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monkeyh wrote:Leaping with knives is good.

Until you fall

Looking good so far. Poses are very dynamic. Great use of the Venom Wyche's legs, she looks like she just landed after a leap.

Bonus points for making an all girl squad.

Truly brilliant painting. Love the color scheme and the weathering is stunning.

I like the poses. Very dynamic. One of my Hekatrices (sp?) was built using one of my leftover scourge legs, so the leaping off the rock part was done for me

Looking beautiful. I especailly like those ones that seem to be leaping into the fray. The pose seems very charateristic of a wych, that she is diving headlong into battle as if she cant wait to get there. looking forward to seem these all painted up. keep up the magnificent work

I was having a hard time deciding how to paint the Razorwing. I wasn't initially going to paint the blades on the wings bronze because I thought it would make the model look too heavy in the back. But doing some research online I found that I liked the Razorwings with different colored blades better than the mono color ones. The bronze also ties in better with my other vehicles, especially the Venoms. I then tried to lighten up the look of the fins by painting runes in silver on them. I actually spent a couple hours on that but then gave it up because it just looked like a mess. After that extended bit of trial and error, and a bit of alcohol to clean the attempts off the model, I've worked out a workable approach. The lighter bronze and silver streaks add texture and interest to the large flat area, making it look lighter by breaking up the solid block of color.

First the blade in context with the rest of the model:


Next a closeup of the wing:


@CommissarKhaine: Feel free to drop by anytime!

@MudgeBlack: Thanks, I think that the color scheme only actually works because of the weathering! Take that away and it looks way to bright!

@monkeyh and Capitansolstice: Now remember what your dear old Hekatrix told you when you were only a wee sadomasochistic killer, "Running around the Arena with Hydra-Knives is all fun and games until someone puts out an eye. Then it's fun and games with only one eye."

@BossSlurpee: I wish there were a few more arms in active stabbing poses, the only ones I could find came in the Venom kit.

Dark_Gear wrote:Looking good so far. Poses are very dynamic. Great use of the Venom Wyche's legs, she looks like she just landed after a leap. Bonus points for making an all girl squad.

I'm not a big fan of male Wyches. The Wyche outfit just looks better on female models. I'm not sure why I don't feel that way about male Hellions though.

Also previously from Dark_Gear,

Dark_Gear wrote:When getting ready for final assembly, you'll notice that the rear tail of the plane slides in perfectly into a set of narrow rails. The cool thing is, the fit is "just" snug enough that it won't slide out if it's not glued. Slot it in, don't glue it, paint your model. When the time comes to put it in storage, slide the tail off. You've just shaved 2 inches off the height of the model which means you don't need to invest in 6 inch foam trays as the 4 inch trays will fit it just fine. As a matter of fact, you can store 2 Razorwings in 1 single Razorwing box with no fear of damaging the models.

Great tip, I test fitted the Razorwing and will be building it like that!

spyguyyoda wrote:I like the poses. Very dynamic. One of my Hekatrices (sp?) was built using one of my leftover scourge legs, so the leaping off the rock part was done for me

Gah, I forgot about the Scourge legs! I'll be sure to remember to bitz order some if I build any more.

Oh man, that blue is so smooth I might cry.

The blue and the bronze both look beautiful even at these, your earliest stages of painting. Actually, i kinda want to know how the blue tastes... I bet it's refreshing like a blue slush puppie.


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...and crispy like smartie shells.

Mechanicum Jon wrote:
@monkeyh and Capitansolstice: Now remember what your dear old Hekatrix told you when you were only a wee sadomasochistic killer, "Running around the Arena with Hydra-Knives is all fun and games until someone puts out an eye. Then it's fun and games with only one eye."

I assume they've got the appropriate risk assessment paperwork in place for that process? (leaping with knives I mean)

That highlighted bronze looks really nice.

monkeyh wrote:

Mechanicum Jon wrote:
@monkeyh and Capitansolstice: Now remember what your dear old Hekatrix told you when you were only a wee sadomasochistic killer, "Running around the Arena with Hydra-Knives is all fun and games until someone puts out an eye. Then it's fun and games with only one eye."

I assume they've got the appropriate risk assessment paperwork in place for that process? (leaping with knives I mean)

That highlighted bronze looks really nice.

We're working on it

Whew! So it took me ages to come up with rune/glyph designs I was willing to live with. It's tricky on the Razorwing because although there are a lot of flat surfaces, the patterns have to fit in with the overall aerodynamic swooping lines of the model. I ended up drawing a to scale wing on a piece of paper and photocopying it so that I could try out various designs. This was after a failed attempt at "winging" it freehand like I've done with my Raiders. I'm quite satisfied with the final design. Especially the design on the wing which I intended to roughly symbolize the three types of missile on a weapons rack. I don't think that the rust shows up very well in these photos but I did it with my usual technique, except with more streaks to show the speed of the plane.



@LostSoulCasey'sLaw: My Kabalites only eat blue Smarties. That's what they need all those prisoners for.

