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Too much green in the yellow

Loving the battle damage.

At first Gits, I was like "wtf is the change in metallics?!" And then I noticed the gun barrel seems to be less shiny (in comparison to the old pic) and that there were more paint lines because of the blending, etc...

Top notch good sir!

Looks much better Gits!

Battle damage is looking sick and the shaded metals look a lot easier on the eye with the armour.

Yeah, I got out my weathering powders, mixed up some black and applied oil lines to the moving parts of the gun, deepend the shadows on the wheel edges and tracks as well as the underside of the barrel. Then and some soot on and around the stacks which I softened with a bit of dry gray powder.

I didn't add a bunch of rusty areas as I want this to look like fairly new damage/wear. As for the chips and scratches, most of it went on the dozer blade as that would be the recipient of most of the abuse, then a bit on the leading edges of the body of the vindicator.

I just don't have a really good feel for weathering and chipping, which is why I avoid doing it. I've seen plenty of how-to's but that's not it. My technique will get better with practice, by my "eye" for where to distress and how is lacking. Anyway... it looks fine at table top level, which is how the judges at Adepticon will see it. I'll add a bit of light dist/dirt to the tracks and lower parts of the tank, finish off the lights and *then* we'll call it good.

Somehow, this had dropped off myself sub'd threads?! Lovely work on the vindicator, the transitions from yellow to green are particularly stunning.
I'm inclined to agree with Arakasi about your magnets. They're a bit, well, prominent. How about painting the ones on the front as extra headlights, with a really strong varnish over once done (given you're about to do lights and all).
As for weathering, I find myself examining trucks, vans etc that I'm following on the road for natural patterns and spots. Surprisingly helpful. But I do like the factory fresh feel you've got there. I feel like the MWs are ensuring purity through turtle wax.


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Ps I like the scarring very much too, btw.

I guess I don't really plan on running it without the dozer blade much, so I didn't really worry about hiding the magnets. Just wanted to give myself the option to remove it if I was short for points. I could handle them in a number of ways I guess... recess them, disguise them as something else. Just wasn't a big priority.

Headlights are done. I'm experimenting with doming resin. Won't be able to show you until tomorrow after it cures.

On the front view, I'd neaten up the rogue line on the metal piece to the left of the gun barrel, other than that, it looks much better

For damage, I do the same as Graven and find myself studying trucks and cars on the road. The one thing I've noticed is that vehicles there tends to be more dirt and damage on the back as it kicks up dirt. I can't really say about tanks, but I'd think if you're driving through walls the damage to the front will be mostly dents, with scrapes along the sides where it hits the sides of the newly formed holes.

While applying damage with a brush is fine, it's faster, simpler and more random when you use little pieces of sponge to do nicks and scratches. For damage to the dozer blade you'd be looking at most of the paint being removed along the bottom with scratches going (mostly) vertically up the blade as the rubble and earth builds up against the blade.

I'll keep that in mind endtrans, have lots of vehicles in the "stable" that still need weathering.

Progress tonight! 4 assault marines built, only the flamer guy (which is the easy one) left to go.

Excellent work. Did you mask the bladed to get the stripes?

Marine in the post mate

@SL: Yep, had to touch it up a bit afterwards. I'm OK with the way it turned out. endtransmission is right on all counts and are things I'll try to work on with other vehicles. I was treading this thin line in trying to add a bit of wear and damage without completely banging up the entire model, which would make it look very out of place when compared to the rest of my models. I may mess around with a bit more sponge work on the lower portions of the dozer blade, but at this point that's a vanity project rather than something that must be done.

The doming resin worked fine, it's just difficult to work with in such small spaces as the head and tail lights. I still need more practice with it. Pic's tonight.

@Miss Dee: Thank you! Been looking forward to getting him!



Thought I'd post a bit more on the new assault marine builds as my first post wasn't very informative.

This squad has a totally different character that the first. While that one was charging forward with reckless abandon, this one is a "snap shot" at a position of relative inaction. Not that they're sitting around doing nothing, but it's more of a moment's pause as they assess the battle and decide where they're going to strike next.

I found an old metal assault marine fig that I can use as-is, and built 2 more out of old (but not RT-era) metal beakie marine bodies. I really like how these turned out & came up with some novel arm positions that I think you'll enjoy. Lastly, the sergeant is also complete... he turned out pretty well too, though I wish I'd angled his torso forward a bit more, but I think I can adjust the base to compensate. Very unorthodox pose for him, which I like. A warrior's thinking and calculating pose... if that makes any sense.

How close are you to being finished for Adepticon?

5 assault marines and one character.

And my portion of the "team" presentation effort... which has nothing to do with painting figures.

Gitsplitta wrote:5 assault marines and one character.

And my portion of the "team" presentation effort... which has nothing to do with painting figures.

Are you guys doing the thing we had discussed last year?

I can't remember that far back. SL's doing the display. I'm doing list presentation, Ice is doing what Ice does best, we will hopefully have shirts... pretty standard stuff.

I may also do a smaller, easily mobile movement tray for my army... depends on how the rest of the projects go.

I thought you might be going with the patch idea ala Sons of Anarchy.

Yeah, we did discuss that... I guess it was just too complicated an effort given the circumstances. I'm still not exactly sure what we're doing shirt-wise... not my department.

Why is the terrifying image of you guys running around the room, shirtless, except for some body paint going through my mind right now?

I can tell you... NO ONE want's Solar and I to run around shritless...

I guarantee it. We ain't pretty.

Vindicator is looking nice Git's, looks like its just been in a small skirmish and came away with a few scratches.

Looking forward to the next unit of assault marines.

Update!

Assault Squad #2:


Jump packs will be painted separately.

And the final shot of the Vindicator showing doming resin lenses on lights. My first attempt so it's not perfect... but I'm confident I'll get better with practice.

Looks tip top man, I especially love the pose on the marine with the jump pack (knowing full well they all will have them)...

And it's cool to see the old metal minis in with the rest

Love the Vindi.
Also love the mix ofnew and old skool marines they look sweet.
Peace

Thanks guys. I tell ya, I wish I had about a dozen of the second guy from the left... you don't see many space marines in a legitimate "T" stance. Makes posing easy. The sergeant turned out well (the guy with the pack). I just need to add the chainsaw teeth to the flamer marine and add purity seals to the serg and they'll be ready for priming. OH, and I'll spiff up the bases a bit too. Some rocks and such.

I have one more old vindi thanks to SL... this one turned out well enough I'm going to have to put that one on the short list...

Just noticed you haven't painted the skulls on the side of the big cannon.

Ah... damn. Will get those. Thanks Reaper.

Great looking models. Only you can make old craptastic looking GW models look so damn good. I love the vindicator.

Reaper Man 2020 wrote:Just noticed you haven't painted the skulls on the side of the big cannon.

They're camouflaged

Assault Squad #2 looks awesome, Gits, and the final product of that vindi is beautiful. The shading gradients look really good along the sides, hazards stripes set off the greens perfectly and the understated battle damage adds just enough grit to make it fit in exceptionally with the rest of your vehicles. Solid effort, bud, and it paid off!