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I don't have a whole lot to say about this other than I had a great time building and painting it. If you want to see the step-by-step pics check out my blog here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/625088.page







Let me know what you think!

Nicely weathered, looks like it's had a hard campaign. You don't often see Cadian vehicles like that. Love the stowage as well.

The weathering and stowage look very realistic. Well done!

Love it! I really enjoy the mud streaked shovel on the back of the turret. Great touch.

Very nice work !! Love the weathering . Great job tread head !

Thanks guys!

Very fine work - will look great on the table.

Part of an army?

Thanks, and yep! It's part of my Cadians, which are just shy of my 1000 point goal now.

Really nice job on the weathering. It has a lot of realism to it. I do think the eyes on the guardsman look a little cartoony, though, and this kind of breaks the realism of the piece a bit. Still looks great, though!

Thanks! I might paint back over them and just leave them shaded in instead. I'm not very good at doing eyes, I mostly just do the " cat eye " method I believe its called, but even then it doesn't turn out so great.

Looks like the tank commander is giving someone the what for! Great looking kit!

Man, tips on to weather like that? Looks fantastic.

For the shading did you just get into the crevices with a citadel wash as well?

Good job. Although I'm simply in love with the fact that you're using a Vanquisher. Not many out and about these days.

Thanks everyone!

The weathering is very simple, I actually just followed GW's videos, but my exact method is like so:

First thing I do is chipping with a sponge. I used Rhinox Hide to basically serve as splattered dirt and light scratches and what not, this part probably isn't 100% necessary as most of it becomes hidden by the mud and grime later on.

After that's done, I move on to using Ironbreaker for the parts of the paint/primer that have been chipped down to the bare metal of the tank. I apply it sporadically around the tank, mainly focusing on the edges where it would be scraped and scratched the most.

Once I'm done with Ironbreaker, I do the same thing with Runefang Steel, but with a slightly lighter passover, mostly to serve as a light highlight.

Now the chipping is finished, so I move on to doing all the grime, and this is just painfully simple. I use GW's Typhus Corrosion in just about every nook and cranny I feel like putting it in. I gob it on in some areas, where as others I simply use a fine point ( but old ) brush to create streaks where the grime has trickled down. As they say in the GW vid, you really have to be careful not to go overboard with this. I think I'm a little bit guilty of this myself, but I can't help it because it's so much fun.

Next up is the mud, which again I use GW's Stirland Mud texture paint for. I mainly just cake this on all over the tracks and bottom edges of the tank, where it would most likely gather, and in the case of this tank also the dozer blade.

Once I have the mud applied I just go over it ( and to a lesser extent, the whole model ) with Terminatus Stone.

After that it's pretty much all done. Sometimes I'll go back and clean up some spots where I went a little overboard, or add some Agrax Earthshade to help define an area a little more and maybe make it feel a bit more grimey too.

The Lascannon and Vanquisher Battle Cannon burn marks are a simple case of just drybrushing Rhinox Hide on until it builds up enough to look dark, and then doing a 1:1 mix of Rhinox Hide and Chaos Black leaving a third of the initial application visible, and then doing the same with just Chaos Black on the last third to make it look much darker towards the opening of the barrel.


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 BladeTX wrote:
Good job. Although I'm simply in love with the fact that you're using a Vanquisher. Not many out and about these days.

I flip flopped so much with what I wanted to build, until I finally decided that the Vanquisher would be a better choice to offer some strong anti-tank support for my army. I know I could just magnetize it, but I'm too lazy lol. I think he will eventually become an actual Tank Commander for my HQ once I can get another Leman Russ to accompany it. Currently, this is the only one I have.


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 ntdars wrote:
Man, tips on to weather like that? Looks fantastic.

For the shading did you just get into the crevices with a citadel wash as well?

Oh yeah forgot to mention that I did. I used Agrax Earthshade across every crevice and indentation on the model, watering it down as necessary in some places.

Thanks for the reply! I'll be giving it a try

I am a big fan of extra stowage myself and you did a great job on the weathering too.