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Beautiful. I'm now wanting an airbrush but my own style wouldn't mesh well enough with it!

get the model air paints

Whoa, that command rhino is looking really beefy and really awesome. Love the use of all the kits, and I must say that's gotta be one of the most monetarily expensive rhinos I've ever seen, haha. Definitely looking forward to seeing that finished.

MakeH wrote:Rhino looks really cool, although the dozer blade looks a bit wonky 0o

Yeah, it is quite a bit different from the standard dozer blades. It's magnetized though so it'll be easily removeable once painted.

Gitsplitta wrote:Your airbrushing just looks so effortless Egg... makes me want to bang my head against the wall.

OH, and i wanted to thank you for the inspiration you provide with your fine work. I've been painting my 2 LS Storms and the airbrushing technique I used on them, which worked quite well... was inspired by your speeders. It's not the same approach as yours... but something about your technique flipped a switch in my head and the end result was a couple of nice looking vehicles.

Thanks man! You're a real asset to the Dakka community. Please keep the parade of awesomeness coming!

Thanks Gits! Always happy to hear people are getting something from my hobby log.

DarkStarSabre wrote:Beautiful. I'm now wanting an airbrush but my own style wouldn't mesh well enough with it!

Thanks. Airbrushing does produce a pretty distinct look that does set it apart from hand painted stuff. I know what you mean about it not meshing with other methods. Airbrushing doesn't have to be for the whole model though as you can always use it to just shade your metallics or other smaller pieces.

Miss Dee wrote:get the model air paints

Huh?

Zefig wrote:Whoa, that command rhino is looking really beefy and really awesome. Love the use of all the kits, and I must say that's gotta be one of the most monetarily expensive rhinos I've ever seen, haha. Definitely looking forward to seeing that finished.

Thanks, and yes, the rhino is expensive once you add up the price of all the different kits. Originally I had planned to use them separately as I have two unbuilt rhino chasis but since it was going to be a command rhino, I figured I needed to beef it up with armor and all that.

Miss Dee wrote:get the model air paints

The model air range is a bit limited for fantasy and "more vibrant" models. They are good paints though.

MakeH wrote:

Miss Dee wrote:get the model air paints

The model air range is a bit limited for fantasy and "more vibrant" models. They are good paints though.

Yeah I have some model air paints. My confusion was the context in which it was brought up.

It was a bit random to say the least. But anyway, what ever paint gives you the results you are showing us, keep using it!!

Not checked up on your thread in a while and there are some lovely additions

So with the Red spray can base coat you then add a top highlight to the rest of the model, how do you shade the really dark red/black onto the moddle? How do you know where to place the shade?

Also are there any edge highlights?

Really stunning work Eggroll.

Are those all Space Hulk Termies, or a mixture?

The Rhino is looking really cool – very original conversion, which is one of the things I love about this thread

The thing I'm looking forward to seeing most though is the Storm Speeder... did you glue the top part on yet? If so it might be tricky getting to the cockpit controls and stuff..!

Egg, your work is as always, amazing. Looking forward to the termies being done.

I like the (what I assume) Extra Armor Damocles Rhino using the SoB kit. Like it so much, it will get copied at some point.

Loving the airbrushing as always! Command rhino look super cool, some of those FW bits I had forgotten about, can't wait to see it painted!

Eggroll wrote:

MakeH wrote:

Miss Dee wrote:get the model air paints

The model air range is a bit limited for fantasy and "more vibrant" models. They are good paints though.

Yeah I have some model air paints. My confusion was the context in which it was brought up.

I was a few days after op.

Nice SH termies!

HAZZER

Thamor wrote:Not checked up on your thread in a while and there are some lovely additions

So with the Red spray can base coat you then add a top highlight to the rest of the model, how do you shade the really dark red/black onto the moddle? How do you know where to place the shade?

Also are there any edge highlights?

Really stunning work Eggroll.

Thanks. I shade it with the airbrush. It provides all the blendings necessary. Placing the shade comes with experience and understanding of how light and shadows work on a model. Easiest way to start out is just working with zenithal lighting techniques. After that, once you're more comfortable on highlight/shadow placement you can do more colour modulation techniques. Zenithal lighting is the most realistic but for small miniature models, it doesn't always look the best. For edge highlights, I'm on the fence about it...did it on some models and avoided on others. I'm thinking about only doing it for the death company and chaplains for now.

LutherMax wrote:Are those all Space Hulk Termies, or a mixture?

The Rhino is looking really cool – very original conversion, which is one of the things I love about this thread

The thing I'm looking forward to seeing most though is the Storm Speeder... did you glue the top part on yet? If so it might be tricky getting to the cockpit controls and stuff..!

Thanks Luther. It's all Space Hulk for now except on SH terminator has a cyclone missile launcher attached. Got some normal terminators in box still waiting for assembly for later on.
For the Land Speeder Storm I've unfortunately glued it all down. Least the scouts are not glued in place. I'll figure out how I'm going to go about painting the interior once I get to the model.

