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 Ramos Asura wrote:
ABUUUUUSE OF POWERRRR!!!
Call in yakface- RiTides has gone crazy! First fixing my photo links, then soon he might adjust MY SPELLING!!!

It is so tempting... all the time. Seriously. (Not with you, but with others...) I'll be honest, sometimes title typos I do fix if they're really egregious (was actually congratulating myself on Not doing so to one the other day )

 Ramos Asura wrote:
But seriously... It totally autogenerated the same links when I used "recommended" and "Medium"... XD Didnt even think of using the "full-size" option...
I totally agree with you as far as doing the final presentation photos as 800x600 pics in the future. WiPs can suffer lower fidelity pics Thanks for your help!!

You're right, I think "recommended" always does "medium". I think the gallery still might blur it just a little but it's much better than the non-resized ones, so yeah, I think you have a solution there (and going with full-size for the final pics sounds awesome)

Gits, the one closest to the camera looks to have the right foot forward, I think they'll look good and it's just a trick of the pic as it didn't strike me that way.

Its been a bit of a week... A little under the weather, but I'm a bit better. Well... At least good enough to paint!

Started on the many base colors necessary for Gits Knights. White areas are a quick 2 tone job (simple is best for white), and the Reds are currently based and have the first stage of a highlight on them. I think Im going to need another highlight on them, then perhaps a darker shade of red in the shadows. The base color was a bit of a mistake, but I like how it ended up. The game store was all sold out of the Army Painter color "Dragon Red", which I think is a bit brighter than old GW scab red, so I ended up with the darker "Chaotic Red". As it turns out, the color is a nice rusty AdMech-y red... Awesome.



Close-up of the current gradient.


With all the airbrushing, I had to wait for the compressor to cool a bit today, so I messed around with a different set of colors- Would have done some of RiTides gators, but these didnt need the airbrush!
This is a peculiar unit from Warmachine... Its a unit composed of the past, present, and future versions of one of the warcasters. Pretty neat, and the future one (right) has a LOT of gorgeous cloth to paint!



More airbrushing and painting tomorrow.

The cloth is only gorgeous after you get done painting it Ramos... red gradient looks great!

The red does go well with the Admech theme,... good choice.

Thank you kindly, guys.

Got a lot of work to do, yet, and hopefully I can get back on track!


Armor airbrushing is complete at this stage, leaving only the metals to go. I'll probably get to those Sunday. Also set to be completed Sunday are the Haley's Three. Just have skin and a little bit of leather to go on them.

Carapace armor:
Ended up using a highlight color (a rusty-looking red/orange), then "shaded" it with the same color I used for the base coat. Seems to have had the desired effect. In reality it is a little more dramatic than this.


And the black and white armor panels- Both are kept simple, just the primary colors shaded or highlighted with a single color.



Have a good 4th of July, everyone!

Great progress! Happy 4th Ramos!

Thanks, Gits.

Knights are currently being metal-ized, so no real progress pics of that (Unless you guys -reeeeeeally- want to see a hundred different pictures of silver paint )

Anywho, in between the weekend festivities and the Knight Airbrushing, I finished the Warcaster unit-

Looks very nice! Although the face colors look a little flat. Is that the case, or just my monitor and old eyes playing tricks on me?

Also, random aside, did Haley grow her severed arm back at some point? I thought her right arm was robotic... though maybe my memory is going down the same hole as my vision!

Ramos, the job you did on the cloaks especially.... just jaw-dropping! Makes me want to have you put a flowing cloak on my knight lancer!

@Wehr: The skin tones are indeed a little flatter than my normal, but I wanted to give these three a fairer skin tone. Went with a new technique and stuck with only P3 paints... they're particularly smooth, which is nice.

As far as her arm... I dunno. I paint the things, I dunno backstory
Maybe it was magic or something!


@Gits: Thanks!! If I were pressed to pick something to call my "specialty", Cloaks and capes and such would definitely be it. I absolutely love painting them and getting all the layers flowing over each other.

You know... I have always wanted to experiment with something like a dread and put a cloak on it... A knight though.... WOW. At that point, I think you could just sew one for it!

Love the model on the left especially, very nice Ramos!

Fluff incoming...

Haley died due to Cryxian poison and essentially her soul froze time and she became a time lord able to see the past, present, and multiple futures.

She starts to feel her soul drift to the afterlife but fights it, putting her soul into her body at a time before she lost her arm. Instead of being put back in time the new "body/vessel" materializes at the moment she dies, her old body explodes and the body with her soul is in its place.

And knowing is half the battle!

In other news, my Warlord shipped today. It is however just the body. They showed a head off at Open Day last week that is the one I want (see spoiler). I would also prefer to have a quake cannon on one arm instead of double volcano cannons, because I think it looks cooler. Still, should see some action in the near future.

@primalexile: Ahaaaaa! Thanks for explaining that to us!
So there ya go, Wehr- Haley is Dr. Who!