On an unrelated note, I accomplished my most successful shock prow tank shock during a recent game. My friend had three bike squads lined up in range of a tank shock but the only way I could hit them was to go through three meltagunners (one for each squad). I tried it for a laugh. It worked.

The first squad's meltagun pens, but gets saved by the flickerfield and dies. The second squad fails it's leadership test and runs off the board (Sargent with Combi-melta, two meltagunners, one normal biker and a Multi-Melta attack bike). The last squad's meltagunner pens and I fail the flickerfield save. He rolls a 1 for damage result. Weapon destroyed. That meltagunner dies as well. I told my friend it was payback for an earlier game where the only thing I killed of his the whole game was a Psyker Battle Squad.

The razorwing is just... incredible, the freehand design is completely brilliant.

Hats of to Jon, job well done!

Mechanicum Jon wrote: On an unrelated note, I accomplished my most successful shock prow tank shock during a recent game. My friend had three bike squads lined up in range of a tank shock but the only way I could hit them was to go through three meltagunners (one for each squad). I tried it for a laugh. It worked.

The first squad's meltagun pens, but gets saved by the flickerfield and dies. The second squad fails it's leadership test and runs off the board (Sargent with Combi-melta, two meltagunners, one normal biker and a Multi-Melta attack bike). The last squad's meltagunner pens and I fail the flickerfield save. He rolls a 1 for damage result. Weapon destroyed. That meltagunner dies as well. I told my friend it was payback for an earlier game where the only thing I killed of his the whole game was a Psyker Battle Squad.

That is so Epic! That reminds me of an apocalypse game where I proceeded to make a Baneblade go nuclear with 1 broadside. I then was told I wouldn't be able to do it again. I almost succeed in making the second Baneblade go nuclear but wrecked it instead with one broadside. That's one thing that makes this game so much fun all the sure randomness and epicness you can do.

More sublime work Jon.

Just came across your blog today and I must say I'm very impressed. The colour scheme you've chosen for your DE works very well and all of the models are painted to an exceptional quality. How about a full army shot?

The glyphs are the epitomy of what makes your painting so amazing. They're not just cool squiggly lines, no, you actually thought about the glyhps would represent and thus they add that much more character to the Razorwing. Also, is it just me or are your edge highlights looker particular clean this time? Amazing work as always.

Keep the inspirational work coming.

One of my favorite things about P&M blogs is witnessing the progression of the ideas and skills of the author. It's amazing to be able to watch someone do good work, and then to see them get better at whatever it is that they do over time. With that in mind, the razorwing is fantastic. Please keep up the work

Very well said Prime. Going back to the start of this blog it's almost funny to read about John's original trepidation uncertainty, yet here now, awed by a speed and quality that is born wholly out of being confident in an established and practiced scheme.

@Eggroll: There's a full army photo somewhere in the middle of the thread when I just barely hit 2000 points. I've probably got about 2600 now and I'll see about taking another full army photo soon.

Thanks for the kind words guys! But Dark_Gear's comment:

Dark_Gear wrote:Very well said Prime. Going back to the start of this blog it's almost funny to read about John's original trepidation uncertainty, yet here now, awed by a speed and quality that is born wholly out of being confident in an established and practiced scheme.

brought to mind the image of myself casually making completed models appear with a gentle sweep of my arm, and snorting out the odd Razorwing or two when I sneezed. That's a minor superpower I'd like to have. Minus the sneezing bit. That would hurt.

And what you described there (the painful sneezing of a Razorwing) reminded me of the scene in Total Recall when Ah-nold pulls out a golf ball sized location beacon out of his nose. Ouch!

Still, beautiful razorwings in exchange for killer nosebleeds seems like close to an even tradeoff

Beautiful razorwing
Look forward to a rematch next time I'm in town

Lol! If you can snort the odd razor wing out, then I'd like the same power, then if I squeeze hard maybe I can get a few few Landraiders out of my A***! Have to be Nurgle ones of course

monkeyh wrote:Lol! If you can snort the odd razor wing out, then I'd like the same power, then if I squeeze hard maybe I can get a few few Landraiders out of my A***! Have to be Nurgle ones of course

Ew...how did they get there

Begel Dverl wrote:

monkeyh wrote:Lol! If you can snort the odd razor wing out, then I'd like the same power, then if I squeeze hard maybe I can get a few few Landraiders out of my A***! Have to be Nurgle ones of course

Ew...how did they get there

I eat sprue.

Here's the jetfighter running pre-flight checks, awaiting it's missile load-out. I'm thinking 2x Mono-scythe and 2x Necrotoxin. I've rolled out my usual Milliput pancakes for the flying base but they're going to need to dry out overnight before I can start work on the base.

Also, I just found out today that my couch is a tolerable spot for photographing large models.

lol nice couch :p

Someone who doesn't just paint over the canopy. O:

CalasTyphon216 wrote:lol nice couch :p

Yeah, you must not have any cats. Trust me, I've seen so much furniture ruined by them, even when declawed, they find a way to get the job done with the back claws.

By the way, I've always wondered how you do the weathering.

Very nice!

As far as the missiles go, I don't really think that the alternate missiles are better enough than the standard ones that I would pay points for them.