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octavus wrote:Somehow reminds starcraft

Purely coincidental, I'm sure...

First of SCV is fething awesome, In some weird way reminds me of the Aliens loader but in a really cool way .

Love the Viking great looking model and put together so well that looks like a kit in its self, can I ask where the foot plates are from

Thanks guys.

@Octavius... indeed, that is, in fact, the point

@Lonedirtydog - The SCV is a bit bigger than I had originally planned (a bit like the Banshee), but I think it gets the idea across ok The viking foot armour is actually the leg armour from one of the dreadnought kits tuned upside down and trimmed a bit. I think its the ironclad maybe? There are a few gaps in the Viking, but as its supposed to be able to transform I've left them in as movement joints.

Works well and looks good to the eye so no abuse from me thanks for the info I like the look of the feet count that as borrowed

Big is better any way plus leaves a bigger hole if it falls

A pic cross posted from the Viking Showcase thread because I like showing off



Also some progress on Good 'ol Jimmy R!





Quite pleased with the freehand snake motif. I used an Astronomican Grey undercoat for that one before highlighting in white.

Not going for a fully black scheme as I note in the source material that Raynor's suit has some patches of grey and metallic in places. The grey legs will also hopefully help tie him into the rest of the infantry. The original Raynor also doesn;t seem to display the Heaven's Angels insignia, but I needed something to fill the other pad

Jimmy's looking really nice, Flinty. That black looks utterly fantastic, as does the freehand on his shoulder. I'm waiting with bated breath for the result. Good luck!

Heh. At this point the black is merely black primer. Any highlighting you're seeing is purely from the lights

Hopefully have time to finish Jimmy off over the weekend.

Looking very nice man.

"And fix my Damn Jukebox!"

Pure Awesome. Those are fantastic. And in the traditional Blue and Gray.

@Schank - Thanks. All the vehicles and one of the infantry squads will be in blue and grey. The other will be Warfield's boys in red and grey while the 3rd infatnry squad consists of zealots, so they will be in blue and gold I think. Need to ceck the game models.

@ dsteingass - I think Jimmy wants your jukebox

Finished him tonight, lookin' all dynamical and stuffs! The base edge needs a re-blacking, but I'm waiting for the PVA to dry first.

First up is some Jimmy lovin', all dark and moody to try and pick up the silvered skull on the bronze/gold visor



And then some normal pics after he got based properly:









Nuclear launch detected?



And then some group shots with Tychus and co. Its only now that I realise I should have put more thought into the bases with road markings











Just need to varnish him now, but I'll do that tomorrow.

C&C welcomed as always!

awsome group shot, and these paint jobs look great!

These guys have come a very long ways from when you first started putting them together. It is nice to see Jim getting the love he deserves. Fabulous job, I'm really impressed =)

Awesome stuff here... Love SC2 and this thread does it Epic justice.

Absolutely loving the Jimmy mod.

TSD

Wow man! Jimmy is great! It's just too bad his helmet isn't open with his cigar

dsteingass wrote:Wow man! Jimmy is great! It's just too bad his helmet isn't open with his cigar

No, no, no. You're thinking of Tychus, the dude with the minigun. Check the bottom of page 12. Get it right, or we won't let you back here.

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I kid, I kid. All are welcome here. Flinty even puts up with me, after all. On a serious note, it's absolutely fantastic to see the army slowly begin to reach its final stages. Your painting and attention to detail are spot on, Flinty! What's next on your agenda for these guys?

Ooh. More interest! Stoking the fires of obsession once more!

@LordRogalDorn - Its nice to get paint on ther that I'm happy with. Its always a fear I have that I spend a lot of time making conversions and the cock it up with the paint

Jimmy probably smokes too, but not necessarily in his armour. As Odd One Out says though, Tychus is holding his end up.

Next on the painting table at the moment are the other 2 mooks for Tychus's squad. I need to get them done before my blue runs out/dries up. I'll probably need another blue at some point for the vehicles that will be slightly different to the infantry, but at least the squad will be consistent. The other 2 infantry squads will be coloured differently anyway as one is an allied Dominion marine squad with Warfield and the other are protoss zealots.

I also had a boring set of presentations yesterday that allowed me to play with insignia and numbers and slogans, etc. The rest of the infantry will be somewhat less restrained than the guys done so far

Pics tonight, perhaps.

Pics tonight indeed!

Managed to get the other 2 mooks pretty much finished off. Some basing is left to do, but otherwise, done!

As noted above I spent some time thinking up slogans for the guys to have on their armour. They are after all mercenaries and not necessarily the most disciplined of troops, even for reneuralised psychos I've deliberately tried to swap about the shoulder pad markings to get a bit more individualisation in there. The other Marine squad will have similar, but more Dominion based iconography.

A cookie to whoever gets the reference



The other guy is a bit more politically savvy:


And now the finished mooks - The first one is having a bad day!







Just looking about a bit:






And some group shots of all the ground units painted thus far:


COVERING FIRE!




They still need their bases done and varnished, but otherwise done.

Next to get Swann up and running so I can call the whole squad done!

Full Metal Jacket for the 105 and counting?

NICE muzzel flash

Alas, not correct. It might help if my painting got the "s" less like a 5 (I might fiddle with that a bit).

The muzzle flash is a rather nice bit from Armorcast that I picked up from Hasslefree. Lots of different variants.

Aha! You've got medics kicking about, of course. Otherwise it'd be below 9s...

dingdingding!

Your cookie will be delivered at the BBQ (or maybe replaced by a beer)

I had this thread in my subscribed list but never had the time to go through it all. This is friggin' amazing Flinty! One of those very rare armies that seem to be made of awesome.

New pics are awesome Flinty. Keep them rolling out bud...

So much good work is in this thread, I just cant stop going back over the pics to have more looksies HA!

The armourcast stuff is awesome too, in fact that awesome we are just about to add it up on our site for sale...

TSD

Thanks, guys. I've certainly learned a lot during the various builds

In an attempt to get the first squad fully finished I've broken out the GS to get Swann finished off. Filled the back of the neck area and build up the breastplate to the right level. I realised after I jammed the head in there that I forgot to get Swann's moustache in there... I should be able to get more GS in though, or it will be a painted 'tache







Got some basing on there as well, following the general theme of roadside transition from the rest of the squad. Next to get it washed down and primed up. Starting to run out of black primer though...

he looks nice, although some facial hair would do him good

Flinty strikes again...

I agree, facial hair deffo need... Bit of stubble dabbed on at some point in the colouring in process huh?

Plus some battle damage would go down awesome, I even have JUST this second looking again back at him that you have greenstuffed goggles on his head? Epic dude!

TSD

Today I have mostly been fiddling with hair. Pictures are zoomable.

Swann has been up-bearded:





While my medic has had her head chosen and un-shorn











Will wait for the hair to dry and then might give her a headband to control the hair. Swiffy hair in power armour would be annoying, I imagine

The back of the head has been left blank deliberately as the poor dear will be so embedded in her armour it will never be seen.

nice added stache to swann flinty

"Show me where it hurts"