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Remulus wrote: Man, your "Thousands Sons" are hot!
Badumkish!

Thanks, there will be some more Thousand Sons coming in the near future.

happygolucky wrote:This looks brilliant, even if your not happy with it I couldn't paint to that mint standard, so keep going with the progress.

Hope your army go's well for you.

Cheers happygolucky she is starting to grow on me, I think I'm not used to bright paint schemes. She really stands out next to the berserkers I've done so far.

As a mistress of Slaanesh I think she will do just fine.

Yes I have found that When I first did bright colours, it was a bit dodgy but now its ok.

If you want a different type of bright colour that isnt pink I usually base coat my troops hawk turquoise then a heavy drybrush of ice blue.

Hope this helps.

I'm back this week with some more Berserkers for you, first off the second half of the first unit is now finished (I need to go back and do the teeth).



I've also put together the second unit, these guys are really blood thirsty. I managed to stab myself in the thumb with my knife and also get a piece of resin in my eye. I just hope they take this attitude to the battle field.



A quick recap on the small World Eater force. The first unit and dread are finished and their Slaanesh leader from the Flawless Host. I also painted one of the obliterators I'll be using a while ago.

So whats left for the 900 points to paint is the second berserker squad, another Obliterator which I've kind of started and two Rhinos. I have the first still boxed up as I want to order some FW doors and dozer blades when I get paid next along with the second Rhino.

Not quite sure what else to do with the rhinos, I will be adding lots of marine helmets from different chapters as trophy's and I expect some suklls as well.

You just keep working on them Gir, you'll have them finished up in no time! Nice work on the new berserkers.

Thanks Git's I'm already ahead of my schedule. I plan out the number of minis to paint in the project over the number of months to the next tournament .

I've just finished what I had planned for this month so anything else is a bonus it also leaves me time to paint other models that are not part of the project or red in this case lol.

WIP shots of my Obliterator, I'm trying to get the feeling that the runes on the armour are fully activated trying to burn out the Chaos abomination within.

But a diseased Stern is not going to give up the fight so easily.

So the question is do the runes look like heated metal, I know I need to tidy up but wanted an opinion before I carried on.



Thanks

Very cool effect. Perhaps if you made the diseased areas discolored near the burning plates it would help the illusion.

Yeah I'll give that a go Git's, theres a few places were I could add some OSL or burnt flesh from the heat.

Sounds like a plan! Interesting new avatar... think it needs to be in better focus though.

Very nice effect on the armour. Burnt flesh would be nice, and osl effects, love the armour idea!!!

Bezerkers are looking really cool!!

The "melted metal" armour parts are awesome ! How did you manage this effect ?

Gitsplitta wrote:Sounds like a plan! Interesting new avatar... think it needs to be in better focus though.

The avatar was me playing around late last night well after I should have gone to bed. The berserker's not really me any how feels wrong, I will see what other models I have painted that I could use for now.

tipios wrote:Very nice effect on the armour. Burnt flesh would be nice, and osl effects, love the armour idea!!!

Bezerkers are looking really cool!!

Thanks tipios, glad you're liking the berserkers. Theres a few more of those to come yet and some spectacular Rhinos for them when I get all the bits.

Yggdrasil wrote:The "melted metal" armour parts are awesome ! How did you manage this effect ?

Hi Yggdrasil its an honour to have you on my blog, I love your minis they are top notch.

The melted metal effect was a strange one

I started out doing the effect the wrong way from a watered down white adding a yellow ink wash and then watered down Blood Red, looked awful.

So I then remembered my mistake going from light to dark should have been dark to light.

To fix it and this is how I will do the plate I missed. Watered down white wash over the runes (didn't do this bit to fix it) then watered down Hot Orange, while still wet I applied watered down Bald Moon Yellow. Finally when dried a very watered down white to the middle of the rune sections. All Vallejo paints.

Hope this helps

Well you guys have inspired me to continue painting the obliterator into the night tonight.

I've done the runes I missed on the front plate and added OSL under the powerfist and along the armour edges. also a bit on the flesh to make it glow a bit.

Here he is at present



Let me know what you think.

Well, I have to admit I like it...

I'm not fond of most Obliterator models, and honestly I think it looks too much like a "CSM with fleshy weapons", modelling-wise. As most Obliterator models do, so that's not quite a problem, actually, as it comes from me.

However, the painting screams "Tzeentch" so much, it's definitely hot !
The contrasts between pink, orange & blue is great, I love it !

NB : I didn't think someone could be "honoured" to have me as its reader lol...

Thanks Ygg's

A question today rather than an update. As the nights are drawing in and its starting to get cold outside I'm starting to wonder how long I have left before I'm no longer able to spray undercoat my minis in the garden (that's between rain showers, I love the UK).

I've been looking around and have found that Vallejo do a black polyurethane primer that you can apply with a brush. Has anyone used this and is it any good? I may need to do tanks with this as well.

Thanks

I found the black crap so I use army painter.

U want any night lord heads?

Miss Dee wrote:I found the black crap so I use army painter.

U want any night lord heads?

