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Cheers Bottle. Got a lot done last night and this morning. Base metals are now done. Little bit of work done on the base too. Photos when I get home. There will be effects in the mortar. I don't really go for mad bright airbrushy osl but there will be a little something something

Thanatar is looking good so far. Could I get you to add in a smaller pic of your models for this month's ToG?

Cheers Az and no worries. Gonna get some snaps done tonight hopefully

Despite the lunacy that was this weekend, actually got a ton of paint in on the sly. Really strong start to big brother. Base is well under way and got all the base metal work done as well

Niiice! That's already looking brilliant!

crappy photo. still mucking around with new lightbox. good to have the base metal work sorted and laid down coz its an ass to do! now onto the serious work. Hoping to get the big man done this month but wont be rushing him as he's also my entry in the eadbabger II paintig competition. gorgeous model but all those pistons on the back of his legs are killer

 Januine wrote:
Despite the lunacy that was this weekend, actually got a ton of paint in on the sly. Really strong start to big brother. Base is well under way and got all the base metal work done as well

Yes, judging from your flags you went to Denmark and back lol!

Looking fantastic. Is your metal work still just Iron Breaker and Agrax still?

Nope. for my admech I came up with different metal method. layers of different metallics with washes to age and give a kind of patina to the base metal. takes a while to do but so worth it. doenst show up quite as well as it should in that photo. may try and get a better, less overexposed shot in the mornng.

no idea why Dakka decided to give me a danish flag!

You're back to korea! That was fast, can you teleport or something?

Aye!!! Was on a friend's tablet that apparently changes the country you appear to be in or something. Computery stuff. For someone who loves painting admech, i'm actually pretty crap with the ol' cogitators!! He explained it to me and it went right in one ear and out the other. A lot of facebook games are banned out here so he randomises his country????? Meh - whatever - back to painting; that makes much more sense!

Very nice on the big guy so far!

Cheers Ustrello. Hoping to bite the bullet ad get to work on all those bloody Pistons tonight

Nice. Shiny shiny!

EDC

Little work on the ruststalkers and made a start on the grey armour plates for the Than. The right arm one is just a test go as I'm trying out some chipping fluid and want to see how it goes before I use it on the other bigger plates.

Looking really good Jan!

Test armour plate.

No, I'm sorry, it's too good, you're going to have to start over!

In all seriousness, can you share the methods you're using there? It looks awesome, I'd love to shamelessly steal take it as very direct inspiration....

Cheers Para. I will put up a what's been done later on for sure. That was only the test plate as its the arm armour I could repaint it easily if I fethed up the paint. Onto the bigger stuff now - Pauldrons!

Oh my, that is some amazing looking chipping there Jan! Are the shadows done in Rhinox Hide or something else?

The shadows on the chipping? They're thinned rhinox with a touch of black added.

That is some impressive chipping!

EDC

Cheers EDC, hopefully it'll work out as well on the rest of the panels!!

 Januine wrote:
The shadows on the chipping? They're thinned rhinox with a touch of black added.

Gamsa! It looks really good mate. Gonna have to remember this technique as it will no doubt come in handy down the line.

괜찮아요 you back in Korea Bottle?

 Januine wrote:
괜찮아요 you back in Korea Bottle?

Just for two weeks visiting the in-laws :-) I did think about sending a PM so we could meet up and talk hobby over Chimek or something, but we're down in Busan/Ulsan and I think I read you live near Seoul? Anyway it's nice to be back, even if it's just for 2 weeks. Enjoyed the glorious sunshine today.

Awesome chipping Jan, how did you find constructing the Thanatar? Any issues?

Am eager to see the Rustalkers done too.

That chipping effect is stunning!

@Bottle - Nice!! Hope you have a great trip. Aye - I'm a wee distance away from Busan. I live in Wonju, about an hour from Seoul. A fair ol'hike from Busan and Ulsan!! Weather is finally picking up. It's been a bit gak recently

@Thraxas - Cheers fella. No real problems in the build. Overall he should be pretty straighforward barring a few things. I wanted the legs to be with the right foot back and the left striding forward but the normal build is for the opposite so had to do a bit of converting. That wouldnt have been much of a problem if it weren't for all the pistons that attach to the back of the legs. change the pose knoks them all out so some just wont connect. I got around it though by swaping some over from one side to the other and realigning some of the others. No big probs though. The ammo belt feeds were a bit of a nightmare though especially as I wanted the mauler bolter arm to be higher than designed. Got there in the end but wasn't a walk in the park!

@Zambro - thx chap. That was just the test. came out well so now it''s on to doing the same across the other plates

That's the armour plates all base coated and ready for shading, highlighting and weathering. Big fella is begining to come together now that I see it in place, really happy with how that first test plate came out.

As always, great choice of colour locations. Just enough of the gold to stand out but not too much and the same with the blue-grey armour panels.