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Made in us
Questioning Maelstrom Believer






I only recently discovered Maelstrom's Edge, but it didn't take long to sell me on the game. Thanks to the extensively descriptive gameplay examples, sprue breakdowns, and the awesome Let's Play recently done for the game, I sold a friend of mine on splitting a core box (And have since ordered myself a second box)

Assembly on these guys was a breeze! Mold lines are minimal and customization is high, just how I like it!

Anyway, I thought I'd share my progress in the game here as I paint up first my Epirians and then my Karists. I'll also take the time to post some battle reports as I get in games with friends!

To start us off, my Epirian forces assembled and based:



Whole army shot as of yesterday, still VERY MUCH WIP for everyone but the Contractors:



Epirian Contractors finished, might add some tufts but other than that...



And finally some Dig Site objective markers I put together for the missions that use them:



EDIT: Yeesh... for some reason the thumbnails on these look blurry. If you click on them and zoom even a tiny bit they clear up.

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Made in au
[MOD]
Making Stuff






Under the couch

Off to a great start!

The contractors look great, and the drones with the yellow accents are really striking.

 
   
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Sure Shot Scarecrow Sniper






Yeah, inspiring stuff there, keep it up

   
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[DCM]
Dankhold Troggoth






Shadeglass Maze

Whoa, I am really impressed by the contractors! I assume they started out just like the rest? Is it mostly toning down the base colors with a wash and then adding highlighting? Would love a brief description of how you're painting them

Tvayumat wrote:
EDIT: Yeesh... for some reason the thumbnails on these look blurry. If you click on them and zoom even a tiny bit they clear up.

Unfortunately, this is a known bug . I described it and my workaround here:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/634838.page

It is on legoburner (the site admin's) list to fix, I'm hoping soon as it also drives me crazy . In the meantime, a quick resize before uploading (and saving it as a .png to avoid loss of detail) works great!
   
Made in us
Questioning Maelstrom Believer






 RiTides wrote:
Whoa, I am really impressed by the contractors! I assume they started out just like the rest? Is it mostly toning down the base colors with a wash and then adding highlighting? Would love a brief description of how you're painting them


Thank you!

The basic process I'm using for pretty much all my purple is the same:

Vallejo Air Alien Purple
Army Painter Purple Tone
Highlight 70/30 VA Alien Purple/VA Warlord Purple (Alien is a bit pale, need a little extra vivid color in there)
1-2 highlights working up to VA Squid Pink for edges

I do it a little different every time, but it gives me a nice rich purple that I like so far. This is my basic process for MOST colors. Base, wash, base color again, highlight up to edges.


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After playing a few games with my wife (Who likes the Epirians as they remind her of Weyland-Yutani) I've started to become really attached to my Karist troopers.

After a particularly outstanding performance, I decided my Tempest Elites deserved a proper paint job:


Having received my Expansion Sprues, I realized that I lack the Karist Trooper sprues to make Praetorians, so I'm getting some more of those, but I DID have some extra Contractors and a Scarecrow, so I got to work making a Suppression Team:


And I started on a Scarecrow idea I had for a Bot Handler's personal Scarecrow, figuring the guy probably likes to snipe the old fashioned way:

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Made in us
Questioning Maelstrom Believer






Aaaand a few more Karists to herald the ascension:










   
Made in nl
Sure Shot Scarecrow Sniper






Amazing stuff!

   
Made in au
Dipping With Wood Stain






The paintjob on those karists looks great! I love the crystal glow

Also something about those dig site objectives really floats my boat, terrific work!

 
   
Made in au
[MOD]
Making Stuff






Under the couch

Yup, shaping up into a really lovely force.

 
   
Made in us
Stoic Grail Knight





Raleigh, NC

Really liking the glowing green crystals, look like Tiberium, giving them overall a nice C&C look
   
Made in us
Questioning Maelstrom Believer






 Accolade wrote:
Really liking the glowing green crystals, look like Tiberium, giving them overall a nice C&C look


After I did the first of them, I realized how much like Tiberium it looked, and that immediately decided it for me: All the cloth parts HAVE to be red.

I mean... a fanatical militaristic cult centralized around a prophet or prophets who worship a universal resource that also happens to be extremely dangerous? Karists may as well be NOD.



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Made in us
Questioning Maelstrom Believer






So, I did a thing...



Inspired directly by


Aaaand some WIP shots to chart my progress stumbling through sculpting most of a figure using GS. The final product is pretty rough but very striking at 3-4 feet away, at least!












   
Made in au
[MOD]
Making Stuff






Under the couch

Looks great!

 
   
Made in us
[DCM]
Sentient OverBear






Clearwater, FL

Love it!

DQ:70S++G+++M+B++I+Pw40k94+ID+++A++/sWD178R+++T(I)DM+++

Trust me, no matter what damage they have the potential to do, single-shot weapons always flatter to deceive in 40k.                                                                                                       Rule #1
- BBAP

 
   
Made in nl
Sure Shot Scarecrow Sniper






Yeah that's very cool! I need to build me one with wings too...

   
Made in gb
Hulking Hunter-class Warmech





Bristol, England

That's totally awesome and really fits what I had in my head when writing Wynn's first encounter with a winged Angel.

Read the first two novels in the Maelstrom's Edge Universe now:

Maelstrom's Edge: Faith - read a sample here!

and

Maelstrom's Edge: Sacrifice 
   
 
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