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Wow.. very nice again!

Actually much prefer these to the official colour scheme..

Another awesome blog, medusa! Packed with great stuff.

Thank you guys. You´re very kind. Right now I´m building terrain...hope to get some parts ready the next days.

Here´s another update...I´d like to get my sh.. done.

First of all...the Anathematic. I added green to the armor, I wanted to have another color not making him too bright or colorful...hope you like him...







The tentacles are hell to glue, I´ll have to pin them I think...

Next is the Skaivoros, this is a WIP, but I´m in trouble with this little guy. Think I didn´t do it well this time, the colors don´t fit to the model. I perhaps will strip it and paint it again, giving him a more green color like the Shavastiis I painted in this block. Perhaps you could help me with my decision...what do you think? Should I start again or just leave it and do more detail on the edges and son on?






Have fun! I´m always happy for critics and comments!

Both of them are great, but that Anathematic.... wow.. just wow..

It's one of my favourite models, think you have definitely done it justice!

Thanks. I love the model, too. It´s one reason playing Combined.

I really like the dark, cool, electric-blue look.

As said before, well done!

You know, I was planning a slick blue, white and grey scheme for my Morats. Then I saw this thread and now that plan is out the window. The bone and purple looks great on them. I am totally stealing that scheme. Just one question, did you use only a brown wash, or did you use other colored washes on them as well?

 Barzam wrote:
You know, I was planning a slick blue, white and grey scheme for my Morats. Then I saw this thread and now that plan is out the window. The bone and purple looks great on them. I am totally stealing that scheme. Just one question, did you use only a brown wash, or did you use other colored washes on them as well?

You´re welcome. I´m happy to inspire you ;-)

I used Vallejo Game and Model Colors for the Morat. First Khaki washed with GW Griffon sepia. Right now it´s out of stock I use Army Painter Wash Soft Tone. The I highlight the color with Ice Blue, using more and more of it for every layer. If you like I´ll do a tutorial when I´m working on the next Morat...

Please do. Those colors work really well on them. So you used Ice Blue? I couldn't even tell. Thanks.

So...here comes the Skaivoros. I had some issues with this guy, but I changed the grey to get a softer contrast than the step before. Now he´s looking nice I think. I hope you like him. I think all my AI stuff should look like Skai and the Anathematic, they are grim beasts and should look like that. I will use this colors for the other AIs too. Hope they will look nice wihtin the other Combined stuff. I´ll have to change the bases I did, don´t think the grey will fit to the AIs. I will experiment with that later. I think I´ll do some red brown or something like that.







So, now for the tutorial. I have some Daturazi here I wanted to paint for a longer time. Here we go. I´m not used to make tutorials and not a native speaker so foregive me if I´m not very good in doing it.

step 1:
I cover all parts of the armor with Vallejo Khaki and wash it with Griffon Sepia or Army Painter Soft Tone.



step 2:
I use Khaki again just painting the higher parts of the armor, So I quickly get some shadow.



step 3:
Now I´m starting to mix a small amount of Vallejo Ice Blue into the Khaki and use it again over the higher parts, just leaving a little bit of the pure Khaki...



step 4t-6t:
I´m mixing more and more Ice Blue to the Khaki and use thin layers onto the armor.







step 7:
Now I just do the edges with Iceblue with a small amount of Khaki



step 8
I use pure Ice Blue for the last details...



And voila! There comes the Daturazi (still WIP but you can see the ready armor)



As you can see I don´t use too much colors, here I just used two and a wash. So it´s not complicated using it for all Morats out there...

Hope you like it.

That actually doesn't seem to difficult to replicate. Thanks a lot for the tutorial. When I'm able to work on my Morats, I'll have to give this a go.

No, it´s really easy. I´m painting since ages now, but I´m not confident enough to use blending...perhaps I should try some time.

Love it, all of it! Slick work as always medusa, I'm glad your on a painting drive it's always good for inspiration. And thanks for taking the time to do a tutorial, sharing techniques helps us all improve.

...Well I'll be damned, you actually make morat look awesome - nice scheme, great execution!

Look really nice excellent colours on the Skaivoros and Anathematic

Thanks. The last days I was buisy rebasing my complete Combined stuff. Thought it was time to get nice bases for all of them. This was a bit complicated cause I had to find a color that would fit for the different colors of the army. So I went for a Terracotta...hope you like it. I will post the rest of all the other minis later on.

Looking great! As always! I quite like the muted white and the blue/purple you've got going.The new bases provide some contrast, and do indeed work

Thank smate!

Here´s a major update. I painted the Daturazi, Sheskiin, the Caliban and a drone. I´m happy with them, the drone has to get some more love...



















Hope you like them...

So. Like I promised I show my new based Combined Troops. I wanted to do that for a long long time but I couldn´t find the energy to do it...till now. Here we go...

First the Morat:















Shasvastii























Rest







Right now I´m thinking about redoing some parts like edges and so on. But I like the new bases and their style...Hope you like them too. C&C are really welcome...

Whoa, lots of progress! The new bases are great and work really well with the paint scheme, great job, mate.

I love how you've gotten such different figures to look like they belong together by having at least every one have a common color and the base.

 CDK wrote:
I love how you've gotten such different figures to look like they belong together by having at least every one have a common color and the base.

Thanks mate! This is exactly what I tried to do. I wanted to give all different parts of CA a different look but it was necessary to get an unique feeling for all of them when playing a vanilla list. So I hope the bases and the colors like purple or green will make them look united.

