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 Spacewolverine wrote:
That white is beautiful, not my cup of tea but they look great. Claws came out beautifully. Nice work as always Ustello!

I get that, it does feel like a lot of white, but I needed some somewhere and the wings felt like the best area. I got the recipe for the claws from MWG actually and their quick tips video.


Still chugging along, this time with the last 5 dark furies. Not a whole lot to explain or talk about with them, I hope to have them done by tomorrow and take pictures on friday. Then its time to green stuff the raptor and deepen the flight stand hole (currently it sits in around a 1/4th of an inch and the entire model will go to one side and threaten to fall) so I hope to deepen the hole to around 1/2 or even 2/3rds of an inch and increase stability since it is such a heavy and fragile model.

I do like those Dark Fury figs - well nice and a great job you're doing on them.

Fine work on the furies, they turned out great!

So many updates since I last looked in.

Every thing is looking awesome, excellent work on the Dark Fury's.

EDC

Januine wrote:I do like those Dark Fury figs - well nice and a great job you're doing on them.

Thanks jan! They are awesome sculpts minus the fragility of the claws

Heretic Tom wrote:Fine work on the furies, they turned out great!

Thanks tom! I will be happy and sad when they are done, happy to have my army almost done. But sad because those were the last of my specialty units

evildrcheese wrote:So many updates since I last looked in.

Every thing is looking awesome, excellent work on the Dark Fury's.

EDC

I've gotten to that rushing point so I have been cranking stuff out to make up for lost time

Almost finished the last 5, looks like the schedule is back on course . All I got to do is seal transfers and then weather and I am done, after that it is fixing the fire raptor.

They are coming along extremely nice! You have done amazing models justice.

 Spacewolverine wrote:
They are coming along extremely nice! You have done amazing models justice.

Thanks man. I actually finished this morning but I don't think they need a series of pictures since they are pretty much the same. Tomorrow I will probably do an entire army picture since it is mostly done bar the fire raptor corax 5 lascannon supports and 5 melta support dudes.


Speaking of fire raptor, I was able to dremel out the cross underneath the acrylic rod attachment so the model actually sits tight on the rod and if it does lean to one side or the other it wont fall. I then was able to green stuff any gaps that I needed to and will be sanding them tomorrow to prime and airbrush for sunday.

Oh yes sass! Cannot wait to see that bad boy painted. I never bought one because I heard a lot of people had miscast and it was a lot of cleaning up to do.

Nice progress Ustrello, here is to a productive saturday of sanding, priming and airbrushing.

So how difficult did you find the kit to put together? Also with all that resin is it quite a heavy beast?

Spacewolverine wrote:Oh yes sass! Cannot wait to see that bad boy painted. I never bought one because I heard a lot of people had miscast and it was a lot of cleaning up to do.

It was terrible one of the worst kits I have every had the displeasure of putting together. Though don't let that stop you because it is a beautiful model

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:Nice progress Ustrello, here is to a productive saturday of sanding, priming and airbrushing.

So how difficult did you find the kit to put together? Also with all that resin is it quite a heavy beast?

Terrible kit to put together, I literally almost gave up at one point. And it is a very heavy model, thankfully I was able to drill the hole deeper so it actually sits very well on the rod (played a game with the raptor on saturday and it didn't even threaten to fall once.


Well I spent most of the day preparing the raptor for priming base coating and priming parts of the wings white. The first mistake of the day was snapping the canopy into place and not being able to get it out, the second bad thing was when going to base coat it with my airbrush my airbrush clogged up so I spent a good half an hour cleaning it and by the time I was airbrushing the raptor it was too late in the day to prime the wings white.

So my question to you all is, how do I paint the canopy in a realistic manner? I have seen tutorials but they seem geared towards the curved eldar canopies

Well got some work in on my fire raptor today, I was able to get the white down on the wings along with the metals. This model is honestly huge and a bit daunting, but thankfully tomorrow I will be washing and edge highlighting and the model has a lot of hard edges so the second part should go by quick. After that I got weathering detailing and the canopy on wednesday along with laying down transfers and I should hopefully done by thursday because I leave friday morning . If I have enough time I will try and get some of the drop pod done as I am bringing two lists and the chunky washing machine will be tagging along for one of the games

vrey nice Ustrello. Gorgeous clean crispy work. It/s such a nice model (depsite the pain I've heard of in building) and you've really done it justice

Looking good so far. What colour will you do the canopy?

EDC

Looking good! Nice and imposing!

Certainly getting there Ustrello, the Fire Raptor is such a massive beast. The purple and white really help to break up the primary colour as well. Try not to get arm ache holding that whilst painting.

The white is gorgeous as always. The canopy I was going to post the other day but maybe a red tint or a toxic green wasteland type tint or a blue, I use sotek green then ink it to fill the gaps between the armor.

Januine wrote:vrey nice Ustrello. Gorgeous clean crispy work. It/s such a nice model (depsite the pain I've heard of in building) and you've really done it justice

Huge pain, but worth it once you are done fixing it up

evildrcheese wrote:Looking good so far. What colour will you do the canopy?

