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Thanks guys!

Thanks guys

My new project is going to be a Witch-Hound from the Avatars of War range. Instead if giving this figure away I might actually keep him for my Mordheim Witch Hunter Warband... Shocking I know... But hey... every once and awhile I do keep these things ^_^



The miniature itself is pretty badass; good pose, good sculpt. Colorwise I'm going to start with black and layer up with grey. Metal is going to be very burnished gold, I'll probably weather up the bottom of his coat at the end.

I've decided the base is going to be a wooden floor, in my mind I see the Witch-Hunter emerging from hiding to break-up a heretic ritual. If I get around to it I could possibly make this a whole diorama thing... But that'll be down the track... Anyway, I made this base to look like a rough wooden floor. It's pretty easy to do...



Items used: Fine-tooth saw, strip of plastic card, a base!


Method: Either vice the strip down or hold it down to the table at one end. Apply pressure and drag the saw-teeth along the plastic strip. NOTE: Do this on a cutting board or surface you don't mind being roughed up!!


You'll need to do this several times. Depending on how often you do it, you can change the level of roughness of the wood. Do it many times and you'll have a rough looking well used tavern feel. Do it a few times and you'll have a nice polished floor... I've gone for about five times here.

Then cut the strips and apply them to the base. You'll want to cut them and lay them so you've got cuts in various places. Once everything is dry take a needle or a pin tool and add some nail holes at the end of each cut. If you want to weather things more then add small cuts and nicks in the wood. Simple as that!

That's the prep phase!! Tune in next time for painting... Ain't I a stinker!! ^_^

Neat idea on the base vent. Cool figure too!

That is a very nice tip for the base. I'll give it a go soon.

And we're off! Xarboth's trade miniature start point! Had to stop the Witch-Hunter, things were not working out to my liking, luckily this came up ^_^

In an effort to make something slightly different I've gone for a diorama type deal. Tentative name is 'End Game' or something else suitably vague... It's Space Marine Versus Dark Eldar... With the win seemingly going to the Dark Eldar... But we'll get to that at a later date... ^_^



The marine isn't stuck down, there's other things to be decided, and added. It's meant to be a fire-station bunker in a war-zone. Thinking about adding a big ass gun in there somewhere...



The marine is at total rough stage. I haven't done any mold lines, nor even decided what chapter he should be (Shout out some ideas!), gonna strip the Templar icon off the pistol.
I've spread the liquid green stuff as a way of actually drilling bullet holes into the cork, more stuff to add when I get a chance

Looks very interesting vent. Man, he's pretty shot/cut up.

Are you going to put the remnants of the leg somewhere near? I don't think he'd get far like that... unless you want to have a make-shift crutch lying somewhere on the floor or wall.

Thanks Gits, and yeah, I've got his leg floating around my work-bench, gonna hollow it out, add a bone, blow off the foot and some blood.

In other news, this is me tooting my own horn...

Sounds great! Toot away my friend. Your work doesn't get anywhere near the attention it deserves anyway.

I agree with gits, your quality to poster count is way off! I like the start, good thing he chained the pistol to himself, might of lost it otherwise

lol I was more tooting my horn at being included in the 'What's new Today' post for GW today. They've got my Witch-Hunter Captain and Warrior Priest...

http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=2300104-gws

Ah, missed that (don't read the fantasy ones normally). Grats!

Fantastic!

Congrats Vent, always nice to see quality work up on the GW site.

So, finished the first stages of building the base for the trade marine. Still gotta do some work on things...

That is choice vent! really fantastic! Love the way the whole scene goes together and all the varying textures on the base.

Holy crap an update... Despite a lack of feedback I've gone ahead and made the marine an Imperial Fist. This required me to actually look up the Imperial Fists, never done one before, but the yellow is fun to paint... Although I'm going to weather and battle damage the hell out of it before I'm finished...



Done today:

Base:
- Ground was a terracotta brown / red. Then I've gone over it with one layer of weathering powder. It needs more work. I'm thinking a water / muddy effect would be nice.
- Stone work. From Black highlighted with grey all the way up to white at the top. Weathered with some powder to give a used look.

Marine:
- Imperial Fist! Used a mix of Moon Yellow and Sepia ink to make the base coat. Glazed with a sepia then used Moon yellow to do the first stage of armor again. I've gone over the recesses with darker washes and then the very depth with a dark brown ink.
- Bloody red to do the base coat of the red, then mixed with flesh (2:1 red : flesh) to highlight it.

