The Crusade begins! FOR THE EMPEROR! FOR CORAX! (page 8)

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**brushcommando**

Excellent work! I really love the freehand chapter symbols, especially the outlined one on the dread. BTW if you want to add the gallery upload images in your post it's actually not that bad. If you look at your image in the gallery, there should be a "Share this Image" box in the lower right-hand part of the screen. There will be a massive amount of text in the one labeled "Forums" which you can copy and paste right into your forum post. Hope that helps.

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I'd had a four pack of red bull over the evening, it doesn't help steady your hands, but it does keep you awake to finish what you're doing. I tried that, or at least I think I did for the images, I'll try again next time I upload. Thanks for all C&C.
There should be some assault marines joining the ranks soon, but the return of school means all painting will slow down. I'm also thinking of getting the Kill Team box set, because you save £15 on a tac marine squad and one of the new fire warrior squads (new to me), and you get the kill team rules.
Seems like a good buy to me, I might even get two when I assemble the funds.
Edit: Just checked the money I got from relatives over Christmas, I am £5 off getting 2 kill team boxes. Might even make some money back off selling one £30 FW squad for £20 on ebay.

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First off, thanks brushcommando, I've got the images working from the gallery. The assault marines are progressing, albeit slowly. I've magnetised the jump and power packs, thanks to my recent purchase of the drill GW sell (I've also drilled gun barrels on all the previous marines and dreads).
Not only has the drill allowed me to magnetise, I can also add pins to models to help hold them together. A few years ago, I won a prize draw for some angry marines and got a forge world chaplain. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSx1HB8KBGw )
However, on its trip across the seas the model broke at the point where the base connects to the foot and in the middle of the crozarius. At the time I didn't really care because I didn't have any desire to play SM and I had no way of fixing him (super glue just wasn't working on its own).
Now though, I've been able to use pins, a tiny bit of green stuff and superglue to rectify the breaks. I also stuck his slotted 22mm base for a normal 32mm SM base, then added green stuff and a bunch of texture paint to make it look like he's on a mound.
The model and base still need a bit of work, but that will come in the future.

**brushcommando**

Lol. Awesome. I love angry marines.

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Thanks. I haven't finished any of the models I'm working on, but I finished the chaplain's base and I did a bit of work on the assault marines. I'm also debating if I should go back and redo all nurgling green highlights, excluding pauldrons, with death world forest. I don't think I wil, because I'm lazy, and I'll probably do all future dreads with nurgling green to tie in, but it's looking like death world forest from here on out.

The camera doesn't capture the light as well as human eyes, but not by much, I really don't have a lot of light to work with. Mostly my own fault.

I tried to follow Warhammer TV's tutorial for adding soot to exhausts. I like the result, but it wasn't what I'd intended.

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I noticed the pic heavy posts were getting long, so I've tried my hand at using powerpoint and screencapture to mash them together.

I tried to salvage a rhino a friend gave me. The model couldn't be saved, too much damage done, glue scarring, missing track pieces, etc, but I tried painting it anyway as a test for future vehicles. I think I'm gonna stick to a solid green in future.

As for the assault marine I finished so I'd know what my colour scheme was for the others, I tried highlighting with death world forest. I'm not sure I like how he turned out, but that might be because my hands were shaking the whole time, which made him a bitch to paint, and I kept nudging the transfers by accident, which combined made the activity I do to relax far and away the most stressful thing that has happened in the last few days.

I'll stick with the highlights, but I'm having conflicting thoughts about it when compared to my less technique-strong (patented term rights go to Creed) but cleaner tactical marines. I've included a comparison.
Maybe it's because I typed raptors into gallery search and found lots of people who've done this chapter before me and did a far better job than I've been doing so far, which such wonders as: clean highlights, really good weathering effects, osl, blending, proper basing, shading that isn't just 'apply agrax earthshade' (would be my patent if it wasn't already in the public domain), cracks in power armour, and a whole host of other techniques I will never add to my repertoire.
But hey, at least I can achieve a standard that is acceptable on the table top.

**brushcommando**

Camouflage Rhino for the win! I had a rogue trader original rhino box that had a bunch of different camo schemes laid out on it. Reminds me of that. Side note: fluffwise do you know if the raptors were part of the badab war?

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Apparently four companies, headed by the chapter master (who has rules but no model), were present and acted as mobile reserves for two years before they lost so many marines that they had to pull out from the badab war.

**brushcommando**

Cool, thanks for the info. I just asked because camo space marines immediately bring badab to mind, probably because of Gitsplitta and his Mantis Warriors. It would be interesting to see some camo patterns on the actual marines if you're ever feeling adventurous.

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Well if you go to page three of this very plog you'll see I have 'experience' (one marine done in a one hour speed paint) in that very field. I'm definitely going to for the scouts, and I'll think about adding it to the odd tactical marine for variation.

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So I've taken another group shot of everything either finished or almost finished, I feel like I should. I also experimented with a white background and lighting. My pictures still suck, possibly more so.