EDC

A dark blue I think, starting with abbadon black and incubi working my way up

Paradigm wrote:Looking good! Nice and imposing!

Thanks para! I haven't seen you post in a while how have you been?

Thraxas Of Turai wrote:Certainly getting there Ustrello, the Fire Raptor is such a massive beast. The purple and white really help to break up the primary colour as well. Try not to get arm ache holding that whilst painting.

I already dropped a loaded leadblecher brush onto the white once already (thankfully I was able to fix it) and yeah it is huge

Spacewolverine wrote:The white is gorgeous as always. The canopy I was going to post the other day but maybe a red tint or a toxic green wasteland type tint or a blue, I use sotek green then ink it to fill the gaps between the armor.

I decided to go with a dark blue actually and really sotek green ink in the gaps? I usually use agrax for my shades


Well another day and more progress, I have gotten the line highlighting, details, metal work and transfers all laid out. Tomorrow will be sealing and matteing down the transfers, weathering and painting the canopy, I expect to get a full army shot in and am super excited to do it

That's looking amazing so far.

EDC

Those are some dead cool transfers! Love the skull on the rear hatch.

Yeah, I've not been posting much in the last week... something to do with Fallout 4, I think! Progress will be coming soon, though, I did paint up half an Inq28 Warband and there's a Helbrute on desk for this month's challenge...

That is beautifully done Ustrello, don't envy you the building but it's a beautiful model and your paint job has definitely done it justice!

evildrcheese wrote:That's looking amazing so far.

EDC

Thanks EDC!

Paradigm wrote:Those are some dead cool transfers! Love the skull on the rear hatch.

Yeah, I've not been posting much in the last week... something to do with Fallout 4, I think! Progress will be coming soon, though, I did paint up half an Inq28 Warband and there's a Helbrute on desk for this month's challenge...

Love me some FO4, have you played far harbor yet? Probably one of my favorites yet

Guildenstern wrote:That is beautifully done Ustrello, don't envy you the building but it's a beautiful model and your paint job has definitely done it justice!

Thanks guild! As I have said the model was a pain in the ass to build, but now that it is done I am loving how it came out.


Well as the title states I have finally finished the fire raptor and with that the army is complete (for canada that is, I still got big daddy corax, special weapon teams and a laser vindicator left to complete), I will try and get some work in on the dreadnought drop pod before I leave on friday, and after that I will be starting to build the things I mentioned above. I also was able to get all of the models for my two lists together for one big completed army picture set so enjoy!






Full army shots

Feth yeah. Fantastic army shots.

I love the use of purple on the fire raptor, by the way.

EDC

Nice looking raven guard Sir.

What a fantastic army, something to be truly proud of! Hope it does well, and even if not, it'll look awesome either way!

That is stunning Ustello, nice work! All your highlights on themy and the unhelmeted guys just pop man. That rapier looks a little lonely though

evildrcheese wrote:Feth yeah. Fantastic army shots.

I love the use of purple on the fire raptor, by the way.

EDC

Thanks man! Yeah I chose the purple to help break up the massive amounts of black and silver the model would have and it worked out nicely

FeindusMaximus wrote:Nice looking raven guard Sir.

Thanks!

Paradigm wrote:What a fantastic army, something to be truly proud of! Hope it does well, and even if not, it'll look awesome either way!

I am hoping to win at least one of two of the games, if not I will have fun as it will be the first time I will field the army fully painted

Spacewolverine wrote:That is stunning Ustello, nice work! All your highlights on themy and the unhelmeted guys just pop man. That rapier looks a little lonely though

I used to hate painting skin but it is now one of my favorite parts, so I try and do a few enough to break up the models but not a lot to break fluff. And yes the poor rapier is lonely but he will probably be getting a brother soon


Well my last update before I leave tomorrow, I blasted through and almost finished the dreadnought drop pod minus the weathering and matting down the transfers. I will be playing two games on saturday with ash and I will try and post some pictures of the games when I get back on sunday. I will also post the video (s) on here when they go up, idk if I will watch them though as I hate hearing my own voice on video

Nice dread droppod so far, is that the ride for the Leviathan?

EDC

An army and a half there Ustrello, congratulations. A nice mix of infantryand big guns, and just shows how the Calth boxed set has bought many (myself included) over to the HH. I just wish that I had not shared my AL scheme with you as my poor battle brothers are strewn all over the place

 Thraxas Of Turai wrote:
I just wish that I had not shared my AL scheme with you as my poor battle brothers are strewn all over the place

I think you mean 'have infiltrated all over the place'...

That isn't a severed head on the Contemptor's base, it's a heavily concealed Alpha Legionnaire setting a trap that the Dreadnought has just walked right into. One second later, and the rest of him will burst from the ground, meltabomb in hand, to turn the metal menace into scrap! Hydra Dominatus!