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That's a nice paint scheme Graven. Nicely done.

albinoork wrote:Been away for awhile and HOLY COW!

Shrine looks fantastic! A fine use of Prisoners / donations to Blood God.

Does your gaming group use a fair amount of Forgeworld?

Looking forward to seeing the Storm Eagle finished. The paint style makes it look like it is moving fast while just sitting there. Well played.

Hey buddy nice to have you back. The shrine was fun but hellish, I've got a kill team game planned against khorne horde set for next month which should be fun. FW: it's not so much that there is a lot of it, more that no one minds, more a Ooooooh factor! Great bunch. Glad you like the scheme!

Viktor von Domm wrote:where did that painted model come from all of a sudden??? I am stunned... the faded and slightly looking like cloudy sky look is rather more well done than I would have expected in that time frame!...wow...how?

and well... if you happen to have said copy in hand and would trip over next to your scanner and as a million to one accident you would place it out of sheer terror of hurting yourself inside the scanner and then hitting the button to steady yourself... then the outcome wouldn´t be for naught

I shall try not to trip over it tomorrow. The paint scheme is a bit tedious but very simple, progressive drybrushed edge highlights with Vallejo turquoise.

Gitsplitta wrote:Thank you graven. Got it. Nice work with the paint too!

De Nada, gracias, and other foreign words as well.

Dr H wrote:That's a nice paint scheme Graven. Nicely done.

Wow, folk really seem to be digging this - not that I'm complaining!

Some marginally better pics, that show the plastic surgery more clearly (or hopefully not)


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And belly up

Like It a lot, reminds me of the X-men plane somehow.

the blackbird

Nice job on the glowy orange bits! Nice counterpoint to the blackish blue.

Thanks guys, the orange was a risk but I'm glad I went for it. There is a lot of tidying to do on the lights especially but I'm finally feeling positive about this beast and then I can have fun with the base. Something xenos methinks! Also got a storm talon to go with it so there's that to look forward to.

is it because of the flash or that you have done something else to the bird now that almost all blue has gone except the edge highlights? i miss the cloudy look :( it looked like black marble or rather obsidian...hmmm....

Ah, no, flash curse! You reminded me actually, I feathered in from the edges with the drybrush. I'm going to try to get the talon to this point today.

no weathering on the engines?

Patience, young padawan


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It is possible that I have been drinking, and carbonising foodstuffs.


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Hey look! A little friend!

oh.... that scheme really works for me!... and yeah the flash really kills so many stuff some times...

the lil flyer looks rather cool already... might be due to the scheme of course

the bottom line is... i don´t know why the current pic of the bottom of yon storm eagle looks that way? is that weathering? or what?

Well, it's an assault flyer, a proper LR with wings, so the bottom is filthy (and the image overexposed). annoyingly, the starboard wing assembly has just fallen off completely and my glue is clagging up. Rage. On the plus side, a wrecked SoB rhino that I got for a steal on fleabay is now soaking in dettol, hopefully to shift the glue as well as the paint. Oh, and if anyone has a spare rectangular rhino top hatch (the one for the razorback/predator mount), I'll give you gold, or something.

I have two of those little buggers that I plan to escort a certain Storm Raven onto the battlefield. Of course nothing is painted (or even assembled) yet, but that's the long-term plan.

ah... understood... actually i never bothered to look up certain items in the lexicanum... should have done that before... would be helpful

as for glue dangleberries on the bottle... i just cut everything away and if inside the pipe is still glue then a thin wire or needle will help... if we are talking plastic glue here then pushing the clogged stuff in will solve it up as the clogged stuff is a mix of PC and glue...if it is superglue... well then just cutting it off will help...not much harmfull stuff there...tho wearing gloves wouldn´t harm either
and you´re still overdue to my chaosy stuff care package... i was just over lazy to go to the PO... but i doubt if i have any hatches left... but won´t PC save the day for this mere task?

Not of all of us can punch a hole like you Vik don't sweat the caring chaos package, I'm in a good position just now for bits. Apart from that hatch, which is actually for a separate plan...

Which leads me neatly into my next question: flight stands. You may know that I hate the things. The last one got dressed up as an explosion.

This time I'm thinking of dressing the thing up as one of the following:
Some kind of tau or necron "pylon"
Some kind of imperial building strut
A pile of orky junk/rickety tower.

Again, I like the whole "flyer skimming over the very top of building", but maybe it's silly in this case. Any thoughts? Sorry, I know that's vague

the last option is always a good choice... but actually the necron tau one strikes me as more interesting... the imp thingy... naw... overdone...and i would leave just a tiny fraction of space inbetween... otherwise it would look as if the bottom would just drop out of it

Hmm. There is a version of this in my head that has a tau flyer crashed into said pylon...

