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Oh I have the pens, just not the skill.

Viktor von Domm wrote:me likey mucho^^

very cool look you have created... very fitting...i can´t think of any way how to improve that wonderful looking tank...it is a very good composition of warm and bright colors!
also i have to congratulate you for your straight brushwork here.

Capitansolstice wrote:MUY buien

Rogue Wolves wrote:looks better than those transfers

dsteingass wrote:Ya dood, that looks awesome! I wiah I could freehand like that!

IdentifyZero wrote:Awesome work man, that is some wicked free hand!

Thanks, guys! I'm pretty happy with the results myself (and it's always nice to get resounding support from the crowd

Rogue Wolves wrote:*cough cough* join the macropen club *cough cough* btw how are you LOVING those pens!!!!

By club, are you refering to the =/\=ssociation of Stupendous Macropen Users? The pens are so slick. I don't think those unit markings would have come out half as good with a brush!

dsteingass wrote:Oh I have the pens, just not the skill.

Viktor von Domm wrote:wish i had that ability, my own brushstrokes tend to go curvy...

My technique for both the stripes and the unit markings is about the same. I find that sketching with pencil first helps A LOT. Easier to change than paint, and makes for a nice guide for either your brush or your macropen after.

Thanks for looking!
Rawson

your darn right im talking about the =/\= ! and as you use the pens you will find out you can make the most intricate designs using pen AND paint

Oh Cheez!

Rawson wrote:Here's how it turned out:

You likey?

me "likey" very much, oh yes excellent work yet again Rawson. Tell me, are you natrurally this talented or is it something they put in the water over in Copenhagen?
Now too the weathering!!




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dsteingass wrote:Oh I have the pens, just not the skill.

lucky you, at least you have the pens! I have neither

personaly i would skip the weathering... i like the tank more not weathered...there has to be a regiment of IG that has not totally downtrodden tanks to fill their ranks...


oh and yep, pencil first micropen later... that at least i can do...^^

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Viktor von Domm wrote:personaly i would skip the weathering... i like the tank more not weathered...there has to be a regiment of IG that has not totally downtrodden tanks to fill their ranks..

you gotta have weathering, Viktor, otherwise they will look like toys. Weathering gives them personality, makes them more realistic. By weathering we're not talking great clumps of mud, tree branches jammed in the tracks etc etc. Some dusting on the tracks, a few scuff marks on areas where the crew access and exit the vehicles, exhaust fume markings, fuel and oli stains can lift a model from the mundane to the magical. The important thing is to do it good, not to go overboard as some folk do. Often it's a case of less is more. Anyway, I'm sure what ever Rawson does we're all agreed that his LRBT's look great


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PS. Congratulate me, I'm now the proud owner of not one but TWO Valkyries!! Nowhere near Rawson's good news in the baby department (heartiest congrats btw to you and your lass, hope all goes well ) but sufficient to make me smile (already got two ankle-biters...though they're both in their 20's now....and they do make me smile a lot too....well, grimace!! )

well, grimace!!

that made me grin so wide!^^

two valks... nice ideed...so we have been bugging you for quite sme time now... when will you open up a thread of your own? now seems a good time if i say so myself^^

and when you describe weathering under such parameters...i am in^^, and yep... most folks do the other kind...

Great freehand work mate on all of the markings , the barrel turned out pretty cool too.

Speaking of two Valks, I found this screenshot of two Valks, a marine, and some boyz from the Space Marine video Game.

butchyboy73 wrote:heartiest congrats btw to you and your lass, hope all goes well )

Thank you, sir! So far so good, Mrs. Rawson saw the midwife last week and everything was sounding good.

butchyboy73 wrote:me "likey" very much, oh yes excellent work yet again Rawson. Tell me, are you natrurally this talented or is it something they put in the water over in Copenhagen?

It's certainly the water here. You should have picked some up when you were visiting!

neil101 wrote:Great freehand work mate on all of the markings , the barrel turned out pretty cool too.

Thanks, mate!

butchyboy73 wrote:Now too the weathering!!

Viktor von Domm wrote:personaly i would skip the weathering... i like the tank more not weathered...there has to be a regiment of IG that has not totally downtrodden tanks to fill their ranks...

butchyboy73 wrote:you gotta have weathering, Viktor, otherwise they will look like toys. Weathering gives them personality, makes them more realistic. By weathering we're not talking great clumps of mud, tree branches jammed in the tracks etc etc. Some dusting on the tracks, a few scuff marks on areas where the crew access and exit the vehicles, exhaust fume markings, fuel and oli stains can lift a model from the mundane to the magical. The important thing is to do it good, not to go overboard as some folk do. Often it's a case of less is more. Anyway, I'm sure what ever Rawson does we're all agreed that his LRBT's look great

Viktor von Domm wrote:when you describe weathering under such parameters...i am in^^, and yep... most folks do the other kind...

