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Gotta say, the yellow looks much better irl than in the pics.

Much appreciated guys. And yeah, WM: thats why I really gotta figure out a better photo system. Currently, I keep getting minor inconsistencies in the blending and colors. Small, but noticeable.

WM and I played a game today using our respective AC lists. Blood was shed on both sides and we both learned a lot of do's and dont's of our armies. I managed to pull ahead midgame, despite what we both thought would be a one-sided match.

Now I have a clear plan of action, and know exactly what to do for my Drake stand-ins. Now I simply need to search for a suitably awesome "Chaos Lord" model and axe.

In other news, I progressed on the Eldar ADL, as I wanted a break from yellow jets!



And the guns:


They're rather close to being complete, just a few touch ups and details, then a blue-gray oil wash!


Oh.... and while he was here, WM dropped off a very special future project

So the question is... how much modification...or is it going to be a clean assemble/paint?

Should be fun.

I want and fear at having one for myself... would have to do so much modification. Though a LoTD warhound does sound scary as hell.

Nice work on the ADL ramos. Love the way the gems work with the blue.

The blending on the ADL is splendid Ramos and as for the special project thats going to be very exciting, what colours are planned for it if any?

The gems are sooooo good and the ADL looks very nice as a whole.

The titan will be Warmonger colors, in order to fit in with the Badab War theme we use at Adepticon. No major mods planned, but it will be based.

 whalemusic360 wrote:
The titan will be Warmonger colors, in order to fit in with the Badab War theme we use at Adepticon. No major mods planned, but it will be based.

Oh thats exciting WM as in the below scheme, you have loads of cool minis

I wish it was a reaver!

Thanks guys! I quite like how the blend turned out myself. The red gems are just icing on the cake (and to think- I wanted to go with PURPLE gems! Red is much better, honestly...)

ADL is pretty much done. just finished cleaning up the oil wash, so it should be ready to flat coat and assemble tomorrow!





And in other news, a vat of FW goodies goes for a bath....



In addition to the Titan (GODDAMN I LOVE THIS MODEL! Its so damn huge!), there are 5 each Mk3 and Mk4 maringes (the mk 3 have the boarding shields) and a contemptor dread + arms. I figured if I was gonna be doing washing, I might as well throw the rest in!

Eldar ADL Complete!



A close up of the double wall segments' details


And the Communications relay:


And finally, the Turret, including magnetized options for an autocannon:


or a Lascanon:


Suppose its time I get back to the planes, eh?

How did you do the rules? Are they hand-painted?

Yup. All of the runes are freehand. This is really clear when you look at them all next to each other, as its damn hard to make perfect copies. The closeup of the wall is the last one I did, and is the one I consider best.

Good job on the markings. Look cool.

The runes great! Good practice pre-vehicle too. Never noticed how much the coms unit looks like a turret from Portal.

I've an idea or two for vehicle markings once we reach that point. One idea in particular is to have the eye glyph superimposed on one of the front "fins." Should make for very interesting contrast! Heh and yeah I'm noticing that too, WM!

So no interesting updates on the planes- they all have washed metals now, so they look pretty much the same, save for slightly more shading.
So while waiting for the washes to dry, I decided to get started on armor and weapon upgrades for my marine I sent IceAngel.



It is a little more red than the initial test model I did for Nerdfest's Golden Bathtub contest, however its close enough to be a very distinct color of orange. Next up is green for the marine, and metal highlights for the jets!

Everything's looking great dude! some really really nice blending and colours happening! the jets are coming together awesome and the Eldar stuff is just WOW! also looking forward to the red/orange marine too! and speaking of Golden Nerdfest...... :-) this is the first mention of the second annual Nerdcademy Award happening soon! :-) hope you'll be on board again?

Nice freehand .. It looks very uniform to me!

Explain the ice 's marine? GMS?

YES!!!!! JASKA 2.0

Very nice burnt reddish orange color you've created. I see we went for a larger plasma weapon. NICE CHOICE! I do me some plasma. Would you like me to make you another marine, so it can be an official swap?

@Solar - Ramos and I had a long discussion about his marine, Brother Jaska of the Marines Chrysemys, at Adepticon. He mentioned that he wanted to send a new model. Brother Jaska is one of the few marines still alive in my story from the Great Marine Swap. He deserves to be upgraded.

@nerd: Thanks!! and you bet your Hellsak I'm in! Any clues to the theme you'd care to share at the moment?

@SL: Thanks a ton. The Marine is essentially an armor (and paint) upgrade for Ice's GMS marine. I half-considered promoting Jaska to Sergeant (with green helmet and all), but have decided against it. Perhaps if he returns from the Ice Angel campaign alive he will be deemed worthy!
In any case, now he has a little more power and armor.

@IA: That sounds like a pretty cool plan, actually. Id love another Ice Angel- an upgraded Brother Ruqum, perhaps, or even a death company veteran

Great work Ramos. The titan will be quite the work.

Lets just say Faces are the windows to the soul.....and faces

 IceAngel wrote:
@Solar - Ramos and I had a long discussion about his marine, Brother Jaska of the Marines Chrysemys, at Adepticon. He mentioned that he wanted to send a new model. Brother Jaska is one of the few marines still alive in my story from the Great Marine Swap. He deserves to be upgraded.

What a great update and backstory!

Is that the helmet that goes with the armor?

@cormade: Indeed! Gonna be a blast to work on.... that is is I ever finish these planes!!

@nerd: ooooohhhh.... If you're thinking what I'm thinking you're thinking, then I'm thinking I have a pretty good idea already

@SL: Normally its a regular old mk7 helmet (basic vanilla marine) but in this case, I wanted something to set Jaska apart from every other marine. I took the basic helmet and did some GS work on it, giving it a more shielded appearance. I figure that since Ice tends to portray him as quiet and calculating, I'd give him a loadout geared more-so to defensive than offensive. Advanced armor systems for survivability, and a larger variant of his original plasma pistol, now geared more for anti infantry and (if needed) anti vehicle.
So a bit of fluff to back up the modeling madness


In other news, i think I can finally call the primary paints on the Bommas complete. Nearly all of the colors it will get is currently on it, save for the small red and white areas still to come.



Close up of one member of the Squadron.


Random wing art


Next for these guys is a good bit of weathering, including sponge chipping and a whole lotta airbrushing and rust powder!


Jaska continues as well, now with more green!

Green and red.. its that time to get presents right?

Oh pfft... Its orange! No christmas marines here

Love the random wing art, adds some nice interest to an otherwise uniform color.

Nice moon on the wing, i like the way you did it! are you going to show us how you do your sponge chipping and powders as you go? i'd like to see how others get results as i'm not too good at sponging chipping on :-)

@Gits: Excellent! Glad it meets your approval. I will be adding a few decals of things that are difficult to freehand (ie, checks and dags on the wings' leading edges!) so that should help break the yellow up some more!

@nerd: Yeah sure I can do that. I'm definitely no master myself, but I can definitely pop up a few shots as I go along.


PLanes continue, again a mundane update to them so they don't look very different.
In between coats of paint, I washed the FW bits I have, including the Warhound, Contemptor, and Mk 3 and 4 marines.

In case anyone was curious..... the Titan has a LOT of parts!




Ohhhh boy O_o''

That's mostly the dreadnought