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If your careful enough, and you have enough covers, you could probably airbrush it.

I can see the green now. It is incredibly subtle, but it looks good. I'm sure once everything together it'll provide a nice trick of the light to give the model that little extra.

Did you use Sepia inside eyes of the skull?

@SL: Ask and ye shall receive. Looks like I need to sharpen up the lines where the skull cap meets the skull. Over lunch I need to go out and get a better lamp... my main lamp died and I've been limping along with the little desk lamp from Thing 1's room. Not a very good substitute. Oh, and I lost a lens out of my glasses on vacation which also doesn't help. So... consider this a paint job by someone half-blind.



@CaptainS: Have another idea for the weapon that won't need airbrushing. Hopefully my wet blending skills aren't too out of trim.

@ChemCutt: Thanks! It really does depend on the light and the angle you look at the figure from, which is exactly what I was aiming for.

@Cutthroatcure: Yes, sepia wash, then a light black wash in the eye sockets and nose of the helmet. On the big skull on his shoulder I just used sepia, though the darker areas were actually painted darker to begin with.

I am the Doctor, and I wear a Fez now.

It's worth noting that I did just try to fix the messy areas at the top of the face plate and I can't even *see* them IRL (not even with my higher-powered optivisor). God I hate getting old...

Nice work on the Chaplain Gits', the black looks really good.

dsteingass wrote:I am the Doctor, and I wear a Fez now.

Have you eurned your Sonic Screwdriver?

Wow! It's looking ace Gits! I'm looking forward to how you tackle the axe. It will hopefully give me ideas for painting power weapons in the future.

And I hope you get your glasses fixed!

Anyway, next update should be interesting and good luck!

I thought I recognized how you painted your skulls! Good Technique!

Thanks. Looks great. Maybe a little red dot in the center if the eyes. ( from a man who can't paint eyes at all)

This just makes me want to paint up a Chaplain now... But I don't think I have any... I'll have to assault the bits box when I get home.

I like the axe, it looks like the handle is wrapped in very very fine chain.

GS: Glad you like it. It won't be one of my standard paint jobs for a power weapon... I hope you like it still but it's going to be in the very experimental range, and like so many other things with this figure... subtle. Painting power weapons with an AB is insanely easy. Painting them without is something I never mastered... which is why I'm taking this in a bit different direction.

@ChemCutt: I didn't have any chaplains either... just made this one out of bits... though the helmet and pad were special orders (and I snagged the axe off e-bay a while ago). I've almost gotten to where I'd rather build my own representations of characters than actually use the real figures. I need to make a Tycho for Adepticon and I'm seriously considering just building it myself from scratch.

Yep... that it (the axe handle) does. I did my dakka avatar figure the same way, actually wrapping a small chain around the staff of his grabba-stick in order to get the same effect. Looks cool in both instances.

chaplin is looking very cool indeed, can't wait to see what you do on the wings

Figure's basically done. Just waiting on a decision by GS on a detail.

This is really impressive keep it up!

wowzerz. I've seen your army in the gallery and loved it, nice to see some WIP shots! The dual-chainsword marine is great, I totally saw the rage boiling out of him. I guess the height thing would cause problems in actual play but those big rock base sure look great. Thanks for the inspiration!

@Farsight: Thanks! Love to see a new face on the blog!

@Scambone: My pleasure Scambone, and thanks for commenting. More to come... actually directly to the point...


Can't let any moss grow under my feet, so as I await the settlement of the last detail on the chappy, I did the build for Knightley's assault marine. He wanted something with 2 CCWs, so I cranked up another double chainsword marine (they just look so impressive). The aim of this pose was to catch him at that moment in time just before he leaps to the attack. One sword is up for defense and as an obvious attention getter, the other is somewhat "hidden" down low so his attacking stroke is harder to detect and counter. So the slight crouch and lean forward is specific to that instant just before he dives into action. Hope you guys like it!



And with the painting process begun:

Yes Git, that's the way!
Like the Chap a lot, well done

The cappy loos great gits! Love him man! The new dude you have started also looks kinda nice too!

Gitsplitta... I approve! Are you going to be attempting any hard-edging on the black?

I like the way the old school head looks on the newer bodies!

@Selvaggio: Thanks mate! Gotta keep crankin' em out... at least until Adepticon, then I can take a break.

@Haz: Thank you Haz!

@GS: Glad you do. I've been milling that over and I do think I'll do some edge highlighting on him. It makes such a huge difference at tabletop viewing distance it's hard to pass up. Like the rest, I think I'll do it a bit more subtly... rather than highlighting all the edges and seems, just to those hard up towards the light. I build the Mantis wings this morning too. It's only my second time using them so I'm still learning how best to assemble them. Think I had an epiphany that will help in this and future projects.

@WM: Yeah, know what you mean. Another big issue us that no modern heads can be put in the "looking up" position because of the neck arrangement and the flat bottom helmets. With this assault marine's leaning forward position, I had to go to an older head which doesn't have a neck, just a round helmet bottom... in order to get the angle on the helmet that would match the rest of the figure.

Going to touch up the airbrushing on the assault marine a bit, he needs to be darker in shade from underneath. Then I'll get his lining done. Have to paint the wings for the chappy. That will present some challenges as I don't know where my transparent wing designs are (i.e. the plastic sheets with the wing vein designs printed on them). Should be a lot of airbrushing action today followed by some mind-numbingly boring brush and pen work (lining, etc.).

I wish I had the time this weekend to paint, but I a currently doing a drug study to raise some extra funds...I totally agree with keeping on top of painting as not to fall behind.

I like the finished chappy, seems like an epic piece for your current force!

Nice! Yeah, I have taken to doing subtle hard-edging on black, and it does make a huge difference!

I am still to get to the assembling stage of the MW parts I received. Actually, I have some spare time now, I may start painting the parts. I'll be pinning the arms and jump-pack!

GS: Here's a shot of how I'm going to fit the wings on your chappy. I actually filed away the veins on the lower wing just where the upper wing would overlap so the two would fit fight together. Also clipped off the pivot point on the lower wings for the same reason. Final adjustment was to clip the pivot point off at an angle so it fits snugly up against the body of the sanguinary pack. This should just look like the pivot disappears into the pack as opposed to something being cut up.



Hope this helps.

Dude I love the skanking assault marine!

Oh! at first I was like "what?!" but then when you described the pose I was like "Dang!!"

Like the wings idea gits!

@JC: Thanks man!

@CapitainSol: Yeah, I see some of these poses in my head... where' they're quite natural & fluid with the action, then I have to interpret them within the limitations of the bits and my ability to modify them... which doesn't always come out as natural as the image in my head. Putting them in the right context though usually squares things away quite nicely. I actually really like the tension, right before action. It's where all the psychology and mind games in a fight happen. Ice's fiction about his Ice Angels does that well. Most of my little stories don't involve action at all, but they do involve tension and conflict. I think this comes out in a lot of my figures... either in the tense moments before action... or in the first few moments of an action (leaping, etc.). Two-stick gives some interesting options for developing the figure's narrative that you don't usually get in a 40k figure.

@Haz: Thanks Haz, but that bit of brilliance was really due to BLACKHAND, and was the "modern" MW helmets you see me use on occasion. I'm just trying to figure out how best to put the pieces together.


Well, airbrushing is done. Expect some more pics (of both projects) later this afternoon (CST).