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Indeed, spoils us some more with vostroyan eyecandy

Tank Banner:



This banner is based off of this image that you might know:



Have to add the wreath though.

Funny thing is, this never was an official Communist flag for the soviet union. A friend of mine made this for an imaginary science fiction faction. (Urustavia or something like that)
He noticed that this flag design was around the web alot, even the first google search hit when you look for ''russian communist flag''
You can even see a little flaw in it. If you look close you can see that the laurel wreath is cut out with photoshop so you can still see the ruff edges.

Believe it or not.

with the laurel i think it will look better...atm it is not speaking too hard vostroya to me...

maybe some golden trimmings on the edges too?

 Viktor von Domm wrote:


maybe some golden trimmings on the edges too?

We'll see when the laurel is added.

Here it is with the laurel added:

Beautiful.

Great banner!

You sir are amazing. your work looks great! i love the way you paint. and those tracks... so simple and yet so effective.

great job all around! i'm gonna follow this one from now on!

cheers!

Thanks guys!

Don't know if I ever posted these:

Red shirts!

Nice Valhallastroyans. The subtle conversions and amazing paintscheme looks great! Any chance of a group shot of the squads at some point?

Yeah I'm gonna do that, gonna bust out the light-tent for it.
Pictures later tonight!

P.s.

Made these crater counters:

i like the laurel... but i still think the edges need something to be added... maybe some weathering at least?

Your work is simply amazing! Loving this thread :]

Looking sweet as candy dev. I see you got bitten by vik too !! Since you dont post many wip pics regarding your minis, id like to ask...are you painting over or white, black or zenithal prime? And also your reds are always so vibrant...i achieve a "similar" look by painting literally 20 to 30 coats of red. Im thinking your way is probably better? Anyways, fantastic progress. On a side note, love love love the fuscia plasma glow. great choice in spot color sir....keep the candy coming!

Bebop

Hey BB (I can call you that, right?)

About the red. It is painted over a black undercoat. I have a red painting pot mixed with 50/50 Scab red/Blood red, with which I base all my reds with, and from there on it's mixed with a little more blazing orange every step.

20-30 layers eh? For the banner I used probably 5-6 layers and then a light glaze with blood red to blend in the transition a bit. I think the ''trick'' here is to get that almost perfect water/paint ratio when adding the layers. I think someone called it as thick as skinned milk

Glad you like the plasma glow. maybe one day I might try OSL like you did on the priest plasma

@ Viktor: I am going to keep the banner like this. Want to focus on the print as much as I can, think weathering would not look bad at all, but it would distract a little too much IMHO.

About the candy.. The Grand Tournament is next weekend and the tank banner was actually the last thing I had to finish for this army..

So...



The army is finished!

That doesn't mean that no more pictures will be posted though. I have been updating some units, improvements and such. Will post about that in preparation of the Tournament + a complete army Pic.
That will probably be at the GT itself when there are better camera's and lighting. Might also do a little coverage of the Tournament itself with pictures from battles that I play and other armies that I stumble upon and are worth sharing with you.

So all in all keep an eye out for the conclusion of this thread!

Ok 20-30 may be an overstatement lol but I think a key difference here is your adding increased amounts of orange. I'm gonna try it out
Congrats on a fantastic gorgeous army!! Good luck!

So yeah, the light tent doesn't work well with the reds I'm using at all! + my phone camera doesn't fare well with group shots.

Busted out my digital camera!

Bastonne's squad:



Other Red shirt squad:



And then the batteries died.. So no squad pic of the Carapace armour squad.. Yet!

Enjoy!

Awesome, the infantry are just as epic as the tanks. I also love the idea of banners in each squad. Do you use them to represent Vox casters or the like, or are they just decorative?

I never imagined red greatcoats would look good, but those look excellent. again, you have a nice, clean painting style I really love.

The Grand Tournament was last weekend. Had an absolute blast!

I'm looking through my pictures I took. A lot are shaky, and I'm selecting the best of em.
Hopefully I can get some better pictures from people who took better pictures of the event and also from the Nominated armies.

Here is a teaser picture:



More later!

wow. first time reader here and i'm taken aback

Those banners are awesome. What kind of material did you use to make them?

Dev, do NOT even tell me that with your beautifully painted army you do not have matching dice!?
i swear ill buy you some if i have to....

True story to the above matching dice is key

Looking forward to seeing the other pictures

@MazzHammer: The banners are made from Grey stuff, very similair to green stuff.

Lol @ the dice. I usually don't bother buying matching dice for my armies, would have ended up with a gazillion dice by now, haha.

Here are some more pictures from last weekend's Grand Tournament:

The guys @ work:



Random army shots:








''The Cheese'' And yes, those are decepticon icons



The Hotel bathroom: ''supperior'' class



The Nominees:

Eldar from a french guy:





Tau/Eldar from the only woman in the tournament:





Pre-Heresy World Eaters:





And me very own Imperial Guard:




Pretty stiff competition..

But I got the most votes and prolonged my Best Army on Show title!



Well that's all folks regarding Vostroya! Had a blast making this, and sharing it with you guys!

But I will return with other stuff!

CONGRATULATIONS!! Well done Sir!!

PLEASE POST YOUR NEXT BATCH OF WORK IN HERE!!!!!!


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(Oh and well done on the award!)

Please don't take long to decide your next army

Awesome! Congratulations on your splendid army!

Its been great watching you build this army. Im looking forward to your next one.