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endtransmission wrote:Quick question. What colour are you using for your grey? I've been using Adeptus Battle grey with a number of black washes over it; which is turning out to be a pain on my Razorback

Hey man,

For my guys I'm hitting them with a 2~2.5:1 mix of Adeptus Battlegrey and Chaos Black. Then for my vehicles I used Tamiya TS-48 Gunship Grey, washing the recesses with Badab Black Wash and doing the line highlights with Codex Grey.

Exact recipie.





Did a bit more work on the big lad, got the face to a stage where I am very happy now and it's about the limit of my skills, in what you see I have the axe blades left to do as well as the text on the book, the storm shield arm, scroll cases and loin cloths then he is done!

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Got a little work done over the weekend, repainted all of my bolters red, repainted and added some battle damage to the front of my dreadnought, finished the terminator librarian (dakka gallery has made the photo very grainy for some reason), check it:




And for a slightly clearer photo:
http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/D8C9wu

Cheers,
Jack

99% Finished vindicator for my boys. There are a few little things I want to finish then it will get a dullcoat. I've never painted a tank before so I'm pretty happy with how it came out. I guess the idea is it's not an overly old beat up tank, it's taken a bit of fire though and has a fair bit of road/dirt/running grime around the tracks and hatch.

i like your style, Redscorps. I like the stance and the movement you created in your librarian as well, but I think you may try highlighting the blue aura around his eyes to a near white, or an ice blue so it can stand out a bit more. You did such a good job with the glowing eyes, I just feel like you should try to emphasis it a bit more.

redscorps wrote:Got a little work done over the weekend, repainted all of my bolters red, repainted and added some battle damage to the front of my dreadnought, finished the terminator librarian (dakka gallery has made the photo very grainy for some reason), check it:


And for a slightly clearer photo:
http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/D8C9wu

Cheers,
Jack

This model wins it for me! I love the Red Scropions I just have too many chapters to work on right now argh!

IceAngel wrote:i like your style, Redscorps. I like the stance and the movement you created in your librarian as well, but I think you may try highlighting the blue aura around his eyes to a near white, or an ice blue so it can stand out a bit more. You did such a good job with the glowing eyes, I just feel like you should try to emphasis it a bit more.

Hey man thanks very much it is an ice blue, because of the hood though I have a bit of trouble showing it in these pictures. I really need to get a better, less grainy shot of him.

Asherian Command wrote:

redscorps wrote:Got a little work done over the weekend, repainted all of my bolters red, repainted and added some battle damage to the front of my dreadnought, finished the terminator librarian (dakka gallery has made the photo very grainy for some reason), check it:


And for a slightly clearer photo:
http://flickr.com/gp/prefix84/D8C9wu

Cheers,
Jack

This model wins it for me! I love the Red Scropions I just have too many chapters to work on right now argh!

Thanks man, they are a cool chapter, I have some berzerkers on hold that I can't want to paint, while i paint these guys,. so I know what you mean!!











Anyone got any thoughts on the Vindicator?

The rear door is a bit overly mucked up for me. Otherwise looks spot on.

Very nice paintjob with smooth lines just like your minis, great jobb.

looking loverly so far the clean colours are great!

I love what you've done here.

love that tank, but also must agree with WM360, that the back door is a bit too mucked up

I love the idea of putting those dread shin plates on your terminator in place of shoulder pads. I would have never thought about that....it looks fantastic though. Great work all around!


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seriously, i think i just crapped my pants over your term lib.

Lovely work man, seriously great job. I'm subscribed. I love the chapter and you're doing them justice. Congrats.
And not that I want to screw you over any more in terms of workload/wallet, but have you seen this on the Forge World site?


Just saying man...

I am jealous of your modeling skills! All in all I love how the army is turning out. I am thinking of going back now and adding some battle damage to my land raiders and dreadnaughts now. What did you do to make the battle damage? it looks very clean and realisitic

Hey redscorps, just started the same army myself, and took the jump and got the Sevrin set. Something they don't tell you on the site, at least I never saw it (or possibly a seriously massive packing error) is that they toss in a Command Squad set with it. Probably half the reason for the £36 tag (iirc)

It's well worth it though imo, the models are beyond gorgeous in reality. To the point, that I'm scared to paint them as I'll not do them justice. Only got one or two models roughly painted, still trying to work out the grey too use, what colour are you using here? Tried plain Adeptus Battlegrey but it seems a bit bright to me, I saw someone doing Charadon Granite as well, but it looks a bit... weird.

Looking forward to more!

Edit: Just saw your grey mix at the top of the page. Mega fail on my part! Derp derp.

Wow guys thanks for the feedback!

Yeah the back door is a bit over done, I will be abit more careful with the others (I just think the top part looks a bit too mucky), I can't repaint it without it looking like a bag of ass so I will just have to deal with that as part of the first tank I have ever built/painted.

Dave and Marushi, I need that kit! I will order it probably anyway this week as it really is stellar. I didn't realise that you get a full command squad box with it, I can most certainly use all of those parts (plastic apothecary bits are like finding needles in a haystack(ebay)).

I would like to get, well... everything... Hah. I actually bought a gakload of World Eaters gear to revamp my old Khorne army so I will have picks of that at some stage.

Tonight I put togther a Razorback and most of a LRC using the resin Icons set and the LR door set. Nice detail on both of these ones (though the icons are very very thin to the point of having large gaps in some of the background areas).

Snapped a quick pic, oh yeah made a start on the first of my heavy weapon guys for the tac squad, I am swapping out the missile launcher blokes in the squads to plasma cannoneers and having a devastator squad composed of 4 M/L guys.

