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They're a combination of Iron Halo and uhhh I can't remember the other company... Dragon something. (maybe)

Just a tip I'd like to pass on- if you don't mask your vehicles with tape, and use an airbrush, you get a fantastic gradual transition between colours, whilst maintaining the solid blocks. Don't wish to thread jack, but heres an example:
(One of my Vultures)

Hope that helps in some way, and keep up the good work!

Cheer's! Hope you dont mind but I have got to steal them!!! (dresses in ninja outfit)

wow very cool I like the air brush effect it looks like the soldiers painted it themselfs. very nice job mate

You sir have blown my mind!
keep up the good work

The Commissar on horse is fantastic. Very nice painted! I`m going to observe your work daily! You have bought a lot of DKOK-Forgeworld-stuff. Is the quality ok? I`m undecided about the quality of an complete Forgeworld-Army(Infantry). I also want to start a DKOK-Army... but I don`t want to treat every single miniature for hours before start painting.
Thank you beforehand!
Regards!

@lbb: You, sir, are an absolute inspiration as always.

littleboyblues wrote:

"I looked and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him", looks great so far,
-Jason

littleboyblues wrote:They're a combination of Iron Halo and uhhh I can't remember the other company... Dragon something. (maybe)

Dragonforge

Very Nice!

CadianXV ; No worries on thread jacking. Good tip I have already started basing the Valks and I went with a Gray more jet than a Helicopters camo.

Lorgar's Herald ; Dresses as the Red Ranger. I now trump your Ninja outfit sir!

Greenkeeper ; The quility of the sculpts are amazing. No I didn't have any horror stories of my stuff being so warped it was unusable. Now saying that keep in mind resin models will pretty much always be more time comsumeing to build than their plastic or metal counterpart.

Everyone else ; Thanks for the kind words!


Weathering and Base Coating

I finished up all the weathering on the base camo on the tanks. This includes the paint chipping in spots and dirt and grime and rain streaks all over the tanks. They still need to be tightened up and brought more into focus but adding all the details and additional blending will do this. So far I'm proud of how they've turned out.







Now that the base Coats are done on the tanks I started airbrushing the base coats of my valks/vendettas. I could have gone with the same paint scheme and added an off white color to the bottom of the planes and it would have looked all right. I ended up going with more of an Imperial Navy look though. My reason for doing so is that some day I want to own about 8 valks/vendettas, 1 vulture gun ship, 1 of the world war 2 looking bombers and a couple of the lightning or thunderbolts and have a full apoc or just for fun only Imperial navy army. This is only a dream right now but I decided to go ahead and paint my vehicles to match my future IN project. This will also add a little variation in my army and break up the gray/desert camo pattern of all the tanks. I went with a gray top and a bone colored bottom.

Looks damned sharp man. That weathering really brings down the camo to a nice, subtle level. I thought it was a tad bright at first, but now it looks excellent. Those tanks look like they mean business, and are not troubled by getting dirty in the process. Well done!

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Subscribed! Looking forward to seeing the bases painted up and weathered.

if Chattanooga, TN isn't too far out of your way, we have 2 events going on here in the next few months, SIEGE (http://www.diceheadsiege.com/) at the end of april and the Maul in the Mall (http://www.dicehead.com/) sometime in the summer, usually in july iirc. its always good times and attracts folks from all over the southeast, a lot of the folks that were at the big Waaagh will be at one or both of those events, at least the folks from this side of the state anyways.

They look great, you're going to have one impressive army.


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They look great, you're going to have one impressive army.

Loving the vehicles

Thanks for your answer littleboyblues!
I can`t wait to see your troops painted!
Keep on rockin`

WOW!!! this has left me speechless!! absolutely inspirational stuff!! love how that comissar is coming along and those tanks are great to!

Keep it up!

Sons of Orar


some weathering on my banewolf in my guard army. just an idea..

Looking at your tanks reminds me of pictures I've seen of the battle of Cambrai. I'm also sick with envy at your complete disregard of the world's economic recession....
Nice work

Yeah thats right this thread is full of win

What method are you using to weather your tanks?

It seems that you are knocking it out quite quickly and getting very nice results.

Any links/advice would be awesome.

DKOK armies are always spectacular, the trench basing is another element that just makes the army all that much better. Have considered doing one myself as I wanted IG as my third army, but my wallet throttled me at just the mere idea.

Your amazing work is... always amazing... I can't wait to see the infantry finally take to colour.

Almost tempts me to start planning a (small small small) summer project...

Wehrkind ; You weren't the only one that was worried that they were too bright and crisp. I'm glad I stuck with it though as I am pleased with how the came out.

Wileythenord ; Chattanooga is a bit too far this year. A lot of life stuff has happened I'm working through. I'm only going to the patriot games and bolscon in the 2010 tourny season. 2011 I plan on makeing a lot more tournaments. I'm familiar with diceheadgames. I got one of the stupidly elusive strike cruisers from one of you.

Greenkeeper ; No problem. I can understand wanting to know more about an expensive product before buying. I hope to start on the troops here soon. I have a tau commission I'm trying to hurry through to pay the rent gods and then I'll be back on the DKoK's.

SONS of ORAR ; Getting a WOW from you made my day. Your stuff is amazing and your too young for it to be that good. I'm familiar with your guard and your marines. Great stuff. Keep up the good work and good luck with you exams.

Bash the Bosh ; Whats an economy? I actually started this army long before most the the 'bad stuff' hit I had an entire guard army for like a year and a half sitting in boxes in my closet. So I'm really just painting old stuff not spending this much now. Plus Tournament in store credit winnings has single handedly paid for 6 valks and a banewolf and 2 chimeras.... so I didn't spend as much as one might think.

Winter ; I'm using a combination of airbrush (for shadows and gradients), Sponge (for chipped paint effect and grime), and oils (for further gradient and grime effects and giving interest and color) I'm knocking them out quickly because admittedly enough I'm using a combination of 3 fast and effective techniques and I'm assembly lining as I go and I'm not spending as much time on them as I'd like too. :( I airbrush a cluster of tanks or vehicles at once. I add German C Black vallejo paint with a fine sponge around panels and such where paint would most likely chip. I then gloss coat them and use the oil treatment of weathering. (there's an abundance of places to find out how to do this) I then flat coat them and simply paint and pick out the details. Flat clear a final time.

Thanks for everyone for the swell comments as I'm painting on a deadline I need the motivation.

A small update I've started painting the valks post airbrush base coat and I'm happy with how their turning out. I don't have pictures now but plan too by the end of the weekend. And again, thanks.

Gritty! Like the white on the Valks.

Commissar Agro wrote:Yeah thats right this thread is full of win

YES IT IS!

Took Pics of all my progress on the valks/vends and left my camera at home... UGH will try and update with pics tonight or tomorrow. :(

Looking really good so far , I think iam going to have to pick up that master class book , everyone that talks about it usually has awesome weather detail .

Quick update. My pictures are rather behind. I have 2 vendettas almost done only lacking the little lenses and the canopy area. The bases are complete now too. I don't have pics of all that though. So here are some pics from the progress I made last week!





I assembled some more vehicles.



And here is my workstation.





Hopefully I can catch up with my pics and what I actually have done someday...

wow... i've always loved the look of the DKOK but the fact that it's forgeworld and therefore the cost, I've never seen an army of them. I have to admit, those models and your paintjobs look absolutely amazing! Can't wait to see all the final products.

Wow, you continue to amaze me. Great work Littleboyblues. Keep it up!!!