Also I've finished the marines of the 7th squad, minus 4 jump-packs and 5 power-packs. They'll be done soon enough and joined, hopefully, by their 5 brothers to complete the squad. I tried to highlight the diamonds of the sergeant's power axe handle with evil sun's scarlet over the base of mephiston red, then washed it with, of course, agrax earthsade. I think it went well enough.

**brushcommando**

Army shot looks good. I don't know if I've said it before, but I really like the venerable dreadnought. As for the white background, I do think it looks better than before, but the first shot with the whole army works a lot better than the individual squad shots. Did you change something in your technique between the two?

**Matthew**

You're a really fast (and good!) painter compared to me. Looking great!

**Nevelon**

Nice little force you have growing here.

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brushcommando wrote:Army shot looks good. I don't know if I've said it before, but I really like the venerable dreadnought. As for the white background, I do think it looks better than before, but the first shot with the whole army works a lot better than the individual squad shots. Did you change something in your technique between the two?

Thanks regards the dread, and I moved my one lamp further away and used my phone to take the pictures with the phone torch to see if that worked better.

Matthew wrote:You're a really fast (and good!) painter compared to me. Looking great!

Nevelon wrote:Nice little force you have growing here.

The trick is to neglect what you should be doing instead of painting.

Don't worry, There is something of worth in this post. I kitbashed a Lias Issodon model from some space wolf and assault marine parts. I plan to have a diorama where he's been under some camo blanket as some chaos marines patrol the area. Then once they pass him he rises up and point blank blows their brains out from behind. This has happened mainly because I don't want to paint jump packs but I do want to do hobby.

And using some raptors to roughly sketch out the positioning:

**brushcommando**

That diorama reminds me of a "because I'm Batman!" moment.

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Never let it be said that I was keen on finishing projects before starting new ones. To be fair, I have done about half the painting required on the four remaining jump packs. I'll try and finish them before the weekend, when I'll buy the crap ton of paints I need for some pre-heresy Thousand Sons goodness.

**brushcommando**

Nice! Pre heresy Thousand sons look really boss. I'm excited to start my own once I clear the next couple projects from my slate.

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I don't know if you can see it, but the red isn't really flat, even though it's two thin coats. Either Duncan Rhodes lied to me to make me buy mephiston red spray, or I'm doing something wrong.

**brushcommando**

Getting paint to go on smooth is really tricky sometimes. One thing I've found that helps some times is thinning it with a little bit of glaze medium as opposed to water. But honestly, they don't look bad at all. I'm sure it will start to look more in line with what you're wanting as you add the other colors to the mix.

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I shaded their armour.

I hate this Sargent, I hate this witchblade and I hate his goddamned crest, and painting them was the most stressful thing I've done this week, and at the end of it I don't even get the satisfaction of a job well done, because it looks like crap.

**brushcommando**

Sorry mate. Nothing worse than putting a lot of time into a miniature and not being happy with the result...

**EmberlordofFire8**

kSons ftw! Don't worry about that sword, i spent 2+ hours painting my Termie sergeant's sword, forgot to thin the last shade and turned the whole thing green. To be fair it doesn't look bad, just not what I was going for.

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brushcommando wrote:Sorry mate. Nothing worse than putting a lot of time into a miniature and not being happy with the result...

EmberlordofFire8 wrote:kSons ftw! Don't worry about that sword, i spent 2+ hours painting my Termie sergeant's sword, forgot to thin the last shade and turned the whole thing green. To be fair it doesn't look bad, just not what I was going for.

Thanks, I've gotten over it and lowered my standards in accordance with my actual skill. I painted the evil sun scarlet highlight for one marine today, which took me 1/2 an hour.

I'm not sure why I'm putting this on my painting blog of all places, but hey, where better to vent than somewhere I basically run?
Any way, yesterday I came out to my parents (I'm bisexual). I wasn't expecting them to take it well, and they didn't, they seem extremely upset. However, to their credit they've not been dicks about it, and maybe in a few years they'll be ok with it.
As I said, not sure why I'm putting this here, just something I feel like doing.

**Fifty**

Hopefully because DakkaDakka is a non-judgemental place, and because you feel you'll get reassurance that it'll work out okay in the end.

It will, by the way. Just like you say.

**brushcommando**

Like fifty said, you'll find no judgement here. Hopefully things will be less stressful for you soon. Also, I know he's not your favorite, but I actually really like that sergeant and am excited to see what he looks like finished.

**EmberlordofFire8**

That one actually came out ok. Are you doing GW Mephistos red/evilsons scarlet/fire dragon bright scheme?

**evildrcheese**

The Thousand Sons are looking good, the depth is coming through in the red armour and I quite like effect you've done on the sword.

Keep it up.

EDC

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Thanks lads, but I'm afraid my soul has already died over the last few days, you're too late.

In the meantime though, I finished the evil suns and wild rider red highlights and I finished the cloak on my terminator captain (which was a lot easier to do than I'd imagined). As usual, the lighting has made taking decent photos near impossible, but I tried my best.

**EmberlordofFire8**

That cloak is awesome. Will he be TSons, or something else?