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I think the developing blood splatter from 1st Gen through to the 3rd Gens works great, newly turned guys, especially since they have the use of ranged weapons are likely to not get much splatter all that often.

In regards to the blood for the blood god paint, how easy is it to work with? I had the idea of doing a World Eaters army and painting them in there original Legion Colours (white and blue) and then adding so much of the blood god paint that from a distance they will actually appear to be red, its only once you get close do you realize that the red is actually the gore they are covered in.... would this be possible or would I need to do something a little different?

I think it's pretty easy to work with. It's the only red I used aside from the eyes, I think. You have to use a lot of it to get opacity, otherwise its kind of a glaze. If you put it on heavy enough though you can get it into the recesses.

I think you could do what you say, but it might take a while to get the right technique/application method down to portray what you're after instead of something confused in the middle. I'm not sure if it would be best to do the splatter method or brush it on.. probably some of both really. The splatter method will build up some texture pretty quick after a few applications since this stuff is thick and the little drops may not be totally flat when they dry.

I would say that it's definitely worth picking up a pot for experimenting, and that it's at least somewhat probable that you could do what you want.



Gah, FTL got a free expansion and that's been distracting me Probably not for long though, I played the game a LOT when I first got it and my burn out resistance is pretty low.

SO, got Easter stuff today. Gonna try to get my marauders worked on when there is time. May see about pinning my Infinity team if I can find my thinnest wire.


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Uh oh.... I guess it's about time. I have trouble being productive in the heat. I'm kind of like a computer in that way, I do fine in a cold room all day (though my painting stuff doesn't necessarily like it!), but if it's even a little arm I get sweaty and unproductive. I have trouble sleeping in the heat too. It's always something trying to drag my progress down :p

So I might still get some marauder painting done, it's not actually hot yet, just approaching it. May not be putting pics for a bit though, I want to execute the scheme through to dipping on a test model before I approve it for the whole unit.

 GrimDork wrote:
Yeah. Classic zombie thing is an epidemic or pandemic or whatever. These guys are more like a foothold scenario followed by full scale invasion as they systematically eliminate the inhabitants of the planet, swelling their ranks. And THEN they try to spread to new planets to do it again.

Like the makers of the artifacts made them so that if they were accessed correctly, or with the right attitude, no big deal, maybe knowledge shared? But Corporates will do it for profit/greed, so they unleashe the Beast Virus as I call it, and see the population transformed into an army that takes the uninfected as it's own, spreading, then looking to use ships to spread to other worlds is like a Nids within and that Marauders have immunity makes one wonder about their origins and why they are uninfectable.

 carlos13th wrote:
I really like the bloody plague. When I first saw it I thought that you had painted them to make it look like to their skin / muscle was bloody and sore from the infection. But I am assuming it is meant to be the blood of people they have slaughtered?

I don't have the skill to do it but I would love to see someone paint the snipers cloak in this kind of style.

It is simpler than you think, he just used dry-brushing like on the base. it is really difficult when you try to do shimmering cloak effects

I just read one of the stories in the Containment Protocols compilation that suggested that orx could carry the infection without it doing anything to them, they'd be a nasty infection vector if the plague realized that (and if it was actually meant to be canon and not a slip up by the fact checkers ). The plague virus could be as you say, or it could even be something along the lines of teraforming. The aliens that made it are a long-plan type, they built it to wipe out all intelligent life and went into stasis so when they woke up they could shape the universe in their own image unopposed (maybe the plague even have an limited shelf life so they aren't around either). Or maybe it was the asterians, like a crazy wing of one of their political or religious sects trying to do something grandiose, and that's why the others sometimes go to the deadzones to shut down the infection. Maybe it was just a biological WMD, kind of like the gunk that made the whatever that made the things in Promethius (that was the new not-Alien movie right, I get lost on names sometimes ) into nasty killer aliens. The death arc or whatever it's called was the frontline of an ancient battle and the plague artifacts are just leftovers. Lots of cool possibilities

I really like the sick hexagonal patterns people put down with airbrushes on tau vehicles, I think it's actually relatively easy but I'm still a n00b with my airbrush so I can't do anything fancy with it. The above is basically painting the model with two different schemes and meeting them up with a little line inside a big line, it looks cool but it isn't necessarily hard. Still don't think it would have looked right next to my other guys though.

I think people use stencils to do the hexagon stuff.

Could you give an example of shimmering cloak effects?

Yeah its stencils or sometimes they use certain kinds of frisket as a stencil, but I'm not goods enough with the AB to get the fancy effects people do. Yet.

I too would be interested in these 'shimmering cloaks' of which you speak.



No progress tonight, almost. Found some new anime on Netflix and watching TV is easier than painting after work...

