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Alright so its been a busy day, I didn't get a whole lot of extra work in on the vanguard vets. In other news I caught a break with the weather and I had enough primer left over to get the tech priest dominus primed. I am going for a teal type color on him so the first step is steogdon scale green on the cloak (which is all I had time for today). Tomorrow I should be line highlighting the other three vets, finishing up the jump packs, laying down the transfers and of course working on the tech priest some more as he is due the 23rd for a competition.

Love that shade of blue. Stegadon/Dark Reaper I'm guessing?

Man it's been a while since I checked in here.

First, rhino looks wicked. Really great work, the raven skull on top is very snazzy.

Bikes are looking cool, I really like the bike chapter master with the shield in the front.

Vets are looking really cool, love the skin tones on the helmetless dudes.

The dark mechanicus project looks interesting, the light looking forward to seeing a fully painted model.

EDC

Januine wrote:Love that shade of blue. Stegadon/Dark Reaper I'm guessing?

yep Stegadon, followed by a coelia green wash, then sotek layer and temple guard blue highlights (for the cloak at least)

evildrcheese wrote:Man it's been a while since I checked in here.

First, rhino looks wicked. Really great work, the raven skull on top is very snazzy.

Bikes are looking cool, I really like the bike chapter master with the shield in the front.

Vets are looking really cool, love the skin tones on the helmetless dudes.

The dark mechanicus project looks interesting, the light looking forward to seeing a fully painted model.

EDC

Thanks man! The raven skull is actually one of the new legion transfers for the raven guard. But yeah I feel like I finally got the raven guard skin tone down (or at least the way I want to do it), and I should be done with the tech priest hopefully soon, but the rest of the army may have to wait for more suitable priming weather.

Alright so I got some more work in today, mostly finished up the last three VGV and am waiting on their realistic water to dry right now. All that is left on them is to matte down any decals, clean up any mistakes and then paint them rims on the bases. I also got the metallic base/shading down on the tech priest dominus along with washing his robe. I plan on making the three vials/weird contraptions on the hunch of his back weathered bronze to help break up the silver metal color.

I also have attempted to fix my pictures problem with being too dark by setting up my light box facing my workstation and its lamps to help get that last little bit of light to the models. Though this is something I have been noticing, but when I upload my pictures to the dakka gallery from imgur they have a somewhat of a light grey filter it almost seems, but when I upload them directly to facebook or any other site they do not have that filter effect. Does anyone else have that problem or is this more of a me being bad at taking pictures type thing?

Alright so I finally finished up the vanguard squad, they were pretty fun but I did make a few mistakes with them. On the sgt I used too large of a veteran marking so it came out a bit wrinkled (I found better ones to use on the other 4 so that mistake wasn't repeated) and the white recipe I used on the mk 6 helmets does not work so I am going to try the GW one next time. Otherwise I really like the squad, especially the un helmeted guys and I am really liking my new set up for taking pictures. I also got a lot more work in on the tech priest, his robes for the most part are done and I used januine's not gold gold recipe for the metal plate on the back (I need to still lay down the sycorax though) and I really like the way it is turning out.

Good stuff. The new photo setup is definitely an improvement.

 Paradigm wrote:
Good stuff. The new photo setup is definitely an improvement.

Thanks para! Now all I need is a nice camera for taking pictures of tiny models and just that .

Alright I almost finished the tech priest! All I got left to do is layer down the sycorax bronze (picking that up tomorrow) and weather up the base/model with a new red weathering powder I ordered up. Sadly the model couldn't get too many of the transfers on it besides the three I placed on it, so I decided to free hand a partial chaos star on the servo skull. What do you all think could I find another place on his robes to free hand something chaosy or place down another transfer from this sheet http://www.fallouthobbies.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/016-Evil-Machine-Cultists-White-01-663x1024.jpg

The finished Raven Guard Vets look wicked. I like the blue on the Ad Mech, nice to see the Admech I some different colours.

