use/want painted? As I said in PM, the only marines I could see in your gallery looked like Ultramarines, so I was going to do it blue with a small ultramarine symbol above the eagle.

And the vox on the back was actually meant to be a search light type thing

They are actually cybermarines, though they are similar. The main differences are: black shoulderpads and one knee (probably not needed on this model, as there will probably be enough black from the camo),green trim, white instead of gold (unless it is particularly ornate or a weapon), and the power symbol (the one most likely on your computer) in scorpion green (or equivalent) as the chapter symbol. The more ornate version is a sword and a laurel, arranged in the same shape. I have never been able to do that on a model, though, and it won't really be needed for scouts anyway.
If you have any more questions, remember, I'll be here all day

OK, that is cool.

I will see what I can do. I have already accidentally melted the base somewhat when I put it under the lamp to help dry the crackle glaze :S

Whoops!

@silver; any advice on using crackle glaze? Ivevtried layering between colour to no effect. Any handy hints?

inmygravenimage wrote:@silver; any advice on using crackle glaze? Ivevtried layering between colour to no effect. Any handy hints?

Mine varies between giving really good crackle and essentially getting a thick layer of smooth clear junk (which is what happened here ) - though I am using some pretty cheap arts and craft stuff, rather than model grade stuff.

The general suggestion I have seen is paint the base stuff, then crackle glaze, then weathering (generally an oil wash).

This is the best tutorial for crackle medium (not glaze) that I have seen

Cheers for the link. I've tried Vallejo and it's just gash.

One of the reasons I don't like painting camo is that everything blends together

Still got a little bit more work to do, but the general scheme is done. I may change the colour of the cloth areas just to give some more variation.

C&C welcome.




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While I am waiting for bits on the base to dry, here is the painting guide for what I have done so far:

+ Undercoat kaki

+ Use a dark green/olive (I used a really old mix I did of, if I recall, 50:50 Chaos Black:Goblin Green) to do the first layer of tiger stripes using a 000 brush
- use light strokes to go at a slight diagonal - the best effect is to mix stripes with sharp pointed ends and blunter ended stripes
- Mostly do a lazy "S" or slightly wavy line, with the occasional "Y" shape, or small branching "Y" shape
- You want a reasonable coverage of these dark lines - maybe leave a gap between them of 1-2 times the thickness of the line, with each line slightly staggered, almost like bricks in a wall

+ Next do the same with Camo Green, though you want about 50% less stripes in this colour
- Get most of them between the darker lines, but the odd one touching or crossing/painted over the dark lines

+ Next do the same with Graveyard Earth, again about 50-75% less of these lines than the dark green
- You can afford to have larger, thicker brown lines than you can with the green

+ Wash the armour with a heavy layer of Devlan Mud (you may need two washes) to blend everything together

+ Wash the cloth with Badab Black

+ Paint the white bits with Rotting Flesh

+ Paint the white bits with Skull White

+ Wash the white bits with a light wash of Badab Black

+ Paint the face with Elf Flesh (for a lighter skin tone which I think would work on such a dull scheme - not shown here as I could not find my Elf Flesh bottle)

+ Wash with Sepia wash

+ Paint on streaks of your dark green as with the armour camo
- You can have the streaks further apart
- You can add in other colours here as well

+ Paint the eyes (Skull White with Enchanted Blue and Choas Black pupils in this case)

+ Use several Badab Black washes on the black shoulder pad (which should still be Kaki as it has not been painted) to get a nice black colour, or use a dark grey with a black wash

+ Paint the army mark in Camo Green, then go over in Goblin Green

Wow! I just hope I can paint that well
What color do you paint the metals on the nurgle scheme? Is it dwarf bronze, or something else?

Yeah, Dwarf Bronze with a Flesh Wash (or mud wash is probably closest now if you don't have the old Flesh Wash).

Knightly wanted a Sterngaurd Sgt. w/ power fist and a combi melta. The combi was an interesting conversion, I tried about 3 different variants before finally deciding on this one. Tell me what you think, I can still change it.

That looks awesome! and exactly what I'm looking for.

Some Marine Swap related pics...

An ace Crimson Fist from Battle Brother Lucifer... Thanks!



My WIP Deathwatch Blood Angel...



Servo Skulls and Objective for SilverMk2...


Cheers Laney

Haha! Very cool!

I have whitewashed your raptor, but not started on any of the detail painting yet.

I've done some work on the base of the jungle scout, but I don't actually have any jungle basing stuff... May start the base again as it looks kind of pants

He's the work so far on the objectives and servo skulls. I need to add the glow from the pool and details to the plague daemons.






C&C welcome...

Cheers Laney

Those are coming along nicely Laney.

Looking pretty awesome so far

I've done the trim colour on the raptor and a few bits of brass but not much else :(

I'm going to the shops at some point to get some jungle looking fish plants for the base of the scout as the basing at the moment is pretty damn pants

Thanks Gits - bit more work to do on the objective, but I pretty pleased wth it so far. I'm planning on brass for the servo skulls (with a touch of verdigris perhaps).

Silver Mk2 - no worries mate - it's not a race! (I'm on Summer Holidays now and painting and converting is a nice relaxation thing). Looking forward to seeing some pics.

Cheers Laney

Very cool. I like the white servo skull dendrites very much and neat use of fw off cuts.

Unless I recall incorrectly... Happy Birthday whalemusic360!

It is, as well as SL's I believe?

Very true. A very auspicious day.

Happy B'day WM, hope you grab some swag!

I ordered the Exaulted Chariot of Slaneesh if that counts, and am pretty sure I have a good lead on the GD Blood Angel.

whalemusic360 wrote:It is, as well as SL's I believe?

Yes. For the record I'm the venerable One (oldest). Not only we share the same B-day but are all on the Wardens team and we are #1, #2, and #3. Astronomically the odds... need to buy a lottery ticket.

Happy Birthday My Brothers!

SL

Is it Gits as well? I remember it being yours, but that sounds familiar as well. That would be....odd.