Gundor wrote:Egg, your work is as always, amazing. Looking forward to the termies being done.

Thanks Gundor.

whalemusic360 wrote:I like the (what I assume) Extra Armor Damocles Rhino using the SoB kit. Like it so much, it will get copied at some point.

Thanks, it's just the normal predator extra armor actually. Got the idea for the extra armor, damocles and sob kit from another hobby log I saw some time ago so feel free to copy it

Commander Cain wrote:Loving the airbrushing as always! Command rhino look super cool, some of those FW bits I had forgotten about, can't wait to see it painted!

Thanks Commander Cain!

HAZZER wrote:Nice SH termies!

HAZZER

Thanks Hazzer.

Egg man I love those Space Hulk termies and regret not buying ot when it came out !
Man I know they will turn out beautiful as usual but the anticipation of waiting for you to complete this squad is like waiting for the next episode of your favorite show .
Can't wait!!

GreyDeathOne wrote:Egg man I love those Space Hulk termies and regret not buying ot when it came out !
Man I know they will turn out beautiful as usual but the anticipation of waiting for you to complete this squad is like waiting for the next episode of your favorite show .
Can't wait!!

Thanks Grey. I never got it when it was released either and passed on a few opportunities to buy it for awhile. I did pick up some individual models (at a premium) from eBay and MajorTom sent me two from his collection to paint up. Eventually, found a person local to me that was selling two sealed copies of the game for original retail price so I bought one! Lucky I got it since he sold the other one as well a few days later.

Progress on these guys have been slow though. I'm still putting down black paint on all the details of the models at the moment and my pace is about a model per day. Only got two of them done at the moment...will be awhile before they're all done.

On that subject how do you get the black paint into all the little cracks and crevices? Do you thin it a lot to get it to run in there and dab it off if it gets on the flat surfaces?

LutherMax wrote:On that subject how do you get the black paint into all the little cracks and crevices? Do you thin it a lot to get it to run in there and dab it off if it gets on the flat surfaces?

Windsor & Newton Series 7 paintbrush and a steady hand. No cleanup necessary. Just takes time

Eggy hey you going to get this for your army

GreyDeathOne wrote:Eggy hey you going to get this for your army

Interesting, it might make somewhat of a decent Sanguinius although I think he's suppose to have a spear instead of a sword? I'm on the fence for this model at the moment, most of the parts look cool but that sword hilt is just weird and the cup is a bit strange looking too...

No, it's a sword he is typically depicted with. There is a better Sanguinius model available though dude, much much better than that one... eBay is your friend...

MajorTom is right ebay should be your freind just beware of ordering from Russia, things shipped from there tend to take a lil longer to get where they are heading.

MajorTom11 wrote:No, it's a sword he is typically depicted with. There is a better Sanguinius model available though dude, much much better than that one... eBay is your friend...

Mmmm ebay I gotta check it out! Hey MajorTom do you have a link of the model your talking about?

He might mean this one?

^^ looks pretty cool but not sure about the face. Maybe only the Emperor can love it?

Slight derail for which I apologise but just wanted to say when I read through this thread in its entirety I was particularly inspired by one of your Dreads – the one with the Libby weapon and tactical kit cyborg head. So much so I had to build one of mine own. Results here.

MajorTom11 wrote:No, it's a sword he is typically depicted with. There is a better Sanguinius model available though dude, much much better than that one... eBay is your friend...

Ah, yeah I've seen a couple of variations on Sanguinius on eBay, CoolMiniorNot but honestly, haven't really been impressed by any of them. Now if only Forgeworld would do a whole lineup of Primarchs I would buy them all in a heartbeat - even if they charged ridiculous prices too.

LutherMax wrote:^^ looks pretty cool but not sure about the face. Maybe only the Emperor can love it?

Slight derail for which I apologise but just wanted to say when I read through this thread in its entirety I was particularly inspired by one of your Dreads – the one with the Libby weapon and tactical kit cyborg head. So much so I had to build one of mine own. Results here.

Nice job on the dread Luther

Eggroll wrote:

MajorTom11 wrote:No, it's a sword he is typically depicted with. There is a better Sanguinius model available though dude, much much better than that one... eBay is your friend...

Ah, yeah I've seen a couple of variations on Sanguinius on eBay, CoolMiniorNot but honestly, haven't really been impressed by any of them. Now if only Forgeworld would do a whole lineup of Primarchs I would buy them all in a heartbeat - even if they charged ridiculous prices too.

Love the work Egg and amen to that brother.

Forgeworld could make a lot of things to take our cash, beause they make such damn cool stuff.

Need some more pics egg. Beautiful work as always.

Gundor wrote:Need some more pics egg. Beautiful work as always.

Thanks, pics will be coming soon in a week or so. Been too busy lately with school and work to do much painting but stay tuned.