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 Viktor von Domm wrote:
.but the metal probably would have been better looking if you have rather stippled the paint then brushed it on... Now the million brushstrokes just draw too much of my attention...

I was a bit disappointed after the first coat, but then i decided to work with it rather than against it, and make it look more like brushed metal. I am especially pleased how this came out on the chimney.

Rather like this.


And that is not a blag after the fact, that is what i was thinking while painting lol.

Looking good and promising.

ah...I see what you mean mordain...that brushed steel look is actually something that makes sense to me...ok^^...so I have faith and will wait how your next update turns out to be

Camkierhi Thank you.

Well it is all done now, i just need to take some good photos. I am so pleased with how it came out, its my first scratch build and also my first weathering. It has defiantly made me think about pushing myself to try different things on future projects

Viktor von Domm Hopefully it meets with your satisfaction

But on a side note, my in-laws bring me the greatest things for Easter.

That's a brilliant idea for a diorama base!!

Knightley - thank you.

Well when i sat down last night, it seemed that everything I had on the go needed a wash, so once they were washed I left them to dry.

Left with plenty of hobby time I decided that now was a good a time as any to paint up the base for my Techmarine. I had decided to add in bullet holes and scratches and they had been added in the modelling process. And after how pleased i was with my =L= terrain competition, i decided to add some rust. It went on a little thick but still pleased.





For the lights I highlighted to a certain extent but did not take them to light/bright because they are meant to be broken.

I then thought about what I could do with my lovely new/old saw blade. After rummaging through my bits drawer I came across a metal Ork Warboss. It was something I acquired from a job lot, lots of excess super glue and badly painted. So using my mighty strength I pulled the model into its component parts, scrapped off some of the paint, and given him a Detol bath overnight. I started on a base for him, i decided i need to keep it reasonably flat as it will need to fit into the saw blade.

Went to open up a new super glue and use it, but it was empty ... i cut it open.



Dam it.

It had some from Spain and was a good 1-2 years old. Looks like i am off shopping tomorrow.


Edit .. erk, the date on the bottom is 08/2010. even older lol.

Well I bought some more spuerglue, so I should be OK for a while I put my Techmarine together, and took some photos in the morning light.

I have noticed a some bits that i need to do. Like the groin/waist block thing, i need to paint up the buttons. Probably in blue.




Looking at these pictures some of the red looks very flat, but it looks a lot better in person. Honest it does Gov.

I have done the base for my Ork Warboss, and all rusted up, as i am much happier doing rust now after the =L= competition, and thanks to Gitsplitters awesome tutorial. I still need to take a photo of the base, so sorry. Also finished up the bases on about 8 minis i had painted ages ago, but not based them. Tried some textured painting on some sandbags, and pleased how it came out. I'll try to take some photos tonight.

I really need a game to focus my painting, as i always ended up painting faster to a deadline. But I have not played in years, and all my old friends live so far away :(

Tech marine looks excellent mate, very well done. I like the purple hatch he's standing on too, good choice.



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Tech marine looks excellent mate, very well done. I like the purple hatch he's standing on too, good choice.

Brilliant job on te marine.

tech marine looks super, but the purple hatch is a true eye catcher!!!

the saw blade is an awesome idea...!

the super flue dilemma...well...if the universe gives you lemons... why not use the superglue block as a block of ice???

Exactly what I thought when I saw it vik

Techy looks good on his hatch there

Gitsplitta - Thank you, Thank you. I considered doing something more chaosy, but i could not think what would look right, so i stuck with my standard colours

Camkierhi - Thank you to.

Viktor von Domm - Kind of wishing i have to hacked and crumbled up the super glue in grumpy anger now, lol.

monkeytroll - Thank you

Well i took a photo of the Base for the 1st Ork on the sawblade, took it at a couple of different angles and the colours look quite different.




The Ork himself is out of the Detol bath and has been having a clean up.

I was playing D&D last night so not much work got done, as it was a new campaign and getting to know my new characters.

Sunday night or was it last night ... hmm i cant remember. Well the other night i worked on the legs of my marine (colour scheme designed by my 3 year old son) It seems i ahve a habit of working on side projects rather than my standard army lol. But considering its been years since i played a game, and this is more about the fun of modelling/painting. Its not that much of a problem.



And being as it is a Wednesday, i decided to take some bits to work to clean up of flash while on the phone.



They have sat in my drawer for a while so thought i would get them prepared, as it is something i can do at work without me lugging in too much stuff. As much as i would love to paint at work it would involve me bringing in too much stuff, and not too sure how my line manager would react lol.

This does now add a further squad to the 2 i already have in the Q to be painted though lol. But at least the tactical squad is base coated.



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A little disappointed with legs on the scouts some of the parts seem misaligned :(

I have since been in contact with GW customer services, and i have emailed them the photos, hopefully they should be sending me out replacements. Whether this is a new set of legs or a whole box of scouts who knows. Hopefully a whole box. *fingers crossed*

Ugh, horribly misaligned.

Base for the saw-ork looks good.

And obviously....it being Wednesday and all

monkeytroll - Hopefully they sort it and send me a new pack. Ok i cleaned them up and sorted them out myself, but thats not the point. If i paid for them i expect them to be better quality. (the one and only fine cast i had was fine)

Ok a quick update on a Friday evening. Had a Skype call to my brother alst night who has been travling for the last 2 years so had a good catch up, and did some painting while talking Here is how my sons colour scheme is coming along.