Dark eldar:
- NOTHING! I am the slack... It's not even undercoated yet!

For a second, I thought you went with angry marines. Some gore would make for a more realistic display around his leg stub, but I'm pretty sure you're getting to that.

Love the work on the base vent. Nice job on the weathering. It's going to be a perfect counterpoint for the figure, both in form and color.

You're doing a beautiful job with the yellow as well. Not an easy color (though not terrible once you get the hang of it).

Keep up the good work my friend!

Looking very cool. Don't go super crazy on blood from the leg fluff wise, they clot super fast, as to not bleed out from such things.

Thanks guys. Always nice to get a comment or two

killykavekommando wrote:For a second, I thought you went with angry marines. Some gore would make for a more realistic display around his leg stub, but I'm pretty sure you're getting to that.

Heh, angry marines... Hmmm so very tempting.... But not. Yeah, the marine and base are no where near finished yet, still lots to do

whalemusic360 wrote:Looking very cool. Don't go super crazy on blood from the leg fluff wise, they clot super fast, as to not bleed out from such things.

It won't be goretastic, but there will be blood. I was almost going to leave the foot / leg on the board, but have decided to make a blood trail instead...

Looking pretty sweet vent!
Glad to see youre back and kicking!

How did you get the steps to look like they do? How did you use the powders? was it a powder/alcohol wash or something more? What kinda pigments are you using?

Ramos Asura wrote:Looking pretty sweet vent!
Glad to see youre back and kicking!

How did you get the steps to look like they do? How did you use the powders? was it a powder/alcohol wash or something more? What kinda pigments are you using?

Thanks Ramos

All pigments are Secret Weapon brand. (http://www.secretweaponminiatures.com/)
Everything was painted in its base colors. IE Earth was brown, stone was grey, etc. Then weathered using the powders. I use no water for dry earth like this it's straight out of the pot powder applied with a slightly stiffer then normal brush. I usually still work in layers rather than trying to do one very heavy layer. That way it builds up on the bottom where the weathering / mud is more pronounced.

For the stairs I applied the weathering powder as normal and then used a tiny bit of sponge to sponge on some black, then some silver. Still more work to be done there, but it's quite simple really.

Hope that helps.

Do you use any sort of fixant like varnish or hairspray? My powders tend to like to rub off if im not careful

Ramos Asura wrote:Do you use any sort of fixant like varnish or hairspray? My powders tend to like to rub off if im not careful

Absolutely. Any time you use a weathering powder, even if you mix it with water, you have to seal it when you're finished otherwise the more you handle the more is removed. I use A New Zealand Matt Varnish called 'Moana' to seal everything. Apparently it's discontinued, but I still have a box of it. I've heard that the Army Painter Matt Varnish is also very good.

The above images are still not sealed, I have not yet done all the weathering I need to yet.

Excellent! Thanks a ton vent!

Hehe. now that school is wrapping up Im getting alot more free time, and so Im putting that time to learning how to airbrush and how to use my powders!

Actually, if you mix weathering powder with "Acrylic Medium" you don't have to seal it when it's dry.

Gitsplitta wrote:Actually, if you mix weathering powder with "Acrylic Medium" you don't have to seal it when it's dry.

Hmmm really? I might have to try that... I've found that mixing the powder with any kind of liquid alters the way it's used though, so I'm not sure what the effect would be like?

ohhhhh im gonna have to try that!! Thanks Gits!
And ya with what vent said, I find that even sealing mine changes how they look. Im with less experience with em so havent done much experimenting yet. Time for SCIENCE!

I use Liquitex Airbrush Medium. Of course it's not powder once you mix it, but you can alter the thickness of the mix to get different effects just fine. For things like mud or soot on gun barrels or exhausts... scorch marks from incoming fire, etc... it works just great.

Smallish update: Just some damage work on the Marine. Still need to do a little more, mainly on the plastic scared areas from pre-undercoating. Yellow is fun for Battle damage... I'm thinking that the left shoulder pad needs to be re-done. Not happy with it when you see it in the photo... Lots more to do on everything!

Excellent progress my friend. He looks like he's been chewed up and spit out... more than once.