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
The finished Raven Guard Vets look wicked. I like the blue on the Ad Mech, nice to see the Admech I some different colours.

EDC

Thanks man! I felt like it would be odd if they were red and traitors, and I have painted some many black scheme armies in the past that a bright color scheme was needed.

I had a long day at work and the gym so I did not get a whole lot done besides free handing some chaos stars onto the tech priests robes and dry brushing golden griffin onto the back carapace armor. All that is left is the red weathering powder for the base and the lower parts of his robes (I am still waiting on that, hopefully it will come in tomorrow).

Some fine free handing there.

EDC

Yeah, he's looking really good!

evildrcheese wrote:Some fine free handing there.

EDC

Paradigm wrote:Yeah, he's looking really good!

Thanks guys! I feel like he is sufficiently chaosy now. Before hand he seemed just kinda bland since the transfers were so small and the only other chaos symbol was the one I free handed on the servo skull.


So I got a package today and inside I got this mysterious black box, and I have no idea what it is.



After some unpacking I found out what it was, my HH limited edition Mordian sgt. with plasma pistol and power sword!



Just kidding, that is ButteryCommissar's model from the paint my mini thread. It is actually the Lord of Deliverance himself, Corax!

Swweeeeeet! How's Corax? Just about to order my one so it'll arrive back home in Ireland for my visit there in a few weeks

 Januine wrote:
Swweeeeeet! How's Corax? Just about to order my one so it'll arrive back home in Ireland for my visit there in a few weeks

It is really nice actually, I can't find much release agent on it so that is awesome. I can do a quick unboxing if people would be interested.

Nice Corax and thanks for the reply. I will look into them for my templar bikers.

Cheers

Ig

paint my mini thread.

where is this and how can i participate?

IGtR= wrote:Nice Corax and thanks for the reply. I will look into them for my templar bikers.

Cheers

Ig

No problem man, hope you like them!

swampyturtle wrote:

paint my mini thread.

where is this and how can i participate?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/648746.page

right there my man

Ooo Corax. Always cool to see what people do with the Primarchs. Will he be bumped up the schedule or will he have to wait?

EDC

 evildrcheese wrote:
Ooo Corax. Always cool to see what people do with the Primarchs. Will he be bumped up the schedule or will he have to wait?

EDC

I will build him soonish, but he will have to wait to be primed until it is warm enough to do so. I am not going to risk priming him on a 40 degree day just in case something terrible happens

Alright I am now calling the Dark mechanicus magos complete. Sadly my red weathering powder did not come in on time (since I was entering this guy in a competition tomorrow) so instead I went with an orange rust from FW. It was a fun model to paint and I am looking forward to making my dark mechanicus war convocation.

sweet looks there fella. nice job

Cracking Archmagos! Very unique colour scheme and nicely executed.

Dammit, I'm just going to have to buy one of those Get Started Mechanicus sets, aren't it? The more cool versions of these I see, the more I want one!

You totally should Para. I'm so tempted to pick one up but......new year's resolution and all that - lol. All the figs in the admech pack are top kahuna - love to see your take on them, esp the dominus

The set is a damn good deal, you save about 35% and I have been wanting some AM since they first came out... Once BaC is done, and I have some cash spare, I think it's definitely near the top of my list of things to pick up.

Januine wrote:sweet looks there fella. nice job

Thanks jan, our guys still need to duke it out though.

Paradigm wrote:Cracking Archmagos! Very unique colour scheme and nicely executed.

Dammit, I'm just going to have to buy one of those Get Started Mechanicus sets, aren't it? The more cool versions of these I see, the more I want one!

Thanks para! You really should get one of the starter kits, they are a great deal and its a good start for a war convocation formation.

Nice work on the Dominus Tech Priest, I like the color choice .

The magos looks really good and that's a terrifying (and likely a frighteningly points expensive) unit of Raven guard.