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That is some kind of special.

reminds of the Watchmen

All the kinds of special!

Ok, ok... for real this time. Stormboyz done and done. Simple little guys, but fun to paint. Having a few issues with the camera today, so the picture is a little less than perfect:



Tomorrow begins the grand project of the RS bike list. Hope I have enough paint for it- just checked and Ive only one bottle of the color I need. May need to put in an order sooner than I thought!

Reminds me of a section in MIB when the head grows back

Bahahahahhahah! Nice neck stumps

Looking good btw

Aww yis, Death Skulls Orkses! Lovely work.

Thank ya kindly!


Today I did more assembly!!

OK OK!!! You guys must be sick to death of it all, but I promise this is it for a while!
I figure that I should assemble as much RS stuff as I can before spraying, so I can just keep the brush running and I have an easier time matching em all color-wise!

In hunting down more Scorpions, i was reminded of a few other projects that I just so happened to have in the "whenever" bin.

The first was an Honor Squad, which is now freshly de-smurfed (Really like these minis, but the metal is HEAVY!)


A Sicarius conversion to go with said Honor Guard:


Let me know what you guys think of the brass placement. I dont know if its too much or not. He had a smurf logo there (an armored plate called a besagew, i think), so I built a new plate out of brass and greenstuff. On his tabard he had a similar logo, so I just covered up that one.


And a Chaplain dread!




WM also shipped me the missing wall for the CH extension kit, so i got that up and ready to go. I have to say, the kit makes the Storm Raven actually look halfway decent! I'd actually run them this way!



Then i built the bases for the two flyers. The one with the lamp is a base WM had mostly built up with a marine standing on the bit of pavement (I removed him for painting), so I used that idea to build the second base in a sort of ruined highway theme. Messed around with a FW pour channel to make a K-Rail on the newer base. After these are painted, Ill put divider lines on the "road" areas.





Ok, so now thats all over(cue sighs of relief from readers), Tomorrow I prime!

You'll be busy for sure!.. Like the road idea~

Looks good Ramos :-) I like seeing what's coming up soon! did you want my honor guard I have? i've got the resin ones that came with Marneus and I'm not using them, they're much lighter lol :-)

It's honor guard for when you are loosing. Throw them at the other player, they die, you win!

@SL: hehe consider it being a bit inspired by all your roadwork lately! Eventually when I get some room for terrain, I think im gonna build up some ruined overpasses myself.

@Nerd: weeeeeeelll, I do really enjoy the minis thus far... I would love to have some for my own forces. Expect a PM shortly (well probably tomorrow morning, as its super late here xD)... Got a couple other things to discuss too =D



So today was a very -VERY- long day of grays. I lost count at around 5 and a half hours, haha.

Currently everything except for the Raven is at more or less its final levels of gray. I may yet go a stage brighter on some of them that need just an extra bit of pop.
Next stage for them all after I happy with the gray is to give em all a nice wash of black oils to bring the color more into the charcoal gray spectrum.

Its nice to be getting back into the RS scheme. For whatever reason, the gray feels really good to paint!
I do have a question for you guys, though... What color do ya guys think I should make the capes on the Honor Guard? i was thinking a good vibrant red (like the Kriegers) and a creamy color on the inside.
Then theres the issue of the bike captain's robe. Perhaps the opposite of the capes? Red inside, creamy outside!

Looking good! I'm a fan of the improved raven and the HG look good too.

Imo the brass is fine (seeing as you asked )

Awaiting your PM, my servitors have been informed to contact me within at least 7 hours of your message......

@Payne: Excellent! Very much appreciate the input. I think that once the paint goes on and the sword arm is placed (it covers half that plate), my worries will be put to rest... In the mean time, I guess its time to push on to paint.



Current progress: All marines washed with oil paint! Vehicles are getting a bit more love with the airbrush.


You guys might recognize this familiar point in painting this scheme. From here its a night of drying then a good coat of matte varnish. Then, COLOR!


In other news, I just read a little bit into the Ork Mek Gunz (late to the party, I know). They seem really fun to play with, especially that brutal smasha cannon. S D6 AP1? not bad at all, though Im very likely to run a bunch of Zzap cannons! Gotta love gets hot!

