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Alright I finished up this guy up just before I leave on my trip. So may I present another survivor of the failed raid on Kastorel-Novem chaplain Eitath! He was a lot of fun to paint and I really liked the way his cape came out, and will be using this technique on my mor deythan counts as sternguard. I also am working on a HH rhino for one of my tactical squads and will be delving into the meat of my primed models/building my remaining ones in the next month I have before school starts again.

He looks pretty good, dude!

He's smashing, good job!

ZergSmasher wrote:He looks pretty good, dude!

Paradigm wrote:He's smashing, good job!

Thanks guys! I was worried that the jump pack would seem a bit off on him but as soon as I dry fitted it I realized it was going to fit perfectly.

Alright I got some more work done on my HH era rhino last night and I got some more goodies in the mail. I don't plan on making a large scion army maybe 800 points or so if I want to ally in or use it as a house army at my place.

That Chaplain is look great. Also, wow, on that secret Santa haul...you'll be kept busy for sure.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
That Chaplain is look great. Also, wow, on that secret Santa haul...you'll be kept busy for sure.

EDC

Yeah I got lucky with my secret santa, turns out it was one of my friends who was also a gw employee so he went all out for me!


So I got some more work done on my HH rhino, did most of the metals part of the weathering and laid down the transfers (man do I love the new legion transfers). I should be done by the end of the weekend and will move onto something else, haven't quite figured it out yet.

Coming along very nicely! I think it needs a little more weathering or some mud to break up the large panels on the side, though.

 Paradigm wrote:
Coming along very nicely! I think it needs a little more weathering or some mud to break up the large panels on the side, though.

Thanks para, I plan on rusting up the metal steps, putting soot on the exhaust, mud/water/water grass on the tracks and lower parts of the panels like its been driving through the swamp. I may also scratch up the side to simulate its paint getting stripped by driving past trees etc.

Alright I got some weathering in on the rhino today. I decided to muddy up the lower parts of the hull and caked the mud into the housing like it is starting to choke up the track housing. I am debating whether or not to do the same to the wheels of the tracks since many people wont see it but I'll know its there or now. What do you guys think? I also got four bikers made tonight and based up, I ended up using parts from that horrid captain Solaq model for the biker sgt and will be using a commander sprue to make a captain/chapter master on a bike.

The Rhino is looking really great now!

 Paradigm wrote:
The Rhino is looking really great now!

Thanks para! Your advice on the weathering did help it out a lot.


So I finally finished the rhino, decided to muddy it up a bit more and highlight all the rivets. It isn't my best work but it is one of the better vehicles I have painted (Don't let the fact that I have only painted three before this confound that ) I plan on building more of my bikers, my necrons and get painting on my vanguard squad for the unofficial dakka painting competition. But does anyone have any other suggestions for things I could work on for the rhino? Anything at all to help my vehicle painting skills.

Looking good!

However, the lack of weathering on the back ramp is quite jarring; that thing will be slamming down into the same mud as the treads are going through, so I'd say the top edge of the ramp could do with some significant mud and maybe some chipping on the leading edge as well. I also think some lighter weathering on the top edges on the sides might be in order, just to break up the black there.

But take that with a pinch of salt, I like all my 40k minis weathered to hell and back.

Ustrello, I thought I was subbed to this but, maybe dakka broke or this is a new thread for me.

You did a really great job on those Marines, especially your chaplain.

Paradigm wrote:Looking good!

However, the lack of weathering on the back ramp is quite jarring; that thing will be slamming down into the same mud as the treads are going through, so I'd say the top edge of the ramp could do with some significant mud and maybe some chipping on the leading edge as well. I also think some lighter weathering on the top edges on the sides might be in order, just to break up the black there.

But take that with a pinch of salt, I like all my 40k minis weathered to hell and back.

Yeah that is a good point/advice which I did take

Stormwall wrote:Ustrello, I thought I was subbed to this but, maybe dakka broke or this is a new thread for me.

You did a really great job on those Marines, especially your chaplain.

Nope just changed the name since I stopped working on my DKoK for right now and am branching into other armies that are not imperium. But thanks for the kind words man! I wish I had more to show but I am a slow painter.


Alright I took the advice I was given on here and out with my buddies and I decided to weather the back door a bit, add some mud, and a chapter transfer to help liven it up and make it seem like less dead space.

In other news I pre ordered the skitarii box set from gw and I decided I will be making them into dark mechanicus to help break up my pure imperial armies (even though I will be using them with the normal skitarii/cult rules)

Awesome! And I'm looking forward to seeing what you make of the Skitarii box, I'm on the edge of getting one myself if they haven't vanished by the time my funds replenish.

