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Little bit of work in progress:

Coming along nicely Jadenim. I need to shift my arse and get a move on with mine but away rafting with the inlaws this weekend

WIP of my entry:

Loving that base!!

I have an idea / suggestion for your base TP^DC Deputy Manager; could you have a fire in the building with a smoke column then hiding the rest of the stand?

Might be difficult to get right (don't know that I'd be up to it), but would look awesome if you did

Edit: This is the image I have in my brain

https://iso200.com/photo-blog/flight/apache-attack-helicopter-smoke-swirl/

Still, you're entry is looking awesome!

 Jadenim wrote:
I have an idea / suggestion for your base TP^DC Deputy Manager; could you have a fire in the building with a smoke column then hiding the rest of the stand?

Might be difficult to get right (don't know that I'd be up to it), but would look awesome if you did

Edit: This is the image I have in my brain

https://iso200.com/photo-blog/flight/apache-attack-helicopter-smoke-swirl/

Still, you're entry is looking awesome!

Thanks Jadenim, means a lot. I hope I get past the build phase on this one!

I've looked at fire/smoke clouds before and I can't find a method that looks realistic enough for me or I can pull off well enough. That's why I've stuck so much building in - to detract away from the stand a little.

If I could trouble everyone for an opinion, my floors for the DAs are dark grey Tarmac/stone rubble. What colour for the building, bearing in mind the ship is black. All my armies fight on one world, the site of a Thokt Necron tomb which has lava regions and blue crystalline deposits depending on the force. The DAs are in the ruined Imperial outpost investigating. I ideally want the buildings to be black to continue the muted dead tones but with a black plane it's not gonna fly (badoom!). The stone used for construction on this world would be grey though, so red brick building isn't going to work fluff-wise. Thoughts?

If you've got blue crystalline on one force, could you do a bluish grey?

I haven't quite worked mine out yet but here is some proof anyway



Good progress TP^DC, hope you get it finished

Do you want the building to sand out or blend in?

To stand out you could make it a sandstone colour (not sure thats fits with your fluff tho) to contrast the black/gray or if you are feeling brave look up Jans excellent marble tutorial
http://warpbound.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Marble


If you want it to blend in a lighter (or darker) shade of gray is prob your only option.

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:

If I could trouble everyone for an opinion, my floors for the DAs are dark grey Tarmac/stone rubble. What colour for the building, bearing in mind the ship is black. All my armies fight on one world, the site of a Thokt Necron tomb which has lava regions and blue crystalline deposits depending on the force. The DAs are in the ruined Imperial outpost investigating. I ideally want the buildings to be black to continue the muted dead tones but with a black plane it's not gonna fly (badoom!). The stone used for construction on this world would be grey though, so red brick building isn't going to work fluff-wise. Thoughts?

any chance you've got some kind of spare wall light/lamp post/vehicle light/similar bitz sitting around that you could stick in there somewhere, and do some kind of coloured glow effect from it?...that could break up the black/dark grey a bit maybe, while letting you keep your standard scheme?

@MG - yup, that looks like the beginnings of a Mek project allright!

Quick WIP for my Swooping Hawks:


Almost done with the basecoat stage.

Cheers guys. These are some brilliant suggestions. Quite like both the blue-grey and also the idea of the light as a contrast point. I shall ponder

So in an effort to actually push myself to not just slide off things, actually commiting to a model ahead of time!

Proof pic:


And some WIPs:

Those are sweet......what are they??

Hell Dorado Corvus Harriers. Checking Soda Pop Games' site, they appear to no longer be in print, sadly. I'd kinda like to pick some more up some time, make a nice harpy unit for my beastmen.

The most open ended proof ever, but I'm going to try build 1/6 (of the model, not actual) scale Space Marine Flyers, namely a Fire Raptor, Xiphon and Stormbird.

Looking good people.

I'm intrigued. Why that size?

I'll be trying to do a Guild Austringer.

