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@Gits: You most certainly will see a number of these if I run Chaos next Adepticon. Though I think Im gonna go ahead and just build him up as a Marine Errant anyways... For the coolness of the model if nothing else.

@IG: Thanks! And hey, don't feel pressured or anything! You do kick ass work on your daemons! Plus, I think Ill be using your technique for painting Screamers as inspiration on the 6 I have here. With any luck i can have em turn out as good as yours!



Everybody got primed today, and just in time too- Not 15 minutes after I wrapped up we got hit by a pretty good storm.


I'm still deciding on color choices, but should have something started by tomorrow. In the meantime I've been experimenting with how I'm going to tackle the tigerstripe camo on the Tauros. The driver and gunner will be easier brushwork, but on the big vehicle I want something quicker and more consistent over larger areas. Liquid mask was the first thing to pop to mind, but I dont have any, nor am I patient enough to wait for an online order! And so, necessity being the mother of invention, I'm trying out PVA glue. In theory it will peel off perfectly fine, as I managed to pull some off my paint pallette with little trouble. My larger scale test was to put tiger stripes on a Deffkopta I had sitting on my shelf. Half painted, it should be perfect for what I need to test out! Here's fingers crossed!



EDIT:
Results are in!





Definitely like the effect!

Cool stuff Ramos. It's nice to see Jaska back on your thread! The plasma cannon / powerfist is a really nice combo too. I look forward to seeing the completed Jaska part 2.

And suddenly eldar in the lead?

Not sure if it will help, but I can give you a run down of how I did Vietnam tiger stripe on some guns.

AGH! The results keep changing!
Hahaha thats so weird how it keeps shifting. I must have messed something up, as it shoulda closed a few days ago xD

Well it looks like its gonna be these IG, then Daemons, then some Eldar. (Now to figure out how to stop the polls.... not that its all that big of a deal, i suppose haha )


@Ice: Thanks! Glad he meets your approval. Hopefully he has a good bit of fight left in him with the Ice Angels!

@WM: Sure dude. I'm always up for hearing new techniques.



Final bit of progress for tonight- Tauros is airbrushed and ready for frisket. I found a nice light shadow grey color that I think will work well for urban camo.

Well, if you are going two colors (might be hard to do three, at this scale) use some small painters tape, with roughy torn edges. If you wanted the three color effect, you may be able to do it with the glue like you did, or use some of the rubber stuff nerdfest has used for his weathering.

Ramos are my eyes deceiving me or does this look somewhat familiar:
http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2013/05/wargames-gallery-5-31-13.html

Dude thats AWESOME!
Really wish it woulda been finished though! (I forgot the damn missiles at home during the con

Still though.... on BOLS


Definitely takes the sting out of what Ive been doing today...




This, people, is what happens when the Elmer's frisket fails.... and hard...
After spending the better part of a day carefully putting on the stripes, then spraying the colors.... The glue successfully up the model.
It stuck too well in places, and pulled up everything down to the original paintjob's white primer.... I really thought I had gotten all the loose areas of paint, but I guess not....

Damn it...


I did try masking tape, WM, but it wasnt sharp enough of an edge. ended up looking a bit soft around where the colors met. Not really what I wanted... Had the glue pulled off cleanly as it did in the test, Id be sitting pretty. Unfortunately now I have to paint the whole damn thing over again AFTER pulling off all the little chunks of glue and cleaning it AGAIN.

I think Im done with this thing for a little bit...... ARGH!!!

Bummer, was hoping that would work. Maybe varnishing before the glue? Or maybe check with Damo, find that latex crap he uses.

Lo. Been lurking for a while here. Like your painting. I really liked the white/blue scheme and the diagonal split on the razorbacks.

For an alternate masking material that you may have laying about, have you tried Blu-tac (or an equivalent non-blue variety)?
It may be tricky to get sharp pointy shapes but shouldn't be impossible and would be reusable (possibly). Definitely wouldn't take off the lower layers of paint.

Is it because you tested on plastic and this is resin? (well I think its a FW model)

 whalemusic360 wrote:
Bummer, was hoping that would work. Maybe varnishing before the glue? Or maybe check with Damo, find that latex crap he uses.