I do not love gets hot atm :( I lost my last remaining Leman Russ Executioner last night to two gets hot rolls D:

Also, Eldar remain stupid in 7th edition.

 Alfndrate wrote:
I do not love gets hot atm :( I lost my last remaining Leman Russ Executioner last night to two gets hot rolls D:

Also, Eldar remain stupid in 7th edition.

Haha, I've got a friend who's relatively new to 40k and I you not he's had at least one of his marines die every game he's played. Same enough to say he isn't a fan of plas weapons now

Nice thing about Orks is that theyre cheap! At least in the case of the Zzap Kannon, the squishy Grots are plentiful enough that I dont feel too bad about em. Executioner tho.... thats rough. And Payne, your friends' Marines have some really bad dice luck if they keep missing 3+ saves! D:



Not much excitement here, but if you remember the old Scorpions, just sing along with me now!

Metals are blacked out, and parchment and cloth is started.



Now heres where things change... see, Im not sure which to go with on the cloth areas, like the inner cape and shoulder cloths that some of the marines have. I started to paint them similar to the purity seals, which gives a tan final product like this guy from last year:




However, this almost seems like the capes and stuff will blend in with the seals too much. So I thought about doing the cloth in a brighter color, like Kardax. Maybe a little more on the cream side of things rather than white:




What do you guys think? Tan or Cream?

I prefer Tan cloth on my minis. Wearing white or cream will end up dirty faster I think.

Cream, always cream.

Also, the executioner dying stunk because I was about to get overrun by 3 Carnifexes, a Hive Tyrant, and a Wraith Knight... Hopefully The Imperial Knight I was borrowing would have made the difference, but we were out of time :-\

Dunno what the equivelant is with the current paint range but I'm a fan of doing my cloth a pale cream. I start with a Chardine Granite basecoat, then I blend up to Ushabti and then up to pure (or nearly pure) white.


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And yeah: plas is the bane of his existence right now

Where is that alligator model from? It looks great! Also, awesome stormboys.

So general thoughts are creamy, eh? That can work then.

Heh, getting dirty isnt too much of a problem as far as these guys are concerned, deadmeat. Especially as its gonna be the Honor Squad with all the whitish areas, I guess itd be acceptable for them to wear stupidly bright colors. They dont have to do their laundry, after all!


@Warboss_Waaazag: Thanks! The gator is Kardaxx, from On The Lamb Games "Brushfire". Hes definitely one of my favorite minis of theirs, if not my top favorite. One of these days I plan on building an army around him. something small, but usable... Got a bit of stuff to do before then, though!

Pfft, pure lies! You don't paint your own things.

The cream would look good with the white helmets as well.

I do so paint my own things!!
Well....

once in a while...


sometimes....


....


Hey! Remember that Victoria Lamb Mini! Yeeeeeah <.<

Yeah, for your IG army....

An army of one?

I seem to remember once apon a time when you were painting red Orks...Then you stoped...

Doesn't your sig still say something about that...

Do not forget the Turtle Marines!

Yeah, my personal army projects kinda went on hiatus after I started doing commission work full-time.
A lot of it has to do with two big issues: The first is that I rarely play anymore (especially because where I currently live is a bizarre black hole of gaming), so I've no real reason to work on my own stuff when I can paint other peoples' much more interesting minis (for example, FW stuff!). Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, is my aggravating job situation. Currently I do commissions enough to keep student loans at bay, constantly attempting to get someone to call me for an interview! The bottom line is that if I paint my own stuff, I'm not painting someone elses. Its my own personal sword of Damocles. Until I get a for real job, I just cant afford to take time off, as it were. (I seriously have no clue what the heck I need to do to get interviews anymore.... I know Im qualified for my applications.... But its just damn hard to get that far! :/ )
Sure I know that a job would give me less time to paint, but honestly I think I'd paint more efficiently under that sort of time crunch. Who knows

I still want to do something with the two armies, but those are thoughts for future days...
In the mean time, I must carry on carrying on!

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Day 5: Of cloth and capes



Capes and robes are done! Really love painting reds, and red capes even moreso. At a future date, Ill probably go back and give certain areas a little freehand. In particular, the massive blank canvas of the banner bearer is just begging for something!

Good choice of heroic colors.