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I suppose it depends on the paint, I've never heard anything like that. And conventional wisdom would say that leaving paint in your brush could damage it.

 jabbakahut wrote:
I suppose it depends on the paint, I've never heard anything like that. And conventional wisdom would say that leaving paint in your brush could damage it.

I'm using Vallejo 'Model Air' and 'Model Color' and Citadel 'Base'; the brush was none too good in the first place as I never buy expensive brushes and rarely have a use for flat tip brushes unless they come with the set. I just thought this was an interesting alternative to masking and needle fine round brushes 20/0 and finer.

Meanwhile I just finished base-coating 60 Cadians and am applying Agrax Earthshade Shade......

Are you retired? The amount of work you've done of the years seems to be increasing.

My Cadians are now up to Company strength and

VIPER ARV:

I gotta get a couple of these for my Cadian company:





http://theminiaturespage.com/news/1490387090


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Don't tell me I have to endure the dread "Auto Append".

The most sophisticated forum on the internet and it has this arcane rule from the last millennium.........sheesh!

100+ Reclaimed Cadians:

Well here is the fruits of a week or so's labor; 100 repaired and renovated and basically painted Cadians.

http://i.imgur.com/YKULkTh.jpg


These sets do not include the 20 metal Cadians I painted last month.

http://i.imgur.com/hFfMhNc.jpg


It's amazing how good these images came out.

For colour I spray painted the entire set with flat black and brush painted the tunics and trousers with Vallejo 'Model Air' Khaki Brown and my own special concoction of armour green of Citadel 'Death World Forest and Vallejo 'Model Color' Luftwaffe Camo Green 50/50. Flesh I painted Vallejo Model Air 'Sand'.

http://i.imgur.com/zTdtfp8.jpg


After Painting I washed with Citadel 'Shade' Agrax Earthshade.

http://i.imgur.com/lmpQOjp.jpg


Now I have to learn how to apply decals.......

Bovine Space Marines!

What next, Pigs in space? I was rummaging through the abandon materials I inherited and came across these humongous Space Marines standing half again taller than the usual SM grunt. On painting them I noticed decidedly bovine features.

http://i.imgur.com/QT3UDV3.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/DNgGpoN.jpg


The armour is quite elegant with compact jump packs but who thought cow faces would look good? What chapter are these; I can't find them with google.

Those are terminator armor suits. The vents on the back are heat vents for the armor, not jump packs. The first suits were created for use in reactor cores according to the old fluff, and modified to combat use later on. They are extremely durable (in the old fluff), but rules wise not so much. It's not a specific chapter that I know of, the symbol on the leg was an army badge that repeated on the dreadnought that these came with (Battle for Maccrage box set I think). The color of that green would look good for Raptor or Warbringers. This is one of the snap fit ones from a starter set.

Decals reward a process:

Paint the surface you want to put the decal on with gloss varnish. This provides the ultra-smooth surface decals crave.

Apply the decal (saucer of water is the easiest).

Let everything dry thoroughly.

Apply a very light drybrush of the underlying color, this will complete the blending of the edges.

Seal the decal with varnish, or matte spray over the figure (to your preference).

If you are working on curved surfaces, you'll want some solvaset, this (effectively) softens the plastic of the decal, allowing it to confirm to surfaces, bumps, rivets, etc.

This is a nice tutorial:

http://incunabulum.co.uk/blog/2009/09/29/tutorial-decals-with-microsol-and-microset/comment-page-1/

Theophony wrote:Those are terminator armor suits. The vents on the back are heat vents for the armor, not jump packs. The first suits were created for use in reactor cores according to the old fluff, and modified to combat use later on. They are extremely durable (in the old fluff), but rules wise not so much. It's not a specific chapter that I know of, the symbol on the leg was an army badge that repeated on the dreadnought that these came with (Battle for Maccrage box set I think). The color of that green would look good for Raptor or Warbringers. This is one of the snap fit ones from a starter set.

Thanks, that's just what I needed to know. I want to follow my green pattern throughout my Space Marine army so Terminator Raptors and Warbringers will be a perfect scheme

Briancj wrote:Decals reward a process:

Paint the surface you want to put the decal on with gloss varnish. This provides the ultra-smooth surface decals crave.

