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Turret looks real good! Interesing not, the turret in more of English and common would be C-5 for the turret, in Russian, it would translate as S-5 as their "S" kinda looks like "C", so it stays the same, but could be either C-5 or S-5 depending on your PoV

For my theme of army, and Vik knows too, it would translate as S-5 for me, LOL!

Like the get of my lawn but if you do add a flower pot next to it

Yes oils are great for there length of dry time, when I used to make 1/35 scale kits I used to use them for skin tones easier to blend.

D - LIGHT - FUL!!

Awesome work as always! Those turrets are very nicely detailed!!

Very nice work, as always . Can't wait to see the flamethrower version.

Thank you

You won't be waiting too long hk1x1, I spent 2 hours on it on the weekend getting it to the chipping stage pictures coming soon.

Also I bought an Imperial Fist contemptor from evilbay, it came with a plasma cannon and power fist, brand new as well. The condition is pretty decent as well, some mould slips but nothing I can't deal with at a reasonable saving too [much pleased].
I've had my eye out for one for a while and was planning to get one from FW at some point in the distant future. I was going to get one with an assault cannon but I've always had a soft spot for ZM style games so I'll stick with the plasma cannon and base it for such...


@LDD: I'll see if I can find a pot of petunias, I can't promise anything though, it's not as though they just drop out of the sky.

@Shas: I didn't think using Russian lettering, mind you I only have GW decal sheets to work with, they seem to lack Cyrillic script unfortunately.



OMN.

No worries, but we look and say SU-85, but if the tank is in a Russian kit it looks like Cy-85

Progress so far on the second turret:


I might try and use the same painting method on those mythical ragnaroks.

I also tried a different skin colour on the Veteran with bolter and tech adept:


I'm not really convinced, I don't think I pulled it off very well, I know there is an odd patch on the top of baldy's head ... not sure how that happened. I wasn't really going for a current human skin colour after all 30 thousand years -or whatever- is enough time for evolution to alter cosmetic details of human physiology such as skin colour.

I've also been working on the last 4 militia whilst I have my brushes out:


still very rough, just working on the main colours atm, not happy with the blue. Too much contrast in those images atm.


Thanks for stopping by

OMN.

Turret is coming on nicely although I think a red glaze on the optical lense could lift it a bit more, overall looks pretty good I gather you will be adding more detail to the flamer guard.

Not sure about the new skin tone kind of reminds me of the mutants inTotal Recall the arnie one, the general colouring of the group is coming together and like the way you keep an over all tone to your units.

Turret looking great, really on to something with them, they look just right.

Guys are looking great as always, I know what LDD means, although they are all distinct, they match so well together.

Skin tone looks good, does look like they have a condition at the mo, but you are right why do we all try for pinky.

@LDD: Yea I'll do something with that turret guard, I didn't intend to spray it all black... I had actually applied the liquid mask to part of it as though the heat had made the paint flake off ... then I sprayed over it... smart. So I'll have to come up with something new to do with it.

@Cam: Cheers bud.

Decided to throw myself into the latest round of the painting competition, since it's an excuse to try painting some zombies as I've made no further progress on the militia, I've had the models knocking around a bit and it makes a break that hopefully will reinvigorate me to finish the militia off this side of Christmas.



I wonder just how much I have painted this year... not much I'm guessing.

Cheers all.

OMN. (Ath post)

You've painted more than me but then that's not hard, unless you count walls doors etc

Anyway back on topic might do you good to move out the box so to speak, sometimes things can get repetive or mundane so a fresh or not so in this case might be good just for fun sake.
Painting zombies I mean, hence not so fresh

As for the turret guard have you not considered the heated metal approach ? You know where the metal becomes partially discoloured ?

 lone dirty dog wrote:

As for the turret guard have you not considered the heated metal approach ? You know where the metal becomes partially discoloured ?

That's actually what I was thinking of doing. That technique and I have a long checkered history.

Anyone have any tips on pulling it off well?

There was a pretty good video on YouTube showing the technique being done, I can't think of the exact text you need to enter but should be pretty easy to find.

Deep blue wash one end, deep brown wash wash other, while wet water in middle, badabing! Of course I am crap at it so ignore me.

Modest as always Cam, that's basically what I have been doing in the past, however I usually seem to go overboard with the brown and end up with a mess.

I'm mostly finding videos teaching me how to curl my hair...

There is a not too bad explanation here:
http://fromthewarp.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/how-to-paint-heat-stained-gun-barrels.html

I wonder if I can combine it with the "soot stained" look

That's the tutorial I was going to post and is the one I follow; although I just use washes of brown, purple and blue (covering less of the barrel each time and blending them together) and then a dry-brush of silver on the end.

There was one I found before that was pretty good but it was using weathering powders, I think it was a scifi set of powders I know I bought the rust set and blue powder for that reason God only knows where they are now :

O yes your hair looks lovely

I think I know the powders you mean LDD, I think I saw some MIG ones a while ago, that were blue etc.

Painting progress on the Zs, just the the base colours for now:


long way to go on these.

The zombies look like snorks from s.t.a.l.k.e.r.

Raising the game or the dead anyway LOL zombies looking good so far glad to see your keeping to the toning scheme

Yes they were MIG powders

 Ironwolf123 wrote:
The zombies look like snorks from s.t.a.l.k.e.r.

Good, just as intended.

@LDD: yea those paints are at the front of my paints draw atm...

Nice (well, you know what I mean) looking zombies, good colour choice going on!

Seems that zombies are popping up in all the threads of late! Quick! Call the Z.E.F.! (Zombie Eradication Force).

Not long till these can be put to rest:



There are one or two bits to do on them .... I don't remember what though ... powders on the bases maybe. Once these are finished they'll bring my re-animated cadaver count up to 26, yes, I do have another 4 to paint hiding somewhere.

Here is a scenically based Toaster


That is all.

FIN

Zombies are looking great!

One day, I'm pretty sure you're going to paint a Titan and sitting just between its toes will be a single, resplendent toaster, with an NMM outer case and OSL filaments....

Toaster ftw!

Loads of awesome work on show as ever.. but for me... I LOVE those bases..... the grey ground cover with the orange brick is a really lovely contrast.. and doesn't in anyway take away from the paintjobs on the models.... very nice but understated!

haha... and the scenic based toaster is cool!

Cheers Magos, the bases for the zombies are resin and were made by Dark Art Minitures paint job is easy If you want I can post up a little how-to ( I think I might have done so before). Thanks mate much appreciated .

@Para: IF I ever own a titan {highly unlikely big expensive models seem pointless to me ... unless I made it walk} Thee will be toasters have no fear there, I'd probably make a model of the one from Fallout NV: old world blues and have it pilot it.

Thanks again everyone. I'm going to try and finish off those zombies in the next few days whilst I try and figure out what they are missing.

zombies are done as much as they are going to be. all I've done is add a little rust on parts and a bit of tinted gloss varnish on some of the wounds to indicate flowing liquids.



Cheers
OMN.

Super spooky stuff!