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Hi all,

I'm building an Imperial Guard Valkyrie model and am blogging my progress as I go over here on my blog:http://wargames-wasteland.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/painting-imperial-guard-valkyrie.html.

Things are going well so far - this is how far I've got:

And I now have a question. I've also got the wings built and they seem to be fairly secure if just pushed into place on the fuselage. Having removable wings would make storage and carriage a lot simpler. Has anyone out there got any experience of whether this arrangement "wears" over time so the wings become loose? I can't see an easy way of installing magnets to make things more secure.

Any ideas, anyone?

It will wesr eventually, but the you could just jam blu tac or something similar in there. Magnets are not the only solution

Hi all - I'm back with another brief update on the progress of my Valkyrie. I've magetised the weapons too, but they're not painted yet and so are not shown here.



More info can be found on my blog: http://wargames-wasteland.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/painting-imperial-guard-valkyrie.html

Cheers!

Hi all - I've not been posting these updates as often as I should have, but I've got to the final straight on my Valkyrie project:



Full details are over on my blog: http://wargames-wasteland.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/painting-imperial-guard-valkyrie.html

Very nice. How did you do the frost/fog/muck on the canopy?

The canopy muck was not one of my finer moments. I wish I could claim it was deliberate.

The canopy for the Valkyrie comes in pieces - the "glass" and the two "frames" either side. The frame pieces lining the two sides are part of the "glass".

I'd painted all the pieces separately, with the intention of making sure I didn't get any paint onto the windows. Carefully applied my glue, placed the frame onto the glass and applide a little too much pressure and the frame on one side slipped smearing poly glue and black paint which the poly had melted onto the glass. I have removed as much as possible with gentle scrapin but got to the point where I was making scratch marks and stopped.

I wish I could claim some genius technique, but there you have it.

Hi all - It's done! I finally finished work on the Valkyrie model I've been working on in small increments for the last few weeks.

Full details and more pics are on my blog here: http://wargames-wasteland.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/imperial-guard-valkyrie-completed.html



Thanks in advance to anyone that stops in to look

Looks like there was a crapload of drybrushing. Is that true? It's not a bad thing, I'm just curious.

I magnetised the wings on mine. 5mmx5mm rounds in the boom sockets, 5mmx1.5mm rounds in the wings.

You do need to do some cutting to get them to fit, and some drilling, but they hold well enough to keep them on during play - and are easily removed for transport.

Otherwise, longer "wing pins" would also serve the same purpose.

Yep - a **crapload** of drybrushing.

I like drybrushing

 0ldman wrote:
Yep - a **crapload** of drybrushing.

I like drybrushing

It's a phase every painter goes though

I like dry brushing. My history teacher is the reason I am into wargaming. He had a cool club set up at my school and his painting style was old school. Amazing but old school. So lots and lots of drybrushing after an undercoat and lots of inks and bright colours.

It depends on your style really. Im a fan of making things really stand out and drybrushing really does that well. The only problem is if you do too much it makes your models look aged.

I still drybrush to this day but I dont paint often. But those engines look pretty swell. I also love the red on the heavy bolter.

My painting style is definately "old school" - the red weapons are as much a testament to that as anything else.

Drybrushing can give a chalky, dusty feel to a model which I quite like. It's a quick and easy way to pick up edges and raised details. I like the result, personally, more that hard line highlights because you can grade it better, building it up where you want it lightest.

I'm trying to incorporate newer techniques into my models these days (doing the Valk has totally converted me to the benefits of oil washes, for example) but I think I''ll always be an old fuddy-duddy at heart.