Hey, Great stuff! I like the purple armor, may even have to snag the idea for a few of my Shasvastii if you don't mind. Ill second what CDK said, the variety in color scheme is nice and helps define each type of model.

How did you make the Gwailos shields?I have 3 of them coming in the mail and would love to make some shields for them. I was going to paint on some plastic wrap and dunk it in acrylic glaze, then let it dry hanging from a wire to harden..this looks much easier though.

Seed soldiers are so cool looking, seems people give them a lot of hate over on the CB forums in terms of gameplay but still one of the cooler looking sculpts imo.

 Victor.Drellings wrote:
Hey, Great stuff! I like the purple armor, may even have to snag the idea for a few of my Shasvastii if you don't mind. Ill second what CDK said, the variety in color scheme is nice and helps define each type of model.

How did you make the Gwailos shields?I have 3 of them coming in the mail and would love to make some shields for them. I was going to paint on some plastic wrap and dunk it in acrylic glaze, then let it dry hanging from a wire to harden..this looks much easier though.

Seed soldiers are so cool looking, seems people give them a lot of hate over on the CB forums in terms of gameplay but still one of the cooler looking sculpts imo.

Thanks a lot. Of course take ideas, I´m happy inspiring people doing Infinity stuff ;-)

The shields where part of the blisters, every Gwailo came with two shields (one orange, one purple). Like the hacker´s hacking shields. I just cut it out and glued it to the bases. Later I put some of this nice dead earth putty on the bases and painted them, voila!

I like the seeds look too but they are one of the crappiest line infantry in the game IMO. When I play Shas I don´t use them much and in Vanilla lists I take Morat. They are fluffwise cool stuff but the just pop out in the second turn making them handle difficult...And they aren´t a very good link team. But I played a lot of Morat in the last months in our Paradiso campaign, I will give them a try again...

 medusa wrote:

 Victor.Drellings wrote:
Hey, Great stuff! I like the purple armor, may even have to snag the idea for a few of my Shasvastii if you don't mind. Ill second what CDK said, the variety in color scheme is nice and helps define each type of model.

How did you make the Gwailos shields?I have 3 of them coming in the mail and would love to make some shields for them. I was going to paint on some plastic wrap and dunk it in acrylic glaze, then let it dry hanging from a wire to harden..this looks much easier though.

Seed soldiers are so cool looking, seems people give them a lot of hate over on the CB forums in terms of gameplay but still one of the cooler looking sculpts imo.

Thanks a lot. Of course take ideas, I´m happy inspiring people doing Infinity stuff ;-)

The shields where part of the blisters, every Gwailo came with two shields (one orange, one purple). Like the hacker´s hacking shields. I just cut it out and glued it to the bases. Later I put some of this nice dead earth putty on the bases and painted them, voila!

I like the seeds look too but they are one of the crappiest line infantry in the game IMO. When I play Shas I don´t use them much and in Vanilla lists I take Morat. They are fluffwise cool stuff but the just pop out in the second turn making them handle difficult...And they aren´t a very good link team. But I played a lot of Morat in the last months in our Paradiso campaign, I will give them a try again...

Oh wow the shields come in the blister..better yet!

Yeah they aren't amazing, you could have them first turn if you go second lol.

 Victor.Drellings wrote:

 medusa wrote:

 Victor.Drellings wrote:
Hey, Great stuff! I like the purple armor, may even have to snag the idea for a few of my Shasvastii if you don't mind. Ill second what CDK said, the variety in color scheme is nice and helps define each type of model.

How did you make the Gwailos shields?I have 3 of them coming in the mail and would love to make some shields for them. I was going to paint on some plastic wrap and dunk it in acrylic glaze, then let it dry hanging from a wire to harden..this looks much easier though.

Seed soldiers are so cool looking, seems people give them a lot of hate over on the CB forums in terms of gameplay but still one of the cooler looking sculpts imo.

Thanks a lot. Of course take ideas, I´m happy inspiring people doing Infinity stuff ;-)

The shields where part of the blisters, every Gwailo came with two shields (one orange, one purple). Like the hacker´s hacking shields. I just cut it out and glued it to the bases. Later I put some of this nice dead earth putty on the bases and painted them, voila!

I like the seeds look too but they are one of the crappiest line infantry in the game IMO. When I play Shas I don´t use them much and in Vanilla lists I take Morat. They are fluffwise cool stuff but the just pop out in the second turn making them handle difficult...And they aren´t a very good link team. But I played a lot of Morat in the last months in our Paradiso campaign, I will give them a try again...

Oh wow the shields come in the blister..better yet!

Yeah they aren't amazing, you could have them first turn if you go second lol.

Don´t think so...
"The Seed-Embryo stands still, without moving, giving one Order to the Order Reserve of its army until its player’s second turn, or until the next player’s turn following its deployment."

Turn following its deployment, so if i deploy first then my opponent goes first for the first turn, that first turn is the turn following the seeds deployment, thus hatching on my first turn.

also if he decides to shoot at your seed prior to your first turn or act against it, it instantly hatches during his turn and reacts as normal. Or so it seems based on a very literal reading of the rules.

I may be wrong but idk.

Good point, I´m no native speaker so I´m not sure and I think you´re right...


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I wait for the 4th Gwailo...hope to get a Rocket Launcher soon...

mmm rocket launcher. I may still be wrong but what I think it is, is not strictly a disadvantage and being forced to miss a turn with them but perhaps a reason for Shas to go second in a game over first.

Hope we get more Caliban sculpts soon ! How do you like the Gwailos?