I'm glad you guys sorted this out for me

Isnt that what we are for?

Yes, this is a free service!

Just looked through the thread - great work on a cool themed army - and nice meeting you IRL at Emperors Pride today.

My berzerkers are looking forward to collecting some russian skulls.

GuitaRasmus wrote:Just looked through the thread - great work on a cool themed army - and nice meeting you IRL at Emperors Pride today.

My berzerkers are looking forward to collecting some russian skulls.

Thanks, Rasmus! And same to you! But watch out for these Vostroyans; the Firstborn don't mess around

they dont mess, untill you de head them and take their red away....

what is that pistol made of? its epic

thank you sir, hmm let me think this was quite a while ago.... it was the original boltpistol on the model, with missile launche front end, and some sort of heavy bolter front bit. Now let us not clogg up Rawsons thread, why dont you come down and look at mine! (:

I like the unit designation on the LR. Great work on this project all the way through so far.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I like the unit designation on the LR. Great work on this project all the way through so far.

I appreciate that, Skalk. Every project needs morale support

I think it needs more rivets though.

Skalk Bloodaxe wrote:I think it needs more rivets though.

Now that sounds like an application to the =]_,=

No. No no no. I was actually disqualified when I shelved my terrain project to get working on my Death Guard again.

The terrain project will pick up again once I get a couple Imperial Bastions I'm looking at on eBay, and yes I'll add some rivets for effect, but I doubt I'll ever truly qualify for the LoER.

So here's what I've been up to the last two nights:

Last night: Finishing up detailing on the LRBT while watching Saving Private Ryan (my movie pick)
Tonight: Add some weathering to the LRBT while watching She's Out of Control (wife's pick)

I tried to focus the weathering on a few paint chips and moving parts. I'm okay with the sponson weathering, but I'm not thrilled, so if you have some ideas, let me know.


Here's the turret


The lenses and the only crazy weathering that I did. After watching Saving Private Ryan and seeing how the tanks were rolling around, I figured the bottoms of these babies would be totally busted looking! I hope it's not too much for you, Vik!


Thoughts, comments, critiques, ideas, suggestions, rants, raves, or praise?

Thanks for looking!
Rawson

the turret weathering is top notch... not even me could find something to pick upon^^

i see your point with the bottoms... but it is a bit too much for my taste there... maybe if you had done the scratches in a thinner sawlike structure...but i am a noob when it comes to weathering...an afraid noob at that too... so i am not the utmost authority here^^
also the sponson weatehring is a bit too ...well shiny...i think a draker maybe even a more rusty look added to those scratches would help...


by the way... when i see the opening sequence of saving privat ryan...i am still flinching... when you had a gun in your hand i think seeing all those young guys get litterally mowed down is something you see differently about...

and nice to be kept on the informed side with your wife and



vik

damn rawson, i think this might be your best model to date! paint wise its just darn awsome man, nice job!

I like where it is going but will there be a small amount of dust and dirt on the bottom?

Rawson wrote:So here's what I've been up to the last two nights:

Last night: Finishing up detailing on the LRBT while watching Saving Private Ryan (my movie pick)
Tonight: Add some weathering to the LRBT while watching She's Out of Control (wife's pick)

I tried to focus the weathering on a few paint chips and moving parts. I'm okay with the sponson weathering, but I'm not thrilled, so if you have some ideas, let me know.


Here's the turret


The lenses and the only crazy weathering that I did. After watching Saving Private Ryan and seeing how the tanks were rolling around, I figured the bottoms of these babies would be totally busted looking! I hope it's not too much for you, Vik!


Thoughts, comments, critiques, ideas, suggestions, rants, raves, or praise?

