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Welcome back Moltar, wonderful to see you again! Hope you eventually make the decision to jump back into the fray, be nice to see you posting regularly again.

Great group shot of us all pondering. Nice one.

Deredeo finished!

Damn Gits, that purple looking as good as ever. Glad to hear you had a fun game, especially against Tau. A well deserved victory by the sounds of it.

Impressive model! Exactly how much firepower is that thing packing?

I never thought you could make a dorito a piece of art, buy you've done it! The gold is real clean and goes nicely with your rich purple. Well done!

Thanks guys!

4x S8 AP4? autocannon shots with sunder
3x S6 AP3 missiles that can fire independently
2x heavy flamers (or are they twin-linked... not sure)

Very expensive... but it' s a beast. If it stands still, it also gets skyfire.

That's a beastly amount of firepower indeed... I'll hope with you it doesn't get focus fired turn 1

Trim looks good and proper!

How did you do that super rich and vibrant gold? Absolutely love it, Gits.

Gentlemen, you are too kind.


The gold is very simple but it does take 5 steps, still... it's all out of the bottle so to me that makes them very simple steps.
Preface: I don't worry about what the background color is as long as the base gold covers it completely.

1. Cover surface with a medium gold.
--------- P3: Rhulic Gold
--------- Vallejo Game Air: Glorious Gold (72.756)
--------- GW: Not sure, I ran out of what I had

2. Generous highlight of a bright gold.
--------- P3: Solid Gold
--------- Vallejo Game Air: Polished Gold (72.755)
--------- GW: Burnished Gold

3. Wash.
--------- GW: Seraphim Sepia
--------- Army Painter: Soft Tone
On larger spaces with deeper crevices, I'll line-in the crevices with...
--------- GW: Agrax Earthshade
--------- Army Painter: Strong Tone

4. Re-highlight with bright gold (step #2), not quite so generous this time.

5. Very delicate edge highlight with the brightest silver you can find. Right now I'm using Vallejo Acrylic Metal Color Airbrush Colors, Aluminum (770701). I just go with highest edges, curves or corners. I don't edge highlight everything.

Hope this helps.


I'll be working on the Leviathan today so we'll see what kind of progress I make. Was going to paint last night but Thing 1 decided he needed to kick my but in Warmahordes instead.

He's putting that rulebook to good use, I see

Dread looks great, really looking forward to the Leviathan!

Yusssss... Thats looking damn nice, Gits!! Really adore the warm purple... Warlock Purple is one of my favorite colors to use. It brings so much warmth no matter where you put it!

The touches of white on the ammo stacks is really brilliant as well...



Oh! And iffin you ever needed equivalents for the Sepia and Earthshade... Army Painter makes some stuff that is a spot on match... Soft tone will be your sepia and Strong Tone is Devlan Mud!

@Ramos: Thank's! I've added those to the post.

@RiTides: Here you go. Gold is about 1/2 way done. More to add (rivets). A lot more after that too.

Thank you for the recipe, I'm sure I'll find somewhere to use it

That Leviathan is looking good Gitz, makes me want to start putting mine together.

@Verv: Glad I could be of service!

@Yorkright: Thanks mate. It's still wayyy too purple... but it'll get there. A bit more gold, some white, some decals... some touches of glowy color... maybe even just a bit of OSL. We'll see.


I must say I'm really excited about painting these models at the moment. they're just... different. Different color, different shapes, different fluff. It's all very engaging!

Look forward to seeing more so you'll have an expanded selection come next year AC. We must get in more HH games.

They are definitely a different aesthetic, your work on them is beautiful. looking really great.

Leviathan is looking very nice so far Git's, keep up the good work

I'd love to paint tonight but the Mrs. and I killed two bottles of fine wine celebrating her (mumble, mumble) 29th birthday. Drunk posting? No. Able to paint several dozen tiny rivets?? Also no. Instead I'm watching "The Killer Shrews" on TV.

Happy birthday Mrs. Gitsplitta.

Deredeo is looking awesome. Leviathan is coming along nicely too.

EDC

Good to see fun was had.

Ah, you did do the rivets gold. Looks good.

Happy birthday Mrs 'Splitta.

Happy birthday to the lady Gits here we are approaching 27 again. Used to be 24 again. I suspect 29 again coming soon.

Hey Gitsy, I think you need to add one darker AB step and onen lighter one... things are a bit flat at the moment, push your contrasts!

@MajorTom: Will do. The Leviathan will have to stay as is, but I'll work on everything else.


Speaking of which... WIP2. White is next.

The white will break up the purple and look great Gits! Our Levi's will have to have a throw down next year!

Yeah, I think so. I've been mapping the white out in my head ever since I started the detail painting. I guess I won't know for certain until it's down on the model, but I'm hopeful it'll be a significant improvement.

I'm not sure I'm confident enough to "throw down" my Levi's... I'm a bit old and shriveled for a meat-measuring competition...

 Gitsplitta wrote:
Yeah, I think so. I've been mapping the white out in my head ever since I started the detail painting. I guess I won't know for certain until it's down on the model, but I'm hopeful it'll be a significant improvement.

Looks great. Nice spot touchesod detail. Add some transfers as it has plenty of open areas.

 Master Azalle wrote:
The white will break up the purple and look great Gits! Our Levi's will have to have a throw down next year!

 Gitsplitta wrote:
I'm not sure I'm confident enough to "throw down" my Levi's... I'm a bit old and shriveled for a meat-measuring competition...

I am However confident enough! I should have a decent sized Alpha Legion force by next year ans looking to play.