Apply the decal (saucer of water is the easiest).

Let everything dry thoroughly.

Apply a very light drybrush of the underlying color, this will complete the blending of the edges.

Seal the decal with varnish, or matte spray over the figure (to your preference).

If you are working on curved surfaces, you'll want some solvaset, this (effectively) softens the plastic of the decal, allowing it to confirm to surfaces, bumps, rivets, etc.

This is a nice tutorial:

http://incunabulum.co.uk/blog/2009/09/29/tutorial-decals-with-microsol-and-microset/comment-page-1/

Thanks for the info, since I posted this request I have studied up on applying decals. The consensus of opinion from the modeling pro's is to use U S Johnson's Future acrylic wax aka Klear Floor varnish a for the gloss finish but neglect to say whether the gloss only goes under the decal or over the entire area to be worked on. Have you tried this?

Those ARVs look great, sadly they don't appear to be available currently now though :(

I apply the gloss to the entire area, and then make sure I go back and shade the area back to the underlying color, since the gloss and decal will lighten the color.

Boring:

Yeah that's what my son says, all my painting motifs are boring but having been in the military there is very little garishness in current military attire; I can only assume what holds today will hold in the far flung future, at least in some chapters.

http://i.imgur.com/fdnOHIh.jpg


All my Space Marines, Cadians, and heavy equipment will sport this green and graphite with gold trim sparsely applied which seems satisfactory to me.

The Lackluster Blackadder

They are looking good .

The emperor's Warbringers Symbol just in case your interested.

Here's the image I could find for their armor layout as well.


Also a link to a fellow Dakka member who had a WIP Warbringers army build a few years ago. I really liked the look of them myself. I kind of picked them out from the black library book Insignum Astartes and was going to run with them for a while, but could never find a green I liked.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/373641.page

Thanks for the reply,

Robed Space Marines:

This next entry is ten robed Space Marines.

Google doesn't help much and my first inclination is to paint the robes my mixture of green and burnish the armour with graphite powder....

http://i.imgur.com/8zTaFfw.jpg


but I also have a notion to paint the robes crimson à la the Monty Python Inquisitioners.

http://i.imgur.com/5LokJ3x.jpg


The pieces came with the jump packs seen here but the google images show regular jump packs In either case it would seem the exhausts and the robes to prove mutually exclusive.

http://i.imgur.com/RL8Vftb.jpg


I thought instead to mount mechanical arms packs and convert them into a Space Marine faction of Tech Priests.

What if any is the presidence for this?

Love the green marines, its like an off camo. Looking forward to seeing more

I would not use jump jets in a set of robes. Fortunately, that is a dilemma I will likely never face.

No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition:



Yeah I've about worn that title out and truth be known I've about had it with reclaiming these various chapters and disciplines of troop figures but since I am on a roll I might as well stick it out until they are all completed and reasonably painted.



I embarked on this sub segment of my model building because I had nothing to put in my Thunderhawk or to display around my various Titans for scale purposes and since I shall not be actually playing any of these pieces many will be just scenery on the display platforms.



Anyway I left off with these robed SM which I thought to convert to Teck priests but instead I've decided to show them as the were originally intended.



Below are the completed figures with their base coats applied:



http://i.imgur.com/xoobRyj.jpg





I'm not pleased with the coil glow on the Phasers but we'll see how it looks with the wash applied; detailing is yet to be done on any of these figures.



http://i.imgur.com/87zQagW.jpg





These figures will likely be displayed on my Warlord gantry so they won't need bases. Whether SM troops are reasonably deployed in Maintenance facilities is subject to speculation.



http://i.imgur.com/xXmoCCJ.jpg





Another possible mistake is the outlandishly huge shoulder armour as I did not have the originals; I had to scrounge for enough to just to complete the set so the shoulders came from various different chapters which may be off putting to 40K purists but..........



Waddaya gonna do?


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 mxwllmdr wrote:
I would not use jump jets in a set of robes. Fortunately, that is a dilemma I will likely never face.

