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Nice to see some Badab war camo in circulation again! I can see why you're a bit unsure... the camo is going to be hard to see around all the bling!

Actually, 9th is pretty good. They also have a decent system for doing campaigns and keeping track of units/bonuses called Crusade. The book is a bit of a nightmare as the basics are scattered all over... but once you get used to it it's a pretty clean system.

endtransmission wrote:Nice to see some Badab war camo in circulation again! I can see why you're a bit unsure... the camo is going to be hard to see around all the bling!

thanks, yup that exactly the issue. i keep staring at them?! no progress

Gitsplitta wrote:Actually, 9th is pretty good. They also have a decent system for doing campaigns and keeping track of units/bonuses called Crusade. The book is a bit of a nightmare as the basics are scattered all over... but once you get used to it it's a pretty clean system.

My buddy bought the book and gave me a quick overview.. the only thing that's disappointing to me is that they dumped the templates... nothing was more funnerest then dropping a plate on a unit!

I did a few mock ups on some old shoulder pads.
First one is tiger stripes over the icons
Second is normal with battle damage no stripes
Third is clean with Icons blacked out





Let me know what you think before i tell you my thoughts

First or second look best IMO.

With the first one I think the iconography would still be visible, rather than painted over though so you'd be fairly close to the second anyway. Actually... hear me out... what about a 4th option where the tiger stripes are paint scratched off, like the battle damage?

I;m with Endtrans (I think). 1 but with the emblem painted up and everything weathered.

Middle looks best to me, but you could try running the tiger stripes under the icon…

endtransmission wrote:First or second look best IMO.
With the first one I think the iconography would still be visible, rather than painted over though so you'd be fairly close to the second anyway. Actually... hear me out... what about a 4th option where the tiger stripes are paint scratched off, like the battle damage?

To be honest when i did the stripes, I tried to do them like claw damage, but they turned out like that.

whalemusic360 wrote:I;m with Endtrans (I think). 1 but with the emblem painted up and everything weathered.

Hey Whale it's good to hear from you. What have you been up to? I'll give it a try but with out the chipping for now might be too much?

Arakasi wrote:Middle looks best to me, but you could try running the tiger stripes under the icon…

thanks will do

So I took the 1st one and painted the icon let me know if this is what you guys where thinking?



This kinda what i was thinking.... I try to paint the stripes underneath with the mutations and icons come out from it or on top. No idea how I'm gonna achieve this with the mutations... maybe some kind of blending

The way you have done it above will probably be the quickest and easiest. Blending is definitely an option if you go from a darker brown/pink/green all the way up to something lighter, doesn't necessarily matter if the stripes aren't pristine around mutations anyway.

Keep up the good work!

DaemonColin wrote:
The way you have done it above will probably be the quickest and easiest. Blending is definitely an option if you go from a darker brown/pink/green all the way up to something lighter, doesn't necessarily matter if the stripes aren't pristine around mutations anyway.

Keep up the good work!

Your prolly right I'm over thinking it

SO a rumour note:
I read the Red Corsairs will be getting a Legion Trait

Red Corsairs
"Advance and charge, models count as double for objectives (10+ wounds count as 5)
Doctrine (devastator) - Heavies, RF, Grenades get AP-1 better"

Dont know what that means yet but pretty excited - Pew pew

Liking that very much!

I think that was a good choice Styro.

So it took awhile but i finally got all the camo stripes on. it was kinda tedious.. I'm not sure if I'd do it again anywhoo let me know what you think



when taking the photo i thought i turned a few to see the leg stripes oh well

Pretty cool Styro. I think they're going to look great!

SO i have been tinkering away a few hours each weekend

Since my last post:

I painted the loin cloths black and highlighted with a blueish grey.

painted the bolters and some metal bits

Then i sprayed it Gloss coat

oil wash grime and cleaned it up

Satin coat (might still be too shiny)

SO i had my eyes checked and turns out I'm losing my near sight. I will prolly need bi-focals. which makes sense as I'm having difficulty painting details. I keep having to take off my glasses to see.

Here are some shots of Bone and flesh perturbing from the model and a purple tentacle.



I tried my best to blend the flesh to get the effect that it's growing from the armour.



I still have some highlighting to do on the flesh but my eyes were bugging me.
Let me know what you think

They are looking great Styro. Great to see the progress on this force continue.

In November of 2022, my wife and I had a baby girl. Which meant everything hobby related was put on hold. No time for video games, DnD, Warhammer 40k nor time for painting.

This summer, almost two years later and I had a tiny bit of time a week. I started getting more into 3d printing. I'd sneak out to the garage at midnight and run a print... then either wake up to a bunch of minis or a fail.

Now that's it's cold I can't print anymore 😕 So I thought I'd pull out my paints...but they are all pretty dried out. Alot of hobby shops closed down so getting new paints was going to be a challenge.

I ended up finding a place downtown. It would ship for free on orders of $100 or more or a $20 shipping fee. I dint want to buy that much paint and $20 for shipping. No way. So I drove there. Took aboot 40 minutes and parked on the side street. 1 hour parking.

Anyhoo I bought some primers, a white, a black and some speed paints (they look like fun). Bought some new paint brushes. It total aboot $60 then walked back to the car...

TO FIND A PARKING TICKET

$135 bucks!!

So i need new glasses "1 hour parking" but in smaller print "on this side only from the 1st of the month to the 14th"

It was the 15th doh!! I shuda just paid the $20 shipping

The first thing I did was redo the camo. It was bugging me for years. It needed the white outline.




Thanks for sticking around