 Paradigm wrote:
Awesome! And I'm looking forward to seeing what you make of the Skitarii box, I'm on the edge of getting one myself if they haven't vanished by the time my funds replenish.

They are such a great deal! I am getting a few bits to chaosfy the walkers and bases a bit, but I am still deciding what I want.

In other news I came across some terrain I wanted to spruce up my table, and my favorite is the ruined chapel and will be the centerpiece for my table.

Alright so I spent most of the day yesterday finishing up my space marine bikes, as from before I used Captain Solaq to make the sgt. But this time around I used a few kits to make the chapter master smashfecker, mainly the bike kit (obviously), chief librarian sevrin loth's shoulder pad, the space marine commander kit for the torso, a cataphratchii terminator thunder hammer, and a storm shield to represent the shield eternal. Now all that is left is to trim up any flash I missed (seriously there is a lot on these older kits) and start to gap fill.

So I got some paint down on my vanguard vets, base coated them black, got the base of the base done (still got the trees etc left), painted the base down on the faces, the aquilas and the chapter insignia. But I cannot stop myself from messing around with the rhino even more. I decided to add a lot more mud to the back track housing to simulate that it is going through an actual wetland, and I added fake grass to make it seem like it has been rolling over some vegetation and of course more water effects to make the mud look wet.

Man that is a great piece to score. Love that chapel.

 Stormwall wrote:
Man that is a great piece to score. Love that chapel.

I was pretty happy to get it! I have never seen it before and its going to be the center piece for my table, which I hope to be playing on soon.

So with the new GW starter boxes coming out I decided to jump onto the action and get the skitarii box. But I have different plans for it that normal skitarii/cult mechanicus, for a while now I have had an idea of a dark mechanicus army rattling around in my head because I lack a lot of "evil" armies so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do so. So I was able to build the dominus and onager today, file down any mechanicus symbols and start adding chaos bits I have lying the house. I am still waiting on a few bits and a green stuff roller to make tentacles and cables so the onager/dominus are a very early WIP build.

I also got lucky that a company were making dark mechanicus transfers so I will not have to try my terrible free hand on anything







The transfers in question from fallout hobbies.

Cool! Always love seeing AdMech, dark or otherwise. Any thoughts on a colour scheme yet?

 Paradigm wrote:
Cool! Always love seeing AdMech, dark or otherwise. Any thoughts on a colour scheme yet?

Yeah I am planning on doing a teal type color, so stegodon green then coelia shade, sotek green and then temple guard blue

Would love to see that as my current teal process is:


Really excited for your Admech army! Also you should be chuffed. I saw one of those chapels go for 100$ on the British ebay or whatever it is. I haven't seen one since.

 Stormwall wrote:
Would love to see that as my current teal process is:

Spoiler:

Stegadon
Drybrush vallejo metallic
Skink blue
Drybrush more metallic
Coelia greenshade.

I may add SWM Algae green after I test it.

Really excited for your Admech army! Also you should be chuffed. I saw one of those chapels go for 100$ on the British ebay or whatever it is. I haven't seen one since.

Yeah I really want to try and start painting it soon, but I may not be able to for a bit because it won't be above freezing here, let alone priming weather, for a bit. Also I feel like I got lucky with that chapel also, but right after I won mine I saw someone selling a NIB chapel. I can only imagine what that went for

Alright, I got some more work in on my vanguard vets. I still gotta do the edge highlights, decals, bases, weapons etc but with one more good day of painting they should be done. After that I plan on finishing out the squad (mainly TH/SS guys) and then moving onto some of my dark mechanicus stuff and a tactical squad. For the tactical squad I have a blinged out raven guard one (upgraded kits from FW) or the BaC one, what do you guys think I should do first?

Coming along nicely! I say do the run-of-the-mill Tacs first, then reward yourself with the blinged up ones.

 Paradigm wrote:
Coming along nicely! I say do the run-of-the-mill Tacs first, then reward yourself with the blinged up ones.

That actually reminds me I got a just a plain normal tactical squad too, so I should probably do that one or the BaC one first

Sorry I know this is a while back up the page but where did you get those bases for the bikers from and how do they compare against regular GW bike bases? They would be perfect for my Templars.

 IGtR= wrote:
Sorry I know this is a while back up the page but where did you get those bases for the bikers from and how do they compare against regular GW bike bases? They would be perfect for my Templars.

They are the blasted wetlands bases from secret weapons miniatures and they are the same size as normal gw biker bases.