Well as usual i am off to work tonight so not much will be done hobby wise. And we have guests over the weekend. So more that likely i'll see you on Tuesday.

I really like that! Back pack needs to be purple!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I really like that! Back pack needs to be purple!

Thank you. He choose black for the backpack and weapons, i paint plenty of purple on my normal marines, so its nice doing different colours

funny, my kids would approve of such a scheme too, cause it would represent our families favourite colours... my wife red, my oldest yellow, my youngest blue, and mine is green...
it is always a bitter sweet smile I crack when I start my pc and one of the kids is around and they yell: "papa, look the pc has all our favourite colors when it starts..."


by the way, blending looks very good...

Viktor von Domm - Thank you. My blending seems to be better when i have space to work with. I do not do so well on a detailed model. I am happier going for better blending on a less busy model, and having tweaked its position to something different from the standard. My Current avatar is still my favorite.



I have taken my final photos for the =L= terrain competition, making the most of the beautiful sunshine outside this weekend. I need to check the rules as to where they need to be posted, so not putting them up on here yet.

Welcome to another new week.

I finished of my multi coloured Marine, i decided to try out doing some cross hatching as shading, as i use it often enough in drawing. I used it mainly on the stone on the base, but also on the chainsword. And yes Gitsplitta i put some purple in there





I find that I can not highlight the "spines" of the plasma, so i tend to highlight down to one end, as though the power is lowing towards the barrel.



And for once i am quite pleased with the eyes, even though why white dot highlight ended up with the paint too thin that it flowed way to much, it actually looked all right so I left it (as it was also slightly tinted with the purple)

Also i needed to tidy up my desk a bit and i was running out of shelf space, especially with the recent terrain being made (and possibility of more if there are future competitions) So as there was some wood left over from a shelving progect in the lounge i had a long thing strip of furniture board. There was already some 2x1 on the wall (not sure why but this was originally the garage and was converted by the previous owners) So i just drilled and nailed the strip onto the 2x1 to make i nice small shelf perfect for minis.

That turned out really well M0rdian... I think you should do a full squad. You could make it interesting my shifting which colors are where on each marine... so no two were alike!

Go go technicoloured marine squad......led by Brother Sergeant Joseph obviously.

well.... I have to say...with that marine you broke every colour scheme rule there is, but in the nicest way possible

the way you did the plasma effect by the way I will hold most dear as I too have with that detail quite my own hardships...thus I really like your way of getting around that problem...and it is a totally viable way of portraying such an effect in my humble opinion

and I agree, gitsplitta has a point here, a full squad definitely has eye-opener potential!

Gitsplitta - Hmm I may do 5 of them and have them as Marines on Parole, they have to dress like that as an "office prank" for newbies after they have spent time as a scout.

monkeytroll - If I do a Sergeant I will call him Joseph and try to sculpt him a coat

Viktor von DommA squad would give me a greater break from painting red. I do have a load of tactical marines that need painting. ...

I have done a bit of work on the Ork Warlord for my rusty saw blade, i decided to try and pose him differently, and spread his arms a bit, to make it easier to paint. And added some cabling from his shoulders to the arms, and added on some shoulder pads / armour over the top. (again the trusty fruit shoot cap)



I have also been painting up one of my tactical marines that has been on my desk for ages, so i finaly put some paint on my Heavy Weapons Multi Melta Marine. He just needs his eye lenses and some static grass now, so i will get some photos of him tomorrow with paint on. But here is some old WIP shots.





And again something that has sat on my desk for a while, is a Space Marine Bike, i bought it for no other reason, than I thought it would look cool. (as I rarely play) So i thought i would have a look at it and get it ready for priming. I decided I needed to add something to it so added a bolter onto the back, for the marine to grab if he needed, and some binoculars onto the front wheel to look like additional lights. Not really any sculpting here, but then I can not think of anything else to put on.



Arggh i see mould lines on the guns, well i had better remove them, unless i risk the wrath of Dakka

yers, the mold line dilemma...

and that melta fighter is jon woo 2.0, right?

also...you´re probably the first one to make a wall-ee bike...(no seriously...looks cool!)

as for that ork boss...very menacing pose... but I bet he needs a special base to have him not fall over...that pose is quite top heavy as far as I can tell...

 Viktor von Domm wrote:

also...you´re probably the first one to make a wall-ee bike...(no seriously...looks cool!)

Lol i had not thought that, be it does haha.

In regards to the Ork boss, I think I will add some magnets to the base so that it sticks to the saw blade.

And yeah I have a habit of having marines that dual wield, but if you are a futuristic super soldier, why cant you duel wield guns I also have this thing about going through all that trouble of painting a chest plate well and then covering it up with a gun

Ah, he's just a hugged... that's all. (The ork I mean)

I totally like dual wielding too... ever seen desperado? in one scene just at the beginning banderas is dual wielding and aiming at two oponents...at either side of the building and he is at the corner IIRC...

and I totally forgot about the sawblade...

And the tactical marine i picked randomly is .. Just for Viktor von Domm



another deul wielder lol. I must have really liked that idea when i was created these lol.