Yeah that liquid crap I use is the bomb! Humbrol liquid mask it's purple and smells like Nurgles anus but it works and well worth the wait in my books dude!

Yeah, I really should get some proper liquid mask. One of these days Ill order some, especially if there are more vehicles in need of camo. I was trying to use things that I had around the house so I could move along on the project and avoid ordering a new item just for the occasion.

It backfired, but maybe it just needs more experimentation. Maybe a layer of varnish would protect the bottom layer. Again, this is one of those things I have to play around with in the future. Definitely putting some liquid mask on order though.

@GiraffeX: I dont think the material underneath it mattered too much. The paint was loose in places on the Tauros, plus the tauros had more surface greeblies than the flat panels of the deffkopta, giving the glue more surface to grab on to.


So i took Dr H's idea under consideration, and I think i found a winner! (Thanks dude!!)



As added insurance I put a layer of varnish on it after the initial medium gray layer. Seemed to have really helped, as the sticky tac pulled right up without incident!

Next Im going to bring in highlights to the base colors as well as add streaks of a lighter gray along the tiger stripes. I might throw in a bit of black or dark gray too, while Im at it.

Cool. Glad it worked. Looks good.

 Ramos Asura wrote:
Yeah, I really should get some proper liquid mask. One of these days Ill order some, especially if there are more vehicles in need of camo. I was trying to use things that I had around the house so I could move along on the project and avoid ordering a new item just for the occasion.

Theres gunna be.

Ramos, blue tack works for this purpose very well.

Alright! So its been busy around here lately. I have been working with my dad a lot recently, leaving me exhausted when I get home (thus no painting). Also, the job search continues. Haven't heard anything from any of the applications except for two rejection letters (which I still count as forward progress. Id rather hear "no" than nothing at all!)


I did get in some more work on the Tauros, though. Its handy for breaks between writing cover letters.

From the previous stage, the whole thing got a black wash, then a light edge highlight and clean up of the medium gray stripes.



Then, using a light gray, I brought up the edges of the stripes. I alternated between the front-most edge of the stripes and the trailing edge, as in theory I think it helps the camo to break up the lines of the vehicle.




Overall, it's turning out vastly different than what I had planned, much in part due to the glue fiasco. Bit of a learning curve, but I know how to better tackle the next camo model.

From here, I'm going to pick out pieces in color, like the missiles and lenses. You can already sort of see the mechanical bits on the top picked out in a brassy gold color.

Looking good. I suspect the camo is going to make progress look slow until the final detail colors are added, and then bam, its done!

that camo looks good.

Nice progress Ramos!

I do love me some urban camo! coming along really nicely dude should be so good when you finish it!

Looking good .. It will become more obvious when you have some other details painted, wheels, interior ect.

Thanks all.

Yeah the camo really makes progress seem slow, though fortunately Im used to it seeing as my Marines Errant did the same thing.


Slowly its all coming together. Today I put the start of mud on the tires. I didn't want to just use straight gray, as that would have become lost in the camo. My first thought was brown, like the Razorbacks I've done, but that would have stood out too much.
I think I've hit it right on with this light brownish gray. Just enough color, but it wont look out of place on an urban board, especially after I hit it with some gray and black weather powders.



A head-long view, showing more of the detail coloration:


And the turret:

well done. That turret is nice. BLUE LASORS! PEW PEW

I have a problem with the way this is going. A pretty major one, really.















I'm going to have to get more.

Niiiiice!

Ya know, WM.... I read the first part of your comment and started panicking...


Glad you're liking it so far though.

Maybe you should be panicking, me buying more stuff to add to the already substantial pile is a frightful thought indeed. Would be a ways off anyways. I do have some more Elysians on foot though.

Looking good, camo' came out well. Mud/dirt works well.

So job search continues, and my need to escape this house grows more dire.


I decided to paint some bright colors, seeing as most of the recent stuff has been focused on relatively neutral and duller tones.

So I mostly painted red tonight, starting with the DKoK Quartermaster:


And Ms. Commissar


And then some turquoise and white on a random old Harlequin just because.

Your reds are nice and solid!