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Normally I despise frost blue wolves, but I'm digging yours. Assassins looking ace too -

I've been asked a couple of times now about how I painted the DE vehicles in comparison to the Alaitoc stuff so here it is:


Well, the Raiders were more complicated than the rest. I'll try and detail the steps I took:

1: Black basecoat.
2: Hull Red (Vallejo model air) mixed with about 30% black (same type of paint) sprayed evenly overall but I left the deepest recesses black.
3: Hull Red straight. I dusted on thin layers gradually building up a gradial highlight exaclty how it would be if lit from above. I looked at the model under a bright light and carefully worked out where the paint should go.
4: Hull Red mixed with Italian red and applied this onto the uppermost areas like the railing and the outermost points on the lower sections of the sides and prow.
5: Italian red straight. The extreme edges were very lightly highlighted.
6: At this point I realised it wasn't blended to my satisfaction so I misted on some of the Hull red from a distance of about 10 inches in a broad spray. This blended everything but it was a very very light coat all over.
7: Because of step 6 I went back with a mix similar to step 2 and went over the shadows a bit although very lightly. This was because step 6 had brightened the shadows.
8: I assembled all the major hull parts and glued them, then touched up and dodgy bits with hull red from where the glue appeared.
9: By this time the decking plated had been shadowed with pure black around the edges where they meet with the inside if the hull. I brought these components together in the shadows with some pure black again through the airbrush being very careful not to overdo it. I think i made several very thin passes to make sure.

I wanted the inside of the outer hull pieces to be very dark as i wanted to apply a flouro effect using my oil paint pin wash. This worked a treat I think. Needless to say the ravager took half the steps as i knew when to stop as i could compare it to the Raider.

I got some more SW done this weekend. Just the bases to finish and the transfers and we're good to go. I've got some more GH's to do then its vehicle time. I'm looking at painting 4 Rhinos (with Razorback magnetised options) and a Land Raider redeemer (will also be magnetised for normal LR and Crusader options).

First time I've popped in here in a while!

I'm glad I did. Your wolves are looking frosty!!!!

Thanks man, they are def better than my Eldar minis. I find larger things like vehicles much easier and minis are something I'm trying to sort in terms of quality.

I didn't go too crazy with these guys but my Lord and Rune Priest will be getting special treatment as will the Assassins I'm doing on the side.

I'm struggling with that as well, trying to get my minis to match my vehicles. Your sw are looking great, though i feel the fur could use another round of highlighting. Keep it up tho, looks fantastic. Your valkerie is sweet

Yeah, the wash dulled it down at the edges and blended the last highlights. There's a couple of things the pics showed up that'll get fixed before I start the next squad.

Work continues on me Pups:

WIP shots of my Space Wolves army. More info soon with better pics too!

Very cool Ezekiel! I'm guessing that the Rhinos would look better in person, or when they're all done. Definately swap that rune priest's hand, or the other option is to make it look more bionic. A fantastic looking completed squad too! Keep up the good work!

Yeah, the Rhinos look much brighter in the pic due to my daylight lamp (which runs two tubes).


I like that bionic arm idea. I may just have one in my bits box. Thanks.

I like ur eldar

fantistic I'm thinking of using an airbrush for when i start my eldar is the Gw airbrush worth getting?

steeds of war wrote:fantistic I'm thinking of using an airbrush for when i start my eldar is the Gw airbrush worth getting?

Thanks guys.

I use a Harder & Steenbeck Inifinity (2in1) and I really like it. I used an Iwata Eclipse before which was also very good. Tamiya paints are the easiest to use mixed 50/50 (or more dilution) with their own brand thinner. My best advice when buying either airbrush is to buy enough o-rings and seals to be able to rebuild it completely. The most common problems I've had were due to an o-ring dying due to normal wear and tear. Dedicated airbrush cleaning tools are also a must as is liquid reamer which is nasty stuff but destroys paint new or old (yay!). Oh, and buy an extra needle too because you will bend one.

Currently laying down the base coats for Mr Trespass' Grey Knights.

Loving the Alclad 2 metallics (i used the chrome for plastic). Another light coat and some buffing and they'll be solid metal. I lifted the doors earlier and dropped one and found myself expecting a clinking sound from the metal. Awesome!

Lots of Razorbacks - you're so naughty!

GK basecoats done. Troops next!

Work continues on the SW army. Waiting for some vallejo paints to arrive this week so I can re-do the basecoated minis. The Tamiya mix i made wasn't good enough so I'm going back to my original recipe. Thankfully i remembered to take note of the recipe!!

Tonight I'm in the process of converting some Las/plas turrets for some Razorbacks. They look not bad. More up soon.......


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Alpharius wrote:Lots of Razorbacks - you're so naughty!

Yes, the man who these belong to is naughty indeed. The GK army I've basecoated for him will be doing the rounds in UK tournaments next year.

That Razorback is excellent! It looks like it's rolled right from the blizzards of Fenris. I really like the snow on the tracks, and the weathering is superb. Add to this that you already have four, and that's a mean quartet of tanks. The Rune Priest definately looks much better now you've swapped over the staff arm. He won't be needing a Storm Bolter, anyway.

Sorry if this has been asked before, but what Airbrush/Compressor setup are you using? I'm very impressed by your work - keep it up!

Ulven wrote:Sorry if this has been asked before, but what Airbrush/Compressor setup are you using? I'm very impressed by your work - keep it up!

I use a Harder & Steenbeck Infinity airbrush and an Iwata Smart Jet Pro

Ezekiel, just a quick question (slightly off topic).

How do you upload your images onto this blog? They don't seem to be a part of your gallery, but I can't seem to get the "article" way of uploading my images to work correctly. I hope that this question made sense (sorry again for being off topic).

Click on attachments below the area you type in and upload from your computer

I never knew that. Thankyou so much! No more clogged up gallery with random images!

Just this minute finished my Rune Priest, 3 Wolf Guard with shiny power weapons, Scout squad and 3 Grey Hunters to complete a ten man squad (which I'll split in my current list).

The glowing effect on the power weapons and on the Rune priest backpack and eye was a total gamble. I've never tried this technique before but I've managed to pull it off to a reasonable standard. The power weapons were masked off to do the blending and the wolf eyes on the equipment plus the RP's eye was done by glazing with a normal brush.

I'm going to start my next Grey Hunters squad tomorrow.........

Looking good! Great blending work on their Powerweapons... the glowing eye(s) on the Runepriest are fab!

Runepriest is so cool!

Thanks guys, working on some more including a magnetised Wolf Guard battle Leader / Rune preist / Wolf Lord / Wolf Guard. I'll be magnetising several Wolf Guard type mins for maximum versatility which'll help testing various Loganwing lists......

I've also got a Logan Grimnar conversion planned as well as an Arjac conversion. I shall also be assembling a complete 'Loganbomb' (evil cackle).

Finished 2 razorbacks complete with switchable top hatches to convert easily to Rhinos. The plan is to make up some twin-linked assault cannon turrets as well as heavy bolter turrets in the future. Perfect match colour wise with the Rhinos I did earlier.

I realised yesterday that the white pads on my Wolf Guard were incorrect and should be yellow primarily (oops) so I've repainted them and applied new transfers!

I also built a Wolf Lord / Wolf Guard battle Leader with magnetic arms so I can switch weapons. I'll be magnetising more Wolf Guard as the army grows and I include Logan Grimnar into my army build (makes WG count as troops).

I'm in the middle of painting another Grey Hunter batch (10 of) as well as the aforementioned Lord. More on that later this weekend.....

Rhino looks fantastic! Great work, as always.