How about this, M'lud?

http://www.anarchymodels.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQVKmzvxDDM

Yeah, I saw that kickstarter, I either didn't have money or it was before I was backing them. I think some people even just hold a frisket or what have you over the target and spray.

http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/painting/forum/topic/otaka-cadre-tau-osl-airbrushing-carbon-fibre/
Is along the lines of what I mean when I say forcefield or shield effects, and why I think you'd use a little hexagonal mesh or something.

Sweet video too, if I every try to paint camo I may have to look into a set of those.

Need to get to work on my dad blasted marauders, lazines rising...

Meh, progress and updates are slower than I would like, folks. I have been doing some stuff though, just haven't taken pictures. I might after this. I got a few buildings primed with a rattlecan. The airbrush paint acts like it will be easy to scrape off, whereas the spray can finishes usually don't. It may be the building material too, but I dunno. I have three square buildings, another tower, and some smaller pieces drying/curing at the moment. I've been investigating my extra stuff/junk containers to see about improvised terrain as well.

I've got one thing, which used to be a medium sized Folgers plastic tub, that I plan to implement as a liquid storage container. It would do better on the ground or on a larger building, but if I modify the base of it a bit more, I could probably mount it on top of one of the towers to use it as a water tower. I think I'm gonna nab a couple of ladders for it, and I need to fix the top to be a bit more reasonable, maybe some railings too. I've also got some plans for improvised walkways too, since you can't have enough walkways... and since that would free up half-tiles to become wall sections.

My marauder Captain is getting there. There are a bunch of little steps and details yet to pick out, but it probably won't take an hour or so before I can dip him. The grunts should be a fair bit easier to paint too.

Hope to get a few thing done, though I think I'll go take some photos after I finish lunch.

Still haven't shot the Marauder Captain, I'll just wait till he's more or less finished I guess. Here are a few shots of my recently primed buildings:





Tower and second cube still need rust, blood splatter, etc. I'm gonna do those things as I get time, I consider anything dipped to more or less be done for the time being. Oh.. whoops those last two still need a flat coat on top. Hmm... technically I should do the rust first... so I guess things are where they're meant to be.

One of the white buildings is yellow as of late last night, I'll get pictures of that after I've gotten more progress on it though.

I may throw a post up in the general 40k thread to take suggestions as to what to do with my space marines. I still want to get my deadzone stuff sorted out, but I've learned of a club or something that plays 40k around an hour away so I'm going to do some probing on that lead. If it pans out, I may want to get a playable force of marines sorted out too and I'll need some help choosing and updating it for the more recent developments.

You are doing a great job on this lot, I have to resist going and getting this lot, too much to do. Looks brilliant though.

The terrain in the last picture looks fantastic. Don't be so hard on yourself for lack of progress Grimm I would kill for your output speed.


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In regards to the marines I recommend picking an army you like the sound of tactically then painting them a custom colour scheme.

Thanks Carlos, I'm hoping to step up my game with some signage and posters soon too. Yep, that's what I'm going to mostly be after when I make my HALP MAH post later, looking to figure out which chapter/tactics best fit my playstyle and collection. I'm seriously considering doing a test model in white, maybe with black. Not to necessarily look like storm troopers, I'm only somewhat a fan of the star wars, but because white and black are good colors and they would make for a ridiculously simple scheme. We'll see, I may wait a bit and theme it loosely towards whichever chapter(s) I go with.

Thanks Cam, I'm finally getting to fulfill my dream of an urban table so I'm hoping to keep up my momentum on this until it's become something special. Probably not as ridonkulous as your Hotel Kaliforknia, but something I can be proud of anyway


In other news, my Marauder Captain is almost finished. Just have to get another layer or two of copper onto the bullets coming out of the crate he's Captain Morganing and let the paint dry/cure a bit before I can dip him. Hopefully do that before the little one gets up, so I can give you a photo tonight. I'm fairly pleased but I'll wait to say more till he's dipped. I also primed my water/storage container thing, wanted to blend the bits on it with the old existing item so I could post it later and ask you guys what else it needs to fit in with the rest of my DZ terrain.


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Marauder Captain:

Needs a flat coat to mitigate the shiny dip, and a base. I'm fairly happy with the color scheme and look forward to replicating it on his minions with their simpler details.


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Hey guys, while I'm taking pictures today... here's a tower-less water tower, or other fluid storage container thingie I whipped together from a medium Folgers container and a few battlezone bits:




Plague 3rd gen for scale, he's not massively different in height from a space marine, though probably a bit taller.

What does this need? Some kind of pipes or tubes maybe? A control panel? A port or other means of access for filling/removing the contents? Something else? What could I use to make this look more complete? I sprayed it to this point 'cause it looked funny with the battlezone bits just tacked on

Might paint another marauder tonight, who knows.

A tube from the top or side into the ground and a control panel or genetic wheel valve should help spice it up.


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A tube from the top or side into the ground and a control panel or genetic wheel valve should help spice it up.