Thanks for looking!
Rawson

<GULPS!> My tuppence worth: I think (and you'll excuse me here I'm sure, I'm just back from the pub after having a few Nookie Broons and a couple of malt whiskies to celebrate my missus accepting my proposal of marriage <dim glint of a tear in the corner of my eye>...erm, where was I?) oh yeah, weathering; you have two fantastic looking LRBT's here and they will grace any battle ground they appear on (and hopefully pulverise the enemy too) and you can leave them the way they are. However, if you really want to weather them so they have a more "realistic" look then I would suggest looking at photos of real AFV's in action, preferably ones serving in a comparable combat zone to the one you envisage you're LRBT's in; for instance if you see them fighting in a hot, arid desert look at AFV's that serve in a similar climate. Wind, sand and small stones will do most of the weathering in this case. These elements there will affect the surfaces in a different way from a jungle enviroment or even a temperate zone would.......I'm burbling here, aren't I? In a nutshell, washes for depth, drybrushing for definition: I would drybrush the LRBT's then apply washes around the fuel tanks, engine louvres and any where else that might receive greasing and/or oiling. Next I would mix some washes of matt varnish with a sandy colour (alternatively you could use pastel chalk dust rbrushed into the recesses and then spray matt varnish over them. The chalks will end up slighlty darker but the varnish will hold them in place) and put this in the recesses of your tracks etc to give them some definition. And finally around the hatches, engine louvres and points where the crew might climb onto the vehicle I would dry brush some bolt gun metal. But not a lot Finally, irrelevant of which course you choose, I would open a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale and, after taking a sip and patting myself on the back, I would say "Well done Rawson, they look great"

congrats butchboy!

Viktor von Domm wrote:the turret weathering is top notch... not even me could find something to pick upon^^

i see your point with the bottoms... but it is a bit too much for my taste there... maybe if you had done the scratches in a thinner sawlike structure...but i am a noob when it comes to weathering...an afraid noob at that too... so i am not the utmost authority here^^
also the sponson weatehring is a bit too ...well shiny...i think a draker maybe even a more rusty look added to those scratches would help...

Thanks for the compliments and CC. I agree, a bit too shiny. I think I'll play around with some washes at some point...

Viktor von Domm wrote:by the way... when i see the opening sequence of saving privat ryan...i am still flinching... when you had a gun in your hand i think seeing all those young guys get litterally mowed down is something you see differently about...

I'm sure it does. We just had Veterans' Day in the States. Do you have something similar in Germany?

Viktor von Domm wrote:and nice to be kept on the informed side with your wife and

Will do!

Rogue Wolves wrote:damn rawson, i think this might be your best model to date! paint wise its just darn awsome man, nice job!

Thanks, RW!

Capitansolstice wrote:I like where it is going but will there be a small amount of dust and dirt on the bottom?

I've thought of that as well. I'm thinking that the Vostroyans take pretty good care of their tanks, so no rust. And the way I was basing the troops was with sand the same color as the tanks, so I don't think the dirt would really show up...

butchyboy73 wrote: My tuppence worth: weathering; you have two fantastic looking LRBT's here and they will grace any battle ground they appear on (and hopefully pulverise the enemy too) and you can leave them the way they are. However, if you really want to weather them so they have a more "realistic" look then I would suggest looking at photos of real AFV's in action, preferably ones serving in a comparable combat zone to the one you envisage you're LRBT's in; for instance if you see them fighting in a hot, arid desert look at AFV's that serve in a similar climate. Wind, sand and small stones will do most of the weathering in this case. These elements there will affect the surfaces in a different way from a jungle enviroment or even a temperate zone would.......I'm burbling here, aren't I? In a nutshell, washes for depth, drybrushing for definition: I would drybrush the LRBT's then apply washes around the fuel tanks, engine louvres and any where else that might receive greasing and/or oiling. Next I would mix some washes of matt varnish with a sandy colour (alternatively you could use pastel chalk dust rbrushed into the recesses and then spray matt varnish over them. The chalks will end up slighlty darker but the varnish will hold them in place) and put this in the recesses of your tracks etc to give them some definition. And finally around the hatches, engine louvres and points where the crew might climb onto the vehicle I would dry brush some bolt gun metal. But not a lot

Wow, a lot of ideas here for a guy that had a few I think I'll probably put this one aside for the moment (as her twin needs some lovin now, as well as the rest of the 104th ) but I have a feeling that I'll be revisiting these ideas once I get the whole 104th up to tabletop standards.

butchyboy73 wrote:I'm just back from the pub after having a few Nookie Broons and a couple of malt whiskies to celebrate my missus accepting my proposal of marriage <dim glint of a tear in the corner of my eye>...

Well, I'll cheers a Newcastle Brown to that! Congradulations, my friend!

Thanks everyone for the compliments and CC!
Rawson