@WM: Stellar news, absolutely stellar. Im just so damn excited that I'm gonna get to work on a Warlord!!! You guys can expect full coverage when it gets in, from receipt to construction to painting to shipping (or delivery, you know, whatever ends up happening xD )! (anyone care about unboxing videos? Im sure there are some for this kit made by those more charismatic and interesting than myself...)
Really hope the head is released sooner rather than later- The body is so huge, I might have to start charging him rent for the spare room!!

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Apologies on the absence, folks. Had a pretty bad week, and didnt get that much painting done. None at all, in fact :/ Hopefully the worst is past me now, and I can actually get some work done.

Metals are completed except for edge highlights on the knights. This brings the project to the end of primary airbrushing. Everything now is a bunch of regular brush work!

Rather than the shinier polished metals of the House Terryn Knights, I wanted to go with something darker and more aged. Primarily this is black and Boltgun Metal. The brightest it goes so far is pure boltgun, and Chainmail will be the edge highlight of choice. The surface has been hit with several layers of SWM Armor wash, which has a brown/black color and an oily finish.







But boring metal is not the only thing I have to show you today!!
Remember when I had that contest for my site's launch back in May? Well I finally got off my butt and got one of the prizes finished. Its not the AdMech army (no, thats going to be a bit down the road yet! The winner even added a couple units to the list ), but the second place prize!

I had this done for a week or so, but I wanted it in the winner's hands before posting it. I bet you'll never guess which particular Dakka member won this one....









I've had this particular mini sitting in storage for years, half-built and homeless, but as soon as it caught my eye I knew exactly what to do with it. He mentioned he had an Alpha Legion army (its Alpharius, alright? Im sure you guessed by now), so I painted it up in the army's colors.
I think they're rather fitting for a Death Skulls dread!

 whalemusic360 wrote:

Spoiler:

Ya know, I'd buy a Warlord Head if they sold them separately. Would make a great terrain piece.


Molding this up next week, and going to send a couple to Ramos to paint.

Pssst. Hey Cyp:

http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/New_Stuff/MARS_ALPHA_PATTERN_WARLORD_TITAN_HEAD.html





(also, yaaaaay Dragon!)

Must be so tedious to do all those knight sub-structures all at once. Sorry for dumping all that on you Ramos...

I actually prefer to work on them all at once. It actually goes quicker painting them in batches, especially with the airbrush where its beneficial to keep the same color in the pot as long as possible. The most tedious part is edge highlighting, and thats not too bad once you get into the flow of things!

I'm a fan of darker metal (as you know from the DzC you painted ) so I really like the tone of those parts so far!

I figured you'd get a kick out of them, RiTides. This is actually -exactly- the same color as your DzC guys, maybe a bit darker. The particular way I ended up highlighting these seems to really suit a darker washed metal. Has a LOT of contrast and it just seems to fit perfectly. I can thank nerdfest for teaching me that one!!


So after many hours of tiny edge highlights, I've finally finished with the metallic areas on the frames (there were an awful lot of them @_@ )
This is as bright as they are gonna get now. Left side is before, right is after highlights. Just enough to give them another level of luster.


On to the colors! There aren't as many parts for those compared to the metals, so hopefully those wont take me near as long as these did.

I like those a lot, nice job!

They look spot on, can tell jobs a goodun' because they look heavy, like they are made of solid metal, brilliant work.

 Camkierhi wrote:
They look spot on, can tell jobs a goodun' because they look heavy, like they are made of solid metal, brilliant work.

That's the twist, secretly Ramos has been learning metalworking and has decided to give Gits metal knights that look like the plastic kits. The armor will probably still be the normal GW plastic, but we'll all just refer to it as "plasteel" anyways

So, you CAN use plastic as part of the 'lost wax' metal casting process.

I'm just sayin'.

Curses! My brilliant plan to secretly create metal Knights is revealed! Now how will I hide the blast furnace and blacksmith forge in my backyard!

You shall pay for this, Alf!! *shakes fist*
Guess Ill just go back to the plastic ones, now...

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Line highlights on the armor panels complete! I also painted the miscellaneous armor panels on the metal bits, like the swords.



Next phase is the metal trim on all the armor!

Pretty....

 Camkierhi wrote:
They look spot on, can tell jobs a goodun' because they look heavy, like they are made of solid metal, brilliant work.

I didn't even think of that, but you're right, that is a great side benefit of darker metal besides just looking vastly superior to light metal. Everyone must convert!

Even that small splash of red is looking good, these are going to be magnificent Ramos!

Looking good I'm sure the darker metals will make the contrasting red stand out

Thanks very much, you guys!

Next phase complete: The light metal trim is just about complete. Took a long time to get the Chainmail color to cover right (ended up switching to the Army Painter equivalent), but in the end I;m pleased with the results. The wash I used didnt turn out as blue as I had anticipated, but thats only a minor gripe. Just an edge highlight of bright silver and the majority of the project will be complete!



After this, its just the lenses (which will be green), various AdMech symbols, dark metal areas on the armor, and purity seals.

What color do you think the purity seals should be? The traditional bright red or something more unique like mint green?

The popsicle stick of armor plates looks good . You tease!

I'd say traditional color for the purity seals, I think anything else would throw off your eye since you'll be looking for that red and parchment colors.