Cheers Miss Dee, i'll stick to running out between showers and hope it doresnt get too cold for spraying.

Night Lord heads sound interesting indeed, what are you after and I'll see what I have for a swap.

Man... you've been busy... Great figure, and the heated effect is a nice touch. I like the narrative that his armour is fighting off the disease...

I unfortunately don't have a solution for your primer problem but face the same kind of crap weather in Chicago like snowstorms and ice. Does the cold affect the primer's attachment to a mini? And I've not used the paint-on primer, as I like the uniform finish of an aerosol, and the fact that it lessens the chance of having covered it with too much... I'll be watching (and commenting) on your space for any good advice.

-Remi

I use that paint on primer, because I can't spray in my flat. Next time I undercoat a mini I'll try to put up some close up pics, so you can see the finish.

HF Izanagi wrote:Man... you've been busy... Great figure, and the heated effect is a nice touch. I like the narrative that his armour is fighting off the disease...

I unfortunately don't have a solution for your primer problem but face the same kind of crap weather in Chicago like snowstorms and ice. Does the cold affect the primer's attachment to a mini? And I've not used the paint-on primer, as I like the uniform finish of an aerosol, and the fact that it lessens the chance of having covered it with too much... I'll be watching (and commenting) on your space for any good advice.

-Remi

Thanks glad your liking the obliterator, still quite a bit more to do on him, I'm hoping to get him finished this weekend.

tipios wrote:I use that paint on primer, because I can't spray in my flat. Next time I undercoat a mini I'll try to put up some close up pics, so you can see the finish.

That would be great tipios, I'd be interested to see what kind of cover it gives.


Here's hoping for a patch of sun tomorrow to get the next unit of berserkers primed.

Dont know right now just need to keep my head straight, hard to think when you have been crying all night.

Oh dear Miss Dee

When's an update not an update? When it has no pics, they will follow tomorrow though as my camera battery's are charging!

So an update none the less the Obliterator was finished on Monday but its too dark at night for pics so I will have some for you tomorrow.

I've managed to get a doubles partner for the end of November for my next tournament so the pressure is on to get the rest of my small World Eater force painted.

The Warmill guys are doing me some custom doors as we speak for the two Rhinos, just seen an example of the top hatches and they look fantastic. The First rhino is nearly finished (without doors) and the second I'm waiting for it to be sent out at the moment.

The first rhino is looking quite excellent at the moment, I have a question though to tide you over till the pics tomorrow. The rhinos will be sporting quite a few trophy's (helmets) from chapters they have crushed on the field of battle. I worked it out currently there are 10 on each Rhino two of which are Blood Angel helmets of some sort as I have tons of those. But what chapters should I do the others?

I need about 16 different coloured chapter helmets so thought I'd throw the choice out to you all for some ideas.

Just remembered one is a Tzeentch helmet so that leaves 15. I might also look out for an Elder helmet as well, already have a Dark Eldar helmet on the current one.

Don't forget space wolve helmets

Here's a pic of the primer painted on FYI!

Cheers tipios, the primer looks quite nice looks like a nice even coat.

Yeah, I like it. Although I would prefer to spray, I have no choice ATM.

Ok here's a peak at the first World Eaters Rhino.

The skull idea from the front was borrowed from GuitaRasmus's blog.



You cant tell me you are supposed to fit 10 marines in here, there's only just room for one berserker and then he's too big and has to go open topped.

Very nice!! Do the marine only fit in if they don't wear their armour?

Love the helmets lined up!!!

Hi an update with pictures today.

I finished the Obliterator a while ago but hadn't had the chance to take any pictures so here you go. The tentacles on the back of the base have water effect on them, they look more slimey in real life and you can see where its dripping off.





I've also been cracking out some more berserkers, well I say cracking its taken me most of the week to get them done. This is squad Beta designated by their grey helmets.

The first guy needs a few touch ups I've just noticed!









In regard to the Dark Wolves project I wanted to get them painted up for the next tournament after the November one. This has just been confirmed as some point in February and will be 1750 points. I cant paint that many minis in a few months or afford them either to be honest, so the project has gone on the back burner. You may see some models being painted up and converted still as I have already purchased some for the project.

What this does mean is that the Chaos army will be getting reinforcements, I'm currently looking at the below new units to add to my existing models.

Khorne Daemon Prince - Needs painting
World Eater Vindicator - heavily converted
Flawless host (Slaanesh) Terminator Unit - Again lots of conversions planned
Chaos Space marine unit and Rhino - These will be for The Reborn chapter and both marines and Rhino will be FW, if the new (old) style is released in time.

It doesn't look a lot but with how slow I paint and how much all the conversion bits will cost it will take me right up to the deadline.

Once the Chaos army hits 2500 (I think that will be the following tournament) I should be able to start the next army, its going to be a bit longer than I wanted. Also there is the possibility of a new Chaos Codex in March as well!

I also have a strange idea of making a Tzeentch Rhino with one of the Warmill see through acrylic top hatches of a Tzeentch symbol. If I black out around the symbol and put a blue LED inside it might be quite cool. I have no knowledge of electrical stuff though

Love the way the oblit turned out... nice work!