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 Chemical Cutthroat wrote:
Alakazam is the one-true-Librarian.

+1. if a librarian is to be made, it has to be Alakazam. That pokemon kicks ass!

Those pika-marines are a great start! About the bases, I'd give them a base matching the respective element Gym to make the nostalgia hit damn hard.

The only planned Librarian at the moment is Mewtwo (And he is going to look AWESOME!) But this is me and I do lots of things just because I can, so I wouldn't rule out Alakazam! I've had ideas for a double power fisted Hitmonchan, Duel wielding wrist mounted flamers for Magmar and so many more that will never be playable, but would look cool.

And crazy idea for the bases, one that I will have to do lots of testing with... I had a thought of painting on each Gym leaders face onto the base because, lets face it, these marine are full of heresey so may as well take it all the way!

You'll be executed if you are either a small heretic or a big heretic so yeah, might as well go down as the biggest melon-fether there is

Tbh that idea seems interesting but I don't know if it'd look good in "practice": The marine would be stepping on his face, covering it. A test run would be nice to see if it looks cool. Either way, that'd be one heck of a free-hand challenge

I'm big on the Gym/Town bases. But that's mainly because I recommended them. >.<

If you want, if you google each town you can see how they've evolved in color and design over the years. I'd post them but 1) At work, and 2) Picture overload.

Yeah, I'll do one of each I think and see which is best.

I hate painting white... hate it. I've never had to do it before, but it is so hard to get a smooth coat so will have to do some tests to see if a grey base and then layering white would be better. I'm painting the captain for Squad Vermilian (Bulbasaur) He was already built though, so I'm not going for a full paint job and using him for some sick and inhumane experiments with blue ink and drybrushing :O So expect pictures soon!!

Why paint the faces?
Find a pic online, edit it into a circular shape the right size, put dozens on a page, print them out, get some adhesive & glue them to the bases.

Eric

Because that would be easy and I spit in the face of easy! Huzzah!!

Suppose I had better put something painted in here, ehh? With the one already basecoated marine I found, I began to try some techniques and ideas to get the right shade for the main body of Bulbasaur which has a blue hue to it. So he looks a mess.
He is still very much WIP and I may even end up stripping him. Looking at him now, I really need to re-think the darker green spots on his lower leg. The first time I tried them they were far to small and didn't pop out as much as I'd hoped and then they were too big. I'm thinking that if I strip him, remove his robotic arm (Biostrip20 removed plastic glue!) and place a proper arm on him, then the spots MAY look better climbing up the one side of his body... Will have to see.

So even though he isn't finished, there is now paint in the thread!



P.S- Ignore the mould lines. He is from the time in my life where I was foolish ad reckless, never removing the mould lines.

Did you spit in my ex's face! Huzzah indeed :-) and great idea for the marines too dude i've bben watching it and am glad you've got paint finally !!

Ahhhh! I see what you did there! Very entertaining!

Me too, I was very reluctant to start as I have such awesome ideas floating around, I wanted to do them justice and because this guy (Named Alice) is just a test model, I'm breaking myself in slowly.

Best not to rush these things or they may come across as a 'try to be cool' thing rather than a 'cool thing' :-) Alice is shaping up nicely!

It's great work (you have the poke ball down.)

Indeed, pretty pleased with the Pokeball, just got to have the centre circle a little bigger and it'll be good.

Overall, I'm quite happy with the majority colour, just got to perfect the darker sots and I'll be bale to paint him up real good and with a base/other squad members, the look should come out alot more. I get to order yellow and red spray tomorrow for Pikachu and Charmander, so whilst I'm waiting for the rest of Bulbasaur to strip, I can start them and then momentum will see me through easily enough.

I know you have been given lots of ideas for cool bases. I hope you do at least one base as a Pokeball. I'd really love to see that.

EyeamRai wrote:
I know you have been given lots of ideas for cool bases. I hope you do at least one base as a Pokeball. I'd really love to see that.

