Major Downer and his Vostroyan's. abit Pic heavy.

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**Major Downer**

Hello everyone, I would like to show you some of my work that I have been doing on my Vostroyan Artillery army.

I'm not the best painter out there ( still perfecting my skills) I've had a look through at other peoples work and there is quite a high standard which scares me!

Any way, I hope you like my work and please C&C, Don't hold back, im not affraid of what you think I could improve on, just let me know.

Some of my many Troops.

Tanks.

Super heavy.

This is Spud.

This is Lady.

Oh and My ogryns

Thanks for looking

Major Downer

**Cave_Dweller**

Pretty good looking force you have there. Everything is completely painted and based, and your color theme is appealing. You've definitely got the fundamentals down, now you might want to consider more advanced techniques, such as weathering the tanks, adding mud, battle damage, scorch marks, rust etc.

These kind of details really set your army apart and are worth learning. Don't rely entirely on citadel paints, experiment with other brands such as tamiya, vallejo, testors. Sometimes they add a subtle difference.

**Major Downer**

Thank you very much sir

You could not be more spot on there, They are the things I struggle most with, rust marks and battle damage really @*FT£$%^ me off, It never looks right, maybe Im being fussy, Ill have a hunt for a guide of some sort on the forum.

There are other paints??? where do I go about looking/ buying these bad boys sir?

Thank you for your feed back, I will start practicing battle damage right away.

Major Downer

**Stapletotheface**

Great work! especially the ogryns towards the end.

**Mr Nobody**

How did you do the shale on the bases?

**Major Downer**

Mr Nobody wrote:How did you do the shale on the bases?

I got the slate from the citidel kits that GW supply

Thanks for all your comments so far

Major Downer

**palehorse**

Nice Minis Major!

**Lord of Caliban**

Nice job! Love the standard bearer.

**chaoslooksgood**

Love it! Especially the banner bearer and the mutilated guy

**Toastedandy**

I love those models. Only advice I can see to give you are painting straight lines.

Masking tape is generally to thick/unwieldy to use on minis, but cigarette skins work superbly, only like £1 for a king size pack, AND you can smoke with them. Just lick it up, lap it down, paint away and rip the skin back up. Sorted

**doowopapocalypse**

Love the Vostroyan HW teams, and the converted flame thrower duo.

**adamwest**

Tanks look great. Love the attention you showed the flag on that first pic. Great looking army over all.

**konst80hummel**

I have to pipe in as i am in the process of painting vostroyans myself. The models look very good and my only objection would be that the gold parts are a bit .... gold. You don't ussually find gold in a battlefield

. I would suggest a wash with a black ink (badab black in my case), and a further highlight with a lghter colour (in my case Tin Bitz gets highlited with Dwarf Bronze).

Oh and the Standard bearer's pistol is totaly lost in there.
Tanks indeed look great!
Keep trying

practice does make perfect...

**Flying Pooo**

Your Vostroyans and Tanks are great and I really, really like the paintjobs on your Ogryns. The only criticism I can make are that some of the metallic areas could use a little bit of a wash, maybe Devlan mud or Badab Black and if you can get it Chestnut ink it works THE BEST on gold.

**Paranoia_Agent**

Looking very good, keep it up !

**Major Downer**

wow so many kind words, Thank you

Ah finally some advise I was looking for, Most of what you have advised I can do strait away and the others I have writen down on a list of practicing skills

Thank you for your honesty

I hope to Up date this soon.

Is there a day limit on Updates like on the swap shop?

Many Thanks

Major Downer

**palehorse**

I hope you have more to showcase.

**LordDeth**

This is pretty awesome. I like the artillery and the mortar team with boltgun shells littering the floor is kinda lol.

**Major Downer**

Time for a big update I think!

I will Post more when Photo Bucket actually decides to sort it's life out! :(

Cheers

Major Downer

**Sammoth**

Love it. Nice Cossack influence.

http://www.ukrainiandancing.com/cossack2WhiteBg.gif

**Paradigm**

Great work, both on the Preator Launcher and all the previous stuff.

**Bonde**

I like the Ogryns and the Crassus. On your basic infantry, some of the bare metal could use at least a slight wash, otherwise keep up the good work.

**st2me**

Looks like you've come a long way and from the earlier tanks with the weathering and scarring, your Crassus looks awesome I want a couple for my army. and if you check out my orgyns they pretty close on paint scheme. With the exception that I like how you painted there armor compare to mine.

Good Job and Great Models

**Zakiriel**

Well done sir I really like Spud's camo.