Are you after the one with the circular hole in the middle?

I am indeed - rectangular with circular hole at one end.

Yeah I have one, I wont be able to post it until I'm back at work next week though.

Free stuff? I'm sure I'll live many thanks.

Ho-kay, so,
Some progress on the bases.
First, this will probably be the base for the Eagle:

Obviously the white is me marking out the base of the thing. It will be rubble strewn, as if burst from the ground. Also, more general paneling will be on the thing, but the principle is what you see just now.

The other side, with the Talon for reference.

And the other base:

Again, with the Talon:


I've also had a fairly productive morning insofar as I've darkshaded 4/6 RoB Tiles (have now run out... a tin does 200 figs, or 4 tiles). This will then need to get a matt varnish too, but I'm generally pleased and it's nice to have some father-son projects to do, especially as the board is ultimately for us all to play on.

Later peeps,
graven

Nice graven, very nice. I envy your ability and desire to do all that extra work on the base. Really makes a difference in the final presentation of the model.

with bases like that you double the models worth methinks

man... have you no mercy for xenos stuff here? just brutally chopping up these poor vehicles?

and the pylon is looking remarkably good... i hope there will be some fading light effect on that one...you know... that hole you left there? like


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oh...and nice idea to mark the places with white markers!!!

cool project with the boy would like to see how that is shaping up.

bases look good. the added fire warriors add to a touch of realism.
i also agree with gits if i have had the patience you do with bases i would produce better projects lol.

Gitsplitta wrote:Nice graven, very nice. I envy your ability and desire to do all that extra work on the base. Really makes a difference in the final presentation of the model.

Thanks mate, just remember that you're getting a bunch of these for your Storm Raven too! Btw, you're absolutely right, I now realise I absolutely need a second Talon to balance this out. I'm almost tempted to pick up a Dark Talon for the bits...

Viktor von Domm wrote:with bases like that you double the models worth methinks

man... have you no mercy for xenos stuff here? just brutally chopping up these poor vehicles?

and the pylon is looking remarkably good... i hope there will be some fading light effect on that one...you know... that hole you left there? like

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oh...and nice idea to mark the places with white markers!!!

Meh, I never like to make life easy for myself. Wait till you see my plans for Seraphim... And mercy? Sounds like HERESY to me that does The pylon is definitely more of a successful build than I'd anticipated, I think that you could actually use the flying bases to make great eldar bastions, though. I do plan to have glowy effects on the pyramid one.

alabamaheretic wrote:cool project with the boy would like to see how that is shaping up.

bases look good. the added fire warriors add to a touch of realism.
i also agree with gits if i have had the patience you do with bases i would produce better projects lol.

Once they're dry I'll throw some pics up Yeah, random acquisitions are awesome. I had some deldar kicking about which nearly made it into this but they got scavenged by erithromycin instead.

So, here they are on their respective bases:

I like them this way round, I think the Eagle looks very menacing and I buy into the Talon just hovering. However, the Eagle is *not* stable on that base.

Here's the reverse, which shows the extensive pc'ing of the back of the "pyramid".


And the alternative.


The original plan was for the "pylon" base's necron components to all be painted as one, whilst the "pyramid" was to have a glowy rod up through the middle. Will that work, or look weird? Should the rod of the "pylon" be glowy, or should the "pyramid" not have a glow stick?

As for paint scheme, the Tau are to be purple with turquoise which hopefully is not too similar to the DW (thoughts?) and the crons muted grey/browns - but I'm open to suggestions. I did consider very bright Tau at one point, and ultra-white Necron too. But, yeah, give a buddy a dime here, cos I'm a bit stuck.

Oh, and a random aside - I got the servo-skull of mention-worthiness in the League's terrain contest! Hurrah! Go check out the entries and awesome winners here!

Anon,
graven

well... congratz you old git!... you´ve won!!! if you don´t fly the banner in the next ten minutes you will find that we also make quite nice garters from your innards ... so much for mercy in these lands

as for the base choice... yeah... the last one looks off... the other way around definitely look not right... and maybe you could add even some weight to the base as well?
after al some sand inside the hollow models couldn´t hurt?

and if the puple is more dominant than the turquoise then the tau scheme could work...
and no... no glowy rod insde the pylon... would make it look as if the pyramide would "shoot" at the flyer...

Good work on the bases. Good ideas too.

Purple and Turquoise work well and yellow is quite a good spot colour to go with that.

And good point Vik about the glow of the necron thing.

and did i overread the yellow bit? but you´re right of course!

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and did i overread the yellow bit? but you´re right of course!

Oh, I see. There's me trying to use technical speak and Vik makes a funny...