Once again thanks very much for all of your feedback, I wish I hadn't gone so heavy on the loading ramp of the vindicator but as I said it was the first tank I've ever painted and I had no idea how much was too much so I will just have to live and learn.

Cheers
Jacko

Good evening Dakka,

I haven't been up to much this week, just building actually and getting some stuff ready for gaming and painting.

I built up the LRC, a HB Razorback/Rhino, the land speeder storm with a bootlegged heavy flamer (didn't have anything close and the flamestorm cannon from the LRR is almost as big as the speeder). I just cut two of the regular flamers up, put the tanks on the top and cut the grips off then spliced them on to the pivot that comes with the factory model heavy bolter. My counts as HF.

Mostly just transports this week.. Transport for my 0-1 scout choice, my assault terminators(and their new Chaplain as seen in front of the raider, such a cool model) and a tac squad/combat squad. Will build another vindicator, another razorback/rhino and that is it for vehicles for a while then more painting needs to get done. Though I did see a red scorpions dude over on warseer kitbash himself a red scorpions land raider ares and I am so tempted to get the parts and build one to rumble up next to my LRC.

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Shoulda asked, Im pretty sure I have a spare HF for speeders.

Modeling looks good though. If you do make an Ares, remember they are Apocalypse-only. Pretty awesome looking though.

Ah true!! Yeah I forget that there is a swap/trade side to this hobby, I just tend to buy from bits sites or DIY what I need. Thanks very much though mate I really appreciate the kind offer!

Speaking of DIY, I found some Cities of Death sprues on ebay going for a good price (well I didn't look around so much so now it seems it wasn't such a good price, but no big deal), snatched up 10 of them, just a mix of the random buildings. I didn't check to see if they came with floors and they didn't, so I went on to a bits site, got the floors I needed and have waited a month. No fault of the site but I think they have gotten lost in the post so I cracked today and went and bought some textured plasticard so we could get started.

My buddies and I were getting a bit sick of playing around the grey hills of my board all the time so I got to work today and started building these guys. They actually take a while to put together!! I took a little inspiration from the ones on the GW hobby blog and ad libbed a bit with the other ones.

The small 3 tier one is pretty much done but the manufactorum and the square one need a fair bit more work before it is paint time.

It's nice to do something a bit different anyway.

Pictures (Click for larger):

So I just finished my first Razorback and am pretty happy with the result, over all they are pretty quick to paint but the yellow is what slows down the process, many many coats of very thin paint to avoid brush marks on my model.

I've thrown a few pics up with it, a squad and the vindicator. 'Search Party' as usual, click to zoom:

niece looking. only one thing why are the gun holes mostly on one side? plus the sides of the transfer are really visable on the pics. you can really see where you cut them you know the parts that should be transparent. is it just these pics or are they this in real life too?

Just caught up with this, and shall be following intently! Great stuff indeed. I for one love the JCB stylings of your vehicles.

fatty wrote:niece looking. only one thing why are the gun holes mostly on one side? plus the sides of the transfer are really visable on the pics. you can really see where you cut them you know the parts that should be transparent. is it just these pics or are they this in real life too?

It's picking up the light funny with the decals, it's a shame but this is even after I have put a testors dullcoat over it. I read about a product that is used for blending decals in so I will try and get some of that and see if it works. It doesn't actually bother me as 95% of the time they are never under this much light and then edges are invisible. It's just the GW Decals not playing the game for the photographs.

And as far as the bullet holes go, I imagined this tank to have been flanking up the side of the battlefield and having been ranked with bolter/shoota fire by a squad of plague marines/boyz(my two arch rivals) so it has damage on the left front 1/4, side and rear 1/4 to represent this. I think it would be pretty unusual to have bullet holes completely around and I was going for a bit of a different look with this one (using a bolter sized drill bit) as opposed to the vindicator which has taken some heavier fire (using an autocannon sized drill bit).

Thanks for the comments.

inmygravenimage wrote:Just caught up with this, and shall be following intently! Great stuff indeed. I for one love the JCB stylings of your vehicles.

Thanks mate, I'm getting there. Nothing is really planned with them but when I see the clean nice vehicle, pre-priming, it just doesn't look right. So out come the drill bits and the scalpel.

Just wanted to quickly say that the Razorback looks good. As for the City of Death buildings...they look really good, especially the big one.

Peter

Nice battle damage

I'm going to be writing it up on my blogspot instead from now on. Seeing great stuff like FTW, Paincakes and a few others gives me a bit of inspiration to join the blog circuit and post my stuff there. Follow the mustard trim brick road:

http://reds-corps.blogspot.com

The blog looks stunning Jack, I'll be following it closely as ever and best of luck with it mate.

Looks great, and you've just made me dash down to the storage unit where all my stuff is and grab the bits I need to finally get cracking on my Red Scorpions!

Nice one, thanks guys, it's the encouragement that keeps me on track, I have finished the land speeder and built a ton of stuff so I can't wait to take some more pics and maybe even do a battle report or two from our Wednesday night gaming.

Thanks again!!

Jack

Narked, get to it mate, they look great as an army, the colours are awesome, not too bright but not too boring. Shoot me an email or comment on my blog when you have some of your stuff in progress.

Now this is very nice, you know you dont have to do your libby blue? paint him the same as the rest of the boys and add a splash of blue in two places.

as I did with my Iron Hands kit bash libby link to blog in signiture.

(And its miss not Mr like 95% of the people here think.)