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So back safe and sound and getting stuck back in. First up is the tech priest dominus for para's comp. got him all pinned and managed to spray him last night when the humidity dropped. Italy was hotter than here but the Korean humidity just blows chunks ><

Also unpacked and scrubbed my new FW castellax in dish soap after soaking him for a night. Will undercoat with chaos black once he's all trimmed and cleaned up. First resin fig ever so kinda trepidatious about how to proceed ...... Any resin advice very welcome.

Both of these guys are getting done in the Achlys 3 scheme I used for the sydonian dragoon.

Well thanks to a bout of insomnia the castellax is all scrubbed (like 4 times), trimmed, sub-built and pinned. Sweet sweet fig this one but damn I hate ball joints!!! Wasn't massively keen on the shoulder melta he comes with so a bit of cut, ion and glue and now he's sporting the latest in Zappy zap guns instead. Totally can't remember the proper name for it but it was the spare gun that came with the dominus. Looks much better now I reckon. Now if the humidity would sod off I can get his base coat sprayed on and let the painty painty begin

Woke up at stupid'o'clock again this morning so got a wee bit more done on the dominus' metalwork. Getting there. Liking how it's looking and fits well with the dragoon

Ooh, shiny! I'm always impressed by clean metallics!

Cheers fella. liking out it's coming out

Progress looks really amazing, beautiful metals. Wow.

Cheers man. Metals are pretty much done now and well hapy with them. Just need final light point highights. Just spent 5 hours painting his robes.......sheeeeessshhh. Delighted with them. Such an awesome fig to paint. Defintiely GW's fig of the year so far I reckon

Thx to a few nights of lovely insomnia, I've been getting a fair bit of paint down. Tackled and finished the dominus' robes yesterday. 5 hours of grey. Worked out as the 9 shades of grey lol. Came out well though

Wow, that's awesome! Might have taken a while, but damn was it worth it!

Chers man. photo is a bit iffy but same 'ol ipad wips. ths month's focus is on smooth gradation and transitions so pretty chuffed with it

Magos is looking nice, the colour scheme is translating onto this really well, even has a hint of dark Mechanicus about it, purely down to the pallet though.

Final WIP of the castellax. Really fun fig to paint. Tempted to get a few more. So far the only flaw I found was a single tiny air bubble. Guess FW have upped their resin game!!! The gun is not the original. I didn't really like the old fashioned melta so snipped off the barrels and pinned on the extra gun from the dominus model.

Nice work on the Dominus and Castellax, but more importantly congratulations on the nuptials!

Cheers Az

That's these two just about done. Need to weather them and then it's onto the bases and a wee dio which I'm totally stumped on :(
Oh crap - still need to finish the flasks too.

Super as always! That purple continues to amaze!

purple?

The robes/non-metal areas on both look grey-purple to me... Are they not?

More a blue slate grey. Mechanicus Grey > EshinGrey + Dawnstone. Could be the crappy ipad photo

Ah, I see it now! I was thinking it was a very soft purple/lilac shade.

ah - must be the photo. The photos off the ipad are wrecking my head. Perfectly sharp on the ipad and then blurry as sacra juiced guardsman when I upload them here ><

Bravo







I feel I should say more, but I have lost the power of speech

I love how the dominus is coming along, if I wasn't already looking into eldar I would definitely look into mechanicus for the dominus

Cheers lads. Very very happy with how the admech stuff is coming along. Need to do a squad next rather than just the bigger single figs.
@Warkitten - you should pick up a dominus anyways. He's an awesome fig to paint. beautiful sculpted and detailed. A clampack that is actually worth the extra cash they cost. Make sure to paint him in pieces though; some areas are nigh on impossible to reach otherwise!
Next from the men of machines........really need to get that knight under the paint

Big Bad Dom and Cas are pretty much done barring the weathering. Need to start looking at building there dio. Could not for the life of me come up with a decent idea - finally something clicked. Excuse the crappy undecypherable drawings. They make sense to my oddly functioning mind (tis a top down plan and handy for laying bitz out on and for gauging measurements, layout et al). Plan laid, some materials bought, except for thebloody 3mm foamboard which I forgot to get yesterday and on we go. First up snippy snippy and start laying out the gantry that Dom will be standing on. I had a sprue clearout a while back and now when I need some ......I'm all out!!!! Have had to carefully snip bts of sprue off my as yet unbuilt, untouched box of skitarii rangers lol. If all goes acc to plan.....should look pretty sweet. Same colour scheme/background as what I did on the Dragoon's base a few months back. C&C as ever ALWAYS welcome, appreciated, venerated

Starting to make a bit progress. Dio base cut, stuck and edges sanded and the gantry is made. Needs a little more filing/sanding once the GS is dry in the morning. Love seeing it start to come together

I think I love you.

hahahahahahahaha - you just made coffee come out my nose!

What a waste of coffee! No, but really, my rule i any admech is good admech, but this is great admech! I tried gray and it can be difficult to pull off without looking unpainted. You most definitely pull it off, and for that I am subbed as hell.

Thx very much glad you like it. Grey just seemed a better choice for me as an admech scheme. Not really taken with the brighter schemes. Doesn't quite for them imho