Proof:

Looking good guyz.
I m not so happy with my entrance this month so I might change it or am out for this month. Got a lot of other stuff on mydesk and will be on vacation for a couple of days.

Good luck to all of you.

 TP^DC Deputy Manager wrote:
I'm intrigued. Why that size?

No real reason. I may eventually look into Epic, but I just think it'll be fun. Not to mention they'll sit on my desk next to my RoS Griffon like little mascots.

 ZoBo wrote:

@MG - yup, that looks like the beginnings of a Mek project allright!

You are correct, I am in a moding mood atm.

Btw I took your advice and am using those rhinestones you linked on the last challenge since I planned to do a lot of riveting (can you have too much?), they seem to be working fine.

Progress so far, still waiting on a few bits to arrive to decide how to proceed further so thought I'd undercoat it.

 Midget Gems wrote:

 ZoBo wrote:

@MG - yup, that looks like the beginnings of a Mek project allright!

You are correct, I am in a moding mood atm.

Btw I took your advice and am using those rhinestones you linked on the last challenge since I planned to do a lot of riveting (can you have too much?), they seem to be working fine.

Progress so far, still waiting on a few bits to arrive to decide how to proceed further so thought I'd undercoat it.

nice..looking good so far ...hmm, I think I'm starting to see where you're going with this, I look forward to seeing more progress (specially considering I have about a dozen of those things sitting around in need of work, and I think I'm missing the rotors off at least 2 of them, so will probably need to do something creative )

...aye, those rhinestones work quite nicely don't they? I was actually kinda surprised how well they worked out when I tried them on my squiggoth...they're maybe a little bigger than I'd like for some applications, but specifically if you're doing something large and orky, and need a ton of rivets, man, on a speed and ease of use basis, they sure beat the heck out of slicing styrene rod or something in my opinion!

only a minor bit of conversion in my entry this month...4 stormboyz built straight from the box, plus a nob I've added a rokkit pack to, with a couple of extra little booster rokkits from the ork flier sprues, to make the nob's rokkit pack a bit more beefy...I've nearly got all the basecoats down on them, but they're not really worthy of a wip shot yet.

...think I'm kinda taking a break from conversion stuff for a bit, so I'm fresh and ready to go to town on the two and a half foot long toy plane I've just bought, and plan to turn into an ork 'eavy landa! (kinda old homebrew rules I think, but it sounds nice...it'll be mostly for display anyway though )

Going to be painting up a halfling witch in a flying cauldron with a pig, I love this mini

Best figure name ever - halfling witch in a flying cauldron with pig.....superb!!!

I'm falling behind the rest of the other guys in the Deathwatch Jumpers mini-challenge, but I have gotten started at least. Here's my latest WIP shot:

I'm gonna get more done tonight before bed, and possibly still more before work tomorrow if I can.

I need some nice weather so i can prime.

If you don't want to wait, I will say that vallejo polyurethane primer brushed on has worked really well for me, as long as its not put on so heavy that it keeps bubbles.

Vejut wrote:
If you don't want to wait, I will say that vallejo polyurethane primer brushed on has worked really well for me, as long as its not put on so heavy that it keeps bubbles.

from personal experience, a word of caution here...I'm guessing I didn't shake the bottle enough or something at the time maybe, but I brush-primed 30 ork boyz with vallejo polyurethane primer a while back, and it went weird on me...trying to paint over it is like trying to paint over wax or something, the paint just beads up on itself, doesn't apply smoothly at all...it's quite annoying, even more so considering it's on 30 models! ...so yeah, shake thoroughly before use!!

(I assume that's the problem, as I've brush-primed a couple other things with t and it worked fine, and it always works fine when I put it through an airbrush...just that one time it went weird )

Proof pic:



I don't know how many of them I'll get finished. Hopefully all five.

nice feltmonkey. love those figs. they should be sweet all painted up


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Getting the 'lass done, onto the gold and that now. hopefully get him (mostly) finished today. ONly 8 days of hols left - so much to do - lol

Proof Zaggy older Metal Model (a bit oxidized)