Ayup! I made a thread over in painting and modeling and got pretty much the same suggestions so I've begun to implement them. It has a large (or well probably just normal sized) billboard with a control panel on the back with an emergency physical shut-off valve on one half. The other half has a tiny monitor, probably 1-2 cm square, or about the same size as a marine's chest, that I'll put a print-out design into, and two little vertical bits that I may fill with a sort of digital gauge. I'm adding the pipes to one side and a light post opposite them. I'm also adding a round port to the front which will be arranged like it's meant for a truck to back up to it and resupply it. I'll want to add some warning posters but I can do those (and the ad for the ad-board) after this is painted. I'm also thinking of making a paired set of fencing to go along with this to just make it a 6x6" terrain feature, whether I use it for deadzone or not.

That is a LOT of fighting terrain

Indeed! I intend to uncomfortably cram-pack at least a 4x4' board before I'm done. Preferably a 4x6'.

So I got my marauder captain done. I'm pretty happy with the overall result. I think, like the model, the colors show the duality of the Marauders. The way I perceive the faction is that they are really quite clever, just as smart as humans but with the race seen as dumb and brutish by most corporation folk. This farce is fabricated by the corporations as a way to save face for conscripting, training, and then losing their grip on what became the Marauder faction. The individual Marauder crews are happy to play dumb and further the ruse, as it gives them an edge in dealing with the uninformed. To that effect, these crack military units dress the part, but my crew (and likely others) does so garishly enough so as to have the affectation of "getting it wrong". Just further playing the part, acting frail when you're weak, dumb when you're smart, that kind of thing. Too many words, little enough point, pictures now for you:






Don't mind those white flecks of whatever, they'll brush off. It's paint that was on the bottom of the crate which needed to be removed before he got cemented to his base.

Do you guys like him? Can you tell which character I loosely based his colors on? The grunts will look a lot like this but with way less in the way of medals, tassels, and probably none of the blue-green.


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Oh and if anyone is desperate to see more WIP shots of that container/tower thing... I just put them in the thread asking for suggestions for finishing it:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/592263.page#6771342

So goodnight

Reminds me of M Bison, Or Vega depending on the translation.

Not sure that's who you were going for though.

The stick on my marauder captin arrived snapped was yours ok?

Awesome paint job and great model.

 carlos13th wrote:
Reminds me of M Bison, Or Vega depending on the translation.

Not sure that's who you were going for though.

The stick on my marauder captin arrived snapped was yours ok?

He DOES look just like M. Bison. Love it even more now!!

I couldn't help it, he had the cape and hat and glove and boots... it was meant to be

His stick is just a little bent but in a way that would have been hard to fix.

Love the paint job. I take it they are the "ork" equivalent in their game setting?

Yeah they are archer, but they see not dumb and stupid like orks,

I think Mantic is still trying to get a full grasp on what they want for the Warpath Universe, he's an Orx part of a larger faction of marauders. They were a lower tech race that was giving the corporation fits, one guy went in and more or less conscripted the lot of them. They got trained and geared up and it worked out well until they decided they were better off on their own and they separated from the corporations and established themselves as independent raiders/mercs. I think it was to save face that the corporation makes them sound dumb, though it just gives the Marauders another advantage. There are the Orx, goblins (also called stunts), and some big troll-like things called Hulks.

Or TLDR: It's an Orc/k/x, yes

Got another marauder about halfway done or better, and some work on the two mawbeasts.

Look forward to seeing them, didn't fancy green skin?

I figured I would try something different. If I paint some fantasy orcs I'll probably do green... I dunno I'm still kinda partial to somewhat realistic skin tones, I just don't see green skin making a lot of sense for a mammal. Of course orcs may not be as such.

You know what, if I'm being honest... its probably at least 50% a product of my Snowflake Syndrome. I take medication for it, you know, to prevent the onset of full blown hipsteritis... but there are flare ups now and again. Not as bad as my altitis, but still a thing.

Worked today which is outside the norm, so not much hobbying done. Revamped my marine list a bit. Probably going to have to buy another AA unit if I get around to actually playing games be it a stalker/hunter kit, another stormtalon, or a stormraven. For now I just want to get a nice list tweaked and on standby so I can be reach to paint Marines when the mood strikes me.

I was considering painting mine blue if I ever got around to them. Same kind of blue as the Warmahordes troll bloods. Gave them to a friend who loves orks instead.

It could work, its a new universe and lots of stuff can happen in SciFi.


Before I forget I wanted to mention a dead zone billboard idea. Think Joe Camel cigarrete ad, but Steve Sorak, a potential leather jacket wearing sorak with a nic-stic in his mouth spouting out a message like 'hey kids! Brand x nicstics makes you 20% cooler, have 50% more narcotic goodness, and only 15% more carcinogens than brand y!'. Probably gotta be more succinct though or it won't be readable from a distance.

How about

Smoke blah blah, sure you will die early but you'll die looking cool.