Those should be the Drop Pods

I LOVE the idea of Pokeball drop pods!!! Perfect for this force! I'm going to do that, for sure! Just pick up some styrene balls, cut them in half, make some kind of hinge and awesome sauce flows!

Sorry for the lack of updates over the past few days. With work, children and various social responsibilities (Boo to being social) I have had no time to model and with no sign of my undercoats arriving, no progress to be made and I managed to pick up some Kroot for my main army, meaning I've been trying to save them from gloopy glue hell. I'm hoping my paint will arrive by the end of this week and then some work can begin!!
Actually, I say no progress has been made, me and the boy child have started watching pokemon from episode 1 and that counts as research!!

 Price wrote:
I LOVE the idea of Pokeball drop pods!!! Perfect for this force! I'm going to do that, for sure! Just pick up some styrene balls, cut them in half, make some kind of hinge and awesome sauce flows!

Bonus points upon deployment saying "Sternguard I choose you!" and "Use meltagun attack!"

Haha there will be an awful lot of that! I'm also going to buy a hat so I can turn it around whenever I roll dice... and on that thought, I have to customise some dice to be pokeball colours!!!

Got my spray today!! Daemonic yellow and pure red for pikachu and charmader. The only problem? I didn't think they were going to arrive yet, so I brought a hammerhead, because you can never have too many railguns, and that is what I have been doing tonight.
So tomorrow squad vermillion will be sprayed and painting can begin!

Most excellent, looking forward to what pops up.

Price wrote:Haha there will be an awful lot of that! I'm also going to buy a hat so I can turn it around whenever I roll dice... and on that thought, I have to customise some dice to be pokeball colours!!!

You know, Chessex makes custom dice. You could get them with a Pokeball design on the "6" side.

Eric

So as you may have seen with the thread title, it has changed. I wasn't updating as much as I wanted, so I thought I'd ram some of my Tau in here too! They were my first 40k army and hold a special place in my 'everyone is welcome' heart . So...

Commander Iron-Bark


Firewarrior squad A


Firewarrior squad B


Pathfinders


Crisis Suit squad A


Crisis Suit squad B


Broadside


Hammerhead


Riptide

They look good. I really like the color scheme. It makes a lot of sense for Tau to be less flashy in general. The Commander looks particularly killer.

Indeed, he is pretty bad ass. He was one of my Crisis Suits and during a battle, his squad were utterly ripped apart, so I moved him into a forest to stop first blood. He was charged in the forest by a Demon Prince and won the combat... So after that, I brought a shiny new model, painted it up and he was promoted to the commander of my Tau.
I love narrative in my games, love stories like that.

Update!
With the weather improving, I had the chance to spray my marines!! I used Army Painters Daemonic Yellow and wasn't the best spray in their line, covered patchy and took several passes to even begin to cover the grey, but I got there in the end.



The base yellow has been washed with Agrax Earthshade and then various highlights (Two) with increasing white added. They are still very WIP and so only the bulk of the yellow has been done, the darker shades on the chest/shoulder ads, need work. But you get an idea and the Pokemarines have officially begun!!

Lookin' sharp so far. Its a whiter yellow than I thought they'd be, but it still does a good job of getting the intended point across.

Yeah they are. I'm going to yellow-ize(?) them with a yellow glaze which will even everything out tonight. Also with the brown going on, it will help the yellow look darker too. It is one of those things that will all come together, right at the very end. But I'm pretty pleased so far as this is my first time painting yellow!

Well you did the smart thing and sprayed a base of yellow first. That definitely takes a lot of the frustration out of painting yellow. If you do a glaze later that'll bring back the brightness a bit, so that'll be good. Looking forward to more.

Yeah, that's the hope! With all the planning and thought I've put into these, it has fallen apart as soon as the spray broke out!

Made a little more progress last night. Added the brown markings and red "pouches". They are starting to look way more like Pikamarines now!