I had though to eschew the jump packs and replace them with Tech priest waldos and back pack mountings.


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 Master Azalle wrote:
Love the green marines, its like an off camo. Looking forward to seeing more

Thanks, you're the first to actually appreciate my green motif which I think has a very military flair. It was not intended to be camouflage per se but just an understated elegant colour scheme much in keeping with my own lackluster demeanor.

Monty Python for the Win. Now you need to have the planes name in latin written in whitewash with it crossed out and respelled a few times then correctly rewritten a hundred times all around the ship.

There are also book bits that they could smack themselves in the head with while chanting "The Emperor is lord, The lord is dead"

 Theophony wrote:
Monty Python for the Win. Now you need to have the planes name in latin written in whitewash with it crossed out and respelled a few times then correctly rewritten a hundred times all around the ship.

There are also book bits that they could smack themselves in the head with while chanting "The Emperor is lord, The lord is dead"

Actually I want to get a set of these:



but I don't know where to find them?

They seem simple enough to sculpt from scratch.


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Whoops never mind;

http://victoriaminiatures.highwire.com/product/spanish-inquisition

Found them.


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 Theophony wrote:
Monty Python for the Win. Now you need to have the planes name in latin written in whitewash with it crossed out and respelled a few times then correctly rewritten a hundred times all around the ship.

"Imperator est Dominus mortuus", "write it out 100 times. If it's not done by sunrise, I'll cut your balls off."

Consider me a captive audience until there is a rabbit strapped underneath the wing for mass destruction.

Forward Bolters

Well after much soul searching I finally conceded that front firing bolters are not redundant on Thunderhawk as the ball turrets sport turbolasers. So placement of the turret mounts is pretty much ordained by the 3D drawing as nestled up to the froward belt armour.

http://i.imgur.com/ZtpGwX3.jpg


Yeah Blackadder, you leave this thread hanging for months and you show up with one measly image.

Nice err.... drill holes.... Very, erm.... well drilled...

But yay - T-hawk updates incoming... (hopefully)

 Ruglud wrote:
Nice err.... drill holes.... Very, erm.... well drilled...

But yay - T-hawk updates incoming... (hopefully)

Yeah well, the holes are to demonstrate how I initiate cutting square holes in already built up models just in case there are individuals that might find that info useful.

I'll admit, I use the very same technique

Forward Bolters:

Since my Thunderhawk is outsized I have elected to use Landraider sponsons.

Cutting and placing these sponsons had best be left for the end of the detailing as they have to fit right in the proper position. I was lucky in that with virtually no planning on my part the sponson fit as if I HAD PLANNED IT ALL ALONG?

After drilling the corner holes I used an Xacto keyhole saw to cut between the corner holes.

http://i.imgur.com/YzZ9TrJ.jpg


I then pared the excess styrene to the penciled lines and filed the hole carefully for a snug fit of the sponson inner flange....

http://i.imgur.com/X1xZA6s.jpg


The plugs fit snugly; better than I expected.

http://i.imgur.com/rkPaVjT.jpg

That works...

(plus a little AAA for you)

Thanks, and I just had an inspiration to make these removable so I can replace them with other weapons or just leave the hull opening sealed with a plug door as in the 3D image.....

http://i.imgur.com/VosDIww.jpg


Ahhhh to be young and have a choice.

You could also scratch build an external sensor package too ....we'll never let you finish a project

Yep, interchangeable weaponry is the way to go

I always thought of the side bolters as cover fire for embarkations/debarkation of marines out that assault ramp.

Thanks Jabba, Ruglud & Theophony although I'm not sure what a external sensor package is?

Plug In Weapons:

At the risk of belaboring the obvious I offer my mechanism for quick change weapons. in the image below I have mounted my Bolter assembly with a sliding bolt lock assembly where you slide out the upper and lower bolts to remove the bolter mount. A simple yet effective solution.

http://i.imgur.com/87Fey7N.jpg


Below is the unit removed with one bolt in place and the other removed.

http://i.imgur.com/GfwcBIL.jpg


Pardon the blurred images please...........