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Done and done. I'll throw em out to you next time I hit the post office.

Thanks Whale!


I've made some good progress on the Talon and I also put together another Ice Angel for a swap. He'll have a flamer.

Today I managed to get some more done on my talon. The orange is coming along. I still need to hit it with a wash and then further highlights. To get away from the orange for a minute I did begin work on the missiles and the lens. I hope you guys like him thus far.

Needs more stripes.

Nice work on those lenses!

Thanks guys. Stripes will show up much later in the process Whale, at the very end actually.

Nice tone on the orange. Will it get wing weathering and soot or be factory fresh?

WOW.. nice job on the Storm Talon.

Thanks guys!

I have some ill news to report though. My FLGS from my child hood is closing. The owner of Valporaiso Pet and Hobby is retiring after thirty some odd years. When Moonpie and I heard the news we quite literally got in the car and drove back home so we could chat with the guys, pick up discounted stuff, and then drive back. I'm glad we could stop by one more time but sad it'll most likely be the last time.

Thank you Valporaiso Pet and Hobby for being my first dealer in model crack! Its funny to think that back in 1991 when I first started going there, the clerk bitched about GW. I swear that yesterday when we saw him, he was still bitching about the same thing.

Always a bummer to hear. Was it just time to retire, or retire early due to money loss? Pick up anything good?

The Stormtalon looks great!

Sorry to hear about your FLGS, it always sucks when that happens.

Lucarikx

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Nice tone on the orange. Will it get wing weathering and soot or be factory fresh?

Sorry i missed this one before. There will be some minor weathering. I don't want it to be too busy. After I've done everything else I'm going to probably add some minor weathering around engines and such.

@whale - it was just time to retire. the store had always done well. The gaming side of things was a very very small part of that store. Valporaiso has a huge model train following. Remote control cars, planes, and trains were all MUCH more popular then wargaming at this particular store. There was another FLGS a few miles away. It had all the gaming supplies and gaming clubs.

There seems to be a lot of that going around. The grand-dad of Madison gaming stores (The Last Square) just down-sized and relocated to the point where it's little more than an on-line store now. The large gaming community has kind of scattered to the 4 winds. (I'm not blaming them... people ARE allowed to retire after all.)

For those of you that read my fluff thread, you'd know that I managed to write an entire book here on dakka. I'm in the editing process right now to clean it up a bit. While this has been going on I've also begun the brainstorming and outlining of book two. Moonpie, first supplied Brother Aquilum in book one. For book two he has supplied me with this lovely marine.

He is from a secretive chapter of marines, known by outsiders as the Twin Sabres. This particular marine though is very special amongst his peers. He has obtained a rank shrouded in mystery. SO shrouded that even his own brethren can only whisper about the thought of it. This rank is so highly honored that no one dare mention it or even write it down. The sheer idea of limiting this all inspiring rank or confining this level of aptitude with words and icons would defeat the purpose of its existing. Instead, the Twin Sabres simply erased this marines name and history so he can take up the mantle of............. the Celestial Unicorn!

A split orange/red scheme. With green and blue accents. And a unicorn... fascinating


Marine looks good, and brainstorming is always nice to hear about... Though it leaves me eagerly awaiting Book II of the saga

I like the swords!

Would love to have you write about him... but then they'd have to kill you of course.

The Celestial Unicorn will most definitely *****DELETED*********

Wow, that was weird.

Let's try again.

In book two of the ***DELETED******DELETED******DELETED******

Okay, never mind.

In hobby news, i did managed to wash my storm talon. I need to hit up some high lights and pick up a few more details. Then I need to figure out how to stripe it. I need to paint the cockpit glass. Lastly, hit it with some light damage.

The best part about this was that I was talking with Ice on the phone and said he had a banner with a design, but it was a secret.

He goes, "Is it a unicorn?"

I changed the subject.

@Ramos-I'll take fascinating. I stared at the color wheel in the 03 version of how to paint citadel miniatures and read about harmonies and discords and generally acted like I knew anything about that crap.

@Git- The sabres are from the FW Mk IV power weapons kit. I think they are Charnabal sabres. They are the Emperor's Children things I think.

RIP Pet and Hobby. We used to spend as much time as we were allowed staring at "Space Marine" plastic titans and Ork Bubblechukkas there. I bought all of my Necromunda stuff there. I went 3 weeks without school lunch so I could buy my first box of metal Grey Hunters there. Thanks for the Necron Abyss and the memories!

Actually moonpie... it was the paintjob on the sabres I was admiring. Nice work.

More Talon WIP. Thoughts?

Love the light blue and orange! Nice blending work across the windows & lenses.

As Git's says that looks very nice with the blue, looking forward to those stripes.

Thanks guys. I actually did some stripes yesterday after I spent about an hour starting at it trying to determine how I should do the stripes. I'll have some pictures later.

Hmmmmmm, the first set of stripes I did I really liked. The second set I wasn't so sure on. The third set looks okay. I took some pictures today but the lighting is really bad. As I stare at the model I have come to the conclusion that I like the stripes but I wouldn't really say its very tigery. Tigery? Sure, I'll use that made up word. Then again Tigers, as I look at images, have sort of whitish faces with stripes going every which way. I never thought about doing a white face on my talon or any of my marines, perhaps in the future? Perhaps on a captain or character of some sort? Interesting thought isn't it.

Tomorrow I'm hoping to take some better pictures while there is some day light to work in. Expect some pictures tomorrow.


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On a random side note, are any of you guys playing Clash of Clans? I've been wasting WAY to much time on it. It is lots of fun. I'm only in the silver leagues at the moment but if any of you need a clan please look me up. My clan is the Mindflayers.

AND back to painting. According to the weather, the snow will be out of here and the sun will be up later this afternoon. Pictures of my Talon will be incoming.

FEEDBACK GO!

No seriously, how can I make this better?

I like it. It's probably easy to go overboard and do too many stripes. I' like the jagged stripes the best. the best shot is the upper right pic.

On a side note though the canopy is painted well I think I'd prefer to see the pilot in flyers.
Good choice of color to highlight the black stripe.

What are you thinking of doing for the stand? I think you should do a pile of Red Scorpions bodies all the way up. That should keep you busy and not playing clans!

If you supply a pile of red scorpion bodies, I'll paint them.

Thanks for the feedback Solar

While the concept of the tiger stripe pattern is sound, I feel that there is some disparity in execution. It would have looked much better as a stylized, tearing pattern using tiger stripe colors. That's my opinion, at least. This pattern does the intended job of camouflage, breaking up body lines and shapes, very well. But I feel that aesthetically it was perhaps a poor choice.

I think the canopy is stunning. I might steal that.

Hmmm.... Looks real good. My only thought would be to bring out the edges a bit with an extreme highlight. like on all the hard corners and angles of the armor plates. That would help give it some more shape and definition. Nothing too extreme, but enough to tell its there.